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1) Agenda revision (motion to move item 5C from the consent calendar into a presentation; move policy approvals 9a and 9b to consent; and move item 9d up): motion made, seconded and approved by voice vote. The transcript records the board chair asking \"All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed?\" with no roll-call tally recorded.

2) Approval of the consent calendar (including the items moved as part of the earlier agenda motion): motion made and seconded; approved by voice vote. The transcript records \"All in favor? Aye. Any opposed?\" and no named vote count.

3) Instructional materials re-review direction: Board member Peterson moved and Vice President Anderson seconded a motion directing staff to reconvene adoption committees to re-evaluate updated materials from OpenUp/EL Education and Amplify (RFPs 25005 and 25003); the motion passed on a voice vote.

Notes on vote records

- The meeting transcript records voice approvals for the motions and does not contain a full roll-call tally listing each board member's yes/no vote. Where the transcript did name movers and seconders, those names are noted above.
- No motions failed at this meeting and no recorded abstentions or recusals are shown in the transcript.

Next procedural steps

- Staff will reconvene curriculum committees and return with updated findings on the two vendors before final adoption.
- No other formal board votes were recorded in the transcript for this meeting; several presentations and information items (ALA, arts, Adams CRA) prompted board questions but no vote.

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Adam McMickle, the executive director of student achievement, summarized the committee evaluations and recommended materials for board consideration. He described the review process, scoring criteria and the district\fommittees' rationale for each recommendation.

Committee recommendations

- K' (early elementary): the K' committee recommended Savvas (MyView Literacy). McMickle said the committee scored Savvas highly for curricular design and digital resources; a projected seven-year contract price presented in the materials totaled about $1,171,000 to secure top-tier pricing and consumables.

- Grades 3\u0006: the committee recommended OpenUp/EL Education (OpenUp publishes the EL Education materials). McMickle said OpenUp earned a top score in curricular design and that the committee\rebate was close and substantive.

- Grades 7\u00012: the committee recommended CommonLit 360; staff noted CommonLit is primarily digital and that the district would also acquire required titles in physical form where needed.

- K\u0006 English-language development (ELD): the committee recommended VISTA's \"get ready\" curriculum for students receiving ELD services.

Why the board paused two recommendations

Shortly after the committee process concluded, staff learned updated 2025 copyrights from two vendors (Amplify and OpenUp) had not been considered. McMickle told the board those updated copyrights addressed some of the early-literacy requirements that were scored in the committee process. He said the district had access to the revised materials but had not evaluated them through the formal committee process.

Board action

Board member Peterson moved and Vice President Anderson seconded a motion directing staff to reconvene the affected committees and to re-review the revised materials from OpenUp and Amplify (RFPs 25005 and 25003) before the board takes final adoption action. The motion passed on a voice vote; no recorded roll-call tally of individual votes was given in the transcript.

Implementation planning

McMickle outlined an implementation timeline should the board approve the curricular choices: a half-day orientation and a full implementation day for teachers during summer months (early July orientation and early August implementation); vendor training costs and stipends for teachers to attend several hours of vendor-led preparation were described as line items in the materials.

Next steps

The board's direction means staff will reconvene the committees and present any revised findings to the board before a final March or April adoption vote. McMickle said the district will work to keep materials, purchase timing and teacher training on schedule if the board instructs further review.

Ending

Board members praised the thoroughness of the committee work and emphasized the importance of choosing materials carefully. No final adoption vote was taken at this meeting for the K' and 3\u0006 materials until the re-review is complete.

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David Sawyer, deputy executive director in Ogden City\fommunity and Economic Development, told the board the city is proposing to increase the CRA\u000budget from a previously projected $10,800,000 in increment to $30,500,000. \"What we're proposing to do is amend the ADAM's CRA budget ... increase the budget from 10,800,000.0 to 30,500,000.0,\" Sawyer said.

Why it matters

The Adams CRA covers an area east of Washington Boulevard within the 9 Rails Arts District and has already supported projects city officials described as successful, including the Monarch development, Perry Lofts, Stonehill Homes and recent for-sale townhomes. The proposed change would give the redevelopment agency more money to offer incentives, finance infrastructure or help restore historic buildings. Because school districts share the property-tax base with municipalities and counties, changes to CRA arrangements affect future property tax revenue available to the district.

What the city presented

City staff said completed projects in the CRA already include new housing and public improvements in an area the city calls a mixed-use, arts-focused neighborhood. City presenters highlighted a set of projects in planning or early stages: the historically significant Forest Service Building (recently purchased by the city with the intent to restore and return it to productive private use), work needed to stabilize the old First Security Bank/Cache Valley Bank landmark, and conceptual restoration of the former Bigelow Hotel into hospitality use. City staff said some proposed new housing in the area has already sold quickly and that certain pipeline projects depend on additional CRA support.

