001the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Public portions of the board meeting are being recorded in accordance with district policy 1420 and section 2-3-214 MCA. By remaining in this meeting, all participants and attend 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 on our first meeting, please fill out the pink sheet located at the end of the table and return it to the board secretary as soon as possible. First item on the agenda is the appointment of the clerk of the board of trustees. Could I have a motion? Is
002there a second? Second. It has been moved and seconded to appoint Mr. Kevin Patrick as the clerk of the board of trustees. Do we have any questions? Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. I. All those opposed. Motion passes. Thank you, Jory. Next is the swearing in and seating of elected trustees, Mr. Kelly Lee, Miss Kathy, Milo Dragovich, and Kevin Patrick. Mr. O'Neal. Hey, if I could just have you stand and raise your right hand. Repeat after me. I do solemnly swear or affirm I do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support, protect, and defend that I will support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Montana and the Constitution of the State of Montana. And that
003I will discharge the duties of And I will discharge the duties of school district trustee school district trustee school district clerk school district I do with fidelity with fidelity with fidelity. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations and thank you for congratulations everybody. I've got certificates and papers for you to sign. So get them to you. There's three of each. One for you, one for the district, and one for our office. So, so Kathy, if you would just sign here and then the three certificates, and you keep one. Okay. Evans here on two of them. And then the uh three certificates. Okay. There's two of these. and then through certificates. Not as fun as my first trustee I got to swear in was in the the kitchen of the nose Hitchum post. I
004love it. Make board meeting so we got to go to the kitchen. And did you get treated to a snack after? I did not. Oh, they were too busy talking in there. Well, that's funny. But thank you for your service. Sometimes being a public official isn't easy and I know the pay isn't very good. Oh, we need another. You get one. I get one. Okay. And the school districts. to deal with that tomorrow. You should have everything. Perfect. You have yours? Yeah. Okay. I just kept Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. O'Neal. Appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. O'Neal. Do you need your cop? Do you need your copy? stand by hand of the of the certificate by acclamation. Yes. And you have to sign up there too. Yeah. Yeah. I got to sign that one
005too. That's when we were in your computers paperwork. And here's to Kevin. It's okay. Hi Jim. How are you? How are you? Thanks for the invitation. Okay. Yeah. Okay. At this point in time, I'm going to turn the meeting over to Mr. Patrick. All right. At this time, we'll move into the election of a chairperson of the board of trustees. So, is there any nomination for uh chairperson? I nominate Ann Boston for chairperson. Nomination. Do we have a second? I'll second that. Okay. There's any other nominations for board chair? Any other nominations for board chair? One more time. Any other nominations? All right. No other nominations. So, our board chair for the next year will be Ann Austin. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. At this time, I'll take nominations for
006vice chair. Are there any nominations for vice chair? I nominate Tom Guilty. Second. Second. Is there any other nominations for vice chair? Any other nominations for vice chair? Right. No other nominations. So, we will have Tom Builtin as our vice chair. I'll turn the meeting back over to Chair Boston. Yeah. Anyone wishing to speak on any item not on the agenda may step forward now. Please identify yourself before you begin. I must caution anyone wishing to speak. You may not discuss personnel issues, student issues, or pending litigation during the comment session. Due to time constraints, each speaker will be allowed 3 minutes. Do we have any public comment on any item not on the agenda? Hearing none, we'll move on to adjournment. I need a motion from trustees to adjourn this meeting. So move. Is
007there a second? Second. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor, please I I. All those opposed I. Motion passes.