001and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all good evening next on our agenda is public comments public participation is encouraged in the Laural School District all meetings of the board will be open to the public except provided by law scheduled meetings of the board May be recorded audience members May address the board during public comment for non-agenda interests or during the discussion of the relevant printed agenda your attendance is welcome if you plan to speak to the board please look over the information on the agenda then complete the public comment card located at the beginning of the library and provide it to myself for superintendent Torx for this evening I'll just have you stand recognize um yourself excuse me identify yourself and briefly State
002your concern public participation is a right that carries certain responsibilities such as informing oneself in advance of the issues being discussed voluntarily being as brief and gerain as possible not unduly repeating remarks others or you have already made and showing respect at all times for the rights and opinions of others whether citizens board members School District employees or students thank you for your involvement in Laural Public Schools do I have any non agenda interests for tonight's meeting I didn't think so I saw some friendly faces in the crowd so we are going to move through our agenda down to our correspondents um once again our community has come out and has done some donations to our district and we do appreciate it I'm probably going to slaughter this name so I do apologize she is
003listening Jean sad salstead uh she provided to We the People uh the independent order of old fellows provided to our pantry and European Porta have of course donated their facilities to our practice field so thank you so much for your donations to Laural Public Schools next on our agenda is our presentation we are here at the high school Wayne Wayne there you are Wayne hello um so are we doing a tour yes we are okay um so for tonight if anybody would like to join us we will go tour the school Wayne will give us an in depth of uh what is going on with our levely high school building and of course as you know stuff is happening around here so we need to know what's going on if you'd like to stay here
004you must you can remain and we will return e e e agenda do I have a motion a motion to approve the consent agenda motion to approve by Chris do I have a second second second by Renee yes oh I apologize I forgot there were cookies thank you very much comments questions from the trustees start class not seeing any comments questions from public audience since I do have a motion on the table thank you very much much appreciate you not seeing any hands as well all righty I have a motion to approve by Chris seconded by Renee all in favor say I I I all oppos say nay motion carries with that piggy do you want to introduce our Mr TX is oh Mr Torx Mr Torx please introduce our wonderful new Personnel that we
005have just hired fired a few new staff here but we have two of them here tonight our first is uh like you meet Scott Nagel Scott would have you stand up please he's our new maintenance technician and a third generation montet who's basically been a part of the Laurel ecosystem since before Google Maps knew where we were I was raised in Red Lodge and a Jolette High School grad Scott's done it all he's been a carpenter a plumber EMT a paramedic a miner an HB technician which could come in handy honestly if it can be built fixed rescued or do Scott's probably done it before breakfast but wait there's more he's also a scout leader he's a Mason and a two term PTA president which means he can tie KN lead a meeting and survive
006a room full of cookie fueled parents without breaking a sweat that's in his free time if that ever exists he loves to read garden and learn new skills because apparently um I assume this is a u a joke about the Masons is that what I'm reading so and apparently world domination is just a hobby away welcome Scott we're thrilled to have you but uh now we're all wondering what we've been doing with our lives all right oh come on up here this thank you man um thank everybody Welcome next up is uh Genesis Peterson say hello to jesis Peterson she's right here our newest special needs Aid at graph and possibly the only person who could talk psychology pass out cookies and perform CPR all before lunchtime she currently studying to become a school psychologist
007which makes sense because she's already had that kind of job lineup that builds character for example she worked as a CNA she's worked at crumble cookie yes and now now a student and Superstar aid for us Genesis once drove all the way from Montana to Oklahoma just to get her beloved French Bulldog which she named grayle after her favorite show Gray's Anatomy yeah and every year she sets Sail on her family's annual Cruise probably the only time she ever slows down welcome Genesis we're not sure what's more impressive your career path your road trip dedication or your ability to not eat every cookie at crumble cookies thank you welcome aboard thank you guys wonderful moving through our agenda down to our action items I have action item a the mtsba policy recommendations this is a
