001Another really formed by Christina. That is so players playing. I remember hanging out. storm cloud right above you in Ridiculous. Oh my god. They don't already win. And then the next one They have I'm not I had one of them depending on where they were. There's only one [Music] stand and join us for the pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic. for which it stands. One nation gets out of the way. There's no good news or so James recognize recognition to the school board for school board appreciation month. Yes. So this is the the month of appreciation for the school board. So I just wanted to say thanks for everything you guys do. I as a volunteer position that I don't think a lot of people actually realize
002it's a volunteer position until they start digging into it. So I just want to thank you for all the hours you put in. And this board has always been about advocating for kids and for staff. And so just wanted to thank all of you. Thanks. Quieting crowd. All right. So moving on to reports. We have a reminder for reminder negotiation meeting on 29 May at 5:00 pm at the M home uh junior high library. So, here we got reminder for the annual student meals fees increase hearing. That'll be June 17th at 5:45. We have a reminder for our annual uh budget hearing. That'll be on the same day at 6, June 17th. Moving on to the superintendent report. Uh good evening, Mr. Chairman, members of the board. I wanted to share with you some end
003of the year ice station data. Um, and so what we've got here is just a graph that shows our district progress as a whole. And this is is for uh K through 4. And so we had set a goal of a 10% improvement. And I'm pleased to say that our folks knocked it out of the park here. we hit 11% as a as a district. And then this is the breakdown by grade of growth. So blue is where we started, red is where we ended. And so I just wanted to point that out. This was very positive this year. And you know, we we break this down further. We can look at, you know, by school, by teacher. It really helps um our staff and our principles as we look at, you know, where we're
004doing well and then areas where we can certainly improve upon. But I just wanted to thank our staff and our our administrators for working hard and hitting that goal this year. So, thank you. It's great. Awesome. Okay. And then uh just a couple reminders and this is from state track. You probably don't want to see that. So the these are actually the pictures that uh our former student took. So he was on there. But where's we do have a state champ. We did get a state champion that um the other thing I just wanted to remind we've got Bennett graduation Thursday. uh Mountain Home High School graduation on Friday. Uh last day of school tomorrow. Um it's been a pretty crazy week for everybody. I surprised some of the folks there are alive and awake
005right now with the way it's been, but that's okay. Uh and then we've got a lot going on in the summer though still. We've got schools taking uh staff members to uh PLC training this summer. I believe we have staff from every building who's going to attend and really that's the focus next year as we continue uh looking at our academic goals and and our literacy goals and so uh school may be out but the the staff will be busy in the summer. So just wanted to point that out and then uh happy to answer any questions that you might have. Um so I've got a couple questions. Um, I know recently there's been a couple of articles written with information pertaining to schools about our literacy levels, our class sizes, and about our um,
006PSMI grant being on hold. Okay. Um, as far as we knew the PSMI grant was moving forward. Yeah. So, a couple things with that PSMI grant, the only hangup right now is uh, the funding portion from Congressman Simpson's office. The grant itself right now we're still we're in design phase right now. We've been awarded that grant. We actually are able to now submit and get reimbursement. The architect is still working to finalize those plans. And so we'll continue once once that is ready before we even move into the construction phase of the grant. Your your design phase has to be I believe it's 80% complete. So, we're on pace to continue with that. Uh, Congressman Simpson's office, hopefully we'll hear on that uh sometime in August. You know, from what we've been told by the
007staff member there is we're at the top of the priority list. It'll be approved. It's really going to come down to um what Congress does with funding. uh if it's not at another continuing resolution, it's highly likely all of those other funding mechanisms will become part of the the full budget that's there. So, we're proceeding as as normal. Uh Dominique's helping with the the hangup right now. Part of this is the lease hangup. Um trying to get the the site appraised. We've I I've emailed the core of engineers. Haven't heard anything back. Dominique's going to help apply some pressure there. So hopefully we we hear back from them. But we have to have that piece of property appraised before the the they'll approve the lease for that site. So appraisal and then the other big
008thing will be the environmental assessment that needs to be done on that piece of property. So um we're we're just moving forward. You know, it's it's not really on hold. It's we're still in the design phase of it. So, we're playing along with it. And then one other thing I did want to address, there was a there was a mention of our uh student toteer ratio being 25 to1. Um I can tell you our we this is something that's reported every year. They and it's it's not not data that can be manipulated. It's data that comes out of our our student management system and our our actual ratio last year was 7.7.2 to1 and that was what they used for funding for 20 2024. And so they'll again they'll break that down. Um, if you
009go to trans the transparent Idaho page, they have us at 18 to1, which pulls data, the same data that we're looking at. So, I I'm not sure where that number came from. That number is very similar to what you will see in districts our size and larger and some of the districts smaller. Um, you know, there's districts that certainly have lower numbers on that student teacher ratio, but there are also districts with much higher ratios there as well. to the board of trustes. Anybody have anything to do in take for approval of the agenda or simply all in favor? I consent consent agenda. Take a motion to approve that unless you want something out. Second. All in favor? I have no delegates. There's no business. New business approval of the proposal. So Scott for Junior
010High dry fire system. Good evening. Um, I did not give you very much information in that the dry fire system is unique in that it normally stays pressurized with air. The piping is starting to fail, which allows the potential of water to come in. We've had a few water failures, but uh replacing that system allows us in the future to not have a catastrophic issue with water when we don't need water. And that's where I'm seeking your approval to move with replacing the the dry fire pipe system. Any any details you want to know that I Is it the whole system? Scott, you replace the whole system or just pieces? Just just the dry pipe portion of the system. So it will all be just the dry piping. Just the dry piping. Yes. So from
011the fire riser room all the way to the the end of that system. So um which dry system is what keeps causing issues. Correct. There's been a number of issues with so the pipe the piping is had water just from pump failures etc. just humidity and that piping is rusting out. Um if the system's not able to maintain I want to say 20 PSI we try to maintain 40 PSI when it gets down it actuates a valve and then the water becomes live in that system. Then we manually have to drain the system. So you remember that's at the new school. The 30-year-old pipe is starting to fill. We'll make a motion to approve the bid proposal for the M junior high dry fire system. Okay. Replacement. Motion. Second. All in favor? I thank you.
