001This meeting allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisibley and justice for all any revisions today public comments want Approval of the minutes, please. I move to approve the minutes. I second that. Any discussion on that? Uh, all those in favor? I I pass unanimously. Uh, we move on to recognitions, commendations. Uh, none. And we'll move on to reports for the superintendent, please. Uh, so I handed those out. Um, so you have in front of you two things. the enrollments um down 17 from a year ago. Our anticipated enrollment and it's it's a smattering across the big 4K12. Um but it even changed some from last week. Uh and then I want to give an update on the Madison County and the reconciliation
002payments and the potential boundary adjustments. So you have two things. If you remember, we approved to make that petition to Madison County for a reconciliation payment. I did that uh through the county superintendent of schools. Then you'll see what she wrote back is the second page of my report. Um so really she went through the bill. So we're good. Um we'll we'll get the reconciliation payment. So from here we'll work with the school district clerk and and the end of schools and with Miss Berkeland to get the exact dollar amount that we're going to request. Um, this won't be super solid until you guys adopt the full budget in August. Um, we're anticipating between 550 and $650,000. First payment comes in December and the second payment comes in June. Oh, so what were those numbers
003you said? Uh, for the money. Yes, sir. Yeah. Yeah. We're anticipated between 550 and 650, right? Closer to the 650. And we'll talk we'll talk that through Matt um at the next budget meeting uh committee meeting hopefully in two week before the end of July. Uh we'll really talk that through with the budget committee to see what we're going to because it it depends a lot too on how many meals we're going to budget. So that's so we'll make those decisions then. But that's that's what we're looking for. So then related to that is this school district boundary relocation. Um you saw last month meeting we had some parents come of isolated pupils and and say they were going to do this and that. I've met with them um and they're working through some of
004the things that they have to do before this will come before the full board. Coming before the full board to seek a resolution to accept that property is the final step in that process. Um, and so I'll continue to report. Matt, the next time I meet with him, I'm gonna have you come along since you've been involved since the beginning with this. Um, and and we'll see where it goes. I haven't heard anything back from two weeks um since we met that the work that they have to do is a little bit arduous. It's going to take them a little while. Yes. Um, and then so along that same vein is the reconciliation payment replacement. Um, we sat in a meeting with with a couple of BISRAD representatives about this maybe three weeks ago. Um,
005Matt and I and Corki and they would like to see us move very very quickly to uh make this boundary adjustment or at least petition for it. I I don't think that that's a good idea. So, the government cycle, three-year cycle for resort tax opens June 15th. I'm going to submit, unless somebody here strongly objects, for $700,000 a year for the three-year cycle, and that will replace the reconciliation payment. Should a petition be made and accepted and that boundary changes, we lose that reconciliation payment. So, you know, I've been saying this since March. This is going to be a big deal for our school district knowing where our budget currently sits. Yes. So, if anybody does anybody strongly object to trying to get the bisrad dollars, you just um I my understanding is it's getting
006a certain percentage of people in Madison County. Do you want to go back? Let's go back to what the process is. So just just the simple when you say it's arduous, it's actually getting people to sign a piece of paper. You have to draft a petition that has the legal um the legal description which isn't, you know, go to this tree and take a right, right? You know, it's it's surveying type language. So that we need that they have to find that, right? They have to draft a petition. Then they have to get 60% of the qualified electors uh in that area to sign that petition and then does Madison County have to agree? No. No. Okay. So, if they get So, the petition goes it doesn't go to the county commission. It doesn't go
007to It goes directly to the school the superintendent of Madison County superintendent of schools. Then she Pam Berkeland and the Gallatin County Superintendent. Well, they can't agree. The board of trustes and NS go take it. They won't. Yes. Um, then it goes to the county superintendent and she has a very arduous process to follow. So, what's your best guess of how long it takes for this to happen? If I mean it depends on the energy that's being thrown behind it from from the people who said they would do what they were going to do. Um at the very least once you make the petition it's 40 days. She has 40 days to conduct a hearing and then another 40 I think the bill said. Corky remind me if I'm wrong to make that decision and
