001Good evening. We'll call this meeting to order by saying the pledge. Feels like grandpa 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. Well, good evening again. Like to welcome you to our second edition of our board meeting this evening. Public participation is encouraged in the Laurel School District. All meetings of the board will be open to the public except as provided by law. Scheduled meetings of the board may be recorded. Audience members may address the board during public comment for non-aggenda interests or during the discussion of the relevant printed agenda item. Your attendance is welcomed. If you plan to speak to the board, please look over the information on the agenda, then complete the public
002comment section on the other side of these cards um and hand it to Superintendent Torres or myself prior to the beginning of the meeting. Public participation is a right that carries certain responsibilities such as invol in informing oneself in advance of the issues being discussed. Voluntarily being as brief and gerine as possible, not unduly repeating remarks others or you have already made and showing respect at all times for the rights and opinions of others, whether citizens, board members, school district employees, or students. We do have one public comment uh card. Miss Hunter, I'll keep it short. Britney Hunter. The reason I just want to stand up here is I wanted to thank you and I'm going to try to keep it together. 220 is the number of meetings I finally could calculate after 7 and
0031/2 years. Um, and after every hour I made sure to dedicated myself to every student of this district. It was hard decisions. There were some decisions that I battled against the staff. But we always had everything for all students. Not for one student, not for one class, not for one teacher, not for one thing. It was students. And I want to make sure that this board remembers that going forward. This is your job for your students of Laurel Public Schools. And there are some difficult times where you have to make difficult decisions. And not everybody understands that. Not everybody understands why you vote with the way you vote. But please know I admire every single one of you. and the time that I've had on this board with you. I thank you because I grew
004as a person because of you >> and I grew as a person. So, thank you for my time. Can you see me again? Yes. Thank you so much. It's very appreciated. Um, any other public comment for anything that's not on the agenda? Great. We'll move next to the oath of office. And just as part of this, I would like to just take a moment to uh thank Miss Hunter, Miss Anderson, and Miss Roths for their service to the school district and to the board. No, they're not here now. Um, but they have had a lot of impact here in this district over the years that they have been involved with the school. Uh, either as a trustee or a part of a PTA or some other group um or as an administrator in our district.
005Um, their their support and effort has been very appreciated. So, I just wanted to take a moment to acknowledge all three of them and thank them for their service as we now uh administer and oath of office to three new trustees, Miss Ray Land Meisner, Miss Vanessa Lawrence Long and Miss Noel Hoff. So, uh, if we can have the three of you come up, we'll administer the oath to you. Lindsy will do that for me. >> Come on, guys. >> All right. So, I will have the three of you lift up your right hand and repeat after me. I do solemnly swear >> I do solemnly swear >> or affirm or affirm >> that I will support >> protect and defend >> the Constitution >> of the United States >> and the Constitution >> of
006the State of Montana >> and that I will discharge >> the duties of my office >> with fidelity with fidelity. That was it. Now we get to sign these papers. Can we borrow a pen? I'll write them around. Vanessa, I'll have you guys sign here. I know. I don't have another one more place for you guys to sign. I'm coming out right behind you. >> All right, I've got Noel first. And then this Yeah. All right, this is it. Now you guys can go take a seat. >> Wonderful. It's all official now. Sorry. >> Do you have copies for uh new members or does she have Do you have >> You can have mine. As a reminder for new members, uh I did offer you guys you'll have you'll all have uh school emails. We
007already have those set up and if you want a laptop, let us know that we can get you one. Uh you can use obviously what you have. So as of tonight, anytime I communicate with you, we'll be on school email only. I won't communicate via your personal emails anymore. So, if you need help getting on there, make sure you you talk to Deon and he'll get you hooked up with how to get on if you have time. Great. >> Well, welcome to our new trustees. We appreciate your willingness to serve the school district and hope that you find some uh enjoyment and fulfillment in this new obligation that you're undertaking. So, thank you so much for for coming in and uh being being willing. That's a big part. and uh and open and understanding as
008we as we uh work together to manage this district. So, thank you for coming. We'll move now next to uh the next agenda item here which is reorganization of the board. This occurs annually um as the board changes. Uh first we will re and you have we did want to print because this is something we only do once a year. So you'll see here that you have uh the Robert's rules of how to do this so that we do it properly and correctly. And so uh for the office of board chair I now open the floor for nominations for that office. I nominate Chris Lorash. I >> have a nomination for Chris Lorash as the board chair. Is there any other nominations for board chair? >> Three times. >> Is there any Oh, he has
009a three. That is three. Sorry. Is there any other nominations for board chair from the floor? Hearing none, I'll declare the nominations closed and we will um move to vote. Actually, it's the first option under number three. >> Unanimous consent. >> I thought we we had talked about adding a vote anyway. >> I can't, but you're also the only person, so right, >> you do win it by acclamation, but you certainly may, if you wish. I think it'd be appropriate to just uh call for a vote uh to nominate myself, Chris Lorash, as the uh chair of the World School District board. Those in favor say I. >> I. I. >> Any opposed? Wonderful. Appreciate it. Thank you. We'll now accept nominations from the floor for the office of vice chair. I'll move to nominate
010Oh, sure. And then I didn't think about the name before I started. I'll move to nominate Jennifer Jones as vice chair. >> Have uh Jenny Jones as listed uh uh nominated as vice chair. Are there any other names from the floor for vice chair? Any other names from the floor for vice chair? Hearing none, we'll close now the nominations for vice chair and move to vote on the single name provided which is Jennifer Jones. Those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Wonderful. Thank you. Thank you all. We'll now move to certify the appointment of our district clerk. I will open the floor to nominations for the office of district clerk. >> Well, I'm on a roll. Nominate Crystal Gomez as district clerk. >> The nomination by Donnie. Very good choice. Uh good
011choice to appoint uh Crystal Gomez as the district clerk. Are there any other nominations from the floor? Any other nominations from the floor for district clerk? Hearing? None. At this time, we will close nominations from the floor for the office of district clerk. I move to vote on the sole nominee, Crystal Gomez, as the district clerk of the Laurel School District. Those in favor say I. I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Nail biter. >> Chris. Thank you. >> We have to do >> We got to do this. >> Crystal, I felt like we just did this. >> We did. >> It was a short term. >> Raise your right hand and repeat after me. I do solemnly swear >> I do solemnly swear >> or affirm >> that I will support >> protect and
012defend >> the Constitution of the United States >> and the Constitution of the State of Montana >> and the Constitution of the State of Montana >> and that I will discharge >> and I will discharge >> the duties of my office >> with fidelity >> fidel perfect and then put sign there >> and then this one has to be signed by all the board >> yes flipping on the 26th. Okay. You decide if you want to send that one down to them. >> I was going to call for a secret ballot, but Matt thought that was unnecessary. So, >> we're talking. I was trying to read as fast as I could. I read it like four days ago. >> I don't have to sign anywhere else, right? >> Just that you put your head down.
013>> Oh, I got to sign this though, don't I? >> You sure? That's what I wrote. >> He's the only one that wrote everything there, right? Just the first >> it does. Well, it has all the trustes on. >> I think so. Might as well. >> We should all sign it. Is that >> certificate? Oh, just the one. >> No, that's the canvas. >> Oh, >> I might have to hunt for one. >> What's that? >> I have to hunt for one. >> Oh, for that one? >> Probably. >> Well, that was the first meeting. >> Go to a baseball game. >> Yeah. You catch her on >> Facebook. Okay. Now that we have that uh part completed, we'll move next to presentations for our retirees. Well, uh our presentations are a bit lackluster because
014our our things we're supposed to present are not back from power coder. So with those that get back in powder coder, we'll get those out. So my apologies to everyone who's here. Uh we have quite a few retirees this year. Some retired early in the year, some retired middle of the year, uh, and then some retired obviously at the end of the year depending on classified certified staff. So, I'd like to go ahead and if you're here, please stand and be recognized. And then when we're done, you'd like to stay. We have some retirement cake that we uh picked up today. So, uh, Picky Anderson here, but that's okay if you're not. Uh, how about Jamie Broyals? I saw Mrs. Broyals come in. Thank you. You just go ahead and stay standing and I'll just
015read off the rest of these names. Mrs. Broyals is a uh currently a fourth grade teacher and and she's retiring this year. How about Mr. Larry Disney? Larry retired towards the beginning of the year. And Pat Hansen, Coach Hansen, is he here? All right. Uh Gerlyn Hill was a middle of the year retiree. Gerlyn here. All right. Uh Miss Julie Jones. Go ahead, Miss Julie. and Diane Kesler. And how about Lorraine McGee? I saw Mrs. McGee. She's one of our paras over at the intermediate school. Jim O'Neal and Blake Pierce, Mr. Pierce, is he here? All right. And it's Mr. Ralph. Mr. Ralph is moving on to another state. Mr. Ralph's not here. And then I'd also like to recognize, of course, Britney Hunter and Renee Roth, our retiring uh board members as well. So,
016if you guys would uh we want to say thank you guys for what you've done for this district and and and specifically what you've done for the kids here. Uh and that goes for everyone on this list, but it really goes for the three people that are standing here today. Uh that is not lost on anybody in this room. I hope what the dedication and time you guys have put in. So, I want to say thank you personally and I know the board will want to thank you as well. And I'd like you guys to all stay and have a quick piece of cake if you so wish. Even you non-retirees can have a piece of cake. I love that. So, thank you guys very much. >> Of course, you guys can have cake first.
