06/23/2025 - Board Meeting

001Aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic stands. One nation under God, indivisible, and justice for all. Okay. So, first we have public comment. Um, we welcome public comment at the Laurel School District for non-aggenda items. So, if you have anything um you would wish to discuss, there's card in the back of the room. You can fill it out, bring it to Julie. Um, is there any public comment for non-aggenda items? Okay, moving on. We got one. Okay. Sorry, Deon. Um, Chicod and I would like to submit this formal complaint 1700 as outlined in your uh board policy. 9 8 Yeah. So, would you guys stand up and come up to the mic and introduce yourselves if we could please? This uh discussion item is revolving around Independence Day,

002Fourth of July celebration uh that's currently held at Thompson Park and school property and we've talked with you guys a little bit. Uh so really we were just if you guys would introduce yourselves first so everyone knows who we are and we can get you on record. So for those of you that don't know me, my name is Casey Bieber. I'm a 2008 graduate of Laurel High School. I've been with the Laurel Fire Department now 12 and a half years. Um, and what second year we've been chairman? We just Jake and I just took over being the chair co-chairs for the Fourth of July event for the fire department association. I'm Jake Benoy, maintenance captain. I don't have anything fancy like him. I didn't graduate from here, but uh I've been on for almost 5

003years now with the Laurel Fire Department. So, the discussion item really we were putting on there to talk a little bit and we wanted to make sure we did it in kind of an open forum and invited the fire department about the future of uh of the fireworks show in Laurel. Uh, I guess I would like to point out to the board that uh we would like to work with the fire department any way possible, but we're putting quite a bit of money into that actual um uh grassy area there where we currently shoot off the fireworks. We're also adding to the north part of where Graph School currently is. will have a uh potentially have an artificial turf uh softball field. Uh and hot fireworks and artificial turf doesn't go together real well. We

004uh we currently set up sprinklers on our football field and run constant sprinklers during the celebration just to make sure we don't have any issues. We have something hot hit that turf field and it'll melt it wherever it hits and we'll have all sorts of issues. So, we want to try to always be looking ahead a little bit. Um, we're going to put a lot of money into that uh grass, recrowning the the turning the uh soccer practice field and also just making it playable, but also doing some stuff with the rest and bringing that up to to uh snuff. Uh we that grass has taken a beating over the years uh with the fireworks. So, we're just looking at what are our options and wanted to open it up to this group and and

005these these guys. I know we've we've offered other parts of school facilities and these guys might have some other ideas. So, just turning it over. I had two, in fact, I had two people come to me this weekend in all unrelated situations. I was in two different situations asking me why the school is cancelling the fireworks show and and that is just simply not the case. We're not doing that. uh we want to try to work with the fire department to figure out how we can make this continue to happen uh and yet protect our facilities and and the money that we're putting into our our uh uh our fields. So, we're just opening that up to discussion between the board and the fire department. So, um if you allow, I'll like to start off

006and extend our thank you to the school district. Um I know the fireworks have been getting lit off on school property for as long as I can remember. Um, I remember being a small kid and it actually being set up in the actual football field and watching my grandfather roll around handlighting the show. So, the the cooperation that's been there over the last 40 years at least is much appreciated. Um, even the meetings that we've had with Mr. Torque and a few other folks, uh, Wayne, as far as locating a new location, figuring something out, we've gotten good ideas. Um, us as a fire department and I guess really for us to kind of draw the line, the fireworks show is not in any way, shape or form supported by the city in the sense

007of it is not the fire department. It is the firefighters, myself, Jake, and the 27 other members of the department. It is our association within that department that actually does all the fundraising, does all the leg work, all the background work to put that big fireworks show that Laurel is so well known for on um so um the city of Laurel in the realm of the actual city and the government and all that has nothing to do with that show. That is the firefighters and the community putting that show on. Um, and we've gotten I know within our meeting, we've made a decision as a collective to put off finding the new location until next year because as you can imagine, this is a lot of leg work. Um, we've been in discussion since what,

008January? Yeah, we've met a couple times. Yeah. That's something that Jake and I took on as our our burden to bear for the fire association. Um, and like we like to tell our guys, and we're really reiterating to them, him and I make phone calls and line everything out for them. They're the ones who put in the labor and make this thing happen. We just are the guys who get to talk to people and network and make phone calls. So, um, the ideas that we've been suggested by Mr. Torx and Wayne, uh, we will look into. We've had a couple others come up and there's a few. I think there's one other location that I have to call on. Our big concern is getting it out of the central location of Thompson Park because I

009know that that'll affect food vendors, kind of move that hub that we've created over the last however many years of it being in the central part of what are the minimum request. So, we're currently double-checking all of our regulations because we actually um here we fall under both NFPA regulation 1123 and the ATF's laws concerning ordinance. Um we have one member currently two two part of one two and kind of part of one that carry an ATF license so that we can handle the ordinance that we do. Um, for us at a minimum, we have to be able to, depending on the size of how we set the field up, we have to have at least 500 ft of standoff distance between our farthest display and our safety fence. And there's for uh let's say

010for going for transparency. There are with how the show's grown and how the crowds have grown over the years, we've kind of pushed those limits where we're below that 500. We're not dangerous, but we're we're starting to get to the point where the show even itself needs to be downsized a little bit. More so in the sense of we just need to bring stuff closer together. newer systems, newer firing systems that actually guarantee uh we don't have as many crosswires as they used to back in the day. Uh our stuff's a lot better. We get a better shot percentage. I guess that you know the discussion here is that you know rumors will be what rumors are right is that um to make it clear to you guys that which you guys have had meetings

011but from a board perspective that sorry Devin um that we are supportive and we will work with the fire department to if there's any of our um facilities that work for that and we can assure that our properties are um maintained and that it's not going to damage anything. I mean that we're willing to work with you guys so that to make it clear to the public that the district is not against fireworks against the fire department. Um absolutely doesn't want it anywhere near I mean that's not the the sentiment of this board or the district. And so I think this is more a communication tool um between us and you guys to um make the community aware that we're working together and this year things will go on as as we know and next

012year we have 12 months to figure it out. I know our social media team is doing their absolute best to make sure that if we see something tagged as far as the fire department goes stating anything in that negative aspect, we try to catch that as soon as possible. Quell those rumors. I know the few months ago when that all kind of blew up, you know, we tried our best to play damage control on that, but I know there's nobody within the firehouse that's so No. So, I know you guys don't speak for the city and you're not this isn't representative of the city and I I understand that. Um, but is there is there um some place that you're working with the city on or other places that this you even thought about? I

013know we've had our discussions and we've offered up parking lots and asphalt and places where we won't damage things, but I know we're you know that the distance is a problem, but um is there any other place you guys have even thought about? We have like 22 acres of grass out there. Right. Obviously, it could be awful yellow by the 4th of July time of year, so it might not be great. But I mean, we're we have other things that I'm just not sure what's the best. Have you guys thought about anything? Um, one of the locations, and it's a phone call one of us has to make still, is to Brad Wood. He's offered up some property over by softball fields next to Woods Power Grip. uh and and a lot of that just

014kind of getting put to the back burner is we're concentrating on this year. Making sure that this goes off without a hitch, right? Um another location I believe Wayne brought it up in our last meeting that we had where the old ice rink was. That is city property. Um we've looked at that. It's about.3 acres less than the soccer is, which wouldn't be an issue as far as total layout. Um what we run into then is we would lose that one baseball field for seating, lose that uh shelter which we generally will use as one of our ticket selling spots for the day of. Uh so it' just be cutting back crowd space at that point. But that is a potential site we're looking at and we would have to discuss with the city as

015far as Sure. Because when we shoot the fireworks for the homecoming show, we put one trailer next to that soft or that baseball field and that's where we light off from. So, it's not far from where we're already like show. We also have the Rock Church they've discussed with us. Um the only issue that we see behind that is parking for right now. Anything else from Jenny? How far are the virus have to be for our new turf and and fields to be safe, I guess, or are you worried about you crowds? I I I think we're the people are far enough away. I' I I've been coming to the show for 20ome years and I I've yet to really ever see a single misfire that went into a crowd of people or something like

016that. I've never seen that. Um but we do have things that land on the football field and we have stuff all over the football field on the fifth and stuff all over Graph parking lot and graph um playground on the fifth. I mean, there's just little pieces of round cardboard everywhere. And uh we spend quite a bit of time, custodial time, picking those things up. And well, I figure wherever they land, then there that's definitely a potential landing area for something that's hot. Um and and again, we we've been fine. We haven't had any problems. But again, we put up Wayne Wayne and his crew put up sprinklers and then they run sprinklers all afternoon and and uh all night on that to try to keep it wet so we don't have any problems. I

017don't know if how far away. It all depends on the wind. It all depends on things can go straight up and they don't go very far. Otherwise, I've seen garbage and and remnants in people's yards on the other side of the football field to the east. Just depends on what the wind is really. I've ended up with a yard full of cardboard and I live just right across the street here. So, um yeah, I think currently right now our closest tube setup is 75 to 100 yards from the actual turf of the football field right now. Uh like Mr. Torx was saying, Wayne and his crew set up the sprinklers. We run about 12 to 1300 feet of hose from the hydrant at the end of the soccer field on the southwest corner and supply

018that water too. So we do absorb that cost for the school. Appreciate that. Well, and maybe it's I mean I know we've always used or the last several years opened up the stadium to seating and I know that it hasn't always been fully utilized, but maybe some of that space that we're going to lose that we can't put people in because of the proximity, we can encourage more seating or people to go into the stadium to use that seating. I mean, we already have the Dodgers field that you I mean, you pay a little bit and go in there. It's a fundraiser for them, but we could do the same sort of thing possibly depending on proximity with the new field. Um, so that we don't overcrowd those areas to damage that surface, but then

019at the same time allow a little bit more open area for people to sit that we may be losing. We we we don't feel much about stadium. It's mostly just staff that use it. We open it up for staff, but if we open it up, there's a lot of seating that still open up there a lot. Jenny, is the high school practice field behind the the high school not an option or is that too close? So, it could be an option. Um, we are close to the school building there. Um, that would also cut out probably about a quarter of the seating because that practice field at about 5:00 is fairly empty and then by about 8 9:00 it is packed. Um, usually when we do our boot drive through the park, we'll have a

020group of guys go through there and then by the time they've made their way back through Thompson Park, they go right back through that practice field again and they're hitting people that weren't there the first time. So the the crowd exponentially grows on that field. But if the crowd were located now where the fireworks usually are, we could just relocate them. Yeah. If we were to even say move, like I said, to that ice rink, we would minimize what we're losing. So we're we're definitely open to options. Um open to suggestions, ideas because as soon as this Fourth of July is over, I feel Jake and I are not going to be able to rest for a month or so like we want to, we're going to have to get on finding a new location

021and make sure it's appropriate. But if it's something as simple as jumping the fence into the ice rink, you know, right? Yes. No big deal. Um but uh you know, well, you got to remember too is down the road, you know, we'll have a little more seating area. So if we lose some seating area by jumping to the ice rink, we may gain some seating area uh by when graph comes down. We may gain some green over there and gain some places to have it sit and people watch. So I'm I'm not sure we'd be losing a lot of people. I think we'd be gaining some areas too potentially. Yeah. Casey. Yeah. One more. All right. The ice rink is that where's the ice rink? So you have the soccer field and then you have

022the shelter in Thompson Park. It's that open field space in between. It's kind of like has a little burm around it. Looks like a place that used to fill with water at one time in the winter. And so it's on it's on Thompson Park on the east side closest to our soccer field practice field. It floods out every springish when we do our This really is the last question. Um, we should bring this back, I think, and would love to have you back, but when do you when do you need to know for your planning to be successful for next year so that we can find an an agreement? ideally to stop Jake and I from getting less gray hairs over one event that the fourth of or the fire department handles. Um probably end

023of December, beginning of January time frame would be ideal for us because then that's got to trickle down to my shock crew, my bomb crew and so on and so forth. So, like I I posed the question to him about four months ago in our general meeting of, "Hey, I need you to get the show as small as possible with the same shots." Yeah. With the same shots with what we do. And I got told, well, I need to know the area I'm putting it in so I know how small to compress it. So, if I can have four or five sites lined up and be like, "Here, it can fit into these spots and then we'll go from there." I mean, I think that'll make that end of it easier. What's What's the current

024area that you usually use like in a typical year? Um, give me just a second here. Three acres. Uh, it's just a little over an acre. Is it? Yep. Yeah. So, I'll come around here. This is roughly what we used as far. And this is all on the eastern school. And then a open area down on the bottom is filled up with cardboard boxes filled with fireworks tubes that hold anywhere from 80. That's where we get most of our slave. So we we occupy if I remember because I did a quick map out of it on on X and it's about 1.04 acres of what we take. The big thing uh we've cut down in recent years on the number of ground displays that we have, those pretty things that make the shapes. Um we've

