001Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to this November 24, 2025 meeting of the Great Falls Public Schools Board of Trustees. And I remind you that these meetings are being recorded and will be uploaded onto our website within a month's time. So, with that, uh, Mr. Deakons, would you please administer the roll call? Yes. Thank you. Gordon Johnson >> here. >> Kim Skornagoski >> here. >> Bill Bronson >> here. >> Craig Duff >> here. >> Marley Sunchild >> here. >> Amy Thompson >> here. >> And Paige Terraski >> here. >> You have a full board present. Do your business. Thank you, Mr. Deakons. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise and join us in the pledge of allegiance which will be led by Trustee Terraski. To the flag of the United States of America to the standy
002for all. >> Thank you. >> Mr. Chair, >> Trusty Scrogski, >> I move we adopt the agenda as presented. Second. >> Been moved and seconded to adopt the agenda as presented. Is there any commentary or questions from our board of trustees? Any from our public joining us this evening? Hearing seeing none, I'll call for the question. All those in favor of adopting the agenda, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Same sign. Motion carries. >> Mr. Chair, >> trust Scorioski. >> I move we approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Second. moved and seconded to approve the consent agenda. Any commentary or questions from our board of trustees? Any from our citizens here with us this evening? Hearing seeing none, I'll call for the question. All those in favor of approving the consent agenda,
003please signify by saying I. >> I oppose. Same sign. Thank you very much. Communication Roman 68 character strong core schools at Morningside Jackie Manewearing. Good evening Mainwearing. >> Good evening. I was tempted to go to the shorter. >> This will work. Uh Chairman Johnson, members of the board, Superintendent Hoyer, members of the public, it's my pleasure to welcome uh the core school at Morningside students and their principal, Jennifer Martin. >> Oh, welcome. This is going to be great. Thank you, Chairperson Johnson, members of our school board, Superintendent Heather Hoyer, members of our Great Falls community. I am Jennifer Martin, proud principal of the core school and so pleased to share with you tonight a fabulous group of fourth graders that we have. They are part of our student leadership over here at the core school.
004We're off to a strong year. Um, and I want to introduce our advisor and student leadership um, and ECS teacher, Laney Warick. Okay, that makes me nervous having microphone, but anyway, thank you. I'm the ECS teacher at Morningside, Mountain View, Ly, and Valley View. And the greatest part of my job is the flexibility it gives me to work with kids like these um in the leadership team. And we meet for a lunch bunch once a week. And this is Finley and Remy and Lolo and Colton. And they are all fourth graders in the um leadership team there. And they're very good leaders. And we have um decided to do a little presentation on gratitude for you. So the kids have a poem that they are going to read for you. >> Being grateful is important.
005We all know it's true. We are grateful for our school education and school board too. We are not just grateful at Morningside each and every day. Not just in November, but from September through May. It is time of gratitude. The holidays are observed. We have a Veterans Day assembly to honor those who have served. We thank the school's neighborhood by giving out gratitude stones. We paint extra so you each have one of your own. We held the canned food drive, an annual good deed. We're grateful for donations for our families in need. We do a quarterly talk show highlighting core world's news, featuring teachers, students, and event previews. Mustangs are grateful for neighbors in Great Falls as well. Our teachers, support staff, and teaching assistants as well. So thank So thank you for our educators
006and school district too from the core school. Our gratitude shines through I'm gonna go ahead and use this short one here. Um, they do have some gifts for you along as a copy of the poem for you. >> And then when we are all done, Miss Lola was going to be the one to place the Giant Springs name tag under gratitude for the board. That was lovely. Thank you so much. Wow. going to need more tape. >> Well, thank you so much. It's such a wonderful time of year that for which we're so grateful for all the things that you mentioned in your poem. But there's one thing that I want to add that we're grateful for and we're grateful for you because you are going to grow up and we're going to depend on
007you to be our leaders and our future. So, thank you so much for everything you do and especially thank you for being here this this evening and thank you for the lovely gifts, too. I'm gonna use this on my desk at home. Thank you one more time. Communication item B, superintendent report. Mrs. Hoyer. >> Well, thank you, Chairman Johnson, members of the board, members of our community. Before the students go, I just wanted to express my thanks to them. You guys amazed us tonight. And to the parents who helped them practice and helped them gain their confidence. Thank you. It doesn't happen by themselves. Teachers, you're amazing. Thank you very much for all you've done. I hope you guys have a wonderful Thanksgiving. We'll be thinking about you. Okay. Okay. Well, this evening's superintendence report
008is absolutely not as fabulous as that. I don't rhyme and I rarely do um rocks of kindness, but I am going to share with you some of the things that are happening in our district that you may or may not have heard about. So, the first thing is um the annual Veterans Day assembly that Valley View does um with the fifth and sixth grade leadership groups. And this is becoming probably one of our largest Veterans Day events that we have. It is open to all veterans. They have coffee and pastries. our junior ROC goes and does um a presentation, but we really need to send a special thank you to Principal Dell Dyke and Mr. Po Kaiser, the counselor, for helping these students um gather and organize and celebrate our veterans in our community. We
009had some other Veterans Day assemblies and activities also take place. So, you just heard um from the core school. You can see them there on your right. So, a special thank you to Principal Jennifer Martin. Um they have a fairly large population of military families at that school and so they always do something special. Um but then also Mrs. Theers over at Chief Joe, they do a breakfast and so thank you to her and the work that they do with the families and we see some great pictures of our men and women who are serving our country um having breakfast with their children and bringing their younger siblings along. It's a wonderful celebration. By the way, we have 87 um military men and women who have have either served or currently are serving or are
010married to those who serve um that are employed right now within our elementarymentaries. Speaking of our elementaryaries, Mountain View did a really cool family game night. Um and I need to give a very special shout out to Mrs. Marzoff and the Mountain View Lions. um her Mountain Lions. On November 13th from 5:30 to 7, they did literacy and numeracy through family games and they called it read, roll, and play. Um they had 68 parents, 52 students, and 25 staff. Um so on 145 people having a whole lot of fun. You can see some of the different games they did. It was a packed house. Um, and a lot of cool things happening as families learn um, the importance of spending time together over board games. If you haven't heard from Miss Becky Nelson, um, you
011need to put this on your calendar. So, we are doing our Christmas stroll popup shop again. This was really popular with our community last year as our students and young entrepreneurs um, want to showcase their wares for Christmas. So there are everything or things from craft items um to some food items. But if you name it, you can usually find it at the Christmas troll, but be sure you stop down at the very end of Central at 101 Central Avenue and check out what the kids are doing. If you know of a student who is interested in doing this, please have them talk to their teachers and their principles. They will get them um hooked up with Becky so they can be sure they get a table reserved. Becky goes down in advance. Jeff helps.
012I know. Um, they vacuum, they set it all up, they put the tables up, they get it all decorated for Christmas, the kids come in, puts up their tables, take it down, and then Becky, of course, cleans it all up again. So, can't thank Becky enough for the work that she does, helping the kids have this opportunity. We had two groups that we wanted to recognize this last month. So, um, November 10th through the 14th was school psychologist week. We have nine school sites that provide a lot of services. They do a lot of testing. They help with behavioral plans. They're a very important part of the work that we do in our schools, helping both the administrative teams, but the teachers and the special education teams as well provide services to our students. And
013then another very special group is is our substitutes. And we had National Substitute Appreciation Week from November 17th to the 21st. I'm a big thank you to I believe human resources who helped us get some stuff out to our substitutes to show them how much we appreciate them. We have 231 subs in our district. Five of them are full-time, so they stay um within a building if they're needed all the time or there's easy for us to place within um a setting um and they can guarantee that we're going to have them there. One of our subs has worked with us since 2000, which means it's probably a sub that I had when I was in the in the classroom. Um, but someone who is very very dedicated and um someone who the kids get
014very excited about seeing, I am sure, when they show up to work. You just saw an example or received a gift um example, but Morningside fourth graders, once again, this group of kids decorated coffee sleeves with kind and affirming words and pictures for World Kindness Day on November 13th. And then the 10th Avenue South, the one up by um Super One Foods that um Starbucks put the sleeves on their cuffs and the um people who ordered coffee got words like you are beautiful, you are brave, um we're better because of you. And all of these amazing words, affirming words that they got to just try to bring a little bit more kindness into the world. So kindness and caffeine is a pretty great way to start your morning. >> Um and then Applebees. What was
015really cool about this is Mrs. Davis's fifth grade class made thank you cards and then Mrs. Davis went to Applebee's and she handed them out to veterans because Applebee's did a meal for our veterans on the day or on that day and one of the veterans was so moved by the thank you card that he turned around and donated classroom supplies to us um a classroom at Longfellow. really made a difference um in his life and I know it created a long friendship between Mrs. Davis hopefully and this veteran. So, it was it was really cool to see and it was great to hear that from that individual. If you didn't get an opportunity to see one or the other or both of these two shows, oh, you missed out. Um, I'm not going to
016ask for a raise of hands, but the I the Adams family, I miss Steel Magnolia because I was at my board of regents meeting, so I will definitely get to their next one, but the Adams family was absolutely amazing. Um, some of the best vocals that I have heard um and an incredibly wellcasted play. Um, Steel Magnolia, I heard equally good things about them from the people who went. Um, we have some incredibly talented teachers and um, set directors and actors within our ranks here. So, it's kind of humbling. In the middle, you will see all of the holiday concerts. So, if you missed one of those two amazing events and you like holiday music, you have a lot of events that you can go to. So, I decided as I got looking at this
017to talk to Mr. Molino to get some trivia for our data for the day. So our data for the day, if you missed it and you're interested in holiday concerts, please know that we have 108 separate elementary only concerts. It's all that's a lot of happy little snowflake songs, but they're fantastic. We have three resource only concerts for students and families in our resource classrooms. We have eight middle school concerts. If you go to them, please be watching for the pink cow and Mrs. Santa Claus. She's going to make an appearance and moo a Christmas song and maybe narrate a poem or two. Um, five high school concerts for a total of 121 opportunities to hear our students perform. So, there's lots of opportunities out there for you. Just so you know, Mr. Um, Molino
018told me that the elementary prepares from mid-occtober to concert day. They need six to seven classes to be ready for concert day. So, if you do the math, that's 756 touch points for those teachers for learning and memorization. And I see Trusty Sunchild smiling because she knows all too well how this goes in our elementary schools. The middle school concerts do 20 to 30 runout holiday performances. And there is a picture from the Grand View up there of Great Falls High actually doing the first one of the year. And this is a point in time when our community calls on them to have them come out and just do a brief concert or a brief presentation um and bring some cheer into the area that they are working in, living in, um thriving in. Then
019if you go to the concerts, for example, at middle school, 7th grade concerts have an average of 200 to 250 performers and they have 3 to four supporters with them per student. So about 800 individuals on the low end pack those gyms. It usually is standing room only. It but they're absolutely amazing concerts. If you are a fan of Great Falls High School's Peace Piece, which is one of the traditions within our city, I pre- cry every year when I know they're going to be doing it. It's amazing. It gives you goosebumps um because it fills the entire concert hall with unified sound. Um but that has been used for over 50 years because the original coral arrangement was from 1969. So it's one of our most historic pieces of music that we consistently sing.
