001So, we'll go ahead and call this meeting to order. It's 6 o'clock. Welcome everyone. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Please be seated. Sorry. Okay. I do need a motion to approve tonight's agenda. So moved. We have a motion in a second. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Hearing? None. The motion carries. Uh announcements for tonight's meeting. As a reminder, um there we are. Uh these are the board's meetings held in public. They are not public board meetings. The board is governed by Idaho code title 74 and title 33 chapter 5 Idaho administrative procedures act or IDAPA and follows
002district policies. Um public input uh if anyone has public input they will be allotted three minutes. Any other announcements? Um just due to a lot of hard work, the lady passed last night. So very excited. Um I do want to acknowledge some of our community members that put in a huge number of hours to assist in getting word out to to our communities. Um, so, uh, Kate, um, McCarthy, Ally Kramer, Suzanne Gallas, um, Gina Young, and Ally up north. Um, those ladies were warriors. They, um, they filled in when we were double booked. They were at lots of events, um, just having conversations with other parents, making sure that people had accurate information. And I feel like the results um that we got with almost 67% of the people who voted saying yes was due
003in large part to the huge amount of committee support that of people who came out and participated and just sharing information. So I just want to acknowledge that it really did take a village to get uh where we got. Thank you. Thank you for the announcement. Do we have any public input? No public input. Okay, moving on to the financial report. We have a monthly financial report. Is there any input, comments, or questions from anyone? Thank you for the consistent good job that you do in clarifying the information on the report. It's appreciated. Even I can read it. Yay. All right, moving on to the consent agenda. We have the minutes of the previous meetings, minutes of subcommittee meetings, HR items, regular and special bills. Um, are there any comments or questions on the minutes
004from the previous meetings? Any input on the subcommittee meetings which would be just accepted? HR items. members for Cunningham, director of HR. I just want to clarify because Trusty Jones pointed out I have a formatting issue on my HR memo. Um on the second page and on the third page um the top bar transferred over. So um on the second page where you see higher date those are actually resignations and uh same thing on the third page those are retirements continue. They are not empires. Okay. Thank you for the clarification. Any comments on the regular and special bills? I move to approve the consent agenda. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none, the motion carries. Moving on to old business, we have the superintendent
005followup regarding the SLP SLP hires. I guess they get a paperwork person also. I was that case so high. Um, she's at her Um I in the buildings where we still have a little bit of PSC time, they help any of the special ed case uh case managers. Um but for the most part, those positions um have been eliminated just due to trying to cut the budget. Um so the the case load is high, but they see their kiddos like for two 20 minute sessions during the week instead of every day. So, um, Chelsea tries really hard to keep those as equitable as possible. Don't want they're so hard to come by. I just don't want to get them burned out and losing them again. We did uh when we talked about moving from contracted
006services to actual people, we anticipated there would be a cost savings. That's what I uh when I talked to board chair Thompson. Um what we didn't factor into that conversation was the contract is only paid for the hours that they're actually working with kids. So they don't get paid during Christmas vacation or summer and our people get paid based on the 190 days of working with kids um across all 12 months. And um so it is actually a little bit more expensive to bring people who have a lot of experience in but much better for students to have an actual person sitting before them instead of in front of a computer for their instruction. So, so the contracted services is in front of a computer. Is that what you're saying? Okay. They're virtual. That's interesting.
007So, the 100 just so I just want to make sure I thought I understood that's what you were putting here. The 124,593 additional is because we're bringing the bodies one less but still in the district. Correct. Yes. Well, it looks like we're still going to have the same amount. Six and a half and six and a half, but we will have one less virtual and one more physical. We thought we were actually going to have two, but we lost one of the post balls. One of our people Any other further comments? No, thank you for the information though. And was that every I missed I wasn't at the last meeting. You Yeah, we just did. We had no numbers. We didn't know. So is that was the information we were looking for? Yeah. Yeah. Thank
008you. We have a financial followup. Is there any comments, conversations we want to have on the financial followup? No, I think questions. I do have one quick question. I'm stable. On the summer program? Yes. Um, is there a reason why the cost went up so significantly from last year to this year or from from the last time we did it and the time before that that we previously did it? Um, Charboyair dining services. Uh, so last year we added uh the year before we only had Lakeland Middle School as a non- congregate meal site. Last year we included Timberlake High School and Athel Elementary as rural sites. So that's where children could come and pick up meals once a day. Um so that's why the cost went up so much um because we were operating
009two additional sites. Okay. Um we had a ton of participation at Timberlake High School in large part due to the summer school activities that were on site there. Um we did have quite a few community members also participate at that site. Apple participation was extremely low um last year. I think we averaged maybe two kids a day there. Unless I'm reading this incorrectly, it looks like there was just an increase of meals, but there was a increase of about $4,400. That's Oh, it's definitely way more meals than that. Oh, okay. It says 97 um for lunch and 72 for breakfast. So that's for the average daily. Oh, okay. Yeah. So, uh I will say just like typical our world our congregate meal service which is over at Lakeland Middle School where you come in and
010sit down and eat breakfast and lunch. We have a really good turnout in the beginning of summer. Um and then as soon as summer school's over, we maybe have 10 to 15 kids. So that really messes with the numbers. Also, we have a wrestling camp for one of those weeks and that really skews our data because we have a ton of kids for that week. Um, and then it really drops off after that and then we really notice a huge drop off after the Fourth of July holiday. Um, there's really just not a lot of participation after that point in time. Okay. Um, we're addressing a lot of that with our summer food service program this year. Um, we are ending at the same time as summer school ends. Okay. Um, this year we're also
011doing a new bulk distribution program at Alpha Elementary where they'll be able to just pick up seven days worth of meals on a Monday um, as a pre-order so that we're able to uh, meet the needs of those families in that area um, but not have the additional cost of going there every day for just a couple um, meals. Okay, we are averaging I think 45 to 50 meals a day to really high school and two at Apple but it is taking the truck from here to Apple. They're sitting there for a half an hour and then they're driving from Apple up to Timberlake. So, we're going to try and reduce the cost of that by providing that bulk distribution instead. Okay. And then just to remind the board, this is our last year of
012offering summer food service program. We are no longer eligible for a census data to offer it. Um we no longer meet the requirements to provide the program after this summer. Okay, great. Thank you. I appreciate the information. Anything else from anyone? No, but I think just that fact speaks volumes about the change in our community. Absolutely. Changes. If there's nothing further, we can move on to the facilities update. Any questions or conversations to be had on the update? Just keep it going. It's [Music] great questions. Moving on to new business, we have the ths dual credit course. Looks like NU would like to provide a political science course. Any comments, questions, or conversations to be had on this course? It is a dual credit course. It's not a course we're offering as part of our
013curriculum. This is one Lakeland's doing already though, right? Noting it through. I see. But I just I feel like even though the board doesn't get to approve the syllabus or the text because it is a college course, I do think should be approving the courses that we're allowing to be taught on campus. So that's why but NIC brings forward a political science class that's taught at Lakeland. Correct. Correct. Why are we doing that? Um NIC has uh really rigorous um standards for their instructors. One of those is the master's degree. So if you don't have a masters, NIC won't allow you to teach for them. So in in a lot of um areas, content areas and is a little bit easier to work with in that sense. Right. Okay. I'll move to approve. Second. We
014have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none, the motion carries. uh certified contracts issue date. The recommendation is to distribute contracts on June 16th with return of June 26. They're signed by July 1. So, Any further comment or conversation on this? No. [Music] I move to approve the recommendation uh for the contract states contract dates provided. Second motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none, the motion carries. Board chair. Yes. Um, as we enter into this part of the agenda, I have um several for the board to consider. These are all renewals of MLUS that we've had in the past. Um, I did have the Heritage Health MLOU on this agenda when I met with board chair Thompson to plan
015the agenda. However, the one therapist that they have that we that has been working in our in our buildings is resigning and they don't have um personnel to provide for us and so we don't have we won't be offering that because we don't have the means to do it. So I did not bring the forward removed it from the agenda. Otherwise it would typically be coming Thank you for the information. So there won't be that's just the end of that. Okay. So we have the real life. Is there any conversation that needs to be held on the real life? you. I move to approve the real life as presented. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. Any opposed? Hearing? None. The motion carries. Moving on to the city bra.
