001We'll bring this meeting to order. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with justice for all. [Applause] All right. We do have a quorum tonight. Uh Sabrina is on. I don't know if we Andrew are going to make it or not. So, but we're good. So, with that, we'll just get on going. I'm going to move on to 3.01 uh recognition and accomplishments. Mr. Coul, um I I will let Tiana toot their horn. Um but our cheer our cheerleaders did exceptionally well at the state festival this uh well what about a month ago now and they uh ended up the best in class B. So very proud of them. Congratulations to them
002and Tiana was the uh pilot of this long journey. So I'll turn the floor over to her entire squad most of them. um our team, I hate the word squad because I feel like we're more athletic than that. Um but yes, these uh this team put in a lot of hard work. Uh so with cheer, we don't really have like a state event essentially or like districts or regionals. And so this was essentially our state event. Um it's put on in Lewistown Cheerfest. Uh, and so even though it's not like MHSA sponsored, we still had to abide by all the rules, still do really everything you'd have to do as if you were going to a state event, um, the fundraising hours they put in, the practice hours they put in. Um, we kind of
003had to fight pretty hard for this. Uh, it's hard to get a team of 11 individuals to do something for as long as we do. Cheer start. We started end of July and our competition was end of March. And so, and typically our season is August to about March depending on how our basketball teams do. I don't think people always realize that. It's not just like you just show up to a game like we start practicing pretty hard right at the beginning and then they had to put in a lot of extra hours in addition to the extra months they already put in with this competition. So, I really appreciated their commitment. Um, super proud and thank you so much for having us and recognizing us. Thank you. Good job. All right, hold on. 4.01.
004We have one more. Oh, okay. Mrs. Christian is here with the science club and she has some kids to talk real quick about their so clinic started an immersion day last year and it allows for a half a day of job shadowing in the hospital with a a field of their choice and then the second half of the day they get to go through a series of scenarios where they practice some skills skills. So, it's a half and half. And with that, so for job shadowing, I was able to be in the emergency room because I want to be a paramedic in the future and I absolutely loved the experience because I got to job shadow in the past and that made me realize that phabbotomy isn't really for me. So, it was really nice
005going in just seeing if emergency room is for me. And then afterwards, we did some little stations and it was just really nice just learning all of that and it was just really fun and learning the experience. Um, I was fortunate enough to be selected to attend the 2025 immersion day at Billings Clinic. This is a program that allows students to job shadow in an area of the hospital, uh, one that the student is interested in. I was lucky and I was accepted into the surgery center of Billings Clinic. Before our job shadows, we were given a brief tour of the hospital. Then we were led to our job sites. I went to the Billings Clinic surgery center and I was scrubbed into two surgeries. I got to see an eye surgery and a foot
006surgery. Uh after the surgeries, we went back to the main building for lunch. And after lunch, we went to the learning center downstairs in the main hospital. We were guided through four learning stations. At one station, we learned about the injection sites and injection methods with different needs. Another station showed us how to deliver a baby. Uh we learned the ABCs of bleeding. Uh alert 911, locate the bleed, and apply compression to the wound. The final station was learning uh to use an ultrasound machine. And um we were able to practice on a live person. Um the program was an incredible experience for any student interested in the medical field. I enjoyed the program and I learned lots of things from just the hospital staff were very friendly and I would recommend this program to
007anyone even remotely interested in the medical field. I just want to recognize Mrs. Christian because she's worked really hard. Like we were one of the first schools invited to this last year, the first one that they hosted. Um, and she has really just gone above and beyond to get these kids out there to see medical stuff. So, I appreciate that. Good job. Very good. Okay. With that 4.01, one. This is the point in the meeting for comments on matters not already on the agenda. Comments on agenda items will be accepted when that item comes up during the meeting. Interested persons may also submit the use and written form to the clerk or superintendent prior to the meeting and those comments will be brought to the attention of the board during the meeting. So, we did
