001Let's bring this meeting to order. Please stand. I aliance 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. All right. Was Robert gonna be here tonight? No. Okay. Okay. We have no guests. Thank you everybody for being here. We're all here. So, we'll move right into 3.01. This is the point of meeting for comments on matters not already on the agenda. Comments on agenda items will be accepted when the item comes up during the meeting. Interested persons may also submit views in written form to the court or superintendent prior to those meeting to the meeting and those comments will be brought to the attention of the board during the meeting. Do we have any correspondence or
002public participation? All right, that we'll move right into uh 4.01 resignations for uh information purposes only. extremely sorry to see that recognition but 4.02 2 employment extracurricular stro. Yep. I'll be recommending uh for assistant high school volleyball coach. I'm not sure I'll say the first name so forgive me but it's Mada. Yeah. Mashada Watson. I move school board of trustees approves the hiring of Mashada Watson for CHS assistant volleyball coach for the 2526 school year. Second. Okay. Motion second. Any public comment on this agenda? Any further board? Francis. I. Sabrina. I Andrew. Hi. Tiffany. Hi. Hi. I'm getting used to this rotation. Forgive me. I'm two months already. It's been quiet to get over there. 4.03. uh school calendar. Yep. Bringing it back. Um it went through our um CTE person and they said that
003uh this year we would need to actually balance out the quarters wasn't long enough. Um so there's some explanation specifics on here, but basically that's what happened. We had to balance out the quarters. So no real changes with anything except for we also were we're just we're so close with our minutes. We took the February 25th and made it a full day. So, we added some hours there. Not too many, just a couple just to give us a little more buffer. And that was the one that was the Wednesday of uh district basketball tournaments. So, kind of got brought to my attention that's not always a half day anyway. So, we stuck with the half day for the the Thursday anyway. So, that we usually do. Um, so we just added a couple hours back
004on and we balanced out the quarters. And Wednesday is a full day. Yep. Yep. Okay. Yep. Wednesday the 25th is the full day. Correct. Cuz it still says half days on the calendar. Yep. It says February 25th through 26 half days district basketball. Right above that does it say 225 full day. Yes. But are we going to remove the other part so that people aren't confused? The proposals are in the paint. Perfect. Yeah. We'll fix it up. Do they usually have games on Wednesdays? They're later. I found out they don't start till 6. Oh, 6 p.m. Oh, good. Perfect. Good. Yeah. Okay. Great. I move that the Culture Public Schools Board of Trustees approves the calendar edits as presented for the 2526 school year. Second. You have a motion second. Any public comment on this?
005Do have one. Maretta Cross. Go ahead, Maretta. Can you hear me? Yeah. Okay. Um, I've got a question with the change in the calendar. How is that going to change the grading window for teachers? I haven't done the grading window yet. Um, I'll give the same amount of time I gave this year, though. All right. Thank you. You bet. You're welcome. Congratulations on your baby. Does she have the baby? Congratulations. Any other public comment? Any further board? Francis. Hi. Sena. Hi. Andrew. Hi. Tiff. Hi. Hi. All right. 4.04 4 workers comp. Um, basically that's just our renewal. Um, our rates stayed the same for workers comp as it did last year. And, um, we had just a little bit of an uptick in the claims this year compared to last year, but still really great.
006It was like 7,000. So, that's really good. There we go. Yep. Perfect. I move the Colster Public Schools Board of Trustees approve the fiscal year 26 renewal of the MSGIA workers compensation program. Second. Okay. Motion a second. Any public comment on this agenda item? Any further board? Francis. Hi. Sabrina. Hi. Andrew. Hi. Hi. Hi. MSGIA. So, this is our property and liability insurance. Um, as you guys know, the one year after the gym, it went skyh high. Um, we have one other big year on our claim and when that one falls off, we'll start seeing it u drastically lower. I hope. Um, this year it did increase a little bit. So, I did ask the questions why. Um he said there was um an inflationary 2% and then overall every school gets an increase in
007ours was 5.3. So um that's why there's an increase of 13 225 this year. Um but we're hoping next year and the year after that it'll be you guys will start to see that number come down. So it's still pretty high unfortunately. We'll move the Colster Public Schools Board of Trustees approves the fiscal year 26 MSGIA property and liability insurance renewal as presented. Second. Have a motion second. Any public comment on this agenda item? Any further board? I'd just like to say thanks for uh filling us in on that info as to um how it might go down in the future. So, thanks for that. You're welcome. Uh, Francis, hi. Sabrina, hi. Hi, Diff. Hi. Hi. 4.06 curriculum rotation. All right. Uh, so we followed policy procedure to align our curriculum for ELA. Uh, we
008did that. grades K through 12 using Montana's content standards and the real criteria. Uh from there we created proficiency scales uh to assess our priority standards. Uh and then we went into the textbook selection process. Uh we used the reading leagues criteria for material selection for K through five. Um from that we were able to select amplify CKLA as our primary uh reading and writing instructional materials. Uh research we were able to identify that one weak spot in Amplify CKLA is their phonics and phonmic awareness. And so we chose to supplement that with a resource that we're already currently using, which is Heggerty. Uh the problem with our current resource with Heerty is it's 20 years old, copyright 2005. Uh so we want to update that for our staff. Um in the middle school and
009high school, we used uh the ED reports criteria for material selection. uh and we only selected writing materials in the middle school and high school. Um so we did step up to writing which is also a resource that we're currently using. We got the updated version along with professional development for that. Uh we also um got right source materials because that's what the high school selected and we wanted to make that transition from 8th grade to high school a little bit smoother for kids. um they decided to go with the reading instructional materials that they're currently using, which they use whole books, novels, and whatnot to teach reading at the middle school and high school levels, which I think there's a fairly strong argument for that instead of having kids try to uh create, you
010know, these grand uh assumptions or inferences about text bases based on little pieces of larger novels. let's just have the kids read the whole novel and try to make their inferences based off of that. Uh so I support what they're doing. We we ran it through the curriculum committee. We ran it through the steering committee and both approved the proposed instructional materials. I move that the Coastal Public Schools Board of Trustees approves the ELA textbooks for the 2526 school year as recommended by the steering committee as presented. Second motion second. Any public comment on this? Any further board? Thank you, Derek, for doing that. It was it was fast and furious, but uh I really enjoyed it. Oh, sorry. Oh, I was just going to add too. I mean, those are some really good companies.
011I know CKLA and it's one of the best when you mentioned ED reports. They go through and they they literally analyze and grade and score basically all different kinds of education materials. And if they rank high there, um that's that's great. It'll be really good material. I I just know that program. I've heard a lot about it over the last couple years. So, it's really good change Francis. Hi, Reena. Hi, Angie. Hi, Tiff. Hi. Hi. 4.07. This attachment doesn't have the absolute list. Correct. So, I don't know if we can vote on it without the list. Does the list have to be on board docs? Because we I can forward you the list that was intended for board docs. I can display it here. Well, however, sorry. Um, what does the policy say? I know
012it has to be published in the newspaper, right? That's after you guys approve it, right? Yeah, I think if you pop it up there. I think you can, too. I didn't get any questions of anyone saying, "Hey, there's no report attached and no one is here to talk on it." So, I think you definitely can as long as it's shared and it still goes into the newspaper. Yeah. 14 days after we pass the resolution. So, Yep. Thank you. Sorry. There's 400 items. Well, over 400 items. So, if you'd like me email you what's up there, if you want to get a closer look at it, I can do that. Francis won't be able to see it from Yeah, go ahead and email it to me. I can pull it up right now, too. Okay. Sorry.
