07/14/2025 - Board Meeting

001Public participation is a right that carries certain responsibilities such as informing oneself in advance of the issues, being discussed voluntarily, being as brief and gerine as possible, not unduly repeating remarks or others that you or others 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. And we'd like to thank you for your involvement. I do have one card >> and it's Yeah, >> if we could ask anyone uh and I'll ask the board too that I'll leave the air conditioner on as long as everyone speaks up. If anyone's having trouble hearing us over, we can turn it off. Uh but if it's if it's a problem, >> I don't know how loud do I have to should I hold

002this? >> Okay. Um I am Lisa Pickkins. I um am now the certified co-president of the LUA. Um Lori finished on the 15th. So I just wanted to introduce myself. I think I've go way back. Kelly, we go way back. So um I think I know most of you, but I'm excited. I believe in public education. And I've got two kids who one just graduated from public school and the other one's only two years away. So this is my 13th year in the district and my 14th year teaching. That's all I have. >> Great. Thank you. >> No change in the class five. Is that correct? >> No. >> Thank you. Do we have any other public comment for nonaggenda items? Sorry, I didn't fill out the card. I'll fill it out on my way

003out. Um, I'm Gretchen Burby. I'm with I'm a parent, but I'm also um part of the Laurel the promoters for Laurel baseball. And we wanted to present the board with our last check for the funds that we were supposed to raise. We're supposed to raise 15 grand last year, which we raised 25. So, we only needed five more. And here is the check for >> Thank you. Thank you. We wanted we wanted to thank the school board, the you know teachers, coaches, everybody who supported us. So, thanks. >> Thank you so much >> very much for that. >> Don't feel obligated to stay. If you want to leave, you can. >> Oh, that's perfect. We appreciate that so much. Thank you. So, if there are no other public comments, we'll move to the correspondence section

004of our agenda. First, we have Shields. Thank you for that donation. Wendy's also. Thank you for your donation. Next, we'll move on to the next agenda item number five, the consent agenda. Do I have a motion? >> Make a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> I have a motion by Renee. Is there a second? >> I will second that. >> Motion by Renee, seconded by Britney. Any board discussion? Any discussion from the audience? Hearing none, I'll move to vote. >> Oh, Julie. Yes. Julie, is your mic on? >> On the June 23rd minutes there, number seven down below on the action activ um items, Laurel High School student activities. Uh it's just worded wrong. I need to reward that or it was approved of the high school student activity handbook and um and I'll

005have to look to make sure it's correct to who approved it. It just was a carryover copy over it looks like from the Chrome one to one. So anyway, just so you know, uh I'll fix that. So if you want to redo your motion to amend those minutes, I'd appreciate it. >> I'll amend my motion to approve the consent agenda with the exception of the June 23rd, 2025 board meeting minutes. >> I'll do a second as well. >> Great. So, we still have a first by Renee and a second by Britney to approve the consent agenda with the exception of the July or excuse me, the June 23rd regular board meeting minutes. Do I have any other public or excuse me, uh board discussion on that? Any community discussion? Hearing none, I'll move to vote.

006Uh we do have again we have a first by Renee, second by Britney to approve the consent agenda. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to our action items. Number A, which is the board meeting schedule for 202526. Do I have a motion? I make a motion to approve the board meeting schedule for the 2025 year 2026 year. >> A motion by Britney. Oh, that got loud for a sec. Is there a second? >> Good. Kelly, she won. Second by Kelly. So, we do have a first and a second to approve action item A, board meeting schedule for 202526. Do we have any discussion by the board? Any public discussion? Hearing none, I'll move to a vote on action item A firsted or firsted. Motion by Brittany, seconded by Kelly.

007All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. We'll move to action item B. The Caldwell Banker commercial buyell updates. I think we have Britney. Go ahead. >> Talk about discussion first before >> Yep. That's I was I was just going to say that. Well, George, come on up. And Nathan, if you want to come up too. Yeah, come on up. Yep. Yeah. Sorry. >> Good evening. Uh George Warmer, Dave Matlage, Global Banker Commercial. uh just here with a couple of updates um and then we've also presented you with some documents for consideration. So just a brief recap back in June of 2024 we went under contract with Paul Nelson who I think many of you know. Um, one of the reasons we went with Paul, first, it was a strong offer, and two,

008he also provided $10,000 of nonrefundable earnest money. Uh, once we went under contract with Paul, uh, we moved forward and, uh, he, uh, took us through the zoning process to get us to multif family, which was a hurdle that we heard from many B potential buyers out there. So I think we did advance the ball. We knew we had some asbesus abatement issues. I think they've done a pretty good job of getting on the estimated costs of that. Uh they also did some site plans. They had a number of discussions through the zoning process with the city as well as the neighbors. I think they made a good impression there. We learned a lot about what the city expects on the gymnasium across the way here. Um so and I would estimate that they spent

009several several thousand in their attempt to buy this. Um after a year uh they asked for an extension as you may recall that took us to October of this year. They did pay us an $1,000. So for a total of $20,000 that is ours whether or not they move forward with the transaction. Um even though Paul has the right to retain control through the buy cell through October, uh he's shared with us in a meeting we had with Matt and Chris and Nate and myself uh that he's not finding a feasible way to move forward economically that makes sense for his model. Um, so he is graciously offering to withdraw and terminate his buyell so we can entertained other potential buyers out there. Um, normally a buyer would then present some form of termination, but

010Paul's unrepresented and of course we would like to terminate on grounds that are um most positive for the school. So with that in mind, we prepared three documents for your consideration. Uh the first I draw to your attention is amendment one to the agreement between the parties. This spells out first and foremost as part of terminating transaction. We're going to do a couple of things. one uh the $10,000 the second set of $10,000 that's sitting with title is going to be released to the school board as part of the termination. Um two, Paul has given us a you know his verbal commitment to turning over all of his due diligence. We want to memorialize that in this amendment so that we can get his plans, the abatement costs, basically all the due diligence he's done,

011which we think will be helpful not only uh to the school but to potential future buyers. And then lastly, when Paul uh provided us with the first set of option money, uh he had a option recorded on title and we of course need that released. So one of the documents tied to this amendment is the release excuse me the termination of option agreement which then will get recorded and that will you know clear that particular exception on title. The other document in here is called a termination of bicell agreement uh which simply instructs um the title company to release the earnest money to the school. So and we need Paul to sign that and then the school to sign it. So those are our three documents to basically unwind this transaction that then will allow

012other potential buyers to bring offers that could be entertained by the school and become contractual. Questions on that? I know that was a mouthful. >> Any board questions? George, do we know if uh Paul's reviewed all these documents? >> Well, you know, this is a little little different scenario in that I think our instruction was first to bring it before the board and have it approved before we submit it to Paul. Now, Paul could, you know, massage this or come back with a different proposal, but uh first and foremost asking for the school's approval of these termination documents so that we can submit Now, I'd agree this is in line with our conversation that we had just so the board knows as we sat with Paul. So, while you could still change it is to

013George's point, it is it is what we had sort of agreed to in principle in our discussion. So, >> yeah, I don't think anything here will be a surprise to Paul or hopefully different from what his expectations are. Yeah, I just have one question for you. If um so as we go through all of this, what is the plan for reshowing? So obviously there's a recorded option. Are you going so say there's interest in this in next week and this option isn't quite recorded as a release. are you going to begin actively marketing the property again immediately upon you know or how is how is that going to look um just for the board's understanding of what the timing of this will be so we know >> and that's a really good question Chris I

014think it's you know it's important for us to stress that even though this has been under contract for a considerable period of time we have continued to market what we're and and encourage backup offers. But what obviously we couldn't do is say is give someone else first position. So from a marketing standpoint, we haven't stopped. So that'll continue on. I think yes before we would I in a hypothetical um someone comes to us next week the terms are agreeable to us you know one it's going to take us a little longer to get those approvals anyhow but we'll want to make sure that that release is recorded before we go under contract. I don't think and Britney being entitled forever can talk to that. I don't think that'll take very very long to get done

015once we >> No, once it's signed and notorized, it can be recorded that day. The only thing that would, like George said, the only thing that would hinder us if we did go under contract without that actual option being released, it would be a cloud on the title. So, we couldn't close on that one until that was actually released. >> Right. Okay. Does anyone have any other questions about this these and these are two different action items so we'll handle them that way. Does any so specifically related to B. Does anyone have any questions about the documents under B? >> I don't know if it's really about the document so much as we did have another offer. Have we have you guys reached out to that party? >> Um, we've reached out to We've reached

016out to a couple. I think I just want to be careful in how I present that. Yes. Anything else? If there's no other discussion, I would entertain motion. Oh, I was going to do that. Oh, we can. Yeah. Public any questions before we move to a motion. Great. Hearing none. I would entertain a motion on the on number B. I make a motion to approve the amendment on the termination language of number one amendment, the mutual termination of buyell agreement for earnest money release and the approval of the release of option agreement as written. Have >> a motion by Britney. Do I have a second? >> Seconded by Renee. I'll just again be sure ask any board comment or discussion. Any public discussion? Hearing none, we will move to a vote. We have a first

017by Britney and a second by Renee. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. So we'll just move to number C. Um so on on that front um this was a very lengthy buy sell um which happens in commercial uh during the term that we were under contract our listing expired which is not unusual. our listing, you know, as long as we're under contract, our listing is valid and we continue to market and continue to uh the buyer. Now that we're unraveling this uh there is no further obligation on part of the school uh contractually with coal banker. Now we're asking um for an extension of of one year so that we can continue to work on this project. Um we feel strongly um that uh you know we uh can provide the

018best services. I think through this process, we know more than anyone else about the pros and cons of the property, the challenges, and who the potential players are in the market because we've been talking to them. And so, respectfully, we'd hope that you would hire us on for an additional 12 months and see if we can get this to fruition. >> Any questions on that? No questions. I just want to reiterate just because I know there was um some speculation when Coldwell Banker commercial came on. I have no ownership in Coldwell Banker commercial. I have nothing to do with them. I have no benefit for them being the listing agent. So I know that Coldwell Banker is our is our brand name, but they have different ownership and I have different ownership. So, just so

019everybody's aware in the community, if I were to vote, there's that says I can't because there is there's no legal that. >> Thank you for that clarification, Britney. And I would say just in my professional, excuse me, in my professional uh life as a banker and dealing with commercial transactions, um all of our brokers in town do a great job, but I've always I've always felt that Caldwell does an exceptional job on their offerings and their listings and their professionalism. And so, um I would also recommend that we do this. You may wonder why we didn't ref this or anything like we did originally. And as George sort of spoke to that that um this is really a continuation of an existing contract, not really a brand new one. And we would be starting from

020scratch with anyone else who came back in because of their um deep internal knowledge of this building now that they've gone through this for a year with us. So that was sort of some of the reasoning and rationale behind wanting to just do renewal versus unraveling the whole thing and re-requesting everything again. Any other questions on that, Renee? I guess I would just support it in that um I mean I think that you guys have showed up every time we've asked you to and um this deal although it's a bummer it fell through it had nothing to do with the um your efficacy as a a realer it was a I mean that was a financial issue on the buyer's um side and I think it would just be behoove us to move forward in

021the direction we were going rather and starting over. >> Any other comments? >> Comments from the public? >> Hearing none, I will entertain a motion on action item C of the agenda. >> I move to approve the contract renewal amendment with Coldwell Bank of Commercial. Have >> a first by Renee. Second >> second by Britney. I'll again just call for comment by the board by the audience. Hearing none. We'll move to vote. We have a first by Renee and a second by Britney to approve the amendment to the contract with Coldwell Commercial. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you both. >> Thank you very much. Thanks for your kind words. We appreciate it. Try to live up to them. >> All right. We look forward to it. Bring us an

022offer next week. >> Oh, you want two? Two weeks. That sounds fair. Two weeks. >> Yeah. Yeah. We >> Okay. Thank you both. So action item D uh which is first reading for policy. You can see we have a list an extensive list. I'm proposing to the board and we can go two ways. We can I'd like to approve starting with one just those those ones underneath number one all together. I'd entertain a motion like that. Um or u a motion pulling one out if you'd like further discussion, etc. Does that make sense? And is >> I think there's a few in there, Chris, that probably need to be discussed. And I'll give you an example on new policies. Policy 3655 had some options on there. >> Okay. And uh there's not a lot of

023them in there, but there's a few here and there. Um, so I think it's worth maybe having a discussion, making sure we're clear on everything before there's a motion made to approve them as a group. >> Probably want to make sure we just kind of go through them quick to make sure there's a >> we've answered some of those questions. We can't answer those on the second one if we want, but these have not gone through any type of leadership and learning, which is where we catch a lot of that little goofy stuff, >> right? >> Um, and make some decisions to bring to the board. at least haven't gone through that process. >> That's fine. So, we'll go through them one at a time just discuss in discussion only and then entertain a a

024motion on the full set at the end. Is that a is that an okay route? So, we'll start with policy 3655 student safety. So, this one uh Donnie made a recommendation. I don't know. >> No, it did not. >> Oh, it still had that bug in it. Is that what it was? >> Okay. So, I'm going to go ahead and uh take that off because I had no clue what that meant. So, uh Renee made a comment at the very end, the very bottom. There has a uh an option there. It says district may designate certain employees and volunteers who will never have unsupervised contact with students and are therefore exempt from the background check requirement. Such designations may include but are not limited to. We we actually background check all employees except for uh

025volunteers who are coming in like that won't have any any individual uh contact with kids without supervision and that's I think already addressed above but um we we do custodians maintenance everybody we background check everybody um so I don't really think that there's any exceptions to our rules as far positions within the school that are permanent positions that we back don't background check we do all so we could technically just delete those last two paragraphs um I'd highlighted it just to decide if we wanted to have a list but the more I read I I just I'm not sure don't background check I can double check with Peggy on this tomorrow and bring it back to to the board. Leave it as it is. I won't change that till the next school board. We can

026always change it at the next meeting and I can make a new recommendation if that was to >> we could approve it as a first reading tonight. >> Right. Right. This >> my question would just be if this wasn't listed in here as an option through MTFA >> is it something that we that is we have to list the things that you know other things say these are opt this is optional language I'm not getting that from this the way they sent it out so that would be my only concern are we required to list those things that were not given to getting background checks on. Is that the purpose of this >> paragraph? >> Yeah. >> Are we missing a requirement if we just leave it off? I don't have a problem with leaving

