0:00All right, we'll go ahead and get started.
0:01If you please stand for the follow me in the Pledge of Allegiance.
0:06I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.
0:14One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
0:24All right, we'll go ahead with agenda item one public comment.
0:28If there is any, come on up, give us your name, and you got three minutes.
0:43Uh my name is Spencer Apple.
0:45I live in Sun City, and I play a lot of pickleball.
0:51Poole at the high school back in May about bringing pickleball to the high school or even the middle school.
0:59So he told me it's not a state sport.
1:02It's gonna be done as a club.
1:05So my question is how do I do this?
1:09And who do I go to to find out how do I get this started in the in the schools?
1:27I would recommend you talk to the CAP and see what they can do.
1:34They're playing pickleball back and forth, right?
1:39I don't think the middle school school can't do it.
1:45Middle school had them for a long time because of the city.
1:48They put that uh come out to the gonna get you on the minutes.
2:02Okay, Maurice Perkins, uh Clark County School District, school associate superintendent.
2:06The middle school did have pickleball courts for quite a while uh with the in a collaboration with the the city of Mesquite.
2:13Umce they built the pickleball courts over there.
2:17They did play it, they still do, they still have the nets.
2:20Um, but it is not a sanctioned sport, and that is not something Clark County School District has any control over.
2:26That's uh a matter for the NIAA.
2:29So, yeah, if you want to look at sanctioning sports and doing that, I would recommend going to the NIAA to see about it.
2:37So if it's a club, is that just up to the school site to figure if they want to have a club for it?
2:45They can do after school if there's student interest, and then they have a sponsor, someone that will supervise that club, then they can offer it as a club.
2:54So it's up to each school.
2:56Up to a club, interest if there's interest.
3:02Figure out at the high school, I guess, who to talk to.
3:07Wade, I guess, right?
3:10But I haven't got a response back.
3:12Or Yori, who's over the um academic, I mean the athletics director.
3:24Poole, that's the guy to talk to.
3:34We'll close public comment and move on to agenda item two, consent agenda.
3:40Consideration of approval of the Thursday, June 26, 2025, Virgin Valley Community Education Advisory Board meeting minutes.
3:47And the Thursday, August 21st, 2025, Virgin Valley Community Education Advisory Board meeting agenda.
3:53Looking for a motion.
3:58Okay, we have a motion.
4:03We have a motion, the second.
4:04All those in favor say aye.
4:11Okay, we'll close that agenda item and move on to agenda item three.
4:15Principals, comments, and reports.
4:18Who wants to go first?
4:25JL Wilson, uh, Hughes Middle School.
4:28Um, we had uh we've had a great start to the school year.
4:32Um, actually, an amazing start in my perspective for it.
4:36Umrollment-wise, we're sitting about 549, um, which is a little more than projected, but still affects funding with the way it funding formula is.
4:48I'll be funded at about 531, um, which is 11 less than I was projected in in January.
4:57Um, we started, we had a flag football tryouts this week.
5:01Um, we'll start cross-country tryouts next week, and then we'll do drill team tryouts the next week.
5:07Um, so those are all great things going on.
5:11Um, we we did a reward for S back testing for any student that showed growth on their S back test.
5:21Um, and I was pretty liberal on, I guess not even liberal.
5:25My goal when I do stuff for my school is to reward as many kids as possible.
5:31When I present stuff, it's about recognizing and doing the things that are going to affect the majority of my kids, um, regardless of what I'm presenting and who I'm presenting it to.
5:43Um, so I was able to feed give or take 477 middle school students last week on Thursday, because that was my promise to them that if they showed growth and I went through personally every single test result, um, and we delivered to the high school last Thursday to the freshmen that tested last year with us and then rewarded the this year's seventh and eighth graders with canes because that's what they wanted.
6:13Um, and like I say, I had 477 out of about 530 kids qualify that tested 531 that showed some of it was almost had to get the protractor out to make sure that line was tilted upwards, but it was tilted upwards.
6:30Um, and so just a great day to recognize them.