012Okay. Discussion ruling on what policies the board would like in place. Mr. Chairman, members report, as you know, we've been working with ISBA to adopt their policies. Um, and it's been a slow and painful process. So, Sharon and I met with April Hoy, who's in charge of that process, and we just told her like the sheer volume of policies is too much. And so really what we want to do is get some direction from the board on what you'd like to see for us to start focusing on with ISBA. And one of the comments I made to April was um when there's a federal law or a state law, it seems very redundant to have a policy that mirrors those things unless it's required in state code. And what you'll find with a lot of
013the policies is that's exactly what happens. And so we just wanted to get some guidance from from you on what you would like to see us have ISBA start whittling down. And then what they're planning on doing is reaching out to the board uh sometime in June to see if if that's more of what you're looking for. And hopefully that helps with that process. Me personally, if we have state law and federal law that says this is what we got to do, cutting a policy is I mean puts more work on everybody else to come up with the policy that we already have in place. The only thing I could see where we would need something would be where you have a disagreement between the state and the feds as to where the state says
014we got to do one thing and the feds say something else. Sure. Or we may want some clarity on that. But you guys, yeah, anything that's state or federal policy or state or federal, it's law. We want to have a policy. You know, like I said, if it's if there's something that's missing in one and added to the other, I don't know that, you know, we'd have to have some way to to solve that. whether ISB's got a separate policy that covers both of them. If there's something different between one or the other, then I then I'd like to see that particular policy before we approve it. See which you know I mean sure we want to follow what the state is unless it's unless it's tied to some kind of funding. It's tied to
015funding from the feds then we have to go to the bed policy. Yeah. I think a good example is like your family medical will be backed. I think that's federal law. Yeah. So why are we creating a policy when there's already federal law reinventing the wheel and making a lot of extra work? Okay. So if we do away with those some of those policies that we already have, will we in the policy section on our website, can we put a link to where that's at for people to find? Yeah. Like in code or in in federal regulation? Yeah, they'll be on the bottom policies. Well, if we do away with that policy, let's say we do the family medical leave policy because it's already in federal law on our website where we have all our
016policies. Just put a hyperlink to where they can get that from federal law as a replacement. You know, part of it is to try to limit the policies so that you have policies that you use. You know, you look at ours right now and there's a lot of them in there. and go, why is that there? So, and and it's just, you know, the course of decades and decades policy and then, you know, it's not necessarily that a policy gets deleted unless something comes in and replaces it. And so, that was part of looking at what ISBA's policies are. you know, they're they're going to be the most up to-date on on what's occurring, but there's also a lot that they build that are not mandated by anything. And you know, I think that there's
017some that need to be there, but I also think there's some you like when you get the list, you go, come on. To have some of that is just unnecessary, it seems. So, um I know it's it it's been frustrating for Sharon just with how many policies they've given her to to have come to be approved. And so this I think will be help Sharon with that process too to be able to say you know let's focus on these 20 policies for next year during the first half of the year or something like that. Plus a lot of policies just seem to be policy policy for it. And again, like like James said, if it's already in Idaho code, why are you repeating the policy unless says you have to have policy? But it's just
018yeah, I read some of those. I'm like, that's already in code, you know, type of stuff. Well, and I I really would like to commend you too, Sharon, because you took it on. I mean, back back in the day, what we had for policy and before you actually tackled that. I I would say that there was a lot of need there to straighten some of that out. I think the last update was like 1974. That's what I'm talking about. So, I commend you. Thank you. No, thank you. A motion on that. I don't think so. Um, they want a second. Um, no. a discussion. So, and then moving right along, uh the next item is it's policy related as well. Um we are not required to have three readings policy and so we would ask
019that you approve uh reducing that from three ratings to two and that would require a motion. Yeah. Any questions? All in favor? We agree. Go for it. [Music] Motion second. Yeah. All in favor? I policy revision. First reading. Uh personal leave policy. Mr. Chairman, members of the board, we have a couple of changes in the personal leave policy and it's uh two things to change the term from professional to personal which is what it is and then to define our uh employee management system as skyward cumulative program. So it ask for your approval of those changes. It does not change the meaning of the policy. It just corrects some of the words in there. So can we make the instead of using whatever the specific program is, can we make it more generic to just
