001[Music] So it's the pledge of algiance Ice to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Okay. This first somebody messed up. Notice of being uh the multi school board of trustees notice of meeting being recorded. This meeting of the school board of trustees committee of the board of trustees or committee subject to the open meeting law as being recorded in accordance with sections 2-2301 2-3-202-3203 [Music] and 2-3214 MCA. All members of the board, committee, staff, and public in attendance are advised that the public portions of the meeting will be recorded in both an audio and video format. Cameras and recording devices are placed throughout the meeting room to complete these recordings. Everyone in attendance is
002reminded to honor basic rules of decorum during the meeting and guidance associated with providing public comment as stated in policy 1420F. By remaining in the meeting, those present consent to being recorded and display displayed in the footage that will be posted on the school's district's website. Uh recognition of visitors. Have all visitors signed in reading of the minutes. Consent agenda. Oh, public input. Yeah. Public input. Any public input? Comments? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Reminder, comments must be non-aggenda items and related to topics under the jurisdiction of the Malta public schools. Still no public input. Moving on. Can I do that? Mhm. Uh a consent agenda agenda. I make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Have a motion from Thank you. And a second from Jessica. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same
003sign. Motion carries. Where we at? Discussion items. Discussion items. Standing committee reports. Anybody meet? We did, but No, you didn't. Thanks for calling me out. I was there though. Um, transportation met and we had Carter and uh, Terra were also there. Um, Jessica joined from personnel since Kyle couldn't make it. Um and we discussed job descriptions for um basic for mostly um Heather, not Heather, Terra and Carter because we didn't have anything like that in a file anywhere. Um so we got those. She sent those. Um and then Yep. That's not anybody else made finance met 17 times in the last two weeks. Um I think we we finalized negotiations with all individual non-UN heads and both unions and then um Heather also has presented us with um more budgetary information for fiscal year 6
004and we've been reviewing that and it looks tight. Tighter than ever. That it met. Okay. Administrative reports. Not everybody at Yeah, not everybody at once is right. Skip. Um, you guys should have received my report. Um, I guess the big item that I would like to bring out is that the last week of school was in a few events to be rescheduled. Worked out really, really well. So, um, feedback that I got from parents specifically about being able to move the track and field day Friday by Thursday was we have to leave one day. So that mean Oh, with um other than that, I just wanted to say thank you so much for the support of getting me through my first year here in Malta and things will continue to move forward. Any questions for
005me? Yeah, I have a question. Um you said the projected enrollment for the fall is 228. What was it last year? Can you remind me? 236 is what we have. So draw down. Okay. And I didn't crunch to see where that drop is at. I was just curious. 45 member fifth grade graduate out and 40 kids. Yeah. And the teachers everything's been moved where we need everything. Good. physically we're in the process of doing all that. Great. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. And thank you for your first year. Good evening. First, I'd like to congratulate Kyle position. I don't think that deserves a congratul uh quick recap. State golf we had the boys took third in state. Uh girls took eighth and 12th individually. Um we had Stewart taking sixth place overall. Kelling took 15th
006overall. Didn't have a girl individual placer, but we had five boys and five girls that qualified for state. It was down in Shelby. It was fun to watch. Weather was pretty bad the second day. Lots of rain, thunder delay. I think everybody got back pretty late. That's just the way things go sometimes. State track brought seven boys and seven girls. Uh we had a school record in the 4x100 boys um relay at the time of 4836. Uh Denver as far as individual awards we have discus sorry Denver who took fourth place in the discus. Uh she was also the state champion in the shot. So congratulations to Denver Tus winning the state championship. Uh we also had uh some individual placements by Dawson Hammond who had who took fourth in the 100 meter dash, sixth
007in the 200 meter dash and then as a team that school record relay was fifth overall. We also had our unified uh track. So, you know, that's for unified is really it's like special needs. Um, it's it's for those that really aren't going to be playing or competing in a regular track meet, still being involved in competition. So, unified is a member of your track team who might not be ready for regular track with a partner on your track team. Um, and you're doing these these events together. So, for example, uh we had uh as a unified 4x100 meter relay team, we won state and um we had second place finish in the shop, but so that was really cool as well. We only had one unified track athlete um kind of just starting out
008here in Montana. It was cool. It's cool thing to see and be able to recognize those kids and give them a, you know, divisional spot to watch or to, you know, on divisional competition to play at and state competition to actually be able to perform a huge crowd. So, it was cool to see that. I know that coach Clawson was very excited just to be able to take part in that as a coach. So, overall, I want to thank Coach Clawson, Coach Heistler, and all their assistant coaches on their spring season. We had they did a great job as always. So, um, with the spring season under recap, I just got back from class B at HSA summer meetings. I was over in Glasgow from Sunday till yesterday. Um, you know, it's so close. I
009didn't stay the night. You never want to spend too much time in Glasgow anyway. So, it's in and out. In and out. There was some good discussion had. There is a couple changes that will take place next year. Uh, one of those things is for traditional golf, there'll be a two-day meet. For wrestling, there will be a cap on the match limit will be taken off. So, you must only be able to wrestle 50 matches an entire season. Now, there is no limit. Um, there's also we went from 18 competitions in wrestling to a total of 20 with the extended week uh with state wrestling being bumped back. So, wrestling season's going to get a little bit longer. Um, Overall, it was good experience. Saw a lot of uh new UAVs, some familiar faces as
010well. It was was good. It was a good experience. Lastly, I got the turf tank. Uh it showed up. Sean, myself, and Garrett went over and demoed it at the football field. It is very cool. Um you know, I hope to get you guys all a video of it. I know I sent Sean one. Um but it's it draws straight lines and I think it's going to do what we want it to do. So, um, we named it in honor of Jason. We named it Jason 2.0. 2.0 Roman, too. Oh, it's cool to see. It's really state-of-the-art technology. So, I want to thank you guys for allowing us to uh be out. He's going to be a huge support. It's going to be really great with his departure. Um, besides that, upcoming events in August,