025also cut back on using say scaffolding. Um we don't really have a huge need to take a lot of heavy equipment through it. um just because I know in the past that's been an issue when the ground's been a little bit soft and we've put big ruts into that field. Uh the biggest thing that we run across that field now is our magazine which is a 20 foot conx that's usually loaded with all of the equipment for wiring that show that gets towed in sat on the ground and then that trailer disappears for the for the show. any public comments, question. Okay, Jackie, did you get all that? We just want we just want good information going out there. Well, we thank you guys for coming and visiting with us and the lines of communication

026are always open. You know that with Matt and with Wayne. Um, so we're looking forward to the show in a couple weeks and look forward to next year's. Awesome. And if anybody on the board wants to email me, get a hold of me, Mr. Torx does have my email address and contact info. He's more than welcome to pass that on and we can talk back and forth. Um, y'all are invited to stop by. Uh, we will be setting the field up on the 3. Uh, we'll be busy from about 8:00 in the morning on the 4th until the last shots in the air. Um, you're more than welcome to stop by at the control gates, talk to us, ask questions. Um, depending on the time of the day, we might even give you a tour

027of the field. So, just look for Jake or I or ask for us and we can make something happen for you. We appreciate it. Thank you so much. Thank you. Already excited. Facebook. Yeah, we know. Thank you guys. Okay. So, moving on, we will move to correspondence. Um, we just had one and that's from the Billings Public Schools Education Foundation. Do we have any like context as to why we got that or I mean it's a big amount. Yeah. Yes. Can you come up and that's okay. Um, and apologies, I do have some limited context on this, but the Dewey Hansen is an annual um, recurring fund that provides support for um, science and mathematics STEM type uh, trainings and equipment for our school and Laurel is included along with the Billings schools. It was

028just endowed that way. And so Laurel gets a a little piece of the pie every year from my understanding of it. Okay. Is there any questions, comments from the board? Any public comment? Okay. Well, that's awesome. Thank you. Okay, moving on. Presentations, owners rep update. Shane isn't here, but Matt's going to give us a little update. Uh Wayne, if you'd come up here as well. Uh want to give you guys a little bit of an update of where we're at with all four projects. Um we're on I'll say we're on target. uh with all four projects right now. uh west they started to tear out they move they came in on the 6 that last Friday with like 25 people from Langless and they just started moving stuff out of those existing classrooms at west

029and there they have the classrooms are done enough in the new area they were able to kind of put stuff in the middle of the classrooms in that building and the new additions and a lot of stuff is in the gym and they started tearing out heaters and tearing out all sorts of things. Uh, and they've already started painting and repairing walls and tons of things over there and they're going uh 100 miles an hour over at uh Laurel Elementary. Uh, Mogan, they're on target as well. Is that correct? And uh they're continuing to move forward on that and everything other than maybe some elevators where there's some issues with, you know, getting all that done with the elevators, but again, they'll all be ready. Uh, they're on target as well. Uh where are we

030at with talk a little bit about uh the graph field site and south Wayne if you wouldn't mind. Well uh graph site um one thing that we're uh holding this up is the report and the work thing for the asbestous removal. Um I spoke to uh our representatives this today. He feels by the end of this week that we should be uh ready to issue uh or get a permit to do uh the asbestous abatement. The asbestous abatement will take approximately 2 to 3 weeks and then the demo can start. Um so hopefully if not the end of this week, first part to middle of next week, we will. Now we've got the auction that's going on. You want could you talk a little bit about that? What that is? We uh the city had

031uh didn't hire this company. Auction company came in and offered to come through and sell or attempt to sell as much of the leftover stuff that we were no longer going to keep and was going to get uh demoed. They came in and put tags on everything. You can go online and see. Uh it's a online bid process. It closes 10 o'clock I believe this coming Saturday the 28th. and people have several days to come and pick up their stuff. We don't have anything physically to do with it. Um there hasn't been a lot of action what I've seen on it, but he said usually it waits till the last minute and that's when your bids start coming in. I went out and looked at it. You know, there's a few bids, couple bucks here,

032a couple bucks there. may not be a ton of money, but it's a way to try to get rid of a few more things rather than see them, you know, destroyed or what. Uh there it's an auction, so it's like an online auction basically. Can you send more that? Yeah, actually I have the link. I'll forward it to you. Wayne sent me that link today. Can we share it on our district? Sure. Yeah, I I I got it today. I just haven't done it, but I I will certainly do that. Also, we took in this last Saturday. We had uh the fire department was in doing training and they said it went exceptionally well. It gave them an opportunity to they read it in the book. They know how it's supposed to happen, but they

033don't get a chance to do it. And here they had a chance to break in a door and have smoke filled hallways and try to find, you know, someone who would be stuck in a room. Um cutting vents in the se roof of the house. uh school to allow that uh to go out. So they've they really enjoyed and go ahead talk to them today. I apologize. Who arranged that? That's really neat. They just called us. Uh yeah, they just called us and said, "Hey, uh uh if there's any way we can use your building, if they know a building's coming down, they'll come in and practice going through a door or uh cutting into stuff or so." Uh, I also got a call. I haven't got a call back yet, but I got a

034call from at one point from SWAT from Yellowstone County and they wanted to come in and practice going through stuff and it's always an empty building. They're not worried about things. So, uh, but they've never called me back. So, we we had opened it up to them if they wanted to train. It's a great opportunity for them to do some things in a building. They have to worry about wrecking. So there's the bricks. You want to understand? Yeah, we could uh actually I think that's already on another Oh, is it? Uh that's down there on another item. We'll we'll attack the bricks in a little bit. Discussion. Yeah, we'll talk about that in a little bit. What about South? South is actually doing very well. The um asbestous abatement is done and complete. Demolition is

035substantially complete. uh framers will be in this this week, probably toward the end of the week, and start framing things up. Um it's actually moving along quite well. And the abatement, what are they doing for abatement over there? Because there can they can work and do some abatement at the same time over there. Um actually the abatement is complete. They complete it. Okay. where they've had where we had there's a few items that they have to take out before they can get to a couple of pieces, but it's hand stuffed. Um, but it's substantially complete and they're on target, their target date is mid August to complete uh south uh a lot of superficial stuff. You know, they're not tearing down walls or doing a lot of tennis, that kind of stuff. Well, they did

036tear down the bathroom. That brick wall that brick wall came out into the hallway there right by the offices. Uh because that has to become an ADA bathroom and that brick wall prevented that from happening. So that did come down. That came down the boiler room that came the boiler all the exhaust there was two uh large air handle things. We're not replacing those air hand or we're not replacing the boiler. We're not those things are just going away. Well, in mid August is much sooner than we were thinking in the beginning. We were thinking October, correct? So, and they're on schedule to get that. It actually looks quite well. Okay. Is there any other questions about the projects from the board? Any public comment? Okay. Thank you, Wayne. Next is next year's middle school

037schedule. Justin, can you uh look at there? Thank you. Okay. So, I just thought that we we were started working on uh the middle school schedule in February and we're changing some things up a little bit. So, I just wanted the board to be aware of one that this wasn't just a me thing or an Allison thing. Uh we had a committee. Um and uh we met on a weekly basis. So, the scheduling committee made up of 10 teachers, uh, one counselor, two administr administrators, uh, sometimes it was just one of us. Um, uh, we started to meet on January 7th. We met every Tuesday from 7:30 to 8 in the morning. Uh, there was some times we had to take some recesses due to budget. We had some budgetary conversations uh on the back

038side that um we had to wait for a little bit until um we had some uh answers as far as how to move forward. So the scheduling committee members brought up different schedules. They looked at different schools. They came in with different ideas. Uh, one thing when we started off we we didn't want to get rid of win and uh then we wanted to look at what are some uh some things that they uh that they they wanted to um prioritize. So there the scheduling committee's job also is to bring back information from team collaboration time for the committee to consider. They came up with priorities and how the teachers to determine priorities. Okay, you can go to the next one. So, we came up with a list of priorities for the next year's calendar.

039Non-negotiables were can't get rid of uh interventions uh to math and reading. We didn't want to get rid of ICU and uh we wanted to have a common prep. And so, currently at this time, our common prep was grade level preps. Uh but that time also is used for collaborative time. So we want didn't want to get rid of that. Uh they helped with decision- making and coming up with new schedules. It was a very collaborative uh time. Can move on. So the results of the schedule. Um let me pull mine up. I I was I thought I was last and so I was uh doing something. Sorry. I'd have to wear my shades to see that. So, I don't think because they're not they're not prescription. It'll just take me a second here. But,

040as you can see on uh on that is mine. I'm sorry. Where would it be? I can I can pull up the agenda. I apologize for this. What's that? Yeah. Can I use yours? I'm sorry. There's no way I was going to be able to see that. Okay. So, uh, so number one, what would be your first priority? And it went down your second priority to very last, your last priority. So, the first priority, as you can see, is every period being the same length. Currently, we had with the 45m minute lunch, uh, we had some periods that were 45 minutes, then we had some periods that were 40 minutes long. And so what that had was uh some teachers were they were getting a little bit farther ahead in some of their classes, getting

041a little bit farther behind and so they wanted all the class periods to be the same. The second priority was designed uh design a schedule to make periods as long as possible. What we came up with what the teachers have told me uh for many years is uh 40 to 45 minutes wasn't enough time. they wanted more time uh to teach and so uh as you can see the second prior priority on that as well uh was still the uh every period being the same length. So when I came up with this schedule or when we came up with this schedule we wanted to make sure the periods are as long as possible and we also wanted to make sure uh that they were the same length. Okay. So then uh moving on other priorities

042established in the survey uh we wanted math teachers available during ICU time um not to work ICU but just in case they had some questions uh currently during our ICU time. and the math teacher were teaching uh classes. And so when there were students that were in ICU, they struggled with answering questions on um that students may have. And the ICU teacher, which is typically an ELA teacher, was not a very good uh math tutor. Not that they couldn't do it, but once you start getting into pre-alggebra and algebra and stuff like that, it starts getting a little bit more complex. Uh the ideal length of time for classes we had 60% was 45 to 50 minutes and 25% was 50 to 55 minutes. Uh 65% did not want to have a home room or

043advisory class. They wanted time to teach and have students in the classroom. So we kept that in mind as well while we were uh working with the schedule. So conversations that we had I had conversations with uh Charlotte over there to determine appropriate time to teach ELA. Uh currently um we went from about it was around 80 to 84 minutes total for ELA because we had two ELA blocks. Uh the curriculum that we have um amplify is for one-hour teaching uh lessons and the math which is illustrative math is designed for one hour as well. So obviously the first thing that we met with was trying to figure out okay 1 hour class periods well then we were having really really long days and so um that would have been a whole negotiating thing and

044stuff like that. Uh, I also met with our uh, Marcy Hillard, head of food services. Met with Debbie Hensaker, who's our educational consultant. Uh, met with Mrs. Olsen, who's our title teacher. And we had numerous meetings with their SLT, our counselors, and other staff. Also included, I think Mr. Torrex in on some of this because of PE. We tried going down to two PE classes and two PE teachers which we ran into all kinds of problems in that as well. So, uh there's a lot of problem solving, a lot of collaboration in this. Uh and so then what we came up with is what you see here is uh instead of having grade level preps, what we end up doing is we had vertical common preps. uh vertical common preps. Uh an added an added

045point to that is uh one time a week uh ELA teachers will be able to meet with one another and all the science teachers will be able to meet with one another and all the um subject specific teachers will be able to meet. Also, when you have a new teacher that's teaching math, English, social studies, science, uh even a fact or whatever, uh an added benefit there is they can meet with their the other teachers that teach science and they can problem solve on how, you know, how does this new science curriculum work? Uh and some other things there. And so, uh that's really good. The periods are 52 minutes, 52-minute periods. Uh we have one lunch period. So um this is new. We're going to do one lunch period. Looked at the numbers and

046uh it'll be about the same number of students that we went through when I first started there. We had about 180 and then went through in each class when I first started. And we have enough tables and chairs. That's where I met with Marcy Hillard, the lunch lady, and we talked about how we could um get through that many people. We're not going to hold people in there for the 22 minutes. Once they're done eating, then they go outside. We can bring new kids in. So, we just start just cycling through uh kids. And that way, the kids that potentially need more time to eat, they have more time. the kids that want to go out and play or whatever like that, they can have as much time as they want to go out and

047play. Um, uh, math is available during ICU. Um, there's no win, which that was really hard for me to stomach. Makes me a little nervous because we have such an awesome intervention time. Um, but I think, uh, in working with Charlotte and Debbie and, um, Mrs. Olsen and Allison, I think we have a pretty good uh plan for intervention to meet everybody's needs. Our interventions are going to be for 30% and below. Any kid that's 30% and below in ELA because ELA is our number one priority because that is uh everywhere. That's in math, that's in social studies, that's in science, that's when you get outside in the workforce, you need to know how to read. So the easier the better you are at reading, the easier life becomes. uh ELA teachers will be teaching

048the ELA interventions from pre-teach retach to HD word which is what we've been doing the last three years. Uh and so we still have that and so if you clicked on you click on the you can see the blow up of the oh I needed to request access. I'll have to give you guys access. I'm sorry but you can look real close. So, put your glasses on, I guess. Sorry. Uh, and then so I think one of the I think I talk about it later on. Here's the results from the scheduling committee. This is the schedule. Uh, this is what we came up with. We have 54 minutes first period and seventh period. The reason why it's two minutes longer is say the pledge. Make uh quick announcements. Uh Larry's been doing really good because

049one of the complaints we had was uh the announcements happening at different times. So literally the announcements will start at the end of the day at 3:22 and he's done at 3:24. Uh in the morning um it'll start around give it couple minutes but it'll start around 8:10 and be done fairly soon after that with the pledge. You can see the lunch how the lunch uh cycles through 188 kids and 189 kids. A lot of kids but um that way we have a 45minut uh one 45minut lunch. We get through all the kids. There is a downfall as you see we have seventh grade in both spots which I talk about in the next slide. So as I say is no schedule is perfect. We were we worked really hard on trying to get a

050a perfect schedule and and worked with a lot of different people. Um and no matter what we did uh we had um there was a negative in one way or the other. So one thing is seventh grade we'll have to divide that into two groups. With that being said, we're going to do our best to allow students to be with their friends and we'll constantly readjust to allow students to be with the students they want to be around. We're not we're not going to be there saying, you know, um uh Allison are best friends and sorry you can't be with Allison. Uh because we're dividing it from the letter M to Z. Uh we're going to try to make sure that the friends are with people they they feel comfortable with and not dividing anybody.

