001with liberty and justice for all. It's so empty in here. Good evening. I'd like to welcome you all to our regularly scheduled board meeting of the Laurel School District. I'll begin by reading um our public comment section. 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-agenda 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 comment section on the other side of the cards in the back and hand it to myself or Superintendent Torres. Public participation
002is a right that carries certain responsibilities such as informing oneself in advance of the issues being discussed, voluntary voluntarily being as brief and germane 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. Do I have any public comment for non-agenda items? All right, hearing none, we'll move on then to our presentation with FFA. Would you like us to introduce ourselves? Oh, you guys already did. Do you want to introduce too? No, no, no. All right. Whitney Fuller, the Laurel High School Ag teacher. Okay. Okay, I'm Addie Wright and I'm the Laurel FFA president this year. I'm Ronald Blodgett. I'm the Laurel FFA vice president this year. I'm Chloe Ross. I'm
003the Laurel FFA secretary. Well, good evening school board members and Mr. Torres. Members with me tonight, we've got a little bit of something to say for you guys. So, I'd like to thank you guys for taking the time to hear about an organization that I'm incredibly passionate about and that tremendous it made a tremendous impact in the lives of our students and that's the FFA. Now, I know some of you might be thinking if the FFA is just about farming, but let me tell you it is so much more than that. The FFA is a premier national youth organization that empowers our students in agriculture, leadership, and career development. Through hands-on experience and sustainable farming practices, animal science, agribusiness, and environmental stewardship, our students are building the skills that will carry them through life. Teamwork,
004public speaking, problem-solving, and resilience. Here's what makes FFA so special. Our students don't just learn about agriculture, they live it. They compete at regional and state level competitions. They complete meaningful community service projects. They earn scholarships and recognition. And most importantly, they develop confidence and purpose. I've watched shy students become confident public speakers. I have seen struggling learners discover their passion and excel academically. I've witnessed our members give back to our community. But the real measure of success isn't in the awards or the accolades, it's in our students. Many will pursue careers in agriculture, business, and environmental science. Others will take what they've learned and apply it in completely different fields. And every single one of them will carry the values of FFA with them. Leadership, teamwork, and service to others. FFA is an investment
005in our students' futures. It's about preparing them not just for college and careers, but for life as engaged, capable, and compassionate citizens. The three FFA members with me tonight will tell you more about the program. I genuinely believe that when you see what our FFA members are accomplishing, you'll understand why I'm so excited about this organization. I thank you for your continued support for our students and our school, and I will now pass the mic on to Addison Wright, our FFA president, so that she may share more about the FFA. All right. So, the FFA offers members many opportunities to get involved through events that build leadership skills and community connections. Our main event is competitions, where FFA members can participate in career and leadership development development events that test real-world agricultural knowledge and leadership
006abilities. We also organize chapter fundraising, which for our chapter includes Montana Made boxes, a breakfast and silent auction, and a spring plant sale. We conduct monthly chapter meetings, which gives members a chance to practice leadership, plan activities, and stay informed. Our FFA encourages members to serve their community through volunteer projects, like helping a local farmer clean up his land, putting flowers out on the veterans' graves at the cemetery, or even doing a little clean up at South Pond. These activities promote citizenship and a spirit of service, while strengthening ties between chapter and the community. In addition, we are hosting a free event, which is an agricultural-themed carnival, this Saturday from 9:00 to 1:00 in the high school parking lot. This will include a petting zoo, agricultural themed games, snacks, and prizes. This is a part
007of what we call service learning, which combines service serving our community and teaching them more about agricul- agriculture at the same time. If any of you are interested in attending, we would love to see you there. We also attend state convention each year, where we take qualifying teams to compete against other eligible teams from across the state for a championship title. I will let Rowan take over and speak more about state. This year, uh we got the chance to take over 10 teams to state, which is almost record-breaking for the Laurel FFA chapter. Um day one started with a very snowy drive up to Great Falls. Um sales and meats competed first, uh while the rest of the chapter got to hang out and play in the pool. Uh we didn't make it into the