Proposed participation changes and projected returns

Sawyer described a proposed structure in which taxing entities (the city, county and school district) would maintain their current participation rates through year 10 of the district plan (2028), then reduce the county and school district participation to 75% in later years. He said the change is intended to bring incremental valuation increases to taxing entities sooner rather than later and to increase the total pooled increment the RDA can use now.

Board response and requests

Board members asked for more precise, year-by-year forecasts and clear explanations of what the extra money would be used for. One board member asked that the city provide a literal cash-flow analysis showing projected annual tax increment and the district's projected share under the current agreement and under the proposed revision. \"Could you simplify that too perhaps? ... just show us the cash flow that you project based on that throughout that period,\" a board member said.

City staff agreed to provide those projections and said they had run preliminary calculations; they also said partners outside the district (the county and Ogden City Council) had already discussed the proposal.

No formal board vote

The board did not take formal action on the CRA amendment at the meeting. City staff said they planned to return with a formal amendment and requested that the district let them know whether the board would like additional work sessions or a consent-calendar review before an eventual vote.

Ending

Board members asked the city to provide detailed cash-flow charts, prior CRA outcomes and specific project-level uses for the increment funds before the board considers approving the proposed budget increase.

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llocated state grant funding to support the Advanced Learning Academy (ALA) at Liberty Elementary and described how the money is distributed in support of instruction and teacher development.

The district received $63,938.16 from the Utah State Board of Education for the ALA program, McMickle said. He said the direct portion available to spend on program activities was $54,503.59 after indirect costs were removed.

The ALA budget supports a mix of expenses: stipends for ALA teachers and a coordinator, a choir director, a small public-marketing allocation, mini-grants for classroom projects, and reimbursement for teachers to obtain the state-required gifted-and-talented endorsement. McMickle said the district uses a mini-grant approach so teachers can request up to $1,000 per year to buy materials tied to specific instructional goals.

Why it matters

The ALA is the district
dvanced-elementary program intended to prepare students for later honors, Advanced Placement, concurrent-enrollment and IB coursework. Board members asked how ALA funds are allocated and whether the program is reaching a demographic cross-section of district families.

What staff told the board

McMickle said part of the ALA allocation pays a stipend equal to \"2% of level D\" for certain duties performed above a normal teacher contract; he said he would provide the board with a more detailed accounting of those stipend amounts and the specific extra duties covered.

On student identification and testing, McMickle said the district uses a combination of state and district assessments plus a cognitive assessment, the CogAT, to inform placement for ALA. \"We moved away from our previous testing and moved into that CogAT testing 2 years ago,\" he said, adding the district chose it because it provides faster digital results and a different view of student cognitive dispositions.

Liberty staff and the ALA coordinator described program activities to the board. Lindsay Warner, ALA and IB coordinator, said the program emphasizes deeper, inquiry-based learning: \"First, it's about extension. It's about taking their learning deeper than where they would with the regular standards.\" Teachers showed examples of choir performances, service-learning projects, a greenhouse and a NASA TechRise payload that ALA students are building to study atmospheric radiation.

Enrollment, capacity and outcomes

McMickle told the board ALA enrollment has grown from a low of 93 students to about 128; he noted that since the materials were prepared one family moved and the count at the time of the meeting was 127. He said ALA is intentionally a single-section program at each grade; the intended practical capacity per class is about 28 students and the program's current average class size is about 22.

McMickle also presented assessment and follow-up data the district had compiled. He said ALA students have historically demonstrated high proficiency on state assessments and that, looking at ACT results for students who attended ALA in the elementary grades, 100% of one recent ALA cohort met the ACT composite benchmark of 18 in grade 11.

Board questions, outreach and equity

Board members pressed staff on outreach to underrepresented families after data showed only small increases in Hispanic/Latino enrollment in ALA and noted transportation remains a barrier. McMickle described marketing efforts that include flyers in English and Spanish, social media and direct mail to families in target grade ranges. He said the district will also provide testing at other schools on demand to reduce barriers that keep families from traveling to Liberty for the CogAT screening.

Staff commitments and next steps

McMickle pledged to provide the board with a detailed stipend accounting and the itemized breakdown of how the $63,938.16 grant dollars would be spent at Liberty. Principal Espinosa and the ALA team will provide the board additional program-level reporting on the mini-grant recipients and on how many teachers will need reimbursement for gifted-and-talented endorsements in the coming year.

Ending

Board members thanked the Liberty team for their presentation and the district said it would follow up with the requested financial detail and outreach metrics.

","District staff updated the board on the Advanced Learning Academy at Liberty Elementary, covering the program\u000budget, teacher stipends, enrollment and student assessment data; board members pressed for more detail on stipend accounting and outreach to underrepresented families.","actionData","errors"]

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