001e e e pretty warm you think it's pretty warm in here [Music] calling reading to order tonight so Mr chairman I need to make an addendum to the agenda and add a presentation from the board on good news we get a motion to approve the added addenda by Vice chair V all in favor add to a good news section Dar did we break any laws there are we good okay if you can stand and join us in the pledge please United States America stands all right trusty Bion for good news so moving on to not getting away that easy so they didn't glue it all so don't lose it they got look prob something on so on behalf of the Mountain Home School District uh we'd like to present you with this your your guidance
002and direction as board chairman has strengthened the the bond between the community and the schools thank you for your dedication support of our students and staff Erica brego Mountain Home School District Board of Trustees May 2015 to January 2025 Vice chair May 15 to July 16 chairman from July 16 to January 2025 one one town one team we also have a certificate of recognition you signed a few of these yourself so certificate of recognition and appreciation to Eric abgo for his dedication and support to our District's students and staff of Mountain Home uh School District number 193 2015 thank now you have a three to minut speeech I tell you're reading that claque is kind of like reading the executive session I don't know what that is I never used it well thank you everybody
003I appreciate it all right so at this point we need to appoint uh you all all right all right go for okay you all afternoon I do swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States unit States the Constitution and laws of the state of idah law St and that I will Faithfully discharge all the duties of the office of trustee all du of the office of of Mountain Home School District number 193 scho district3 and Elmore County St ACC to if you please um sign then I that all right at this point need to appoint acting chairperson sharing Whitman that role at this time I like opening up nominations for chairman second any other nominations that I need a motion to nominations nominations are closed the chair thank you oh
004at this time I'd like to open nominations for vice chairman of the board second any other nominations for vice chairman hearing none I accept a motion to close the nomination sir Vice chairman congratulations this time I'd like to open nominations for clerk I would like to Second are there any other n Shar you want keep your job oh I suppose all right are there any other nomin are there any other nominations for clerk hearing none I will accept a motion to close the nominations so Sor congratulations thank you election uh we open nominations for the election of Deputy clerk at this time are there any nominations for Deputy clerk nominate Levi nor doesn't you good with Levi so are there any other nominations for Deputy clerk hearing none I'll accept a motion to close those
005[Music] nominations congratulations J I will open nominations for election for treasurer this time leave one also nor are there any nominations for election for treasur like to nominate there any other nominations for Trey hearing none I'll accept a motion to [Music] close congratulations J okay moving on to reports Mr gilber Mr chairman members of the board Just One update uh I received information on our design phase Grant through psmi it is unfortunately right now delayed as we're going have the site visit here at the beginning of January but we're going to wait until Congress has approved a full appropriation for the year um so that that'll delay things a little bit here hopefully that is so just wanted to give you an update on that and then uh update I know this is already part
006of the board agenda this mon but it it appears the Stevenson electricity is fixed for the long term I do want to just thank the installation for their help on on being willing to help if that was not able to be resolved as quickly as it it was a very fast uh action even looking at possibly moving the side of the school on the installation of M so um that was nice and you know Robin power back so that's all I have anybody question I have one so with this with the psmi said they're waiting for an appropriation um and Congress loves to do what they do with CRS if we don't get a c if we don't get an actual appropriation and they just play the CR gain through the through the end of
007the fiscal year what does that do to rpsm yeah I don't have a an answer on that I my guess is if they continue with the continuing resolution that's something the CC is going to have to decide on how they proceed with these but my understanding of this is the likelihood of having a full appropriation is more likely just that it's you know they're operating off the existing continuing res so um that certainly something I can reach out do any Board of Trustees have publicly report no public input okay this time I'll take a motion to approve the agenda all in favor any against is there anything on the consent agenda anyone would like to have p on nothing we'll take a motion to approve the consent agenda second all in favor I anyone against
008no delegations no unfinish business new business the establish a schedule for regular meetings the third Tuesday of every month is what we normally meet we want to deviate from that at all okay for this year if not I'll take a motion to approve Mr chairman yes ma'am you want the time to change or St State 6:30 good 6:30 work with you guys still all right I'll take a motion to approve the third Tuesday of every month at 6:30 I'm sorry they say Connie made the motion in Fr second all in favor anyone against moving on designation of public posting locations we have our normal three on here the admin office the school district website and our school district Facebook page do we need to change any those those are we use those same three years
