001Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I'll call this meeting to order. This meeting of the Great Falls Public Schools Board of Trustees. Today is January 26, 2016. And uh I remind us in the room as per Montana law, we are required to record these me uh meetings and they'll be uploaded on our website at some point in the future. Mr. Deakons, would you please administer the roll call? >> Thank you, Chairman Johnson. Chairman Johnson, >> here. >> Kim Skornagowski >> here. >> Bill Bronson >> here. Craig Duff >> here. >> Marley Sunchild >> here. >> Amy Thompson >> here. Paige Troski >> here. >> Mr. Chairman, you have a full board with which to work. >> Thank you, Mr. Deans. And one of our pret presenters for the evening is Alexis, and she is going to
002lead us in the pledge of allegiance. And I believe she wants to use the microphone. So, ladies and gentlemen, please stand and join Alexis when she is ready. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Very nicely done, Alexis. Thank you very much. And thank you, ladies and gentlemen. >> Mr. Chair, >> Trustees Gonagoski, >> I move we adopt the agenda as presented. >> Second. been moved and seconded to adopt the agenda as presented. Is there any further commentary or questions from this board of trustees regarding the agenda? Any questions or commentary from those in the room hearing? Seeing none, I'll call for the question. All those in favor of adopting
003the agenda, please signify by saying I. >> I oppose. Same sign. We have an agenda from which to work. Mr. Chair, >> Trustee Terraski, >> 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 board of trustees? Any questions or commentary from those in the room? Hearing and seeing none. And I've called for the question. All those in favor of approving the consent agenda, please signify by saying I. I. >> Opposed. same sign. We're moving on to Roman 4 communication character Strong West Elementary School, Mrs. Mainwearing. Welcome. >> Thank you, Chairman Johnson, members of the board, Superintendent Hoyer, members of the community. It's my pleasure to introduce West Elementary School principal Lacy Lewis is here
004with her students and they'll be presenting on Character Strong this month. Good evening board members, Superintendent Hoyer, and our community. I'm so excited to share this with you today. You have the opportunity to hear from my leadership team at West Elementary. The character trait this month is perseverance and they're going to introduce themselves and they're going to share how they have persevered in their life or they've watched somebody else persevere. >> Hi, I'm Miriam and I'm on the West leadership team. >> Hello, I'm Miss Ellia and I'm also part of West Leadership Team. Hello, my name is Alexis and I'm part of the West Leadership Team. Today we'll be talking about the character strong trait, perseverance. What is perseverance? Perseverance is pushing yourself to work through challenges and obstacles. Why perseverance matters. We all have
005moments when we feel like we can't do it or we just want to give up on a big task. It's important to develop tools that help us work through those challenges in order to grow in those moments instead of giving up. >> Hi, I'm Miriam and the time that I had to persevere was when I tried out for the choir team youth sings. I felt discouraged and unsure. There were only six spots on the team. I kept practicing and trying to help me persevere through it. I tried out that Wednesday and I got onto the team. The lesson that I learned was to never stop persevering no matter what. My favorite quote is from a singer named Dolly Pardon. If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain. >> Hello, I'm
006Aelia. And one time I had to persevere is when we had to study at home. When we were studying at home, it made me feel unmotivated and stressed. A way I was able to persevere through studying at home was by taking breaks to let my brain comprehend the information. And by the time I had finished studying, I I was happy that I persevered through it. My favorite quote is from Nelson Mandela. It always seems impossible till it's done. >> Hi, I'm Alexis. A time I had to persevere is when I started doing gymnastics and tried doing the splits, but I couldn't. So, I practiced for years. I started when I was five by stretching. And finally, last year, not last year, last summer, I did it. I did the splits. The lesson I learned is
007to never give up and always persevere. A challenge from the West leadership team. Think of a goal or habit you want to develop. Share it with someone important in your life and name one small step you will take today to make progress. >> Write it down on a paper for accountability. And each day this week, give a short update on the ne next step you will take today or whether or not you completed the previous day's action. Perseverance starts with one small step. >> Thank you for listening to us speak to about the character strong trait perseverance. And we're excited to see what you do with this challenge. Very nicely done. You know, each one of us in the room have had moments of doubt about how effective we are as family members, brothers, sisters,
008fathers, mothers, community people. But it's perseverance that keep us going forward and doing good things. and we're very grateful for your reminder. Thank you for being here. >> All right. >> Communication B, superintendent report. Mrs. I believe Chairman Johnson that the young ladies have some stuff that they want to help hand out while we're getting ready uh for my presentation. So, as we know here, but perhaps members of our community don't know who are joining us this evening, um we are just wrapping up uh a month of appreciation for our school board members who are voted on by our community. Um we do have some gifts for you from elementary students who have made cards and give thanks um to you. We want to be able to read these at your leisure um and take
009a look at the wonderful things that they did. There are some very very creative um cards, things that make you smile and laugh and chuckle. You'll love them. I'm sure >> they're beautiful. Thank you. Before I start into my superintendence report, we're going to throw one slide up real quick because we do have a special guest with us this evening. And there is um I think it's fitting that perseverance is the character strong trait that we started with because I'm pretty sure that Andrew blew a picture. His picture is in the dictionary probably next to perseverance. And so with this, because in addition to being an attorney, um his most important job is being a dad and he has little guy wrestling practice coming up at 6:00. And nothing says uh wound up kids than
010no coach in a wrestling match. So we're going to get him out of here before 6:00. I'm going to turn this over to Mr. Decon to walk us through some of the data for our innovative tax credits. >> Thank you, Superintendent Corer. Uh Chairman Johnson, members of the board, just a quick little recap before we have Mr. who would come up and give his piece of information as well. But this year we were successful again with our community in raising funds for the innovative tax credit. Our total was $1,8,000. Um, and a lot of that credit goes right there to Mr. Buitt who really does do the sidewalk walking, the touch base with the social networks. Um, getting people to give us a phone call so we can give them a little more information. Um,
011it's people like Mr. would and those that donate to this program that allow us to have these types of unique opportunities for our students and our schools. And we know over the years how important our community sees these unique opportunities when it comes to CTE advanced opportunities, STEM type learning. So, we're in the midst of that remodel over at Great Falls High, as you know, the old shops into that innovative STEM center. We're looking forward to opening that up this spring. Um, and with that, I am going to give Mr. Buitt the microphone up there for a minute and say thank you. >> Welcome. >> Thank you. Thank you for having me. We could not very hot to heaven. Who is at the top? Great public school. There are a lot of people again. We