027it off. I just want to make sure that the intent of whatever the law was that required this that we are meeting that by if we take it off. But I think it because we background check all employees is >> well but this is asking to list the ones that will not require and those would be any volunteer that does doesn't have I mean they have super but we'd still have to list them. >> We could list the one which is any volunteer that will not have uh indivised contact unsupervis. That's how they define it. Unsupervised uh contacts what it says. Um, >> iterating um section the fourth paragraph in that first line. For the purpose of this policy, the term unsupervised contact shall mean any inter okay with students that does not involve supervision

028by any employee of the district. But it doesn't say you're right. Right. It doesn't say volunteer. It says, "Additionally, any employee or volunteer who is responsible for supervising another employee or volunteers contact with children is considered to have unsupervised contact." I mean, it just does seem kind of weird that that is in there, but is there a purpose for it? I guess. >> Well, it does make it very very obvious if we were to put that in there. Just >> so if I had something uh we did something like um oops got to get unshared here or suggested Um, >> I mean, we can put that in there. That that that makes it about as clear as it's going to be. It feels a little redundant, but I honestly it it's okay to >> in

029this particular case. It probably doesn't matter. >> Let's just change children to students. It is stating the obvious, but I think to >> Well, I mean, I I I understand where Rene is coming from because on being on that, yes, when you get those policies from MTSBA, they're like, "Okay, here's some of the wording that we've worked out, option A, B, C, but at the same time, you can change any of those options or not even pick any of the options either and rewrite your entire you know, policy the way you feel it's deemed necessary for your school. So, I see where you're coming from, but I almost want to say it's redundant multiple times, but that's just my thought. How's the board feeling? I see both. I see both. I think in the end

030it it's accomplishing what we wanted to accomplish and that is it we're we're we're background checking everyone who's an employee. Only people were not or volunteers who will now have no unsupervised contact with students. >> I don't. And Matt, I also think keeping in line with the word student, if in the fourth paragraph, we could it says children in that paragraph, can we can we make that student? I do think that because I'm trying to reread this policy again with that lens where it says where it sort of talks about that unsupervised contact piece. I think you almost have to have that section where it says volunteers who have no one to supervise because now that's the only list that means all employees get background checked all the time because this this does say this

031is for the purposes of this policy it all of it talks about unsupervised contact applying to employees. So if you add where it says we the only one that that this unsupervised thing applies to is volunteers who have no have no unsupervised Then I think it tight it just tightens it up that little bit more. >> Yeah. Just makes it cut and dry. You don't have to interpret anything. It's just which is there. >> Yep. Because that's the list. Just this one category of people interacting with the district. >> You guys see u any changes I made on that? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Great. Any other board discussion on this policy? Any community discussion? We'll just move to 5123 employer verification of employee. >> We don't currently have any of these, so you won't

032see a bunch of changes on them. Uh these ones just are new. You just cut and paste them directly out of that other than the, you know, review dates and original adoption date defaults to that for. So we'll change those to the proper dates once approved. Any questions on this policy? Public questions on this policy hearing? None. We'll just move to 5252. Any questions on 5252? Any commentary, Matt, on that one? Um, they didn't have on these new policies, they didn't have any of the kind of the stuff at the bottom that has all the references on it in all the policies. They didn't have that on their model policies that they sent us. So, uh, I imagine there'll be some reference updates on there, and I I I sent off an email asking them

033if there's going to be reference updates, but I haven't gotten anything. So, um, if when there is, I mean, obviously, I'll put those in. uh if you guys doing that. If not, I can bring them back and show you and you can approve them again. >> Uh but I I did not have any of those references at the time I they sent out the model policies. >> Okay. Any public discussion on that policy? This keeps logging me in as my daughter's school account when I every time I open one of these ducks. I don't know what's going on. So, uh, we'll move to 8560 display of flags and banners on district property. I got to be honest with you guys, I was a little disappointed in this policy. Um, I bought a flag this summer

034of a Mandalorian flag from Star Wars and I was going to put it on my new office, but I'm not going to do that with this new uh change of flags. They will not be placing the Mandalorian flag on my new office wall. I feel disappointed, but now it's hanging outside of my house. >> That seems like a very strict interpretation of this policy, but I understand what you're saying. >> Um, yeah. So, I mean, this is the way. I mean that's is does that represent I guess that could represent a political viewpoint or opinion from the from the man the planet of Mandalore. Huh? >> Haters. >> Yeah. All the haters who anyone who who has hate for Mandalore. >> Anyone that's never seen one of the movies. >> The planet turned to glass.

035Oh, well then never mind. Well, you know, right? >> No, of course I know. >> I don't I don't have a clue. >> Alert right here. I also have a Klingon flag that I will not be putting up. >> No, I don't know if I agree with that one exactly. >> I just am saying I will not be putting up there. Relationship with the United Federation Planets is all tenuous right now with Kling on Empire. So, we got to be careful. Any questions on this policy? >> Oh. Uh oh. >> Yeah. Who's it's Britney? It's Britney. It might be me and my daughter's account. I don't know. >> You're all commenters. So that's why anything you >> do. >> I can fix that. >> Done. Perfect. How do how do they define banners? I mean,

036does that is that a banner? Does that fall under >> Well, it's representing a school official school mascots and colors. I mean, I guess you could argue that that's a school banner, >> which it is obviously. So, >> well, there's a lot of advertising banners. Maybe not in our district. A lot of >> we have advertising banners here and there. I mean, those are I can't imagine that. I guess I could ask on that. I never thought about advertising. So, >> but I think that this is this is specifically driven towards that last that last uh >> political banners. Yeah. >> Yeah. No flags or banners may be displayed on district property that represent a political viewpoint, including but not limited to >> I don't think advertisements or banners necessarily. >> Yeah. I'm not sure

037that it that it I imagine that's not even something to worry about. So for example going over this year >> I think those are fine >> go but these only represent school like for example this banner represents colors, but technically the information on that won't be >> neither's that I guess technically that's true. >> Yeah, don't it's it's fine. No one's reporting you to the state on stuff like this. So, um and again, this is a policy we could if we wanted to add that and the great nation, the great planet of Mandalore, we certainly could. I mean, we don't have to, >> right? >> I mean, if we want, we should because paid like 17 bucks for that, >> Yeah. There you go. Yeah. Make it a picture. Frame it. If you framed it,

038>> I like your guys's attitude. So, I mean, if we wanted to add, I don't think it would hurt just for future boards to have that clarification that we didn't intended for this banner to have to come up for conversation or, you know, or even like are the the senior pictures that we paying that with the sports is that a banner? So, we don't want to get too far in the weeds with it. >> Yep. boosters, school, school sponsors, school activities, fees. >> I Yeah, I almost say like anything um related to school or the promotion of school, which then that would cover promotion of events, promotion of booster clubs, promotion of um sponsors to me. Um, you know, let me let me I got a note here. I'm going to send them that and

039just see if they have and they may look and go like, "Guys, that has nothing to do with it. You don't even need that in there." I read, >> but it's worth asking because I have down advertising and I have down school posters, banners, school informationational things. I'll just do a quick ask on them. >> Great. We might be reading too much into this. Any other questions on 8560 or comments? Any public comments on 8560? >> Two things. So if they have sports flags are no, right? So Mr. Broo will take down his. >> Good news. He already took it down because we had to move. Yeah, cuz we have people with like Broncos flags, even though I'm opposed to them philosophically. I think uh I don't think it's a big deal to have them

040up. So I I guess those are the other questions like sports teams flags. >> I that's well those are not those are apolitical as well. I mean, >> and not just because of my joke about my flag, but uh you know that people do. There's flags with 49ers at the high school and there's a Denver Bronco one and a Chief's flag. Um I mean, I'm not sure that was the intention. It was really to avoid the political ramifications of flags and banners and not somebody liking the Chiefs. So, >> but the way it's written right now, it looks like that wouldn't be I agree and that's why I think we all kind of thought that too. It's kind of it's a little overlimiting seems like but like to Matt's point maybe we're interpreting. >> Uh

041Young Mc here caught this. >> Yes sir. >> Says the second to last paragraph nothing in this policy may be construed to limit the private speech of individuals and nothing in this policy may be interpreted to restrict expressions of personal beliefs outside of official government displays. >> You can hang it you can't hang it on the wall is what it says. So, you can't have it in the can't be in the school building, but obviously you could still have it at your house or in your car. >> Well, sure. >> But and then the other thing we were wondering about is right now there is an issue in Idaho where they banned the everyone belongs here banner. Is that the kind of thing where in elementary we have a lot more things that could be

042considered banners than high school probably would. >> But if they're official school >> banners, >> but I mean not official school banners, but official school um uh >> school admin approved them. Right. >> Right. Yeah. We've said, "Okay, we're we're going to do something about, you know, a banner about >> it's like general classroom design." like nobody has ever come into my classroom and said you you can't hang that up or you have to do this. It's all a lot of >> teacher work. So I guess it's >> interesting >> like what is a banner and what isn't a banner, >> right? >> Pretty thin case. >> I think it comes down to once again going to is it political in the format and in the belief of why it's being put up. That's the

043question I would ask on that. Is it just a promotion or student benefit, student whatever? You know what I'm saying? Like student promotion. That I guess that's how I'm reading this policy is it really comes down to here's all the flags that we're willing to do, but once it becomes political, we're we're not we're not going to go down either on the political side. So in >> so in the case of um I'm going to specifically bring up Amy James's class. Uh it's a history class. So we go over history, specifically American history, and she has flags all over. She's got like the don't tread on me flag, all that kind of stuff. And those are are technically political flags. >> Well, they're not. >> They're historical. The Gatsson flag, which is the don't tread

044on me flag, was an actual flag the United States used. Well, for the United States used it in the Revolutionary War, as well as the um appeal to heaven flag. Have they have they taken on some political views? Some people might say so, but that's never how they were intended. And uh some people don't like flying of the American flag because it has well it has a political connotation to it. >> That that's But they're historical. >> Yeah. And so those those are the arguments made. It addresses the Gatsson flag in here individually. Um and other his flags of historical significance. So those were parts of our our history. So those are the arguments that lend towards those flags. So I see what you're saying. I've been in her room and those were yeah flags

045of historical significance. I think if we can just get more clarification about what reading this, you really do have to know what's considered a banner so that if we are going to go to a everything has to be approved, we know before we start setting things up because I don't want to have to take anything down. >> Okay, ready? >> Maybe everybody just sends an email and just says this is what I'm planning to put in my would this fall underneath the policy or not? I guess I don't know. Yeah. >> So then it can >> probably is the easiest. I'll try to get a little bit of u >> there is a definition of flag >> but it doesn't flag means any physical or digital material designed for display on a flag pole, building,

046wall, vehicle or other structure. Flags typically serve as symbols of identity, allegiance, recognition, commemoration, or advocacy representing nation, states, political movements for social causes. >> Well, it it still doesn't still doesn't address uh uh yeah, it still doesn't address it. >> So, here's my question kind of to Chase's point. Is a don't tread on me flag appropriate in a history teacher's class but not a geometry teacher's class? Right. But I mean it's is is it is it being historically displayed in the geometry teachers class or politically displayed? Whereas the history teachers class could very easily be argued as a historical >> splitting of hairs. It's covered. >> Yeah. >> Say that I can't fly it but you can. >> I'll ask about those basic ones though. I just wonder about maybe other other flags. I

047mean that one I just is we brought it up but there's other flags that maybe they're appropriate in one room but not in the another room. That's very interesting. >> So can only tribal flags be flown in history? >> That's what I'm wondering. >> That's what I'm saying. I >> it's saying all flags you you have the right to >> it's not making that distinction. >> No, it's not. So if I want to for historical purposes because I believe in that historical or my heritage >> and I'm a teacher, it still is covering it. >> Yep. Okay. You put those tribal flags in any classroom. They're not limited to a history class or >> and I mean I agree with this. So I'm I'm just trying to throw out some grenades if there's a grenade

048to be thrown to see if there's if we have to discuss this more if there's other questions we want Matt to clarify. Well, I mean, I think that honestly even if we ask >> the attorneys, they don't I mean, this is new, right? So, it's it's going to get challenged at some point. >> True. >> By one side or the other. >> And so, then it'll clarify the law and probably make them go back next session and define some things that aren't defined here. But, I don't think that's up to us as the school board to define that. Um, I mean, I I don't think we're going to get any more answers than what we have here. And I think it's fairly self-explanatory. So if we can't figure this out, then it comes to the

049board and we make a decision. I I don't see this being a real huge issue. But I will certainly ask that just to make sure that's something they've considered. >> Okay. Interesting discussion though. Yeah. >> Any other discussion on 8560? Any more audience discussion or comments hearing? None. Now that we've gone through the four underneath number one of section or of action item D, I would entertain a motion on the policies under action item one. >> I guess we didn't separate them. We didn't. We're going to have to We're going to have to go through all of them. So why don't we because Okay. So to my understanding how we were talking is policy 5123 and policy 5252 there were no changes. >> Correct. >> Okay. So motion to approve only policy 5123 and 5252

050as for first reading tableabling in the same motion tableabling 3655 and 8560 for clarification on questions per the board. >> Catch that Julie. All right. Do we have a second on that? second by Renee. So we do have a first by Britney with the exclusion of items listed under number one and number four of subsection one new policies first reading and a second by Renee. Do I have um I'll take it to a vote. Sorry. Public comment again. Public comment with the motion hearing none. We will now vote. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. We'll now move down to subsection two. Matt, how would you would you propose going through it the same or are these more >> uh the there's a lot more changes. These are all of our current policies and

051there's some of them have just a couple words. Some like the first one for example uh has quite a bit of change. So um I mean you you guys can decide how you want to go through there. All the changes that were made >> all the changes on this these were made using their model policies and they were um swept over. There was one that I was going to put an asterisk on and I forgot. uh does have a hey, we need to put a date in there or and that is on the one where we they could they can get credit or leave school for a certain amount of hours. >> Yeah. Which one is that? >> That's probably uh the one that me bring it up here. Uh oh, what happened? 334. Okay.

