Whitefish School Board Business Meeting June 10, 2025

001Hi everyone. So, we're going to call this June 10th, 2025 school board business meeting order. Um, Marcy wants to lead the pledge. I pledge 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. Jerry, would you like to read uh the district, please? Yes, I do. In um schooling district 44, we have four main goals. Um number one is each student will improve academically each year. Number two, our schools will be safe, uh inclusive and welcome. And number three is we will welcome family and community engagement and support partnerships for student learning. And number four, we will maintain and improve our facilities to meet the current and future needs of the students, staff, and community. Uh are

002there any revisions to the agenda tonight? Now, uh D is public comment. Um this item is the appropriate place to make comments about an item not on the agenda but within the board's juris jurisdiction. Each action item on the agenda has its own public comment period. In order to protect indiv individual rights of privacy, avoid comments that identify students or staff members. Additionally, public comment cannot be used to make comments regarding uh contested cases, grievances, or legal proceedings. Uh the opportunity for public comment and participation during a schoolboard meeting is provided by attending the schoolboard meeting in person. Is there any public comment? Good evening everyone. So happy to see everybody. Happy Pride Month. Hello. Yes, it's a good month. Um, so I am so happy to be here and I'm going to tell you

003why. So last week a neighbor texted me and she's like, I know you're still in school. She keeps track of my schedule. You're still in school. It finishes last week. It finishes last week. finishes like this week, but you're not doing anything so important. You you come. So, I was like, yeah, okay, easy for you to say. Well, I want to say kudos to the music people in this district. My gosh, I had a very tiring day, but I had promised her that I was going to come and hear her daughter play. Um, but full disclosure, I couldn't hang for her daughter because the way they scheduled it was orchestra first, bless their stringed hearts. Um, and then band and she's a saxophone. It's my favorite instrument. So, I did stay, but I kept wait

004when is this group going to and I couldn't because I knew I had to be up early the next morning. So, I don't know. I'm sure it was awesome. But I do want to say for sure that that freshmen, those ninth graders, unbelievable superior rating. That's unheard of. So, kudos. I know I'm not allowed to name faculty, but you know who they are. I mean, okay, please just let him know. Awesome. Then because I needed to make amends, she said, "You know, my son is playing tomorrow morning on the lawn outside the middle school, the seventh grade jazz something or other." So, I show up and I'm like, "Okay, I'll be tardy." But that's a good excuse for, you know, school. It was my last day. And I said, "Um, I'm going to do this."

005And there's nobody there. And I'm like, "I got it wrong. I know I got it wrong." Anyway, I called the office and she's like, "Oh yeah, bad weather. It's going to be inside." And I saw you. We crossed paths. Oh my gosh. Seventh grade. Incredible. They are amazing. He's also a saxoponist. This her brother, but so just kudos. I just wanted I said, you know, I can come to this meeting and just have it be love and positivity and spread the word. Awesome. Awesome. Strong music. I mean, it's no surprise. Everybody who knows, they know it's great. But just from me, okay, just to know cuz you know I'm spoiled when you when you're in a larger district and you have more students and more more participants in these activities, then of course you're kind

006of used to a different level, shall we say? But no, there's no extra A or one less A when it comes to I mean amazing. So thanks for listening and um good to see all of you people and yes, nice to see everybody. I think that's it. No. Where's the public? This is so There's so many good things to share. So many good things happening in this district. Thanks for listening. So public correspondence, I don't believe we asked you this week. Um and then we'll move into approval of minutes for May 2025. I move we approve the minutes as written. Seconded move by Jerry seconded by Katie. All in favor I'm stating I'm not because I was not here. You were not there. Right. Got it. Okay. Uh right. I guess we will move to

007the student trustee report or maybe an introduction by me. Absolutely. So to to segue through this piece, um number one, thank you for joining us on on GRA during graduation on Saturday. Outstanding uh representation of our students and you know the the speeches that they performed were topnotch. And you know, think about Jake Dunker being our student representative. Moving from this role into opening a ceremony like that was just icing on the cake for for that young man and for our community. So, um, really special and and as we know, Jake's last meeting was last month and so we've been through the process at the high school. We have, um, had we had several students that applied for this position. Um, they have to get, uh, signatures, basically a petition of support from students and

008staff alike. And we went through interviews and we had an interview team of this comprised of myself and the an adviser from the student council as well as the student body president current uh student body elect uh and maybe was there maybe one other in the room I can't remember but uh it was it was a nice diverse group of folks went through these interviews and we have selected a new student representative for you and as your process of elimination of people in the room tonight probably figured out Carmela for oh and Carmelo is a just wrapping up her sophomore year at the high school so this is a one to twoyear position depending on you know I mean Jake probably could have put in a second year but he had to give up his

009year Columbia next year um but yeah so that's the position that we will start next fall with Carmela it's nice to see you thank you for being here um did you prepare that speech kind of like the look on David's face when Wing graduation. Um, but anyway, so we'll have a new seat right over here for you and and you and I we'll talk about that ahead of time and and Miss uh Odell and the student council will navigate it from that end back to our student body. So, Carmemella Forcone board car Thank you. looking forward to it. Yes. Welcome. Thank you so much. Okay, so we'll keep moving through. Uh, is there a WDA or WCA update? [Music] I really appreciate that. This is one of the coolest rooms in the district right now.

010Mr. Coin said Moldown has air conditioning, but I'm not going to talk to him again. I'm a little bit jealous. Um, wow, what a year. I can't believe it's June. Um, just came from our high school retirement party. Probably one of our retirement parties we've had May. This was super fun one. Um, and it was a little bit hard for it to be scheduled at board meeting time, but I made it back. Um, but that was really fun because most of our retirees are coming from the high school. So, that was fantastic. And then we have one more from the middle school. Um, and a couple people moving on to new adventures. So, we're just so excited. Um, and huge gratitude for those of you that were either participating in graduation ceremonies or attended the

011independent school graduation. It's always so great to see everybody. Um, especially in a sweltering June like like no other. So, um, speaking of that, everybody's super busy right now, just right up to the last minute getting everything done and everything in place. Um, and really excited because there are some fun end of the year traditions. So, some of our schools have different traditions and one of those that a lot of people are looking forward to is um, a North Fork float. So, schools out you check out and you made it super one at 12:30 on Thursday and who's over there, everybody fits in a boat or brings a paddle board and floats down the river. Um, it's a great goodbye. So, um, nice to be on the water. Um, Mr. Means and I have had

012really good conversations over the last couple weeks and talking about, um, some of the report we received from Darlene and what that looks like, some of the feedback from you guys for human resources opportunities and how WA leadership can help assist in all of those process and how can we can communicate better. Um, so one of those pieces that we can look at is how do we communicate digitally or in bulletin boards or just out to staff and how can we be more supportive in all of that those pieces and and really looking at what is being done, who's doing them and where we can alleviate some burden. So if anybody has any ideas, love to hear them um and love to be an active part of supporting teachers. So, um, and just looking at

013like what are our avenues to solutions at the lowest level so that each thing can just move on to the next best thing. Yeah. So, if you have any thoughts, let me know. Otherwise, it's been a good year. Well, thank you. Happy summer. I can think about it now. I couldn't think about it before Saturday. Don't talk to me about that. even said that to my mother. So we will uh move into our discussion and action items and A is a math curriculum update. Thank you. Good evening from the curriculum department. Uh so the first thing I want to talk about is um an up a brief update on the math committee. I had hoped I have some news to share with you about a curriculum, but we are just not there yet. We're going