020And you can te tell people who have been in Delphian choir at Great Falls High because you will have grandparents and parents and siblings singing if they've been in Delphian when peace piece starts. And then finally, as all of that is happening, the fruit barn at the fairgrounds is also happening. And Mr. Molino wanted me to remind people that the fruit sponsors or helps sponsor financially a lot of the travel that these groups do um during the time that we're going to festivals. Um it literally is fruit to hand in a week. So, they're picking the fruit, boxing the fruit wherever it is grown in in the southeast, putting it on um a series of trucks and trucking it up here. They rent one of the fruit barns, they unload all of that, they pick
021it all up, and they distribute it all here right before the holidays. So, if you ordered fruit, thank you um for supporting our students. Lots and lots of fruit. And I see Mr. Cubbage nodding, and he's probably bought his fair share of pounds of fruit over the years. And so, um, with that, some really great data points for Mr. Molino. When you just think about the amount of time it takes to prepare for these concerts, it's pretty overwhelming. Um, and that is my data for the day. And I, um, stand prepared to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mrs. Hoyer. Any questions for our superintendent? And do pass on our thanks to Mr. Molino for providing those figures. Very impressive indeed. Thank you. Communication C, audience communication. I have received
022no requests to speak before this board at this point in time. So, we will move on to action items. Action item A, Cascade County Sheriff's Office and Great Falls Police Department Reserve School Resource Officer Pilot. Mrs. Hoyer. Thank you very much, Chairman Johnson, members of the board, and members of the community. We do have three guests with us here this evening um that are going to help us answer some questions, but let me give a summary. Mr. Boyd sends his apologies. He is out this evening. Um you do have in front of you as well, I believe, um and Mr. Bronson or Trusty Bronson, you can correct me, but there is a um amendment, a friendly amendment to you as well as a memo um that is there and then also a comment from a
023community member who we wanted you to see. Um those are also available to members of our community should you want them. Sherry will make them available to you. She has copies for you. In summary of the um the reserve SRO pilot program, um in October of this year, we had a work session um that focused on healthy, safe, and secure schools where Sheriff Cascade County Sheriff's um Jesse Slaughter, Sergeant Katie Cunningham, and Captain Brian Black from the Great Falls Police Department um introduced a reserve SRO pilot program. Um, this po program really is meant to enhance the work that our um, Great Falls SRO's have within our school districts to provide them with an extra set of hands when needed. Um, the concept behind this is that they will be funded for by a program
024that Sheriff Slaughter has through the Cascade County Sheriff's Department, but will be under the direct supervision of the Great Falls Police Department and fall in line under the SRO's. And so, uh, Katie and Brian will be in charge of helping find and select along with the staff members following consistent protocol with SRO's. um this individual. Our proposal is that we start with one reserve SRO. Um that person will be a sworn police officer with backgrounds um in law enforcement. So someone who has those experiences. They will be under the direction of Katie and the SRO's. They will be placed. They are part-time and part-time for uh police officers is a little bit different than it is for our teachers. So, this is a person who would work during the school year. Their hours would be
025determined. Katie may ask them to work on a Friday and be flexible. So, their their time of day may not start until the football game or maybe on a Saturday if there's a prom and she needs that extra set of hands there as well. Um, but they don't work in the summer and they don't work on the weekends necessarily and they don't work over student holidays. And so, that is cons that's the part-time consideration. And I'm going to have these guys jump in if I say something wrong. Um Katie and Captain Black would also be responsible for the evaluation and the supervision of this individual. Um and when events happen, they really would be placed within our community schools by these two individuals based on where they think there is the greatest need for stability
026and the greatest perhaps even the greatest threat. And so they can be that extra set of hands. So with that, it is the recommendation of uh my recommendation and that of Mr. Boyd that we approve an implementation of a reserve uh SRO pilot program. The requirements of this program um one of the requirements is to bring forward updates and evaluations to you on a quarterly basis and that the program be subject to the execution of appropriate agreements and requirements. There will need to be interlocal agreements that are worked out between the city and the county. There will also need to be anou that is worked out between the city and the county. And then once that is done, we may need to do an amendment to our SROU that we have. But it really depends
027on what that overall looks like. We'll have to make that decision at a later date. So with that, I stand for questions and they're here to help me with questions as well. Any questions, ladies and gentlemen? >> Mayor, >> Mr. Jeff, >> much a question as a comment. I spent the last few years of my law enforcement career paid by one agency but detailed to another one. It's never as simple as it should be, at least in the federal side. Um, I fully support the the motion. However, I would like to see more concrete information on theou and the interlocals and that there a lot of details I would like to see before the board approves the implementation of the program. I fully support the program and I fully support moving ahead and I'm prepared
028to vote to move forward with it, but I would like to see it back before the board for further approval before we greenlight the entire program. I think it at least for me, I would like to see the details of how it's going to work before greenlighting the program. And my understanding is that we've got a recommendation before us this evening, but that um there's been a updated recommendation as well. >> I believe and uh Trusty Bronson, if you would like to speak to what you have provided the board and members of the public um through your written information. And then I also believe that Trusty Thompson has a question. Do you do you >> Mr. Chairman? Maybe maybe Trusty Thompson should ask her question and I'm prepared to make a motion. >> Very good.
