May 12th.

We'll go ahead and call the meeting to order.

First item on the agenda is adoption of the agenda.

And this is for possible action.

Do I have a motion?

So moved by Trustee Ramirez.

Second, second.

And that was seconded by Trustee Roberts.

Okay.

And do we have public comment?

Seeing none.

All in favor, please say aye.

Motion passes unanimously moving on to the agenda item number two.

This is a flag salute.

We'll be um started with Trustee Ramirez.

Great, thank you.

Move on to agenda item number three, which is our superintendent's report.

This is for information only.

Thank you, President Wall.

Good evening, trustees and guests.

Tonight to start things off, we have a um an old friend of the school district who once again is being very generous to us and here specifically to our foundation.

So if I could have uh Carson City Schools Foundation representatives uh coming up, and Stacey Woodbury, if you could come on over.

And uh, we got a big old check there.

Are there enough zeros on there?

Uh good evening.

My name is Stacey Woodbury.

I'm with Southwest Gas Corporation.

And uh this is our 60th year of the Southwest Gas Foundation, and we're really happy uh to be here tonight to um to partner again with the school district and the schools foundation and make a presentation for five thousand dollars to the school's foundation to be used for uh STEM microgrants in the classroom.

Not everybody back there ready for the first one, and thank you for letting me come tonight.

Well, thank you.

You can always come.

If you something like that, hey, you're more than welcome.

More than welcome.

Um, and again, though, I would like to thank the foundation for the work that they do for our schools as well.

Hi, my name is John Hager.

I'm the president of the Carson City Schools Foundation.

Uh, we have a budget of about $60, $65,000 a year that we give to teachers to students to various um programs, so uh about $20,000 for AP exams, uh $20,000 for mini grants for student for teachers and departments, um, another about 10,000 for uh books for jump start and a number of other causes.

So if you are interested in giving to the foundation, happy to take your money.

Um, if you are interested in finding a way to help support us, you are welcome to be on our board.

Just uh ask one of these guys here and they'll they'll put us in touch.

We would love to have additional help.

And we are working on uh an additional fundraiser this year to hopefully raise some more money and be able to increase those um expenditures for the for the kids and for the teachers.

So thank you very much to uh Stacy Woodbury and Southwest Gas for the generous donation.

We really appreciate it, and thank you for all the support from the school board.

Okay, moving on um this evening.

So last year uh the school board for the first time um uh we do lots of recognitions for students in various ways.

Um but what one of the uh real highlights for what happens during the school year had had never really been recognized here before the board.

So we have a number of student athletes that have um played their way and learned their way, because you can't do this with straight F's onto greater pastors at the collegiate level to be participating in sports.

So if I could have any of you who are such athlete, uh come on up here.

Yeah, Mr.

Reimer, if you can wrangle any up for me.

Why don't why don't you guys actually line up right back over here and face this way?

It's just like Johnny's the perfect example.

If you guys look like Johnny, you're doing well.

Mr.

Reimer, did you want to come up here at all or you're you're good?

Okay.

Okay.

So I know some of you, I don't know all of you.

Um, so if you could please and board, if there's any other information you'd like, please feel free to to ask.

Okay.

A name.

Does that work?

Okay.

We'll do name school that you'll be attending.

Um, what sport you will be playing, and what your major.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The other thing I'd like to know is because I know so many of them are multiple sports, and so I'd like to highlight the fact that you didn't, you're not just moving on to the collegiate level level in the sport that you're possibly played, you know, and did in high school.

Because I know like for you, I know you did basketball and swim and soccer, and so mention that as well.

Because I think it's important to know that you guys are versatile as well.

Should I lead off with you or we're starting the other end?

I'm starting with you.

Okay.

Um my name is Mikhaila Rablu.

I'm going to Damon University for soccer.

I also played basketball in high school, and I'm majoring in nursing.

My name's Abigail Franco.

I'm going to a Delphi University for volleyball, and I'm studying psychology.

My name's Jonathan Alvarado, and I'm going to Dickinson State University for football, and I will be majoring in business.

My name's Larkin Russell.

I'm going to the University of Vermont for swimming, and I also played soccer in high school, and I'm majoring in animal science.

My name is Caden Coleman, and I'm going to Warner Pacific University to play baseball.

And my major is on sports med.

My name's Jaron Thornberg.

I'll be attending Eastern Washington University for Trek.

I'll be doing the decathlon there.

And I also played basketball in high school.

And I'm majoring in mechanical engineering.

Hi, my name is Bibi Keel.

I will be swimming for Westmont College and majoring in physics and astrophysics.

We'll go ahead and start with the trustee.

There it is.

I didn't push hard enough.

I love that you guys are all going to college.

I'm a little sad that you're all leaving Nevada, and I just hope that when you guys graduate from college, you come back.

Can we invite the parents to come up and take pictures behind us?

Can we do that?

Yeah.

So if you are here with these guys and you want to get a picture, please.

Or actually, you know what we'll do when when we're done with this, we'll have them come around and then you guys can all stand up and yeah, very good.

Awesome.

So I just want to congratulate you guys too as well.

Um I think you guys are fantastic students and athletes, and I wish you nothing but the best.

And please share these um experiences that you're having with your siblings so that they can follow and and do good things while they're in in school and high school and and get ready for college as well.

And parents, congratulations.

You guys did a fantastic job with your children.

Muchísimas felicidades, papas, what is that aquí y muchas felicidades por todo lo que han hecho por sus hijos?

So congratulations.

This is such an exciting time for you guys, and it's really fun to hear not only you know what you're gonna go and um continue to play, but also what you're gonna study and how you're gonna better your lives and better the lives of the people around you.

So congratulations and best of luck to all of you.

Well, you guys um you're all signed to play for college.

Will you raise your hand if you also earned scholarship money to go to the school you're going to?

That is amazing.

That is amazing.

And that, like AJ, like Superintendent Fueling was saying, that doesn't happen by just being an athlete, and you're not just an athlete during your performance season.

I know that you guys work very hard year-round at what you do, and uh a lot of sacrifice goes into what you've done, a lot of saying no to invitations from friends because you have to stay up late to finish an assignment because you didn't get home from a game until really late.

Um, a lot of sacrifice, and I'm really proud of you all.

You guys are gonna do great things, so congratulations.

Yeah, uh, congratulations.

Excuse me.

Uh when I look at you guys, um, I know our future and your future's in good hands.

And uh it's always heartwarming to see young people like you uh go on to be successful, and I like uh Tina said, I hope you guys come back to Nevada and help Nevada out in the future because uh we could use more nurses and uh engineers and whatever you guys are gonna do.

So you guys have done a great job and uh we're really proud of you.

Thank you.

Yay, hey, congratulations.

This is very exciting.

I wish you all very um all the success in the world.

Um, there are 8 million high school athletes, and only six to seven percent go on to play at the college level.

So I mean you guys are remarkable, and you should be extremely extremely proud.

And thank you to all the parents because you know they didn't get here without the parents um being active, getting you to the practices and to the games and and spending the time and coaching you and whatever else.

So um we always look for parent engagement, and right now we have a room of them, and so I thank you all for being so engaged in uh getting your kids to where they are today.

So congratulations and good luck.

Oops, uh I also thought about somebody else we need to thank is the coaches, the people who coached you guys and helped you along the way.

Uh I don't think anybody could do what you've done without good coaches behind you.

So I didn't want to forget them.

So thank you, coaches.

AJ, can we do one more past the mic moment?

Will you guys just quickly say what state your school is in so we can know how far you're chasing your dreams?

Um I'm in Santa Barbara, California.

Washington, Portland, Oregon.

Also Portland, Oregon.

Uh Dubuque, Iowa.

Burlington, Vermont.

North Dakota.

Uh Long Island, New York.

Uh Buffalo, New York.

I almost forgot.

I'll think about it.

Okay.

Uh so we're gonna go ahead.

If you guys will come around and face that way, and then we'll do a picture.

All right, okay.

Oops.

Yeah, guys, if you could come around, sneak around this side.

Line up by alphabetical order of the college you are going to.

Thank you guys.

Parents, are we all good with pictures?

I want to make sure.

Okay.

Do you guys want to pass the mic on one more?

Oh, here we go.

All right.

Thank you guys.

Best of luck to you.

Don't forget about us back here in Little Carson.

Okay.

Okay.

If all the HOSA students could please come into the boardroom.

I'm assuming.

Yeah.

So we have had some great success with our HOSA program at State Competition.

And we have Kelly Gustavson, who has been doing HOSA for quite a while with with a lot of success, and hiding in the back, Mr.

Adam Hunseker, also who is pretty important in all this.

Is Caroline here?

Oh, she's really really hiding in the back.

Sorry.

So if if the three of you would like to come up and introduce all your students.

Hi there.

Um Kelly Gusterson from Carson High Hosa Future Health Professionals.

Um I'm gonna let the kids come and introduce themselves and tell you what they did.

But um we took 35 students to Las Vegas at the end of April and they competed in various medical events um against over 1400 students in the state of Nevada.

We had uh 20 top ten finishers, um twelve certificates of excellence.

Um they get that when they achieve a certain score on uh national geographic testing center test, um, and then the healthcare issues exam as well.

Um our health care issues exam, we had seventeen students qualify for nationals with that, um, including one of ours took gold.

I'll let you tell her.

She can tell you.

Um, and not here tonight.

Um, she was at the school board meeting last year in one of the the meetings, um, but Iris Ibarramontes received the life saving award for the CPR that she did on her father.

So she's not here tonight, but I wanted to make sure to recognize her.

Um our chapter got the um hundred percent uh membership gold award for all of our health science students being um HOSA members, and another student that's not here tonight, um, who placed eighth in dental, but he was also awarded, earned voted in as our western um region vice president.

So he will be a state officer for us for the next year.

So at State HOSA.

And then I've got Caroline, this is your third year with us, I think.

And Adam filling the very big shoes of Frank Sacalarius, who retired.

So big thanks to them.

I couldn't do it without him.

My feet are bigger than Frank, so I think you'll be all right.

Cool.

Yeah.

Yeah.

My name is Haley.

Hi.

I competed in healthcare issues and nursing assisting, placing 11th in healthcare issues and fourth in nursing assisting.

Hi, I'm Sienna Omohandro.

I place me and my partner placed 10th in CPR first aid, and I placed 14th in the healthcare issues exam.

And I received our certificate of excellence for OSHA.

Oh, yeah.

Hello, my name is David Hurst.

I'm a senior.

I got 10th place in public service announcement, and I placed third in the healthcare issues exam.

Hi, I'm Caden Saw.

I'm a senior and I placed 10th with our public service announcement with my three other partners.

And then I also was 20th for the healthcare issues exam.

Hello, I'm Aubrey McAllister, and I placed 18th in the healthcare issues exam.

And I also got a certificate of excellence for the ATC occupational health and safety.

Hi, my name is Melissa Bonia, and I place 10th place in World Health Disparities.

Hi, my name is Melanie Galvin, and I placed 9th for home health aid, and I placed 16th for uh healthcare issues.

Hi, my name is Mariana Saravia.

I place first place for hair care issues exam and a place for nutrition.

Hi, my name is Natalia Costa Pacheco, and I received a certificate of excellence in the healthcare issues exam.

Placing 12th place.

Okay.

Hi, I'm Cynthia Diaz.

Um I'm a junior and I placed, oh I just got a certificate of excellence in occupational health and safety.

Hi, my name is Anais Gallegos.

I'm a senior and I received a certificate of excellence in occupational health and safety.

Good afternoon.

My name is Alexa Zembrano.

I'm a senior in high school and I got a certificate of excellence and mastery in the NAGEO test.

And I placed 21st for healthcare issues.

Hi, my name is Jasmine Navarro, and I'm a sophomore at Crescent High School.

And I um received an award for the occupational health and safety exam.

I'm Johanna Neal.

I'm a sophomore and I placed 9th in the health care issues exam and then received a certificate of achievement for the OSHA.

This is one.

Hi, my name is Dante Mora, and I have a certification of excellence for occupation health and safety, and I'm a senior.

Greetings, my name is Sujual Yadnutula, and I place seventh in the health care issues exam and eighth in the world health disparities.

Hi, my name is Mana Payan.

I'm a sophomore, and I received a certificate of excellence in the healthcare issues exam and in career development.

Hi, my name is Aurelia Scobor.

Hi, my name is Aurelia Escobar Acosta.

I'm a sophomore and I place fourth place in the healthcare issues exam.

Hi, I'm Kira Mulvahill.

I'm a sophomore, and I competed in the healthcare issues exam and I placed 13.

My name is Alina Royo.

My name is Maria Bettencourt.

I'm a junior.

My name is Marie Lou Hernandez, and I got a certificate of excellence in OSHA.

My name is Suhei Ray Sacosta, and I got a certificate for OSHA.

And I also placed 19th in healthcare issues.

Um our team placed eighth in the community awareness event and our campaign focused on spreading awareness about body anxiety and eating disorders uh to the staff and students at our school.

Nice, thank you.

Um for a show of hand for those seniors that are going on to further their education in the health field.

Nice.

Great.

Um congratulations.

This is um an exciting time, and you guys should be extremely proud.

I think this is probably correct me if I'm wrong, um, but the largest group that you've had uh win awards.

Is that true, Ms.

Guffinson?

No, the largest group is actually come to the meeting, yes, but not the same.

Oh, okay.

So I'm like, this is an awful large group, but that's very, very exciting.

Congratulations.

Last year we said, they didn't mean out.

And so we had about 80 people qualified.

Um, all of the things.

All right.

Well, this is always one of the best meetings that we ever have.

The funnest for sure.

Um, but yes, we uh grateful that you guys all came and very excited for your success, and we hope that those of you who are underclassmen that you continue in the HOSA program.

Any other comments?

Mr.

Hill.

Yeah, we're very, very proud of you guys.

Um I felt like clapping and applauding each and every one of you as you came up, but that would have taken a lot of time.

But anyway, congratulations.

You guys are just really doing a good job.

And we're like I said earlier, we're really, really proud of you and the program, all the work that goes into that.

Uh thank you guys for all the effort you put in.

Uh taking care of people that are hurting in ways that they can't fix themselves is is a big deal.

And for you guys to all have a heart and a passion for that and investing so much time and energy into um making the people around you better is is commendable.

So thank you for pursuing what you're doing and for doing so well at it.

Congratulations, you guys.

That's not easy work.

And uh remind me again how many were competing for them, for a qualified one.

Amazing.

And you guys all placed really high, so congratulations, that's a lot of work and pat yourselves on the back.

I commend each and every one of you for doing more than what is required of you in in high school, and for, you know, taking um your um career very serious at such a young age.

You guys are already ahead of the game, so congratulations.

I feel that we are in good hands.

Of the seven career and technical student organizations in Nevada that are recognized by the state, I'd have to say HOSA is my favorite.

Um I probably shouldn't say that because I represent all the other um organizations as well.

But my daughter happened to be the state president uh when she was in high school, and the experiences that she got participating in her CTSO at comp competing at the state level and at the national level is what kind of led her on her career path.

So you guys you have the world in front of you, and all the experiences that you've gained through participating in your CTSO are gonna benefit you no matter what career you go into, whether it's medical or something else.

My daughter was a dental student uh in high school, decided that was disgusting, and she didn't want to do that for her career, but because she went to DC with her HOSA group, that made her decide hey, I think I want to become an advocacy person, and she ended up becoming a lawyer, so um, not related to to health care in particular, but it kind of led her on her path.

So um just take all the opportunities you can from all the experiences you got participating in your HOSA uh CTSO.

Okay, I uh, I'll be highly okay, and um this evening, we also have uh Miss Gillian Schufeld here with our CHS speech and debate 2026 national qualifiers, national qualifiers.

Would you like to come up?

They were standing out there, but where'd they go?

So, guys, come in.

Um, so yeah, I'm Jillian Schufield.

I'm the CHS speech and debate coach, and this year we have um nine students who have qualified to attend the national speech debate tournament, which is being held in Richmond, Virginia from June 13th through 19th.

Um, it looks like they're almost all here.

So I'm gonna let them tell you what they do.

And yeah, they're awesome.

But you guys have to like walk over here.

Like all of you come stand.

Yeah.

I know, right?

Like they're afraid what?