014to need to take a little bit more time. Uh the committee hasn't reached really a majority decision um on the direction that they want to go. So, we're going to regroup this summer, going to take a look at where we are, and then we'll move forward. Um I I'll give you a brief synopsis of kind of where we've been. We met a number of times this year um at the K12 level. So we we were looking at all math programs K12. Uh the 9th through 12th grade team really met and um a number of their programs are very specific and they already started making some adjustments to what they currently do. so they're on the right track. Um, our K8 program, uh, we brought together and, um, we looked at edreports.org, which is an independent

015nonprofit, um, free program that gives comprehensive reviews of instructional materials. And based on those reviews, we chose five different programs to look at. So I sent out for those materials. We received those materials and we had rubrics that we um scored those five programs on. Based on those rubrics, we eliminated three of them and then we were down to two and the committee just couldn't reach consensus. So we decided that we would come back together. we learn more about those programs, look at piloting those programs, and see if we could get some clarity. So, that's where we are right now. We'll continue to meet over the summer. Um, and hopefully we'll have something to share with you next year. Questions about that at all? There any way that they might throw in a different one?

016Uh, great question, Darcy. I think the first thing that we'll do, we want to proceed with um what the committee's decision was, which was eliminate three. We're going to look at these two deeper, going to take a look at piloting them. If we don't like either one, if they aren't going to meet our needs, then we'll go back and we'll look at another. They they did talk about looking at one other one. Um, and we'll do that um, next week actually. Um, and then we'll see where we go from there. I have confidence we're going to find the program that's going to work for us by next fall. Uh, no. By by the next by the next So, are there certain shortcomings that the current program has? Are we able to supplement them over the

017upcoming? Um, good question, Katie. Yes, we every uh so right now I should tell you we have three different programs at the K8 level. Okay. And and that has proved to be challenging. We have one program at kindergarten. We have a program another program at grades one two three four five and then we have another program at six. So we really teased out through our iating diagnostic. We looked at the domains that kids are performing well in and kids are not performing well in. So we looked at that to help us figure out what is it in the programs we need to find. We've also had to do some teacher education because we have a number of teachers that say I don't understand why we need a new math program. My students are growing from

018fall to spring. I see it on my I Ready scores. You show it to me. you tell me I'm doing great things. And they are doing great things. They're taking kids from where they are in the fall and and they're showing immense growth, a year or more of growth by the spring. What we aren't seeing is an increase in proficiency rates from a particular group of students um going through the grades progressively. Does that make sense? So we want more kids. If there were, you know, I don't know, 70% of the students in second grade proficient, when they go to third grade, we want to see that proficiency rate increase. And that's what we're not seeing. So that's what we're we're working through, try to increase those proficiency rates. Other questions? They all kind of

019tend to stay around the same cost. Yes. Expensive. I'm surprised. They do. They do. Yeah. Textbooks are expensive. Can I ask just a a not specific math question, but yes, I am just trying to remember. You could remind me um I feel like it's at a work session in the summer that we go to school. Yes. And we will. Yeah, I think that happens. D is it matter of fact, I'm working on a report this month. I think it's in U because I we just finished all that testing. So, the data is just coming back. Sure. I think it's either August or September. We have it planned. I hope to have something for you next year. Thanks for your work. Thank you. Thank you for your patience. It is an investment uh Rainey and we

020really want to make sure that it is something that we believe is better than what we currently have and will really make the best of our students. And I just can't rush the process if I don't really have teachers that are committed to it. Thank you. You bet. I think you get to stay. I know. I get to having present the AP physics curriculum. Yeah. So, uh next year we are excited that Whitefish High School will offer AP physics. Tate Roxson is going to teach it. um T was actually trained last year in AP physics and uh because we have the numbers of students to actually um make this program a go this year, Tate needs some instructional materials in order to teach it. Um AP is a very structured program needs very specific materials.

021um AP requires that and so um I asked Tate to reach out and find what he specifically needs for the course and he has recommended um what you see before you. So I'm just asking for approval of those materials. I actually have one because I always need to ask this when we're looking at a part I just as someone Yeah, I just can't remember. So because like you said it's a college place basically. So in this special book um do students if they sign into an AP class do they buy the book like you would college or is this like something that that it goes like it stays with the school? It stays with the school. So the students don't have outside expense to buy college textbook actual textbook or is it online? Uh this

022is an actual text. Yeah. All right. Those are question. He00 pages. like yeah I think it's he have we have a set of them in class because he asked for set in class that do you know whatever I was just gonna ask so it's a lecture slashlab course uh I believe so is it Carrie I think it is lecture slab is that what lab yeah Yeah, we know what the cost is of the textbook. Um Tate found the one that he's recommended unbelievably at $60 a text. Yeah. Yeah. And then we have to buy the future Skype. Thank you. Yeah. Are there any is there any public comment back to the board for further discussion or a motion? I'll second by all those in favor. is the psychology curriculum. All right. So, we also are

023offering psychology next year at the high school. It has been offered off and on throughout the years. They have a current textbook, but it is outdated and so we are looking to update what they currently have at the high school. In order to do that, I did some research. I I looked across Montana at what other high schools were using for textbooks. Um this particular one Boseman is using. Um Carrie and I took a look at um and with the teacher um it's something that has it has the textbook, it has instructional materials with it. It has slides so that depending on who teaches the program from year to year, it will be readily available for them. Um, one of the issues we've had with psychology in the past is depending on teachers schedules, it

024is passed between different teachers and they've had to make up the curriculum for it. And so hopefully with this new textbook and the instruction materials, we'll have a consistent program. And this one is more than clarifying your question. What does does psychology is it a science cover an elective? Like what is this covering for the students in the graduation of their I'm going to have to refer to Carrie. It is an elective. Any public comment? I I will agree that this is a tricky one because it it really depends on registration numbers whether it be bumper each semester. Um and having chatted with different teachers who have taught psychology over over the years, it would be really helpful to have something that could be handed off from person to person. It tends to be sort

025of in the social studies realm. um perhaps like psychology or sociology would be as well, but um having something that somebody could just pick it up, learn it, teach it if they have the endorsement would be really helpful. So, appreciate you guys considering this one. Any other back to the board for further discussion or motion? I just think the cover of the book is really I know it's it is interesting. This is the high school. I made sure because there's a lot of introduction to psychology, but we don't want college. We want we're high schools moved by Darcy. Is there a second? I'll second it by all those in favor. Thank you. Hey. Uh, now Luke Hammond is going to share information regarding the latest developments with the WHS expansion project. Thank you. Thank you.

026Hello everybody. I'm Luke Hammond, tele construction advisors. Um this is the June update to the expansion projects at the high school and um following the format that we've followed previously. Um not a lot has changed again on the numbers or the dates. Um but I can guarantee you that a lot has happened in the background and a lot of progress has been made. Um and so the numbers that you're seeing on the budget um haven't changed this month. um those are still reflecting the overall project budget and bond numbers. Um from a date perspective on the milestones also nothing has changed there this month. Um we are currently working through phasing and logistics with Martell on how construction will flow and um as that develops this will evolve a bit more on the the milestone

027dates. Um but that's where that currently stands. The primary thing that's happened over the past month has been the development of the design and Annie has done a really great job of completing the schematic design for the academic portion of the projects. Um, and I think Shane will talk on that here shortly in more detail. Um, but they've completed their schematic design books and um, Martell is in the process of pricing that schematic design from an estimate standpoint. Um and as a team we're meeting this coming Monday to go over some of those estimate numbers which will be really great uh progress to help develop the design and um from a budgetary standpoint where things stand. Um so that's a really good milestone to be at and progress is is really great at this point.

