001Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to this May 26, 2026 Great Falls Public Schools Board of Trustees meeting. Welcome. Happy to have you here. And um I want to remind us all that these meetings are being recorded and will be uploaded on our website at some point in the future. So with that being said, Mr. Deakons, would you please administer the roll call? >> Thank you, Chairman Johnson. Gordon Johnson >> here. >> Kim Skornagoski >> here. >> Bill Bronson. >> He is excused. He's in a different meeting. He'll join us in a few minutes. >> Craig Dove >> here. Hey, Chenning >> here. >> Marley Sunchild and Amy Thompson. >> She is excused. >> Chairman Johnson, you do have a quorum with >> Thank you, Mr. Deakons. Trusty Scornagowski, would you please lead us
002in the pledge of allegiance? >> Ladies and gentlemen, please do stand. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you Trustee Scorosski and all of you present. >> Mr. Chair, >> trustee Scorioski. >> I move we adopt the agenda as presented. >> Second. >> Been moved and seconded to adopt the agenda as presented. Any commentary questions from our board of trustees or staff? Any questions from our gallery here joining us this evening? Hearing seeing none, I'm going to call for the question. All those in favor of adopting the agenda as presented, please signify say I. >> I oppose. Same sign. We have an agenda from which to work. Thank you. Roman five, approval
003of the consent agenda. >> Mr. Chair, >> Trusty Henning, >> I move that we approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Second. Been moved and seconded to approve the consent agenda as presented. Any questions or commentary from our trustees? >> So, thank you to the leadership high school and leadership great falls for their donation to cover school lunches, >> lunch fees. >> Any additional comments or questions from our trustees? Any questions or comments from our citizens in the room with us this evening hearing? Seeing none, I'll call for the question. All those in favor of approving the consent agenda, please signify by saying I. >> I opposed the same sign carries unanimously. Thank you very much. Roman six, communication character strong sunnyside school. Mrs. Mainwearing. That's where all these bright shiny faces came from, huh?
004>> Good evening, Chairman Johnson, Superintendent Hoyer, members of the board, members of the community. It's my privilege tonight to introduce uh Principal Durban Thompson and the kids from Sunnyside to talk to us about Character Strong tonight. >> Excellent. Thank you. All right, let's give him a welcome as he approached the rostrom. >> Real quick, if I may, Chairman Johnson, parents, if you need to get a better picture, right over here's a great place for pictures. >> Sure. >> Good evening, Chairman Johnson, Superintendent Hoyer, members of the board, and members of our community. I am Colin Keller. Before we jump into why character strong is important here at Sunnyside, I would like to introduce some of my classmates speaking today. Lily, Melee, and Morgan. Have you ever thought what would happen if the world didn't have
005courage, respect, responsibility, or even creativity? Well, that's where Character Strong steps in. Each month at Sunnyside, we learn about one word to help build our characters. At the end of each month, we celebrate one student from each class that shows that month's character trait the most. We celebrate those students during an assembly at the end of each month with an award and pizza with the principal. Character Strong has big impacts on different students in many ways. In my opinion, one of the most important ways Character Strong has impacts on students at Sunnyside is learning about bullying. Character strong is important because it helps build the character traits that will shape their minds and to be successful human beings well into adulthood. It encourages students to be their best at Sunnyside. Would you rather be at
006a school where everyone is a robot? Personally, no. I would rather be at a school where everyone is unique and has their own character traits and character strong helps build those. In sixth grade, Character Strong looks a little different. We talk a lot about our own experiences and how to deal with them. We also talk about emotions, how to handle them, and why they are important. This month, Detroit, we are focusing on is creativity. Create creativity means to be unique in your own way. Anyone can be creative. There's more than just one way you can demonstrate creativity. Like organizing your area, or like one way I like to be creative is by making different forts all the time and making books with cool new characters. There are so many ways to be creative than just
007one way. >> Being chosen as the student of the month makes students who acknowledge for the character traits that show best. In sixth grade, we vote for one students from each class who embodies the mom's character trait. When I got the word of the month, I felt happy and important. Character Strong has a great impact on the students here at Sunnyside. With Character Strong, it helps students build essential life skills like emotional control and empathy. Thank you so much for being here and listening to us share how important Character Strong is to us here at Sunnyside. >> Very well done. Thank you. >> Thank you students at Sunnyside. come on up and shake our hands. I'm so pleased. >> So pleased you took the time to share this message with us. >> Very important messages.
008Thank you. >> Well done. Well spoken. >> Well done. One more round of applause to these guys. Super. There we go. Good job, Sunnyside representatives. Roman six, item B, career and technical student organizations. Mr. Boyd, Chairman Johnson, Superintendent Hoyer, members of the board. So, this is a great night. Not only do I get to see my former school present on Character Strong, I get to have Mr. Singer here uh to talk about our career technical uh student organizations that we have. So out in the hallway, uh we have quite a few kids that are going to come in and talk about their technical organizations they're a part of and the great things they've done in national competition. Uh but Derek's going to take the show uh from here. Derek stepped into the career pathway advisor
009spot this year and has done some pretty remarkable things uh to support the groups out in the hallway uh but also to grow uh CT as a whole in the district. So Mr. Singer, the show is yours. >> Great. Thank you. Welcome, Mr. Singer. Thank you. So, Chairman Johnson, Superintendent Hoyer, trustees and cabinet members, I'd like to introduce you to some of our uh CTSO organizations. And so, we'll get the first group in. Okay. Mrs. Dolder, Mrs. Goen, okay, and some of their students uh from both Great Falls High and CMR. And so, we have DECA and BPA. Hello, I'm Miss Dolder and I am here representing BPA for Great Falls High and DECA for Great Falls High. Our uh Great Falls High DECA adviser was on maternity leave this year, so I tried to
010take over the role, but um I've got some students here that participated in both. Uh we had 15 members in DECA this year at Great Falls High and we had 30 in BPA. Um 28 made it to state in BPA, 13 made it to state in DECA, and then we had 14 go on to nationals in Nashville, Tennessee for BPA. So, um these kids are going to talk about it's more about them. So, it's kind of all I'm going to say, but I'll I'll pass it on to them. Um two of them were in both clubs and one was in DECA. So, I'll let I'll let them from here Hello everyone. My name is McKenna Davidson and I am our current president for the Great Falls High BPA chapter. I stand before you today as
011a confident, outspoken, and loud individual. But um for the majority of my high school career, especially at the beginning, I was anything but. Um, my freshman year I was an extremely timid, quiet individual um who had no plans beyond um survive high school. >> Had I not joined BPA, I would probably still be that individual today. Um, my four years in BPA have done more for my self-esteem than any other club, church, organization, or sport has managed to do in my entire lifetime. BPA has provided me countless opportunities and I have met some amazing people in my time here and I've grown as both an individual and of course a leader. Um, BPA has allowed me to find my passion, my career and most important my place in this world. I wanted to introduce our
012amazing Ben who will be um hopefully having a leadership role in UP next year as well. >> Okay. I'm Ben Palmer and I stand here today as a much less prepared person. So through my four years in DPA, I have been able to get a lot of time in on projects that I really wouldn't have otherwise. Like this last year, I did a research paper and that having the opportunity to do this outside of regular classes, it's just a great way for me to build those skills and learn how to do this. And also, it's just a lot of fun to be able to travel with people and really just learn these things that wouldn't get taught in a regular class. And we have a lot of fun at state and at nationals. Hello, I'm
013My name is Kaylee and I'm your Great Falls High DECA chapter president the past year and I was vice president the year before that and freshman representative the year before that. This club has been one of my greatest skill building opportunities that I've had in my life. Not only have I learned numerous professional business related skills, but I've also learned things like social skills, how to think on my feet when coming unprepared like I am now. How to become prepared for things like this even when it might seem a little bit daunting to do this. And trust me, it is. I'm incredibly nervous right now. and I don't think I would be able to come up here and talk in front of all of you if it weren't for DECA. I've also gained an immense