Okay, so these two are a team.

Hi, I'm back again.

Um, my name is Caden, so I'm a senior.

And I'm Chelsea and Peno, I'm also a senior.

And we're both partners in the event called duo interpretation.

And so, what we essentially do is there's two performers, and they choose a piece of their own choice, and they basically kind of interpret it, they utilize like storytelling, uh, movement, voice articulation to kind of give a certain point across.

And it's a really fun event.

So and the piece that we have chosen for this year is called Yellow Rose.

Essentially, it highlights a daughter and mother relationship that's ripped in half because of immigration and customs enforcement.

And in relation to what's going on in our country today, we use this platform to advocate for those who cannot speak up.

And with the use of dual interpretation, we have taken this all across our state and into Minnesota recently.

And we have a consecutive 12 first-place wins, including our state championship in Las Vegas this year.

And we're continuing this piece further on into Richmond, Virginia, hopefully.

Yeah.

Hello, I am Lexi Rop.

I am a senior at Carson High School, and I will be going to nationals for the event in prompt two.

Impromptu is done entirely off the top of your head.

You will be given two minutes to prep a five-minute speech, and the topic could be on anything, it could be on quotes, it could be on one specific word, it could be on current events, and we won't know that until I actually get into the national tournament.

And I did a very similar type of event at state this year, which I placed six in.

It's instep extemporaneous speaking, where you have 30 minutes to prep a seven-minute speech.

However, that one you have to actually do some reach research beforehand and include actual sources, as all the topics and questions are going to be about current events.

I do the for an extemporaneous speaking, which means I do all of my topics on other countries and what's going on there.

So I have a more global reach and more global knowledge on not just the US but also all the different continents as well.

And I'll be taking that knowledge to nationals this year.

Thank you.

Hi, I'm John Fenton.

I qualified for world schools, which is a type of debate, an extemporaneous debate made up of teams of three to five going against each other.

What makes it an extemporaneous debate is that you are given limited time to prepare.

It is supposed to aim for removing technicality from debate and having a much more strategic and long-term overall look for the debate.

Thank you.

Hi, I'm Daniel Shell, and I qualify.

I'm a sophomore at Carson High School, and I qualified in an event called Congressional Debate.

Congressional debate is like a mix of both speech and debate.

It's pretty much a replica of an actual congressional chamber, and we debate in a room of 30 people over not real but student written legislation resolutions and amendments to the Constitution.

And it's a pretty much a short form debate where you go up and you give a three-minute speech on the specific piece of legislation and then you um debate and you get to ask other people questions of why it should should and should not pass.

Hi, I'm Garen Snydle.

I am a senior at Carson High School, and the event I'm going to nationals for is extemporaneous debate.

Extemporaneous debate is different from uh majority of the debates on NSDA simply because this one is completely on the fly.

You only have 30 minutes to prepare the topic.

It is not given to you in advance.

You uh it's a one-on-one against your opponent, and again, you only have 30 minutes to have uh a topic and debate on.

Hi, my name is Claire Dylan.

And I'm Thomas Lance.

And we're sophomores at Carson High School, juniors at Carson High School.

Um this year, um, we qualified in public forum debate.

We got first in the district and top two in the state.

Um, public forum debate is a 2v2 debate.

It's usually um surrounded about um real world issues and political issues.

And so the topic we'll be debating at nationals is the United States is justified in using force to remove authoritarian leaders from power.

So these are the ones who are here.

We are missing one of our team members, um Ivan Romeo is a junior at Carson High School, and he also qualified in world schools.

Um, the weird thing about world schools is we didn't know they were going right away because it's it's a team from all of the schools in the district, um, or the league, which is across northern Nevada.

So they'll be core uh collaborating with a student from one other school um in Spring Creek to make this team, and they've never worked together.

They've only competed against each other, so it's gonna be really fun.

Um, I also did want to recognize we do have our states champions since they mentioned it.

We are state duo champions here and our second place PF.

Um, pretty awesome.

I don't know how many kids were at this tournament in Las Vegas, but it's it's a big deal.

It's kind of a big one.

And Chelsea and Caden just got back from the national individual event tournament of champions, which is called Nightalk in uh Shakopi, Minnesota.

We went this weekend, and um we've never well, this is only my second year with this team, but it's not a thing that uh a lot of people end up going to or qualifying for, so it's kind of a big deal.

They qualified last year, but we weren't able to go.

Um, just like last year we weren't able to present to you guys because things were still new and kind of crazy.

But this year I was like, we're making this happen.

We're gonna go to states, we're gonna do this thing, we're doing all the things, right, guys.

I'm so proud of them.

They're amazing kids.

Well, thank you again for coming.

And it's ironic because when you were speaking for host, I thought, wow, he is a great speaker.

He is just like we're looking around, you had great articulation, your voice, everything.

I'm like, wow.

And then when you stood and I'm like, oh, that's why.

But no, congratulations.

You guys should be extremely proud.

Um, and you know, again, we thank your um advisor as well.

We know the time that it takes.

So thank you.

And we missed, I think thanking everybody, the other advisors as well, but we know it takes time, and we really appreciate what you do on the extra time.

But congratulations, thank you, and we wish you the best of luck.

First and foremost, though, I know that these trips are not inexpensive, and so I would ask that you guys um one, if you are fundraising, let us know this evening, and then also if there's other things, please make sure that you um email your advisor knows how to get a hold of us, and we can do the best that we can to get the word out.

None of us are millionaires up here, but we can definitely help you get the word out and support you and your cause because we do want to see that you go, you have a great time, and that you have the means and the tools to compete successfully.

So I know you have something to tell me.

Thank you.

Sorry.

They're amazing because they do all of this off the cuff and they remember their stuff, and I can't remember things if they're not in front of me.

So I knew I had something I forgot.

Um we are having our end of the year showcase on Thursday, May 28th at Carson High School in the High Tech Center.

Um, all of these students will be featured in that showcase, and then a couple others who are also were very actively involved, um, qualified, but then weren't able to go kind of thing.

Um it's free entry, so just come and check out what they do.

Um we're gonna have concessions and or accepting donations um because the trip is very expensive and they've been working very hard um to try and not have to pay that out of pocket.

And when was that again?

I'm so sorry.

Thursday, May 28th.

Where?

Um at Carson High Schools, High Tech Center.

Thank you.

I didn't say the time.

Doors open at 5 30.

The show will start at six.

You always want to end with that.

Well, I'm with you.

I've had the opportunity to uh help judge a couple different speech and debate um events.

And I gotta tell you, every time I am just flat out amazed by you young people of the way you guys can just put something together.

I I was uh on a couple impromptu when you draw a uh subject out of the hat, they have to get up in a minute or less and and give a five-minute speech.

I am blown away, so I don't know how you guys do it.

But uh congratulations to all of you.

And we are proud of you, and uh kind of an awe of what you guys can do.

Thank you.

Uh quote, something Miss Schiffelt said a couple minutes ago.

It's kind of a big deal.

You guys are pretty awesome, and I hope you know that, and I hope you feel it.

Um I know a lot of like more mainstream things get a lot of attention, but you guys are out here being rock stars, and I'm so glad that you're here so that we can give you the attention that you deserve.

Um it seems like um with everything being so digital, especially over the last decade or so, um, being able to articulate and have a verbal conversation is is something a lot of youth struggle with.

And so the fact that you guys are making like an extracurricular and thriving and being able to to have connect thoughts without a bunch of ums and ah's and and command a room and make eye contact and and be engaged, that is awesome.

And so I hope you know that we are proud of you, and I hope you feel that for yourselves as well.

Congratulations you guys I am so impressed.

I would be shaking to pull something out and be like alright seven minutes here we go I've only got what'd you say 30 minutes for a seven minute and five minutes or two minutes for a five my goodness amazing amazing all of you um I just hope you know that these skills that you're learning in speech and debate are going to take you so far no matter what path life takes you down and so just keep up the good work.

Well I have to say you guys are very intimidating.

So um yes I definitely congratulate each and every one of you um I um you guys are definitely truly our future leaders and you guys are definitely definitely already acquiring the skills necessary to do a good job for this country and um so I I have nothing to say but thank you for uh taking your education very serious and good luck in everything you do I feel like this one young man is is like the male version of my daughter because she was very active in speech and debate as well as HOSA um which is probably why she moved from medicine to law uh as a career um but I had the opportunity to judge numerous competitions over her high school career and I would love to come and volunteer my time I I usually I don't want to say the boring ones but like public forum and Lincoln uh Douglas like those were the ones that I always ended up judging because nobody else wanted to but I would love to come judge reach out and let let me know when you need me well thanks again and congratulations very nice and we'll go ahead and do the same thing picture it up here.

Okay just a few final things um one really impressive award for um one of our students so um uh student at Carson High sophomore Micah Duran um was recognized as the outstanding lead actor at the Nevada high school musical theater awards no student from Northern Nevada has ever won this and he's also the youngest ever to win it so he's gonna be going on to New York City um to compete in a larger scholarship program.

Another Carson High student Devin Kellner uh also won an award called the Spirit of Broadway award at the same uh same event so congratulations to Micah and Devin on that.

If you didn't know uh Carson High School has a um boys club boys volleyball team um so I got to go uh and enjoy a game and just watch uh a bunch of guys having a whole lot of fun out there and trust you peterson uh thanks for joining me that evening it was I think it was a really good time and um thanks to the coaches and Caitlin gentry for putting uh all that together um to give our boys an opportunity to do that and they beat Reed so I'll take that too.

And as you'll see in the back of your packets and just otherwise there is a whole lot going on here.

It is the end of the school year.

Um so if you have an evening that is open, I can guarantee you there's about seven things you could do within the school district.

So um I know we've sent out information on that.

There's some more things in the back here, but uh just a really fun time of year and lots of positive um activities.

So hope to see you at many of them.

And that is all I have.

Great, thank you.

And on that note, yes, um, I believe we have um one night in May that there isn't something going on.

By the way, I wrote it all down.

It's May 20th.

All the rest of the nights, there is a school activity or something going on.

So um again, anything that you can attend, and we'll keep in touch just to hope to make sure that we get.

So I think that'd be great.

All right, we'll go ahead and close agenda item number three, moving on to agenda item number four.

This is board report and board member comments for informational only.

We'll go ahead and start with, and thank you for being so patient.

Carson High School Activities.

Good evening, everybody.

Uh uh thank you all for having me here.

Uh, for those of you who do not know me yet, I'm uh Cooper Fueling.

I'm the uh current uh student body school board representative uh for Carson High School.

Uh I got a couple things here for you tonight.

Um, so we have spring sports are finishing up at the school.

Um all of our uh baseball and softball are both over.

Uh and then Swim has finished their regionals and are going on to state, I believe this weekend or next.

Uh and then same thing with track.

They have their uh state uh meet at Hug High School this weekend.

Um and then uh a few weeks ago, uh Carson High Student Council hosted our uh state conference.

Uh so that was about uh honestly I don't remember the exact number, but over um a thousand kids.

1400 uh kids and advisors from all over the state of Nevada, nearly every high school represented there.

Uh it was a uh we had so many uh good reviews and uh comments from advisors, students, staff, everybody just loved it.

It was great uh all around.

Uh it was the first time Carson High is hosted in 20 years, and it was just a huge success.

Well, this last Friday, uh we uh Carson High School brought back the uh powder puff football game, which was it's where the uh girls play football and guys are the cheerleaders.

Uh we haven't had that in over 10 years, but this year it was put on by Mrs.

Golex uh honors government class.

Uh it was a um they were they were collecting it was a it was put on to collect food for uh food insecurity.

Um, and it was just a great time.

Um I got to be a cheerleader.

It was uh really fun if you got to be there.

Um, but it was just a great experience.

So hopefully that will continue on in the future.

Uh and then last week and this week is AP testing at the high school.

Uh so we're almost done with that.

Uh there's some difficult tests.

We got some really smart kids at the high school though, so hopefully we'll see some good results from those tests on July 5th.

Uh, and then on we have a elementary school graduation walk uh on May.

Oh, June 2nd, thank you.

Um it is so this is the second annual one put on by uh Mrs.

Tuttle, who is our uh early childhood education teacher.

Um it is when the Carson High seniors get to go back to their uh elementary schools and walk through them one last time before graduating.

Uh it's just a really fun, it was really good to see last year.

Everyone just having fun one last time.

Uh and they get to talk with all the elementary schoolers and see where they can one day be.

Uh so we would uh all of you board members as well as any district staff are uh invited to attend.

Uh and they it's just any school you want to go to, it'll be a great event.

Um so the pictures and information are up on the board up there.

Uh and then the I'm sure we can find the slideshow somewhere.

Oh, schedule is up there now.

Uh so um, but so it'll be at uh nine thirty, nine thirty a.m.

at the uh elementary schools if you guys would like to be there.

Uh that'd be much appreciated.

Uh and yeah, that's all I have for you guys tonight.

Uh thank you.

Uh appreciate it.

Wanted to comment because I do know they're in the room, but uh many of us attended the student leadership um the start of it, and it was um, it was unbelievably remarkable the the energy, but how unbelievably professional it was.

You would have thought you guys hired an event specialist to put that on because it was phenomenal.

Um there just wasn't a kink, nothing.

Your technology, your um announcing the PAs, everything just went off.

It was just, I was um unbelievably impressed.

So congratulations on that.

But moving on, are you done?

Okay, great, thank you.

Um we'll go ahead and move on.

Do we have a representative here from the surface silver campus?

If not, I will be providing the report.

All right, trustee Ramirez.

Hey, so from Dr.

Molden, uh, she shares that the Silver Campus is proud to announce their partnership beginning uh it's beginning to build within the traits across the community on April 29.

Alex Hernandez went to present to the student body from Astro Tools, which is a small tool development and manufacturing company in Carson.

And on May 11, Amanda Hernandez took her loved and passion for massage therapy to the students.

Amanda is the owner of Just Relax Massage Therapy Work in Carson, and during the visit during her visit, she shared that interested candidates would need to do to get license as well as what it takes to um own their own business.

On May 21st, Mr.

Roper from Roper HVAC will be visiting at Silver Campus to share all of the opportunities and insights to a very high-need career in the area as well as the nation.

They are super excited for Mr.

Roper's visit.

Their last guest speaker will be um Andrea Lara from the Nevada Department of Public Safety due to the dire need for dispatchers in the community.

Ms.

Lara has reached out to the silver campus to see if anyone would be interested in joining their team with training provided by them.

I think this is amazing opportunities for our kids.

Lastly, the following two speech and debate students, as you heard earlier, Chelsea and Peno and Caden Sa traveled to Minnesota to compete at NI TOLK, which is a prelude to nationals, which will be held this year in Richmond, Virginia.

Any student that qualified for NITOC had to have finished first place during their state competition.

So congratulations to both Chelsea and Caden and the rest of the students who are here present.

And that's a report from Silver Campus.

Great, thank you.

NASBY.

Yeah, I know we're gonna be talking about the award nominations coming up, but uh they are due on August 21st.

We'll talk more about that later.

But anyway, on September 5th, 2026 this year, the professional development uh opportunity will be held in uh Lovelock this year.

It'll be from 9 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

And it's going to be on governance.

So if anybody can attend that, uh it would be well worth your time.

And then uh NASB and the staff there, they're already working on the uh 2027 legislative priorities, and they'll be sending them out to all the board members before long for our input, and I'll also share them with you guys as I get them so you can review the priorities from NASB with the upcoming legislative session.

And that is all I have for now.

Great.

Then we'll go ahead and start at the end.

Uh trustee Statuki, if you could do your um school, and then we'll come all the way back around.

I haven't been assigned a school yet.

Oh, yes, we were going to discuss giving you um Sea Lager.

Is that correct?

Um, oh yeah.

Yeah.

So if if you're up to doing two, it would be Sealager and Eagle Valley.

If you're not up to doing two, just let us know and we'll take care of it.

I am so sorry.

All right.

I do have one question about Mr.

Garner's report.

Did are we gonna get more information about that training?

The NASBY training.

Yes, as soon as I uh receive anything update, I'll get it to all the board members.

Right, Chester Ramirez.

Thank you.

From Mark Twain, Mrs.