028Um I think the only thing other main thing that's happened since the last update was we were uh getting ready to have a community update and that occurred a few weeks ago. Um really positive meeting. Uh didn't have a ton of people at that update, but it was it was a really good design update from A&E and the team. Um and so jumping into some of the progress photos. Um I promise these will get more exciting when construction starts, but uh right now you're looking at some of the renderings that Shane will do a better job of of diving into the details on here shortly. But uh the first one is the same um overall site plan of the athletic portion. Uh that remains the same at this point. Um and then diving into some

029renderings which are a nice update this this month to see a visual of where the design is at. Um the first one you're looking at there is of the main entrance kind of from the northwest angle there um where the schematic design currently sits. Um, and the next one is also from the northwest angle, just kind of uh zoomed out there a bit um of the north addition to the building. Um, and then uh this is an interior shot of the common space looking at a new staircase there going up to the new second story. Uh, that will be an addition to the north side that you saw in those exterior renderings. Um, and finally, another shot here of the interior space on the second story, uh, looking north down that new addition from the

030second story. Um, so, some exciting rendering shots this month. Um, and it'll be exciting to see pricing come in next week and how that evolves the academic design. Um, any questions? I have a question but I don't I don't I was I was asked on behalf of some students to clarify. I think I know the answer but I will say which is if the potential athletic complex is done in spring of 2027 which I know is a rough date. Would that mean that track could participate in spring of 2027 in the new athletic complex or does that mean that it will be completed through the spring of the goal is to have it complete for that track season. Oh, that was great. Thank you for clarifying. Yep. Um, and then just on the key monthly

031updates, we still are working on the contract of course, how that's not finalized yet, correct? Back and forth. We've had comments sent back to them now. Um, it's been two rounds, I think. So, at this point, they have comments back and hopefully finalizing this month. Thank you for expansion update. I thought maybe she walked in with that big box that got all and I had I had a feeling I couldn't hand them out to you. So you'll get them eventually. Oh yeah. Um, they're fun though. Uh, we've completed our schematic design book as Luke mentioned and so really the presentation is what we submitted and that book was just really hot off the presses and sure have already distributed a digital copy to the district so I'm sure that'll make it to the website. Um,

032so I really wanted to give a a recap complimentary to Luke of where we've been in the last month. There was a big flurry of work in May and really a lot of that still needs to hit the actual paper. Uh we had our seventh committee meeting. We had what we call room data meetings or room user meetings and that's really just diving into all of the equipment, all the pieces that are going to go into each room and how you actually begin to use them and make sure that they're right sized and it starts to get at the detail of where are the outlets and how does each individual room play out. always continue to drill down into some specificity. What are the pieces of furniture that you have? Which ones and and what

033do you need more of? That kind of thing. How do you teach? What's the teaching style? Where's the presentation wall? Where is it controlled from? Um how does this how does this work? Where are the opportunities to maybe co-e or um think about more progressive models of education and where we're going in the future? and of course providing flexibility not only in terms of just being able to continue to grow from an enrollment standpoint but also in just the delivery of an education 21st century model. So and then the last thing was the presentation for the community that happened after a long day with those room data meetings. So this is uh kind of the summarized version of that. Um and so really starts at kind of the project goals and uh and then there's

034uh so those haven't changed. We really first one's super important future proof and flexible learning environment. That's where really what we're holding this up against and the others are also important. Um that second page is a little bit of a smattering of the the process of what that has looked like. We've got some candid shots from uh working with committees and working with students and how we evaluated different diagrams and really started to kind of drill down into where we are today. And then uh and then there's also a few diagrams that are snapshot on there as well. Uh really that schematic design book is the culmination of kind of the process and where we've been and also if you uh have trouble sleeping in there's a few narratives in the back from engineers. All

035the pretty pictures are frontloaded so you can make your way through it pretty quick but then it turns into a legitimate book in the back. Um this is really the summary of that. If you remember that concept of the Bulldog Boulevard that we spoke about in the last couple uh board of trustees updates where we this really came about from the site and looking at open space, looking at pathways, looking at where the centroidids of of the um of the of the interior were where the kind of the the common spaces. There's kind of two commons if you will. And we were looking at developing this uniform spine that we can kind of organize all the other systems along all the other circulation pathways and begin to kind of group classrooms and uses and um

036uh around around that organization feature. So something that just draws right through the site. So that was kind of one of those core concepts with a little bit of a b bubble diagram at that um at that level of detail and then that began to transform into mass. So this is a little bit of summary of some of the things I've spoke about in the past as well. The next slide shows some basic massing. So we begin to think about sun and exterior circulation and how it would begin to uh it's not really getting at architecture yet. It's not just a a glass box attached to the building, but we're just kind of thinking down. It could be fun. We could do that. We could we could contrast the existing architecture. We're trying to complement

037it though. So we kind of start with, you know, they look like kind of jello cubes. You can see through them and you start to think about the push and pull of masses and then begin to fit that program into it. The individual classrooms and figure out that balance of what it looks like outside and how it functions inside, how it sits on the land, how it addresses the adjacent roof lines and massing starts to make it look like it was was always there. Um, and that it really is contiguous with the rest of the campus. And then that next slide is a diagrammatic section. Um, so it was an early idea how this could work and you can see the evolution of that through some of the coming renderings. So you begin to see

038how maybe we start to incorporate day daylight. Think about a double height space adjacent to the gym wall. uh there early ideas of how do we begin to kind of organize all the accolades um the achievements in and uh athletics and activities be able to kind of see more of the wall other than just the space above the gym doors that we see currently with with awards and hall of fame and all the all the years of um kind of recognition. Can't remember what the next slide is. you start getting to some really legitimate floor plans and you start seeing kind of how this starts to lay out. These are far from construction documents yet, but they're taking the program that was colorcoded. So, the independent high school and and is uh one of the

039greens on there. Art is another green. The bright blue is CTE. a little bit kind of more royal blue is um kind of a universal classroom, a general learning lab. Uh resources identified in the bright blue. Uh culinary and hospitality are in that gold and purple kind of middle of the plan that flank the gym doors. And then everything that mostly what we're not touching, I kind of say that with a caveat is kind of dithered back and the background is kind of washed out. Those are the things that we're not touching. I say with the caveat because there's there's other miscellaneous remodels that need to happen. There's other upgrades with deferred maintenance that needs to be touched there, but these are really the areas of um higher high or higher level of remodel and

040new construction. So, you can kind of blur your eyes and get a real sense of where we're touching the building. But there there are definitely exceptions to that when it comes to other building systems and needs for uh addressing deferred maintenance. moving us some of those perspectives that Luke had uh shared a moment ago. At one point, we thought maybe we would even combine our presentations here. So, you see a few redundancies in there. I just got the larger version, so mine looks better. At some point, Luke's going to have a lot of pictures that are going to consume his report. Um, and it's going to be all the things that are happening on site, and you're going to see a lot of this design language kind of fade into the background. Um, so we're