009right yes make a motion to be approve the designation of public second all in favor anyone against motion passed propose appointments for the year of 2025 Mr Gilbert Mr chairman members of the board in your board packet this month are the proposed appointments for the 2025 year um and there's no changes on any of these as I looked through with them so again these are just the folks that are in charge of these individual areas and then our records custodians for the district as well so I asked for your approval to the appointment for the year of 2025 anybody got questions I'll take a motion to approve the proposed appointments for the year [Music] 2025 all in favor anyone against areas of isba training U so is there any areasa noral stuff that you guys
010would like to see this year I know one thing that I'm attending and I would really recommend this year especially with what the governor is doing and secretary CR is trying to do with the public money the private schools with the ispa's down the hell we really really show for on these guys so that this money putting our tax money to public to private schools is a big issue with the vouchers and what they're planning and trying to do with this so talking to some of the Senators couple of the Senators last week I don't think they really understand the rules are different between private and public some of the answers I got was well what there that the private schools are performing at this level the public schools are performing at this level why
011do we need to make them change what they do with private don't have to accept students ands they take through they nor but they don't have to follow idah standards it's of course they can do really what they want to do so they need to understand what's going on in the public schools and why there is such a difference and taking money from us to give it to private schools really with more objection to your public education in public in your school build and that so does this also relate to board training on site here in Mountain homeall yes there that you want to see yeah I don't have any specific but anything that keeps us updated on what is currently the most important [Music] Train 50 milate going on that see that they're not
012going to hold the private schools S stand so Mr chairman we you get a list yes T you can there's no action taken at this time not this time we'll move on to approval of the calendars for M and Bennett Mountain Mr chair the members of the board Bo packet this month is the first rendition I am confident this year that it's probably going to be changed I I think we've got again it it pretty well mirrors what what we did this year um there is a change in a couple of PD days at the beginning of the year that we need in there uh for our new Ela curriculum training but other than that most every the lines to last year's so I would ask for your approval of the first addition of the
01325 26 academic calendars for Mountain Home School District and Ben another question I have is our spring break lines up with most of our other schools call that's cor yes what it doesn't do though so that we should be pretty well aligned with the Great Basin they typically try to align theirs around the College of Southern Idaho spring break but what it doesn't do is line with most of the Treasure Valley and so there's some issues with baseball tournaments and those kind of things that are Traer Valley tournaments and so I I don't think there's any right or wrong there put that this time I'll take a motion to approve the calendars for school district and to to clents and elementary schools for the power outage Mr chairman members of the board uh we have
014resolution 2504 which is the emergency closure of students in the elementary due to power outage this is an action that needs to be bo approved so that we might turn this into State Department for reporting purposes as it was an act out of our hands so I'm just going to quickly read it be it so resolved that the Board of Trustees of the Mountain School District number 193 takes the needs of safety and wellbe with the district students in the highest regards did deare an emergency closure of students in elementary school on January 7th 2025 to January 10th 2025 into a power aage the 21st day of January 2025 a motion approve the resolution forgen any questions all in favor moving on Mr Johnson authorization uh approval of the ELA curriculum Mr chairman members of
015the board thanks for your time as I've been putting in our updates uh our current EA K through six Journeys became end of life no longer supported after this year you can't get the consumables and quite honestly it was time for a change because the program had strengths but it also had big gaps um so we've gone through this year with a Ela adoption review evaluation whatever you want to call it uh just finished it up in January uh the process this time we hired probably the most knowledgeable literacy person in Idaho to kind of guide us through it with a 23 page rubric so that we're actually getting into the evidence versus hey shiny new thing which I kind of feel like we did the last time um and it didn't go exactly how
016we thought but it's totally good um the recommendation from the committee is K through four is mcra Hills wonders which is the number one used Ela curriculum Across the Nation um very strong program kind of Meet the weaknesses that we had and that's what we were we went in with our dat data and we're looking at the strongest suitors for that along with many other components and then five through six um chose amplify which I was not very familiar with very rigorous uh really liked it um there's lots of reasons and I can go into that if you want to um so it is a divide the goofy thing is with the three curriculums that were considered comprehensive or approved by the state two of them were K5 so you're were going to have something