029Thank you. Trusty Thompson. >> Um so my question is for for uh Sergeant Cunningham. I'm I'm would like to hear from you um to see how comfortable you are with the arrangement. Um I I guess I share um the same concerns that um Trusty Duff has. Um just wanting to make sure that um I mean the SRO program has worked really well. I I know you need extra help. I would definitely like to hear that. um or I want to make sure that the culture remains the same and um just having two agencies having money from one spot and um having bosses from another can be kind of tricky sometimes and um I I'm kind of think that we could probably work it out with the in the paperwork so that it is a nice
030handover and and the person that would get this position would have clearer understanding of who the boss is. But it would I I would just like to hear um a little bit from you about how you feel about it. >> Please do. >> Please. Thank you. >> And and I only because this is being recorded, I want to make sure that there's a clear record of what you're saying. So, thank you for doing so. >> Yeah. Luckily, I listened. Green is on, red is off. So, >> um I'm actually I'm I kind of share some of the same concerns you guys do because I'm a very visual person and so I really like to play it out in my mind what would that look like? Um but given ultimately the authority over the entire program
031gives me a lot of confidence um and knowing that we can really run it the same way we're already doing business. And so being able to just plug that person in, get them in through the training, him or her, get them in through the training um expectations, get make them very familiar with that and how we operate, what their responsibility is, what their school administrator responsibility is, and then what our joint responsibilities are is really our bread and butter and how we do business. And so as I really have a lot of confidence knowing that that will run efficiently um as we do with all the other SRO's. I the only thing I could maybe see there being a concern is um needing needing to pull them away for some other thing. But I like
032that's just a thing we use with all the rest still as well. And so knowing that the Great Falls Police Department shares a mutual aid agreement with our SWAT team already with the Cascade County Sheriff's Office, we have a little bit of an idea of what this looks like already and they work well together and that has been completely beneficial for both both agencies. So my hope is that this will look very similar to that. Um and we get the benefit without having to pay the bill. >> And I've thought with the sheriff about that too and he agrees. >> And before you leave, uh Trust Gonagoski has a question. Sure. U obviously we submitted written questions in between um the original presentation and now. Um I guess one question that I had that I
033didn't really feel like I had an answer to um was kind of talking about um what limitations there might be on a reserve deputy that wouldn't um be in place for one of our existing SRO's. Um, you know, and I guess the concern is that, um, whatever those limitations would be would make it so they weren't as helpful as you need them to be. You know, if if they're not able to work on weekends, >> Oh, sure. >> then that means you're working on weekends still. And that's one of the things that we're hoping to address with this program. So, I'm wondering if maybe you can speak to if you have any concerns about um I don't have a big concern about availability. Um I do know when you add one person to your manpower
034really only adds 0.25 or 0.5. So, I'm fully aware of that. Um I don't see where it's going to be much of an issue as long as we're able to schedule well ahead of time. So, I'm I'm curious if you foresee any of that because it's very possible my brain hasn't been there yet. >> Yeah. I guess obviously I'm coming from the nonprofit world where we hear a lot of times, why don't you have a volunteer do that or why don't you hire a paid intern to do that? >> Oh, yeah. >> And it ends up being more work >> for >> you as a staff member, as a supervisor than benefit. And or it's a 50-50 proposition. Sometimes you get someone that's helpful and sometimes you end up spending more time. >> Yeah. And
035I I I guess in that sense I have thought about that. Um which is why the sheriff and I have had a lot of very blunt conversations about it too was that um I'm not looking for somebody that can just come in and sit down in case emergency happens. My I'm looking for somebody that can come in and do the work. They can do the paperwork. They can act as a um a counselor, a teacher. um they can act as a law enforcement officer at the very last like we've talked about with the triad. Um so that is ultimately the person I'm looking for and if you're offering anything other than that I'm not sure that we're a like we're seeing the same thing. Um and so the sheriff is well aware that our culture
036within the Great Falls Public School is very different than what they're looking for in the county schools um just as far as involvement goes. And so I'm pretty confident that the person that we get, especially having involvement in the vetting process and the training process, that we're going to get exactly what we're looking for. So I'm not terribly concerned. Now, if that problem ever does pop up, it sounds like that's something we can absolutely address. >> Thank you, Mr. Jeff. >> Yeah, since I've got the mic and I don't want to get too much into the details tonight, but this is the kind of things like say I'd like to see the agreements. Do the two departments share the same like use of force criteria? Do you use the same assume the sheriff's carrying the
037commission? So assuming this person will train the sheriff's department to meet those quarterly or annual whatever the qualifications are. Do you share the same >> I'm thinking of things I've experienced in my career. Do you share the same use of force policies the same that sort of thing? >> Are they the same or they fall under you even though they're paid by and the sheriff's carrying their law enforcement commission? And maybe that's a question you can answer better, sheriff, but um I do know they're going to have some firearms, so they're going to have more qualifications for the sheriff's side um and on top of the stuff they're going to have for us. But as far as the use of force stuff, I from what I understand, it's very similar. We all run off of
038MCA. Um so it's we're all under the same code. Um the review process might be a little different. Does that sound about right? >> Please do. Please do. Sorry, I didn't want to leave Sergeant Cunningham up here guessing. Um, so basically I I hope most people in here don't forget that for 17 years I served as a Great Falls police officer prior to being elected your sheriff. Uh, and a lot of the use of force policies and a lot of the things that I brought to the sheriff's office mirrors or completely mimics what happens at the Great Falls Police Department. The other thing I really believe deeply in, and my two patrol lieutenants work with the patrol lieutenants at the Great Falls Police Department, we are actually working on not only combining use of force
039policy so they work the same. We're also working on our entire policy so it looks the same. And there's little cultural differences between sheriff's offices and police departments that obviously require some different policy, you know, nuances, I think, is the correct term I'm looking for. But, you know, the public expects us to act and behave and and and act similar. There's there's actually comfort in that. So, I think we've done a lot of that groundwork and and Sergeant Cunningham hit on only one thing is that we combined our SWAT team together under the GFPD command. We now went to a regional team. We did this because, you know, in this small of a community, we didn't really need two SWAT teams. We needed to do combine them. And we work every day under their command.
040That team uh is thriving. I think it's the best team in the entire state. Probably the best team in the Northwest. And then also, we can't forget our drug task force. Our drug task force is led by a PD command and there's sheriff's office personnel assigned to it. We've done this before. This is not a new uh look to us. This isn't a new idea. We've we this model we've done over and over and over again and we work really successful together. One of the kind of corrections uh to Superintendent Hoor's statement, they are a deputy sheriff by law. They're not a police officer. They're a deputy sheriff, but they're under the command and control of Sergeant Cuttingham on a day-to-day basis, just like Sergeant Sapala, who runs our drug task force and uh Deputy
041Detective Bran Olsen is under his command control, or the eight members of the Cascade County Sheriff's Office that are fall underneath our our SWAT team, uh, use of force and and policy and everything else. So, we already do all of that. Um but we would ensure you know through our and it will be an interlocal agreement not anou but we will ensure through our inter interlocal agreement that those things are delineated out that those things are discussed those expectations are clear. Sergeant Cunningham is right. We do require anybody who works for the sheriff's office to attend a once a month firearms use of force because I don't want to just say firearms. It's not just about that training. Um, with the exception of that, um, they would be under the full control of of the
042Great Falls Police Department on a day-to-day basis. The subject of weekends and extra time and extra duty, um, that I will I will ultimately default to Sergeant Cuttingham, but it might have to come up with some creativity. The budget I have is kind of fixed. we don't have an endless budget to pay extra. Um, so it may be a thing where she gets creative and says, "Okay, you know, you I need you to work on a Saturday, but I'm going to give you a Monday off or whatever." That there might have to be some creativity. There's no intention for this individual to be pulled for other duties. School safety is our priority in Cascade County. We don't pull our current uh SRO, we have three of them in the county, we don't pull them off
043for other duties. Uh we don't say, "Hey, you know, you're working detectives today. You're working the road today. You're not doing your job in the school." No, that is a priority. We will sometimes pull our people on patrol to go work the schools. So the inverse might happen, uh but we don't do it in in that format. >> Trusts. Uh so it's my understanding that the first year is being funded by a donation from Calat. >> That is correct. >> Um what can we expect for future years of funding? Obviously we don't want our staff >> our our SRO to go through this whole process without some >> um confirmed kind of multi-year funding. >> Nope. I agree with you. um my budget priority of mine and I've reallocated funding for for next year um
044because I also have that priority in the county as well and so uh I included that in my budget projection for next year. So barring anything crazy happening that you know happened in communities where they slash all your funding uh my full intention is to fund this you know in into the future. I would like to make uh the trustees and Mr. Chair of the trustees, I'd like to make you all aware too that the federal legislation did get introduced to committee last week and that and that federal legislation has a capability of our local tax dollars not having to sustain this program and has the ability for us to hire multiple more uh pay reserve um school resource officers into the future. So, I'm I'm feeling confident that board that that bill has a
045lot of support from what I hear. So hopefully um well that's another that's another mechanism you know which isn't limited as much by our local government budgets and would give us even more funding. Thank you. Any additional questions for Sergeant Cunningham, Sheriff Slaughter, Captain Black, our board of trustees. Okay, >> Mr. Chairman, >> Mr. Bronson. >> I'm prepared to make a motion at this time if that would be acceptable. >> It is. Uh Mr. Bronson, do we need to deal with the um recommendation that was uh set before us earlier? No, it's uh the board has the authority to make whatever motion it wishes with respect to this subject matter. So I can make a motion and if someone can second it, we can have a little discussion then proceed on. >> Please proceed, Mr.
