001and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> For everyone, the public portions of this board meeting are being recorded in accordance with district policy 1420 and section 2-2-214 MCA. By remaining in this meeting, all participants and attendees acknowledge they may appear on the recording, which will be placed on the school district website for a minimum of one year from the date of the meeting. Anyone wishing to speak on an agenda item, please fill out the pink sheet as located at the end of the table and return it to the board secretary as soon as possible. I must caution anyone wishing to speak. They may not discuss personal issues, student issues, or pending litigation during this time and each person is allowed three minutes. like
002to welcome everybody to our regular board meeting on the 21st of July. First item on the agenda is the approval of minutes from the special board meeting of June 10th, 2025. Motion from trustees. >> So moved. >> Mike Kiwa. Is there a second? >> Second, Patty. >> It has been moved and seconded. Do trustees have any questions or changes to these minutes? Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> All those opposed. Motion passes. And Mary Kay, just for you, um, Henry Cloakar is not here, but everyone else is present. Henry, are you on the phone? >> No. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> Next. Uhhuh. Next is the approval of minutes at the regular board meeting, June 16th, 2025. Motion from trustees. >> Ky, >> is there a second?
003>> Second, Kathy. It has been moved and seconded. Do trustees have any questions or changes to these minutes? Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. I. >> I. All those opposed. Motion passes. Uh we don't have much in communications. It's just that you have all received a copy of this year's B uh goals for the board. Uh we will be reviewing those and amending them in during the September meeting. So, please take the next two months to go over the board goals that were received in email or will be sent in emails within the next week. Thank you. Anyone wishing to speak on any matter not on the agenda may step forward now. Please identify yourself before you begin. I must caution anyone wishing to speak that you may not discuss personnel issues,
004student issues, or pending litigation during the comment session due to time constraints. Each speaker will be allowed three minutes. Do we have any public comment on items not on the agenda? Hearing none, we will move on to the consent agenda. Approval of high school activity fund reports. Motion from trustees. >> So moved. >> Is there? >> Thank you. Is there a second? >> Second, Gabby. >> It has been moved and seconded. Trustees have any questions regarding the but high school activity fund report? Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And all those opposed. Motion passes. The other items that were on the agenda during the communications will be reviewed next month
005with Mr. Patrick when the budget items are discussed. All right. Approval of the PAR for July 21, 2025. Miss Ally. Madam chair, members of the board, I have um I'm bringing before you the regular um um PAR for the board meeting July 21st, 2025. On it, we are asking approval for the appointment of eight certified personnel, one retirement, one resignation, and two leave of absences. Under classified, we're looking for the appointment of seven. Under supplemental, we are asking for the approval of the appointment of nine personnel. I'd appreciate your support of the July >> motion from trustees. >> So moved. Jory, >> is there a second? >> Second, Kathy. >> It has been moved and seconded. Do trustees have any questions to Miss Ali regarding the FAR? >> I do. Is this the one with
006the extra curricul? >> Um, that's next. >> Next. Okay. Sorry. >> Yeah. >> Perfect. >> I don't have any question. >> Okay. Hearing no other questions. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. All those opposed. Motion passes. Next is review and approval of the Oh, sorry, Miss Ally. Continue. >> Um, I'm asking for approval of the supplemental list of the 25 for the 256 school year. This includes our coaches and our extracurricular um staff. >> Motion from trustees. >> So moved, Mr. Kelly. >> Is there a second? >> Second, Jory. It has been moved and seconded. >> I think Kelly wants to recuse himself. >> I will just let we wait. It has been moved and seconded. Do we have any people who wish to recuse themselves? Mr. Kelly Lee is recusing himself
007from the vote on the supplemental list. Any other questions regarding to Miss M to Miss Ally hearing? None. All those in favor, please say I. I. >> All those opposed. Motion passes. Review and approval of the tenative agreement with the but teachers union local 332. Miss Ally. >> Madame chair, members of the board attached, please find the agreement reached regarding language, wages, and benefits with the BU teachers union local 332 covering the teachers contract. The agreement was ratified by the union. Your approval will be greatly appreciated. >> So moved. >> Mike, >> is there a second? >> Second, Kathy. >> It has been moved and seconded. Do trustees have any questions to Miss Alli regarding the agreement with the View Teachers Union Local 332? Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. I. >>
