001get cleaned up and accessible you know if we use it for for bus parking for things for the time being um I think we could definitely like limit use it um if it was if it was becoming Tor up but as soon as they come in to do the paving they're going to work it again um so it's it's kind of a catch 22 there um but it's it gives us plenty of opportunity um especially with and I don't know understand how this works but I was here we had three times as many kids at this school and we had plenty of paring but they don't everybody has a car yeah um so uh I have I have wrote more tickets this year than car account but um it gets through and then we have
002to do it know it'll be it'll be good for a bit then um but having um availability for all the students and then for all of our events because especially with um basketball volleyball um even football I mean you'll see parked over here for the games because there's really not a place to park over there but it gets really ingested in there it's it's a it's dangerous say well especially when they're parking in the fire Lanes you know yeah there's no way to get apparatus Factor this will also help with that as far as the um east side of the building to have that open space where we can get I know this was several years ago and they were talking about needing to put a gate in the back there to go get the
003fir trucks into the courtyard and out um this would eliminate that so we can get get fire trucks back there if need be um the the fencing would also um I would like to keep that fenced off area but um it's something that if we have it and we can do it to even pave that current Courtyard area would be a nice um especially for um the teachers and everybody that parked back there and Mike walks through and logs the gate and it's it becomes a buy money mess back there but that's that's down the road but as long as we can get get things started and moving in the right direction I think um I'd like to hope that since I've been here trying to get things going in the in a positive direction
004and and making positive change um on number two um this summer we had the boiler at the B not this summer it's sorry this winter of course it would be cold the BW um main boiler went down I had Rocky Mountain boiler come down uh CL had gone out of out of it and then coincidentally a modulator motor went out in it so it just shut off um we got the backup boiler running enough that we could get heat into the building but um rock Mount boiler did say that it is in desperate need of of either updating which would probably be the cheapest option um or to remove it and get some of the smaller um boilers because it is all water over there similar to the ones that are over in the boag
005and then they could modulate between what's needed um which would be of course more efficient and more cost effective and then that larger main boiler that we're using now could essentially be the backup um if and he also pointed out with that one if we ever need to like put new tubes in it or anything since the with the new um expansion construction there was a door that was right in front of that boiler is now gone so there's actually no way to like get tubes into that we would have to kind of fold in the [Music] ball um what's the cost on you know doing the update so I'm gonna have I'm working with them to come down and do a give me a quote on it for both of them he figured just
006to to redo the um or if we took it out and put all new units in he figured it would be in like 125 range um which I thought was pretty reasonable for boiler system um he said that the the updated burner on it would be significantly less if it couldn't done and um and then finding out what else needs to be done with that that fer because it is very old probably from 196 [Music] um along with that currently in the in this main building um we did have two boilers in there one of the original ones um and then the newest one which was put in when I was a junior or senior so it been 99 to um but it we cannot certify it it is too too far gone um they
007won't the the state won't recertify that one so we're eventually going to need to replace that put something in even a smaller unit that we can um just use as a backup uh they are very impressed with how like how good a shape that this boiler is considering its age so that's kind of kind of nice to hear it's been well taken care of over the years um and then uh and of course I there's not a lot of stuff on the Bo building because we don't want to bring that um the the Heating units that are in this building of course are like the original Heating units um I have looked into the possibility of like updating it to one similar to this um they would have their their own controls um currently I
008have three switches that turn on every fan in the building and there's what 20 some e fans so I've got one switch for this end of the building one switch for this end of the building one switch for the center of the building um if this side's like oh it's really cold I'll turn it on this I'll be oh it's too hot turn it off like which you can imagine that's the most efficient way to do things um along with that it it really messes up the the condensate in l so then I'm trying to regulate between what's coming back and what's going on and a big issue with that is the green gym the two heaters in there um I think the controls in that are going out I did have um West electric