008second reading do I have a motion I make a motion to approve the mtsba Pol policy recommendations listed under motion uh to be approved by Renee do I have a second second seconded by Donnie comments questions from the board comments questions from public audience not seeing or hearing any action item a for the mtsba policy recommendation on the second reading motion to approve by Renee second and by Donnie all in favor say I I all oppos say nay motion carries action item B the mtsba new policy recommendation this is also a second reading do I have a motion I move to approve policy 5120 F motion to approve by Jenny I second by Renee was that Renee yeah okay making sure I heard comments questions from the board not seeing any comments questions from public
009audience okay action item B for the mtsba new policy recommendations from the second reading motion to approve by Jenny seconded by Renee all in favor say I I I all oppos say a motion carries action item C for the mtsba policy number change from the 5120 F1 to the 5122 F do I have a motion I'll move to approve the policy number change of 5120 F to 5122 F motion to approve by D do I have a second second second by Chris any comments questions from the board not seeing any comments questions from public audience not seeing any out there as well so action item C for the mtsba policy number change 5120 F1 to 5122 F motion approved by Donnie seconded by Chris all in favor say I I I all oppos say nay
010motion carries action item d the administrative support rehire do I have a motion I move to ratify and approve the administrative support contracts listed motion to approve by Jenny do I have a second second seconded by Donnie comments questions from the board not seeing or hearing any comments questions from public audience not seeing or hearing anything there action item D the administrative support rehire motion to approve by Jenny seconded by Donnie all in favor say I I I I'll oppos say nay motion carries action item e the ballot language for general fund levies I'd like to just open that up for discussion first before I request for a motion if everybody's okay with that kind of figured that would be requested anyways I know that there have been some questions on the language what we
011can and cannot say um I know Matt uh requested to make sure that it stated per year which is on there which was another question from a trustee that we had so we did put per year behind those numbers any other comments questions on that is this the similar language to what we've had in the past yeah one thing that we didn't have in the past that's not on their uh kind of model one is uh like for example if you're I'm reading Elementary right now as an example but it says um passage of the second paragraph passage of this proposal will increase the taxes on a home with a market value of 100,000 by approximately $528 and then it just it just left it so I just to ask jul like hey can we
012put in per year so people just understand what is that per day per month per well it's per year so we made sure that language was uh consistent through up there was some other questions like could we you know be a little bit more specific on stuff and how this was effect to my understanding we cannot this is pretty much the basic that we can put in yeah we can't put things like um uh well this is a good L to vote for because you know this tax is ending over here or something so you can't put things like that on there this just has to be the most basic stuff Bry yes sir just wondering can I appreciate that per year on there I think that's very clarifying but could it be like capitalized
013or we allowed that sort of leeway in that I just want to overemphasize that if we can yeah I know what you're saying can that be or will they just change that back when we send it in that is a fine quality question cuz like the dollar amounts all caps so I'm wondering if we could all caps the per year part so it's a possible function printer well I mean if they wanted to I mean and for and against for and against is capitalized too I mean so if maybe we could add per year all caps that way they this it just overemphasizes that maybe stop it would be it just informational showing them hey this is what it's going to cost you per year per year like I have no problem with that so
014if it goes to the elections okay okay just Donny feels very confident that they won't change it Jenny Kristen do you want the per year after the 150,000 as well as the per years for the increase in tax revenue you want all the per years I think we just emphasize the per years of the impact to the taxpayer okay and underemphasize the other per year Parts marketing 101 right there marketing 101 right so 528 per year capitalized and 1583 per year capitalized and 3166 per year that's on the elementary and that really puts it in perspective that it's this is a meaningless amount of money to most taxpayers but a very meaningful amount to the district minimal yeah minimal there's a better word so I do have a question you know I sent in the
015levy uh information already on the building Reserve Levy you want me to do the same thing that that I it's not too late I can change today or tomorrow will be my last day to change anything you're not changing the wording you've already voted on that this would just be is changing your capitalization per year yeah I think so it would be consistent okay that's why yes Donnie just a point of clarification because I apologize I missed the special meeting where we discussed all this so we're going to put forth both general fund and building Reserve Levy perfect that's what I need cuz I thought I this something we're just doing this not the other one okay great thank you thanks and um Chris Renee and I were at the choir concert and we're trying