008she can say no. Right. And then you start again. Then you could start again. You can but you can only petition once per fiscal year. Okay. So, you know, our t the timing on this could be strange and I and I understand some of the um I understand some sense of urgency because it's what I I do think is is what could be worrisome and I think is what's weighing in these people's minds is if Mis goes out and runs an $80 million bond, they very well could pass that and then that portion is on the hook for that forever. hurt, right? If you have a if you have a pending boundary relocate, they can't they can't do it bonded and there you can't take on any more debt. I see. So, we've Corky and
009I keep a close eye on their minutes. We keep a close eye on their board meetings to, you know, and we haven't we haven't seen a sniff of a big bond coming down. Uh, no, but they they $7 million a month ago. So that makes it a little more like well they probably won't because this would this would inspire them to pass. It could. Yeah. So I just wanted to kind of Yeah. So and then what we hear back from resort tax again you know at 700,000 for three years that would be a good back stop to the reconciliation payments and then that can inform us a lot more. Thank you. And that's $700,000 a year seems like really good. It'd be great. You wouldn't want to lose it. And it's a sure thing unless
010it's coming from resort tax, which it isn't sure thing. It's at least sure for three years. That's the risk. Yeah. Right. But we do at that point. Yeah. At that point, right, you have 700. We're going to have another probably 400 in um you know, private foundations that we've going to receive this year. That's, you know, that's 1.1. That almost makes up our deficit. We gather to Barbara, every year about $650,000 in tax credit. Okay. Monies from the community from a few people in the community. Um, and I can talk to you about what that you know that probably. Yes. And then so we could it there is the potential that over a three-year time period of building up a reserve to protect against something moving forward. Okay. Um because it would mean what what
011did we calculate Corki? 70% reduction in property taxes for our constituents. That is that is correct. The change in the boundary would be a 70% reduction in to our current constituents. That is correct. That's pretty good. Now, that's not to say that everyone 80% would be to say that people that's not to say that people are going to turn around and give that money to the school district because once that bizrad money goes away, we're still kind of in the same boat of being a couple million dollars in debt or in deficit a year. But at least it helps. Well, and it can give some time, too. And again, I'm just bringing this up in such detail because of the timing and and so everybody's well informed when and if we have to make this
012decision. Yes. Um and I think that that will also give time for two sessions almost. We're really I I do anticipate some things happening with the school funding um to help us in other ways as well. So that that's really all I have for today, Matt. Great. Thank you. We'll move on to Dr. Mitchum. Thank you. Okay, from academics, we have report cards. They'll be sent out by tomorrow morning for grades 6 to 12, finished up with our uh high school exams. Last week, we had move up transition days for the incoming sixth and nth graders. And they all received a presentation and email sent home to parents to kind of prep them for the changes the kids will be going through. And then everyone's been assigned summer work. Yay. under reading and math um
013in incoming 6 through 12. Student life, the grade eight students put on a fantastic field day for middle school last week. I'd say it was one of the best we've had. And then with the grade eight, we also got to have um our grade eight promotion ceremony, which is always a really nice tradition. I'm glad we keep it. And the student speakers were great. The kids seemed like they had fun. It was a nice celebration. Very nice. Well done. Thank you. We've already started planning for homecoming which is going to be the first full week of October and then yearbooks also arrived last week. So I just want to give a shout out to Whitney McKenzie and her team of students for putting together a memorable book and then we're just in summer work mode
014um wrapping up this year and preparing for next. Thanks and Miss Shirley Elementary please. Yeah, it's kind of hard to believe that we're sitting here. Um, this last month went really fast. We had a great successful end of year spring concert for all of the kids. Um, we wrapped up the year with lots of field trips and experiential learning for the kids. The PTO hosted an end of year staff party for all of our staff, which was really nice. They've taken on hosting those, so none of us have to do the organizing and planning. So, big shout out to them. Um, we also had field day. our fifth graders put on field for the elementary school and that was a lot of fun and we had sunshine last year we had snow so that was
015a great um great change. The fifth graders also had their exhibition which is the culmination of their primary years experience um and they all did um action research projects and um put on the big show in the gym. So that was really great. We had lots of families and we'll thank for that. We also had one book. Every kid gets to go to their next um grade and check out the classroom and learn a little bit about the teacher. So, there's lots of excitement um around that. Um we finished all of the end of year testing and went over the data with all of our staff. Um have lots of celebrations and student growth um accomplishments. Kindergarteners graduated, which I think is kind of a funny tradition now because we have 4K in the building.