009come and look at maybe possibly updating those controls so that because with those ones I have to go up every day turn them on the morning and between 1 and 2:30 shut them off or it becomes an inferno and then it keeps it nice and warm for the day and then I um so it's just not not the most efficient especially if I'm busy with something and I for and then they're like it's hot in here um but I think if they're practicing they should be sweating so um the the soft water system in the main building and the BW Lodge I I know that Ed um before he had left he had done something with this um I've talked to Premier several times to try to get this figured out on how we could
010Plumb um the entire building through the hot water system and get that up to dat so that we don't have that hard scale going through every fixture in buildings um it's just a lot of wear and tear that ultimately could avoid over the long run um and probably save a lot of especially like the new faucet and and plumbing that have been put into the building um especially wor of BW um the sidewalks um that's uh I don't know why they didn't think that the part in front of the old gym was bad enough to be replaced when they did the street thing but they did the section in front of the auditorium but it's certainly in in pretty bad disrepair um several uh areas um on the sidewalks they're just settling and and and
011they can be raised um the FCS room I know Kim has talked to me several times um that uh the the kitchens and the and the updates in there I think we would have to certainly have somebody come in and look at that but it could be a more usable space everybody's been up there you probably remember it from when you went to school it's exactly the same um so I and um there's no access really to to a lot of the stuff that goes on in there as far as uh drainage or Plumbing um without completely tearing into those subfloors of those of those kitchen units um so there's a possibility of something we could do there um a lot of the entry ways um I've noticed uh especially like the BW Lodge West
012entrance um we need to do something different with that it's it's crumbling and falling apart um would like to do like an expansion metal type ramp and platform um that you know can the snow and stuff would go through it and it would pick up a lot of the dirt that comes in from the parking lot before it enters the building just be uh more more aesthetic and and and safer Entry Way um along with that Jack could any of that be done through our vag programing or industrial art program yes that's a great that was a great thing I was going to get to that okay um we have uh and Mr IO have actually done a few projects even this year um things that we put in a a walkway there in front
013of the um Marquee sign so kids can walk through there and not crack through the mud and the dirt and uh we did some concrete stuff I think will be great projects because some of the stuff we can do in house and save us quite a bit Yeah because that West entrance that was part of the original bond issue yeah was one of the low priorities we ran out of money on and didn't get done and I don't necessarily think it needs to be en closed but just have some sort of awning over it that could also be built by the capable students of ke oh I just got um uh awnings over the stairwells or the stairway stairways um gutters and drainage uh I've noticed especially in the winter which is is is the
014worst time where it becomes an issue any snow that builds up on any of the the you know entryways where there's sort of a I wouldn't call it an awning but it's it sticks out there's no drainage on it so when that melts right down and then it's on the sidewalk and then becomes icy um so even if we put some some sort of drainage on that a gter or or anything like that would help out a lot um paint um I think you know when you're as a student when you when you come to school I feel like if you see things are fresh and they're different it makes it exciting and you want to be here and kind of that's kind of been my main focus is I want the kids to be
015out of where their so you know I I remember the green monster it was great and it went Snicker do um but I I think there's certainly some um some dated uh colors there that AR might not be in the state and age is is pleasing to come to Forest gree so um I think those are they're little things um should they cost things but I think in in my theory is if if something looks fresh and new to to attend and be be present um of course we did the tile in the hallways this last summer um we do have some of that tile still available I think with the transitions that were put in to go from the classrooms to the to the um or the hallways to the classrooms uh they're not
016the best I've glued some of them down put some put some silicone on them to keep them in place um when when we're when the janitors are were cleaning in and out to get everything over those transitions it's it makes it kind of a pain it would be nice to eventually transition that tile into the into the classrooms um storage and shelving uh big advocate of organization even though he looked in my office which I don't go into you wouldn't think that but um storage there's we have a lot of of space that could be more organized and um and and we can put things away and not just have things L um we cleaned out that basement last year that's really usable space where we can put a lot of stuff have organized everybody
017could have their own space where they keep all their stuff that they use throughout the year just because you don't see it all the time they pull it out from some where and uh think it's a make it work but it would be nice to have some organized space um this last one I this was just a thought I had and we'd have to of course talk to the city and everything uh Street side side street parking um don't get me wrong I love plowing snow it's great but we have a lot of space over here that I don't know if we could utilize to make more St parkings along the street side they could um D park it was just kind of a thought I had so um I think with if you took