016Now, when you added asked this to be added to the agenda, it was my understanding that city council's already signed this. They signed um so after we met in that joint meeting with the Rather City Council, they took the document that we had talked about without any changes and signed it. And so when I sent the one that we edited based on the conversation we had, um Leon never took it to them to sign. and I kept reaching out and asking for the signed copy. I didn't ever get it. So, when we met um he said, "Yeah, I didn't I I didn't take it." So, it they um they are under the impression that we've had a signed all year with them. Um so, this is the edited version that this board agreed to last
017year. Leon is taking it to the city council next Wednesday for the annual review of it and approval. Um, so well, so will the annual review be for this next year? Yes. So nothing in it has changed from uh what we agreed to last year because they didn't sign this version of it. So we're starting fresh. So the two years of monitoring our meter um and all of that will start with this next school year because it was not signed. Were they uh Were we monitoring? Were the meters being monitor? The meters just went in. So there wasn't anyway. No. So respectfully, if we approved this, but then they have changes because I thought when we made the edited corrections that we wanted, the intention was to find out if they were going to accept
018them. So, should we not uh wait until we find out if the city is going to accept the changes that we expect? Um, I met with Leon and we read through the whole thing and he felt like it was exactly what they expected it to be. He didn't he doesn't anticipate any concern. So, you do whatever you want. Yeah, they already accepted this last year, right? We already voted on it. So, it's just a renewal of what we what we thought was in place. Yeah. I don't think we need to take any action on this till we get the other one back and once we have signed then we sign and then it'll all be done deal because I mean we already accepted this language and we just annually re so if you want to
019table this and then I can bring the signed version to you um at the next board meeting because they will take action on it next Wednesday. I can do that. Yeah, that that would be my recommendation. I mean we already this anyway just with the signatures. So I would move to table this action until we get the signed version. I'll second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Hearing? None. The motion carries. Moving on to the Rather Police Department. Any conversation to be had on the bathroom promoting bathroom police department? Um were there any changes from uh this the prior year and then us going into next year? Were there any It's the same. There might be um the cities are on a different budgeting cycle than
020we are. So there may be a little bit of an increase in salary cost but I will bring that to the board once I'm aware that is so I guess my question to the board is do we accept this as it is and then if there's a change bring forward or just wait till they because this is for next school year anyways right correct. Typically, we approve it so they know that we're going to pay our portion of that that position so they know they can budget for it. And then I I bring the dollar amount with an amendment to it. That's what we have done. So move to approve as presented. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none, the motion carries. Moving
021on to the Kney County Sheriff MOU. I do have Lieutenant Headland is here. Lieutenant Rightland is here. Um if the board has any questions um I met with them um talked about different ways to try to lower our cost. Um and ultimately it's not in their hands to make those decisions. It's the county commissioners and they have been clear that they're unwilling to consider anything less than the 70%. But um Captain Smart provided what's in red. There are some things that we pay for our other two um SRO's um and our arm guards that they take care of for us here. So they so I wanted to provide that for you. So, we pay for the training of SRO's from the city if it's if it's uh for the city. Oh, for the city. If
022it is um something that we we feel like they need to participate in with the school they serve. Um when we use our professional development dollars and have them part of that team, sometimes we split the cost with them. They do their own professional development also. Um but like the the DARE program is a prime example. Um, we didn't pay any of the money for that training and that I mean Brett was gone for a week for that training and the county covered the entire cost. So, there are some benefits there. They also do provide a lot of training for us that they don't charge us for from a safety perspective. Um the captain is specifically assigning deputy wheeler this summer to be the district one patrol so that if he has to interact with
023students who are making poor choices, he's got a relationship with them. So they're they are being intentional with how they're supporting our schools. Yeah. I mean it's all covered by the living anyways. It's up to the public whether they want it or not. And they say yes. I think the board in the past the the question and and you know maybe that's another discussion we have another time is um the discrepancy I mean I know there's probably discrepancy between the two or licensing between our employees and then those that we contract with the pay I guess is and being that they're all covered by the levy dollars maybe we should look at that because you know, if we have a certain amount, we're telling the community this is what it costs. I I mean, I
024don't think that they say, "Oh, we'll just give it to, you know, county sheriff, but you know, we have Raft and and Spirit Lake and everybody else involved." I think maybe at some point we could look at those dollars and see uh what we could do or if there's a need, you know, to make sure that our act the district's employees are also um rewarded for their commitment and their job. Um Jessica, I would like confirmation that with the amounts submitted on theseus and with our um ads's that we do have that the amount that we are levying that we just went out for will cover everything given the fact that there's an increase to a chair Thompson. Yes, we had built in a little bit of a buffer for um that fluctuation in that
025dollar amount on the levy. Okay. Um so anything that wasn't used for wages would be used for supplies. So we we have that buffer in there. Cool. Okay. So I can bring for trainings. Yeah. So, I can bring um at the next board meeting just a little followup on that specific levy line item um and how it compares to the amount to show that there's funding there for that. to approve you for the recommendation of the superintendent. Second. We have a motion and a second. Do we need any further discussion? No. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none, the motion carries. Moving on to the Spirit Lake Police Departmentou. This is our grant. Two more years. I will move to approve as presented. Second. We have a motion and a second. All
026in favor say I. Any opposed? hearing. None. The motion carries. Moving on to the 2526 administrative contracts. Um, I'm just curious. There's no uh listing of the administrators or salaries or anything of that sort. I just did my my documents. I will bring them back for you. Okay, that would be great. Yep. That's what we typically do anyways is two-year contract span. So if they need to know that's I mean CSDB. Yes. And it's just this is specific to our existing administrators right now. The new ones we would bring as a one year but I would bring um I'll work with the names current. Perfect. So I move that we table the 2526 administrator contracts um until further information is provided. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I.
