001I know it wasn't for me. >> Okay. Oh, big deal. [laughter] >> Oh, golly. >> Oh, speaking of which, >> yes. >> Can you sign this, please? I didn't do one at the end of the year. We're going to do a reversal, but now you're doing part what we've been doing before. >> Glad the heaters work well. >> I don't have to go every morning and flip the breaker. >> That's nice. >> My husband got ours going today, too. Ours is wood, though. >> Little more work involved with that. Yeah, like regularly. >> Yeah, too much. >> Oh, yeah. >> Caleb, he can cut. >> He does know how to ride a chain. >> You can have a funny job. Yes, indeed. >> Yeah, there's not much to the packet. It's a pretty straightforward. [laughter]
002>> Yeah, pretty pretty small. >> Pretty bare bones. >> Yeah, that was easy to read it, >> right? was an easy one. >> Are these doors in the last time you were here? >> No, they were painting them. We're going to do a little tour. >> Yeah, that'll be nice. That would be nice. It's funny how when everybody shows a few minutes early, it takes forever for those two or three minutes to go by. >> Well, if we start early, do we get to quit early? [laughter] >> Starting at 4:58. We can round up. >> Let's do it. >> All right. Let's call this meeting to order. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty
003and justice for all. Why don't So you guys both both the other one we could probably put those two together. >> Oh yeah. The the Zoom meeting. >> Okay. All right. Um I will make a motion to approve the last minutes of the last meeting September 8th and the Zoom meeting. >> Thank you. September 16th. >> Any discussion on that? >> All in favor of say I. >> I. So moved. Okay. approval of the expenditures. >> I think I did add one thing that was not on the one I sent to you and that was the Montana school equipment for the chairs that we bought that came through earlier today. So, I tapped it on there. >> Right smack dab in the middle of the expenditure. Let's keep going. I think you're on payroll still
004on the claim list there. Is that it? >> Okay. second page from the end. >> So, Montana, it was $793. >> Okay. And how many chairs did you get? >> That was one for every kid in preschool and kindergarten. So, >> 13. >> That's because we didn't have enough small chairs. >> Oh my goodness. >> We get good deals from Montana school. I've worked with them for years. They're the people that sold us the playground equipment and whatnot. >> $800 for 13 mini chairs. >> You better live forever. >> Furniture is very expensive. you like go to any of the furniture stores and stuff. >> So the uh training coaching resources those both of those for 19,000 are is that all for the whole time or is there going to be more of that? >>
005Yeah, that's a good question. So that's for the entire year. Um, and that also includes in addition to coaching and mentoring and supporting us with the grant for the entire year, it also is all the professional development that is done by them before school starts. Um, and at the end of the school year and um a bunch of uh teacher books on how to teach reading, the science of reading. Um, so what we did because um we needed to [clears throat] wait until this grant cycle in October. We um I made a deal with them that we would pay it all in October instead of paying it. >> So this is all there is no >> unless there's unanticipated. >> Okay. questions. >> There's some big items also the construction projects from summer and the
006doors came in as well. >> Yeah. >> Okay. I'll do a motion. Make a motion to approve payroll at $47,990.50, claims at $92,758.16 and activities at $13,8424. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. >> I. So public presentation. Okay. tour of the facilities that are keep us warm by walking. >> Well, that's a I guess a question of the tour. Do we want to mostly focus on the inside because it's so cold today? [laughter] >> I'll skip some of the I mean the vents you can see as you drive in. There's a few other extra room. >> And the roofs are in good shape still, aren't they? Both. We have to >> Two of them are new. Yeah, two aren't a good >> That one's not too old. >> So, they're all they're
007all good still. >> Yeah, I'm thinking about getting a roofer out if they'll give me a free quote to look at building one just to make sure. Um but there's been no leaks and I don't think it's >> I think the last time they looked No, the last time they looked at it, they said it still had a few years. So, um I don't think it's I don't think we have quite yet. >> It' be nice to get a little more distance. The other two are like one year right after the other. >> Be nice to get a little space between >> so we'll start in building two since we're here. >> Um they finished installing the four new exterior doors. two on this side on the north side and two on the side hole