008have some correspondence. Do we have any uh public participation? Okay. that we'll move on to the consent agenda. I move the Col Public Schools Board of Trustees approves the consent agenda as presented. I'll second motion and second Sabrina I Okay. Board governance calendar 7.01. Are we boring? Just [Laughter] kidding. They lasted longer than I was. As soon as I had what to say. I don't see anything on the I think we're right on Yeah. Okay. All right. We have no old business, so we'll move right into 9.01 new business. Here's some resignations for your information. So these was for monitors. None. None. I don't think none. Great. Okay. 9.02 seasonal. Okay. I've got some seasonal uh summer recommendations for hire. Let me just read them all. Yeah, we'll take them all. All right. Tony Helmer,
009Lorine Hansen, Heather Willoughby, Annayiah Big Left Hand, Tammy Cartner, Stephanie Anzelone, Courtney Logan, and Trevor McMass. I move the Colrip Public Schools Board of Trustees approves seasonal hires for summer 2025 as presented. Second. Okay, motion second. Any public comment on this agenda item? Any further board? Sabrina I I Okay, that 9.03 is the campus of the elections. Yeah. Well, um just a little we had um we had 1,254 registered voters. We had 621 people vote and gave us about a 50% outcome on voters and both of our mill levies passed. Um new trustees elected, Tiffany and Francis. So, we're excited about that. The election process went really smooth like it always does. I really want to give a shout out to um our team of Chris and Lorna and our counting judges which were Linda
010Myers um Donine Rogers and um oh gosh, why am I drawing a blanket on um Patty Dunn of course. So um just a big shout out to them. They are so helpful and they make it go so smooth. We always every year we're like what are we missing? Why are we not stressing out? What what what are we what are we forgetting? And it's just really does it's the team just makes it go really smooth. So, um all of that is there for you guys to view. We have the uh voter binder of all of our elected or our um registered voters. The envelopes in the back match up to the envelopes in the second box, which is really important because the first box is the box that um we check in our office every
011day and we make sure the signature matches up. And then we make sure it the number is exactly the same as the yellow envelopes in the next box that the counting judges open. And so everything um was right on. You can see their tally sheets up there as well. And then if you guys will sign the canvas, um, whoever's here and then we'll get the rest of the signatures later then. And the public is welcome to go take a look too, whoever is interested in that kind of stuff. Don't all move at once. I had a question. Yes. Why is it we have like a thousand plus vote on the school board but only like 600 for levies? Well, because they vote for two people for the trustees, so it would be double. Oh, that's
012right. Yeah. Didn't think about that. Yeah. Nope. That's why. And then we did have one onlooker that wanted to come and see how uh he just came to drop off his ballot and he says, "Hey, what are you guys doing? like what does that look like? What you know? And so I walked him to where the counting judges were and um he got to kind of see how the process worked and and we love that and we welcome that. He had to swear notes that he wouldn't share what he you know any results if he had to see tally sheets or anything like that. But it was really great. It was really great. I would much rather people come in and see the process and ask questions and it went really really well. So good
013job. Yeah, very good. I move the board of trustees of Colrip School District 19 approve the May 6, 2025 elementary and high school general fund levy election results and the trustee election results. Can I actually move this? Actually, Sabrina should be making this motion. Yeah. Is she still on? Are you there? It's okay. You didn't finish it. I'm on. I just don't know if I can have Google Meet and the agenda open. Give me a second. Do you want me to send you a a screenshot of what to say? Sure. Okay. I can probably get in there. I wasn't prepared for that though. Okay, it's on its way. No, after you finish this whole meeting, we have to do the whole Yeah. Okay. I move that the culture public school board of trustees SD19 approves
014the May 6, 2025 elementary and high school general fund levy election results and the trustee election results of Francis Alter Cruz and Tiffany Davenport to three-year trustee terms. I'll second motion second any public comment on this agenda item. I just thank the voters too. We thanked everybody behind the scenes, but thank you to the public and everyone that um voted and asked questions and the people that are willing to run on the board. It's a huge um service that you guys do. So, just thank you to all of them. Any further board? Sabrina, I t I I Okay. 9.04 4 mayor performance oppose. Need a proposal? You can. Okay. I'd like to propose to the board of trustees to authorize me, the superintendent, to issue merit performance pay bonuses for employees not covered under a