012see it in a state funs. very loud message. We had to persevere in what we learned perseverance and there's lots of applications for that good example of it. I have a job whe Thank you for everything that you do. >> Oh, thank you. >> One more quick note. >> Thank you very much. Um, one more quick note. You see those two stars that are up there? we had contributors or participants that we were not able to get into the computer because of the time frame. If we were able to get those in, we would have been over $1.1 million. Um, but that seven minutes 17 seconds went by really quick. So, we've got more names to work with next year and we'll keep pushing forwards to hopefully shoot for a higher goal than what we
013ended this year with. >> Thank you. >> We know you have to go. Thank you. So before we move on, just take a real close look at the minutes to the cap. And that cap is what's established by the state. It's in the next column over. The very first year it was a little over five and a half minutes barely. Um and then it went to days and hours and then it went to a little over one hour last year and then this year it literally was 7.25 minutes. Um, so a big thank you to the individuals up here who had to um stretch their fingers because you have to hand enter it all and you're racing against the clock against everybody else in the state of Montana, but Great Falls Public Schools um were
014able to validate uh a little over 17th the amount of money for the whole state. So, and this guy did a lot of work. So, a very special thank you to Mr. Deox. And so today I'm going to throw a lot of numbers at as we take a look at the superintendence report. And the very first one is tied directly to what we just shared um with Anders and with Luke. And this is innovative summer learning. So ladies, for you um we're really excited about some of these opportunities. Um we have we're going to start this as a little bit of a slow roll. So, this is 100% funded by innovative tax credits. Um, our teachers proposed through almost like a mini grant type um proposal to offer three classes this summer. Um, the first
015one is American Indian Astronomy and Earth Science. Now, these are free to our students and our families with the exception of packing a lunch for two days um and bringing a water bottle which we will fill for the kids. And if students need help with lunches, we'll figure out some help with lunches. Um, if you remember, the requirements are is one day of hands-on learning here in the district and then one day of a field trip experience applying what you learned out of the district or in the greater Montana um neighborhoods that we have. So, American Indian Astron is the first one. It is going to roll June 8th and 9th. It is for grades four through six only. Um that is Jordan Langford and Dava Patina. I hope I said her name right. Um
016when they are done there they will be going to Bosezeman to the Museum of the Rockies and the um doing their astronomy studies there um as they look forward to expanding the knowledge of our students in grades four through six. Code Quest is the next one that is taught by Maggie Khoff. She's the librarian over at East Middle School and Shannon McCierney and I believe she is Starbase. She up at Star Starbase. So um and this is a two-day coding adventure. Um students grades who are going to be in grades 7 um through 8 June 22nd and 23rd. And with they will do a one-day hands-on coding here. They'll actually be at East Middle School because that's where Mrs. Kob has all of her coding equipment versus pack it up and move it. um we'll
017do run that out at East Middle School and then they're going to go to Montana Tech and they're going to work with the professionals at Montana Tech and the professors on the coding that they did. And then exploring rocketry is our next one. And this is actually a fun link with a teacher who went to space camp, NASA Space Camp, and were trained through a foundation grant last summer. Um Courtney Francetic and Abigail Hansen. Abigail is the one who spent some time um at boy they have some cool things planned for students. They will be building their rockets and doing their hands-on work here one day August 5th and then they will go to MSU where they will work with their engineering department to fire those rockets um on the second day. So that's for
018students grades 6 through 8. So if you're interested, be sure you're ready. We're going to be sending information out in Wednesday flyers or Wednesday envelopes, sorry. Um here um coming up shortly and and registration will be that first week in February. Once again, completely free. Our goal is to start with three and see what we can't grow into the future. Um but we're really excited about this for our students. So, um, last week I kind of got in one of those I love math niches and I I um worked with Mr. Hannibberg because we know uh that extracurriculars bring a lot of money into our community. We talked about that last year, but then I started thinking having been a mom of someone who lived in a gym for the majority of her life. Um,
019how many hours are our kids actually spending as they represent their school colors? Now, this is just athletes. This is not our music kids, which is equivalent to, if not more, speech and debate is also not on here. Um, so this is just looking at the number of winter student athletes. Most student athletes spend an average of 13 hours a week, 2 hours a day, 4 days a week in practice, 1 hour of pregame for one day, and then 4 hours a weekend or a week evening um in competition. They then have about 13.5 weeks per season. That's with a start date of November 24th all the way to state. knowing that some teams had their state tournament is sooner, like swimming and wrestling, and some's later, like basketball. Um, I averaged it in there.
020So, if each athlete spends 13 hours a week over 13.5 weeks, that's 175.5 hours that they dedicate wearing green and gold or blue and white. If you multiply that by the 400 athletes that we have in Great Falls Public Schools, it's 70,200 total hours. That's quite a bit. But putting things in perspective, it's eight years. These kids are giving us 8 years of of dedication to their schools um and going to school. Some of them are also working a second job. Um, and they're representing us well. They're representing our schools well and our community well. And so we're just very, very thankful for them. So if you see a student athlete, thank them. A coach, an official facilities workers because it takes a lot of people to pull this all together. Parents, if we have
021parents in here and you run your kids to practice in the morning, they put in that time. So do you. Um, and our community for supporting it. That's a lot of representation that we get out of a season and it's only one of three major seasons that we have every year. Speaking of seasons, Mr. Boyd, do you want to give us an update on baseball? Because we have met a goal. >> Thank you, Superintendent Hoyer, members of the board, members of the community. Yeah, we did meet a goal a couple weeks ago. Uh so it's my honor uh to let everybody know here in Great Falls uh that the group uh involved in fundraising for baseball has met their first season goal mark. Uh we were pretty tight timelinewise there. Uh but we were able
022to meet uh the $95,50 on January 15th of 2026. Uh so our teams both Great Falls High and CMR are ready to play ball. process doesn't stop there though because as we outlined it's another two-year process because it's a three-year communityf funded goal. Uh so the com the team of Zach Griffin, Caligene Tuckerman, John Bolier uh and then in the district, Mr. Henenberg, Mr. Decon's uh myself and Jerry, my admin assistant, uh we're already hard at work working with groups uh to gain the next $95,000 as we move forward there. I think they're already $18,000 or more on their way there. Ultimately, this is a great opportunity for our youth uh in Great Falls. Uh both coaches have met with prospective athletes uh as early as the week before Christmas break in both school numbers.