008here um as well as the new crash bars um and that they had to cut a little bit into the kind of um structure um to be able to put the new metal door frames in um because they weren't metal before this. So, um, these doors had to be custom ordered because they're not exactly the standard size that most schools are. Um, so that's what took the longest time was waiting for shipping to have these doors arrive. >> Um, >> and they work with the existing door locks. >> Were there eight doors? >> There's five. >> Five doors. >> Five that are new and some repairs. >> And then next year we we're planning on doing how many more? >> Well, that's something we'll have to decide. Um you guys will get an idea of
009what the old ones look like as we tour. >> Um there's some in building one that really need replaced and maybe there's some that could wait too. >> Okay. >> But yeah, here's kind of the structure of the doors there. Um and then you'll remember this summer before we remodeled the bathrooms and they're holding up nicely. They look so nice >> with that new flooring. Um, and the stalls that are metal instead of the wood. >> Big schools. That's quite a problem. I remember. >> Are they pretty good? >> Pretty good. I haven't found anything. I remember I was at one school and kids were scratching so much. We actually painted them with um textured paint so the kids couldn't >> um scratch into them is easy because of the texture. >> Um so this
010room here is a step ahead of everything. >> This is one we may want to consider remodeling at some point. The kitchen part of this is fairly new, but the rest of these cabinets are not. Um, and then the floor isn't that old, but unfortunately it's bubbling up. Um, so this may >> Is this actually tile or lenolium? >> It's lenolium. >> Yeah. So this may be something at some point we want to consider. >> Does it in kitchen? >> Does it bubble up when it gets sun on it or gets hot? I think the opposite. I think cold air is coming in. And um this building is one that does potentially have some asbestous in spots. It doesn't in the attic. Um but it could in the floor and some of the walls. We're
011not exactly 100% sure of all the locations. So when they did put this over, they just rolled it over the top of the existing floor. Um and I think the glue may be One thing that was repaired was this water heater here was freezing up on us and it turned out that there was no insulation to the outside and there was actually some holes to the outside structure of the building. Um so those holes were filled um a year ago and I had them put some insulation in as well and we haven't had it freeze up. Of course it wasn't too hard of a winter last year but that's work that we've have done as well as dishwasher. Um, and then of course the new heaters that were put in a year ago are still
012>> got two, right? >> So, a twin unit on the other side. And you can see that they can accommodate air conditioning as well. So, if that was ever wanted to be added on, these units um that can be inserted in. they have to put piping out and put a heat pump outside the building to have that on, but I made sure that we had that option. So, it can be done. Of course, the classrooms is fifth through 8th grade this year. This is the best eighth grader, >> seventh grader, eighth grader. Feels relaxing. >> Middle school. >> No, it's a great [clears throat] We had several put up in her room, the library, and the multi-purpose room. So, those are those new blinds that >> um and then one of the items on the
013agenda today will be uh school safety. So, one thing I was going to talk about in each building there's a lock down Um and the lock down location for this building um is actually in this hallway in the bathrooms. So all of these doors close in and lock and then have dead bolts. So this is actually the lock down location which is why there's no windows on these doors and the people. But then we also have emergency bins for all those locations with emergency supplies. So I'll show you um this one. It's in the cabinet there. Um but all of the locations in each building has a bucket full of emergency supplies. >> What's all in the >> water, food rations, first aid kits, um and um gosh, tarp there toilet. So having been a
014teacher when there in another state when there was a lockdown I remember teaching first grade and we were there gosh all night. Um and bathrooms are needed. Luckily in this building they in this lock down location they have the >> bathroom that can be accessed but not only keep but this is a toilet seat. >> Oh my gosh >> um cleansing house. This is drinking water, toilet paper, a radio, lots of drinking water. The toilet chemical in the toilet. This these bricks are actually food. >> Just keep it in the toilet. [laughter] >> So there's all there's all kinds of stuff there. And I can tell you I had 30 first graders and we went through every ration. We also had candy in there. We went through everything that night >> overnight or something. >>
015We haven't until about midnight. There was an escaped convict through the night that the police never found. [clears throat] So we were locked down. >> I bet they thought it was such an adventure. >> They were actually quite scared. >> Oh, were they? >> But it was first grade. So they actually never caught the people and parents had eventually >> come and we actually put each tribe in the car kind of >> this was Washington's too >> not Mont Yeah, that's suspicious. Somebody >> So then that location is just extra storage. Um there's lockers in there. Originally that at one point was a school office. Look at the construction, >> but we can move to building one. Now >> this uh summer we also had these reattached. These beams have come unattached. Um, one thing
