001Call the meeting 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. >> We're just getting started. We have all board members here along with my on the phone, administration, and members of the public. First item is public comment. Public comment is reserved for items that are not on the agenda. It is for members of the public to give input on public matters, not personal issues. To avoid violations of privacy, a member of the public wishing to address the board will not be allowed to make comments about any student, staff member, or member of the public during his or her designated time to speak. To maintain order and allow everyone the opportunity to speak, the chair shall
002limit an individual's time to three minutes. Does anyone wish to speak at this time? Okay. Uh item three, approve the minutes from our meeting in June. Joy, can you hear or not? Sorry, Margie. Can you hear us? Okay, Marie, you're there. >> Okay, great. We have a motion for the minute. I second. Any comments or questions? All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Okay. Without any objection, I'm going to move item seven, the close session up to just below item number three. And for that session, it is a close session. Uh so it is a matter that involves individual right of privacy and that outweighs the public's right. So I'll close the meeting now. We'll adjourn into classroom and then come back out for the rest of our meeting. >> You're good. >> All right.
003So we will reconvene here in our open session. Um And without any objections, I'm going to move item O from the items for action up to the top now to vote on. So we need a motion for the out of district student application. >> I make a motion that the out of district application is at this time. The timeline is not the application. Oh, okay. Yeah, the time is not. >> So, I just want to make sure is waving the timeline is what Connie is making the motion, >> right? So we would accept that >> accept that application >> accept the application >> sorry >> I couldn't hear the motion otherwise I would >> sure sorry so um Connie made a motion to wave the deadline and accept the application that we have now >>
004the application is >> for the family that's with us >> any comments or questions. >> Okay, Margie, did you have any comments or questions? >> Um, I'm going to say that I just want to set a precedent in my voting for for all of our policies moving forward. Just so we're really careful with what we're doing um as we look at everything going forward. >> All right. All those in favor? >> I. >> All those opposed? I'm going to vote I opposed. But motion passes. All right. Thank you for coming in. Thank you for your time. >> Thanks, Pia. >> Okay. Um Yes. Uh going back to >> Can we pause for just a second while we get my computer? >> Yes. >> While you're doing that, do you want to do your correspondence reports?
005Any questions or additional comments from those? Excellent. Did you guys have any questions on the principal or superintendent? >> Um, thank you for sharing those, Maggie. >> Oh, yeah. I was at the conference today and so I'm like trying to quick do. >> Thank you. Are you guys going to go um and I'm asking from the space of the instruction like committee for the strategic plan? Are you guys um going to like then put those on calendar too? Like are you going to sit down with staff and like actually physically like map them out on our calendar with the weeks and stuff? Was that um I did share them all with the teachers I know. I just said >> but when Connie brought up the standards I was like well I every year I give
006them the paper one and then you know like do they look at it or you know you know how you get So then I thought this will be kind of like onetop shopping. >> So where I'm coming from is just um on the strategic plan for some of those goals. That would be a really good thing to highlight to demonstrate that like we're actually checking it off and then have that and have it like be something that's like we can show parents that this is what we did for our calendar with that stuff. >> No, I think that's a great idea. >> Yeah. >> So the curriculum um standards per grade level and then the curriculum alignment and um actually I put in like a week and so that kind of could so that we
007get all through our curriculum in >> well I think from a second standpoint too looking at that calendar just um this year with the four day and questions that are raising on that like it would be really helpful to visually see where we are landing >> in terms of our curriculum and what we are getting through. Um, and I say this cautionary because I think that there's that sticky wicket of like getting through curriculum, but are kids actually like getting and receiving the material and understanding comprehension, right? So, there's like that balance with that. But Justin coming from the strategic plan and being on the instruction committee like that would be something that would be really nice to be able to like show and demonstrate that we are checking off the goals as action. um
008conference I attended today was explicit instruction was a trainer under a need archer but need archers >> so it was like a need archer is phenomenal and so I think that and even she said no matter what curriculum you have it's just like how effective how explicit your instruction is makes the students more apt to learn and so she said there's no such thing as a perfect curriculum but we have all these skills it's always teachers >> teacher eicacy is the most impactful. So I think that that um I did bring the third grade or the possible third grade teacher today and so she had a lot of great takeway and then some others in curriculum >> this morning. >> Yeah. I was also at that meeting and I was super excited to be there
009to learn about explicit instruction. I was pulled away to handle business here with the district employee stuff. So I would have liked to stay there and we are trying to go to those events and trying to do that kind of stuff. Um it just sucks I fell over with that pulled away today. >> Oh yeah. >> That was so we are doing our effort to get some training. >> Yeah. So Maddie um so you made a Google Right. Is that what I did? >> Yeah. >> I think I I can share that. >> I was just curious. Notion of it. I just was curious what it looked like because you know you said try to do that before. >> Yeah. But that is awesome that you did that. >> Okay. Anything else for either of
010the reports? >> Oh, so okay. So you ordered the cell phone. >> Okay. You guys want to see? >> So we ordered four of these. One will go to the elementary school and two are here and in the office and I didn't get one for the office because I figured we want to go in the office. Um, students are going to be required to put cell phone devices in here when they walk in and we'll have seventh eighth grade and then we'll have high school. It has a keys and a fob and then we can keep it locked until the end of the day. It's nice off the wall in case of a fire drill take people's belongings with us and have them safe and locked up. students are probably going to bring them in.