017lengthy purple. >> They did >> recess to call for break, >> right? >> We'll just have a recessed. >> Do we have to move for that? Huh? >> All right. >> I don't even know if I technically live >> for the live stream. >> Not live stream. >> Used to be a live stream. So, >> yeah. >> It was nice when you were gone and live stream. >> Yeah. Then you have to watch it the next day. Yeah. >> I'll keep it. We'll make sure I wanted it to be just as it to me, but none of the new members. >> Yeah, I don't have it in my email either. That's not right. That's not >> some of that. Goodbye. Oh yes. You guys are very much appreciate your son wasn't my intention. Right. >>
018He gives me I'll come in. He'll just smile. He knows what I'm saying. His biggest show. August. Let her go. Stand up over here. I know. to go to. So he has like And so finish but Um, but I don't feel like it's taken me two years to get to the point. >> Yeah, I'm in my pop out. >> Yeah. >> But they're like me. much much. Look for >> Yeah. over a little bit and then >> you have to be home with your kids. But like This is a good one. >> Oh yeah. There's not a way to just >> No, I mean there give you an idea of where to start with looking. That's kind of usually how it goes. Usually you walk in here and there's nothing going on. You walk in,
019there's a lot of people But sometimes they look like usually that's like February through >> we have >> those winter days. >> All right. We'll come back from our recess now. >> Thank you again to all those uh retiring educators, administrators, support staff. We really appreciate everything you've done and especially those who came and then those who weren't able to make it tonight. We certainly appreciate you. >> Oh yes. How are you? >> We'll move now next to section six of our agenda, the action items. >> Action item A, Yellowstone County to conduct school elections recommendation. Is there a motion? >> Can you just give us a rundown? >> Absolutely. Crystal, could you share with us why we're doing this in Brazil in May for next May? It's due to June 1st. Um I believe
020was the deadline on that one. And then um it's just so that they can do our elections for next year. >> That's new and that the time frame is new. Used to we did it. >> No, it's always been a year. >> I think I remember this last year. >> I don't just want to have to declare that it's didn't >> but it's for any election >> in the course of that 12 month period. Oh, >> yeah. If we decided to run some >> something in the fall, >> another bond issue or something. Yeah. We already we'll have it in place for That's why it says on the nomination on the right for all elections. It doesn't just say trustee elections. >> Guess I didn't connect the dot cuz it you don't think about school
021elections in November really. You know, >> they used to be more popular. They haven't. It's probably been popular for decades, but it used to be a thing >> cuz we're limited to one shot. >> So, okay. Is that Does that satisfy everyone? Is that any other questions on that? >> Wonderful. I take a motion on that item. I move to approve the resolution requesting the county to conduct elections for the 2027 year. >> A motion by Jenny to approve the county elections to conduct school elections for the 2627 year. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Seconded by Kayla. Any other board discussion on that? Audience discussion hearing? None. We'll move to vote on a motion by Jenny to approve Yellowstone County to conduct school elections for the 202627 school year. Seconded by Kayla.
022All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed. Motion carries. I'll sign this right now so I don't forget. >> Thank you. >> Are you going to sign it twice? Lil, are you sure? Sure. Do you mind if I take a second to speak to our new trustees about this process? >> Yes, absolutely, Donnie. >> So, school districts can run their own elections. the district clerk is actually the elections administrator for school elections, but mainly because of the fact that there are so many absentee voters anymore as registered voters. Um, it makes a lot of sense to do mail ballot elections and it also makes a lot of sense to have the county, which is an option to have the county run the election. They're the gurus. They run elections all the time. For
023us, it would be once a year. And there's a lot of rules around elections. So, this is just something that the law has allowed for school districts to do and we take advantage of that. >> Could the county can the county refuse to run elections should they want to? >> Yep. >> They could refuse. >> Yellowstone County hasn't, but >> Well, actually, they did want to. >> Okay. because at the time that we wanted to run a bond election, it interfered with other elections that they had on the docket to do and they told us they wouldn't do it if we ran it at that time. >> Talk about that even running a November ballot a year or two or whatever ago. >> Yeah. You remember uh the national election >> general election. That's why
024they went n you're on your own if it's in November >> president. Yeah. Yeah. >> It's a presidential election. Yeah, >> great. Thanks for that. That was good. That's great to know. Any other questions for Donnie or anyone on that >> service announcement? Can >> you just do that on every item on the agenda? >> A little public service announcement. >> I think all her little things out there. >> I just have one question along those lines. Um, is there a reason is it does Yellowstone County require mailin ballot only? Because I know we didn't actually have a polling place this year. >> No. No, that's up to this this group to decide to have a poll election >> or a mail ballot election. >> Yes. >> Or it's not. >> So if they do
025a polling election, then the absentee ballots will still go out via uh the mail. >> But if you do a poll election, we have to run it ourselves. Meaning we train the judges, we find the judges, we >> pay for the judges, >> we Yeah. The math's a little different on a on a on a poll election, too. >> Depending what the what you're voting on, >> like on a bond is different. >> Yeah. The turnout. >> There's a certain turnout percentage. >> The lower your turnout, the higher percentage of yes votes you need. Correct. >> Whereas a a male is a majority. >> Male is a 50 50 + one%. >> Yeah. >> Both. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. We'll move next then if there's nothing else to action item B Laurel High School
026new classes for 202627. >> So there's two classes being propo proposed an advanced art and we'll let uh Dr. Bington talk a little bit about the advanced art recommendation and then what the math foundations one and two what exactly um those classes mean. >> Good evening Dr. Frankton Laura High School principal. Um, the advanced art class is a repeatable semester long class. It essentially right now replaces the AP studio art class that serves that same um purpose. Our current instructor isn't AP certified to teach advanced placement classes. So, this gives our year three and four art students um an option to take the higher level classes. they would be mostly projectbased um around the students area of strength and area of interest. So it might be a project based semester long class on painting or
027on um pottery. It might be on drawing, might be on mixed media. So that would be negotiated between the instructor and the and the student and they would need instructor's um recommendation to take it. So these students who would take it have already had u several art classes. We're doing this to replace the AP our class advanced placement. AP is advanced placement and uh because the teacher is not qualified to teach the AP class. >> Yep. She's a relatively um new to us teacher. This is her second year of teaching. Uh and and it sounds as though she is interested in that, but that developing that that little takes time and getting that certification takes a little time. >> So, we'll just teach an advanced art class. So the AP class had the option of
028potentially getting college credit. Well, we can't give them college credit because we have to have a the teacher has to be qualified for us to do that. >> That makes sense. Donnie, yes. >> Can you give us an idea of how many students take this class like the history or do you know when next year? >> This would be a this would be a relatively low enrollment class. And typically what we do because it's more of an independent study class, we layer it on top of another class. So for example, if she is teaching a beginning drawing or an intermediate painting, she might say, "Okay, I can have two advanced art students who are working in my classroom during that period." So it's not taking up any additional instructor time out of the calendar. And
029I would anticipate that you would probably not have more than 10 students taking it per semester. They'd be kind of spread out. >> They probably Yes, they they would be spread out. It would be maybe a couple of them per class period. >> Great. >> And what about the math foundations one and two? >> The math foundations one and two is really a restructuring of our replacement math credit >> consumer math class. consumer math class. Um, for students who uh are somewhere between taking on grade level math classes like algebra 1 and geometry and algebra 2 and above taking our life skills math classes, we had a consumer math class. Students often repeated it um three years in a row. So even though they may be doing different content during those three years, on their
030transcript it looked different. So if they wanted to pursue something post-secary, they wanted to go to a two-year college or a four-year college or some type of certificate program, it looked like they just took consumer math for 3 years. So math foundations really targets these students who are significantly below grade level ranging from I would say about third grade level to about sixth or seventh grade level. and they will be placed in math foundations one or two based on um benchmark scores, screener scores, and then they have then they would rotate through. So they could take if they started out in foundations one, they'd go foundations one, foundations to consumer math. Um if they started out in math foundations 2, they could go from math foundations 2 into perhaps a pre-alggebra and an algebra. So
031there are some options. It's just a better leveling um for their needs >> and it shows it better on the transcript as well. >> Uh making it less confusing with less explanation down the line for that. >> Exactly. >> Since it's a restructuring the staff is the same as staffing from last year, we're not hiring additional staff. >> Correct. Um last year we had four sections of consumer math. Um, so next year we were proposing one section of foundations one, one of foundations two, and either one or two sections of consumer math depending on so it fits in the same footprint. >> So for current students, are you just going to base it off of test scores or how they're currently doing in their class? Because sometimes those kids don't like with test anxiety and
032stuff, they may not place as high as where they maybe are currently working at. I just don't want it to like be a disservice to the ones that are currently enrolled that maybe get placed back when they have maybe the opportunity to >> I would say they will be placed according to their data which might be a benchmark or screener based on their progress monitoring from this year and based on their grades from class this year. >> Kind of a combination of a lot of things. You don't want to ever do something on just one snapshot in one day at one time. You want it to be a bigger picture and then teacher to draw observations part of it >> and and for those students who already had consumer math this year, we would really
033want to probably at least push towards having them in a math foundations too. So we see that differentiation on the transcript starting planning for their postsecary um choices. >> Yeah. And I know that's true because my daughter is not a great test taker, but is very good at math and it's that sum total of everything that placed her. So, she's an advanced math even though she her tests are pretty average. She's not failing tests, but they're very average tests. So, yeah, they taken a lot into account. So, great. Anything else on that? >> Wonderful. I would take a motion on this action item. >> I have a motion to approve it. >> Motion to approve um the Laurel High School classes for 2026 27 advanced art and math foundations as constituted by Noel. Is there
034a second? >> Second. I saw our first man. You guys are jumping right in. I don't think I've been there for like three meetings. >> Great year. Seconded by Oyer, seconded by Rayan. Thank you. Any other board discussion? Audience discussion. Hearing none, we'll move to vote on the motion by Noel to approve action item B. The Laurel High School new classes for 2026 and 27 advanced art and math foundations is constituted. Seconded by Raylin. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Wonderful. Action item C, fiscal year 2025 audit approval recommendation. >> I think Donnie would do you have because you attended that. >> I did. >> And Crystal, you guys want to kind of can talk about that just for a moment? >> So, we had um we had a Zoom meeting.