014amount of leadership skills through this club, like communication skills and just the ability to bring a group of people together to create a team like this. We almost tripled from our numbers last year. We had five on our team go to state and we ended up having 15 registered members this year which is one of my greatest achievements and I take so much pride in that. Thank you. >> Hi, my name is Jessica Goen and I'm the BPA adviser at CMR High School. Um our report is a little bit different. Um we of what um Grateful High did and um so two of my members were our outstanding business students, senior business students and um then so and one is our president and I have a vice president and then one is a combo DECA
015and BPA that's going to speak for us. Hi, I'm Paola and I am a member of DECA for CMR. We had nine students make it to state and then three of us went to nationals at Georgia in Atlanta. DECA has helped me with communication skills when I didn't even know how to roleplay and it helps me just like to talk and come up with things on the spot. Deca has helped me with leadership. Same with BPA. >> Uh hello members of the board. Thanks for letting us speak today. Um I'm Eli Christ. I'm the president, current president of BPA at CMR. Um and this is the vice president, Brooke. Um and we've had a really really successful year at CMRBPA. Um, BPA as a club, you go in for various tests, presentations, um, just test
016your knowledge. It really is any little piece of business. They put it in there and it's a competition. Um, and it's really helpful because we had a really big group of kids. Brooke's going to go over the results from this year, but because of that, we were able to go over the entire spectrum of business. It's been really successful. in really helping me learn what I want to do in my college plans. I'm able to attend Georgia Tech next fall studying business a economics and that was I give that all credit to BPA. Um so I really I really appreciate this club. So I'll turn it over to Brooke to give our results. >> Uh yes. So for example, this year I competed in global marketing and small business management team. Um we have 32
017members and 24 competed in state which was in Billings in March. We had two teams placed first at state and 12 others qualified for nationals which was in Nashville, Tennessee this year. So a total of 16 people participated at the national level which is a school record. Emma Rer and Bristol Miners placed in the top 20 for a virtual event at nationals. Eli Chris got an ambassador award. Delaney Youngers got fourth in fundamental desktop publishing and Bristol Miners got fourth place in public speaking. So, it was a really successful season. We were really excited to go to Nashville. It's a really cool place and go compete there. On top of that, we were able to do fundraising and we got some donations which was really helpful. Um, for Special Olympics, we were able to fund
018raise over $200. The CMR has a coffee shop called the Rustler Roast, which DECA and BPA helped run. Um, and for a couple of our drinks, we were donating a dollar of that profit to the Special Olympics. So, we got over $200 for that, which is really amazing. And then for Pack the Place, that fundraiser, we were able to Pack the Place in Pink, sorry. We were able to raise over $600. Um, and we're just so thankful for your guys' continuous support. It really means a lot to keep this club running. And thank you again for letting us speak. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Well done. Well done. >> Good job. Nice job. Hey. Hey. Nobody would ever guess you were nervous. Not at all. What an impressive group of young adults to achieve
019what you've achieved through these programs is absolutely inspiring. So, thank you. Bye. Thanks you guys. I can't tell you what a privilege it's been to work with everybody this year. >> Fantastic. >> Yes, >> the kids are fantastic. >> They're out. >> Thank you so much. Well, a lot of the credit goes to you, too. So, thanks. >> Okay. Uh, next, it's my pleasure to introduce the Skills USA folks. Um, so we've got advisor Ken Van Le and Pete Pace and members of Skills USA. >> Welcome. >> Yeah, I'm gonna be brief because I make these kids which are awesome. I'm going to turn it over to my rockstar state president and she's going to tell you all all about the crazy things we do. If I were to list off all of the crazy
020things that Skills USA did this year, it would be a long speech and we'd be here for a really long time. So, I'm just going to instead acknowledge some of the amazing things that our adviser, Mr. Vanley Sha, did for our students in the CTE CTO programs. Mr. Vanley Sha. He prepares his students with career readiness by providing opportunities for us to practice what will actually be included later on in life. I've learned public speaking skills, one could say, by him introducing me to public leaders, industry leaders, and influential people within our community such as you. Truly, I just want to say thank you for your support for our student programs, especially Skills USA. >> Thank you, board. >> Thank you. >> Good evening. Uh Pete Pace, Skills USA advisor for CM Russell High School.
021I just want to say thanks to the uh the the cabinet and the the leadership here for the how they distribute the man Montana Advanced Opportunities Act. that has been a gamecher for all of these programs. I think any uh person that leads these groups would agree that this has just been a gamecher from the clerical staff all the way up to the top that we've been able to get this this money and uh distribute it to these kids. Both these kids are going to Atlanta next week being welding at the national level technical drafting and we have a carpenter going as well and a kid from automotive. So, uh, uh, well worth our time and we we love this stuff. Shout out to Mr. Van Lashout. He's our regional, uh, director for Skills USA
022in this area. He does so much getting the Skills USA moved to Great Falls. He does so much behind the scenes. Great guy, great leader, and uh, getting these kids jobs and putting them to work in industry and town. That's really his special appreciate it. So, and appreciate these kids. Thank you. >> Thank you. That's okay. >> Well done. >> Thanks. Good to see you again. >> Hey, thanks Pete. Good to see you. Good luck at nationals, you guys. Okay, next we have uh JOTC and retired Colonel Kevin Bird and uh and a few members or cadetses. Hey, good evening. I'm Kevin and with me tonight I have Braden Weiner and Lincoln Thomas and Jaden Shawn. So uh with Jer JR OTC our program focuses on building character with our students and we accomplish this
023through curriculum that we teach throughout the week and also with our extracurriculars that we cover. Uh so JRC is a student run program and so that workload of building character and the different uh events that we hold to try and work on students be able to to get out of their shell sometimes or be able to shape a lot of the talent that they have so they can be good leaders and be effective. Uh a lot of that workload on doing that falls on the shoulder of these guys. And so throughout this year it's been a very busy year for them. Uh we have 75 CMR and Great Falls size students in our program. Uh Braden Weiner, he was a cadet core commander. So, it's a a student-run program. So, we've got an organizational structure
024with a commander with multiple uh tiers of of uh rank structure within that with students that have multiple uh roles to play and uh lots of responsibility and authority that goes with that per air force GRC instructions. So, Braden, he was our our core commander this year. So, he led our 75 students through uh let's see some of the stats. They logged almost 1,900 community service hours this year. Uh what else we got? extracurriculars. We had 600 hours of extracurriculars which consisted of 232 different events. And so they do all the planning, organizing, and execution of all those events. And so they pull and hurt all the cats of the different organ or organizations within Junior RTC together to be able to get them to go in that direction. So RA's a senior this year.
025He's going to be graduating and moving on to other things. Uh but we definitely appreciate everything that he's done to lead the organization and all the other students and what they've been able to accomplish this year. Lincoln, he's going to be taking over and filling the the shoes for uh for Braden next year. He's going to be taking over as the core commander. So Lincoln, he's finishing up his third year in Junior OTC this year and uh which has prepared him to be able to to know how the organization works, the different roles and responsibilities that fall within the organization and be able to to lead the cadetses that we have next year. Uh Jaden, he's in his second year of the program. He's done awesome as far as stepping up. He likes to he's
026a very patriotic young man and he loves uh working with the the veterans organizations in town to be able to hold uh what are some of the things you've done? Roots across America flag retirement that we held a few weeks ago. Um we put uh what did you do last weekend? >> A lot of flags. Yeah. So working with the VFW and then some volunteers from base as well getting out to the cemeteries and putting the flags out. So very busy organization, a lot of opportunity for the students to be able to to get out, test themselves, challenge themselves, uh get a little bit of taste of accomplishment and hopefully carrying them out to carry them on to do bigger and better things as well and start to stretch their legs as leaders in the
027community. So, uh, before I wrap up, I'm going to turn over to Braden for a few minutes just as to touch a little bit on what he's gotten from JTC and how it'll help him move forward in the future. As you guys were told, my name is Braden Weiner. I was the core commander. Um, our first year, it helped me so much being a military kid. um moving to different schools and coming from a unit in Texas to here, it was a big change and it helped a lot with growing into becoming a leader for a lot of these cadetses. And it just it changes you in many different ways with becoming a leader um with a lot of the community service we've done and also leading a big team that I led this year.
