001reported by order. We do have a quorum. Chris is sick and Cole and Roxan are both out of town. So, um, J, would you lead us to touch, please? United States of America into Elliot Sandle and Welcome everyone. First thing we have is review and approval of the minutes. >> To approve the minutes. >> Okay. Been moved seconded to approve the minutes as presented. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed say the same passes unanimously. Next is review of the claims and accounts. Josh, if you want to continue. >> Yes. >> Like usual folks, we'll just go through the page by page. I'll be something that I feel Merrick's calling your attention to. I'll leave. So if not, I'll just kind of ask if there's any questions. Some of these you'll kind of see
002are reoccurring bills. I don't have anything to point out page one. Any questions on any items on page one? Okay, let's move on to page two. Nothing on page two. You'll see it some big numbers because gas and things of that nature going to go up or it has already question two. Page three there's the third item. Item 205 20579. That's our payment for the Dan who's with us today as our owner representative. That's for building mind for a bill of $3,783.80 on that page in particular point out maybe our own removal. Page three, I got a couple. But we look down which says um PO accounting. It's well it's the 20588 general distributing. You look down for numbers four through eight. Um those are that's equipment that Mr. Igel has purchased with the funds
003we received from Western for the welding program, the welding partnership. That's what that's for. And then a little further down the page, you see item 20592. That's intuitive architecture for $11,693 and.75. That's our first bill for our architect architectural firm that's working on our ASIT building prepared by questions on page four. All right. Page five, topic item there item 20595. That's K12 Montana Inc. for 11,248. This is the the company that's working on our tech infrastructure upgrades and we just had them in a while. So, but for some reason the bill was getting sent to the wrong place. So, that's one, two, three, four months worth of of bills there. They'll actually I think be on site next week. We've almost we've completely transitioned to Gmail now. We're working at currently on transitioning to uh
004Google Drive, getting off of the active directory. Any questions on page five? Move on to page six, about the middle of the page. Item 20607, that's sideline power for $9,755. That was those were funds that we received through our innovative educational tax credit that were specifically earmarked for the purchase of that sideline camera system. It's an endzone camera system that that will film a what they call a a tight tight angle. We'll also be using it some in baseball and softball. So, Mr. McCrae is getting that going right now and maybe even some for graduation and things like that. questions on item 20607. Page seven just stick nothing more specific to point out on page seven. I would note that there were 52 claims this period from 50 vendors for a total of 130,000 74120
005cents. Then the last page just gives you the breakdown of which how the funding was distributed between our accounts for the claims. Anyone have any questions on the claims and accounts? Been moved and seconded to approve the claims and accounts. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, those in favor say I. >> I. >> Those opposed, the same. Passes unanimously. Next is public comment. I think I'm going to skip down to the Dan McGee report, which is number 6.2, Dan, and you don't have to sit around and listen to us. So, you're up if you want to go. >> All right. Well, thank you for doing that for me, Chairman. Love, I appreciate it. Um, at least I didn't drive down there for a quick one here. So obviously as we get into this project a
006little bit, you know, I'll be present a lot more as we're in the construction phase. But what I wanted to give you just a quick update um after our visit uh with the architect and the contractors, we had kind of three options for the the fix of the building envelope of that as building. And as we went through it, talking with a building envelope specialist, kind of actually narrowed it down to two options. And question continued to come up as as we prepare to fix infiltration of water, air, um finding a solution that isn't going to trap or create another issue. And so the third option of a insulated metal panel, which is a system that we're concerned not only about potentially burying something um behind it that if there was ever any damage, those
007panels are, you know, 20 ft tall, you have to actually pull them all apart. So, if you had a damaged panel in the middle of a a wall, um the extensive labor and that to remove it, to make a repair, replacement >> um kind of would have been cumbersome. So, we went to the next option, which was to do a furring strip, seal the block, fur out, insulate, and then put a metal uh sighting, whether it's a rib or a, you know, corrugated metal of some kind like that. Uh, that was an option. Uh, and then we had that priced out from our general contractor. Then the third option is a block filler where basically it's a liquid applied filler to the block. Seals up all the cracks. Everything we're doing is we're having to
008pull out all of the storefronts. So either options, we're going to have be pulling all the storefronts out of the building, fixing those issues that were part of the original construction. Um so that number stayed the same in there. And then that block filler would seal everything up, fix the windows. That block sealer is then you have a paint applied to it to to bring the colors that that we would choose. And then that includes basically on the interior of the building is where we would gain our insulations. So we'll be furring out insulating, sheetrocking all the walls that have in the shop spaces. So right now those are currently the backside of our um CMU blocks. So it would have a different look. We'd be taking a little bit of wall depth, you know,
009so it's not a whole lot of square footage, but we'd be losing a little bit of room in each of those spaces. Um to the tune of about 2 and 12 inches along all the exterior walls. Um, and as we looked at that, we went to a pricing effort and kind of kind of compared really what the overall costs were. The metal wall panel system uh that I mentioned first with all the costs associated including the design, the building envelope specialist, all of our um contingencies carried in was about $1.02 02 million, which kind of gets us to the most extreme top end and probably a little bit more than what the district could afford or wants to afford at this time. It wouldn't really leave you any leeway in your building reserve. And based
010on that settlement and the dollars that were left over in the uh in the original budgets, the painting option all in with all of the fixes that would address the building envelope um came in at about $747,000. Uh, and during our facilities meeting, um, was that two weeks ago, I guess, or a week and a half ago, um, it was decided based on the budgets that that would probably be the better solution to allow the district to address maybe some other items that they feel are more important than just the the cosmetic or how the exterior building would look with a metal panel versus a a sealed and and painted one. So, that's kind of what's proposed tonight. Uh the facility committee, I believe, uh put a recommendation through to the board uh to pursue