046Bronson. >> All right. Well, Mr. Chairman, at this time I would move that the board of trustees approve the concept of integrating a Cascade County Sheriff's Officer Reserve, school resource officer into our current SRO program on a pilot basis. and further that we direct staff to adhere to the following requirements and guidelines for development of that concept. Number one, final approval of the pilot program will be subject to the preparation and approval at a minimum of interlocal agreements between the city of Great Falls and Cascade County and where necessary the Cascade County Sheriff's Office as well as a written memorandum of understanding if necessary with Great Falls Public Schools. Number two, for purposes of direction to Ray Falls Public School staff as well as the other parties, the board will require that these proposals adhere
047to the following criteria. Number one, that the program will recognize, honor, and reflect the culture of our existing Great Falls Public Schools, Great Falls Police Department SRO program. Number two, that any individual recruited, screened, and hired with the Great Falls Police Department must be consistent with our current SRO hiring practices. And the individual hired must be completely sworn and be under the direct supervision and direction of Great Falls Police Department SRO staff to include schools and activity assignments, training, and evaluation. Third criteria. Any individual recruited, screened, and hired must be able to meet all the requirements of an active Great Falls Police Department police officer, including screenings and background checks. Fourth criteria, we need an unambiguous statement addressing the handling of any liabilities that may be associated with operation of the program, including where appropriate
048indemnification and whole harmless provisions. And the fifth and final criterion assuming approval of all the appropriate agreements. The pilot program must incorporate quarterly evaluations and updates to the board of trustees in order to monitor the progress to assess its effectiveness and to make evidence informed decisions regarding the program's continuation, modification or elimination. That is the text of my motion. actually all that language is before you and uh if there's a second I'll just speak briefly to why I'm going into such detail with this >> second >> been moved and seconded to adopt the concept the pilot um mo and the five criteria is articulated by trustee Bronson Mr. Chairman >> Mr. Thank you. And uh Michael, I appreciate you're allowing me to participate in the meeting tonight by Zoom given my wife's medical situation here
049in Missoula. Uh it became apparent to me after our discussions uh in recent weeks with the police department and the sheriff's slaughter that for purposes of identifying what our wishes are at this time, I think all we can really do this evening is approve if we are in agreement the concept that has been discussed. But as trusty duff I think uh eloquently pointed out until such time as we have actual agreements in place uh we can't do an implementation of this program without those particular agreements. Um we we don't implement our SRO program or we've not implemented our SRO program in the past without those agreements in place. I know that to be true not only from my experience here but my experience as a city commissioner and that we have to have those in
050place in order to uh make sure that the program operates you know in conjunction with everybody's expectations. Um the reason it's very specific is I I think that is con that's consistent with our constitutional duties as school board trustees. We have supervision and control of the affairs within the district and it's not fair to staff and it's not fair to anybody on the outside of the organization that we work with that we fail to provide appropriate direction in situations like this. We all know that there are some instances where uh we can provide very general direction and we don't have to worry about the work product down the road. In this situation, we have more agreements that need to be put in place, more thought put into the details of how we implement it. Uh,
051and as a result, staff should have this specific direction of these things that based on what I'm hearing, I think all of the parties agree are appropriate for making sure a program like this works. Uh, I know there might be other details that need to be worked out and I have the utmost confidence based on my past experience with the Great Falls Police Department that in working with Sheriff Slaughter, who by the way, I appreciate his coming forward uh with an offer of assistance. And again, I have the utmost confidence that I think that we can put something together in the next several weeks that we can all be proud about. And just keeping in mind and I know that there are many people in the public who have expressed some questions and reservations about
052this, but hopefully hopefully everybody can agree that we have a very important role of ensuring the safety of our students, our staff, our community in our schools. That's that's that's paramount. And any reasonable proposal, any reasonable effort of cooperation by all law enforcement authorities that gets us in that direction is something that I think we should wholeheartedly embrace. Those are my comments. >> Thank you, Mr. Bronson. A motion has been made and seconded. Before I call for the question, is there any additional questions or commentary from our board of trustees? Trusty Terraski, >> I just have a quick comment. Um, I just thank you guys for coming together and working on this so collaboratively together. I really appreciate that. I know that more SRO are something we've been needing um not just for our own
053peace of mind, but to help you lighten the case load. And so I I think that I think this is a good um concept and I'm I'm looking forward to seeing how the interlocal agreements play out and what they look like and I'm I think this is going to be good for our uh our school district. Thank you. >> Thank you. Any additional commentary or questions for our board of trustees? Any additional comment or questions from anyone in the room? If not, I'll call for the question. All those in the fa All those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying I. I. >> I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Thank you. Action item B, school election calendar 2026 in trustee filing timeline. Mr. Deakons, >> thank you uh Chairman Gordon, members of the
054board, Superintendent Hoyer, members of the community. I am going to be talking for a little bit here to you about all these deadlines and election pieces along among other pieces. So bear with me as we go through this. This first one comes about as a change in the the legislature that was made so that we had to redo our election timelines and so forth. Usually at this time of year, what we're doing is we're doing a report that shows you what that timeline's going to be, but because of the time frame and with OPI training being on November 6th, everything was kind of pushed to this date because of the deadline. we are going to ask you to approve this this report or um sorry I shouldn't say report but the calendar that is attached
055to this particular document is the OPI guidance calendar um that we use for our elections. So with that I am going to ask you to approve the 2026 school election calendar trustee filing timeline as presented. >> Thank you Mr. Deakons. >> Mr. Chair, >> Trusty Terraski. I move that we approve the 2026 school election calendar and trustee filing timeline as presented. >> Second. >> Been moved and seconded to approve the 2026 school election calendar and trustee filing. Any questions or commentary from our board of trustees? Any questions or commentary from our four remaining people in the room? Five. Thank you. Hearing none, I'll call for the uh question. All those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying I. >> I. Five o same sign. Motion carries. Thank you. Action item C, trustee resolution
056calling for an election on May 5, 2026. Mr. Deacons. >> Thank you, Chairman Johnson, members of the board, Superintendent Hoyer, members of the community. Um, this particular item has a change involved with it. This used to be 70 days, I believe, prior to the election is when the trustee resolution calling for an election would be. Um, our election this current year will be on May 5th as set forth in that calendar we just approved. Um, and this does go through the process. It has to name the election date, the purpose of our election, whether or not the election will be mail or poll. Voting locations, times polls will open at before noon. And trustees, just note that you do not have to set any levy amounts. However, um they must be set by the certify
057no less than 30 days prior to that election should you decide to go out for a levy. Um the deadline also for filing in person um has adjusted to February 9th. Um and that also is a later determined uh election is not required. So if we do not need it, that's the same same date underneath that I would be the one to notify them. In general, um, a trustee election is what we're looking at for right now. There are three trustee positions that will be available this year and that actual cost would be somewhere around $65,000 here, but that's the estimate that they're able on that particular board. Attached to this are two three documents. You will see um the three documents. One of them is talking about the trustees and when they can start
058to file which will be that same date. Um and then it closes all those pieces the three three one year or three threeear seats um on our district board. The other one is the information that Terry do Thompson, the Cascade Election Administrator, requires us to have that sets forth all the dates again in the same document, but also with our notifications and when things are published as well because we have to follow those. And then the third piece of that is is the actual letter that I'll be submitting to her should this be approved um in the next two days. It has to be to her um within three days approval by the board. So with that, I will ask you to adopt the resolution calling for an election on May 5th, 2026 per attached
059document that sets forth the date, purpose, ballot deposit sites, and the times and ballot deposit sites will be open. >> Thank you, Mr. Deons. >> Mr. Chair, >> trusts. I move that we adopt a resolution calling for an election on May 5th, 2026 per the attached documents. >> Second. Been moved and seconded to accept the resolution calling for an election May 5, 2026. Any questions or commentary from our board of trustees? Any questions or commentary from our gallery? Hearing and seeing none, I will call for the question. All those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> All those same sign. Motion carries. Thank you. Action item D. Conduct the 2026 school election by mail ballot. Mr. Deacons. Once again, >> again, Chairman Johnson, members of the board, Superintendent Hoyer,
060members of the community. Um, this is something that we have to approve for the election department of Cascade County to request that it is held as a mail ballot. There was a a contract signed earlier this year that did have that conversation in it as well, but it's part of the plan as you move through it. Um, so therefore, we have to request that at least 145 days before the election. Just a quick aside, we may want to think about a December meeting next year so we can adjust it so we don't have to all on the same meeting. Um address that May within those time frames. Again, that approximate lex uh cost to run the mailin election is 65,000. And with that, I will ask the board to approve the request to the election
061department of Cascade County that the 2026 school election be conducted by mail ballot. >> Mr. Chair >> Trustees Skodagoski. >> I move that we request to the election department of Cascade County that the school election um will be conducted by mail ballot. >> Second. It's been moved and seconded to approve the request for the election department of Cascade County that the school election of 2026 be conducted by ballot. Any question or commentary from our board of trustees? Any question or commentary? 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. Action item E, resolution to act on behalf of Great Falls Public Schools in the matter of trust to Don Marie Schaefer. Mrs. Sawyer. Well, thank you, Chairman
062Johnson, members of the board, members of our community. I was teasing Mr. Decon's earlier that this would be the Luke Decon show after I did my first presentation. And in all um putting all joking aside, he has done an outstanding job. If I could just have a moment um looking at all of the adjustments to the calendar uh for elections on top of the audit for the first time. And so, every time he goes down to the county offices, he comes right back and fills us in. So, I can't thank this gentleman to my right um enough for keeping us all in the loop and um just being super flexible. So, Mr. Decon's well done. >> Well done. Thank you. >> Um the matter before you trustees is deals with trust two for Don Marie
063Schaefer. This was a trust that has been in place since the 1990s. It was part of an original agreement that upon the death of the individual is transferred back to the school district. Um what I am asking now is that Mr. Decon be named as the executive or director um on behalf of this the matter of this trust that he is able to work with Wells Fargo wealth management to be sure that all of the processes are in place to be sure that the money comes back to the school district and is used as outlined in the trust. Thank you >> Mr. Chair. Trusty Traski. >> I move to appoint Luke Decon's exe executive director of business operations for Great Falls Public Schools to act on the district's behalf in the matter of trust to
064Don Marie Schaeer as presented. >> Second. >> Been moved and seconded to appoint Mr. Decon's executive director um to act on the district's behalf in the matter of the trust to Don Marie Schaefer. Any questions or commentary from our board of trustees? Any from our gallery? All those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Action item F, beverage agreement for Great Falls Public Schools. Mr. Deacons. >> Chairman Johnson, members of the board, Superintendent Hoyer, members of the community. Um, that was your brief break for me. Now we get to talk about the beverage contract that's been going on for some time. Um, actually since about this time last year, uh, Brian Patrick had started the process of renegotiating a beverage contract. Of course, in