051Um the other uh negative on this is loss of an elective for interventions. So it's just one elective. Uh and it's just for the 30% proficiency or below. So they'll be able to take they'll still have PE, they'll still have uh if they want to take um choir and music or band, they'll still be able to do that. and they'll still have another elective that they get to pick as well for the for the year that's rejusted at semester. So if they're 30% and lower right now for first semester, then they'll be an intervention class. If they if they work really hard, we have many students that have uh got out of intervention um every year uh through them working hard in that intervention class. So they can work hard and then um get out

052of that and then get that elective back. But just one elective, they still if they don't take band or choir, they still have three instead of four. Um as I said, number one priority is ELA as ELA is in everything that we do. Justin, so right above that that it says students that need to have intervention for both math and ELA will and then it just stops. What will they do? Will Uh so students that need to have an intervention for both uh math and and ELA will still have that opportunity. They're broken up into that. And so what they do is it's um I think we talked in talking with the title teacher we talked about a couple different ways. either we split the class in half uh 22 and 22 or 25 and

05325 pretty much or we do Monday, Wednesday, Friday ELA, Tuesday, Thursday math. But those students that are low in reading and math, we'll have those together opportunity. Kim, thank you. Good catch. Um, students will be able to leave after 15 minutes in the lunchroom if they want a longer recess, which was the other part I already talked about. So, with all this, are there any questions? Mainly, I wanted you guys just to know and understand that the process that we went through, if you have any questions, give you an opportunity to ask those questions at this time and so there's not any big surprises. We went from eight periods to seven periods. So we went from 40-minute classes to 52 minute classes. I don't know. I think that it's positive that I mean these kids

054that need the extra help, it also gives them motivation to work hard and get out of that intervention piece so they can get their elective back. So, it's one more piece that provides an incentive for that hard work. So, Allison, you come up to the mic, say your name. I think you're absolutely right. And I do think that when we take our assessments for FastBridge, the importance of making sure we do our best on there will come kind of come to the top, right? because they're going to have to do their ba best on those fast bridge assessments to work themselves out of that intervention. And oftentimes we have kids that don't always come in trying to do their best. They just start clicking. And so this will kind of ensure them, you know, focused

055and and getting the job done. And I will say our intervention this year um with HD Word uh was phenomenal. I mean they had kids moving I mean some kids moved up you know 10 points which is kind of unheard of within a year. So that just tells us we're doing things right. We got to keep the course, keep our focus, and I think it will help with that. Um, just making sure we're doing a good job on our things that we do. I think the one thing that Mr. Bis also stated is in sixth grade when we started this, our numbers were let's say about 50, which now are once they're in eighth grade is 20. So just through our intervention. So our intervention just starts getting smaller and smaller and smaller and uh

056we're just seeing a lot of growth in that and that's one thing that I really didn't want. We we needed to have interventions available for that and so uh that was a big thing in creating this schedule was we couldn't do that. We also didn't want ELA instruction to fall either. So, um, Chase, three times. So, we do it, uh, we have it scheduled right away in September. Then we do it, uh, this year we did it in December um, right before uh, second semester and then we do it at the in May. Did moving the fifth grade out, was that a challenge or maybe a little bit easier? maybe lunchtime. So, uh I think it was more of a challenge than what was anticipated. Uh I think you know um I thought that we

057would be able to one thing um I thought we'd be able to go down to two PE teachers. We're looking for making cuts. So, I thought we'd be able to go down to two PE teachers. So, I had this whole schedule made out to do two two PE teachers. and the counselors are trying to plug in students and then we were running into all kinds of problems where we just couldn't do it. And I was like, well, what are we doing wrong? And so that took a a lot of time. Met with uh Mr. Torx and we tried to problem solve. We met with Mrs. Mr. Trex and Mrs. Fuches trying to see if there was things that we weren't thinking of and um called some other schools up that had similar numbers. Uh there

058were some challenges. It wasn't as easy as I was thinking it was going to be. Definitely. Well, it just looks it looks great. I mean, you guys and your committee worked really hard and I hope it I hope it works out this year. I'm excited for it. Anything else from the board? Any Oh, go ahead. I just appreciate the process. It was rigorous and I think you came up with a good product. So, we'll find out. Thank you. Hopefully. I did want to just say just given uh the p you know the positive of them working their way out is one negative that may come is uh because every year I just have a feeling we'll have a couple parents that I'll call up being a little frustrated that they lose an elective. So just

059being aware of that as a board and we're aware of that as administration that that's a potential uh issue. Um, well, I think anytime you change schedules, I mean, we have overhauled the high school schedule a couple times in the last and last year. I mean, it's hard to get used to at first, right, Chase? Especially the kids that were already at. I mean, the sixth graders and seventh grade, I mean, they've all been there. So, now this is going to be a change to them. So, that's harder next year. When you get the fifth graders and they haven't had any, it'll just be normal. So over time that kind of weeds itself out, but it's a hard change is hard for the kids, it's hard for the parents, it's hard for you guys. I

060mean, so there'll be some growing pains and I'm sure there'll be tweaks, but well, I'll say a lot of prayers. Yes. Starting in August. Any public comment? Okay, we will move on then. Thank you. Okay. So, we are moving on to the consent agenda. Do I have a motion? I move to approve the consent agenda. Second. Have a motion to approve by Jenny, a second by Kayla. Is there any discussion, comments from the board? Any public comment? Okay, hearing none, we will go ahead and vote. I have a motion by Jenny, a second by Kayla. All in favor say I. Any oppose say nay. Motion carries. Okay, moving on to action items. The first is the high school parking lot project. Do we want to discuss first? Yes. Okay. So, Matt, do you want to

061or Wayne on Yeah. So, uh we actually have a some good news on this. um Hard Drives, which is where we had the estimate last time. Uh they're a local uh company uh just between I think they're on 64th between Billings and here. And they are part of their co-op. Uh they just got that process done and they were pretty excited. So uh we're probably uh going to be far below the $80,000 work with them. We'll probably be in the mid60s. Uh but I still brought you from the last time, so we thought we'd go ahead and bring it back. Um, we also are looking at a a smaller project with Red Ridge to do some of the concrete work that we talked about on that kind of that peninsula that comes out from the

062high school, making that a little straighter and cutting some of that off and putting some more parking in, some more handicap parking in and visitor parking. And uh uh so I technically they're two projects and two companies, but I already talked to you guys about it being kind of the parking lot. So, I went ahead and brought it back to you guys. So, technically, you can go ahead and approve it. Um, both of them are well below the $80,000 and they're different companies and different projects uh in in general. So, but I thought I already brought it to you once. I'd go ahead and let you know where we're at with it. Uh, so I am going to go ahead and ask you just to prove the project even though um technically neither one of

063them is over the $80,000, but since I already had it here once, bring it back. Um, this looks like it'll add quite a few spots to the high school parking lot, add some really up needed visitor and and uh handicap parking. It includes some concrete work and some some uh approaches for wheelchair type approaches, handicap approaches. Uh, it includes repainting and adding some additional uh, parking spots, getting rid of that parallel parking that is against the fire lane that's there. It's not really a fire lane. I'm not sure why it's even painted red, but we won't paint it red again. And I would put some perpendicular parking there. I have a map there that if you want me to go over with the map, it's the same map we had last time. I would certainly

064uh, go over that with you if you want me to. So, Wayne, is there anything to add on that? Okay. Any questions, comments from the board? Will they get this done before school starts? That's the plan. We're on there. I had Wayne go ahead and call and get on the schedule. Even though it wasn't approved by the board yet, we went ahead and got on their schedule. So, uh they can come in and and uh we didn't have to wait a couple more weeks to get on their schedule. So, it'll they should take them not too long, few weeks, I suppose, to So, hard drives will come in first, do all their work, and then we'll start cutting some concrete and and then that'll have asphalt across there as well. One thing we did talk

065about that's not on there. Wayne and I briefly talked about it, but at some point across where that concrete is, we may we'll see what it looks like, but we and we don't have any now, but some of those, you know, those post you see like you're walking into Costco or something to prevent people from driving up on there. I don't think we'll have any problems, but if we do look like there's an issue, we talked about maybe even put some of those in. Yeah, we're not sure we're going to need them, but it it's a thought. uh you're talking about which which spots will be handicapped. If if you look on the map kind of where the uh you know as you as you if you come out of the school to the right

066there, there's already a handicapped spot there. We're going to expand some of those so they have actual room and and uh they'll be able to get up on the concrete a little better. And then we're going to I'd like to designate some for visitor parking only. Um and uh and then we'll add quite a few more spots there that are perpendicular parking uh as well. So uh we won't have the traditional senior parking area anymore. We we can designate maybe that first row that's closest uh to the teacher parking uh designate that as senior parking. So it'll be a little change in some way, but that's up to your principal and I haven't sat down or talked with her, but that's what was mentioned to me. And then uh earlier when we did our report

067on the parking lot again if you look on here um and this is just kind of my cruddy writing. I I should have wrote a little bit nicer but uh we talked about with our engineer about putting in two stop signs. Uh, one would be um just south of the entrance into the wait room to keep people for who are coming up that east side and then people who are coming across the front of the school would become the rightway folks. And then another one would be right over by the corner of the bus barn. So people entering would stop there for the rideway if people already at the park. Are we still going to allow people to park along the bus barn? because they're not going to be able to see the stop sign

068if the kids are all parking. They may have to have a no parking area there at some point. But there's there's really not any markings over there right now as far as like lines. It's all just dirt, I think. And and uh so I'm just thinking they're not going to see the stop sign. They're going to be like, "Well, there I didn't see the stop sign." Well, we're it'll be new. It'll be new. It is on our property, so we'll have to, you know, move it out far enough where it's able to be seen. So, how big of a deal is it going to be that the senior parking is affected? [Laughter] every year. So, we'll come up with something different. But that section currently up there. Yeah, we're not going to be painting any

069lines up there. One of So, currently that's kind of there's some dirt and some gravel. Uh, one of our projects was to to put asphalt up there and try to leave a little bit of room uh between our property line goes all the way to that fence. Their their fence is our property. So, technically when they park a camper or they're actually parking on school property, so uh we're not trying to interfere with that right now. Uh, but that'll just be as it is this year. They'll just be parking on that dirt. We're not going to be able to reassphalt that. That's a little too expensive. And there won't be any lines painted up on number four up there. That that'll just remain what it currently is right now. Does that answer your question? Yeah.