041in this time in design where uh the progress is really most easily shown by snipping um snipping these types of renderings. So I presented this in the last board update, but we're really uh developing a warmer pallet and a rhythm that we're starting to work off of the existing architecture to a degree. This is a little bit of its own thing. it starts to set itself up a little bit different but very complimentary to the existing uh building that is just a little over a decade old now at this point at least the newest edition and so it begins to almost kind of hide the oldest piece of the building that may insert the kind of the dark bronze metal comes off of the gym and this kind of shields it some ways this takes

042a lot of design restraint because it feels like a classroom addition and architects kind of want to dabble in the land of where's the entry and where's the kind of grand move and we really think this is a bit of a this kind of the backdrop. It's an extension to uh to the existing facility and we're keeping the entry in the same place. So, how do we kind of steer people into that from a site design perspective and uh being really thoughtful about how do we have a nice quality building but to a degree it's almost almost understated and really trying to show that design restraint and have it be complimentary to the rest of the facility. perspective of that entry. We did get a comment from the community from that community meeting. Really good

043comment about um feeling like this is White Fish Resort High School because of that logo. So, we'll have to be really thoughtful. That was a really good com. We've talked about how you can't make us cry because we all survived architecture. So, we welcome the criticism. In fact, I would welcome more of it than we've received. you've been pleasant to work with, but that doesn't mean that you can't uh give us that critical feedback. It's really important to the success of it of the project. Um so there's still a lot of work to be done on all the detail, including that sign. But some kind of monument sign there that really denotes the entry. Um it's it's a site component that really reinforces where the existing entry is. And there was thought put into that

044of whether administration moves. um or it stays and how do you work with it if it stays? You create a new front door again in this project and what happens the next with the next addition and the committee landed on this being the best move from a cost standpoint and really let's drive the design around finding that front door. So that's what we're that's what we're continuing to work on through this design cheap. Yes, this and sometimes it's not really noticeable right away, but the closure Yes. Yeah, it does get kind of almost lost in some of these renderings because you're always looking on the left side. So, if you remember when you look when you're walking into the high school and you're more or less on the um the west sidewalk of the drop

045off loop. So, up on the upper right is actually an enclosure of the library. The library is kind of in the higher roof form and then there's that open deck. Currently, we love that kind of interior exterior blend as architects, but oftent times those spaces end up being underutilized and it's just it's hard in our environment. Try to drive kids outside and create those opportunities as much as we can, but this space was maybe deemed um better and more usable if we actually captured it as interior space. So, there's a roof there and there's a floor structure under it. Um, so it' be a matter of it's not like making it overly easy, but you're putting up essentially two walls to enclose that. You still got to think about some lighting systems and finishes and

046HVAC and those kinds of things. But yeah, certain elements of schools are very hard to expand. Um, as you think about more classroom space, what does that mean for the commons? What does it mean for gym? Does it mean for the library? sometimes those aren't as easily expanded when it comes to dealing with enrollment increase and planning for that enrollment increase. So those kind of core pieces of it if you don't rightsize them right out of the gate and really have a a real long kind of view of what enrollment might be those are very tricky spaces. the commercial kitchens another one just how do you deal with that influx students and the more pulled back version so you're standing kind of with your back to the cse is probably actually off to your right

047slightly here you're looking back at the full edition and catching a little bit of the uh the gym and the music wing in the uh on the left there kind of in the upper left and then this is uh not to be forgotten about this addition on the back as well, the um the CTE. So, this is the expansion off of the um the welding and woods and has a handful of classrooms back here that are more shop spaces and a fabrication hall. So, that's kind of in the zone where we have the fenced uh driver's ed vehicles and and the portable mill currently. So there's been a lot of thought developed around how do we really embrace the uh the the driftboat company that the the district has purchased. How do we incorporate things

048like that into the curriculum? Where do where do material storage go and how can we maybe drag some of those projects outside and and work on them outside when that makes sense and really start to kind of almost build out what's been dubbed as the fur alley side of the school. really start to kind of expand it to its maximum that way while still allowing for um deliveries uh for for the commercial kitchen. Got deliveries for metals and woods happening here. Uh trash pickup, fire trucks still need to get back here. There's a lot of large vehicles that we still need to think about accessing this space from time to time. So, it really starts to kind of round out that edge of the property. You just think about the high school um son's athletics,

049but you think about just the parking and the vehicular circulation out back and less space do you have left for building. And then some interior shots. So this is uh on the second floor of the uh addition looking north. So you see uh on the right uh just just beyond uh the female scale figures in there, you've got a little light well. So you can see some of that natural light that was in that original kind of building uh section concept. So you you actually get this connectivity down to the lower level and where you get this kind of full extent of that gym wall where we can be doing those fun things with the environmental graphics and showing off all the accolades and you can be able to actually read them up high because

050you'll have access to the second floor and can see them from that level as well as the first floor. So you got this connection between the two floors. classrooms over on the left. And this is a view from the current commons. So, the sunken commons from the 2013 edition. And then you're really looking back towards the uh the courtyard near the entry. So, next time you're in the commons, that brace frame that's on the left, which is the the kind of dark gray structure there, that X on the left, that exists today. And so you can kind of orient yourself that way if you remember what that's like for next time you're in the high school. So it's looking out through the windows that are there currently. Um you would be filling that in and

051creating an an extension of the commons with that staircase that leads upstairs. When you when you stand at the top of that staircase and turn left, you'll have the view that we just looked at on previous slides. This is below that first view. So, we're down on the first floor with the gym entry off to the right. This is a look at a space that would be it's kind of an extended commons as well, but it could be uh closed off or separated differently that it could be used for after hours events. Um, a number of them. And then in particular, it sits next it sits between culinary arts and um and uh and hospitality. And so they have a lot of synergies and uses for a space like this. So it's kind of open

052for all and then might be scheduled at certain hours for uh for their curriculum and then beyond you get a glimpse into the student store and then the business uh classroom is just beyond that. So this is an opportunity for um using the having that student store available to uh during events and having fans be able to go make purchases in the student store. One of the shortcomings of the current uh design, the current the current building is that it's on the other side of the barrier when close down the school and then put it in event mode and keep people from being able to get back into admin and classroom areas. The student store is on the other side of that barrier so people can't access it during this time. So this this really

053makes it a a prime retail place where you get a captive audience coming out of the out of the events. Then this gives an idea of some of the uh some of the flexible seating and spaces we're planning for. This is an idea in the independent high school. So if you remember, we've got the existing independent high school on the south end of the building and then working our way north. There's an art room and a business classroom and then the current school store. So the idea is that the independent high school would grow north into that space and then there would be a suite of student services just north of that that would have an adjacency with current administrative spaces as well. This is a a look in the independent high school. And then

054we take a hard pivot over to the athletics on the other side, not to be forgotten. And uh I think this pretty much matches my previous presentation hand in hand, but I'll give it, you know, kind of step for step, but I'll give a quick reminder that this is a a 10lane track on the oval and on the straightaway. And to the north is a long and triple jump with expansion with an opportunity to expand with another long and triple jump uh set of lanes. Just inside the oval on the north side is uh two there are two um pole vault pits and then in the left Dzone. So that's kind of inside the oval but outside the west end zone of the football field is high jump. It's also set up to have one