008I. >> All those opposed. >> Motion passes. Review and approval of the tentative agreement with the teachers union local 332 representing the clerical personnel. Miss Alli. >> Madam chair, members of the board attached, please find the agreement reached regarding language, wages, benefits with the teachers union covering the clerical contract. The agreement was ratified by the union. Your approval would be greatly appreciated. >> Motion from trustees. >> So moved. Mike, >> is there a second? >> Second, Kathy. >> It has been moved and seconded. Miss Hepa. >> Myself. >> Miss Hea is recusing herself for the vote on the clerical union personnel on tenative agreement. Any other questions regarding the tenative agreement? Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. I. >> I. >> All those opposed. Motion passes. Review and approval of the tenative
009agreement with the B teamsters union local number two covering the administrators. Miss Ally >> attached. Please find the agreement reach regarding language, wages, benefits with teamsters union local 2 covering the administrators. The agreement was ratified by the union. Your approval will be greatly appreciated. Motion from trustees. So move >> is there a second. >> Second. Patty. >> It has been moved and seconded. Do trustees have any questions to Miss Alli regarding the tenative agreement with the local 332 but Teamster June. >> Hearing none. All those in favor please say I. >> I. >> All those opposed. Motion passes. Review and approval of the tenative agreement with the B machinist union local 88 covering the mechanics. Miss Elli. >> Madam chair, members of the board attached, please find the agreement reached regarding language, wages, and benefits
010with machinist local 88 covering the mechanics contract. This agreement was ratified by the union. Your approval will be appreciated. >> Motion from trustees. >> So moved. >> Is there Thank you. Is there a second? >> Second, >> it has been moved and seconded. Do trustees have any questions with Miss Ally regarding the but machinist local 88 tenative agreement? >> Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> All those opposed. Motion passes. >> Yeah. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Can I just say something? >> Yes. >> Thank you for all the work that people have done to get these contracts ratified. Thanks, Judy, for getting that in place because it's a lot of work. >> Yeah, the money people really. >> Thank you. Review and approval of the tenative agreement with Debute Stationary
011Engineers Local 400 of the International Union of Operating Engineers AFL CIO. Miss Alli. Madam Chair, members of the board attached, please find the agreement reached regarding language, wages, benefits with the Silverbo stationary engineers local 400 covering engineers contract. The agreement was ratified by the union. Your approval would be greatly appreciated. >> Motion from trustees. >> So move Jory. Is there a second? >> Patty. >> It has been moved and seconded. >> No, I'm good. I need people to move stuff. >> Have any questions regarding the tenative agreement with the Silverbo stationary engineers local 400? Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. I. >> All those opposed. Motion passes. Thank you, Miss Alley and Mr. Patrick and Miss Jonart for all of your hard work on these and also Mr. Ka and Miss Hea
012for your help. >> Thank you. Thank you everyone. >> We have a union vote tonight regarding monitors and bus drivers. That will happen at 6:00 and then this week we are negotiating with cleaners and cooks >> and then just painter and carpenter the following. >> Right. All right. Next, we have the approval of the amended calendar for the 2025 2026 school year. >> I have a motion from >> Yes, ma'am. >> Madame Chair, members of the board, I'm bringing forward an amendment to our calendar. And the only change is um we left out prek. Um and that was on that's on us. And it's not that they're not important, we just didn't put them on the calendar. And so we needed to add that uh prek because they have the um they follow the same
013schedule >> as kindergarten. Correct. >> Um as a school district. Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. Thank you. Motion from trustees. >> So moved. Mike, >> is there a second? >> Second. >> It has been moved and seconded. Do trustees have any questions, Miss Jonart regarding the change in the calendar for the school year? Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> All those opposed. Motion passes. Approval of the elementary handbook for the year 2025 2026. Miss Jonard. >> Madam Chairman, members of the board, um um I'm requesting um approval of the handbook changes that include the updates to our policies 3210, 3225, 3226, 3612, and 840. um update of our public notice to the HR director um um updating our changes to the attendance policies. um adding our early literacy information. I
014excuse me, it's not early literacy. That's a mistake. It's called early learning now. Um adding our graduate profile information, adding our opt-in forms for parental authorization for program participation. Um we're adding the Senate letter 99 um which tells um parents that they have the right to review curriculum. That's going to be in the handbook. And the revision date was changed to July 2025. >> Motion from trustees. >> Is there a second? >> Second, Cabbie. >> It has been moved and seconded. The first one, the move was Tom. >> Tom. >> Thank you. Do trustees have questions to Miss Jonart regarding the elementary handbook for the 2025 2026 school year? Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> All those opposed. Motion passes. Approval of the attached application for non-resident student enrollments.