013Just one. Yeah. One time. Y screen sharing. Can you publish this notice? Not now. Is it just a little blurb and then people can come in and look at the full list? Well, it depends on um how you guys want to how you want to get rid of the equipment too. So, we can have a link because I think was what we did last time when you did used e-waste. But if you wanted to have a sale, then we can have a sale and publish the list then, too. You could you could still have a link. I think that's what we did last time was put a link in the newspaper. Okay. Posting. Yeah, I did a short link. So, it wasn't some crazy long thing that nobody can like. It might be struggling. Almost.
014scroll as you guys need me to. Oh goodness. Did you email it to all of us? No, but I will. Okay. I can't see that. Yeah, I get I can see that. I can't see this. See how small that was? That was really small. There. It's bigger. There we go. There we go. Quick question, Evan. Is there anything on here that is Yeah. that you wouldn't recommend to the waste? Uh there there are a few things that are no longer useful for the school. There's I don't know, let's say like 10 desktops. That number is not exact, but say about a dozen desktop computers that maybe somebody in town could have use for. We can't use it. I mean, I have to be like a computer hobbyist to do it. Uh some old laptops that
015could be transformed into something like a Chromebook or, you know, somebody in town might want to use it, but they're all computers that are no longer supported by Microsoft. Like, we can't put any, you know, major software on it anymore just with the age. Uh, so that's the that item would be one that someone could see it and say there's still life in it. Yep. It's just not life for the school. It's not damaged or anything. And then we have like maybe a hundred uh I forget how many we put on here, but we have the old Chromebook bags. Uh I have like probably 300 Chromebook bags sitting at the middle school that can't be used anymore. We've pulled out the ones that are still in good shape that we're going to be used this
016year for freshmen. Um, but there's no school that would want that. I can't find anybody to donate it to and it has our school logo on it and those will likely end up in the dump. So, that I wanted to bring that to your attention if we want to like put a notice of people can come in and get one for free like a giveaway or I don't know. It's just it it might look odd and raise some questions of why are we throwing away Chromebook bags? But they're dirty or they're broken and we have 300 of them and we don't need them. And some of them are too small for uh Chromebook sizes today. But yeah, those are the only items. Oh, uh there are some projectors uh that are still have some life
017with them that we don't use anymore. So that could be sold for a small fee or if if there's a way to properly do a giveaway like just people come in and sign that they've taken one. Um and then some printers. There is one printer. whether it's a few printers that are still probably have some life to them. Uh they've been sitting in closets for years that we're we found. But uh Brenda Minahan had asked me last year if BPA could have a printer. Um and so that's one possibility. But I didn't know since BPA is within a school club if we can just give BPA a printer and they you know support. I don't know how that worked with the budget, if they're a separate group or if they're considered um one of our
018groups, but she she was asking for that last year. A smallish one that she could travel with uh to use for VPA. I think give it to them to get rid of it anyway. Yeah. Yeah. I just give Yeah, I agree. Okay. Um, if if anybody in town saw these and said, "Hey, I want one of those old laptops or one of the old desktop computers." I mean, it's that what I wasn't sure if the board had to approve giving it away because everything else is scheduled to be e-waste. I mean, if it's not given away or sold, it's going to go to e-waste. Um, but how how what's the recommendation for that if somebody doesn't want one of those computers? I mean, it's going to eat waste anyway. Yeah, I agree. We've got our
019use out of it that we needed. And if someone else can find use for it, why not? I would I would just What do you expect to get out of it, right? Oh, I mean, it'd be $5, $10. I mean, it's it's really not worth collecting the money. It'd be fine. I just didn't know if maybe the newspaper posting if if like if interested in something contact central office and then we can just go from there if anybody does. Yeah, maybe it would be easier for you. Like you could either do that to where they randomly stop in or you could do from this time to this time this day. Here's where all the equipment is. Stop by and then whatever they don't want after that then you can give them a time so it's
020not a long so then you can get rid of it. Agreed. Is it all in one central location? One pile. I would just pull it out. That's what I would do. I agree with that. Yeah. Just give them a I'm going to be available. Okay. Yeah. This day from this time, anything that's not chosen will go to e-waste. Yeah. That's how it works. Or the dump, right? Yeah. But with this list plus the one you approved last month, it's like probably a thousand items or well maybe close to a thousand items that we've found that can be ewasted. Just little nooks and crannies over the years that build up and got them out. Kudos to you and your team for going through all this stuff. Yeah, I I feel like we're if if we can
021truly get this through e-waste. contacted the e-waste to make sure they're still doing their free pickup, which I expect they will be. But if we can get that done, we are back almost at a clean slate to start storing truly now up to date e-way stuff, not things that have been left over for years. Years. Yeah. So, great job. Works for me. And then you can choose a date and time when she does the publication. Okay. Okay. Okay. I move the culture public schools board of trustees approves the method of distribution of the obsolete inventory items as discussed per policy 7251 dispose of school district property without a vote. Second. Okay. A motion second. Any public comment on this? Any further board? Francis I. Mr. Beta I hi tiff I perfect 4.08 transportation routes. Yeah
022actually I'd like to table bring this to you guys because there was a mistake error brought to my attention this afternoon. So I want to go back over this and we should we'll have the meeting the night before that we have this to to um through the committee. Okay. Yeah. Okay, with that take long. I move to table item 4.08, transportation routes for 2526 school year until Okay, motion second. Any public comment on this, Francis? Oh, I have a quick question really quick. Um, so with the borders being closed currently, um, is there any plans for discussion with, you know, asking if we could possibly reopen those? That's not something we can discuss. And the motion is the motion right now is to disable the item, not to discuss the item. Okay. So, as soon
023as uh Mr. O gets back to us, then then we can open it up for discussion with a a motion in a second. Okay. Okay. Sorry. Sounds good to me. The motion for table. I have a motion in a second. Francis I. Serena. Hi, Angie. Hi. Tiff. Hi. Hi. There are a lot of Yeah. Want me to take over here? Yeah. Okay. All right. Yeah. There were a lot of policies sent to us here just recently by MTSBA. So, the first few here are new. Um, so I'm just going to go through I put in what they uh the reasons why and originally what they said in the the original email with attach 19 policies was that um these were ones that they wanted us to align or recommended that we align with recent legislation.
024So um I have most of them here. I kept a few back and there's one that we'll talk about here in a couple minutes that we do already have. So, first one, um, policy 10009 FE. Um, let's see this one, uh, HB 359 amends the requirement for hiring a recently retired teacher to allow for hiring a retired teacher who is employed to mentor a newly hired teacher. So, that's do mentors. And if you saw, it's all in red letters, the the recommendations. So, just one at a time. So, we don't vote today, right? Yeah, we do. Yep. Oh, yeah. Okay. This is a new policy or we're amending an existing policy. New. This one will be a new policy. And we're also adopting the red. Yes. There was a couple I forget which ones. There
025were a couple that were maybe new to MTSBA, but we didn't have and we don't we do have to adopt them. Well, they told me in an email, too. I said same thing with this is legislation but you're not making us they said they're not going to be telling us anymore if they're going to re if it's recommended or required. Yeah, that was that was kind of fun to get that message because uh when they to make it policy just because it's law but we have to follow law right so then so that is to me it's required policy all of these follow law okay exactly and they want us to do them by July 1st so if we could if we choose if we choose because it's only recommended not required but if we
026even even though it's the law. Yeah. And they said that you do need to follow the law, but you don't have to make it policy. You just have to follow the law, but then you got to be aware of all the laws and if it's not policy, then it's trickier. So, they did come back with the next sentence. So, we highly recommend that you do adopt them. So, this is the thing about policy that drives me nuts. Yeah. I mean, if it's going to be required by a lot, it should just be a policy. Yeah. You don't have to adopt it if we don't do anything. Just put in our policy. That's why I put all the ones in there that I thought we probably didn't need to wait on. And then there's a couple
027that I wanted to There's some curriculum stuff that I just need to visit with some other admin people about them before I bring them here. Well, that's where it gets a little tricky because that red lettering in there. Um I know legislation passed to allow them to come back in and mentor, but I would think the school would still have a choice whether you want to allow that. I guess, right? Do you already have a mentor program? Do you want to open that up? I mean, so I'm just saying that that legislation passed, but right, so it's first read. So I'm really treating this as discussion, thinking if not any questions you might have, anything that you might need me to do or get with somebody, follow up on what because these sometimes these laws
028can be really long, too. So you I can check those over, whatever you might think after having looked at those. If you want to wait on something, you know, that's fine. Again, they're not telling us we have to have it in by then, just recommended. So, we can take a little more time and look at those, how they apply to us, whether we want to do all of them or not. So, whatever follow-ups you might want me to do, what's our policy for approving policies? I know where you doesn't even know what the number is because some of them say you only have to do it on a first reading if it's required by law, right? But we're doing we're going to do two readings on all of these anyway. That's what we don't know.