011that. And after that meeting, I asked the architect to generate uh a quick image as quick as she could with with the limited time. I forwarded that through. I just got it late this afternoon. Um passed that along to to Dr. Patterson. Do you have that to share, Josh? >> Yep. Got up now, Dan. >> So, that the images that we looked at originally, uh, when the general contractor first brought it up, the product is a liquid applied. It can be tinted, but we'll also be looking to potentially apply a paint to the the exterior of it. So this image that are quick kind of renderings of what this could look like. So we'll still have the look of the split fla split face block, the smooth block. You'll actually be able to see that
012it is a masonry building. Um, and then we can actually complement it with applying colors that would complement not only this building, but potentially tie in some of your other existing buildings on campus. Um, and at the the cost, it seems to lead itself to a better option and will still accomplish the envelope requirements that we need to get this building to function the way it was initially uh designed and should have been constructed. So, this kind of gives you a couple perspectives. Um the architect picked some colors that are similar to uh the block as it is, but um if you can see that there's a a photo in the middle on the right, that's a building that had a similar block leaking issue. They use this product uh to paint the brick. And
013if you can zoom in on that, it kind of shows you where you can see um you know, you still know it's a masonry building. Um and that's what we felt was probably going to be your best bang for your buck dollar for dollar uh compared to a metal metal type wall panel. um and uh leave you some dollars left over to to do some more things within the the district uh from a maintenance or long-term uh building needs assessment. So Dan, would you >> would you try to explain to the board members that were that weren't at the meeting that day how you feel about this project or this product and how how long you think it would be good for and some of those sorts of things as opposed to the metal. >>
014Yeah. So no matter what even on the area so the the metal um at that price was really kind of assuming all of the the spaces that include the shop area. So your wood and metal shop and those classrooms. So we' have we would have had a combination of block and then metal um and what our cost for our building envelope specialist. So that's a person that's going to come in and verify that whatever solution we do isn't going to create a a problem point within that wall system. So if you can imagine the outside of your block to the inside of the sheetrock if there's any air or water that infiltrates they get to a point where there's a they call it a due point. So as the heat or the the temperature of
015the building is condensing in the middle of the wall if there is leaking we want to avoid that. So with the metal panel, we're trying to trap that water or keep that water to the exterior of the building, but there's potential of air gaps which may have caused a an issue. So we would have been putting a block sealer on all the exterior of the building before we applied that. Um, so his costs were going to be a little bit greater because there's more details around flashing and trying to make sure that we we minimize any potential due points within our structure. We want to keep it on the outside. Um, the painted option. So, this block sealer is a two-part application and then we paint the exterior. That two-part application would never have to
016be replaced. It's potential of that exterior finish that we pick is going to pro is going to be much like a home a 10 10year process where you're going to have to maybe go up and touch up or want to repaint if areas get damaged. Um and either one of those there's an there's a reapplication. Even if it were the metal where we had to seal the the classroom sides, that would be about a 7 to 10 year relication, much like we're talking about with this solution. Um, so we kind of looked at the pros and cons, long-term cost of ownership. um the painting and the the uh metal with the block sealer. They're they're a similar um term as far as when a a application or a relication would need to be u taken
017care of. but felt that this with the the savings from the initial first cost allow us to plan out that potential maintenance on an eight or a 10-year um touchup. Is that kind of what you're asking for, Gary? >> Yeah, Dan, thank you. One of the things that we talked about with the facilities committee and with Dan and Josh was we could maybe afford the metal shell, the million-doll project, but if we had any kind of cost overruns or found anything inside the classrooms when we were worried about potential leakage and maybe mold problems or whatever, then we'd be looking at trying to dip into some of our reserves or whatever. learn by going this this approach that Dan is talking about. I think all of us on the committee and Josh and Dan felt
018it probably was the best way to go and that costwise probably makes the most sense for us. So Josh, you have anything to add about that or >> No, I agree. It was a good meeting. We were we delivered thoroughly and I think it's probably the best solution going forward. Leaves us uh more dollars for potential for other projects down the road. >> You know, one of the things we had talked about doing that was in the original plans, if you remember, was to expand the concession booth and also put some kind of a cover on the west side of the entrance to the gym. By going this route, that would hopefully allow us to have some money left over to do some of those things possibly. So, um, Dan, did you get a chance
019to ask them if it would be feasible, um, to put metal on the outside of the of the VOAG portion where there's so much on the inside that it would have to come off? >> Yes, I did. And when Marie so our architect Marie Wilson um she thought about it ran it through um so we have to what we do is they model this building in a software it's called com check and it actually tells us how much insulation is going to be required and there's a concern that even with an overlap so what Gary's talking about is on our backside where the overhead doors are in the shop spaces on the inside of those walls. There's quite a bit of plumbing gas. There's a lot of electrical. There's things on that exterior wall that
020in in this number, this 747, the the contractor is going to actually have to, you know, unfassen that, move it out while they build that new furring wall and reapply them. So what unfortunately what happens even if we have some overlap of a metal with an insulation on the outside there's a potential for a due point that it creates and it starts messing with that com check a little bit. It's something that's not off the table. That was in a quick conversation with her and looking at the um her com check report. really that's when when we get to a design point where our envelope specialist gets involved. He would be able to tell us better with assurance uh versus she saying, "Hey, it would yeah, it might be easier construction, but it might create