023Before the season starts, they'll have well over 40 kids out for baseball at both high schools. So, having a JB team and a varsity team will be easily field as we begin moving that way. So, we're very excited uh to have first pitches uh in the middle of March and get ready to roll here. We'll see what mother nature decides to do. >> Yeah. Well, thank you. Thank you. >> So, in addition to all of those amazing experiences, and we've used the term student athlete quite a bit, I want to talk a little bit about a group of students that we don't hear from very often. Um, but this is our restart students. They will be coming, by the way, the last board meeting in February to give you their annual report. Um, but Mr.
024Reeves and his restart students recently visited non-stop local news. One of their goals is to really focus in on communication and this was a great opportunity for them to learn about intra and interpersonal communication and mass communications. Um and a thank you a very special thank you to this community um partner who helps us often with our students as we learn about the gorgeous skill of communication. another community partner that we have been working with a lot lately and this is a special thank you to uh Ronnie um Griffith Derek Singer and then Lance Boyd um again for our doing our CT and getting our kids out there. We've had some students who have done some really cool tours over at Calumid. The quotes that you see up there on the board are the quotes
025that came off of their postexperience survey that Ronnie runs with them. And I shared that last week at the Calment uh community meeting. They received all the feedback from our kids. But this is for juniors and seniors from both Paris Gibson, Great Falls High, and CMR. And they did um Cal really took a book out of WOW um or a page out of the book of WOW I should say, where they did hands-on experiences with the kids. It wasn't the drive by on the yellow bus type of field experience. It was get them in, get their hands dirty, and let them actually experience what some employees at Calid can do every day. Um, and we have great feedback from the kids. We are really looking forward to continued partnerships um as Calumid starts to also
026grow their understanding of what our students can and can't do when they're there on their site. um and um showing them all of the different aspects from the business office and the HR office to the lab to the grounds themselves. Um we had great great great feedback and the knock detector, you'll see that on the bottom right was mentioned probably four or five times. So whatever the knock detector was, it was a hit with our high school kids. Um, and what I felt was the most compelling is the number of kids who said, "I I really now see the connection between what I'm doing in chemistry and how I can apply that to a job um outside of my classroom." So, wonderful experience. We look forward to a little bit more of that from community
027partners like Cal. So, just a quick update for you. Um, a thank you to Trustee Thompson and Trustee Duff who are on the safety committee um with us, but we are continuing to work on a reserve SRO program. So, here is an update for you. Um, the formalized agreement is being is working its way through legal review um and with counsel from all three entities. So, um, when it came to us and was redlined, it went through our attorney. Um, kicked it to the sheriff's office. Um, the Cascade County attorney also, um, did some work on it, and now the city attorney is looking at it. So, with each of these steps, um, we're getting closer to an agreement to bring forward to you. But, um, special thank you to those two trustees for their
028feedback and every step of the way for helping us with this process. We're excited to see where this agreement ends up. And the last step is data for the day. But um one of the things we do in cabinet is we have individuals from all of the different departments take turns updating cabinet, giving us common talking points, um things they want us to really know and understand about the part of Great Falls Public Schools that they lead and things they need support in. When Erica Harp, who many of you know as our head nurse, um, shared information with us, there were so many compelling numbers and stories, um, we wanted to invite her to come in for data for the day today. So, the last three slides are going to wrap up my presentation, but
029are going to kick off the data that she wants to share with you about the nursing program at Great Falls Public Schools. You're not talking about Snapchat. That means When I first started, Is that number? The doctor I've got it now. And so I would I'm really excited about This is identifying. Senator Younger. Carefully. I asked after. I first started Ask me. We also That was Thank you. And that um shows you why I wanted that to be our our data for the day when she shared that information with us at cabinet. It was it's really eye openening and it speaks to the important role that these professionals play within our school. So Erica, thank you and thank you to your staff. And with that, um Chairman Johnson, I stand for questions. >> Any questions?
030>> Sawyer >> or for Miss Harp? >> Hearing none, we'll move on. Thank you very much. Um, at this point in the meeting, I would uh I would, how do you say excuse the west um people, we've got more meeting left and it's mostly action items and if you're uh so inclined to want to get on with your dinner, your homework and other aspects, you're certainly welcome to to leave. So again, thank you for your presentation. Communication six, section C, audience communication. I have two requests to speak before this board of trustees this evening. Uh, in no particular order, Mr. MIJ. Mr. Mr. Mitch, if you'd be so kind as to come up to the lect turn and state your name for the record and welcome Are you not involved? question. What are the estimated
031What animal? What year? We're talking more question. Um and then the film I guess people in America about They can smell them a day and a half around the world. I've seen big garbage go into the ocean. I mean this is very impression. um in the 19th century comparison what would a slave I didn't find the other part of that but they want to know how much reparation all of this and I don't know what that war You know, America had 600,000 died. start talking about how much money is just wondering, you know, they keep talking about how one of the questions is really like to know who's out in We're not our education system. >> Mr. Mage, thank you very much for coming and speaking uh to us this evening. We're not going to
032attempt to answer any of those questions clearly because um you're looking for big picture solutions. And I've got your contact information here. Would you be amendable to allowing me to have one of our curriculum specialists contact you and have a conversation? We'll we'll take that. Thank you, Mr. Mitch. The second is Miss Campbell. And again, if you'd be so kind as to state your name and welcome. Not particularly. I'm the only one with the sheet. >> Okay. >> Y >> I lessons videos. Thank you very much. We do have very specific policy regarding what's shown and what's not shown from the internet. And >> yeah, that's a good and that's a good question. We have all of that material online and I'm going to make sure you get a link to that m material so
033that you can see and read it. number one, but two, we also respect the fact that there can be infractions and that's unfortunate. And thank you for bringing it to our attention. Thanks for being here. Next item is Roman 7, action items. Action item A, financial report and check register for November 2025. Mr. Deakons. Thank you, Chairman Johnson, members of the board, members of the community. Um, tonight I have several action items that will come in front of you. One thing that we've been working since I transitioned into this position and filling our positions within the business office is making sure that we're getting you timely information in terms of our financial reports. Happy to say after this meeting, we will be completely caught up and when we hit February, the plan will be always