028I led 10 of our group staff this year with community service, our LDRs and everything like that. Thank you. >> Thanks for coming around sharing this story. Thank >> you for >> Thank you >> so much. >> Thank you. Okay. And our last group for the night is is our HOSA group. And so we have both advisors uh uh from Great Falls High and Sam Russell here. And so we have Crystal uh Vanderwight and Christy Verts. And so I'll turn it over to you. Thank you. >> All right. I'm actually the standin for the Great Falls High advisor. So I'm going to turn it over to Lily to share about what Great Falls High post has done. Hello, I'm Lily Pelka and uh I'm a voice club member at Great Falls High. And here are
029some of the things we've done this year. Um our we've done the blood drive, the flu clinic, and the breast cancer charity fundraiser and the pediatric or reverse trick-or-treating. Um at state we had two out of four students win gold and for um our fundraising efforts for interup nationals next year in Baltimore and I like HOSA because it gives me like an idea of like what healthc care will look like. So I'm planning on going into it. So Hello, my name is Riley. I'm from CMR HOSA. I am an officer there. And this year, our chapter focused heavily on community service. So, to compete um at CMR, we require every student to complete at least 10 hours of community service. So, this year we had a lot of opportunities for that. Um we helped at
030the flu shot clinic with the city county health department, served as patients for the M casualty with the ski patrol, and volunteered for Special Olympics. Um, our officers also attended fall leadership conference in October, hosted an American Red Cross blood drive, delivered thank you cards to benefits, and spread positive messages with sidewalk chalk around the hospital. Um, we also welcomed several guest speakers, including a medical coroner and occupational therapist and a PA, Dave Roast, who taught students about suturing. And to finish the year, 22 students attended the stink competition in Billings where our chapter earned 19 first place awards, 14 second place awards, and 14 third place awards. So, we were very proud of everything our members accomplished this year. And then usually we go to international conference. This year it's in Indianapolis, but we
031decided to not go to that this year and we're going to Africa. So, we actually leave next week to go to Ghana Africa. We're taking um 12 or 13 students plus two adviserss. So, we're very excited for that. We're going to go set up medical clinics and kind of shadow doctors and help people there and then also um teach at the schools about simple things like washing their hands and brushing their teeth. So, we want to thank everyone who made it possible for us to go to that and we're excited to share our experience when we get back. >> Wow. >> I want to put your mind at ease a little bit sending Great Falls Public School students to Africa. Um I keep in contact um almost daily with the Centers of Disease Control. Um
032there are no confirmed cases of Ebola in Ghana. They're staying totally contained in kind of Eastern Africa. And so um every day we check in and make sure um we would never put students at risk by going. So our only concern is that the United States shuts their borders and we can't come back. So, we are um keeping a close eye on that. And the um group that we're traveling with is called Squads Abroad. They've worked with HOSA for numerous years, and they guarantee that if it looks like things are going south, they promise to get us out and home safely where we're not stuck there for months and months. But who knows? We might like the food. We might like the people. We might like it there. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank
033you. courage. >> Wow. >> Are you going? >> Yes, of course. >> Perfect. >> Yeah, I'm excited. >> Well done. Thank you. Thank you. >> And thank you everyone. Thank you for your support uh with all of our CTE programs. Um we we just can't do it without you. And that but that that concludes our report. >> Well, thank you very much for being here. It's all so impressive. Thank you for what you do >> to keep these kids growing as citizens along the way. It's fantastic. Roman six, communication item C, superintendent report. Mrs. Hoyer. Well, thank you very much, um, Chairman Johnson, members of the board, members of the community. Mine is going to be short and sweet, and you'll see why in just a moment. Um, so, as you've heard, there's so much
034going on with career technical education, and it really does take a village to make career technical education run in this district. Um, I have some pictures for you. The first one is is um, Mrs. Halls. That's the new career exploration class that they have. Um, thank you very much to Trusty Henning for the bottom picture for our fourth graders who went out and they did their act day out at the fairgrounds. I have some more pictures. I believe she might know some of these little shooters coming up. Um, some of them are branding. You will see a lovely young lady in the very top. Um, I had an opportunity to go to Great Falls High and listen to their health sciences um, their internship capstone presentations. And so I've started calling it Kinder to Capstone,
035Career and Technical Education in Great Falls. Um you'll also see some kids looking at the bees. It is bee season. Honey bees are everywhere right now. Um and then we've had the high school house ribbon cutting. Go ahead, Sherry. Um and we've had Build Montana um graduations. We have had so many amazing things going on for our students. if you choose and they should choose to get involved in career technical education. I think you heard tonight that it will change their life. But what I want to draw for you is a little bit of different picture on how while it changes one student's life, it's also going to impact ours. And I would like to invite up to the lectern a senior. She's going to give you her capstone project. So I'm going to yield
036the rest of my minutes to Cecilia. Um senior at Great Falls High School. She was an intern in the emergency room. And if and when I end up in the emergency room, I want this young lady taking care of me. And you'll soon find out why. So with that, Cecilia, we're going to go ahead and pull your presentation up. When you're ready for us to turn pages, just let us know. Okay. >> All right. Oh my gosh. >> Um, hello. My name is Cecilia Johnson. I'm a senior at Great Falls High School and I did the health occupation internship program through Mrs. Lloyd where basically we applied to benefits and we got to select a branch or a unit that we wanted to intern and shadow for 45 hours and if they accepted us we
037got to go. Next slide please. So I took this class because it was really good free experience meaning that I had to pay no money which was really helpful. And I had taken honors anatomy and physiology my junior year and we had to do a job shadow in that class for four hours at a place of our choosing which I chose the ER. So taking this class meant I could expand on that experience and knowledge that I had earned last year. Um I have wanted to be a nurse since I was seven years old. So getting these classes like I said especially for free and such easy opportunity was really helpful. It helped solidify my choice of wanting to go to the ER specifically and it was also to learn about other parts of the
038hospital because my classmates did different parts of the hospital themselves and presented on them. So it was nice to learn about other parts like the O cardiology, NICU, those kind of things. Next slide please. So, we had to pick five or come up with five goals that we wanted going into this internship. I wanted to complete an entire 12-hour shift. I wanted to complete an entire night shift. I wanted to see one truly unique ER thing. I wanted to learn the pacing, how fast, how slow, how quick the ER goes, the proper treatment of not just the patients, but the machine and the medicines we use. and then my ability to handle the traumas and gore of the ER. Next slide, please. I did complete a full 12-hour shift. I did a day shift and
039a full night shift of 12 hours. The day shift was really fun. Most of it though was patients who were elderly and had fallen or were dizzy. my full night shift. I had most of my unique and interesting cases during the night. I had a really hard time staying awake. I fell asleep in the chair, so my nurse took me to get an energy drink. The one truly unique ER thing I saw was I had a lady come in. She had recently had her leg amputated from the knee up and it had got infected. So, I got to see the infected stump. The pacing, it was really fast. So, you didn't really have time to process anything and you got to just go and go and go, which I thought was really fun because I
040got to see the most of what I could see. Proper treatment. They were really professional with the patients, really kind. The medicine, I got to go where they store the medicine, see how well thought out and how structured it is to make sure that there are no errors. And the machines, they have everything labeled. They're really good about putting things back and forth because could be the difference of life and death. For the ability to handle the ER, I unfortunately did not see anything super traumatic. Well, not unfortunately that nobody died. I do not want people to die, but >> I did want to see something more engaging and intense. And while I was there, I did not. Next slide, please. So, my choice for my specific case study was a 28-year-old male to female
041Native American woman. She had come in from the Rocky Boy Reservation complaining of fatigue. They transferred to Hav because they didn't have the proper care there where in Hav they determined that she had had severe blood loss and transferred her to benefits. She was there with her husband for a couple of days, decided they didn't really want to wait, didn't really want to go to the hospital. So, they went back to have her and she ended up getting worse. So, they flew her back to the benefits and that was the shift that I was on. Next slide, please. So, these were her three problems. Number one, she had a rectal hemorrhoid. And if you do not know what that is, it is an inflamed or swollen vein in the rectum or anus. She had melanina,
