001And this meeting is being this meeting is being recorded. The recording does not constitute the official record of this meeting. All documents from this meeting are available at the school board page on the district website. Meeting is called to order. Please stand for the pledge. I pledge allegiance >> to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Well, >> thank you. Any revisions to the agenda, Dustin? >> No. >> Okay. Any public comment today? I can't see any. Right. >> Not here. >> We do um Chris Toy and Kennedy Campa online and they were just going to talk quickly about the map um pilot. >> Okay. >> Um if that's okay. Three minutes or less. Yeah,
002I think is that >> we don't have that on discussion and action. >> It's discussion and action item number five, but they'd like to make comments about it now due to possible internet issues. >> Sure, I'm fine with that. >> Thank you. >> So, I guess a little bit of leadup. Um, Kennedy and Chris were part of the math committee that went through and evaluated. We have all all the math materials over here um throughout the year. and I just wanted them to share a little bit of the process from their perspective. >> Great. >> Yeah, I'd be more than happy to start. Can you hear me? >> We got you. >> Awesome. We explored several curriculums and we ended up narrowing it down to two which was experience and amplify. We then explored them
003in our classrooms to see how practical they were, how our students responded to them and through that process is how we picked amplify. Um, what I liked about Amplify is it's both digital and physical. Um, it also has a lot of intervention resources, which is new. Um, and it has centers, uh, which I would think would be really valuable, not just in my classroom, but K through five as well. And it also has personalized practice based on individual student diagnostics. So, those that that those are my main takeaways from Amplify and why uh I was motivated to choose that curriculum. kind of going off of what Kennedy said, something else that we were looking for was a screener for our students so we could see where they're all at as they like end the school
004year and start the school year and like how we can meet their needs. And Amplify kind of offered that. Um, we went through a couple of curriculums, like four or five I think we started with. So, Amplify seemed to meet all of our needs. I liked using it in the classroom last year. I'm excited to start with it this year. Great. Thank you guys. >> Anything else to add? >> Secondly. >> Anything else? Uh, do you want to add Britney or >> Let's wait until Let's wait until the discussion and action item. >> Perfect. Okay, sounds good. >> Thanks, ladies. >> Move on to an approval of the minutes, please. I move. No, you do it. So I don't have anything. >> I I motion to approve the minutes from the last meeting as presented.
005Second. >> We do have two on there. >> Um >> the 8th and 24th. >> Okay. I um I for the 8th of July and the 24th of July. Great. All for vote. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Passes unanimously. Move on to superintendent report, please. >> Yeah, I'll be brief. I It's I gave my report to those present. Um enrollments when I did the report this morning, we were at 364. I was saying now we're at 361. >> Oh no. Um, so I mean we're trending down. I mean, this is this is a big deal. Um, >> yeah. >> And so the high school is going to start the year unless something changes between now and the 26th um at 108, the middle school at 98, and the elementary school at
006158. Um, so we'll keep a close eye on that. I'm sure the budget committee will be working and looking at the long-term the historical enrollment, but we're now down to about fiscal year 2017 numbers, even 2016, fiscal year 2016 numbers. Um, so that's that's where we're at. >> Um, and then moving on, just the facilities were ready to go. Um, the the custodial crew did a great job this summer. Um, and then the housing project, we we redesigned it and I think it's going to be in front of the HOA hopefully in two weeks. >> Any thought if that's going to be delayed anymore or is that going to be okay, you think? I >> mean, I hope not. We ticked all the boxes that they asked us to tick for um the first project.