016I was like, "Yeah, whatever. It's still really fun to do." So, um, and then on the last day, our fifth graders had their last walk through the halls and everybody cheered them on and they had breakfast and really big mixed emotions this year with that group of kids. There were lots of tears. So, awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Good wrap up to the school year. Well, thank you guys again. Another great year. Yeah. of excited children. Uh, move on to you doing activities? I can. Yeah. He's at a conference up in Glasow. Uh yeah, we're just getting ready for fall sports. I think we have a coach on the on the agenda today, consent agenda who for volleyball and I think that's the last fall sports coach that we need to find and then just summer, you
017know, any summer conditioning and things like that. You guys are doing football stuff. Uh not now, not for a few weeks. Um and just so everyone knows, right? June 1st. From June 1st until July 31st, you can do whatever you want with the kids um within the kind of framework of the rules. Yeah. Great. Move on to the business manager report. Okay. A little bit. So, I'm a little bit nervous. Um anyway, just a very short report for a lot of work that's going on right now. It's really busy for us this month and over the summer. We did uh one, two, three, four, five payrolls last week and we'll do two more by the end of this week and then we have two more at the end of the month. Um otherwise in the
018meantime with all that um just focusing on reconciling FY25. So that's pretty much it. Well, thanks Libby. Welcome. Um, we do a personnel report. Yes, Danielle and and I and Betsy Madden. I I'll let them give you a brief summary. We're going to talk a lot about it too in discussion in action number six, but we just discussed, I think, the transition from with Corky leaving and Libby um taking over that role and how to best support her in that um the gist of it. Anything else, Danielle, you want to add? You're muted. She said no. Yeah. Okay. All right. We'll move on to discussion and action items. Please, I'll take a motion on item number one. You guys want to make? Yeah. I move to approve the first reading of policy. My phone. Oh,
019wow. No phones. I guess I Can we back up? I'm kind of confused though. If we move to approve the first reading of it, is it approved or just our first two? Okay. I didn't understand that. I wanted everyone to do it, but I didn't have time. Well, I move that we approve the first reading of policy 3630. I second that. Thank you. So, it's in the packet. Um Barbara will will kind of present some some data here on the survey revol results. Um it's really pretty straightforward. Um you know they're just not they're prohibited the use of the carrying of um and if anybody in the public wants to discuss this too because it's an agenda item you can discuss it as soon as the board chair allows for public comment in this on
020this particular topic. Um, yeah. So, I I'll turn it over. So, um, maybe could you tell who was on the committee quicker? Oh, uh, yeah, it was, uh, Miss Jinx. Um, and myself and you, and you, you, Dustin, and Jared for the amendments. Oh, Dustin, Jared. Sorry, Dustin. No, you weren't. Anita, Anita, sorry, this was a trick question. I wasn't prepared for I don't have it in front of me. I did want to ask you um about just as a note maybe for the future there were this whole there was some comments and we need to think about when you're in school but not here like in in campus field trips and things like that but that that maybe comes later. Yeah. Well, I think and we can talk about this after you kind of
021present. So it's been moved seconded. we're going to vote on. So, this really is what is what how we want to think about this is the policy is this. This is the governance model, right? It's going to be enforced like that. It's like don't speed, don't go over 55 miles an hour. That's enforced in these ways. That's someplace else. The handbook will lay out how, right? And where a school is, right? What you know, what field detail, okay? what field trips look like, what sports trips look like, what um you know what it looks like in the off-campus or at school activities. So, we'll be able to detail all that out as well as consequential and that goes in there because I'm just that's I'm still getting my head around what that's the best place
022for it to work. Okay, so executive summary, we did two surveys. Uh we also received a petition from um something like 25 to 35 of our teaching staff which is 71% that asked for uh bell-to-bell ban. They we we sent out um 266 surveys and there were 198 responses received because some of them were were incomplete. We analyzed 171 of them. if you didn't and I I can get a better figure later but it's you know a very robust response um you know very stat I don't know if it can be very statistically significant I don't know if Barry can modify that or not but anyway it is a high participation rate um and of that there were 129 people which is 75% a little over 75% who were just full support no questions asked
023there were 22 people who had concerns concerns and there were 20 people who just said we oppose this, we disagree with this as a policy. Any questions on those numbers or then so that's like 87% 151 of 171 respondents either fully support or support with concern while only 11.7 20 of the 171 opposed the policy. And what we did see was that 0ero% of people with young children think they should have anything. And rem a reminder because I saw this today in Big Sky Broadway when we were teaching um choreography and kids were going like this. I said, "Wait a minute, don't look at your don't look at your watch." Dance move. Yeah, that's not the dance move. It's not there. Um, this this policy includes all beeping connected things and watches apparently are a