020a personal management program for a while? We could I any any reason to go away from cumulative in the next uh couple years? No. Okay. Okay. Accounting software, HR, all that. So I don't see us changing changing that anytime soon you want to change again. No, I take a motion to approve the policy revision uh personal leave policy for certified person certified employees and first reading. I move second. All in favor? I moving on. Resolution 256, emergency closure of Mountain Home High School due to power outage. Mr. Chairman, members of the board, uh, this is a resolution we can submit to the state since we had to cancel school due to a power outage that has been addressed and will be further addressed. So, uh, it says, "Emergency closure of Mountain Home High School power
021outage be it so resolved with the board of trustees of Mountain Home School District number 193 take the needs of the safety and well-being of the district students in the highest regard and did declare an emergency closure of Mountain Home High School on May 9th, 2025 due to a power outage authorized this 20th day of May 2025. So with your approval, we can then go ahead and submit that date to the state as an emergency closer. Closure. Okay. Any questions? Make a motion to approve the emergency closure. Second. All in favor? Okay. Approve the home school district 2526 education plan. Mr. Chairman, members of the board, in your packet this month is the education plan for next year. Um, this is customary to approve it uh this month. There's there's not really any giant changes
022in here. Um, of interesting note though, I'm not even sure if state is going to require this to be submitted next year. They've already told us they're no longer going to require us to submit calendars. to the state department. So I I think it's good practice to continue um approving both items and if they don't require them to be submitted, we'll still maintain those. So I would ask for your approval of the 2025 26 education plan. Any questions? I'll take a motion to approve the B school district 2526 education program education plan. Second. All in favor? I. Okay. Approval to participate in the school lunch and breakfast program. Move. Mr. Chairman, members of the board ask that we participate in the school lunch and breakfast program. Kind of fine to approve participating in the month
023before we raise the price. Any questions? No. Motion to approve the participation in the school lunch and breakfast program. All in favor? I authorization for new copy of the civil delegation. Jonathan Good evening, Mr. Chairman, members of the board. Um, as you should have seen my last couple of board reports, um, our production department has been trying to get some damaged parts on one of our production copers replaced for the past two or three months. Um, this copier is at end of life. Um, and our vendor hasn't been able to find replacement parts. Um, at the moment it's still functional, but the recommendation is to replace the device um before it completely fails. Um, the replacement would be the same model as our um second newer printer. Um, it basically just be replacing the old
024one with the current generation upgrade. Um, it would be leased co-terminus with our current um lease through Pacific Office. Um so just when that rolls around um we'll be able to um renew with a new lease. Um they are offered to buy out the device um at the end of the lease as well for us. Um the rate for a 50month uh co-term lease is $1,44.14 a total of $70,27. Um so I'd like your approval for this new lease to um replace our equipment. keep it up to up to date. That blue story providing it too. Uh, yep. So, it's the same basically the same way um we've we've been dealing with our printers so far. So, they um they provide uh consumables. They come out and handle all the repairs. Um and their repair
025team has been great. They've they've done what they can to try to get the old one up and running. So, it' be the same same service. I'll take a motion to uh approve the authorization for the new hearings and seek motion. All favor. All right. So, time to appoint the temporary clerk and employer for the upcoming executive session of employing evaluation action. was going to wait as long as you notice I played that one very well. She was waving the paper over here. All right. So, executive session action. I would take a motion that we move to executive session for um labor contract matters and employ second. All in favor call I trusty pres. Hi. Trusty Donghue. Hi. Trusty Bill's absence. Mr. Hi. Be resolved that the board of trustees of school district number 193
026recess for open meeting into the following executive session pursuing it code title 74 chapter 2 section 74-2 subsection 3 subsection 4 subsection C subsection 6 subsection A open meeting regular meeting executive session section 74-204 subsection 3 open meeting executive session 74 206 subsection one of section B you consider the evaluation of public school employee in 74206 subsection 1 subsection J to consider labor contract matters code we further resolve the following executive session board of trustees will convene in the public session for further business or adjournment of the meeting with that we are in executive session Great.