6:33You know, the the ninth graders were appreciative of us, you know, showing up with that for them and and doing what we said we would do for them, and um, so we were able to you know recognize all of those students on that day.
6:46We've had um the way the SBAC works, it's a one, two, three, or four.
6:52Four is the highest that you can score on math or or ELA on the English language arts.
6:58So I had 18 students that are freshmen this year that scored a four on both tests, and I had 10 eighth graders and 10 seventh graders.
7:08So I'm gonna get them in my office probably next week and do I put it to them.
7:14One of my girls today said we want chocolate milk and donuts.
7:18So I'll talk to a few more of them, but I'm gonna have a group of them in my office probably next week just to recognize them for um doing great on on the on the S back.
7:30Um, but other than that, school's rolling.
7:32Um I say it's been a great start to the year.
7:35We changed to a six-period schedule off the block schedule that the school's been on just because of staffing and and not having enough staff to continue with the block.
7:45Um, but it's worked out great.
7:47Um, kids are getting to class and teachers are adjusting a little bit to have a little bit shorter time in classes, but overall it's been a like I say, a great start to the year.
8:01Does anybody have any questions or I just want to know how your uh your billets for teachers did you have you got them all filled or yeah, we're fully staffed um right now, so good.
8:19Bennett, Matt Bennett, Principal Virgin Valley Elementary School for the record.
8:27Um we have how also had a great.
8:30I told our staff Tuesday, knock on wood.
8:34Uh, one of the best openings I've been a part of.
8:37So um, I don't want to jinx it, but it was a good opening.
8:40Um, there are some things that obviously uh we weren't planning on some changes, but they you know, we we roll with that.
8:48But as far as the kids showing up, um the amount of time needed to deal with the angst of starting a school year.
8:57Um, it was pretty good, and I judge my uh success on how much sleep I'm getting too.
9:02So I I'm averaging above four hours a night.
9:06So the other night I got a full eight, and I woke up and thought it was still summer.
9:10So anyway, um, it was it's been a good opening, and so um as far as staffing, because I think that was the last thing that's on my mind.
9:17We are fully staffed, except for so in the in the classrooms, but we have a couple of support staff.
9:24One I'm waiting on knowing my budget, budgets come out between the third and the fifth count day is next Wednesday for our staffing count, and then uh that Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, sometime in that time frame after Labor Day, we'll get our budgets.
9:40Um I'm also hesitant about we're we had one of our night custodians also retire.
9:46So um it was the the summer cleaning that didn't know.
9:51I think it was just his time.
9:52So he retired, and so I'm kind of waiting to kind of see what budget is.
10:00Although we are, you know, we need that custodian, but several of the other pieces are not in place yet until I know what my budget looks like.
10:07We have one new staff member in our autism.
10:13Walker, we picked her up from the other valley.
10:16So we're fully staffed in that area.
10:20So as far as staffing goes, we we're sitting all right.
10:23Our numbers right now, as of yesterday, I think I looked yesterday, was 619 total.
10:32But as far as you have to take away certain amounts that count towards what they tell us we should be, because a lot of those sped numbers, they subtract those because those teachers are paid out of the special education district budget, not out of my budget.
10:47So my numbers, I think we were projected in the 580s, and we're sitting in the 560s.
10:54So I think it's 587, I believe, was a total.
10:58So we're in the 560s, so we're sending positive vibes out to the universe every day to try and see if we can get some more kids to move in before next Wednesday.
11:06But um, again, that's that's kind of why I'm a little bit more um, just want to wait and see kind of thing as far as hiring more people because you don't want to bring them in and three weeks later saying for being here.
11:19So uh I don't think as far as activities, we're um already in the process of planning for our September fifth grade uh trips to Zion National Park.
11:32So we got approval that we could announce that we're doing that again this year, and now we're just in the final planning stages to make sure we have student lists and medical things taken care of and get all that information back to the region for that.
11:45That's going to be three weeks in September.
11:47Um, different classes will go each week.
11:50Great program there.
11:52We also I received paperwork.