042which is black and bloody stool or feces, which she said she had had for over a year and didn't really think about it. Which leads me to my second problem, the blood loss. I was not around to figure out why she had the blood loss, but if I had to take an educated guess, it would be the year of bloody stool that she was producing. And finally, she was a hypochondric, which if you don't know, they have an excessive fear or worrying of their health. My best example would be if they have a cold and they go on Google and Google tells them they have cancer, they believe they have cancer. So, she asked about a million questions. She wanted to know that she was okay. Her heart rate would not go below 140. And
043so, she kept looking at the monitor. So, we finally had to turn it away from her because every time she looked, it spiked. And we could not make any promises, nothing. We just had to be straight to the facts. Next slide, please. So, because I wasn't around to find out what had initially or the end results of what had happened to her, I decided to research the six main tests that they do in the ER to evaluate. These are mainly the ones that when they draw your blood through that IV in those little test tubes and send it to the lab, these are the tests they're taking. So a complete blood count is a blood test that elevates the levels and characteristics of what? Red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. It can diagnose
044anemia, dehydration, nutritional deficiencies, infections, bleeding disorders, or bone marrow issues. The second test is a basic metabolic panel. It's a blood test that measures eight key substances in your blood. It assesses metabolism, kidney function, and electrolyte balance. The eight key functions it's looking for is glucose, which is your main energy source. Calcium, which is healthy for not only the bones, but the nerves, the heart, and the muscles. Blood ura, nitrogen, it's a waste product from the kidney. Creatine, also a waste product from the kidney. Sodium, which is an electrolyte balance fluid for your cells. Potassium, electrolyte for nervous system and your muscles. bioarbate, which is an electrolyte balance, and it measures your blood's pH levels, and chloride, electrolyte balance fluid for cells. Your third test is your urine analysis test, the one where you pee
045in the cup. It's pretty self-explanatory. They test that it can diagnose UTI and kidney disease. This one is especially helpful in the ER because a lot of our patients might come in from overdosing or they might be unconscious. So when we go to run that blood, let's say they did have something in their system, then we can know we can't give them this medication or it'll cause this problem. The cognition panel is also pretty self-explanatory. When a patient comes in, we ask questions like, do you know where you are? Do you know who you are? And things like that to make sure that their brain is functioning because if the brain is wrong, the whole body is wrong. It's mainly a a screening thing. It cannot really diagnose anything. Okay, the next test is the
046arterial blood gas. It's also a blood test, but it's sampled from an artery, specifically your radial artery in your wrist. But if we're unable to get that, it'll be the femoral artery near your groin. Um, this is a fan favorite specifically because it's fast, gets you quick results, and it's faster in the lab. It's almost like a screenshot of all the rest of these tests. It'll tell you the complete blood count, the basic metabolic panel, and the cardiac markers. And also, it's an typically an easy poke. Your veins are usually pretty nice right there. It can diagnose acidosis or alkalossis, which is an error in the blood pH. Respiratory, kidney, or metabolic disorders, severe infections, or diabetes, keto acids, which is when your blood sugar is either too high or too low. I don't remember
047that part, but your fat will start to break down and it'll release um keto acids which are toxic to the body. Finally, the cardiac markers is a blood test that detects proteins and enzymes released by the heart when it is stressed or damaged. This one is helpful because um if a patient is having a heart attack, we can see that. But if they had had a heart attack a few days prior, we can look for specific markers and figure out when that was. So a specific one is tropenin. And this is the most common because some of the other ones can be released by the brain or the nervous system. But tropenin can only be released by the heart. So 2 to four hours after the damage to the heart. It peaks at 10 to
04824 hours after and it goes down about 7 to 14 days later. So even if they come in two weeks after a heart attack, we can still find that marker and figure out what has happened. It can diagnose acute coronary syndrome which is reduced blood flow to the heart or myocardial infarction which is a heart attack. Next slide please. So why I do this, why I do nursing and why I wanted to do this class is because of the people for the ER. people were a really big part because I get to see an entire range from kids to elder, any race, any religion, anything like that, which I really appreciate because I really like a lot of different people. I think it's one of my favorite things to see and listen to a bunch
049of people. But also, it was a really good reminder that our case studies and our patients are people, too. specifically my case study lady. She had her husband there with her and he was rubbing her back. He was rubbing her feet. He was helping her to the bathroom. He was talking to her and just really staying with her. And it was nice. It was a nice reminder that these people are living their own lives and they don't want to be there and that you could be the difference for them. And like you're trying to get these people back to their families, back to their loved ones, or even just back to their own home, which is what they want. Next slide, please. So, my future career vision, I'm trying to get my CNA license right
050now. I take my state exam tomorrow morning. >> I want to become a benefit CNA. I'd like to go work there. If I can get into the AR, that would be my favorite. But if not, I just like to take care of people, so that will work out either way. I have to go I'm not have to I get to go to Great Falls MSU for my college. I'm doing my prerequisites this year and I'm hoping to get back in the program to complete my BSN or my bachelor's science of nursing my four years. I also need to take the ENCLEX RN exam which is the big um nursing exam. Then I would like to go back to benefits to be an emergency department registered nurse. After that I would like to go back to
051school for my CEN which is my certified emergency nursing credit from the BCEN or the board of certification for emergency nursing. And I would like to do that to enhance my nursing knowledge because I feel like especially in emergency medicine you can never know too much. Next slide please. So our self-reflection what changed during my time here my view of people and it was a positive view change in the ER. I feel like it gets a bad stereotype that the patients are angry and rude or like uneasy to work with. A lot of them were really kind and were excited that I was getting into this or they just they're just people that want to be cared for. So they were actually pretty pleasant and cooperative. My scrubs choices I would these are my own
052personal ones I would need to get like standard issued but also the amount of scrubs I would need. One of the nurses I followed had she had one pair of scrubs get puked on and the other one someone had diarrhea all over so she ran out of scrubs and had to just use sweats issued by benefits. So I would definitely bring lots of extra. I noticed that I truly loved the ER. It was definitely my favorite place to hear about and my favorite place to be. I don't think there's anywhere else I would like to go, but I'm hoping after some time in the ER, I can expand on my medical knowledge. My uh the nursing attitude, especially for the ER, like I said, you need a specific attitude. You need a good sense of
053humor because as much good as you can be doing, it's a hard job and not every patient is very nice or you won't be able to save everybody. So, you've got to learn how to work with that. What I forgot I forgot to be nervous for the most part. Most of my nurses were pretty kind and I was having a fun time. I forgot all medical knowledge I had learned prior and they do quiz you that it does happen. And I forgot to watch charting. It's on the computer and we were up and running so much and I was filling out my internship questions that I forgot to watch how they do it. Uh, next. That is all. Thank you. >> Thank you. Oh my goodness. >> I am sure that Cecilia probably is open
054to questions if you have any questions. I know that she answered some for us um when she gave this presentation to her peers, but as you can see, this is a very humbling opportunity for our kids. >> You know, for someone so young to be so knowledgeable on this is so impressive. I can only think of how much more information that you'll gain over time. And I think your compassion is already at 100%. So, >> thank you. >> Yeah. >> Any questions? >> I have a comment. Yes. Question. Um, >> I really appreciate what you said about having the right type of mindset to be in ER. I've had to go >> with my youngest kiddo a couple times for Staples and one time for a pretty bad ear infection. But it does take a
