001an uphill battle when my children enter the schools they immediately feel as if they belong and are included because the simply because the majority of our teachers and Paras are Caucasian when adults speak like you and look like you you feel a sense of comfort and acceptance we do not have a strong number of Native American Staff members for this reason I find it imperative that we strive to find connections and understanding with our Native American students I can only speak for the elementary school my name is Morgan Kirkendall I can only speak for the elementary school but we work very hard to help our native students feel included through academics drum group during recess PE activities that include cultural ties and other Indian Ed curricular activities our high school students get to show this
002through their giveaways on senior night I completely understand that this may take 40 minutes or more away from the fans that want to watch basketball however our education in this District does not remain between 8 to 4 when we bring education into our basketball games we are not only allowing our students to feel validated and included but we are educating The General public also this is not a captive audience as people are free to leave if they please our students spend hours upon hours in our buildings they spend a profound amount of time on our buses Runing back and forth for their education the least we can do is allow them time to acknowledge the teachers coaches employees and community members that have had a powerful impact on their lives thus far I believe it
003is crucial we recognize that the that that the honoring students are student driven these students are requesting to honor and acknowledge people that have had a significant impact on their education we as a district are not asking them to do it they truly want to share their culture with us and for us to be an active part of something that is so special to them is huge it honestly breaks my heart that we would ever consider shutting students down down playing who they are or where they came from or even making them feel as if they are insignificant our jobs as Educators is to empower our students I do understand perhaps placing parameters around the alloted time or the speaker but I do strongly believe that this is a tradition that our school needs to
004our school needs to hold on to this is not solely tied to our native students either any student should be able to use this time to acknowledge those that have had an impact on them if this is something that you worry about I do believe this is one more reason why our district needs a homeschool leaon this person could help us handle our pow out senior nights and so many other things through their position correctly without causing it to appear as a racial issue this is a great topic that could go to our Native American parent and staff committee we could work together to find common ground and create an experience that would be genuine culturally sensitive and create an appropriate guideline to help us all navigate through this our out of District parents such
005as Nikki choose to send their children to school here we know that our teachers go the extra mile to help ensure our students success later on in life through the cultural active giveaways and blanket honoring our native students are able to show that love and respect for their teachers coaches and community members that have made significant impacts on their lives I know as a teacher I'm greatly humbled when I receive one of these honoring I can only speak for myself but it also gives me an extra push to remind me as to why I'm an educator when at times it's so hard to keep going in today's education system I've witnessed several of you on the board being recognized by our students through giveaways blank blanket honoring and other culturally culturally significant activities in Indian
006culture they honor those that have greatly impacted their lives through gift giving as a non-native person I am raising Nikki is Raising her own children to be aware and conscientious of the cultures around them I appreciate that our school providesa I'm T lion but our school provides our children with opportunities such as the Pawa to experience other cultures and to see their friends and classmates find pride and honor in showcasing what they can do with their culture while still providing a safe and welcoming and environment for non-native students at the same time at the elementary level students of students of all cultures and races love to drum and dance at the pow out and what a great place for them to get to freely try this without being judged or shamed I love when I
007see non-native kids singing drumming and dancing and I know the other native parents that attend love seeing it too I do not believe it was the intent of the board to create racial tension I do believe that through collaboration with faculty and the community we can work through this and find a compromise that would benefit our student body as a whole my fear is once we start taking one thing away we will make it easier to justify removing other things from our school as well I think it is important we continue to have our pows and other Native American activities we encourage everyone to share their culture with us in our district we love to have new things to teach our students so I encourage families to volunteer and bring your knowledge to us just
008as many Native people have done for us in the past I want to thank lyette tubal Crystal tubal belma fiser Jeremy highwalker Pascal shoulder blade Sierra Rose realberg Lori new Miller Bill new Miller Cindy Hatton s Sydney Fox Ryan Molen Scott stuner and the late Jenny Parker and the many other people who have voluntarily entered our school to share their culture and knowledge thank thank you Dean my name is deanan and I learned days if not weeks after the fact that my minor son required a police escort without my knowledge or permission to be questioned by administrators about information on a meeting between adults and minors at Colstrip high school that I had been issued a cease and desist letter by administrator in response to my efforts to disclose very concerning facts that colp public
009schools has denied the due process and following the a command to address concerning facts I am issued a seas and assist letter while my minor son is questioned on the same information how is that possible how does that make sense policy 21332 is violated the first time dealing with this information when a meeting was called on January 7th 2025 that involved three adults and minor children in the group the information was personally sensitive enough that parents should have been made aware of it and they should have been asked permission that is policy in our school it's also MC code parents were not notified nor was permission given moreover who questioned about the likelihood of this meeting taking place an administrator denied that it was going to take place when in fact it did take place
010that is also a violation of policy 2132 further information was shared in this meeting that was manipulated to support a narrative that contradicted the facts that I was trying to provide for school and they were presented in a way to influence minor children to take to fail to take precautions that children should be encouraged to take when dealing with strangers stranger danger is a term coined for a reason Boy Scouts teaches it Elementary Ed teaches it it is very important that minor children are taught to research strangers especially ones they unfamiliar unfamiliar with in a school setting I've been a teacher and a coach and I have been involved in numerous situations where teachers or coaches needed to be removed students must be made aware for an adult to reprimand children from doing their due
011diligence is very concerning it is now March 12th 2025 and I have yet to be allowed due process to deal with this fact that took place in our school and it's unexceptable thank you thank you any other uh correspondents or public participation okay with that we'll move on 5.01 consent agenda I move the C Public Schools approve the consent agenda as presented second okay motion a second uh any public participation on this any board that Wade hi Tiff hi Andie hi Saina hi hi that we'll move into 6.01 Mr Bush good evening Christ if you can pull that work book up tonight so the follow up to uh I believe it was the January board meeting um where we were selected went and did a walkth through of the school district um put together a
012workbook this workbook I think we forwarded to the board but what I'm seeking tonight is again some input and making sure that some of my assumptions and clarifications so if you could hit tab 4.2 at the bottom so what I've done is I I created a list of the information and then I gave it a like a color coding of importance so a red yellow and green so items that I thought are red are pretty imperative um with regards to if you scroll down on that work worksheet at the bottom I Define red yellow and green with safety issues immediate maintenance items code compliance issues educational Community needs and then priority five and six which are but I would consider lower priorities but equipment surface life improvements or deferred maintenance items and so that's my
013color code coding and then that's my thought process associated with what I did um this is an interactive worksheet so if you put in X over there in the column that says that you want to do it then the totals add and and sum to the bottom so any items that have an X next to them it totals that if you want to remove that item then that number off the bottom goes that way so again tonight if you what I'm looking for I I put a number scheme together you know one two three so one items if you could scroll to the top terissa you know are items associated with the high school so again we have the co strip High School restroom renovation we have the sports complex renovation we have main switch
014Gear replacement gymnasium lighting um we have sidewalk and sectional replacement we have pool locker rooms we have parking lot Pavements um Auditorium seating and flooring so those items are all at the high school if you continue to go down you'll see there the items number that begins with two we start talking about Pine but Elementary School where we have Bus drop off employee parking excuse me employee parking parent drop off we have pine but uh motor control center replacement we have playground drainage and Equipment replacement we have cafeteria increased functionality and security improvements um we have intercom improvements at Pine but you go down to items with number three we go into the middle school where we have um East you know we have parking parking improvements on the East lot at the middle school
015window replacement on the northwest elevation um you know the library the library clear story which is the window replacement in that section where we've had some moisture damage um and I think the last one was the basketball court improvements so again those are the list of projects that um I've re reviewed um if you go to each one of the items on below this is a workbook so each one of those items kind of has their own tab where you know we're working off of some subcontractor quotes or where I've tried to Define you know scope as clarify as is what I know is what I see and so I'm asking for um tonight again some input and just saying hey Tyler um yes the this is an alignment with what we um would like
016to continue to develop or hey um we need to you know make a Rudder correction and steer the sh in in another Direction um and any sort of input I don't necessarily want to go through each specific item but I think there are enough where I need a little bit more definition from you guys with regards to maybe some of the sports complex information um maybe looking at some of the parameters associated with um you know the bathroom renovation with regards to some of the finishes how exotic or how how how much do you want to go to with regards to Wayne scating TI definition top of that I know that's finishes but it helps me kind of make sure that we're in the same expectation that it's not just a c bare Center black
017wall or hey I'm looking for floor tile I'm looking for wall tile half the wall is okay no it needs to go all the way up you know how many you know fixtures are we looking for are we looking for a specific number to meet a certain demand for you know our graduation or our basketball game how many you know as long as we can fit those in there by code or hey we don't need 10 of those we only need five kind of the thing so and I you know go ahead I was going to say when when we met out there um you said you were going to go back and take a look and see what the the ranges were if if you have a th I mean your capacity is a