016to pass out information on that so it's I think it's up on the website as well correct um I'm hoping that Facebook we have our lovely uh movie stars out there about that now but I did make I don't know if you saw that I did I took a look at him so I wasn't able to get them on the agenda so worries um which we can talk about so uh Kayla was kind enough to try to do some art so we can help with just push out I couldn't put up on the agenda cuz I didn't have it in time so that's why it's not just some marketing pieces that she would like I just took your sheet and basically made it into a social media so people can push like it's like a
017paragraph for slide yeah great yeah that's perfect um any other comments questions we have a newsletter going out too it's please see me about that we can push that out on the high school side I think it this one is and I think what the board was concerned about if I can speak for you guys is that people will be in fear of voting for all of them there are four on there it looks super scary but there's four on there um and I think it's just understanding and try to educate like we did kind of for the bond so if we could really push that out um I know some trustees were even willing to door knock to be at Super events so um I think at this point just education okay I cover
018everything on those are we good okay action item e for the ballot language of general fund levies do I have a motion I motion to move or a motion to approve the Elementary and high school uh M Levy ballot language with the addition of all caps behind the years um in the second paragraph indicating the cost of the taxpayer motion to approve by Chris do I have a second second seconded by Jenny now that I have a motion on the table any additional comments questions from the board seeing any comments questions from public audience okay not seeing any either action item e ballot language for general fund levies motion to approve by Chris seconded by Jenny all in favor say I I I all oppos say n motion carries action item f for the approval
019of the resolution of intent to impose an adjustment in levies do I have a motion do we want conversation do we know what we want I'll move to approve the notice of intent to increase or decrease non voted levies motion to approve by by Donnie D second Renee motions on the table any comments questions from the board not hearing or seeing any comments questions from public audience okay not seeing or hearing any either so action item F approve the resolution of intent to impose the adjustments and levies motion to approve by Donnie seconded by Renee all in favor say I I I all opposed say nay motion carries action item G the fiscal year of 20123 to 2024 audits do I have a motion do I have request for discussion first I move to approve
020the LPS audit motion to approve by Renee do I have a second second second second about Chris motions on the table any comments questions from the board yes I just um been looking through the report and it's quite lengthy um and um I definitely appreciate all the work Julie that goes into your job and everything that you do I on page 85 where it kind of shows a summary conclusion um on things that were noted in a prior audit and I just wanted to compliment on the things that have been fixed and then um I just wondered if there's any reference to you know the ability to um work on those other few areas believe go ahead Julie yeah there is um if you look further should be on here there's a you have to
021respond back to the audit and I have to do a response back it should be there I am sorry I it's not loading as fast as I thought it would anyway and it does respond back most of those audit findings um those three that they did have were ones from the previous year also cuz when we got by the time we got the audit in the previous year those things were already happening I couldn't I couldn't correct them so I'm they're being corrected this year this FIS so it's just one of those things you can't it's already happened and you couldn't correct it so yeah I know everything is yeah and as and I know when we got the audit last year I did tell the board that yeah there'll be things on there that'll
022show up again you know it's just something that I couldn't you know do anything about and the way I looked at it when I read that is is that you know there were good gains on things mentioned and just a few left so if they're in place that's awesome yeah thank you any other questions comments from the board I would just say the audit is early enough now this year that we will leave be yeah problems we're not talking April or not April uh August August August wonderful anything else from trustees I do have a motion on the table any comment from public audience okay not seeing action item G for the fiscal year of 2023 2024 audit I do have a motion by Renee second by Chris all in favor say I I all
023opposed say nay motion carries action item H for the termination of the employment for S Smith do I have a motion I move to terminate the employment of s Smith for job abandonment motion to approve by Jenny do I have a second I'll I'll second that sorry comments questions from the board limiting comments questions from public audience okay action item h of the termination of employment for S Smith motion to approve by Jenny seconded by myself all in favor say I I I all oppos say nay motion carries thank you very much now through our agenda we do have informational items we do have our student board Representatives report what do you have for us today okay so all reps have been very busy this past March um so we've gotten emails out to all