016that eventually needs to done, this cement work here, um, and this porch definitely still needs some work. All of the cement work going around the school on that side you can see, um, will eventually need to be done because it's just chipping. It wasn't actually So, one thing I had them do was paint all the doors white because they actually were warping. Um, the darker dark gray was warping when the sun was on them. That is one reason. So, you can see this door here, this frame has some major issues. You can also see the doors seen better days. Um, that is one that truly needs to probably be replaced. Um, this building, um, all the doors are a bit quirky and needing things. This one is the worst because, um, I had them kind
017of shore up the frame, but the frame actually when I first got here was like coming out. Um, so it definitely needs some work. Uh, the flooring is a little bit older in this building, um, particularly like in my office and whatnot, um, than some of the other buildings, but replacing flooring with a library is very difficult. Be a lot of work to take everything off the shelves. >> Yeah, the squares are nice because you can just replace the square. >> You'll see in my office it's not the squares. >> It's not. >> I also have some filing cabinets though that are cement that would be very difficult to move and a piano >> and I don't need a piano but it's there because it's difficult to move. >> Yeah, they are. Yeah. >> Yeah.
018I think that got donated seven, eight years ago or so. They're always being donated. They're a pain in the butt to move. >> Yeah. Like come hold it. >> These are all new blinds that were put in here. It was actually paper blinds before. So these are actually fabric >> and they they are security blinds where people can't see in but you can actually see out. Uh this summer we had a new toilet put into the women's restroom in this building. It was working. some damage. As you can see, there's another emergency. This is the lockown area with the bathroom. >> So, this is the space where you would lock down if there was a hu. >> Yeah. Um, it really Maybe if there was like a class in the the library, that's really the
019only time where there's a lot of students in this building. Otherwise, they're usually just smaller. This office is shared by the counselor, the psychologist, and we have the new washer and dryer. >> This was the only location it could go because [clears throat] >> Yeah. Nice. >> And they wouldn't have fit down in the basement. That would have been nice, but um >> not possible. >> Cool. >> This door is only an emergency door, but um as you can see, what they did a few years ago was put a crash bar on there. And then of course the basement's down there. Um we did do a major clean out. Grace did and I got rid a whole bunch of stuff. When I first came, it was kind of piled high full of stuff. >> So,
020we've done a lot of cleaning. [laughter] >> There's a lot less down there. Our well is also down there. So, all the not the well itself, but all the water tanks are down there. My office some work to uh >> Those are >> Oh, yeah. My mom bought those for me. Star Wars minions. >> Yes. Very. >> So, this door here sticks pretty Do you have to be careful? >> No. >> So, it it shuts good. It just doesn't open good thing. >> Yeah. I can I can show you. >> Yeah. >> So, kind of hard for the kids to open. >> Yeah. Arm exercises. Now, this door was kind of doing a similar thing and also not closing, but that's because the crash bar was broken. So, they replaced this. This is a new
021crash. >> So, we have five. So, there were four over there. >> Yeah. And one here. I'll show you. Um, so this one, they didn't replace the door, but they did replace the crack. >> Yes. >> Um, so new blinds in here as well. Um, we bought two new tables two years ago, but one thing that is happening is a few of the exist existing tables, the mechanics in them start wearing out and whatnot. So, they become very hard to raise and lower and close. So, we've got a couple more that are not working too well. So, we may have to replace a couple at one point. Um, and then also in here, the Flooring you can see is getting pretty worn. >> Is that real wood? >> I don't I don't think so. >>
022I I would think it's a a fake wood would be my guess. Ron, what do you think? >> I don't know. >> It's fake. >> I think it's fake. That was >> It looks >> It is. You can see the pattern. the real thing. >> You can see the repeating pattern there. Yeah. >> Oh, that's true. You can. Yep. >> But yeah, I mean certainly look nice, but it's getting pretty warm. You can see spots where it's starting to wear. Definitely the scratches. Some of those are from the tables that just don't work real well. [clears throat] Before I came, there was worse tables that we recycled that just really weren't going up and down easily at all. Um these could probably use some remodeling work, particularly flooring. Um, this is the new faucet. This