018th what's the the requirement for bathrooms and things like that did you did you take a look at that to see kind of what what would fit and you know what I guess kind of configuration for for where that that b so when originally when the school was built it's designed for a capacity you're nowhere near the design capacity associated with the number of of stalls and restrooms that are that are there what I've done with the space that's been allotted and the you know kind of the approach is I've maximized the number of fixtures toilets journals that I can do in the space provided that's code compliant okay so that that's kind of been my methodology but overall as far as you know building wide you know that was it was designed for a
019much larger capacity right so and I guess I was I was talking about more out um at the the football field right so that's so W's question is specific to the sports complex so at the sports complex if you could maybe go to that one um maybe blow up the existing plan but that what that's there is the existing um you know plans that were were developed so the existing capacity that's there so there are 13 rows at 20 seats um and there are four Banks and I think the number I think we came just under about a thousand almost a thousand wasn't it yeah yeah and so do you want to continue do you want a like for like and saying hey everything that we would put in we would match that existing capacity
020or would you want to say Hey you know due to current circumstances maybe we designed it to be a little bit less um as far as a capacity thoughts I guess considerations yeah so so these just just so that board understands so so these are our our section where we could actually add on if we wanted to if if the you know enrollment you know spiked or whatever we could actually add on to the ends and have because they're freestanding and so um it's as I understand am I thinking about that correctly correct so so if even if we had the bathrooms on one end or whatever we could add on another section of stadium seating on the other end um but if we want to go like for like I mean that's I mean
021a thousand is I don't know that I've seen it packed in there um so what's our current capacity about a thousand okay yeah so as that is as that is done we will become a player for District track and possibly divisional track and so hosting those meets um we could very well support that much seating okay um so it's just something to keep in mind as you know having us be a host site for those things probably like to like yeah with the the the ability to add on if we if we need to okay so what I heard was we need to match existing capacity and we need to look at the number of um restrooms associated with that capacity specific to whatever the you know whatever is code conf I believe exterior venues
022are different than you know interior obviously um but we we'll look to develop those numbers in associated with the capacity that is exist yeah and so your your numbers on on this spreadsheet on the the the first half um reflect without a bathroom at all but but is that like for like um in in capacity that 4.5 I believe is what it was for that is that what it was correct okay that I mean that was a that was a budget number that was you know with its base and so the more specificity the more you know uh owner project requirements that I can Define then the then we can narrow and we can get more specific with regards to okay to pricing right and so the I mean just so so we all know
023that the bathrooms will be on addition to that because it wasn't part of that package and so you know we defined some expectations with regards to Renovations of the concession stand you know and we TR you know we we did that um do we need to bring that I mean do we need to review those or expectations it's it's not you know the concession stand structure remains as is it's mainly a electrical capacity and its finishes within that okay so there's no new concession stand but it's utilizing the existing concession stand the existing uh bleachers you know in the stadium seating that's gone in its entirety and that's replaced with a an aluminum sectioned um seating set and then tucked underneath that we'll have to you know will be our our restrooms either we'll put
024them onto the end or we'll try to tuck them that's what underneath it is that okay I guess okay yes okay track so inspected the surface of the track the surface of the track is serviceable okay it's not I was expecting and hearing a lot of communication alligatoring and all this the surface is okay what the issue is is that there are four I think or maybe six interior drains that are on the inside of the track so over time as those drains have taken water there are some some elevation changes in the in the surface of the track the surface is is fine but it's the issue is that it's it's lost elevation it's it's lost as that water has gone through there what would you like to replace that with there are you
025can Mill down and and reinforce and resurface you can replace in an entirety and go post tension concrete there is a there is a vast Spectrum what is that does that 4.5 million dollar include that has a no nothing with the Trap that is resurfacing of the Trap that is resurfacing of the Trap again these this is Tyler's you know preliminary assessment and and trying to like put numbers together so as we Define that I'll you know we're going to draft we're going to change those dollars so I know that you know you have da Davidson on and saying hey if if the list of projects that Tyler has put together is a minimal you know we need to to you know we still need to Define some of those things that that numbers are
026going to change but generally speaking the cost to a taxpayer and you know she has all that information that's available but you know this is my initial stepping out of the box trying to Define what your expectations are and the scope in order for you to start to say okay is is that number okay hey seems like we have a little bit more capacity you know maybe we can Define that you know what are those impacts so that's kind of what I'm seeking from the board is saying hey I put together some rough order of magnitude and Define some scope are we are we okay I mean is there is there flexibility either way do we need to rain this in that's that's what I'm seeking right and I would I would recommend a millon
027overlay because then you can build those those points of you know the drainage points up and then overlay one one overlay around the entire track after we get done with doing the football field um and so you go in demo the football field reconstruct um like we had talked about a little bit and then come back um go in and Mill that whole thing and then overlay overlay thicker where where we've got those divots and then overlay with one hole um you know overlay over the the entire track um and then surface is what I would think right wait what we talked about was working our way out of the donut right so you want to work on the projects that are in the middle finish the projects in the middle finish the stack and
028then basically Focus so you're not working overfished products to go back and recrown the football field and adjust sprinkler heads and doing that you don't want to do that last you want to do that first so then you can work your way out right and I I just want to be clear as we're talking about the surface of the track we're talking about not the rubber on the top that's that has chunks of it missing and wall spots but we're talking about the underneath surface where we have those lumps which aren't necessarily a big deal if you're you know you or me out there jogging but if you're a hurdler a half inch difference in that surface it can blow out your knee right and and there are half inch differences I mean it's it's
029just in my head I had I had that the track is totally deteriorating but the the issue is it's the subsurface drainage and you have settlement around the drains and so the track surface is good the table top is good it's just that the it's it's B so okay so so what we would be doing is is leveling that out soel removal of the top rubber surface removal of the asphalt reinforcing those drains to alleviate that and then coming back on and then finishing up okay I just wanted to to be clear on that so thank you and then the other I guess is that and that's a nor I mean totally understandable the other option is is you go down to sub you know subgrade build back up and go with a concrete track
030and go with a situation where it's post tension where you you have a thinner set of concrete you have bar that's going through that that you put that under tension so then you don't get the you know potential cracking in a surface that's just super expensive correct yeah and and like we talked about I mean this this track has held up for 20 plus years whatever and so you know that's what I like to see the next track should be a 20 plus year track right that's what we're asking yeah for you know that new floor in the gymnasium is supposed to be a 30-year floor right I think this needs to be similar similar yeah plus I mean you go with asphalt and it's it's easier to work with afterwards when you go with
031post tension concrete and you're tearing out sections if something goes wrong I'm fine with the okay y okay um bathrooms how Gucci do you want your bathroom to be we don't need Gucci Gucci durable easy to clean yeah something that they can't go in there and destroy so hard Services we don't want plastic W's coating we want tile is halfway up the wall okay does it need to be does it need to go ceiling down I don't know I've never cleaned it here what do you guys recommend ceiling [Music] down what is thatal oh and also one at Baker's pretty good too I don't remember that one's got I you take a hose in there and just spray it off so maybe ceiling down because the idea is still to to have the two right
032like where the men men's and women's are right now on that side of be one women's bathroom and the men's is going to be on the other side is that what we're doing no this is this is in the sports complex oh it's still outside yeah okay yeah outside just as durable as we can make it y okay inside Switching gears leaving the sports at the high school so what you just was it's opposite so the the men are closest to the gym the women are closest to the cafeteria okay yeah Steve problem has her hand okay I'll get her okay that's fine okay I would that works okay and we don't need too Gucci on that either yes durable dur there yeah with the sinks that don't attach from right okay real quick Robin
033do you have something you need to add um I was just gonna say the same thing I think the tile to the ceiling would be great um but also if we can go back to the old school like tazzo top style sinks with the automatic Waters but the ones that go all the way to the floor like nothing that's mounted to the wall so if somebody sits on the edge of it it doesn't come off that would be great okay okay okay um let's talk P you drop off talk to that man sure I'm not sure exactly the plan that we landed on um I would actually prefer a remake of the entire entrance to the school um I don't know if it's a realistic expectation to drop our Kinders off up at the bus
034barn and have them walk down to the school and all the monitoring that goes on with that and uh just the potential for Mischief um from other adults and or kids um it's kind of a nightmare um if we could figure out something that made sense for a bus drop and a student drop in front of the school would be the best thing I agree with that so we want to look at I think we want to look at something that's going to sustain our schools especially since we're going after such a a big Bond and this is something that for the safety of the kids we need to re we need to really look at I'm okay with that what I want is less interaction with vehicles and buses exactly yep we can't have
035that 100 cars parked out there at 2:30 when we're still trying to get buses in there plus plus having kids that are just Walkers right zipping in and out of that as well that's yeah so that might be something might so that's I mean so the the discussion what was trying to to separate is and I don't care buses down low Vehicles you know at the up you know up the U up the walk you know with the bus parking lot or the bus barn is now um or vice versa but the the intent is is that to avoid pedestrian you know uh Vehicles driving by buses so whenever you have a situation where you know a vehicle is going to pass you got an opportunity for a kid to Dart in front and so