065July, August that came before you, which you asked us to go back and take a look at that beverage agreement again. Yeah. So as a result um we went back and I emailed both Admiral Beverage and Country High Coca-Cola um and gave them some guidelines and some points and parameters that they needed to meet for this uh commitment. After you asked us to go back um cabinet had a conversation. We looked at it and we know the investment that comes with this needed to be large enough that we had a commitment from ourselves as well as them. Um, so we asked them for a minimum of a 10-year commitment, which was a bit of a change from the original contract when uh, Mr. Patrick had asked for that. In addition to that, they had to
066give us their details on what type of upfront cash commitment they would have that would document and how they would propose to pay for that. Uh, flat minimum concessions for our commission for different concessions for vending machines as well. have that outlined also how they would implement them their companies into our capital projects and student support participation whether it be through scholarships or um funding for scoreboards whatever it could be um along with the advertising and sponsorship packages and a service agreement that goes with it. It's kind of outlined up there as well with those same documents. And then on the next slide, um, when Pepsi and High or Coke came back to us, they had both came in with original offers and as we had conversations with them individually, one thing for our high
067schools because where this hits the most is in our revenue enhancement um, pieces that we do across our district through our advertising. And the piece that the high schools are really looking to upgrade is the scoreboard at Great Falls High um at Memorial Stadium. And it was going to be an additional cost. So that was something they asked them to consider and then bring back to us their final proposal. What you see up in front, I'm going to walk you through really quickly. The one-time cash, um Admiral pretty much kept theirs the same. The only difference was they gave us all the money up front. So if we did need to use it for the scoreboard purchase or something else that was coming up soon we'd have the access to those funds. High Country instead
068of staying at five years they went or 15 years they moved it to a 20-year commitment. Um and in that 20-year commitment they give $125,000 upfront one time. However, their yearly capital they would continue to give us $5,000 over those 20 years for an additional $100,000 a year. So, a little bit of a discrepancy right there between the two. But as we go down, you'll see there's some other pieces that change as well. There's an exclusivity and a rebate program through Admiral Beverage that they offered at $2 a case. That adds up to about $90,000. I believe that's about $4,000 cases a year that we would have to go through through all of our concession stands, um um our vending machines, whatever it might be. seems like a fairly large number, but if you've ever
069been to events with a lot of people, that product does go through there very quickly. They can also have the availability to uh charge us by a single even though you're buying it in cases. You're you're you're keeping it going if you only sell five until you get to that next case. It doesn't like zero out so forth. Um with scholarships, hike, um I'll start with Admiral. They have three $1,500 scholarships. are going to um give out to graduating seniors over the next 15 years, which is a total of about 67,500. Whereas KO was going to give two $500 scholarships um to those groups as well, which would total about 20,000. vending commissions. When you take a look at them, um Pepsi kept theirs even though they extended a little bit and put that money
070up front right at the 20% predicted over the life of the 15-year contract that would be about $367,000. Um Coke, they did have a higher vending commission at a lower number of years. However, when they moved it to a 20 years, they dropped it, I believe, don't have it in front of me, I think it was 25, and they dropped it down to 15% for that commission. sideline kits. You'll see that 17,000 is bolded. The reason it's bolded is because that $3,000 per year, that's the first year, and then Admiral Beverage will give you an additional $1,000 each year after that. Um, talking with Mr. Hterberg, um, those sideline kits, those are the Gatorade coolers and things that you see out there. Um, another form of advertising that they get as a result of this
071this program. Whereas, uh, High Country, they combine theirs in with what they call their print shop. Both companies do have a print shop. Pepsi or Admiral, um, is willing to give $5,000 a year. We know that's a very factually a small number when you think of how many groups we have that would want posters and banners and things like that to be made for either one of those to keep up with. That'll be some management on our side of Mr. Hannibburg and Mr. Boyd um, with our programming there. When you look at that in total over the 15 years for Admiral Beverage, it's about a total of $837,000 of investment from them. Um, and then the High Country Coke Cola, it's about $558,848 $840. So, when you look at that, there's a pretty big discrepancy
072between the two quotes. I think there's good concern um on anybody who looks at those numbers up there and we say 15 years or 20 years because when Heather and I look at each other, we both know we're probably not going to be here in 15 to 20 years unless something really changes. But >> what? >> Yeah. So, we know there's concern about those. Um, but when you look at the investment that's coming with it, um, our recommendation is going to be to approve the 15-year negotiated contract with Admiral Beverly as presented. >> Mr. Chair, >> Trusty Skonagoski, >> I move we approve the 15-year negotiated contract with Admiral Beverage as presented. >> Second. been moved and seconded to approve the 15 negotiated 15-year negotiated contract with Admiral. Uh, any questions? Mr. Duff, you had
073your hand up first. >> Oh, go ahead. >> Um, yeah, a couple of questions. I sure you're concerned on the length. I think 15 years is probably too long for that. And there's preschool kids that'll be graduating before this comes back up again. Nobody knows what our financial situation is going to look like in five years, much less 15. I would have much preferred to have seen a five with two fiveyear extensions or something along those lines instead of being committed in for 15. The contract that was before us in July was three. Why was it shorted from five years to three? Do we know that? And then why back to >> There were some pieces when we looked at that and it moved it back to a three-year contract. Um the way that Ko
074presented Mr. Patrick, that's what he did the negotiating with was they were feeling more comfortable with the three-year contract. But also, even as we were going through that, when Pepsi decided to or Admiral, I should say, back out of the opportunity to bid for this, it was put out as a bid, as a mutual bid between the two. So, it' be 5050. >> That bid was never changed to uh exclusive bid for one of those groups. So, I can't really speak exactly to why Mr. Patrick chose to move that from a five to a three to negotiate it that way. That was something he was working on directly with High Country. Heather, I don't >> um I can speak to that a little bit. When we looked short term at it, we were looking specifically
075at uh the quality of service that we have received between our two different distributors. Um, historically, um, Pepsi Admiral, I want to be sure I'm saying the right one. Um, Pepsi has, uh, just had an outstanding record of service with us. When, um, our high school principles, specifically our high school principles, um, need them, they're there. And, um, in part because of, I think, location of distribution and main offices and stuff, but there have been times that, um, Coke has been incredibly hard to get hold of. And so we were looking at a shorter amount hoping to really try to improve service um with our other distributor. Also, when you look at the quote slide there, and I know we discussed this in your office before, the widespread in the quotes gives me pause and
076try to think of it in my mind, you know, if the bid was for half ton trucks for the district. I wouldn't expect Bison Ford and City Motors to be a one almost double the other. They're providing virtually the same product. In my mind, that does cause me some pause. And the money that comes in from it, is that earmarked for projects or does it go into a fund that we can allocate later? >> It goes into the revenue enhancement fund um which we allocate and we bring those pieces forth um that have to have an impact towards both groups. So it's the revenue that we receive from advertising, anything that would be a commission um that goes into it. It could be used for Memorial Stadium is probably the best example of it because
077it's a shared space, but if there's advertising, there's advertising in both locations. It's not just one. So, that's what we try to use. So, when you're doing the bigger projects um within the field houses around the buildings, um if you're doing one someplace, you're trying to do the other one um kind of on the back side. I think that's about the best way to describe. Yeah, great examples of money that that this is typically or you'll see this typically used for um here in our district, but also in other districts are um things like turf replacement, um lights on fields, lights in gyms, replacement of floors, replacement of uh pads in gyms. I know that um in the community um where my girls went to school, that was one of the things they replaced because
078there's not a lot of room between the out-of- bounds line on the the basketball court and the gym. So, they replaced all those. Um they gave the seats for the teams which are then also used for concerts and different things like that as well as um the scoreboards and so um fixing of of the tracks different things like that that then don't have to come out of any of the other funds we have. >> Trust going to ask you a question. Um I guess just to clarify when a piece of equipment is um replaced using this money is there it it sounds like there would be some advertising component incorporated into that project. So if we do replace cushions will it say Pepsi or Admiral all over the cushion? >> I would I would say
079yes there is some component there. So like with this contract and the amount that they're investing um a good example of this would be with Miss Becker's group with City Motors. Um they invest in the foundation which is an investment with the district as well. So they receive that advertising as a result of it for sure with this um scoreboard that comes up later in this that we're talking about. There would definitely be something. If you go to Great Falls High, there are two groups with the turf that are advertised there. I could not come up with their names right now. Um but there uh so there's always something associating um their commitment to the district with it in terms of the advertising. >> Okay. And my second question is given the length of this
080contract is there out clause if something doesn't meet our standards or expectations. We definitely had other legal counsel go through it and any place that they had a spot where they wanted to have an out clause for, there's definitely a spot for the district to get out of it as well. in conversations with Admiral as well. They're not unfamiliar with longer contracts like this and they know districts come back sometimes seven, eight years into the contract and want to renegotiate, maybe extend it instead of a um the seven years that are left, they'll extend it 10 to 10 years um with new investment from Admiral as well. So, um, there's kind of different pieces that work through that process, but we did have this, uh, really go through pretty fine tooth comb with our our
081legal counsel as well. >> Right. Thank you. >> Any additional questions, Trusty Thompson? >> Uh, I'd really like to thank you for the, uh, quote over you. Uh, I think that that is really telling. And then just wanted to clarify um kind of to um Trusty Duff's um point about the bids being different. Um both sides were given I I mean especially since we we re we took it off the table and put it back on. Both sides have had plenty of time to um to come up with these numbers and both feel comfortable that this is as good as they're going to get. Is that correct? >> That is correct. Sherry, can you go back to that previous slide right there? Those are the actual bullets that were sent to them um with the
082request for another bid. Um I do share the same piece with Mr. Duff. >> Um as I don't understand how it can be so different. Um as I have talked to others though when it was not a mutual shared agreement. If that's what High Country came in bidding, I can see where their numbers would have been lower. But they knew it was an exclusive contract. We put that right in there um for them to bid. I do believe also um I mean I had to contact them both. We're public entity. They they don't like sharing information necessarily when it comes to these things, but I let them know we would be sharing. And I don't know if they see each other's information. They might hear about it. They probably don't see it necessarily from bid
083to bid. >> Okay. Gotcha. And then just one more comment. I when you told us the last time um about the ease of um one over the other working with them I that to me holds a lot of weight. >> Thank you. Any additional questions comments from our board of trustees? Any additional comments? Questions from our gallery? If not, I'll review the motion, and that is to approve a 15-year negotiated contract with Admiral Beverage as presented. All those in the in favor of the motion, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed, same sign. >> I >> motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. Action item G, Memorial Stadium scoreboard purchase. Mr. Deacons, >> I'm not quite finished with you yet this evening, but >> it's the last one. However, >> yes, this has actually