052Uh that one is on 2334. In the first paragraph, there is a I highlighted them and I highlighted the the optional one on there. Um, so really what it says is upon written request of a student's parent or guardian renewed at least annually, a student must be released from regular school attendance for the purpose of receiving off-campus religious instruction for a period of so many hours per week. That's the board gets to choose that. Uh, you can see what what was up there before um that they basically said there was no such option for that. Then the optional thing is the district may award credit for completion of a religious uh instruction uh release time. Uh and so we could we could uh offer that as credit. Now I personally would not offer any credit.

053We're not set up to do that right now and I'm not sure what that even looks like. So I would suggest that that is optional that be taken off the we're not offering credit for those outside classes. if unless the unless that's something maybe I don't know about and the high school has talked about that but uh I'd be more than happy to to to look at that as an option and then the hours per week but to my knowledge the high school hasn't looked at that. Yes, ma'am. Oh, sorry. >> No, we all >> 2334. Yes, Britney. >> Um, so the district may award doesn't mean it has to. It may. So, do we do we want to leave it? Because what if that is something that does happen? Because it doesn't say we

054have to. It just says we may. >> That's true. >> If somebody came to us and say, "Hey, do you provide this at this time?" No. the district does not award because we're just not set up that way >> or they don't have the hours in or accreditation of them. >> Credits require certain amount of hours >> because what if what if there is one that comes through um one of the colleges a dual credit >> possibility? So if we left it, it does say May. That's an excellent point. So it doesn't pin the school having to do anything right away. uh at least lets them review it. And then the hours per week, you'd have to decide how when not that they couldn't do more hours to get credit, but the school would only

055release them for how many hours per week? They'd have to average, you know, that so many minutes. I don't remember what it is. >> 250. But I don't disagree with leaving this portion in here. >> My but my question is that so let's just say in the event in the future we do if it was a regular class how many hours per week would they have to be attending that class to receive in a >> credit? Okay. So if we said four hours for now, we wouldn't even be following the other policy of keeping up with the amount of of hours per each class for accreditation. >> Well, that means we'd be releasing them for that four and a half basically a period every day. um that doesn't mean that you couldn't be released for

056a shorter amount of time for a period of >> so for example let's say let's say you put one hour in there that doesn't mean they can't do the hours additional hours uh beyond school hours to get credit for something down the road but this that's asking how many hours are they going to be excused for example if we said they're going to be excused for 4 and a half hours or five periods basically. Then they would only be taking one they'd be taking only six periods instead of seven classes. They only taking six. So uh that's something to still graduate with this 24 credits. Correct. Yeah. So, >> I would suggest that if we're going to leave the optional verbiage in that we have it enough so that the student could accomplish the may

057part. So I think it should be at least four and a half hours if we're going to leave the optional verbage in if that's what it would take for accreditation then we should leave the otherwise you take it out. You say oh I'll give you an hour a week but then we don't give them so we're not giving them enough time. So then you should just take that burbage out. So I would propose that we do at least a four and a half or we just round it to five because it's probably off campus if they got to go to a church here somewhere in town to receive this religious instruction or whatever. They're gonna have a little bit of travel time every day for that. So, I propose that we do five hours if

058we're going to leave the Burbage instruction. What if they want to take a good I think at the bottom it says for purposes of this policy secular criteria may include but are not limited to and then it talks about the number of hours a review of the course syllabus requirements and materials used assessment methods >> if we want to accredit it. >> It's kind of no different than our work school to work at this point. I mean there's a lot of kids that Well, I mean, they could I guess we could put in here a letter from We will require a letter from the I don't know the instructor. >> Well, I mean that policy or is that guideline is that more of an administrative guideline of how to implement the policy? Yeah, but you

059can argue that doesn't require that we provide you any proof. >> Do we do we require the payubs in the policy and all that or is it just something that the admin requested? >> So I guess upon written request which is the first three words and you know upon documentation provided upon written request. Yep. So the written request could include, hey, we want a note quarterly from the pastor or ecclesiastical leader or professor. You know, if we're not going to grant accreditation, then we have a list for what it would take. But then if it's just Bible study at their church, their ecclesiastical leader would just provide a letter quarterly or something, whatever the administration decides. >> Here it says yearly. Here it says yearly already. >> That request form should say. Yeah. if it's

060yearly or whatever, we just say has to be renewed yearly, but it also says it's from a parent regarded. Um, another reason why I think that it'd be good to leave the numbers low like a one hour is if it is a Bible study or something and they're going to that, they're not going on a daily basis. But then again, they could be. I I don't know. This one's could be wrought with abuse. Um but >> the only reason why I was trying to say keep the hours a little bit lower is because we are not quite ready and set up for the accreditation on them. So if we max them, then we might be forced to do it and they're not we're not quite prepared for it. But if we keep the number low,

061we're honoring somebody's religious request, but at the same time almost putting us in a position that we might not be able to award the credit because there's not enough hours. You know what I'm saying? like I'm trying to maintain both sides of it because if the policy is in here and I'm thinking in the future if this comes back in four or five years and we are set up that way and this is a completely different board and this wasn't the language that board might not understand this was an option and instead of rewriting it it was already there but we minimized the amount of hours so that we you know what I'm saying so there was a little bit of it take at this time. So, what I'm hearing is is that we could

062delete the word optional um just because Oops. So, I thought I was in suggestive mode. I haven't suggested edit mode. Huh. Okay. What's the board's feeling on hours? Should we stick to an hour, two hours? What is the I What is the board's feeling on that? I >> know. I guess my So if we put one hour per week and they want to leave 15 minutes of every day, are they just I mean that would only be four, but then are they missing 15 minutes of one class every I mean like I feel like that's harder to accommodate than saying the five hours because that's a period. So that's easy to be like, okay. Oh, is that going to cause a issue with schedule? I mean, I I just don't know that piece of it.

063>> Well, I don't like the idea of saying 5 hours and then, well, we got to give them travel time. I mean, okay, how long you going into Billings? Do you need half hour travel time? Are you missing going into the Heights? I mean, I I just I want to I just I think I think it's slippery slope that I don't think we can allow for Does does five hours turn into seven hours? Does real act actual time missed? >> Evan, >> um, so just adding to see how this would work in infinite campus. It would basically have to replace one of your class periods. Uh, that way you can still actually get credit for it because otherwise you would be optional. You'd have the ability to get credits that like are above and beyond

064your normal scope. So I would just anticipate it taking basically just seventh period or first period off your schedule and then becoming that your first. So >> would have to be first or seventh kind of like school to work. School to work they have sometimes multiple hours. So um it gets a little bit more diff different. So it must be no it must be at least one hour per week but we could put in there for for five periods an you know five periods per week or five because if it's a short week you get five hours if it's on a short week or or one period per day which adds up to far more than an hour per week. So we could maybe reward it to periods as opposed to hours per week. I

065like that. Now you just threw another wrench in there. >> Will this really apply to this? >> Yeah, that's what I was going to say. So I I think it's kind of intended to be a high school policy. >> Yeah, but it's not. Religious instruction could happen at any level. >> Credit is everything. So I think I do think that the the period suggestion would solve some of this because it would apply a period at west is different than a period at essentially what we're saying is one skipped time. >> There is no period at all in the high or in the elementary there's no >> they have like music time that would be a period and >> that's not how they word it though. >> I mean when they're doing their schedule and they're

066>> Yeah. It's not like they just like free-for-all all day, right? They don't they don't ever broke up with math or English. >> I mean, I asked my daughter. >> They laugh. They're laughing. It is a free-for-all, isn't it? >> It is too just do AM attendance and PM attendance. They don't have it marked out as to where they go when they go. That's a piece of paper on a wall which we maybe not be able to hang up. But uh what I'm thinking is uh this this is really Yeah, I don't I guess this is why it's only the first reading. In other states that this has been implemented in, it's a um I mean usually it occurs around like a lunch time especially for the younger kids and the kids are either it's

067nearby or their bus there and so it's like this 20 minute 40 minute window around high school is going to be a little bit different because the program would look different but That's how it's been implemented in other states where this is a thing. >> Do you think in other states today they're seeing five hours a week or is it just is it every lunch period or is it just >> I think it's like other states Idaho and Utah >> every day or three times a week. I know in Utah it's every day because people of that faith denom that predominant faith they have they have it every day >> during school time or >> they have work they have religious release every day during school time to attend seminary. So that that I mean

068but that's a different I mean that's a it's pretty homogeneous population of people with similar belief and I think that's why they do that. How many do you honestly believe that we're going to have a written request at this point? This policy exists already, right? This isn't a Oh, I thought this was an existing polic, but you can see the first paragraph that's been xed out. It says, "The district may provide for a religious instruction release time program under which a student may be released on written request." >> Yeah. >> Except that no such program will take place in public school property. And it's it's basically just trying to quantify that >> question. >> Yeah. So that is saying that we've had this policy in the past. How many written requests for release have we

069something. >> So, at this point, I'm just wondering if one hour just and if we have more requests and we figure out what they're trying to accomplish, it might be >> We have a good relationship with the churches, too. We meet with them in the fall. I could bring this up in our uh meeting with uh the ministerial group and just ask them is a is a g general question. There's obviously other it's not just limited to them, but uh I could certainly ask them. It's just a idea. So, whatever we put that number at, I could certainly talk to them about it. >> I'm putting it at one for right now just so we can get this policy on the books and that we can meet the requirement and then that we run it

070by C. I mean, they may there may be some churches in town that are looking at implementing something that we may see more people participate in it because I think it's becoming more um people are becoming more aware of things like this and they're putting out programs that cater to this specific kind of law. And so I think we're going to see more and more of it. And I my only fear with putting one um is that is that the It appears that we're trying to limit it, I guess, because it'd be difficult to do one hour and make that work on a regular B. I don't know. But I think it'd be fine to start with it and then we I mean, >> just like everything else, we have to amend it if it's

071>> Yeah. And the only reason why I say that too is just for that example of Ash Wednesday. Maybe I have to leave a little bit early to make sure, you know, or a retreat. So at this point we could accommodate that and then if it becomes where it is a consistent request and we need to revise it then we take it back to leadership learning we we kind of re-review it and then bring it back. Any other board discussion? >> Done. >> Are we even going to consider the credit portion, the optional portion at this point in time? I think the belief was if I read what the board was saying correctly to leave it in to so that there's an understanding for this board and future boards that that is that was an

072option presented in the statute to provide credit doesn't mean that we have to because we're saying that it may we may in provide credit. >> Okay. My other question is do we take out the note must be at least one hour per week. I think so. So, I'm in suggested mode and every time I hit delete, it just deletes it. Deletes it. So, I'm going to make a note on the side that says um delete. >> Well, if you can, I just want to strike through so you can see the changes. >> I'm not sure you Okay. >> What's going on? Oh, now it just deletes it. >> So now you're >> Congratulations. >> Don't ever volunteer things around this boardroom. >> That's okay. That's okay. We >> Yeah. And then if you look through

073the word option, >> great. Good discussion. Any other discussion on this item? >> Okay. Any public comment or discussion on this item? Great. We'll just move on to the next policy. Policy 10009 FE recruitment and retention. Any questions or discussion on this item? >> That was religious. Did I Did I totally skip that? >> Oh, you sidetracked us. >> I I said that those are the ones that we kind of had to make a decision on. >> Yeah. >> Um >> that was that was the one that had to have a number. >> Okay, let's go to 10007 FE. Thank you, Renee. Multi-dist agreements. Any discussion on these changes? These are all straight out of the proposed um or the requirements from the schoolboard association. They're model policies. Any discussion by the audience regarding this

074policy? Hearing none, we'll now move on to 109 FE recruitment and retention flexible instructor licensing. Any discussion? Let's just bring back retired teachers as substitutes right away where the old one we couldn't. So, that's kind of what the big change is. >> Any public discussion hearing? None. We'll move on to policy 1015 FE personalized learning opportunities. Any board discussion? >> Britney. >> So underneath the first one where it says expanding the personalized learning opportunities for each student to accelerate in their career. Is it redundant to put and put in trade school, you know, career, trade school, and college readiness? Because trade schools are not just the career. I mean, you still could go through, you know, an 18month trade school readiness program or so. I'm just trying to make sure that we are also it's

075not just career and it's not just college that we're noting something about the trade school readiness as trade school is putting them on a career path, isn't it? >> I mean, they'll either have to go >> postsecary readiness, but that would be a trade school or a uh include any post-secary training. Yeah, I think that covers the big thing. All right, I changed my suggested edits to include postsecary readiness. Sure can. Edit. Any other edits or questions, suggestions? Well, if we're going to do it that way, then I A and then I fosters or one I should say, sorry, one fosters individual pathways for career and postsecary. That one's together. Can we hyphenate that one then, too? >> They're all over the base here, aren't they? We're going to be consistent on all that cuz

076then there's in that same body on the bottom it does the same thing. Same paragraph. Matt, >> I'm getting to it. >> Okay. >> Work faster, please. >> Come on. >> That's all I had. Great. Any others? Anything from the audience regarding this policy? Hearing none, we'll move on to policy 2050, innovative student instruction. Do we have any edits or questions, concerns from the board? Any from the public audience? Hearing none, we'll move on. Oh, yeah. Sorry. Did I miss you? I apologize, D. >> I just wanted to throw in a comment that there are some suggested corrections in there with So, just keep an eye open for that. >> I will. I'll uh Yeah, I think that's just an error they made. So, I'll make that change. I don't like those blue lines either.