055on the other side as well as that as that uh event grows. And then you also have an opportunity to be working with middle schoolers at that time as well. Uh you've got a football field, football and soccer field grass that's set up in the middle. We've got a planning for a a nice underlaying uh underlaying drainage system under that field. also would be a sandbased system which is really more of a premium kind of field that uh has good drainage and also reduces sports injuries and concussions and those types of things. Continuing to work our way south, we've got kind of a fenced line which is also so that kind of keeps the athletes and coaches separate from the parents and fans and that aligns with the front side of the bleachers. We still

056have our 1500 seat bleacher uh system south of that with proper viewing angles for that outside lane on the track. We've got our announcer scorekeeper uh booth up above that also accommodates kind of home and away teams. So, and for all mode soccer, football and track. And then to the left of that kind of east west spine is our field building. You'll see a little blown up version of that in a moment, but that's a combination of buildings that are it's actually deemed as one building, but it looks like two in plan where it's concessions, um, a little bit of it space and ticketing. Um, and then storage and restrooms. You actually enter right between what looks like the two buildings. So, you kind of come under underneath underneath a roof, you get a little

057bit of rest pit and then kind of squeezed out into the the rest of the facility. Um that number five is a practice field which would be slated for that future stadium and then all your throws are are happening over on that call it the south uh west excuse me southeast quadrant. So that's your shop javelin discus at the hope garden would remain where it currently is this plan. Next, next are slides are just blown up versions of those so you get a little bit better idea of that field building and then the announcer booth at the top of the leechers and then even yet enlarged yet again of that kind of the north half of the field building and then south half of it and there's also so as we're proceeding into these next

058phases there still continues to be some room for some modification and reductions here. We just want to continue kind of managing budget and making sure that we're meeting code, meeting the intent of the bond, of course, making a making it last and be beautiful at the same time. It's kind of balance all the things we strive to achieve. Is it a design team? I think that's is that the last slide? I think so. Okay, I made it. I see you bring water with you. I did. It was a much longer when it was the community meeting. It was a much longer presentation and I I uh I split it in half with one of my colleagues. Any questions? So I was just wondering on the bathroom pictures the very last side. Are those drinking fountains

059outside the restroom? There are drinking fountains out there. What the best solution for that? They're required by code. I just think we should always offer free water. It just bother you always have to like pay for water. might just think free water and like that bottle. Yeah, bottle fills like a I was just making sure that's what that was like a practice field by code. My hesitation in there was I feel like it's still a little unresolved because we've been talking about the ability to winterize this building and that's always a challenge with uh those exterior. You just got to get the right got to get the right it's a maintenance item. So, it's one of those things I would love for it to be inside, but it really feels kind of awesome. Yeah, unless

060you put like one in each side each doorway for the men and the women. Yes. Um, and then regarding the wrestling room and like the cheerleading and how's that coming together? Yes. I glazed over if you It's probably half or a third of the way through the presentation, I think. Yeah. There's a it's a little unresolved yet. We know we need to accommodate for wrestling and I think there's probably a greater longer term plan for wrestling as well. Um that probably plays out with that football stadium at that time. But the more immediate plan is we are looking at so on the southeast corner of the gym that space is really underutilized today. It's that darker brown space. So that's where we have some cardio equipment. some some sort. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It's got a

061it's got a number in it that represents just when we're counting kids and teaching stations and internal use that little dot. But the uh that space is about the right size for one and a half wrestling mats. Okay. And so what that next move is, I think while this is being redone, there's probably a season where wrestling exists at the middle school and then comes back here. And then what does that look like? And then what does that look like as that program sets itself up to expand? So it's a temporary move to the middle. Correct. Yeah. remember if wrestling or a bonus room is that part of our package? Not specifically. I think it was part of the original because the original bond that failed that had both pieces combined had an accommodation for

062it out in site as its own standalone building. Got it. So you have more flexibility and that and then that was reduced when we the bond was repackaged. There was discussion expansion purpose. Yeah. But not but it's not in the language. So well it does say doesn't say specifically. Okay. And we have that in multiple places that could criteria. Okay. For sure. Okay. It's just whether or not it's I think there's some questions like we have here. Got it. Yeah, because it did go through two routes, so it's hard to remember. Yeah, the second one was just I think the community heard that the wrestling was moving to the middle school and that's all they heard and that has created some chatter. Yeah. amongst the people of the wrestling community. And you know, so that

063original fasttrack schedule, they would already be over at the middle school probably because their building would be gone like like next week and so we're not on that path anymore. So we had a little bit more time to resolve it. But yeah, that was that's where we were originally heading schedule that building building that currently needed to go away, right? So we need to immediate resident season. I think that will still probably play out when we look at the phasing plan, which we're just starting to dig into as we this is all settling down and now Martell needs to figure out what's what's the most optimal way to build it. That's try to mitigate some of the disruptions to school. We know there still be some disruptions. there's a balance point as we continue to

064operate amongst the coccupied construction site. Yeah. Can I ask a question? Um and I don't know if this is you question or a cur question is um if I were in an airport and I was at like the orange block on the far and then I had to go down to this like how often do kids have to do that? Like is this logistically doable in whatever between class? I don't know this answer. I'm just a guess. It looks fun. Does that make sense what I'm asking? Y I think in relation to the current setting, if you vision going from the music room, current music room to the far end of the building, if you went all the way down past the office, you know, down to this is really an extension. If you look

065at the existing building, it's not far in relation to what already exists. Okay. So, it feels very feasible. Very much. Yeah. Very much improved from the previous design that did sprawl a long ways. Yeah. That I remember that. Okay. So, this feels comfortable for tech. Yeah. My other question along those lines is that I know um Josh could comment on this is that because the classes coming up are bigger because they're louder. Um correct. Um I hear a lot about this the cafeteria etc. So with the more open space and the bigger common zone like is that a concern for the classrooms then that are close or like what does that look like if you have people in that hub but then you also have people in the classroom next to I'm just curious questions.

066We have an acoustic consultant on board that they're about ready to dig in and actually get to work on this that we we know enough of those acoustic design principles when we're laying this out that we got to be careful about some adjacencies and things. Sure. I always hire the same consultant for three things in the school. One is room acoustics. So, you know, we're not doing anything to the gym in this pl in this case, but it's usually like gym music rooms. In this case, it's the commons. Just what is the room acoustics from the performance? When you have that many people just talking and if you've been in a restaurant that has no acoustic treatments, it's rough. It's it's almost as bad as the space being overheated. It's just a different sense that

067is uncomfortable. Um, so that's one thing. Another one is the sound transmission through through the walls. without getting totally nerdy on it. It's just uh thinking about first solving it with adjacencies, but also just what is the wall assembly between them. So sometimes you add other layers of sheetrock or it might be a double stud or you might be thinking about other assemblies that actually reduce that sound transfer from one space to another. So we want to be thoughtful classroom to classroom, classroom to corridor if there's a restroom or anything nearby. We also want to be thoughtful about that adjacency. Obviously, that's why music ends up being kind of in one end of the building because they they are kind of the biggest noise makers, but um but yeah, those are really important adjacencies and

068things to be thinking about uh test taking and where do you get your quiet space? Those things all are are really important thoughts. And then the third, not to be forgotten, is uh um HBAC noise. oftentimes you can hear an air handler kick on or you feel a vibration through the building and um and sometimes that can also be a pathway between adjacent rooms that are served by the same duct work. So my voice might go up through that register and out to the one next door. So be thoughtful about sound attenuation through the HVAC system. So so that consultant is on board for all three of those things on your project as well. Great. Yeah. Great. Well, I've had classrooms next to a gym floor and the balance for the walls like all the

