001okay call this meeting to order of IED Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the repu for it stands one nation indivisible andice okay approval of minutes Emily is not going to make it make all the Motions again you and I'll figure this out with enough practice we get it you think so right um okay [Music] so I make a motion to approve minutes on of our last meeting Monday January no December oh sorry DEC sorry on Monday December 2nd 2024 right that and all in favor by so move approval of expenditures so we got some added ones to this there's a few things so from the time that I um sent it to you before I had the tell of a law office for the training um that she
002did for us uh they were a couple little field trip of the fuel cost for Beach uh are those added 8,000 or is that an addition to so if you look at the fuel Char y Yep they're listed separately on there it's an addition in addition to um I don't think anything else was added after you have any questions on anything let me know so did you decide to have your septic system pumped before so my plan is to be preventative rather than reactive the districts around us um apparently we're not and so actually this last bill was then cleaning a vilter in doing a maintenance check I'm trying to make sure that we don't end up how the other districts have ended up um because the other districts like loo and target range have
003had multiple School problems backing up and flooding the school um so I don't want that to happen to us um and when I first stepped on Neil actually said that they had problems um so I now have them coming out on a regular basis to make sure that we're in good shape and don't end up that problem we're glad thank thank you that just does not sound fun at all the smell alone okay and then I've got a question um on this uh computer software oh that's my finance software yes I should have mention that one so CNC School accounting 3900 that's the finance software that I use to do everything and that's also the activity account software that Mariah uses and that's what we he David's great he hasn't raised that cost in years
004and years and years and years for us and so it's always very consistent and he's always on call 247365 and yeah for for a whole Year's work and that's not the that's just the the counting that doesn't have anything to do with that what do you call it kids get no no that's a separate one this is strictly finan that's actually a pretty good price um a lot of people use Black Mountain a lot more it's a lot more really yeah it's just one of those things that you have to have so that's a once a year once a year yeah yeah okay and then I was you know everybody in the school but um there were a couple names here that I wasn't real sure about Howard Riley sub oh he's a and then
005Lauren Johnson she was our student teacher but also some sub she's and Grace oh she's clean right question payroll at65 claims 18,29 so okay and where do I put an addition agenda that's a little further down after John okay Y and we have no public presentations unless not it okay Communications and reports okay you're on John so the first thing I wanted to talk about was testing um so at the end of this month we are going to have the next round of testing State Testing because we do five rounds now instead of one this the second one so this will be the second and then we are going to do our second round of M testing and that's for [Music] allar ofri so that's coming up Mrs Bishop has returned or her St back
006for maternity so that is good I'm helping her transition back in I got her up to date over break we met through all the curriculum with her through all where the students are at all that information and John C stop smiling so she'll take over the youngest group are they foury old four fivey old um yes so we have the foury old together kindergarten in first grade okay so she'll take over that group yeah I'm still helping teach a little bit and I'm giving her her prep so I'm continuing to teach science and social studies to them and then I'm helping her with math she transition okay and do we still have that other person that's the student teacher graduated December Y in um she's on the sub list um so she might be available
007to be one of the subs but yeah she's graduated okay's back okay well back was nice she was able to make it that long that worked out well yep we're on track there um I received uh the Grant I wrote to the Missoula Electric Cooperative uh for vol um equipment for outside and new picnic tables and a fire got y so got that so all works with the company $4,000 awesome um the county bookmobiles continuing to come out and that's also for the community the second and fourth Tuesdays at 10:45 would like to come lots of the kids have library cards now and they're checking out stuff and enjoying that you anyone can come they have like adult they do do they okay yeah yeah they actually have um they actually have like videos and
008stuff too it's like a little tiny mini version of the public library nice and it's it's like 10 uh 10:45 and they stay till lunch at 11:30 so a lot of times like the last part is easier than you don't then you could it is Tiny it's much smaller the bookmobile than I thought the old one used to be like the size of a bus this is but they pack a lot in there um but yeah I signed us up for the Woodman Community for that um so when I worked with the County Library System they make several stops so we a list of Stu so if you wanted them to bring a book out could you call down to the down the library and have them bring it if would they be able to