011So I put the policy in the handbook if you are caught with a cell phone three days of in school suspension. Um that way we know we're trying to be safe and that can be a smartwatch. So here all that kind of stuff that interrupts schooling. Um I think it's going to be really beneficial. I think um after last year's screen with the resources that were wasted um it could have been somebody their phone from their locker and going into the bathroom and doing it right in the bathroom. Just because we say in your locker doesn't mean we're not going to have a rerun from what happened last year. Super excited about this. I think it's going to work really good. >> Can we have those on display in the lobbies during open house? >>
012So, they came yesterday and I actually was like, Bob, can you please get these hung up for board members? It's like I swamped right now, but I will Wednesday. So, hopefully by tomorrow they're up. >> Okay. I think it'd be great if they were out where parents could see them with either somebody there to explain what it is and what it's for or something a letter with it or something just so we're starting that communication ahead of time and talking about the policy change, what's going to be required, all that. >> So, what would be great like I have my staff pretty much dedicated to classrooms. If a board member could come in and do that, that would be really helpful. Or else we're going to need volunteers >> because I won't have time for
013I don't have can put on that 30 kids in classrooms. >> I'll check my schedule and maybe if it works for anybody else to come in or if we even take chunks of time during open house, we could split it up. >> Um, >> there's pictures all over. We put it on website. >> Item a few wires. My recommendation is the board offers a junior high assistant volleyball contract to Brandy Morales for the 2025 2026 school year. Last year we had Jackie Walter. She's not going to continue. So moved. >> Any comments or questions? >> All right. All those in favor? I any any opposed? All right, motion passes. Item B, >> offer junior high assistant play football coaching contract. My recommendation is to offer a junior high assistant play football coaching contract while Magguire
014256 school year. And on that last year, he helped out. He volunteered pretty much the whole year. I was like, next year you should just put in be the person get paid to do it. So he said, I will. He's the only. >> Yeah. So moved. >> I second. >> Any comments or questions? All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> All right. Item C, >> offer high school assistant boys basketball coaching contract. My recommendation is to offer high school assistant basketball contract to Brian Ward for the 2025 2026 school year. Um, with this we did offer a contract to Mike Rose, but then he found out he had a surgery, so he had to kind of withdraw his contract because he wasn't able to do it. And Brian stepped up and said
015he help. >> So I second. >> Any comments or questions? All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? All right. Motion passes. Item D. Um, moved and seconded. I'm sorry. >> Oh, sorry. >> I didn't hear it. >> Joy moved. >> Oh, sorry. >> Item D, >> offer high school head and girls basketball coaching contract. My recommendation board offers high school head girls basketball coaching contract to Kinder Mini for the 2025 2026 school year. She's a parent. >> She's a district >> student. >> She helped um with the summer like a few tournaments and stuff that we went to and I think she'll be really great. >> She's she well she said she's on the hall of fame up. >> Okay. All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Okay, motion passes. Item E, >>
016offer high school assistant girls basketball coaching contract. My recommendation is the board offers a high school assistant girl basketball contract to Jason Lane for 2025 2026 school year. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any comments or questions? All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion passes. Item F >> offer elementary teaching contract. Uh my recommendations board offers an elementary teaching contract at any parent for the 2025 202 school year with the understanding she must obtain and receive emergency or provisional license for the current school year until she is officially certified. Without a license, she is she understands the position will be reduced to a long-term substitute position. If that is the case, I have no doubt um she will get her class 5 license. She needs a letter from us stating she that we are
017hiring her once she gets that. She's already cranked out some credits today and she has to take Indian and all she's going to go. >> So who is she? I mean what's background >> background? She worked as a second grade teacher in buildings for 12 years has master degree in curriculum. That's what she told me today. Um really great. she stepped away from education then decided she wanted to get back at it like the day before called and said she was to move out of state. So, and then I think Catherine knew her and knew she had a teaching license. >> So, so she's >> certified here. She's she's >> she's got Yeah, she has her teaching degree, but she did let her license. So that's why she'll have to be on the provisional until