Kirkshinks um shared with us that they are wrapping up the school year in full swing, and it has been an exciting and productive time for both students and staff.

Last week they hosted a family bingo night, and attendance was outstanding.

It was wonderful to see so many families and students come together to enjoy a fun evening and strengthen the school community.

Their students are also looking forward to several upcoming field trips that will provide meaningful learning experiences beyond the classroom.

In addition, they the third grade students are thoughtfully enjoying their swim lessons.

This opportunity has not only been exciting for them, but it is also helping building the important life skills.

Behind the scenes, her staff has been working hard to complete end of the year assignments and review student progress at first glance.

Their data is looking fantastic, and they are proud of the academic growth our the students have made throughout the year.

The dedication of the teachers, support staff, students, and families continue to make a positive impact on student success.

As they celebrate the accomplishments of the school year, they are also looking ahead.

Their team is already beginning to lay the foundation for next year, focusing on continued growth, strong instruction, and real world opportunities for their students.

That's the report from Mark Twain.

I also want to um say thank you to Natasha and excuse me, Natea, and um Kyle, the president of Student Council who is present here with us for inviting me to participate on the panel um during their National Association Student Council uh conference.

It was a fabulous experience.

We had the opportunity to talk about our experience about opening doors to leadership.

Um the students were very impressive.

We got to interact with some of those students, and they're just very focused in um in leadership.

And so I commend our our student council for doing a fantastic job.

Um, and uh I would just say keep up the good work.

Um the other thing that I wanted to touch on was the attendance of the day of the uh child event.

That was another impressive event.

I was able to interact with students that were manning the booths, and I was very pleased to see that the students are already uh focusing on what they want to do in life.

What they're they're really seriously thinking about career careers that they are very um interested in.

So thank you to the teachers that are really um helping those students, you know, get ahead and in start thinking ahead about their future.

So I believe those are the announcements, the all the announcements that I had, so again, thank you.

Okay, great, thank you.

Trustee Roberts.

Yes, from Fremont, Dr.

Ward at Fremont.

Uh, she just said we are so appreciative of all the support that they had during their fabulous Steam night, and they're looking forward to the last few days of school.

There's many field trips and celebrations planned and a PTA meeting next Wednesday at 7:30 in the morning.

That's it.

Great, thank you.

Trustee Peterson.

All right, um, principal prior over at Sealager.

Um, she said they have their spring band and choir concert.

It's coming up tomorrow night at 5 30.

Um, they've got map testing coming up next week, and then um they also have the third graders starting to have their swim lessons um on Thursday, which I hadn't heard of before.

So I asked her a little bit more about that.

And uh this is the second year, I guess Sealager piloted it last year, but they have a partnership with uh through Parks and Recs, and there's a few schools.

Um she said this year, Boardworth Mark Twain and Fremont have joined in with Sea Liquor um in a partnership with Parkson Rec that they uh bust the kids over and they each get um six times they get to go into the pool over there and have swim lessons and as third grade as a part of their school day I think that is such a neat thing I don't know who thought it up or put it in motion but high fives to them um also this last week at Sealer we had a touch a truck event which um I didn't know was coming but I live around the corner from Sealaker and I started hearing a bunch of sirens and um speaking over the loudspeakers commanding cars to pull over to the left pull to the side of the road and and lots of sirens and so I'm like what the heck is happening and so I went around the corner to see what was happening and it was a bunch of kids playing with the sirens on the big trucks and um this is they put it um together with um they had DNS towing and sheriff's department and Carson um fire and Carson Sheriff Street sweepers uh lift trucks and and um the students got to rotate through and have a brief presentation at um at each one got to sit on the NHP motorcycles get to say hi to the canine dogs get to give commands over the loudspeakers on um all the police vehicles and it was a really neat event lots of sirens and lights going in and a lot of smiles and so um that was neat to see there as well um and then Carson High I just put together a few notes um I'm gonna say some names because I think it's great.

Um like Mr.

Fueling said there uh when he did his high school update um swimming just had regionals and had eight qualify for state we have Hannah Ingram Larkin Russell um Ava Liao Gloria Dooley Asa Morway Derek Hensley Jonas Massey and Ivan Romeo Track also just had regionals and also had looks like seven qualify for state Jaron Thornberg Silas Chalmers Mark Walther Samantha Ingram Delaney Fueling uh Vea Minor and Nastasia Solpresio so great job to those athletes um some more names I want to mention art the Nevada Artist Association student art show uh was held and we had several kids there get honors Serenity Rodriguez Abby Ortega Angel Hernandez Gonzalez Chelsea and uh Lillian Marlar Mabel Wacker and Chloe Clark um and also um on the topic of art the CHS art expo is gonna kick off this week on Thursday in the Tech Center um and it's all sorts of mediums um pencil ceramics digital um lots of art will be on display photography um so if you have an opportunity the kickoff is this Thursday the 14th from 5 to 7 in the tech center but the art will be up all week um so definitely swing by there um superintendent fueling mentioned Micah Jerome I just wanted to add um that him earning that outstanding lead actor is is is a very big deal it was held down at the Smith Center down in Vegas he's gonna spend a week on Broadway over the summer um what he's going to is called the Jimmy's and it's um like it's nicknamed the Tonies for teenagers so this is a really big deal um that he got that so I just wanted uh mention that again and then also day of the child was held this weekend like uh trusty Ramirez said um it was a really well attended event uh all the kids that are a part of the early childhood education had booths set up with some kind of an interactive project um for the early childhood target um a lot of it was hands on a lot of it was making things a lot of it was learning things and and they all got to put their talent on display with the things that they've learned and and then it ended with a signing um similar to how we had our our collegiate athletes present here um all the students who intended to move on to college to pursue a career in education signed a letter of intent hopefully non-binding unfortunately committing them to come back and teach in Carson um once they've they've finished that up.

So that was really fun to see and be a part of.

And that is it.

Alright thank you.

And then um my understanding uh trusty Varney, you'll be doing trustees classes as well.

Thank you.

Yes, I am.

Before I get my report, though, I was able to uh attend the um student leadership event opening ceremony along with uh a few of uh others of us.

And I gotta tell you, Kyle, I was impressed.

You and your partner, um, you were like a professional up there, and uh there again.

Uh you some of you guys just really really impressed me, and I'm an awe of you.

That's something that I could never have done, never would have imagined doing, and you did an excellent job, and uh there was a lot of energy in the room before they broke up.

But uh anyway, thank you for your efforts in that.

It was a great event.

And uh, then uh moving on to Fritch.

Uh we got a real short one from Principal Brown, and he would like to share that Fritch will be having their annual end of the year family barbecue, sponsored by their PTO on Thursday, May 28th from 5 p.m.

to 6 30 p.m.

And I don't have one for Boardwork Bray, but I do have one for Eagle Valley.

And actually, before I move on one more time, I'm sorry.

Uh several of us attended the Empire STEM night uh last Friday night.

What an event that was.

They had a Dr.

Ming, who was retired NASA engineer, who actually drove the rover on Mars, and he did several other things uh trying to uh grow plants on uh maybe in a space capsule up in the moon and stuff like that.

Uh it was excellent.

Uh the kids were very engaged.

I was very engaged listening to them, and um had kids had a lot of questions, which uh I was really happy to see these elementary school kids be uh so impressed and so involved in it.

So that was an excellent event, and they had a lot of good food or sell and it was my report.

Oh, I'm sorry.

No, you're I'm sorry.

I didn't know who did it.

I didn't know who did the empire, I'm sorry.

Anyway, moving on.

I'm sorry about that.

From Eagle Valley Middle School have quite a one here from Principal Hoppy.

Students who met their map goals in math or reading, or both are going to an ACES game on in Reno.

The sixth and seventh grade will be going on Thursday, May 14th.

Eighth grade will be going on Tuesday, May 26th.

Then they're also having an ice cream social, and she wanted to thank all the families and uncoming six incoming sixth graders who attended their ice cream social.

I guess they already had it.

It was held on May 7th.

And she says if you missed the event, they will be sharing the slideshow with our feeder schools for your information.

The Eagle Valley Boot Camp will be happening on August 13th.

Be on the lookout for information shared with you over the summer.

We look forward to seeing you then.

And then the VIP lunch, Eagle Valley Middle School will be hosting their last VIP, very important person slash people lunch for families on Friday, May 15th, join their students doing regular lunchtime.

Information posted in uh the social networks.

We look forward to having families in the building.

Then the sixth and seventh grade awards assembly will be held on Monday, June 1st at 8 a.m.

And the parents and guardians will be invited to attend if the child is receiving an award.

And then uh the eighth grade awards assembly will be held on June 2nd at 8 a.m.

And that's on a Tuesday.

Parents and guardians are invited to join them as they recognize the accomplishments of the eighth grade students, and they receive their promotion certificate.

And due to limited space in the gym, she asked that families limit attendance to two adults per student.

Then the eighth grade promotion promotion parade will be held on Wednesday, June 3rd at 10 a.m.

And she asked that do you please be there by 9 45 to get organized in the hallways?

Parents, guardians, and extended family members and support supporters are all welcome to attend and celebrate the uh promoting the eighth graders during the promotion parade.

There is no guest limit for this event.

After the parade, eighth graders will be allowed to eat lunch with their families out on the field, and they will have food trucks available, but due to the limited number of students and families attending, we encourage families to bring a picnic style lunch.

Then the eighth grade Fund in the Sun event will be held on Thursday, June 4th.

It'll be sponsored by the PTO.

Eighth grade students are invited to participate in the Fund and the Sun celebration sponsored by the PTO.

And to attend students must have no Fs and have all fines cleared.

And they look forward to celebrating the end of the year with their eighth graders.

So that was quite a lengthy report, but uh thank you.

All right, thank you very much.

And then I have a report for Ampire Elementary School.

Yeah, really good.

Um so this is Principal uh Virgil says, you know, thank you very much to all the board members that attended the event.

Umpire had a very successful STEM Fiesta event last Friday with a wonderful turnout from families and community partners.

Um Doug Ming is a NASA engineer, and he was their headline speaker, and they did a ribbon cutting for their first STEM tank student project that was brought to life, and it was a living wall, and their EL student, uh their EL students held a and uh trustee Ramirez.

I'm gonna ridicule it, but uh Mercata dance.

The dance that they did.

Yeah, yeah.

What was the name of the dance that they did, the kids?

Okay, yeah, and then they did, and it was a native dance for everyone, and the students launched their home made rockets, which was um very exciting to see the kids and the families and the um I mean it was a family project, and so even the older siblings were there congratulating the younger ones.

It was really it was really neat neat to see all of the family engagement.

Um, then this Thursday, they have their green biz kids group, will be selling items from their garden at the student farmers market being held at Great Basin downtown, although I thought it was at the legislature building.

Legislative building, but um, yes, so they will be down there as well, and so um that is for Empire.

The other thing I wanted to mention as well is the Carson High School Rotary Interact Club was given two awards while attending the Far West Rotary District Conference.

They received the international service and the um interact tenants.

The international service award was their work collecting mobile devices and packing them into a transport to go to Uganda for the crutches for Africa program.

So we're extremely um proud of the Interact Kids as well.

And that concludes my report.

So we will move on to agenda item number five association reports.

Seeing none, we'll close agenda item number five.

Move on to agenda item number six, uh, public comment.

Renee, did we have any written public comment submitted?

Uh no, President.

Well, thank you.

All right, great, thank you.

We do have one sign in, and this is um Griffin Winward, if you'll please.

And when you come up, if you'll um hit the button until it turns green.

And state your name, and you'll have three minutes.

Trustee Peterson, thank you.

Griffin Winward.

Good evening, members of the Carson City School Board.

My name is Griffin Winward, and I'm a student and road in English 102 at WNC.

By working on a group project, we discovered that there is a lack of connection between some parents and their kids' schools.

In some cases, the involvement in parent or parents is limited to dripping off or picking up their child from school as they don't even come in to the school at all.

As I am sure, you all are aware.

When parents are involved with their children's schooling, studies show higher academic achievements, school engagement, and motivation according to a 2009 American Psychology Association review.

Well, we have been working on a group project that aims to strengthen relationships among families and their schools.

Our thought was was that starting with the elementary students would hope parents become more involved with their student schools early in the students' education.

The plan for our project involves starting monthly after school community events or supporting ones that already exist, focusing on elementary schools like Fremont Elementary School.

These activities include movie night, game night, and seasonal family events like Christmas themed or other holiday activities.

Our projects with biggest objective is to provide children and their parents with a rear current activity that they can attend and engage in outside of normal school hours, which allows them to meet each other and socialize a lot easier.

What we are asking from the school board is to prove to allow programs like this to happen in at one elementary school, possibly with a small flexibility budget for basic supplies like snacks, paper goods, and simple activities material.

We are not asking for huge new program or major changes across the district.

We just want a permission to start small and see how it works and to find a way to link volunteer resources to the school's needs.

It is safe to say that our proposed initiative is a small as it is realistic, cost effective and practical.

In addition to this, it is even helps to boost the academic performance of the kids because of the strengthening of family school relationships.

So we respectfully ask the school board to let us start the small program or guide us to know who to contact to begin at one elementary school in Carson City where we would hold and support monthly community events.

I mean events.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Uh thank you very much.

And I would encourage you to reach out to Superintendent Fueling.

Thank you.

Closing public comment, we will move on to agenda item number seven, and thank you for your patience.

Um this is a presentation from the uh Carson City Planning Department on Growth and Development in Carson City and how schools in the Carson City School District fit into the Carson City Master Plan.

This is for discussion only, and presenting this is um Hope Sullivan from the city, and um I thank you for coming.

This is an agenda item that I had asked to be on the agenda due to the fact that um we continue to see a whole lot of um building going on, construction going on in Carson City, but yet we're being told that our enrollment is decreasing.

So I'm hoping you could shed some light onto that.

But thank you for uh for coming.

Thank you.

Hope Salavan, the director of community and economic development for Carson City, and with me today is McKenzie Ray, who is our planning technician.

McKenzie did all the research on this data that I'm presenting tonight and put together the presentation.

So I just speak.

She it's the brains, so we'll see how we do here.

Um I want to thank you for doing what you did.

Wow, one night, right?

You had a lot of really impressive stuff tonight and um thank you for inviting me.

I work a lot with AJ, but I've never been invited to meet with you all, but we do work really closely.

I've been with Carson City for 10 years, and in those 10 years I've worked really closely with Mark Kornick, Mark Johnson, and AJ, both when he was the business manager, and he didn't he didn't give it up.

Mr.

Stokes didn't work with me, but now AJ's superintendent.

He still works with me, so I really appreciate that.

Um, I'm gonna talk to you first about the master plan.

Um, what you have in front of you is the master plan the city's master plan map.

Um we adopted an update to our master plan in May 2025.

I will mention to you that the high school students who were in the AP human geography class participated in the master plan update.

Um we had certain listening sessions on Saturdays at the library, and they did come and get extra credit.

And Kyle came, because Kyle's everywhere, right?

So that was great that we were able to have that collaboration with the AP geography um students.

But in talking about the city's master plan, what you'll see in the update is that we continue with the city's concept of having a compact, diverse core surrounded by green belts.

So, what do I mean by that?

When I use the word diverse, I'm talking about land use.

So a diversity of land uses.

So when you look at that map, you see a lot of green on the edges because you have state land, federal land, and city-owned open space surrounding Carson City.

The purple is actually federally owned land.

So I was like, why do we have all that purple?

But I looked it up and that's what the purple is.

So what you'll notice is that we don't look like Dayton.

We don't look like Douglas County.

Carson City is compact.

I like to say that we're urban light.

People will come in and say, Well, we thought we hear urban.

I said that we're urban light.

So we're not suburban, we're not a suburb.

We're our own community, and we look our the way we look is very, very intentional.

When you see the red along the major corridors, that's because in updating the master plan, something we talked about was the fact that, and I could give you a little listing session, but I won't do that right now.

But um, we talked about the fact that people don't go shopping anymore.

One of the things I did in the listening sessions is I asked for a show of hands, which I won't ask you to do that.

How many people have been to the mall in the last 60 days?

Oh, you have been.

And then I'll say how many people have shopped online in the last 60 days.

It's a lot of shopping online now.

There's work from home now.