011August 6th and 7th, we'll have high school and middle school impact baseline testing at 10:00 a.m. and 2 p.m. You don't have you only have to go to one of those sessions. Um, should last about 45 minutes for those get questions from parents. And that is for all all middle school and high school students reading in sports. Even if they're not doing football uh or volleyball right off the co, we suggest that they come in get out of the way so it's easier to knock them all out at one time. August 15th, we'll have our first day of practice in the high school. And August 18th, we'll have our first day of practice the middle school. And lastly, I know I put it on the board report, but I was not here. I just wanted
012to I don't know if it got said or not, but I just want to thank the athletic club uh for their generous contributions to our awards uh awards program. Uh it was awesome to see all of our students being recognized by their coaches and a lot of hard work and dedication. So, any questions? Thank you. You did not receive my board report because I did not make one and send it out because I was scrolling. Nope. It's a matter of it's a matter of principle. It's June. Um, simple things. Uh, graduation of course happened since our last meeting. It went off very well. I was very happy with how that day took place. Um, I appreciate all of you being there to take part in as well. But, um, so nice to have another graduation
013done. School year wrapped up. Um, on a good note. And so since then, uh, it's been things have been happening up here. Um, scheduling for the high school is, I'd say, pretty well under control at this point. I'm feeling pretty happy about where it's at. Of course, it's contingent upon things being staffed, but um just to kind of give you an idea, we graduated I say was I'm trying to remember now. It seems like it was like a year ago. It was only a few weeks. Um 27 I think seniors and we're bringing in 46 freshmen. Holy cow. And so that's great. And do not take this as me complaining about numbers of kids. It's not at all a complaint. 46 freshmen. But there is a challenge in the fact that with the exception of
014two subjects, two classes, we don't have any more than two sections of any one class. So like the required courses like English 9, there's two sections of them. Um, and that's true for all the Englishes. And so we have a junior class next year that I believe off top of my head is something like 24 25. And we have a junior class of 46 or a freshman class of 46. And so you're going to have some sections of the freshman class that are almost as big as the entire junior class. And so having that kind of discrepancy when you're doing your scheduling presents some challenges for some things. Um and that's just the way it is. There's not much you can do about it. Um there's just going to be some kids come the fall
015that are going to have to make some changes to schedules. Just some things that aren't going to aren't going to be available. Um, and so that's some of the things that we always have to juggle when you're doing schedule like that. But it is going to be nice to have bigger numbers. Um, certainly in a grade level like that. We had two students transfer in here just a week ago and of course they were both freshman. And so that's just the way that's seems to be the way it works. If we have a class that's noticeably larger than the rest, any transfer join that class feels like in the past. That's just the way it happens. Um, so that's kind of where we're at. But schedule's going pretty good. We'll start with middle school scheduling.
016I shouldn't say we Mrs. Lam will knock out middle school scheduling here I'm sure at some point. Uhhuh. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Perfect. Um but no, I want to thank our custodians up here in this building. They are moving right along. I mean they are they are clipping along um getting things taken care of up here in the classrooms in the hallways. Um and so I really appreciate their hard work. You can also notice if you poke your head by the cafeteria and walk by there's some redecorating going on. spruce up the joint a little bit. Um Shay Simson has undertaken that and she's done all the painting and she did all the decorating for that in there. So I appreciate her. And also if you walk out the front door you'll notice the change to
017our display case right when you walk by the door. Spruce that up a little bit as well. That's also Mrs. Simon. Um she was in there after that lady. Yeah. I've learned that when she says she has an idea for something, I just say yes. And that's pretty Yeah, sounds good. I like it. Um, so I appreciate that. But also just want to call to just let people know and kind of remind people that while it's summertime and you would think that the school is somewhat quiet, that really it's not. There's a lot of stuff happening up here all the time. You can hear it right now. There's open gyms going on. Um, there's something up here the next couple of weekends, big events taking place. Um, there's camps happening. If you look at the
018calendar of events that are scheduled for the month of June in this building, it's a pretty full calendar. It looks almost like it's a regular school month. And so while we are doing a lot of summertime activities, it's um this the building's busy and so um it's just pure adult moment. So there you go. Any questions? Awesome. Thanks. You also don't have my uh report because I figured if Mr. didn't have to do it. I No, actually, actually, I I added to it and I never typed it up and sent it. So, I'm I'm getting old. I forget things. Um, so the tool cat, I have not heard back from uh the Hovind Equipment Place. I was waiting to hear from them cuz they have a uh deal that they're working with the potent with
019farmer uh to potentially purchase our old tool cat, but I'm not heard if they're going to do that. So, I might be coming back with that asking if we want to just bring it back and utilize it or sell it here. We'll see. Uh East Malt update. Uh they're holding off on the agreement. We'll do that probably in July. I think we still have some unanswered questions and what they want to do, but it does sound like they're planning on um entering an agreement with us one more year. Uh I have chosen my mastermind um groups for the uh teachers for next year. Um Kyle can pass that around. Uh Mr. Bluff has been kind enough to kind of help me or will be helping me get that so that the teachers can actually get
020a continuing ed credit for it. So, thank you Mr. with um administrative teams next year are going to look a little different. Um we are uh obviously we have three administrators now, but I'm going to make sure that obviously Heather is in there, I want Garrett in there, and I want Evan in there. So those will be once a month probably that Wednesday um prior to the board meeting just so we can kind of have our eyes on the prize here. Let's see. Uh strategic planning. So, our uh we're talking about doing a training on the July 9th, it looks like all day that day of the board meeting. Um, and we're going to do some strategic planning. Uh, or they're going to, you know, walk us through the process of creating a strategic plan.