027Any opposed? Hearing none. The motion carries. Moving on to the 4day school week. [Music] So it is the recommendation of the superintendent for us to move to 4 days school week. Should we have some conversation on this? Okay. I'd like to see I was talking to a coach at Postballs and a teacher and he said that Post Falls has a the in their board books all the benefits and they've been keeping track of testing scores and and everything and how's it how it's going. So, if we could get that, it would be nice to see how it's working out. Yeah, her their test scores this is only their second year and their their test scores last year went up dramatically. Um they outscored us. Um and then uh the scores right now are trickling in,
028but when I talked to the superintendent, she said that they're continuing to make growth. Um Dustin Frank at uh Lakeland High School um provided this information for me. Um it was it came after we posted the agenda. But um of the top 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 top 16 schools in the state of Idaho with regard to ELA and math is set scores. The top two schools MAD and Mars are on four days schedule. The third highest is High School on a 5day. McCll Donley is on a hybrid. Mountain View High School's on a 5day. Moscow's on a 4.75 day. So, every once in a while they take a Friday off. Post Falls High School is next with 4day. And then Lakeside High School
029and Lakeland High School um is like number eight or nine in there. So, good job Lakeland High School. Um these are just for the the 5A schools. um or schools that are similarly sized. Um those are both five day, but then the next one, Soda Springs, is a 4 day. Um so um I I don't know that you can say that a 4 day school day is better because you've got five day school days where schools are performing, but I don't know that you can necessarily say five days are better because we've got the top two schools are on a four-day schedule. And I think it really comes down to how Are you using your instructional time and do you have your instructional calendars um aligned to a 4-day school week? You cannot at the
030elementary level. We typically um do a lot of teaching Monday through Thursday and then Friday is kind of the assessment day. You can't do that in a 4 day week. So, um we have to be intentional about the instructional time. So, how you assess kids would just have to kind of be built into that instruction. So um but I just wanted to bring that forward likes to do research for me. Um that I did hear from to your point Dave um some of our high school math teachers and I think I put this in there for the board's consideration um have some concerns just about um not right now but in the long term do our kids start performing [Music] uh poorly or less well on math over time because their math instruction time is
031reduced by, you know, 10 10% 15%. Um, and so I, uh, I did reach out to Dena in Colorado and post falls to ask if their high school teachers were having concerns. They're only in their second year, so um, at this point they are not. Uh, and then I reached out to Jan Bear and they've been doing it since the recession when people put teachers on fur days. They just went to a 4 day week. Um, and so she just said they don't know any they've been doing it for so long they don't know any different. Their scores are again, you know, alignment with everybody else's. So I I I don't know that they're like outperforming people, but um that is a concern that our high school teachers kind of brought forward. I know we
032did the survey for the whole school district. Is there a way we can do a targeted survey for like say seventh grade to kindergarten, those parents? Because those parents are the ones that are going to need daycare and there's not a lot of daycare around here. Yeah. The 33% who participated that said no, a lot of them reached out to me and that's what they shared was they're concerned about that. Um, which is why we would recommend that we based program on Fridays from 6:30 in the morning till 6:00 at night to um provide opportunities for child care for parents. And I think that that's not just a passive concern. I think that's a pretty severe concern. Child care is major that that could create employment issues for people. And I'm curious why on the
033high school schedule, first period and sixth period are longer than the other periods. Is there reasoning behind that? Um I first period I think is when they do attendance. Uh well um and they do their little TV message so they build some extra time in so that that doesn't take away from their instruction. Oh, their tiger TV. Tiger TV and Hello Fox. Um and then Uh, I think they added a little bit of extra time at the end of the day for kids to put their Chromebooks away if they're not taking them home and just um intentional about that. Okay. Or Cunningham, director of HR on the high school instructional minutes that you see there, the ones that are presented to you tonight include a zero hour in those minutes. we are able to put
034in zero hour as long as they have an offer to all the students a class that all students um can attend. So So I understand you because our listing does include zero period but you're saying that that hour and six minutes is not included in thatund on that. Yeah, it says it's 6 hours and uh something a day. It's actually more than that. It's like an hour more a little over that. So when you're looking at the instructional calendar that's in there. Okay. Yeah. Chson, can I address the child care piece? Um we've worked pretty handinhand with our base program to make sure that we were able to accommodate as many children as possible. Um, which is why we're uh hoping to license an area in the high school for that so that we're able
035to use a big common space, use one building that will already potentially be in use on Fridays to help save some expenses in the other buildings. Um, so that we're able to serve more children than we could in the elementary setting. Um, having the two high schools are a good central location for parents that are heading different directions for work potentially. Um, we be able to utilize some of our staff that by going to a 4 day week might be losing benefits. They would be able to pick up some time in the base program um to help keep them whole um while being able to serve the children that um need care for that time. We're anticipating based on the size of the space we're hoping to use and get licensed that we would be
036able to see upwards of 60 to 75 kids at each location. It could potentially be more and just waiting um for the kind of like to get panhandle health in to observe the space and determine what our occupancy could be. Um what do we anticipate charging parents? So it's going to be a little bit more just because um we currently with based breakfast and lunch as part of the national school lunch program because this is a non-school day. We cannot offer national school lunch program on that day to ensure that children have a meal. Um we're including the cost of breakfast and lunch in there. Um, so I just need to get some of those numbers from food service to finalize what the number would look like. Obviously, if we have more children, that cost
037will go down because we we just need to essentially break even. We're not looking to profit off of this at all. We're looking to just break even on the cost of operating for those Fridays, right? But I know part of the concern is, you know, if parents need child care, that's a new expense that their budget did not account for because we've decided to go to four days a week. And I'm hoping what will happen is if they're used to paying for 5 days for base at um the elementary schools, then they'll be paying for potentially four days of base at the elementary school. We're trying to keep the cost somewhat similar if we can. It might go up a couple of dollars just to help offset the cost of the food that we're providing
038to ensure that all children are eating meals um and not relying on parents to provide those. Right. But those parents that don't need base and now have to have base because I mean that's That's a new added expense. I I don't disagree with that. That's so we're doing our level best to keep it as um cost effective as pos possible. Um we I will say our rates even for our before and after school child care rates are um very low compared to this area's average. So I I'm confident that we can continue to meet the parents the family's needs at a reasonable price. And we're anticipating a conservative cost savings of uh merely $253,000. Um I I talked to that. We we did some work at the utilities. Yes. Um, so I think I put