070Yeah. It it is our property line. We've had it uh surveyed. It actually goes that everyone's back fence is actually the property line. So if anyone parks south of that back fence, they're actually on school property. Anything else from the board? Any public comment? Do we have a motion approve the high school parking lot project? Second. Have a motion by Jenny, a second by Donnie to approve. Is there any other discussion or comment? Any other public comment? Hearing none, we will go ahead and vote. I have a motion by Jenny and a second by Donnie to approve the two estimates listed. All in favor say I. Any oppose say nay. Motion carries. The next item is B, admin support contract. Do we want to discuss first? Yes. The process of the admin support contract and

071the admin contract next was just uh me uh meeting with those groups and going through the contract talking through some things. Some things that were put on here uh you know I just didn't feel like they weren't in the other contracts meaning the CBAs of the classified or certified. So, I did take them off and I did not present them to the board. Uh, it wasn't much, but there was just a couple small things. Um, but this was uh what I feel like uh doable whether it's financially or uh whether we can just do it philosophically, whatever. It's all it's all in there. We got a monkey with a couple of dates. Uh if it gets passed tonight, I'll make sure all the dates are appropriate. Um, but you can see everything is on there

072is uh was done uh via myself or HR department as we sat in a meeting just depend on whoever was typing that day. We met a couple times and and uh so you'll see changes from Peggy, but those were actually done in my presence with the rest of the group there and also some of them were Lindsay done in our presence. It wasn't them working on it individually. It was us working on it as a group. So um Matt question just to clarify the every two years attending the national convention is that a new piece? No, that's actually going to be switched to every three years per the uh our administrators go every three years. So, this is uh they had in this contract if you were a director or whatever, you went every two

073years and we're putting that on a three-year rotation with the uh principles as well. It was a two-year and we're switching it to a three-year. And that only applies to the directors, transportation, your IT's uh business manager, HR, that in that group doesn't apply for to everyone under this country. If we look at that section, Devin, I don't know if you want to pull it up. What page are we on? The last section right before the signatures. Okay. Five. Six. It's six is the last page. Under what heading? I think it's page four. What heading is it under? Yeah. It says Okay. Under severance or under national meetings or conventions. Yeah. Okay. Does the school board agree to person once every three years expenses every year? Because there's two things the state conventions are like

074there's a transportation a superintendent and we go to those every year because the cost is quite minimal but if you're going to like the transportation I think Zeta was in uh Oklahoma and then they went to Orlando or whatever it was but they go nationally it it varies um and so that's every three years so national and states every year. I got you. Thank you. Okay. Um, while we're on this page, under the severance, you change the the time period from 10 years to five years. Um, they will receive a percentage of their salary. What was the rational? That's a pretty That's half the the difference. And I'm afraid we're going to lose really good staff. So, we want to support longevity. Correct. Hope so. What was what was the rationale for that? You know

075what, Peggy? Could I get your help on that? Because I don't remember the exact rationale other than uh years. I mean I my I guess my opinion is five years in a especially in a at I just don't think five years is enough and I think that us being so close to Billings stay the five years you can get your severance package and you can go to I mean I I think that we have to leave it 10 in my opinion to um for that longevity piece. Five years isn't I don't think you should get a severance after being somewhere for 5 years and we don't offer that to our teachers or I mean I I just don't I think that that's way too short of a time period. I would agree with you because

076that was my concern. Same with on the admin contract as well. I believe it's in there too. We discussed extensively in our admin meetings as we were looking at the contracts. Um, one of the things we are up against in the state is administrator salaries and the variance all over the place. Um I just came back from some training and the average administrator tenure across the country is 2.7 years. So we asked about moving it to five years because five years makes it realistic as a retention piece. 10 years makes it irrelevant. Someone will look at that and go, you know, if I can go here or here and make this much more and it's going to take me 10 years to the the 10 years then is no longer relevant. It's an irrelevant clause.

077People will write it off and they'll use more sick time because there's also a sick leave buyout built in. So if if you know you're not getting anything for your sick time and and you know that staying 10 years may or may not be feasible, that becomes an irrelevant clause. Five years and even a a more modest payout becomes more relevant and a little more motivational. And grant it's just one of those things they're like there's not much wiggle room. Administrators really don't get to negotiate for much of anything. um that just seemed like kind of like a um you know a small offering. It was a small ask for for what and not that you know I don't know that leaving that in or taking it out is going to make anyone leave sooner

078or later. It was just that was the motivation behind it is looking at it with when it's 10 years and even even taking into consideration the age of a number of administrators in our district. it it really becomes more relevant at five years than 10. What it does do is it lowers the the old one. I'll just kind of give you a brief overview. So if you were here 10 years, you got 10% uh at the time of separation. This one does lower it to 5% after five years and then gives you 1% uh beyond that. So I would I would think it actually encourages I agree with Dr. Bington. think that it encourages uh admin support and and then you'll see in the next one administration, but I think it does encourage it over

079time uh as well. I I 10 years is a long time and I'm like glad to see principles of 2.7 because superintendents are 1.5. So uh there you go. Uh I would support it. I think it's I think it's a good clause and I think it uh can benefit people in our district. I'm not sure it changes a ton uh of of of you know monetarily over 10 years it's still 10%. It just gives you a benefit up to capped at 15. So it would benefit you to be here for 15 years more so than what it currently does. I can't support the five-year. Um, the teachers are at 20. Everybody got a raise on the base and we need our leaders to stay. And I realize things are challenging in education, but um I

080I feel strongly about 10. I'd support the 10 years as well for questions before we ask for well do we want to wait till the end to do we have other comments on the contract before we get to that point. I guess we need to note that and then whoever makes the motion needs to do so keeping in mind the things we were discussing in case anybody else has other things in here. So is it just the five to 10 or is it the that entire paragraph with the changes what you you you have an issue with and they would go back to the original wording? I'm not opposed to having like the incentive of a percent a year up to 15. I I think I I I don't know. I guess I'm fine with

081that language. It's the five going to 10 or the 10 going to five that I think is of concern. I guess the other thing I would offer is, you know, a lot of districts don't even offer a severance package. So, I've always thought of that as a positive with the Laurel contract. Any other comments on that piece? This is a Google doc which I anything the board chooses to do I can change the wording. Well, it's that's what you guys if we either that or we can table it and ask that those changes come back. I mean, that's another option is we could go through what we have concerns with and ask that the changes come back and motion to table. If I if that if it's just that one change, I can do that

082in in one minute. Let's make I feel comfortable making the change and just approving. Let's finish with our discussion about it because we need to approve it as a whole as opposed to approving just pieces. Um, is there any other pieces that we I mean there was the addition of an extra paid holiday. Does anyone have any concerns about that discussion on that? Does any other district staff get that summer flex holiday? Obviously the teach the certified are out but classified. We added that this which we'll get to that. Yeah, we'll get it's a little worded a little different, but it's but it's basically the same. Yeah, classified who work in that full year term. There's they could take it anywhere from uh July 1st to August 15th if I remember right, isn't it? So,

083they can take it anywhere. This one is designated specifically to be the following business day after the 4th. So, it's specific to I'm okay with that. So this year that means Monday will be the correct correct. Yes. Um, I guess my only there was the addition of and that's on let's see page on page one at the bottom that Peggy or added this contract is considered a continuing agreement and will renew on a year-to-year basis unless with the exception of an appointment of the clerk. I just wonder does that like tie us into something that we weren't tied into before as far as employment goes because these these technically it does uh employees are not I mean they're not unionized so are we are we I don't know I just don't know if I really

084love that piece but I don't maybe we're already bound by that without even saying it. To a degree, we are when you're releasing somebody, we need to be releasing them for cause. And that just basically states that what it would be taking away is the board would no longer be uh just automatically uh not, excuse me, that's the wrong word, would not be renewing those people's employment every year like say they do a coach. they would be under the same as a uh classified for example that they would be uh automatically renewed unless there was some cause. So they would because you don't approve custodians every year. You don't approve maintenance. You don't approve lunch ladies. This would uh um be along those lines. That's probably the one change in this contract that I care

085the least for. I think it's taking away a right we have by having term contracts in those positions. I would hate to give up that support removing that clause as well. Any public comment on that piece? in order. Okay. Um, so is there anything else in here that we need to discuss? So, will if there's a motion, that motion would include removing those two. and I can do that relatively quickly if that's what the motion is going to be. Uh I will So is the proposal we remove that whole section? I mean is that what we're the whole section is new. I I'll tell you that. I mean, because don't we already I mean, we already have a section about and is there anything else that we need to discuss? Anyone any public comment on

086that? Do I have a motion? I move to approve the admin support contract with removal and Matt just removed it of and reverting back to the original 10year severance period being the added percentage. and the yeah we can leave I I'll support leaving the added percentage right so under severance I put in that the whoever leaving the district after 10 years of service in Laurel school system will receive 10 uh% of their salary when leaving the district yearly after that this position will receive an additional 1% per year capped at 15% % that change has been made in there. I have a second. I second. There any other discussion from the board? Any public comment? I wanted to make a comment in regards to that first section about um renewal, automatic renewal. Uh the admin

087support is the only group that's not protected. Uh they have the classified is protected by their union. The certified is protected by their union. Teachers have tenure, administrators have tenure. We have nothing. So there's no job security. And job security is really important when the wages are low. So if there's no job security, we can't guarantee longevity with these type of individuals. So that was my comment. It is the only group even I have a multi-year contract, right? So there's there's no job security for this is the only group that does not have uh to a degree that does not have that. Okay. So, I have a motion on the table by Jenny, a second by Kelly. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose say nay. Motion carries. Now we'll move on to the

088administrator contract. We want to discuss first biggest things on this and not biggest but just to be aware of that the AD uh contract is currently for 210. so that he'd be moving to a 214 day contract. Uh but we probably is more like closer to 230 the way he does it right now. But uh that's that that's something that uh we'll talk about in the next couple of agenda items. Um feel free to read through there and comment on anything. I mean the obvious change that I would support is going back to the 10ear severance. And I would support the percentage after 10 up to 15. I would be adding that, right? Yeah, I'd have to add the whole I have a motion. I move to approve the administrator contract with the change under

089severance from 5 years to 10 years and the addition of the 10% of his or her salary up to a 15% cap. I second. Other discussion or questions? Any public comment? Hearing? None. We will go ahead and vote. I have a motion by Jenny, a second by Kelly. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose say nay. Motion carries. followup question because Oh, never mind. I just thought that through a bit. Okay, so next is the salary placement matrix. Do we want to look at them together or look at them separately? Together. Okay. Do we have a motion? I move to approve the salary placement matrix. Second. Does everyone understand the changes that were made? Is that can't cross them out like because there's formulas and stuff. So, u if anyone has any questions, some

090of the changes are in red. More than happy to explain those if you so wish, please. Okay. Uh we'll start with the administration uh contracts. This is a placement matrix. You can't don't think of it as a yearly matrix or like a what you traditionally think of as a matrix. It's a placement matrix. Um one of the things that uh I mean obviously I'd love to pay classified certified administration pay everybody more but you know obviously we have limitations to our budget. So when I looked at these two matrices, placement matrices, I uh in in talking with the administration, talking with the admin support group, we're really trying to bring the people up according to what their job duties are. And though this isn't as high as I want to, we're moving I'd like to

091move the activities director from a 1.0 0 to 1.1 index factor um because of the time they put in and additionally they substitute as principles all the time but also just the amount of evenings and weekend time that Andrew puts in uh you I'll see him at a football game carrying his two-year-old or three year what is he now two or three three oh jeez carrying his three-year-old around and and uh and just dedicated to what he's doing and I appreciate that. Our elementary principles, I wish I could go higher than 1.15, but again, has to fit into our budget. Uh they're taking on extra grades. Uh they've taken on extra roles. Uh they've they've they've grown by 50% of their kids have have increased in one year. And uh we're certainly not increasing their

092salary by 50%. So um they're doing what middle school has three grades and two administrators. They are doing it uh with one administrator with three grades. Uh, and if you're over at LE at the elementary school, they have three grades plus preK, you know, and so that even takes a little bit more on right there. Um, so I'm proposing uh to look at that. And then I would also propose that that we even look at it that this isn't a two-year discussion. This may be something we come back and look at next year as well, depending on where we're at with funding. evaluate our current status with our principles where they're at. Uh evaluate um and and sit down. I'd love to have a board member or two sit down with the administrators and have

093a conversation about these and uh and I'll I'll be interested to hear just how the like from Mrs. Fuches and to our uh new principal you're going to hire at the next board meeting just exactly what that looks like compared to what their old job was. So, I'll be interested to see that. Um, so those are that and then the next one, uh, we're looking at I'd like to bring bring the clerk up and our business manager up to the same as our tech director. Uh, I use that as an example. Um, very comparable as far as positions goes. And I feel like that uh Julie uh the work that she does and in looking in the future trying to attract a person eventually uh Julie told me she's retiring in three to four years.