11:53They're going to be doing a speed meet, the annual speed meet down at Wappa Valley High School.
11:59That's going on again this year, so that's in uh October, and then in November, gentlemen, oh, he's not still here, but we always have our pickleball that we take our fifth graders on a walking field trip to go over to the pickleball courts, and I believe Mr.
12:16Allen's still planning on doing that in November.
12:19Um, the only other kind of activity we may have is sometimes Mrs.
12:23Good puts in for the Philharmonic down at the Smith Center, and the Philharmonic usually will send us in the spring, usually around the end of January, early February.
12:33But last year they sent us with the fall group.
12:36She hasn't heard back on that, but that may be an upcoming field trip that we need to plan as well.
12:42Um also we just scheduled with the fire department for fire prevention week.
12:47It's in October, and so they'll be at the school Thursday, the I think the 9th of October.
12:55Anyway, um, we got that on the schedule too.
12:57That's always a fun time.
12:58We get our kinder first and second graders that go in and they they really ham it up for us, clowns and just it's an educational thing.
13:06So the fire prevention week's been planned.
13:09Um think of anything else.
13:12As far as the start of school, any questions?
13:15Uh, did I miss anything?
13:21You had a teacher that was gonna leave and go north, and apparently it didn't work out.
13:27Um straighthead, Moap.
13:32She uh she did she looked at some things, um, you know, some opportunities.
13:39Um, but then when it came down to, you know, there's a lot of stuff to be in a move, you know, selling property and right where and buying properties.
13:49She she continued with us, never actually separated with Clark County.
13:53So that's why I say she's a fourth grade team, yeah.
13:56Our fourth grade team is secure.
13:58In fact, we rolled up one of the third grade teachers into fourth grade this year because our fourth grade numbers are 113, I believe.
14:07That's a huge group.
14:08So two years from now, you'll be having them a huge group.
14:11But our fifth grade is at 96.
14:14No, a hundred and six.
14:16So next year's groups, so we have a hundred and six fifth graders and a hundred and thirteen fourth graders.
14:22And traditionally, that fourth grade group and third grade, I had five teachers last year, and then I rolled one up with them because it's just such a large group.
14:30We want to keep those class sizes manageable, even though that's not necessarily part of class size reduction.
14:36The state mandates that are for second and third grade.
14:39Um, we watch those numbers pretty close.
14:47All right, thank you.
14:48Thank you so much, Ken.
14:50Um associate superintendent Perkins, did you want some time?
14:58The things that you did this last week.
15:03I want to go over and have dinner tonight.
15:07We don't have enough time for that.
15:09Is there any public comment on this agenda item?
15:13All right, thank you.
15:16And we will move on to agenda item four discussion and possible action regarding the CAP grant requests.
15:24Um Julie, I don't know if you had something else.
15:27We we were gonna have it on the 26th City Council agenda, but we didn't quite make it.
15:33Is there anything I need to do?
15:35I just have question on so it says this is not it.
15:46Um so you first wanted it to be your first one is the victory vault.
15:53Do you want me to start that and take that to them to the council?
15:58By speaking openly and honestly.
16:00The the last thing I want, it the the only time the middle school's been talked about this year in city council was incredibly negative.
16:10I don't want that to happen again.
16:12I don't I have amazing teachers and students at my school, and the last thing I need is the public perception that the principal's an idiot because he asked for something that would benefit his kids, and it was talked about for 20 minutes at city council meeting.
16:27So I don't want that to happen again.
16:30So I just need you to tell me what you want me to do, or just tell me it's done.
16:35And so this is what I have on here.
16:38So I have the victory vault, which is one, or I have supporting my we have two non-sang sports.
16:44Well, would you prefer I take the victory vault to them?
16:47And then if that doesn't go, then take the other, or do you want me to put it on there as two?
16:53I Jodi asked me to give you two proposals, so I guess I'll leave it to you guys what you think will work.
17:02I don't I don't know.
17:04I like I say I don't want it to be something where my school is again talked about in a negative way for however long it was the 15 minutes and city council meeting.