024pretty big thing in the middle school and the upper elementary. Um, and as as the respondents got old had older kids, there were more concerns. Um, in a national context, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, 38% of public schools nationwide have implemented bell-to-bell cell phone range uh bands, which means we're we're on the and it's certainly growing year year by year. Um, and what were those concerns from those 20 people? There's actually that's not really fair. There were 73 people who said something that they thought they might be concerned about. Um, last time we talked a lot about the emergency, but when it came right down to it, um, that was actually only like six of 73 concerns was emergency. Um, in terms of there being an emergency at the school, it was
025higher for people that just wanted to be able to talk to their kids. That was 15. And but the number one of the community of the 73 responses was um this idea that we need to teach responsibility versus banning. And a thing that I did want to point out and I would love to hear from other coaches and teachers that occurred to me um is that well one so when I need to communicate with high schoolers for my program they don't read email and that is the way that this this forces you into professional communication is email it isn't I don't text Dustin um a letter right and our kids are really bad email users. Anita supported that. So going to their first that she sent it, it's gone out in email. And since reading
026and writing is something we're really about, it does feel like email is also a responsible thing. It is also true that at most workplaces in places like right now, we don't we would either be disallowed or looked down upon to have phones. I don't know if ski patrol, can you have a phone on you or what? I'm just curious. policy is no no good practical policy is a little bit yeah so but there you know this is this is true that in workplaces phones are often not allowed because we email right um so those were the biggest concerns with teaching responsibility versus banning parent child communication emergency contact and I talked with Anita today about and about what we talked about in our meeting which is how fast we can respond respond. And my husband
027actually had an interesting suggestion that Anita said we could do. Everybody remembers the test of the emergency network, right? You know, doing a test of the emergency network in the summer when people wouldn't be scared, you know, just saying this is what will happen in an emergency. You'll get this email, you'll get this text, and we can do both, Jared, right? We can do both at the same time. Uh just it doesn't sound like we have many questions, but Anita filled me in on that. There's 10 people who can immediately log on to emergency uh infinite campus from wherever they are. Uh Anita has and can draft more just sort of oneline fire active shooter, you know, whatever it is that that goes out instantly. So it's not like we're drafting something longer. Yes, it
028already have. Yeah, that's Yes. I'm talking to trial. talking about what that looks like because people were concerned about what it looked like. Um, but not that concerned really. It was more about this parent child communication, desire for immediate emergency accessibility, consideration for pickup changes, and after school. They do have the phone till the the school day starts. They get the phone the moment the school day is over. Um, and just sort of trying to look at these and the reason I'm doing this right now is just saying we examined the concerns and we think that we can address them appropriately. Um, and then the kids of course they wanted to have their survey and they overwhelmingly disagreed. um we had a 55% response rate although they were all notified but maybe by email because
029as it was pointed out as I realized the way I've ended up communicating I believe the teachers and the staff cannot do. I am not an employee and I finally just asked the kids to put me on their musical chat so that I could get them to rehearsal. I believe if I was an employee of the school that wouldn't be okay, right? Can can you can you communicate by text with students? Yeah. I'm just curious. What did you say before? The policy is practical. Yeah. I mean, I think would you prefer like me as the coach doesn't say everything through email. That's not to say that the kids don't put together something and maybe pull another adult in. Right. But I mean, but not you. And that's my point that if that the professional communication
030from the school, from anybody that's hired here has to come via email and there's a reason for that because it's traceable. We know what went out, you know, all of that stuff. So again, going to this sort of rejection of email as a communication um that that is how professional communication goes out from the school district. I guess I could take questions now. I mean, I don't think that we have opposition. I'd love to have some and know some if we do or questions. Yeah, we can open it up to any public comment. Maybe first start with the trustees if they have Oh, yeah. Sorry. Matt, Danielle, trustees, anybody comments, questions? No, I'm ready to vote for it. Okay. Uh, no. My only uh the only thing that I am think we need to do