021They think that they can probably get us a product by the end of that meeting. Um, and then, you know, we can tweak it, of course. Uh, let's see. Projects. HVAC obviously is complete. fire system. They're going to be back on site on the 19th. Uh that's next week to finalize that. Bruco is coming on July 31st. Uh we had to buy uh some uh chemical to get the wax off the so we had had some hiccups trying to get that done, but that's on its way. I believe uh chiller, there were six companies that have looked into the job of of replacing the chiller here at the high school. Um, no one has officially done anything yet, but the deadline is the 16th. So, hopefully someone comes forward and and wants that job. Uh,
022moving uh towards the mowing and watering. It sounds like they're trying to keep up on that. They're short staffed. They can't quite keep keep up with it as much as they'd like to, but it still looks pretty good around here. Uh, Carl Perkins Grant, I am currently working on that. That's our CTE uh things that is due on June 30th. I did confirm the pathways with Mr. BL this week. Uh we are allotting or our allocation sorry is 14,729. I think that's down maybe 100 bucks give or take um from last year. So, um, I'm going to review the, uh, comprehensive local needs assess or assessment for that program. I'll be kind of going through the language and updating that as as I see fit. But otherwise, um, that should be I should be on
023par, I guess, to get that complete for the 30th. And then I do want to say also a thank you like our other administrators. First, I got to thank my administrators for putting up with me. um uh they've been a help great help to me. All of you as board members, you've been a great help to me. Also um our teachers, great year. My office staff, they did a great job. Um we we should really be proud of what we have. So, thank you. Y You're starting in July, right? Yeah. I was pretty sure, but then Kyle looked at me, so I wasn't sure. Good report. Thank you. All right, moving on to action items. All right, first action item is approving a business manager to make final expenditures. few of our bills will be
024uh passed due um for this meeting. So, we want to give her So, basically, we're looking for a motion to allow her to complete any final expenditures, pay bills um within budget constraints, of course. I make a motion to allow business manager to make final expenditures within budget constraints. Second. A motion from Angel and second from Jessica. All in favor say I. I. All oppose, same sign. Motion carries. Action item number two. Okay. The uh action item number two is affirm the contract variance for Sierra White. Uh her uh uh training that she needs to complete is outlined in the variance which is attached to your packet. Um, I'm looking for a motion to affirm that contract variance with uh the Malta School District and the classified education association who agreed to set variance classified
025unions all in agreement. Do I have a motion? I make a motion to affirm the class public schools district. The motion from Katie Marcus. Do I have a second? Second. A second from Angel. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Action item number three. Uh, approve athletic and activity district direct pay agreement. Mr. Mr. Norby, I don't know if you want to add anything to this, but Mr. Norby and uh Mrs. Noles have worked out agreement which is attached in your packet there. So, Mr. Norby, do you have anything you'd like to add to that? I don't have it with me, but I know it comes down to Do you want me to read it? Yeah. Well, actually, I can show you. Yeah. Language change. which I mean it used
026to be it used to outline kind of what was covered you know and I think maybe even what wasn't covered and it was quite a bit of gray so Heather and I spent some time mainly Heather really to be honest this has been something that she wants to be a little bit more consistent from a year-to-year basis um so I I am slightly worried you know about you know if this if this is the budget that we set uh for because you see the numbers in there for what what can be reimbursed. You know, I'm I'm afraid that sometime in the future, you know, people won't want to adjust those numbers and things change often. So, um I think it all adds up to about $85,000 a year. Um you know, we when before I
027got here, you know, we uh the 80 before me had asked to be reimbured for 90. My first year was 85. This finished up this third year at 70. Um I think 70 was a little to be completely honest. I know Heather's done a great job on this budget and I just think 70 is a little bit low and that's going to hurt us going into next year. I'm okay with keeping this at 85. I would just like that to be kept in mind because I don't want any bud budgets to be changed. Everything's already been set. for in the future that um you know I was expecting to receive somewhere more you know 80 to 85 this current and it was only 70. So the fact that now that there is numbers in here
028to be out of that I think is a good thing. Um there are some things that worry me like when you you know when everything when the stars align. Um you know when you have a team that goes on the road on the football state championship you know four games in a row you guys and boys and girls basketball team goes to um you know Boseman for four days and volleyball makes a run and everybody makes a run. You know that's going to do if I'm held to 85,000 that's going to really the the account for athletics. So, just to keep that in mind. But otherwise, as far as everything in there, I completely agree with I think on regular year 85 is is manageable at this moment in time. Just like to, you know,
029have people not be locked in on that number forever, I guess, with as the times change. So, we're looking for approval for the athletic activities district uh direct pay agreement. Mr. Nervy, did you and Heather talk about if you start getting to the these limits and knowing that a team is teams have, you know, advanced in postseason? Yeah. Has there any been any has there been any discussion about bringing these numbers back to the board or making a second consideration if the budget would allow? Did you and Heather talk about that? Um, well, no, because I get everything comes so tight at the end of the year, right? That Yeah, that's all right. Um, that last submission, you know, if it's over maybe I mean, if you guys can offer more, I'd love that. I'm
030just asking if you discuss a plan if you got tight to the budget. That's what I was asking. No, it's I think it's pretty much if it's if I get to 85 in a year, that's what it is. I think as far as that go like I think it should be open for disc I mean I I'm all about budget 100% budget I think we all need but I think like I think what you're going is we need to be able to discuss it if this budget is met and money has been spent wisely and this budget is met and all of a sudden we've got another team going somewhere we can't you know I think my point is just the flexibility but just to clarify this is what the district pays for and once
031that is met then the rest of the funds are meant to come out of the activities accounts. Yes. So it's not like there isn't money there but it's just it will if that continues to happen year after year your activities fund will see run out. We don't our gates are good but it's that happens multiple years in a row. It's going to be eventually we have to get more money from the district. We'll have to fund raise something along those lines. So just but this is pretty consistent as did you say for like the last three years. Yeah, as far as I've been here was 90, 85, and this year it was 70. But our activities count did take a little hit, but also we purchased the mat, so that's, you know, completely understand. But