17:14So if that's gonna happen again, then take that off and give me the do the other.
17:18I can put it on consent agenda again, and because that's normally how it's done.
17:22It was just there was questions with this one.
17:25So I can put it on consent, and then if it gets pulled off, then they'll be discussing it.
17:32So I so here's my well, I guess my suggestion.
17:38If we put it on consent agenda for um what's it called?
17:46So if I attend there, or if you're able to attend there, tech review, they don't you're not till september.
17:51Is it that way they take it off, or is that they're gonna take it off of the meeting?
17:55Well, you wouldn't in the beginning.
17:58I don't think that you'd because the way we do tech review now, it's pretty much do you have something to add, or to they're not gonna discuss anything.
18:06So if they with the city council, we don't know how they're gonna go either.
18:10So we can't and I can't talk to them either.
18:16Patty Gallo's one that said take it to tech review and the and the June meeting.
18:22Well, tech review just got switched to be different now.
18:28Um and Patty is listening on in here, she just was homesick.
18:33So, I mean, if I if I knew, I mean, I don't know that I can sit down with them in two by twos and just see how they're thinking, like if there's like no way, I don't care what you say.
18:44You know, if I could talk to them and make sure they understand I talked to four of the five of them about the the room, the arcade room, victory vault, whatever you want to call it.
18:53Let's not say arcade room, victory vault.
18:56Yeah, and I explained to them what my line of thinking was.
19:00I outlined it on that paper that it's it's not gonna be kids sitting in a room all day playing video games, it's gonna be about 20 minutes or maybe 30 minutes.
19:12It'll be we just took map testing, my kids that grew most or classes that grew most in map.
19:19I want to reward them.
19:20I've I've got to incentivize my middle school kids to be able to perform.
19:25That's and that's something that motivates them.
19:28But like I say, I don't want that presented if it's gonna result in the same thing happening again.
19:34I know one question that Wanlis had was is it gonna be shut down by the school district?
19:41Yeah, and I tried to call him and was never able to talk to him, but there are other schools that have them.
19:49I presented that on their Stanley Middle School has one, priest elementary school has one.
19:54Those are two that I was able to get in contact with.
19:58It's it's well that's good to know.
20:00So it's an incentive for my students.
20:05So I guess that's my question.
20:07Do I come and try to present that at tech review and try you saying instead I don't think tech review because Adam has changed our tech review to where you come in?
20:20He says Mayor says, Is there anything you want to add or take off?
20:25They don't have any public comment.
20:27Yeah, there's no discussion.
20:30So if you come if it gets pulled off of consent, then you'd come to the council meeting.
20:40So if it gets pulled off, then we can if you want to pull it totally and go with the next one, the next option.
20:51And we won't know that until the day of the meeting, like right.
20:55Usually when you pull something, don't you pull it right at the beginning of the meeting with the agenda?
21:00Yeah, but we we know before that that okay somebody wants to pull it.
21:08I guess my I'm just struggling a little bit because you know, we've always told the principals, like the principals know what their kids need and what's going on in the school and what their worst um, you know, issues that they're fighting or trying to deal with with the kids, like I don't we don't know.
21:24No, you know, city council doesn't know, but I feel like Jay Dell knows, and he's knows what his kids need, and what would um you know help him the best to get his kids where they need to be.
21:36I think a little frustrated more weight if the principal actually, if if they needed something to be said, he is the man with the most weight.
21:47I could get up and say stuff, but I don't have any weight, you know.
21:50And he would because he is the principal, he's well respected.
21:55Uh no, after the last meeting, I'm not.
21:58But but that's my question, though.
21:59And I and I brought this up in June.
22:03What is the expectation?
22:05Like, we I don't I can't speak for these guys, but I don't even know what the expectation is.
22:12I I asked in the last meeting, how many times have principals been asked to go to city council meeting and talk about their request?
22:20And the answer, Jody is in the very beginning.
22:25We brought it to the city.