094So, uh, so, uh, we want to make sure that we're able to attract people as well. And then our transportation director is currently at 7 and, uh, I would like to move her up even higher than that, but we feel like that's what we can do right now. And then I'd like to relook at that, uh, next year as well. transportation director in the last couple years, three years, two years, has taken on additional duties uh without additional pay. And that would include like um uh community and adult dead. And so uh in in addition to her point8, we're also going to look at a a stipen for whoever does adult ed or community ed. And that's in another document that we'll talk about in a little bit. So transportation, I'd like to move up

095to point eight. and uh clerk or business manager up to 1.05. Um and those are the changes that I would like to propose for this uh next coming fiscal year. I just have a question on the administrator one on the days. Were there any changes to anyone's No, all the days are the same. I deleted out all the superolous information that that needs to if this is approved it's all going to change and I didn't want to go to a bunch of figuring out um those base salaries when someone comes in you look at their base salary and then there's other different things based on educational level that gets added into those um uh and then all the all of their days of the only one we're changing is the activities director at 214 so

096he'll be the same as the principles and everybody else they were all be 214. I think everyone's 214. Is that right, Charlotte? Yeah. Yeah. I will tell you this right now, this is something I think the administration would like to sit down and talk with with a couple board members, uh, you know, nine or 10 months from now, and that is that people like, uh, I'll use Charlotte as an example, but Christina is another one. Um uh I mean they're putting in more than their 214. Uh they got summer school uh you know this week and next week and they've kind of been around and they'll continue to put in more than their their 214 uh as they currently are. So these are people who are willing to put in extra time and then I

097tried never to call them in July. I do my best never even to mention their name in July. Um, you know, I don't want to say Charlotte's name three times or she just shows up and and uh Mc Beetlejuice that said that um so these these folks put in a lot of time beyond what their contract says and I want to do my best in the coming years to try to reflect that. One of the things I look at too, just so you guys understand, as I collect information, whether I was negotiating the superintendent salary, I looked at just class A superintendents, class A principles, class A curriculum directors, what are they making? And uh that's it's important that, you know, I know we can't be at the top. I get it. I mean, I

098understand budget constraints, but we'd like to be average. You know, uh next year I'll just be ever so slightly below average, but I'll be a lot closer to average as a superintendent, as an example. I'm not in the top third. I'm not in the bottom third. I'm just in the middle. Uh and I would love to see the principles work their way up to the middle because right now we're kind of in that top of the bottom third. Uh we're not in the middle and I just feel like to compete we need to do as best we can. Uh statewide we're we're we're in pretty good position with certified for example uh in in competition. Um and I hear from a lot of class A superintendents that you know how do you how do you

099pay a base pay of that and everything. So I mean it's it is a little more difficult uh but but we want to do the same thing for administrators over the next year or two as best we can. Got to be able to afford any questions or comments from the board. Any questions, comment? I know I was probably out on medical leave when our admin team talked about this and as I'm the only assistant principal returning, I'm going to have a voice. So, I want to have a voice. Um, I see that the elementary principles were looking at bumping them to 1.115 factor. Um, I was an elementary principal. I know you work really hard and I'm not saying you don't, but I will say that as an assistant middle school principal, I work harder

100than I did as an elementary principal. I did over 30 plus threat assessments this year. I did over nine um suicide assessments this year. I work well over the 214 days because I also do Saturday activities. And so when Andrew's there or our activities director, Elise Olsen is there with a stipent, I also work those Saturdays. So I'm working outside of my time as well, which is all volunteered. Okay. I just feel like our elementary principles and our assistant principles should be considered at the same level. I know that it looks different being head of the building, but I will strongly say that as an assistant principal, you are doing everything that the principal is doing. You're in step with them every single ounce of the day. We're both doing dealing with behavior. We're both

101doing all the activities. And to see that our high school principles out of 1.25, our middle school principles out of 1.20, 20 and the assistant principles are paid at the very bottom even though we're the ones also helping with all the activities and we're right there with everybody else and we are working outside of our contracted days. So I just want us to look at that picture a little bit and say you know maybe elementary principles and assistant principles should be equal. It was always talked that, you know, they looked at the elementary principles and the assistants that they were equal in stature of what they kind of bring to the table, so to speak. So, I just want to throw my voice out there since I didn't get a chance to and just wanted

102to kind of pitch that little thought or idea out there. Thank you. since I started here uh my two years ago the same time of the year we did raise assistant principles from one to a 1.1 um and again that's not to go against anything she just said but as we I mean I wish we could just go across the board and bring everyone up to that 50th percentile but it it's um you know as I sit there with Julie I said Julie what can we do for elementary principles if I'm going to put more days on Andrew schedule and what can we do for Mr. Torerson? So, uh in those positions moving forward, but yeah, these people all work yeah, they're all they're all going to whether it's rotation and activities, high school principles

103do the same thing. Uh it's a big it's a big commitment from these folks. I just wanted to speak up for future um assistant principles in the high school or even the middle school. Uh there was so elementary does have an extra grade and I think I think that's good uh for them getting bumped up. I think the one thing the board needs to understand mainly is just the number of we can all remember ourselves in the middle school. Uh some of us it might not be the most positive um time in their lives and some it for me it was fine. I I had fun the whole way through. Uh but I talked to a lot of students that it's a it's a huge struggle. If you look at our threat assessments, um, we

104had, I'd say total well over 50, uh, elementary and and out of the 50, a handful was fifth grade. Most of those are sixth through 8th grade. You also put in account uh, I was just going through our um, schedules for the whole year for all of our fall sports and everything. uh Monday, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays. uh you're not going to the amount of work that's put on an assistant principal uh with all those extra days and you start looking at and saying, "Okay, I'm here uh all these different Saturdays and we split it up uh all these different Saturdays and all these nights and stuff like that and you're making less than Um and then all the uh all the um threat assessments, the suicide screeners, the parents on the suicide screeners, following up

105with the um we even went to uh Billings Deaconist um psych center a few times, met with them. I mean, it goes on and on and on with sports. Middle school is a different animal than elementary is. We have sports, we have plus they have adolescence. They're changing. They're all a sudden we're getting more interested in boys and girls and all that other stuff. I just have a feeling at 110 and everybody's 115, you're going to cycle through assistant principles uh pretty quick because it's not going to be worth the amount of work that that they put in. Even if you did, if I just said, "Okay, I'm" and I help her out. She helps me out when needed. But even if she's just doing behaviors, that is not the funnest job in the world.

106That is you're calling parents up that are going to be upset. They're not having they're never happy to hear from the school on those things and you're making less. I just think it's something to consider. Um, I do wonder about the assistant and at the high school level, too. Um, and I don't know, Matt, if that could be in the budget. I I understand what you're asking. Um, and like I said before, I I wish I could go up and and put these people in different positions. I wish we could uh you know put teacher starting salary at 55,000. I mean it it it's it's those are wishes you know that's full of butterflies and gumdrops and all that stuff. Um this this is what we can do and we had to stretch to do

107that. You know we'll look at it next year as we get uh kind of that inflationary increase from the state. I'd like to look at it next spring. You know have these conversations. We'll know our budget fairly uh early next year. We won't have to wait for some legislative session. So, we could have some pretty solid numbers February 1st. And I'd like to have a couple of this group meet with these uh these folks and um and of course include include our business manager and just say what can we do? Because you know, as we sit negotiations with certified and classified staff, it's never personal. and and this board this board knows that this it's never personal. Um it's never about respect. It's it should never be about that. It should never be about caring

108or uh uh that's just not what those things are about. It's about what can we do for these people who work really hard. Um and what are the problems we need to solve just like we do with certified and classified staff. One of them is turnover. That's a worry that that Mr. Cleby just stated there that he's worried about turnover of assistant principles and uh what what can we do about that? So I never want to make this about well you don't respect them. We we all respect them. Uh I do immensely. Um it's just what can we do for them? What's fair? And and we can put together some better numbers by next year that give you okay here's an average for class A. Here's an average for assistant principles in class A. ads

109in class A and all that so you guys can see a bigger picture too. Sometimes that's missing a little bit too. I'll just support or echo what Mr. Torx is saying that this is not a fix every like one year. We're just going to keep chipping away at it and trying to do our best. And Matt, Mr. Torx, if we could next year even include one board member Yep. in these discussions so that we have an advocate or a spokesperson from the board as well to help explain some of these because I had a lot of questions that had no idea where they came from or what. So just help to explain a little bit. It doesn't have to be a negotiations team or anything like that, but just just like a meeting before we

110bring this all to the board. That'd be really helpful. Any other public comment? Okay, hearing none. I have a motion on the table by Jenny and a second by Kelly to approve the um matrix for both administrative and support salaries. All in favor say I. I. All oppose say nay. Motion carries. We will move on to handbooks. Before we get started on these, sorry to interrupt you, Renee. Before we get started on these, just realize that there's there's a lot here. Um, the one that's probably you approved earlier in the year, which doesn't have any changes, but you want to approve it every year. That's the employee handbook. So, be aware of that. So, you won't see any changes in there. Um, we if if if this gets a little too overwhelming, I know it's

111a lot of stuff. I've told the principles that, hey, you know, we might some of these might get tabled until the July meeting and or even the August meeting. And that's okay. We'll we'll survive with it. Just means they don't get put on the website as fast. It just means they have a little bit more time if they want to bring additional changes. So, don't feel like you're under some sort of pressure to go through at least page by page tonight. You don't have to. That's why I gave them to you nine or 10 days ago so you have a chance to look at them and if something's odd, you don't feel right about it, we can bring it back at a later time. So don't feel pressured anybody to I didn't get a chance

112to read all 12 of these. Okay. So I think um we'll go one by one and we'll discuss each one separately um and then we can make a decision on each one whether we approve it or table it and then if we this goes on too long we may table the rest of them and then bring them back so that we can get to the rest of the agenda. So the first one is the Laurel Elementary MBI um handbook principles worked together to make sure that they combined them into the you know got rid of Southwest and Graph and went with the elementary and uh Laurel intermediate and they are different so these had to be different but they did go ahead do an elementary student handbook that's a K or preK5 elementary student. Um,

113I would approve the elementary MBI as presented. I just want I appreciate the work that was done to put them into one document that was is similar and I think it'll be a big help to our families as they move through. Any other discussion or comments on that one? Um, no. Any public comment? Do we have a motion? I move that we accept the Laurel Elementary MBI handbook as presented. A second motion by Kelly, a second by Kayla. Is there any other comment? Is there any public comment? None. We will vote. We have a motion by Kelly, a second by Kayla. All in favor say I. Any oppose say nay. Motion carries. Now we move on to the intermediate MBI. The first thing I noticed was there was another B. I know my kids have

114been in elementary school. They're learning the three B's and this one has be ready to learn. That doesn't bother me, but I just wanted to know that might be a change for some kids. Something that does bother me is we're changing buzz tickets to train tickets. And I know we talked about this in a previous board, how we wanted to streamline and make it a continuum so they're not because before it was I don't know Mr. Roberus, what was it back when you were what was buzz tickets when you were in Gotcha and then Buzz and then a million other things? So, I'd like to keep it one buzz or train. It's something small, but it's just less of a change. Um, does anybody disagree with that? I would I would I mean disagree in

115principle. I don't think it matters at this point. I think it it gives you something. You're getting a little bit older. You're getting a little closer to that middle school and kind of going more away from the littleer kid. Okay. Buzz and going to something a little more They talked about this and going to some Yeah. And going to something a little more uh getting, you know, a little bit closer. The kids a little bit more of a movement towards being older. That's really what it was. It wasn't uh because it had been the buzz, but they felt like bringing the fifth graders down, are they really going to be buzz or and again, it wouldn't be so bad. They'd probably be fine with it. But this just kind of gives them a kind of

116going with the school theme a little more as the kids get a little older. It's really what it was. I think on the consequence grid and this might be just a change because they're older too. Um in the elementary MBI you could go back a step every year if you hadn't been um referred for 30 days but on the intermediate it was 45. Is that just because they're older and they're higher expectations? Okay. And that's not a change there. 45 is the same as it was. Have any other questions? Do I have any public comment? I have a motion. I move that we accept the Laurel Intermediate MBI handbook as presented. A second by Kelly, a second by Donnie. Is there any other discussion? Public comment. We'll go ahead and vote. We have a motion

117by Kelly, a second by Donnie. All in favor say I. Any opposed say nay. Motion carries. On to the bus driver handbook. We have any turns questions. Not a lot of changes in this one, but I thought the handbook looked clean just from my perspective. Did we remove the daily inspection report or was that an imagination? Have a motion. Motion to approve the bus driver handbook as presented. I'll second. Is there any other comment or discussion? Any public comment? We have a motion by Kayla, a second by me. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose say nay. Motion carries. Next is the Chromebook one to one. I guess my question were there. Um, is this Devon's and were there any tweaks that you would want to point out or um is it pretty much

118what it has been just exactly how it has been uh and but still operates the same way. There is a part that we added talking about basically what happens if students don't um return their devices. It's what we do anyway right now, but we wanted to make sure that it was clear to them that if they say that they're going to return the device and then they don't return the device, they're responsible to return the device. Um we've had a lot of students this year that like this year specifically, we had several that said that they were going to return it and they didn't. So, we go through the disposal process. Um we set it up for disposal and then they don't give us the device. So we wind up having to charge them or

119they'll say that they're gonna Well, yeah. Yeah, that was that was the one that happened that time. So we just made it more clear in the the actual handbook about that. Welcome. Can I just make a comment on these handbooks? I always feel like if there's very few changes, it's working and that's a good sign. The only question I had under the disposal process is should we note that students will be given the option to keep the device that has been assigned to them upon board approval to acknowledge the fact that we have to approve that disposal. They cannot just I mean technically I mean we do we dispose of it and then they're given the option to keep them but we can't just give school property to I don't know if we need to

120acknowledge that in here upon graduation and board approval something like that. Um well because we do we do go through the whole disposal process because of the way that everything kind of lines up. that that's part of the addition is to help cover that. I'd be in favor of that. Anything else? Public comment. Do we have a motion? I move to approve the Chrome one to one handbook. I'll second a motion by Jenny, a second by Donnie. Is there any additional comments? Any public comment? Hearing none, we will go ahead and vote. I have a motion by Jenny, a second by Donnie. All in favor say I. Any oppose say nay. Motion carries. The way there. Elementary student handbook. This is the one that was smooshed together from southwest and graph into one uh document.