021an issue for us." So, this envelope specialist that will be somebody that the district hires that I'm negotiating with now based on this path, um they'll be able to actually run it from an engineered perspective and tell us if it would be feasible and if there is any additional savings potential or if it would be a wash um from a cost standpoint. Um what it does is it buys us insurance that the solution we're putting on isn't going to create a problem in the future. Um and it also gives not only the contractor but the architect but as well as us the the confirmation that and they they then own that risk that we haven't created another problem. Uh so we really are going to rely heavily on them. So that's something that we'll propose
022and have them model it in their software uh to tell us if it could be and then ask Langless to price out or see if there is any cost advantage uh from a construction side. So that's what it comes down to is the amount of hours it takes to apply one or the other. Um and they can analyze that and then the material costs. One of the >> Thanks. Yeah, one of the things they brought up is that with doing that on the exterior, it forces us to extend that insulation up and over our parapit and then we get into reworking some of the um the roofing. So, there were some concerns about potentially creating another spot where we could have a a water or air infiltration. So, there are some hurdles and and she
023would like to push it on to that envelope specialist uh before she committed to yes or no. It would be more financially beneficial to do it that way. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Y >> I ask a question about that. I'm sorry. I didn't know what's going on, but the is so water is coming in condensing into a wall somewhere. >> Yeah. The windows leak and the cinder leaks >> when we get storms. Okay. Just curious. I've never seen it done before, but has anybody looked at uh a spray-on epoxy coating? >> Yeah. >> Question, Dan. Has anyone ever looked at spraying epoxy coating? That's kind of what is it? >> Is that what it is? >> And then it's basically Yeah. This is a it's a spray applied and then they roll a second
024coat on. And it's it's not an epoxy. It's I mean it's it's got similar properties and I'll have the specs as soon as it's it's clear and I can share that with the group so that they can see exactly what the material is. It's used all over the state. Um mostly um folks use it on new industrial type construction. Obviously we have a really nice higherend block. So, it's disappointing that that's our solution, but I think with the right colors, uh, we're going to be replacing all the parapit caps, other things that they noticed. All of our exterior exit doors, those are the steel doors that you see in the classrooms. I believe those were initially intended to be painted, they were just left raw. We're going to be able to capture some of the
025other things that were misses in the project that will help beautify that building. Um, so I do feel this very similar to an epoxy coating. We're just going to be able to apply and have a more a nicer color palette. >> Thank you. >> And then also the building the cinder block wasn't insulated properly. So that's another reason that referring it out on the inside is to help with the heat and cold. Does anyone else have any questions for Dan? Hey Dan, we have this on action item later in the meeting and I would think if the board is okay with it, we go ahead and approve one of the two projects. I would think >> and I'll I'm happy to hang out. I'm at my desk so I'm I'll I'll listen. So if other
026questions come up, I'll be here. >> Okay. All right. >> Thanks, Danny. >> Okay. Next we have then is public comment. Does everyone have any anyone have any comments they need to make about anything? >> Yes. >> Came to comment about something, but I don't know. Is there only one time to comment in the meeting? >> Yes. Okay. Comment then. >> Sure. >> All right. Um, so I you'll have to forgive me because I just don't know the process very much on it. Maybe I um have gone about it the wrong way. But uh um you made a comment uh the other day and I'm kind of find trying to find some more information. I'll go into another thing about the um I was wondering if there's a uh does the school have a legal
027council on retainer? >> Yes, the school board association. Um do uh it's it's an association obviously so it's not >> the board association. >> All the question is is was the was putting the the male teacher in the girls locker room was that ever vetted by them did any legal counsel look into that at all? >> So the male teacher was never put in the girls locker room. So there was no Yeah. >> hasn't been all year. That's that's mis misinformation. >> That's interesting because some the people I've talked to said the girls that are in the locker room have said otherwise. So there's yeah there's apparently a lot of misinformation going on because the students have a different perception of what's going on than what I hear here. And uh so anyway that's that's
028interesting to note. Thanks for that. Um I did want to share a little bit of my perspective of how the uh the early start school thing has gone on. So I've only been to three of these board meetings in January, February, now in March. Um, and it's been kind of a kind of an interesting thing, and I wrote this down because I'm not anable public speaker. Um, and in my perception, of course, this is just my perception. Um, it appears that there's really only two main points for um, starting school early. Um, uh, the one was that other schools do it, which I, you know, that's me into the air. Um, because, uh, the only school that I found out in our vicinity that starts early is Hamilton. Um, and I didn't ever find any
029other information that showing the early start early start produces any better results. It would be nice to see that if any if if the schools that were uh referenced throughout the country had better results, that'd be kind of cool. Um, currently, I think it was stated in the last meeting that our school is is ranked number 12th in the state, which is pretty good. And so if we do end up going to an earlier start um in the academic year, would uh what metric are we going to measure success by? I would like to know that. I would like to say, okay, if we're if we're currently number 12, do we want to do we want to shoot for number two? Um what metric are we going to measure success of this new uh proposition
030by? I have not seen that. I would like to know that. Um the other um option that was uh the other proponent was that we have um more days to bone up on the course material to do the baseline to better on the baseline testing. And I again this is I had to I'm not really into the scholastic system. So, I don't know if this is it, but it kind of seems like if we're if we're starting earlier to study up for the baseline testing, is that um is that is that a real baseline test? If we're have been studied for the baseline and then correspondingly, if we do if we do come to school earlier, do better on the baseline testing, will our end of the year testing improve correspondingly? Is is that something