029That's what MTBA wasn't clear about. Right. Right. And I got back then and I asked him, "Okay, so you're saying some are um how do you put it?" He didn't say required. He said um basically required. So I said, "Which ones are those? Can you tell me?" He said, "Off the top of my head, it's there's three of them." He named 250, 471, or 591, he said. So, one of them was out of the street, one of them was the Indian edge for all. There's some minute changes actually to one of them just a couple words, but um yeah, it was really an odd I liked when they just told us these are required because you have to and these you don't have to. And they said they're no longer doing that. So, that's why,
030you know, I just got that word actually the final word today. Um, like I said, there's a lot of them to go through and try to figure out and what to here and what we already had and what we didn't have. What's required by July one? Those three a how was it urgent? Remember that? Yeah, I saw that. It was cuz our policy 1310 says new or revised policies that are required or have required language changes based on state or federal law or are required changes by administrative rule be adopted after the first reading if sufficient notice has been given. And these are based on law. So I would say first reading put them into effect. Okay. based on what you just read. But if you don't want to, so you could do it on
031first rate, but you don't have to. I can still remember that. Let's talk about this one. This one basically protects teachers retirement. Is that what it is? Yeah. So 15 days. Yeah. Before they had to go um 150 days in a break in service after they retire. This is letting them come back in as a substitute um for a licensed teacher or mentor a newly hired teacher. Now that's where I was saying I don't know why it has to be put into a policy like this that we don't already have because TRS is the one that took this to legislation to get it passed. So I have to follow TRS rules and then it would be up to you guys whether you know if you guys were like I already follow the rule of the
032150 days you know and so you guys would be saying there's a lot more to it there than just that little red stuff they Yeah. That's a whole new policy that we didn't and a lot of that stuff is stuff that we're already following. We follow the EA procedure in there because we look up law and we know what it is. So, I mean, some of this stuff we're already following. I was going to say there's the emergency authorized employment for one thing for policy driven. So, is each good at just about anything, right? I mean, so I mean policy is where I typically go first before the law. If it's not in policy, look at the law. We do that a lot in admin. Just search human. It's almost like they took the law
033and then just put it in here. So, even that quality educator loan repayment that you saw, um, they just put it into here, but it's already something that you do. Yeah. Is is known. Um, so yeah, I don't it's just kind of weird this one for me. Do you see anything, Chris, in there that we're like not doing that? No, that's the thing is that it's sticky because of the required recommended, but nothing in this policy gives you guys pause. Like, we're already doing it, right? Like, so we're just backing it up. I mean, we're just saying we're doing it now. We're doing it again. When we're following the law, do we need this policy in place to prove that? To me, I would say question. Okay. Yeah. Because if you go through it all,
034I mean, substitutes, they all have to have that. Yeah. I mean, and if it comes out later on that we have to implement this, even though we're doing it, I say we can bring it to the table. Everybody see them. Okay. Do just what you're doing, taking a look at it, not just us. Okay. Well, I move the Coaster Public Schools Board of Trustees does not approve the first reading of new policy 10009 FE recruitment and retention flexible instructor licensing as presented because we already follow the laws listed in the policy. Second. Okay, have a motion second. Any public comment on this? Any further board? I do want to clarify. We're doing already what was in red, correct? That we that you added. Well, it's it's new. It's new. It's new. So, if somebody did
035want to come back as a mentor, they would ask to come back and now it's allowed where it was never allowed before. So, it's allowed with you without us even But we have to follow the law. That's kind of it. I think the advantage sometimes might be considering you're thinking of the pros and cons too is if I look at the policy first I see it then I mean maybe Britney knows it but I don't you know then there it is. Okay. I don't check any further. Okay. So I usually do the policy kind of was like substitutes were in there. I mean stuff like that but those look like things we were already doing anyway. And if you didn't want to follow the mentor, it was allowing them to come back and mentor is
036all that the law was doing. Doesn't mean you have to still. You could still choose not to. Or somebody asked and you're like, we don't really have a need for that now. You don't have to. It's just allowing employee to do it. So, y makes sense to me. Follow that law. Uh, yeah. Oh, I was going to say thank you for clarifying. Yeah, it's good discussion. Um I Andrew Hi. Yep. Hi. Hi. Policy 2600. Okay. 2600 House Bill 381 allows for students to earn credits towards graduation for working on congregate care facilities, child care facilities, or school age programs under certain circumstances. So, you might want to take a look at this one here and see if you want kiddos to get credit for that. They just kind of spell out all of that. We
037We've already adopted this policy. No, this is a new one. This is a new one, too. Yeah. The first few are all new and this is when I thought about waiting. You know, I knew we wouldn't have Mrs. dancel here at this time um to kind of go through this. So, this is one that I almost didn't put in. I just kind of wanted you guys to take a look at it, discuss it, see if you wanted to do that or not. And I've seen it done before, you know. So, is this law saying if you do allow work-based learning credits, then you also have to allow credit for working in a childare facility? Is that what that's saying? Or is it saying we have to allow work based credits for all? I know we
038have to allow workbased credits for CTE that goes aligned with our CTE. It's co-op is what it is. Adding the child care piece in. Has that not been probably? Let me look. Yeah, child care. That is all in red. Yeah, that's the new part. Okay. I remember having a discussion about this policy before. I don't know why we didn't adopt it because we already do it. And this is one they did originally put out. You'll see that in September 22. That was BS before Scott. I don't know why. No idea. Was not I don't like that. Uh, I think we should wait on this one till Robin can be a part of our discussion. I move the Coler Public Schools Board of Trustees table policy 2600 workbased learning until we can discuss with the high
039school principal. Second. Okay. Motion to second. Any public comment on this? Any further board? Francis I. Shabina. I Andie. I 4.11 policy 3655 student safety. Okay. House Bill 745 requires adoption of school districts of a student safety policy requiring a fingerprint criminal history check prior to any individual employees, volunteers, chaperones, etc. having unsupervised contact with students. I think this is one where they added chaperone. I think this is the one they just added the word chaperone. That's a different one. This one I I feel like we do already. We do. What number is it? 3655. What number is ours that we deal with? Um, it is 120. Was that I think it's third. Did they change the term unsupervised? Okay. Yeah. For the purpose of this policy, is that change the wording? Community relations. Is
040that what it would be? I just looked at that. I didn't Is it a different number? I just I just searched for numbers. We didn't have the number and they said it was new that I just left it as new. What's 4301? I got 5122 prints and criminal background investigations. 5122. Yeah, we that's going to come up in a little bit. And that one we are adding chaperones 20 that but this wording isn't in there. Not according to what they sent me. This is one they said was new. You can't tell by the way. It's just all black in the front. They just said it was recommended adoption of 3655 bill. We had a volunteer. I mean, look at that. I don't like that. Yeah. Certain employees at voluntary school never have unsupervised and therefore
041exempt from a background check. I don't like that. I don't like that word either. We make everybody go through a background check. Yeah. According to policy, right? And that says you list who's on there. So if we didn't That's weird. Well, right now we don't do like a chaperon. So that's what they're adding for if you took an extra driver on a trip of a coaching, we wouldn't necessarily do that. But we are going to address that later. Okay. And then so yeah, this is one of the ones that said if you adopt it, then there's adjustments to the current amendments to 5122 and okay so forth. I just feel like this contradicts the one we already have in place. I would rather just amend the one we already have in place to include all