024the principles and we're scheduling dates which I'll have J talk about um but uh when we had a meeting with Dr Bingington we decided to do more like focus groups uh so it's not just one-onone but they're going to be like small groups of eight kids uh who we will interview um and we're having the principles choose these focus groups uh to try to get a more diverse background of students to kind of Max iiz our results so I'll have Jimmy um so after discussing kind of times and princi we scheduled interviews for two groups this Thursday and Friday morning at West which is pretty exciting because we kind of thought we could only do one but we're going to get more kids opinions which is really nice and then we're also really happy that
025everything is working smoothly with just communication and we're also working with doct B to do a similar process in the high school and then we've also talked to principal Peterson at graph and we're going to schedule those as well but aside from that we don't have too much to report on that but there are some upcoming events so I'm going to go over have a whole bunch of stuff going on at the high school um so first ACT Testing is to tomorrow um uh so it begins 8:30 we start the test 30 we'll be done right around 1 um everybody else has a blitz day so if you have no missing assignments nobody gets go to school um and then everybody who does have missing assignments B to come so it kind of gives people
026a little bit of a catch up day and then Juniors will be taking the ACT um next our school's very first baseball game ever is also tomorrow at 400m so I recommend you all go watch um it's going to be here at home against Sky View um and yeah that'll be a fun one I'm kind of excited um this Saturday is this year's first track meet the Laural opener um it's starts I think running events start at 11:30 field events start at 11: um please don't come watch it's um and then I wanted to touch a little bit on our board videos they were um good so they got the first video out last week that is now at 5 and a half thousand views so awesome it's a lot of people yes our movie
027star Sy for the record Chase I just let it run continuously in my office second one was posted today around noon I think we're doing one a week um and that one is already around 500 views um and then I also posted it on my Tik Tok because why not um and so those are doing pretty well so hopefully everybody gets the information they need um but yes lots of busy Seasons coming up that's all I have so if the principles could share those on their individual Facebook PES I'd appreciate it we appreciate you guys thank you very much thank you very much I know you guys have been busy so thank you wonderful going through our agenda we do have our superintendent report for resignations and then our discussion item is just the community
028Levy meeting dates um requested Matt to kind of give us some dates on items that we can send out for boards um time effort support and trying to get more information out so uh we have some concerts coming up one's tomorrow night and I'll go to that and something similar to what we did the other night where we invite people in to talk uh we have four three concerts coming up I also have some and that's the 25th 31st and the 1st I believe if I got those right I think Andrew sent me those days I'm sorry say that again 25th 25th 31st 1st okay so I'll do my best to be at all those and then I also thought and I know we didn't have a lot of success during our bond campaign but
029just open nights I had a few other open nights we could go ahead and advertise out this week for people that come and talk just an open night for anybody uh if we want and I thought uh we have April 9th 14th and 23rd R all open for me if that's something we want to do 9th 14th 9th 14th 23rd of April and then we also have our U uh a mailer going out and I'll get with Zeta and I'll make sure this stuff is included in our mailer uh and then we'll also do an additional mailer when right around when the ballots go out in a couple weeks we'll do a mailer to try to kind of coincide the arrival of our ballots with the arrival of another mailer could we go back and
030ask a& for that same list and see and ask them what time like what day did they mail out their list they mailed it on the same day as the ballots the thing is the other the ballots will be mailed from Billings and we mail them from here so it may beat them we'll probably beat them by a day or two and that's what we want yeah so we'll we'll do that so we know the mail outd I I believe so we'll do that um and then I have sent out an email to our ministerial group in town and I've offered up uh myself and potentially board members to come and talk to any church groups uh any um evening groups maybe they have a whatever whatever it happens to be so I've asked them
031to send that out to all the churches in town that are a part of that and see if we can't uh um get on some of their agendas um and then also uh uh if anyone in here you know your church if you could talk to people or talk to any other organizational groups that you belong to uh I would be more than happy to come and talk to those uh I'm presenting to the rotary uh next week I think or the week after I can't remember but rotary and then uh uh talk to the chamber I have a short short presentation that I can make as short as we need it to be about school funding just to understand it's not just about you know these are the leves please vote uh this would