121So, a lot of the changes you see in there, and I'll just say on any of these handbooks, as is something changes, you know, we'll hire a new teacher, we'll we'll be putting those things in as we go. So, I'm not coming back to the board to get things like that approved. We'll just add, you know, the teacher's name in there or whatever as we go along over the next month or so. I It looks good to me. I don't know how others feel. I would make a motion to approve the elementary student handbook. Um knowing that directories will be updated um while those things change um and everything else as presented. Second. Have a motion by Kelly, a second by Jenny. Is there any other discussion or questions? Anything from the public? Hearing none,

122we will vote. A motion by Kelly, a second by Jenny. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed say nay. Motion carries. We move on to the employee. And so my question on that. Matt, did you say there were no changes to this handbook? Um, there's a few little things. I don't Unless we Well, I said I haven't been through these in about a week, two weeks now. Um, yeah, I think I had We need to go through I think page 42. Rene had spotted something. I believe a day was added per the new contract that where we added that flex day. I mean, we have the spring vacation day, but Oh, I suppose. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Whatever we called that, summer flex day or something like that. I'll make a note of

123that. Uh and then that'll get added in here. Uh we'll put that after. Why do we only list the classified holidays? But why do we not address the support staff or the And maybe they're the same. I don't employed certified. So like classified and certified. Yeah. So like administrative support some of the administrative support are classified and some are certified which that's a different discussion maybe to spread change those or split those contracts out but that's for another time. Um yeah those are considered classified folks. So like your uh let's say Lindsay or Mags or or or you know Victoria whoever's working in that office would be fall under that. This is like purely a formatting thing that bothers me about any of these handbooks that are not set up in the same way as

124the others. I'm not a fan of, to be honest, the pictures in this handbook or the front page looking completely different than our other handbook. I think we need to have you, and we've said this before, we need to have uniformity in our handbooks so that they are a collective of handbooks as opposed to some of them looking completely different. That's my opinion. I guess I would agree with that. I mean this is a employment doc. I don't think we need all the pictures and I don't know that's just kind of want to create a district brand that is yes these are our these are our handbooks and they all and just general formatting not necessarily on this one but that um one thing on this one on the AED section we should just update

125it for the new LIS school um still have an AED what page you still what page on page You know what? I never thought about that. Still have it at south. We won't have it at the admin. I will make sure that all gets updated. 24. I'm getting there. That's like half. Yeah, it's like covering up part of the words. What that is? Oh, it's cuz that one's It was too big. Anyway, I think the pictures need to go away. I do understand that a student created the pictures, which is very nice, but it is it is distracting. Ocean I have a motion. I move to approve the employee handbook with the addition to the holidays and the updates to the ad location as well as formatting changes. Second. You have a motion by Jenny,

126a second by me. Is there any other comments public? We'll go ahead and vote. Have a motion by Jenny, a second by me. All in favor say I. Any oppose say nay. [Music] Moving on to the high school student activities. [Music] We have any comments or questions? Mr. Torerson is here um to speak to this if they have any questions. I'm just wondering if um you would like to point out any areas where there were challenges and so you made tweaks. As a new board member, I'm just trying to get a reference point. um if there were many changes or not too many changes. Um stuff is just dates and things like that. Um one of the new changes is we're going away from Dragonfly. That's our online registration. So I just made that in

127case we get a hallelujah. Well, and I I put it in there so that in two years if it changes again, it's just an online registration platform. Um the uh kind of the one big change would be for the eligibility. Um taking out the 2.0 gradepoint average and just looking at their FS. Um for example, this year we had over 400 kids at the high school participate in activities and we only had five ineligible. So it doesn't affect a whole lot of kids, but we had kid some kids that were had below a 2.0 gradepoint average, but D's are passing, so they're technically passing their classes. But so I I have a question on that. Maybe this is a Dr. Bington question because it does fall under that. And and Andrew knows how I feel

128about this because I did it at our last school. Um, it was almost identical. And I I guess philosophically I have a hard time putting a kid on a bus when they're filling a class. And because it's rare that a kid has all A's and an F or all B's and an F. It's just pretty rare. Um, down the road I would love to see passing all classes to be eligible. Had some discussions around that. And I think before we make moves like that, we really need to make sure that our grading policy is in line. There's some some outliers sitting there with our grades and how we do grading and and um some things along that line. And before I would change this um which would take away opportunities from students, I would I

129would make like us to make sure that we have our ducks in a row first with regard to how we're grading and um grading intervals and grading time periods. And that's important. And and and this is a philosophical question. It's rhetorical to you two, but if if you know if I say a kid got a 60% and I'll ask Chase and Michael is if you get a if you get a 60% you know that D minus are you or a F whatever it is whatever. So the lowest D possible is that is that does that mean you're ready if you get a a D minus in algebra 1 are you ready for uh algebra 2? And the answer it it does it does present company excluded I hope but but uh are you ready and

130if you're not then we need to look at that again it's rhetorical but it it it's something that maybe we need to look at that you say get your ducks in a row maybe that's something we need to look at more anyway and another consideration that we have is that that our eligibility rolls not only on semesters and quarters and on midterms so that they might be in the middle of the course. So, they might have a low grade when we run midterm grades because they were out and they haven't made something up. And we don't want that to that that rolling nature of our grading and things to to impact students getting to participate and not participate. So, that was the adjustment and the adjustment we made affects very few kids, but sometimes those

131kids who are who are who are lining it out with some D's, but they're still involved in a school activity or two. I hate to say it, but the truth is sometimes it's the school activities keeping the kiddos in school. Some of those kids especially who are just kind of hanging on. And I'd rather have them hang on for their activity and get their high school diploma along the way if we really need to. Some students are more interested. I'll also say this class, but it's up to an A. It's because some teachers don't like it really depends on the case. when they do have but as soon as over I just wanted to add as well that 2.0 requirement makes reporting a nightmare. So, it's something that's always been a problem since I've been

132here where we our old secretary had to go through and check a box on each every class and every section um at every class in the high school in order to change what was being graded. And that also changed what the public saw as in as their in progress grade on the parent portal. So, I'm fully in favor of this. This last year, we did come up with I I'm spent a lot of time making a spreadsheet that worked and it works, but it's kind of confusing looking. So, I'm I I would love to see that go away. Thank you. I I guess I would just say I'm not I think that if we have higher standards, our kids will meet them. And so I don't love taking away a standard. Um I but I

133do agree that we have issues in our grading and our timing of grading and when the expectation is things are graded because it we have I mean that we that's been a known issue at the high school of kids that are waiting on a teacher to get things graded so that they don't end up ineligible and that's not fair either. So I think there's probably problems on both sides. the kids being accountable and then making sure that adults are accountable as well. Um, but I I don't know. I I think that for the reporting and I'm not really sure of the five kids that were ineligible if this would have really made a difference for those five kids or if we would have had more. I mean, but I I think that our standards need

134to be higher rather than lower. And so that kind of bothers me if this is a reduction of standard at all. And maybe it's not. Maybe that's a moot point. If you look at the 2.0, kids could be, you know, all D's or whatever and and no Fs, but still have um a a lower GPA, but they'd still be passing the classes academically, but not athletically eligible. So now, well, and I guess my other question is, what are we doing to help those kids? Are we are we making sure those kids go to tutoring? Are we making sure they're going in and getting help? Because if we're not doing anything, those kids that are on the line or just below, like are we making sure that they understand that like you got to be successful?

135When when I tuned into this specific and uh issue and really kind of had an understanding about it, it was fall. It was probably around November. So, we had been through midterm and semester and then we were rolling to another midterm. I started specifically line item reviewing the reports and I would say that there were maybe one to two students each reporting term that were affected by this, but they were not consistently the same students. So on one recording term it's Michael and another one it's Chase and then another one it's Andrew and it it rolls. So that's why I I was feeling more comfortable with the fact that okay, we're not creating a substandard group of students because this does seem to be kind of a rolling thing. And I think adjusting because when

136when Matt said something about 60%, well that's one of our issues is our D range is only is is unequal to our other grading ranges which then throws off some of the medical pieces. So Devon and I have had some conversations about changing some of the background how data is handled. And then we also need to have some conversations at the high school about just remedying our grading scale to make sure we have even intervals and that all students are fairly on that and looking at what our reporting because we are holding our students higher to a higher standard because of how often we check eligibility. A lot of schools will check it the end of the semester. That's it. But it also gives flexibility to students to get back in to a sport that

137other schools do not allow. Um, which is a positive especially for the kids that that's a incentive for them to come to school. We don't want these are there something we can do to increase the expectation but also making sure participate when it is not necessarily failing something instead of one failing the class participate schools specifically rather right now. I would recommend that because we haven't studied this this year and talked through a lot of scenarios that we we we move forward with this. We've also talked about the use of study tables for students who are on the borderline and mandatory if you're if you're not eligible or you're borderline not eligible then and giving the coaches that information saying okay these students need to attend some study tables to get their grades right and

138I know I've seen coaches having and they called it they called it other things too. I just refer to it as study tables because that was my experience. But they basically and you're going to study before you go to practice. You're going to get your grades right before you go to practice. So we had some of that going on this year and we could make it a little more structured next year to try to support that. Well, I think it's just difficult in those sports where there's the schedule is very intense. Um, because there are a lot of missing assignments because you're missing I think it's better with a new schedule because you're not missing the same class for a huge period. I mean, but you're missing a lot of school. And so to in

139order to catch up, um, they have to find that time and be able to be in the school. And I agree, the study tables are I mean, they were helpful for the softball team just to catch up. Some options with the Tuesday and Wednesday early outs where we could build in some time before practices and find a way to staff that with some of our aids provide some support for select students who need to do the catch up. I I will tell you, Michael, I would be wholly against that. that puts a lot of pressure on Andrew and uh in turn it puts a lot of pressure on teachers. Um and I wouldn't want to put that in Andrew's hands to say, "Well, I like Michael. He's such a good dude that that Chase, he's

140a real piece of work. I'm not sure I'm going to do that with him." I think that I I just I worry about that. One thing that's really important in handbooks is that everyone's kind of on that same playing field, you know? That was my one. Yeah, I get I get what you're saying. And you're trying to benefit kids who work hard or kids who are good kids. I get that. Um I get a lot of benefits already. I was just going to say that I think this does it seems like lowering the standard, but I think just being in the weeds of it, it's not. Like to me this makes sense having graded done midterms. And the other thing about grading as a high school teacher is you're grading large quantities of usually pretty

141extensive work like those English teachers like you know and so like getting that in every like that and it's like yes you're get you're trying to keep yourself accountable too because who wants that giant piece of you know stacked papers at at at semester or midterm honestly. So, I just think like being in the weeds of it, it makes sense to me. Like it's obvious when the kids are not and usually they don't practice. They have five kids and we don't have a I think as a general rule we don't have a bunch of ineligible kids. Uh I've been in districts where I had five a week and and uh we just this is a good group of teachers and a good group of uh kids that we have that I mean they're yeah they

142drag their feet sometimes. I get it but not could be a lot worse. I've seen Yeah. I would have thought honestly that that would have been 30 40 kids a grading period and it's just not. Uh you go down to some schools you're going to see that. It makes me feel better that you guys have already looked at it and it wasn't just like a well it's hard to report so we're not doing it you know decision and I mean we do it and we look at it in a year and we see did it work did it not work so okay do we have a motion motion to approve the high school student activities handbook as presented. Second motion by Kayla and a second by Jenny. Is there any other discussion or comments from

143the board, from the public? Okay, we'll go ahead and vote. A motion by Kayla and a second by Jenny to approve the handbook as presented. All in favor say I. Any opposed say nay. Motion carries. Okay. Does anybody need a break? Yeah. Can we take like a 5 minute break? Okay. We'll come back at 8:24. [Music] You ready for? Yeah. Okay. Okay. So, we're down to number eight. I make a motion that we table 8 9 10 11 12 of the handbook. We have a motion by Kelly, a second by Kayla to table the handbooks 8 through 12. Any other comment or discussion? But you're already done. Any public comment? Okay, hearing none, we'll go ahead and vote. We have a motion to table by Kelly, a second by Kayla. All in favor say I.