031that might happen? I don't know. I have not seen any information to say that one way or the other. Um in the January board meeting there were two early stop start options. One was the two weeks early November one week early. Um at that time it was stated the decision was made in spite of the other school the district K through 12 the other school district and they were immaterial to the decision because it was only the high school. It would appear that perceptions that two districts don't serve the same community and the coordination is of no value. But uh um I would like to from a parents standpoint that is extraordinarily frustrating. Even the simple days that don't coordinate court uh days off when they don't coordinate it's fantastically arduous managed and and I'm
032extraordinarily lucky my wife does not have to work um and so we can accommodate. I imagine the people that have multiple parents um uh working I bet that's really hard to deal with. Um and so another thing in there that uh at that time when they were talking about the one and two week earlier starts it was it was mentioned that the public um public interaction that time was not desirable and the incumbent process um and then uh after the January meeting u and this was talked about last time we were here. Are you brother H are you are you answer Mr. Hansen? I am >> okay. I I think I read that somewhere that you were the one that answered my questions. >> I was >> all right. Um so maybe if I understood
033you wrong, please correct me. Uh so the two propositions, the one two week start was proposed to the teacher union and both were rejected because they were uh for the historical schedule. >> Could I Yeah. >> Um interrupt here for a minute. Have you looked at the current >> calendar that is proposed for now? >> I did and I saw the accelerated start time. >> We're we're just going back one day. We're starting one day earlier than what we've done in the past. So, right, that's what we're going to talk about today. So, >> yeah. Okay. Well, will there be is this more germanine to this topic later or should I finish now? >> I guess we did. >> Well, like I said, I don't know the process by which you follow them and try
034not to get in the way. Um, so in the January meeting, they were given those two options and they said, "We don't like either one of them." and they were told they were wrong and to choose the one of the one of those two with the least desire and they chose the least desirable one which is the week earlier and then um the board meeting in February it was open to public comment and every and there was quite a few people here there was from I was from down in Nepal and there was several people out here um and we and we all voiced I I didn't hear one I didn't hear one comment that was in favor of moving it up um and so correct me if I'm wrong on that but I don't
035didn't hear anything that was uh in favor of it. Um so uh the closing remarks um pretty much was the response was you're wrong. Um uh apparently we can't make all the changes all at once. So it was uh couldn't make the change all at once and it would be implemented over the course of the next few years instead and the other school district would have just have to be flexible. I think I read that in the paper or the bill night or something. I can't remember where I read that. That was in there. Um and so it really there wasn't any like uh thank you for participating. Those are good comments. Let's reevaluate. Um it was just no, we'll just implement it in a slower way. Instead of all at once, one week or
036two weeks implemented a slower way, one or two days in advance. And so on February 27th, we saw we got the roll call stating that the school year was accelerated in spite of the very unanimous nearly unanimous vote against it. And like you were saying Mr. throw out that uh uh the whole thing wasn't done but it just as the comment suggested well wasn't suggested it was stated clearly uh we'll implement it over multiple day multiple years one or two days at a time and so that's the that's the new calendar that you mentioned right now is that uh we're I think was it two days in advance or was a one day one day okay and so um somehow uh there was it it turned out to be that there was not of of
037of the two bad decisions. A third one that was even worse um came about which was kind of startling me. Um uh so the the Thursday and the Friday I think the freshman start Thursday and the high and the other kids start Friday. Is that right? Um and I wonder how effective those two days randomly spliced like that are going to um be beneficial. I guess we'll see the next year because as was said in the last meeting, it's going to advance um one or two days every year after mix however long it takes. >> Um number one, that's up to the board and the teachers union and that's something that'll be decided on on an annual basis. Um far as I'm concerned, we've moved it up one day and that's fine and we'll stay
038there as far as I'm concerned. I don't know that lot a lot of that will have to do with >> so that's fantastic >> what what the union wants to do and how what they expect >> that's fantastic to hear because in that meeting was very clear to say that we'll we'll implement the early start over multiple years >> I never said that >> I didn't say you said that you did not say that in fact you were what the the comments you said it sounded like you were in favor of most of the community who also did not like the area >> correct Um, so, uh, um, I did find one other school that, um, hell, that's good. So, I guess just to wrap up my comments, I'm still in favor of the early
039start in August. However, having said that, I wouldn't mind it if I could see any information that was beneficial. I haven't seen any beneficial information about that. I haven't seen accelerated testing scores. I haven't seen better people produced by it. Um it's it's I haven't seen any information that helps me understand that its validity more so it I I would like to encourage I I can't express it high enough to get on board with the other district. Uh last time I made the comment that it would be fantastic if we got to one district. I still think that's the right way to go. I just can't imagine. It's just it just eludes my understanding that we can't have one district here. Um and the reason most of us live in Montana to be get out
040and enjoy the outdoors. That's a great thing. Um I would be far very start if it does. Like I said, I saw the benefit. Um and I think the other district would be willing to jump on board if there's any positive benefit related to them as well. I don't positive benefit I think is the thing that is that was lacking here. Um, I'm even more opposed to the accelerated schedule now that it's kind of gone. It was clearly stated last time that we're going to go incrementally over the next few years, but I still think that's kind of a a sneaky way around it and a like like a frog in a in a pot of water. You slowly raise it up and doesn't know that it's been cooked. I hope we don't I hope