032be about a little bit about how school funding goes I have a short presentation that can go anywhere from 10 minutes 15 minutes up to an hour uh just depends on what how what my window is so I can also talk a little bit about school funding which I thought might be an advantage to what does this operational mean operational levies mean what's that about how is that general fund Levy what does it do and then things like building Reserve levies so we not just asking for levies we're also trying to explain as best we can kind of how the silos of school funding work so um not everyone wants to sit on a list of that so it's not as fun as Julie makes it sound when she talks about it but uh we
033do uh want to give people the opportunity to ask questions and I presented it to the chamber com our local chamber and there's a lot of good questions in there lot honestly just a lot of people don't have a clue they don't understand they just see us driving a new bus and they can't figure out well you bought a $300,000 bus why why can't you why didn't you not do that why don't you pay to have the heating system fixed so they don't understand that those are how how funding works well and the one question that Chris got and I got at that was why well we have money to start a new whole new sports program or you know team and that's an excellent question so um for those open nights trustees um if
034you wanted to let us know by an email if you can make so open Nights night 14th and 23rd can we do those in different locations so thatth oh is it it is oh I thought I picked one that was oh then then scratch the P I don't know why I April 10th is parent teacher conference is be an opportunity would be good opportunity that in building say that one more time April 10th April 10th is parent teacher conferences okay we come over and set up here and talk to people so I'll put April 10 that's a good yeah so maybe we could do different locations for the community so we're not just always at one location so we can try to capture those that are within that okay I'll go ahead and send out
035an invite then if anybody wants to join in those Cho concerts be on the 31st okay perfect thank you do show up I'll I'll should I should be able to be at all those okay I just force people to take a flyer that's all I did take it y looks beautiful all righty anything else on that okay so I'll ask the trustees at least look at your calendar and let us know which ones you can make one to all none it's okay you understand okay uh future discussion do I have any future discussion items that I'm missing that I have not brought back up from the past anybody have something new I just got I'm sorry I apologize go ahead well I just talked to Mr Torx about perhaps scheduling an event to say goodbye
036to graph before we demolish it great idea is on the Future Okay uh we put that on there as and the naming is the kind of that same timeline so we call it like a graph goodbye what does the board want to do for you know say an open house so just something someone can come in and they can wander the halls for a little bit something like that or or we want to make something more formal steal a brick Cel oh celc hey c c that's going to be yeah could just by that time we should have the finalized softball plan yeah I I think we could actually come up with something pretty right now even that we could uh but yeah in a few months for sure 100% could we have the kids
037maybe put something together I don't know what but each class do a dedication or something or a new plaque at the new school or know brainstorm with we did take a picture of them all outside of graph but we can figure out other things to do their own special goodbye I'll I'll put that as a discussion on kind of a few things to tailor out on what we want to do for that okay give the admin some direction for that thank you okay uh Julie basically I was just going to send out a reminder that uh Thursday is the last day file for trustee since Thursday Y and then after that you can file absentee or not absentee you would file but you won't be on the ballot you won't be on that um just
038cuz there was a question which which seats are going to be opening up we have one one year one twoe and two three year okay openings so yeah okay ready so it's Jenny and Chris's are the three year right Kelly and Kelly's on the you'd be on the yours is a two-year position and uh sers sends is a onee yeah but you have to send you did your letter of interest and you were appointed so four total I did the thing on computer I just have to go get and Lind I'm coming tomorrow and I'll show you the feel free to bring the kids ready what feel free to bring the kids you know I will prepare all righty anything else anything else any future other discussions that I'm missing excuse me back on the
039graph thing are there any relatives still in the area so I can't talk about it tonight because it's not on my agenda it's for future discussion I'll put it on for future discussion Kathy and then we can talk all about it right okay that will be something to look into perfect we can certainly write that note down thank you very much anybody else okay if not I will adjourn the meeting there are some extra cookies left help yourself