035Correct. Um Chris and were you there? >> I wasn't able to make it. >> You weren't there. So it was me and Crystal and Mr. Torx um with the auditor that conducted the audit and he went through basically what he went through were the findings from the audit and there were five I believe that we needed to do corrective actions for. Um, all in all, it it they're pretty tough auditors and so the findings that they had are pretty nitty-gritty and um they're doable. Um, but they uh they're good auditors. They they really do go above and beyond. They're very thorough. Yes. and they do go to the letter of the law. Um we have more two more years with the contract with them. Is that correct? I believe so. >> Yeah. Yeah. So my
036only concern is that in the past we've had the auditor come in front of the board and kind of review outside of the exit conference that he did with us. And I'm kind of disappointed that we don't have that this year for everyone to hear directly from the auditor what they had to say about our finances. But um >> is that a contractual obligation that we could enforce? >> I don't know that it's contractual, but I think it's pretty standard if you ask that they do it. This is the first time I've seen it not happen. So, I guess that's one comment I have is that I would like to see that happen in the future. Um, I have absolutely no doubts that Crystal will clean up everything that we that was found within the
037audit. Um, I do have one question though. One of the responses to the very first item mentioned developing a policy to address the item and I wasn't sure that we really wanted a policy and I'm sorry that the new trustees don't have what the audit report that we're talking about but it was last year's audit. So I guess maybe >> it's kind of last year's board too. >> Yeah, probably better procedure versus >> I think procedure to be procedure rather than policy. I don't think you really want to >> right cuz it's not a policy that it's even in our policy it says we'll develop procedures for purchasing for you know whatever. So >> well and I have a couple more comments. I'm sorry, but in number three where it's talking about um reconciling with
038the county, I believe was the issue. >> Mhm. >> And it the rec the uh the the response to them was talked about bank statements and really it's not bank statements, it's county reports that you're reconciling to. I just want to make sure that we're including the right things in what we say we're going to fix. Actually, that was it. Just those two items. They're very, very minor, but they I don't want to commit to doing a policy. >> That's fair. >> For procedure, >> so I just wanted to mention that. >> So, we can just modify that one word. So all in all, I would make a motion to approve the fiscal year 2025 audit report from Nexus group. >> Would you like to add that re that amendment to the policy word? >>
039Yeah. with the change to the um audit response number one uh developing a procedure rather than a policy >> to be followed. >> Motion by Donnie to approve the fiscal year 2025 audit report with a correction to the response number one to the audit to change the word policy to procedure. Got that? Is there a second? >> Seconded by Kayla. Any other board discussion or comments? >> Audience discussion. >> Back it down. Chris. >> Yes. Don. >> Can I also have not as part of the motion, but I would like to have it noted that looking into having the auditor available for board. >> Yeah. Reporting. >> I wrote that down too. >> Perfect. >> Great. So the new board members were audited every single year from previous years. So this year they started our
040audit in November I think. Uh and they audit from the previous year. So this fall they'll start auditing our current year that we're in right now. >> So we're audited every year. Every dime, every activity, everything is audited as to where we spend and how we spend. >> Independent external. >> They don't work for us external. >> Even though we pay them, they don't work for us. Definitely don't take so long. >> Yeah. >> So I have a motion that or and we did call for audience. So, uh, we will move then to vote on the motion by Donnie to approve the fiscal year 2025 audit with the corrective action amendment uh, for number one response one I should say to change policy to procedure. That was seconded by Kayla. All in favor say I.
041>> I. Any opposed? I'm going to abstain just because I briefly read over it during the minutes. So, >> absolutely. So, have a abstain from Noel. >> Great. Action item D. Laurel students attending Park City. Do I have a motion? I'd like to ratify the approval of the Laurel students to continue to attend in Park City. This is next year >> for the 2627. Okay. School year. Thank you. >> They're a little ahead. Ours will come here in a while to you guys. >> So, I have a motion to approve the 2627 school year city students um attending out of or the Laurel students attending out of district of Park City Schools by Jenny. Is there a second? I'll second it. >> Second by Vanessa. Thank you. >> Uh I would just like to point
042out that this is something that you'll see us come bring like pretty regularly because we're required to with the new laws of like the money shuffle game that we have to play now with uh where the money follows the students. So if it's kind of interesting if they have we have a Park City student that comes to Laurel which we actually have those too. So we have Park City kids coming here. we have to send Laurel money to Park City and Park City sends Park City money to Laurel and it's kind of convoluted and weird, but um that's partly what this is this is for is that acknowledgement. So great. So we have a motion or should any other discussion or questions on that? Sorry. Audience discussion or questions. Hearing none, we'll move to vote
043on a motion by Jenny to approve the attendance of Laurel students in Park City Schools for the 2026 27 year, seconded by Vanessa. All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Action item E. Now, I'll just briefly explain them, Matt. We'll we'll just kind of go into them. Um, we we acknowledge that you didn't have these, so we do want to go over them and discuss them so you can see the edit process and what's in here. So, now that we do review them, um, this is kind of what we would consider like a first reading of these handbooks um, for the year. And then they'll they'll get revisions and then input and then they'll come back to us again. So, um, this won't be your only opportunity. Yeah, Gabby. >> Um,
044so on the middle school handbook when it talks about title 9, um, it says my mom's name and she obviously won't be with the school district next year. >> Would you fix that to >> those are the kind of things that we'll that are part of this process of sort of editing and correcting. So, some of the things we do are substantive. Some of the things that we correct are typographical or just umformational like that. So, we'll be working on that tonight. So, with that, let's move into number one, K5 student handbook, which I think is what you have up. Yes, >> it is. So, if you look up there, you'll see that uh the way we do the handbook revisions, so you can see what is being changed. So, if you look up on
045the screen right now, you'll see over on the right side it says uh uh it might say my name or it might say a a principal's name or whoever made it. So, what they'll do is they'll say, "Oh, thank you, Devin. That's right." Uh you'll see over there there's a like a like a strike out a line through 200, you know, type calendar and they've replaced it with a uh 2026 27. So it'll show what what is being proposed to be deleted and then with the red pink it might show up at different on your screen different letters. Uh mine show up as green for example. Uh whoever makes the change will show up as a different color and you go ahead and go down a little Devon to another change within the body. Okay.
046So you'll see that uh that uh Wendy mean she's the secretary over at uh at Laurel Elementary. she's gone through and started making proposed changes like the the dates. Maybe they'll do something bigger like an actual maybe they find a a sentence they want to change, but you'll be able to see exactly what they're deleting and what they're proposing to replace it with. So, you're not just going to see uh like for example, I just went in and changed a bunch of uh the names on the board of trustees. Those weren't updated. I just went ahead and changed those tonight, too. Um, so there's a lot going on on these and a lot of times we'll even change because maybe we haven't hired a teacher yet. So we'll actually come back and we'll just add
047the teacher in later even though you guys might have already approved it. We'll go ahead and add the teacher in. Uh the big thing you guys are going to want to push for is uh when you get down into the body of the text and what happens, you know, and all the all the wording, that's where you you'll start to uh get in there and start to see the the changes. So tonight, tonight, we not we don't need to approve any of these. Uh but we we we have them for you guys to look at. uh where you'll take your time just kind of go through page by page as you uh are sitting at home and can't go to sleep or something, you can start going through these and uh just looking at uh
048proposed changes. You guys will all be commenters, which means if you uh get to a point you want to comment on something, you'll be able to have your name on the side with a comment about a particular you can highlight a particular paragraph and then you can go over and comment on it. And if you have if you guys want to come by my office, I can bring it up and show you how to do that so you're comfortable doing it. Um, you're not going to be allowed to delete anything or add anything. That's limited to the administrators. Um, and then in the meeting, if you guys see something you want to change, I can change it right here on the spot so you guys can see it and then decide, hey, uh, yeah, I
049think we like that change and we're okay with that. And so as we go to vote, I can make changes right on the spot. So it doesn't have to go back and come back to the board at a later date. We can make them right here on the spot. Um, so if you go through there, there's a lot of proposed changes. A lot of them are like a schedule. They're they're changing the minute here, minute there to make their schedule work for next year. Uh, a lot of those are pretty simple, straightforward things. Um, yeah. So that's really what all these handbooks are. Yes, Miss Don. >> Um, just a couple of comments on them in the way their current form. >> Do we or will we know who's going to be appointed as title
0509 coordinator so we can make those changes? >> We've already talked about that. We'll make the So, Gabriella comes up with a point. We uh we've already made that decision and we will be going through these and making those changes in all of our handbooks. But also, we have probably 10 policies, >> maybe 12 policies that we've already pulled out, and I'll be making those changes uh over the summer and bring them back to the board. They're pretty uh I talked about them at leadership and learning, but uh the leadership and learning group just decided that it wasn't something that had to come back to them. It was more of a procedural thing. So, I'll go ahead and make those changes and bring them back to the board. as far as uh uh the changes
051in there, taking out Piggy's name, for example, putting in new. >> So, when is our goal to have these completed approved >> the hammock? >> Yeah. >> I would like to see them approved before June's over. >> Okay. >> But if for some reason we've done them in August or July if we had to because >> that's when we used to print them. It was a bigger deal. >> Yeah. I mean, we we the big thing is they need to be approved by August. We can be printing and we can be but uh we we've done them in August since I've been here. We've done them in July and we've got them done in June. >> It's nice to have them earlier just cuz so then the principles are here aren't coming back in July
052when they may be off on vacations or something. >> One more question. >> Yes. >> Meal prices. When are we going to talk about meal prices? >> Um we're going to set meal prices. Um that's a little bit further down on discussion. I'll mention that as well. Right now, though, >> no, not not meal prices, but uh we have the transition first transition meeting next Monday from SFB that's coming by. And Crystal and I were just talking about that we're going to need their help setting meal prices to ensure that we're going to be able to meet all of our contractual obligations with our new uh food vendor. Um so, we we will have to meet with them and have those set, but they'll be set this summer as well. and then they'll be reflected