023faucet broke a couple weeks ago, so that was plumbing for the new >> stuff gets a lot of use. >> Yes. Yes. This was remodeled not too long ago. They did some adjustments on in the garbage. >> Yeah, when I when I came, most of the closets were completely kind of stuff full of stuff. But yeah, Grace has been great about organizing and everybody on staff keeps things pretty organized. So, this is a brand new purchase, a you brand new used purchase I just made last week. And this is a milk cooler to put the milk in. Target Range School um upgraded and they were willing to sell this for 100 bucks to us. So, yeah. >> And then it pops down so the kids can actually come right up the One of those bargain
024find [snorts] this part of the building that's Did they do something on this last year or what? >> They did a service and they had to replace two years ago an actuator >> on that. >> Let's see. Um it's a more it's our most industrial HVAC unit um in the whole school. >> It's working well, huh? >> Grace has organized her area really nicely. always love those people that are so people in my life right now. >> So, of course, preschool to kindergarten in this classroom this year, Mrs. Bush >> and the brand new chairs. >> Oh, >> all the same color. Yeah, that's [laughter] nice. >> Is she going to get a pencil signature? >> Well, we made those at that art place in Lolo. It's kind of a a staff team building. >>
025Um, and I told her that if um my fire sign if she wanted to go down there and >> Yeah, they're cute. So, this is the other new door and >> we had to replace this one because it had rusted out. >> And I'm not quite sure why it rusted out, but this door was actually coming apart and it was metal. It wasn't wood, >> but it was rusted. So, this is the new door here. >> That's nice. >> And a new metal door. >> I like And so those were existing, but we have two new ones that were put on Jill. >> I thought you >> Yeah, >> couple new ones. >> We did. >> We were going to hang out. >> You probably should. It's cold. >> Why did I not put [laughter]
026my coat on? >> Of course, we got the new volleyball. The net isn't up right now. And then the new picnic tables and the new fire pit over there. You can also see that the landscaping company weed whacked the whole sun and they're going to do another m. >> Well, that front part of the fence sure looks better than the back now. I'm sure glad that's back there so I don't have to look at it all the time. >> Next year I'll start looking. Are you ready, Ron, for next summer? >> No, I [laughter] don't think he is. >> I'm not. >> He He decided he needs to come so he can defend. >> Well, I don't think there was a lot to fix on the back for something. >> This is something I'm hoping
027to have um done actually in the next couple months. Rip this up. That's nice. >> Um, yep. There's actually some siding that needs replaced, too. That's on my list. >> Nope. >> No, you realize all you've done [laughter] >> it just cycles back around. >> So, that's the the short version of how we get done. It'll be time to circle around and start over, right? >> All righty. Any questions or concerns or comments on the facility? >> Okay. Communications and reports. >> We have been busy. Of course, in September 15th, we went to Coyote Camp, which was a great success. It wasn't the the sunniest day, but it was the rain held out for us. Um, freedom week was September 22nd through 26 and as well as the teachers doing all kinds of lessons around
028American history and civic lessons. Um, DAR, Daughters of American Revolution came out on that Monday and they read books to the first and second grade, but with the older kids, they did an escape room. Um, It was like an escape room activity where they had to do puzzles and stuff like that all around American history >> to be able to escape from the room. >> Well, to solve the puzzle. >> To solve the puzzle. >> It It said it was escape room, but they weren't actually locked in cuz I happened to pop in and take a few pictures. >> Might [laughter] have been. That's the the next version. So October 10th, the older students did a highway cleanup. So you might see that there hasn't been any garbage along there. They also found um quite
029a few animal bones that they were quite excited about. No antlers this year, but some jaw bones and whatnot. Um and this year, um I had the sheriff's department patrol the highway during that time to make sure that vehicles were slowing down. Didn't end up giving any tickets, but that he had his emergency lights on and patrolling the area. So, just to remind people, don't slow down when people are working along the highways. Um, also, we make sure that no kids go on the highways. Um, the kids are only in the grass area. Teachers make sure that they're not. We're going to take the younger kids to the pumpkin patch on the 24th. give them all a pumpkin and then in November we are going to do >> does that does that cost do that?