032I think as long as it's not 70 again, I'm completely happy going into next year, I'm a little stressed, but that's all right. I think my point is just that we as a board and administration also need to be aware of some element of flexibility. motion to that. That was just discussion. Approve. We're looking to I need a motion. I make a motion to approve the athletics activity district. Motion from Jessica and a second from Katie. Allo. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Item number four, white water and Turner transportation requests. As you know, school districts need to be or asked for permission to enter another school district to run their buses. Traditionally, Whitewater and Turner uh have done that have asked for an agreement. Um we did receive
033Turners. We have yet to receive Whitewater. We're asking that we can you guys can approve the Whitewater internation request now and then when Whitewater does turn it in, we can just sign off on Well, we do have we do have Turners here tonight. Can we pass it around? We make the motion like uh it would be based on since we don't have white waters in our hand, we approve these as long as a recent change that we're unaware of. So, as long So, as long as the students listed are ones that we've already approved for out of like for out of district attendance, then you're fine with it. Is what you're saying? Well, yeah. Not even necessarily. It could have been a family that had just another kid. I just mean as long as it's
034not like a completely different rout. As long as it's similar to the ones we've done before, nothing drastically changed if we don't have any. Yeah. Because I mean the students on the list from Turner are ones that we've already approved that are in our district to attend Turner. So I think we can apply the same methodology to the Whitewater. So go ahead and make that motion. I make a motion to approve the Whitewater and Turner School District um contracts as long as there is no new transportation request because it's not it's not truly a contract. transportation requests as long as they are similar to the ones last year. I'll second. I was going to say I didn't call for motion. Okay. I have a motion from Katie and a second from Angel. Uh all uh
035in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. I just wanted her to come up with the language. She was the one that wanted to do it. I wanted her to I wanted her to repeat it. Uh action it action number five individ individual No, we did that one and we transportation. Yep. So action number five, individual transportation contracts and we have two requests for isolation also. You should have letters in there. I need to take myself out of this. Yeah, you have a conflict. So, we're asking for a motion for um and actually both of you need to we're just not going to vote. Get approved. We're going to have to do something though because we can vote. I'm just like I'll just vote. But all three of you can't Yeah, we'll
036just abstain and have a forum. But what? There's two isolation requests. I don't see this. Yeah. So, it's I asked Heather about this. The check box is there. So, keep going down. So, that's that's one. And the letter of company, but I don't think the second letter SC second letter did not scan. So, it should have is it is it mirror me? Yeah. Did you pass it around? Yeah. It just it looks like both of these have gotten isolation in the past. No, look at go down. The one was requested to she's requested it in the past but has never been given it. I feel like these are always very strict and that's always well yes she's asked if Jane has never okay is the problem but no Heather has gone very deep into what
037qualifies and I saw those three and Roman board. Yeah, fine. It has she's a interesting Yeah, So we might need to make four motions like one for all of them and then one for each of the three where you guys conflict. Take those off. Yeah. Why don't we just make first motion taking the three names off? The three names off. Get that over with and then go through each of them. Yeah. Each of the three individually. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I make a motion to approve the individual transportation contracts and the two isolation statuses while removing um Alex Crystal Anderson and Katie Marcus from the individual transportation contract list. Does that make sense, Jana? No. Okay. We're approving the individual transportation list, but we have to remove Crystal Anderson, Alex Wedri, and Katie Marcus first because
038they all they all have conflicts. Okay. So, Alex, Crystal, and Katie. Got it. Okay. I'll second and then we can all vote on this this motion. Okay. Have a motion from Angel and a second from Jessica. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. I don't need a motion. Yeah. I'll make a motion to approve the individual transportation for Alex Wedri. Second. Have a motion from Angel and second from Katie. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Jessica. Motion carries. All right. I'll make a motion. Somebody said they want this fast. Ready? I'll make a motion to approve the individual contract for Crystal Anderson. Have a motion from Angel. I need a second. Got a second from Katie. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign.
039Katie Brown. Katie Brown abstains. Motion carries. Katie Marcus made the second. Yeah. Way to go. Having the same name, guys. Yeah. How dare you? Okay. You ready for the last one? It'd be easier if I actually understood what it's all about, but I'm writing it down, so we're okay. Now I'll make a motion to approve the individual contract for Katie Marcus. Second. Have a motion from Angel, a second from Katie Brown. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries with Katie Marcus abstaining. Can I ask a question? Yeah. So then why did Katie abstain from Crystal Anderson's related. That's what I didn't know. That's where I got confused. And then but obviously I know why. Okay. Okay. So, do we need to approve those? I I approve these the isolation statuses
040in my first motion. Okay. Or Yeah, that's I made it in my first motion. ready. Um, moving on. Action item number six, approve 2025 2026 bus routes. Um, routes are the same as last year. So, I'm asking that you make a motion to approve the list as Carter has presented. Make a motion to approve bus routes with no changes. I have a motion from Katie Brown. Have a second. Second. Have a second from Katie Marcus. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Action item number seven, Loring Colony agreement. So we have an agreement with the Loring Colony. Um, typically it's been a multi-year agreement, but uh, we do have a teacher. Um, we're working on the paperwork for that that process, but I'm requesting that we do a one-year year-to-year
041agreement with them. So, I'm looking for a motion for approving a one-year agreement with Lauren College. I make a motion to move agreement as presented. I have a motion from Katie Marcus. Do I have a second? Second. I have a second from Katie Brown. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Action. Item number eight, ratify the classified CBA. So the CBA presented in your packet um agreement with the union and the finance committee for the classified. We're looking for a motion to unless you guys have something you want to add to that. Think we spent a lot of time on it. I have a motion. Have a motion from Katie Marcus. Do I have a second? Second. Who did that? Jessica. Who did that? I have a motion from Jessica.