018out one of those sections of sidewalks narrow the sidewalk up there would be pling for um staff parking and handicap like actual accessible handicap spaces for this building just where Jeeps hit um so yeah so that's kind of was my was my thoughts there's certainly more things that can be done there always things that can be done um I like to just pick a project and and get after it and uh these are kind of the big ones where it would take more than just me and a couple hands Jack how how long are the bids good on this paring mod over here do we need to get on that right away and get that approved yeah yeah we do um so the the asphalt one is more um fluid whereas it it changes constantly
019um so that one um it would it would probably change by next year than what they do um the the just the gravel and the dirt work it's it's pretty consistent so I've been told that this would be you know pretty much a consistent thing through through this um through the summer so Jack is talking to a little bit about the inine stuff that roxan kind of brought up you know maybe having just a signment this yeah so the big question I was asked was um kind of what are we looking for as far as a number um one of the things that was thrown out was like I'll donate the booster my booster club and I don't throw the Platinum Club thing and I'm not really sure how that all works you probably be
020more t on that they're kind of to different entities so I didn't want to be like yeah let's do that because um it's it's a whole different um ballpark there but I think there are some opportunities for for um things like that they just kind of wanted a a number all of it yes rounds know how to what to ask for makes sense you know what that might look like because I can Envision a sign that that would be I mean especially for you know parking for events and stuff like that we're bringing a lot of people that are coming you know into that could be very high profile where it's being seen just not being in that realm knowing exactly how to propose it if that makes sense yeah I wouldn't trade it for
021booster clubthing memberships yeah I yeah well and then you know when when iig like a 10 year commitment yeah so yeah that was I think that was kind of off the table but when they mentioned that you know we could do we could do it in section like that seems like that seems like the better way to approach this um also we we talked about a little bit just throwing some ideas around is having you know students they we have a lot of space and you know we we have it redone every three years you know students buy parking spaces that's their space for the year um I know a few schools that do it yeah yeah so if you do like $100 of space and and it's yours and you can out and you
022know put your name on it and paint it um I've seen it in things on Falls um um East Helena where they've done that and really if you if we did that that could almost pay for the reserving every three years you know we can get few thousand that certainly take a chunk out of that you know we got to do it anyways and and it's it's just a way that we can fundraise for that I guess only challenge is then you got a ticket for it if somebody's parked in there so you got a little bit more work that way yeah there was a comment made by the local police officer Stone like thanks for that but yeah I think I did say three to five no I'm just kidding yeah project if I
023plan ahead then I can so I know I don't know if this is thing or not you were talking about they might double that house legislation bill but possibly be increasing the amount of money like the state contribution for you know major you know types of projects and so that should be obviously there in legislative parak right now remember that on it but it there but that it's gonna come it's gonna come in the next part of the session so and again just to try to help Rel some of the taxpayer burden on some of those those big projects and keeping facilities I mean there's just a lot of schools in that are um in the same position that we're in they're old they're run down and you know just trying to maintain them is
024you know it just costs it just costs a lot of money it is House Bill 55 G be one that we want to watch thanks thank you yeah one more thing um I'm going to be 7th is I think I got I think it's that Wednesday I think I meant to call you you that because I have an assembly that's the seventh I got it's the yeah I'm GNA double check on it um because now in my email I've got it into I have those two dates in too many different places so I can't confirm which one it is I can see what you're working I'm as far as yeah I have some ideas had some kind of creative things so but it maybe on the nth or the 18th or the seventh or the
025I think a lot of the as far as the units inaps these smaller units yeah um it's just finding which ones are and the green yeah I know why the auditorium works just fine thanks thanks [Music] all right so disiz it seems like the same thing similar Tage are a big thing we actually have more creative ways to try to get them to care hour uary was was up a little bit had a few rest some of them were retar in there but just working through that as well how how many tell the same same ones the same ones discipline thing actually um actually you look at it and it'sing strong at maybe that might be that might be cons I'll go on to 6.2 2526 preliminary budget information so included in your packet copy