084been a project that's been in place for a few years that they've been looking at some sort of a replacement because the technology that's involved with the current scoreboard that is there um has really started to um become obsolete and they're having issues with it. The last time any update was completed at Memorial Stadium with a scoreboard was in 2009. I think Mrs. Superintendent Hoyer does remember that. it was more of a piece seeing together a new front than it was really replacing the technology and so forth. Um, so over this last 17 years, those components are the competitions that are held at Memorial Stadium, they do rely on that. And it's not just Great Falls Public Schools. We also have several district divisional and state track meets. We have the um Great Falls Central
085and places that will use it from time to time. They do rely on that scoreboard for what is out there. So the other piece that goes along with it is with the particular scoreboard that they are looking at uh purchasing there's actually a curriculum that goes with it. So the students can learn how to run the interactive technology and when they go to college that gives them a leg up to have the opportunities there and once you have that leg up you have another opportunity when you're leaving in those techn technological fields as well. really in the state of Montana, we have one group, Dacttronics, that is a member of our state cooperative so we don't have to go out to bid with them um for planning for these types of projects because this scoreboard
086when we talk about the price later, you'll see it's something you have to make sure you're getting the pieces that you need with it. It can't be something somebody sends to you and says this is what you're going to get. We we have to have that opportunity to have the open conversation. So, like I said, over the last couple years, they've been working with Dacttronics. Um they did receive a quote as well. The quote includes um additional equipment with it because of the time frame in which it was purchased. There would be two play clocks for Memorial Stadium that have one at each end for different games um and uses. There would be two portable scoreboards that would be utilized at soccer games, baseball, or what Mr. Hannibberg calls under the lights softball games that
087they can move around um and be much higher quality than what they're currently using. Um and the video board can also enhance the student activities and fundraisers for the student body. Um there's assemblies, movie nights, anything could really be held in that stadium with the technology that's included in that board at this point in time. Total cost for this project would be $25,591. Um the contract is attached and I will assure you the district has been working on our revenue enhancement account. I believe to date there's there's about $300,000 that's in there. So, it isn't like we're just turning around and spending all the money we receive from the uh beverage contract. We're using it moving forwards. We know there are other items that are going to come up. Like Mrs. Fire said, lights is
088one of them that will be coming down the road. Turf is another one that's coming down the road. So, we're trying to plan ahead with those as well. Um the purchase like I said will come from the revenue enhancement fund and then monies like we said earlier comes from items like our beverage contract advertising in our facilities and other places when applicable um that just kind of pop up out of thin air when we have people that make donations and things like that to the district for certain um items. When utilizing these, we do try to make sure that it's not just benefiting one building. We try to make sure that it's benefiting our district as a whole as well. We're making equal purchases as we do it. So, the board is requested to approve
089the purchase of the Dacttronic scoreboard package for Memorial Stadium in the amount of $25,591 as >> Thank you, >> Mr. Chair. Trusty Terrasi. I move that we approve the purchase of the Dacttronic score scoreboard package for Memorial Stadium in the amount of $25,591 as presented. >> Been moved and seconded to approve the purchase of a scoreboard package for Memorial Stadium. Any questions or commentary from our board of trustees, Mr. Duff? >> Anybody else? Um, you know, I've been thinking about this since I saw the agenda when it came out. And I have to be honest, my conscience really struggles with this. When I had a parent family reach out to me last week not able to get things they need for their children to succeed in school because we can't provide them. When I tour
090schools and talk to teachers and administrators, nobody ever once has complained about the high school scoreboard not being good enough for their kids. They complain about things they need in the classroom and things the teachers need. You know, we sat in the safety meeting here a week or two ago and we went down a whole litany of safety things we need that we can't fund. The scoreboard seems like a luxury. And I don't my conscious struggles with funding a luxury item when we have so many financial needs that are unmet. And I think a lot of us here will probably be in the position of going to the community in the near future asking them to step up through levies or whatnot to support us. And that's going to be for me a hard cell
091to pitch that when we've got a luxury scoreboard in the background. Have we exhausted all the opportunities as far as naming rights or donations or things along those lines without having to spend district funds on it? >> Those are all pieces that we can still incorporate into the scoreboard project. Um, I believe there are eight spaces, eight or 12, don't quote me on that because I don't have it up in front of me, where there are opportunities, not just for advertising, but there could be potential um, naming rights, things like that that come along. Um, we haven't put it out to like a bid. Um, I think we have a couple DA districts that are more using it as a bid process in Great Falls. We usually have our community members come forwards. A lot
092of times they come forwards quietly at first. they don't want their names out there um until they know there's that opportunity that they've heard about. So, we we we kind of take pride in that piece without putting it out there to them first. With the revenue enhancement project and a lot of our funds that we work with in these areas, the money really is tied back to specific things. It isn't like we would take that and move it to because when somebody does purchase the uh advertising or something that goes into revenue enhancement, that's what they're told that money is going to go towards is the enhancement of the facilities for our students. Thank you. Any additional comments or questions from our board of trustees? Any from our gallery? If not, I'll call for the
093question. The motion is to approve the purchase of a scoreboard package for Memorial Stadium. All those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Same sign. >> I. >> Motion carries. Thank you. And Mr. Duff, your points are well taken. Thank you. Action other, we pulled nothing from the consent agenda. So that enables us to go on to Roman nine, reports, discussion, and policies. A 2-year review for the tech plan. Mr. Williams. Absolutely. Thank you. Good evening everybody. >> Good evening. Welcome >> Chairman Johnson, Superintendent Hoyer, trustees and members of the community. This is Excuse me. Is that you, Bill? Okay. This is an update on the technology plan I submitted last year. As you will all remember, the technology plan last year had very little in amount of
094dollars associated with it simply because we didn't know until basically this summer what the funding would be, including - core component of anything with the network or the technology department for the district. So, I thought I'd come before you today, bring you an update. If you will take a look at the screen, the only points on that 50 some odd page document I'm going to address are going to be the ones that have changed or been altered. So I will ask Sherry to take and go through the slides with me. I have just my notes and the slides should have the boldface changes on the goals that we assessed on the plan itself. Okay. Objective 1.5 was the gener generative artificial intelligence AI. I'm going to be honest with you, we have not done much
095with AI because it keeps fluctuating, but we are looking at in the department. We are looking at trying to set up a standard that we will use for AI in the future. There are so many different options for AI. It's almost like going to buy a car right now. You could buy Yugo, you could buy Fords, you could buy Chevy, and they all kind of do the same thing, but they do it differently. What works best for the district is what we're going to be looking at. And not only that, once we do choose that and bring it forward to the cabinet and to you to take and go forward with, we have to be able to implement it into the school district as well. So that is a multiaceted problem. So basically we're just
096taking evaluating right now and then once we bring an evaluation from the department that we understand will be easily and beneficial for the for the district we'll bring it to cabinet and then we will bring it to you. So just so you know it's not off of our radar but it is something that is it changes quite a bit put it that way. Objective 2.2 two for the use of video-based learning technology department after we went through the yearly sessions for new stu new staff etc. realized we needed to have something standardized to take and present because I'll be honest with you, there are days I'm halfway decent up here and there are days I really am not. Okay, >> I've had my moments. But anyway, we would like to have we started to do
097video enhancement of our presentation so we give a not a can but a consistent message. When we find we have the best day, we have the best recording, then we can push that out to the staff, it will be a consistent message and as we move forward, we're looking at using that with this to take and give the staff a library of resources as to how to do things. So when a new staff member comes in, oh my god, I don't know how to use Power School. My god, well this here's the video how to do it. This is the consistent message we've given and this is your reference. It will give you more informed questions to ask us. That's kind of the reasoning behind this. We started with Camtasia because it was the most
098beneficial and it gave us the ability to take and weed things out. We can actually haze things on the screen so that there's not information that's pertinent for like we bring up power school. We can fade out the students name and stuff like that. So we can give instruction but not give away personal data. So that's what we're taking working with on that one. Chapter 3.4 was the implementation of integrated comm communication tools. You remember that it was not transportation at that time. Over the summer, as you will remember me giving you a list here in the year, we did implement parent square for universal messaging throughout the district, including staff to student, staff to parent and emergency from district to administration. So that has been implemented. Uh we are looking at it now to
099evaluate it. We'll give more evaluations as we come up. Uh final site was our web hosting platform. The website you have for Great Falls Public Schools is on the hosting platform. Final site. So we are looking at that as well to see what we can do better about that because as you all know the website is the main conduit to the public. And when we look at some of the demographics on some of the sites of the website, we'd like to have them a little bit better. We might be able to do a little bit better with the presentation. Objective 3.5 was the implementation of the the district single sign on application. Single sign on is defined as when you log into the computer one time. You don't have to keep logging in 15 different
100times for all the different applications you go to. >> If some of you have been in the classrooms, you see how many applications some schools use versus others. It's a a toolbox. Well, we'd like to have one key for the lock to get into the toolbox. So, single sign on for clever is called was implemented this past summer. We started out with one or two and I'll be honest with you, become a monster. We have 19 different applications on there now that one single sign on will allow you to access as staff or student. And we have two different rostering pieces with Clevver. We are looking at adding more. So, it started out as a trickle and all of a sudden we had a flood. So, but it is working well for us. The staff
101like it. Students are it's easier for students to log on. And if you've ever saw a second grader try to log on, one time is more than enough to do this. So, that was implemented. We're working very well with that. Now, objective 4.2 was a network switch replacement standardization. Now, this is going to get a little bit multiaceted, so bear with me for a minute. This does deal with. You're going to hear this come up a couple different times. So, I'll go through it once at the top and walk our way through the rest of the stuff. - is a five-year federal funded program. We didn't know if it was going to be funded over the summer. In fact, we were just about every district was kind of holding its breath like, is it going
102to be funded? It was funded. So, we do have funding from 2025 to 2030 on the -ate program. That is this cycle. After that, supposedly there will be another fiveyear cycle. Okay. is given or not given e- is specified to us by our free and reduced lunches. Great falls public schools has an 80% rating on that. So hypothetically if there if I have to buy something for on that's going to cost $100 total from the vendor and nine times out of 10 with some of these products we would have to go to bid we would be paying 20 bucks. E- rate was subsidized 80 bucks. So your 80% 20% split is how we play the game with - I said game but it's not really a game. It's really kind of a it's a process.