015Miss Jonard. >> Madam chairman, members of the board, we have seven new um approval for those non-resident student enrollments. Seven additional ones and that we brought forth in June. >> Motion from trustees. >> Patty. >> Is there a second? >> Second, Jory. It has been moved and seconded. Do trustees have any questions to Miss Jonart regarding the application for non-resident student enrollments? Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. I. >> All those opposed. Motion passes. Approval of the town pump grant. Miss Jonard. >> Madam chairman, members of the board, this is a grant that um we submitted um for a a literacy program for K through two. It's going to be during the week of October 6th through the 10th. Um it's called um who is the super ultra mega special
016super special guest. They're going to have um they're going to uh have guest um readers come into the building um during October 6th through the 10th to read there, visit the classrooms, read the book aloud, and kick off the year of connection and support. Um it's all about um initiative to unite families and schools and the community members around a shared reading experience designed to promote literacy. Um so really excited. I want to give a a real big shout out to Jennifer Lu who wrote the grant and um is spearheading this project. >> Motion from trustees. >> So Tom, >> go ahead Tom. >> Is there a second? >> Second, Mike. It has been moved and seconded. Do trustees have any questions, Miss Jonart, regarding the town pump grant? Hearing none, all those in favor,
017please say I. >> I. >> All those opposed. Motion passes. Approval of the Montana Tech Clinical Affiliate Agreement School of Nursing. Miss Jonart. Madam Chairman, members of the board, this is our annual agreement with Montana Tech and the School of Nursing to provide they allow the student nurses come into our um schools and work with our nurses as part of their rotation. >> Motion from trustees. >> So move. >> Is there a second? >> Second. Cali, >> do trustees have any questions? Miss Jonart regarding the affiliate with Montana Tech Nursing Program. Hearing none, all those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> All those opposed. Motion passes. Approval of the resolution for a surplus sale. Mr. Patrick. >> Madam Chair, members of the board, I'm asking for your approval of the attached resolution for
018the surplus sale um per MCA. uh the board must uh adopt a resolution before we can have a uh surplus sale. Um if adopted then we'll put a notice in the paper and after 14 days then um we will conduct a sale which will be on August 7th. >> Motion from trustees. >> So move >> is there a second? >> Second Tom has been moved and seconded. Do trustees have any questions to Mr. Patrick regarding the resolution for a surplus sale. Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> All those opposed. Motion passes. Approval of the East Middle School Handbook for the 2025 2026 school year. Kelsey Thatcher, assistant principal. >> Madame Chair, members of the board, thank you for the opportunity to speak with you guys tonight. I'm here on
019behalf of ease to um present the updates we want to make to the student handbook for the 2526 school year. Most of the changes are editorial in nature. However, two things we want to add are our opt-in parent forms for the mental health screeners, the RBHIS screener and the signs of suicide screener. Um, I'd be happy to walk through any of the lang language in the handbook that you guys have or answer any questions that you may have, but we would appreciate your approval. Thanks. >> I have a motion from trustees. >> So moved. Mike, >> is there a second? >> So move it. >> It has been moved and seconded. Do trustees have any questions to Miss Thatcher regarding the changes in East Middle School Handbook? >> Hearing none. All those in favor, please
020say I. I. >> I. I >> all those opposed. Motion passes. Approval of the independent speech contract for the 2025 2026 school year. Miss Johnson. >> Madam Chair and members of the board, I have before you the independent contractor's agreement that I'm asking for your approval for Kaylee Schwarzenberger to provide te um testing and speech therapy services for the upcoming school year. Um part of her services will be online and part of her services will be in person. Um, in the contract, there's 12 to 14 hours of in-person um, uh, IEP, uh, meetings, testing, evaluations, um, and services provided. Um, we're asking that it is, uh, we will be, um, paying her $70 per hour and again, the cap is 14 hours per week. >> I'm asking for your approval. Thank you. >> Thank you.