039twig in there, but I um basically I calculated um I asked a net for the 23 24 school year um expenses for utilities and um the full amount was a little over 800,000. Um I then uh and I only did that for the months of August through the end of May. Um because those are that's when they typically are in um the buildings. Uh so that I calculated that was 181 days and so I just divided the 870,000 by that to get an average daily cost of 4811.99 and then 31 Fridays of nonusage across those um months was that 49,000. However, Lakeland High School, Timberly High School are going to be open. And so, um, I put those numbers back in. So, the net utility savings is 122,000. So, it's not this is not a
040significant savings, but it's a place where we can make some some s have some. Well, we're not going to not have power on those days. So, so to say you're reducing it by the entire cost per the average daily cost per day. It's I didn't know how to pull out the little in I mean that yes, you're right. Um I just tried to get as close as I could. We won't know until we if we choose to do it. We won't know what the actual cost is until we do it. Right. But that's a pretty expensive way to to approach it. I got to ask a couple questions. with respect to how you calculated this. You the way you've done this, you've counted every school is exactly the same size. Is that right? I just
041Yeah. I because I and we know that the two high schools that are going to be open are what two to three times bigger than the elementary schools. But they're not that we're not running power and electricity in the whole school. It'll be it'll be the gym and um those and the commons area on those Fridays. It's just for athletics. What about program? Um we were hoping to have it in in the commons areas. So it's kind of staying that same. I I would submit that, you know, your your approach to calculation is faulty in that respect because I there's no there's no way that you can say every building is the same size and so I'm going to pull out these two saying they're the same size as the other nine when that when
042that's not true. Well, I knew doing this is going to be a rough estimate. The way that the dollars were provided to me was just this is what we paid a vista for the whole district in August. There was no way for me to pull the individual buildings out. So the only way to do that is on a square basis. But at any rate, the way you've done the calculation as well doesn't seem to account for the added hours of occupancy at the elementary schools. Correct. 30. Yeah. 30 minutes. Although the teachers are still leaving at the same time as what they are leaving now. So realistically [Music] though that's not going to happen, right? But even now we don't have teachers who leave when their contract time is over. They're still staying and working
043in the buildings. I I just have to tell you that I think your savings figure there is is off base and it's probably I'm going to say about half of what you projected if you really had a good method to calculate it. The interesting thing is that you know the calculations of savings amount to less than less than half a percent of our total budget. And it just seems to me this is an extreme method to find that kind of savings. And the whole thing is premised on dollar savings. There's no we've heard no other reason to to do this other than the dollar savings. I'd like to share with the board an article that I came across of a study that was done in the state of Oregon and it's a longitudinal study was
044done over covering a number of years and all the school districts in Oregon that school and the upart of the whole article that student achievement will go down. It doesn't even stay stagnant. And I can understand why that might be because when I looked at the actual instructional time that kids will have on a 4 day week as compared to a 5 day week, they're going to get fewer fewer hours. That's a concern of teachers. Yeah. And that's a very legitimate concern. The other part of that from from a teaching standpoint I think as a gold ex teacher is that it changes the way you structure instructional time. Uh and that's particularly problematic I think in the elementary grades. You're an old first grade teacher. What's the attention span on the first grader? Well, we're
045changing to something new every 15 or 20 minutes. Yeah. Right. Right. So now you got another 15 or 20 minute segment you got to plug into it. another and you know it doesn't work well over time. So I have serious serious concerns about the fact that we're making a move which is a monumental change to our entire system in order to try to save a few dollars. Believe me, I'm all for sailing dollars, but I am not in favor of sacrificing student achievement in the process. I mean, we've worked long and hard, as you all know, to try to improve student achievement. And there's all kinds of evidence out there that it doesn't have, you know, I appreciate the anecdotal information they provide, but it is anecdotal as compared to empirical. We're just looking for
046ways to put money into the budget for facilities, maintenance of facilities. Um, and then you curriculum and the things that we need to make sure we're paying for. Well, there might be other benefits to it also that we're not thinking of. I mean, I think there has to be a a lot of discussion with community. Um, but you know, teacher recruitment, um, retention. I know I've heard from other school districts that attendance actually improves with 4 days a so you know it is it is fundamentally a change for the community but if if the community wants to do that or wants to try that I mean you know I say let them have the voice and say and you know that's where they want to go we could you know but I think we I
047think we have to have But I think there are also more more benefits. I mean the whole everything about the world is different now especially this side of co this side of technology this side um in a lot of districts have done it. Um even with all the things of of you know maybe the added cost or you know what do we do for child care or what do you know but um improving attendance because that's one thing we battle continuously if we could improve attendance which means that they would actually be at school for the you know for single near the same amount of hours or whatever. I mean there's always going to be a tradeoff. I think we should always be looking to see what else we can do to improve the education
048experience. Um and then I did have a question uh I'm I'm all for, you know, moving forward and engaging the community more with it. I don't have a problem with with 4 days. Um there there's a lot of private schools that only go 4 days. I mean, it's almost the norm and that, you know, of course, there's smaller schools in some instances that have always operated 4 days a week. Um the meal programs with the uh base program, if the parent decided to opt out of the meal program, would that reduce their So, if they want to pack their kiddos lunch, would that be savings to them or I I'm not sure how you're, you know, how you were planning on doing that or what you guys talked about. At this point, I don't think
049it would be an opt out. Our biggest concern is that we need kids to be able to be fed. Um, and even in our base programs right now, kids are supposed to bring their own snacks and that's just not happening. So, they're very hungry, right? And we're using our budget to help supplement that as much as we can, but it's not something that we factored into the cost of ACE is to provide snacks on a daily basis. So, um that's why we're kind of leaning in that direction. Obviously, if it doesn't go well, um or we don't have a if we have a lot of push back, that's something we need to pull out. Our biggest concern is that if we do have kids, we want to make sure they're fed. Yeah, absolutely. So, that's
050a big thing. Um I do want to just want to add one more thing to the child care piece. I know with postfall school district when they went to the four day school week um they offered childcare on Friday they've seen a reduction in the number of families using it because as they continue with this um other daycarees are opening up more slots on Fridays you have a lot more inh home care that's available on Fridays so they're they're not maybe seeing as much utilization of it as they did initially um because families they adapt um communities adapt and they see a need and they meet it. Um, so I do think it is something that we definitely need to address, but I do anticipate that that might be something that declines over time. Yeah.