017separate for sixth grade with two of them anyways um talked to some other districts said there's no issue with that the K through 4 your foundational skills are consistent and then you get into more writing and higher level thinking um at 56 so not not a simple as last time where it was K through six was all Journeys now we're K through well what I'm requesting is a approval of K through four wonders and then five and six are amplify and they're two different programs one's amplify CK ones amplify Ela um so that's the committee's recommendation happy to answer questions but I don't want to bore you with details are you still waiting on quotes from both yeah well so I got we're doing the back and forth negotiating of what do we actually need
018uh versus hey it'd be nice to versus here's the core um I've talked to multiple districts so when we adopted Journeys it was $260,000 everything's obviously gone up um everybody has told me District car size number of teachers students blah is going to be 350 to 400,000 um amplifies came back and it's right in that line it's like $55,000 per grade level but we haven't like weeded out some things this is I think the Cadillac version and now we got it figure it out mcra Hill I have not received their quote um I called today he said he' try to get it to me before the board meeting and I didn't get it um so the good thing is we have the literacy funds which will pay for K through three so it's not general
019fund money with that whole thing so um everybody I talk to is like like it doesn't matter what program you go with you're basically going to pay 50 to $60,000 per grade level for all your resources and then what we're we're talking about now is negotiating the professional development which is one of the reasons without a quote kind of coming to you because we need to get something uh approved ordered the goal is to have all the curriculum before the end of the school year so we can get it in teachers hands and then we have those May PD days and start a one of them calls it a launch so they kind of do a brief overview of here's what it is and then the the schedule changes James was talking about is put
020an extra PD day at the beginning of the year so that we can train all staff on implementation and then I've requested an October followup of okay I've used this for six month or six weeks I got some questions and so it's ongoing support and and those are the things we're kind of working back and forth on trying to leverage our buying power in a sense so things will fluctuate but I'm I'm pretty confident $350 to $400,000 is the total how long is that license uh six six years is the amplify McGrath Hill has a seven-year thing so I've requested multiple different quotes so we can evaluate where the best deal is six years has been fairly common in the last 10 years that 400,000 for the for that full six seven year period y
021yep so to get what you need to start implenting by the end of school year a little bit time since we somewhat well I guess what I'm saying is we're we're potentially proving something without actual cost to it although trusting you and doing your job there's trust there right so so there just want say normally we wouldn't approve right probably step out fade here yeah it's not going to come in more than that that ballpark that I gave you it doesn't have to be done we're ahead of the ball game because the last time we did it everything showed up in the summer and then got delivered to buildings and then the cleaning happened [Music] and we're not doing that again and so I I've told them all both vendors this is a priority we
022have to have it in May and so if we have to go to next year or next meeting and you have exact numbers we can survive the other thing I would like to point out all three of our vendors or Publishers whatever you would like to call them presented and this is common sense you adopt a new curriculum there's a learning curve and so James has been presenting on your literacy numbers they said there's a dip as they get used to the new program and it will probably be towards the end of next year going into the following years is when you start seeing the positive gains and so so I just want to throw that out like if the first three months like what have we purchased like that's so you know it's can
023be between 350 and 4 CH can we yeah do a motion we're saying that he's good up to 400,000 no more than 400,000 yeah you said 14,000 out it is bring it back would be label did that work would that work with your timeline and negotiating yep so what I've asked for is a quote with professional development in there and oftentimes they separate those out but I just said put it all in so there's no surprises PD can be moved to title to so when I say $400,000 that's with everything and we can remove it if like that number is like in sticker shock and go to a different Federal program want question I will entertain a motion at this time to authorize the purchase of ela curricular materials I make motion to purchase materials
024to not toce for, favor thank you for your time Mr chair you have action to approve as well okay so at this time we take a motion to approve the EA curriculum so move okay all in favor now we're good now you're good now we're good all right so this time um we have to approve the letter of resignation that was provided to us in our packets from trusty oo say anything what um I just want to say it's been uh yeah it's been an honor it's been a good 10 years um nine years as chairman I appreciate trust that uh you guys have put in me to do that to take that position and I appreciate the friendships that I have formed along the way um it's been good it's been tough at times