015CVA at my discretion up to 10,000 per employee per year. So, how will this work? If we will you do that like in your office or is it going to have to come back to the As long as it's under 40,000 that would come from me and it's a merit pay it's a bonus. So I have something that was sent to me from MTSBA that people would have to sign to make sure and understand it was a one time end of the year kind of bonus thing. Okay. you know, bringing in the last year or two just kind of different things that have been I've been asked about doing from them after some of the meetings here. So, this would give you the latitude to do that. Yes. Gives me latitude. Yep. I would like
016to see this done in April at that meeting when we do all the rest of those that you know you know what I'm talking about. Yeah. Yeah, that's when um all that the CBA stuff is coming out, what they're what they negotiated and whatnot. Um, any comment on this? No, I read the emails from Deb. Um, it makes sense. We've been talking about merit pay for so long. Um, it's never happened and so this allows that to happen. Okay. Is this something that we have to do year to year or is it once it we don't have to do this again? Right. It gives him the latitude to do if he feels for the whoever is sitting in that. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I move the Colster Public Schools Board of Trustees authorizes the superintendent to
017issue merit/performance pay bonuses for employees not covered under a CBA at his discretion up to $10,000 per employee per year. I'll second. Okay. More second. Any public comment on this agenda item? So just inquiring minds, that's a decent chunk of money. Where would it be coming from? General funds, levies. I know you don't have to say, but that's just a question that came up. I would say general fund money. I haven't talked to Britney yet about those kind of things exactly, but yeah, that's where it's the plan. And these bonuses are for just that merit. If you're a non CBA uh employee and you feel like you have superseded all of your duties this year and you feel like you deserve more than what was bargained for say you know we did typically follow the
018what the CFA does right so if it was three and you said I think I deserve five that's a conversation you're going to have with your supervisor who's then if it's not the superintendent and then your supervisor will go to to the superintendent and say, "Hey, it's not by any means a guarantee of Okay. Any other board? Sabrina. Hi." Yes. Hi. Hi. MHSA 9.05. Um, so we got we're going for our MHSA annual membership and the totals are on the document there where it's based on the high school population and our total bill for next year will be $4,02. So, it's 3500 for the sports and then um also concussion and there's one other insurance. What was it last year? I don't feel it was much higher. I don't think it really changed. I was
019going to say, can you remember it? I can look in the old um old meetings real quick. Did you find it? It might even have been a little bit more. We had softball last year. We do not have motion. It's what? She doesn't see it right now. It's all right. I was just curious. It's It's $250 in activity. So, it probably about $250 cheaper. 4250. 4250 is what last year was. Okay. Plus the and that was just the sports. So you know then you had your like you said concussion and all the incident concussion catastrophic. Yeah. Okay. I move the Col Public Schools Board of Trustees approves the Montana High School Association annual membership for 2025 2026 school year as presented. I'll second. Okay, a motion and a second. Any follow comment on this? Any
020further board? Sabrina, I 9.06 technology obsolete. [Music] You have a obsolete list of oh somewhere like 300 items. um variety of different devices and these are devices that are currently sitting in a inventory room that are broken or truly obsolete like say a monitor. Monitor still powers on but it's old connections. It's not uh suitable to use for any of our computers now due to the cable connections or screen size and it's just truly not needed. But the bulk of this list are items that are damaged um cannot be repaired and are no longer functional. I move the culture public schools board of trustees approves the disposal of obsolete inventory items as presented per policy 7251 dispose of school district property without a vote. I'll second. Okay. Have a motion, a second. You come in
021on this? Any further board? I just want to say good job to Evan to get all of that organized and cleaned up and it's great. Getting rid of it. Perfect. Uh with that, Sabrina I Jeff I I assuming those who was it those people come down and pick all that stuff up for for this route that's my plan is July 28th sometime they're going to come down I'm expecting they'll come down pick up. So I want to have all these ready to go because we missed that deadline last year. They still got it for free. Like we just had to wait like in the month and a half for it to come back through because we were still waiting on the newspaper clippings and all that to to be timeline to be done. Sure. Okay.