053in all the angles. But I like I would like their assistance in doing that just so we get it right and we understand what we need to do to meet our contracts. Great. any questions on that process or anything that sticks out to you immediately in the handbook if you've had a chance to review it. >> And that's open to existing board members also if you have any edits that you've seen that you'd like to add or subtract from this. Uh now >> I have a few questions if we're getting into nitty-gritty or I could add them as comments for later. It's up to you. >> I think it's okay to add now. We can make you tell me what makes >> daily routines please. Page >> 13. >> Mhm. Okay. >> Supervision. So school
054arrival and dismissal is 7:45. This correct me if I'm wrong. This is for the Laurel Elementary and intermediate. Correct. >> Correct. >> I've noticed I have kids at both schools. The intermediate playground is open and has supervision, but the elementary is not until 8 until 8:00 or 7:55. Um, I'm not entirely sure. Mrs. Ste is gone. So, if we're going to have differing schedules here um cuz we >> I'll make a note of that. I'll make a note of that right now in here. >> I The only reason that is our bus kids get there at 7:40. So, we open it for the bus kids. I talk with you guys first because you're open first and then the timeline went over. But just >> we can separate that for sure. >> Yeah, we probably want
055to make sure it's different because if we put it in here then we have be to that. So >> we'll talk to the bus lady. >> I think it's 7:55 for elementary but I'm not >> talk to the bus lady next year. So >> yeah. So if the buses change so I'll get together that way we know cuz it was going to be 7:45 but then >> right >> things change. Okay. I made a note on there um and a comment on there. >> Yeah, >> if you go up I think there was a time for the early dismissal too. That was >> weird. >> Just one more. I think they like to keep like five or 10 minutes in between dismissals so that parents can go from >> 9 a.m. up. >> Go to
056the previous page, Deon, please. >> Oh, that's for Yeah. Boost group one. >> Mhm. >> Oh, that's different. Yeah, they're different. Kinder like preschool little guys. And I like those times for dismissals. >> Although it does say 2040 8:40 p.m. >> And it says 2062. >> It's hard to read with the slash outs. >> Yeah, I think somebody corrected those. So, it's supposed to be two instead of 210. It was supposed to be 220. >> Oh, that's what do >> That's not showing up on that screen. Yeah, you can't see it, but it's the edit he made, so it's a crossed out. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> Um on page 13 under recess, it talks about um if um about children being out in like less than 0 degrees or severe windchills, can you include
057like other weather events like bad smoke since we get that during the summer? >> Air quality. >> Yeah, like air quality. when kids were >> maybe just a couple more examples maybe of this cuz I mean it's not meant to be inclusive but I get what you're saying cuz that one just sounds like if it's cold out. >> Yeah. >> But that's not true cuz we do keep the kids in if it's smoky >> dors the wind. >> I'll make a note of that Gabriella. Just about um obviously even sometimes in really bad rains even though it might be >> Oh yeah above >> just getting out there and get everyone soaked. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Great, great call. Thank you for that. >> Jenny, did you have a few more? >> This is another
058clarification between schools because I have kids in both schools and I got to find the page number. It was about the over the counter meds. >> Mhm. >> Um, the elementary school allows cough drops without a form and everything. >> The the intermediate doesn't. So, we get around it by bringing Jolly Ranchers or that sort of thing, >> right? That's got to be consistent. >> Um, just so the cough drop thing is consistent with overthec counter meds and I'm not sure where the what page number is. Just give me a sec. Um, but um, >> I don't know if cough drops are considered a medication or over the counter. I mean, you buy them the same place where chapstick like, you know what I mean? So, whatever the clarification, if we could just be consistent
059on that. Page >> 24. >> Page 24. Thank you. And it doesn't specifically say, but I just do know when cold season rolls around and I can bring cough drops for my first grader but not for my third grader and it causes consideration. >> Yep. That doesn't make any sense. >> Okay. >> Yes. Doesn't talk about it in there. That's a practice that we need to >> Perfect. Just for consistency. It doesn't matter to me. >> If you bring them to the nurse, you can they can have them. But then I think they have to go to the nurse for administration which is >> Lis and LE need to be the same. >> I don't care which we will consistency. >> Oh the different I think that's I that would be my guess. I don't
060know why it would be different. >> Yeah. >> Right. Yeah. Seems like a pretty >> lifeavers. coffee. >> Okay. Um, >> meal cost was one, Donnie. So, once we get those >> Yeah, soon. Should be soon. >> This is a question I'm rolling through. If you guys are good with me getting all my comments out. Okay, this is a question that comes up often in the community and I figured we might as well address it since it's in head in in the handbooks. headlights. Why is not all of the class or school notified when there's cases in the um school? Just for clarification with the community just because it's an opportunity allowed to do that anymore per >> Riverstone Health. It's Yeah. >> Okay. You can ask the nurse for the specific thing, but that's
061why >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> I heard that from other schools. Can we maybe can we we state in the handbook per Montana law we have to do this and this or over the counter meds. Can we just state per local health regulations or something like that so that we can have some authority behind >> is that RSHI >> health. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Apologies. >> Thank you. Gabby didn't tell >> um I know headlight spreads around all the schools. I don't know between the middle school and the high school handbook. I know the high school handbook is listed about headlights procedures. Could we add that in for both the schools? >> It's not in the middle school. >> Not that I could see nor the high school high school front to back. >> That's
062good. That is good. >> Not in here, huh? which we could just spell out what RSH is. >> Yeah, it might be helpful to people. >> It said Riverstone House. >> Yeah, maybe >> would be helpful. I think this is about I was just looking it up here. No, you're Yeah, it's not in there. >> It definitely helps to have kids in the s like in the schools when you're consistency, but >> Oh, I didn't think of it that way. >> Yeah, they were vastly different years ago. So, I do appreciate the work of all the admin staff. It is coming together and so it is going through this is a lot easier than it had been. Yeah, I was concerned. >> Yeah, it's been quite a multi-year process. >> Yeah, lice is not in
063there at all in middle school. >> So, middle school lights. >> You're not allowed to have them. >> Middle school here. Yeah, that whole head that whole age had just procedure shot >> I would think. >> Yeah, middle school and high school. >> But since we don't have high school on here, we probably should avoid talking about it too much. >> And I have shared with all the new board members all of these. So you'll be able to open them up on your private leg at home and you're welcome to look at. >> That's all. >> Thank you, Devin. >> That's everything I had. >> Great >> for elementary. >> Good catches there. That's great. Anyone else had anything that they'd like to modify at this time or make suggestion to? Again, just remember this
064a first read. So wait is if if you as you review at home bring your questions to the next meeting we'll have some more discussion on these. >> Yes. >> Is this for my question I guess is can we add to the high school and any other schools that even if a child is a half day and they make the honor roll they can receive a certificate. >> That would be an example of something. >> Yeah. Can we add that? I will talk to you about that. Um, again, we'll we only did the uh middle school lower, but we'll bring the high school ones. We just didn't want to overwhelm anybody. >> But the high school, there's transportation, there's activity handbooks, there's there's a whole bunch more. >> Yeah. So, it's kind of we just
065left that one kind of as its own uh thing. So, certainly um but yeah, when as you review those because those will be on the that handbook will be in the next meeting >> and you will have access to them. I'll have uh I'll actually have my secretary share with you guys all the handbooks with everybody >> so you so that they're not so you can have time to review them at your own leisure over the next few weeks without having to wait till Friday before the board meeting. Um I'll go ahead and have her send out all of them to you guys as commenters. >> Great. Thank you. Does anyone else any other comments or additions here? >> Yeah, >> um going back to the middle school on um page 18 where it talks
066about um Christine Peterson um the address needs to be changed from the Colorado building to this >> catch. Page what? 18. >> Yep. Mhm. >> Um I was just curious about the 10day rule at the elementaryaries. Um because we have a 10day rule, but there's no like disciplinary action that's like noted or anything like that. So I didn't know that was covered somewhere else or >> what we do in that case. >> Sherry, did you catch that question? >> Sorry. Got you. There's a question about the 10-day rule >> and is there is there a followup to the 10-day rule as far as a consequence or anything like that? >> Yes. So, they get a 5-day letter and then a 10-day letter, 5day, 7-day, 10day, then I call then I write I contact the SRO.
067Um, if there we'll have an attendance meeting after the 10 days with the parent. um they agree to whatever. If they don't follow through, then we cite them for truency through our SRO. They still don't follow through. I'm currently doing one for a second citation. >> So, yes, there is follow through there. >> What page is that on again? I'm sorry. I totally >> I think it's a 13. >> Is it 13? >> And we work with them. I mean if they after the attendance you know of the meeting then if the parent is working with us then of course we continue to work with them. If they've got medical stuff then obviously we exempt. Yeah. Does anybody have any specific >> I think it's uh Devon what you were asking about is underneath four
068five six and seven underneath that policy. >> Oh sort of like this the next step. So after they go past, we notify a five, then seven, then 10, and then the 11th. We >> take those protective steps. >> Was that the only question? >> I think so. >> I have no other elementary. No other elementary >> or NDI question or um >> so we'll so we we'll we'll just move on to the next piece of this then which would be um Laurel Elementary MBI if anyone has anything >> any questions on that >> MBI is Montana's behavioral institute it's really talking this is about the kind of the behavioral things uh they separated out it's a little different for the elementary as it is for intermediate and then the middle school and high school have
069it in already woven into their handbooks. That's the discipline section, the section on uh you know, here's a level one, here's what a level two is, all that type of stuff. So, that's already all in there. So this is the uh MBI that's what MBI means is Montana Behavioral Institute and it's just a it was a state initiative that that schools use all over the state to uh just on how to work with kids and discipline procedures and all. So that's why they are separate separated out and they're a little they're a little different little different approaches. Okay, >> any questions on the MBIS? Ken, please just review. If you have as you generate questions, please note those and we'll address them at the next meeting. Let's move into Laurel Middle School student handbook. Does