021Motion from trustees. So move, Kathy. >> Is there a second? moved. >> It has been moved and seconded. Do trustees have any questions, Miss Johnson, regarding the independent speech contract? >> I do, >> Mr. Dury. >> So, dear, um, it's online half of it. Would she be present in these meetings for the IEPs? >> So, for the speech only IEPs, um, so there are two types of IEPs, you probably know. Speech only means it's only for speech. And then there's another type of meeting where we have different services. is we might have like academic services where there's a special ed teacher involved. So all the speech only meetings she will be present um unless we have to do something very last minute in order to u meet guidelines under IDA and then we would have
022some healthare for her to do those meetings but majority yes >> will be yeah person >> any other questions of Miss Johnson hearing none all those in favor please say I >> all those opposed motion passes approved approval of the school psychologist contract for the 2526 school year. Miss Johnson. >> Madam Chair and members of the board, um before you is a contract for our school psych services. Um we are um unable to secure somebody in person 100% of the time. So we're looking to contract with u Lisa Stro and she will be um charging $2,000 per evaluation. Um, in addition to the evaluation, she's also going to be um re-evaluating students. She's going to be entering data into the AIM system. She will be doing um manifestation determinations free of charge. And um she
023will also be entering information into our Medicaid reimbursement program. And she will also be available for any um um type of con consulting services if the team is having a concern um they have they need help with a student. She will also be available by phone um to help a the team with um with those questions. Um she will be providing her own supplies other than needing a copy once in a while with her copy machine. She'll be providing her own protocols, which are very expensive, and um and other supplies, her own testing kits. So, um I'm asking tonight that you would approve this contract. >> Motion from trustees. >> So, move, Jory. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Do trustees have any questions, Miss Johnson, regarding the school psychologist contract for the
0242526 school year? Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. I. I..................... All. Those opposed. Motion passes. Thank you, ma'am. I appreciate it. Approval to advertise and hire homebound teachers. Miss Melissa Johnson. >> Madam Chair, members of the board, I'm asking your approval to hire six homebound teachers for the 2526 school year. These will um these teachers will go to the public library or public locations. our school's after school time uh to provide services for students that are not able to come to school or that we have removed from school due to some safety or different concerns. I have a motion from trustees >> move to come. >> Is there a second? >> Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. Do trustees have any questions of this, Miss Johnson, regarding the Yes, sir.
025>> Yes, ma'am chair. Um are we are they not going into private homes anymore? No, not after the dog bicked. Um the one teacher uh we found it was probably unsafe and we did have some other situations that were safety was at risk of some of the teachers. So we're now just meeting at the closest school or the their school or public library in the mall or the public library up town. >> Okay. Thank you. >> I we did have a situation like this year we we've timed out a kid to home. Um then I provided the service at the home for the child. um with severe severe um delays. >> We have a motion on the floor. Any further questions of Miss Johnson? >> Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. >>
026I. All those opposed? Motion passes. Approval of the fall adult community education schedule. Miss Johnson. >> Madam Chair, members of the board, I'm asking your approval for the 2526 fall adult community education schedule. So, this um calendar will go out as soon as it is approved and then they can start registering August 18th for the fall classes that will be held at BU High School. >> Motion from trustees. >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second, Kathy. >> It has been moved and seconded. Do trustees have any questions, Miss Johnson, regarding the fall adult community education? >> Okay, Mr. Lee is recusing himself from the vote. Any other questions or concerns? All those in favor, please say I. I. I. >> All those opposed. Motion passes. Thank you, ma'am. Approval for Ramsey School
027District transportation area route extension. I believe Miss Jonard. Madame Chairman, members of the board, this is our annual um approval of uh for the Ramsey School District to cross our district boundaries and boundaries and pick up their students um up um behind um the uh Three Legends Field way up that um I guess is a Basin Creek. Um I'm struggling in my area, my geographical area right now, but um anyway, they cross our our uh boundary lines to pick up their kids. Motion from trustees. So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second, Tom. >> It has been moved and second. Trustees have any questions to Miss Jonart regarding the Ramsey School District transportation extension. Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. All those opposed. Motion passes. At this time, we
028have finished our monthly business and I'd like to call for an adjournment. Motion from trustees. Well, is there a second? >> Second. >> It has been moved and seconded. >> All those in favor of adjournment, please say I. >> I. All those opposed. If there ever be one opposed to >> no like to thank everyone for