051The other question I have, you said um, about finding hours for employees that would be affected. What departments would that affect if there, you know, Yeah. hours would be cut? Some of our paris will lose I think about two hours a week. Um, so that's something our transportation department, our bus drivers because they're not riding on that Friday, we'll lose some hours. So, we're looking to help supplement those positions to make sure we can try and keep them whole um if we have the the need for that extra staff in the base program. Um obviously, there's more stringent guidelines for child care. You don't get to just pass the district background check. You get to pass the health and welfare background check and you get to get CPR certified and all that fun stuff. So,
052there's a little extra hoops that they have to jump through. Um, but that's our way to hopefully help keep some of those people whole um so that it it's not such a big impact for them. But transportation and our classified staff that um won't that don't work a full 8 hour day are the ones that I'm I think are our biggest concern. Or maybe we could find other areas. Not everybody wants to work in daycare. Um and I hate to lose people that we can't keep as it is or get to apply. Uh maybe we could utilize them. Maybe there would be a choice. You know, maybe we have some maintenance things they could help with. Maybe they could help with paperwork for these SLPs. Maybe, you know, if we gave a variety instead of
053just saying, "Well, you got to go babysit. Forget it." You know, um because not everybody's cut out for that, you know, there's just a lot of professors are retired. Yep. Yeah. So, I will say host did a lot of work to keep people. They came up with a lot of things to keep people whole. Um, and then after the first little bit, people were not interested in staying whole anymore because they didn't enjoy the other work that they were doing. Um, not to say that that would happen here. Um, my bigger concern is that's a lot of additional calendars potentially. That's a lot of additional work for a very smart HR, very small HR team to to track all of that. Not that we're not up for the challenge because we definitely are. But um
054it's just I want to be mindful. And Brook's over here shaking her head at me because she knows we we know we know the workload of of these additional because it would be an additional contract for people because it's a different um it's a different job. So they would have a a different time sheet, that kind of stuff. But yes, we're doing our level best to try and make sure that for the people that would like those additional hours, that two hours a week, that we're able to provide that in some way, shape, or form. I'm sure initially, yeah, if we went that way, I'm sure initially it would be cumbersome until we work those things out. But maybe in the long run, what would happen is the contract would be changed so that the
055contract is full encompassing. I mean, if they're already a parent, I'm sure they can help with the paper, the lingo. they're still going to be familiar at least with the word. They can help do something. And then the other thing um we uh West Bonner also has been doing this I think for couple of years now I believe. Yep. West Bonner and then Kellogg started it this year. Their test scores are up. Their attendance is up. So we are everybody around us who is doing it. What is our goal for attendance? Uh, anything higher than we're at now. I'd like to get us to 94.95. We're at 924.6 right now. We're actually at um 92.3 with my last calculation. Last report. Um, so that's we're I'm looking at the whole average, which is what the
056state looks at when they reimburse us. That is a snapshot in time average. So that is a one day snapshot. That was a great day. Um, but the district as a whole right now, we're looking at 92.3% attendance. I would love to get it up to 94 95%. Um, like we've discussed previously, for every day that we have the 93% or 92% average, we're losing $15,000 in salary based aortionment from the state money that the state has budgeted to give the school district through to salary based aortionment that we're losing by not having kids in school. So, if we can even increase that a couple percentage, that gives more money into the budget to help. It's already allocated. It's allocated to us. We just don't get it because we do not have kids attending, right?
057And then the other thing that we forget to factor in is when the attendance is that low, the cost of the teachers and the others that are following the kids trying to figure out what do they need, how can we get you here, you know, what? So, I mean, that itself is an added cost, stress on them. And there's a there's a lot of things other than than what about the kids that don't want to be home on Fridays because they live get a job. No, they live in a bad, right? They live in a bad home. Yeah. And they want to go to school on Fridays. I something to think about. I would love to say that I have that perspective, but I do not get to work in the schools. I get to
058work with numbers. So, um I would lean on Lisa for that answer. Has there been some consideration though, sorry to interrupt, um because I know that the the middle schools have started credit recovery programs for their kiddos um but to extending that to being more of a Friday option so that maybe we're focusing more on academics as opposed to just credit recovery so that the students that are struggling have the opportunity to actually have one-on-one time without the stress of, you know daily school involvement. I mean, have we considered anything along those lines? Um, well, in in the perfect world, and the way I'm thinking about this, if if we have the the the base program running or whatever, we're it's going to be staffed by people. So, if we had kids who needed to
059have help, um there would be people who would be available for that. um the high school. I mean, ideally, maybe we can come up with a program for that. The the tricky thing is we don't get any um I hear what you're saying and I think that I know what you're looking for is a program that if kids do need extra help, they could come in on Friday. That would be potentially an additional cost to the district just to have staffing for it that we wouldn't get reimbured from the state. The state only reimbures attendance if everybody's required to attend. So, um, if we have kids coming in kind of that one off, that would just be an additional kind of study support that would be outside of the academic calendar. You eat up that
060savings and earn. One of the things that um to to Trusty Gryom's point she made earlier um that I that I think is important to at least keep in mind is our kids today are different and they're so active. Um, and I think that, uh, if especially at the high school level, but even middle school, we have a lot of kids who are missing school on Fridays because they're traveling with a a sports team, um, a basketball team or volleyball team, and they're going out of state over the weekend for a tournament and they're missing Friday. Sometimes they miss Friday and Monday. Um, but we have a lot more of that than we've ever had. And I don't know if that's a a postco thing or just the way the community is kind of um
061changing but I for a lot of parents when we when we did the survey the parents who provided the positive input um that was their biggest motivation was this is one less day of school my child is missing because these events are important to us too. So there is that side of it. So you're talking mainly secondary students. We have some elementary kids who are participating. Basketball tournament. The club sports start at the elementary level. So well just even outside extracurriculars outside of the school there. I there's a lot going on in the now. Yeah. It's it's big just there's horse activities, farm activities, all kinds of Yeah, it's grown a lot. But I mean, I'm open to whatever the community wants. It's their their children, their schools, you know, I um I I don't