070anyone have anything they would like to address or discuss? >> Mr. Chair. >> Yes. Sorry. I was really hoping that someone from the middle school would be here. >> We do have I know that we have one in a concert covering their concert. The other one's in surgery. So So like I I it's legit since they're not here. One's covering for an activity tonight. >> So can you give us an >> I I have gone Yep. I've gone over it. Um probably the big things again. Some little little things here and there. go down to the um behavior or like the disciplined um some things we've talked about. We want to be very consistent across all of the schools and I'm finding it. Uh, another big thing they, if you want to go to page
07125, uh, starts on page 25, they had a, uh, admission requirements for the math classes. That's the advanced placement math classes. So, they totally revamped the uh, criteria for going into those classes. So, that's all right there. And that's a number of pages. It's quite a bit more descriptive than what it was previously. And that's, you know, goes from a paragraph to multiple pages. So, make sure you review that. >> Could I have a question on that for when they come back? Or maybe Mr. TS you can answer. >> It says they have to meet three of the five requirements. Um, one is a placement exam. Is that going to be taken like specifically for the sixth graders or any grade? Is it going to be taken in fifth grade so that they can build
072the schedule? >> You know what? That is a good question. Mrs. What? Do we know that off the top of your head? >> I did not know that they had any changes in there in that section to start with. So, I was actually just writing a note to myself to to read that part tomorrow and to follow up with both of them >> because we had designed advanced placement. >> It it absolutely should. And >> um we had >> advanced placement criteria that I had developed with them to collect that body of evidence. And so I'm not aware of these changes. So I'll need to please review those. >> I'll review those and I'll get in touch with um both administrators and see if I have questions. But >> yes, we would we we look
073at all of their well, I don't know what they what the proposed changes are yet. I haven't read them. But we do look at a body of evidence from fifth grade going into sixth grade because we do have the 6A which is the condensed um standards for sixth grade and seventh grade. math and then we also have the 7A for the kids from 6A. But we don't want to I know that what we have been talking about is once a student gets onto one of those tracks doesn't mean that that's a life sentence and we need to be re-evaluating that every year because if they are in 6A for example but then their skills are just not solid enough for them to move into 7A because 7A is going to condense seventh grade standards and
074some of those pre-alggebra skills. We don't want them to go into that if they're not ready. So, that is the conversation that I know we've been having about making sure that we're re-evaluating that data every single year once they do go into that accelerated track because there are still a lot of foundational skills that are newer. um fractions, decimals are two that are introduced in intermediate that sometimes it does take a while for them to solidify. And then also just because a student wasn't in 6A should not hinder them from going into 7A if they are capable of doing that that level of work. So on both sides um but definitely I will I will read through what their recommended changes are. um we'll get the current advanced placement criteria that we've developed together and
075then we'll take the next step from there. Great. And if you go down to like I know it's a long way down but like your 61 62 63 there's quite a bit that they uh worked on the uh discipline to make sure it matched up with the high school as well. Uh they had some wording issues that we found. Um some inconsistency in the uh first, second, third offense issues that they that they're fixing. And uh some things they just added to to make sure we were notifying law enforcement. for example, uh whereas the high school has uh you know possession of a firearm, we didn't have the middle school didn't have notified law enforcement as part of their um you know process which obviously we want to do that. So you'll see a lot
076of changes on that 61 62 63 to match that more up with the the high school. >> Jenny first. Yes. If you since we're down there by those consequence grids, I see they totally removed the bullying and truency policy and grid as well as the tardy grid. Can we ask why those are >> No, I don't think they removed them. I think they they took them out there and added them somewhere else. >> Okay, let me just do it. Are theyove? >> Yeah, it's right here. >> Okay. Thank you. Just wanted to clarify. Thank you. Gabby. Yes. Um >> to go back to um advanced placement for like those math classes. What happens if a student transfers in from another district or state and they are were advanced in that in that previous school? What
077would happen to them? Would they be placed in advance or would they just be placed in regular? I >> I think that would depend on the student. We would obviously look at their transcripts and see what comes in. Um, most states for math use Common Core or their state standards are aligned to Common Core. So, that that helps because u most of the time if they're in an advanced level in another state typically typically it would transfer in. Um but we would definitely that's why we've been talking about having placement assessments um kind of as that additional diagnostic screener to evaluate if the student is ready and has the skill set ready to move into that advanced level coursework too. We also have our own internal benchmark screening that we do. And so as soon
078as a student comes in, even if we've finished our benchmarking, we can still administer that benchmark screening to gather that data. But um I mean, we've been talking about data a little bit tonight. We would not make any decision based off of one indicator. We want to collect a body of evidence and look at the whole picture. Um gather that information and make a good decision for the student. And would it be possible to add the those who are new to LMS from like a different school district or school about that? >> Say that one more time. >> Would it be possible to add that for like students who are just freshly new but just transferred to LMS? >> I I think that that we do at at the middle school like if students transfer
079in and aren't part of our school district. Is that what you're asking about in the handbook? >> Oh, in the handbook. I I don't know that I per my personal feeling is I feel like these are procedures and just practices that that are good practice for making good decisions about placing students in the appropriate classes that it's not necessarily a handbook thing but that's just my >> we have a new student procedure throughout the district. So if someone comes in new to my school then okay who's calling the previous school to check on the student what services they have there mean they weren't advanced placement classes we'd like to know all that then obviously so transcripts don't mean a lot for elementary and and middle school students they need more for high school kids but
080we can see what classes we make those phone calls so we have procedures in place to catch that we don't rely on the student or the parent to tell us >> and as soon as we do our fall. Sorry, I didn't mean to. No, you're good. >> As soon as we do our fall benchmarking, we do look at all of those kiddos that are new to our district that we didn't have that historical reference to look at. Um, and our teachers, I think, are amazing at making the recommendation saying, "Hey, this kiddo's in my regular class. They need to be in the advanced level class." Or, "This kiddo's in my advanced level class and they're really struggling." And so at that point in time, then we are definitely re-evaluating all of their data to look
081and and decide why why they are where they're at and if it is a good placement. And then to your point, like some kids aren't really great testers. So we do need to look at that perspective of how are they performing in the classroom with the content that is being put in front of them and is it appropriate. So, um I feel like that first boy that first month of school is a lot of data analysis from our um all of our teams, all of our assessment coordinators, all of our title and special education teachers who are working with intervention. Um and definitely from our advanced placement classes, the teachers who teach those classes are pouring over that data also to make sure, you know, did we miss somebody? Is somebody not in the right
082spot? So, um, I feel like those are just procedures and practices that we instill as far as being good stewards of our data and it's not necessarily a handbook item. >> Okay. >> So, but I will definitely talk that over with the principles and whomever wants to talk about data. >> Yeah. So sort of like think of these like a guideline and then they inform they're informed by policy and then the procedures are the way that we execute on these guidelines. >> Okay. >> So there's kind of a foundational go policy handbook and then procedurally how does the how does the district um execute on policy and the guidelines in this. >> Okay. >> I just have one last question. Again, drop off procedure. So, if you go to page 23, um it says cafeteria
083open at 7:45. Everybody else has to stay outside until 8:05, but then it says library doors. Students that are attending homework room must enter through the library door starting at 7:45. later in the in the manual. It says the library opens at 7:30 and let me find that page just to be consistent. I don't care what time you guys decide. Um, it's like a whole library section. >> Yeah, there you go. >> Yeah, it says the library is open from 7:30. Now, is that open for only those students doing homework? Is it open to all the students? So, anybody >> What page you on? >> Uh-huh. >> TW What page are you on, Devin? >> 40. >> Thank you. just to make it consistent throughout the handbook of >> that's what we're shooting for. >>
084What is what's the deal and who can go into the library? Is it only breakfast kids? Is it any kid? And and just you know that sort of clarification. Well, when it says homework, is that ICU? Do they have an period before school? >> And if so, 15 minutes doesn't seem like much. Yep. >> Perfect. >> I lied. I have one more question. Back up on page 23. Drop off procedures and pickup procedures. Are we going to change any of that for the new school bus route that is going in? Um, yeah, the students going down a little bit. Are >> you hoping to give back the front circle? >> We are hoping to give back the front circle at the middle school back to parents. So, we'll move the buses to the the new
085bus road going back there. >> Is that even in here? >> Move the bus drop off. >> So, >> just looked at that section. Is that why I had new roads going in or >> Yeah. >> I made a comment on >> Yeah, even it says it right there. Due to the safety concerns, there's no drop off or pickup in the transportation loop. >> But that would be a change. >> Yeah. Okay. We made a number of comments. So >> actually, if you go down to the school transportation of students, are they still sitting in the common area or are they still in the rooms? My daughter said that there's some transportation rooms in >> Yeah, on the uh on the old fifth grade one. I'm not sure what they're doing next year. I know
086they're moving some classes down there. So, that's a good question. Again, I'll make a note And I think to answer Gabby's question there that she wrote about the cell phone usage on that same page 23, I think it's just to reiterate that it's never allowed inside the building ever. >> Cuz if you go down to cell phone usage, it says the same thing. It says >> basically they can use it before school till 8:05 and after school, but outside the building. >> Okay. >> Never inside. >> Okay. >> Like they're eating breakfast, they don't have cell phones in the building when they're eating breakfast or uh yeah, going to library. >> But because it's before 8:05, which is what the cell phone policy says, you wanted to add it there to clarify and see. >>
087That's what I would guess. Right. >> Yeah. A good question. >> Yeah, very good. >> It's basically zero. >> No, >> less than zero. >> Y >> tolerance for any kind of personal electronic device at the middle school. Like completely dead. >> And there's strict there. >> Oh, it's bad. Yeah. Yeah. And not bad in a bad in a good way. >> Bad in a good way. But >> it feels like going to the military for a little bit. Like the first few weeks, the back of like summer, >> you're like going through a little like where's that? >> Where's that? >> I don't know what to do with my hands now. >> We'll think later. >> Yeah, they'll think it's late. >> Yeah, hopefully. So, >> maybe not, but >> maybe when they're 25.