026of the preliminary budgets that were sent out by OPI on March 1st unfortunately uh the budgets at this point are not very telling um in these budgets it looks like we're only going to see about a $4,000 increase over last year's budget and it's also showing that we no longer are at the max budget that we actually could go to the voters um and ask for about $5,000 um those of you that have been on the board um will recall that normally um our preliminary budgets that turn into our actual budgets we have about a two and a half to the 3% inflationary increase and that isn't reflective in this budget and so when I first got it I was panicked and calling anybody that would take my call and nobody would take my call
027so finally I called Lance Mountain and had a really good conversation with him you know his initial response was you know making your AMV is down to like you know it looks like it's down two it's actually only down one and of course that is um you know am down two would be about $116,000 on our budget Authority which does have an impact but not to the attune of $80,000 that I was thinking that it should have you know increased and so we kind of went back and forth and you know he kind of dismissed it as that and um I sent in some more information and I tried to call Paul who's the budget director at OPI and I haven't been able to get a hold of him still but um basically Lance was
028able to and did come to find out that none of these preliminary budgets have any of the legislative um things attached them or no inflation that is set up because of course it hasn't gone run its full course through the legislature um House Bill 15 is the inflationary um Bill and where that's looking at is to add the inflation bump to the actual a andb in the calculation so it could have a more significant impact than what the normal two and a half to 3% increase is and and Lance really feels strongly that that bill is on a fast course to get to the governor's desk I think it's at the Senate I think it's past the Senate education committee and so when it comes back after the session opens back up again it'll go
029to the Senate and hopefully then quickly move to um the governor's chest and then of course it doesn't also reflect the Stars act and so um the Stars act you remember is the um bill that just is basically is encouraging of trying to bump up the um beginning teacher salaries and of course it meets has these different thresholds that you have to get to um and it gives money to try to get those school districts to meet those thresholds so that you can invest in some of those you teacher pay and our starting salary is already above the first um actually the first three thresholds and um so we would get to any money that's coming in you know comes into the district and it doesn't have to be used to try to get those
030those beginning teacher salaries up to that level and so that's all very promising obviously that for that just be General into the so go towards salaries towards you know just general budget things so um obviously with it being a legislative year you know there's no guarantee until what could be June but they're hoping to try to get some of these put through as early as possible provide schools with just a better idea as to what that looks like and so um again uh it was a little bit of a sticker shock when I first got it but after talking to Lance I really feel like we're sitting in as good a position as what I had anticipated um prior to prior to conveniently they could that on well and Lance was super disappointed because he
031was under the understanding that they were gonna have the inationary information on the preliminary budgets and so like I said we went back and forth of probably get 10 minutes and him you know talking about A and B and me saying no that doesn't make any sense so anyways I got to be right in that situation and that doesn't happen very often um uh 6.3 official spring a and Council also included in your packet is our certified copy of the spring a calculation you'll see that our enrollments were down from the fall so um on that sheet if you look our fall numbers were at 341 and um at the count date um they are at they were at 3 29 so we last s this at 12 students my math it's too late but
032anyway it's just for a variety of different reasons we had students you know transition out of District you know going to different schools some going to home schools some we lost um at Dropout because that's just a time in the in the year where where you do at the semester point and so um so anyways our numbers were down a little bit um you'll also notice on there that we do have um two part-time students for both the fall and the spring one that's for 180 to 359 hours the other's for 360 to 539 and of course we get a different piece of the for however much time that they're spent here and then we also get Montana we have two Montana Youth Challenge students in the fall we don't have any in the winter
033um and we do have one education savings account and again that's a student that we are actually it's a homeschool student that we are actually paying tuition for um that was on an um IEP and so and that was a new legislative action so I think we pay $800 a month until the end of this school year on to that savings account for that and then down below where it um says students counted for amb extracurricular participation those are homeschool activities and that's from the previous year so this was last year's um so this is the February um I don't know if you guys are interested I'll pass it around and you can kind of take a look at it but this is kind of how they calculate the average A and B so it
034just kind of shows um basically you know if you have a student that's full-time you get the full FTV if they go down to um than 180 hours you don't get any you those down to 180 to 359 it just kind of shows how it decreases you know we had 341 students but one of them was 180 to 359 so that's actually only 340.000 I believe we get 50% for those students uh in the calculation F Yeah so basically we get 50% so like instead of a full FTE it's it's a half per so it just kind of shows how that calculation and how we get to where we're at you'll see that the current Year's A&B is 347 but if we went with a three-year average and that's the last two numbers down at