042All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Action item number nine, ratify the certified CBA. So we have uh CBA presented in your packet for the union and between an agreement with the union and the finance committee to so we're looking for a motion to ratify the certified CBA. I make a motion to ratify CBA. Have a motion from Katie Marcus. Do you have a second? Second. Have a second from Katie Brown. All in favor say I. I. I oppose same sign. Kyle and I brought those tonight so we can sign off on those tonight so we can be completely done. Don't leave. There's five copies you have to sign. He knows not to. I made five copies. Instead of just making one and then copying it five times, I hit
043five on the button because I was told to make five copies of it. So, you have to sign your name five times so we can sign them off tonight. I don't know if I can do that. writer's cramp. You want me to go get your stamp? Did we vote on that? Yeah. Moving on. Don't distract me like that, Derek. I just don't want you to leave because I was told to bring five of them tonight for you to sign. So, I will wait for you. Uh, action item number 10, the Baitman Endowment to the Mustang Foundation. All right. So in her in her doing our budget, Heather has located this Baitman endow endowment CD that we cannot find a family that is related to this or or has any knowledge of it. So we're asking
044that we can take that endowment and uh give it to the Mustang Foundation to administer as a Boe egg education major scholarship. I assume someone from the Mustang Foundation has agreed to this. I assume so. I don't know. We did the web thing like we were like, "Well, since the family's here, like we'll take their permission." Yeah. What did we do? Like I'm just saying, did we have to do something? Yeah, we we made a motion to u authorize Heather to return the money to the family because they were already doing scholarship anyways, too. So, so is that like the same thing? Like I think it's the same thing. It's just a Mustang foundation. We have no It's just sitting there. So there's nobody and there's no totally fine, but I just want to make
045sure we're doing it correctly. I think the only thing I just want to be clear about is that the Mustang Foundation wants to take it and manage it. Just because you're giving it to them doesn't mean they want to manage it. So I would just caution that or motion is that they upon you know acceptance from them Is that what this was used for? Yes. I make a motion to transfer the endowment to the Mustang Foundation taking wanting to administer the do here. Cheaters. Cheaters will help. That's too much. Thanks for It's a very So what it says is it's a very small CD. Yeah, it's less than $1,500. And we have not found any family connection. Does it have to be posted anywhere? We didn't. We didn't with the web. So that's why I
046don't but we have but we have family or we I mean it just seems kind of it's just sitting in our account. Well I I think see we need to do something but we can't do it legally. That's why I just it's like we can't get rid of desks without posting it. So I just am a little leerary of just another $1,500 thing. Yeah. I don't know. I agree. maybe just table it until Heather gets back because yeah the other question is like what um whatations are with it because if it's in a CD then it's at a bank right so what limitations or who's who has the authorization to move that money anyway I think you should I'm guessing into it but without her here yeah I'd rather discuss with her here she has
047done all of the she has reached out she's talked to the main committee what about the Mustang foundation that this is a rush table this I would think so I imagine there' be a rush on it to July but you have to resend yes I resend my motion and then do we have to make a motion to table and so I'm making a motion to table this until our July meeting seconded I have a motion from Katie down and a second from Angel to table that discussion till the next meeting. All in favor say I. I. All oppose same sign. Motion carries. Action item number 11. Approve the 2025 2026 transportation handbook. Anyone want to know what the picture looks like? Point of clarification. It's the transportation handbook and the driver. There are two separate.
048You guys were good with these. Yeah, we we made in the meeting with Heather and then she went through. So what I have in my hand is the original, but there are a 256 transportation and driver handles. Have a motion from Katie Marcus. Do you have a second? Second. Second from Angel. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Action item number 12, approve 2025 2026 student handbooks. So, we're going to have Mr. um Huitt come forward about the elementary school handbook and the Loring Colony, which is new by the way, if you have any questions for him. I have a couple comments uh in the Lori call. Sorry to say. Yeah, this is just it's just a detail thing. In the Lauren Colony one, I know a lot of language
049just got in from the elementary. So, there's a lot of times it says Malta Elementary. Did I miss one? Um about seven. Okay. Just I mean, as long as that is cleaned up, it's all good. It's all good. Before I publish it, then I'll clean that up. Yeah. Yeah. And some in some of the spots I wasn't really sure if it should still stay multi-ele like there's a a point where it's like multi-ele provides speech language. Yeah. Yeah. So I like that one would stay the same but there are some other points. Okay. Yeah. I'll I'll make those corrections. Yes. I'm done. I'm the only one that put eyes on these. So I appreciate you guys spend a lot of time on it. So I read it. It's great. Thank you for doing that. Everybody's
050okay with the There were no changes in that one. The minor changes. Okay. I didn't see anything highlighted. So, sorry, I forgot to highlight. Oh, that's Do you remember what they were? Um, the biggest change that I put in there was uh dealing with students utilizing the phone. Oh, yeah. Can I go to S's house? They not use the phone. Trying to make our office a little less chaotic at 3:25 p.m. Yeah. No, that was good. Sounds good. Any more questions for Mr. H. Good. Thank you. Oh, sorry. I have one more. I remember it. She's not up. The activity tickets part in each of them, the amounts just need updated to match the high school and middle school. Sorry. Sorry. No, sorry. Don't be sorry. I I I corrected the uh the one Oh,
051that was another major is the lunch charges working correctly last year. So those sounds good. Mrs. Lamb, could you come up? Thank you. Yeah, sure. I basically just changed it to align with a lot of the high school stuff. And then Mr. Boo pointed out that there was a trimester in the eighth grade eligibility. So I made a note to change that to semester. And then for the uh detentions for tardies at June 5th to 6th, you guys have any questions? No. I promise. No, I promise positive 100%. Okay. Thank you. All right. Um did you all get receive mine? Okay. So anything that's highlighted, you can see the changes really on this like on page four where it talks about where it changes. So highlight stuff for absences. It really isn't changing any policy
052there. It's just trying to simplify it because the problem we had was using the term unex or having the term excuse absences made led people to believe that those absences didn't count for anything, which wasn't the case. And so people would say, well, my absence was excused. Well, yes, because we knew about it, it still counts towards X, not be able to practice or counts towards excessive absences or things like that. And so, just trying to simplify it to where really there's only two types of absences. There's an absence and then there's unexcused absences. Unexcused absences are ones that we're not informed about, so we don't know what's going on. And then anything else is an absence. And so, I just tried to simplify the policy as much as we could so that there was