034to be that next month. Um, and not having to be catching up. um just want you to have that information upfront in a timely manner um baring anything that would crazy come up. Um so with the financial check register for November 2025, you can see everything was attached to the agenda there. This is the up-to-date piece for the end of November with all the postings. We feel that it is accurate um and describes our position and I ask that the board accept the monthly financial report and approve the register for payments of November 2025. >> Thank you, >> Mr. Chair. >> Trustee Terrasi that to accept the monthly financial report and and approve the register of payments for November 2025 as presented. Second. >> Been moved and seconded to approve the monthly financial report and
035approve the register of payments for November 2025. Any questions or commentary from our board of trustees? Any from those remaining in the room? Hearing 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. Thank you. Action item B, financial report and check register for December 2025. Mr. Deakons. >> Thank you, Chairman Johnson, members of the board, members of the community with the financial check register for December 25. Again, we feel it is accurate. Does give you the correct information. There is one piece to point out. The end of November when we move into December is always a busy time of year because of the Thanksgiving holiday and banking and so forth. So you will notice in the payroll
036checks there is a little bit of discrepancy there. Um those checks are all accurate though. What happens that time of the year is we're prepping. We have food service um stipens to pay. This year we also added the teacher stipen that goes in in that time frame. So we try to prep that ahead of time. When we prep those stipens, checks are assigned. So sometimes it'll look like it's out of order. All the pieces are there are accurate. So with that, I would ask you to accept the monthly financial report and and approve the register of payments for December 2025. >> Mr. Chairman, >> trustee Bron, >> I move that we accept the monthly financial report and approve the register of payments for December 2025. >> Second. >> Then moved and seconded to accept the
037monthly financial report and approve the register of payments for December 2025. Any questions or commentary from our board of trustees? Any questions or commentary for those in the room? Hearing seeing none, I'll call for the motion. All those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oppose. Seems sign. Motion carries. Action item D, Great Falls Public Schools Foundation Service Agreements 26 through 31. Mr. Deakons. >> Excuse me. Um, Mr. Chairman, but I believe we skipped C. the >> I skipped C. Too quick to stroke these >> alphabetical carrot. Thank you for that, Mrs. Hoyer. Action item C, lowest qualified bidder for the East Middle School lead in the water remediation project. Mr. Deakons, >> thank you, Chairman Johnson. You'll be happy to know >> that. We can't over I flipped
038right over top of it, too, and had to come back because I'd looked at it earlier today. So, don't feel bad. Uh, members of the board, members of the community, this is a project that came to you quite some time ago, almost two full years ago, because it was a product of the 2023 legislature where they allocated funds for remediation of lead in public facilities, including public schools. Since then, Mr. Patrick, my predecessor, uh, Brent Cutler and Jack Norris over at Buildings and Grounds have been working closely with Mr. from Montgomery from the DEEQ and the state to work through this process. Um we are we finally made it to a point in December where we were able to go out for bid. Um we did have those bids come in um on the 23rd
039I believe it was if I remember correctly. Um and with those at East Middle School, the way the building is laid out um and the connection of the water, there's places that hit for lead in several different places across that building. So, what I'm working with now is the Department of Environmental Quality to just make sure we have all those places identified so we can be reimbursed at a correct rate and so forth. However, with this, this is something we worked close with TD&H and GPD because we know it's something that needs to be taken seriously. Safety comes first obviously with our students. Um, so we worked through that process and received the lowest bid. Um I believe um the lowest bid for the remediation came from Action Plumbing and Construction with the bid itself
040being $790,500. We did um make a few changes in there where they could use um updated technology and so forth for fittings so they didn't have to sweat everything very slowly. Makes it a little bit easier. So that cost was able to come down as well. And we worked closely with our local team of Craft, the plumber group, to make sure they felt that was a accurate way to do that. If you've ever had a chance to walk down in East Middle School, when we talk about water and you're used to looking at it in your your house coming in an inch pipe, you're looking at pipes that are coming in that are about 6 in of copper running all through there. So, you can see how that price does add up. Just so you
041know around the district there were other places where we did either decide to put filters on or do some other sort of media remediation when it came to the lead because of the levels and so forth but this one was one we felt we had to do the whole project um in a timely manner. There were three bids that came in like I said action was the lowest and our general or our architect does feel it is accurate. So therefore, um, I am going to ask you to approve this lowest qualified bid, action plumbing and construction for East Middle School lead in the water remediation project in the amount of $790,500 for the base bid and the total for this project should be the $790,500. >> Thank you, >> Mr. Chair. Trusty Teronski. >> I
042move that we approve the lowest qualified bidder, Action Plumbing and Construction for the East Middle School lead and the water remediation project in the amount of $790,500 for the base bid as presented. >> Second. >> Then moved and seconded to approve the lowest qualified bidder action plumbing and construction for the East Middle School let in the water project. Are there any questions or commentary from this board of trustees? Trust Konagoski. I I guess I just wanted to clarify in the record that students at East Middle School are safe, that there's no concern about water quality for our students. >> Every place that was tested, if it had any sort of lead quality with it, we had to put on automatic filters. They had to replace several of the fixtures and so forth. It's just at
043a point that if we know and you're at the end of the G-wing or whatever wing you're at and you're on every wing where it's hitting, we know we want to make sure we do a better job and that's why the choices made. >> Thank you. >> Any additional questions from our board of trustees? Any questions from anyone else in the room? If not, I'll call for the motion. All those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying I. >> I. opposed. Same sign. Thank you very much. Now we'll go on to D, which is Great Falls Public Schools Foundation Service Agreement 2026 through 2031. Mr. Deakons, once again, >> thank you, Chairman Johnson. I'd like to tell you this is the last thing, but I think I'm up again at some point after
044this. Um, our service agreement with the Great Falls Public School Foundation foundation was started in 2010. um this agreement that we'd had had been rolling through very similar from the time that that was founded um in 2010. This was an opportunity that their board took to present it uh to us in a modified version. There were some changes. The number one change in there that you need to be aware of for sure is in the past what happens is the district had been paying 90 or sorry the district was responsible for paying the salary of the executive director. However, it was 10% of that salary. So, what we would do is we would pay the full salary and the the foundation would reimburse us 90% of salary and benefits. We're at the point though when
045we're talking the district is only paying 10%. The board felt it was in their best interest as well to make sure that they were the ones that were paying the salary and the district is reimbursing um the 10%. So, that's the number one change that's in there. There were some modifications in wording to bring things up to date. Like I said, the previous agreement um looked very similar to the original one in 2010. So, they went through that. Um their attorney as well as ours um made some adjustments that we could agree upon. This partnership will take us through 2031 with this particular agreement and the foundation. They've ran in five-year periods prior to this. We'll keep them in those five-year periods. Um the other pieces of fiscal implications that are out there, we do