055specific type of person because >> sometimes you're comforting the patient, sometimes you're comforting the family. And I think you really touched on that well and I think that you already having that in mind will help you in your future. And it was something that I certainly appreciated. They're fantastic nurses I met along the way through my child's uh healthcare and it it helped alleviate a lot of stress off of me. So I'm really proud that you have that already. Good for you. >> Thank you. >> I forgot to shout out Miss Lloyd. She's a really good teacher and I really appreciate the funding making this possible. It was really helpful for all of my classmates, I know, to be able to have this and to go get hands-on experience of what we want to do
056with our futures. >> Yeah. Thank you so much, Mr. Johnson, for coming and sharing this with us. >> Yeah. Thank you for having me. >> Absolutely. >> Thank you. It's all right. >> And with that, Mr. Chair, that is my superintendence report. Probably the best one you're going to get all year. So, >> it was excellent. >> It was amazing. We heard from Mr. Boyd and I were there. We heard from uh Cecilia. We had a young lady who um wants to be a neurosurgeon, so she shadowed. She saw 19 different procedures. She wanted to know how to read X-rays to look for pinched nerves. And we had a young man who wanted to be a cardiologist. He ended up in gastroenterenterology. He really liked it because he could he got to see ulcers and
057he got to see lacerations and he got to see all of these things and and um it was just fun to listen to where they wanted to go. Knowing I saw her when she was a freshman um and seeing her now as a senior, it just made me so proud. So, thank you for indulging us this evening. Well, thank you for inviting her to come and share her story with us. Roman six, communication item D, audience communication. I've had no requests to speak before this board of trustees this evening. Moving on to Roman 7, action items. Now, Trustee Scornagosski has left the meeting to uh see her daughter get an award. And Mr. Decon, have we lost our quorum? One, two, three, four. We're we're we're good. We're still good. Thank you. Correct. So, that
058brings us to action item A, financial report and check register for April 2026. Mr. Deakons. Thank you, Chairman Johnson, members of the board, Superintendent Hoyer, and members of the community. Tonight, I get to present uh several items. The first of which is the financial and check register for 2026 for April. Um when we talk about April, we're starting to get towards the end of the year. So everything is starting to come into picture. Revenues are coming in and so forth. Um next month in June, those revenues should pretty much match up with some exceptions with uh balances from Calumat with their protested taxes and so forth that we'll be working through. But for the month of April, finishing it out, you will see all the information in our report. It all does balance up. I
059do want to just note that all the starting checks, ending checks do match up from the prior month as well. So with that, I would ask the board to accept the monthly financial report and approve the register of payments for April 2026. Thank you, >> Mr. Chair. >> Trustee Henny, >> I move that we accept the monthly financial report and approve the register of payments for April 2026 as presented. >> Second. Been moved and seconded to accept the monthly financial report and approve the register of payments for April 2026. Any questions or commentary from our board of trustees? Any from our gallery? Hearing and seeing none, I'll call for the question. All those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying I. >> I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Action items B Great Falls
060Public Schools contract for natural gas. Mr. Deacon. >> Thank you, Chairman Johnson, members of the board. Um, second item I get to present tonight a little bit more in depth on this. If you remember over the winter break, we were in the process of renegotiating our electricity contract. As a result of getting through that one and then with the merger that went on with Northwestern Energy with the gas side of it, we are now faced with having to adopt a new gas contract as well for us for the 25 or 26 27 27 28 and 28 29 school years. We came to you about a month ago. We did put out an RFP with the help of Jim Lauren um to get this information out to the reputable companies that could provide us with opportunity
061to present um an RFP and their bid to us. There's a couple things I want to point out and Sherry, if you can pull up that spreadsheet quick, I'm going to walk you through kind of how the gas works. Obviously, I'm no expert like Jim Warren, but he took some time today to walk me through this um to give you an idea. Right now, when you look at the market, um there's two ways that you can go about making your bid. You can have an index bid that runs off the current market dayto day monthtomonth or you can have a fixed cost which is like what we have with our electricity market right now our electricity contract that we run with the school district specifically in our RFP we did ask for an index bid
062but one of the companies Summit did provide a fixed bid as well to go with it. So couple things to point out. If you look at the column G that's on the spreadsheet, you can see it up there on the board. It says the seller adder um unit price. What they do is they take the current market and that's what's going to be added to it. So the way you have to figure it if you look at Jetco the first one you have to add the seller adder you have to have the regulated charges and then where you see AECO forward it's in small letters there that's the current rate that's out there if you look at the current average you put those all together what we'd be paying is about $7.51 per echer them
063and we need about 92,000 of those per year. So when we're talking about our um a lot natural gas that we're utilizing, that's a lot. Um and it does add up over time. When you look at Summit, their seller adder price is about 67 cents that they add to those regulated charges fall at the $455 again and then $166, which makes it a total of $6.88. So when you do out the multiplication, uh Mr. Morren has laid that out with the totals on the other side. And then with Summit with the fixed offering there as well. Um he has worked through that. You'll see the number down below is 22 cents. However, as you move across and you look at that average fee, they have to balance that out in their cost down the road
064when you're running fixed. So that forward curve is a little bit higher than where it was with the index curve. And over those years, there's not a time that we could see that there'd be a benefit for the district to go with a fix. It does get close in year three. Um we're about $10,000 in discrepancy, but to the bad side. So therefore, um as Mr. Warren and I were talking and talking with Mrs. Hoyer, we did go through those situations. There are a couple pieces that are concerns out there um that Mr. Warren did bring up. There are uh two major impacts. There's limitations within the trans transmission system with natural gas. Almost all of the natural gas that we're receiving here in Montana, no matter what company it comes from, is coming out
065of Canada. So your our hands are a little bit tied on how that gets to the border or the causeway um that it comes into Montana. And those have a percent that goes with the cost that's figured into the $4.55 for the transmission. It's about 3ome% that's in there. It's bought off volume. It's not that off the deck of there. Um, so what he wanted me to make sure that we point out is at this point in time for us, if you look at those total costs, definitely sum it at the 67 cents um on the adder fee. The other numbers remain the same. The piece that we cannot predict though is what's going to happen to that forward curve. And one of the pieces that's out there in the next three to five years
066is data centers. and data centers, if you've done any research or reading on them, the majority of their electricity that's easy electricity for them to create is used and created by natural gas. Um, it's easier for them to access in many ways. So, there is concern, but we're talking probably year three to year five where that may get to market. It's a hard prediction for him to make because he also used the example of when Canada opened the gates to go to the coast, they expected natural gas prices to shoot up. Um that wasn't the case. What happened was they opened up more valves. So there's more gas in the transmission line that they could move from one place to another. Therefore, um I will be happy to answer any questions before I make a
067recommendation. Um in short, we're looking at summit with an index um at the 67 cents for the next three years. >> Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Deacon >> regarding his report? >> It is a lot of information. Do not go too deep because it's extremely complicated. >> I don't disagree. >> And you can go forward with your recommendation, please. >> All right. With that, I will ask the district board to recommend um to approve Summit Energy's index bid for the contract for the district's natural gas supplier for the 2026 27 27 28 and 28 29 school years. >> Mr. Chair, >> Trusty Henning, >> I move that we approve the rate presented in the addendum at this board meeting, which has a 24-hour expiration as presented by Mr. Decon. Second. Been moved and seconded
068to approve the rate presented in the additional in the addendum at the board meeting which has a 24hour expiration. Any additional questions regarding this motion? >> Yes. >> Why does it have a 24-hour expiration? >> So, it has a 24-hour expiration because you're working off that market data. Um, and when they provide that estimate, that's what they're basing it upon. And that market changes every truly every hour depending on demand. Especially when you talk about electricity, natural gas has a little more flexibility in it is what Mr. Warren says, but that's why you have to stick with that 24hour approval. >> Good question. Thank you. Any additional questions from our trustees? Hearing seeing none, any from our remaining gallery? None. I'll call for the question. All those in favor of the motion, please signify by