036if you separate a circle or a drop off for buses and you have a separate Circle for vehicles you know for parents or pickup um the the issue is is that the space that you have I mean you can't go you know into the hill and you can't go down you know down into the valley so um that's that's where I'm at so you know the question is like well hey just redo that issue well that issue is is a there's a radius associated with turning a bus you don't you don't want to ever bring a bus to stop and then back up a bus in in front of a school and so it's everything is on the is on a radius and so that's what we discussed when we walked through was hey let's
037attack this from a behavior standpoint before we you know start rearranging you know parking traffic flow type of type of situation so to clarify what what we had proposed was improvement from the the path from the upper lot down improving that and then it's a behavior issue and and it doesn't matter either buses up top or buses down below but you have you have separate you have separate Loops you have separate drop offs for parents and from buses and they and no one no kid is Crossing across those environments that that was the initial solution and what I had proposed as far as the side item um you can see it on the screen kind of what I'm what I'm trying to talk about is that the loop to go in front of the school
038versus the loop that's up to the top so right but that's not what he's saying right and what I'm saying is that I can't do both Loops I can't give you two Loops in front of the school not enough room down below to do two Loop even if we took all of those islands out if we'd had no parking in front you you it doesn't it's not going to change your radius from around the curb that's exist button yeah I'm not an engineer so I don't I it doesn't make safety wise it doesn't make sense to me to have kids up top and then we're going to have to ask our staff to go up top in 40° 40 degrees and and it's just a nightmare in my opinion that's that's the problem though you
039can't have the biggest problem is is it was built in I mean you you've got a a neck and then and then it doesn't there there's not enough room to do hardly anything yeah it's almost going to called this it is it's it's terrible and I guess if you look at the scale when she pulls up the picture and you say the distance I I think the pattern as I understand it now you know the intent was with this design if I can I don't know the outside Loop right the buses go and then there should be no vehicles that go close to the building they're supposed to cut off short right so you drop your kit off at the back of the bus so that distance from where you drop off your kid at
040the back of the bus and you walk all the way around the side sidewalk it's no different than coming down the top of the hill down to the corner of the building it's not it's just an elevation change I beg to di her on that that's right no I know but I I'm saying there's I have sat up at that top and if I wanted to I could have grabbed any kit hey you want I got puppies up here you want to go see some puppies I got some candy for you it's just the truth it and I'm afraid that it's going to get us it's not safe for the kids if something happened up there are we liable yeah reliable because it was okay so then you have to give something El so does
041that mean the employees can't park down and they got to stay up top it's almost where you can figure out a way to to drop on both sides of the building you know and and again I don't know what you know the engineering of that but I mean that's that's an ideal is to have you know the the car riders coming on one side of the building and the bus riders comeing on the other side of the building which would basically be a reworking of the entire exterior of the building but I mean that's you know again that's fantasy world I I realize that that's probably not practical but but what you're describing is what we're proposing right so again but what I'm saying is like okay so if you had the buses if there
042was a way to get the buses to go around to the backside where the playground is and drop kids back there and then you have your riders coming into the front of the building that way you're walking people and your cars aren't you reacting and you're aren't interacting and your cars and your buses aren't interacting at that critical exchange of bodies exactly how my last Elementary School was I think I had a front drop off for the buses and a complete back drop off for the parents we don't have that I think right yeah and so they're away like on the what is [Music] thatw there's a ditch on one side not so like if there were a way that you could go around you know and have something along here and I don't know
043what the drop off is on that side I don't think it's that extreme but yeah and so that's what I'm saying it's kind of a fantasy but like that's ideally what what you want you know something where you're on either side of the building and what we're just what we're saying is that we're trying to have we're trying to separate bus from passeng you can do that that Park but you still are have kids crossing over those those [Music] traffic it's just a behavior change solution versus a yeah I I don't I don't see see I mean even looking at at at doing something on that I guess the west southwest corner if we were to fill in some of that there there's just there's still interaction and it's I mean there's there's not there's
044no great solution um but it it yeah it's tough so what I saying is if I take away all the stuff from the front just he was it's just literally a radius of a of a of a turning bus to avoid a Sixpoint [Music] Turner um so I think some parent responsibility has to come in here and like leave the staff parking where it is keep all of that front parking handicap and guest because you're not going to have that many guests coming during Bus Time leave that the Bus Loop and parents are required to park on the top and walk their little kids to school I don't think that's that big of a thing to ask and I don't think that staff is going to say well I'm not g to stand out there
045in the cold they'll take turns to do it to protect their students they will I've been in elementary before I would stand out there to protect my students I also think one more step about protecting students is we need a crossing guard on that road that goes across time unit there too there needs to be a crossing guard there there are a lot of kids that already utilize that com down my child included so yeah so I think it really is just a point of having some responsibility and saying like I I I think fixing that path those stairs dangerous in the winter with the ice they're not wide enough for kids going up and parents coming down it's not wide enough for that he's got everything that's highlighted yellow is is is is to
046improve that and so as you're improving it is it going to be just a straight like like a straight ramp there's stairs it's got It's got have code it's got to be has to be because that because again and this is coming from the maintenance guys is it's much easier to plow it if it's up for a Bobcat yeah and and yeah and and without steps and they so that's the first thing they hit yeah it really is if I remember right Nikki honestly you know as a as an Elementary staff person I think if you did just improve that ramp to the top and honestly if you put some kind of a like shelter thing that whoever the person on duty is if it's a windy snowy rainy day I can stand under that
047thing and kind of block whatever but still fully see everything just so what I'm hearing what I so like a a bus drop off like You' see in a in a municipality where you have three sides yeah GL metal roof clear glass with a bench just you know you're out of the wind it doesn't even need a bench we can stand we're good like but something that will block the wind you stand out there Mak sense we even talked about entirely the two when we take away the parking up this could be gone and we could we could bring that all the way over to here and kind of you know make it way shorter yeah that was part of the and they shouldn't be able should not be able to park there either because
048that clogs it all up like they should have to park in the middle area that's the is on the curve on the C when they park on the curve can't see your kids going in out like that should be a No Parking zone right there then it also blocks our view of of who is getting picked up and dropped off if it turns into just a a lane then it's much easier so you want the to be on the outside right not you don't want the parking on the outside you want the lane to be on the outside the parking to be in the middle so you need to restrike the the surface so then would you have the parents pull up and be like okay Johnny see you tomorrow okay Susie see you tomorrow
049okay so that they're handed right off to somebody right so that so whoever that person is standing in our little shelter belt they can like Usher them down yeah yes that makes sense and then and then it also will help on those days when we don't have buses and we have to have cprd pick up our kids because right now that's a disaster because there's parents pulling in to pick up kids and there's the cprd bands that are all pulling in and then we don't know where those kids are going and if it was just another loop then they're all forced to stay in that line even if even if someone separates the cprd Vans we where kids are going there's too much room up there for us not to utilize that uper yeah yeah
050we can you're right it's a behavioral thing um we've we've done it for too long we've already had how many bus vehicle collisions yeah well even cars parents will pull right in front of you where you're going to park and you want to let them have it so we'll yeah we'll address this I agree take all these parking spots out move them in and make that a link the loop and you go in one way and out another you come in here you go out here we can work on moving this down yeah you want to go yeah it'll be uh you want your kid on the outside so you're going to go counterclockwise you'll go counterclockwise and your kid will be on the right side of the vehicle and they can get out okay
051on the passenger side they get out on the passenger side because you want to come in this way correct to go seems like I feel like we coming the opposite way right now anyway stri stri that what what is the current striping for it's just primarily parents park there and drop there an event at night people Park up there or you park up there and wait for your kid come up after school or you park up there if there's a ton of people at the elementary school and you're driving a big truck because you can't fit a truck in those spaces yeah those lines playing they're too tight so I think that works I won't take puppies you want a tra or candy I mean so again from a from a scope standpoint you've got
052restriping you've got a uh like a a bus stop shelter you know for for dropping and then you have an improved ramp um that's code compliant that's wide enough for maintenance to maintain without you know and then do we need signage we'll have to I'm sure just to make sure everybody's doing it the right way at first and then yeah and so again the lower drop off is for buses right or buses and staff buses and [Music] staff prob sorry sorry you probably need a designated sidewalk along the bat too for the Walkers that come from those upper neighborhoods andik rers and mik Riders there's not a sidewalk they ride through the parking lot and you're using it it stops up here we could do something or just do a painted line they're really used
053to that painted line on our sidewalks down below and they know they have to stay on one side of it we can make that to where you put a sidewalk there and you kind of ran it around that curve that's also going to take away your issue of People parking there not being able to see up okay andile that Mak sense perfect kind um those were the big items that I was looking for input if you could go back to the bottom worksheet on the left yep click the onof and so if you could scroll to the left you'll see the not every one of those see if you you see not every one of those um projects has an X I tried to I said red and yellow again yes and so uh thoughts