042volunteers. Yeah, because this one says about like trustees looking at the background check and Yeah. things like that, too. when we've already outlined all of that. Okay. Okay. So, student safety 3655. Say that again, Sabrina that it contradicts what the policy we already have in place. Which one was it? 5120. Is that 5122? 51 22 22. That's Yeah, that's what we're looking at here. Okay. I move the Coastal Public Schools Board of Trustees does not approve the first reading of new policy 3655, student safety, as presented as this is all incorporated in policy 5122. Second. Okay, motion second. Any public comment on this? Any further board? Francis I. Sabrina. Hi, Angie. Hi. Tiff. Hi. Hi. Policy 60 uh 3650. Okay. This was to align with HB 631 and Senate bills 297. These bills collectively amend
043definitions for the pupil online protection act. And to see the specifics on that, you have to go into it. And it's kind of right in the middle. definitions, K12 school purposes. I don't if you want me to read that if you already put those over. They're just going into defining K12 for school purposes. What's an addition though? We didn't have it. I couldn't find it. doesn't mean that you're not going to find it a different one, but said I was looking for numbers, not so much topics that you guys are a little more familiar with. These bills collective amend definitions for PE for the people online protection act. So the bills just amended definitions and we didn't have that policy. So I don't think we need to do that because we don't need to change
044a policy that we didn't right. We'd have to adopt a new policy. So I put that in there. Right. But do we need it? We just have to comply with the Montana people online personnel information protection act. It's kind of like what Britney said. We still have to follow it. So just a matter if we wanted a policy or not to refer to um I mean I suppose it's okay like I mean it's going to be required we don't already have it as a policy doesn't hurt anything. We do have policy there's something to fall back on or refer to that 3612 these are our cross these are ones we've approved protection of their online personal information okay right okay all righty and it's first reading okay I move the coastal public schools board of
045trustees approves policy 3650 Montana People online personal information protection act as presented on the first reading. Second. Okay. Motion second. Any public comment on this? Any further board? Francis I. Sabrina. Hi. Angie. Hi. Tiff. Hi. Hi. 4.13 policy 5123 verification with employee HB226 requires confirmation of citizenship or work authorization status. So to comply with this bill they provided us with again what they said is new policy. Um I couldn't find it but doesn't mean that you couldn't find it someplace else to bring it seemed kind of strange to me too. Um cuz these are things that I would think we do anyway. We have I mean we're required to complete an I9. Yeah. And we have those on file for everybody and that's what that does. We need a policy telling you to do that.
046I don't know. I'm sure it's in there somewhere in like hiring processes or something. But we do we do the I9. Yeah. For every employee. So we don't even have an or we don't even do the first one. We just do the I9 and Yeah. demanding the right because the I9 can be for I mean even if someone's here on a visa they're still in the I9 it's just different documentation required so Right. Yeah. You just need a driver's license if they were going to drive you know vehicle. Right. This is for Yep. Um these are really stupid. I kind of agree. Yeah, I think it's repetitive because again it goes back to law and I just don't like to junk up our policy manual. So we have to make it a law or what?
047It's already a federal law to do an I9. That's a federal document. But Montana says you can do you can use the I9 as part of this policy. What's What does I9 do? It verifies your citizenship. Citizenship. Yeah. Because the 5120 says, "Every newly hired employee must complete an immigration and naturalization service form as required." Yeah. I just read that. So, so we have it covered. Yeah. What policy was that in 5120 hiring process and criteria? Yep. All right. I move the Colster Public Schools Board of Trustees does not approve the first reading of policy 5123, employer verification of employee because this information is already presented in policy 5120. Second. Okay, I have a motion in a second. Is there any public comment in the board? Francis I Serena. Hi, Angie. I I Okay. Policy
0488560. All right. H19 prohibits the display of flags or banners on district property other than specific types of flags identified in the bill. And they list them out. which ones you can have. Um, and it didn't talk about what you shouldn't have too. Yeah. Paragraph list. Do we Sorry. Hamster is just [Music] the last one. I don't know if you the last one. Okay. We did not not adopted. It's already included in one of our other policies. Okay. Sorry about that. 4.15. We're already there. Already there. Oh, no. We're on 4.1 4.14. Oh, sorry. We're just looking at the Oh, the flag. Mhm. I was already. So, this is law now. This is They're all based on legislation. Okay. Keeping my mouth shut and we'll just move forward with it. We have to comply with
049the law, right? We don't have to adopt it as policy. Yeah, we have to comply with the law, but we don't have to adopt it as a policy. One way or the other, we'll be following this. Okay, then we don't need it in our policy manual. I think if we're going to be following it, no matter what. I agree with you. It muddies the waters. Just keep it simple. Did you find anything like this one? I I was just looking. I followed this law when it was going through. Okay. Flags or banners? I mean, we do have a lot of banners, so maybe we do need to adopt it just so people understand what they can and cannot hang. I could say it could protect maybe the principles a little bit. Yeah, say no to
050things, you know. Okay. Too far, I think. Because if it's already in there and we don't have anything like it, we might as well adopt it. So then we have it. We have, right? I mean, we might as well. That's what I keep saying. We don't have this one. You might as well put it in your policy so you always have something if we got to follow it. And it's not we don't already have it. Okay. We'll move the Colester Public Schools Board of Trustees approves the policy 8560 display of flags and banners on district property for first reading. Second. Do we need a second? No. No, it's required. Yeah. Okay. Have a motion in a second. Any public comment on this? Any further board? Francis. I Sabrina. Hi. Angie. Hi. Tiff. Hi. Hi. 4.15.
051Okay. 4.15 House Bill 602 specifies that non-renewal of a non-tenure teacher for financial reasons is non-renewal without cause and requires the matter to be placed on a board meeting agenda before June 1. And what does our non-renewal say now? It's June 1, but I'm thinking it's the financial reasons. So, if we're laying people off because our budget gets cut, this is the one you would use. You can tell the public now that you're non-renewing them for financial reason and they won't look at it as without or with cause. So, right now under the current you're can't say that. Yeah. Right. Because that would be with cause. So, they change the language. Okay. I do like that. I move the Culture Public Schools Board of Trustees approves policy 5252 on first reading notice of non-renewal of
052non-tenure teacher for financial reasons. Second, that was you right? Yes. I have a motion second. Any public comment on this? Any further board? Francis. Hi, Mr. Business. Hi Andrew. Hi J. Hi. Hi. 4.16. Okay. Um, House Bill 7475 or 745, sorry. Requires adoptions of school districts of the students safety policy requiring a fingerprint criminal history check prior to any individual employees, volunteers, chaperones, etc. having unsupervised contact with students. And this one had several options which we have action policy on this one. It wasn't in our uh board docs online or our policy manuals. It was adopted a little. It was April 8th of 2024 and they found it. Chris and Britney informed me that you guys did go through this one. This one has been done all except one part. Um, so the part that's
053not was the first part that says who needs to be fingerprinted, which is all individuals 18 years of age or older to be volunteers. Okay, they add the word chaperone. Sorry, just the word chaperones. This is what I was thinking of came up maybe earlier. And then they put some wording in there or recommended for hire by the school district. And in red it says who will have unsupervised access to students. So that's the only piece of it. All those other options have already been gone through by you guys over a year ago. Good. I move that the Coaster Public Schools Board of Trustees approves the recommendation revision to policy 5120P, hiring process and criteria, federal background check, fingerprint and information handling procedure listed in section one adding chaperones and unsupervised access to students. Second.