069saying I. I oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Deans. Uh, action item C. Charlie. Second reading of the 2627 board of trustees meeting calendar. Again, Mr. Deuts, not that I'm counting, but the third item we get to talk about tonight is the second reading of our board meeting calendar. We did post this out to you at the last meeting to have any input. With the input we received, we did not see any changes. So with that, I would ask you to approve the 26 2026 2027 board meeting calendar as presented. >> Trusty Sensh, >> I move that we approve the 2026 2027 board meeting calendar as presented. >> Second move and seconded to approve the 2627 board meeting calendar. Any questions or commentary from those of us at the table who will be
070participating in these meetings in 26 27? Any questions or comments from anyone in the room hearing? Seeing none, all those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying I. I >> oppose same sign. Motion carries. Roman 7 action item D second reading of board policies 3310 revised 5240 revised 7332 revised and 7332F new Mrs. >> Thank you Mr. Chair members of the board and members of the community I did offer to let Mr. decons do this, but he told me he needed a break. Um, so you have before you our second reading of four policies. I'm going to walk you through just a couple of things um to jog your memory. So, policy 3310, this is our student discipline. This is an annual review. There were minor changes made to it um from the
071committee that just included some additional wording. Um you'll see that on page 52, line nine and 10. We answered, we added uh school sponsored activities or events um to that one. We also updated cross references to make it match um some of the other work that we had done throughout the year. On policy 5240, I learned something fun from um Ally. So on 5240, this was one that we worked on as we worked with the uniform complaint. Um, and this helps pull everything together for individuals um, who have concerns or issues that are covered by a collective bargaining agreement but not might not be able to be addressed through that. This allows them and everybody to have um, a flow of of being able to be sure that their concern is heard. Um, there was
072on line 16, you'll see the word issue is italicized and underlined. that means that that was a change that came post first reading and that was at the recommendation of uh GFA and so that was appreciated. Thank you Mr. Cage for that. So this one is one that we have beefed up um and made some changes to so it flows well through that. 7332 was one that has received a lot of uh work on this one um as we looked at the financial management advertising in schools and revenue enhancement for this one. And a couple of things that I do want to point out to you. There are some additions. Line 32 once again um added the video boards. This will help both with the video board that is in Memorial Stadium. Um advertising from
073that will help us sustain that facility. Um we have turf we know we're going to need to be replacing eventually. We have lights we're going to have to be replacing in addition to um wear and tear that happens on that facility through a lot of usage. So that will help with that. um streaming. There were some questions on social media. With social media, it is things like student of the week. So, student of the week is brought to you by it used to be a teachers credit union um has changed, has several new names, but um things like that might be not necessarily running advertisements on our social media, but it could be that the teacher of the week or the student of the week or some of those different things are brought by different
074groups in town. Um, we also made sure that we aligned that on line three on page 58, we added the discrimination clause that you find consistent across district policy. 7332F then is the form that would go with the proposed 7332. And this lays out areas where we currently have signage or where where we will have signage um or could possibly have signage in the future. That includes Memorial Stadium and the digital video scoreboard that will be studentrun um and run by as part of their video classes that they will do that will start uh right away in the fall with students working through their video classes. Um Great Falls High School Sworth Out Fieldhouse does not have a video board. Um, so that one right there is is done through the banners and the placards
075that are within the gym. CMR does have that video board and has for um a while about a year year and a half, two years. Thank you. Time flies. Um, two years with that one and uh we can we talked about some of the work they had there. Um, sponsorship is posted over on the side. This is representative and the someone asked how did this come about? Well, this came about really with members of our community coming forward and wanting to help sponsor um places or spaces um that would allow us to continue to offer the high quality facilities that we do for students. And that will be the contract that Mr. um Henburgg and Mr. Decon then works through with individuals who would like to sponsor things. And I think that that takes me
076to the end of my forums. Mr. Decon, do you have anything to add? Because you were heavily involved in u both the financial ones 7332 and 7332F. Did I forget anything, sir? >> Not that I'm aware of. I think the only thing that I would add is it we're really trying to get it down on paper with a policy. So there's that understanding communitywide of what we're doing and it's not handpick and choosing who would be able to sponsor and who wouldn't and how that goes about. Uh, I think there's a sense of fairness out there that people want to have and know. The hard piece is you don't know who's coming forward to sponsor and we continue and will continue to work with them, but it's always going to be Great Falls Public Schools
077first and our students, not their business. It might be their business picture and their logo, but it's about our students. And as a reminder for any sponsored event too, we do roll back to other policies we have uh where it prohibits things that we wouldn't normally allowed in school. Alcohol, marijuana, gambling, things like that are are things that we um do not allow for sponsorships for. So with that, um, my recommendation is that we do pass policies 3310, 5240, 7332, and 7332F on second readings. >> Thank you, Mrs. Hoyer. >> Mr. Chair, >> trusty H. >> Before I make a motion, um, on page 57 of the board packet, policy 7332, line 44, it says uh, revenue enhancement activates. Is that supposed to be activities? >> Thank you very much, Trusty Henning. Yes, we will
078make that change. >> Okay. >> Um and then >> I move that we approve new and revised board policies 3310, 5240, 7332, 7332F as presented. >> Second, then moved and seconded to approve 3310. >> Mr. Chairman, >> Trusty D, >> if I can, I would like to ask that we divide that into two and we address policy 3310 and 5240 in a group and 7332 and 732F separately if that's possible. That's a motion. I'll second it. Um, and do we have to deal with the first motion that Trusty Heding made? This is an alternative motion. So basically we're going to consider all of them but we'll do the first two the trustee duff wants and then we'll consider the other two. So traed as an alternative motion. >> Should I read motion then? >> Well
079you can >> Okay. So we're both right now on on the table is u the question of 3310 and maybe this won't help. The alternative motion is to separate the conversation. 3310 and 5240 would be considered first. Then the the 7332. But all it is is just a motion to split the conversation. Then we would go the separate motion for 3310 and 5420 followed by a separate motion for the 7332 series. Does that make sense? It makes sense. It makes sense. >> Yes. And all in favor of the motion um well it's been it's been uh the motion's been made and second right >> yes >> okay any discussion around this if not uh call for question all those in favor of the motion be skip by saying I >> I oppose same sign thank
080you very much now Mr. Chairman >> Trusty Bronson. >> I would move that we adopt board policies 3310 as revised and 54 5240 as revised. >> Second. >> Moved and seconded to adopt 3310 and 5240. Any questions or commentary from trustees? Others in the room hearing and seeing none. All those in favor of the motion please signify by saying I. I. >> Oppos same sign. Motion carries. Now we are at 7332. Mr. Chairman, 7332F. Mr. Bron, Mr. Chairman, for purposes of discussion, I move that we approve policy 7332 revised and 7332F. >> Second. >> Then moved and seconded to approve 7332 revised and 7332F. Any discussion? >> Mr. Chairman, >> Mr. Duff, >> just a brief comment. I know went on this to some extent the last meeting, but you know, I had a parent
081reach out to me since the last meeting that was actually reading the notes from the meeting to thank me for speaking up on this. I just think that while I have no issue with the advertising that's currently going on in the district as far as placers in the brochures and things like that, I just personally draw the line at running video ads on the billboards or video ads on social media. I think that's not our place in this community. It's our place in this community to champion our students and our staff and our teachers and not to be showing television advertisements at the football stadium. I just think it's not our place to do that. >> Thank you. Any other commentary? >> Guess I have a question. Yes. um for I I guess Luke and