025I think we have a strong board really strong board I think it's a you know five good individuals that you know respect each other don't always agree but there's all respect um and I think that makes it a good Bo so I trust that you know whoever replaces me is just GNA just keep on just keep on going like we're going so it's been good it's been fun I'll miss some things on this you know obviously the activities that we could do get to do in these roles you know with the kids graduations things like that I'll miss that I'll miss negotiations for sure I might just show up to watch Che people on Bo some others maybe um no it's been good it's been enjoyed the Friendship James and I have developed it's hasn't
026always been Rosy but it's been been fruitful for sure been very good sorry any just thank you for everybody allowing me to leave thank you than this time I'll entertain a motion to include the letter ofation I okay all in favor all right moving on to resolution 2505 Declaration of vacated trustee Zone position do I need to read something with this Shar should be in the if not do this resolution declaring trustee Z five vacancies whereas ericao has been a member of the Board of Trustees of mountain Hol School District 193 having been sworn into office on January 21st 2025 after having been duly elected November 7th 2023 in accordance with the applicable laws of the state of Idaho and whereas said trustee has resigned due to no longer meeting the residency requirements for zone
027five and said resignation has been received and accepted by the Board of Trustees and whereas pursuant to section 33-50 Idaho code this Board of Trustees is required to declare a vacancy when the above stated condition exists now therefore be it resolved that the Board of Trustees of Mountain Home Mountain Home School District 193 hereby declares that at the end of the January 21 2025 regular board meeting Eric brego no longer qualifies holding the office of trustee zone 5 for the above stated reasons be it further resolved that a vacancy On The Board of Trustees is hereby declared for zone five in which vac will be filled by appointment within 90 days only qualified candidates registered and residing in zone 5 May apply to serve the remainder of Eric's term which is December 31 of 2027
028applications will be accepted through Tuesday March 4th 2025 at 5:00 pm at the School District Administrative Building applications may be found on the school district website at applications and qualifications for vacated trustee position and at The District Administrative Building 470 nor 3rd East Mount H H authorized this 21st day of January 2025 time I'll take a motion to accept the resolution I your [Music] IED all in favor any okay discussion and approval of vacated Z5 trustee position applications and appointment procedures U as we put in the the resolution so the notice will go out in the paper next me correct all Yes it won't make this week's paper um the applications are online and there'll be in'll be able come and see you for them right um so that will be through they'll need to
029be returned no later than the 4th of March by 5:00 pm at that Mr chairman that's only if that's the right you want um I know so that we would select our hold a special board meeting on the 11th of March if needed needed have to address that early okay to what what's good for everybody Mr chairman you could actually um appoint at the March reg Boe right that's still within the so instead holding a special meeting you can do you get appoint someone during a regular meeting in March but if we get multiple applications to do interview to do interviews in the open meeting are you gonna do interviews or just look at think we need to see how many applications we make the decision way yeah so I think March 4th will be
030the deciding factor whether or not we need to do a special board meeting the following week because if we get you know for applications we're going to want to have a discussion with the people so at that point well we still plan to somebody at the mar no no at the regular at the regular schedule yes be the appointment make a motion on that um yes you can decide if the verbage using there yes the resolution um yeah especially well more like the dates if you go for dates basically you're you're talking about your application dates [Music] so the application date on the resolution for March 4th and that's still it's just what comes after that make change change resolution so we already approved the resolution we didn't make a motion we did yeah we
031already approved the resolution yeah the resolution but um now you're you're going to make a motion to have me post notice the application on it's fine is that's why we keep her she's kept us out of trouble for years so I'll take a motion to what she said I'll make a motion to the resolution that Sharon post the notice to accept applications until March 4th we have a motion for the second all in favor executive session take a motion for us to go to Executive session second all in favor I call V please Shar hi chairman see that's GNA take a [Music] while resolution to adjourn to Executive session the is so resolved that the Board of Trustees School District number 193 recess from an open meeting into the following executive sessions for to Idaho
032code title 7 4 chapter 2 Section 74- 202 34 C6 and a open meeting regular meeting executive session section 74- 204 C uh three open meeting executive session 74- 206 1B to consider the evaluation dismissal or disciplining of Public School employee Idaho code be it further resolve the following the executive session the Board of Trustees will conun into public sessions for further business or adjournment of the for an executive session