031next is really think through all the other uh times and and all the situations so that teachers don't have to deal with enforcing this policy right which comes in the um hand and I think we should we'll be able to have that side by side with the second briefing in July. test. Okay, great. I will say one thing I've gotten some feedback from some of the students was I don't and I don't know if it's accurate or not, they're not allowed outside during the school day unless it's like designated recess or something. Is that the rule? So, middle school kids would have a designated recess. Um, and then 12th graders who are the honor roll have open campus privileges. Okay. I was just talking to some kids and they were saying if they're not going
032to have phones that's fine. They can deal with that, but they need something to do rather than just sit there with their thumbs, you know, where they go in the hallways. Yep. Totally. Seem to me a reasonable request. That is and we've talked about that as a as a leadership group and even with with the high school faculty about putting together structure things, one thing being some outside time for those kids. Um, so they have some options during that time. So we we heard that too. Thanks, Matt. Yeah, that was in their survey that what are they supposed am I supposed to do all day? I'm like there's this thing called homework and reading. But um but but that definitely was one of the primary student objections and being able to call. And another thing
033we discussed with this open campus for honor roll or open for honor roll students as seniors that at that point because there's not so many of them we could do an unlock for lunch and relock after lunch if they leave campus as part of their honor role privileges. What was the format of the student survey? Uh it asked them it gave them the con it gave them some context. don't have it. They don't have the survey. It asked them if they were if they ever used their phones in class and they said no. They never use their phones in class. 65% of them said or they never use it and then some of them said they do you very small sliver said they do use it and then the the rest said they use it
034depending on the teacher and the class. Um, I didn't ask about, you know, they are forbidden already in that venue. And they also said they needed to use it academically. We know that whatever you do on the phone, you can do on your computer. Um, but they said that sometimes it's blocked looking at Jared. So, they need to have their phone so they can get around the block to get the really good information on there on the really good sources. Um, but they said it asked them if they it asked them if they agreed with it or if they disagreed. And surprisingly, out of the 55, we did have seven people that said had the bravery to say they agreed with the survey. Um, out of the ban, they agreed with the ban and they
035said that it would distract them. The main educ educational use they cited was music and also that they're big kids and they should be able to we should be get with the century and phones are what are what where it's at. I would say there are evidence they were given a lot of advice to give evidence-based um arguments um and we did not either they did not read that or they could not find that but they did not do that. Is there any um like data on like student buyin if it helps or like or is it just I guess I kind of look at this as I mean that's their thing. There's their thing is we're going to get around it but they're also going to get around dress code or whatever. They're going
036to get around drinking. I mean I suppose right like saying that they're not going to do it doesn't seem like that was their main thing. Kids will find their way anyway. So why have a rule? Well, we know why we have rule. Well, and plus I mean I think if if there was a lot of energy, but if there were 50 or 60 of them standing in here right now lined up out the door. Yeah. Then I would put a little then we could, you know, it might Yeah. And like where's the taking me to the streets? It didn't even get to half of the not even half of the students responded. The numbers were small. What grades did the survey? They did it for the incoming ninth graders that uh so this year's eighth
037graders 10 11. So, we took out this year's seniors because they're not here. And we did that. We did not we did not ask the middle school because the middle school didn't ask for a survey. Anyway, great. All right. Well, thank you for all that. I think uh any other comment, public comment, anyone? Ashley, I just want to say um this was my first experience um being part of a committee to develop a policy and I learned a lot and I just want to thank you all for engaging in the dialogue. It's been a several months endeavor of discussion and learning and I think that just at the end of the day it's zero emotion. There's just too much too much research behind it. As far as the student learning environment, for me as a
038teacher, I see this as a tremendous opportunity. I think these kids are going to enjoy coming to school more. They might not feel that way in the beginning, but I think we're going to come out, you know, uh, 3 to 6 months on the other side and we're going to see a huge social and cultural change, which I'm very excited about. Thank you. So, thank you everybody. Thank you. Good. Because the main thing the kids other thing the kids said is that the teachers need to do a better job of teaching them how to stay off their telephones. I found that really which you should and I just want to wrote out there that we actually do have um a fairly robust uh K8 digital citizenship curriculum and it's al also offered for 912. And