144Any oppose? Say nay. The motion carries. Yep. So, now we are on to F, the Chromebook purchase. Do I have a motion? I'll move to approve the 2025 Chromebook. Second have any discussion, questions, any public comment? None. We will go ahead and vote. We have a motion from Donnie, a second by Jenny. All in favor say I. Any opposed say nay. Carry. The next is G. Wage adjustments for non-union position. You know, these student workers work really hard, so it' be cool if they got paid more. I was here at 610 this morning, guys. Okay. To prove the non wages for 25. have any discussion? Do you want to go over the things that were added? We certainly can. So, if you go down there, everything obviously is in red. Uh, student workers would go

145from 12 to 1350. Uh, we don't use any track monitors currently, so we haven't used that since I've even been here. classified subs, maintenance subs, uh are as stated, uh that brings them up, you know, not as high as the the pay matrix, but that brings it up a little bit. Uh teacher, uh then licensed teacher subs are two different monkeys there. Um so that would bring those up. Um sub bus driver, never mind. athletic director, uh, assistant athletic director. We raise that stipen and, uh, then we have people who do track management throughout the year. Man, we have a a lot of different track activities on our field and, uh, we have people helping with that. Uh, community ed coordinator, that's the one I mentioned earlier, uh, where that has gone from a principal

146at one point over to, uh, Mrs. Stamper and uh we would like to uh look at that as a potential. So if that does move to somebody else, let's say down the road something happens, community does move, then that statement would uh move with it. That hasn't always been a statement at all, right? No, those No, it hasn't. And I I'm not sure at one time uh it well it was in the principal of South's hands because well they had less kids than say west or graph so they're going to take on this other role which again is fine. I mean that's how the previous administration wanted to organize it. That's fine but I will tell you right now uh Zeta does a good job with this and uh and this isn't just about Zeta.

147I feel like we need something in there to where if you're going to take on the community ed program, it's additional staff, it's organization, it's scheduling, it's all the things that go with it. And Zeta probably could stand up and give us a little more information on that. If you want it, you can, but um you don't you're not required to. So, it's and it's this isn't a a a you know, a plug for Zeta. it just I think the community ed coordinator in this district has never had anything associated with it and I dumped it on her two years ago and um and again she did it gladly but you know all the extra work but it didn't come with any money which never helps. So community ed uh coordinator we can take that

148money out of community ed that money that we collect so it's not a giant burden on general fund right so we do that everything from the high set GED classes through all of our classes that we offer for our communities u discovery tours are underneath this particular one we also do um drivers um bus strers training under this particular one so we have a lot of income coming into that from those particular ones. So, it's a lot to do with getting things out to the community and then we do all of the news for the district that goes out whether it's Mr. Torx um he always has the superintendent's quarter but everything that goes out to every household that that newsletter So at every track meet we have a meet manager or this is one

149person that does it like the entire season? The entire season. Yeah. It's not a track meet. Well, is this somebody that's there when we use the facility? I mean I'm just trying to wrap my head around what is this person? This is track manager. They're setting up all our athletic life stuff. things like that. So you're doing a lot of not just the laurelves track but they're taking all the entries transfer into heat and pieces. So, we already have people that are like doing this but haven't been paid. We already had this just never was on here and I'm not sure exactly uh whatever. Yeah, this is so I guess technically this isn't new, but I'm like, well, where does it say $3,000? Where does it say 1250? I'd like Well, I really don't have

150a place for that. Well, it needs to go on here. This comes out of like our we charge we charge every every team that comes track that helps pay this. Is it Bob? He deserves just I uh I work with Bob in the stands during trap meets sometimes and I help do the timing and stuff and it's it's hard work. It's uh something that we wouldn't be able to run a meet without. Uh so Bob Hogar is been a track staple in the state for years and if it's not Bob down there, you know, five years from now maybe Bob doesn't want to do it and it's somebody else. So, um something just putting on paper that we've been doing stuff and he does a really good job. question hearing. None. We have a motion

151by Jenny, a second by Kayla. All in favor say I. Any opposed say nay. to the classified CBA. The union has looked over this. We found a few tollins that were missing, things like that. And then Marlin and I took an hour this week and made sure it was or last week made sure went through and tried to fix all the little dumb things that have just been overlooked for years and years. Um should have I think uh yeah I believe the yeah table of contents has been updated. Uh so again I'm sure you could look through there and find something else but tried to go through the formatting took this formatting at the classified and be formatted the same as the certified. So they were they formatted totally different uh makes going between them

152a little bit different. So we had to change some references in there and found some problems like that format but do our best which things we found negotiation Well, relatively good discussion good problem solving, which is always nice. Instead of just coming with a problem, we try to come with what could be our solutions. And sometimes the solutions maybe not so much in classified or aren't certified. We're pretty creative and think that we're on the table to begin with. So, it was a good process. Can you tell me where'd you remember that top? H. Uh, it's under H. Is that where it is? Oh, yeah. It is under H about midway through kind of the first sentence on page 16. That only applies to full-time employees. It doesn't, you know, let's say you're a aid

153and you're going to do some summer work painting or something. It would not apply to them. Applies to if I say something wrong, let jump in. But it applies to people that are hired as what it's defined in there earlier what a 12-month. We call them 12 month and 9month but that's just because of the way it works in our system. They actually work you know maybe it's 10 months they might be a temp worker in the summer that they don't uh get that day. This is just for full 12 month employees as defined by clarify. Is this what you're waiting to pay? Yeah, that's what I was referring to. the top. I have one, but I don't have it off the top of my head. I did have it when we were negotiating. Yeah.

154Whole bunch of handouts, Julie. Um the the money really came from uh for certified and classified races. Well, for everybody came from the stars act. You'll see there's some stars act language in the certified agreement for example. Make sure that we do meet that over the coming years. That's really where it came from. lost some money through A&B of course like everybody else is losing 3% increase inflationary increase from the state which help off some of that loss and then obviously the stars act where the bulk of that money came I really don't mean to be difficult but it really I think put better into perspective for trustee, they can be told when we see increases like this, whether it's a negotiated contract or it's a renewed contract from a previous year, they know what

155the difference increase from last year to the next year is guys a great place to speak up. Just I asked this question over and over at the board meetings and Well, I think and I'm glad negotiation we were able to give praises too that ever looked down that in the certified it was looked at as a percentage the average was I think 3.25 if I remember right uh 3.25% 25% and we we can come up with the actual numbers that I could even get out to you guys. It's not a secret or anything. You just don't have Julie has figured all those things out. Um to classified because they really looked at they kind of revamped their matrix alto together in the system. Uh it was kind of an odd matrix that some people might

156get a 9-cent raise and then someone up above them might get a 38 cent raise was it was frankly was kind of odd. Uh we just even that out to a quarter every year. Um and we have again we have those numbers as well and I promise you I'm not trying to hide anything. That's okay. Just how your brain works. That's fine. Numbers person. Well, I think like Matt said the matrix cleaned it up a lot. You'll see it. See, you see it's in like quarter cent increments instead of made it cleaner. And then we the level you'll notice it starts at level three. It used to start at level two, but there was nobody in level two, one or two. So they were just taken off. So at the next meeting, can we just

157have thatformational stuff just attached? There any other questions or comments? Any public comment? Hearing none, we will go ahead and vote. We have a motion by Jenny, second by Kelly. All in favor say I. Any oppose? Say nay. She carries. The next one is the certified nature or certified CBA. to approve the 2025 to 2027 certified. Any questions or comments? Can you share with us maybe some highlight some changes that were made besides That's okay. Um, what would you like to call like where the beginning the base went from? There was a change in the base. I don't even want to know about salary. Excellent question. Kind of a little summary page. Um, I'm just going to take a second to look through here. Negotiating crew that was on there. Uh, there's just one here

158tonight. So, pressure on me, but let's Yeah, that'd be awesome. If if you don't mind just kind of running through those, we'd appreciate that. I think there's some of the highlights that we shared with our people. Um, in the leaves, we made an exception. So currently the way it is worded is they have to use all of their discretionary before they can touch on any accumulated sick leave. We changed that that they have to use five of the discretionary if they have something major that requires FMLA. So they can't just be sick and you know they can't use five discretionary and then be sick in October use a day. It has to require an FMLA paperwork. Um, we had a few this school year that hits in the fall and they exhaust all their leave

159and think come March they need to take a day to go to a wedding and they can't or something. So, we changed that. She was aware of that. Um, that was appreciated. The sick leave bank in both the certified and classified is being turned over to the district to manage and handle and run according to the Janice law 2018. We we've probably been doing it for the last years department um wording just cleaned up to make it that the district is running it. Otherwise, it it will nothing really changed, but it's just more of a organization. Um insurance, we 780 per month to each to cover each employee. Salary schedule, we added the stars act compliance in there so that we make sure that we are compliant. bed coordinators. We allowed five days prior to

160the start of school and five days at the end of school just like um counselors to you be used if needed and we took took out the special ed teacher to most of that just the sped coordinators. Um, we added permanent language. It's been anou for the last year and three quarters. When a teacher subs during their prep period, they've been getting paid. We made that permanent language in the contract. We added compensation for teachers when they lead a PI or training. They get compensated for some of their prep time to present and to present um their Um, we we cleaned up the reduction to staff language. That was really messy. So, we just kind of cleaned that off. That was a big part of it. Um, we did do for vacancies, internal applications, kind

161of guaranteed current staff interview if they are interested in an internal position prior to hiring. the outside. Yes. So if if Lori applies for a transfer, she's only one she doesn't have to go through a formal interview, right? But if I was like really wanted to interview someone over here, unless it's another application we got out of district, interview them, then we're at least say, hey, she'll get a formal interview if we're going to hire look at someone out of district. Yeah, they didn't they didn't used to have to and now they just at least have to. Um we added a little language since we've started um having some tosses um teacher on special assignment and instructional coaches about them not being in an advisory or a supervisory role at all or evaluator role. They

162are equal on par. We don't want them being seen and then just the matrix was the major. We did change the um genuity relationship chart to include step and foster things in the matrix. So just lots of clean up, lots I mean lots of it. Our time was just spent cleaning up language and making sure things made sense and that they matched this. We did a lot of matching between. So hopefully moving forward we won't have much of that in two years we'll be holding this so I think that was the big thank you questions or comments public I just have a question curiosity and I don't even know if it's for Lori. It might be for administrators, but do we have any job share situation place? I know we have garbage for it since

163I've even been here. So, okay. So, we have a motion on the table by Jenny, a second by Kelly. All in favor say I. Any opposed say nay. and we will move on to theformational items. Those if there's something that you want to stop on or something that someone needs me to stop on, just raise your hand. um financial reports, high school activities, donations for the 2425 school year. I appreciate that family that it's nice to see in a aggregate way who's supporting our students. And I know Britney came back with she was worried about the um donor for the baseball, but that was last fiscal year. It was in June of 2024. That's why it wasn't because I started this July. Okay. Moving on to department reports, student services and nursing. I don't see

164benchmark data. This is coming out of the curriculum. Mrs. W. Anything you want to share with us? Um like group number three on the mass data because this was our first year of mass data. um just trying to kind of get our heads around what it looks like. Um I know that there are a lot of conversations at the state level around just understanding those results. Um just a reminder for the board, the mass data that state testing is what we use to drive bigger things like grade level conversations around instruction and curriculum. um like the literacy results, those are broken down by concept. Um there's we're not sure really like what all this tells us. There are some lots of questions that I have like I really question um when we see end of

165the year results in significantly lower than our beginning of the year results. Um lots of questions around you know what were the passages that students were reading? Did this passage get more complex and difficult as the year went on. Um, so just lots and lots of questions that this can raise. Um, but I like the fact that on the literacy results, it was broken down by concept because those are also some of the things that we talk about in our grade level and PLC conversations. the writing results. Um, we had planned on starting talking about those this spring, but just with everything that was going on, it just was not good timing to jump into those deep conversations. Um, the biggest thing that we're going to take away from the writing results from mass this

166year and bring back into grade level conversations are those rubrics. Um, getting those rubrics in the hands of teachers. uh they were available to teachers at the beginning of the year, but I'm not sure that we were explicit enough with teachers to say, "Here is your rating rubric. Let's get kids practicing using this rubric in the classroom." Uh getting that exposure, but that's a little piece that will be changing, making sure that teachers have access to those rubrics and know that they have access to them early on. um teachers just barely started looking at that writing information that came out during around the second or third window that we tested. So about mid year is when we did the writing assessment. Um we were pleased that we were getting rating assessment results so that we