062see a problem one way or the other. I think eventually, you know, everything's hard when there's change, but eventually it works out. And um see what they say. That would be money. Can I ask you a question about the calendars? Yep. The regular calendar such as the one we're on now, we have 198 teacher contract. 190 days. Yeah. And we're 173 instructional days on the 4 day week thing. If I understood you suggested reporting that would be 143 days of instructional time. So that's the offset but the teacher contract is at 169 days. We're taking advantage one um well the teacher contract counts holidays. Um obviously the student day student days don't count those days but then in addition to that there's one Friday a month which I accounted for in the in but do
063I am I understand correctly that the teacher contract is going to go from 190 to 169 but they're going to get the same pay that's part of that retention. That's an interesting concept. I do know that um what happens with those even though students aren't at school a lot of times those Fridays turn into professional development days like not every Friday um but I know that is what a lot of that so the teachers are still and staff is still showing up on a Friday couple Fridays a month or whatever for that's still yeah yeah so that's well then you're not saving on electricity and utilities on those days right and I counted those in that Um, we have one Friday a month where the staff will come in and it gives us opportunity. That's
064part of 169. Gives us opportunity to do districtwide collaboration which we can't do anymore because we can't get enough teachers to make that happen. Um, and it gives us uh built-in professional development days. So would the district roll to having all communication with staff, administrators, teachers, whatnot to be held on Fridays instead of distracting from the school day? Yep. Okay. And we talked about administrators meeting on Fridays, but this teachers aren't here in this building for our admin meetings instead of doing it during the school day. How do we how do we explain to the public that we're going from 190 contract days to 169, but we're going to pay the teachers the same amount of money for one days? How do we explain that? What is the amount of hours that are encompassed in
065the 169 days as opposed to the 190 days? What are what are we advantaging the teacher that we're now paying for? Because we're not doing 190 days, we're doing 169. Well, I would um I think the advantage for the teachers is uh there are days when those Fridays we know teachers are going to be using that time whether they're doing it at home or at school. There's they still have work they're doing. Um, right now they're doing their work, you know, on Saturdays and Sundays, which we don't typically talk about, but teachers do lesson plans on the weekends and grade papers on the weekends. Um, they that work still will happen, but it might happen on Friday instead of on Saturday or Sunday when they're families are available. So, the advantage to the teacher is
066there's some flexibility for when they do that work that already takes them away from family time. And it might be less days, but the hours increase because you're making up for. So that's why I'm saying it's just a different way of education. It's just that a a new thing. Not that we have to do it, but I mean in anything you look at I mean we could look at the way we're doing school now and look at the test scores and say well that's not working. I mean, or we can look at other schools that are doing it and say, "Well, there's, you know, there's uh went really well and now this report here says, you know, well, all of Oregon test scores went down uh 033 um in their achievement." So I think the
067more I think actually because yes there may be some cost savings but I don't think that that's necessarily in in from what I'm seeing in reading and hearing. It's not just cost savings. It's it's a whole myriad of things. It's just a different way of educating, trying to get students here more, trying to um like you're saying, everybody's so busy now instead of being five days, you know, trying to, you know, by the time Friday comes, whose brain is working anyways? You know, I I mean, it's true. We're burned out and the kids are the kids are tiny, they're burned out, too. They've been doing the same schedule as the adults. So, I don't I don't necessarily, you know, one is worse than the other, whatever. It's just a new way of doing things and
068whether you want to see if it fits our community or not. You know, maybe it doesn't. You know, uh we don't we don't know until we talk to them and they talk to their friends, maybe visit the two school districts nearest us and, you know, see what those parents have to say. You know, does it work for them? How does it work for households? because they're just as rural further north, right? If not more. How does it work for them when there's, you know, they have elementary, secondary, and high schoolers or what, you know, how is the family dynamic? Um, I mean, I think we could do pros and cons all day. I I think it's just a way of looking at doing things differently. Maybe a a fresh set of eyes. I don't know.
069I don't know. Well, I think in trying to um balance what you the point you brought up about the less contract days. We've got 169 contract days, but for elementary we're asking them to provide 912 hours of um instruction, which is more than what they were providing on 190 days. And then for middle school, we're asking them to provide um 937 total hours of instruction, which is more than what we were providing on the 190 days. And then with high school, it's 1,3 total instructional hours, but before it was 990, I believe, because I know it's more than what the statute requires. Um, we've always done more than the statute requires, but to me, even though it's less, it's they're actually, I think, going to be working more because of the amount of instructional time
070that we're going to now. The numbers you quoted are off of those sample reports. Well, it's off of Yeah. what they provided us. The instructional I I don't know how you computed that, honestly. I went back and took a look at the existing, for example, elementary schedule and what your suggested 4 day week schedule looks like. And I found that the instructional time went from 20 for a week went from 25 hours and 50 minutes down to 23 hours and 20 minutes. So the actual instructional time is going down. If you take if you take a look at the schedule, the start time in the morning and the end time in the afternoon and calculate the number of hours in that segment and then take out the recess time and the lunch time that leaves
071you with the instructional hours, right? Yes. So that's the method I used and doing those calculations. Middle school went from 28 hours and 5 minutes down to 27 hours a [Music] week. And the high schools go from $28 and 45 minutes down to 27 hours a week. So there's no place where there's an increase that I can see. And that's that that really is the crux of my concern because we all know that contact time with teachers and students is what's important. And if you start diminishing that, you're going to pay a price for it. One of the things we didn't do in this is built in snow day time because the the plan would be if we had a snow day on Tuesday, we're going to school on Friday, right? So in In that
072respect, we're actually fully capturing a mist day where before it was, you know, we if we went over our minutes, then we added five minutes to the day. Does that make it easier for you to call snow day? No, I hate snow days. Yes, it does, Bob. I hate snow days, but um but in this scenario, we actually fully make up for the missed day by going on Friday. Um the other thing that the districts around us are seeing is a decrease in staff absenteeism. So to your point, when we have kids in school more regularly because of the structure of the week and we have teachers in school more regularly, you actually are having more teacher student time rather than teacher guest teacher students missing school. So that's the other side of it. I'm