So traditionally the major corridors were reserved for commercial uses and office uses, but with the change to work from home, we're seeing the office buildings empty.

There's not a big demand for office space.

With the whole concept of shopping online, retail's struggling.

So we have for those red areas, those are called corridor mixed use.

So we're allowing the residential to locate on our major corridors.

We can't reserve them for commercial and office because we'll end up with empty buildings.

So what those were some of the big um items from the master plan update, but in general, a lot of the um foundational information stayed the same.

This is a bar chart that shows you from the master plan, and we excluded the state and federal land here, how the land is intended to be used in Carson City.

So what you'll see is most of the land is for conservation reserve, which is a 20-acre minimum lot size, so it's a big lot size for low density residential and for open space.

And so this is primarily because the city's objective is to have infill development.

So the um what you're the president, you're not the chair.

The president was asking, well, how will growth impact um things with the schools like transportation?

And with the exception of plateau development that we'll talk about, which is near the Lyon County line, the development that you're seeing in Carson City is really infill development, and we're gonna we're gonna go a little more in depth on that in a minute.

Um I mentioned at the beginning that I've been here for 10 years.

Well, look what happened in 2016 when I got here.

All of a sudden things went gangbusters.

We just started getting really busy.

We're spending a lot of time together.

Everyone's worried.

Oh my gosh, we're having all this development after like nothing, right?

And where are these students gonna go?

How are we gonna fit the students?

What's going to happen?

We were having these conversations, and I think that's a big part of the reason you were able to negotiate that land over at Lamba because we were so concerned about student growth.

Something else we did at Lampa is um, I think it was the first time I met AJ, was they some people at the city were telling AJ he couldn't have the buses load and unload for the high school on Robinson?

They said no, Robinson's gotta be functional for traffic.

Well, nobody cared before Lampa.

There was no development there.

So the high school could control the dead end of Robinson.

Um AJ said, well, no, we we have we can't, we don't have money to build the school drop-off and bus drop off and pick up on site.

And so we talked about it, and he said we have the land, we just don't have we have the space for it, we don't have the money to build the improvement.

So we were able to work with the developer, and that was something the Mark's AJ and I did working with the developer to have the developer make the improvement on the high school property so that Robinson would be fully functional.

So that's just an do you remember it that way?

Okay, just checking.

Okay.

So that's just an example of where we we really, you don't see it, but the city staff and your staff are very collaborative.

Mark Johnson's always making sure whatever projects you have coming in for building permit, we're gonna get it done so that it can get done during the summer when you don't have the students there.

We're we're constantly working together.

Um so development obviously picked up in 2016 and it's staying steady.

This graph just takes you through the end of calendar year 25, but in 26, we've had 61 housing starts through the end of April.

This slide shows you our valuation.

So valuations increasing.

That's a good thing.

This does not include permits for city facilities.

So this is um this is non-public projects that you're looking at.

This is a really important slide, and this is growth management.

Carson City has a growth management ordinance.

Back in, I think it was the 70s, this ordinance went into place.

And the reason it went into place was because the city was making sure that the critical services that were necessary to operate the city, which included schools and still includes schools, would not would be able to continue to perform given growth.

So that was kind of an awkward sentence.

Sorry about that.

Anyhow, so what we do every single solitary year, and we just did it again, is I reach out to the utilities to check out water, wastewater, check with parks, check with the fire department, the sheriff's office in the school district.

Those are clearly stated in the growth management ordinances, ordinance singular, as critical services that are provided in the city.

And I asked a single question how will growth, continued growth in Carson City impact your ability to serve the community?

Is it going to compromise your ability to serve the community?

If it's going to compromise your ability to serve the community, what should we do about it?

What are your suggestions?

So let's say AJ were to say to me, or I should say the superintendent were to say to me, Well, our schools are busting out the seams.

We can't fit another student.

We'd have to have a serious conversation about how many more housing starts we were going to have.

And in fact, we were, again, 10 years ago, panicking, eight years ago, panicking.

The students didn't come.

And what you'll look at when you look at the average household size on this slide is that between the 2010 census and the 2020 census, our household size dropped.

So we have fewer kids in the households.

We have smaller households.

And so for 2026, what our board of supervisors has said is we can have 774 housing starts.

Um I'll go before the board, I think it's in July, and they'll identify how many housing starts we can have in 2027.

AJ's already given me his his letter for 2027, and he does not believe that the school district will be compromised if there's continued growth and development in Carson City, given your student population.

So where is all this growth going?

Here's the good stuff.

This is um Altair Apartments.

These are the apartments that are going in at the corner of William Street and Stuart behind is that Jack in the Box, I think on the corner there.

This is the same developer who built the Marla apartments over on Little Lane, if you're familiar with those.

So these will be market rate apartments right in the downtown, and it will be 207 units.

One of the things actually going back to growth management for a second, a few years ago, AJ presented to the growth management commission at their annual meeting because you all had had a study done to try to identify based on the development we knew about at that time, how many students you would anticipate being produced from each of the development.

And I remember one of the developments was Carson Hills apartments, and I don't remember what the number was that the consultant thought would come from that project, but whatever was realized was far less.

And so the apartment complexes don't tend to be the new apartment complexes, I should say, don't tend to be producing a lot of students.

Umerson Ranch, they're near.

I said to McKenzie when she did this, I said, aren't they done?

She said, almost.

So they're almost done.

This is on the west side between Mountain Street and Ormsby, 203 lots.

Arbor Villas, that stalled for a little while over on Little Lane, 147 lots.

It's townhouse development, so I'm not sure AJ would know better than I do.

Based on the type of house it is, if it tends to produce a lot of students, I'm not sure the townhouses are.

This stalled for a little bit, capstone builders stopped, and um DR Horton picked it up and they're they're completing the development.

Blackstone Ranch, this will be Ryder Homes 204 lots.

So this will be single-family detached, and they're still doing grading work.

So when you drive down fifth, you this is what you're seeing.

Border Crossing, this is Mark Turner's project off Silver Sage.

Yes, Clearview and Silver Sage.

So he did another project right across the street from it, and this will be town homes, 28 units.

Brown Street apartments is behind Slot World.

Um, Dwight Millard's building this out, and it will be a total of 81 units.

These are apartment units.

Capital, and um, I should stop for a second.

Let you say no.

The president had asked me, you know, based on the development you're seeing, how will that impact our zones?

I'm not familiar with the school zones, so I'm trying to describe for you where this development is, and hopefully you're able to kind of picture what zones might be impacted.

So I just want to mention that.

Capital Crossing is an interesting project.

This is done by America Home Homes for Rent.

And these are rental, but they're single family detached.

And this is 137 lots, and they're looking for more land in Carson.

Things are going really well with this project.

And this is also over at Lampa, so you can see you can see the houses from the freeway.

Um, let's see, Cross Creek Subdivision is Ryder across from the high school, 119 lots, and they're the ones who built the improvement for the bus drop-off so that they could have the full use of Robinson Street.

So this one's been going on for a while, it's going going a little bit slow.

Little Lane Village.

If you've been on Little Lane, if you haven't been on Little Lane, take a drive down Little Lane.

This is a really neat project.

Um, Bates Homes is doing this, it's going steady.

They're at 96 lots.

When I talked to them about who's building, because when they first came in to see me, and if you've seen these units, there's a lot of three-story units.

And when the Bates came to see me to talk to me about this concept, I thought, oh, I'm not sure if three stories is gonna even two stories will work in Carson because we have so many retirees.

But when I check in with them and say, How's it going?

How are sales?

They're selling to retirees.

So again, anecdotal, but the question is how's this impacting the school district?

And I'd be curious how many students you're getting from this project.

Um, that was backwards, plateau development.

This one was interesting.

I remember talking to Mark Johnson, Mark Cornack when this was just on paper, and I said, What do you guys think?

They said, We don't know how we're busting them in, and so I guess you figured it out because there's some houses that are occupied out there, but this is pretty close to the Lion County line.

You can see the county line in yellow there.

So this is um it's near Morgan Mill, and this is 270 lots, they'll be in for some townhouses out this way as well, and they'll be doing some more phases of of development, so this will continue to grow out this way.

Silver Crest Condos is down south off Schneider.

This stalled out for a little while.

I think there was a bankruptcy.

The bank picked it up and asked the developer Carter Hill to finish it out.

So they're allowed to have 51 units.

I think they're they may be rethinking their their unit type.

So I'm not sure how aggressively they're building right now, but they have not finished.

Stafford Way apartments, this is little, it's such an interesting little lot at the corner of Silver Sage and Stafford.

This will just be two buildings with 12 apartment units in it.

Um, Vernado Valley.

This is um Toll Brothers is building this 41 units off Ormsby.

If you've been in there, and this is another one where I checked McKenzie.

I said, Are you sure they're not done?

She said, Almost, not yet.

Lampo Ranch West Apartments.

If you've driven down fifth, you can see Ryder Homes is starting to go vertical on their apartments right now over offline, and this is part of the LOMPA project as well.

So Adams Estates, that's um Steve Neighbors from Hop and May Foundation.

They own this land and they decided to subdivide it.

They use Lumis to do the subdivision, and it's all custom homes.

It's a gated community with just 12 lots.

Silver Oaks on its final phase.

I think Silver Oak was approved in 1993, and they are starting to finish out.

So I'm sure you've seen a lot of kids from Silver Oak over as this construction's gone on for decades, but they're they're in the home stretch now, and this last um phase will be 54 lots detached.

Blackstone Ranch South.

This is if you go to the end of Railroad Drive, and what's the school that's right over there, AJ?

Fremont, okay.

So if you go to the end of railroad, you see this big parcel of land between railroad and the freeway.

This will be developed with 103 lots, and they'll have a road that connects through the Lampa property and connects to Fifth Street, and then it you can go straight up to get to Robinson from there.

And this is getting slowed down because to get through the Lampa property, they need um permitting from the Army Corps of Engineers.

But this one will we'll be staying single family detached.

Um Silver Oak Town Homes.

This is behind Glen Eagle's this parcel, and they're proposing 92 townhome units.

That was it.

So that's what I brought you tonight.

If you have questions, I'm happy to take those.

And hopefully that gave you a good glimpse into what you can expect in terms of students and um immediate immediate active growth in the community.

We have other what's called an entitlement, which means somebody has permission to build.

Um, I had a meeting earlier this morning, for example, and somebody has permission to build a project, and they're selling it to a different developer.

And so the two developers have the table with me to just make sure the transition would happen okay.

So things like that, we tend not to present until although we can, it's not a sacred, until there's actual construction because you just don't know the timeline for sure on an entitlement or if it will morph into something else.

But um, there was a question about the level of collaboration we're having with the school district.

I talked to you about growth management, and that's a for very formal interaction.

I've alluded to informal interactions.

Um, when I was the planning manager, which in 2021 I was promoted, we had Mark Johnson on our routing list for all our pre-ap, what's called the major project review, but you can just think of it as a pre-application.

And so if it was some a big residential project, he might come out and participate in the meeting.

I think it's gone to a more informal communication and based on my invitation to see you tonight.

I've asked our planning manager to formalize that and make sure he's invited to every single one, and he can pick and choose what he wants to attend, so that we're not relying on informal communication.

That's what I've got.

Um I appreciate that, uh, the more formal than informal.

Um, but we'll go ahead and start with questions and then I'll end it if you want to start.

Uh trusty Ferner.

Sure.

Uh thank you for presentation.

It was uh very well done, very informative.

So thank thank you.

Um I sometimes I wonder when I drive around town about the traffic situation, and I know we're not here to discuss that, but I'm I'm kind of wondering is there any kind of idea where the people are coming from?

Is there any kind of study or the where are all these people coming from to occupy these houses?

That's that's a good question.

Um it's and we haven't done formal surveys, it's anecdotal.

Um, I host a quarterly land development round table.

It's a private meeting where I invite developers to the table with with me, Kenzie comes, because um I want to make sure we're communicating.

And I'll often ask them how's it going?

Like I alluded to Bates Homes.

How's it going?

Who are you selling to?

Are you selling?

And um retirees from California, cash buyers.

Well I'm a retiree, there's nothing wrong with that, but uh we're not getting the students like we had hoped, I guess.

Um, and then also just one last question.

I know everybody else has some.

Uh, what's the population cap for Carson City?

Our utilities department has um designed everything for a population of 80,000.

Keep in mind we have non-residential development as well.

And when I talked about growth management, one of the things we do annually is we identify what is a big water user.

And um relatively recently, after I became director, we came up with criteria to decide when a large water user, and that would be a non-residential water user, would be would receive a yes to exceed the thr a certain threshold.

So every year that threshold is established.

So right now the threshold is um an average of 10,000 gallons per day.

So for example, a nursing home might use more than that.

Um, and so if somebody's gonna use more than that, of water as a non-residential use, they need to get special permission from the growth management commission, and the growth management commission has created criteria for that so that we make sure we're really thoughtful and how we use our resources.

So, but yeah, the utilities are are planned for a population of 80,000.

Thank you.

Okay, Jesse Peterson, do you have a question?

Um, you had mentioned there's several um entities that you have to check with before you can improve things just to make sure that it wasn't wouldn't be like a negative impact and and reduce the quality of service.

Um we are in a spot I think where we with declining enrollment that we will be able to accommodate kids for a little while.

Um what is um you just mentioned water?

Is there a particular resource that is is the one that um would be most likely to cause the pause in in this growth?

Um I think if water or sewer were if there were issues there, that would be pretty big, but there are not issues.

In fact, um every year I have the head of our utilities speak specifically to water and wastewater and what the systems look like, what the capacity of the systems are, what they're realizing in terms of demand, and so we watch that really carefully, and our public works department watches that very carefully, and our board is um currently they're doing improvements at the quill water treatment plant, they're doing improvements all over the city, so they they are very aware of exactly what the demand is on those utilities and what what the capacity is.

Hypothetically, that would be a big one.

Um fire gets worried about their response times with and a lot of um first aid calls for them, and so looking at how they can accommodate continued growth with with their resources, sheriff's office is in good shape, and I think actually your point's well taken that um you can accommodate more students.

I think that's probably why the conversations with the school district went from panic 10 years ago to um yeah, well, they're fine.

They we all have to yeah, they kept declining, so we're not gonna invite them.

So, but I think it's always a good idea to make sure the schools know what's going on because there may be one area where there's a lot of growth and you have to get ready because that schools can get overloaded or whatever.

Yeah, but yeah, but right now because I have growth management going, um, we're in what month are we?

We're maybe okay.

This month I'm going to the growth management commission.

I I know that all the critical services are fine.

Nobody's asking for anything unusual.

FIRE has made has identified some concerns with um, well, here's here's the objective on the response time versus what's realized, but that's that's not going to, I don't think that's gonna shut things down.

And then would you be willing to um email that presentation so we could take another look at it?

We have it, and then Renee puts it on.

Um so she posts it the next day.

All of our PowerPoints, if you didn't know, all of our PowerPoints are on the website the next day, Renee has them up there.

Yeah, so um just underneath the school district website under board the agenda and everything's up there, so you'll see it there tomorrow.

Trusty Roberts.

No questions, just thank you very much.

It was very interesting and informative.

So good work to both of you.

Trusty Ramirez.

No questions, but I just want to thank you for your partnership with the school district.

Trustee Statuki?

I do have a couple questions, but I I have to tell you one of the reasons I moved to this community six years ago is because of how you manage the community, right?

I come from Vegas where they will build $4,000 or 4,000 house lot without any consideration of schools.

So all of a sudden you have schools that are sitting at 3,000 or 4,000 students that were made to serve 2,000 students.

So I appreciate that you guys I don't think people in Carson probably appreciate it enough, right?

How well your office works with a school to make sure that all of our students are served.

Um I do have a question um about like especially all these new houses, the average cost of a house coming in.

I know I live literally a block or two from the middle school and there's only one young person on my entire street.

Everybody else in my entire neighborhood is retired, including myself.

Um so it concerns me when I'm looking at our schools because we do have a lot less uh families moving in, and I think part of that is and again I I don't know, but like the average cost of a house coming in for a young family like my son cannot afford to live in Carson.

He can't afford to live in Reno.

Um is probably kind of being uh working against us and bringing in young families.

No, very good point.

Actually, when I was thinking about this presentation, but then I didn't put it in the presentation.