103Okay. So going forward keep that in your heads. It's 8020 switches. Right now if you didn't know this there are 427 network switches in the district that supplies our network from the do the schools. Once in the school, it goes into the classrooms. When you take a look at all the blinking lights and all the wires and some of those closets we had and all that spaghetti that was going to the switches. So each and every one of them are are imperative to the district, but they also cost. To my knowledge, these were bought three to five years ago. Right now, what we have is the switches we have are in different layers of purchasing years. the the oldest ones still have what they call full or unlimited warranty. What that means is we get
104to have them replaced five years after the end of sale date for the product. So if they stop issuing a 2025 switch in 2030, we have to 2035 to have that switch replaced. End of sale date was 2030. 2035 is the date we have warranty to have them replaced by the product manager or manufacturer, I'm sorry. So, it's not exactly like a warranty on your car, but it does give us a quote unquote lifetime. Okay. So, of those 427 switches, there are going to be needing 368 replacements over the 2025 and 2030 cycle. Remember that 8030 cut? Some of those switches, I'll give you a ballpark. It's like 3,000 $4,000 for some of those switches. They supply the power from the switch to our access points to give us wireless and to our camera systems
105to give us security cameras. They apply power over Cat 6, Cat 5 network line. So you don't have to have another outlet where you have your device. They are a little bit more expensive because of that. So over the next five years, we're going to be looking at the oldest switches to be replaced first. And I'm not going to lie to you, we're going to probably target the high schools first because they have the most switches and some of them are the bigger switches. And then when you go to a elementary school, you may not have that many switches at all. So if we take the lion share out of it first and work our way down, we can keep on going. The switches we do have, we own. We bought. They're ours. So even
106though we're pulling them out of the high schools, they still can be sub subsetted into elementary schools should we need one as a spare that's not going to be replaced because they still work. Kind of like having a spare car you just pull out of the garage when yours needs some tuneup. There's going to be 50 replacements over the 20 30 35 cycle rate getting that far ahead 10 years. So lion share was bought ahead. We'll be taking care of those over the next five years. And again, we have to set up a sequence of events to take and replace these in sequence without disrupting service. It's going to be there in the summer, but we do have to go in and swap out the switches. Okay, remember that thing? It'll come up again at
107least twice. Wireless access point access increase and refresh cycle. Here's where one of those are at. Access points we have in our buildings that supply wireless like that one on the wall all go to the switches, but they are separate devices. They're also bought at separate times. If you think about and hear about the words Wi-Fi 7, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, those are different levels of ability for an access point to take and supply information. Okay? So, as you get to a higher number, you're getting to a better connectivity, more output, more devices connecting to that access point. Those are also -atable. One thing I forgot to stipulate on. It is only for networking capacity, our WAN, our fiber, our network switches, our network access points. It does not do servers. Otherwise, the last time
108I came before you, I would have been very happy to use that. This time, this is what this is for. So, on this fiveyear cycle, we're not going to be doing anything with access points. We bought them only three years ago. They've been completely refreshed. They will be good until the 2030 2035 rate cycle. So those just to let you know although these are part of the plan they are not coming up this time around. The switches are going to be the hardest things to replace and the most expensive. So we'll take care of those first. Now on I said there's an 8020 switch there. I'm going to give you some numbers but please bear with me while I go through the numbers. Currently, the -ate funding for Great Falls Public Schools is estimated because
109it's not quite finalized yet at 2,249,31963. Remember I said that 8020 switch. This is the amount that the - offering us to pay for devices using it as 80%. So when you take a look at that proposed total funding if you took the 80% added our total our 20% would be 2,811,64955 if we used - completely and paid 20% to their 80% that is the total package cost over the next five years again I gave you the rates for the ratable our 20% if you're asking and wondering what that would be 562329 $99. So that is a use or lose. E- rate. If I don't use it all up by the end of the five years, we don't get the rest of it. So whatever I leave in the bank goes away. Now does that
110mean I want to use every bit of it? No. I really don't want to use anything. I don't have to, but we'll we use it as a catchall coming down the line. So this next year, we probably aren't going to be doing anything with switches. In fact, we're not doing anything with switches whatsoever. We're planning this out. There's no rush to spend the money. It's not like the Christmas deals we got going on right now where they try to tell us it's going to be on till this weekend. All right. Next objective, transition from VMware to alternative hypervisor. We are all very well aware of this piece. Mr. Decon has signed a contract and sent it in. So, we expected the hardware to come to us sometime late December, if not before Christmas. After that,
111the project will have to have a timeline on implementation setup and how we do this. So, if you imagine going through Christmas and opening all the presents and having to put all your kids toys together, this is what's going to happen sometime in January >> with those. >> Then we're get them all running, get them all set up and figure then we're going to start working on how to move the information from what we have to what we're going to use next. That is the piece that we have to be very cautious with because you don't want to lose things. Number one, you don't want to not have a process that's patented as you go through because once you do it once, you want to make sure you can do it twice. You want to
112make sure you can keep on going. And I know you guys hate me saying it sometimes, but Murphy does live and there are gremlins. So, what works today may not work tomorrow exactly like it did. And we have to step into it cautiously, not go running into it and hit a brick wall. So, that's the process for that. Objective eight. This one's a little new. I added this one in because it is be coming up and it will be a part of everything we're doing. For reference, you all saw the email I sent out about a week and a half ago about Microsoft having issues. >> Okay. At that time, from what Leon tells me, Microsoft was getting hit by 15 terabytes of information per second to deny the service of getting on to Office
113or whatever 365. If you flood that so fast that you nobody else can get into it, that's a denial of service. So, if Microsoft got hit by 15 terabytes per second, you can imagine that's going to keep on coming to other organizations. I'm not saying we're targeted by that. I'm simply saying this is what's going on in the world. So as we move forward, we bought the firewall last year for out of that is the cornerstone of the new cyber security footprint. After that, I told you we were going to be adding certain things as we move forward to not to make it more complete, but not a patchwork. Well, to that effect, we did buy two software programs that help Leon and the rest of us see what's going on more easily. Because if
114you have a huge amount of devices that are sending you information as to what they see on the network, sometimes it's well it is overwhelming. Okay, one of those uh software packages was Splunk. I know it sounds kind of weird, but that's what they call it. It allows us to see all the different logs from different devices to a certain degree. We dictate and see in one pane of glass who don't do that. One pane of glass what is going on. So any warnings, any intrusion detection, anything a miss, we get it in one pane of glasses instead of having to go through 15, 20, 30 different devices to see what's going on with that particular device. So think of it like a central command force the devices. Okay. Additionally, we bought a software program
115called Nessus that allows Leon, pardon me, to take and do penetration testing from outside the district. Penetration testing is basically emulating an attack from a a malware or a Trojan attack from outside the district. It basically exactly what it says. How far do I get? How in far into the network can I get now usually pay for this and there are people out there making a lot of money to take and do this service. So a security gig. This allows Leon to do it on our own anytime we wish outside the district. those two software packages were added to the cyber security footprint. So when it says cyber security system concept that is basically saying we are trying to create a process and procedure for cyber security to add pieces and to evaluate those pieces
116as we move forward. This is going to keep on changing. There's a lock that can't be picked and a thief that can't get caught. The only problem is how it rotates around and when you find out about it, try to catch it. So, as we go forward, this is how we're going to be going to be looking at this and evaluating it. So, like hypothetically, if we went to this next time around for a new content filter, how does it work with our new firewall, does it give us something that this that we need or does it just double dip on the firewall in which case it' be worthless to us? So as we build that thing together, instead of making a patchwork quilt, we have a seamless process of this takes care of this,
117this takes care of that, this takes care of the next thing. And then when something else comes up, we need to add to that toolbox, so to speak, we can evaluate it exactly as it is. Is it going to benefit us or is it it's going to cause ripple effects on something? If you remember back in the day when you had more than one uh anti- spyware on your computer, they fought each other because they each other is being spyware. This is what you don't want as we add stuff to it. We want the ripple effects to be understandable and mitigated and positive. So that is condensed out of the 57 pages I gave you before last year. So I apologize, but trying to end the night in a halfway tape. >> Mr. Williams, that's
118a lot of information for my 4 gigabyte brain. >> There will be a test tomorrow, >> man. I I might be out of storage. >> Bravo. Terrific. Thank you so much. Any questions for Mr. Williams? Wow. And as you said, that's just a portion of your >> report. Any questions? Mrs. Bortonson, welcome. Okay. Two different answers to your question because it's a double it's a dual question. Okay. Monitoring inside the classroom is handled by light speed. That device is actually our content filter as well. It allows the teachers to see what the students are doing on their devices when they log on to them. Lightseed also is a content filter like I said. So it takes and mitigates access to sites that we do not need to be accessing or that are detrimental. Content filter
119basically is updated by the by the manufacturer. And it kind of goes like this. I think I brought this to the board a while ago. There are 500 some odd thousand websites added new every day. I think that's and that's a rough estimate guys like the gray matter is not quite today. So every day there are 500 some odd thousand new websites added that we know nothing about. Those get vetted by content filtered companies who dictate or evaluate them. Are they malware? Are they detrimental? Do they take and do gambling? They do things that I'm not going to say on a microphone on be recorded saying this is stuff we don't want the students on. That's why we buy the content filter and that's why it's updated. That that is the answer to one half
120of your question. That is how we monitor the students. That's how we protect the students from outside malicious intent. Okay. Now, what you asked about the endpoint devices, I didn't put this in there because that there's nothing been changed with the endpoint devices. And in a nutshell, this is where we're at. I'll give you five, excuse me, I'll give you four different things. I want you to think about this going from top down to the bottom. The top one has to be imperative. The bottom one is dependent on everything below it, everything above it. First one's the infrastructure. By infrastructure, that is the endpoint devices, the laptops that Allie's using, laptops that Sherry's using, the Chromebooks, iPads, whatever you have in your hands or and even the servers because they are basically computers that can
121stand by themselves and operate by themselves. That's the infrastructure. That's what you're asking about is refreshing for the students. Okay, that the network is next. We already talked about that. We talked about optimization later earlier on and future planning. The answer to your question in a nutshell is the top and the bottom right. The top is we have so many devices set number of devices in the district that we need to take and maintain and as we are able to refresh. Refresh means replace with newer equipment when they become old or unusable. That is a we intended at one time to have a fiveyear cycle. Co kind of kicked us in the backside with that one because all of a sudden we had to get as many devices into the hands of students as possible.