073open obviously to whatever the board wants to do, but and I brought it back because um we surveyed the parents and it definitely got people talking and there were a lot of people who were excited about it and then we kind of said we're going to wait until we're done with the levy. Um but they've been reaching out and asking when is it coming back. So I do think it's we for whatever whatever the board decides to do, I do think it's important that we make a decision so that parents aren they're in limbo waiting for something to happen. So, you're proposing that this be done this coming school year. Um, unless Yes, I I am just we feel like we have all the pieces in place. Um, and 67% parents are saying please do
074this. I'm also open to if we want to take a year and do some town hall meetings and really get get parents um involved, maybe get uh child care um groups involved so that we have a a good understanding of what's available to families. I'm open to whatever you want to do. I just I'm sorry. Go ahead. I just I just want to take a step forward in whatever way we're going so parents have an idea of what we're doing. Yeah. Um how did Post Falls implemented? How did they approach the community when they decided to do this? They it was through surveys. Um I might have done one or two town halls with her with the parents but and theirs was solely for teacher retention. they were looking at ways to stop losing people
075to Washington. Um, so she did a couple of town hall meetings and then a lot of just surveying parents, hearing what the questions were, answering the questions, and then going back. I thought they piloted the 4day first um and then made a decision if they were going to roll into it. So like they had like the they took one year to see what are the effects and cause and effects. Yeah. But that pri they took the whole school year before that to to survey do some town halls. Um Dana got a lot of information from the community and then she they implemented it. Um so the first when they the year before they started it their community was almost exactly what same at about 67% in favor. Um at the end of the first year
076that number for parents went up into the 80s and this year when she surveyed the parents is in the 90s as far as how happy what whether they want to stay or not. So she won't continue to survey moving forward because people are have fig to Jessica's point people have figured it out. We also um do have families where moms are moms stay home um to take care of the kiddos and um the response from those families when we did the survey was I really would like another day at home with my kiddos. So there there's that part too. What is doing? Are they still on five days or do they move? They're at four and a half. We've got some weird schedule. Okay. Sampling at four and a half days. like quarterling with their
077Ipologies on those Fridays, but they are in session. So, um it's not working out the way they would hope it would. Um because why come for part of a day? I I've heard that from other they get in such a routine that their Fridays free that when they have to be there some space. I believe Post Falls had a similar experience. because they were making up some of the holidays on Fridays and kids were just not coming on those Fridays too because they're used to not coming on Fridays. So, they changed their schedule this year for the next school year to not to not do that. They're making it up in other ways. Well, and that would be my concern with like snow days, moving a snow day to make up make it up on
078Friday when people are finding I'm not having any obligations on Friday and then all of a sudden, oh, then they find out on Tuesday, oh, you're not going to be off on We did a question first into the calendar. We just heard that we didn't. Oh, I thought I apologize. We didn't because we talked about it. We did not. So, what would we do if we needed to add dates? We have to add at the end of the year or add Fridays in this calendar one week later than what we currently do. So I know this is under actions but there's no we're just basically having a discussion or there items. So was there a recommendation to on that first page? Okay. She's recommending we move to a 4 day school week. Okay. Um would
079kindergarteners still be released earlier than I mean would we still keep that format? Our kindergarters currently are on the same schedule as everybody else. We change that. Um, since we went to full day, they've always been. Okay. Um, and Jessica, would it be difficult to add um to Bob's point? I understand that that uh the attendance that you give us with the yellow highlight and whatnot is for one day. But it is challenging when we've got that evidence and we're saying this is what we have but then you're coming back saying no it's actually less than that. Maybe can something be added so that we can show the daily snapshot but this is the where we stand um on a for the entire in anticipation for this request we've been tracking so daily. So, I
080just I I'll factor it in and we'll we'll find a way to add it to that report. Okay. Um I do want to point out on the instructional hours calendar template that's with this 40 week packet. If you scroll all the way to the bottom and look at line 90, you will see how many instructional hours were over the state requirement and you will see that there's at the lowest it's 24 hours. So, we definitely have time built in for snow days in here because at even at our lowest rate of 24 hours, we could take a snow day and not have to impact the instructional minutes and make it up, right? I just would would as as few days as the kids are going to be at school, I would hate to lose instruction.
081Absolutely. But so that would take it down to the minimum number of hours required by the state if we took uh three snow days. Three. Yes. Three snow days, which it would be the middle school. Yeah. Is that our objective just to be at minimum standard? No, absolutely not. But I'm just we do have a little cushion in there above what the state requires for instructional time. Obviously, we want as much instructional time as possible. I just was wanting to point that out. But there is we are over the state required instructional time. If minimum gets our test scores up, I'm all for that. That's that's fine with me. Although I do think that we need to go back to the community because when we surveyed them, we were at a different mindset and the
082question was um I think I need to hear more from them before I before I make a decision. I I I I put it under action because I wasn't quite sure how how the board was even feeling about this. Um so I'm happy to do we can all of the next school year because we won't have a levy so I can do other town halls. Um but I do think it's important to hear from people. Yeah. Um and I I do too. I really do. But we all know that when you survey people, how you structure the questions makes all the difference in the response you get. I just asked one question. I know. Are you in favor of this or not? Yeah. With no caveats. And that is problematic because as you hear from
083the discussion, all kinds of other ancillary issues that come into play. Kind like asking somebody, "Do you like candy?" "Oh yeah." "You like it well enough to feed it to your kids three days a week?" Maybe not so much. It was it was actually quite lengthy question. There was a lot in there. Um, we were very all caps, no furlow dates, no reduction in salary and benefit. I mean, but I do think this side of the levy because it's just some of the wording that we just send it out again. Um, and maybe I mean what is there a way we can add like a question for the seventh through kindergarten? those parents like separate. Yeah, I can I can ask to different I just want to see what their people that have to pay
084for daycare or whatever, you know, low income families, single parents, you know, stuff. What about kiddos with special needs that we have to provide services for? It be done in four days. Kelsey Badger, federal programs director. Um so we would model similar to what um postfalls and um other surrounding districts are doing. The minutes are bi-weekly um and SLP minutes are by monthly and our therapists are monthly. And so those services wouldn't change. We would just adapt to increase the time that they're in the classrooms with us. Um, I understand that you want to send this out and I understand that it would cost to do papers, but you only had 1,845 responses to the parents question. Um, I don't think that's a fair representation of the number of families we have in this district.