007So, um, I'll see what they say and then I'll kind of bring the mockups and you guys can have a look at them. It'll really be helpful if we can get that in by a year from now, have them ready for occupancy a year from now. Um, money is still the money that we received grant-wise is still just waiting for us to use. >> Okay, great. Any other questions? Thanks, Dustin. move on to Milan High Court, please. >> Thanks, Matt. So, we're just in the final preparations for the school year. Um the facilities look great. Our schedules have been audited for the students. Um any other registrations coming in? We're handling unlockers, transcripts. We're ready to go. Uh we have orientation next week with grade six and new students on Thursday. And then we welcome
008our teachers back, new teachers on Friday of this week. And then Monday, we have uh a first aid CPR wilderness um emergency training um with all of our expedition teachers, which is going to be a great two-day experience for them to get them ready for expedition, which will be a big focus next week. And then our title integration is progressing. Um we still have some work to do, but I just want to give a shout out to Jared Leon who have done a lot of the heavy lifting to help with that data transfer. We have teacher training scheduled for next week as our first kind of phase of the rollout. So once we the teachers are ready, then we will move to the students and the parents and then um the cell phone lockers are
009up and ready to go thanks to Jared and Carrie. So >> awesome. >> There we have it. >> Awesome. >> So they're lockers. >> Yeah. >> And they're Where are they? >> They're in the steam wing. >> Nice. We have a system. >> Great. We have cameras right on the lockers. So it'll be a good secure scenario here. What is this? >> Yeah, that's going to be interesting to see how that rolls out. >> Yes, the lockers will be at the beginning of the day. We'll close 8:30. >> Yeah. And if it's not in there, then >> we have a we have a backup system in the front office. >> So, we are ready to go. >> Wow. >> Yeah. >> So, >> awesome. >> Thank you. >> Raise your hand. Raise your hand if
010you knew Leon still works for us. >> I do. should be my all that retirement stuff. >> Excellent. All right, move on to elementary, please, Britney. >> Yeah. Um, we're ready for the return. In fact, our staff was back yesterday. We had professional development with Carol Tolman. I've talked a little bit about letters training, which is the um literacy essentials for teachers of reading and spelling. She's one of the creators of that program. And thankfully she has really good friends in the area so she comes here. So we always nab her when she's already traveling. She comes up. Um but she she is so incredibly knowledgeable and engaging and um so we got to spend the day with her yesterday. Um and I'm working on finalizing the schedule and um kind of mapping things out
011for the year. Our PD committee will meet next week and we'll kind of look at how we want to spend our Wednesday professional development time and work on the first quarter so that um our staff has input on that. And then on the IB side of things, I'm working on getting the year set up um and assessing some training needs with staff kind of auditing and making sure we have returning staff that had training and new staff that doesn't. So, just working well. already >> muted there. Sorry. Great. Thanks, Britney. Appreciate that. >> Um, Dustin, are you doing DP? Sorry, I didn't see Tim there. >> In September, we'll present around kind of the college credit that was awarded during the last testing cycle. >> Great. Okay, move on to activities, please. >> You bet.
012Um, first of all, great work by both coaches and athletes utilizing the um our facilities for summer practices. I think that made a big difference. Kids were in the wait room, kids were on the field, in the gym. That's awesome. I think that's going to give them a good jump start for the season. Um, we have our fall sports. They kick off August 15th with the first day of practice for LPHS soccer, football, and volleyball. Um, I think having that practice field this year is going to be great for the soccer and football programs. That's going to be it just already has made scheduling practices so much easier. So, um, kudos to, uh, the folks that have, you know, maintained that space and helped us prepare it for this year. And schedules as of now,
013as of now, are up to date and on the website. They're under the athletic documents area and the uh rolling marquee of athletic schedules is pretty much done. There was a couple that didn't go through. I'm working with Tim to get that fixed, but there's pretty much everything should be on there or if not will be by hopefully tomorrow. >> Great. And how are the numbers looking with everybody? >> You know, it's hard to tell. I was going to give you uh the numbers registered right now, but with I think with fall, especially this time of year when people are still coming back from the summer, I think they're a little skewed. >> For example, right now there's eight registered for football. I know there's more than that, so I'll send that reminder email again
014to get everyone registered, but um the uh yeah, I think I think we're going to be okay. Volleyball looks a little thin again. I'm a little worried about that, but I think that um we should have enough to at least feel the varsity and JV there. >> Great. >> Soccer for the boys. Um again, I think I can give you the numbers registered, but I would anticipate I think >> according to the coaches list probably for the boys 22ish, for the girls 21 right now. >> Um so the soccer looks looks healthy. Yeah. And coach, for for the football team, what do you think? Like 18 to 20 probably. >> Uh that would be on the high end of maybe 161 18. >> 1618. Yeah. >> Nice. Great. Excellent. Well, thanks, John. >> Yep. >>
015Um we saving business report till later. >> Yep. Okay. All right. Uh no committee reports I see. So we'll move on to discussion and action. Uh >> I make a motion to approve the audit engagement letter as presented. >> I second the motion. >> So this is the yearly engagement letter. The goal is to look at fiscal year 25. >> And nothing's different obviously. >> Did their cost >> cost went up by a couple hundred bucks, but they're coming a month early. >> Coming in October. So >> that was that good. >> Is it over with? >> Yeah. >> Okay, great. Any other questions? >> No. >> Call for a vote. All those in favor? >> I >> Any opposed? Passes unanimously. >> Okay. I'll make a motion to >> Go ahead. >> I was
016going to make the motion to approve Nate Lucas as a student teacher for the fall semester. I second the motion. >> So his information was in your packet. He's going to be working with someone to >> Does he go on expedition as well? >> Yes. >> Awesome. Nice. Extra set of hands is always useful. >> Which trip? >> I think Tony was talking about going to Ramshorn if I'm not mistaken. Right. >> Yes. >> Lake. Yeah. >> So great. Any other questions? Seeing none, call for a vote. All those in favor? >> I. Any opposed? That's unanimously. >> Your turn. >> Number three. >> I motion to approve the enclosed online learning providers for Big Sky School District students. >> You have to. >> I second it. And also I couldn't find I'm losing it.