088>> Yeah, maybe. >> Yes. Done. So there might be a reason, but it just looks a little redundant to me that we have the board of trustees listed under staff and then a few pages later in their own section, school board members. >> Staff staff. >> Well, that's a good question. um >> page um seven >> is the first time that's where the staff listing is and then the other one is down below the bell schedules that list school board members. I don't mind it being up higher because I know all this communic like you know if they're looking for someone to talk to it probably be better if it is up in the staff maybe just do staff SL area like a directory of where to find people's phone numbers. Yeah, it seems more
089appropriate to take it off of 15 and just leave it up above and then recclarify what it is that we're not staff. >> But looks like there's >> there's a spacing issue though because they included >> it's columns or something. >> Should build these in publisher instead of word for that. >> You can do I can do it. >> You can do it. I think I >> Oh, yeah. >> I want to delete something. >> The thing about the first one though is the email addresses aren't listed up there. >> Yeah, I think we'd have to kind of combine. We add the email addresses as contacts. >> Well, I would think take it out of the whole um take it out of that staff format. Yeah, >> just delete it and put it in just
090right after the staff. right at the top probably it's format that it occurs a few pages later just put it in that >> yeah but just keep it up alert where people will be looking for >> I'm not a fan of that format al together >> yeah just kind of clean that up general clean up >> when you're yeah editing it looks kind of weird >> and they will once they fix all that and that starts delete things they can make it clean up make it look nice >> get rid of spaces and I'm not a fan of that moment. >> Anything else for this first pass? >> Yes. I just got a question on Matt. Uh addressed it a little bit, but how much difference is the policy for um and I hate to
091say it, but for the um middle school and the high school, he said you guys were trying to get the policy for weapons and tobacco and everything. >> They they weren't different from a they weren't different from a uh policy standpoint. where they were different was for example let's say uh let's say I uh threatened you with a I had a pocketk knife or something >> and uh so is that consistent and and is that is that one day of OSS is it three days so they need to be some consistency >> consistency how about the elementary side >> elementary we're we're in pretty good shape right now it is a little different because of of a kindergarten partner is different than a fifth grader. So they >> Well, would you want the same same
092across the board? >> Not necessarily. >> Well, if you get a student that's from that comes to school from elementary to high school, the whole their whole school career, there's certain expectations that you have. And that expectation, you put that in policy when they're in elementary school all the way down to high school. >> And there's some of those. And there are some of those. >> Well, shouldn't it be all the same across the board? >> I mean, >> what would what would be the not necessary part? >> Well, you know, uh, a high school fight looks a lot different than kindergarten fight. >> Uh, not necessarily anymore. >> Well, >> I mean, it's like bringing a knife to a gunfight. you know, there's kids I mean, and I hate to say it, you know,
093like tobacco use because parents aren't paying attention. Uh, them bringing It's one thing actually saying, "Okay, I'm sorry. I brought a I forgot my pocket." We're We're in Montana. Everybody carries a pocket. But, uh, elementary kid watching some guy on YouTube and thinking, "Okay, this kid's in high school. I'm going to do the same thing." I mean there should be a consistency all the way through for expectations of that and there is a consistency in in policy where it changes a little bit is is is every everything is the world isn't always black and white when it comes to discipline. If if you and I get into a fight in middle school and we show through witnesses that uh that you were pushing me, pushing me, pushing me, I tried to get away from you,
094you took a swing at me, I took one swing, knocked you down, then I took off. I'm going to be treated differently. I mean, we can't just say it's a fight is a fight is a fight. It's not. There there's there's there's situations >> DUI is a DUI DUI. >> Well, I mean, >> that's happening in oranges, though. Yeah, but you're telling you're you're in in the long run you're telling it again. >> I'm telling you there's differences sometimes. There there's differences sometimes that it's not as clean as we I would love it to be clean all the time cuz it makes discipline very very easy. Oh, go down. First defense of this. First defense, find it. Move over to the chart. First offense is this. Boom. And and that does make it easy. I
095highly disagree with you because if if if I was, you know, just a really easy example, speeding. If I was speeding, >> you're going to get the same punishment as I am as you are going to for speeding. >> But some of it's based off of psychology, too. Psychology, when you look at Maslo's hierarchy of needs, that >> adolescent versus or a pre-adolescent versus a teen, their brain structure is totally different. And >> here's a here's a better way of saying it. >> We don't let knives in kindergarten. We don't let knives. >> But how how we take care of explaining and teaching that kindergartener about bringing the knife to school is going to certainly be different than an 18-year-old, a 17-year-old who's bringing the knife to school. >> See, this is like a first
096interaction with a disciplinary system. It's not going to be the same sort of discussion with a kindergartener. You can't have a mature sort of diff discussion with a kindergartener as you can. My daughters are 9, 11, and 14. And I can't talk to my 9-year-old the way I talk to my 14-year-old in explaining things. And so that's how you have to handle the discipline also is that they are at different developmental levels. And so you you can't just like drop the hammer on a kindergartener the same way you could potentially drop the hammer on a high schooler or a middle schooler or whatever. >> There are situations where you know a kid kindergarten could be expelled the same way as the high school kids. Sure. >> There's some consistency there. It's not like kindergarters can
097get away with just >> just the wording in your handbook. I mean the expectation of the parents the handbook's for the parents >> more for the parents than the kids. It's more for the kids. >> It's for everybody. >> Yeah. Yeah. I know. I know what you're saying. >> Parents expectation, you know, the kindergarten, this is what the school >> says. I mean, I just feel it should be pretty much the same across the board. >> Sure. Um I would just like to encourage the board when you're looking at the discipline matrices in the different handbooks um to tie that and and to remember that we have like the MBI handbooks and MBI was founded and and based off of PBIS positive behavioral interventions for support. It's been a long time since >> um but
098the the premise of PBIS and MBI and all of that is also that we are an institution of teaching and if a student doesn't know how to read, no matter how old they are, we teach them over and over and we try different strategies and we do different things. And if a student goes to music class and doesn't know how to play an instrument, we teach them how to play that instrument and we do it again and over and over and different strategies and do different things. Um, and I could go on and on and on when it comes to a student doesn't know how to behave, tendencies are to go straight to discipline, straight to the punishment. And MBI is founded on reteing teaching expectations. All of the CHAMPS training that we have invested
099a significant amount of funding in this district around CHAPS training and discipline in the secondary classrooms. And I would say that even with our staff turnover, we're still sitting pretty good at about 85 to 90% of our staff having been trained in CHAMPS or DSC strategies, which then go back to establishing clear establishing clear expectations in the classroom. What do I expect? What do I need from you? How am I going to help support you in that? It does not ground itself in punishment in punishing. So we we also need to look at our discipline matrices like yes we do need to have discipline. We need to have safe schools. We need to keep all of our children and staff safe at school. But the the premise of discipline in a school setting is around
100teaching students what to expect and how to behave and and then retaching them when they don't behave. That's why we have that's why I spent months with the middle school developing behaviormmies because even our middle schoolers sometimes don't know how to behave appropriately in that setting and we have an obligation to then retach them to not give up and just say well you're 12 you should know how to do that. Um it it has to go back to that teaching mindset that we are teachers, we are educators in all things, in all areas. >> Thank you for that. That's great information. Anything else? Bo, >> are you ready for a motion? >> Yeah, just as a reminder again, we we this is we consider this a first read. um as you have now received them
101and it'll get shared. >> I'm going to share everything with everybody. Just overwhelm you, but it just gives you more time. >> Yeah. Please take the time to review and read these um develop your questions. Please bring them to the next board meeting. With that though, I would entertain a motion on action item B. So my motion I move to table the 2627 school year handbooks K5 through middle school to provide time for new trustees to review and comment on changes to make things familiarity I guess. >> There you go. Uh motion by Donnie to table action item E. Uh all four handbooks presented. >> Is there a second? Second by Noel. Thank you. Any other board discussion? Audience discussion. Hearing none, we'll move to vote on the motion to table action item E, the
102school year handbooks for K5 Laurel Elementary, Laurel Intermediate MBI LMS student handbook. Seconded by Noel. All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Still very productive. So, thank you uh trustees who provided input also. Action item F, jumpst start secretary hiring recommendation. Do I have a motion? >> I move to approve Kristen knows as jump start secretary. >> A motion to approve the recommend recommended person for jump start secretary by Kayla. Is there a second? >> Second. You have it. >> Second by. Any other board discussion? >> Jump start is the four-week summer school for K1 and two. Everyone knows that what that means. Any other discussion? Audience discussion hearing? None. We'll move to vote on the motion uh by oh golly >> me >> from faith Kayla to approve
103the secretary uh for jump start uh this summer season seconded by Ray Lynn. All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? >> Motion carries. Action item G. Yes. Recommendation. Do I have a motion? >> I'll move to approve the extended school year staff >> for this summer's program. >> Motion to approve the extended school year staff as presented by Donnie. Is there a second? >> A second. >> Seconded by Noel. >> Any audience or more board discussion or questions? >> A Oh, yes. Go ahead, Donnie. Yes. So, what is the length of this program? >> Same thing, four weeks. Uh, July, June 8th till the Monday after we're out till July 2nd. It'll run the same as uh as far as number of days and such. >> The schedule's a little bit different, but
104and it'll be held at the middle school. The other one will be held at intermediate. Um, but same. Any other questions, audience discussion? Hearing none, we'll move to vote on the motion by Donnie to approve the ESY uh staffing as recommended. Seconded by Noel. All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Action item H. First grade teacher K Haney >> Haney. These are all pending background checks because we have not gotten them back as of uh Friday. So you guys make a motion when we hire someone who hasn't gotten their background check. We always say pending a successful background check is part of the motion. So if the background check was to come back for some reason there was an issue then the motion you guys would have a motion that says
105we'll hire them pending a successful background check. So if the background check comes like that then we're not stuck having to hire them. >> Y >> I move to approve Kaney for first grade teacher pending a successful background check. Motion to approve K. Haney as first grade teacher pending background check by Jenny. Is there a second? >> Second by Vanessa. Any other board discussion? Audience discussion. Hearing none, we'll move to vote on the motion to approve first grade teacher K. Haney pending a background check by Jenny, seconded by Vanessa. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Action item I, second grade teacher D. Lupin. Do I have a motion? >> I move to approve uh second grade teacher D. Lupin pending a successful background check. >> A motion by Kayla to approve
106second grade teacher D Loopin pending a background check. Is there a second? Second uh second by Noel. Any other board discussion? Audience discussion hearing? None. We'll move to vote on the motion by Kayla to approve the second grade teacher D. Lupin pending a background check. Seconded by Noel. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Motion carries. You >> guys are on your own on this one. That's what I thought. >> Action item J. LHS head cross country coach for 2012627. Mowski. >> Shakowski. >> That might not be bad. I guess I >> Shakowski. >> Do I have a motion? >> Say it quick. >> Shakowski. >> Yeah. >> Say it quick and confident. Then you know it all know. >> I move that we approve for LHS head cross country coach
107M Sukowski for the 26 27 student pending a back. >> We have a motion to approve the LHS head cross country coach for the 202627 season Shakowski pending a background check by Ray Lynn. Is there a second? >> I'll second it. Seconded by Vanessa. Any other board discussion? Any takers on guessing the name? >> Pretty close. Any audience discussion hearing? None. We'll move to vote on the motion to approve LHS head cross country coach for the 202627 season. M Shakowski by Ray Lynn, seconded by Vanessa. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? >> Motion carries. Well, trustees, you went through your first sets of motions and approval. So, thank you. I hope you feel a little more comfortable every day that you go through this. It's a can get long. So, we appreciate you