022Okay. 9.07. Okay. Got uh second reading for a recommended uh policy update for policy 7525 on our lease purchase agreement. So some clarifying language from MTSBA. I move the Colster Public Schools Board of Trustees approves the second and final reading of policy 7525 lease agreements as presented. I'll second. Okay. A motion second. Any public comment on this? Any further board? Sabrina, I we have another policy update. We have another recommended change. Uh this is a second reading also from MTSBA recommends that we update policy 4340 public access to district records in compliance with Montana law. I move the Colster Public Schools Board of Trustees approves the second and final reading of policy 4340, public access to district records as presented. I'll second. Okay, I have a motion and a second. Any public comment on this
023policy? Any further board? Explain it. I I Okay. the individual transportation contracts. Yeah, this is uh rather status quo. Um had this happen this year, too. There's currently no bus driver for the north north route and there's a small number of students eligible to ride that north route. So then we have the um funds are signed individual transportation contracts um right here that we are proposing. I just wanted to add we usually have a second May meeting. So, I'm usually able to bring these to the second bay meeting after I've written them a letter and have them sign it. So, you're getting it a little bit pre me doing all that. So, just know that when you see them, they're not signed by the individuals, but Steve will sign it tonight. I'll get their signatures
024and then, you know, if you were to eventually have a north route, you wouldn't they would be void, right? So, just wanted to throw that out there. I move the Colster Public Schools Board of Trustees approves the elementary and high school district individual transportation contracts for Tori Kester, Regina Larson, and Cara Watson for the 2526 school year. I'll second. Okay, I have a motion to second. Any public comment on this agenda item? Any further board? Sabrina I uh for training I don't think this needed to be an action item. I just wanted to uh highlight the MTSBA board trainings that are available starting in the summer and have a discussion if we want uh Deb or somebody to come down and do new board member training and if so we should probably get her on
025the schedule. I'm fine with it. I don't know if it would be Deb or it would probably be Tony. Tony's kind of stepped into that. Um that's something we can talk about too once we get reorganized with the new uh trustee. Get her thoughts and feelings on that. So yeah. Is that all right with you, Sabrina? Yep, that's fine. Okay. So since it is on here for let's just table it until our next meeting we can get we can get Tony or okay whoever scheduled up that's what we want to do. I move Colch Post schools board of trustees tables the scheduling of board training through MTSBA until after reorganization. I'll second. Okay have a motion second. Any public comment on this agenda item? Any further board? Serena. Hi. Tiff. Hi. Hi. Okay. With that,
026we'll move into the reports. Miss Nansel. Um I don't have anything to add except for um Mrs. patent wasn't in here when we did the recognition and but I did put it in my report um but she won the new achiever award at the um FCCLA no double AS okay American Association of Family Tumor Sciences Montana affiliate conference so and she was very surprised so kind of fun it was surprised but it was a big honor so very good congratulations thank Crystal, anything to add? Um, I do have my bucket billers and stuff if I can add that at this time. Okay. Um, so I have uh Landon Nightwalker, Hayden Holt, Joseph Springer, Ella Braxton, um, Aaron Grafton, Malia Highwalker, Oolie Clark, Jadrien Lee, Lawrence Robertson, John Burns, Abby Spang, and then month of April,
027the student of the month was Landon Nightwalker for sixth grade, Jadrien Lee for seventh, and Ella Braxton is eighth. Did I say bucket fillers? I met soon of the week. We got you. Back to point. Speaking of point view. That's all right. We're kind of magnetic personality down there. All right. April bucket fillers. Um Luke Nyman, Calvin Fo, Jay Seaggan, uh Jim Barry, Malachi Small, Emma Deuray, and Gabriel Small. And also the big surprise for the night that nobody knows yet. This is hot off the press. Um well, a couple weeks ago, uh Brandy Watson's class, fifth grade class, won the uh Montana uh Big Sky Fit Kids Challenge and which comes with a $500 scholarship for them to go and donate to buy PE equipment. And so they're working with Mrs. Bear and and
028doing all that. And it's it's a pretty cool honor um to have them receive that award with all the eating healthy they had to do and tracking their fitness and all kinds of stuff. So, we're pretty proud of those guys. So, thanks. Very good. Thank you. Did she make it there to recognize them? The lady from buildings? Uh, I don't. She did not come last. Okay. To my knowledge over there. Yeah. Whole time she couldn't make it. I know. We tried. Yeah, we tried. Still want to say congratulations those guys. That's awesome. Yeah. Very good. Steve, I heard my students. Can I do those? Go ahead. I'm sorry. Um, Jen, thank you for sending me the picture. That's what I was looking for. Um, my April students of the month freshman was Tessa Morlock, sophomore