054Okay. Motion second. Any public comment on this? Any further board? Francis. Hi. Hi. Andrew. Hi. Tiff. Hi. Hi. Is that 4.17? That was 4.16. Okay. 4.17. 4.17. Okay. Um, this one is following the last one. There just a couple word changes, but in order to comply with House Bill 745, again, MTSB recommends amendments, and you'll see a couple words changed here. Um they took off regular and this left unsupervised access I think. Yeah. Another one with including chaperons again. Yep. Just aligning those two. I move the Colster Public Schools Board of Trustees approves the first reading of recommended changes to policy 5122, fingerprints and criminal background check investigations as presented. Second. Okay. Motion second. Any public comment on this agenda item? Any further board? Francis. Hi Sabrina. Hi Angie. Hi Tiff. Hi. Hi. 4 by18.
055Okay. Following the same order of business with those two last ones. In order to comply with hospital 745 again they recommend these changes. I think they're just one word change on this one for volunteers. Yeah. Regular. Okay. I move the posture public schools board of trustees approves first reading of the recommended change to policy 5430 NF volunteers volunteer agreement forum as presented. Second motion a second. Any public comment on this? Any further board? Francis. Hi. Sabrina. Hi. Angie. Hi. Hi. Hi. 4.19. Okay. Another update. Um HB567 is related to multiddist agreements. It provides an incentive for countywide multidist agreements. And so they're recommending updates to our policy 10007 FE or multi-dist agreements. Our multiddist agreement is just between our high school and elementary district, right? So will this really affect us then? Um I'm not
056really sure. I didn't honestly I'll be honest. I didn't get a chance to really look at this one and compare it to what our current one looks like. Um well this was an update. So yeah, to me it's just adding some of the words. It's the I don't know if you want to look at that main paragraph down there. I just don't know if we have all of that in our policy currently. I would think not since they they've struck out one line and added the, you know, the few lines there. Wasn't a new one that we would have already had. Just an update to You want time to review it before we adopt it? Yeah, if I could. Okay. Do you want me to table it? Sure. All right. Uh, I move to table
057item 4.19 policy 1000F 100007 FE multi-dist agreements until the business manager slash accounts payable person payroll payroll person can second. Okay, I have a motion second table. Uh, any public comment on this? Any further board? Francis. Hi. Serena. Hi. Angie. Hi. Tiff. Hi. Sorry about that. No worries. Spend some time on that. 4.20. 4.20 policy. I'm sorry. House Bill 250 revises provisions related to out of district attendance. So we already have this and this is one that I believe the way he put it was required. We'll want to do this. I think it had to do with funding um online. We already have this policy. Yeah, we have they just added how to calculate A and B. I move the Coaster Public Schools Board of Trustees approves the recommended changes to policy 2050 innovative student
058instruction as presented on first reading. Second. Okay. Motion second. Any public comment on this? Any further board? Francis. Hi. Sabrina. Hi. Angie. Hi. Piff. Hi. Hi. 4.21. Okay. House Bill 591. And this is another one of the ones that Lance Melton today listed is required for us to do. Um, adds freedom week to list of commemorative days set forth in 20-1306 MCA in order to educate students about the sacrifices made for freedom and the founding of the United States and the values on which the United States was founded. So they've added freedom. Was it a week or a day for you? I think last full week of September. Yeah. Appropriate exercises. So we don't have to have no school days on those days. We just have to do activities related to them. Yeah. When you
059read through it, they kind of change that a little bit too as far as how we do it. Superintendent and everything have to make sure it's carried out. Okay. school clearance policy. Well, we have to follow those those days in the calendar. Um we do require policy, but they're adding that. Yeah, they're adding a day or week that week. Yeah. Freedom week. Okay. So, it's just a change. We do have that crossed out part at the beginning of that commemorative holidays currently. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, right. because there's a little bit more. Yeah. Okay. Than just the list. I move the Coaster Public Schools Board of Trustees approve the recommended changes to policy 2100 school closure calendar and day on the first reading. Second. Okay. Motion second. Any public comment on this? Any for the board?
060Okay. Can I just I just have a clarifying sorry. Um so you will present a board approved exercise. So like we have like this is what K through2 is doing that you'll present to us at some later date. Is that should I just read that to everybody? But yeah that second paragraph in red that's going to that this is a law we'll have to follow. So that will be something that I need to do to present to you. Yes. Okay. Thanks. Sorry. Sometimes I just have to I can't No, I read that over a couple times myself. So So I apologize for that. That's a good question because it used to be pretty much principal. The principal bar would probably say that too. They always did it, but I know this says superintendent who present
061the exercises and Yeah. Get ahead of that. Yeah. Yeah. And I kind of like too like um that can be something that might be it's a good thing. You know, I always think we should teach our students to value America and uh their history. Um the perspective though of the founding of America is really complex, especially with a lot of diversity in our upcoming generations. Then I'm just saying like, yeah, some of those things we should um be able to talk about and that way we're not getting any teachers in trouble or having any um just being sensitive. So that's my two cents. Thanks, Francis. And Scott, you don't have to develop these cuz you can designate someone to develop them. I won't do that. Yeah, you just have to present. Yeah. Cool. capture work.
062Huh? I was waiting for you to give me some marching. Okay, for grade one, you're going to I already thought about that cuz I read that like, okay, I was I was actually looking at the man in the tally. I'm like, well, you got a few more a team joint effort. There you go. Advisory done through announcements. Yeah, I used to do as principal. I did a lot of these. So, yes, you guys will be help. Is that also Native American week? Yeah, it is the same. Let's see. Native American I believe. Don't they designate that as day? The fourth Monday weekend of September. Let me see. Fourth Friday in September. Fourth Friday where this is like that whole it is the same that's this is a week. So, we have a week. Make sure
063it's not homecoming as well. Yeah. No aware of that. All right. With that, Francis, hi. Serena. Hi, Angie. Hi, Tiff. Hi. I uh 4.22. All right. Um Senate Bill 369 revises provisions related to suicide training and prevention. So they have spelled out for us how often a little bit more clear. Um some changes there I think we really need to follow. I move that the Colster Public Schools Board of Trustees approves policy 2150, suicide training and prevention on the first reading. Second. Okay. Motion second. Any public comment on this further board? Francis. I Serena. Hi. Angie. Hi. Tip. Hi. Hi. 4.23 policy 2335. Okay. 2335 is to comply with House Bill 471, which amends the requirements for mandatory notices to parents regarding human sexuality instruction and adds requirements related to identity instruction. MTSBA recommends amendment
064of policy 2335, human sexuality instruction and identity instruction. The policy name has also changed from health enhancement. So you're going to see that change to human sexuality instruction and identity instruction in red and quite a few strikethroughs. And then the new um explanations I guess of how we have to incorporate this. So these are pretty sensitive. Another reason why I brought this one here. So is this just saying we have to give a notice when we're going to speak about these issues or doesn't say we're not allowed to speak about these issues, right? I think it's a several just an annual notice to parents. Yes. And then additional notice required. Yeah, those are kind of towards the bottom event or assembly. That last par paragraph that you need to do a summary of curriculum. Yeah,
065you know that's new too. Public information on an additional no fewer than five school days. No one no fewer than five or notice. Yeah. In addition to Yeah. It tells how to go about it all out. I'm sure some of these are just going to be like reversed anyway once they hit the courts. Coster Public Schools Board of Trustees approves the recommended changes to policy 2335, human sexuality instruction and identity instruction as presented on the first reading. Second Okay. Motion second. Any public comment on this? Go ahead, Marietta. Yeah, I just wanted to um clarify. So, since I teach government and we talk about star thesis and one of the cases that a lot of people use is the RO case being overturned by the Dobs case, which deals with abortion. Would I have to