108being here and letting us have a long meeting uh during your first uh uh fora into this. We'll move next then to the superintendence report. Please stop me if you have any questions on any of the following items. Resignations, transfers, next to information items. Walsh publishing power basics changing perspectives seal SEB curriculum. >> I just had a question. >> Yes, Jenny. Is this new curriculum that'll come? Did we approve this already? >> This publishing is not new. It's something we've had. We just It's been sitting in uh a room >> and was we don't know when it was purchased, but it's it's some of it's still new. So, we're going to use it towards our consumer the math um classes that Dr. Bington spoke about earlier. >> That's the Walsh publishing. We've been triing triing
109it in um our consumer math class this year and it's it it seems like it's going really well. It's a it is a supplementary curriculum resource um because we've decided districtwide that you know we adopted illustrative math and a lot of the classes that she talked about earlier that would be using this Walsh publishing power basics are teaching below grade level. So they already have access K all the way up through algebra, actually all the way up through geometry in illustrative math. So they need to design instruction based on the the skills and the specific pieces that the students need to be working on and they're going to go to IM first and then supplement in with the power basics pieces. >> It's something we already own, but I said, well, let's just put it
110on asformational. because it was probably purchased before anyone on this board was even on the >> board. We went back through I went back through with the um accounting office and just I mean we went back six seven years trying to figure out like when was this purchased um you know we had a different superintendent at that time. We had different people in lots of different offices at that time and we couldn't even figure out like when it was when it came here and much of it was still in plastic. >> Wow. >> But when I started researching it and looking at it, I'm like this is an amazing um resource that we could be using in the classroom and it is designed for um like credit recovery classes. I think I put all of
111that in the the document like credit recovery or special education. Um the the text is specifically designed for kids who need it scaled down. So, but they are going to IM first. Like that's their first stop shopping is I am to figure out what skills and concepts the kids need to be working on. Um and then they'll supplement in uh the changing perspectives one that one came from the student services department and so I honestly cannot speak to that one. >> I can't seal social emotional learning. and what we lacked at various levels, especially middle school and high school, working with students who needed uh maybe there's some behavioral goals they had. And uh this is a u curriculum basically to help with those social emotional learning parts, things that they can do with students,
112things that they can uh it's a supplement. It's not a like a curriculum like a class. It's just a supplement curriculum as well. Will we own this or is this a free resource? >> This is it's we we own this currently. >> Okay. >> It did come to leadership and learning too. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. >> Perfect. >> And this is just a supplement for SEAL to help with uh you know what do you do with a student who you might have some social emotional goals? You need something to work with them on. Not that you can't make up stuff on your own, but it's nice to have some things that are specific to work on all components of SEO. >> I believe it's just at the high school. Is
113that right? >> I believe right now just at the high school. >> Great. Um, so so a lot of the other tools that we have at all of our other levels like Keelso's choices or zones of regulation are are intended for our littleer learners. And so definitely for high school students, I can see where they would need something like this. that's more appropriate that that came out of um the other department so I wasn't really involved in that one. >> Um and then the other part is I missed getting my curriculum report on last last time's board uh board agenda and there's just a lot going on out of my department right now getting ready for summer and summer schools and summer PD and end of the year benchmarking and so I figured I'd throw
114it in here for good measure. Since you're up there, Charlotte, can you just tell us what you thought of the benchmarking data from spring from fall to spring? >> Well, I tell you, um I do I I can. Yes, I can. Um K2 just rocked it in literacy, which was amazing. They decreased the the percentage of students um in intensive, which would be our uh tier 3 instruction uh by 8%. uh so decreased by 8% which was like 80 kids out of the whole school K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K2, and then they actually increased their benchmarks, their kids who
115are at grade level or above by 8%. So it's not like those kids went to one bucket. There's a shift in the middle. Um but that those are impressive numbers. 8% is hard to do. um especially when most of the other grade levels are sitting at about 2 to 3% which is pretty typical. Um we hope for a 3% most of the time when we're doing our goal setting we're setting them for like 3% improvements. Um so to go eight was wow that was impressive. Um, I I feel like we're we're getting better at our data analysis and using our data to make good decisions about students. Um, I Yeah, I I mean that that one just sticks out, the K2 level. Not to say that everybody else wasn't doing really good and making good
116gains. Um, some of that at the early literacy level is about exposure. Just getting kids into school and getting kids into those routines and exposing them to all of the things. Um, but still to move 80% was pretty high. And then they were also at like the 70th. They had like 70% of their students at benchmark. So when we look at that percentage, we're looking for like an 80/20 split. We don't want more than, you know, 10 to 15% in our tier 3 simply because we don't have the capacity to service that many kids at tier 3. Um, at tier three, we're looking at they're needing skills caught up, uh, as well as additional practice on the current skills that they're trying to learn and exposure to new concepts as the grade level continues. And
117anything over about 12% is going to max us out. Um, when I look at our title one teacher over at the elementary school, she had probably about 80ome kids that she was trying to service. and that's one person trying to do some intensive work with kids. Um, and that's just really hard. So, we try to look at that 8020 split, get like 80% of our kids that can move along with their grade level peers and make a year's worth of growth with just being in the classroom. And then there's a group in the middle, probably about 10 to 12% that are going to need additional practice and support. And that's usually where our title teachers come into play, our intervention models. Uh wind time, you might hear some of the schools talk about wind time,
118small groupoup instruction in the classroom. So that's kind of that middle group. So we try to keep that top tier three as small as possible down to like single digits if possible if we can. um when we start with like 20 20% 22% it's really hard to get that up down into single digits. Um so with that I have a fear. So we get tighter and tighter and tighter as a district with staffing. Um, we've all experienced that. And if if we don't have that continued momentum for that intervention support as our grade levels continue to move up, then we see a need for more and more and more and more and more intervention as our kids get older because they're not able to just keep up with that regular classroom. But our our data
119looks pretty good right now. I was really excited about um our our our spring data overall as a district. Um yeah, I think we're moving in the right direction. We've got a lot of really good things going on in our classrooms and our teachers work their butts off. So, >> great. >> Thanks, Charlotte. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Anything else on that? Any comments or questions? Wonderful. So we'll move next then to discussion. Uh we just wanted to bring to you an update on our food service management contract. >> So our current so so new board members. So Nexo is our current food service provider right now. Um just so you guys know we we uh all the lunch staff we pay for those lunch staff people. Sedexo comes in, they've hired like a
120a manager for the lunch program and they pay them and then we contract with Sedexo to come in and supply that. So, next year it will be a company called Southwest Foods. I can't remember what the E stands for. SF, excellence, I think is what it stands for. Um, and they'll come in and take over. Uh, that's what this board, not this board, but the last board chose to go with another vendor. uh their contract has been approved by the state of Montana. It's in their hands for signing and then it comes back to us. They're sending their first transition person who's in charge of the transition to the to the new vendor. They'll be meeting with our folks. Our folks have a lot of questions on Monday. They're going to be here to do
121a tour and to uh actually uh meet with our uh lunch staff, our our kitchen staff. and to answer those questions because there's a lot of unknowns whenever you're changing companies, you're changing supervisors, you're changing concepts, you're changing menus. So, I think there's a there's always a lot of anxiety that goes with that change. So, they'll be here to start the transition on Monday. Um, and we'll just keep plowing forward from there. and we'd like them to be a part of setting our uh make sure we set our lunch and breakfast prices properly so we can make sure the contract is all everything works out. >> Yeah. >> Any questions on that audience? Anything on that? Should be good. It was a good sound. The the committee had a good re strong review of that
122>> that went through that. that works out fine. >> Yeah. >> Uh next is graduation attendance. Um we we I think Matt emailed us all on that as well, but we wanted to just make sure that it was brought here to >> And if you want to be there, I know we have a little bit of limited room up on the stage. Uh we'll jam as many people up there as we can. You're not required to to go. It's you go if you're not required to sit up on the stage as a board member if you want to. It's just something you can do. Uh, a lot of board members do, you know, when you know, high school kid, well, when that kid graduates, it's kind of cool for you to be up on stage
123and hand them the diploma and that kind of neat stuff. Um, if not, uh, I think we had I know we have at least five spaces up there for sure. And, uh, I think we have five that want to be up there right now. You were going to be there just as a just as a audience member. Okay. >> Uh and uh I think Vanessa, you wanted to sit up on >> you and I had messages back and forth about it. >> Okay. Uh and then where were you standing? >> I was going to pass on >> Yeah, you're fine. So it'll be Vanessa, Kayla, Chris, Donnie, uh and Jenny. That's Jenny did say yes. So it'll be that that'll be the five. >> Okay. When do you want us there? >> Uh 12:30ish. 12:30,
12412:40. Uh you'll get there, they'll put a little flower on you. Um so come ready for that. Whatever you're wearing, make sure you have a pin go through it. And then um we'll walk we walk out onto the stage in front of the kids. We'll be there first. Then the band plays and the kids come out and we basically just hang out there. There's nothing. You have you don't see any speaking parts. Well, don have her dressed this year. >> You have to read the name. >> It's like a punishment for me. >> Okay. Wear one thing sweatproof. >> No, it should be Yeah, wear some sweatro warm up there. Just just be aware of that. I wear shorts. I wear shorts again. It's a little >> But no, but no uh no no jean
125cut offs. If you >> get that one time, it >> always rains on my parade. No secret balance. No cut off jeans. >> None of your daisy moves. >> Are you shamed? >> Yes. >> Sure. >> Yes. I I I try to shame Mr. Rash. >> He does. >> He really does. >> You know, >> thanks for noticing. >> Stand up for yourself. >> I don't know how. Okay. >> You can talk to an adult about that. >> I'm just kid. I'm just going crying in my pillow tonight. That's usually what it cools the pillow off. And that's the sun meeting 12:30 12:40 about that time. >> So yeah, thanks for coming. I think the students >> probably don't care actually, but >> they don't know who you are. >> Most, >> but some do.
126So just keep >> I have a couple. >> Bring a little Bring a little hand sanitizer and some real clammy hands. Some kids who just would rather probably not even be on that stage for more than.3 seconds. >> Some were pretty quick to cross. They sure are. >> So, >> can I just make a comment >> for us to be up there? It really brings it home why we're here and it gives you such a good feeling. >> It does. >> So, it's a super reinforcement to trustees to participate. So, combination. >> I know next year >> 14 years if they came through kinder boost. >> Yeah. >> So my daughter is in the first Kinder Boost class. So she will be a 14ear student of >> 14 years left. >> That crazy. >> High
127school is the best six years of my life. >> What do you mean six? >> Just >> I actually have a personal record of >> I was in high school for like 10 years. >> Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I won't say how long I've been in school with you. >> Yeah, you dude is a perpetual uh student here, Donnie. >> Yeah. >> So, yes, thank you. If you have questions, email uh Matt and myself about that. Uh next, 2026 27 school year student reps. So, Gabby's not lonely. So, Gabriella is a junior and she'll repeat as a senior. So, she's automatically on the board next year. >> Hopefully. Oh, you get depending on situations there. Um, but uh you we'll do in the fall we will have some applicants that will come in and interview
128with the board uh juniors and potentially a senior potentially senior if Gabby's not here next year. >> Yes, we did um we did offer a meeting for students who were interested. Uh we didn't have a lot of takers. Uh it was a busy time. I I did ask our current reps to make us a short promotional video that we can use in the fall for a little bit of recruitment. Um either to support Gabby in her, you know, efforts to help us find another board member or in in the event that yeah, she flies the coupe as well. >> Would it be helpful for one of us to go in and try and recruit? >> Yeah, if you guys wanted to go in and talk to Yeah, I don't think that'd be a bad thing.