035the bottom that were at 300 that we would be at 348 and last year we had 34 students interesting to look at and it really does matter you know on those count dates to try to have as many students as you can because it it makes makes an impact and one student does make an impact because like I said it is $8,000 about $8,000 on budget Authority for that one one student but it's not to thee that we were missing budget so any questions on them um staff uh resignation so including your package a copy of two letters of retirement from Betty Everson in title one and WR order all and math and my letters of acceptance these two individuals have made a very significant impact on the uh for so many reasons and in
036so many ways they will be very difficult to replace they have 75 years of service between the two of them um Betty has 40 years working as an academic support in Title One um and then um L just taught for 35 years in math and so um I just kind of wanted to talk quickly about just kind of replacement so uh title one obviously is a federally um Federal program that comes from the Department of Education and so uh obviously right now the Department of Education is a little bit of there's a little bit of uncertainty surrounding that and so um you know there's some different questions you know about what the future of that looks like so some of the things that I have read have suggested that the goal is to reduce the
037title dollars which would adversely impact the education of of some of these vulnerable students can have a negative impact in my opinion on their academic outcomes and then other things that I'm reading is that they're just going to shift you know some of that or shift it from the federal to the state um and of course in that transition there probably going to be some you know some bumps in the road and and what do some of those delays might look like and of course it's not just our title money it's also our um idea special education money as well and so you know I think it's going to be important to look at that obviously I feel like Betty's position is important to replace but we do use those title funds to pay that
038salary and those benefits and so if for some reason that wasn't a part of the um it wasn't available for us to do that it would have to come from someplace else and so you know obviously the general fund and you know I I do believe that something's going to to work out but um but it's just uncertain and so it's it's a little bit difficult to kind of make decisions with some of those things that are that are kind of moving and then of course with Rick's retirement I am proposing that we go to 3 FTE we're currently at 2.43 um and right now we can offer 15 sections of math a semester and by going to 3 FTE we could offer 18 sections a semester um it would be an increase of somewhere
039between 2500 and $155,000 depending on experience and so depending on experience and years so of course if we get a new teacher if they have taught for five years uh they can bring five years into the district and that looks very different on the salary schedule than if they came in with zero years of experience so they were right out of college and they didn't have any teaching experience and then also with that comes what their education is so if they I'm with just a bachelor's with zero you know that's just a you know that's at the very top of the um you know beginning pay salary whereas if they're a master's plus 30 and we have to give them five years then that puts them all the way over here so you know it
040could be about an increase and that's of course on this year's budget of about 250 $ 15,000 um REM maath teachers would allow us to ensure our class sizes are more conducive to increasing academic outcomes I'm sure you've seen all of the statistics that are out there students are coming in and struggling more and more in math and so having smaller classrooms for our algebra and our geometry classes um just obviously really help um right now we're teaching pre-algebra algebra geometry Algebra 2 pre-calculus and calculus more options would hopefully allow for offering of dual enroll woman or AP math classes I do have one teacher that's interested in getting AP Statistics which I think would be a great option we have had some of our students take that through much had a digital academy um
041and then maybe something like a technical math which could also be offered as a dual enrollment and so like some of our students that are um you know doing more of the trade school um you know pathway they could maybe get some of that math out of the way that way as well and and obviously ly with that comes curriculum and you know some of those different types of things but I really do believe we need that an investment in that would be a positive a positive so to get an advanced math teacher will probably have to get somebody with experience I would think and right now you know obviously our two advanced classes that we offer our calculus and pre-calculus and what we're finding is is our students um you know once they're getting
042through that General requirement or even that College math which is algebra 2 if they're not going into engineering or they're not going into the medical field they don't want to take calculus or pre-calculus and so having another option would mean that more of our students are taking a third year of math or possibly a fourth year of math depending on where they started and so honestly we could have kids that are graduating from high school that haven't had a math us their junior or senior year if they aren't want to take that and I would like to you know to possibly open that so just of getting a feel for for what your guys's thoughts are in terms of that obviously I'd like to get the best candidates so the earlier get that absolutely how