039so we have those components and I've noticed over the years because I've worked at the same program um since I mean we used to be uh common sense media certified years back and the shift has overwhelmingly moved toward instruction on phones and social media and safety around those elements. So I mean it just goes to show that there's a need for this but there's plenty of teaching that will happen. Thank you. Thanks for serving on that. I'll just write a comment. I came just to support this and so thank you for all the work. I don't think I need to say much, but three kids in the school system I support. So, thanks. Thank you for taking the time to come down. Yeah, thanks. Appreciate it. All right, we'll call for a vote. All those
040in favor? I I Any opposed? Pass unanimously. Okay. Move on. Anyone you get you can make several motions just going a little faster. So would I guess I move to keep the Big Sky School District rental rates the same as the fiscal year 25 or the fiscal year 26. So I a second. I know. Sorry. Sorry. Second. Thank you. Uh I put those in the packet. Um, I'm happy to answer any questions, but basically it's if you live alone, it's 27% of your salary, which is still kind of that national indicator of a healthy budget. A school employee plus if they have a significant other that's been approved to live, there's 1,500 flat rate. And then we're still incentivizing people to live with another employee, which is $1,000 per bond, 500 per person. Um, in
041those I talked to David O' Conor. We're somebody two people living in River View would pay two grand. I know we're so I think we're still doing good and that's 80% AMI which is 69760. Um so that's I think we're still in good with that 27%. Um that's probably I think we're still in good good space. And the other thing that we need to always keep in mind, you know, if we if we ran this up to market rent, we can only carry $20,000 in that fund. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's still a great I think that's a great move for sure. So, any questions from anyone? Okay. Call for a vote. All those in favor? I I I. Any opposed? Pass unanimously. I move to approve the wayfinder way point. I think we're on three.
042Sorry. I move to approve a semesterly bonus of $15,000 per semester. 15,000 would definitely get I second that at 1500. Thank you. An auction. I think it's a great idea. We have It's always been Yeah, we have two drivers, you know. we lose. We're canceling at least every time we have a sporting event, we're canceling at least one route. Um, and I don't know if this is going to work or not, but the outlaw has taken a real interest in trying to recruit bus drivers for us. Um, especially the one that gets cancelled all the time in the afternoon for Wayne. So, I'll get this to them as soon as you guys. So, we can prorate it, right? If somebody comes to us October 1st and stays till the end of the semester, we can
043prorate their days. Um, and if it if it's okay with you, since we're kind of finishing this this fiscal year up, um, I I would like to do it for our current drivers. I think that Yeah, I think that'd be great. Do we need to amend that motion for that or is that um, not necessarily? You could just um, yeah, you could amend it to just say effective immediately. Move to approve effective immediately. I move to approve effective immediately a semesterly bonus of $1,500 per bus driver including including great second. Can you second the amended second? Thank you. Okay. The problem is is that it was really cold when I came in here and blowing and I left my dog in the car and I have to run out and put them. And there you
044still have a quorum. She second it. Did you second it before you left? You did it the key in there. She won't jump out. Any other questions, comments? We got that over. I was just sitting here going, "It's getting hotter and hotter. Oh my gosh." Call for a vote. All those in favor? I I opposed passes unanimously. All right. Now I move to approve wayfinder waypoint for the Oprah Elementary School and I'll second. Thank you. And then I asked Erica to come and and present for those I guess it would be Danielle Matt Matt and the mats. Uh we did do this as a pilot in the middle school uh this current year. So Eric will take it from here. So sorry I did not get this in the board packet. I was trying to
045end school. my brain was out of it. Um, but yeah, Wayfinder and Waypoints. So, Waypoints is the assessment part of Wayfinder, which is kind of a social emotional like an SEAL curriculum that we have. So, right now I use Second Step as part of what I teach for guidance um at the in in this school. But Wayfinder is um research based. It was created by teachers and it's a similar program. Um it's got a bullying unit in it. It's got a um a huge bank of lessons that we can use. The nice thing about Wayfinder, too, is that you can also all the teachers have access to it. So, if in first grade they're having a hard time with empathy, they might do a quick five minute lesson. Whitney can go in, find a fivem
046minute lesson in her morning meeting. She can bang out a lesson on top of like what I'm teaching, but like all the teachers have access to it. So, um, it's more fluid within their day and more fluid with the kids instead of just getting it one time per week with me. So, now it's just it's just kind of going crosscurricular with a bunch of other stuff that the um the teachers are doing, which is awesome. Um, but the way points is just the assessment piece. So, um, for older grades, we can actually um give them the assessment to do on themselves. the younger ones we kind of will do for them or we can answer for them. Um so that that way we can say, "Oh, we're having a really hard time with agency in