053less confusion. So either we know about it or we don't is what it boils down to. In the end, they all count towards excessive absences with the except for school related absences which that hasn't been an issue. So that's really what that's meant on page four and five is just meant to clarify and simplify. It really doesn't change any of the policy we've had in the past. Um, one thing we did change in page six is we clarified that if you're absent for more than 30 minutes of a class period, it'll be turned into an absence rather than just a tardy. We had some students who would conveniently show up with about 2 minutes left to first period and get there and still think that, you know, we're going to practice that night or things
054like that. And that's working a system to that point. And so if you're missing more than half a class period, you're absent for it. And so that would affect practices and stuff in the evening. But so anyway, um but again, if they come with a doctor, obviously that's a whole different situation. So this now it's just it's for the kids who just decided they're not going to show up. 12 minute left. Uh page 13 just updated to clarify uh added dual credit writing to the fivepoint scale as well as clarifying that dual credit college algebra. College algebra's always been there. I just added the language dual credit to the work. Got rid of calculus because we haven't offered that in years just to simplify the handbook. Um, on page 14, added some language in there
055that work study. Um, work study has been a battle for me in terms of getting kids to prove that they're still employed somewhere and not just taking off a period or two at the end of the day. And it's pro part of the problem has been that the way it was written in the past that work study really didn't do much in terms of like if you didn't if you didn't report anything. me there wasn't a whole lot of things I could do in terms of making you prove it. You know what I mean? And so now essentially um to put some skin in the game is that work study will you'll receive a pass or fail grade for it. And the only way you fail is if you don't turn in time card showing
056that you're still gainfully employed that you're going to work instead of coming to school at that time which is what the expectations been. And so now it's adding the language that you have to prove that you're employed by submitting time cards at least once a month. I'm pretty simple when it comes to a time card because I I get not everyone has a computerized system. I'm pretty flexible in that. But there still needs to be something that proves that you're not just going home and eating Doritos for two hours. I can't believe we haven't had one. Yeah, I can't believe you haven't just cracked down. Well, it's been a pain. It's been a pain for the last couple years. I just haven't added it in there. But this is the year. So I'm sorry I'm
057late Jessica. Um just understand I want them to be aware that and this is something I've added had Mr. Dorby add to the activities handbook is that work study now can impact eligibility for something. If you're not turning stuff in to prove it that's going to be treated like anything else and it could be a failing grade. So it would impact eligibility. Um, on page 15, this is going to be the one that makes the most attention for people this year, is that we're changing the policies that students are not going to have not going to possess or use a cell phone, smartwatch, earbuds, headphones, or like devices in a classroom. Such devices must be left must be left in a student's locker. So, that's going to be something we're going to have to work
058with. Obviously, we're going to have to take some training. We're taking it out of the hands of teachers being able to choose to allow it to in their class or how they're going to govern their class. It just needs to be a blanket policy across the board. We're going to have some push back on that, but that's just the way it goes. Um, we'll get used to it. Page 17, not a policy change, just a just a rewriting to clarify the pro clarify what something means a little bit in there. Um, a $90 cut off. I didn't think cut off was a very clear term of what that means. So basically it just means that if you are buying activity tickets for more than three kids, we only charge you for three and the rest
059of your kids, you don't you have five kids that you're buying activity tickets for. You're not paying 150 bucks for it. And so it's all that it didn't change policy. It's just trying to write it and make it a little bit more clear. And then number 18, I just cross that out there because it's redundant now that I've added that part into the part about cell phones. So it really doesn't change anything. It does change it, but I've included in the cell phone part and so I got rid of it there. So it's not in there twice or causing confusion by anybody. Questions? Did you visit with any of your teachers or is this conversation you kind of had in the past? Uh we had a conversation our last teacher workday about it a little
060bit and this is kind of the consensus that came out of the whole thing. It's an issue. Are you seeing other schools going to this? Sure. I think I I while I think there's schools doing it, um I know the governor, you know, made news by caring about cell phones last year and wanting schools to put policies in place, but you wanted us to do that in September, which is a hard time to put policies in place after handbooks have been written. And really, it's just we've it isn't an issue across the board, I guess I would say. It's not an issue across the board in our school. Um, but it's an issue of inconsistency. And so it's a situation where you have it just now makes the blanket thing so that a kid knows
061when they go into the classroom, when a sub's in the room that they should know that it's just consistent across the board. And it's going to be on teachers to be consistent about it as well. That's going to be the issue. Teachers are going to have to be consistent about it. And that's just the reality of it. That's what we talked about at that teacher workday. And teachers seem to be on board with that idea. And they're not going to have a choice. they're going to have to do it. There's not going to be, you can't make exceptions to it. Um, the only exception that's going to happen, I will tell you this, there will be exceptions for some kids that rely on cell phones for diabetes monitoring, for example. Um, so there's going to
062be some things like that. And that's just the way it is. That's health and safety. It is. And there's going to be some limitations on how that's being used. I mean, if it's being used for diabetes monitoring, great. If it's used for other things, that's a problem. Um, and so that's the that's the situation that we're going to have. Um, and so that's just what I was just curious, you know, your feedback from the teachers if you'd had that conversation, you know, with them. I know we had discussed it in the past times. And we did have a little bit of kind of a conversation on that last teacher work day about just some things in general, asking for some feedback on a couple different ideas, a couple different issues. I wanted to hear what
063they had to say about it. This is one I brought up and asked for, you know, some ideas and yeah, this is where we're at. Okay. Didn't the governor allocate like a million dollars to incentivize cell phones? Yeah, I don't know if he did or not. I'm not sure how you would whether there's a cost involved in that. But if you want to give me some money, I'll take it. We'll do something with it. Maybe all you have to do is present the handbook. The only question I would have is if we're asking locker. Are we I mean, you've probably done this before. Before school starts, we go through all the lockers and make sure that they lock and unlock. Oh, yeah. If a kid's locker does lock doesn't lock or unlock, then they need