066send a notice to parents at the start of the year just saying we're going to look at these cases. We're not talking about whether it's right or wrong. We're solely using them to um show that the courts can change their decision over time. Think so. Yeah. I don't think so either. Okay. I just wanted to give a little clarification. Thank you. We're all shaking our heads now. Yeah. But yeah, it's good to check. Any further board? I agree with Sabrina. This will be brought back up eventually. Yeah. Okay. With that, Francis I. Sabrina. Hi. Angie. Hi. Y I uh 4.24. All right. Uh, Senate Bill 181 revises provisions related to Indian education for all. Um, and there's just a couple some verbiage there to work in consultation with triage rather than just cooperatively and when
067developing courses of study was added. So, pretty brief, doesn't really change anything that we do. I move the Coastal Public Schools Board of Trustees approves the recommended changes to policy 2450, Indian education for all on the first reading. Second. Okay. Motion second. Any public comment on this? Any further board? Francis. I Andrew. Hi. Tip. Hi. Hi. We have 4.25. Okay. This House Bill 400 is recommending on this. Let's see. I'm going to read this one because this is pretty much how it's stated to in the policy recommendation. So, prohibits adverse employment action or student disciplinary action against an individual that declines to provide their pronouns or declines to address another person by a name other than their legal name or by using a pronoun inconsistent with the person's sex. So you might want to take
068a look at down at the bottom. There it is. Exceptions. The student may not be subject to a disciplinary action for declining to identify the student's pronouns or be address a person by using a name other than the person's legal name or directive of derivative of the person's legal name or by using a pronoun or a title is inconsistent with the person's sex. And they also did I skip the part about so basically what's on the birth? Yeah. Yeah. You're basically not going to punish an employee for using what's on the birth certificate, not a pronoun or a student who may what use legal name because they don't have to use the This is student discipline though. Am I in the wrong one? No. Student. So, a student can't get in trouble for calling another
069student a name other than what is on their certificate or Yeah, I don't see the employee option. I'll have to look and see if there's there was a couple that I actually emailed Tony about. They said we didn't include these. There's one they ended up sending today. He's on vacation that they had left out and so I'm waiting for a couple more and I'm wondering if this is one of them then was on Thursday or Friday last week for employer. It might be the one that's missing. There's a couple that were missing that they I found. Okay. And so I asked them, isn't that in the 4.27? Was that for? Yes, that's for the teachers. I knew we saw it. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. It's not one of the ones I asked. Yeah, we we
070talked to We throw this one around a little bit. But yeah, this wasn't one that it's just a little later. Yeah, there's it's not a free pass to be a jerk though. That's what I'll say. Well, it is. I know, but can we add that? It is. Just saying that was my issue with it too. But what does it say something about? Doesn't it say kind of under there? Does it clarify or no? Exception. The exception. What did it say? That'll go to federal reporting as well. Student may not be subject to disciplinary action for declining to identify the student's pronouns, address a person by using a name other than the person's legal name or derivative of the person's legal name or by using a pronoun or a title that is inconsistent with the person's
071sex. And I would like to point out that we had a very upset parent come because we weren't using a legal name. Yes. And what goes on their diploma? It's their legal name. I just feel like this is going to set up like a bullying situation in school. This has nothing to do with us announcing someone or this is a student for and student. I think it's there. I know it's the next one. They do go hand in hand. 4.27. The teacher. Yeah. And I know what you're talking about because you do have it called legal name. Anything that we publish or certificate name. So this one is speaking directly to like what you're saying. If another student is calling a student by a name that they say they prefer to do by anymore or
072if a adult is not using that right then you can't punish them. So there it's definitely kind of a whole different tweak on it. We have to still we're going to always do that with what we put on diploma or what we announce or um I completely programs. I completely agree. Right. I know. And this isn't a place, but I'm going to call you Sabrina. And if you say I don't want to go by Sabrina anymore and I mess up and still call you Sabrina, I'm not going to get in trouble. Are we students? And how many times have I told you not to call me that? Has it been 50? Because then you should get in trouble. It's been twice. Well, then that's fine. I'll give you that pass. But if it's 50, then
073no. Absolutely not. It's a tough one. Well, I know it's the law, but I'm not voting no on principal. Is it? Yes, you can. This is the law, right? Everyone they sent me they said were was legislation. Yes. Y it says HB400 prohibits adverse action. Yep. So if we don't adopt this policy, going back to that, we still have to follow the law. Okay. I move the Col Public Schools Board of Trustees approves the first reading of recommended changes to policy 3310 student discipline as presented. I'll second. Okay, I have a motion in a second. Any public comment on this? We still have to follow the law. Any further board comment on this? We still have to follow the law. That's what I'm getting at. Yeah, we don't have to allow bullying. We do not
074have to allow bullying. I completely agree. But we have to have a policy to fall back on. But if they even still if this is a house bill and a student comes and says hey look this is the law I can do this even though it's not in our policy or we agree or disagree with it so it's still law I know we still disagree with it oh I think if you read the whole thing you know like it says at the top disciplinary action may be taken against any student guilty of but not limited Except for the exemption or exception under that require us to just sharpen up the anti-bullying policy. Absolutely. Which is absolutely should be done. Yeah. Just to distinguish that you say okay I'm not going to argue this point that
075you're using a fact but you're using a fact to harm somebody. If somebody has a you know physical disability can't point that out and say I'm just calling out the fact. Well, but we're training the students to say no, what is your intention with calling out that fact practice? So, we say the fact, but now that's not even an issue. So, you bypass that and just say, but you're doing this intentionally to hurt somebody. Yeah. And we have counselors, principles, and superintendents and all those people in place to deal with that. So, okay, with that, I'll go to the vote. Francis. Hi, Sabrina. No. Angie, I I 4.26 policy 3416. All right. House Bill 600, Senate Bill 211, and Senate Bill 502 collectively address emergency administration of asthma medications and opioid antagonists. So we have
076are aligned with those. We just updated this one not too long cuz I remember having the discussion about that. Yeah. And I wasn't sure if we had every single thing in here to the tea, so I put in recommended. Did you? I think it's good. I think it's pretty well. It's pretty long. This one's real long. It's important though. I agree with this. I move the Coastal Public Schools Board of Trustees approves recommended changes to policy 3416 administering medicines to students on the first reading. Second. Okay, I have a motion second. Any public comment on this? Any further board? Francis. Hi, Sabrina. Hi, Angie. Hi, Tiff. Hi. Hi, 4.27. Okay, this one is House Bill 400 prohibiting adverse employment action. They they are lumped together, but this is the one for an employee. So, sorry,
077I'm using my voice. Um, prohibits a first employment action or student disciplinary action against an individual that declines to provide their pronouns or declines to address another person by a name other than their legal name or by pronouncing or using sorry, pronoun. inconsistent with the person's sex. And then when you go into the red on this, you'll see no employee is what is discussed here. No employee regardless of the scope of the employees official duties may be subjected to an adverse employment action for deliding too. And then the rest is the same as we've just recently had. It's the same. It's the same thing. I know. Yeah. Except for it's for grown-ups this time. I know. And do is there something I mean same thing a grown-up can be can take it too far either
078way as well. Do we have something that protects because I think what you're kind of getting into is are they bantering somebody right? Right. I mean we all have our beliefs but there's still kindness and whatever and acceptance and we have to be accepting of that. Right. But if it's a law, you would hope that it wouldn't be misused, right? That it's like one somebody said here maybe with Steve a little bit ago, they call the students name off their because I did it all the time. Yeah. As a teacher, I'd read my especially the first day, right? You read roll call and you read I don't go by that name. I go by my middle name or whatever. You know, you just I just say it's a legal name. And some teachers just, you