077Any other edits or qu or questions? Nothing from the audience or anything from the audience I should say. Hearing none, we will move on then to school and calendar day policy 2100. Do we have any questions, concerns, comments, edits? too. >> Oh, yeah. That should say policy on there. I just missed that one, I guess. It should. >> Yeah, cuz it's in that. Yeah, it's in the gray heading above. >> It is, but how they're all formatted is like this. >> Oh, >> been noticing that. >> That's how they're all >> top and then the body of the And >> so I just That's how they're all formatted. So I just try to keep the same formatting. >> Are we prepared to >> What does commemorate mean? Mean to have an assembly? Does it mean

078I don't know. Yeah. I mean we'll commemorate them in some way. Yeah, >> come on. That's silly. That's not a thing. Come on. >> Star Wars day is a is a day though. May the 4th. >> I would go with May the 4th. >> I'll just slide that in here. I'll just put it in edit. And >> Chase wants his birthday. >> Chase's birthday. Mr. Tor's day. Is that just doesn't feel right? No. Right. any other questions or comments from the board? Any from the audience? Hearing none, we'll move on to policy 2150, suicide awareness and prevention. Yeah, good point. Chase. Any questions from the board? >> This one just changed the hours how we do suicide prevention training. Questions from the audience? Hearing none, we'll move on to policy 2158, parent and family engagement

079and educational involvement. Any questions from the board? I'll just check them as I go through them. I'll check all of them again when I go through. >> Yeah, that was >> Yeah, they took out literacy because it was a lot of literacy specific language and it's basically targeted for math or literacy. So you'll see that in in a few of these policies that are very very simple little changes like that. >> Yeah, the flyer thing's new. It was in their model policy. So I cut and paste it into this one. >> You really want that infographic? >> I don't, but they put it in because that's what they recommend. So this board can do what they need to do. The other nice thing is it's citing a lot of MCA in there. That might be

080helpful to a parent reading this. That would be my only um argument for keeping it. But I agree it's a little funky to have it in there. But it does site a lot of Montana code. made sense to whoever wrote it up. >> We'd probably have one parent. It's a little squished. >> And I could make it a little bigger with uh moving the annotated Montana code annotated stuff down one more page. And then >> is all that MCA sections in the Montana code annotated below? >> I guess >> if it is, then you can get rid of it. then it yeah I'd say if they're then you don't need the infographic if we're citing all the code below that would be Britney >> I'm I'm gonna shift on you on that I don't so

081whatever you feel it needs to be done to to help with that I am going to come to um let me make sure I'm telling you correctly so parent family involvement goals and plans not that page where it starts the promote promote promote go to the second page down to three enables families to participate in the education of their children through a ver variety of roles. For example, parents, family members should be given opportunities to provide input into district policies and volunteer time within the classrooms and school programs. Are we if we have parents requesting to volunteer, are we truly allowing them to come in? >> Some some we do and some if they for whatever reason they do a background check. We we had that happen this last fall where that person was going

082to be left alone with kids and did a background check and they we refused them. So there's times when or when a teacher doesn't need any volunteers. It's not like I can just come in and volunteer whenever I feel like it and go wherever I want. Um it's something that has to be approved through the office and all that. >> Is there a way to relay that better to our community? And here's the reason why is because there are times where you hear that parents are like, "Oh, I can't get involved because I volunteer and I was told no." So, I just want to make sure that we are saying yes, we're more than welcome, but we also have to limit to why you're in there, how much time, like it's not just coming in

083to sit like so maybe somehow having the community understand. We most love it, but there are stipulations as to just allowing anybody and everybody to come in and volunteer. We can't have three unless three dads want to walk the halls and make sure that everybody's behaving themselves through the middle school. I'd totally vote for that. But, you know, just helping the community understand that. >> Yeah, I think something could be done. >> To be fair, we've identified that our targeted parent involvement is lacking, >> right? I mean, it's it's lacking. We don't have a parent on We should probably have a parent on leadership and learning to help with policy. I mean to look at that I mean we have a parent but that's not really my role on that >> and so I mean

084I think that looking at that it sounds great but I think that we as a district I don't know that we do a very good job of making sure the opportunities are there and that people are aware of the opportunities not just whenever you feel like you want to come to the school and hang out with your kid whatever that is but the opportunities have to be targeted and they have to be intentional by the district, whatever that looks like. >> So, I guess what I'm asking for is because there's going to be a conversation about coffee with the trustee. I'd like to know what that looks like and what this board and what the school because if we have people are like, I would love to volunteer, but I've been turned down or I

085can't or I don't know where and being able to say here having some guidelines and understanding I think we could do something uh in in uh procedures that you know in volunteering doesn't necessarily mean you come in and volunteer for your kids class. You may come in and volunteer for lunch duty or something. It may be totally different. Um volunteering doesn't mean I get to pick where I volunteer or I only get to volunteer where I want to go volunteer. I will say though, at least in our experience in our house, individual teachers have done a good job asking for parents to come in on days that they need them for reading or a party or other activities. Um, but I would agree that at a district level, we probably haven't made those more available,

086but the teachers have on an individual basis, at least in my experience. And some teachers want more more parents in there than others. So it's kind of shifted year to year. Sometimes we have a teacher who's like asking every week like has a rotation and you know can go in and read or whatever every week. Some of them are kind of like nah I don't I don't want parents in my class every week. So I do like the idea of more district level. >> Some sort of a I put down some sort of guideline for parents. Some sort of uh >> maybe it's even like a tab. I know we're getting a little sideways in this discussion, but maybe it's even like a tab on the school page of volunteer opportunities or something. They can

087direct people right to it. Here's volunteer opportunities that could be maintained potentially. That's probably future. >> That was one of the things. So, if we have this policy and it's in there, I just want to make sure. >> Yeah, >> this is what it looks like. >> Good point. >> Any other discussion on policy 2158? discussion by the audience. >> Sure. >> Um so one of the things that we um were just talking about is the confidentiality piece. We have volunteers coming into a classroom and just making sure that that expectation is there so that they're not taking back information and sharing it where it shouldn't be shared. And then I also wanted to mention that um at West uh we did have a parent sit with our SLT um committee, our team. Um so

088she did sit with us and she did help us go through some of those kinds of decisions. And I think that is a place where if a parent was looking for that kind of um volunteer opportunity, I think that's something that you could work out so they could have a better idea as far as what curriculum looks like in the school. >> Any other discussion? Thank you. Hearing none, we'll move to policy 2165NF, early targeted intervention. Yeah, sorry, Donnie. Go ahead. >> Can I just get a clarification what we're going to do with that infographic? Is it in or out? >> Oh, good question. We kind of left it open. In or out? What's the board's feeling on that? It does seem like every the infographic, all of those codes. Well, one thing we could

089do is just make sure all the codes that are on that infographic are an listed in the annotation below and then remove it. Or if we think it might be easier for the lay person to understand the infographic, then we could leave it in. >> I don't see where they can understand anything better. All it is is some light bulbs and then they then they list out all the laws. Some people are visual though. It might work. Yeah. consensus to take it out. >> People don't like it indicated. >> Yeah, as long I would say as long as the codes annotated below. Um I would be okay with it being gone. Also, should we have it removed? Check annotations. Yep. Check annotations and remove graphic. Okay, everybody feel that way? Yeah. >> I I do

090I do agree with Britney in that point though. But >> I can just >> It would only take one. Would only take one. >> It would only take one. If it helped just one person, it was worth being in there. I mean it's one page in a large document. So >> yeah. >> So leave it in. Is that the consensus or feeling? >> Okay. Leave it in. >> Okay. Got it. >> I'll try to play with the >> Yeah. See if we can manipulate it out to be >> Yeah. I'll try to see if I can't move with it a little bit. So, we're in 2165 early targeted intervention. >> Do I have any? >> I know. >> It's starting to feel it. >> There's a lot of hot air coming from at least the

091front of the room. So, um, policy 2165 early intervention. Do we have any board discussion or commentary on 21? >> This needs to be put on that header of Yep. >> policy 2165. >> Um, I just wanted to say it's a good change. I like it. It's clean. Math is just as important as reading. So on this policy and the next one, I like the adjustments. >> Any other comments? >> Audience comments or questions? Hearing none, we'll move to 2165NF, early targeted intervention notice and consent. So this is just the forms that accompanies that. form that accompanies the policy. Any questions or alterations? Anything from the public audience? Hearing none, we'll move to policy 2334. Release time for religious instru. We already did that one, so we're going to move right on by it. There's

092no need to open that button back up. Policy 2335, health enhancement. >> Yep. The header >> just formatting change the verbiage or or change to that. >> It's Yeah, it's like one and a half or two double. Yeah, that's cut and paste. I'll um work on formatting. >> Just a formatting question. >> That was a Julie thing, too. Any questions by the public audience? Hearing none, we'll move to policy 2450, Indian education for all. Okay. Any questions or alterations? Any questions or alterations by the public audience? Hearing none, we'll move on. Go ahead, Rene. How do we do that? And is that just by using the curriculum when the state is that >> That's part of it. And then they also at the state OPI does give a bunch of um like re resources and

093references that you can contact through co uh tribal colleges and through the tribe to talking about stuff. >> Good question. >> Any audience discussion on that item? Hearing none, we'll move on then to policy 2600, workbased learning. Any questions or alterations to this policy by the board? Rene my question is this saying that the only credit for workbased learning is for the congregate care facilities childare facilities and school age program address for any other we have to add a date >> it doesn't address credit for anything other than those three I guess I just want to know does the law preclude us from offering credit for that? I don't think so, but then we need to address it here. Are we fingerprinting and background checking every supervisor? >> No. 1510. um is more just work-based

094for on the job experience and training along with career and complimentary vocational and technical classes. It's not specific. >> Well, what I think it is, and I don't know this, but you can't um well, you're going to get work-based learning is stay home and take care of your sister so I don't have to take her to daycare. I've I've seen that attempted. So, they define daycare disability. So you're you're not staying home and I'm going to babysit my little sister. I need you to come home in the afternoons because I work. I think that's why it's in there. So you're not taking care of people outside of the district that hey, I just need you to do this so we're going to get credit for it. Well, you can't call those things uh you know,

095developmental disabilities facility because maybe there's an uncle that lives here that's got Down syndrome or something. >> So, you can stay home and take care of. >> I think that's what it is. Underneath 39-3-46 as under the exclusions of the provisions, it says persons employed in private homes whose duties consist of um menial chores such as babysitting, mowing lawns, and cleaning sidewalk sidewalks. And then persons employed directly to the head of the house to care for children dependent upon the head of the household. exclusions. >> The bill specifically out those three categories, >> and I think that's why I never checked into that, but when I read it the first time, that's what I assumed because they're just trying to keep you from, you know, staying home and then getting credit for it because you're

096staying home and take care of your sibling or something. If you want to work in the healthcare facility, this is how they're defining it. >> Yeah. You still came from I just put a note in here to maybe we need to ask is it required that it's 16 years of age because this is just cut and pasted or uh could we put in there that we only allow seniors? Some seniors obviously might be 17, some are 18, some >> we'll have a >> Uhhuh. >> I'm okay with the language. I mean, >> then the date would really be something that's uh you know, what date would they have to have their application in for fall? Uh uh they were doing this in the fall. Dr. Bington, what what would be the date they would have

097to have their application in? What date do we currently have applications in for the fall? It does say >> the application annual braces prior to the first day of school. >> I mean, if it's in the middle of the year, they still have to hit that 8100 minutes to get a credit. So they may end up going through the whole if they did it started in March, they're not going to get a credit for it. The >> nice thing about being 16 is I might be I might have turned 16 as the end of my sophomore year, apply for it and be able to do it my junior year knowing that now I'm old enough and preparing myself to get there. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So I went ahead and because it's in the change,

098I can't make a change within a change. So I went ahead and highlighted it knowing that that's what you changed and then I'll delete the the date off there. A lot of changes in there. >> I don't know. Maybe this needs to go to leadership and learning because I don't I mean if we're not doing background checks it says that the coordinators will visit the work sites. Are we visiting every work site actually visiting the work in the background I mean it refers specifically to the policy. We're not doing that. Well, >> most childs. >> Well, but this is any school. Anything above that is any school board them working at McDonald's. >> I'm just saying but like if you were working in a child facility, those child facilities are going to require a background

099check and fingerprinted. I mean, my church did when I when I volunteered. >> Well, for the work, but this says the supervisors will be background checking. >> They might. They might. I'm not sure. >> So that's And then we're not we're not So she's talking about the paragraph right before all the changes. >> Sorry. The employer or supervisor shall complete district volunteer agreement form, which I don't think they are, and satisfy a name, based, and fingerprint criminal background check in accordance with district policy. So, I'm gonna just >> Well, I don't know. >> Is this a good one to table? >> Do we table this one? >> No. Just making a note of maybe the if if the whoever makes the motion maybe would like to table this one. >> Yeah, I I I got

100a comment in there. I could I can ask about it too. >> Any other questions on that one? Is the board comfortable with where we're at at the moment? Okay. Any questions from the public audience? Hearing none, we'll move on to policy 3110, entrance placement and transfer. Any questions or edits or alterations to this one? Just the top. >> Oh yeah, just those same things we're doing here. Any other alterations or questions? Anything from the public audience hearing? None. We'll move on to policy 3121. Enrollment and attendance records. Any comments or alterations? >> Anything? >> Okay. No. Um, it's during the summer. It's anyone who's leaving kindergarten, leaving first or leaving second. And we we actually get money back from like A&B, partial A and B money on those kids. If they fulfill 120 hours

101in the summer, then we get a certain A and B that helps pay for the summer school teachers. Nothing beyond that. We don't get paid for, we can offer anything else. We just got to pay for ourselves. Any other questions or alterations to 3121? >> Anything from the public? Donnie, go ahead. >> It's you. We don't we don't take part in it, but we have the option of it. That is a >> that is a thing. >> Thank you. Perfect. >> Yeah, that is a potential thing. Anything else? Anything from the public audience? Hearing none, we'll move on to policy 3141, non-resident student enrollment. Okay, this one. Yeah, there's some changes that are uh per the OPI or I mean uh schoolboard association and then there's some that are per just some general questions. So,

102if you look at the second paragraph, um the April 15th date, I have it kind of highlighted there. Um, one of the things I worry about is if we have legitimate good kids, good students, K through 12 that come in. Um, everyone's struggling with A and B numbers. The states is down as an average or down all over the state with the exception of just some really high growth areas. Um, I would like to make sure that we we have something in here, whether it's changing that April 15th date to I talked to our my registar today, Lisa Harris. Her idea was, you know, she likes the idea of the hard date. She says just change the hard date to June 30th and and then if anyone is done with school and well, they're coming

103on July 1st, then then we don't, she said, then we don't even deal with it. uh rather than so sometimes people at the end of the school they don't think about what near year what they're going to do next year until June or whatever. Um so we can look at that April 15th deadline or I added a in that same paragraph I ordered I just threw a sentence in there the other day after talking with Chris about it. It says all other uh appeals to the school board for late enrollment must be made in writing and will be heard by the board of trustees on an individual basis. So, that was me who just threw that in there. Um, then then we could leave the April 15th date or we could change that April 15th