064to let us know about that. Most of the situation is kids choose not to lock their lockers and that's their choice of the matter and they need to lock it. Okay. As long as I know and I'm aware when people bring that because I can see that possibly. If a kid's locker doesn't lock or unlock, then they need to let us know about that because that does happen sometimes where we have that problem and we have to do some fixing of things. Yes, that's true. Because I could see that coming up of some kids saying, "I left it in my locker supposed to, but some of them can't come and took it because my locker doesn't lock." As long as we go through at the beginning of the school year, make sure they all unlock
065and locked. We tell kids to let us know if they're locked. I mean, they should be able to get into it if it doesn't unlock because they all start the year off closed and locked, right? So, if they can't get into it, then that's how we're going to find that out. Okay. But no, I'm not going to walk down the hallway and verify every single locker. But they're going to have to let us know about that. Absolutely. But you know, when we start off the year, it's part of maintenance. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. So, I need a motion to approve the student handbooks. I would like motion to approve 25 26. I have a motion from Katie Brown and a second from Jessica. All in favor say I. All oppose, same signs. Motion
066carries. Action item 13 approve 2025 2026 activity handbook. Mr. Norby, the 2526 activities handbook. Okay. So, decent amount of changes. First change on page five uh just to align with Mr. Glass High School uh high school handbook. The language is changed there. And then most of my changes are really kind of just changes in numbers of you know for example like midterm checks here I crossing out five and putting it to four. Mr. Ble and I went back and looked at some old handbooks earlier in the year on why that number was five. It used to be one week and so pretty much everything you've seen here is realigning it to be what it has been um for a 4 day school week. So um for midterm checks we rather the academic watch is no
067longer five days it's four days one week uh third first and third quarter checks rather than 10 days it's eight eight days um then rather than 90 PI days which would now when you bump from a five day school week to a 4 day school week 90 PI days ends up being a lot more than just a semester which is what it originally was why that 90 school was that so got it back to semester there. Um so just some of some of that those changes through there. Same with under like on on page seven your violation consequences. Okay. Your first time offense used to be 10 days. It's now eight two weeks. Your second offense is used to be 45 days. It's now 36 days. Okay. So that was originally a quarter about quarter
068was used to be about 45. Now it's about 36. Uh, page eight, I take uh I took out Montana High School Association out of that because it is no longer required by the MHSA for students to have a physical every single year. They've gone to a every other year approach to it. However, I would like us to stay uh doing our physicals for our students once a year. You can be more restrictive on those as So, um, page 10. I wasn't sure if I should put this in the handbook or not first or if this should have been something that I probably came to you guys for like a board policy. Um, this is MHSA's new rule on spectators, which I ended up putting it in here because this could be for our students or
069it could be for our students parents. Um, you know, anybody that's an attendee of a game. It used to be it was on us as a school district um to ban that student if they're ejected or if something happens. But if they went to a different school district, you know, they their school board hadn't voted on it. So they could go in, you know, so if it was divisionals in Malta, you know, something happened and we banned one of our fans while they go on to state in Missoula, we have no control over the state tournament in Missoula. So MHSA came up with this new rule. So, uh, it's three games. Uh, any person that is ejected from a game, you know, now is going to be a three game suspension. So, I threw that
070in there. I don't know if you guys want that for policy or not, but I think it's great to have it in there for the parents to see. Yeah, those are your opinions. Yeah, exactly. I think if you want to bring it to board policy, it'd be in 4315 for future reference. Okay. Thank you. We'll never ask that. Sorry. Well, we do we do have one, but if you want to update it. I knew we did and I've looked at it before. That's why I figured we might want to do something about that. I think we do. So, we'll update it in the handbook and then next we need to update it. Well, it do first reading and then Okay. Is it possible to have a suggested update to that by July's meeting? Say that
071again. Is it is it possible to have the language that you want to update for for policy 4315 by July? Oh yeah, it's Yeah, it's I just pulled it straight from MHSA's website. Just copy it over. And I think you just work with Heather to do that. Okay. Um page 11, I added overnight travel rules. It's extensive. uh page 13 on eighth grade participation. So, MHSA has come out with um now a student can compete concurrently in the sport which I know we had talked about probably back in I think January. Um so that ended up passing. So now a student can bump up or bump down from eighth grade team to the high school team. They can play in both. Um they can play on they may be eighth grade team on Saturday and
072turn around and play in the JV game on Monday. Uh this is across the board for MHSA. So you know just everybody's going to be doing it. So really, we have a lot of language in here on page 13 that was to try to prevent or at least line out why that is happening and put into words on what we should be doing for that. But it's all been so I've crossed all that off out of that eighth grade participation part. What's the expected impact of that though for our school? I think it's it sounds like a lot of chaos on our side. Yeah. So, my expectation for the coaches at the high school level will still be an emphasis on finishing the season. Um, if there's an agreement of some sort that they want
073to do two practices at once, you got to look at the safety aspect of that that student first. Um, you know, and you don't want to expose a kid to five hours straight of practice. I don't think that's safe. So, I I trust our coaches. I think that they're going to want those students to finish the season. That would be my recommendation to all our coaches. Move the boy season yet or no? The boy season has been moved forward to match with the girl season. Oh, okay. Never mind. That answer my question. And so that's the only one that really impacts, right? Basketball. Just they can do both now. Yeah. Eighth grade boys and eighth grade girls could No, because the season ends pretty much. I mean, it's going to come down to the very
074end of the eighth grade basketball season where the impact could be that those kids are getting their practices in for high school while getting their middle school practices in so they're not having to sit out that tournament before Christmas uh break is really what it's going to come down to. It was like a two week or something overlap. Yeah, it was. And so because there was an overlap, you couldn't count that participation towards a high school practice. So they you couldn't start that until that season officially concluded middle school season officially concluded then you could start counting your eight days which bumped half of our kids you know our girls I believe right were held out our boys could come right in so it kind of was causing like a you know an equity issue
075I guess between our boys and our girls or maybe title n violation across the state so they just did they thought it'd be easier just to get rid of it all together. Anyways, that's kind of the background on that. And then really on, you know, third, bottom of 13, top of 14, it was just underlining some things so it made it pop more into the eyes so you guys didn't get lost in all the text. Um, and then on the wrestling part of it, I crossed out a participate participant in this situation to not travel with the team to events. Um now that really that's that language is immediate again with the concurrent it doesn't really matter if they do I would like to leave that up to the coach's discretion track same track cheerleading