046provide the office space up here for them to work. Um minimal costs and equipment and supplies that we mutually agree upon are reasonably necessary and we have a history of what those types of supplies are. A lot of that has to do with postage and letter. I think we kind of came to a conclusion of over the years. Um, we will then be reimbursing the found the district I should say is reimbursing the foundation quarterly for the 10% of mutually agreed upon salary and benefits. And with that, the cost to the district is approximately 12,500. Obviously, Stephanie has served us well, but with her moving on, we'll have somebody else coming in that we'll have to negotiate with the district or the foundation on. So with that, I would ask the board approve the Great
047Falls Public School Foundation Service Agreement 2026 to 2013 as or sorry 2031 as presented. >> Thank you, >> Mr. Chair. >> Trusty Thompson. >> I move that we approve the Great Falls Public School Foundation service agreement 2026 to 2031 as presented. >> Second. Been moved and seconded to approve the Great Falls Public Schools Foundation Service Agreement 20ou 2026 through 2031 as presented. Any questions or commentary from our board of trustees? >> Mr. Chairman, >> Trusty Bronson. >> Uh just one item, Mr. Decon, I believe we also noted there was an error in describing the school district on the recital there. I assume that has been corrected. >> Yes. Um I we are striking if you look at the very first page of that on page 51 at the very beginning it says operational service agreement
048is made between Great Falls Public School Districts. It says a Montana nonprofit corporation. We are striking that because we are not a nonprofit corporation. Doesn't need to be in there. We are a public school. That defines who we are. So those few words will be struck in the formal agreement. >> Thank you for catching that. Any further questions or commentary from our board of trustees? Any questions or commentary from others in the room? Hearing and seeing none, I'll call for the question. All those in favor of approving the Great Falls Public Schools Foundation Service Agreement 2026 to 2031, please signify by saying I >> I oppose. Same sign. We're very proud of our foundation and um happy to reenter an agreement with them. Action item E, second reading and revised board policies 2600, 2655, 5122,
049and 5122P. Mrs. Hoyer. >> Well, thank you, Chairman Johnson, members of the board. It's um I'm glad Mr. Decon's got tired of talking. Um so I'll happily take this over for a moment or two. Um, in front of you, you have your second reading of policies 2600, 3655, 5122, and 5122P where there are language changes as rec as recommended by Montana School Boards Association as well as the committee. Um, as of this afternoon, just prior to this meeting, I have had no public or district input um to make any additional changes. So, the recommendation is that we approve those um on second reading as presented. >> Thank you. Chairman Johnson, I just noticed at the top of that it does say category report, but this is still an action item. Just to note that. >>
050Thank you, >> Mr. Chair. >> Trusty Taski. >> I move that we approve revised board policies 2600, 365, 5122, and 5122P. >> Second. >> Move and seconded to approve the board policies as enumerated by trustee Terraski. Any questions or commentary from our board of trustees? Any questions or commentary from others in the room? Hearing none, I'll call for the question. All those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Thank you very much for um for your work on the policy committee administrators and also our representatives from our board of trustees. Moving on to Roman 8 action other nothing was pulled from the consent agenda. So we'll move on to Roman nine reports discussion and policies a school nutrition report. Mr. Deacons >> thank you
051chairman Johnson. Um it is my pleasure today to introduce our supervisor of food service, Jesse Younger. She's the one that puts all these pieces together with her team. Um it's not an easy job. We need lots of employees out there and really when we look at what we do in Great Falls Public Schools in terms of this across the district and other doubleAs's, we're one of the few standalone um pieces when it comes to food service and she does a great job of making sure those books balance in the end as well. So, with that, I am going to turn it over to Mrs. Youngers to give you her yearly presentation. >> Welcome. Happy to hear have you here. >> All right. Happy to be here. Uh, Chairman Johnson, members of the board, members of
052the community. Uh, thanks for having me for our annual school nutrition programs report. Um, I'll try to get through it as quickly as possible. Uh, Luke said I had 20 seconds, SO all right. Uh, just start really briefly. Um talking about the programs that we offer, we currently offer 21 sites uh of national school lunch program. That's all schools. Um under the district umbrella, we offer 18 sites for the school of breakfast program. Uh you can see there are three sites left off. Those sites are Metallark, Riverview, and CMR. Um last summer we operated nine summer food service programs. So, nine sites and then of course seven um of our sites fall under the community eligibility provision. So, just uh give you a brief overview on each of the programs. The first one is the
053summer food service program. Um you can see that we had a great summer last summer. Um we had nine sites operated by a very small number of staff uh that included eight staff uh served 17,000 meals. That's roughly 2,000 more than the summer prior. Uh so a great a great summer. Uh you may remember that uh two years ago we well we've always worked in conjunction with get fit great falls, but two years ago we sort of took over the oversight of the park pals program. So last summer was year two. Uh we were able to offer uh activities, structured activities and crafts and all of that stuff at four parks. Uh that was 46 days and just over 1,600 uh student interactions through that program alone. Uh does not include uh the meals that
054we served at the rest of uh uh our sites. It is simply interactions through that program. So we're really pleased uh about how that's going and how that's working for us. Um uh it certainly allows us to be uh well, it allows us to hire two more of our own people, which is great. Um but that oversight really helps streamline um things. So we're happy still happy in that uh relationship and obviously thankful to get great falls for trusting us with that. And then uh primary funding through United Way. So um the next program is the school breakfast program. If you didn't know I was going to give you a quiz. I looked over this after I sent it to Sher and I was like oh son of a gun forgot to take uh that
055out. So there's no quiz today. nothing on the human body groups or nutrients. Uh but 18 schools uh that offer school the school breakfast program. Uh 14 of those are breakfast in the classroom. That means every single one of our elementaryaries that operates breakfast has it now in the classroom as you probably have heard me talk to in the past. Um putting it in the be in the classroom reduces the stigma of participation. You can see in the next slide. Um this is morning side. We rolled breakfast in the classroom in Morningside uh in April of last year. Prior to breakfast in the classroom, we served 57 breakfasts in the cafeteria. From the time uh we started in April through the end of the school year, that number is now 135 breakfasts a day. So
056substantial increase. Two and a what is that? Two and a half times I think uh the number of breakfasts when we serve it in the classroom. So uh we're pleased with how that's working. Uh when you look move into overall school meals participation, we've got national school lunch program and school breakfast program. Uh these numbers are uh to the end of December. So our last serve in December, 77 days. Uh 331,000 lunches, 229,000 breakfasts, which those are great numbers. Uh amounts to about 7,280 average meals a day. Uh we're not satisfied unfortunately, but there's not a lot of times that I am satisfied with the numbers because I want to keep pushing. Uh that has us on target to be about 1.3 million meals at the end of the school year. Unfortunately, it's 40,000 less