104date to a later date. But anything that comes before this board, anything any appeal, the only way you can deny that appeal is if it uh if it doesn't meet the the below uh uh requirements. Like for example, we're full. the building construction doesn't allow it. Uh we're full. There's been a bunch of suspensions. That really is about the only thing you can not accept a kid on. So, anything that we do, we just need to make sure that it's repeatable. And when a kid comes in here and they apply afterwards, um for example, I have three sitting in the bullpen right now that would like to come once this they'd like to come to the board and appeal late. I think they're all three good kids, some high couple high school kids and a

105sixth grader. Um, so basically that's why I put that sentence in there. And if you go down, there's a bunch all the stuff at the bottom beyond that transportation, all that. That's all the changes. So the only one that I put in there is that other one. If we're going to have appeals to the board, then maybe we just put in there that if you want to appeal in writing, you can. Then the board has to hear it. But you can't turn somebody down for any other reasons other than what's in this policy. And that's the state law for that open attendance. >> But we but we wouldn't have been able to deny them anyway had they been within the time frame. >> Correct. >> So they could wait for the next time frame and

106apply and we still have to follow the same guidelines. It's not like the guidelines go away. >> Correct. >> I I think we extend the date. I think April 15th is I mean we just didn't know when we looked at this originally. We had no idea what this was going to look like. I think April 15th is is tough because people aren't thinking about moving or people that are going to think about selling their house and moving in the summer. They don't realize it's April 5. I mean it's early. So they're thinking, "Oh, I'll do it in the summer." You know, if they're in between houses and they don't they can't really establish residency. I I mean, I'd be in favor of moving it to June 30th and then and and leaving the sentence in

107that allows them to appeal and it would allow for instances like we had with Mr. Arnison's child. My only question is if we do it June 30th and because I know sometimes if an application comes in and you guys have questions to that other district forformational purposes or you know then you don't have anybody to >> it's a little harder when they come from a small district coming from Billings they have people on staff that can send us attendance uh behavior suspension reports things like that. So Lisa's not worried because I asked the same question and Lisa Harris said she doesn't think there's any problem getting stuff in the summer from bigger districts. She said smaller districts have people there and they can get it from it. It's it's a pretty it's a rarity to

108have a real problem where oh we can't get you anything for a month and a half. I mean we're just not seeing that. So I I and one of the other worries why we originally thought April 15th was well then we can plan a little better but in the end even if they come July or April excuse me in the July board meeting to approve them we can still turn people down because we just we're full in that grade. So you're not taking away our ability to do that. We can still plan. Um it helps us. It just makes it a little tougher but it doesn't change what we're doing I think. and and Lisa thought that would be a legitimate date that would work. But again, if we leave the other sentence in there,

109it still allows people to come in later to take good kids for whatever reason they're leaving their school. Um, if they've been suspended a bunch of times, they've been booted out, so they have to find a new school, we still don't have to take it because they they've had a suspension and an expulsion. >> So, question to the student athletes. So, how would that affect them? MHSA rules would still all apply. So if a kid moves here and they're not moving here, they have to go under a normal MHSA suspension. And not every parent knows that. They think this probably takes care of all that. But MHSA still requires that. I'm just saying on date wise because if they approve >> for for high school kids like this year we had I would say nine

110kids come to me and say hey I want to come into school high school I want to come and play basketball. Well basketball happens right in between our semesters. So I gave them the date say you got to go either this or you got to think like a semester ahead and if they're not moving here. Now for the high school level I I would be in favor with kind of just a open open date overall because that allows people to plan ahead or even I'm not liking it at Billings West. Well, I'm not out. Activities director Andrew Torerson is not out recruiting these kids. These kids are coming to me. They want to come to war for some reason. Whether it's >> maybe because of our AD. >> Yep. >> Highly doubtful, but you never

111know. >> Kids that want to come here, so having an open date for them to be able to come here, good kids, good grades, good attendance, all those pieces, >> they would still be under MHSA suspension. not suspension but uh they wouldn't be able to play varsity. >> Yep. >> That so those rules don't change. But if they want to come to school here, I think get them to school here and then the athletics sit out the suspension, they still have to follow. It would get them here to get into school and do the athletic eligibility the right way instead of them saying, "I'm just going to have an address in Billy Joel's um basement and come here kind of under the table." And the only reason why I asked that, and this is where

112this policy falls, too. And I'm sorry to like just like like divert on this because I know we got a lot to go on, but I had a community member very upset that we have believing that we just have kids moving from districts to come over here and then because they didn't make maybe that team or they didn't feel they were going to make that team, so they were going to move to Laurel to, you know, be be players over here. It's not how it works. But >> and so I'm just just letting you know that was there was some frustration on that. So that's why I was asking that question like where does it still fall in regards to that? >> Julie, my comment is that you know um our enrollment's been dropping and

113with lower enrollment less money. So, I I'm in favor of, you know, moving that date because our enrollment might come up if we do, you know, >> well, and and I like the idea of the sentence in there, too, >> just because if they're if a kid >> I mean, this if we get three high school kids, I mean, that's 20 grand. I mean, that that makes a difference over time. >> Um, it it can it make an impact. And this isn't about our basketball team or our football team or something. This is really about, hey, are these good kids that could benefit our school district just by their mere presence here? >> Yep. >> Uh they could we could be a benefit. Yeah. We'll get some little bit of A&B money for it. Awesome.

114That's a great thing to help combat that. I want to be the school of choice for Yellowstone County. And if we can, you know, you never know. We might open a floodgate. We start getting kids. Hey, we really enjoy it out there. It's way better than this school. We might get a few more kids next year as they tell their friends. So, >> makes sense. something to think about. >> Yeah. May maybe a factor in elementary where we might be full that allows us to not accept them because we're just packed already in that class. >> Okay. I went ahead and put June 30th in there as a in favor of June 30th >> and including the >> Hold on here. You guys are going to make me read my glasses here. added line. >>

115Well, that all other appeals would stay, too. So, would we add June 30 and leave the appeals? Oh, I follow you. Yep. There you go. Very good. >> Great. >> Good catches. That's what we do. Any other discussion on this item? Any public discussion? Hearing none, we'll move on. to 3310 student discipline. Any questions or edits to this? Any questions or edits from the public? Hearing none, we'll move on. Policy 3416 administering medicines to students. There any questions or edits? and we take that >> uh albuterol I >> think it's one of those may again may maintain a stock >> yeah we don't I don't >> there's a section emergency use stock overall the district may maintain a supplies I just wonder it says may so we don't have to do I just >> I

116don't think we I don't think we have any alput roll what's it An emergency use of stock Oh, beautiful. >> Evan's got a comment. >> So, the reason why this is in here um is because like so when I when I was a student here, I have terrible lungs. I have really bad asthma. Um, I'm also really bad at holding on to things because I have ADHD and uh so I when I was a student I wasn't allowed to well I was I was supposed to keep my albuterol inhaler in my backpack. I was awful at it. So I wouldn't have it if I had an asthma attack at school. So if there's a kid like who's in my situation where I'm terrible holding on to things like that. I was I'm better now. But

117um they can they can keep it and they it has to be prescribed to them though. So, >> but this is saying the school, >> but if you read it says that it's like it'll it has to be prescribed to that student. >> And then we have to be responsible for expiration dates and logging it. I mean, I just don't Are we comfortable leaving it in since it's May or would you like to remove? Okay. Yeah, >> actually did at this time. Right. Any other comments from the board? Any from the audience? >> Hearing none, we'll move on to policy 3416, administering medicines to students. Sorry, I had it. I I thought I'd move my down. >> Montana Pupil Online Personal Information Protection Act policy 3650. Any questions or alterations? Only just that that heading

118is again Matt 3560 3650. >> I'll go through and check them out. >> Yeah, I don't know if that needs to be done. >> There's a couple others I spotted. >> Yeah, Deon actually in the this change in um I know if it's recommended by MTSBA. Um, I guess I can understand that, but it just doesn't doesn't really make sense. Basically says that if we have somebody who's doing school or workbased learning, we don't have to care about the information that they that their providers like that the work providers are giving to thirdparty companies for them, which is very very very difficult to enforce because things are like a turn off or on kind of thing. So all students could have access to something or no students could have access to something. So, if um

119there's a certain website or something that we normally would have to get a privacy agreement for, uh we would just be enabling it for all students even though we shouldn't be basically. So, I don't know. I'm I'm I'm against that one. I hadn't read it till tonight, so I don't have a better argument. >> So, give me an example. Like, you're talking above my head here. >> Uh so, let's say like um for Yeah. have a definition for it. Um with so so one thing is uh like what was that that college class you took? You took a cyber security college class last year, right? So they had a certain online website provider where they basically uh MTDA basically said it's okay for them to use that one digital provider. But with MT Popa, we

120aren't even allowed to give like email addresses to third party providers without having a signed agreement with them. And uh the workbased learning, which would be MTDA, was trying to get us to do it without having their a security agreement with them or a privacy agreement with them. >> Correct. And it circumvents just the law for um student David MT. basically for specific use cases, but it's not really a specific use case because if I were to enable that for Chase, I would enable it for all students. It's not a can't do one one or the other. It's a it's an everybody. >> Yes. So, we're supposed to tattle on yourself. >> No, >> kind of are. What is that? that whole service for them which would be all students even though the students aren't

121supposed to. So what that would mean is that all students wanted to do this all the we wouldn't have a way to enforce it an enforcement. >> No, I understand. That's why I was just asking it would need he needed to have him use his computer, but if I was at a work, you know, a job that I was required to use their computers, then it doesn't fall accounts. So if they want to create like a they need to create a service account using like your district email, they would actually need to do it with their a personal email for you. >> Even if you were on that wasn't district, you would still be required to give them your school because you're using no matter. >> Is that kind of a narrow reason? So like

122if I'm at Fox Lumber on work release at that this doesn't apply anyway because that's that's kind of like all at will and offsite, right? I mean >> so what I could see happening is uh say you're working at a a private company like that. They could be entering in your information payroll systems and they'd be using a thirdparty payroll, Quickbooks, Quick in whatever um with your social security number, with your email address, your name, date of birth, which is all protected information um that we shouldn't be giving to them. It should be facilitated through a personal account instead of their work accounts. That way, they have permanent access to it anyway. So, it's better. >> But we're not giving it to them. >> Yeah, the student would be >> Yeah, the student's giving it

123to him. It's not as it being part of a coursework, it's something that we would be facilitating giving to the other employers. So, >> I I highly doubt this will ever come back to haunt us. I see what you're saying. >> Yeah. >> I'm just not sure this is something that's ever going to come back to bite us, but >> I'm wondering if >> we already have one going to leadership and learning. Maybe we just do a verification. >> I I can come up with a better argument for it. I just I just saw this a few minutes ago. trying to read it and understand that. >> Maybe in the next week or so if you could come up with a argument or if you have a more of a concern. >> I guess I

124don't want to let extreme examples drive >> policy. >> But that again that's something that's a good question for them though for schoolboard association. >> Is the board more comfortable tableabling this discussion? So we'll just notate to for everyone as we make a motion that 3650 also to table. Any other discussion on that item discussion by the public hearing? None. We'll move on to policy 5120P hiring process and criteria fingerpit background handling procedure. Did we to my understand we do have to pick one option or are we just using the ors through e each one of them? >> My understanding was we pick an option >> option one or option two or option three like we have to settle for one option. >> Okay. >> What's the district's suggestion on this Matt? >> Okay. You're

125I may have to read this because it's been a few days. Well, we do that. We fingerprint now. >> Yeah. >> I think option two is what we currently do for that. >> Unless you feel like there's a problem with it, you might be I have no problems with it. >> What's the difference of one? Oh, because that's an ink fingerprint. >> We do live scan. >> So that's just our system. They're probably the same, but we just have a live life scan system. >> I was just talking before I read >> option two sounds like the winner. Am I hearing that correct? >> I agree. Great. >> So, I'm going to go ahead and just uh cancel out those other ones as just so we know and then the first name uh >> that

126that is is our HR department's doing it currently. >> Does it have to be a specific person? Because then we have to change this policy every single time. >> It says that it needs to be. >> Can we just say HR director? Because if the HR director changes and we that this is a I mean then we don't have to reassign this in the policy specifically. >> It is we're supposed to have it labeled out. I think we are on this one too because >> so we have to specifically name a person in the policy as a human being a human person listed. >> Yep. >> Wow. >> There's a few of them that we have to do that with. Boy, that's annoying because if you have then we have to maintain a list of

127those so that if that person leaves we got to change all the policies for them. >> You know what that does make sense at least that way we're covered if she left and this doesn't come up until the annual review and we're like oh shoot it's not Peggy anymore it's Jane do or whoever right? add the specific >> if we just do the Peggy Pollock HR director has been appointed the local agency security the lasso uh >> right but this is like one of those things where we've said Peggy Pollock once and labeled her as HR director, I could put that in parenthesis. So now every time it says HR director, >> there you go. >> We've just, >> you know what I'm saying? Like >> Yeah. So we could we could do that and

128then it's one less place to try to do that. >> Um, so I think they actually have to be two different people. I It's been a year since I've done my CJIS, so I'm due for renewal on it, but I think I might be the lasso. >> No, you're not the lasso. It's Piggy. Is it Peggy and then Lindsay? Because I think it has to be two different people. >> No, it's Peggy and I I it shall come to me if there's any other questions about that. >> Yeah, that is our We got another golly, this thing is complicated. Yeah. All the Yeah. >> What's our current option? >> So on the access of Chris, I believe that is me. I don't think the principles do. Um and the business manager I think we can

129delete out principles. They don't. Britney. Yes. I'm okay with that. Everyone else would like a 10-minute recess. We'll be back at 8:25. >> I think >> Well, these are all those timesensitive ones. They sent it to us on like June 13th and into session. Just for reference, we are in still inside policy 5120 completing uh a few things. And for now, are we down at the option that second set of options there, Matt? >> Yes. Attention and storage procedure. What do we do now? >> Um, printed option one is what we currently do now. Say unless we have anything that would allow us to do option two, I'd stick with option one. Um, >> no. No, we don't. We don't. >> But dissemination logs are required because I might I I was background checked. I