085So, we need to figure out a way to try and get as close to a whole response than just those that received their email or received the text message or whatnot. I would agree with that. And I would also like for us to all agree on questions that are going to be asked before it goes out because Okay, that's conversation. Paul uh when he brought that up about structuring the question I agree 100%. So maybe has ideas we can springboard off each other and um I think the quicker we get it done the better. I mean obviously we're seriously looking at it but like everybody else whatever the community says and you know because I don't see a pro or a con either way. I think maybe a little bit better results with kids in
086education before they I do see that you know we had a good turnout response from staff at 549 but it would also be best to make sure that you know it's pretty close to a equal amount So, how long do we So, how long do we want to table this out to the next meeting? We have our questions by then or when is our next meeting? I would say that we're working on on those questions on our on our next meeting which we push it. Yeah. just going to push everything out further further further. Well, and I don't if if we're not feeling like we have enough information. I don't this is not something I feel like we should be rushing necessarily. Um my recommendation was just based on the input that we have received,
087right? But um I mean if we're seriously going to look at it and and make sure that we're getting everybody's input, it's going to take us a little bit of time. And so maybe this is a yearong. Maybe we follow kind of what post falls did and it's a year-long process and then we are in a place next spring where we're giving parents a lot of time to to know what we're doing and and um maybe like a quarterly workshop because it is a big change and people are going to you know have to think about things or whatever and I think we might be able to I mean because the questions for the survey is more administrative work and then bring it to the meeting. So, here's our questions. Long as it comes back
088to the meeting. Yeah. Because if we do it that way, I'm just thinking about ways um because I send everything to every single parent and we just don't need every parent to participate in those things. So I was if we had if we were ready with our questions on the back to school days to at least start the conversation we at the elementary levels we get almost 100% of our families coming to those back to school nights. Um and if we had a paper copy it would be a good way to kind of get started. Our high schools and our middle schools have back to school nights but typically at the high school level it's mostly kids who are coming and not the parents. So, we'll have to figure that part out. But, um, that
089might be a good way to to start. It gives us the summer to kind of plan what questions we want to ask. So, we're really thoughtful and intentional. I'm more comfortable with that than making a definitive decision. Well, I just I don't have the information anyways to do that from the people, you know. Well, I move that we deny the 4 day school week for this year and work on a plan for um getting better community feedback over this coming year. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none, the motion carries. So then in anticipation that that we might be there um we have provided the 5day school calendar for your consideration for next year. Looks really good. It's got my It's pretty much exactly
090what we had this year. Does this take into consideration the Oh, I guess that doesn't have to be on the calendar. The shortened days for the high school. The Yeah. Um, did we put that in there? Oh, are we talking about the finals days? Uh, probably not. No, it's not. So, so good catch trusty, but those would need to go in there. So, what are the are there any changes from what we currently have to this year? Is it pretty much It's pretty much the same with the exception of and that's what we did was we just kind of rolled it over last year's, but um the board at the last two meetings ago approved the high school's request to change their final schedule. So, we would want to reflect that in this calendar. So
091that would be a change that we would make in January and in June for finals. So I would move to approve the 2526 school calendar as presented with the exception of the making sure that those high school finals schedules are included with a motion and second. All say I opposed hearing none. Moving on to the LHS boys basketball travel. I just like to thank the LHS boys basketball coach Caleb DeFi today um for planning this and bringing it to us before it's a last minute crisis. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. What is what is Nike? It's a basketball. And so they um yeah, it's going to take them a lot of time to raise funds to do it. So which is why they brought it to you now that they know it's approved and
092they working to approve. Second. We have a motion and a second. All say I. Any opposed? Hearing none. Good luck. Yes. Moving on to the discussion items. We have subject to [Music] learners. This is just an annual report for our policy. We have 10se% I will say personally my daughter is one of the selfdirect impacted [Laughter] heres that Any further discussion on [Music] self-recapt testing? those schools have one of the schools which only tested instead of 50 and that was because they ran testing and they didn't they All right. Any conversations on the uh drug testing? I have for discussion at the June 4th board meeting that conflicts with um graduation LHS graduation. So we need to decide if well of course we can A lot of people don't appreciate that. This is true. We
093could just hold a little church right after the graduation cere. All right. So we have the option of moving the June 4th meeting to June 5th because this is our special meeting. This is the second meeting involved within the month. We have the option of uh bumping it to June 11th or we have the option of just foregoing the June meeting. So well we could piggy back on that because we've done that before but If we I mean I'd say we forego it but if there's anything that needs needs immediate attention we can we can hear that okay did you say that the uh hearing budget hearing It wasn't on my calendar either and I saw it here and I'm like, "Oh, okay." Um, all right. So, we're all in agreement to to just sort
094of back the budget hearing if necessary. Well, we would at least hold an executive session. Yeah. Okay. On that note, um are there any other possible action items? No, there are not. Um future input input for future agenda items. All right. Who set? Did we set that time for We did. that we did that last year and it's hard for the board to most of us after that. I think it was time last year too. and my editing and thinking of that. I know it's already set, but it's just odd. We're doing that in the middle of scheduled work so taxpayers are paying for them to negotiate their contract. I mean, I don't know. I'd have to look at that and see. Anyways, rabbit trail thought. Go ahead. All [Music] right, Bob. If they're doing
095it in the middle of the workday, technically 2:30, they're out, I think. Oh, are they? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Elementary is not out yet. Elementary teachers are not out yet. No, but Well, I don't know who's on the team, but high school. Okay, that was all that's all I had. Okay. So, is there any future agenda items that are necessary? Okay. On that note, we will go ahead and end the regular session. It is 7:34. I do need a motion to enter into executive session pursuant to Idaho Code 742061B. Move. Second. We have a motion and a second. We need a roll call vote. Trusty Jones. Yes. Trusty Bane. Yes. Chair Thompson. Yes. Trusty Quinnby. Yes. Vice Chair Christ. Yes. and we will take a 5m minute recess at 7:34. Um we have come
096out of executive session. It's 9:54. Um we do need to uh have one actionable item. Um, I would like to uh I move that we accept the superintendent's recommendation for the principal of uh the Lakeland Middle School principal be it Laura Spurway. I'll second that. We have a motion and a second. Do we need to do a roll? All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none, the motion carries. And on that we are out. Uh the meeting is adjourned. It's 9:55.