041we realize that before it is it's the action is taking place. Um yeah, minimally um before any more incremental change is taken. I would very much like to see some definite definitive information benefits um improves the elastic achievement. Uh anything any information that makes kids better I think would go a long way in justifying this this thing because it hadn't been justified at all. In fact, the information given was just I thought it was quite lacking. Anyways, um and that's I guess that's all I got to say. Thanks for indulging me and um for the rest of comments. Sorry if I line. >> That's fine. Thank you. >> Anybody else have any comments and you can join? >> Yeah, I can jump in. Um so with our first first Thursday, that's practical orientation. And so
042really, you know, they're spent a lot of time in the auditorium kind of going through rules. And then our Friday is everybody else orientation. So really by doing that, it's actually kind of a nice break because then starting the next Monday, you can go into instruction right away. So I know in talking to multiple students and other staff, they said, "You know what? It's not the worst thing." And teachers, we usually start on Tuesday, so now we're going to start on Monday. We're kind of start. So I guess that's kind of and I appreciate what you said that it's not a step like it was clearly said last time it'll be implemented over multiple years and I hope you're right and it's it's not so I think respond whether or not but where my patients
043a little thin there's an overwhelming amount of evidence there's a reason why over 80% of the country is a schedule like this right it's it's it's strateg the most strategic importance. All right? You do this to give your kids more opportunity to prepare for those high stakes exams which we are held accountable. I can't put it any any clearly clearer or plainly than that. A number of other things we can do. The one thing I'd say go back and check the video. All right? Because I do believe I think you're spreading some misinformation because I said I would like to work together. we we're going to work together as as a team, as a community to arrive at a calendar that we fit in best for our students. And so I'd appreciate if you would
044do that because there is a video record. I would also Yes, I did. I did give thanks to the input. I I do think it's important that we work toward 10. I would mention that US News and World Report while our high school is ranked 12th, the middle school is ranked 50th and and the elementary is ranked 45th. And I would think that the calendar might have something to do with that although that's probably just one piece of of the issue. >> The calendar >> I would say some other things that we could do >> the calendar because they don't start Labor Day which less than 15% of our state does. So again, I'm a very I'm a I'm a facts and data guy. I go by the research, okay? with over 17 years experience
045education, eight years as a superintendent. I have a PhD from Montana Penn State University. I feel like I'm very well informed and knowledgeable on this topic. I just didn't show up yesterday unprepared. And so over the course of a number of years, yes, I'd like to work with with you, work with the community, but what I would request is an open mind because again, I'm putting out some hard research and some hard data there. And I it just it offends me a little bit that you just just brush it aside like it's nothing because that's not fair. I would say that baseline testing, yes, we want to get the baseline testing done so we can begin strategically informing our instructional decision making so we can meet those kids deficiencies. There's a number of things that
046we can do besides just the calendar. We're going to do a tier 2 intervention program maybe starting next year. We're working with our kids that are somewhere in between the gaps of advanced and proficient and that they need a little extra help so they can get up to proficiency level. I would like to look at bringing back summer school. You talked to Mark last time about summer melt. How this calendar doesn't shifting days around, right? That's because there's more than there's more to it than that. If we had a summer school program, if you don't do credit recovery, we might be able to look at targeting some of those learning days. So the calendar is just the first piece because I can't make any decisions or promote any decisions or put forth any decisions for
047for consideration until that is settled. That's where all the strategy starts and where we begin. That's fantastic. And I and I I did I guess I missed those in your article where you defended it. I I that's all I that's all if I can see the numbers. You say you're a data and facts person. I'm an engineer. I like data and facts. Well, it's fantastic. Like I said in my speech, it could if it shows to be beneficial. I said I do it. >> I think you'll find it. It will, but I wouldn't want you to take my word for it. My goal is to is to prove it over time. I'm not going to try to sell something that impact I can't prove. >> Fantastic. So um so just as you're saying exactly reiterate
048reiterating what I said, what metric are we going to measure success by? >> Exactly. So again, we're held accountable for our ACT scores. We're going to measure by that. We're also held accountable or we're measured by our number our scores on our advanced placement test. Our number of students that are getting into university system, our number of kids that are getting one directly from high school into a career. That's where or a trade or industry. We're going to look at all those factors. And I I feel like if we're more successful getting those kids into into good programs, whether it's college or career, that shows that something's working because we we we're losing we've lost some kids to homeschool. And I'm supposed to meet with a couple of the homeschool coordinators here in the coming
049weeks to talk to them about what we can do as a multifaceted problem. It's not and I say problem, there's just more we can do. It's not just the calendar. It's it's one piece. It's the first piece, but there are multiple things we can do, I think, to help bring back um some of our homeschool kids to work with them at the very least to see what we can offer them. And because they already participate in a lot of our programs, a lot of our our CTE programs, our sports programs, um clubs and so I I would like to see us work on that. And I think I think there a lot of answers in the community maybe that we haven't even considered yet. And I'd like to explore those through some meetings and some
050and discussions with with community members. >> Yeah, it sounds like uh not to speak hyperbole, but sounds like we're in a human agreement that I just want to see those metrics shown. That's fantastic. I I in the documentation that I saw didn't specify very well and you say it's there. Fantastic. I'd like to see it and then the metrics by which you're going to measure. Fantastic. Come on. >> Thank you. Anyone else have any comments? Okay. Thank you, Mr. Sill. That was one of the superintendent report. >> All right. Just principal candidate interviews. So, we had uh interviews back on Tuesday, February 19th. We had three finalists that were selected from the 12 applications. They were Doug Pal, uh Gerald Shannard, and Greg Limlin. We after all the interviews we deliberated and the committee selected