Um AJ or I'm sorry, call him the superintendent, um, he participated a lot in the master plan update.

And not just in terms of students, but in terms of faculty and staff.

And one of the things he was at a luncheon where we had large employers at that luncheon to talk about are you finding staff?

Can you get staff?

Can where does your staff live?

Can they find housing here?

So workforce housing is is a big deal, which is why in Carson City we do have the diversity of land use.

And you do see when not even the presentation I just gave you.

We have townhouses, we have single family, we have the um custom homes off Ormsby, or no, Longview or what's that street?

Long view.

Um, D, she knows.

Um we have the apartments, we have luxury apartments versus you know, sort of the more affordable apartments.

So we've really recognized we need that diversity.

Something I've I've commented on quite a bit, but not lately, is when you look at the FHA loans.

The FHA and sorry, I'm off on this, but just real quick.

The FHA loan is derived from the average sale price of houses in your community.

If you look at how with the FHA loan limits in Lyon, Washoe and Douglas, they're higher than Carson City, because they have uh I'm I'm pretty sure Lyme was last time I checked, because they have higher end housing.

We need I think more higher end housing to get that loan limit up in Carson City so that we we increase that that part.

But no, Carson's really a community where we've welcomed workforce housing because we know that we need a workforce for the school district, for the hospital, for the industrial area by the airport.

It's a big deal.

And my uh my other question is especially when we're trying to bring in young families, um industries coming in, right?

Like we know that Reno has this huge boom of housing and Reno's now more expensive to live in than Carson because of this boom, um, but we don't have that industry infrastructure to bring in families that that are trying to get jobs, right?

We have existing.

Right.

And our other challenge is um South Reno is so close that way.

If you have if you have dual earners, there's more job opportunities up there.

So a lot of times the couples will one person will work in Carson, the other will work in Reno, and they'll live in South Reno because it's it's more convenient.

Something else we did hear is from the large employers, some of their staff chooses Reno because there's more school choices up there, so that's something to consider as well.

Thank you.

Yes, thank you.

Um thank you for your presentation.

It was very thorough.

Uh great job, McKinsey.

Um, and then thank you, Hope, as well for attending.

Um, yes, um the questions that I had asked you um were included.

I do have a couple more.

So, because my concern that I have is our budget, right?

Um the city seems to be doing well with the new, you know, the the new growth, and then it comes the taxes as well, but then you have us on the other side, which makes a community, and are we are struggling with our budget, and we're gonna continue to struggle with our budget if the enrollment goes down, which then if the enrollment continues to decrease and you're looking at an it possibly a school closure, you know, um, then you have another empty building.

Does the city have any um thing in their master plan on what they're anticipating to do with the empty buildings that may be coming in the future?

Um I sort of alluded to that when we talked about the corridors, and what we're trying to do is create more flexibility on land use, recognizing that the rigidity that we maybe experienced 25 years ago when you did go to the mall and going I when Kyle might remember this, he's still here.

One of the things I said during the listening session is some people may McKenzie won't know this, but might remember when going to the mall was like a thing you did, right?

That was what you do this weekend.

Oh, I went to the mall, and um that doesn't happen anymore.

You people aren't going to work.

We have to be flexible on land use, or we're going to have empty buildings.

The other thing I've talked to folks about is um they've said, wow, we're really running out of vacant land.

Well, that means you start redeveloping.

You look at underutilized properties and buildings go away and gets redeveloped, and or they get repurposed.

And we all know of examples where schools have been repurposed.

We also have two schools looking for buildings right now.

The Montessori schools looking and the charter schools looking.

So we do have have folks who are are want to be in Carson City and are looking for properties for their schools.

And then, you know, you talked about um when Trusty Varner asked about you know who's moving in, and it is retired-based, um, which will affect, you know, continue to affect our enrollment, declining enrollment as well.

And so um, I do I know you mentioned about you know the housing and you brought up the young families, but is it in the has it been addressed in the in the master plan?

I mean, is is it a um a priority or somewhere in the master plan where the city is looking at how are we going to attract those younger families?

Um, yeah.

Sort of.

Um couple months ago I got a promotion.

So I used to be the director of community development.

I'm now the director of community and econom and economic development.

Um when the master plan was being put together, our consultant made an observation, and then our planning commission made the observation, then the board made the observation that in Carson City, you have different entities that are promoting an aspect of economic development, but nobody in the city was at the table.

And so what they said is we need somebody in the city looking at economic development and working with all these other groups and help facilitating discussion and communication.

And I had a meeting a few months ago.

Woman came up to me and she's like, There's nothing for kids.

And that came up in our listening session at the map for the master plan, is a woman came and she said, I go to a lot of birthday parties because I have young kids in Reno.

Because all the birthday parties are in Reno.

There's no place to have a birthday party in Carson City.

And so that was as part of the listening tour, and she said we need more things for kids here.

And then this other woman came to me and she's like, look at I'll bring all the moms you want here.

There is nothing for toddlers.

There's nothing for the under five year olds.

And we need something for that for that age group.

So that's not the answer necessarily.

But it's interesting when you start looking at economic development, you look at all the pieces of it, and the piece that she's describing.

What I'm hearing is are we welcoming young families?

If you have to go to Reno for a birthday party, if you don't if you have little toddlers and there's nothing to go do, you can do this for you know five minutes, but you're not gonna go every weekend.

Um that's an interesting statement.

And I think that starts to tie into the school district.

What are we are we trying to attract young families?

What are we doing about that?

And so that's that's a piece of it.

Now, has the does the master plan specifically say okay, we need to aggressively recruit young families?

No.

What it says is that the city needs to essentially, not these words, but participate in economic development, and that's part of it.

Um and then the last question is you didn't mention anything about uh short-term rentals, because I'm a little worried about how that would affect the housing then as well, because short-term rentals aren't going to bring in young families with with students either.

And so would you mind addressing that?

Sure.

Okay, so actually, the Board of Supervisors is going to meet um May 21st and discuss short-term rentals.

Um, right now, what the Board of Supervisors has said is, well, let me back up a second.

So, right now, short-term rentals are not specifically addressed in our zoning ordinance.

I have the authority to make certain interpretations, and I've interpreted a short-term rentals like a hotel, therefore, it can go where a hotel can go.

Hotels cannot go in residential areas, therefore, short-term rentals cannot go in residential areas.

What the board of supervisors said in a retreat, I think it was in February, they said, Well, we know we have these short-term rentals.

We know short-term rentals are a thing.

There are land use throughout this country, so we can't not speak to it.

And so they have requested that the zoning ordinance be amended to include short-term rentals.

We had some listening sessions with the community to determine what standards, if any, they thought should be included, and got input at a couple of listening sessions that we had, and um what the board will consider is what those standards are and where they should be allowed.

What I anticipate will happen is that short-term rentals will be allowed in the residential zoning districts.

So, what that means is somebody can lawfully have a lawful land use of a short-term rental in a single-family house.

And right now we believe we have 40 to 50 short-term rentals in town.

So, will that increase if it becomes lawful?

Will it decrease if it becomes lawful?

I don't know what that answer is.

And I suspect um we'll we're trying to get the program started so that we can start permitting these so that there are standards in place, and then once that's that sort of has operated for a year or so, the board will likely look at is this working?

Are there problems?

But what you're thinking is we're gonna lose housing inventory, and um I I think that will happen.

How much housing inventory based on today's numbers?

We think it's 40 to 50 units, all right.

Thank you very much.

That was very thorough.

Any other follow-up questions?

Um, you know, looking at because I had one of the questions I had was what it would be doing to the zoning and looking at that as well.

It looks like Sealagur in Fremont, yeah.

Would would be if families were to move in, it's gonna be impact Sea Lager in the Fremont area.

Um, if we anticipate anything there.

Yeah, I clearly those are the areas, a little bit of border with fridge here, like small ones, but Fremont and Sealager would be the big winners potentially.

I just wanted to thank hope.

Like she said, we have had an incredibly just positive relationship over the past decade, super supportive in the panic.

Sounds sounds like one of the old history textbooks in the panic of 1836.

In the panic of 2016, we, I mean, based on historical kind of the historical relationship of the population of the city relative to ages, the number of population under the age of 18 relative to historical, what's called yield in this world of uh for every 100 units developed of certain type of housing, how many students would come out of that.

The projections we had, we actually had a third party go go through and do kind of a similar work, but internally we did this too.

We were looking at with all the developments that were just coming online in 2016 and what we were projecting forward, we would need to end up having two more elementary schools in Carson City, one more middle school, and unless you wanted a high school of close to 4,000 kids, we need a second high school.

And so the panic at that time was there was no way, and there's still is no way we would ever have money to build like that.

So hope was just super helpful in getting information for us and helping us kind of navigate that, and then you know, clearly that that is not how things have shaken out, and so we continue to adjust, but just very much appreciate Hope and her office and the support over the years.

I feel old when you refer to as a decade.

All right.

Well, thanks again for your time.

We greatly appreciate it and your patience.

Uh we'll go ahead and close agenda item number seven, move on to eight.

This is informational update on the school libraries in the Carson City School District.

This is for discussion only, presented by Ms.

Ananda Campbell.

This is always an exciting one as well.

Thank you, Madam President, trustees.

I'm Ananda Campbell and I'm the library media specialist at Carson High School and the lead librarian for all the school libraries, and I am here to talk about joy in the library.

The library appreciation celebration this year theme was joy in the library, and I just thought that was so perfect because really it's joyful every day.

I love my work, I love what I do, and I love being with the students every day.

When you saw these kids that were here, like these are our babies, and this is why we do what we do and we celebrate every student where they are.

And um tonight was a big celebration for all those kids, and we have so many more back at school that are celebrating in different ways.

And one of the special things about being in the library is um we get to celebrate kids exactly where they are.

So I'm gonna talk a little bit about that tonight.

Um, I when Mr.

Bringhurst and I were talking about um me coming in and just talking about kind of an annual report for the library.

It's been a couple years since I've presented to the school board.

I um presented to the principals at a principal's meeting for the last few years, and I started thinking about our strategic plan for the district.

Um, and I thought, well, you know, let me connect it to that.

And then I realized like we are the strategic plan, like we hit all of these goals.

So I'm going to talk about the strategic plan goals and how our school libraries um are integrated with each of these goals.

So number one is um goal one, exceptional staff.

Um I have to say we have exceptional staff in the library.

I am really really happy with our strong library staff.

We have a really great team.

And the within exceptional staff, we have librarians plan collaborative collaboratively and serve instructional partners integrating information literacy, media, and books to extend learning beyond the classroom.

We have some of our librarians are certified teachers, some of our librarians are classified staff, but no matter where our background lies, we all teach in the classroom and we extend or we teach in the library and we extend learning beyond the classroom.

Sorry, the slides are a little bit wonky when they transferred over.

So they're off a little bit.

So our secondary librarians are certified teacher librarians.

They are certified teachers who then went on and earned a master's degree in library science.

Our elementary librarians are library media technicians.

They are classified library staff and they do a fabulous job supporting our students and supporting our teachers and supporting learning in the library.

The secondary librarians have again, like I said, they're certified teacher librarians.

So I just kind of did a crossover of what those classifications look like and what it means for the specialization and what our librarians can do at the different levels.

Because we have all classified library staff in the elementary schools, the district and through Mr.

Bringhurst's office, gave us the ability to support our elementary librarians over the years in a number of different ways.

Under when Tasha Fusan was at the helm, Tasha brought allowed me to bring in a support person for the elementary librarians, and now we have one of our elementary librarians is a mentor for the others because what they do is so specialized with their they teach all throughout the day as one of the specials in the elementary schools so that elementary teachers can have a prep period.

So our mentor, our elementary mentor, works very closely with all the elementary librarians.

She visits them at their sites, they visit her site so they can learn all everything they need to know about whether it's library or classroom management or classroom instruction, things like that.

So I'm really grateful for the support of the district with bringing in a mentor librarian for the elementary staff.

It's very helpful.

It's available through the state canvas through the state professional development network.

But we have it just for Carson City School District, and it's made up of these six courses that are aligned to both our state evaluation, our state library standards, and national library standards as well.

So each year our librarians choose or sometimes are assigned a specific course.

This year we had four five new librarians, and so all the new librarians started with course number one, and which is a training on how to use our library system, library administration.

That's the basic, like you need to know how to do that before you can move on to anything else.

So all almost all of our librarians now have finished course one.

This counts as our professional growth coursework that we have to do, you know, 15 hours per year as certified as classified.

They don't have that requirement, but we do have the support of all the administration who allows our classified librarians to also participate in this so that they are getting the same professional growth and training as our certified librarians as well.

So this is it's meant to do one course per year during our early release days and our PLC time as well.

The professional learning goal, as I said, every almost everybody has course one down.

So next year our focus is course two, which is collection analysis, collection development, looking at what kind of materials that we can bring into the library to support learning within and beyond the classroom, and it's also analyzing the collections that we have in the library, looking at your average age of the collection, how many items you have in the collection.

Having a huge number of items kind of looks good on the outset, like, oh, 20 books per student, that looks great.

But if your average age of your collection is 1999, then that's when it's time that's when you're looking at the elementary sites.

This is when it's time for our elementary librarians to get training on how do you develop a collection so it's accurate information and up-to-date information.

And so weeding is a really hard thing for librarians to do.

It just means going through and getting rid of outdated books, and sometimes that's difficult.

But with a professional eye on that, we have structure in place to support librarians in doing that.

So that's our goal for next year.

The secondary libraries have focused on that the last couple of years, and so our collection you can see in the secondary libraries are more updated because we've spent a lot of efforts in updating those collections over the last couple of years.

So next year we're gonna work with the elementary librarians on that.

And our professional learning communities that we have set up, I'm so excited about next year.

The opportunity to have early release regularly also increases our opportunity for our librarians to meet together.

Right now it's a little bit piecemeal because our librarians also, you know, during those early release days that we have, you know, they're asked to meet with the third grade team, with the specials team, with the site meetings that they have, like everything is important, but it was difficult to have just the librarians get together and work with just the librarians.

So having the regular PLC time next year gives us that opportunity to work together more scheduled.

And so sometimes meeting together, sometimes on Zoom, sometimes working in your own site, sometimes the training and all the coursework, you'll get the information, but then we ask that they use that information to do a personal project within their own library.

So, say for instance, next year we're working on collection development.

The first step step of that is uploading your collection into this system that analyzes it and will give you reporting on suggestions for what areas need to be weeded, what areas you can focus on for collection.

And that's something that our elementary librarians in general don't know how to do because that's not something they've ever done.

So next year we're gonna teach them how to do that, and then they're gonna do that within their own library.

So it's not learning how to do it in uh conceptual thought.

It's actual doing, you know, uploading your own collection, and let's talk about this analysis together.

So I'm really excited about next year's PLC opportunities we have.

So goal two of the strategic plan is curriculum that matters, and I just gave some quips about things that are happening in our libraries.

Like I said, our elementary librarians are fantastic.

Um, pumpkin jack is a really fun one.

This was at Fritch Elementary School.

Um, Sharon LePier is there, and they read a STEM, a book about pumpkin jack, and then had a pumpkin in a jar, and he decays down to nothing, and then over the course of the year, a new pumpkin is grown in that same thing.

So it's a year-long STEM project and that stems from books, and ran an uh group Groover at Fremont Elementary School.

They went to the Stuart Indian School and they did a reading on use in the Paiute language.

They had a book translated, they had a guest come in and read a book aloud.

And they were so they were studying endangered languages around the world, and they were talking about not only world languages but tying it specifically to Carson City and what that looks like here in town and celebrating the diversity that we have and the different cultures that we have here in this area.

So curriculum that matters in the library is engaging for within the classroom and beyond.

Goal three engaged parents and families.

At Carson High School, I have partnered with the AP and Honors English, which is AP Lit, AP Lang, a pre-AP English one, pre-AP English two, and honors English.

For our summer reading, they have a summer reading assignment to not only read great books that are AP appropriate, but also to attend great community events.

Bring in discussion points, and we really wanted the students to explore their own community.

So that could be going to a concert down at the Brewery Arts Center over the summer.

It could be going to a museum, it could be going to a quincineta, it could be, you know, any type of community or family event.

It could be a church event, it could be a public event.