018she gets her enough to get it renewed. >> She looks at those for she might see her. >> She came yesterday and today I think she's very eager to get everything. >> Nice. Thank you. [Music] >> She get a finer seat. [Laughter] So, do we have a motion? >> Yeah. I move to offer an elementary teaching contract to Amy parent for the 2025 26 school year with the understanding that she has to obtain and receive her emergency or provisional license. Um, any comments or questions? Very excited. She's going to be great. >> And she would have been here tonight, but since it was such short this year, we had an obligation. So, >> all those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> All right. Motion passes. Item G, >> offer professional contract. My recommendation
019is the board offers professional contract page for the 2025 2026 school year. She was here last year as a parent. So she's done her six month probationary period and she had planned to be move on and work in a Ca position but then decided she liked it here and so she's want to come back open and she probation. So moved second. Any comments or questions? All those in favor? >> I. Any opposed? All right. Item H, >> certified staff handbook first reading. My recommendation is the board accepts to read and review the certified staff handbook to be prepared and interested with proposed changes at September of the board meeting. And I really think after this, the second reading is all we're going to need with that one. Catherine and I went through it. feel like
020it's pretty locked in. >> Any comments or questions? Yeah, I think having it locked in >> I said classified certified. That one's the certified. So, that one's the teachers >> certified >> and that one's locked into same certified classified. >> Okay. >> Very confident that those two are really good. >> All those in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes. Item I the classified staff. >> So this is the classified staff. This would be anybody that's not a certified teacher. Um my recommendation is the board accepts to read review the classified staff handbook and be prepared to address proposed changes in September 14. I would think again that would be one say second final reading in September. I second. >> Any comments or questions? Um, I asked Tom for a printed copy just because I work better
021that way. If you guys want a printed copy, let us know. Otherwise, they're online. They're in our packets. Um, >> so that you can read through before our next meeting. >> I would prefer a print copy of all three. So, >> I mean, I know I get more So you have all paper people. >> Yeah. Okay. Um we can do that when we get done here if you guys want. >> Okay. Um all those in favor >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. >> All right. Item J. >> So the I high school student parent handbook. Um it's splitting from the elementary. We're trying to split it. So, it's just going to be the junior high school student handbook. My recommendation is that we read, review it, make changes, and be ready to address changes
022in September 14. This will go out before school starts. Um, we're going to get it out. We're going to get going, get more eyes on it. I think we should run this one right through October and make sure with everybody's eyes on it and make sure it's good to go. And I continue. I plan on spending time all year. like it's just going to be up and when I have 30 minutes I'm gonna keep cranking on it because it's going to take time to make sure it's really good and make sure it's lined out. Same with the elementary handbook filter when we have all your we have our committees with your guys' helping those committ especially instruction instruction can help out and make sure we're tidying that stuff up. >> There's probably things that we
023are doing throughout the year that will have to be switched or address. >> Okay. >> Is there any other like thought too of possibly like I mean do you think let me backtrack. Do you think that you are going to continue this kind of like process every year >> or are you like trying to lock it in so we have one you know for >> the idea was split them right and that it's been one for the last few years. I can take you back and show you how one I have from the last one we basically built this one off of. Um I would like to get the examples. Look at what other schools are doing it to our school and have basically I want to get it down from 45 pages or 50
024pages to like 20. That would be the goal because when we send these things out parents send 50 pages. >> We should probably do our discussion. Sorry. I make a motion that we um wait that we accept the school district reading of the high school junior high parent handbook to be proposed to change. [Laughter] I don't know what I'm saying. I was reading something else. >> You're good. >> Is it good? >> Okay. >> Uh to our to our September. >> Do we have a second? >> Are any comments or questions? All those in favor? I >> I >> Any opposed? All right. Item K, >> elementary student handbook. My recommendation is the board accepts to read and review the elementary student handbook and be prepared to address proposed changes September. >> I motion. >>
025Any comments or questions? All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? All right. Item L accept transportation agreement between Drummond and those group school districts. Uh this agreement is yearly. In June we meet transportation committee and Drummond has one. We have one. We say that we can cross each other's lines to pick up kids each other's. So this is our agreement for this year. for accepts this transportation agreement public schools. >> Any comments or questions? All those in favor? I any opposed? All right. Motion passes. Item M. >> Except by annual contract. This is our contract out and this how we get our speech and everything. So my recommendations the board accepts this contract in the 2025 2026 school year by >> any comments or questions? All right. All those in favor? >> I.