051Greg Lynland preferred candidate. He will be recommended tonight for hire for the full board. Any questions on our interview process or candidates? I guess I'd like to say that all all three of the candidates interviewed very well and did a nice job. And um Greg Limlin has taught in the Dylan district 10 district for 12 years I believe and is currently a principal in Anaconda and he just felt like the candidate that we wanted to recommend. He's local. These kids have gone through the school system here. So, we were pleased. They all did an outstanding job. We're very fortunate to have. >> Yes, we do. So many good candidates to choose from. I'll skip the AC building repair update because we've kind of covered that. I'll move on to the 2026 2027 plate budget data
052information. That's pretty key. There's also a handout in your packet looks like this FY27 that kind of goes over and so you'll notice I highlighted on page I think it's the second page of that document what our highest budget without a vote is our highest budget with a vote and the amount that separates the two. And so, um, the highest without a vote next year is 3,690, $643.99 or $3,740,41925 with a vote. That's a difference of roughly $50,000. And while that may be a large sum, I don't think that it's um significant enough to merit consideration of an operational levy. So, I think that we should hold off on nothing like that. Just to compare, our highest estimated budget without a vote this year is uh three 3,61,533.86. That's a positive improvement um over last
053year of $89,110. And while part of that can be attributed, Gary, to the stars, one small portion of the stars act, a lot of it is on it's an increase in direct state aid. So that's a total of both stars and the direct that's the increase >> more in direct a day. I think it's like 40 something thousand in direct aid. >> Okay. >> About 10 or so in stars and then it's a there's been increases across the board in some other questions on >> because last year we had like 80 something stars, didn't we? And then 87 from state aid I think. >> Something like that. But that last year the stars deal that was the first time it came up and I think we received a larger amount last year. >> You can
054see our enrollments kind of held steady. We were at 348 for our A and B total calculation this year. That also matches the threeear average. >> How do you as board members excuse me? How do board members feel about running a levy for basically for the $50,000? Last time we tried to run one and last time we ran our tech levy, they both failed. Um it's a good idea. >> The economy like it is now, I don't feel it is either. So >> think you want to hold off on that gets north of 100. Yeah. If >> it starts getting in the six figure territory, that's when you have that discussion. Starts to be a pretty big shortfall. So, you're all okay with that? Okay. As are you, Josh? >> Yes. >> Any questions? Okay.
055Next, I've got the uh Oh, the the 2627 revised academic calendar proposal. And so, I think I've shared that with you. It's it's in your packet. We're starting one day earlier. uh the difference in hour time because somebody had asked me about the hours exactly who that was. But this current year we have 1,16 hours of instructional time. This calendar is 1,15 hours. So we're a difference of one hour from in total instructional time from the current calendar. The calendar that's proposed tonight. So and John from as you explained to Mr. Sandell you the union teachers are appointed with this calendar. >> Yes it passed overwhelming majority when I did the overwhelm. Any questions? Okay we'll move on then. Spring reporting and student registration. All spring reporting is complete. I saved a few little things
056from OPI. Hope you have I got to work work out a few little things with them in the in the next week or so. We recently had our eighth grade registration night. Uh the leadership time team and I have been working together to prepare for the switch from power school uh to infinite campus which is our student information system. We've had weekly meetings every week for the past several weeks and so soon we'll begin the online registration process. We're looking forward to uh getting that underway. winter future evaluations are pretty much wrapped up and it's been the pleasure of evaluating the 12 staff members I've got to evaluate this year. Next year I'll do the the next 12 and then I'll officially um observe every teacher on staff twice. So what I can say the
05712 I've observed is we got a great staff. It's it's probably the the biggest reason our school was ranked 12th. Um that and the fact that there's been some past leadership that put some some practices in place like our advanced placement courses uh partnering with Western for dual enrollment. Highlands College as well and Montana Tech I think is are a big part of the reason for our success. Of course we have great kids and they help me great kids too. And then you get my March uh March schedule there. Any questions on the super report? >> How many eighth grade registers did we have? Do we think we'll have >> 80 something? Can't remember exactly, but it's in the >> 802 83. >> We got five or six in the rules. We might be close
058to 80. SP was in the 350 range, which would be great. Any else have any questions for Josh's report? Okay. If not, we'll go on to the assistant principal report. Well, first of all, before I do this, wanted me to ask you guys um if anybody's going to the state tournament, let him know the exbody knows about boys and girls basketball teams were class A division champions rules. >> That is awesome. >> Pretty cool. Boys play at five and the girls play at 8. Yes. >> Boys have >> Well, City Well, City and the girls have Laura. >> They both have pretty good brackets really. >> Yeah, we're start pretty well. Yeah, explain well and everybody's healthy as can be. And >> yeah, I think only once in the whole history or the recent history
059of our high school, in the last 50 years anyway, there was only one time when the boys and girls both won the divisional championship in the same year. I know we did it last year and did it this year, which is pretty speaks a lot to our coaches and our players. Pretty neat. Okay, we'll make this brief. Attendance is actually down a little bit from previous months, but we did talk about how illness has been kind of I guess elementary and high school alike. Um, but it is it can kind of look last board meeting was about 84%. Now we're you know back up to 91. which is doesn't look like for the whole entire month at 88% northern about 92% um over we're climbing the story confident that we won't back and like in
