Plains K-12 Schools board meeting, Aug 17, 2026
51 min · 1 public speaker
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Plains board takes up two-year special education partnership proposal 28:51
- A motion was made to approve the consent agenda minus item C, and each person called on in the vote answered yes. 1:19
- Administrators gave back-to-school reports covering staffing shortages, classified staff pay, curriculum and a switch to new business software. 5:33
- The board took up a proposal with a special education group that a staff member described as a two-year partnership with a Utah State University program to review the district's special education program. 28:51
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Item by item (7)
- Opening and consent agenda 0:00
- Substitute teacher list 1:43
- One board member said the district should explore how to add substitutes who have not yet applied as early as possible, and suggested moving a board meeting so the openings could be advertised. 2:09
- A speaker said a meeting on September 9th would meet a requirement that any hire with a spouse on the board be published in the paper 15 days before the meeting, and that a public strategic planning workshop would follow that meeting. 2:50
- District administrator report 5:20
- A district administrator said teachers would get 7 to 8 hours of classroom prep time free of meetings on the 24th and 25th. 6:51
- The administrator said the district would eventually have to raise pay for classified staff, with a starting wage of $14.60, and that working through the budget to compete with outlying districts was a goal this year. 8:27
- Asked about paraprofessional vacancies, the administrator said the district was probably still short 2 to 4 people. 12:25
- Principal reports 13:30
- A principal said staff would train on a new program called FastBridge that would partly replace district assessments, offered through Cabinet Mountain Cooperative. 14:41
- The principal said the elementary math curriculum expires this year and that a quote a couple of years ago for K through 5 was $120,000. 14:41
- A speaker giving the high school report said schedules were out and the school was short-staffed but working on it. 18:18
- Business office and budget report 19:28
- The staff member said student activities account balances would be included in the packet every month so coaches know their budgets. 21:01
- A speaker asked whether employees would have to sign timesheets under the new software, and the staff member said leave entered in TimeClock Plus would interface with Black Mountain. 24:15
- Special education partnership proposal 28:51
- A staff member said the group would review files, survey staff and parents, interview teachers and produce a comprehensive report over a 2-year timeline beginning around October 1st. 29:56
- A co-op staff member said the group was probably a third of the cost of other agencies reviewed. 34:43
- Asked about the fixed price budget and payments, staff said the proposal amount is the group's guarantee, that the group would work with the district on monthly payments, and that another regional option charges $300 or $400 an hour. 40:09
- Public comment on non-agenda items 46:45
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