069time. So, I'm like, I wonder how um is gonna like that. Yeah, those impacts and the impact noises and then you've also uh oftentimes you're just you're working out in there. So, I've been in there measuring things. You hear and and the music's been awesome. It was like I think the gym teacher and I might be the same age and went to high school at the same time. Selection was great. you approve. Yeah. Thank you. Pierce, I guess I have a question. Um, I love light and I love like skylights, but at the same time I always like I feel like living here I don't know one person who has never replaced a skylight in their house for or they get like fily. Um, and so I just is that kind I don't know the

070thoughts. It's a very good question and Chad was channeling you as we sat on committee. We're not doing flat skylights. They're actually, it's just easier to call them a skylight. They're flat in that diagram, but if you actually go to the rendering, that's I don't know, twothirds of the way through there. It doesn't give you the best view of it, but it's actually vertical glazing. It's actually more of a clear story, sometimes called a roof monitor. Um, oh, you're just about there. It was the first rendering, the first interior rendering. There's that one. But you can see a little line of them up there on the roof. You see the vertical glazing? See? So, it's just like coming. You got it. Yeah. So, it's more like the roof is doing this and the glazing is

071vertical. So, like the sun's able to come in into that volume without having to clean those windows. They're touched less, but yes. I have some windows in my house that really regret. Yeah, they will get dusty. No doubt. And there's going to be some maintenance on the roof anyway. So, it's probably a good time to clean them when you're up there like not you, but when Chad's up there, we're up there cleaning out rainwater leaders and things like that. What's probably going to happen as we get systems incorporated into this is that between those skylights, so you won't have one in every structural bay, but there will be mechanical units sitting between them. And we're going to work to screen those with kind of it'll feel like kind of one volume of skylights and mechanical

072screening. Try to be thoughtful about not having these mechanical units that we fight mechanical engineers on on ruining the architecture. Yeah. So there'll be other things to maintain up there. There is there any concern about the roofs being flat with our snow and that kind of thing? It's a good question. How deep do you want to dive in? Well, on your first one, it kind of shows it how it works. Here's Yes, there were a few diagrams in those early presentations. It was pretty small in this one. Yeah. Um, I had the same question. So, structurally, we designed them for whatever whatever the roof shape is. All of 93 North and Callispel is big box stores. They're 40,000 square foot buildings that have a low slope roof. Okay. And if you put a gable on

073them, like Lowe's has a faux one on on the front, right? But if it literally had a gable, that thing would be five times as tall as it is or more. The 412 pitch. Um, much more expensive. There's a yin and yang to doing roof design in snow country and you got to be really thoughtful about entering on kind of the gable side and not on the eve side. You have that challenge right now uh on the current F-wing that we'll be demolishing. You'll next time you approach the high school, you see the amount of snow brakes up there. There's these little angles that are attached to the roof. They're meant to hold the snow because that roof material sluffs the snow, creates an icy mess, can hit people, can hold and slide. So, there's

074a lot of thought about roof form and roof material and whether you want to hold snow or slough snow. Be really thoughtful about where that's done. Um, of course, sloped roofs slough the snow quickly unless they're asphalt shingles, which is the high school. It holds them. So, so just making sure we're kind of being consistent with our strategies in that. Um, it's really nice having a flat roof gives you an opportunity to really control water and runoff on the roof and not have ice damming and other things that are maintenance issues that Chad's dealing with. So, you've thought a lot about it. I do want to say I'm very impressed with the bathrooms that facility. You did a lot more female than you did male. That was very good. I'll I'll give credit to the

075people that wrote the codes because we just followed the codes. They already accounted for the, you know, the classic female restaurant line being that was wonderful. Yeah. Good questions. I have one more question. Um, back to the athletics part. Um, there was a specific question about Olson as well as Hamilton. and I think have options where for track specifically not just football um that you can utilize the scoreboard to show like real time of events like people crossing them. Um certainly that's obviously a budget thing all the things but is it is that the type of thing that you like lay the electrical so to speak foundation for so that at a later time if someone fundraises Yeah. Is that how that works or what's the concept behind those kind of detail things of the

076athletics because I know those boards are very different, aren't they? It's football and football and soccer. So soccer has fewer things to Yeah. But um but they're pretty similar. Track is harder. All the track events are harder. A video board would be amazing if we could make that work. and financially, right? Um I know the booster club has already raised some money and they've got enough money for kind of more your typical board right now. I would say even if that board wanted to get upgraded into the future, if we can't accomplish it, this project, there's still conduits with the power and and the um there's lots of different ways to control them now. might be might be wireless or it might be and even just at like even if it's on the track just

077like the real time clock like the view that's great. Uh Eric Harris and I have also spoke about other opportunities because how do we um how do we start thinking about some Wi-Fi outside and also some strategic power. So in light poles putting some line voltage power in there so at the end of the high jump triple jump then you could have another standalone board that wouldn't be there during a football or soccer game. Yeah, also some power near the uh goalposts. So, not only for the play clock in those sports, but also could be those additional boards for those additional events. So, there might be even if it's not on that video board that's marked as or not on that scoreboard, if the scoreboard marked as four is not a video board on day

078one, there's still going to be other opportunities to control those things. Eric was talking about some um systems where I just need a board to plug in and I could actually run it off of an iPad standing next. Yeah, there's potentials if I just want to make sure. Yes. Y for that flexibility. Good question. I just also wanted to say um somebody went what probably one of your few people you had a community engagement meeting um just talked about how engaging it was and how much they enjoyed it and how well it was organized and facilitated and said nothing but great things to say about the team that was there and how it went. So you didn't have a lot of people. I think the people who showed up were really happy the entire process.

079So thank you for providing that for our community. That's high praise. Thank you. Yeah, it's been a pleasure. That was those are always fun. It's fun to show it off. It's also a little tense because you're in the crosshairs. It was good. The feedback was all really good. We'll take the constructive feedback, too. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. on to out of district students. Okay, so um this is a a list of out of district students for next school year. Um and these students grade ranges throughout the district K through 12 with exception of sixth grade or sixth grade school but criteria to be recommended for out of district enrollment for the 25 to 26 schools. Does the bold line delineate a mistake or a delineation of elementary is the full list

080of our out of district students for next year for next school year to start the year at this time. We'll do another one of these in August. Okay. To consider applications in August, but we specifically have indicated in our policy with June time we'll consider recommendations for the following year. Can I ask you a clarifying question? Um, just like you said sixth grade specifically being full, does that mean it's got like an 80% capacity so that if two new kids moved into sixth grade moved in the district it's at 87%. So it's already above this criteria. So we can't consider out of district at this time. Now that can change that enroller out of district like middle school or vice versa. It's fairly consistent. Although there's quite a few kindergarter district students in this group,

081which is a good thing. Our kindergarten enrollment is low this year so far. So, but I would say there that's where our highest number is, but then the rest of it is fairly spread out evenly amongst the Did that include since the last meeting you talked about that had been like maybe they moved out of district but stayed in the system or this is these are brand new students who are requesting to be enrolled in our district for next year. So very nice time we did renewals currently with us. Okay. So this is these are brand new students. So this isn't the total number of students that are out of district. Last month was this is just the new students for next year at this time. There any other any public comment? Back to the