030>> It does cost a little bit and that's money that's used from that student activity account from the fundraising. >> Okay. >> Yeah. What that helps support is our field trips and lessons and things like that. >> Are you going to Turner Farms? >> Yeah. There's actually not very many pumpkin patches in the market. >> So, and not very many that are open to school groups and open during the week. And then there's a few like that are open weekends. >> Do they still have that uh like that maze down there? >> Um so the one there was a church that had a whole pumpkin patch in a maze that closed down. >> Oh, it did? Yeah. Benson does they have their stand >> Turner um has a bunch of animals >> that are pretty
031fun. >> They do a good job. >> That's where my goat picture on Google get my emails from that cute little goat. >> Yeah, they got some tiny goats there. >> So in November we're going to do swimming lessons this year three Thursdays in a row. And then one day we're going to take a tour of the smoke jumper centered for all the kids. >> All the children. >> Yep. And uh then MCT will be April 27th through May 1st. I think I mentioned I got a so the children see her back out. >> Do we know what they were going to do this year? >> Yes. It is Alice and Wonder. >> That's right. That would be nice. They did such a great job last year, too. >> And uh then I know a
032lot of you've either seen on Dojo or were here for the Zack. Um so the older kids did rock band um which was pretty amazing that they learned instruments and created their own songs. >> They did pretty well. >> Yeah. I mean definitely the drums need to be quieter to hear the vocals. >> Yeah. The vocals a little louder. Yeah. And I don't I don't even know if they could be without making the drums quiet there. >> Oh, okay. >> Maybe >> there was a girl on drums though. She kicked butt. She was good. >> And uh almost none of those children had ever played the instruments before. A few had done their summer camp in Missoula, but most were not, you know, musicians. >> Impressive. >> Yeah. And then uh really cool for the
033younger Not only did they do uh an art show and did all the arts uh but me, Mrs. Cruz, and the folks from the Zach got our uh clay kil up and going and hasn't been used in >> years, >> seven or more years. Uh we dusted it off and it works fine. So, we learned we can do clay and learned how because we didn't know how. >> So, that was a bonus. Now, we can do clay more often. >> That's cool. Um so currently enrollment uh is at 51 total uh and that includes four preceded in the A&B count but yeah 51 total kids. >> How are those how are you guys holding up under those three year olds? >> Great. I've heard they're easier than the 5-year-olds. >> They're easier than the 5-year-olds.