22:26Which was how long like years when it was first started, whenever we have to look it back, it was years and years, 18, 17, 2017, somewhere in there.
22:35So is it now the expectation that we go to city council meeting to represent our request?
22:42If you have something that's very dear to you and very important that that you want, if I were you, I mean, I can't speak.
22:51If I were you, I would come up and speak because that's you know, and that's like Pat is the most weight.
23:05So we're we're changing that then.
23:08Here's the thing like based on this, so that the arcade just through they just pull it, just take that off, just take it and present my athletics one, and if they'll agree to that, giddy up.
23:23I I'm not gonna have my school, I'm not gonna have that pulled and have my school talked about in a negative way again.
23:30My kids don't deserve that, and I'm not gonna bring my why bring my kids to present when it's gonna be denied.
23:36I I'm not going to put my kids and my staff if they want to come at me about it, whatever.
23:43Like I don't care, but all they did was talk about the middle school.
23:47This the middle school, why are they doing this?
23:49Why do they want this?
23:50There's a reason I asked for it.
23:52It's not just for my kids to sit all day long and play video games.
23:56Yeah, it used to come on the consent agenda.
23:59They would just pass the whole thing.
24:01I understand that three.
24:02Yeah, but that this council changed that.
24:05We didn't have anything to do with that.
24:07No, they changed it.
24:09So uh and they look at it as basically a line item, and they they scrutinize it more so much more than they did before.
24:20But that's this council.
24:21So I would say do the the athletics one is pretty vanilla.
24:26Okay, and that one is I just added it up, and it's the 775.
24:32The athletics, yeah.
24:34Redo, whatever I gotta take off to make it the 7,000, the other half of what I didn't get.
24:45I mean, because that's so just I think that the seven seven.
24:50So I'll just put your you want to come up.
25:00I think that the I think we're okay if we just go to that next one and request that.
25:07Which one do you really want?
25:09Well, the one that's gonna impact the majority of my students is a victory volume.
25:13Because there's other ones for his athletics.
25:15The other one is for my cross country and volleyball, which is great.
25:19I I need to have those and support those, and they're unfunded by the district.
25:23I mean, I just I was on the line today.
25:25I the bus for my cross-country team for the one meet that we go to Vegas, I have to charter a bus.
25:31It was 2100 last year for one meet.
25:35Yeah, it's one bus because they have to dead, they have to drive out, pick my kids up, take them to Vegas, bring them back, and drive back to Vegas.
25:44Um, and the district won't, because it's a non-sanctioned sport, they won't give me um school bus for it.
25:52And then same with volleyball.
25:53Volleyball is gonna go seven times, um, which is not gonna be two thousand dollars.
25:59I think it's gonna be about five hundred bucks a trip when volleyball goes that I've got to come up with to pay for that.
26:05But that's gonna benefit.
26:06I think we had 50 kids last year that ran cross country.
26:10Um, I'll probably have 30 that play volleyball that'll make the team 15 per team, or the other would benefit you know, majority of my students.
26:20But I I'd say just go with the what the sports one and so can I make a recommendation on that?
26:29You really want Victor, you said victory vault.
26:34Yes, that's what it is.
26:35I would suggest keeping that one on the agenda as the can on the consent agenda.
26:40If city council decides in the meeting to pull it off, you're here to speak to that and say, hey, we'll just table this, we'll come back with a different um proposal.
26:51The next city council, it's gonna delay you two weeks, but at least they won't it won't be discussed.
26:57And you can come right up during that item and say, Hey, I want to let's just table it.
27:02I've got a different proposal.
27:03If this one isn't going to be approved, it's gonna be scrutinized.
27:05I've got a different one that's just as good that I'll bring next time.
27:11That would be my recommendation.
27:15Can you submit both of them at the same time?
27:16Like you wrote it up.
27:20Just do the athletics one.
27:21I think you go to the matter, it's just instead of so I think say something.
27:33Look, it's all green lit up for you.
27:39Uh is there any other comments up here?
27:44Okay, so the final comments from the final say is to do the athletics.
27:51Yep, public comment, yes.