And at the beginning of the year, the each of the English teachers, they do a community activity in the classroom for that.

And I just had to put in a picture of at Fritch, they did pumpkin book terror book character contests.

This was a lot of fun.

All of the different grade levels participated in that.

And at Carson High School, Mrs.

Tuttle, who teaches early childhood education, that was part of a project that they did as well, and they wrote lesson plans about that.

And then also book fairs at the elementary schools.

That's quite a bit of family engagement there as well.

As I said this year, the National Library Week was Find Your Joy.

And so I asked all the librarians, like, what's your joy in the library?

And Mrs.

Castor, who is at Carson Middle School.

She and I were part of an AI training.

We brought, we are technology site coordinators at our schools, and so I got to be at this too.

And we learned how to code in AI requests and so or prompts.

And so she created a way to build this prompt where she put staff members in images of popular young adult novels that are really popular at her school.

So here's some examples of escape the halls, enter the pages, and these are all staff members in these pictures.

You may recognize some of these staff members, but these are all really popular books right now.

So her she was completing professional growth course three, which is program planning and management.

That was the course that she was on, and she uh was promoting media literacy through digital media.

So this was her project for that coursework that she was doing.

That was Carson Middle School.

Yeah.

Goal four, healthy generation of students.

Really being in the library, those is not only do we have books and materials about health and wellness, you know, research, but really the library is such a nice place to be.

It's a safe haven for so many students.

It's a place where we learn, we grow, we connect.

You can go to be quiet, you can go to do a puzzle, you can go here at the Carson Library.

We have quiet study pods.

We have students who can go in.

It's like a soundproof, looks like a phone booth, like a really futuristic phone booth.

There's soundproof boot booths that we got from a grant last year.

And we have students who meet with their therapist on do online therapy, or a student who just wants to listen to music really loud and get some things out and or you know, read quietly, whatever, because my library is not a quiet library.

We always have things going on in there.

I have the picture of the boys there on the read and ride.

I have stationary bikes in there, and it was a poetry lesson we were doing, and they the students were tasked with reading a poetry out loud.

We were talking about cadence and rhythm.

And so these boys are reading an Amanda Gorman poem to one another while they're reading and writing.

The students in the other illustrations are just working collaborative to collaboratively to problem solve.

So if you ever want to feel good, like stop by as one of the school libraries, like it's a pretty feel good place.

Goal five community in full partnership.

The Carson City Library obviously is a natural partner for us.

Um they have been working with me at Carson High School for years, and now they're at the middle schools as well.

They come in monthly and bring in STEM activities and tie it into something that's happening at the public library, and they bring in kits like these three-day 3D paint markers that they brought in, or podcast equipment or cameras, all things that you can check out from the library.

So they talk about getting a library card and how to check these materials out.

Um they also provide summer reading program materials for all our elementary librarians because their summer reading program is very popular and very well run, and they do prizes and activities all throughout the summer.

So that will be going out to our elementary libraries pretty soon.

Um at Carson High School, this is a I I want to say pet, not even a pet project.

This is an aha moment.

For years I've heard this term employability skills, like at our at our um meetings, at our planning meetings, etc.

And you know, it was a CTE thing, so it didn't, I it didn't connect with me.

I didn't really know what they were talking about.

And then at the beginning this year, I was talking with uh CT department chair, CTE department chair, Kendra Tuttle, and um she was she said something about you know, these employability skills match what we're doing with our PLC work, with having the essential skills, the essential standards, and so we chose these six essential standards from the employability from the Nevada State standards.

Um, these are the employability skills that I chose along with CTE.

So CTE embraced me and the middle school librarians as well as part of their programming, and we are teaching these employability skills in the library.

So one, we have library student aids.

So we have student staff in the library in the middle schools and in the high school.

So we are teaching these employability skills to them.

I also have a number of office aids in the library.

I have a number of students who just are in the library every day because maybe they have an off period between two classes, or um, they have an extra, you know, like a study type of class.

And so with these employability skills, thankfully, I've been embraced by the CTE department, so I get it.

And I'm in, I I drank the Kool-Aid.

This is so cool.

Um, so these are the six essential standards that we are teaching.

Um, work ethic, which, you know, being prepared, being on time, um, self-representation is how you promote yourself, how you speak, teamwork working together, critical thinking and problem solving, time task and resource management and technology knowledge and skills.

So throughout the year, we have um uh assessments, we have practice, we have the students show what they know.

They have to explain what this means.

So here's an example of what it looks like after we've been doing it all year in the library.

I have a group of girls who were in the library one day, and one of them said, Ah, I need I I have an interview after school at a clothing store here in town.

And um, one of the other girls was like, Well, you can't wear that.

That's not professional.

That's not positive self-representation.

So they were able to go to the career closet that we now have and they dressed her.

So they were her stylists, they dressed her, and then they said, Well, we know how to do a job interview.

So they sat down and they did a full job interview practice with her.

And that's what we're learning with employability skills.

So whether whatever your pathway is beyond high school, these are all skills that you need to be successful in life.

So I am so excited that this is part of the library program.

And the elementary or I'm sorry, the middle schools are in on it too.

So we're all working on this together.

It's very exciting.

And then just a quick quick highlight of each school.

I asked each school to send me like, you know, some quick stats and their favorite thing.

And Miss Shepherdly, Mark Twain, she, her library celebration this year is fifth graders asking for the next book in the series for a class read aloud.

She's new this year, and she said it was challenging to find something that the fifth graders were interested in, and to have them ask for the next book in the series was her big celebration this year.

Anne Ruthenbeck is a new librarian at Sealager Elementary School.

And she is just celebrating that she had a successful first year as an elementary school librarian.

She brought in some guest speakers this year, and she's learning the ropes and she's doing a great job over there at Sealager.

Mrs.

Rihanna Groover, she is the Fremont librarian, and she is also our mentor librarian for all our elementary schools, and I could not ask for a better mentor librarian.

She is technologically just a guru, and she's the one who brought the kids to Stuart Indian School.

She teaches library skills, she teaches life skills, she teaches technology, and she is just a fantastic leader and model for all our elementary schools.

Fritch Elementary School, Sharon LePier, she's been there for years, and she's got great programs, so many things that she does for families.

She started or it has just started, and her goal is to grow it next year, a library stewards program called Leading with Paws, Learning with Purpose.

And this is an elementary library office aid type thing.

So you better believe I'm talking to her about employability skills, and we're going to bring that to the elementary schools as well.

You can see on here the digital badges, the librarians have.

So Mrs.

LePier has completed four of the six courses so far for our coursework.

So she's quite experienced.

At Borderwick Elementary School, we have Alexis Farfan.

This is her first year as well.

And she her celebration is finding the right book of interest is for someone who didn't want to read.

She is still learning her collection, learning what's there, learning what the kids like.

And so she's just excited to be here in the library and making connections for kids.

Mr.

Wiggins at Empire Elementary School.

He is an experienced librarian as well.

He's completed three of our courses, and he is steadfast with technology.

He integrates technology and STEM into the library, does some really fun projects there.

And Mrs.

Gillis is a first-year teacher librarian at Eagle Valley Middle School.

She has doubled their book circulation this year.

The collaboration between the two middle schools is fabulous during our PLC time.

Mrs.

Castor at CMS does an incredible job with books and literacy and reading, and she and Mrs.

Gillis are working closely together.

And so the same thing is happening at Eagle Valley as well.

I'm excited about next year.

So speaking of Mrs.

Castor at Carson Middle School, she opens the library for select days over the school year.

She has created a summer reading challenge, strive for five, five books or go for 25, both middle schools and they are having a competition.

She's invited all the upcoming sixth graders from the elementary schools as well.

She is pure joy in the library.

So she loves what she does.

She loves the kids and she is fantastic at Carson Middle School.

So thank you, Ms.

Castor.

And Carson High School, I've already talked about Carson High School, but probably one of my biggest celebrations.

It seems it may seem little to be celebrate bookshelves, but I am celebrating these bookshelves because I was working with some real piecemeal bookshelves there and through collaborative grants and very generous public donations.

I was able to get these new bookshelves that move, and so they're, you know, on casters, which was great for AP testing this week because we had a hundred and twenty-seven tables we had to bring into the library because every student needs their own table.

So we were able to move the books out of the way.

And this summer they're doing construction in the library and everything has to be moved.

So I'm really grateful for moving shelves.

So I don't have to move all the books, I can just move the shelves.

And at Carson High this year, I'm excited to say that we have a an intervention class, and this year a part reading, silent reading is part of the intervention class.

So we had over a thousand increase of over a thousand checkouts of free reading novels.

We have the our book checkouts, it looks small, but this is library book checkout.

We also do a huge number of checkouts of English novels because so many of our kids are reading novels in English classes.

So I was at about 17,000 checkouts for the novels for English class.

So my library book checkouts look small, but it's only a small portion of what we do.

So that's what's happening at Carson High School.

Is there anything I can answer?

I'm happy to talk about libraries.

Yeah, well, thank you for your presentation.

It is always great to see what's happening in the libraries and the synergy that they were bringing to each school as well.

So we I attended a luncheon up at Carson Middle School, Miss Castner was able to let the culinary.

Carson Middle School Culinary used the, and it was mentioned that she even developed, do you know the app that she developed?

Could you tell us?

Because that's really pretty exciting.

Oh yeah.

Yeah, it is.

So this was at the same time because we're uh site technology coordinators, which means we're like the support staff at the site for technology.

Um Raven Medeiros, the um director of innovation and technology for the district, invited all of the site coordinators to come to a training for um Gemini, which is embedded in Google, which we're Google School District, and so it's embedded for teachers and for students in different ways.

And so at this training, she tasked us with coming up with different things.

And she and I were talking about like we really want a support for the students to find a book that they, you know, I whenever a student comes and I don't like reading.

So I have my standard questions.

Well, what's something you've last read that you didn't hate?

Okay, what did you like about that one book?

Was it the people?

Was it the um the adventure?

What is it?

And so I can do this and I can answer these questions, but I'm one person.

And so when I have 40 students in the library, I can't meet everybody, meet with everybody.

So she created a prompt in Gemini AI.

We uploaded our own library collection.

So on our library page, the student can say, I liked the movie um Twilight, or I like the book Twilight.

And then it'll ask three different questions about that book, and then it'll give three to five recommendations of books that we have in our own library collection and give us a small synopsis of what that book is about.

So she created it, and you better believe I'm using it, and um, they're using she's using it at Eagle Valley as well.

It it is so cool.

And the next I put it up on our website, and the next day I had classes coming in checking out, and it was the same thing.

The teachers like ask Mrs.

Campbell if you want suggestions.

And I was like, no, no, no, let's ask Gemini.

And so I had all the students come on and do that.

And I said, now come to me with these book titles and let's talk about that.

So my um checkouts have just exploded since then.

And right now we're in we're not in the library.

We're in a little side room because they're AP testing.

So the students are requesting books online.

So every day I get a list of all these books the kids are requesting, and I'm like, nobody's checked this book out in five years.

It's because they're using this app in the classroom.

It's pretty cool.

Awesome.

That's really great.

All right, do we have any questions?

We'll go ahead and start.

Uh just each to teach.

Okay.

Um, just two.

First of all, love the employability skills.

I don't know if the the board and the few people left in the audience know that um part of the requirement to be considered a CTE completer is to pass the employability skills test, which directly correlates to the Nevada School Performance Framework in the school district's rating.

So the fact that you're being able to support employability skills is fantastic.

Um I actually um the CT director.

If you want to come to the summer conference, you let me know.

Um, that being said, and it's so funny that you're talking today because this week I was reading an article about a I'll have to pull it up because I actually saved it because I thought it was such a great idea where the school district had turned all of the student ID cards into library cards that they were twofold.

So when the kid got their student ID card, it was actually their library card as well, so they could go check out books and the number of checkouts, even at the public library just exploded just because they didn't have to go in and apply separately for it.

So just thought I would share that.

Thank you so much.

I love me a good library actually.

I'm gonna be volunteering at the at our cursing library shortly.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you for your presentation.

Very impressive and very exciting stuff.

I'm very pleased to see that more students are checking out books.

And so that means there are our students are really utilizing books, which is a good good thing.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Yeah, thank you.

It's very exciting.

It's impressive to hear all the good things that are happening in the library beyond just coming in to sit and listen to a book.

My one question is with the kind of inventory that you're doing, and you're kind of I saw all of the school sites the most popular books that are being checked out and things.

Will you be looking as you're revamping the book selections and things to kind of look at those numbers as well if you have enough um copies to meet that the demand so kids aren't waiting weeks to check out those most popular books?

Yeah, that's a great question.

Actually, um, I just announced to all of our librarians today that um we were able to redirect.

Um, we have some library funding that was used for databases that um we were able to redirect to uh collection development for next year, because we have other databases that are available that were more used, so we just switched to that.

And um we now have there's a hundred and eight titles going to each elementary school, and they're professionally curated to under specific categories and it's tied into their collection.

But part of what we're gonna be training the elementary librarians on next year is how to analyze your um what's popular, what the kids need, what they want, and how to make those purchasing decisions.

So we're gonna be working on that next year.

How to analyze your collection and use the data to make decisions.

Thank you.

I love someone who's excited about what they do.

Um you said that a lot of kids end up in the library like when it's their off period or they have some downtime or they finish something early.

Um, I hope you know that it's who they share that space with is a big part of what attracts the kids to it.

And your energy and your excitement for for the resource that is available to them is a big part of what attracts kids.

So thank you for loving what you do so outwardly, and for everybody that you inspire.

My I have a question.

Silver Campus does not have a library.

So Silver Campus, like once upon a time, forever ago, when it was op school, they had a small library, and then over time, you know, it wasn't staffed, and those books were reallocated like into classrooms.

That was a long time ago.

Um Silver Campus does have access to the main campus library in the sense that I they have a digital, I have ebooks, audiobooks, and everything we do is also shared with them.

So say if a student does a book request, then I just deliver it over there.

So they the silver campus students have access to all the books as well.

Thank you.

Um and then is there a resource?

Like it feels like if you could put into Gemini, this is what I read, give me some suggestions that there should maybe possibly be a resource as you're weeding um your books to upload your collection that way to say what is obsolete, what is um most definitely not okay anymore.

Um is there a resource that that our librarians can access to help them know what to purge from their collection?

Yeah, we use um full that is the software company that we use for our library uh software, and our collections are embedded within that, and we upload like the latest collection, and it gives you an analysis of you notice um those average age that I had that was from title title wave or title wise, and so um it helps analyze like your um say your science collection average age is 1982.

So you know it'll tell you like focus on that.

And so on that page I had an example book of the beginner's guide to the internet.

That was a book like from the early 2000s.

So it's time for that to go.

And so as I'm going through and weeding, you know, we can I can very quickly see the stats on how many times it's been checked out.

When's the last time it's been checked out?

I can look at the cover, but I also need to look at, you know, just use my professional judgment and look at the content of the book and you know, times change and information changes, and you gotta let some stuff go.

Some literature becomes classic, others becomes STEM doesn't go to the Yeah, I have to remind myself we're not an archive, we're a library, it's active, we're we're alive, so we need to keep up.

Yeah.

I really don't have a question, but I really liked your presentation and what I liked about it is not only the information you gave out, but you tied it to the strategic plan.

And I thought that was a really good idea, and it uh really appreciated that.

And I think somebody else mentioned too, I think one of the reasons we have a successful librarian uh library system is because you and your enthusiasm, like somebody said.

Every time I see you in the library, you're always so upbeat, and you can tell you love your job and we appreciate it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I sure appreciate that.

I do love my job.

Um, great, and thank you again for coming.

Um, your presentations are always so well done as well.

Love the pictures.

Um, you know, and I appreciate too what the librarians put in to the library.

I don't think I've ever walked into a library in any Carson City school that wasn't clean, it wasn't organized.

It they all look great in appearances, so um your stuff, some of your stuff might be outdated, but however, it never looks like it.

And so um please, you know, let them know as well that you know that first impression, all of them look really, really great.

Um, I know you've been a successful leader, you know, leading them to that.

So we really appreciate everything that you do.

Thank you all for your support.

I appreciate it.

Thanks.

Have a great night.

Um at this time we're gonna go ahead and take a 10 minute recess.