017Do we have >> It's a big It's a big It's a big list. >> Yeah, it's a big list. >> I was surprised how many there were. >> Yeah. So these this was tabled from last time. So this is OPI's approved list. So then we can just plug kids in when we need them. Okay. >> And that doesn't like we know a lot of these. Some of these we even were the ones who got them approved. Yeah. >> Um >> that doesn't mean that, you know, if we if we know one's super duper weak and it's not an emergency situation, we don't have to approve it. >> Um is it here? It's right here. Um and we don't >> these are we don't have to pay for these, right? >> No, these are just ones
018that are approved. >> Yeah, >> they're the ones that are approved. So sometimes we pay, sometimes we don't. So I don't >> Oh, there's BYU is on there. >> Any other questions? >> Call for a vote. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Pass unanimously. Move on to number four, please. >> Okay. I'll make a motion to approve a maximum of $60 per hour for athletic training services for fall sports 2025. Thank you. >> I second the motion. >> Yeah. I mean, we'd really kind of need to have an athletic trainer on site for our home games, soccer, football, and volleyball. So, if you approve up to the set of the Bucks, that should do it. In the past, we've kind of had volunteers. you try to get someone from low beat physical
019therapy or here or there. Um, you know, they could take the kids, they can be there to respond to an emergency. And I can at least speak for football. Whenever we go to an away game, they ask, somebody's there, >> they come over and talk to us and say, "I'm here in case of an injury." And then they're the first people to respond if if there's an injury on the field. And I don't know how many of you remember, but last year there was a pretty significant injury in soccer. Um, and then there's just lots of twisted knees and things like that. So, I think it's a good idea. >> Yeah. >> Um, and I still have to kind of identify who that will be, but >> um, >> yeah. No, that makes complete sense.
020>> Yeah, it really does having experienced many sports injuries. >> Great. Any other questions? >> Well, just to catch me up, where does the money come for? I remember years ago I didn't we didn't have much money for athletics. Where does that learning come from? >> Well, I mean that could be a great question for >> Okay. But the short answer is I mean it all comes like from a general fund or from donated dollars. So this year we we're budgeting two and some small change Libby for athletics. >> Yes. >> Yeah. So then we received a hundred and 100 from Spanish Peaks Foundation to support our athletic programming. Um so it'll just go into that bucket. >> Oops. >> Great. >> Okay. >> Call for a vote. All those in favor? >> I. >>
021Any opposed? Passes unanimously. Move on to this. >> I motion to approve pilot of Amplify Math for the Ofer Elementary School for the 202526 school year. >> Second. >> Anything else we need to add to that from earlier? >> Just it's a grassroots effort. The teachers wanted it. Our previous >> curriculum, you couldn't teach in a 60-minute block. You couldn't teach within the 76 days. We had students >> um and so they wanted this and did the leg work to find this one and put in a lot of time and hours. >> Nice. So, yeah. >> When when they say centers, is it like collaborative >> hands-on learning? Yeah. >> Yeah. Experience the math. Yeah. It's awesome. >> Well, and if they're excited about that's fantastic. So, >> yeah. >> Great. I'll call for a
022vote. All those in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Passes unanimously. >> Okay. I make a motion to approve SJ's now. >> I second the motion. >> Any discussion on that at all? >> Yes, ma'am. There's already >> Yes, >> great. Call for a vote. All those in favor? I I >> Any opposed? Pass unanimously. Now the fun stuff. >> I know. I motion to approve the fiscal year 25 trustees financial summary as presented. >> Second, >> but don't ask me. >> Any discussion on that? You guys >> I feel like we talked about it a lot over time. >> Yeah. >> Libby, anything else you want to do you need to add on that or >> I mean not much. Just to say that you know in general and you guys know this that it's
023just basically the financial picture of uh fiscal year 25 school year 2425. >> It shows all our like revenues and expenditures and sometimes you know we have to move things to stay within the budget that we set for FY25s but that's what it is. >> Great. Any other questions? >> This is the data that will be audited in October >> again. Okay. >> Before it goes to the Department of Revenue. >> Okay. >> Great. >> Okay. Call for a vote. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Pass unanimously. Uh, I motion to approve the fiscal year 26 budget as presented. >> Second. >> Anything you guys want to add to this? >> I mean, if people have a chance to look at it. >> Yeah, >> I think I do think there are
024some highlights. Um, >> go ahead, Libby. I'm just find the page. I was just gonna or we were and Corki might have to help me a little bit. It's my first time. So, um but we have been doing lots of work on both and um uh just looking at that budget memo if you were able to read through that. Um the first part is just giving a overview of what the budgeted funds that we have. Um into the taxable value data. If you have those sheets um the historical trends and then also our official um taxable value it went up by about 25%. You can see that. >> Okay. Um for number three is the FY26 proposed fund budgets and bill levies and we had an overall increase of 1.9 mills and Corki jump in