130might want a copy of mine. So that's a dissemination >> where where do >> well option one we do that and then option two we do not disseminate to anybody. Well, you disseminate it. If I'm the employee and I ask this >> agency, we don't >> Yeah. If building schools asked for fingerprints on somebody we fingerprinted, we'd say no. >> We don't share them. >> No, there's So, we're still on retention and storage procedures. >> Oh, I was on dissemination. Where? >> Oh, sorry. >> Oh, yeah. >> Julie and I were on the same page. >> Yeah, there you go. I'm really jumping ahead. >> So, fast. >> Retention to storage procedures. We currently do option one. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> And just stick to that, I'd say. >> Right. >> Yeah. >> And

131then now down to the dissemination >> procedure. >> Yeah. So we're doing option two. Yes. >> Both. >> We're doing non-dissemination procedure. We are on. We do option two. >> And then and the new verbiage underneath the purple a copy of our determination. >> No, we don't do that. >> Take that out. So option two with just the >> right. We're not doing them for other people. And option two, you would want to delete option two as well. >> Option one. If you delete option one, then it doesn't allow for the dissemination to the person. >> It does. Even option two says the school district does not disseminate criminal history information to any other agency. So if I'm the employee and I want a copy of >> that's true that >> so you want to

132combine them >> I want to say andor >> what have we see that because then then the employee knows that they >> right yeah so maybe you you think you just keep all of option one and just add the sentence of the district is not disseminate. So it's it would just be combined. >> Okay. So let me go back to this then. So I go like that. >> It' be like that. Exactly like that except for that you take the ore out but >> and then that option one you'd still delete that where it says option one. >> Destruction procedure. What do we do currently? We do option one currently right now. Perfect. >> Yep. >> Then application procedures for challenging or correcting their recruitment. >> We do option one. >> So is this after

133This would be if someone says, "Well, they want to challenge their record." We'll give them a copy of their background report. Says, "Here, you're a drug kingpin." Well, no, I'm not. We We don't make them go get their own. We We go ahead and just give them a copy of it. >> Choices. She Oh, thank you. I have to read what that says. She I think it's supposed to be with I think that's his proper English. All right. Okay. So, I'm going back through to make sure I put all my selected options in there. So, I'm ask going through that. Are there any other questions or comments on this policy? Any questions from the audience? Matt, are you ready to move on then? >> Sure. >> Hey, I'll trust you make those those uh formatting

134edits as as needed for a second. >> Yeah. >> Hearing none, we'll move on to policy >> 50 um exc22. >> 5122, fingerprints, criminal background investigations. No options. Yay. Any questions or edits to this policy? Any from the audience? Hearing? None. We'll move on to P policy 5255, disciplinary action. Any questions or changes to this policy from the board? Any changes from the audience? Hearing none, we'll move on to policy notice form 5430NF, volunteers volunteer agreement form. Any questions or alterations by the board on this form? >> Yeah, we've had this one >> created this years ago. >> Yep. Yep. >> This one, this is like in a packet. If you come in to volunteer, they quite the process. Yeah. But you go through and have to initial all those >> item three just between

135carry and medical. Can we not have a double space, please? >> You know what? When you change it from uh Word over to this uh Google Docs, it sometimes monkeys your format up a little bit. We'll we'll do that when we change it back to a Word. We we I'm not going to bother reformatting here because when I change it back to words, it's going to goofy again. >> Funky >> blue squiggle. >> I hate one, two, three, four. Oh, maybe that's Yeah, that's probably separated, I suppose. Any other questions on this policy by the board by the audience hearing? None. Last one. 8301 school safety >> option. >> You have two H's and no G's. this. >> Oh, yeah. We have two H's and no G. >> We'll I'll delete those. Not sure why

136they I'm not sure why those lines are in there. They just >> There's an option to include. Yeah, I agree. Why wouldn't >> you say? >> Yeah. >> Why would you put this in here? >> Yeah, >> I agree. We want to delete the options. Well, that option includes how much stuff here? >> All the way down through J. >> I think it goes all the way down through J. >> Well, that's that's what's optional is that whole section, but we can get rid of I think and it's specifically related to doors that would not normally be blocked. So if we wanted to block a fire door for >> Well, not necessarily. >> It it might be um they they could be on any door. So let's say I let's say I kill the principal,

137I grab a key. Uh what is the temporary locking option? or is that person going to be able to go and just key open doors? Um, temporary locking thing. You see everything from physical with the door opens in. I've seen holes in the concrete where they put a rod in there so the door will not open. Uh, I've seen pieces of fire hose. I had these in Plwood where they went over the door openers. You know, the the little springy thing at the top. You put a piece of fire hose over that and you couldn't open it. I mean, >> yeah, it's really resistant. Um, chains. I mean, there's a lot of things you could use. It just I do think it adds there is some specific ones for for egresses related to like and

138that's what it's like. So, it says fire exit, hallway, corridor, and entrance way. And then it has a couple of specifics and then it defines further what a temporary locking device is in general. So if you were going to have have classroombased ones, they'd follow that second set. >> So maybe it was I mean it's really just defining how they would be. It might help fire You know, if we would share with them this like, hey, if you come or the police, if you come into this situation, our classrooms are going to be locked with this specific kind of >> you want the whole optional section in there without the option the plan may include instead of will. >> I would say may because >> and you don't have to get rid of it all

139and there's still some definition there. >> Yeah, because if you say may then it would leave us open to some Honest to God legally if we have it in there even with May and we don't provide it and something occurs on the property would we be like the plan mean then it says that may be used and a room that may be used for shelter in place. So after that then it's may but it's like you have to identify them >> that they may be in use >> and but if and if they are we have to identify them this way. >> Yeah. I mean the plan >> I don't I don't really care. Never mind. >> What does our insurance wonder what our insurance would say on that >> what our policy? >> I've

140never asked them directly. >> Policy reads. >> Do we have anything like this in the schools now? >> We don't. >> So the teachers don't have any temporary locking mechanisms outside. They're locked on their door. >> Purpose of the bill was to to allow installation of temporary door lock for protection. Well, that's why >> because some places they're probably not allowed because of maybe uh fire marshall or something. But maybe this just allows it. >> I think including May and then it just place it so then if we decide to do it then it just places us under certain conditions to meet. >> Isn't that I just want to know if we don't put it in there, if we do put it in there, are we subject to I mean the law is saying that

141it's in there but then we don't >> and then something happens now are we getting >> Oh you mean if we change the language from will to may or we protect >> I'm just saying just removing it completely altogether >> just even adding language in there >> makes us liable >> was it would it be opening a can of worms on one the event if it were to happen and two liability >> de has a comment guidelines in case we do want to do something like that in the future. It would be guidelines to be helpful to have just because that gives us a clear set of things that have been negotiated probably by the state. It refers to a specific law that's in it. So, it's probably stuff that they've negotiated with. Um, and

142just things to think about like talking to your fire marshal, making sure they know that you have these things, having active plans to say like these are in these locations. So, if you go and you trying to break breach a door, this might be what's there. So, it gives them a heads up. I think it's just to help be aware of those kinds of things. I don't think it would just I'd like more information. >> I think the word may solves a lot of the problems. >> We could say may and then investigate or do for before a second reading or would you want to just remove it totally? >> Um my fear is that I'm gone all next week. So investigating >> just investigating any of these. I'm I'll do them all right away

143in the morning, but I just may not I just well I just may not be able to I won't be able to get to it is what I'm worried about. >> What it says at the start of this bill was an act allowing for the use of temporary door lock emergency lock situations providing an exception to the fire. >> So it was an exception. So, I think the word may is probably more relevant than will. >> And it seems like it's mainly related to ingress and egress situations than it is individual classrooms because we've already been allowed to do that. We could have already had temporary locking mechanisms outside the door lock on a school on a classroom, but this specifically calls out fire exits and other points of ingress and egress from the building,

144>> right? Because technically you can't go out any better than you can go in on those. You didn't know it was there. Just door doesn't work. I mean, >> right. >> Panic situation. All those little Yeah. And maybe it hasn't been a problem because our fire marshall has been okay with it, but like to Matt's point, maybe there were districts where they said, "No, you can't do that." >> I'm okay with May. I'd still like to just I would like to double check with the insurance. >> I really would. >> Well, we can we leave we so we'll leave it as may and then we'll provide followup. Maybe we can it may not be because of mass compressed time frame for not being here. Um, if >> we have to wait till the next meeting

145that's >> it may it may push the second reading of this is all if that's okay with everyone. >> Okay. So, do we have any type of liability if we leave it in or switch the word made to will? >> Yep. And if that makes it like I it pushes it to the following board meeting for a second read then >> and it does and it does. >> So, point that I mean it's not the school isn't installing mechanisms but teachers are learning I mean they're barricading their doors if there is a lockdown situation so it's not official I guess but it's the same principle >> so the specific situation I brought up is like when we have drills we have drills once a month the teachers are telling us to barricade the door like

146that's that's our practice is to find a way to stop the door from opening and >> and that would break all sorts of rules of uh egress for you know the fire marshal. >> Yeah. So like we're told to push filing cabinets and bookshelves and they're probably not going to be a able to get including the firemen unless the students all pulled the stuff back out. >> Unless you're at Graph Elementary where all the doors open out. >> Yeah. Let's just knock that building down. What do you say? >> All right. >> It's all out of code. >> Okay. So, any other comments or questions on that policy? Some good questions, >> Melissa? Yeah. >> Plus, there's two H's. The formatting problem with this again, huh? Great. Good catch. Any other items from the board

147on this policy? Any comments or questions from the public? Chase, do you have a comment? >> Oh, all right. Well, I'm always listening. Um so we have gone through all of the policies under number two and just to note for anyone who wishes to make a motion the group has the board had decided um of course it doesn't have to be included but it would be nice um policy 2600 workbased learning to be tabled and policy 3650. Am I reading? Was that >> Yes. >> Those two policies to be tabled >> and 830 >> I have 83 >> 8310 which is the one we just did. >> Oh 8301 you mean 83 8310. >> Did we want to table that? >> Well any of these >> then and then second and then it may delay

148second read. >> Do that with any of these. We could you could approve them all on the first reading and then come back and change them all sorts of ways in the second reading. Right? >> So you don't have to table them. >> Okay? >> And then you could table them on the second reading if we don't have any answers. >> I will entertain a motion. I make a motion for the updated policies one through >> 2044 >> 24 to be approved for the first reading with the exception of number 13 policy number 19 policy 3650 and number 24 policy 8301 to have clarification and information on those along with ensuring that all of our changes, formatting, and headings are corrected as well. >> I'll work on those. >> Have a first by Britney. >>

149Second. >> We'll let Julie catch up to that. And then Donnie, was that a second? >> Okay. >> I'm good. >> Yep. And then there second was Donnie Julie. >> Yep. Donnie. >> Okay. >> So, we have a motion to approve policies listed under number two with the exception of the policies outlined by Britney. Uh second by Donnie. All in favor? I'll Any other comments or discussion? comment or discussion by the public hearing. None. We'll move to vote. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. We move on to number E. So I this is another one for expediency of time. Um the does we want to go through them individually? Yes, Jason. >> Okay. Well, we'll get there. >> Okay. >> We should go through >> with the high school

150one. >> Correct. >> I just wanted to see what we how we felt. I was also in that that was my thought Renee also was that the high school needed individual attention and then um we can go through the others. So we'll just start with the high school uh student handbook. Oh, why did that not pull up right there? We go. So, I'll open the I'll open the floor to any discussion that the board would like to have or any commentary that Melissa would like to make or Matt >> regarding changes >> or Chase part of the board. You have to. I've been working on the railroad. >> You've never heard that song. >> Dina lawyer. >> You guys just dated yourself. You just physically dated. >> Wish I was Diana, not Diana. >> Yeah,

151I always thought it was Dina. >> I think it's Dina, though. I don't know if it's Diana. >> Yeah. Hey, so can we all agree this can go away? >> Yes. >> About 59. >> Yeah. >> I hesitated to make some changes in some harsh changes, but I hesitated to make some changes to things that might be >> historical. >> They might be special to some people and like >> I don't know that. >> Did you just take it out? >> I did. >> I'm like that's >> executive decision making. We we typically recommend the top school song as the high school. >> It's a school song. >> No one plays the school pep song. >> Okay. Done. Gone. >> I'm hurt. >> I didn't even go to high school here and I'm hurt. >>

152Okay, good. As long as it's there, I'm happy. See, that's how important it is to you, Renee. >> Oh my god. >> So, with that one alteration, are we good? >> The other day, >> oh, I have I have one. I got to find it now. >> I like the change of I think that's what that was protocol before last year. >> Where are we at? >> Yeah. Yeah. Usually it's we start a little closer to eight. >> I have one one comment. One comment. I got to find it. I got to find it. I thought it was maybe up at the beginning. Uh four, cafeteria on page 30. Students are not allowed to have food delivered to campus. >> Oh, that's a good one. >> Are you having a lot of food delivered to

153campus? >> Yes. >> Door Dash is not our friend. And we're not pulling kids out of class to get their food. >> Good. Oh, that's a >> if they really if they walk out front and get it, >> I don't care. >> So, can we say students aren't allowed to have food delivered on campus during regular scheduled >> or instructional time, but lunch is permitted on their own time and you know, I mean, >> see, we don't police that they they get it if they get it delivered to out them out front or >> but if you I mean, >> we don't want it in the office. >> I'm supporting it. So, love you, but I'm supporting you're on page. I'm just saying like when you say flat out students are not allowed to have

154food delivered to campus to me that means doesn't matter what time of day it is not >> that includes parents dropping off of >> I would say appropriate >> instruction for parents dropping off lunches for trips and things like that but food delivery services >> maybe that's what we have to say John's door >> food delivery service slash comma any any >> outside of lunch period Yes. >> Yeah. >> Like I support that. >> I just also like the way you have it worded is like no food. >> You could say like >> uh Dr. Are you going to make the changes? You want me to >> You not totally rooting for it, but I think you're going to get it turned out to campus. Let's see. Does that work? >> Yeah. I don't care