034I heard that [laughter] >> really. >> Oh my gosh. >> Yeah. >> Really? >> Yeah. >> They're doing good. >> They're rocking it there. >> They are. >> So, how are you holding up under the five-year-olds? [laughter] >> That's the question. >> Maybe that's the question. >> The 5-year-olds are doing great. There's a few six-year-olds that sometimes um so moving on to the parent group. We had a great first meeting. Um we had I think five parents come uh and we kind of talked about the whole year and what we wanted to do and decided we're going to meet monthly. So we've got another meeting coming up. Uh and we planned the fall lunchon. So that will be October 31st at 11:45 will be the family launching and then we're going to do trick or
035trunk right afterwards right after the launch. And today I put a sign out sign up on dojo so people can sign up for what they want to volunteer for and what they want to bring. And uh one thing we talked about is doing all the signups and communication on Class Dojo. There used to be like Facebook page. We're not going to utilize that anymore. Got that sign up availability to do that. So, it's pretty easy. >> Uh we also talked about doing a spring fundraiser again, something similar as we've done in the past. Uh we also talked about doing a March spirit week and a coin fundraiser at that time. And >> a coin fundraiser. >> Yeah. Coin wars. They've done that in the past where kids bring in coins and then the class that
036gets the most gets a pizza party. >> Um and then we talked about a spring lunchon and an egg hunt before spring break. And we also talked about doing a fundraiser um to be able to have um kids and parents and family buy shirts and gear. People kind of the new logo. >> Yeah. >> So, yeah, we had a really productive meeting. >> That's cool. So, did you get did you get like uh like some definite ones that you're going to try and make happen in the next this coming year? Like, >> yes. All that stuff we talked about doing >> commitments to this year. That's awesome. >> at least that's the plan. >> The plan. Yeah. >> Um, but we also talked about like for the shirts and stuff, um, we can get a
037really good deal from the woman's prison. Um, where it's very cost effective. I have them make some for the, um, staff >> or they like black and white or [laughter] >> they actually do embroidery as well. >> And all the new signs, I forgot to point those out. Uh they were made at the men's prison deer >> launch the office sign >> the bus sign and they actually put um like as a background our symbol >> they look good >> and very inexpensive >> so that's parent group facility um I talked about the timing We're going to do one more lawn mowing hopefully before winter. A little bit more trimming. Um, and then I'll need to have the handyman back out. There's still one window in the library that needs repaired. It was on back
038order. I talked about having them do that. There's a few other things that I've got for my reports. Any questions? Okay, no questions. Let's go on to general purpose public input. >> Just one real quick question. Have you had any other issues with the people passing the bus recently? >> Um, we have had one this year. >> Okay. >> Um, so I continue to work with the sheriff's department. Um, and a lot of times it's nice having our own SRO. Um, he'll actually escort the bus out in the mornings and then come out and whatnot. I know two times um highway patrol that started at the gas station saw our bus and followed it up. Um but we've had less problems this year so far. Um only one and um when we were working with
039um highway patrol, they actually sent us a log. So they want us to keep a log now. So bus drivers do and submitting that to highway control. Um, I did find out a good point um about cameras for the bus. So, I called the attorney general's office who then basically said, "Well, we can't guarantee anything about it being used or whatnot." And they said, "You should consult your own attorney." So then I consulted our attorney who said in all reality, police are probably going to have to subpoena um that camera footage to be able to use to ticket them. Um and they basically said I wouldn't necessarily invest in cameras for the bus um that may or may not be able to be used in court. So, the attorney general and Missoula County Attorney were
040very kind of hands off that they didn't want to make any final ruling um that they would use it or not. The sheriff's department was not particularly pleased with that decision. They feel like they should be able to just use it. Um so, I've kind of tabled any plans with a um camera on the stop arm since I'm kind of very mixed messages and our own attorney is kind of saying probably not. So, we're just going to have to really be vigilant and hopefully the driver and parents can see the license plate and just continue with increased patrols from police if it starts up again. Um, >> was it mainly in the afternoon? >> It it often was in the afternoon and it's that one stretch um between Sunray and Milford. >> Yeah. Kind of
041that whole area where it's kind of a straight shot. We have that's where most of the kids live that are getting picked up the bus and people are not not patient. >> Yeah. >> So, we'll continue to monitor that and we'll ask for increased Okay. Any other additions agenda? [clears throat] >> Okay. Order of business, old business, Montana reads literacy grant. >> So, we've been busy working on the grant. We are now in a new cycle because the federal cycle um starts in October. >> October. >> Oh yeah, October 1st. New monies should be coming in. Um they're not sure when that'll happen because the federal government is shut down. So we are waiting for that to actually transfer in and whatnot. Um but they haven't shut things down at the state. Um, so we