122We all remember that going on. Just about every district in the world had the same problem. Nobody had that much technology for students. They took and were using err funds to take and buy that. Esser funds is what the government supplied us due to COVID and for our efforts. It was to take and refund us for the efforts we had to take in CO. Some districts use that for personnel. We hired more staff. Some districts use it for hardware. Okay. Tom Herring, my predecessor, and I wasn't here for this, so I can't speak to how he did it, why he did it, how that process went, was the person responsible with the cabinet of course and the board for purchasing the devices with funds. There is only one problem that came from that. And I
123say one problem because you did exactly what you needed to do to supply the students the ability to take and have an education in that pandemic and provide them the education later on for access to the resources. You heard me say something about the uh single sign on. Those applications are all on the web. Those are the applications the teachers are using to take and instruct students. So there is a reason we have to have the technology in the hands of the students. When I said the ESRE funds were double double-edged sword, we bought I say we got the district bought what they bought with ESRE funds at that time. Unfortunately, like everything else in the world, it starts to take be have to need to be refreshed. But you have a huge chunk you
124have to try to refresh now. Nobody can take and do that at once. And the US government is not going to come give us an SR2, SR three, SR4, whatever funding to do this now. Say thank you very much for doing that. But I know you got to refresh these. I'll help you do this. They're not doing that. So, we have to take and chip away at that folder. That's why last year we took and with the board's permission, we purchased devices at a discount from Dell supplied the district schools with devices last year for them to buy at a discount. We also with the board and cabinet's permission, Mr. Boyd and I with our funding purchased a reserve amount of a thousand devices and put them into the warehouse. Reason being is this. Last
125year it was 850 devices that were refreshed by the schools out of their technology budget that year. So we doubled up and brought it got an inventory of a thousand to put into the warehouse knowing that this year if the prices continued to go up that schools would not be able to buy any more devices to refresh it when they want to. So we did that for that reason. This year the schools are buying those devices at the price from last year which has not changed to refresh what they can. So we've given them a bigger chisel on this boulder but we can't do the whole boulder yet. Nobody can. So, as we go forward, we're going to keep on chipping at this boulder as best we can. >> Rabbit of just >> So, that's
126the answer to your question. How are we going to refresh these? As much as I can, as often as I can. I'm going to make every one of them last as long as I can because otherwise we're just wasting money. I refuse to do that. Good shot there. >> Did that answer your question by chance? >> Or give me another one. >> You two should hook up. >> You're right. Put it together. Well, >> I'll tell you what. Yeah. >> The office is straight across the way. If you yell my name, if I don't go running, I'll be right there waiting for you. >> I've heard that line before. So, any other questions for Mr. Williams? If not, thank you very much for your report. >> Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. See you all. >>
127Look forward to it. Thank you. Thank you. >> With that, we're moving on to discussion, committee reports, and comments. Uh, Trusty Sunshild, why don't you kick us off? Well stated. Thank you. Trusty Terrasi. >> I just wanted to touch upon the Veterans Day assembly at Valley View. It was it was great. There were a lot of veterans from the community there and some of our students sat with their family members during the assembly. They had the MA P table for the kids to kind of see and they explained what all of it meant which was which I think was a great learning opportunity. Um we had some CMR band kiddos there who were performing the the songs of the armed forces and so that was a great way for kids to see the >> the
128instruments and get involved and get an interest in in playing one one day. Um and then Mr. Pokeheiser like you said he it's his first year at Valley View and he has just taken off. the kids really really like him and he's he's found a really great way of connecting with them through what he does and they they just they all look up to him. It's really awesome to see. Um and then I wanted to shout out one of the aids at Valley View, Miss Marine. She put together 10 Thanksgiving boxes for Valley View families and like full Thanksgiving meals, turkeys and all. And so that that was she was very excited about those that she was able to get them all done. That was exciting to see. And then I just wanted to say
129that having the governor and Mike Row at the high school house was a really big deal for our students. Uh you could see how excited they were when they heard, "Oh, he's here." They all ran out and wanted to talk to him. Somebody asked him what his dirtiest job was. Um but just getting to show off their work to someone like Micro and someone like the governor. you just like at the the ribbon cutting you can see the pride and the ownership and like oh yeah I worked on that and I did this and I think that was a really great um really great recognition that those students and Pete Pace are getting um and at you know a state and national level. Well, thank you very much, Trusty Bronson in Cyber World. >> Nothing.
130Thank you. >> Well, that's unprecedented. >> Safe travels home, Trusty Bronson. >> Thank you. I very much appreciate it. And thanks to Mr. Williams for uh indulging all of our technology to make this possible. and Trusty Thompson. >> Uh well, I I want to mention um the core school um fourth graders who came to talk about kindness and I I just wanted to add to what they were talking about. Kindness is even more important than they probably know. I just um got a chance to listen to a professor from Babson College who's working on some um unprecedented uh research about kindness and how it is impacting um it can impact and grow your business and it's sort of a cycle because um they were noticing that um employers were quitting because customers were rude. But
131if you um you know uh invest in a culture of kindness um the the employees are happier. It's harder for the customers to be rude and then in in turn um the customers continue or the um employees um continue to work for you. So um there you go growing your business. So, um, the foundation that, um, Character Strong is building can, uh, last for, uh, decades. >> Well, we certainly hope so. Thank you, Trusty Duff. >> Just a couple things. I go back to what Superintendent Hoyer said earlier. The Adams Family Musical CMR was fantastic. What a great bunch of very talented kids. It was a great time. >> And on a personal note, tomorrow I am covering a half day for second grade at Longfellow. Oh, bless you. >> They've assured me that the
132afternoon before Thanksgiving break is the best time. >> So, I'm looking forward to that. If I'm not at the next meeting, please come look for me. >> Thank you, Trusty Terasi or Scaragi, excuse me. >> May the force be with you. >> Um, I just um since our last meeting, I had the opportunity to see our students um kind of sharing their talents with the community. um both talking to the students at High School House. We have a really um big and great crew um there and fortunately Wells Fargo sees the value of that program and um donated a substantial amount to Neighbor Works so that we can continue to have high school houses um into the future. Um I also had the opportunity to see the talents of our theater students. afraid my daughter
133was disappointed to find out that there's theater without music. So, um but excellent, excellent productions from both schools. Um and then I also had the opportunity to hear from um our Lyft students. um they presented to the United Way board um essentially demonstrating some of the work that they're doing in our elementary schools um and working with uh sixth grade students um talking to them about you know how they can um express their mental health needs, what resources are available um and also you know how to to find kind of that those cop coping techniques that'll help them succeed into the future. So, um, always wonderful to see our students time and talents, um, you know, put to work in our community. And then I just I want to echo, um, thanks, um, both to
134staff and to my fellow trustees. I know there's a lot of extra credit work going on behind the scenes, um, to get some of these waiting matters um, moving forward. So, I wanted to thank all of you for the thought and um, and work put into to tonight's kind of packed agenda. >> Thank you, Trustees Konagoski. And the work goes on. I'll draw your attention to the board and our upcoming meetings. Um board budget committee meeting, a work session, audit review, and our next regular meeting on December 15th. And with that, um I think you're like me. uh my ability to adopt and express gratitude has been amplified by the presentation done by the Morningside students. So with that, happy Thanksgiving to all and I would call for a motion to adjourn. >> So moved.
135>> We are adjourned. Thank you. Thank you ladies and gentlemen.