054that's what we discussed yeah yeah okay stick with it okay I think so and then as we you know we've got these requirements then we'll we'll kind of tune this pricing but um there'll be some increased price associated with the stadium complex associated with bathrooms um and incorporating that um and then as we you know same thing with some of the bathroom finishes and we'll we'll do that um is there going to be an there will be an increase in price too for the pine stuff right for this correct there'll be a bus stop that's been out I mean yeah as we the little if building The Little Shelter so then let's talk like a timeline of you know hypotheticals you know saying Okay Tyler you've got more information now I need you to you
055know put together these numbers so then the school district can coordinate with da Davidson and kind of you know so they can communicate to voters and then when would that vote be when when would when would implementation start is everybody familiar I guess it's kind of talks it turns it over to Hope Bridget is still still online but maybe my time and her time can kind of talk in concert here together maybe she if she's still on or we had kind of talked about that there is a certain amount of days you have to go before you can run an election you know um so that at least has to be given I think it's 90 days 80 Days 90 days and so um we had talked about potentially August um think she's on still
056is she so just to kind of put this in the in your idea for the timeline we will have the district basketball tournament for 2526 and 2627 so and that's you know late February so if we're doing bathrooms it would be probably really good not to have B BS undergo what did you say 26 27 next year and the following year 25 26 25 26 26 so you would want them to be completed during the summer of 26 to be read you know you're basically you're not gonna be you're not GNA be ready for the first one but you'll be ready for the second one if we I would say if everything worked out I would like to probably go out for on on that boat August we have to work backwards 90 days September
057at the latest we had to I mean I I'm not saying this in stone and then this is a question for is it Bridget yes um from Miss mine want to know the difference between a mil Levy and a bond yeah so um if she could just briefly touch on that so everybody's on the same page y so you bet can you guys hear me okay yes okay great well hi everyone I'm I'm Bridget from da Davidson and uh I have been for 30 years doing a school bond work in Montana uh da Davidson's a uh full service Investment Company the only one that has you know headquarters in Montana and so I cover the state uh working with uh schools and the issuance of bonds and one of the big things uh you know
058the reason why you issue bonds is because you can take advantage of um tax exempt rates um and the rate on the bond issue is is really uh you know reasonable like for a 20-year term we just did a Whitefish $30 million Bond and the rate was 4% so uh what happens with those Bond rates is um the it becomes an invest M opportunity uh Banks and individuals and insurance companies a number of different types of investors can buy it and when they buy a bond it becomes a uh tax-free uh there there's no tax on the interest income that the school would then pay the the purchasers of the bond so there's an entire process that we go through you know to make sure that these are you know qualified bonds that the you're
059eligible for tax exempt which you would be um you know we' work through the IRS and we we Bond council help us and there's a lot of U you know kind of red tape to go through um and that's part of that you know the window that you guys just talked about it's actually about 70 days but once you kind of count in you know you probably want to have a board meeting where you consider the resolution there's a resolution calling for the bond election that you have to adopt and typically we see you know a School Board review it at one meeting and then come back at the next meeting and and officially adopt it and that resolution will name really the the key thing things that you're talking about tonight which are you
060know you've got Elementary and high school projects and even though you have the same boundaries um because of your impact Aid you need to have a separate Elementary and high school election um so you would call out the elementary projects and then you would call out the high school projects and you'd put a principal amount to those and so the principal amount um I have some sample numbers we'll just kind of review it's always easier to to look at numbers than just hear the information but we just have a sample $3 million Elementary and a $7 million high school for hypothetical purposes to talk about and so that would be the key thing in the resolution is calling out them principal amount of the bonds and then the next thing would be um you're going
061to have taxpayer impacts in the in the bond uh language that will say you know for a $100,000 home and a $200,000 home and a $300,000 home for instance what the impacts would be and that's a new law it it used to only apply for Mill abbies and now now they've um rolled Bonds in as well at the last session so you just have to have three uh comparable numbers you can do 300 500 um most schools it seems uh would do 100 200 300 depending on kind of what you think the median Val values are in the district but um so you have those those numbers and that is what we'll talk about a little bit from my perspective is um you know Tyler and you all are working on what the principal amounts
062are but the interest cost we want to keep that asow low as possible so that the the taxpayer impacts are low so um and one of the things that determines the taxpayer impacts is the term of the bond so that's another thing that's named um you know the principal amount the impacts of taxpayers but part of that would be you would name the term of the bond so is it going to be paid over you know 10 years 15 years 20 you can go all the way out to 30 years um and then uh and then just the project description so you would come up with all the key things you've talked about tonight that you'd want to accomplish so that voters have an idea of what the bond would be um you know nothing
063not too detailed of a exclamation or an explanation that you're you know painted in a corner that you have to do all these things but pretty detailed so that people know what they're voting for so does anyone have any questions on that General kind of overview I thought we'd do just a quick 10-minute Bond 101 and and then you guys can answer or ask questions along the way too briet what's the difference between a bond and a M Levy yeah so so a bond um you're G to just ask for that principal amount um and and the principal amount would be called out in the election and that's it's it's kind of really similar to when you ask for a you know when you go to the bank on a on a home loan you
064know you're buying a $250,000 home and you're asking the bank to approve it and and so you think about the principal amount and then you're going to owe whatever interest amount is due on the on the you know so whatever um over the 20y year term every year your taxable value is going to change and every year the mill changes so the nice thing about Bond issues is that over time as your tax base changes um you know maybe you have a bunch of additions you know with with you know coal in your District or pipelines if you have some big new improvements then everybody's you know all the residential property owners have less um less uh on your so the fond kind of floats depending on what your tax base does thank you and
065bridet I'll just add to the mill Levy is what we'll do the election for in May and that's what goes into your general fund yes and that is what pays your salaries to keep the buildings going this money is only for the projects that we're talking about so that will be laid out on the election um form as well it will be just the projects there and that's the only thing that money can be used for so Mill Levy totally separate yeah that makes sense and and sometimes we see to Britney's Point sometimes we see the um you know like you have a you maybe have a building Reserve Levy and that's kind of a different that's a different part of your budget this the bond is really a specialty and it's a you know
066distinct start and stop and it it's really well defined for the voters you know it's a we find in Montana that a lot of times bonds are easier to pass than even mil EES because sometimes they don't understand everything that goes into a mil EBY but when you present a bond to them they say oh yeah I know exactly what the you know track's going to look like and the um you know the the parking and the um you know traffic flow and all the things you're talking about they they you really Define that and it's pretty specific as to what the bond will cover Bridget can you go through your hypothetical situation with an elementary of 3 million and a high school of 7 million and go through the 100 200 300 you bet
067yep so I'll just stop real quick because can you guys see the screen okay the what I have up y okay so this is just a one stop is just to say you guys have a not you already know this you have a very robust very strong uh tax base so we'll cover that a little bit here um there's two options in Montana um as far as what your debt limit is and I would say you know 85% of schools have to use option one it's an equalized funding um most schools do not use option two which is just based on your tax B base size and so this tells us um you know if you were just an average school in Montana you'd be looking at 21 million in debt capacity in each district
068but because you have such a strong tax base um you can issue up to 41 million in each district so um so that kind of covers just that initial uh you're going to be obviously well under we have a lot of schools that get up against these debt limits and it becomes quite an issue your yours is not um and so if you look at um the the taxpayer impact this is the $3 million example uh and I'll blow this up just a little bit here um so in the elementary so your tax base is the same in each district since the boundaries are the same um and then I have a 10year term a 15-year term and a 20year term just for example purposes and so to make these debt estimated Debt Service payments
069based on your current taxable value um you'd be leving about nine MS six Ms and five Mills depending on what the term is that you choose and then the impact would be per $100,000 home you know so if you have a 200,000 it's just double and 300,000 triple and and so now we have to put all three of these numbers on the on the ballot itself but so we would have this information it would say um if we decide over you know 10 years it'd be $112 a year or $1 a month for the 10 year for the 15 it'd be $9 a year or 78 cents a month and the 28 or the 20-year term would be $7 a year or 66 um cents a month just for kind of those those numbers just
070to compare and then if you look at the high school we have just a$7 million example so again that same concept you look at what the term of or what the principal amount is what term we select and so the range would be anywhere from 21 Ms down to 13 Ms and so most schools kind of look at when you're thinking about the projects that you're talking about what are what's the average useful life of the of the projects um is it does it extend out 20 years or do we already know we're going to have to replace like you talked about the the maybe you know how long will the track surface last so that would be a consideration and then also your tax base you know depending on what's Happening I we're working
071Bond and more uh with mckinstry and they're they're saying more said gez we have all these pipelines where everything's so robust for us right now we're worried that maybe the pipelines will go away they they decided to go with a shorter term of 15 years just for that reason so there's different reasons everybody chooses you know just like a home loan the longer the term the more interest costs you pay so you can see you know with a 10year term on a 7 million you pay two million over the term um and then on the 20 year you pay you know four million and in between the is the three million so you add that interest cost in and it and it is Factor you know flows into what the Mills are going to be
072so Bridget question so there's concern obviously this is co strip Co strip's in the news yeah so the longer that you have on a term right and yeah is is the is the risk so the shorter the term and the operating conditions of the of the plant and the mine obviously shouldering the the larger percentage of that if those go away then that would fall back onto a the individual correct that's right yep so that's exactly what you'd want to think about so the the shorter the term the more security that you have in maintaining the current status quo the longer term the more potential that there's there's a chance for Change and why the push to get it done now so if there is a um as I understand it we have we have