043you guys feel about that the mo to to change that to an ftn if we can do that at this point in the meeting put it as a I think we definitely need to do it I think stay and age we need three years or three math fulltime math do you need a motion for that or do it now okay was me H and who's going to tell us different right good move to approve hiring three man mes for the next year right and promote and getting that uh advertise second that been mov and seconded to go to three full-time Math teachers open it up as soon as possible and probably try to tie some activities to it to we need a wrestling coach any discussion those in favor say iOS passan thank you Megan
044important to get that out there before they will get hired 6.5 budget versus actual for February included in your packet is a copy of the statement of expenditures budget versus actual report through February of um it looks very very comparable to where we were at this point last year I think we're actually we were at 53% of the budget last year and we're at 51% so um we're doing a little bit better um we are at 66% of the year um but with salaries for teachers that's really equates to 50% and so because of course um we'll do their June July and August at the end of the you know we'll do that the reun at the end of that and so you know just kind of looking through that um we look on par
045for kind of where um you know most of those different most of the different sections are are in there and really the first two pages the rest is a lot of the the different activities that we will you know like we pay the coaches um you know for their different activities your budget will be okay for this year know it looks like feel like we're sitting in this same about the same place that we were last year my biggest concern this year was the snow removal every time we got one of those bills I just took about one and so every time it snowed I was like that me they're coming so um I think that that helps and so I of course my retirement ri's retirement and Betty's retirement will have um money that
046does pay out so that's definitely something we will be watching and um and looking at and and obviously there is still possibility that we could have other teachers that that put in um for teachers well and for myself too it's a certain percentage of 25% of the sick Le so they can teachers can Bank up to 130 but they can get paid out at 120 those days so what is it that's why number so and always comes at a tough time you know right at the end to figure everything out and so we have been watching that and just think to kind of pay attention to that I was going early Rick we knew I thought Rick was gonna go but and is there a potential that there still might be one [Music] go yeah
047but we'll continue to at least I feel like where we're sitting is about you know on par with what where we traditionally and if I remember correctly last year we were right on which the year prior so um 6.6 was Mr may I say something real quick going back to comments um we have or I have had some comments I know roxan has that talked about if the school district were un ified it would have been way easier to pass with technology levies is what people don't understand even if we were unified it would still be two separate school districts so there still would be two separate M levies would have to be ran for the technology or any M levies in the future or anything right so I mean unification doesn't and never has
048would make any difference in that case yeah and that's so important for the public to understand really important for them to understand it'd be a great one to add to the new [Music] yeah if somebody were responding to she's like get this meeting over so Mr melck 6.6 um would apologize his wife was sick today so he have to go after um the spring activity so he couldn't be here toight but um spring activities did start today so he checked in baseball softball track in tennis um he said everything looked pretty good in terms of numbers and he would have all of that at the next meeting um obviously we just came off a pretty fun successful weekend with our basketball teams um and you know honestly it's just so fun to see how represented
049how positive L we are represented um when we go to those types of things not just our coaches and our players who always um obviously I'm might be biased but I just always feel uh do a great job representing what be high school is all about but our cheer leaders as well as our band our community that traveled um we were smaller in numbers than a lot of the schools that were over there but we definitely made our cin just f one of their parents he got kicked out game so what that means we don't know I wondered about that he gets to go for he doesn't get to go because was that implemented immediately for this year year but I I think when you get kicked out of an mhsa event it holds for
050the next I'm not he's a good guy he just was well he going holler he's got to get more in three or four seats above see you don't say you don't respond back another comment top of it yeah and I think we open um East Helena with our boys at 1:30 on Thursday and we open with this town with our girls at 10:30 good draws from what I understand so sides of the bracket and um 6.8 including your packet our two mental health programs hope Squad in the Montana cares Montana cares is a program that connects students and staff and parents to basic needs and Community Resources uh it is an app and inside the app there's ways of getting for food in security and getting food sent to um access to homes as well