009yeah so I'm working with the executives at the library to be able to do a hold system um they're having technical difficulties with that because particularly Jill and Lexi want the older kids to be able to get holds for like non-fiction materials for reports and stuff and the old book mobile used to be able to do that and they for some reason are struggling to be able to set that up but they promised me they're working on I actually talked to like the executive director or something of the library I went to the top of the chain to say hey we really like that if you call them they might be able to bring it but they're not able to do the regular hold sister we have no school January 20th um which actually it's
010interesting in addition to being the holiday for Martin Luther King Junior day it's actually inauguration day I saw I know I was to say you guys aren't taking it off for inauguration can't believe that um I don't I don't know if that's happened before on theend on the same day don't remember that interesting maybe I didn't pay attention to far um January 23rd and 30th are the ski days for second to 8th grade so you've got that that um and then January 31st is uh the symphony field trip for second through fade operations so we worked over break getting a really deep cleaning uh done Grace worked really hard not only scrubbing everything down and disinfecting but she also did uh polish on the floors uh and she also did carpet cleaning all the awesome
011well I saw the lights on real you know 8:30 or 9 I'm like somebody up there I don't see anything if there was something wrong that called joh must be the cleaner okay yeah so her usual hours are about 6:00 to 11:00 okay which is actually much earlier than the last folks they would sometimes come in the middle at night yeah which is when I would get calls when they would set off the alarm system at 2 a.m. because I'm the first person they call that they call police um so y we worked on that um right before break we had another pest inspection uh and new equipment set up and again we were pest free we did have several bugs in the traps but no mice so they really set that up I do
012have them coming only every other month to save money are still coming the flag pole still needs repaired I've talked to a couple companies about that um I also talked to the American Legion but um it might be a difficult fix with this chil kind of frozen so I've been leaving it up there is kind of a light shining on it um so it's okay for um first snow removal is today um they came early this morning and did all of the roads and plow they did extra wi in case we do end up getting a lot more snow do we pay them by the time that they're here each time here yeah so there's a whole salary schedule Depending on time and depth of snow and what's used the great thing is this is
013the first time all year last year we had things in December and whatnot and I also changed it so they're not doing the sidewalks until it becomes deeper so I'm volunteering at doing the sidewalks was just wonderful because it was like solid ice I bet that was fun yeah it was just a blast an hour and a half it was great um but that's quite a bit of money thank you for doing that you're welcome um so that's what's going on with operations uh with the parent group we have our first meeting this Wednesday uh after school so all parents are welcome to attend um we're going to talk about kind of when it again this Wednesday which is at what time 8 3:30ish right after school um it's the 8 at 3:30 we're going
014to talk about kind of spring events like the Easter egg H and like the Easter thing stuff like that find out some so are the same people getting involved do you know or do you know um I'm hoping to see more par we had one meeting that we had quite a few at last year to see more yeah awesome so that group that was raising money before and doing stuff they're ready to go most it's the same it's the same group of parents I'm also going to ask the parents what they think about running a spring fundraiser um I'm going to ask for help if we want to do it otherwise I think I'll take the year off because it is a bit of work when like all the stuff comes in s all the
015items and stuff but we did raise enough money last year that I was able to decrease the ski payments um before they were charging 60 or80 for the older kids to be able to go to skiing I drop that down to $20 using the money we raised last year so it's really able to help parents because I thought that that's quite a bit money for some folks to come up with is there anything that we could sell for 5 10 bucks a ticket to make four grand sell tickets for um we've floated ideas of like a wab and different things like that our trouble is we just don't have that many families some um at L we used to do like a car show and a pancake breakfast but we just don't have that but
016if you had an item like a um snowbow like a something I don't know yeah like cuz then you could sell it to anybody well I mean not you can't sell the other stuff to anybody but you something that people would buy tickets for certainly possible the the trouble with fundraising is it's a lot of work for people on the back end and um the district has to be running the money and I make that clear unless a parent group actually becomes an organization the district has to be running the has to be but parents could still help organ and yeah that's what we're going to talk about at the next meeting okay um something to kind of float about around um I've been thinking about since our last meeting is kind of advertising for