155if somebody's parent drops off their sack, lunch, whatever. >> I'm okay with that. >> Yep. >> But I don't want to deal with Jimmy John. We may eat your lunch. >> I think you should start. >> Yeah. Well, the really the problem is when they have it delivered to other doors that are locked and they say put it outside door, you know, whatever 15 and then they will go pick it up at door 15, which is >> they're not supposed to be opening those doors. >> Not supposed to be opening those doors. >> You know what? A call to Jimmy John's would solve that, too. >> And it's not it is not always it's >> doesn't matter. Call to anybody who we see. >> Does the staff though teachers Teachers do sometimes have things delivered,

156but that's, you know, >> I know. >> That's fine. This is a student handbook, not a staff. >> Yeah. Just students, >> there are there are a few individual teachers who will sometimes order. >> That's the perk of being a dumb and paid taxes. >> I am I'm way more comfortable dealing with the one or two teachers orders we get periodically than the, you know, >> Okay. Sorry. He didn't mean to like open a huge can of worms, but I was like, "Are we kidding me?" >> I see. That's a simple sol. >> Hey, I helped you, Chase. At least you can do it during lunch period. >> You and you have to just go get it. >> As long as it doesn't >> Secretaries don't want to deal with your Well, maybe you >>

157because you're special, but >> um everyone, this is a public meeting. >> Trying to clean up a lot of I know you are stuff. There's there's way more editorial changes than substantive changes. >> So, okay. So, let talk to me about this consequence chart of violations because we went from >> um 32. I took our consequence chart out. I know >> the one that's on page 32. It's purple. Responsible use. >> Yes. That's that's tech that came directly from the tech responsible use. >> Okay. I missed that. Okay. >> You're good. Okay. Thank you. The main reason we took the other uh matrix of consequences out was because it was a hot mess and I didn't have time to get it all cleaned up and realigned and formatted prior to the as >> then I

158I would suggest if you're going to take it out of here at least even in the short term meaning u this this year if it's something still given to kids one thing that's important is when a kid comes to the office they can say what did you do well I uh I I cussed in class. So what's your penalty when you cuss in class? I don't know. Open up your handbook. Let's talk. >> We'll have that time school >> some. So if you if you could bring that back. So it's I think it's important for making kids. >> Okay. Wait a minute. >> So we don't have anything for disciplinary action in the handbook right now. I missed that. >> We just we just don't have the consequences listed >> exist. Yeah. Because it's a

159bunch of crossed off. It will >> and again that not a lot of substantive change. We are cleaning it up and real, you know, making sure everything's lined up because some things were really out of whack on that chart. >> Weren't some of the things too that you did? Um mostly like we had whole policies quoted in the handbook. You took those out there. >> There was a lot of that information. >> A lot of clean up like inside the handbook. >> I'm okay with all that. >> But in this handbook or the activities one where the you know where the kids used to take the piece of paper and have Andrew sign it at the Wasn't that taken out? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> That was in the activities one or was it in

160I couldn't remember. I think it was but because I remember having to do that >> like a tournament or something. So like >> so is it just too much of a pain or >> he's down in like >> kind of redant. >> So if a student went to like state wrestling they would have to get Mr. Torus to sign that sheet of paper but he would be down only those students could actually get their piece of paper signed. So I'm guessing that's why it was pulled out >> and it it count as an exempt absence if you had that paper sign. the kids that were going to support those pits. We looking at their attendance and stuff and they wouldn't get into or anything. You're going to go to those go to them. Awesome. Just

161count as excuse absence. >> Have your parent call in. >> Call and just >> make sure it's excuse >> the paper pieces weren't coming to me and then the secretaries getting them the next Monday and then they'd have to go back in. >> Okay. And just clean it up. I just wondered what the reasoning was. I didn't know. I mean, I don't know how many kids were even using them anyway, but it >> got really complex for no real good reason, >> right? Became kind of a paper chase. >> Well, yeah. And then there was panic like Chase said, if they got there and then they couldn't find Andrew or couldn't find an administrator and then in general, they're kids that like to follow the rules. So, then they're all panicked. >> You too. So

162I have a this is a question for more of the board. So we're reviewing the handbook for the high school knowing farewell that it's coming back. >> You don't have to you don't have to approve it. You go over it now and then send it back for to finish it up. We can approve it whenever she's ready. >> Wanted to make sure >> maybe we go um over the specific just for the sake of time, maybe some of the specific things that you'd maybe like clarification or guidance on from us since we won't be approving it tonight. So that you just to make sure you're on the right scent in direction. >> Um I think the only other comment that I had a question about was that Renee had asked a question about um honor

163role from 3.0 to move it up and we had discussions about moving it up from 3.0 to 3.5. I just didn't know what our process was for pursuing that and how many other places that that's implicated and if it's in policy and exactly how we grandfather that in because students who came in on other handbooks I mean definitely it's a change that has to be made. >> It's a before the year starts. >> It's just a recognition though, right? >> So I don't think it grandfathered in where my class gets recognized 3.0 for the next till I graduate. >> I think I think if it's changed by the board it's changed my opinion. Um you guys where I she did change the cell phone use a little bit. So be aware of that. >> We

164made tried to make sure that that was all aligned >> that she the cell phones are not welcome in class. If student brings cell phone to class, it needs to be put up in a >> pocket. >> I read the earpiece >> and the earpiece they're also not. >> How about the watch? That's that's >> because they talk too, >> right? >> Yeah. >> I don't recall that putting this the smartwatches in. I >> you just said electronic device. So, I think you really opened it up broadly. So, I think it would be any electronic device that creates disruption. >> And if this is a disrup and they're not paying attention to it and it's not disruptive and I don't notice that they have it on. Kind of like if a kid has their their

165phones up in the pocket. It's there, but it's not a disruption. >> Yeah. >> There's several things that are subject to discussion, but would it be easier to policy. >> What page? >> Some some teachers and I I see what you're saying just for ease of use. Um, some teachers just don't allow them on. Like some, you know, I don't I don't like uh hoodies on in my room. I can't see what you have in your ears. Uh, some teachers don't allow hats in their rooms. Others do. So, you you're asking for a consistent rule. I think if there's going to be a consistent rule, then then then we get rid of hats because we're not going to do a consistent rule that people can wear hats and then suddenly I'm wearing a beanie and

166then I can't I'm not going to fight with that. To me, if we're going to do a consistent rule, then the rule is no hats, no headwear whatsoever. >> And Andrew knows my feeling on all that over the years, but um >> I wouldn't argue it, but I don't know if I can tackle hats and self. >> No, I'm just saying I just think it's a big thing. So I think leaving it at teachers discretion is the smart move because if if my suggestion would be if if we're going to make one or the other get rid of everything. Uh we don't need it. It leans nothing to the educational environment. Nothing. So uh yeah if we're leaving it leaving at teacher discretion I think kids have been pretty good about that. I think if

167a teacher doesn't allow it I think the kids have teachers kids have been good. I can only >> I I can only really think of one place where it was really an enforced rule not to wear a head covering and I don't know that that'll be an issue next year. Um yeah, that I don't that teacher's not >> you had a science teacher too that >> I mean I I don't like the hoods up at all. Boots are not allowed. Period. Because that's the >> We can't see the students faces >> and they can hide those. Yep. >> Could do that with a beanie. >> I didn't have a hat either. >> Most schools still don't respect. >> Yeah, I still take my hat off in place. >> There was a respect thing at one

168time, guys. And I don't like to wear hats if I go into those places either. But I'm of that generation as well. But if you go into a basketball game today, you're going to see 75year-old men wearing hats. You're going to see 12-year-old kids wearing hats. It's not a thing anymore. >> As far as being in a public building, >> we we have to be able to see your ears. We have we have your ears have to be seen because of the I think that because the earbuds are such a problem. Head coverings must must not cover the ears. The ears must be that might be a better way of saying but again even if it let's just say the the student wears his beanie in class and the teacher goes take it off has

169to be taken off >> pretty much and that becomes a teacher. And if the student doesn't comply that becomes insubordination and that's a different argument. And if it doesn't take it off and and this or the teacher doesn't care and he has his earbud in and then he gets busted with it or she gets busted with it, then again, it's against the policy. So, we're going to have to teach our students a little bit of accountability for their own actions. And if they get if they get busted, then serve the consequence for it, right? And then maybe that's the way you learn instead of the teacher constantly nagging. >> I'm okay with the hats. I mean, you know how it is in the winter. Most most the kids are wearing beanies anyways because it's cold

170outside. So, I definitely say thank you to taking the sunglasses out for sure. >> And I think that covers it. Matt head coverings may not cover ears. And any other I thought they would >> any other directional things that we'd like to give now or anything you'd like direction from us on Melissa? >> I just want to see the consequence uh matrix. That's all I want to see it. I do I think like I said it's um the the substantive part of it isn't really changing. There were some harder. If you think about the how the last one looked, it said it said five days or 10 days. We added in up to up to five days because um if I gave an automatic 5day suspension for any student who had a pocketk knife of

171any size, which is what it says, I have a lot of suspension. Not that knife carrying is an issue, but I have a good kid and they forgot something in a bag or they're, you know, >> I'm okay with all that. I'm not saying that, Dr. Bingley. I'm just saying it because it's all crossed out. I would just like to see that all >> that's what I would just like to read. >> Great. >> Okay. I have a question. On 30, page 33 above the dress code, the classwork and school related absence is deleted that says students who miss class for school sponsored activities will required to make up their work. Each student will Is that covered in the activities handbook or >> I think it's covered in the attendance section. What I'm sorry, what

172page did you say? >> 33 right above direct service. I think if we go back to um I think that's all covered under attendance. All students for all reasons when you miss school you have to make up your work. >> Okay. I just wanted to make sure that still in there that they have to make up their work. >> So but here's but here's what the difference is between the two statements. the statement which what I like about that uh the one that was crossed out number seven it's before he or she leaves school I think that whenever a kid is leaving for an activity if we can get that done before they leave they know they're leaving uh come in and take the quiz before you leave please at lunch hand in that assignment

173that's due I'm leaving at lunch I have class 6 period could you hand your assignment before you leave please and then and then they're not fighting to get it from when they return. They knew it was assigned the day before. Hand it in before you leave. >> Some teachers aren't proud of that. >> It's it's not always feasible for them. >> Well, I understand that. Make it then make it optional for the teacher, but I just think it when we encourage them to get done work ahead of time and the teacher may ask that it be done ahead of time. I don't think that's a lot to ask. >> And but this has been in the handbook before. like this is just being removed. And even though this has been in the handbook that it

174should be done before, nobody does their work before. It's not actually encouraging anybody to do anything. For example, I have gone all year long for sports and activities. And I sometimes do it before, I sometimes do it afterwards, but I know people who won't do who won't do it at all before, who will only afterwards. And it's just not something that anybody really pays attention to. As long the teachers basically as long as you get the work done. >> That's important. As long as we don't feel like it's an issue. >> Well, and it doesn't require you have to have the work done. It's that you contact and let them know. >> But it's a lot of work on Andrew's side. It's a lot of work on the Andrew side. So, I'm not going to

175even say it out loud. >> You knew I was thinking it though. You knew I was thinking it. But I won't say it. I mean, it should be encouraged to, but there are times where it's just not it's just not ready even from the teacher. >> I understand that. I think if a teacher's fine with that, I'm fine with that as well. >> I've had Kale ask and sometimes it's just not even available. >> Totally understand that. >> Straight up say no. Like, I want you to do it after. >> Yep. And I and I think that's 100% fine. >> Any other items? A lot of good work so far. I think that's a tribute to the fact that there's not very many things being asked. So, um, good track. I It's really cleaned up

176a lot. It looks really nice. >> Working on it. >> So, look forward to seeing the finished product. So, we'll we'll we'll we'll table that one because it's not being approved today. >> Can it go to the meeting the first meeting in August because I won't be at >> I think that's >> Yeah, that would be better. Yeah. So we'll move the approval of that the first and that would have to be included in any motion that we receive. >> Oh, so >> thank you. >> We need to motion. >> So items two through five. >> Well, then do we need to motion to table it? >> An action item. We have to do something with something. >> I was going to treat them all as one individual or we can treat them >> Oh,

177okay. You want Okay. So I get >> we can treat them as individual actions or we can treat them as a bulk action whichever the board decid >> they're individual. So >> I think we should just make I make a motion to approve or to table the Laurel High School student handbook. >> I have a motion to table. >> I second. >> Second by Britney. Any other discussion by the board? >> Discussion by the audience. We do have a motion to table the high school student handbook by Renee and seconded by Britney. All in favor say I. >> I. Motion carried. Oh, any opposed? Motion carries. So, we'll move on. Uh two through five. The Laurel Middle School student activities, middle student or Laurel Middle School student, Laurel public school coaches, and student transportation. I

178have something for activities >> different. >> Could you Yeah, I I couldn't find those the other day. Would you tell us the pages you're on? That might have been a me thing. what pages >> Renee button button >> I had it up for a long time at the bottom. Oh, right. >> Two is start one. >> Page 23 is the part you add that Matt added. I was trying to be consistent with language. >> Yeah. >> That when we >> So I think we just need to And then their section is further down. I commented on it >> like way down. >> Yeah. So I when I didn't see it, I thought it was deleted through that cafeteria section. So I might have missed it. I was just trying to be consistent between and I

179was going through and not pulling them the principles in who were already gone. So I went through and changed the the numbers on the lunches. So if I missed it, I apologize. >> Page 44. >> Yeah, >> it's basically that whole policy again. >> So I could take >> the prices are different, >> right? >> Yeah. So, uh, the prices in the page 44 one are the old prices, so they'll be wrong. So, um, so this is middle school student handbook. That's page 44. The other one was like page 20 something. It's 23, I think. Yeah, 23. You're right. >> Okay. So, uh if you guys want to talk about anything else, I can make sure those those are combined properly uh in in those pages. >> Yeah. and all these that uh the teachers

180will be updated in the board if they haven't a mess. >> Okay, we'll make sure that they're uh updated. I'll uh highlight that. Any other items under this student handbook? >> No. We'll move to activities. Bernie had a few. >> Um I just have a question on I know that we're getting rid of Dragonfly. I must have been like the only one that didn't mind Dragonfly. Couldn't do it on your phone. You could do it on your computer and it was it was lovely. But what online are we using now? Because I know there was a there was a post that was said, you know, we're going to be losing a new one. Keep your eye out. >> And have we like is that link someplace? Has it been shared? >> Still has to go

181through >> and that and I'm okay with that. I'm just trying to figure out because So you never had any issues drag >> upload could go back could pull my stuff off could print. >> I think I had to upload my physical like 30 times before >> it could be user error. There could be some user error. >> I mean my mom isn't the best at I shouldn't say I uploaded. I'll have the principles check all the teachers and stuff in August and retire and stuff because we've had some changes even since this came for middle school. So, I'll have them recheck all that. >> Okay. Okay. Thank you. That's all I had on that those. >> Any other activities, questions? Any questions on coaches or student transportation? So with the high school student handbook

182tabled, I would entertain a motion for number eight. >> I move to approve the Laurel Middle School activities handbook, the Laurel Middle School student um handbook with the changes mentioned, Laurel Public Schools coaches handbook and student transportation handbook. Do you have a first to approve with the changes mentioned in the student handbook by Renee? Do I have a second? >> Seconded by Donnie. >> I thought you said you seconded, Chris. >> Oh, sorry. No, I said yes. Sorry. Okay. >> I was looking for a second. >> Good. Um, so we do have a first by Renee to approve uh numbers two through five under item number E, seconded by Donnie. Any other discussion? Discussion by the public. Hearing none, we'll move to vote. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries.