042are working on planning that out as well as making orders now. We're going to make some more orders for supplies for teachers, additional reading materials and like magnetic piles. We're going to buy some more preschool stuff for literacy centers and whatnot to expand our preschool since we expanded that with so many more kids this year. >> Um, no, just metal stuff, mainly magnetic boards, letter tiles, um some extra classroom, just reading books for the kids and things like that. Um I have met with OPI, um and they've passed on a little bit of information. There's still a lot they don't know they're learning, uh but they said that they definitely want to be part of the process for buying a core curriculum. Um so now I'm reaching out for more samples, start with our leadership
043team staff and OPI and then once we get more answers we'll do a bigger committee involving more stakeholders. So we'll make that decision either way if we want to buy a full core program we want to buy a piece of the core program >> like a piece being reading or science is that >> more piece of the reading. Um so a lot of these programs This is Hoot Mifflin, one of the largest publishers in the country. Um, there's all these different components. It's not just the basil reader. Um, there's, you know, workbooks, there's, you know, assessments, there's the phonics component, >> okay, for all all of all No, just for >> this is just for so there's a lot of components and we actually have like Hagerty that we've been using that's successful. We have
044stuff that we've gotten over the years that supplements. So we may not have to buy the entire package. Um what we really need is the basil reading comprehension and the literacy component because that's what we're using reading street primarily for that um is really out of date. So I guess what I'm getting at is we might not have to buy an entire package from a company. So like if we chose Hoot Mifflin, we might only buy some of the products in their core reading program. We not might not buy all items or whatnot. >> So, how are So, you guys have been doing some testing throughout the or have you started any test? >> Yeah. So, the text that's next on the test. >> Okay. >> Um, well, my >> Okay. [laughter] >> Uh, we
045just finished up Dibbles testing, which is a screening for reading and for phonics and foundational reading skills. So, uh, we were always had been doing dibbles, but it was So now we're entering those scores into the computer. So parents will actually get a whole print out at conference time of how kids are doing and all those ideas and keep track of that and that was a requirement of the grant is that not only taking the data but having >> So have you been able to analyze it with children from the last year to see their improvements? Um so we're just starting those processes and that'll be ongoing. We also do maps testing which is computer based as well. Um so stay tuned for lots more data analysis especially as the years go on through the
046grant cycle because that's something that we'll be reporting to the state as well. >> Anything else on that literacy grant? Lots more upcoming. Um we've got the uh teacher coaching and mentoring coming out and how that looks. We have a reading specialist um that um is a specialist in reading and dyslexia as well as foundational reading skills and they actually come and work with the teacher um and they're in the classroom and they're giving advice and suggestions directly with all of us. Okay. And the facility maintenance projects, I think you've kind of gone over that. Is there anything else on that? >> All completed except for having um that window replaced um and a few other minor repairs, but the doors are done and working, fence is done. Um we're definitely going to want to
047be about what we want to tackle next. Um, we can get creative and do some different things. We can do some more doors. We could do some flooring. >> Well, that does the cover. >> Yeah. So, we've got our last year. >> Yeah, we've got the last year of the lobby. So, we've got 18750 from that. And then the state had boosted up the amount we get from permissive ley we get another right around 40 that we had a little bit left. So we got probably about 65,000 >> but I just paid for the doors. I mean that's takes up what was last year and um I'd have to look and see where we're sitting right now but I mean we've got a nice little still. Yeah. And next year, as much as the voted
048levy goes away, that levy will still stay there and it'll be more because it's based on you started out with a base of 40,000, then you get a certain few hundred per kiddo. So, we've got 20 more kids this year and so >> there's also some work that we should do at some point. Um, also one thing I thought about, I don't know if like a new construction outside could be counted under that. >> What do you think? >> What I'm What I'm new construction >> Yeah. So, a new construction without running a levy that I'd love to see someday is have a covered play area outside for the kids. could be considered under safety, wouldn't you think? >> Yeah, it certainly could be. Um, a lot of schools have this um where they have