082board for more discussion or a motion. I move approved. Second move by K, seconded by Ry. All in favor. Uh, okay. Back to Mr. Beans for out of district application denial. And this um this is a recommending administration recommends denial of district enrollment application for the following student which represented by a number um for the 25 six school year adding another student would exceed our 87% accreditation for the grade level as referenced in the white district. Any public comment back to the board for a motion or further discussion? to the question. What assuming you you accepted one more student what does that what does that say over you know would be 99 I don't know I'm sure no I don't but it's over 87 so if somebody moved into the district and It's close to

08387%. Absolutely. Yeah. The difference is anybody in the district. That's why we have an 87% cap gives us that room to be able to consider people who move into the district. The only thing I notice is it and maybe this is wrong. Maybe the question I'm asking is it appears that there might be related students to this student because there was a 2544. There was a 25344. Now there's a 2544. And are they really family? I mean all I can think of is two members of the family got in and one didn't. Um the numbers have no no they don't have any good they're random numbers that are generated although that can happen yeah that would be a difficult difficult yeah that's right we approve it as I asked Okay. Sorry. So moved by second

084by Katie. It's all in paper. Flathead crossroads agreement with Evergreen School District. Thank you. Uh recommended for the boards at Global is our annual agreement with the Ever Range School District specifically with the Crossroads program uh to provide uh student services. So the same thing we do every year, right? Is this the same thing every year? Yes. Learning big changes to the contract. Anything noteworthy? Nothing noteworthy. Okay. Any other questions? Is there any public comment back to the board for a motion or further discussion? I move we accept the agreement moved by Jerry by R. Back to Lucy for the interlocal agreements before the soul school district. Thank you. Presented for the board of approval are two pupil transportation agreements. The first agreement is for busing services for students residing um in the white school

085district who attend the whistle district. These students will be picked up at designated bus stops within the white fish school district. And the second agreement is for busing services for students residing in the only Bissell district who attend the Whitefish district. These students will be picked up as designated bus stops within the only ble district. Uh again these are our annual agreements. We present them at uh meeting. Okay. So, it's just any questions. Any public comment? Any uh further discussion with the board or a motion? I moved as second by Darcy and seconded by Katie. All in favor? We all got there. Okay. Uh, moving into J, which is our extra duty renewals. No name. I just pick you. So, uh, yes. So, administration recommends approval of our extra duty renewals at this time for

086the middle school and for um extra duty renewals for the high school as well. Questions. Are there any personal conduct issues you need to be aware of? No. Any other questions? Any public comment? I think I had the same comment last year. Um, but it'd be cool if one of these days the extra duty for the high school had my new last name on it. Fine. No idea how to No, it's okay. You know, it took Mr. Ross a little bit of time because he came he retired when I got married and then when he came back and he was just like, I just keep hearing about this Miss Odell person. She sounds really great. Like, who is this? You know, it's fun. Well, you know, one of these days we can fully embrace it.

087Think I think we might get it. All right. No apostrophe. Back to the board for further discussion or a motion. I guess I just want to acknowledge um like we talk a lot about community involvement and student engagement and a lot these people on these two lists do a ton for our students. So, yes, I just want to say thank you. Well, I really like the layout of this, how everyone's presented, like we know who the head coach, assistant, freshman, kind of how we talked about it. I do like how, you know, specifically who everybody is and what they're doing within every program. I like how it was presented. Yeah, that's super cool. I'll say Moved by Darcy, seconded by Jerry. All in favor? Yeah. Uh Mr. Personnel for recommendations for hire. So our uh

088next group of recommendations for hire are We have assistant wrestling coach temporary jump educator positions are listed here language colle that's attached So it talks about like this one isn't a very good one. So you it says number of applicants and then number of finalists and it says interviewed and I'm kind confused if you go down to don't Johanna basket it says there were six applicants there were six finalists but then interviewed it doesn't it's like blank and it's blank on all of them. So I don't know what interviewed means because says that they had three applicants, only one finalist. So, did they only interview that one person? Then it's Could I answer that? Yeah, sure. The the word interviewed is actually attached to the previous number of applicants interviewed is Oh, number interviewed. It

089It just It prints out kind of weird in this. That makes a lot more sense. But wait, we have finalists. I don't know. This is like crazy. You didn't know we would have finalist questions. Oh, great point, Dad. Okay. So, it's just a formatting issue of number interview. Um, okay. Thanks, Carrie. That was a lot more. I was going with all sorts of ideas. Yeah. Never interviewed. Never interviewed me. Yeah. Never interviewed. Yeah. Um, okay. Perfect. And then my other question is I thought we talked at one point of making sure we had like when we were interviewing for building staff we had either like that subject or grade level staff member helping with the interview like more of a committee process and the same with coaches that we would have coaches sitting in on

090those interviews. Is that not something I don't I don't blank but I thought we had we had some training recently in our group processing and we including our different personnel not on the internal interviews our coaching and extra positions are done a little bit differently but primarily administration sometimes coaches are involved hence if it's an assistant coach versus a head coach and then um we do include other people on the interview uh group team u but they don't necessarily ask the questions now but they provide input at the end terms of the candidates And then the decision is made by administration. The reason it looks a little different here is the administrators are listed as people making the recommendation. Okay. So when it says like members of the interview team, you would put staff. We

091don't list them all there. They're there. Okay. But not in all cases because uh we don't have staff on internal, right? So it's just if it's a external Yeah. Okay, because we had I remember that we had talked about when you went to the the training the MTSBA activities training how important it was to have multiple stakeholders represented on those convenience. So it doesn't look like that on the forum but you're saying it is like that. It is that way. Um and it has been something we've been working on specifically trying to make sure that the administration are making that recommendation and that's clear and that's what this is about. But also we do include other people in those interviews. It's just asking questions necessarily, but they it give an opportunity for them to provide

092input. They're just not considered members of the interview team. Exactly. Absolutely. So do the people who are not on the interview team like you said, they're there not to ask questions, but are they still um I don't know how you say it voting or scoring like are they No, there's no scoring away from that process. doing well. So, so yeah. So, um, and we've done that for quite a while. So, we're taking notes and information and team makes a recommendation based on the best fit for that position, they have an opportunity to provide input on that into that process. I guess my I think it would it be in I guess as a community member if they went into our minutes for a meeting or looked at this and would it be inappropriate to show

093everyone who was involved in the decision just to show that full transparency that yeah there are actually people or whatever it is and they provide input to the problem. I don't think it's yeah I think that I mean it might that go a long way. Yeah. Yeah. So because then you could like you said your example I'm assuming like Dave Brishio like since he's internal there won't be there won't be so like Tyler and Josh would be they just be the people right because it's right so it doesn't make sense and some extra that way a little bit because you have a head coach who's helping assistant coach so there's fewer members on some positions but do want representation And I'm sure that takes a lot of work to like coordinate and schedule. So you

094might as well get credit for it. But yeah, that is nice and thoughtful. Good question. Thank you. Can I ask a question? Are all your jump start your summer PE? They're all filled, right? All your summer school people or are you are you short people? Um Sarah I think we still need to fil so we may be rever and then um I think it any other No problem. But every everything else we're we're good to go. Are there any other questions? There any public comment? Uh I have a little from a WA perspective. I think I appreciate that you guys asked about the teachers being on the interview committee. That's come to me a lot especially in the last couple months. What's going on? Why is that different? So I appreciate if they pay attention