082Heather because the money from the advertisements would go towards um like you were saying the turf replacements and the light replacements. How could those be paid for outside of that? Would it be would it affect the district, you know, like largely to to have those come from different funding sources or would we be able to do it without? So when you talk about that, Trusty Henny, um you're talking about something that's extremely difficult when you're talking about the um general fund budget because that's really where you'd be looking. That's why OPI um the state has created uh revenue enhancement for districts to be able to do improvements like this. Technically, the stadium is not or the fieldhouse isn't quite the same as a classroom. So, when we're talking about the square footage that we have
083to um maintain and upkeep over the years um and sometimes it's that deferred pieces that are going on and keep pushing down the line. That's where we're using our building reserve and those pieces to utilize and pay for it. We try to keep um revenue enhancement on those things that we can enhance that side of learning. Superintendent Hoyer, >> and just to give you and I'm going to ask Mr. econ to weigh in because I'm sure I'm going to get the numbers wrong, but when we're looking at something like replacing the turf um at Memorial Stadium, it I would love to say that turf will last forever. It won't. It it requires maintenance and upgrading. It's going to cost about a half a million dollars. Um and that's on the today's dollars, not when we
084get ready to do it in a couple years. Um and the same for the lights. Our lights are old. Um they've been there a long time. They're probably not the most or I shouldn't say probably, they are not the most efficient lighting. And the lighting alone would be about a quarter of a million dollars at Memorial Stadium. Um, that's money that we just don't have readily on hand. And this money would be then placed into a deferred um maintenance, not deferred maintenance, but a revenue enhancement fund that would allow us to do it um easier financially. >> And we do, you're fairly accurate with those numbers. It's hard to predict with inflation the actual cost that they would be in two to three down the two to three years down the road or three to
085five. Um we sat on a particular project this year at East for their gym floor for that exact reason. We didn't feel comfortable going out for it this year knowing um it's going to cost us more next year. But it is a place that we're able to access and um take some of that cost if not all of it away from that general fund budget aspect. >> Mr. Chairman >> Trusty Mor Trusty Sunsh had her hand up for us. >> Oh, thank you. >> Just to clarify, this is more just like an upgraded version of when we sold hats in the programs in the past. We're just upgrading it to like we're we don't have people on the sidelines who can throw up, you know, plays that just happened, >> right, >> on the football
086field. It's just an upgraded ad that is now digital along with the print ads we've already sold in our >> correct and there would be hard placards as well. I mean because we have some spaces where we don't have video boards. Um so we do have that and there would be um advertisements that we could have you could do replays of plays if you wanted to and put them on the video board. It might have a sponsorship logo. Um that is the information that is found in here. We truly don't know the capacity of that video board. We know that it's going to have a we're going to be able to show replays and um snapshots at the end of races and all sorts of things that we just don't have the capacity to do.
087That'll be what the students learn how to do. Um as far as that goes >> and like that like we have ads I mean in the house. >> Okay. And the Facebook we're not running like ads for great. It's like teacher of the week brought to you by shelters. Correct. >> Um I think the other piece to add to it when you talk about the revenue enhancement side of it, that's pieces that MHSA looks at for our opportunities to bring different events to our facilities just in the last week. Um listening to the people who were at Great Falls High, I think there was a class C divisional, a class B divisional, and the double A divisional there. And they're all asking that same question. Why can't you be like Laurel or Missoula U of
088M where everything flashes up and we know instantly what those times and different pieces were. That's what this technology really is doing. Um we're not trying to change um necessarily any advertising that we've done in the past. We're trying to keep that as similar as possible. It's just that it's a different opportunity for the companies, the organizations out there to put their information out in a different spot than a 4 by8 sheet across the way on the sidelines. So really trying to keep that Great Falls Public Schools, but we know there's always those logos and those pieces that come with it. And that's why it's so important we follow our our general guidelines of what is acceptable in that as well. >> Thank you, Mr. Brunson. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, um I don't necessarily disagree
089with the concerns that Trustee Duff has expressed here this evening. Most of you who know me well know I despise advertising in its entirety. Uh whenever I see it, I I ignore it simply because I don't think it really ultimately does have a place in this environment. But the reality is for years that it has. It strikes me that and we've discussed this in the policy committee meeting. We've put a lot of guard rails on this as it is and I think if we're going to go down this other road, I think we would need to have a much lengthier discussion involving the community, I think we would have to look at this not just from a strictly policy basis, but alluding to what Mr. decons has talked about we need to look at this
090from a revenue enhancement standpoint and how it fits the overall uh picture district. So I would rather that we go ahead and improve these policies as they've been revised and updated and I'm certainly open to the idea of revisiting this whole concept down the road if we can find a way uh to make it work so that we're not hurting ourselves financially. But just wanted to put that in the record. Thank you. Thank you. Any additional commentary? >> Mr. Chairman, may I just throw something in really quick? Um, I do think anything that is a major change, and this is really a pretty big change within policy, it's something we kind of have to put an asterisk by. So, when we go to policy committee next year, we can have that conversation and say, "Yes,
091it's working. No, it's not, or is there something in there we need to do a better job of putting the asterisks next to?" So we keep within those guard rails and that's something we do from a district standpoint. >> Any additional commentary for >> Yes, of course. I promise real this time. >> Um >> I have no concerns with the legacy advertisement we've been doing at the stadium. >> This policy just doesn't have the constraints going forward that I think it needs. It's easy for us to say how we envision it to be like the social media ads or the television ads on the stage. It's easy for us to say how we envision it, but without it in the policy three years, five years, whatever, when we aren't sitting here and somebody else is
092interpreting the policy as they see it, there's a lot of leeway. And I would like I would be happy to to support the policy with more guard rails. It's vague and open to interpretation for me. there's not enough constraints to it that at some point in time I would rather I'd rather move slowly baby steps ahead instead of passing this policy now and then later on trying to write it back in I would rather just take baby steps not endanger our the trust the community puts into us thank you any additional commentary from those in the gallery Ally, has an motion been made on this? >> Yep. >> And was it Trusty Bronson that made the motion and seconded? >> Mhm. Okay. Very good. Thank you. Any uh additional commentary before we call for the
093vote from our board of trustees? Any additional commentary from those in the room? Hearing and seeing none, I'll call for the question. All those in favor of adopting policy 7332 revised and 7332F new, please signify by saying I. >> Opposed. >> Motion carries. Thank you very much. Roman 8 action other nothing was pulled from the consent agenda. We'll move on to Roman nine reports, discussion, and policies. First reading of the annual review of board policy 3300, suspension and expulsion and 3311, firearms and weapons. Mr. Deacons, >> thank you, Chairman Johnson. I'm just flipping pages here quick. Um, it is that time of year. Like we talked at the last board meeting, we're going through safety policies, safety team updates. Um, and two of those policies that we need to get to before we can go
094to our safety plan at our next meeting are the suspension 3,300 and 3311 with firearms. When we take a look at these and we reviewed in policy, you'll notice on page 65 under 3300, um, we made a couple changes to just be more precise in what we are saying, struck out the word one, added period of time to be specific there. Um and then on the back page back pages the only other thing that we did was look and update our um cross references on items 3311 firearms and weapons. You'll see we inserted um the definition of the district school property in italics there from line 7 through nine on page 70 down towards the bottom at number 35. One of the tools that we generally use in these cases is our inter interdisciplinary child
095information school safety team um from the county and the regional side. Um they reach out to us as well. We added the citations there and updated the cross references. So with that that is our report. Should we have any other comments that come in we definitely take those into consideration before it goes to action at the next board meeting. >> Thank you Mr. Deans. Any questions for Mr. on these two policies 3,300 3311 none. Let's go to reports, discussion and policies. Item B, first reading in board of board policy 5120 revised hiring process and criteria 5120F delete termination of eligibility for hire form 7625 revised use of enhanced tax credit seats and 8301 revised district safety. >> Mrs. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair, members of the board. you have for your review on a first