073three years to use the the monies the funds um and uh if if there's a delay in that um do we lose that that money no so what what happens is at the time you issue the bond so there's a you know if you have the election and oh and I was GNA mention this um that when you're thinking about the election most schools are doing mail ballot Just because then most of most uh people get the ballots absentee anyways and there's probably some advantages depending on what the legislature does but to have a mail ballot but but a lot of schools will pick um I don't know when your school start is for next year but your target market obviously is your parents and so typically when you look at the summer although Glen
074dive did pass a bond in August typically most schools will pick early September so that you the mail the ballots go out while when when school is already started so your ballots will go out to to three weeks in advance by state law of the election date so typically we will say you know pick a date where you know about you you've maybe had enough time to have at least one nice public meeting and maybe put up a board at a couple football games or you know volleyball games and people kind of that Mill around with maybe some open houses so then you'll have that happen you'll have maybe a chance for people to say oh yeah that's right we're you know we've heard about this and now we're more familiar and then you have
075a public meeting me to maybe answer questions and then the ballots go out like that next day and then if the ballots are out for two weeks that kind of puts you you know maybe toward the end of September um just something to consider um but uhal timeline is that hey if we have enough design that we can get solidified prices so then we could go out to the public at the end of the school year in May and you can hold your election that that time frame in September and those windows work out so that gives me says Hey Bush you got to be done with enough design to give me you know the right numbers to go to the public and then as a board before the end of this school year and
076you know by Memorial Day the end of May generally speaking you know in that may meeting then you're going to pass the language and the resolution that says hey this is the scope that we're doing this is the cost that we're doing and it's it's the actual resolution the language that's going to go out to the voter and then they have 90 days to kind of process ask questions and then that election is like she's talking about the beginning of September as as as kids come back and it's it's on people's minds yeah does that seem Bridget did I lay out that yep that's a perfect perfect description yep and you can drip over you you know you can be in contact since some newsletters out send some emails out you can still be obviously
077you'll be talking over the summer but it just uh for sure we always think yeah your target market for the school U to be back in session is great um and then I think what what was the question I I I got so excited about the timeline um what was the question I was starting to answer I was just wondering about the um if there are delays I know that um about the three years to spend but yeah so it's as long as when we issue the bond so there's that timeline of having the election and then there's a 60-day window for voters to contest the election by by state law so let's say if your election was the 1 of September you'd have all of September for that 60 day and then all of
078October so you could issue Bonds in in let's say November and so three years after November of 25 we just have to expect to expend 85% of bond proceeds in three years and then that's just an expectation based on what you see at the time of issuance so three years from 25 would be 28 November of 28 we'd have to do 85% by then as an expectation but if your expect if thing if the facts and circumstances change there's no uh penalty um you know uh like a bigger bond issue like like Laurel did 57 million you know they have they're over this $15 million benchmark where they have to do some extra accounting and there's some things that they have to be mindful of in your case each district has its own $15 million
079limit you'll be what they call a small issuer so you won't have um you won't have any kind of ramifications um to worry about so that allows the flexibility for a phased implementation of construction during the summer months so you're not you know trying to jam in everything into a certain window the ability to plan to do things each summer or during you know availability yeah makes sense so then I pulled I just pulled up kind of the 15-year example just since it was the midpoint um but this is your major taxpayers list um and you can just go down to the top 50 so your top 50 um taxpayers are uh uh wait I can't read that 96.55% um of your tax Bay so so you know everything that you know but you can
080see you know NorthWestern Energy has 25% and pet sound is 17% and Portland General Electric is 17 and avesta is 15 so Pacific core and you go down and then um you can see when we look at a breakdown of your uh tax base here I think these are all things maybe you've seen um before uh that that Britney's had from us but the when you look at Montana taxes and and the only reason and I really want to just quick talk about this is that there is um some efforts at the legislature where we're looking to have a reduction in the tax rate for uh Residential Properties so that'll you know right now your residential property is only 3.38% of the entire tax base so when we go back to those spreadsheets um we
081may have a different uh right now the tax rate's 1.35% for residential property so you know all of every 17 class all the 17 classes of property have different tax rates and I did if you want to really get into the weeds that's kind of something I've given to um to Britney it's in this spreadsheet and you can see the tax rates all across here but the tax rate for residential property may go down so it's a nice time to be able to give that talking point to people because already we know that your you know your major taxpayers are paying you know almost 98% um but the residential property may even go down a little bit more next year when we see you know your new values come out so that would change so
082when we as we're working as soon as the legislature wraps up um I think it's House Bill 231 that has this information and there's a couple of others that are moving through so once that changes we'll we'll maybe have a new spreadsheet here and these impacts may go down even a little bit further but one thing we won't have CER ified values until a the first week of August so the other Advantage um for you guys is as we you know you have your election in September we'll be we'll put these estimates out when you're ready based on the dollar amounts you want to use and then when the new taxable values are certified we will have um we'll update these spreadsheets so you'll have one more chance to say oh by the way you
083know before we were saying you know the tax impact on the 3 million Elementary was you know $9 a year now it's down to 750 a year or something so we'll have we'll have we'll have an update by then okay and so um and then if you can kind of see you know over time your tax basees change so that's what you're really you know it's dropped from what it once was um and so I know you know there's just change on the horizon you just never know so that'll be one of the things you'll want to get back to me on is you know what's the principal amount uh and then what what terms do we want to use so as you guys look at the list that you've talked about tonight and you
084have new numbers we'll update this three million and we'll update the seven million example too and Brit Britney and I did talk about and I she probably relayed I me you guys do have impact Aid a little bit of impact Aid that comes in in the elementary and the high school you are able to um issue you know impact Aid revenue bonds it's just payable by from Impact Aid alone but you're also able to if you wanted to uh transfer impact aid over to the um to the uh Debt Service fund to offset the levies so maybe you had extra money extra impact Aid you can always uh and maybe your tax something happened to your tax base you could always you just so you know you can always use impact Aid to help offset
085debt Debt Service levies but in your case you you won't want to because of your robust tax base okay thank you thank you thank you yeah you bet keep me posted on uh everything you uh everything you decide and we'll update the numbers we will thank you Bridget thank you thanks everybody so then I plan to you know we'll come back maybe um you know the April board meeting a little more fine-tuned maybe some more renderings A Little More Design make sure that we're TRS tracking you know and then you know we'll come to the the May board meeting and we'll have things that are you know more defined and ready for for resolution and for approval by the board to go out s like planed yeah yeah sounds good that works appreciate it thank
086Ty thanks okay with that 7.01 calendar governance calendar or agenda so from February we had to move annual audit report is in March is that normal Britney do we need depends on when they get it done and when they get it back to me and then I do my part so I had my part done in about two weeks so I don't know just depends okay I think last year we did it in April okay so okay um I think everything else from February got done okay and then March we were talking about coaching volunteers we don't really ever do that I guess because if you have some you just bring them at that time right yeah so I think we can remove that item from the governance calendar if everyone's okay with that yeah
087okay Transportation agreements aren't ready yet right not yet have them on Friday for Steve to sign so yeah we can home to the first meeting in April yeah okay when do they have to be done by I kind of like to coincide them with the out of District so if we could kind of do those at the same time that'd be great so when I start doing the letters then I can send out those Transportation agreements because then we know what districts we're dealing with okay they actually go to the transportation meeting when you go in like June or June yeah so that you that when they have to be done but as far like she said with the fp1 14s we have to know we have transportation agreements with these districts before we say
088they don't have to pay for their own transportation so okay let's just keep that with the out of District then um all non-affiliated has been moved to April yeah because we're still waiting on some evaluations okay and then all tenur or all certified staff has also been moved to April yep please okay normally moving it to or is this like just a review just for this okay perfect classified is on here correct for this one okay we would like to keep them in March okay perfect I think there's just like some delays on evaluations is what we're waiting on so I just want to make sure we didn't anything next year if we could just be conscious of that March date get all the evaluations in by February and we can keep calendar okay everything
089else I think was on here okay and just to clarify we don't bring volunteers to the board at all right because they just fill out that for okay yeah so we can get rid if it's on there anywhere I think it was for a couple different sports you can just take those off okay okay all right with that we'll move on to 9.01 there's a regation on there for information purposes only yes I would just like to make one small comment on that if I may hey um Chris is welcome back at any time she did a fantastic job for us as a throws coach and she's dealing with personal issues and hopefully next year she will be back and we wish her all the best and really would love to see her back coaching
090throws all right 9.02 Mr I will not be bringing this recommendation to the board tonight all right okay with's that we move on to 9.03 okay be recommending um Jack Rosander for District substitute I move that the cultur Public Schools Board of Trustees approves Jack Rosander District substitute for the 2425 school year second okay motion of second any public opinion on this agenda keep up with him uh any further board is he classroom substitute or bus mostly just white buses same kind of thing we have somebody yeah great good it's helping out any else wait hi hi Andrew hi hi hi all right uh 9.04 um I would like to recommend Brian solivan for cultur high school assistant track coach for the 2425 school year I Mo that the C Public Schools Board of Trustees