049a covered area so that you can do PE outside even when it's raining. >> What are what is it made of? Is it like fabric on the top or >> No. So, one could go that direction, but I'm thinking a wooden structure like a wooden roof. When I was superended and we had a great one. And we also lined up out there during fire and rails. Um kids could still play basketball and four square whatnot even when the weather was bad. So really it's just a covered cement area. Yeah. Great for rainy day recess things like that. Talking with Jill who's been here forever. They've talked about it before. So it's not a brand new idea. I just don't know if it'd be covered underneath that. We'd have to do some research there, but it
050might I'll get some quotes and stuff. Um, not being a completely enclosed structure and mostly just a roof, it might not be that much. My guess is having wanted to build a garage myself before, the cement would cost a lot more than the structure. Cement is very expensive. >> Yeah, for sure. >> It's a good idea though. >> Okay. New business, school safety. >> Yeah. So, just wanted to I kind of talked during the tour about this and whatnot, but just wanted to kind of point out a few other things. Um, and this kind of falls in with needs as well. Um, one of the things that's needed is a new camera system. We have cameras, but it's such a old analog system that um, there's not much you can do with using it besides
051have it on the screen in the secretar's office. New systems um, go on the web base. They're on devices at past schools. If there was any motion at night detected or whatnot, it's on my phone. I can look and A lot of schools now have like a Ring camera thing where there's a doorbell. So if um school was on vacation and UPS cam, I could fuzz into the door. There's a lot more options out there. Um so safety wise, a new camera system. Um potentially upgrading door things is definitely needed sometime in the future. It is a little bit expensive though, which is why that hasn't happened. Um, in 2022, the Missoula Sheriff's Department did a report. So, they kind of did a whole walkth through assessment of the school and took pictures and pointed
052things out and whatnot. I did go through this uh with Neil Murray who was the lead teacher before I came and we kind of talked about um some of this stuff. A lot of the recommendations have been done through the projects that we've been done before and what But it's kind of interesting information. One thing I could do is talk to the new SRO and the sheriff's department about potentially doing that again at some point and kind of look for any weak points and things that might be fixed. What about um if they have to escape, if the students have to escape, what's the plan? >> So the plan is having alternative locations and one of the things training the teachers is it used to be in lockdown everyone would just lock down bar none
053and you would stay there no matter what. And what law enforcement and I've had training from the Department of Homeland Security as well is they train you now is that you need to use professional judgment. So, walk down, but also alert people if the person is on site uh over the loudspeaker. Also alert them which building they're in. And there are times where you need to fight back. Um so, that was one of the problems in past school events like this is people would think that they would have to go under gas and not come out at all. There's times if somebody's getting in and breaks through the door that you need to fight back. Um, there's other times you need to escape. So, if the person is in your building, it may uh be
054a better professional judgment to escape and go to an alternate location. So, currently um our alternate location is the cabin up on top of the hill. We do have permission, a longstanding permission from that land owner um to get to go. I don't think he lives there year round. A friend of mine knows his son >> but we got permission long before I came to go there. Um and of course I know we could go to the ranch but we may want to more formally where to go to the ranch as a secondary location. Um the other option and I've used this at schools and talked about this is um and this is particularly not necessarily lockdown but other safety things to evacuate kids completely off site through a bus. Um so it takes about
05518 minutes to get our bus from the bus barn to here. Um, so there are times where it'd be best to call for a bus, move everyone to like low school to their gym and then start calling parents and whatnot. Um, a common thing is gas leaks. We luckily don't have gas, so that's not a problem. But there could be other potential times where forest fires for sure. That would be a definite let's evacuate. Um, I I have Dale on my cell phone. I could easily call him up and I they, you know, clear out one of their gyms or whatnot. Um, so that's another option as well. But that's certainly something that we think about. Um, and then also a note to have is we also have um little buzzers that are lockown buzzers.
056So, in addition to being able to call 911, we have little buttons that alert 911 as well. >> Do you have you have them on you or do you have >> We have certain locations >> and that goes straight to >> I also have the sheriff's department on my cell. >> I do have Chris on speaker. He he is one call away and he's always in the southern part of the the county. So he is usually here in a few minutes. This is something though that I want to keep talking about. I want to bring this topic back in a few months. Talk about formal plans and whatnot. Keep that conversation going about school safety. >> Any questions on that? >> Okay. Next meeting November 10th meeting is adjourned. or >> [clears throat]