008top five, but we all put forward a very valiant effort. Day two started off with the forestry team and the farm agribusiness management competitions, where Chloe Ross also gave her prepared speech. Um everyone also worked very hard to help the Montana FFA alumni set up their booth. Day three was full of student workshops, a day of service similar to the one that we want to put on, tours over career and development, and more events. Day four started early with livestock evaluation and then vet science. At session that night, we heard many awards for scholarships, mentors, and the results of the previous day's events. As a group, the Laurel FFA put in over 18 volunteer hours, competed in eight career development events, and one leadership development event. As we attended multiple workshops to help build a
009development skills, which will make us valuable members of the Laurel community for many years to come. Addison Wright was also awarded with the highest honor the Montana FFA can bestow upon an FFA member, her state degree. It was a jam-packed five days with lots of activities, service learning, volunteering, career leadership development, team building, and >> and their community service aspects that they just talked about for the past gosh, how many years guys? Too many for us. Too many. Um, you they every time they come to state, they are in charge of helping with the FFA state alumni store. And this year they were awesome. I can just can't even tell you how outstanding they are. The moment I pulled up, my car was unpacked. The tables were the boxes were gone through, the kids were
010organizing. I just stood back literally and watched. And for three days they took on themselves to literally run the store. And what that brings is customer service, counting money, organizing the till, making sure the store looks appropriate. Um, they know they were great at following my guidelines of what my expectations were. And so you should just be really really proud of how these students represented Laurel because they did a fabulous job. They're so smart that they can even know to AI how to run the cal- or the adding machines that touch screen cash registers like, "Oh gosh." Yeah, so they did great. And then I just also want to This is a photo of them all. I'll just give that to you. Sorry, it's not a video call but but I can do that. They're
011they're fabulous. Then I'd also like to give you these two pictures and those are from a project that happens at state FFA called JAM and the kids can and Mrs. Puller can explain a little bit more about JAM but if you'll take a look at those pictures, those are some of the projects that other schools with two teachers programs are bringing to the forefront. You'll see one tractor that was total. Yeah, it was amazing. It started out as rust and you can see in the pictures what they've redone. And then the second one is a calf shoot table. So like when we're branding and that kind of stuff, they built a table able to bring the calves in and and hustle them through and that's a small compared to there's tons and tons of different
012things. And then at some point, you know, I'm always up here saying we need more seats to eat. We need another ag teacher so that we can be hitting business, we can be hitting vet, we can be hitting mechanics, we can be hitting welding. And I really hope that we are working towards that. And again, kudos to these guys and a huge thank you to Mrs. Puller on my behalf from the Laurel FFA alumni cuz she really is doing a fabulous job building our program, building our numbers and you guys should be proud to have her on your staff. So thank you. Thank you. I will say with the jam show, there are some fantastic projects that kids come up with and they have to not only build them, they have to keep a portfolio
013of what the kid like built like built materials all like everything from first step to, you know, them presenting. They present it in front of judges and then there's scholarship money that those kids earn if they get placed first, second, best of show, that kind of stuff. Um and if I had more bandwidth, I would totally try to get my kids to do more of that. If we had the shop space to be able to have kids welding and woodworking to create these projects and they can even sell them at the JAM show after that. That's cool. Um and it's great for the kids. So, like that's one of I've got a few kids that are talking about a couple JAM project ideas and I always tell them it's like, "Well, you got to get
014started on the ideas now and then we got to nail it down by the time school starts and then you're going to be working on it all from the start of school until April when you're going to go take it to state present it. And it goes straight to state. There's no in-betweens. So, it's one of those cool projects. I've got a couple kids who are thinking of things and it can be a team or it can be an individual project. So, I'd I'd love to see the kids do that if we had the shop space and uh I'd love a second ag teacher to help run a few of those things. So would we. It'd be really cool. That was so cool, yeah. I like the tractor. Mhm. Yeah, I know some boys. I
015like them. And it ran and they brought they drove it in. That's amazing. So. Um thank you so much school board and superintendent. >> Thank you, Ms. Fuller. And a little shameless plug, the FFA's uh greenhouse is open for business. So. All right. Thank you, ladies, so much. Thank you so much. Awesome. All right, we'll move next to our correspondence. Again, we thank the community for all of the support, the wonderful support they offer. Um take a take a moment to just look through all of the programs that are being supported by the community. It's very very appreciated. We'll move next to our consent agenda. Do I have a motion? I move to approve the consent agenda. A motion to approve the consent agenda by Jenny. Is there a second? I'll second it. Any other