091approves Brian Sullivan as CHS assistant track coach for the 2425 school year okay okay motion a second any public opinion on this public participation on this AG item any for the board Wade hi Tiff hi Andie hi Sabrina hi hi all right okay before we start recommending people can you kind of walk through your evaluation process on coaches what you look at in the evaluations coaching is very emotional for people um so this is the this is the meeting where we receive the most feedback from individuals so if you could just kind of walk through that process when it happens what you look at okay so when we when we look at when we look at the coaches we look immediately after the season we do their their evaluation their coaching evaluation um that looks
092at the season their performance during the season and what we understand during that time um we look at you know did were they doing well by the kids um were they successful in developing the kids it's not so much about wins and losses as it is about developing the character of the kids and and and being a positive role model and doing what is best for kids in all situations so you know issues of Eligibility behavioral issues um did we have issues with practices did we have issues you know with with with kids interacting with one another um all that is is considered in that evaluation how well they they mesh with the schoolhouse they mesh with the ideals that we as a district want to project and um how well they've taken care of
093District property you know are there you know is their equipment altered in in good shape is did they get all their uniforms back um did they fundraise or so we look at you know the total package of the coach um then you know we also consider as in the time between that end of the season and the time of this you know sometimes there are things that come to right and we have to consider those things as well um and and that can sometimes be a a a a difficult process um so we try to do you know we try to look what's best and see is the coach doing their job are they making progress um you know and do we have community support for the coach and the program moving forward so those
094are all major considerations that we take um I I would like to say that I I kind of would like to rework the evaluation the evaluation form because as it stands right now um we basically have two choices satisfa or unsatisfactory and that I don't think is a fair evaluation I mean we don't do that with our teachers we you know most jobs don't do that with their employees you know you have to identify on a scale and and I think we need to look at that and that's something that I kind of want to look at you know over the summer to roll out for next year because we're in this school year so I don't think it'll be fair to judge coaches you know based on a different rubric um but I think
095that would also provide us with a more realistic evaluation of where coaches are in their developmental process you know so if we have a coach that's been here for one year and they're still learning and you know we've had to talk to them about you know hey you need to tighten up the locker room or hey you need to do this or that okay that's a learning curve if we have a coach who's been here for a decade and we have problems in the locker room that's a problem so you know and those are those are things that we look at okay and then before this comes to the board you've reached out to each of these people to see if they would like the position again yes okay that wasn't happening a few years
096ago so we'll be rehired and be blindsided and okay all right okay so uh first off for uh Frank Bratt middle school for their head football coach I would like to recommend Johnny Dorth as the head football coach I move that the CER Public Schools Board of Trustees approves Johnny dillworth fbms head football coach for the 2526 school year second okay motion second any public comment on this agenda item any further board Wade hi Tiff hi Angie hi sa hi hi okay like to recommend Angie cier for Frank Bratt Middle School head volleyball coach I'm move that the pster Public Schools Board of Trustees approves Angie Courier fbms head volleyball coach for the 2526 school year Andie okay motion second any public comment on this any for the board Wade I Tiff I Angie I
097Tiff or I I I said I was looking at you about little kids this is true I would like to recommend Carri kman for Frank Bratton Middle School assistant volleyball coach I move that the col Public Schools Board of Trustees approve Carrie kurman fbms assistant volleyball coach for the 2526 school year second I have a motion second any public comment on this for the board wait hi Tiff hi Angie hiina hi hi I would like to recommend Malicia seagull for Frank brt Middle School assistant volleyball coach I move that the CER Public Schools Board of Trustees approves Malicia seagull fbms assistant volleyball coach for the 2526 school year motion second any public comment on this for the board wait I Tiff hiie hi hi hi I would like to recommend Nikki bar as Frank brat
098Middle School head Cross Country Coach I move that the coer Public Schools Board of Trustees approve Nikki Barrett Molen fbms head cross country coach for the 2526 school year than motion and second any public comment on this agend item any further board Wade hi Tiff hi Angie hi Serina hi I would also like to recommend lorine Hansen for Frank br Middle School concessions I move that the CER Public Schools Board of Trustees approves lorine Hansen fbms concessions for the 25 26 school year second okay Mo second any public participation on this for the board Wade hi Tiff hi Andie hi hi hi I would like to recommend Owen heck or C High School head football coach I move that the C Public Schools Board of Trustees approves Owen heck CHS head football coach for the
0992526 school year okay have a motion to Second any publicin on this any further board Wade hi Tiff hi Andie hi Saina hi hi and I would like to Lucas ha for colrip high school assistant football coach I move that the colrip Public Schools Board of Trustees approve Lucas HEC CHS assistant football coach for the 2526 school year second have a motion and second any public comment on this any further board Wade hi Tiff hi Andie hi Saina hi hi I would like to um recommend Trent Ashley for colrip high school assistant football coach I move that the colrip Public Schools Board of Trustees approves Trenton Ashley CHS assistant football coach for the 2526 school year second okay motion second any public comment on this any further board Wade hi Tiff hi Andre hi Serina
100hi hi and I would like to recommend Nathan Goodluck for call High School assistant football coach I move that the CER Public Schools Board of Trustees approves Nathan Goodluck CHS assistant football coach for the 2526 school year motion and second any public comment on this any further board weade hi Tiff hi Angie hi hi hi I would like to recommend Charelle Martin for C High School head cross coach I move that the culture Public Schools Board of Trustees approves Charelle Martin CHS head cross country coach for the 2526 school year second good motion of second any public comment on this any for the board Wade hi Tiff hi Andre hi Sabrina hi I right well no I'm sorry that was um so yeah I would like bri High School assistant Cross Country Coach I move
101that the culer Public Schools Board of Trustees approve Brian Sullivan CHS assistant cross country coach for the 2526 school year second a motion in second any public comment on this agenda item any further board wait I Tiff hi Angie hi hi hi and I would like to recommend TI Yates for col High School head cheer coach all year yes I move that the C Public Schools Board of Trustees approve Tiana Yates CHS head cheer coach for the 2526 school year okay I have a motion of second any public comment on this I do have it listed on the winter also because they're too supper so sorry yeah other two contracts that's why but she she's just doing both so we can just hire her one time okay I think that's what we did last year
102hi tff hi Andrew hi hi hi and I would like to recommend Becca Hopkins for colrip high school assistant cheer coach did that get built into the contract or is that still off an until the next negotiation so it' be good for next school year still okay I move the CER Public Schools Board of Trustees approve Becca Hopkins CHS assistant chair coach for the 2526 school year Motion in a second any public comment on this any for the board Wade hi Tiff hi Angie hi Sabrina hi hi and I would like to recommend Emma blady as C High School weight room manager for summer and fall I move that the C Public Schools Board of Trustees approves Emma blady CHS weight room manager summer and fall for the 2526 school year second okay motion second
103any public comment on this for the board is there a winter two or just it's summer fall spring there's there's summerfall and yeah and then I think it's winter spring so she's not all year um I anything that was due yet I me I'm willing to recommend it for all but think it was due yet okay W hi Tiff hi Andy hi there all right 9.06 winter I would like to recommend John Courier for Frank Bratt Middle School head wrestling coach else want to do these you guys have been doing great I to say I move the culture Public Schools Board of Trustees approved John Courier fbms head wrestling coach for the 25 26 school year good motion second any public comment on this any for the board Wade hi Tiff hi Angie hi I
104I and I would like to recommend Angie Courier for Frank Bratton Middle School assistant wrestling coach I move that the Coler Public Schools Board of Trustees approve Angie Courier fbms assistant wrestling coach for the 2526 school year okay motion a second any public comment on this question how many girls are involved in wrestling now at Middle School level you have your hand up on no I just say oh any further board wait hi Tiff Hi and hi hi hi and I would like to recommend Lesly nie as Frank Bratton Middle School head boys basketball coach I'll entertain a motion I move to I the cluster Public Schools Board of Trustees approves Les Les as the fbms head basketball boys boys basketball coach for the 25 26 school year second I have a motion second any
105public comment on this any further board Wade I Tiff no Angie I Serina no hi and I would like to recommend Jeremy kills Knight for Frank brat Middle School assistant boys basketball coach do I have a motion okay moving on I would like to recommend Taylor Ramsey for colrip high school head wrestling coach I move that the CER Public Schools Board of Trustees approve Taylor Ramsey CHS head wrestling coach for the 2526 school year second motion of second any public comment on this I didn't want to be in a setting to I'm Dana Zimmerman I didn't want to be in a setting to voice concerns here but if we don't advocate for our children who will we had multiple Seasons full of many trials this year and I think that the board would really benefit
106from waiting for all concerns and data before making this decision of rehire of all CHS winter sports rehires I was not aware that the public concern form had been done away with so I am currently in the process of following board recommended policy 1700 which has been broken by Administration with no response and followup and we have coaches up for rehire before the complaint has been completed I do understand why we have set a calendar date um to get such things done in a timely matter but I don't believe some decisions should be rushed or made before a uniform complaint procedure has been completed I would like to recommend that the board opens or tables all CHS winter rehires rehire decision to a later date anything else any further his lead um when Mr just
107mentioned that he takes um information from the community regarding coaching Rees I've been banned from giving feedback and so um I'm very concerned that as a parent I don't have the right to address things at the lowest level and so I've not been able to communicate concerns regarding coaches that my minor son has been under the to I agree with the it should be postponed to later any other public comment I'm and I as an employee of the district and a coach of the district I also understand how difficult it is to find coaches and the longer you wait to hire the more at risk you put us for putting those coaches in a different position and I honestly think that we need to consider doing it now before coaches look elsewhere to work most