017the district for enrollment or whatnot keep thinking about that and ideas um to get the word out um and how we want to do that um I did talk to a company that several districts are using for their websites links to social media and stuff um the trouble is that um places Church quite a bit of money andu like this right now our website's free so and it works but it's not it doesn't have the algorithms and stuff to bring it up more on Google and whatnot but kind of be brainstorming and thinking ways to get the word out without like the coaching from other districts to kind of talk about beginning things about our school and what because I am concerned going come further Cuts we already made Cuts last year and Staffing I
018was just kind of thinking on it this last month to I don't know if this would work or not but from my thought I had a thought that what the whole school on in May focused on a particular environmental thing or something and and so every class did the same thing then in April they had something for the whole thing which included your field trips and you know to where they knew that every month they were going to be and it'd be like handson so yeah they had to do reports or whatever that fit in with their other classwork in each one of the grades and then they go and do a do a you know a couple field trips or something that went along with it if you if we had January February March
019April May whatever so kind of being able to list it out because we are doing lots of things but necessar but list them and somehow put it to where all the classes learn that stuff yeah you know to where you're not having the I don't know it's just a thought maybe you could on you know the whole school did whatever we were going to find Tes what is the what is the you know the water you know all kinds of stuff it seems to me that that I don't know Wonder something like that might work I think that's one thing we could do is advertise better um one of the the Great have class dojo and it's free and it's um great at being able to share information with parents um and staff but it's
020only open to parents and staff and I really like that because it keeps things more secure you're not putting on the web you know a massive amount of pictures of all the students and whatnot you're not having to worry about that as much but it does limit only to the people that are attending the school here where um we could maybe try to advertise in ways out to the bigger community and whatnot and be able to get the word out about the stuff we do and what okay and I think we'll talk it at the next um we'll talk one of the agenda items too kind of about this in our strategic plan think want to me too like I probably don't think as much as you do about it but yeah it's definitely something
021that needs to be on all of our mind yeah because yeah there's got to be some ways to to do it and that's what I've got questions okay public input agenda item well I I do have something I'm mulling over and it was just kind of related to what you're just talking about um I was too late to get on it this year the grant cycle ends I think in about a week but there's a there's a really great grant program called Farm to school and I mean they they award like up to $100,000 my thinking was to apply have you heard of this before I is this where they do food they teach the kids how to raise the food so this is what I'm thinking like a whole program starts with building a
022greenhouse and somehow getting the kids involved so it teaches them construction skills and whatnot right to build the greenhouse and then you have to also have a program yes to where the kids are learning agriculture and farming techniques and so they would have their own garden basically year round because they would have a greenhouse right so they'd be able to grow things year round um but anyway this grant program will fund all of that I mean they'll fund you know the the learning resources the green if we could get something like that I would think there would be kids that would want to come I would want to send my kids to it yeah if I lived in L I'd bring my kids up here so so because it's such a high dollar Grant obviously
023the Grant application is pretty involved um and I'm totally willing to volunteer and take that on but I was going to present this is why I'm saying I don't really have it yet but I was going to present a business plan and everything to everybody and and with some ideas cuz we would need a match but I think the match can come from volunteer hours you know with the with the folks building the greenhouse and we could get donations for seeds and things like that that would go towards the matching funds I think but I'll throw it all together and and present it to you guys at some point so that would be really nice thank you I would really like that something like that that's unique that would like I say you know you
024can have something like that you have the other things that they know which which field trips they have and stuff I would think it would be have you ever also um talked to the L school and have kids from there come here and over there can't do that trouble be careful it's good thing you're asking well you know have them come over here too yeah you need to come and participate in things something like that they could participate maybe they tell their parents about it I don't know transportation is the biggest problem they have and we do um but that we could have if you had something like that you could have an open house dat where whoever could come could come yeah and show it you know a couple times a year or something