047our in our classroom or collaboration. They're not wanting to collaborate, so we got to do some lessons to figure out how to collaborate better." Um, like we said, it's in the middle and high school, so it syncs up really well with the language and everything as it as they move towards upper um into middle school and um and high school. So, how was the pilot? How did that go? It was great. I mean, they gave us access to basically all of their lessons and so we got to be able to just pick and choose. And when you go in, it's really user friendly. So you just go in and say, "I want a lesson for second grade, like two to five minutes on this particular topic, and then they'll generate a le or like they
048pump out a lesson for you." And then we also met with some people and they were like, they take feedback really well if we need to ever change anything um as far as how we use it. So they're really good with feedback. How much is this program? And that's sort of about $3,000 a year, but we've partnered. We is actually funding it for our school for the next year. Thank you. Wow. It's just approving it then. Okay. Well, I think we want lifeline success. What is need [Laughter] Great. Well, none. Yeah, that sounds fantastic. Thank you guys. Any other questions? Okay, we'll call for a vote. All those in favor? I I I I. Any opposed? Passes unanimously. I move to approve the summer season request to serve alcohol for the WAC summer season. Seems
049like a funny It's happened and I second it. It's not happening at my show. Schools can do this as long as the board approves it and you have a means to block off where alcohol is being served for the rest of the we could do with that tight and there can't be kids on campus. Like if it's the same night as a basketball game, we could not do it. But they're getting sweet kids at the show. No, it won't be at her show. At John's shows, I've never had one of the shows before. Yeah, I've sort of needed a drink sometimes, but we do that, but it's not daily. Great. Any other questions? All for a vote. All those in favor? I I any opposed? pass unanimously. I move to approve the contract for business
050services between Big Sai School District and Covert Miller LLC. [Music] I second that. Thank you. So, this is really what the gist of our conversation in the personnel committee was like. So, if one of you two kind of wants to paint that picture and I'll I'll jump in whenever if you think that you need to have more. Um, do you want to explain it? I guess because it's how we're going to support you. Or do you want It's just a contract for Corki to stay on and help the transition and that's something you would like. Yeah, there's Yes. Well, then we're supporting you and we'll see kind of we might be back here, you know, in five or six months with some more recommendations about how to really kind of once then we can really
051start to fledge forward. Yeah. And fledge off the support. But there's there's going to be a lot there. And I think this is a good idea. Agreed. Any other comments you guys? No, I think it's a great solution to transition someone that's been with us for a long time or someone else who's been with us for a long time. I'm not in that position. And I guess in a comment that didn't it sounds like in doing this it'll actually save the district money as well eventually like it projected. Am I right with that? because we hope that's kind of the because this this is also going to give us and I mean to be completely honest the business office is probably because they're year- round employees is probably less on an hourly rate than they
052were when Marie and Sue left nine years ago. Yeah. Mhm. Um, so this is going to give us a chance to like really delineate out what the roles and responsibilities are and where we really kind of if we need part-time help or some kind of help moving forward, what's that going to look like and what what competency level are those is that going to be which will determine a salary structure. Um, and then with this too w with with a contract, do you have no benefits and no you have no benefits to pay and no retirement to pay. other comments. I think it was great. Sounds like Thankful for Corky for Great. All right. We'll call for a vote. All those in favor? I I I opposed unanimously. You can keep I think we're see
053move to approve the discretionary out of district students as presented. in the packet. I second that. So, we had we did everything last month from sixth grade through 12th grade because we have more bandwidth in those classes. We wanted to hold off on the elementary students because we didn't want to end up with an out of district student pushing us into an accreditational hinge. Yeah. Um but we're not going to end up in that area. Yeah. We're not going to end up in that situation. I was confused in the packet because it like listed like Bosezeman like there was three people listed but it didn't list any like the Madison or how well it's just those those are different these are discretionary they're choosing this um and then so those were Madison County that you're