029Kenzie Small, junior Maddie Sherman, and senior Devon Fannic. And our Rose County Health Buddy Not Bully winner was Ethan Good Luck. Um, and our attendance competition remained the same. Freshman were first, sophomores second, juniors third, and seniors last. So seniors are done. They're taking vacation days. Mr. Ker. Um, not much to add. I mean, I I got to u meet with the Indian parent committee for our title six grant process. And I don't know, it was just interesting to get to sit down and talk to folks. And I mean, and I learned things that I just had no clue about like bus routes like um we have kids that live down by Kirby and we don't really get to take that road down to go pick them up because Harden has closed the border on
030that. But uh I'm friends with Tobin Deasio and so I just reached out to him and just asked what the backstory was and he's like yeah he goes I went to bat for you guys last year and he said the board just voted me down. like actually the it's on the agenda tonight in Harden again. He says he doesn't know if it's going to pass, but he keeps going for us. So, but I don't know. I just I got to learn cool things like that. So, it was it was nice to have that conversation. So, I'm hoping that good things come from that. Thanks for reaching out for the kids. Yeah, it's been a long time since I can't remember last time. A long time. Long time. I went back as far as 2002. Yeah.
031Uh Jen, anything else to add from one of yours? Nope. Okay. Nope. Nope. Jen's done too. I owe Jen a huge thank you because and Tom because they covered for me when my dad was sick and then they covered for me with the shoulder thing and the kids get a couple miles. Jay keeps saying I'm learning lots. Education is never adult. No, it's not. Mr. O. Yeah. Okay. I'll just try to summarize my report here. Um, as I meet with directors and administrators weekly or bi-weekly, one is Mr. Kchner. So, just some of the same things that he mentioned. We've been talking about Title Six, uh, grant usage and applications. I know we brought in a speaker which was something that was really cool and Robin recommended him. So that was really good to kind
032of work on the some pieces of that that had to do with um maybe drug use, alcohol use, violence, just real good speaker. Um so appreciate that and he's been talking to me about the LA curriculum adoption um at quite length and then also ACT results and we started talking about map results today. Um let me see our small groups are meeting quite a bit administrative team meet with uh the ones that are in this room the most often almost weekly lately working on handbooks and uh that's been quite a good process. It's timely. It takes a lot of time. We're going through it pretty much page by page. Our student parent handbooks the one that uh the model handbook we've been comparing what we have with what they have. So um taking quite a
033bit of time on that. Um and we've just number of topics planning for next year. Um substitute teachers just kind of named a few things here that we've been working on different ideas on how to improve. Um worked with Sean Oldmouse as far as our speaker for the pow-wow. Uh Nikki uh Baroline did a really nice job coordinating it. Um everything I think went went really well. Derek had his hand in that too. Um, I know I got a lot of help from Bill and Evan just with the last second almost not not having a generator, not having a sound system. So, they got that working and everything went off well and was was done early. So, it was that was a great event for our kids. Everybody um that came out to that seemed
034to have a good time and learned quite a bit. Uh, let's see. Been sitting on negotiations, learning a lot there, the CCA negotiations and those will continue this week. Let me see. All my classes. Uh this was kind of neat. Uh this human relations class I'm in right now. Uh the guest speaker was the the human relations director from Billings last week. So she's she's been a really good uh resource for us for superintendent. She said she is available for any kind of questions you might have. So that was a good contact. And then all staff were recognized this past week for staff appreciation. Um, thanks to the PTO for the cookies and the food and everybody that helped organize, especially Chris with the uh the gifts, um, getting all those organized and and her
035daughter Morgan had a big hand in that. So, on Mother's Day, thank you to those two for getting those gifts where they needed to go. And that's it. All right. Got to meet him with Kin Street, too, by the way. That was good. Yeah, we just got some stuff moving. So, yeah, last is finish up a few things with that and we'll have a public meeting. Yeah, go with that. So, okay. So, we'll we'll adjourn this meeting and then we'll have our organizational meeting just if anybody's curious out there on Google Meet. With that, this meeting is now we're waiting on