060broken records very very similar followed by cell phones are kind of the and hopefully spring doesn't get too hard because sometimes behaviors increase a little bit too bad. So keep posting. Any questions for Rob with his report? This could be the activities director's report which they're having the winter meeting tonight. Correct. Correct. >> Spring spring is going right now. >> When the spring practices start really >> So then we have Monday, we'll have a week of practice. We'll have our prom. Um and then the second week and start start competition. So our our kids, especially if they're athletes that winter athletes and then spring athletes, don't get much of a break, which is a good thing. I mean, you're still participating. Now that the spring activities are about to start, we'll for sure get some
061winter weather. I hope. >> Okay. Any questions for Rob? Bring about Brock's report. If not, we'll go on to the consent agenda items. >> All right. Item 9.1, board consideration and possible approval, recommendation to hire Greg Lim, BCHS assistant principal the 2627 school year. I so moved to hire Greg Lemon as BCHS assistant principal 67 school year. >> Been moved and seconded to hire Greg Limlin as the principal for the upcoming school year. There any questions or comments? Those in favor say I. I. Those opposed unanimously. >> 9.2 two for consideration and possible approval of the recommendation to hire Suzanne Valick as a district clerk for the 2627 school year. >> Take that motion. >> Second move seconded that hires Bolic as the district clerk for the upcoming school year. I I just would like
062to comment as chairman and being on the board for a lot of years. I'm just so impressed with the job she's done and how quickly she's caught on and she's just done super hands. All those in favor say I. >> Those opposed. Item 9.3 board consideration possible approval of tenure teacher employment recommendations for the 2627 school year. See a list right here. Those are the uh list of our tenure teachers. Uh also Mr. Milaki as a ad only person I left off Miss Browse. So because JC was on the year before and nobody caught it. So she'll be on our April agenda. We don't because we don't miss her. We definitely want her back as well. and she's willing to come back. We're very gracious and grateful to that. >> I still move >> hire
063the BCHS tenure teachers for the 16.7 school year been moved and seconded to hire the slate of tenure teachers presented to us for the upcoming school year. There any discussion or questions? Those in favor say I. Thank you both. This is unanimously. Don and Miss Gentry, thank you for the wonderful job, mainly your staff. We're very fortunate. So, what we'll do with that is we're going to get contracts out immediately. That's another new strategy that'll wait until May. I do like to get teachers under contract as quickly as possible. And so while those numbers may change, we do issue new contracts for those if negotiations do result in new figures and we issue new contracts that time. This this allow us to begin that 20-day clock. So 20 business days to uh sign their contract
064offer. Otherwise, we'll take as an indication of offer refusal, which allows us to open positions quicker if that were to happen. That's kind of the strategy behind getting that this done right away. Um, I did get out uh intent to return requests and I've received 20 out of 24 responses back. So, I'm pretty confident that the vast majority, if not all of our teachers will come back return next year. Okay, moving on to item 9.4 consideration possible approval of non-tenyear teacher employment recommendations for the 2627 school year. You can see those in 9.4. It's broken out. Um, each of those teachers are non-tenure teachers. I will mention that Bobby Conan, our business teacher, is moving into a fourth contract. So, she will be tener >> and and I may um you observed and evaluated these
065guys. Um, and like you said, we have solid teachers and and the ones that are coming up are just as strong. you know, they have great rapport with the kids and they they care about what they're teaching. They're, you know, passionate about their content materials, content area. Um, just a good group of >> and this is the list where Chrissy was left off by accident and >> Yes. Can you put her on next meeting? Okay. evaluate her, but she's really stuff does a great job and his lot. She's gone. You'll let her know that she just was in oversight. So, she >> I move to approve the non-tenure in items 9.41 through 9.4. 46 moved and seconded to hire the slate of non-tenure teachers. There any discussion or questions? Those in favor say I. I.
066>> Opposed. This is unanimously. Okay. Next is action items. Josh. >> Okay. Item 10.1 consideration possible approval of the recommend of the recommended solution for the ASIT building repair. When the committee met, they chose the as the second option. The option that was for 700,000 and change. I can get that >> 700 what? 47 Dan. Is that what it was? Something like that. >> 471 recommendation. How do you guys feel about that as opposed to going with the metal covering? >> This one eliminates or alleviates to a large degree the issue of the potential mold and moisture wicking. >> Yes. >> Which would be another unforeseen. Well, and Dan and the architect and Langless are all feel fairly strongly that this will be a good good material to put on the outside. And one nice
067thing about it, if there is a damage or whatnot to it, it can be fixed relatively easily, can it, Dan? As opposed to trying to correct the metal. >> Yep. And just one thing real quick to clarify on the the pricing. That's that's a that's a kind of a rough order of magnitude. That's kind of the high-end because once this is designed, it'll actually get developed and bid out. And so the next thing you're really approving the the process, not necessarily the price. We will come back to you with a guaranteed maximum price once everything's designed and it's actually bid. So we still have to meet the requirements of by the state for the contractor to bid it, but that's kind of our worst case scenario. So our hope is bid day we see some
068additional budget savings there. Uh that's just kind of that worst case and that's just FYI that's not only the recommendation from a budget but solution I think is going to be detailing is going to be easier and the overall performance we feel is going to be a a better delivery for for the district. Anybody have any questions for Dan? Now's the time to ask him if you do familiar with this product any place. Phil, >> you say it's on quite a few commercial buildings around the state, Dan? >> Yeah. Yeah. lots of industrial um places where there's high high levels of water. So, a lot of commercial places that service vehicles and and deal with water for and chemicals, it's it stands up to all of that stuff. And that's why I think the it's
069it's a good solution to kind of seal up that block and all those larger cracks that have appeared over time. It'll seal all that stuff up and and really limit any potential of future infiltration of air or water. >> And you think it can move a little bit with heat and cold? >> Yep. >> And and our engineers have all agreed that any of the now that we're five years into it, all of the settling that potentially could be there is is happened. So now we're the building really is kind of set where it is. This price includes both prices. Um when we toured, you know, Gary was with us when we toured the building, they have control joints in the CMU where they they create a spot where it should allow it to flex.