054talking about Betsy we'll we'll do those we did we did those last month so yeah in other words they can't they have no choice these people are choosing to um here versus Gateway or wherever. Yeah. Any other questions? Um just about anticipated enrollment, does that fall under here? This is filling. Not really, I guess. So, but you can you can ask your question. No, just I guess my question is as we go look at these numbers change, do we get do we is there a way to know why people are leaving that we can keep track of? I mean they tell us where to send their records. I mean, you know, people make stuff as an exit interview. Well, in a way, like an exit interview because if you know, people will talk a lot
055and say, "Oh, enrollment's down." Well, it's because of the housing or it's because of they don't like the IV or it's because of whatever, right? We don't know. They're making it up because we don't know. Okay. Um, it feels like having that information rather than people turning it into a narrative that has no basis in fact would be helpful to know because there's a lot of movement made based on suppositions that the same with teachers honestly and I I know they probably put it in their letters but people people say things and it's just would be good to be able to say no this whatever they just don't like living in big guy and that's fine. Yeah, we want them to go. Just kidding. I don't have anything else to say. It's just something that
056you hear all the time about it already. Exactly. It's because there's no cell phones. That's what they threatened. But that can be part of that committee that you Well, I mean it it could fall under there. It's just just to come up with five questions. They don't we can't force them to, but it would be nice to know. Okay. We'll call for a vote. All those in favor? I I move to approve the MHSA form as presented. The and I second it. I mean it's very straightforward. Same thing we do over here. You can do whatever. Yeah. Any questions on that? Okay. Call for a vote. All those in favor I I I All right. I move to approve the Any opposed pass unanimously. I move to approve the establishment of the academic life committee
057of the board which will ask people about why they're leaving too. Was it the academics? Sorry, scratch that part. Okay. And I guess I'll I'll talk about it. I second it first. Sorry. Thank you. And then I'm trying to pull it up. Yeah. So I put the description. Um you edited it for me which I appreciate it slightly. So because I don't know all this school talk I should say but do we need to establish that now? I think you can just establish the committee and then if there's another trustee who would like to be on that I know Barbara is very interested if there's another trustee they can they can jump on that now um and then we can we can populate the B that's Danielle or anybody but I know you guys are
058will you read what it was pretty I'm getting down there it essentially when I looked at the committees one to two board members two to three administrators two teachers exist to examine review explore and make recommendations about policies procedures and and problems in BSSD schools which impact student academic achievement in classrooms uh including but not limited to reviewing surveying curricular and extracurricular programming and policies for their impact on student performance post-secondary success examining the effectiveness of assessment um and surveying scheduling and calendar for solutions to attendance issues and policies. So it's really everything. It's very broad. It's a place for those things to go. Um when you know when we look at our attendance and I started talking to someone about it and they really here but the attendance thing again it's a thing we
059just don't know. People talk about it all the time, but what is its impact on I think you know that's where it kind of started with me because of the impact just we want our teachers to have housing and good salaries and lots of training and I know our teachers would like to have students to teach too consistently. So that would fall under academics. Um, some people know that I work a lot with um, kids going to college and I have um, there are certain things we do that I don't think help that process, but that's just my opinion. But I think that that's a place where that could go, you know. So it'll function like any other committee like anything that could bond under this bucket if there is a significant change to be
060made and that will come to the board for a vote because committees don't have the ability to change polic so it just it's a way it's a place for those to fall um and and that that area for me was the one that made me want to join the board to try to think about ways to make all of that better for kids and teachers. Great. I think it's a good thing. I think having we talked about a parent parent on there. You mentioned that to me, Dustin, and I'd be Yeah, we can we can tease out the population or know who's going to populate that committee. Yeah. In the next few days. I I never fear having people fear having too many people. I never fear having too many people because too many people
061does not happen very often in volunteer positions. Um, I like having lots of voices. So, perfect. Hope we can get that sorted out. Okay, great. Call for a vote. All those in favor? I I Okay, any opposed? Pass unanimously. And just reach out to Barbara directly if you're a trustee that would be a motion for the consent agenda, please. to approve the consent agenda as presented. And I second it. Any questions? Call for a vote. All those all those in favor. Any opposed? Pass unanimously. Uh next board meeting scheduled for the 8th. Everybody tenatively and then on the horizon meeting on deck. All right. Meeting adjourned. All right. Thank you. Thanks everybody. Thank you.