016board discussion on the consent agenda? Audience discussion? Hearing none, we'll move to vote on the motion to approve the consent agenda by Jenny, seconded by myself. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Section six, our action items. Number A, policy review second reading. Do I have a motion? I move to approve the second reading of policy 5420 along with the notice form 5450 and F1 and policy 5460. I have a motion by Donnie to approve action item A as constituted. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Kayla. Any other board discussion? Audience discussion? Hearing none, we'll move to vote on the motion by Donnie to approve action item A policy review second reading as constituted, seconded by Kayla. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Action item B, out
017of district students for 2025-2026. Is there a motion? I move to approve the list of district to district placements for students to attend the Yellowstone Academy. A motion by Jenny to approve action item B. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Kayla. Any other board discussion? Audience discussion? Hearing none, we'll move to vote on the motion by Jenny to approve action item B, the approval of out of district students for the 2025-2026 school year for Yellowstone Academy, seconded by Kayla. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Action item C, summer food adult prices for 2026. Do I have a motion? I'll move to approve the adult meal rates for breakfast and lunch for the summer food program as recommended. Motion to approve action item C by Donny. Is there a second? Second.
018Seconded by Jenny. Any board discussion? So, what price >> Yes. You probably already know this off the top of your head, but do you know what the current prices are? Sorry. Uh, this is just for summer, too. Yeah. I Well, I'm talking out of my head, but I know that we can't use any funds uh that we get from the summer program to subsidize adult meals, so that's why I'm curious. >> Okay. Good. Any other board questions or discussion? It's $6.25. Audience? Hearing none, we'll move to vote on the motion by Donny to approve action item C, the summer food adult prices for the summer program in 2026, seconded by Jenny. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Action item D, job description recommendation for instructional coach. Is there a motion? I'll
019move to approve the instructional coach job description update. I have a motion to approve action item D, the job description update. By Donnie. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Kayla. Any other board discussion on that? Audience discussion? >> only question is like what what is the big changes? I'm looking at them, I can't see much of a difference. Is there something significant? Just removing the literacy But even the new one still prefers a reading endorsement and I mean, so I don't I don't Maybe science. >> added in a few items around the professional learning community work that we've been doing since we initially had instructional coaches. We learned a lot about that collaboration piece that we added in. And the non-evaluative sentence too. Which could probably be a big one. Okay. There really weren't
020a lot of changes. Okay. There really weren't a lot of changes, but since we haven't had that position in several years, we felt like we needed to at least put some eyes on it and make a few adjustments. Okay. Any other discussion? Audience discussion? Hearing none, we'll move to vote on the motion by Donnie to approve action item D, job description update recommendation for our instructional coach, seconded by Kayla. All in favor, say I. I. >> I. Any opposed? The motion carries. Board, we're going to table action item E at the request of the administration. they'd like to make some refinements to that before it's brought to us again. So, we'll move Do I need a motion to table or should I Can I just table it? I think you should make a motion to
021table. Since it's on the action item. >> Okay. Well, I would move to table as chair to to table action item E at the request of the administration. Is there a second? I'll second. Seconded by Jenny. Any discussion on that? Body's discussion? Hearing none, we'll move to vote on the motion to table by myself, seconded by Jenny. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Action item F, surplus disposal items for 2026. Do I have a motion? I'll move to approve the surplus items list for June 2026. Motion by Donny to approve action item F. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Kayla. Any other discussion? Yeah, Donny. >> had a couple questions on it. I hope I'm not catching you off guard, but um there were three lines that just said machine.
022I'm assuming it's just wrapped from the previous line. Mhm. I wondered about that, too. Where are you at? What page are you It's in the high school athletic section. Okay. On the right-hand side of the document, I believe. Over here. Mine's not there. Yeah, there's just >> Over over there. It just says machine, but I'm assuming it's a wrap from the previous line. >> Yeah, sure. Mine's Mine's not showing that. Oh, okay. It's just the sizing on my machine. >> high school Matrix tricep extension machine, Matrix seated chest press machine. Yeah, mine doesn't wrap either. Matrix lat pulldown machine. >> Oh, there is some actually. Yeah, you're right. Like like uh Matrix seated leg extension quad machine. Oh, that is just wrap around. Oh, I see what you're saying. Those are Yeah, those are wrap.