070That caulking was probably not not the correct product. We we can see a lot of areas that it was pulling off of the block. and this solution, we're going to strip all that out and replace everything. So, really, the building's going to be much tighter um than it ever has been with this either of these solutions, but especially where we've got new joint seals and then we're we're actually going to fill all of those cracks that have presented themselves will be all sealed and and kind of non-existent anymore. And then Dan, did you say that this this product can be color tinted? >> That's Yes, it can be tinted. So, we'll probably tint it and then still apply a final finish on it because a a paint product is going to have a a better
071appearance to it than a this tinted product, but it'll be tinted behind it. >> So, really any anything that shows up won't be o overly obvious. Um, then we can put on a maintenance plan for repainting and retouching up. >> And there again, like we talked in our meeting, the backside where all the wood chip thing is and the greenhouse and everything, maybe we wouldn't have to paint that if the >> if the color is right. >> If the color was close to being correct. Yeah. >> Correct. >> Yeah. Because on the back, if you recall, most all of that is the flat or smooth face CMU. So, it's going to accept the the material a lot more consistently. And so, that could be an option to leave it and not not worry as much
072about the the the third coat of a finished product on it. Um, and it would still be performed the same as everything everywhere else. Anybody have any other questions for Dan? So I guess after our our meeting with the committee and with Dan and Josh, my recommendation would also be to go with the the coating that we're talking about rather than the metal covering. If all of you are okay, we can accept a motion and let Dan go in that direction if you wanted to. >> That's option two, right? >> Yes. >> I move to approve option two. You need a second. >> Yeah. So >> is ASET as project second >> been moved and seconded to approve option two of Dan's presentation for roughly $747,000. Is there any questions? All those in favor say
073I. >> I. Those opposed passes unanimously. Welcome, Mrs. Loves. All right. >> You're fine. We might even ask you a question before you put on the spot. Okay. What's next? Josh, your calendar. Let's see. Yep. Item 10.2, Two board consideration possible approval if opposed 2627 BCHS academic calendar so to bring the proposed 2627 BCHS >> seconded to approve the proposed calendar for the upcoming school year. Is there any question or discussion? Any further comments from you or Miss Gentry? >> No further comments. >> Okay. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Those opposed like to thank you for all the input you guys did and for Josh all the work you did on it and everyone else. Thank you. 10.4 Four, board consideration, excuse me, 10.3 10.3 board consideration, possible approval of
074the school audit for year ending June 30th, 2025. And we sent that separately because it's like 80 some 89 pages, something like that. >> There were no substantial findings, so we're very happy about that. Clean audit. Suzanne said she'd be happy to answer any of your questions. Yes. >> School for the year ending June 30th, 2020. Seconded to approve the school audit for the school year ending June 30th, 2025. Is there any discussion or question there? Again, thank you Suzanne for doing such a good job. I don't think not every school gets a clean audit. I don't think >> no that have not. It's a real relief clean audit. >> Those in favor say I. >> Those opposed. Passes unanimously. >> Now we'll move on to work consideration of a declaration to announce trustee candidates
075as officially elected by acclamation. That be Cole, Roxan, and Nobody filed. That's great. >> Thank you. We'll have to make the motion s. So move to approve the declaration to announce trustee candidates as officially elected by acclamation. Paul Cotm, Roxan England, Ellen and seconded announce the candidates elected by acclamation of Cole Cotm, Roxan Englet, and Phil willlet. Is there any question or discussion? Those in favor say I. >> I. I. >> Those opposed passes unanimously. 10.5. This will be the last page of your um active board consideration possible proof of of a resolution of intent to impose an increase in levies. This is not to be mistaken with an operation levy. This is just uh we have to disclose this to the public annually and this was I think in two legislative sessions ago. And
076so we we have to show our older base levy, transportation, bre technology, flexibility, debt service, building reserve which is permissive and building reserve go. And so as you can see there is very little change in the uh the meals the number of meals projected. So currently now this can't change but currently u we're projecting 75.79 meals and that's compared to 75.39 mills this year. We're just up a little bit and you can see where there where you know where those were um most it's mostly adult to be honest. We bought back our adult head art and ceramics and so we're having to levy a little more there so we can keep providing courses like that so long as there's interest there be an up or down I believe there is but almost 20 I think
077in the painting and then there's 12 or Eric deserve permissive levy because it's it's for every $1 we levy locally, it's $4 the state uh kicks back. Now, that that's it's capped. You can only go up so much before you meet the reach point demanding returns. Um and so we're we're expecting about $80,000 um to generate that next year where our building reserve funds which can go to projects other projects in need like concessions, like catwalk, like boilers that need to be replaced. So that's that's why that fund is so important moving forward. Yeah. >> The resolution of intent to impose an increase in levies. Sorry. >> Been moved and seconded to approve a resolution of intent to impose an increase in levies. Is there any discussion? Those in favor say I. >> I. Those
078opposed. Next. Josh, I have this here about the Montana job court. Do we have to include that any place? >> I think it's already been approved. It's fake. They weren't updated. >> Okay. >> One that was like 20 years old. Maybe got updated on the new site. >> This is an interlocal cooperative agreement with one hit drunk corp and school districts which allows us to send students to the J school. Correct. >> Correct. Over in Anaconda. If they get um they fulfill all the requirements still graduate ECS if they choose that route there any other business to come before the board. Emma, what's new with the students? Anything? >> Yeah, that's pretty neat. That's needed. Congratulations. Saw you guys. >> That's right. I wasn't able to make it this year. good things about it. >>
079Yes. A lot of people who watched and I mean well attended you see any questions thoughts >> Mr. Hson Gry >> Yes. Okay. If there's nothing else, I would entertain a motion to adjourn until Monday, April 15th. Oh, thank