025with anything if you see anything. You can see that um um yeah our total requirement is 47.25 and it's an increase of 1.9 mills total. Okay. um the budget comparison of FY26 to FY or FY25 to 26 um that with the new taxable value and the increase in 1.9 it's an increase of $257 per 100,000 of home value. So you kind of think about that. Um, anything on that one? >> That's perfect. >> No, >> the only thing I would add is that when we talk about budget, we generally are referring specifically to the general fund today, but you know, part of the approval today is all of the budgeted funds. And so going through them as she goes through them kind of um each each is a separate bucket and each is approved um
026today. >> Yeah. And that's in that's the summary, right? >> Correct. >> Yeah. >> Are you going to go through those or I was just going to talk the general fund if that's okay? >> That's fine. No, that's our next spot. It's just that general fund um overview and just talk about the general fund. So if you want to say something >> Yeah. page 80 of your packet um is the is the expenditure data. And this is, you know, where you're going to be able to see where we're making up uh not that age 80 and 81 or 82 the revenue. So 79 and 80 they're sideways. And they sure are. >> Um, but that's where you're going to be able to see in that lower section >> where >> when we look at private
027dollars, reconciliation dollars, house bill 408 dollars, >> um, how we're making up what our revenue shortage is. >> So that's in the public private dollars down below. So, you know, approximately $80,000 $85,000 in federal monies which we are now going to get. Big Sky Resort pays Resort Area District pays 50 grand. Um PTO 100 grand, Spanish Peaks 100 grand, Spanish Peaks 20 grand. And then we get into the real ones. You know, the reconciliation payment from Nennis this year is going to be about 400,000 and then we'll take 400,000 from the the tax credit dollars. So that really go the 400 from the tax credit dollars and I think again I'm going to reiterate how important that reconciliation payment is to the school district. So that 400,000 from House Bill 408 puts us at about
02810% of our general fund which is not a bad target. Um that's not including anything else. from that if you can you know if we can remain at 400,000 when we can take in probably 650 this year we're 620 that's going to make you know come out ahead and hopefully we can do that over the years >> then I think the other thing of importance that the budget committee really talked about a lot is you know you asked earlier Barbara like where does that money come from if you go to page 80 the expenditures you know 90 in this year's budget is it 97 or 999. That's 99. Yeah. Uh that there's two red >> 97 if we include that 174, >> right? >> But we already that's that housing piece. >> Y >> so
029you know 97 to 99% of our general fund goes to salaries and benefits of staff, >> right? >> Was 95 the last time I was on the board. So >> I mean it was 92 in fiscal year 23. Um you I mean we could go on and on but I think that's an important number because then you know anything above and beyond that is really money that we recruit from >> yes >> different areas. So again, when we talk about 10% coming, you know, 400,000 coming in in a reconciliation payment, which we kind of know next year is going to be be between six and eight, I think I could say comfortably, right? Next year that'll be between six and eight because it's based on last year's numbers and we know how many meals we're
030budgeting in this year. So we know the reconciliation payment. So um you know, anything beyond salaries and benefits for certified and classified is money that we raise. >> Yeah. Right. or comes from an other source. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Sorry. Um, anything else you guys want to add to that? And well, we appreciate you guys. You especially Dustin with your fundraising and everything. That goes a long ways obviously and speaks to where we that money a lot of that money comes from too. So that's been a lot of hard work over the years. >> Yeah. Uh super small question just because I remember it from years ago. We have the adult education. I see I know it pays for do we do we do we do a lot of adult education aside from the community
031theater? Not really. >> It's like there's a decent amount of money in there. That's >> So that that's a hold over from some years ago, we were to remodel the kitchen so it could become a teaching kitchen for in this building. >> We couldn't get a contractor. I see. And so for three consecutive years, so we're just rolling that. >> Okay. Cuz I'm looking at I'm like, "Wow, I just don't see it." >> Yeah. So if you permissively levy, it's your money, right? Um and that's something that we we can explore getting potential to do. >> That was four years. >> Yeah. >> We used it one point we used it for the coordinator for which got somebody a salary that was library slash >> that. >> And we used some of it for the
032new building. >> Mhm. >> Yeah. I was just curious. It's >> a fund I'm aware of. >> But that's that's the >> I think it was like 17,000. Right. And then look for what is the balance? What's the budget? >> I think it's a couple hundred thousand working. I mean, it can be used for for full-time employee. Yes. Something that can coordinate that for lang language classes, art classes, woodworking classes, anything that's not um infrastructure based, >> right? >> So any kind of tools, any kind of materials, all of that can be come out of adult ed. And yes, it can be as robust and as big as the individual learning it wants it to be. But we don't we don't pay anybody for Dolan right now >> at this point. No, we do not.