026>> Any opposed? All right. Item N >> recommendations board accepts and approves the proposed budget for 2025 2026 school year and we appreciate all any comments or questions. >> Katherine, can you give us just any big highlights on any changes big changes or differences from this year to next year? >> Yeah. And I'm pull scroll down to that page right. So, this gives you what our budget is for the general, which is 2 million and change. And then it breaks down. Um, normally you try to get a 10% reserve set aside, but because of what we had left over, I couldn't to I couldn't get it. It just stops you. I could only do the 27,550. So, I got it to 9.95%. And then it tells you the mills on the very end. So, our
027mills and our general fund went up, but our mills on the rest of our funds went down a little bit. Um, and I do a budget for each one of those and break it down based off of expenses and what we're spending and all that jazz and then try to consider what's coming up and all that stuff. Um, so not not much has really changed too much. The mills are only more than last year. So that's really nice that it's staying consistent for our community and yet we're still receiving a little bit more extra money in our general fund. So really nice. I after this just now that you're more subtle than I'd love to come and sit down with you just kind of like you know go through it. Um so that would be
028a time >> okay that we could set up. Um, but yeah, I mean, great job. This school budgets aren't easy. So, um, I appreciate the work that you put in there doing all this because it's very difficult to understand and comprehend. >> Yeah. So, and a lot of it is you put in all of your revenues and your expenditures through your TFS and the TFS translates into the budget and then so a lot of it's some of it's populated and then you have to really look Well, what are we spending? What have we been doing? So, >> yeah. >> So, yeah. >> And I do keep like a binder of all my work papers and it's all tab. So, if you ever want to go through and look at its >> Yeah, absolutely. Well, and
029I think too just like, you know, we don't none of us have a crystal ball, but like right just that process of always budgeting and planning like three steps ahead, you know. me myself being educated as a board member to be able to better support you and then better support the district, right? >> I appreciate the visuals. [Laughter] >> Love is permissive. >> Yes. to raise the taxes if so needed for special ed students that may come into the district. >> We had a motion. >> Yes. >> Okay. That was comments and questions. All right. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. Okay. We took care of item seven already. So, um, one announcement for our strategic plan. Our next working group will be August 28th. So, all the staff is
030welcome to come. We'll put out an announcement from 6:00 to 8:00. We'll be looking at our strategic plan, uh, what is set up in there for each of our four major focus areas listed for year one. And so, we'll be breaking that down, looking at the goals, action items needed to accomplish those goals. We'll probably have to do at least another one and then maybe set up quarterly check-ins for all of them so we make sure that we are accomplishing all the action items that we set up in these meetings. Um, and so we'll put out something for the staff. I'd also like to put out something that goes to all of our parents, inviting them to come if anybody wants to be involved, help us with this process, get to know what we're doing
031and what our goals and objectives are as well. Um, and then we can talk about it in an open house too. Uh, and then our next regular board meeting is Tuesday, September 9th at 5:30 in here. With that, I'll join the meeting. Thank you.