27:54I used to be on the CAB, and I was on the city council.
27:56And I remember when this was first presented.
27:58I thought it was like I was a hard no, but you brought the students to talk about it.
28:04And I think I wasn't the only hard no up there on CAB.
28:07When those students came up and told us this is what they need, it was like a no-brainer.
28:13And those students, Jadel, this will go through if you have the students present it.
28:19Well, I you can come up and hang out with me.
28:21I was gonna hang out with you, but I didn't know if I was allowed to I here's the problem.
28:24It was it was taken off after public comment.
28:27I know it wasn't even a council members.
28:29I did it take it off.
28:30A guy came up in public comment and said, give the money to the elementary school.
28:36So now I'm gonna bring my kids and have this.
28:38I'm not gonna put my kids in the middle of the state.
28:39They're not gonna say no to both kids.
28:41And have some guy from the back of the room come up and say that's a stupidest idea, give it to the elementary school.
28:48I'd rather you just give it to the elementary school.
28:51I so that's I know you're fighting for your kids, and and my kids don't go there anymore, but I'm telling you, from that point of view and the public point of view when they present it, it's not saying that you're a horrible presenter.
29:01Because remember at the time I said, you know, I said that uh that they turned us, and they will turn the council too.
29:07And I also feel this is constructive to help you.
29:10Um, that if you sit down with your CAB rep who's on the council, Patty Gallo, and discuss this with her, get her on board first.
29:18I have I I talked to her, I called her.
29:20I explained to her, I explained to I spoke to Ms.
29:24Fielding, I spoke to Mr.
29:26Annis, I spoke to Mr.
29:27I called, I texted her emailed every single one of them.
29:31Was this before or after?
29:32This was after that meeting.
29:34And how do they feel now that you've explained it to them?
29:37They I honestly don't know because when I talked to Miss Fielding, it was well, the money's supposed to go for programs or C.
29:46That's not what I was told.
29:48And they cut the safety part.
29:50That's where I was confused, and I I spent way too long last meeting going over.
29:55I don't even know what to ask for at this point.
30:00So I I'm asking what I think is best for my school.
30:03And if I'm gonna be a jerk about it, not a single one of you has spent time on my campus.
30:08I would give high fives to my kids every morning out in front of my campus with me every single day.
30:13It's the best 30 minutes of my morning from 7 30 to 8 o'clock.
30:17Seeing my kids come in the door with smiles on their faces and seeing them there.
30:21I have great kids at my school, and I want to fight for it, but I don't want my school drug through what it was drugged through in May, and it makes it sound like it's a horrible school because all I want them to do is play video games.
30:40But as your point earlier, it was always on the con it was on the consent agenda after about 2019, 2020, and it got polled this last time for whatever reason.
30:50It and I don't know why, but you have people on there, you have councilman parish, councilman Ennis, Patty Gallo, Jesse Whipple.
30:57You you have these folks that I think if I I'm just telling you that if the kids present it, I know you don't want to put them in in a bad way, and I don't think you're going to be doing that by doing that.
31:07I remember when we put when the kids were put in a bad way trying to get the marijuana funds to the schools in the first place when you had a councilman up there saying you guys don't understand what this is, you don't know what you're talking about.
31:17This money was never meant for the schools, and he really chastised them.
31:20And I thought it was pathetic.
31:22Nobody up there is gonna do that to your students.
31:24Nobody will do that.
31:25And you could present it, but when the kids present it from their point of view, I don't know how anyone could say no, and that was all I was trying to get at.
31:32And if you need anything I can do to if there's an I can do to help you, I would help you.
31:37But it would be gonna see what I start athletics.
31:42You guys will support him, right?
31:44You guys will support these students, right?
31:45Yeah, one of you will come up and support these students, right?
31:48So it'd be the September 9th.
31:50It's the day after my birthday.
31:51Let's have a birthday party.
31:56Well, and if we're all here, we need to be able to do that.
31:57Everyone's speak on behalf too.
