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Home My WebLink About11-30-2022 Minutes Work Session Executive SessionDr. Scott Woolstenhulme, Superintendent 3497 North Ammon Road, Idaho Falls, Idaho, 83401  (208) 525-4400  Fax (208) 557-6800  www.d93schools.org Board of Trustees  Chad Dance  Paul Jenkins  Greg Calder  Carissa Coats  Randy Smith Bonneville Joint School District No. 93 is an Equal Opportunity Employer Work Session/Executive Session November 30, 2022 11:30 AM Tiebreaker 3100 First Street Idaho Falls, Idaho 83401 I. Chairman Dance called the meeting to order at 11:43 a.m. II. Roll Call was Paul Jenkins present Greg Calder present Carissa Coats present Randy Smith present Chad Dance present III. Opening Board Business A. Approve/Amend Agenda (Action Item) Chairman Dance asked if any Board Member would like to amend the agenda. Hearing none, he asked for a motion. MOTION: Paul Jenkins moved to approve the agenda. Carissa Coats seconded. Motion carried. B. Welcome Visitors and Delegations Chairman Dance welcomed any visitors and Delegations and thanked Tiebreaker for the use of their library and school for the meeting. Others in attendace were, Superintendent Woolstenhulme, Jason Lords, Executive Director of Learning and Instruction, Heath Jackson, Executive Director of Planning and Personnel, John Pymm, Director of Maintenance and Operations, Rex Miller, Director of Academic Interventions and Federal Programs, Gordon Howard, Director of Safe Schools and Technology, Levi Owen, Bonneville HS Principal, Ty Salsbery, Hillcrest HS Principal, Kent Patterson, Principal at Sandcreek MS, Trent Dabell, Thunder Ridge Assistant Principal, Jared Dotson, Assistant Principal at Rocky Mountain Middle School, Larry Stocking, Hillcrest HS Athletic Director, Doug McLaren, Thunder Ridge HS Principal, Phil Campbell, D93 News, and Samantha Williams, Board Clerk. IV. Discussion Items A. Westmark Discussion Chairman Dance invited Ty Salsbery, Principal at Hillcrest High School and Larry Stocking, Athletic Director at Hillcrest High School to present to the Board. Mr. Salsbery gave an update on the Westmark Stadium proposal. The Board was given an opportunity to read through a letter of intent from The Community Sports Development Council. Salsbery explained that Hillcrest received a grant of $700,000 to go towards the Westmark Stadium project. This doesn’t cover the dirt work, any additional markings for the field, the bleachers and the lights. As of right now Hillcrest has $1.5 million from Westmark and additional $350,000 for a scoreboard, and $700,000 from the grant. To complete the multi-phase project will be around $4 million. Guy Wangsgard, CFOO of the district has added a donation dropdown on the Bonneville Education Foundation website for anyone who would like to donate to the stadium project. There will be some fundraisers as well in the coming months. There are many businesses that have reached out to see how they can contribute to the project as well. Superintendent Woolstenhulme brought up the public bidding process to the Board in regards to this project. The next step is to talk to legal council and Hawley Troxell to make sure everything is done properly and legally. Mr. Salsbery stated that he will call the grant company to get more information. Chairman Dance thanked Mr. Salsbery and Mr. Stocking for the update. 2 B. Future Facilities Planning Chairman Dance invited Heath Jackson, Executive Director of Planning and Personnel to present to the Board. Mr. Jackson is wanting to set some priorities moving forward with the funds the district has received and will receive from recent property sales. As of right now, the district has closed on one of the four properties. This is where the district stands on the sales: • Hitt Rd property - $1.5 million – Closed and funds have been received • Fairview property - $628, 000 – has not closed, waiting on buyers finances, possibly close in the next few weeks • Lincoln Rd Property - $340,922 – has not closed, property must be replatted per the county • Mountain Valley property - $195,000 – Closed • Black Canyon Reallocation Funds - $1.5 million – voters approved on November 8, 2022 Mr. Jackson, after meeting with the Planning and Personnel team created a priorities list for how to use the funds. He wanted to make sure the Board is okay with how things are prioritized. The list is as follows: • Ammon Cafeteria • Bus Barn • Ammon Elementary Roof • Bonneville HS Roof (in stages) The Board like the idea of bonding for