025the one thing I have thought about if we had more students would be co-oping for sports because that's one thing that we don't offer that I know we lose Junior High kids for um and that's something that I could talk to um I know well yeah the loo it's co-oping for sports um again transportation is the hard part um would we have to provide the transportation no we could ask parents to provide it um I've done that in several districts when I was a superintendent of KNX Heron um we had several like softball we co-op with Thompson Falls um baseball we Co-op and the parents provided the transportation take on our kids if they want to participate in sports so we would have to your child down yeah we'd have to make um we'd have
026to make an agreement um that both boards would have to agree to and sign paperwork um they're part of the copper leag um so I would have to add athletic director for the district onto my title um as well you got quite a few you could use another one uh so so we would have to you know there's a lot of leg work we'd have to petition to kind of be a part of that I'd probably have to go to their board meeting and present um the thing is it wouldn't be a huge amount of kids even if we got more jior High kid be only Middle School yeah yeah it only be middle school because elementary school elementary kids don't do Sports is that is that why oh they don't do competitive Sports at
027the school level so the copper league is grades six through eight and same leag that loo and target range and um French Town that's where most of those districts are part of for track and field I'm assuming we probably have to put toward bre cost we've had a little bit of cost and whatnot but I could meet with the folks about that um that would be another incentive I would think if there was if you had nice grocer that you just pass out all the people the sports are always after school after hours no oh they so that is one trick he having caught Junior High um they certainly do me some certain amount of instruction high schools even more and then the parents would have to come in the middle of the day potentially
028the district could Transportation but I mean you see what the bill for routes is buses cost a lot another idea I floated um and I actually thought about going around to car dealerships is looking at getting a school vehicle um several districts have gotten car dealerships to either get um just give you a vehicle or um give it a c I got um the dealership in Planes to give a vehicle way the low cost to me um for um SUV so sometimes you can kind of work with them and whatnot um we do have certain um things we have to have um it has to be a certain amount of passengers there's actually a state law and what vehicles we can use SE and everything and then so many you have you have C or
029something yeah so there's a certain stage too yeah if you get too many a van with too many seats but a lot of districts are using just like Suburban actually just Suburbans with like 80 passengers or whatnot and some districts are actually there's actually a law where you can actually use them as school bus we have too many kids to make that for while but there's so many times where running a kid to Lolo I mean that could be something that we could do in a district vehicle field terms um right now there's six kids in the middle school classroom they could be doing that and saving money um I rented one when I took kids to quiz bowl and that saved quite a bit of money rather than using my bus um so that's
030an option I thought about going around to the dealerships um a little Rel and maybe even a rental compy would give us some kind of a deal the good thing is um we do have insurance too for vehicles already so we already have that option but that's something long term that could give us more options uh it also would provide transportation for me like when I'm going to hel and things like that ni okay well be looking I'll be looking for whatever you am yeah yeah I'll get it I'll get it together soon yeah thank you I'm kind of bummed that I missed the cycle but like I said it's going to take quite a bit of work and we're going to need toly cycle it is but I I think it's going to probably
031take all that time in order to guarantee the matching amount you know with volunteer hours and stuff so no are you good with plants with plants yeah well my question I guess would be if that's I have a greenhouse and I'm interested that I'm I've had not much success where I live but when you get the grand yeah I'm assuming someone needs to know exactly are youbody I'm I'm okay uhhuh but I think it's it's another thing we'd want to pull some of the parents maybe there's a parent out there you know who's great and would love to volunteer for something like that yeah yeah yeah CU one thing that does come up um it came up with like the ice rink and stuff what about when school's not in session most of us don't
032live locally but work here and some stuff we've got to have people coming up so me when the scho like vacations and whatnot last year I had one family coming out with the ice because you've got to do snow removal on it you have to do resurfacing um and actually we didn't do the ice ring this year because we just didn't have enough help um and man power reason that Neil did that is he had a much bigger Middle School class um and he had a lot of more like older kids that were really into construction or whatnot with only six kids became a huge task for me and two parents last year and we decided you know unless there's a whole group that comes forward saying we really want to do this maybe we'll