033>> No, we used it somehow. I'm trying to remember who we >> It was Vanessa. >> It was also John. >> It was John because I that's when we started we realized we could do it through community theater. That was >> that was my idea. That's why I always go to look there. >> There's a lot of there's a lot of flexibility >> outside of infrastructure. >> Okay. Just looking at those little funds aren't so little. >> Anything else to add? >> You should talk about >> or we call for a vote there. >> Yeah, we'll just we can go through the other funds if you want would like to. You know, there's the transportation fund. >> Um that one is increasing. We're going to use that to pay off the bus barn. >> So,
034that will be nice. Yep. >> Um the best depreciation fund. Uh we were able to depreciate our motor coach. So that is nice on that one. Um what else? retirement fund is just a picture of our TRS and BRS um liabilities, but the county handles that one. Adult education we talked about. um technology fund. We have a levy that comes in in the amount of the 94 and a little bit of state grant money. We use that for anything in technology realm. >> We didn't use that with all the cell phone stuff. Was that still needed? >> Did we pay for it? But it wasn't much. >> Those little things that are cheap. >> Okay. or someone laugh >> but there and that woman was going to pay for it too >> and we can
035get we can circle back with her. >> Um the building reserve fund represents the levies that we have. We have a building reserve levy. Believe we're in the third year of that one. So 108 >> 335 >> oh 405 sorry four or five. Um SB307 is a permissible levy which they actually increased that amount this year. Um and then the debt service represents our bonds one is from the construction of the elementary building and then the last one that we did for the facilities. >> Yes, >> this is our last year with the elementary building. 2028. So, two years to go. >> Two more years. >> This is the last year of the Bosezeman High School debt. >> Wow. >> So, it comes off. >> And so, paying that paying off the bus barn, paying
036off the Boseman High School debt, this really it starts with enrollment and then some unknowns, it really kind of puts the school on solid ground fiscally. >> Yeah, that's good timing on those for sure. I remember when they passed it >> then they suddenly would let us have our high school that got bonded. >> Great. Anything are anything else you guys need to add? >> Okay. And if anyone ever wants to look at anything more closely, you can always come into the business office, make an appointment, please. And um look at anything. >> And Barbara, you can see I think one of the expenditure line items on there is the 200,000 for athletics. >> And you were on the board. I think it was 40. >> No, we didn't have any. We had no line
037item. It was all the booster. We It was specifically excluded to give anything to athletics. So that's when the booster club started. >> Correct. >> Um to to cover that. So, and I was always told, you know, everybody's always told something that ends up to not be true. So, it's always interesting just, you know, you can't do that, you can't private fund raise. There was lots of things we were told that could not be done >> that are being done and it's worth >> now. Look at it. Yeah. >> In 2015, it was 65,000 to do. >> Well, I'm trying Okay. Is that all on that subject? We'll call for Sorry. Go ahead. >> No. Second. >> Okay. All we'll call for a vote. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Passes unanimously.
038Thank you, Libby and Corki both for all your work there. >> Yeah, that was a lot of work. >> Yeah. Thank you guys very much. >> I'll take a motion on the consent agenda. >> I move to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> I second it. >> Is her name Bets or is it Betsy? >> I really want to know. Okay, good. Betsy Betsy Stewart. Yeah. >> Okay, thank you. Okay, >> call for a vote. All in favor? I I >> Any opposed? pass unanimously. >> And then I made a mistake. The future meeting date that should be Tuesday, September 9th, not >> perfect. I miss that. >> And then the 14th of October as well. >> Yep. I'll send out calendar invites. >> So good. >> Okay, great. Anything else? >> All right,
039meeting. Thank you everybody. >> Thank you. Good luck with everything moving forward, teachers. >> Yeah. Here we go.