And possible action on proposed changes to Carson City School District Policy Five O five assignment within the district.

This is for second reading.

It is a pot for possible action, and it's brought to us by Brandon Bringhurst.

Good evening, members of the Board of Trustees.

This is second reading here of uh policy five oh five, which we discussed previously.

First one there is on page two under number one, highlighted there in blue, trying to give a little bit more definition to the window.

That will typically open in January and close in early spring.

So the community is aware of those.

From what I remember, I appreciate the changes and having a little more notification and timeline area.

So thank you.

Yeah.

And I believe there was another trustee that had suggested changes, however, I do forget.

Okay.

I think I did, and I think he uh addressed that with the open enrollment window.

Okay, thank you.

I know we had two, so I apologize.

Um Trustee Farner.

Okay.

So do we have any questions?

All right, seeing none, this is for possible action.

Do I have a motion to approve?

I move that the Carson City School District Board.

Oh, that's the first one.

Hold on.

We're on nine.

I move that the Carson City School District Board of Trustees approve the May 12, 2026 as the revised date for policy 505 assignment within the district.

Right.

Motion by Trustee Roberts.

Do I have a second?

I'll second it.

Second by Trustee Barner, public comment.

Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Opposed.

Hearing none.

Motion passes unanimously.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thanks.

We'll go ahead and close agenda item number nine, go to 10, which is informational update on the budget for the Carson City School District for fiscal year 2026-2027.

This is for discussion only.

And this is presented by Superintendent Fueling.

It asked for this to be on the agenda because the next time we review the budget, it will have to be for approval because it will have to go to the Department of Taxation.

Thank you, President Wall.

Yeah, so this is just a quick update on the budget.

We as President Wall mentioned on May 26th.

So as we continue to have slow year-end turnover, we we continue to have some resignations and retirements that drop in.

And with those, there often is uh a little cost savings attributed to that.

So the the projected but projected um uh deficit at this point is dropped from we were at um about three million last time we met.

Now it's in the 2.9 million range.

Um and I would expect that will continue to drop slightly um here over the coming months.

Um as was presented at the last meeting.

So in total, we have um removed about 50 what were 50 existing positions, um, many through um vacancies through retirement resignations, we simply have been um they were left vacant and then uh removed.

Um there were 14 staff that were subject to reduction in force notification in that process in total.

Um so really, in terms of I think the board's initial goal for that that range, that dollar range to be in for um deficit.

We we are now in that range.

Um, and and really I think what's important, and this has come up in the discussions, but we really just need to be cognizant of now that following year, right?

So we're not only looking at next year, but really thinking about that that year after.

Um and so as we go through this year, that will be something on our minds as we um continue to plan for budget, and really once um once enrollments um come in, usually after Labor Day, we'll have a reasonably good sense um of that number, which is really important in budgeting.

Um the other number, the per pupil number is uh much harder because that we're dependent on the legislative session, and that won't be decided for um sometime thereafter.

Um, so as as we um prepare for that, we will continue to review all contracts.

Those will be um uh a part of the the budget document, but all of that will continue to be subject to um critique as far as how we're operating and what our needs are and can we continue operating to the level that that we have been which I I think is always under consideration one of the um you know some of the ideas that came up looking at special education contracts which we've done and I think provided some information about the the necessities we see with with what we have given um federal and state law.

But we are certainly cognizant that as we have declining enrollment and changing needs we need to be looking at that over time just like all contracts.

One of the things that also came up was looking at the cost of our Jumpstar program that will that will be a part of the conversations as well we know that it is expensive but we know it is also very valued and so that will continue to be looked at going into that following year.

And otherwise just doing our best to keep good people and in uh in front of our kids and giving them the best educational experience we can and really that that eye on I mean ultimately we we want to impact the schools as minimally as possible and that's always going to be the case and so we will be very much thinking about that.

One of the things I did want to bring up because I was so much of these budget conversations it's always very forward facing right we're looking at next year and in terms of um you know we're talking about district level positions over the prior two years when we didn't really need to um because the budget was in a better better spot we did eliminate two executive level positions at that time from from the district and so I I know that was sort of a part of the questions and so again I think just the point being it this is something we are actively doing and looking at all the time trying to be thoughtful about what is coming what the needs are and the changing landscape.

And then again overall just considering declining enrollment and um what the impact of that is that's clearly going to have an impact on staffing over time it very much could have an impact on our facilities over time and what facilities that we decide to use or not use.

So that will continue to be looked at and be a part of the conversation the the ultimate goal is to provide the best service we can for our kids and not put us into a bad bad financial position in the process and and we are very much aware of that.

So again just a little update based on some of the feedback from the board at the last meeting but um you know really from here that the budget will only improve as we get to the next board meeting and really even then it will likely improve over the summer not necessarily a lot but just there tends to always be still some turnover that happens over the summer.

So we should be in in good position for next year.

Happy to take any questions.

So yes I do um so just so the board know after we talked about the budget the last time I followed up with an email you know giving him uh asking AJ for you know an update on the um the five different recommendations that we had spoke about that we had all suggested on you know looking at that when proposing the budget to us however looking at all of those those suggestions were a little bit too late you know coming to developing this budget that is moving forward.

So with that then um that is what was presented to you this evening then is how it's going to be um those suggestions are going to be considered when moving into the next the um fy 28 budget not necessarily impacting the FY27 budget and so um the one thing though I know you had mentioned to me but not just uh Gemstart that you um mentioned that you would look into the summer school as well yeah yeah thank you um and and and for clarification thank you President Wall for clarification we we uh one of the um and I I forget exactly where in the conversation it came up um looking at summer school and um prior to COVID uh we there there were there was a cost for students to attend summer school um and there was a a discounted rate depending if it if a a student qualified for reduced lunch or free free launch during COVID um utilizing many of the grants that were available we ended up just making it free because it was it was such a strange time and we we just wanted kids to be able to make sure that if they were credit deficient they had those opportunities um but now that those when those grants went away starting last summer we did start charging again and um and kind of in that same um staggered you know if if a child qualifies for a reduced lunch or free launch there was a a discounted rate um and so that that is continuing this year on the on the expenditure side as well there's been some adjustments to what summer school is gonna look like in the students that will um will be participating and so that itself also will help bring down some of those costs um for us so yeah thank you for yeah so so though um I believe all of our recommendations um superintendent fueling addressed um I do have some questions but I'll go ahead and um ask if if you have questions um you can go ahead and start Trustee Varner.

I appreciate the work that you've done you and um Spencer on reducing the budget down to the area the board had uh requested.

Just to as a reminder for the public if you hadn't made these reductions I think it would have been looking at more like a seven million dollar deficit is that correct seven to eight seven to eight million.

So even though they're really tough to make these reductions it was a necessity.

So I appreciate you work on that.

You brought up the district office staffing I think if I remember correctly it's about five percent of our budget is what you operate on.

Yeah if you if you don't count transportation it's five to six percent which I I think that's um not outrageous I think it's pretty good thank you thank you.

Um yeah I don't think I have anything else but just like uh President Walt said um thank you for addressing the concerns of the board and thank you for bringing the deficit down to a number we can live with even though we'd prefer it to be even lower but we understand that uh operational schools have to go on and so uh thank you and stuff um uh Stuart for your your work trusty Peterson not much um but thank you um and oh gosh my mind is went blank um with our reduction in enrollments unfortunately it it only makes sense that there would need be a reduction in need um which is never easy um with the reduction in force that we had approved previously um you mentioned um some resignations and such coming in um and so we've been able to avoid some of what was on that on the chopping box so to speak has been um met already with resignations and so there have not been um as many um do you anticipate that that will continue or are we kind of at a spot where where what's gonna fall has fallen.

All the all the notifications that that um have happened are what has been planned.

So there's no expectation to have any changes um at this point.

I don't have any questions.

I just appreciate the work and um getting back to us on the suggestions that we had and keeping them in mind for the next budget session.

Thank you.

Trustee Ramirez.

I just want to double check and make sure that I heard you correctly.

So the budget uh projected deficit is 2.9 for the 27.

Yeah, what we presented at the last meeting, it was about um just over 3 million, but because there's been a little more um turnover, there's probably going to be some savings from from that.

So we're expecting it now to be down in that two like 2.9 range.

Okay.

And then just let um if I heard you correctly, um, this is going to be a continued conversation for next year in terms of assessing what positions could be eliminated.

Yeah, absolutely.

It it has to be.

Um, and I think what what is really hard is the timing of the legislative session.

That's probably the most problematic thing in the entire process.

Um, but as much as as much as we can, we'll be trying to project that and look for opportunities.

Again, it we we don't we don't want uh if there are going to be an elimination of positions, we want as much as possible it to be where the position is going to be vacant.

You know, we we don't want to impact people that that is not desired in any way.

So that that will um even though we may not have perfect information going into the session, if there are opportunities, you know, we'll especially if we see the enrollments next year, depending on what they look like, um, and if if there's you know changes in district operations, whatever it is, if there are opportunities where there's a vacancy that maybe we don't really need to fill.

I I think we just we really need to be proactive as we can and just taking advantage of those where we can is just to not impact people but put us in a good position for that budget for that following year.

Thank you.

No, all right.

Um the one thing that I did mention, you know, at our meeting um that we had was the fact that um I know none of them, and I I do appreciate the work that you've put into it and brought us down to you know the number that we had um suggested in Spencer, um would we remiss to not say thank you for the work that you put into it as well.

I know this hasn't been comfortable on any of us.

Um but the one thing that was extremely uncomfortable that none of us like to see were the rifts.

And so with that, you know, moving forward, you know, we had had talked about as well.

Um with low and you know, with enrollment decreasing, you know, we're going to continue to see like you know, um, trustee Peterson said the need, you know, that but what I would like to see is that we consider you know the ratio making sure that it's balanced, that it's not just um you know the paraprofessionals or the teachers or you know, um admins district staff that that you continue to present us with a balanced ratio of if um personnel needs to be cut that we're that we're able to see that it's you know yep balanced all the way around.

So that that would I think that would be helpful.

Anyone else?

All right.

Well, thank you very much.

This was discussion only.

Um so thanks again.

And oh, you're next.

So we'll close number 10 and go on to number 11.

Discussion and possible action to approve the superintendent's goals for the 2026 calendar year.

This is for possible action presented by superintendent viewing.

Thank you, President Walt.

Um, so the the goals are included again.

We had um it that was a late meeting last time as we were discussing this towards the end of the meeting.

So just bringing it back.

Um, and there was uh some suggestions with these.

I I don't I don't think necessarily thinking that the goals were um bad, um, but uh suggestions around you know what what would um maybe what would success look like with some of those.

Um and so just spent a little time um putting some thoughts together.

Um so as far as goal one, it goal one is really really big.

And I would I would argue it's probably the it is the most important thing going into next year um and greatly appreciate the board's support with um changes in in the calendar to try to support some of this work.

But there is this the goal around multi-tiered systems of support has has existed in some fashion for the last three years.

This will be going on four years.

And building systems is a messy and time-consuming process, and we have come very far in this work.

On the behavior side of things, we have within multi-tier systems system of support.

We talk about tiers one, two, and three.

Tiers one and two are very much dialed in, I would say, at all of our schools.

The tier three work, I think continues.

And so trying to really nail that down going into next year.

But on the other side of that, MTSS also applies across other areas, and specifically instructional being a big one.

And so how that the work on really the tier one piece of instruction, which is really the most impactful for all of our students, that is that work is beginning to be done to really think about it in a systematic way.

And I bring this back to, and this is actually related to points B and C.

We talk about this the PLC work that we're we're attempting to do.

And there are these four essential questions within uh within PLC.

And one of them is really just getting down to the getting down to the well, the questions are all getting down to the brass tacks of what are we doing in schools?

And question one is what do we want kids to learn?

Question two, how do we know if they learned it?

And and that functionally is so much of what tier one is.

So with all the work that's going to be happening next year, I think really we're gonna see that being defined across all of our schools.

Um the next question related to MTSS as well is how do we respond if students do not learn it?

And so you start thinking about well, what are the interventions, what are the supports, and you're getting into the idea of like tier two support for kids who have not learned what they wanted.

So for me, looking at that, um, what we want to see.

There, there are ways that we try to track this.

Um it's called a tiered fidelity inventory.

Umfortunately, the state um has changed the entire um setup of that document, how we gauge where we are.

So there's a little work on our side to try to understand that new document, but I I think the the idea of what we are doing to support to nail down the rest of the behavior side, but really to start supporting the instructional side, that is going to be shining through in a lot of what you see in um part B.

So you have this retuning, as I have it called, of our PLCs to this PLC at work model.

Um, and one of the things that um Mr.

Bringhurst has put together is a survey, and it's really a kind of a pre-and-post survey of our staff as far as um the usefulness and quality of PLCs as as they stand currently, and then as we get toward um halfway through the school year, putting that basically that same survey out again to see what staff think, how useful is this?

How is it benefiting them?

Where maybe are there areas that we need to improve it?

But so we're we're actually gonna have some survey data that we can we can look at to see how is this rollout actually happening, and that that rollout of the PLCs really is just hand in hand with the MTSS work for supporting um on the instructional side on the tier the tier one work.

So I think um looking at that survey data and really looking at this new TFI data um as that starts rolling in, we'll have a sense of how well is this going, is it is it happening?

Um I know for for C full alignment of those two systems um within four years, clearly, I'll be reporting back to you on progress on my goals once we get to December of this year, which is it's kind of awkward timing because it's halfway through the school year.

Um but what I would say is that we would very much expect with all of this work being done when we're looking at student growth metrics, we're looking at student achievement metrics, we're looking at at behavior metrics, we should see improvement in all of those.

If this goes as planned, we should see improvement in all of those over time.

So I think as far as reporting back to the board, I don't know that we're necessarily going to see improvement by December.

Um, but that is something we would expect year over year that there just continues to be improvement along the way.

So those clearly are things that I can report back to the board on.

Um as far as the strategic plan, again, it's kind of strange because my evaluation happens in December and it's halfway through the school year, but um there will be some progress that you all likely will be a part of in some of these meetings and that we'll be talking about.

So I think we certainly can talk about the progress that has been made through our meetings working towards um creating a a new uh strategic plan.

Uh legislative advocacy is also a bit of a strange one.

It's really really important.

Um the session also doesn't start until after my evaluation.

Um however there's still quite a bit of preparation in the first half, and as far as um how to gauge the success, it's it's kind of hard.

Um ultimately the whims of the legislature, you never exactly know how things are going to pan out.

Um, but at the same time, um, I mean, there's to try to, you know, I guess track the time spent working on some of these things.

Um, I'll be working very closely with um our lobbyists and and even getting feedback from her about how you know we work together during the session um to try to advocate for education and and try to bring about change in some of these laws.

So that potentially could be um something to you know, some kind of document to to show some of the work.

So it's just kind of a kind of a hard one to nail down, I think an exact one, but I'm I'm open to um suggestions on that.

Great, thank you.

Um yeah, so I have some, but we'll I'll start with um the board first.

So did you want to start?

Um, trustees to um I know we talked last time about um just making sure that they're measurable as somebody who used to oversee the data educator performance framework and uh ask our teachers to write SMART goals uh uh and being able to track it, right?

So like when I'm looking at number one, I'm like, okay, well, even if we can't see the progress that we maybe at some point, when we meet in December or revisit it, what is the baseline data?

Um, even if that we just had the beginning data so that at the end of the year uh school year, then we could see what progress was made in each of those areas.

When we talk about the strategic plan when it says facilitate community meetings, like I would tell my teachers if I were uh supervising them.

Well, how many times you're gonna do it?

When are you gonna do it, right?

Be just specific about that, like are you gonna meet with them monthly?

Are you gonna meet with them quarterly?

Something like that, and then even for number three, and I think AJ, you kind of mentioned it, just tracking, right?

So, like when I asked my teachers to track their professional development, I just give me a bulleted list, right?

So I can see how how many times did you do this?

Did you go present to the board?

Do you meet with um NAS, whatever it is, but some kind of tracking document, because then it is measurable.

Because then we have you know qualitative data uh on top of quantitative data.

So that was just my feedback.

Thank you.

Trust you, Maris.

That's what I had in mind as well.