051as um clothing and some of those different types of things it's also features a 247 immediate Crisis Support line and a direct School communication platform that's accessible through the Montana Care's mobile app Chromebook and phone this program is gr Grant funded and is a zero cost to the district it's funded for three years at this point we would stop the school violence act Grant um and is available to all schools as you look through kind of the um information that's in your packet it just it really offers just a wide variety of of of different things that that could really benefit um your students one of the things that um was really appealing to us is that they have open scheduling for E therapy with licensed counselors um and again obviously that would all be
052worked with parents and those different types of things but we are seeing a high demand for families seeking mental health support for their students and so this is just another you know of course we've got vast and we've got Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch but this just provides another opportunity for that we also have um the the hotline that you know anybody can you know text you know to report any kind of school safety incident this also has that as a component that's in that I think having it streamlined as in one app could be a lot more accessible and a lot more beneficial and a lot more usable you know when you're having to go find something it's a lot harder than if it's just something that you can pull up and so um
053just everything that I listened to when he in the presentation and then just kind of reading through some of the different testimonials that it's just it just has the potential to be a powerful program in the school and then the other program that um we'd like to bring TOS is the Hope Squad the state of Montana made available Mental Health Grants and we were able to secure 8200 that would allow us to bring the Hope Squad um to nead County high school it's a fe toar suicide prevention program it's a group of students nominated by their peers they meet regularly with trained advisers to talk and learn about mental health and they kind of become like the First Responders or like a place where like if if students are reporting different things that it's easy
054to get that information to the adults that need to know um members are trained to note signs of distress and reach out connecting peers to help uh the help squads then educate the entire student body to reduce stigmas surrounding mental health support and changing the scho culture and Empower students to help their peers ultimately contributing to a safer and more connected School environment I know that Elementary has implemented a hope Squad and I think we've had it for two or three years and so um I think it's a positive um transition for them and so just something that we think could just be an added benefit to support our students that might be struggling and just give them like I said just another Avenue to to get the help that they need and JC her
055counselor is willing to take that on so she would get trained um and go through the train and then of course the students that would be selected would be um would also go through a tremendous amount of training in those different types of things and obviously parents would have to be a part of that because they would have to give their permission for their student to be involved and so this will be an action item um later in the meeting if if we feel like these are programs that that could benefit our students me questions on our C Grant horal stock work order soing a packet as a letter from the Montana dnrc detailing the formal stop order so according to the letter due to delays in the federal reimbursements the dnrc FED forestry and
056Trust land division can no longer fund any us federally funded projects grants sub Awards and contracts uh the grant that we have was our Landscaping Grant we had two years to complete that um we have already thankfully done a big chunk of it which was the removing of the trees and we have planted some of those trees um but there is $5,000 that's still in the grant at this point is not accessible and of course that was going to be the kind of the beautification part of it where this spring once you know the snow was gone we were going to try to do um some pavers and just do some landscaping and some additional planting and so we're going to try to still figure out some ways to to do some of those kinds
057of things obviously um we're trying to do more to incorporate some of our work-based learning opportunities in our classrooms so our interior design class was gonna kind of plan and map out what what it look like we were going to enlist our egg and our construct some technology classes to help build some of those things and so um we can find and hopefully the money will then become will at some point become available but hopefully we can still do some things to try to to do that that became available after we'd already completed the projects could we rein ourselves back that's a good question and maybe yeah and I I can ask that so like if we did do something to do that just all right that is the [Music] superintendent anyone have any question