079know, they do choose to to use it because this is what, you know, I don't I don't know. I forget the kid. what do you want to be called? Um, some nickname, you know, spaz or something like I'm not called you that, you know, it's Spencer. Yeah, a long long time ago. Um, so you'd hope that there's also there's also missing, you know, there's a way around some of those pronouns even as an educator or a principal or a teacher, you don't, you know, there's that last name is Yeah. Like I said, I I agree. I want to catch your foot when I get home. But I agree. Yeah. I just think it's it's a tricky one because you know you want people to be protected all around feel safe. You don't want Yeah. That's
080why I think if we take that and just add without being a jerk at the endactly that's kind of what I'm trying to say correctly you know I don't think the house is going to we can add stuff to our policy hash okay I'll entertain a motion I move the culture public schools board of trustees is approves first reading of recommended changes to policy 5255 disciplinary action as presented. I'll second I was going to say you're probably going to have to I'm sorry I'm missing the eye contact this time. Steve, yes I am looking right behind my computer. Okay, we have a motion and second. Any public comment on this? Any further board? Francis, I Sabrina, no. Angie, hi. Jeff, I Okay, we've almost made this a little bit through 4.28. Okay, this one I'll
081read to you and just talk. I'll add a little bit to it. House Bill 651 permits installation of temporary door locking devices for use during shelter in place or emergency lockdown situations with v violation of fire codes. This one interests me. I haven't had time to delve into it. I wanted to get you guys' thoughts on this because I have been trained that you never use these and now it's going through legislation to use these against our choice. And I have looked in the cost yet. There's different types of these that you can get. Um I've heard they can hinder safety. So I'm really curious to find out what type they're recommending the legislation. They found some that are supposed to be, you know, really good. So I'm not hugely in favor of you just
082adopting this one tonight just because of cost and because of kind of looking at all sides. But I kind of wanted to know because I get different things on this. I've heard, you know, some people just swear by these. Yeah. And there's like this has to be 48 inches, I think, high and that kind of thing. There's a lot of regulations with it, but can I share something real quick? Yeah. Um, so the state major maintenance aid, um, you guys have heard me talk about that before of if we have a little skin in the game, the state will provide some money to us. Um, I heard at my training basically you you're dumb if you don't take advantage of this money. Okay, because they did just increase it this year. Um, so I have
083looked into that and this is exactly what it would pay for. Anything that is would cover the cost of safety for your building. Um, this can cover it. Any kind of like fire suppression that we do, anything that is like safety building wise, it will cover. So, if you are thinking about that, and we haven't had that conversation yet, but No, I think it'd be well researched for them to put it in legislation. I think there's there's always new and improved things coming out. Yeah, I'd really like to look at it. So, that's how I understand where this is all coming from. I get it. Uh I do think it takes a little bit on uh your end with your principles to figure out just exactly what you guys want to use. I don't think
084the board And I'm speaking for myself. I don't think the board is going to be objective to that. Yeah. I think it's what fits. Um I would probably say the the individual buildings themselves. What fits best for for you bark and uh and whatnot. So Okay. This doesn't say that you have to block the fire exit. It just says you are now allowed to right in the lock down. Yeah. So you can before you couldn't. Yeah. I don't think that's all it's giving. They're not referring to any kind of fire situation here. So, I think they know what we're all referring to. So, shelter in place, emergency lockown. Yeah. Tornado. Tornado. So, I mean, if you want to uh I guess it doesn't I think we can approve it and you guys can and then
085you can go after if they want it. If you want if you want to do the temporary door locks. Is that where you're back to us? Okay. But we just give them the option to look to do what they want, especially if there's monies out there to to pay for it. So, good. I move the Col Public Schools Board of Trustees approves the recommended changes to policy 8301, school safety on the first reading. Second. Okay. Motion second. Any public comment on this? Any further board? Francis. Hi. Serena. Hi. Angie. Hi. Tiff. Hi. Hi. Okay. With that, we'll move into our work session. Uh facilities update. I have something on that. Uh I met with Austin Bladey today. He's going to take care of the uh the slab we pulled out of that um door at
086the middle school and replace that. He's still looking at that ramp for the activities entrance. Good. So, I need um and I'll get a hold of Robert. I can do that. I need him to do a locate and then just mark out those sprinklers. I think Austin I spent um some time there today. I'm not too worried about the sprinklers, but I definitely don't want him doing anything in the dirt with that locate. So, and we'll go from there on that. So, how are we coming along on our big facilities overhaul thing? The last meeting we had with uh Mr. Bush, um he had some renderings, some drawings. Um they look good. Um when are we going to take those soil samples, too? Yep. He had to get he had to do some soil samples.
087He has I don't want to get too far into it because um we're going to have a big community meeting on this. The one thing that he really wanted to know about was turf, natural turf, right to artificial. And it was a I said he is worried about the situation we're in now with the settling. And if we go back with that, we're probably seeing the same thing where he can go in and like I said, there was some some just some things he said uh all the new anything new is going turf, not natural just because of basically maintenance. Okay. Lots of maintenance. Yeah, he really was pro that way. That's That was like playing on it. They don't like playing on it. it would be that I told him I said that's fine.
088I want to see it in natural and in synthetic and we would let the uh community decide on that. It's not a decision that this board's going to make by any means. But, you know, I'd caution him to have your your pros and cons and why all the new structures are going to this. Also, replacement cost and and how long it lasts would be important. M. Yeah. So, um, so are we thinking we're going to be able to present that to the vote? We're hoping in August. Yes. August is when we would go to a vote or start the process of I'm hoping I need to get with Tyler. Um, it's been what? It's been about a month. About a month. So, I'm hoping to have something out there maybe in a a special meeting
089in July, late July that we can get something out there. So, um then it takes about 3 months to get it to the vote. Yep. Then we got to get it. So, okay. Yeah, everything looked pretty good. Um I liked it. Everything's on this side. We're getting rid of the the visitor section. So, we have the nar who gets to get on that track, who doesn't. Yeah, everything's on the one side. Yeah. Nice. So, yeah, that's how most schools are now. Yep. We looked at and we referenced, of course, Red Lodge, Laurel. Um, even Mr. Doul told me the other day he was at the AD Jefferson's going through it. Do this right now. send me a text or not too. So I think they're in the so somebody to reference. Yeah. Um they say
090what kind of tier they're going with or surface. He did not I need to ask Tom what surface they were going with but like I said he just don't have options. The rendering look great I think. So and Robert threw some stuff in there um that I don't think is going to a big kick up. there's already a big pad where those um bleachers sit for the the visiting and uh he was thinking maybe we could throw some kind of a if we go natural or if we go to something to use utilize that pad for equipment storage or whatever else as well. So yeah, everything looked good. Good. I just want to keep making sure we're making progress. We're still there. Yep. So and Wade is still Dr. P on this as well. He
091doesn't want to be completely left out. Good. So, yeah. No, we're we're moving. So, in fact, it probably would um since it's been about a month since you and I have talked them just to reach out to Tyler and see where it's at. But, uh Yep. I think the biggest thing was, well, go ahead and show us this, but show us with the natural as well. So, yeah. I haven't as far as case tickets go right now. I know those guys are busy, so I'm sure they're working right along. Is there anything else in facilities? No, Robert stops in off and on and give me updates and things are moving good at the middle school, the carpeting and all that. So yeah, with that we'll move into uh when we already we've done enough policy.