183Moving to number F, food services meal rates. Do we have a motion? I make a motion to approve the raising meal costs as follows. Breakfast for all schools at $2 per meal. Lunch for the elementary and the intermediate school at $3.30 per meal. Middle school $3.50 per meal. High school $360 per meal. Adults are $3 for breakfast per meal and $5 for lunches per meal. >> Have a first by Britney to approve the motion. >> Do I have a second? >> I have a first by Britney and a second by Renee to approve item number F, food service meal rates. Any other discussion? Any public discussion? Hearing none, we'll move to vote. All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Item number G, Jolliad Schools bus route. Do I have a motion?

184>> So, does everyone understand what happens when we do this? This is this is normal. We actually sent one to them because we cross a little bit into theirs to pick up our kids. Um, if they wanted to come anywhere other than what they've asked us to come on, we'd have to approve that as a board. You guys would have to approve that because I would never want you guys to approve them coming all the way into town to pick up kids, >> right? Because that that just I don't think that's beneficial to our district. And they wouldn't they shouldn't approve a Laurel bus going down through the middle of Joliet picking up kids at the park. Whoever wants to come to, you know, Laurel, come on in. You know, so we're careful about it.

185This is normal. Well, this happens every year. >> I make a motion to approve the request of Jolliott Schools to >> enter our bus route area. >> Have a motion by Renee. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> First by Renee, second by Britney to approve the bus route um approval by Jolliad Schools. Do I have any further discussion? Any discussion by the audience? Hearing none, we'll move to vote. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. We'll move on to information items. There's any item you'd like to dwell on or comment on, please do so. Under number A, department reports. Number one, facilities. >> I know it's long. It's late. I'm sorry. But so the middle school library structural repair, are we we're just doing those steel braces? >> Yep. >>

186Along, right? >> That's all we're doing. Like how many? >> Like Wayne, would you come up to the mic, please? >> I can't hear a word you're saying back there. Actually, there's a steel channel that will be run underneath the full length of what those are. Those will be tied up with bolts that will go all the way through the glue lamp beams um at the corners as well as across the front holding that channel in place. >> And that will be just the one beam. >> No, doing all four of them. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you, Wayne. Any other questions on facilities or comments? >> I just wanted I know you've got a full plate this summer and it was nice to see the lineup in your page. There's a lot of work

187that's going into all of that. So, thank you. >> Busy busy always. A lot of property maintaining here. Any other items public move to food services? There is no technology report but thanks Devin for all the work you're doing. I know there's a lot of technology moving around right now uh coming out of graph going to new schools and all of those things. So also thanks to Chase and all your summer help for working on that. Number four, T transportation. >> Busy busy as well. Thank you. >> Very busy. >> Yeah, people. School's never done, right? >> Financial reports. Laurel School 2526 financial report, cash report, bond expense report, building reserve, revenue report, expenditure report, end of fiscal year comparisons, high school activities, middle school activities. Moving to number C, superintendence report. >> Oh, I

188just thank you, Julie. >> Yes, thank you. >> A ton. And that uh financial report was very easy for the brain to read. >> Oh, good. >> Yeah, very great resignation report. Thank you all for putting those things together. We'll move on to number eight, discussion items, coffee with a board member. I think this is something we've talked about before and Britney wanted to bring again and to to discuss a little bit more. >> So, I'm willing to start this possibly like middle of August. I was thinking because I I'm not going to be able to please everybody. I can make a day and a time and somebody's gonna say, "Well, I work and I can't make it or I'll do it after hours." And some will go, "Well, I'm too busy because my kids

189doing something." So, um, if you guys are okay with it, I'm just going to maybe just pencil it in my schedule um for like Thursday at 9 to 10. >> You have a location in mind? No, I was trying to do some place, you know, kind of local. Um, and when I say local, I know all of our businesses are local because they're employees, but somewhere that would be parking would be um easier. So, do you guys have any idea? I mean, I can throw out just I wish that the coffee shop downtown was still open because I would have >> chosen that one, but I know >> that one's not. There's a few breakfast places, you know, like a cracked egg or something. Maybe. >> Yeah, >> you could have it at those. >>

190I just I want to be able to then go into the um owner and say kind of what I'm doing just so they're aware kind of what we're up to. >> Not loitering. >> I'm not loitering if I don't buy a meal every single time. Um so there are good thoughts. I mean, Carlton Depot, but are they open at that time? I don't think they are. I don't >> know if they're breakfast or not. I've never been there for breakfast. >> Cracked eggs always. I mean, I'll go in there and have some hash browns and an egg. >> Barbecue. >> The golf course. >> It's certainly open. The golf course is open at that time. >> Do you think I'd get people out there? It's a little >> being out kind of >> or do

191you think that I could do it, you know, every week and then I just have four different locations each week and that's where I just >> Yeah. If you get you schedule and think that can help advertise it'll put together the gas stations or like Albertsons or something doesn't have like a >> only thing we need to avoid I think right would be a quorum of of um trustees there. So it' probably be Britney and one other or two maybe. Um, and so if you would publish that, then maybe the board could say, "Hey, I can go this day. I can be with you this day or whatever." We could coordinate that a little bit. >> Four of us don't show up. >> If there was a particular item that was maybe a hot button

192item that I needed to be there, yeah, just let me know. >> Well, that could come from meetings. That could come from people that we're hearing that are, you know, struggling with something. So, I mean, it could be this could be the topic just because this is what's happening. I mean, I would even love for some of our admin or teachers that says, "Hey, I've had a parent comment on this. Maybe that's a topic that you can bring up during that next week or something." So, I'm open to all of that. >> So, I will get So, is like nine okay for now and we'll see how it works. >> Yep. >> With sports and everything coming up, I just can feel that we might not get everybody in. >> People are thinking of that

193during summer. They get they wait. >> Okay. Okay. So, nine on Thursday I'll do once a week and then I will uh kind of rotate amongst four different businesses in town. >> So, um Britney, are you going to like send out a bracket and then try to have us commit to being part of that with you? >> I mean, I guess it's just let Chris know if you're planning to attend and then he can just let me know and then if he's like, "Oh, no. You know, I already have two that want to be involved. I might need to hold you back. >> Could send out a like a Google doc signup. >> I am not sending out a Google doc. That would be that I would have to control that darn document. >> Yeah,

194I think it okay if I could I can do math of three people. So if it's you plus two others, that's that's the maximum we can have at this event without noticing it. So um if you'd let me know, hey, I'll come and then I'll let know. That way it kind of just goes through one master source and I can sort of I'm like, oh well, two people already asked me this week. Sorry, Donnie. You'll have to go next week if you can. >> Put all communication through Chris and Matt. Anyways, we'll just do it that way. >> Yep. Just let me know if you want to. The only thing that we'd love to know is the rotation. I think that'd be the only thing the board >> I can do that. Okay, let's do

195it that way. >> I think it's great. Any other discussion on that? I think it's good. I hopefully it it might be a slow rock rolling, but it might build. >> We may have some of those parents, you know, drop their kids off. um and then swing by because they're already out. That was another thing of why nine would work because then some of those parents, you know, would be dropping children off and maybe they would be willing to stop it >> already doing something. But yeah, >> the word gets out. >> Yeah. >> Then uh the next item then that I would like to talk about was the um the tours of the buildings. They're coming quite along now. Um, so I wondered if the board would like to take a tour of the

196buildings once they're basically substantially complete but not ready for delivery just as so that we can see them >> for the occupancy actually. >> Yeah. What they're like ready to be occupied before the public if we had questions >> kind of early August would give you good, >> you know, comparison. Y >> you guys just let me know when you want to do it. I I'll put out the information. Is that kind of what everyone would feel would be a good thing? And is it is it like a w what? We we had done them on Wednesday. We did some new lunch ones, but right now it's probably be a little bit better if we did them, you know, later afternoon, you know, 3 or 4 just because um that's when they're kind of winding

197down so we're not interrupting them. We're not fighting with saws and things. >> Yeah. a worksheet, guys. I want to look. >> Did you say the 6th or the what >> of August or the 13th of August? Potentially. >> The 13th would work better for me, but uh again, I I could be at state, too, so don't depend on me. Uh, we're usually done with Oh, that's actually that's a good day to do them if we did them like at 3:00 on a Wednesday, 2:30 on a Wednesday. >> Is there already used to being interrupted that day? >> We're already We're already in the building. >> The 13th afternoon work. >> I'm fine with that. >> Yeah, actually, I'm just relooked at it. Yeah, 13th afternoon work. >> 13th might be the best day. That

198gives them a whole another week to be sort of I mean, they'll be >> very close. What time? >> Especially on Mogan. What time? >> Three. Four. Four. Four would work better for me that day. >> That'd be great. >> Go. So, four would work good for me. For you, Kelly? Four. Good for you. >> So, should we slate that for um Wednesday the 13th at 4? >> You want to do which bill? Should we do Can we do both? >> Yeah. kind of just have to >> just be kind of abbreviated through them and >> I could say um you know four and five you could put out. Yeah. >> So people know if they only want to go to West they come over. Yeah. >> Takes about once you walk through and kind

199of talk. It's a 45 deal. >> Yeah. >> Bless you. >> And you're you're finishing up with the PMs over there about threeish, right? >> Yes. >> Be better for you to us to just start at Mogan and then go over. >> Yep. That's fine. Intermediate >> August. >> So we'll be July. Iowa to sit down >> the 13th at 4 for intermediate and then 5:00 will be convened over at >> Got it, >> Logan. So, we're starting at intermediate first. >> Intermediate. Intermediate at 4 >> at 5. Got it. >> Great. The other thing that we wanted to put out just sort of into the ethos for us to start thinking about, there's not anything necessarily that needs to be changed on these um board priorities and goals. Um they really shouldn't change year

200to year much, but we should reflect on them and measure our progress and look at them. So, we wanted to have these out here for discussion. Obviously, no action tonight. >> Think these have ever been looked at since I've been on the board. >> Yeah. We So we kind of Matt and I saw these and looked at them and I mean they feel like they we've we've kind of been moving along in this vision and alignment. Anyway, >> we got them last year. I brought them the last couple years and you've never made any changes to them which is fine. >> Yeah, >> it's a really pretty broad generic oil. >> They're broad and very like direct like >> gives direction to certain things. So >> yeah, >> I mean I think the my thought

201is the only time anything would ever come off of this is if we felt like it's like 100% achieved. Check that thing off and move on. But if you look at the goals, they're really like they're just continuous improvement goals, but we wanted to bring them in and just discuss them if we had anything we thought we might want to change or look at or have a discussion on. Well, we're adding goal area four with engage in our comm uh communication with our community. So, a little bit more. >> Yeah, I think that's I mean, yeah, >> I'm done with that. >> I'd say it that's probably the one that that uh >> we got a lot of high school things to do. >> Yeah, >> it's going to be on the >> that'll continue

202to be an area. getting more engaging techn I don't I'm not associated with one right now not that we couldn't but at the rest >> who maintains that and then who controls that. >> Well, right now it's controlled through like Devon and and I'm on the there as a as a user. You're talking about a district Instagram or something. But our but we already have a district I thought. specifically something. >> I'm just trying to figure out we have all of our followers and everybody already on our main page. So that's I mean we'd have to then open up a new one try to get everybody to liken that. >> True. >> Just a thought. I mean it's not a bad thing. I just >> No. No. >> I don't think it's a bad idea

203because I think it would be something more that the students would follow because they're not going to follow the >> Okay. I mean most of them aren't >> is that the audiences >> communication piece is more like the students probably. >> Okay. So, for example, like all of our student council Instagram posts, those are all for only students, right? That is information for students. And the issue is that's where our community stuff got posted last time. So, 90% of our followers are going to be students. So, only students are going to see that. And students don't care about building reserve levies. Um, >> should they should >> they should um the issue is it's the community that it we're trying to get the information out to. So if there was a way the students could

204voice what is happening to the community, it may be a little bit easier for them to understand. And that I think would go along with the goal of the community communication. >> I'm not saying it's a bad idea. I'm just trying to figure out how we get more. I mean, so we just we already have so many pages. We tried to condense our pages to make sure that we have one centralized >> information hub. >> Yeah. But at the same I mean I get it. I get the mindset >> it can be reposted to the district page. It's just easier when we have a spot where like only our information would be that would go out. Yeah. >> Well, yeah. Well, and that's why I would have like you would run the account. You would

205be the account, whoever staff member, admin wants to do that because I >> Yeah. I picked up about every fourth word. You have to talk louder. >> A student council teacher basically And then >> yeah, >> talk to me about that. We'll maybe see if we can't come up. >> This is This is just like an idea. It's not >> It's a great idea. >> I'm not I'm not saying it's not a bad idea. I'm just trying to figure out how it all works. >> Yeah. >> Any other items on that? Any future discussion items? >> Reminder of tomorrow's uh training. >> Reminder of the boardsmanship training tomorrow. >> I will not be there. >> Correct. >> So boardsmanship training. >> We could be over by that. >> Yeah, we might have to huddle over

206there. >> Yeah, it's be so nice. So with no future items,