033take the year off Dan how much would that cost for a for a greenhouse or do you have any idea well so a lot of the grants that I've seen people apply for i' I've seen them apply and receive like $100,000 grants um the greenhouse would not cost that much I mean you can get the green houses for 10 grand you know but I think a lot of the other funds go towards you know like having a teacher or you like salaries and things like that maybe somebody to run the program so we found Greenhouse for that could you still get that Grant yeah you don't have to apply for that much you so you apply for how much you think you need but I'm just saying you know like if we if we're going
034to do a whole program we'd probably want to include all of that like all the educational materials somebody can teach the program yeah I could work on somebody for the matching too might be willing to put something out nice I would ask him yeah yeah would personally ask nice yeah he might he might do something to help with that cool okay um additions and acceptance of the agenda this just seems weird that it's cleared down here well the rest of it's just kind of housekeeping oh okay okay I would like to add to the agenda to change the meeting date from the first Monday of the month through the second Monday of the month I would like to add that to your agenda so we'll do that under business put that in new business okay
035anything else on that okay business old business old yeah this is me so the good thing is I guess that I'm not teaching quite as much is OPI has decided um a whole bunch of paperwork one being accreditation the second that we're doing an audit uh for monitoring for special ed so OPI has a whole cycle for audits we just this fall got them with the title one audit now we're moving into a special ed audit um so they they do this on a regular bases um so lots of paperwork um so I brought some stuff to share with you guys today about accrediation and kind of take a step back to last year in Spring um I made a copy of our strategic plan that we did last spring uh and approved and I
036wanted to give you guys time to look through it um just kind of get to know it and see is this like a strategic plan then yeah okay this is our strategic plan that we approved last spring um so this is part of the accreditation process okay so we will revise it if need be and approve it at our next meeting look through that so as part of this um is now The Graduate profile so last year we discussed this and I did a presentation about graduate profiles that I can do again today if people would like but kind of the bottom line is we need to now have a graph of a graduate profile to include with the Strategic plan for the district it doesn't to so that's what the what the goals we
037want the eth graders to be able kind of lead with um kind of a profile of a learner and have some examples um so last year I did an OPI presentation that kind of went all through graduate profile um I'm willing to go through that again tonight if you'd like or I can send the link to people that they would like to review it on their own time would be a repeat from last um I did prepare um example from Beville from the superintendent there and he sent me a copy of their graduate profile um there's some more out there I didn't want to do like a big school like Missoula because I feel like we're just not in the same place exactly so bville it is a high school district but they are classy
038much smaller school so I only included the part of the Strategic plan this like Beville is like in Montana it is so I just want to kind of give a graphic of their profile of a learner um basically you're kind of looking at the major skills that you want a student to leave with and this is kind of something that we'll continue to work on over the years but we want to have a draft um to submit to Opi um there's other examples from other states that OPI did in their PowerPoint uh presentation um there's lots of different ways to do this graphic um bigger districts are hiring companies to make it all pretty and fancy and whatnot um I want to show you B bills because I think it's a very simple way to
039do this and something that someone might like me could easily do in word or whatnot without spending countless hours and taking away from student instruction um so just kind of want to get you guys thinking about that um I'm going to kind of do some grafts um we Woodman has that you want for Woodman that's not on here like personally um well want to include our mission statement so we'll put that in there um we definitely I think T tailoring it us like Jan was talking about definitely outdoors and the things that we do the Hands-On learning that we do I mean I think so much of it is already a part of already are so again I want that this document to reflect that sounds good the other thing that I'll be doing is
040sending out um a um survey it'll be the same survey sent last year to parents to board members to sta students and that's um the information uh that I use to be able to write this as well as be able to be able to okay that was old business new business I would really like to change second Tuesday or second Monday excuse me thank you second Monday and then if you can get us the all this I'll still plan on trying to send everything to you when I happen now so you got little more time yeah that give us like a week to look it over question Wonder make calls to guys if we have any questions motion oh sorry sorry um yes so I make a motion to approve the change um of the
041meeting from the first Monday of the month secondary I second that all in favor okay information on pass upcoming Advance did we get that already y okay the next meeting then would be not February February 10th yeah at 5 meeting a jour back