31:59We need to people here at the meeting to speak on behalf, you know, so they see that this is supported by the community.
32:08I'm at every city council meeting, so I'll be there.
32:11And I'll if needed, uh I'll get up and talk speak it.
32:17Okay, they'll just let me know because I'll put I'll put this on the the ninth meeting, and I'll put it on as the victory vault, and we'll go from there.
32:28And let me know if it changes.
32:36Hope we can get that through.
32:42City council at high.
32:44Everybody, city council, 5 p.m.
32:52Um agenda item five, board members' comments and reports.
32:57Anybody, yes, go ahead.
32:59Nikki Matter, Miss Gateworks Steam Center.
33:03I guess you can hear me.
33:04Um, just let you know.
33:06We had so when we collected the data for the year, um, we had 366 students registered in our system.
33:15Um, we are showing up to class.
33:18We have over a hundred and thirty-six fourth graders.
33:22So we have 80 preschoolers that we see.
33:27Um 77th graders, those are just a little bit of the numbers.
33:31Um, we are running 24 classes this semester, so we have quite a few classes.
33:38We have one every morning, it seems like.
33:41Um, but I also passed out to the principals uh copy of our upcoming events that we have at the Steam Center, and then just a little bit of data coming in the door, just signing in.
33:54Um, we in the last six months we've had 3,599 people come through the door.
34:02So we also have a teacher training coming up on September 13th on microplastics that's in the support of DRI, um, Desert Research Institute, and we have the American Revolution Experience um traveling exhibit that will be there September 22nd through 26th.
34:19So if you want to share that with your students, you can also do a walking field trip that day.
34:23Um, if you want to come see those, and I know they are also hosting a Wednesday night.
34:30Um I forget the time, I didn't write that down.
34:37So at the STEAM Center.
34:38So we have those going on.
34:45We're also having Lego.
34:47Um, we'll have some Lego tournaments and some drone tournaments as well coming up at the Steam Center.
34:54Yeah, so lots of good things going on.
35:00Okay, I just had one we need to make sure of who is up.
35:07We need um high school and elementary school reps for next time if you can get your person named.
35:20Do you are do you have your person ready?
35:23So Matt Bennett again.
35:25Um I spent probably oh, I don't know.
35:30It's not again like hours worth, but I have tried.
35:34Um, and I also spoke on the 7th when we had our back to school night.
35:39Uh no one has approached me, but we do have SOT elections coming.
35:43So before I do that, I'm gonna let PTO run our SOT elections, and hopefully we get more than enough candidates that I can go to that pool for an interest of you know, an interest, a parent with interest to help, and then see if I can appoint from there.
35:58If not, we'll get our SOT started, and then I'll uh maybe knock on some doors because I had to bug um I had to bug the Whipples a couple of times before they agree.
36:10I actually went after Jess first, and he's like, you know what?
36:12My wife would be great at that.
36:14So she was nice enough to take it, take that on.
36:17So uh before I start pounding on doors, so yeah, with the next meeting, are you guys meet every month or every three months?
36:23We've been doing it every three, so qu quarterly.
36:27Um, unless anything comes up, then we can't.
36:29Yeah, that's what I said online.
36:30I told parents I said the most it would be is once a month, but usually it's once every three months.
36:34So, and if you're on a committee, you might have to put a couple hours here and there in, but it's basically four hours a year.
36:41I need your help, and you'd also be helping every school in the in the area, not just Virgin Valley.
36:47So I'm trying, but again, like I say, I want to get the SOT.
36:51We have a slight window to get our SOT placed before October.
36:54So I'll try to do that first.
37:00And then um, Julie was gonna check on who is up on the at large and get that flown.
37:08So if you know anybody that would like to fill that out, that'd be great too.
37:13How many have our two?
37:15I think just one is up, and then the other two will be next year.
37:19I think she's gonna double check, but I'm pretty sure.
37:26Okay, we'll close that agenda item and move on to agenda item six, public comment.
37:32Do you have anything else?
37:36Okay, we'll close that agenda item and we will adjourn at 5 38.