076I'll just highlight or sorry underline there and then just some changes like I for example I changed the number from 15 to 17 to more match because I think we to match it better because I think we had our numbers um different than what they were. So that got kind of left in the handbook over the year. Uh so that's just align better and make the examples make sense a little bit better. And then again the eighth grade stuff matches up with like your your thought process of Do you feel like it kind of wrestling? I know we had some issues this past year with eighth graders and I know that we'll continue to have the numbers we've got coming up with those eighth graders being able to compete against the high schoolers for certain
077weight classes. So, there's already let's say two certain high school. We've got an eighth grader also that that seems to be more skilled and wrestle off between that eighth grader and those two high schoolers. You know, we had been run off in comp conversations a couple of times. Similar to Hollywood basketball, we allow eighth graders to come up and they couldn't compete with high school kids to buy for a varsity spot, but the wrestlers kind of felt like it was unfair because we didn't have and maybe you feel like it's fine the way it is in our eighth graders now to come up and necessarily compete if the coaches felt like they weren't able to and compete with those varsities for that. I mean ultimately the coaches have the ability to kind of rearrange kids
078at weights if they think that they can to kind of push things around that way. So you're saying basically there's two people already away class and eighth grader can't come up and impress them for that's that J spot or varsity you know whatever that is whatever it is I would I would default to the coach's discretion on that to give him the best chance at state tournament. I just wanted to make sure you felt like the way you had it for policy it was fair because I knew that that was come up for it was not I would say fair basketball or something that would come up and sometimes the eighth graders couldn't come up and do the same thing for wrestling. I heard that a couple times. Any eighth grader that would make the
079team for basketball would be able to compete for a varsity spot. Yep. Absolutely. So they could do it. But this year in the wrestling, I had heard some complaints about, you know, like if an eighth grader, they necessarily couldn't come up and wrestle off against a junior or a senior for that person making sure that it was even now that we're allowing eighth grade participation. Yeah. Well, does it is it saying in this handbook that we're restricting that more? Because if I remember correctly with the situation, we allow that to happen. Yeah, I think you did. I just wanted to make sure that you felt like with this handbook the way it was that that was within your control and you were just leaving it up to the discretion. Yeah. Okay. I want to make
080sure I can say I completely forgot about that. You you probably didn't. Thank you. I just want to make sure we're all on the same page and then we felt like it was good. Can I get a motion to approve the 2526 activity number? I make motion to 256. Have a motion from Katie Brown. Do I have a second? I second. Have a second with Katie Marcus. All of all in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Action item number 14 25 26 contracts. We have a list uh Anna Fuller for high school special education. Bradley Hoffer for the Luring Colony substitute teacher. Abigail Weedy elementary school reading teacher. Linda Miller for special ed pair oneonone. Deborah Shoot uh sped pair 101. And then of course Tara Cole and Carter Fost for
081transportation coordinators. We did that at this we did the transportation at the special meeting. Oh, okay. I'll just I think she can I'll call it. So, we have to make that motion, I suppose. And just clarify that they've both approved. I make a motion to approve the 2526 contracts except for the ter and cost and transportation for coordinators but only because they were hired last time. Have a motion from Katie round. I have a second. Second. Have a second from Katie Marcus. All in favor say I. I. All oppose same sign. Motion carries with Jessica abstaining. Um, while we're on this, what are still our unfilled positions? Um, music. You had to ask this. I'm sorry. Um, how many pairs? Three. Three. Still three. Even though we Yeah, there's two. I have four in my
082building. So, I've hired two. Okay. So, we'll look at that. Do you need three more, but for both schools? Yeah, I did interview a custodian this last week. Um, because I know we need custodian still. So, bus drivers of course that's music bus drivers and custodians. Always and always custodians at the same time. Thanks. Action item 15, TR5 and TR6 claims to OPI information. Yep. Information only. So the TR5 is the individual contract reimbursement claims for the second semester. You have the list um and then we have the TR6 bus uh route reimbursement claims. Um and you have the list of drivers We're good with that. Item number 16, obsolete property resolution. Did we have to further motions on that one? No, that's information. That's just information. Uh we have we would like to do
083a obsolete property um sale here and we are also getting a shredding truck to come clean out our files. Um July 28th is it scheduled though? Probably about a day. July 28th. All right. And it's like $850. Yeah. They come and take the boxes and then they take them back to buildings and shred them there over at the It's at the storage. Yeah. and then they send a certificate when it's been done being shredded to us. So, but anyway, we're looking for a a motion to approve an obsolete property resolution which will could be signed here tonight. I make a motion to approve obsolete property resolution. I have a motion from Katie Marcus and a second from Jessica. All in favor say I. I. All oppose, same sign. Motion carries. Section 97 policies 7220 first
084reading. So I've been going back and forth with the uh OPI people whether we need this or not. So I'm just going to make us do it. It basically is a a policy for title one stating that we supp uh whether we supplement or we supplant which we supplement our title ones our title one using those federal funds. So, we're adding to what our budget already exists. Supplant means we are replacing it. We not do that. Uh, so policy 20 uh 20 7220. Um, and then there's the companion piece 7220p. Uh, there are three options to choose from. We would be choosing option two, and we would not need to fill out the information below because we do not do things that way with our title and funds. options. Options check. Check. No, that's a
085scribble thing there. Never mind. Just copied on there. Yeah, it was copied on there. Oh, okay. Uh, but option two is what we would fall under. Okay. Just the first reading. 18 review property and liability renewal. So, our property liability insurance went up 7.1 uh% increase. The total is $192,000. Uh but you need property and liability insurance. And did you I assume she's looked up. I'm sure it's offered. I just thought I'd ask. So we just need to make a motion to approve this. I make a motion to approve the property and liability removal. I have a motion. Motion from Jessica. Do I have a second? Second. Second from Katie Brown. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same time. Motion carries. Heather. I assume that she Oh, yeah. Uh, next board meeting. big
086line. That should be in all day. That will be all day. So the reg but the regular meeting is still and then we do a special meeting for the training. So we're going to do a training the 9th is a regular July 7th July 9th. Okay. Good. This will be good. I make a motion to adjourn. I second. Motion to adjourn from Angel. A second Jessica. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Well done, Kyle. And then J. Yeah, you have to stop recording