096reading the four policies that are in front of you. I will walk you through a couple of items um that will be important for you to know. Um on 5120, this is page 73 in your agenda. Um the first thing is line 13 where it says fingerprint based federal. You'll see that in italics. Um this is per Montana code. This is the work since the last legislative session um that Mrs. Minewearing and Mrs. spers have done a lot of work on is we now have to have um the federalbased fingerprints um in order for us to do anything include hiring. Um then on line 14 you will see where we struck superintendent. We added human resources director. That is because this has to be a certified position because we actually do the fingerprinting on site
097and the certified folks who do that are found in the human resources office and are doing the fingerprinting um often. Down at the bottom, line 46, we added the word or teacher and slash or administrator because both of those are licensed. And then we also added um at the end of that line and registered license because both teachers and administrators have to have their license certified by the county superintendent before they turn it into human resources. Looking on page 74, um you will see that at the end of line six, we added for a minimum of two years. That is found in statute. So, we added that um to that phrase that was new. And I believe that is it for that one. On 5120F, we are proposing that we strike that form as well
098as the next form. And the reason for this is because this form is only used by Big Sky Bus Lines, which is a contractor for ours. We don't use it for anything else but Big Sky Bus Lines. And so we don't didn't feel like it was pertinent to this form. That's the state level log that goes along with the form. And so we're not even sure how that ended up in policy to be honest with you. Um and then 7625, this is financial management. This is our innovative tax credits. If you take a look at lines 23 through 28, um, shout out to Mr. Decon. He's already getting ready for innovative tax season coming up. This is wording that is directly from the state revenue website. Um, the sort of um, taxation website. It is
099not worded very smoothly. It is actually pretty clunky. So, I actually went in and dug it out and looked to be sure and that is word for word um off of that website. So, it reflects the changes that were made in the last legislative session. We just don't have an update yet from MTSBA to bring um the use of enhanced tax credits or innovative tax credits forward. And then on page 80 is the last one that we're looking at. That's 8301. You'll notice on line 16 that we did add floods because we do have one building we believe that is in the flood plane. So, while we're listing all of the other um acts of natural disaster, we figured we should throw flood in there. And then down on page 30 or I'm sorry line
10036, we wanted to bring clarity to that sentence and that is each school year each school has to have eight disaster drills in addition to the two bus safety drills they have to have. Um but we added the word school on page 81. And then you'll see just some clarifications as to on line 13 and 14, the chemicals have to be stored in appropriate and labeled storage closets, containers, and/or designated refrigerators. Line 17, first aid kits and eyewashing stations. And then on lines 28 and 29, playground equipment may be removed by the district when safety standards are not met. And with that, those are those four policies. A special thank you to the policy committee um for working continuing to work through policies and bringing them current. >> Thank you, Mrs. Hoyer. Thanks to the
101policy committee, and these will be before you again in two weeks for potential ratification. Item nine, Roman nine, reports, discussions of policies. Item C 2627 board subcommittee assignments and um I sent these out to my fellow trustees and my rationale for assigning committee assignments as such was that uh we didn't have any new trustees this time around and we built a wealth of experience individually participating on these committees. So I didn't see any real need to shift things around back in the day when people were new. Sometimes we do that just to gain a level of experience on various committees. Uh that's not the case this time. So please do my friends take a look at this one more time and see if uh this reflects your wants in terms of service on committees. And
102if I hear no reaction to this doc you good. Thank you. And with that discussion committee reports and comments. Trusty Sunshild, let's start over here. >> I always have to go first. >> I think you were first last time too. >> Every time. Just a shout out to everybody who did all the work for the teacher longevity and retirement. Um such a it's a nice event. The only downfall was those of us who had stand there for two hours. Our feet hurt, but it is the teachers really appreciate it and it's a great time to come together and celebrate all long hours to make that happen. We're almost there. Almost there. There's light at the end of the tunnel. Mr. D. >> Uh, first and foremost, shout out to our students, both the Sunnyside and
103the CTSO once a night. The ones we've had all year. Man, what an articulate, wellspoken, and confident group top to bottom all year. Very impressive. All of CTSO kids are doing great things all the time. And to our staff and school district employees, we're almost through the year. We're almost there. We can see the light at the end of the tunnel, I think. I hope. Um, and look forward to everybody enjoying some summer break. >> Thank you, Trusty Henning. >> Uh, first I just want to uh thank Trusty Duff for his comments on our policies that we approved tonight. Um, and then I would just ask that we as a as a whole um be very attentive of those policies um and make sure that it's something that we're reviewing on a regular basis to
104ensure that we're maintaining integrity. Um, I was bummed I had to miss the life skills graduation today. I really like that one. It's one of my favorites, but I am looking forward to all the other ones. The longevity and retirement ceremony. It was so so nice. Um, Miss Moricki is my son's ECS teacher and when he found out she was retiring, he said, "I'm not gonna keep doing it then. Not without her." And I said, "I think you'll like whoever you get next. Just stick stick with it and I'm sure it'll work out all right." Um, and then as Superintendent Hoyer mentioned, I got to go to a day with the Valley Be fourth graders. That was Mike Kiddo doing the branding up there. Um, it was such a fun and educational day. It is
105a really I mean, pretty much every station was hands-on in some way or the other and it's such a great way for our students to get these experiences um, and learn in in a way that keeps them engaged. And I I don't think there was this station anywhere that anyone was bored at. and it was it was awesome. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I apologize to everyone for being late tonight, but as I told the superintendent and uh the chairman, uh this is one of those nights we also were scheduled to do a library board of trustees meeting. I'm their legal counsel, and it happened to be the night that they had all of these things involving parliamentary procedure. So, I'm glad glad I was there. Uh just
106a couple of things to uh one I echo what trustee Sunchild mentioned about those longevity and retirement dinners. Uh it's sad when you realize what what they say about a thousand years of experience, you know, is walking out the door that night. But I take comfort in the fact that we have a lot of people that are still here and we have new folks coming on board that are bringing what will hopefully be their years of experience to the system. And then just I'm sure like everyone else I'm looking forward to the graduations this weekend. I had a bit of a preview into it though early this morning. I was walking my dog as I do every morning by Sakulia school and apparently they had the Russell students over there in their caps and gowns
107doing some type of a practice and I'm sure some of them also went to that elementary school but what caught my attention right away is when the teacher and everybody is telling them to line up and do this and do you think the students are paying attention and I thought to myself what is it about teachers and administst administrators that they never understand that when they're close to graduation, you lose them completely. And it to show you how my mind works, all that came to mind was the old Chichin Chong skit about Sister Mary Rosetta Stone telling class to be quiet and finally she has to scream in their ears and then they pay attention. I don't think they had to do that this morning, but they were getting darn close. But, you know, it's
108that time of year when they're getting ready and they're antsy and I appreciate it. We're all there once and we look forward to their graduation ceremonies this week. Thank you. >> Thank you. Yeah. This afternoon, um, Mr. Duff and Superintendent Hoyer and Mr. Das, bunch of us were at the, uh, life skills ceremony graduation at Paris Gibson Educational Center. bell ringing and I have to say I I was close to tears. I mean honest to God to watch this ceremony and to think that we in Great Falls have this incredible option to help people who might not have had a real solid chance of succeeding in society. to have them nurtured and trained by loving, caring people is just something that is so I think unique unique to this district and always so proud and
109I think we all are of that facility and what it accomplishes for people and uh it's it's fantastic. And on the board is a list of things to come. We can do this. All right, ladies and gentlemen, I would propose a motion to adjurnn. >> So moved. >> We are adjourned.