an elementary school in May 2023, rather than March. The hope is to use the funds from property sales and the bond reallocation from the Black Canyon project to fund the priority list or at least some of it. Hopefully construction costs will come down. Not knowing what the State funding is going to be until April. This is another reason to hold off a bond until May. The Board agreed on the project priorities that t he planning and personnel team has come up with. Mr. Jackson stated that they will start getting estimates and putting together a more detailed cost list. Chairman Dance said to go ahead and move forward. Chairman Dance thanked Mr. Jackson. C. Elementary Collaboration Time Feedback Chairman Dance invited Superintendent Woolstenhulme to present feedback from the requested surveys in regard to the Monday Collaboration time for elementary schools. Dr. Woolstenhulme stated that parent support the alternating Monday schedule and teachers also support the alternating schedule. Dr. Woolstenhulme did say that after meeting with the principals on this subject, the consensus was support for both sides of the argument. A Board member stated, that since it’s a close call, it would be best to keep it the same with alternating collaboration, no school Mondays for elementary students and teachers. This will be an action item on the Regular Board Meeting agenda on December 14, 2022. D. Discipline and Procedures Chairman Dance invited Dr Woolstenhulme to present to the Board. Dr. Woolstenhulme invited several principals to ask any questions the Board has in regard to policy and procedures of how students are disciplined. The main question was how is the parent involved in discipline issues.The principals stated that parents are immediately involved in issues that happen in their schools. Most of the time parents are very receptive and work with the schools. Other parents have issues with not thinking the other party is being disciplined. That is the hardest thing with student discipline. Parents of one student will not know what the discipline is of another student per policy. If there is a battery or serious offense that requires a student to be charged, the authorities get involved. Then it is out of the administrators hands. A suggestion was brought up from a Board member to look at policy and make sure that there are consequences for those who video without permission more importantly during a fight or alter cation. The district said that they will look into that. Chairman Dance thanked the principals for their time. E. ISBA Recap – Due to time, this was tabled for a future meeting F. Upcoming School Board Events COSSBA (Consortium of State School Boards Association) - March 31, 2023 to April 2, 2023 - Tampa Bay, Florida NSBA - April 1, 2023 - April 3, 2023 - Orlando, Florida Day on the Hill - February 20-21, 2023 (Estimate) V. Enter Executive Session (Action Item) Chairman Dance stated that the Board will enter into Executive Session pursuant to Idaho Code 74-206(1)(b) to consider 3 the evaluation, dismissal, or disciplining of, or to hear complaints or charges brought against, a public officer, employee, staff member, or individual agent, or public school student. The Executive Session will be closed to the public as permitted by law. MOTION: Carissa Coats moved to enter Executive Session. Paul Jenkins seconded. The Roll Call Vote was Paul Jenkins yes Greg Calder yes Carissa Coats yes Randy Smith yes Chad Dance yes The Board entered Executive Session at 1:15 p.m. A. Discussion Items 1. Student Suspensions The Board had some follow up questions in regard to student discipline. There was no action during this meeting. VI. Enter Open Meeting (Action Item) Chairman Dance asked for a motion to enter Open Meeting MOTION: Greg Calder moved to enter open meeting. Carissa Coats seconded. Motion carried. VII. Closing Board Business A. Chairman Dance called for Agenda Items for Upcoming Meetings. It was asked to move the discussion on the ISBA convention trip to the January Board Work Session. Chairman Dance reminded the Board Clerk to add the Superintendent evaluation to an Executive Session in December. VIII. Adjournment (Action Item) Chairman Dance asked for a motion to adjourn the meeting MOTION: Paul Jenkins moved to adjourn the meeting. Randy Smith seconded. Motion carried. The meeting adjourned at 1:35 p.m. APPROVED: ______________________________________ Chairperson ATTESTED: _______________________________________ Clerk DATE: ___________________________________