057uh than the previous school year. So, uh if you go to the next slide, you can see that uh you've got the 2021 school year with that peak. As you know, that's the school year uh immediately following COVID. So, our numbers have uh pretty much stayed steady in that 1.3 uh million um spot. I obviously I want more. I want more kids to eat. And as it turns out, warm winters like we're having doesn't work very well for us. Uh so, uh I'm sure we all know that we need some snow, but we need some for our own school lunch programs, too. Um the next slide is just really broad level data. Uh 45% of our students uh across the district qualify for free and reduced meals. Uh our participation separate from free and reduced
058meals. Uh participation is roughly 40% at lunch and breakfast. Um and of those meals about 60% of them are eaten by students who qualify for free and reduced meals. That said, we obviously if you apply that data across the board, it looks like we're missing about 2,000 kiddos. Uh so, uh what do we do next? Where do we look for those opportunities? Those are all things that are uh floating around in our office trying to figure out how we can reach more kids, how we can draw them back in or get them to participate. Uh again, super high level. If you're not familiar with how you qualify for free and reduce, there are three separate ways. The first one is categorically eligible students. Those are students who qualify for other federal assistance programs. SNAP, TANF,
059FDPIR, homeless, migrant, runaway, foster. All of those things are automatically loaded into our system. We don't have to do anything with them. Uh the second way is based on household income and size. Those students obviously have to qualify by filling out an application either online or on paper. Um and then the last one is that community eligibility provision. I mentioned that there are seven C schools across the district. Uh those are listed on the next slide. Longfellow, Whittier, West, Mountain View, Sunnyside, Skyline, and Giant Springs. So obviously looking at how we can optimize that particular program um access more kids. Unfortunately those are all great things but they lead to the the saddest part of our situation which is uh meal charges. Uh we are sitting at about $112,000 in meal charges. Uh that is
060districtwide and it is as of last week. The number is a moving target. Obviously, I will tell you that I look weekly to see where we're at and we do have been hovering for the last couple of months in that 110 to 115,000 range. You know, we get a burst of payments and then uh they die off and then we'll get a burst of payments. Um so, I did break down uh the meal charges for this particular uh presentation, which I haven't done before. Uh you can see that the majority of the meal charges are held by the high school age about 46% um at the high school level and 39% at the elementary. Uh you move over to the next uh graph you can see that a significant portion of them are obviously held
061by paid students um which should be pretty obvious I guess. Um so there are currently 1100 students impacted by meal charges. Um that said, on the next slide, uh how are we managing all of that? There are a number of ways. Um this summer we sent out letters to everyone in the mail that owed money. So the thought process is we'll get them the information. Perhaps they can work on it throughout the summer, come in with a clean slate. Um, I'm going to be honest with you and tell you that I I didn't dig dig really super deep into seeing how that went for us. Uh, but we did communicate that uh coming out of last year and coming into this school year. We have a very specific communication going out to anyone that owes
062over $250. Uh, they receive a letter co-signed by Superintendent Hoyer and myself. Uh, that goes via the mail. Uh we have automated messaging going twice a week to anyone that owes um money. Uh that goes be via parent square. We have Wednesday envelopes at the elementary level. Um we do stand on a one meal rule. So no kid is going hungry. We're obviously serving regardless of um status. They're receiving the same meal that every student across the district has the opportunity to receive. Uh it does go on their account naturally. um and continues to acrew, but we will certainly feed them. Uh we have limited interactions. Uh really not encouraging staff at the point of sale to address any of this in the lunch line. It's not students responsibility to bear that weight. Um so
063we're really focused on how can we get to them via phone, mail, Wednesday envelopes, all of those things. But just know that meal charges are they're not unique to our district. Uh it's a nationwide problem, but kiddos are getting fed. Moving into projects. Uh special thanks to the buildings and grounds team uh at the district. Uh we utilize their skills frequently. If you're a plumber or an electrician, you probably hear from me once or twice a week. Um but also going into the summer, obviously we're using the carpenters um and everybody. So I'll just talk a little bit about what we did last summer. Uh we were able to finish up the dishwasher project. That was a huge project at East Middle School. It's a conveyor style dish project that had to be tied into
064existing dish tables. Um, so that was fairly extensive. We replace seap ovens in probably six uh locations and then have ongoing needs for replacement of reach and uh coolers and freezers. The big project, the one that consumed um lots of people's time is the warehouse freezer and cooler. So, I'll start by saying thank you for your support of uh the renovation at the uh district office. Uh the warehouse freezer and cooler, you know, the the roof was failing. Uh we could use extra space. We can always use extra space to optimize um how we're purchasing. So, the next slide has uh some photos of the process. It was lengthy. It was a rocky start. There were lots of delays, but it it is done and it's fantastic. So, again, thank you. Um, one of the
065things that we hope to do, one of the challenges of our business right now is the times in which we're open, right? We're open from 5:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at most of our um production sites. That is posing a significant challenge for deliveries. And so with the space, specifically the cooler, we're hoping to be able to centralize some of our production and then use our own manpower to get it out there. Our guys are going out there anyways. Um, so we're hopeful that in the next couple of months we can make some transitions that are helpful to our staff. Um, and obviously they don't have to stay late for deliveries. In other news, uh, we were able to be part of the Montana Music Educators Conference and MHSA this last October. Our staff at
066Great Falls High did a fantastic job of preparing over,200 box lunches over the course of two days. So, while they could have been basking in the sun somewhere on vacation for a 4-day weekend, uh, they did uh, volunteer their time. Of course, they were reimbursed, but um, they did stay back and helped uh, support that event. Uh summer EDT is something that's going to be uh talked about here real shortly. The program operation at the state level has been taken over by DPHHS and sort of has removed uh OPI and school nutrition programs from that. So uh last week this slide says qu said question mark unknown. Um but I made some slight edits as late last week they put out some information. So we now know sort of what the details and the expectations
067of us are going to be uh to provide that free and reduced information to the state so that we can optimize the number of students who uh will receive that benefit this summer. Um we'll work through all of that with it and get um all of that data when it needs to go. So just know that uh summer UBT is around the corner. Here's maybe the big one. the big one for us. Anyways, um going into this school year, we were faced with a pretty significant need to make a staffing adjustment. Uh we were coming into the school year with more vacant cooks positions than we had filled. And with four production sites, there was just no way that we could try to make four production sites work with four cooks. So, we ended up