092So Evan, I'll just give you some highlights to what I have in the report. Um mostly it's just a highlight of the year and of this month in the report. Um three highlights is this week I'm waiting for confirmation from range to they're going to send a technician out. They're expecting he'll contact me this week to do some tests of what it would take to get the fiber optic cable moved from uh middle school over to here for for the high school being the primary internet. Um and then um so that's just still in the works, but I'm hoping we can get some final numbers on that and a plan to possibly do that this school year is with that order. So then that's just one thing off of out of the middle school. And
093then this is more for carb, but just to let the board know. I got a hold of Centry Link Lumen, our phone provider. We've had trouble for well since I started probably longer than that of 911 calls when it leaves the elementary school and the middle school. Uh police dispatch get a call back number that's no longer part of our account. It was like disconnected years ago. And uh it's difficult to get some help from Centry Link on this, but our account ran complained and they've set up a meeting uh either tomorrow or Wednesday. And I'm requesting a technician or somebody come out here to figure out why our phone lines are not going off properly. So the the school will see that or the police department sees that a 911 call is coming from
094one of our buildings. Um but if they call that number back, it goes to a deadline. Um so so that just to let you know we're working on that trying to get an answer out of them for that. And then a highlight that's in my report um the printer contract we have with uh Dex imaging formerly 360 office out of Billings uh that is going to come uh expire in November. I think in a previous board meeting I told you that it was expiring in May and that was a mistake just a misunderstanding of what we had. Uh, but I'm talking with the Dex imaging salespeople for proposals of um what it will cost if a couple of proposals replace all the printers we have right now in our fleet, which it's uh at least
095three large copy machines in each building in every classroom with a printer, either a black and white or color printer. And so what is the cost of full replacement? What is the cost of reducing if that's where the administration team wants to go? or what is the cost of uh upgrading our primary machines or heavy use machines and then just we accept all the old machines and use them at our own cost until they die because we as I understand from the DEX salespeople we do have a unique school district and that many of their customers do not have pruners in every room. So just something for us to be aware of and I don't know what that cost looks like right now per month but it's a 5-year contract that we're coming up on.
096So sometime in November there'll be talk of getting the approval and the number I'll talk more administration and principles to know how we go about doing that work for me. So that's all I got unless you have questions Mr. Christian. All right. Uh title six. This was a process skill. I enjoyed it. Um, so in my report you can see the breakdown of student numbers and the projected title six allocation. Uh, 25 26 we were down almost 40 students with the title six form and down right around $10,000 in our projected title six allocation. uh the reduction in student numbers just due to we have really big class sizes in kindergarten and in second grade this year and so we had to turn away students and and their families as well. Um also what I
097found as I was going through this list is that we have students who are members of our local tribes but they do not have an ED506 form turned in. And so I legally cannot count them in our title six um count. So uh just talking with the Indian parent committee which is also part of this process. I just asked them you know for guidance on that and they said let's just send a new form out to everybody and see if we can get those numbers short up. So uh luckily the our secretaries at each building have been kind enough to help me out with that. We're going to be sending those out with uh the student handbooks at the beginning of the school year. So hopefully we get that number up. But there's Yeah, I
098was seeing some of the student names and I couldn't count. It's like I've taught these kids and I know they're part of the Cheyenne tribe. So, but I just I couldn't count them. So, um interesting looking at the goals. Uh I have not changed the goals at all on the actual grant application, but the goals that were identified in 2425 were not the actual goals. um they said that we're we're in 2425 they specifically said that we're trying to increase achievement in reading and math, but really the actual goal on the form was that we're just going to increase academic achievement. And so, um that's a little bit more wide open what we're looking at there. I I really in order to achieve that goal, I really think we need to redefine maybe further develop
099our assessment strategy because we really have just assessments that show growth or student placement on a continuum, but we don't really have any assessment data that shows why kids place where they place on a continuum or why they grow or why we see a lack of growth. Um, so I'm right now I'm I'm looking with Renaissance to pilot their DNA assessment program, which allegedly allows you to develop criterion reference assessments. And we're looking to pilot that. I'm going to meet with them again on Wednesday here just to see what the pricing looks like for that. But um if we can get something that gives us more of the why and not just the what uh I think that that would really help us show academic achievement and why kids are achieving where they are and
100I think it would help us provide more effective interventions for kids in our school. um increased knowledge of cultural identity. We had that. Our school does a spectacular job. Our all of our schools do a spectacular job of incorporating Indian ed for all in the classrooms. Uh as a matter of fact, the majority of this report is just what we've been doing. I mean, it's pages upon pages of stuff that we do in our schools. So, we're doing a great job there. Um, the next one was not included previously, but this one uh was actually one that when I met with the Indian parent committee, they specifically identified this one. We want to increase college enrollment. Um, in particular, they said that they would like to see us provide more support helping kids apply to
101colleges, helping them uh apply for scholarships. Um, just those were areas that were areas of difficulty for for parents. And so they they would like to see us uh improve support for kids there. And then I know Scott and I have talked a lot amongst ourselves about the last one, but increase activities for violence, suicide, and substance abuse prevention. So we're looking at improving that. Um so let's see. And then a little bit later on, there was just some key points from the Indian parent committee. I told him that I didn't have a lot of say on most of these things, but I'd be happy to pass them along. And so that's what I'm doing with this report. Uh, you know, and some of this stuff is just these are things that that we've been
102talking about all year long. Um, like the busing concerns for instance. I mean, that's something that we've talked about quite a bit. One that was kind of interesting was just um you know we have some pretty lucrative opportunities in our own community that kids could get with the plans or with the mind right out out of high school um and have have nice careers and no college. Uh but the parents of this committee said that our students cannot get those jobs because they can't pass entrance exams um to get those careers. So, I think it's imperative that that we work with the plant, work with the mind to see if we can shore up some things and and help kids get those jobs. I mean, uh, if we keep our kids home and and give
103them a good career opportunity, I think that's a real advantage for anybody. So, uh, anyways, that's my report in a nutshell. I think our vote could really get wrapped up and I know it's not we just need to do this. I mean, we have to get the the people in to do it. I mean, this is a very trades community. So, I agree. We'll see what we can do. You're doing a great job. Thank you. Uh 8.02 the rotation. Uh oh, I get to talk a lot this meeting. All right. Uh so, we we switched fine arts and language arts. So, language arts was 2425. We're doing fine arts. uh 25 26 I've actually already met with the folks on that committee just to try to get some just some preliminary ideas as to what
104they're going to be looking for with regard to purchases. Trey had a great idea. This is one that I think we need to keep on our radar is to have um a rotation for music instrument maintenance. Uh just try to keep you know what we have in good condition, good working condition for kids. Um, so if we can figure out just kind of how to get a rotation schedule going for that, I think that was the big consistent purchase that they were looking at. Um, working with math also this year, trying to get us to align with the new state common core standards that are going to be coming out here in 26. So, we're going to be busy. Just real quick, has the board met and changed this? Seems like before I got here
105this year, or do they need to? Wasn't this already switched? I remember. We changed. We changed it. We went to uh language arts. Correct. Last year we pushed the fine arts back a year because it was 95 on the language arts as well. And we felt sat in that was not take anything away from fine arts. We felt language was imperative to get updated. That's why that got so we can formally change that on here. Just Yes, you can. Yeah, there was a motion we made and I remember doing it. Yeah, I remember that too. Steering committee, we all met and then we changed it at the board. Thanks. In fact, we I think we can talk about mathematics. We did about we did talk about moving that. But I think I actually think it's
106advantageous where it's at right now. Okay. Because we're going to have those new standards rolling out. So, this will give us a year to get the alignment piece going before we start looking at instructional resources because Yeah. I have to believe that was the It was either language or mathematics and we were kind of Yeah, I think language was the one that was the longest, wasn't it? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Derek right on that when he got here. And uh, of course, we're always open to what you guys think as curriculum and and principles. You know, if we're looking at, you know, I know we're learning mathematics, we're going to are going to if something that is not gospel. Yeah, sure. So, okay, that works for me. Okay, thanks. All right. Anything else? All right. With
107that,