023>> Okay, but it's in the next column it's going to trade like individuals. So, I just wrap Yeah, those are all Matrix seated leg extension quad machine. And then we don't know what to All of that is machine machine like anything machine that we're just You probably could have left all machines off of Those are placeholders, yeah. Um and then my other question was are we going to be Devon, are we going to be recycling the technology equipment? You know, one list was going to the graduating class. Or parts of them. I think Chromebooks usually go to the graduating class cuz it's easier to gift them than get them. Isn't that right? And they're pretty firm. They're still doing the first seniors they're getting the actual lap like the Chromebooks just our normal graduation process.
024Um we have laptops on there too, but a lot of them are we'll also be doing e-waste disposal for all of those. Okay. They're pretty they're in pretty rough shape. So, yeah. >> That's what I was just hoping I guess is that it was going to recycle all my devices. Yeah, they're scheduled emails tomorrow but scheduled for pickup from them. So. Perfect. Thank you. I have a question. Is that why the timing is so early cuz this is a June 2026? Is it early so we can gift them to the seniors? >> Yeah, so that's that's why we need the computer one. We actually start a process back in like the beginning of April the end of March where we send the seniors like do you guys actually want your Chromebooks? Sure. Um because we
025don't want them to have to take them, but like we need to have a list of people so that we can actually say like have an exact number. >> Sure. And then um we also have some people who don't fill out the forms and then unfortunately they can't keep the devices cuz we do we do still go through there. Uh we take them back and then we have to go through and check them, make sure they're okay. What sucks is when those kids don't like have the device, then we have to charge them for the device, which Yeah, and or if it's damaged, then we have to charge them for the repair parts or if it's damaged or whatever, just make sure you fill out your forms so we can go through an actual disposal
026process and you don't expect to use this next year. So, um yeah, it's it's we've kind of gotten it um worked out with timings now and it seemed to be a lot better this last year and then this year has been pretty smooth, but I think after a couple of kids got charged for not having the device and not filling out a form, the word got around. So, that that problem is solved. Yeah. So, most of those Chromebooks are seniors? The 120 of them are? Are They're either senior ones or they're just damaged ones. Yeah. We have some that like go through unmentionable activities and get damaged in some ways that we don't want to by by hazardous ways, blood, and all that good stuff. Um so, we don't we don't want to try to
027clean that and then use it. So, Sure, but it's disposal or um if we have one where like the motherboard gets damaged, then we pull parts off of it and then we dispose of technically the asset tag cuz it's all tied to the motherboard. So, we we use the rest of the parts um for repairs, but we dispose of the asset tags. Hm. Lolly is on top of it. She has a big chart of all this stuff. So, Awesome. Thank you. Thanks, Evan. I guess I do have one more question. >> Yes, but you're done. On the CDs, DVDs, and library books, do we have a plan for those? Are we giving away some? >> They go to the they go to the sale. So, what happened in June? Um I mean, yeah, we like
028to give any of that stuff away and or sell it, obviously, but yeah, we try to give that stuff away. >> giveaways anymore books? >> Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Cute. Remind me of the motion it was. Was it me? I think I did do it. Yeah, Donnie. Yeah, Donnie. I seconded it. You seconded it. I thought it was, but it just I think it was Donnie. It was Donnie. Yeah. I thought that was the case. Any other discussion on that, then? Audience discussion? Hearing none, we'll move to vote on the motion by Donnie to approve the surplus list for June 2026, seconded by Kayla. All in favor, say I. I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Action or uh non-action. Next section, number seven, superintendent's report, resignations. Transfers. That is the extent of
029our our superintendent's report and information items tonight. We have no discussion items. Are there any items for future board meetings that we would like to discuss or add? And again, as always, if you have one, just send those to Matt and myself, we'll get those added to the next agenda. All right, everyone. Thank you. Good seeing everybody.