068um having to make sort of a last minute decision, although it was not unplanned. Um it was sort of a are we going to do it? Are we going to do it? And yeah, yeah, we're going to do it. Um so, we pulled the band-aid off. We ended up closing Paris, at least temporarily, as a production site. Now, Paris itself produced for two of our four runs across the district. So, roughly 2,000 meals a day came out of Paris. Um, so it was a huge load to have to disperse which put roughly seven or eight hundred meals on East and CMR and then Great Falls High never having produced for anyone but themselves had to learn that process of what it's like to produce transport uh and then receive back. So we have the best
069team at Great Falls High. There was no question that they were not going to be successful and of course they have been and everybody has been. We have adequate staff, not great adequate staffing to be able to staff our production kitchens currently um without a whole lot of optimism for being able to open Paris at least this school year. So uh I guess lead us into staffing. Uh we are made up up of about 101 total staff. 18 satellite leads, 63 uh food service employees, four production managers, seven cooks. We have we have four cooks currently. Um we just hired one last week, so we're hopeful uh we'll be able to bring him on board soon. And then we'll still be looking for those uh two at Paris, but uh six warehouse uh folks as
070well. The last thing is always our opportunity, which is employment. Uh we're currently looking for eight food service employees, two satellite leads, two production uh cooks, and then that one production manager for Paris. So fingers crossed tomorrow at this time we can say we're looking for fewer. Um but that is all I have for you. So I guess I will I well I appreciate your support first of all. Um and uh take questions. That's That's all That's all you have for us? It >> is. >> That seems like quite a bit. >> A whole year's worth of data. >> And you paraphrased it from 20 seconds to how much? Any questions? >> Yes, we have one from Trusty Thompson. >> I I was just wondering, could you give us a little bit more information about
071the students that um that you're not feeding? Just because you you'd mentioned that you're hoping to feed them more. I mean, are what what is the category of these students? Are they bringing their own lunch or is or are you worried that they're >> high school kids going to McDonald's? >> Oh, okay. >> Yeah, I think our opportunity is really at the high school level. Um, we feel like we have the capacity. I think uh actually right before Christmas I watched uh the surveillance of the service at CMR for a random reason, nothing specific. And from start to finish, their serve is about 8 minutes. Remember, there is one lunch >> at the high schools, one lunch time. Right? Going into that, you're concerned about um are all kids going to have the opportunity to
072eat? Are the lunch is the lunch time going to be long enough to support that? Are the lines going to be long? They clear those lines in eight minutes at both high schools. Um which is great for kids that are eating. Uh, we just need to figure out how we can draw more kids in. >> I I get it. Is Is that true that that they're just going elsewhere to eat or are they just not eating or are they bringing their lunch or or is there a little bit of everything? I think I would say there's a little I can't speak to the specifics. I think there is probably a little bit of everything if you've been in any fast food area or Albertson's or any of those places near lunchtime. Okay. Yeah. Then thank
073you. >> Any additional questions? If not, thank you very much and we have great admiration and respect for what you do. >> Moving on, reports, discussion, and policies. Roman 9B, first reading of revised board policies. um 1111, 2131, 3410, 7122, and 7122F. Mrs. Hoyer. >> Well, thank you, Chairman Johnson, members of the board, and members of our community. Um, a special thank you again to the committee who comes together um to do this work to review these and be sure that we are following uh statute as written. Um, and a special thank you this time to truste Duff who was unable to make our last meeting, but he sent a whole page of commentary to us so we could be sure that we caught um his review of the policies that were brought forward by
074MTSBA. So in front of you, you will see uh policies as read um 1111 2131 3410 7122 and then the form that goes with 7122. And I just want to point a couple of things out to you as you look over these for our first reading. The first one you will see on page 71 of your agenda. This is policy um 1111. And on line 35 you will notice that there is a strikeout um and it changed the days from 30 to 40. This is statutory. Um, but when you go into Montana code annotated, it has not been updated yet on Montana code annotated. And it's a reflection of House Bill 406 from the 2025 legislative session. And so I would I believe and I'm looking over at Ally that we'll probably put House Bill
075406 uh 2025 and then when it is updated um per MCA, we will make that adjustment. >> Superintendent Hoyer, just a quick update on that. Andrea did call me back from OPI. Perfect. Um, if you're out there and you're looking through some of these when you're doing your research, know that a lot of these links are down right now, which is a good thing, she said, because what that means is they're updating them, so the new ones will be in. They're just behind >> even better. Thank you very much. >> Um, and so the rest of that that you'll see, the things that are italicized, um, bring us into statutory complaints. Um the next one, policy 2131. This deals with student and family privacy rights. It talks about surveys, parental rights regarding surveys, um those
076that are created by a third party, um surveys that request personal information, instructional material, um related to the surveys and the collection of personal information from students for marketing um which is prohibited. And so once again, this is a statutory um alignment as well as policy alignment to other policies that were passed by in the last legislative session. Um and you will see if you take a look on page 75 through 76, there is a lot of italicized cross references and that is the work that the committee did to be sure that all of our policies u matched each other and were complimentary versus running contrary to each other. policy 3410 which deals with student health physical screenings and exams. There is a large section in the middle lines 18 through 33 that are crossed
077out. You will see that they have been replaced as per MTSBA. So lines 35 I'm on page 77 and then over on page 78 lines 1 through 13. Um and that comes out of the le or the policy um cross referencing that we will have once again statutoily and policy realignment is the reasoning behind this one. Um financial management is 7122. This is a two-part series you will see because there is a form that also goes with this in ours. Um we caught several things. The very first one to draw to your attention is line 24. um a long time ago and I would assume it's 2019 looking at the revision history uh but it was formatted differently. It was formatted into letters versus bullets and so where it directed you to take a look
078under A through F um we changed that to the bullets listed above to be sure that we modernize that with the formatting. Um and then also the amounts on lines 27 and 28 have been changed to match the statutory requirements. Um and I believe Mr. Econ talked about that um in our last budget meeting, our our community budget meeting that we had where he said you will see the differences then and then once again um thanks to Trustee Bronson, I'm online. Let's see it is 57 on page 80. Um that house bill 22 that has been annotated. So MCA 20-9-216 is the new annotation for that one and we will update that as well. And then the very last part for you to review is the form that goes along with 7122. That's found on
079pages 81 and 82 of your agenda. Um, and it has been updated. If you take a look at the table, you will see the estimated changes in mills up at the top. Moving over to where it says estimated impact home of $100,000. The next line says $300,000 and then $600,000. that is directly from um statute as passed by the last legislative session. So with that, those are the policies for you to um review. I will be taking both input from the district and the community um and we'll bring them forward on the next board meeting. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mrs. Hoyer. Any questions for Mrs. Hoyer? If not, uh we'll see these policies again at our next regular meeting, which is on February 9 for potential ratifications. So do please give them your eagle