108of our winter sports head coaches already work within the district as Educators meaning they've already followed all background checks and they already all work with our children every day day in and day out they know our students better than anyone else I do fully believe that we need to move on with this and hire them this evening is there any other public comment any further board weit hi Tiff hi Angie hi Sabrina hi hi I would like to recommend Gary Ramsey as colrip high school assistant wrest coach did you ask him yeah and he said no but he doesn't have a choice I move that the culer Public Schools Board of Trustees approve Gary Ramsay CHS assistant wrestling coach for the 25 26 school year second motion second any public comment on this any for
109the board waade hi Tiff hi Angie hi Reina hi hi I would like to recommend Dan Belz as K High School assistant wrestling coach I move that the CER Public Schools Board of Trustees approves Dan Valdez CHS assistant wrestling coach for the 2526 school year okay have motion second any public comment on this any for the board wait all hi Angie hi Sera hi hi I'm going to stop you there on my table uh uh Mr shet until I am satisfied on that 1700 policy that's been followed through so okay so we hold on the assistant as well and we'll table that as well okay you want me to table them please I think we need to if we're gonna I mov to table CHS winter rehires for CHS head girls basketball coach and CHS
110assistant girls basketball coach until the next meeting next meeting till the next meeting second okay motion second any public comment on this thank you any for the board weade hi T no Andie no Saina no I okay I the CER Public Schools Board of Trustees approve Brandy sheret CHS head girls basketball coach for the 25 26 school year second okay motion second any comment on this okay I do okay St your name for the record this is Brandy shre okay I just want to say like I learned a ton this year I really did and I'll get better I will and I really do just want to make like girls basketball amazing in this community again like how it used to be so building a program I hope that I can continue do that in
111the future and I'm just I really am thankful for this job as much as sometimes it's a pain in my butt but it it like I love it as much as I do teaching so that's all I have to say about that thank you any other I'm Nikki I would also like to say that I think that it's important that we take into consideration the um work that is put into working with high schoolers and I mean in Middle School in general as well but it is difficult enough to work with students and to work with kids who are working through a long school day playing sports everything else that's going on in their life and then when we have parents interject in things so I do think it's important that we also take into
112consideration when we're looking at all of these things that we stay focused on what the job of the coach was and try not to stray from what is actually happening on the court in the gyms in the locker rooms and really in the buildup of their academics because they're also students before athletes so I remember any other comment any further board what the I mean if if that's not resolved if um if there's still something outstanding then how can we take action well I think if it comes back that the complaint is Val validated then it then it is what it is because even if there's a coach that's hired right now currently for track or Golf and something comes then where we have to follow policy if there's something that's validated so I I
113think that you can hire and if something comes back then you proceed that way yeah we'll have to stick just stick to the policy any other question I mean if that's that's and I guess i' have to read through that policy to see what I mean what what policy we're talking about because I I don't maybe I'll do that real quick it's it is it is if it does it say I guess does it state in there if if it is resolved after an action um that the action is negated or or you know based on on whatever the the outcome of that is well I think it it would automatically be negated number the board for another it's got to come back to the board if there's a if there's a valid if there
114was something yes and then the board goes in into executive session or is that well we can't go into you you can't go into executive session about a let's just use a coach because we're talking about coaches without that coach being in there I was dotting the teas Crossing eyes you know what I mean just to make sure we're um I was led to believe where we are I was just citing with caution but uh we have a motion a second can I comment something real quick in a coach's contract It also says termination of employment so the district May terminate this contract for cause at any time during the year insufficient student participation as determined by the board or the design shall also constitute good cause for termination of this contract so at any
115point it can be terminated if you have if you have CA which would be the policy 1700 complaint if it came back validated correct okay I'm satisfied that I'll move to the vote wait I I iina I I now we can move on to the assistant okay I would like to recommend Emma blady for culture High School assistant girl basketball coach I move that the CER Public Schools Board of Trustees approve Emma blady CHS assistant girls basketball coach for the 2526 school year have motion second any public comment on this any for the board Dan yeah just what does cause constitute because I've done two policy 1700s this year and um I can't find where was the person's eled necessarily can they be removed there's any illegal activity that could be caused so if someone
116uses drugs um like fails a drug test or if we have reason to believe that they're all drugs and we ask them to to do a drug test that is cause um cause would be I don't know what else would cause I kind of Googled it okay so like serious misconduct poor performance or a violation of company policy or law such as theft in subordination or failure to meet job expectations okay and just because a parent files a complaint doesn't mean it is trust cause it'll be investigated by the district based on the policies that we have in place and then that would go forward to the board thank you any further board Wade hi Tiff hi Angie hi hi hi I would like to recommend Dana strong as CP High School boys basketball coach
117head coach I move that the cstrip Public Schools Board of Trustees approves Dana strong CHS boys basketball coach for the 2526 school year second have a motion second any public comment on this Joe has raised his hand uh go ahead Joe yeah I Dana strong should not be uh a basketball coach or a teacher C high school or in the state of Montana my policy 1700 that I wrote Clare back in February was immediately responded to with a cease and deist letter and if you look at the policies that were violated on January 7th this person should not brought to the table tonight okay mie has her headress mallerie can you hear me okay yeah I can hear you mie okay perfect I just want to get on here and just say that I think
118Dana strong did a phenomenal job I think that he has really brought these boys up um and I think that we most definitely should um recommend him to continue our boys basketball being our boys basketball coach okay else poak has her H go ahead I I would also like to speak on the behalf of Dana strong he has been an amazing mentor and brought the boys basketball team um together and to just a whole whole new heights and build their confidence up and was an it was amazing to see the boys all come together like they have and uh we really appreciate him so I would love to see him come back thank you Joan also has his hand raised again we've already talked to Joe okay no I will I am Brandy shet I
119will say that working with um close to Dana throughout the season like together I think he is a phenomenal person like he really does just want what's best for kids and he's a wealth of knowledge too anything else any further board Wade I Tiff I Angie hi Sabrina I I and I would like to recommend Trenton Ashley for C High School assistant boys basketball coach I move that the Coler Public Schools Board of Trustees approve roves Trenton Ashley CHS assistant boys basketball coach for the 2526 school year okay a motion second any public comment on this you just moved without even a second second you're so worried about kids and puppies just can't even focus it's it's been repetitive okay now I have a second you do any public comment on this Dan yes I
120recommend this position be open as well for the Reas mention before anything else I recommend the rehire of him I think that we also need to consider oh it's Nikki I think we also need to consider that uh the these coaches are working hard for our children and it's easy for us to sit on the sideline and behind the bench and criticize what they're doing without knowing the ins and outs of what they're doing and I think that we as a community need to start backing our coaches instead of fighting them thank you any for the board I was gonna say mallerie Staples has hand mallerie um I would just like to back Nikki what she said I think Trent is phenomenal with these boys and I absolutely recommend him for rehire too anything else
121any further board I can see it back I was gonna say I don't know if Joe raised his hand again Joe yeah um we just need to start doing the right thing for the kids um as a basketball coach for 28 years and uh someone who has a a child still in the program that's just not happening that's just not what's happening in the program so um I just refute those those posit comments that's just not what is happening it's not the reality okay audre AUD do you have your hand raised I would also like to speak on Trent's behalf he has been great with the boys as well and like I said just lit a fire under them he makes them want to work harder he makes them want to do better and he's
122super passionate about what he's doing and the kids feed off of that and they do they've done so well with that and it's just really great to see that spark and see it Inspire the kids so I would absolutely love to see Trent come back as well thank you anything else any for the board Wade hi Tiff hi Angie hi Serena hi by 9.07 okay so I've got the recommendations for hire for this year's upcoming 25 26 school year for our classified uh Personnel so I would like to rec recommend everyone on the list so these are rehires that only be removed for cause so we will take them all together yes um we do coaches separately because they are specific term contracts with no expectation of a rehire the next year so that's why
123we do those separately I move that the CER Public Schools Board of Trustees approves the rehire of the classified staff for the 25 26 school year as Pres Ed second have a motion at second do I have any public comment on this any further board wait I hi hi hi thanks for being here absolutely for self eval this is when you just tell us you're going to reach out to Deb and she's going to send us the survey so say those exact words I'm going to reach out to Deb and she's going to send us the survey again so um I think I already reached out to Tony actually okay because I think Deb's kind of stepped out of that position but I will double check with Tony um in the morning 9.09 these are
124policy m policies okay so we got our second final reading of policy 5223 on personal conduct and this is the one that the mtsba recommended kind of get rid of the examples of some of those weapons I move that the co Public Schools Board of Trustees approves the second and final reading of policy 5223 personal conduct second okay motion second any public comment on this policy any further forward Wade hi Tiff hi Angie hi Serena hi hi uh policy 5334 vacations yep second reading of this final reading again I move that the Coler Public Schools Board of Trustees approves the second and final reading of policy 5334 vacations second have a motion and second any public comment on this agenda item any board waade hiff hi Andy hi sa hi hi and policy 3416 okay
125so just the second and final reading again of the 3416 administrating medications to students I move that the culer Public Schools Board of Trustees approves the second and Final reading of policy 3416 administering medications to students second have a motion second any public comment on this anything for the board wa hi Tiff hi Angie hi Ser hi hi 9.12 a report what you've all been waiting for so we had our audit back in October um we had a new gal this year I kind of touched on some of this stuff with you guys but um it went well we had a week's a week worth um having her here and um it went really well and so the first part of this audit that you see is the Management's discussion and Analysis and that is
