001Um, I'd like to call our special call meeting to order at this time. Um, and we will move down to our first item on the agenda and that is item A to approve a purchase of a 2025 planer for the Menburg cheese and Ignite through the Felix Martin calling. All right. So, this is uh Felix Martin Foundation has provided a grant up to $70,000 for this vehicle. There will be no cost to the district. Uh, they did choose to go with the the wagon here. This would be our vehicle. So like if anything ever happens to ignite or something like that, it is the board's vehicle. But right now, it's just a vehicle for them to have when they take the kids around. The cost,6 motion by Mr. Sec. All in favor of approving the
002purchase of a wagon from cheese and night through motion, please say I. I. All opposed. I hear none. Down now to item B and that is to approve bid for high school football field. I'm Derek. Thank you. Uh the turf on like we said before turf's about 16 years old. It's got holes in it has been shown to me. Um so the lowest bid came at came in at 566,83 381. And the lead time for that one was a bit shorter as well as being about $2,000 less than the next high school. So emergency motion by Mr. All in favor approving the bid for the high school football field term, please say I. I. All opposed. I hear them. We are down now to approve the first reading of the revised dress code. Um, so
003we just discussed this in our first meeting. I would like to make a motion to change um the dress code to So, after much deliberation and much conversation about the current dress code that is in place and the few changes that we were planning on making, um the board members that are on the committee uh got back together and we looked at the junior high dress code and found that the junior high dress code is very similar to the high school dress code, but it spells out a few things in a little bit uh more clear language, I should say. Um, so the items that we are changing and updating are the tops on shirts and jackets, tops. All tops must completely cover a student's midrift torso and shoulders at all times. So midrift torso
004is between the shoulders and the groin area. That is your torso. Everyone has one. So if you will buy shirts that are the length of your torso, it will take care of all of the other um issues that we were having with leggings and jeans and pants that look like leggings and all of that stuff. So adopting that would would fix that. Also the expos the exposure of cleavage is unacceptable. Uh that would be during school hours. Anytime um student comes to school, no cleavage showing is acceptable. And I believe that was already stated in the high school dress code as it was. So we're basically leaving that the same. Um lower body apparel as in the junior high dress code must be worn at the natural waistline and extend to 3 in above the
005knee. No skin showing 3 in above the knee. This includes holes in pants and jeans and additional items. Um, Miss Raider, do you have how we wrote uh the number? Yes, I think we um Oh, sorry. Number three first. Number three, we just um I think added baseball style caps are allowed. Um and then we've removed the the words could potentially. So it would be um that baseball style hats are allowed um but any other hats or hard headwear that could potentially cover we took out could potentially. So anything that covers a student's ears uh which could conceal earbuds or headphones thus presenting communication and or safety challenges are not permitted. So I think we just wanted to clarify that you can wear a hat that does not cover your ears. Right. that I think
006that was the the majority of the administration's discretion. Oh, correct. Yeah. So, at administrator administrator's discretion would account for the junior high administrators being able to say no hats allowed on this campus and then the high school administrators would be able to say these hats are acceptable on this campus. Is that what we all agree on? Yeah. Okay. Because that item um when we met and when we met at the schoolboard meeting the last time, a lot of the students were misunderstood that we were that we had even changed that. We hadn't even talked about changing the hatdress code. But because there was so much confusion, we are doing this tonight to make sure that it is clear that it is up to your school administrator whether you can wear a hat or not on
007campus and what style hat that is. Good. Yes. Clear on that. And then number seven, Miss Rger, would you please read the the rewarding of number seven? So number seven currently states no sleep apparel such as pajamas, flannel pants, loungewear, or house shoes may be worn. And we are striking the word loungewear out of that statement. So it will now read, "No sleep apparel such as pajamas, flannel pants, or house shoes may be worn." And I believe we all know what what pajamas are. So use your discretion. And then on the on the bottom of that, it says, "Dress code protocol may be altered, but still monitored during other activities such as dances, field trips, etc., and corrected at the administrator's discretion. We left in the dress code for school dancers school dances. However, we
008did include um as the as the teachers and um administrators asked that we would allow and I don't have that wording here on this one. Oh, yes, I do. Shirt uh shorts and t-shirts meeting the proper dress code are allowed for casual dances. So casual dances, you're fine to wear what you wore to school as long as it meets your your student your school dress code. And the dress length must be I don't have that wording. Mid thigh. Mid thigh or longer or longer. And slits and dresses must be higher than mid thigh. Must not be higher. Must not be higher than mid thigh. And then just I just want to reiterate the corrective action for dress code violations. None of this was changed. This was in the current sitting policy for the school district.
009Um so we did not touch anything with corrective action for dress code violations. This was already in place. So, I know when we had some of our speakers at the the regular board meeting to speak on the dress code, um you know, I think a lot of them were misinformed that we had made changes to um what those um enforcements would be. Um and we did not touch that. So, that was something that was currently in place. Nothing has changed with the dress code violations were um the punishment for those violations. So, um I did want to put that out there, too. Um, just to let people know that that has not been changed. Um, one last comment on dress code that that we spoke about during our work session. Dress code is part of
010our school schoolboard policy. It's also part of the Malberg County Schoolboard policy. So if you are a teacher or administrator in Mielberg County Schools, it is your responsibility to enforce risk code and it's going to take a collective effort to make sure that these changes are enforced. And I think really and truly at the end of the day, I don't think that, you know, we had such terrible problems with it. It's just there's been a lot of things that have been pushed to the max with some students. um and they may or may not have gotten dress coded for it, but you know, trying to create professionalism in our students for their future. Um it's just we need to set this um dress code to to make the students aware that you know when they
011get out of school and they they move into their careers and their jobs and whatnot, they need to be used to the idea that there's going to be expectations for what they wear and how they present themselves while they're in their job. Um so I think this is where we all come for. I think I'm I'm safe in saying that I'm speaking for everyone sitting up here when I say, you know, we have those expectations in our jobs or or jobs we've had in the past and currently have. Um so, you know, it's not something that we're just creating to make a problem for students out there that don't want to abide by the rules or teachers or teachers. Exactly. So, um you know, I just think that, you know, there's standards out there and
012we just we need to live up to those. So, um, we do ask that all of our our staff and administrators aware be aware of, you know, our students, uh, what they're wearing, how they're presenting themselves when they're in the school buildings, um, during school hours. So, we do ask that everyone enforces these staff. All right. With that being said, um, and those changes to those make a motion to accept the the updated dress code policy. Motion by Miss Bar, second by Miss Young. All in favor of approving the first reading of the revised revised dress code, um please say I. I. All opposed. I hear none. And we'll move down now to our approval of our fiscal year 26 hour schedule. Um, as you know, I just previously recommended the 1% have the work
013session. So, at this point, you have my recommendation. Now, whatever you all have that you you desire, I'm going to write it down. You know, like I like I gave to you prior. I mean, this for the work session, I gave you an updated version that had everything that was requested in the previous. and thank you for getting all of that to us. We appreciate that. I know sometimes we talk about things up here and we don't always give you ample time to get that information, but we appreciate you getting that to us right after. I would like to make a motion that we approve the revised pay scale for this next year that was presented in the work session and in our meeting minutes that includes the 2% increase for all staff and a
01475% increase the bottom two categories% that you have prepared, Eric is what I make a motion that we approve. You want to repeat that just for clarification? Yes. One quick motion that we move forward with the revised salary schedule that was presented in the work session in our meeting minutes. Second by Mr. There are all in favor of approving the salary schedule that presented the revised schedule presented in our meeting. Please say I. All opposed. And I need a motion for all in favor please say I. I.