129I think that's a good thing for the fall. I think our agenda is more than fully booked in the next few days and that no students are thinking about taking on new things right at this moment. >> What time in the fall? Cuz we'd like to I don't want it to dry. >> We'll try to get it uh we'll try to get it off the ground right away. Probably second or third week of school. >> Okay. Yeah, let's bring that that that's a great idea. Let's bring that back. I think last year we interviewed on the second meeting in September we interviewed people on the second meeting. I like that >> even talking to those like I don't know advanced I was seeing like a honors history class or something like politically minded kids that
130are go-getters. I don't know. >> I mean personally just in my US history class in honors nobody's politically minded. They just got in there because they had good grades and sophomore fair. >> That's fair. I know one person she failed first semester and that's what she told me. >> Then maybe English. >> So we don't have a bunch of Michaels in that. >> We might approach some organizations too that might have maybe student council or national honor society or some of the students who are a little more involved in those capacities who might have an >> interest part of your first day rotation where you're talking about groups and activities and and uh >> groups kids can be a part of. I think that's that's something we throw right >> you put it out at
131open house with our our activities. We come up with like an award that they get, you know, like a strand around their award that they get is they get to sit on the board. >> I know. I get that. I It's very rewarding. You know, it would be cool to have like award, you know, letter. Kids get a letter for being in an activity that's only a quarter of the year. You know, they're >> I like that way, you know, something that an acknowledgement for the position. >> How do you record? Why didn't we think of that now? >> Yeah. Really? >> I just thought this is for you. >> Okay. Personally, if I like potentially move, would I still get a war for this year? >> Oh, we'll make sure you get it. >>
132Okay. I'll send you my new address. It'll be purple and gold. And I don't know. >> Yeah. Yeah. Cool. That'd be way cool. I love that. I don't know. >> Like a for being an honors kid. I have a >> I love giving them. That's a sweet idea. Yeah, >> I guess. >> Not that this isn't rewarding enough. >> What's that? >> I get to decorate myself a little with my already one cord I have. I I know I get. >> Yeah. >> See? Yeah. You be you'd be blinging with at least two. >> Yeah. >> I love it. >> They need to be the coolest cord on them. It has to be the coolest cord on there. >> Does the amount of time she spend equate to any like class credits so that they
133could get like a leadership type of class credit or anything like that? No, but I I have a I have a letter of recommendation to write for our previous years. Um, so I mean I think it does >> not that we're like the most connected people, but I mean I think that it's >> certainly a good thing for a resume as you're going into some of these competitive programs. Every little bit of it >> helps. So >> would you recommendation I asked you? >> Huh? >> Would you still would you write me a letter of recommendation? Okay. >> You better email me and I'll do it. Yeah. >> Absolutely. I would. Yeah. I'm going to work on that tonight probably >> for this other person. So, um, great. So, we'll kind of circle back to
134that maybe, uh, second meeting in August or something just to make sure we get a table and stuff in there for your When's that open? When is Well, when is that? Is that going to be too late? >> That might be too late. >> First meeting in August. First meeting in August organized meeting in August. Okay, let's do it first meeting. >> We'll do the list for my house. >> Okay. >> Then we want to talk about uh playgrounds for summer. >> That came out of uh uh capital planning, wasn't it, Jenny? That was Yeah. >> So, just so you guys know that the we usually try to open up playgrounds for the summer. Obviously, we had all the construction last summer, so that didn't happen. But we will be opening this playground at uh
135the Adams building. We still have the playground back. Um, we should be okay at intermediate school. Uh, though we'll have there shouldn't be any playground limitations during the summer. Yeah. >> But, uh, uh, the elementary will be closed. They'll have cranes on that playground. We're putting in some new playground equipment, fixing some of the old stuff, taking out some old stuff, trying to fix the broke up asphalt, doing some things with our final bond monies. So, that playground will be closed all summer. >> Yeah. or at least most of it. >> Would it just be open to the public? >> Yeah, that's Yeah. So, like we would open this one up during the day so with local people anyone I guess in town but can come over here and kids can play and and >>
136Are there hours then? I assume. >> Uh they open it up in the morning and then we close it in the evening. >> Yeah. But we where most of the vandalism takes place is kind of that evening time where where people are wandering around. Not to blame individual groups, but it's usually, you know, not seveny olds that are vandalizing older kids in middle school, high school. So, Wayne will go around and open up uh we also opened up the track for walking during the day, too. Have people go out there, but track will be closed for a certain amount of time cuz we're resurfacing the track, >> but we'll again, we try to open those things so you guys will try to open much. >> Would you promote it on Facebook for those? >> Yeah,
137we Yeah, great point. Yeah, >> we didn't say school uh what playgrounds will be open from what time to what time. >> But some did some >> Hey, I can do a post for you. I'm really good on camera. >> I am got some excellent skills. I want some You going to do some Canva action? >> Yeah, I'm going to do my Canva action while I still have the premium account. >> Do it. Do it. >> I love it. I can do it. So, I'll work with Wayne and we'll make sure we get if we don't have some signage, we'll have to get some more signage. >> Yeah. >> So, that's nice. We're one more step to having them all the way back open. That' be >> we got a brand new playground to play
138with that. It'll be basically a brand new playground by the end of the summer. And then of course here on this side, >> I think it would be good to ask why the elementary isn't open too. should be pretty obvious with Jack. >> We'll add that. >> That isn't obvious. >> You have to leave to be able to. >> So great. Anything else on that? The next thing the future discussion I just have one which would be um our committee assignments for the board. um we'll bring back probably either next meeting or the one after so we can get those assignments back. >> Right. The committees will slow down. We don't do them in the summer, >> but uh we will I'll still be working on some things in the summer that are committee related
139like policies. Um uh and then I did talk to all the board members that they will be on some sort of committee and just very briefly said they're during the week and uh we do them at lunch. We do them online, which means they're Zoom, which means you can be home or take your lunch at work and and jump on. Uh some of them, sometimes the worst ones are probably when we're doing policies, they can go the full hour. We won't go over that hour, though. Most of them are probably under a half hour generally. So, are the committees assigned or do we get to >> I I like I do assign them, but I like to have input on where you might feel the most interested or the most effective. Um the one option
140is that you is not to not serve on one because the problem with it is uh there's really six trustee. I don't serve on any specific committee. Um, so there's six trustees and three committees and it's important to have two each because it's our these are our committees and if there's no trustee there's no meeting, >> right? >> Show up on council. >> Correct. So, >> okay. >> Attendance is not uh I don't want to say it's not optional, but you it needs to be coordinated. it. We need you there. And if you're not able to make it, >> um, >> make sure the other trustee >> the other trustee needs to know um, for sure that they will be there because we don't, this is an assemblage of a lot of district employees when
141we have a meeting. And so we don't want to waste everybody's time if we can't hold the meeting. So that would be the worst is get everyone get on there and assemble and then we go. If you're on vacation or something, you don't you don't need to do that. just let me know you're not going to be there. It's not a big deal. >> Yeah. >> Um >> but in a regular circumstance, we would we would very much appreciate your effort to attend. >> And again, they're Zoom, so they're you know, could drive into Laurel or whatever from work to attend this meeting. It's it's a Zoom meeting. >> You had board members driving in their car. Sure have. I've done that one. >> Yeah. And been on it. >> You want to know what's
142been going around around me at times. Always got something fun going on. >> Some kid running across potty training one of them one time running around the yard naked. >> So yeah, >> industry committee background >> there's capital planning, leadership and learning and district operations. >> So >> and then there's on the calendar invite uh my secretary kind of has like a description of what district operations is and then examples of what goes to district operation. Capital planning, same thing. And uh I can have her I actually I'll have her send all those of descriptions to you guys. >> Yeah. >> As well. So then take some time to consider um like I said what you might have an interest in or feel like you might be able to contribute the most to and >>
143what's open like do you just want us to stay like >> do you want us to stay where we are? Cuz if not like if there's only >> I think all three of you are on separate committees now. Yeah, I think so. >> So, I would say that that's acceptable. I wouldn't Yeah, I really wouldn't want a new trustee to sort of have to navigate that with another new trustee. So, since we're all if you three are happy with your current assignment, then I would say leave you in place and then um let the new trustees sort of feel out. >> One of the most reading and and kind of going over stuff is the is leadership and learning. It's not all the time, but we are in a kind of a constant review of
144policy. So, we're pretty deep into it right now, the 7,000s, and we'll hold off and we'll start on fall. Uh, and then we have a whole bunch of schoolboard association changes that just got sent to us last week. So, that's what we'll be working on in the summer to get all those changes, legal changes to you guys. So we'll be so if you reach out to me and Matt also we'll let you if you have a question or if you have one that you're leaning toward uh just after you send the description I'll do that tomorrow and then just let us know and then we'll work on a tie break if there is someone if there's interest to speak on the same one. So great. Any other things for a future meeting, discussion items or
145anything for a future meeting? As always, if you do come up with one and you have uh it comes to your mind, feel free to just email Jenny, myself, and Matt just so that the we can get that all together and add it to the next um appropriate meeting. So, just so you guys know too, it may not always be the next meeting just because uh maybe there's some data that needs to be gathered or a certain staff member needs to be there to help with facilitate that discussion or um maybe that agenda is already full because we're reviewing, you know, 35 policies in a meeting. So, it may not end up on the next meeting, but I'll always communicate that to you if it can't be on the next one. So >> Chris, I
146did think of that. Could you look at potential dates >> for board training? >> Yes, I think we've talked about that already. >> Yeah. But we have Yeah, we need to add it to a lot of it'll depend on the trainers. >> Sure. >> Yeah. >> Anybody wanted to We were talking about felt Martin coming, right? Um yeah, Belar that'll probably be in closed session at our next board meeting uh with our lawyer will be here. So >> Oh, that too. But I bet the training would be Phil Martin. >> Yeah, Phil Martin will do the training. >> Yeah. >> Uh usually or we can have schoolboard association depending on what what you guys want. >> Yeah. >> Marvelous. If there's nothing else, we'll cut you loose. Journey. Thank you all. >> I think I
147will be here next week. Let me look.