126something that I I do that first part so all of that um you can see our total net position increase so um that's always nice to see um we stayed pretty comparable there's there's a chart in there for you guys to look at that is kind of nice because it Compares 23 to 24 so you guys can see if kind of something jumps out and um it helps me too to kind of see that and it shows all of our our net position it shows your revenues for the year expenditures um not there's not too much to um to talk about here unless you guys have some questions but what's important with the audit is the findings that they have as well that I have to answer to and this year we had three and
127those were let me get to the letter again oh I have it here the so the first was and I think we already went over this but I'll go over it again um the invoice that was received in July for services and goods that were in June and that's no no so that was a mckinstry bill that kind of just slid under the radar so that was in June we paid for it in July normally this is a lot bigger deal because it's out of a budgeted fund so it makes it look like the District Clerk's trying to save money in the general fund by not paying a bill until July but that's not the case here this was a miscellaneous Federal fund that is not a budgeted fund so it didn't affect anything that
128had to do with the TFS or um our budgeted fund so that was good um still not okay but could have been worse um the miscellaneous Federal fund um reconciliation kind of was hoping that she would be a little bit nicer but she wasn't very complimentary but I was like it looks a lot better like we improved a lot from last year and it just really hasn't been reconciled for years and years and so it's a lot of work to try to get it those beginning balances just right so it's not awful lot but um that was a finding because it was on the audit last year as well and then they had a finding for our workers compensation credit that we have and that kind of comes from um credit that workers comp gives
129us and it was sitting at about $65,000 and we hadn't used it yet and so the Auditors deemed on that by not crediting that back but workers comp is not the easiest to work with they would not just send us a check so you have to kind of we've been creating negative invoices to take care of that and so um we've already implemented that this year so it's already been taken care of we have about 20,000 left of that credit use so and I think that's about I think that's about it unless you guys have some um questions on the audit but I feel like it went really really good job thank you thank you that was a hard year to do for our office and um there's a lot of help in it so
130there's extracurricular there's you know Lorna's job there's like everybody plays a really big part in that audit so yeah kudos to the whole team very good thanks okay that we'll move on to our admin report I need to approve it oh sorry I move that the C Public Schools Board of Trustees approves the audit that Paul Strom and Associates conducted for the fiscal year that ended June 30th 2024 second okay motion and second any public comment on this any further board hey hi Tiff hi hry hi hi hi ba we have to prove this when it's like here it is take it or leave it you're just ready you're just ready to move on I prove it it it was the lady was rough but she was interesting she did an amazing job you really
131did thank you I had to fight a little bit she was like well this is a find I'm like no it's not so good job I did have to fight for myself a little bit so she she was she was a new gal they basically are just down people Auditors are just just short people and so they pulled somebody that's usually the one in the background that is helping an auditor and they're like hey can you pull this and she'll help them and pull it and so then she was sent on our audit so um kudos to her too for putting up with us too so sort of like just give me a compliment something didn't do the um awards at the beginning oh yeah so maybe we should student the student like the Bucket
132Fillers bet student of the month sure ready for that yeah I took over the presentation so you know sorry guys I didn't know if I was gonna be able to stand up here for a second bucket pillers for February Teddy Sim Calin PA Jay Ean Mila talama colam Hart coar Alexis gors and violet wolf congratulations to those kiddos I heard today that you are the best principal ever and it may have to have done with an extra recess that was given F you are not supposed to tell on me structured or unstructured very structured fight words I know get late I'm gonna have to show up there get a feel for what's really going on between the dogs and the principal the kidnappers and the principal just chaos coming off the school saw sheep one
133day too I don't know that was I did hear about that yeah that was a great day learning Mrs Al did you have any recognitions you wanted to I sure do yes I have a lot of them actually so thanks for getting back to that um I can start with just the the regular ones for the student of the week and student of the months so we have Tyler Stevens Jason Molen um Tyler Stevens again twice Clarence kills Knight Lexi nen Camden link Shelby Patton Ben hosner John Burns Knox Becker Triton Schindler Pierce Manley Keegan um Angel Lea one feather Cedar shoulder blade Jasmine Gutierrez Lucian onebear and Grady Goyette and then for the month of February we had Jasmine Gutierrez as um the student of the month we had Lexi nonon as the seventh
134grader and then Cedar shoulder blade was the eighth grader so lots of good things there um I just also wanted to make another comment too on the accomplishments or recognition too so we had a special guest today that came in from foresight um and had an assembly for one of our teachers Shauna C Cunningham who received um the Montana Masonic foundation's educational grant and so he um along with Jack Rosander then um came to the building because they're they're Masons and they presented this award in front of our student body um which was really neat and I was kind of afraid at first that maybe shauny knew but then she really didn't so it was fun um to celebrate with that but she did received the grant of $920 which she's going to be using
135um in the library area with um a lot of the uh different iPads that she's going to supply and stuff because of Journalism class and things so that was pretty neat and pretty special for that along with my um board report I don't know if we there or not yet but I have some recognitions if you want me to mention those now or yes okay um so I just thought it was pretty special some of the things that happened with the academic Olympics and I feel that it needs to be said you know instead of just being read in the the comments there but our team went to the academic Olympics and it's really special for us because I think it's 13 years later that we actually have the trophy the plaque back again um
136with Frank brat middle school so 13 years ago we had it and then of course has been many years prior to that and you know as a Frank Bratton Middle School teacher but um very special to be able to congratulate the following students and that's Kimberly arneson Jonathan Stewart Ariel bur um Christina and Lena Watson and William wolf and the alternates were Cooper Clark and Chason Molen but even more special too for them bringing home the trophy as the individual recognitions that they had while they were there um presented themselves well and brought home a lot of different special things to um the C strip team was of course Kimberly Jonathan Ariel Nina William Cooper and Chason and they won first in the oral rounds they received the gold medal and then they brought home
137the trophy um Cooper Clark as a sixth grader he placed Mina Watson took ninth as a sixth grader Chason Molen then um placed fifth Kimberly arneson and both John Jonathan Stewart placed first um winning the gold medal and then of course the plaque themselves too so very um special Round of Applause for them um just lots of great things that's happening down there with our students um we also had National Junior Honor Society inductions which I think that's a special recognition as well we had new members that um were here they were Eli Colbert one of my sixth graders Cooper Clark Bernie bar k Sherman cashlin scalpe Britain steer Annabella Kyle Emma pav Nina Watson NAA Vanderloo Logan Patton and Brianna Whitman so that that takes a lot as you know to be able to
138achieve that accomplishment as well um speaking of the science club that's a little bit different area though moving into that they just had a a nice tour when they went down to the Northwest College there in Powell and so they they did a lot of different things there but they brought home really good information they wanted to share it um we also have some other things that's that's happening with the recognition places but I just felt that it was really important to bring this to an attention thank you great job kids um is she on Robin Poss I am um okay for our attendance competition um the sophomores won Juniors were second freshman third seniors came in last uh February students of the month freshman was Jacob Rogers sophomore camon kurman junior Macy Sherman senior
139Lucy Kemmer our February rosei County Health be a buddy not a bully winner was Katie Wilcox um for FFA we have 11 students who are qualified to go to state for five different contests and I'll have their specific names and contests for the next meeting um we had three teams participate in academic Olympics um Team a play second in oral and fourth in the r written and team C plays second in written um individual student awards freshman uh Payton batty won fourth sophomores bran Molen W first Tristan sha also they tied for first Juniors Jenna batty W third Kyla kurman fifth seniors Slade Tuscano thir Devin berlan fourth and Katie Wilcox Fifth and I just like to thank Mrs Den for her time and for taking them um and I also wanted to recognize the
140FCCLA chapter um they started a freezer dinner project um and they've been making a freezer casseroles for members in our community um whether illness um Something's Happened in their family whatever they've been providing those just to um take some stress off um and they've also gotten several grants to help pay for that so um they're doing a great job all I hope thank you okay Jen any [Music] recognitions okay thank you sorry I'm [Laughter] we could recognize Jen for filling in and covering a lot of things while I've been gone I appreciate she and Tom and Scott all for covering thank you uh Mr ker anything you'd like to add your report no it's all in there GNA follow jy's lead no okay all right I might thr okay yeah I didn't get one written
141been sick and dealing with a lot of things but um I did want to kind of a recognition on my own here for these guys uh one of the big things that was due this past month that I worked on was accreditation report got it submitted actually a day early which is great I had help from everybody um just it was great I ended up having Mr kirner come over with different things that he's in charge of U being first year still handled it like a pro um knew the answers of the questions from curriculum to assessments to just a number of things so I got a lot of different help I know um Robin headed up uh The Graduate profile um got that done I know Wendy helped her and some other folks so
142just a good team effort from the admin team to get accreditation submitted and on time and early so that was pretty cool been doing a lot with the calendar so going to wrap that up real soon um let's see the I've been taking classes I know Mr bold and I are a little tired today because four hours for me and five for him last night um and then just uh working two couple different admin meetings uh working mostly for preparations for hires rehires all that kind of stuff and looking at next year and um been meeting with each person quite a bit quite often all the directors either meet once a week or once every other week so getting a lot of good I think relationship building going on and understanding of what's going on
143in schools and you know how I can help and um so it's been a really good month I've been G it's your back it's over and with that meeting aded thank you e e e