080eye in the interim between our meetings. And with that we are on to Roman nine item C discussion committee reports and comments. Trustee Sunchild I'll ask you to kick us off. Just a shout out to board members that we all appreciate each other and have enjoyed our month of appreciation and all of these things. I miss little children's notes. That's >> Isn't this wonderful? Yeah, I love it. >> And Amy, thank you for all your hard work to make sure we could all figure out how to get to the superintendent evaluation. If I know you, you've been stressing out about that, so I'm sure. So, good job. Shout out to Charlene um Aean. She's obviously not here, but she has put in so much extra work and she arranged a time for me to come
081and meet with her so I could do mine and and um her first words were we meet again because the last time we met she came in to help me with Seesaw on the Chromebook because I was terrified to do Seesaw lessons on when we first got the Chromebook. But the thing about her is she's always willing to help but she doesn't make you feel bad for not knowing and understanding the things that she gets so easily. and it took about 30 seconds and I knew exactly what I was supposed to do and then I got a chance to to visit with her and um but she's really put in a lot of time and effort so big shout out to her. >> Thank you Trusty Duff. >> So I had the privilege a while
082back of attending the Lyft group when they presented to one of the elementary schools a sixth grade class trying to prep them for their transition to middle school. Uh what a great group that is. They did a fantastic presentation. They do a good job and it's a great program. I enjoyed that and I appreciate the opportunity to sit in the back and and watch it. It was great. Um yeah, that's about it. >> Perfect. Thank you, Trusty Thompson. Well, I'm hoping that all of you are uh not or none of you are uh um scolding me for taking this to digital for for Superintendent Hoyer's evaluation, but I do appreciate all of you for um bearing with us as we go through that process. And I just want to remind the public that um through
083the end of the month if you want to um that there's a form on a survey online um that you can go on to the Great Falls Public uh schools website and uh fill out an evaluation of Superintendent Hoyer. We would definitely appreciate um all the feedback that we can get and we will be reporting that out next month. >> Thank you. And we're not going to hold you personally responsible for Yeah. >> Good. Good. >> Trusty Terraski. >> I just have a few quick comments, I guess. Um, I just want to, you know, I love when the elementary school kiddos come and and talk to us. It's always great to hear what's going on in their schools and how they're using Character Strong. Um, a shout out to our school nurses. They really truly
084do so much for our kids and make it so that regardless of medical conditions, our the kids in our district do have the opportunity to learn the same as anybody else and they go above and beyond for our kids every day. And then last, I just want to thank the parents who came and spoke out tonight. Thank you for looking at your kids' homework and being diligent in that and then having the, you know, the guts to come up and talk to us and it can be a little intimidating, but we really like hearing from you guys and we really appreciate you guys coming out tonight. Thank you. >> Thank you, Trusty Bronson. >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I'll start out by thanking you for uh attending the insurance committee meeting last week while
085I was out of state. I know from the conversation I had with you before this meeting, you found it enlightening. >> Indeed, >> so to speak. But but on that subject, just so that the rest of the trustees are aware, we continue to slog through the information that was provided by the Bridged Alliance folks and then filtering that through uh Mr. Bonville at Alliant and allowing our insurance committee to, you know, have the benefit of additional information and hopefully make a final recommendation to us about whether or not we should be joining the new bridged alliance program trust and that will be forthcoming in the very near future. >> And then second, just for your benefit, I'm headed to Helena on Wednesday. We have a meeting of our state school boards association. I can tell
086you from looking at the agenda that was sent to us by Mr. Melton here a few days ago, it is jam-packed. A couple of things that are important on there, there will be some conversation about the way that we continue as districts to deal with the innovative tax credit program and the fact that, you know, it's a race to the end, you know, within a very short time period. and staff at MTSBA have indicated we as a board will discuss it and perhaps the legislature is going to have to revisit how we do those allocations because it is a very uh unfortunate system the way it's set up. We're doing the best we can, but if there are ways to improve it, uh we'll certainly start looking at it. And then also there'll be a
087lot of updates related to where we are with the interim uh commission dealing with school funding and some previews about what our positions will be uh going forward in 2027 legislature. >> Thank you. Trusty, please. >> Um I wanted to start by thanking Luke and his team um along with Mr. for once again really maximizing the opportunities um that our students have by taking advantage of the innovative tax credit. I think it's just another example of our district taking advantage of every opportunity that's given to us um both to provide opportunities for students but also to um relieve taxpayers. um you know, knowing that our budgets are are tight, um and we want to make sure that our students have exciting, innovative programs, um that they they can take advantage of. Um I wanted to
088thank both of the parents who came here tonight for advocating um for your students and for education. Um you know, we we appreciate you taking the time and I know that as a parent myself, there's very very very few meetings that I attended um because I know how busy your lives are. So um thank you so much for for coming and and for staying for our entire meeting. Um I also just wanted to praise um both Erica Harper and Jessa. Um younger we really have two truly topnotch individuals in both of those positions. Um that certainly could be um I mean essentially Jessica runs a business here in our district um providing food, nutritional food for our students. Um, and I I just wanted to note that both of these people are examples of um,
089essentially positions in our district that, you know, really look at at the whole child and how um, you know, no, they see that the health of of our students really impacts how they perform in in our schools academically and and we couldn't um, we couldn't do what we do without you. So, um, we appreciate both of you. So, um, thank you for taking the time to present, but also thank you for busting your tail every day, um, to solve all the problems that come across your desk and, um, you know, make sure that our kids have, uh, cherry blossom chicken to eat and pizza, healthy pizza. So, thank you. >> Thank you. And I'd like to just conclude by saying uh we really do appreciate Jessa and Erica's work. Thank you so much. And our
090administrative team, thank you so much. These meetings, hour and a half, hour and 35 minutes just packed with information, all of it relevant, all of it useful. And uh it's important for us to keep our district running uh efficiently and make sure that our kids are getting the very best education and health care and meals that they can possibly get. So we're very proud of our district, but it takes a lot of work from a lot of people and many of these people are in this room at this point in time. And upcoming events well into February. Here we go. and um our work continues. Thank you very much. And if that's uh all there is in terms of business, I would propose a motion to adjurnn. >> I move to adjourn. >> We are
091adjourned. Thank you.