167could look at them. But across the state I heard from lots of different people that they really questioned the validity of those uh results. So it gives us a starting point, something to look at and to have some conversation around. And then the math one, I just want to make sure that you when you look at that math results on the mast, those were the average percentage of points earned when tested on the standard. Um so the math results under math um are not the percentage of proficiency of the standard. However, if it was like the 22%, if we were only earning average points of 22% towards that standard, we were not doing very well on that particular standard. Um, so the math was aligned to our math program with illustrative math. Um, but so

168the results were kind of like all over the place with mast. Uh, it was a learning year with mast. we had a lot to learn with just the delivery of the assessment. The fact that the assessment was throughout the year instead of just one bulk assessment at the end of the year in spring. Um so that's the those are the test results that we take back in and start talking about you know our overall instruction in a particular grade level or content area. Um ACT results those are our four-year trends. So, I'll be working with the high school on really digging into some of the breakdowns for math and literacy with uh our instruction in those content areas. Um, and then the special populations that is really just some enrollment numbers. Um, I should have

169also added gifted and talented on there. Um, as a special population for extension, we have 68 students in identified and gifted and talented across the district. grades 4 through 12. Seven of those students graduated out of our district this year. So that leaves us with 61 remaining. Just kind of a a big broad overview of how we're doing across the district. Thank you for appreciate it. I know we kind of asked for it and good to look at. I like the clarification. The mass is really kind of weird because no one report is the same and all of that data for mass I had to hand enter. I had to had to create my own spreadsheets and and pull that data off of multiple reports out of mass. So that was I'll just say that

170was not easy. That was incredibly time consuming. Uh even with like the district reports that were available through mass that the state said we were going to get for the district, it was still like those literacy ones were individual grade level by content reports that I had to then put together so that we could look at it as one piece. Wasn't there a is there an opportunity for some sort of feedback to the state? Yeah. Um so teachers and test administrators uh twice I think once about mid year and then once at the end of the year our last window of testing we were allowed to give feedback on what was working was not working. We also solicited feedback amongst ourselves through our testing coordinators and the testing coordinators in the building solicited feedback from

171teachers just to get that feedback around like how impactful is this to your classroom? They really did appreciate the three-year process of getting that immediate math like I just taught standard, you know, operations and algebraic thinking standard two. I just finished teaching that and a week later I'm getting my feedback and now I know how I can adjust my classroom instruction around that or which kids had misconceptions. And so they really did appreciate that aspect of it. The feedback in district was that it really didn't take a ton of time in the classroom for the classroom teacher. It was the testing administrators who never got a break. And I think I've mentioned that to this group before. It was constant testing uh for the building level coordinators and for my office. It never ended. And

172so it wasn't like you were like gearing up for spring testing and then you know two weeks later you're doing I'm still doing clean up from the test that we did in May. I have not finished my uh reports to OPI um for the any kids that we had misadministrations on or that didn't test. I have to do that report still. It it never stopped. So there were a couple of us who were really over it by the end of the year, but from the teacher aspect of it, they really like getting that data immediately. Like the the writing data, it's been years since we've been able to pull writing data together and really look at anything with writing. So as far as the feedback to the state, I haven't seen any responses from the

173state. I usually get that information about the end of July as they're gearing up for the next year's worth of testing. We're moving on to superintendent report designations. church on prices came in looking for a desk for a church we have the auction I want to see some tables that could be valuable like tables that's Is there any way to communicate to districts within the state? All over. Okay. One school that came out had that's But uh scheme. Okay. On to discussion items. We already covered A B food service discussion. This was asked to come up and asked our social she to increase the quality maybe choice talk about that. She already talked about that. Yeah, I've already planned on and have my opinions written for September and half of October two elementary for all

174the elementary schools for the intermediate and the two item on their ease of some decision making and cost and then I think Mr. Torque said somebody was wanting more healthy meals. So I was just curious as to what you were looking I think is she got sick questions. I think what her focus was in her just just to make sure we're doing our best to get know the precious things. Uh, I know that sometimes things frozen things less fresh things. as much as I get a different impression impression I got. So I did talk to some of my subject so co-workers from Billings and they gave me this full adoption of the good food purchasing program. So, Sedexo has 97% purchased items are free from high fructose corn syrup. The 3% is corn dogs and

175they've talked Sedexo has talked to their corn dog supplier and are working on getting the corn dogs to be hyperost corn syrup free as well. that 96% of purchased items are free from artificial colors. 99% of purchased items are free from nitrates. Over 99% of purchased items are free from MSG. Over 98% of our grain items are whole grain, whole grain rich. And over 25% of our items purchased from Sedo are support local and regional companies. But we do do quite a bit of all of our all of our bread is whole grain bread. Most of our taco shells we do use the the 10 in shape shells that we use for our wraps. We went white because the students would not eat the meat ones. So there's a few things that we changed over

176so that we could get the students to eat them and they definitely go for the wraps now, but we changed it to white. Some of the pasta isn't as good whole grain. The macaroni and cheese wasn't a very popular item with the whole grain elbow macaroni, but with the white. So, there are a few things that we do to get kids to eat it as well. So, I know talk about Yes. and things are going to be pretty careful. That's good indicator. Yeah. It's that constant balance. They eat also as much good stuff. They don't realize like the cheesy bread sticks is one of the most popular meals at the elementary and middle school. And I feel like a lot of adults probably think, you know, I thought that when I first came here. I'm

177like, what kind of meal is this? But it is made with whole grain bread and the cheese is a low skim milk cheese and so and it's meets the meat meat alternative and grain that the USDA is asking for. And the kids love it and they'll eat it. So it's cheese. Exactly. Exactly. Can we get cheesy bread sticks in the high school? Cheesy bread sticks more often. Yes, I could do that. Um, one thing that I would like to do is I would like to start a menu committee that would meet quarterly that we would talk about menus that would have maybe a schoolboard member, a student from high school, a student from middle school, maybe a parent or a PTA member, even an elementary like fourth grader maybe student could be on the committee

178and we could talk have items, what they like, what they don't like, what they'd like to see on the menu. Coming in hopefully in December, we're going to start this new right bites for elementary school and that will be more of a more catered to the Laurel school kids and what they like and I will visit with the person from Sedexo that does the menus and we would write a menu for Laurel instead of a menu that goes for the whole West Coast. Because some of the stuff they have is like normal kids don't they don't even know what that is. I think we're a defense. I I personally like to work on like the idea of just getting a group together to have a conversation about and just reflecting on what what it was,

179you know, something in uh end of October, beginning of November, reflect on that first quarter, right? moving forward. So, I will work on getting on. Is there any other questions or anything any concerns that you all just want to thank you? I've got three kids in the elementary for them. So, that's great. Yeah. Thank you for their cheesy bread. And then the regular mac and cheese is good, too. So, I did want to let you all know that the summer program at the middle school has been wonderful. Last week, on Tuesday, we did 97 lunches. On Wednesday, we did 82. And then the rest of the week, it's been in the high 60s. So, we're definitely getting those kids from summer school and our regular kids that came last year and the year before. Library.

180They're sending people over after their book buzz. going really well. We're excited about that and hopefully next year we can do breakfast too. If we can staff it, I mean those are the big things is if we can staff it and uh we serve kids in the community and that's 90 kids that got to eat something that maybe in the summer they wouldn't have eaten sure as well. So we appreciate that we're able to do it at the middle school this year which helps a lot. We have summer school and the feds aren't telling us that it's the rich part of town so we can't eat serve there. That's what they did last year to us. Um so this year there's a little more flexibility I think because they let us serve in the rich

181part of town over by that. Plus it was outside. Last year we were at the park and 90 miles an hour. So this was a little bit better. So if you yell loud enough you'd get your way I guess. Yeah. Nice. And I appreciate that. So, any other questions or anything? Thanks, okay, next is graph brick project. Uh, the graph brick project. Wayne will come up here. Wayne was over there swinging a hammer uh trying to knock a few dozen bricks off of the planter out front of graph. I went over to help him for a few minutes and I supervised made sure he's doing it right and um basically we had about every third brick just blew up and disintegrated in our hands. Uh tried to get as many off as we could. The

182group came over and picked up what about four or five dozen bricks. Uh and I think they were going to come over and with their with their chisels and hammers and try to work on that planter a little bit as well. They tried that uh Friday hammer like I had. Just blows the bricks up. Yeah, we takes root strength and awkwardness. That's about the only way to do that. And then soak them in water, which loosens them up and break them. Yeah, they might come across. We didn't try to break them up. They came off with four at once. We kept the four together and then as he soaked him in water they found they the next morning you could tap them apart a little bit easier and I told and I told Chelsea that

183I called and let her know to soak him in five gallon buckets. They didn't do too well based on what I was talking a lot of work. So, it's it's it's still there and I think that there's, you know, enough bricks out there, but they'd like to sell those bricks and donate the money back for a Graph Field sign down the road. So, uh that's really their goal is to just do a little work. I don't think they'll be cleaning the bricks the way they wanted. Those aren't old school bricks. These are bricks from the 50s. They're not They're not turn of the century. If you took bricks off this building, you could probably run them over with a truck and they'd be fine. But when you take bricks off of a kind of a

184mid-century, the bricks aren't as good. They're the ones with the kind of holes in the middle. So that helps adhere them together with the mortar that it makes, but it also makes them real weak and they're just not meant to be reused. So I had one person who wanted to come over and gather a bunch of bricks and so they could use them for a patio. I'm like I mean Took us took us an hour and a half to get a few dozen bricks off, let alone uh did that was brute force with a big uh with a little sledgehammer and Wayne had a chis a big chisel. We just sat and pounded on that thing. He and I traded off and on for whatever and just tried to get as many officers could. They

185just kind of blew up on us. Yeah. Oh, it's a good idea. And I think I told you the ones that were in your office, it's like I think you just give them to the people if you can get them apart and they have the more and then the person has to figure out how to get that stuff off or not. Maybe they just want to I mean, it's not worth spending a bunch of time on. A year ago, it was, you know, we'll reuse the bricks as part of a sign or we'll reuse the bricks in part of the uh Laurel Intermediate School. We'll make a well the effort to do that is just incredible. You'd have to have some skill, the right tools. So, we're doing our best to give as many bricks

186as we can. We had the pneumatic. Uh Wayne brought his pneumatic drill, too. And you know, airhead, air compressor there, and and you put that on there. It works pretty good, but that's more for tearing down and not really for salvaging. And it it just he he he used it, but it just they just bricks just started flying apart. And it's just a little pneumatic handheld jackhammer. Just little. But uh yeah, very ineffective if you're want to save the bricks. That's where we're at. I know they got three or four or five dozen of them. So, if they sell them for about $1,000 a piece, then yes, they'll be wonderful. Supply and demand. Are they free or No, I think they were going to try to sell them make like a fundraiser or and I

187I'm not sure what they said. You know, let's let's say 50 bucks a brick or 100. I don't know. But, uh what it was, you'd have a little piece of graph you could put on your mantle maybe. I whatever you want to do with it. uh as a as a uh just as a you know some sort of fundraiser. Okay. So, next is boardsmanship training dates. We settled on July 15th from 6:00 to 8. Felt Martin. Uh and that will uh you'll call me next week and we'll kind of go over. So if you guys have any uh subjects you would like to specifically address with them, I will you just email me. Hey, can we talk about what to do if someone approaches us in the, you know, in the outer sense or something?

188You guys have a particular area you'd like, uh, let me know and I'll pass that on to them and they can they can make sure that gets to be part of it. I like the legal stuff, too. I think that's always important. But, uh, if you guys have a particular area, feel free to throw me an email and I'll get that on my list. I speak to them next Tuesday, I believe. So, a week from today, whatever you guys want. And future discussion items. thing I had was TSBA came out with a bunch of policy updates that I wonder if we need to look at and I know leadership and learning isn't meeting but I think some of them we need to get here. It's a lot and I know that there's a uh a

189time frame to it. I'm without a uh assistance in my office starting this week. So, uh, normally would fall to my administrative assistant and she has not, uh, my office, uh, in there. So, starting next week at all, she won't be in at all. So, um, I've started working on those and I will my goal is to work on getting those to the board. Some of those are timesensitive, of course. I did get those changes. Anybody else have anything? Remember if it was the last board meeting or the meeting before that the board was talking about like the coffee and conversations or at the ice cream shop or yogurt shop community members asked me when you guys were going to be posting the dates and locations for that. So I just said I' I'd bring

190it up again. that there's community members that are interested with the board members, have those conversations. They just need to know when and where. So maybe setting a schedule or dates is kind of that next move. Maybe when is that starting? So I'll put that on it for coffee with a board member. Good. Anything else? Okay. Nothing. We will adjourn.