So I would echo what you said.

I think measurable outcomes would be helpful to kind of at least have some idea of the progress that we are making.

That having having the measurable outcomes, I think would be helpful.

Um don't have anything else to add.

Thank you.

Trustee Roberts.

I have the same kind of things, just making sure they're measure measurable, um, bringing that to us, and then yeah, on that third one, um, kind of like what um trustee Satuki said with um, you know, letting us know what you presented and maybe the outcome, how it was received, um, things like that.

Trustee Peterson.

I have nothing to add.

Trustee Warner.

Yeah, I have the same concerns is how do we measure these and to give you the credit of the work that you are doing.

And so I think uh regular reports back to show what is being done would be helpful because you know, part of the problem I have is when it comes to run your valuation time, there's not a whole lot of information that I have because I don't see you every day.

I don't see the work you do, and I know that you're doing a lot of work.

So I just want to make sure that we get the feedback we need to do a decent evaluation, and so if there's some system you can put in place where we can see the progress that you're making.

Now, number three, I know session starts after your evaluation, but I know that you do a lot of work behind the scenes.

You're involved in a lot of discussions with people and uh you're sitting on several committees of none of mistaken.

And so if you could report on those and we could say, okay, we know that this is work you're doing behind the scenes, would really be helpful when we um uh do your evaluation, so but that was my concern, just make sure that somehow they're measurable, and so we can give you the credit you deserve for the work you're doing.

Thank you.

Yeah, I I think that's uh especially with with the third one.

Um I can certainly track all that and and I think that makes total sense.

Uh w it it's hard um to say, you know, well, there should be you know at least 200 hours spent, right?

Like it's hard it's hard to say that you know, I because I don't know what the right number is.

Um it seems like no matter how many hours they they'd still don't do what I want.

So that's kind of a frustrating um thing.

Um but but to your point at least being able to show that there is activity, right?

Yeah, and that's I don't think we're looking to say yeah, you did two to three hundred hours, but just you know, the committees you're involved in and the work you're doing behind the scenes, and also I would say that uh I don't know if we could hold you accountable for what happens with the legislature, you know.

Um, might be a good incentive for me to because we know the work you're doing and what you're advocating for, but we also know how the system is played.

Can I add something just to go off of that really quick?

That's kind of what I meant with um with that one of like what what was brought up, how it was received, things like that, and what's next, like not necessarily like well, they didn't go for it, so that's a fail, like not at all, but just to see like the things that you are doing.

Um I have a suggestion on that, and for number three.

So I think um what might be helpful is when it comes time, because we know and you're involved already, you know, what are if you would propose to the board, not propose actually, because um, or just present to the board, what are the legislative priorities that you in this school district overall are um looking for, right?

So what are those legislative priorities, and then you communicate with us, you know, at board meetings saying here you've done it in the past, actually.

You've you've let us know um what legislation is affecting us, but if you just continue then to say, okay, you know, this is um this is where we're at.

This is the movement that's been made, you know, this is the traction we're doing, this is the presentation.

I think that's the best that you can do for number three is in all honesty, but I think just communicating um and letting us know and have a little bit of um input on the legislative priorities that you are.

I think what would also be helpful too is is within this number three is um, you know, as we heard from you, and as we've heard from um the union representative as well, that it would be important for us as elected officials up here as school board members to be present at the legislative building.

You know, we get they get hundreds of emails a day, and you know even the public comment, but to give us the opportunity to go down and sit next to you or present next to you.

We don't need to say anything, but just that representation to say, look, we're all vested in the future of um the students here, you know, in the state actually, because everybody's going through the same the same problem.

So I think if you could add that in is representing interests of the Carson City School District, but also um keeping the school board informed and in inviting this school board to attend with you, I think would be something that I would like to see on that.

Um the next thing the question I had though is number one, it's a district-wide fine-tuning.

What does fine-tuning MTSS mean?

In measurable terms.

So, in measurable terms.

Um the fine tuning piece um what we have we have come so far in this work, and I think I said that before, but truly um especially on the behavioral mental health side of things.

Um and I would say that that's really probably the primary place where it truly is fine-tuning, and it has to do really more with the the tier three work.

So for those students who really need the most significant amount of support, we're talking about five percent of our kids.

It's a small number.

Um, but really just fine-tuning those last pieces of how are we supporting those kids who need absolutely the greatest level of support that we can offer.

Um, some of those things have been well defined, but um some pieces haven't.

And so that that is something talking with our folks who are who are working on this um regularly.

That's something that um they know that needs to happen um going into next year.

Um, really the as far as the academic instructional side, um, there has been work done in terms of the the you know the tiers of of one, two, three that there is support, but I think formalizing that framework and what it looks like, and and really that tier one piece is just really important.

Like what what should the average everyday experience in the classroom be like?

What what is what are the activities happening?

What are our um what what is our teaching staff doing when they're getting together talking about how they're planning for their lessons, the type of common assessments they have.

Um that kind of work it has been happening, but kind of formalizing it into this um new PLC look that that Mr.

Bringhurst is is bringing in.

That's that's gonna be a lot of the work for next year happening, a lot of it happening during the you know the Tuesday um early release times.

So it that that one is a it's a little bit harder for like and I I would I would argue that um smart goals are can be very appropriate for some things, um, but not all goals necessarily are all goals are best suited as SMART goals.

Um in this case, you have um this idea of I think of, you know, the bot what I call the body of evidence, right?

What is the evidence that things are moving in the right direction that they are getting done that we are seeing benefits from those um and so that this one to me is is kind of a harder one to maybe nail down a specific like metric or measurement to look at, but there's clearly going to be a lot of work being done.

So do we do we currently have baseline data for MTSS?

Yeah.

And that's the this tiered fidelity inventory.

And so saying what the the one thing that's hard, and I just learned about this over the over the past two weeks.

So this tier fidelity inventory is is supposed to show really shows visually kind of um how we are doing in terms of tier one supports within say, you know, behavior, tier two supports with behavior tier three supports.

Um and this has been the the state has been using this and and having us use this for years, they are revamping that model.

Um, and it's it's gonna be called the same thing, but it's um much more work and much more in-depth, which uh we're not um I don't know, we have some concerns over, and so comparing that to last year is gonna be um it's not exactly apples to apples to compare.

So and and I I may have more to learn about it, but just from from what I understand, it it is changing.

And so that's where that there's gonna be some new data coming out next year, really, as as they use this new TFI framework that is going to look a little bit different than what we've had previously.

Can I just add something?

Yeah, so I and I think you touched on it before anyhow, is that you're you're already planning on doing a survey, right?

To your staff.

So if you're asking your staff about how MTSS is being instituted in your schools and they're rating it perhaps on a like hurt scale, right?

Like to what extent do they agree, you get the first time they take the assessment after the first PLC or even before the first PLC, right?

Like how do they think it's going now?

And then after every PLC or maybe every month uh after one of the PLCs, they fill out the same survey, and then you measure to see whether or not there's growth or movement in the number of positive responses you're getting on the survey.

If you're already doing the survey, it's a matter of setting it up so you could see the change in whether or not the the responses are moving positively that they're seeing changes that these PLCs are effectively helping them institute MTSS practices.

And and that very that very well could be could be the answer.

Yeah, there will be a survey that it the survey I talked about was more geared around um purely like the I guess the experience of the PLC process, but that potentially is a way to integrate um some of this MTSS work.

And I think what I would say is if if generally um these goals are at least I guess in this case goal one seem um seem reasonable and that there's an idea of what how I would try to gauge success or report back.

Um but if I if I could um work with Mr.

Bringhurst and really Christy Perkins and Stephanie Keating a bit to talk through what I might specific like how what specifically we could report back, and maybe it is some kind of surveying um of staff.

Um I think we can.

Yeah, because what I um what I'm gathering is that we all agree that these are great, you know, and that these goals are um you know uh good.

They align with um what we would like to see up here, our our concern is they're just very hard to measure.

Right.

And so I think if you would um allow us to, you know, think about this and see.

I mean, there's some ideas that I have on how you might be able to measure them, share them with you, and then you bring those um after you meet with your team as well, you bring back that, hey, you know, you we adopted your we approved your goals, and then just at another meeting, if you would bring back this is how you know I think that they would be I would be able to measure them.

I think that's all of our concern up here is the measurable, how they'd be able to be measured.

Go ahead.

Yeah, I um am fortunate enough to be able to sit on the MTSS committee for the school and there's all kinds of data they collect and they know the status of the implementation at each school that you could bring you could bring that information forward because they're constantly improving you know some are not always where they need to be right now but they are improving and they're trying to get to where they need to be in on the fine tuning I don't know if there's a better word for that maybe um improving uh continued improvement implement the continued implementation of um I don't know I just think there may be a better word than fine tuning.

Well if we're gonna change it we need to put it in there now will you turn on your mic um just continued district wide improvement of MTSS something along those lines um someone needs to write that down for a motion if you're gonna be the one to make the motion and what was that that you said uh continued district wide improvement of the MTSS.

Okay.

So we would be deleting fine-tuning and we would be be replacing that with continued district wide improvement of multi-tiered system of support yeah is that good okay is there any further discussion all right seeing none this is an action item do I have a motion to approve the superintendent's goals for the 2026 calendar year.

I would go ahead make that motion I move that the Carson City School District Board of Trustees approved the superintendent's goals for the 2026 calendar year with the uh revised wording under number one uh subsection a would read district wide continued district wide improvement of multi-tiered system of support to align instructional mental health and behavioral resources supports and expectations for all schools right do I have a second I can so motion by trustee varner second by trustee peterson is there public comment oops you do you want to include the condition that uh a measurable metrics is brought back at a future date I was gonna do that during the discussion I there's a motion and a second it if you wanted to be a part of it it has to be part of it okay yes so being a part of that yes we would like for you to um at a future board meeting um sooner than later try to bring back measurable um I guess uh items to where these are measurable but also um take the suggestions that we might have as well I would encourage that the school board um email your suggestions to superintendent feeling sooner than later on how you think that these goals might be measurable okay thank you is that good but you guys want me to clarify that motion on the record because you have to make sure the person made the motion accepts it and the second accepts it as well you accept that so you want to clarify the the motion on the record as I understand it is a motion to approve the goals as presented with the noted change to goal number one to be continued uh district wide improvement of MTSS as opposed to fine tune uh otherwise approved as presented with the condition that uh board members and and Mr.

Fueling bring back measurable metrics as to implement the goals very well said thank you I would accept that uh accept it for the second okay all right.

Thanks so much um do we have public comment?

Saying none, all in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Opposed.

Motion passes unanimously.

Thank you very much.

Moving on to agenda item number 12, which is discussion on the Carson City School District Board of Trustees nominations to the Nevada Association of School Board of Individuals to be considered for recognition during the NASBE 2026 annual conference.

This is discussion only.

Remember the conference is normally in December.

So the nominations, the letters, everything have to be turned in by August 21st.

So in your packet, you have all of the nominations that we could.

So what this is then is brought to you because at this time, rather than us making the nominations here and now and writing the letters, I would um ask the board that we um do what we did last year, and what that was is we um really handed it over to um Superintendent Fueling.

He put it out to a survey to staff because we don't know what's happening.

I mean, I don't know that any of us, you know, really know what what's happening within the schools.

Um that isn't, you know, the day to day.

We do have some in here that we would nominate for, you know, school board, um, new school board, NASBY director of the year, um, veteran school board member of the year, new school board member of the year, individual school board of the year, over the year.

Um, you know, so those are those are ones.

So this isn't excluding your nomination, but it's just really kind of, you know, saying do we agree that or we can't really do, but you know, uh superintendent fueling.

Please, you know, do your survey, bring back those nominations, those who nominate will then be asked to write the um letter of recommendation, and you know, when this is brought back to us as a vote, please keep in mind we don't have to nominate someone for everything, right?

And so um that's you know where we might go from there as well.

So um that was really the discussion on um that's how I would like for it to move forward, and it would just be telling um superintendent to get uh fueling to get moving before the end of the school year, so we get the attention of the administrators and and staff before everybody leaves for break summer.

Well, not they don't leave for break, but it's fresh in our mind.

Okay.

Is there any discussion on that?

Yes, pres uh um trustee Roberts.

Uh yes, I was remembering from last year when we made like a little committee and it was Michelle Lupe and I.

Um, we thought that with the survey, if you could add a um uh number of years they've been serving the district, that would also be helpful in knowing, you know, nominating or nominated person, the nominated person, the person we'd be voting for to get the to be receiving the award, how many years they've been serving the district.

So um I I think I can certainly provide that and I I can add it in.

I I'm not sure.

Or I guess I wouldn't need to go out on the survey, but yeah, get that information to us.

Yeah.

Thank you.

I do have something.

I happen to sit on the awards nomination uh committee that uh selects the winners.

Um I think what's really important is if you see the area that's in the marked in gray.

Pay a lot of attention to that, and whoever's writing the nomination letters cover those areas that are mentioned in that gray area, okay.

Yeah, so that would be because he'll bring back those who we want to nominate, and then yeah, and then that could be directed to them because you'll bring back the nominations to us, correct?

And then with that, then we can give them the direction of that when they when they write that up.

Just we we had over 99 applications la or nominations last year, and I would expect maybe the same amount this year.

So it's it's uh a lot of information to go through.

So the more detailed the nomination letter is the better off.

Trustee Ramirez.

So just to make sure that I'm clear, um, are we doing the same thing we did last year that we had a subcommittee to review those applications that we get from the survey?

So we can know it, yes.

So we can narrow it down to I believe it was five um nominations that we brought forward for the for the board to no, I think we did vote on.

I think we did more than five.

No, per per per up for nominee.

Oh, for each category we had five.

I didn't think we had that many.

I think I think for each I want to say three, but it but I think the committee the committee came back with basically these are the three to be considered for recommendation, and then I believe the board from there voted on what they wanted to do.

And then in addition to the we eight, we could also ask board members still nominate someone else, I believe.

Okay, important part of because we are a private threesome on that discussion that we would bring our three suggestions, but it did not exclude the rest of the list from being considered.

Okay.

So can we go ahead and um select the committee now?

I wouldn't.

I'd I'd get the survey.

It was a discussion item only.

I think you guys have discussed it.

Okay.

Um and the appointment of a committee is up to you as as the president.

So if you decide you want to appoint a committee, that's fine.

Um you can do it now, or you can do it once you have the survey.

Um, totally up to you.

Well, when I would just um email me if you're interested in being on the committee, and we'll go from there.

Yeah, the committee should be no more than three, and like uh trustee Peterson said, as long as they're not eliminating any possibilities, they can make recommendations.

If you're going to eliminate possibilities, it's subject to the open meeting law.

Okay.

All right.

All right.

That's all right.

Okay.

Uh, we'll go ahead.

So any questions, you got it.

Okay.

Um, we'll close agenda number four uh twelve, move on to thirteen.

This is approval of the consent agenda.

This is for possible action.

Did you all have time to review it?

Any questions?

Discussion?

Do I have a motion to approve?

Uh I move that the uh Carson City School District Board of Trustees approve the consent agenda as submitted.

All right.

Motion by Trustee Peterson.

Second.

I'll second it.

Second by trustee Varner.

Public comment seeing none.

Um, all in favor, please say aye.

Opposed.

Uh passes unanimously.

Thank you very much.

Moving on to agenda item number fourteen.

This is informational items.

This is for discussion only.

No action will be taken.

Um, do we have an did you all have chance to read it?

Um with that.

This is all of the, you know, I mean, activities, but I do would like to state here that I do appreciate the weekly emails that are coming from our PIO Dan Davis.

Thank you very much.

Those are great reminders, and I really appreciate it.

Um so please keep them coming.

Thank you.

All right.

Um any other additional discussion?

All right, seeing none, we will go ahead and move on to agenda item number 15.

Do we have any requests for future agenda item topics?

Trustee Varner.

Yeah, um, I noticed that there's uh like a large contract for edge staff, and I understand uh some of it, but I wouldn't mind having another update on the status of that and how that's uh going and the improvement that it's made, if any, and uh the cost difference between before we entered into the contract.

Okay, anybody else?

Future agenda item talk topics?

All right, seeing none, we'll close agenda item number sixteen, and we are adjourned.

Thank you.

Um, uh,