This is a continuation, as you said, of previous discussions around adjusting graduation requirements potentially to accommodate a um course newly required by the legislature. This impacts incoming ninth graders for next year.

I personally think that social studies rises to the level of a class or a or a subject where parents andor adults, board members, staff need to step in and make that particular decision.

And one of the group of students we're going to hurt is the high achieving student who chooses classes that's in their behav in their be benefit that if we take away from the electives they won't be able to take.

I I feel very strongly about not decreasing the rigor for the rest of our students. And I really appreciate the writing and the critical thinking skills that come from the social studies classes.

But some of those cherished activities were not aligned with policy. And so we wanted to rewrite policy to align with those activities.

I think one thing that brings this agenda item before the board today is a desire to have policy in place that matches the practice of the district. I believe this is an area where our practice and our policy have not always aligned over the past several years.

and the other is to make sure that we provide some flexibility for schools to retain some funding at the school level to help their community directly, but that be limited to 10,000 so that anything beyond $10,000 raised would need to go to an a third party charity.

Venmo is made for personal transactions, not business transactions. So, it's a wonderful platform to do that, but business transactions are much more difficult to handle with Venmo.

This is an important meeting because the budget always reflects the priorities of an organization and what we truly value.

The budget does include a $25 million transfer from the general fund to the self-insurance fund. This is to help both funds uh but mostly for our self-insurance fund as it has had a a few years of decline in fund balance with expenditures exceeding revenues.

It this chart shows to me that the trend is for the state to encourage more property tax funding than income tax dollars.

The reason I believe it's okay is because a budget is a living, breathing document. It's going to change. We know it's going to change very rapidly because we're about to get hopefully soon those state tax rates, but just so you're aware, the Bingham High School turf field replacement is not in the budget. The additional $9 million for the West Jordan High School remodel is not explicitly in the budget. And the Elkridge Middle School lighting and sound upgrade is in the budget, but it was in at an estimated amount, not at its actual amount.