058to Megan on the report give the assistant principal's report so I guess we'll go to the consent agenda then we don't have anything action item so state law Senate Bill 307 um I gu said board consideration on Senate Bill 307 resolution of intent to impose an increase in libbies the state law requires every District to provide notice of its intent to increase non voted Lees for the ensuing year which would be fiscal year 26 included in your packet is a resolution to impose an increase in levies which meets the requirement and must be approved by the board and posted in the Dyan Tribune um in your packet um the resolution of intent to impose an increase in levies um so similar to the preliminary budgets the taxable value will be very different by the time
059that these levies are actually imposed and then of course some of our legislative bills that are out there could potentially change but we still have to put that notice out there even though that information to change and so um it does note in the the paragraph down below that it talks about the building Reserve State major maintenance levies and the associated funds and so for um our district estimates for the next school year we're looking at approximately $3,390 and that's the money that Jack was talking about and the benefit of this money is that um we impose or we Levy for you know 24,000 or 28,000 and then the state almost matches that and so basically it's a savings to be able to do you know some of those major um maintenance projects where you
060don't have to Levy the full amount and so that house bill that I was talking about they're actually talking about increasing the state contribution to that to again kind of try to help relieve some of the the taxpayer dollars to that get to um approve the resolution intent to increase levies and then can get that sent to the D Tre mov second to pass the resolution of the intent to impose an increase in Levy there any questions those in favor say I those opposed pass unly on 9.2 Board review and consideration of the school audit for year ended June 30th so new Lon company completed the financial audit for the year ending June 30th 20124 included in your packet is a copy of the letter detailing their findings in the actual audit report um believe
061it was sent in an email because it's a big document and then we have some of them found found here and so um I did um suzan and I did sit in with um Debbie and she kind of went over everything and so one of the things that she noted was on page two of the printed copy and then page five of the PDF of the report Newan company States in their opinion the financial statements present fairly and all material respects the respective financial position of the government's activities each major fund and the agregate remaining fund information of bchs and so when we met with Debbie she said that um that means that this was a clean audit and that there were no issues so presented fairly means good and so um she also had
062a lot of accolades for Suzanne and said that she was very easy to work with she was extremely organized and always got her all of the documents and it's timely fashion and I think her last comment was and that's not always the case said she I think it she referenced in one situation where she's still trying to get documents from someplace for two years um I did get to connect with Josh Patterson the new um superintendent on Thursday and one of the things that he asked was about our audit and how many findings that we had and so it was really nice to be able to say congratulations pretty cool we appreciate um 9.3 board consideration to approve the election ballot language so including your package as a copy of the election resolution that thec
063will hold the annual regular school election in accordance with MCA 202020 uh the election will be held on uh Tuesday May 6 which will be a mail ballot the purpose of the election is to elect two trustees to your three-year term seats one trustee to a one-year term to ask voters to consider an additional technology fund for1 175,000 for a total of $225,000 and consider a general fund Levy for the purpose of supporting operations and maintenance and we include all of those things on there but it's also noted in that letter um that if it is determined that any part of the election is not required that Suzanne can cancel that portion of the election so if for some reason um we don't have to have the Schoolboard elections then we can take that off
064of there if we decide not to I'm gonna assume once the inflationary numbers are put onto the budget that we're going to get to that next budget and that operation um Levy you know where you can ask the voters to get to that Max V budget with a vote um and even whether or not we consider that I would imagine that we're going to get budget once those inflation meing are on there so I would assume um that obviously the technology Levy will be on there and then we'll May the School Board elections if we have somebody else that one those seats we need to back up a second and um get approval of the school audit oh jeez all right you're okay just trying to get out of [Music] here second and to approve
065the school audit of June 30th 2024 is there any discussion or question those in favor say I I I those and then we need to approve the lect three also [Music] also second Mo and second I do approve the election resolution for Tuesday May 6 2025 there any question or discussion all those in favor say I oppos trying to find a notary so sorry get it done I promise is the deadline does anyone else app and I haven't heard from anyone 9.4 board consideration to approve the second and vital reading of board policy 21001 school calendar and day changes to the student schedule so your packet was the recommended update to board policy 21001 which shortens the amount of time students have to change classes at the beginning of the semester from 10 to 5
066days and it would be my recommendation that you approve the second and final reading of this policy so that it can be adopted she move second to approve the