095to that. The teachers are invested in that process very much especially content teachers and specialists but any other public back to the board for discussion or motion. We might need to clarify what the standard procedure is someplace. Why it's one way one time and why it's another right is not a committee external is committee members of the committee all that kind of stuff we could I think yeah that could be and that would be helpful for teachers to know if there was a standard procedure if it's inhouse as opposed to out of district and I guess the why behind it was updated was just for based on people guidance making sure we're following the reports the announcements. No, no. So, um, after after having a few meetings and had a meeting with the admin team

096and Dave, as well as talking to all the board members and getting everybody's input, I think what it could work best is having two work sessions this summer with Deborah Sil. So they would be essentially July 22nd which we had talked about and then the work session in August which would be I don't have it on here 26th. Yes, it would be the 26 and the way it would look essentially or my vision of it would be the the 22nd I think would be a board very much focus on the board and professional development with Deborah and having with the seven of us while it will be an open meeting um but really kind of focusing on governance and uh having her come and speak and then the meeting in August having her come back

097to be a bit of a facility facilitator with us and admin teams and and just discussing you know we're talking about these ideas of the processes and transparency and trust and and kind of but I think the board we really like to meet first and really hash out kind of I don't know just have our conversation about what is and that's my vision if anyone else has a different vision I so you said that July would be looking at professional development for us kind of just for us. Yeah. That she would be doing that. Yes. Helping us. Yes. She'll be helping us and then she's going to come back for the second session. My only thought Gohead. Yeah. You go ahead. No. No. My only thought is because I'm super I Yeah. Just logistics. so

098that it makes the one when she comes um with less of the focus on just the board, more of the group um mediation stuff is the day before the first day of school. Is that so? I'm just not sure if that's awesome for her or everybody else. Um it's that first week. So I'm just curious from like a team standpoint if that is the um I don't know. I've just throwing that out there that that is what it is. I think that's well I don't know what I guess this is a question I don't know is like can a work session move I mean the thing we could move it maybe the before I don't know though what that looks like if that's I don't know like when's the admin back yeah that's bad so

099after that so like the 19th after you were back the 11th Yeah. And we have a business on the 12. Sorry, I'm really messing you up with I was looking at the wrong month. It's the 18th. No, it's the 11th. Sorry. sometime between the 11 and the 18 on the 19th, Tuesday the 19th and move our board work session from the 26th to the 19th. Very thoughtful. Does that sound reasonable to everybody? Hopefully is available that that Yeah. I mean, don't feel like it's possible. I know we try really hard to keep our meetings on Tuesdays and that needs to be maybe on that Wednesday the 20th possible or something. It would be a Tuesday or Wednesday. And then my other question and this I have is how I mean do we want to are

100we thinking like six to eight is that I mean obviously the hours no longer focus so I feel like if we could be efficiently run and she seems like a very efficient person from the things I participated with her in the past and out of respect of her time. Okay. Um, that's my two cents on that as well. But but you can all ask her what her format might be and what it lends itself to I think is fair in and out. I think just talking to her I think it think that I was trying to How do you do it all in one? I just think that's better. I appreciate that idea. That's great. Thank you. Yeah. So, and she is a do we know that she's available? Well, she's definitely available and I

101have to read but I'll try to I think she she's been very seems available. Okay. For sure. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That was good. Oh, go ahead. I was just going to say I would just reiterate if we had talked about this before that if and I I'm telling this to myself as well because summer is busy and fun that if we do especially make this appointment for TV and having a guest person come that we all show up. Yes. Right. There's no guarantee every point. Right. That's what I mean. Um Dave, could you talk about Oh, it's a Tuesday. I was thinking it's the weekend right after. Okay. Are you talking about 22? It's the 19th. That's the next I do feel like we just gone that week. Oh, that I'm not going anywhere all

102summer and only from Monday to Friday. It's been very long. But you you can make the 22nd. Mhm. Yeah, that's probably the most accurate. I think that one more I think uh I'll talk more and probably talk more to you guys about what that meeting what we want. Zoom though, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Um D, could you talk about the new stage and um why we needed it and what fund it came out of? Sure. If you don't mind to help our community understand why we bought a new stage that it wasn't paid for with bond money. No, you can't be paid for bond money. Explore that if that was possible. And actually we didn't talk about that. Uh but um we've been actually u analyzing the need for a stage an APA accessible stage

103probably over 10 years having conversations looking at our reserve building and reserve. uh we meet monthly to look at that month. We carefully review it and consider what we need to maintain, what to purchase and things like that. And we're doing that regularly. We've known for that amount of time that we need to put some aside careful stewards of this money because we're likely going to need to purchase a stage that's accessible at some uh at this at the point in time this year evident that that's what we needed. We've tried to rent those from uh others and nobody has the accessible stage components to um so we've been renting the stage itself but you can't get those ramps rent those from anybody. So um we looked into this looked in those for a long

104time. So yeah overall was approximately $70,000. So, it's a significant investment. Um, about 40,000 of that, 20,000 goes to each one. So, that's $40,000 for the ramps themselves and then the approximately $30,000 to the stage and some of the components that go around the stage. So, it's an investment I think for many years to come. I think that's one thing to look at here. can be used anywhere. So that's an exciting part of this. It can be used in all of middle school or outside for instance at stadium graduation for any other events like that. Um but first so it's it's really exciting to see that we saw an opportunity for every student to be included access the stage across the stage and I think um just happy that we could do that and again

105that will be here. Thank you. I think it's a fabulous purch to clarify I think I just um will acknowledge my bias as a pediatric physical therapist is that um the ability to watch the student in his reverse walker independently get on and off as I'm sure we were all very proud of. Mhm. Um, and last year I remember a parent having to assist a student down the stairs and thinking that was beautiful, but also probably not what their peers were also doing. And so it was nice to make it peer matched. So I think it's great. I think watching everybody enter and exit the exact same way the volume. Oh, this is so cool. and hats off for an incredible graduation. You know, those are big lifts at each school and all of the

106graduations and continuations or what do we call them? Promotions. Celebration. Celebration. I've heard nothing but good things including from like the wax museum and the clap out, the kindergarten circus. And it's just been really big lifts, but really meaningful. And I think tweaks like that speak volumes about what we stand for. While expensive, I mean, so worth it. Oh, yeah. It speaks to our priorities for sure. I think it's wonderful that just I appreciate you. It's important to have a discussion about it. Yeah. Yeah. Like you said, it does great to see that. I think again we can use it in many different ways. We're excited about that. that again maybe near future it'll be all science finding well I think I talking with Siri the day before graduation just the effort it took to

107put the stage together and like the practice and how much time people spent like owning it and making it you know they didn't comfortable yeah it was just I think it took just a lot of effort so it was yeah was really And under the honor trustee announcement, I don't know if it's an announcement or more of a question because I don't know if Dave, if this is a question for you to explore. Um, but that there is designated parking at the high school district for athletes. If that's true or not, I don't know if it's No, I'm getting a no from the background. I had not heard of that. So yeah, big deal. They said they made it. They said it was okay. Yes, please. Oh, sorry. Not the sharing word for Yes. No,

108other than some staff designated parking, music teachers, shared staff that have to travel between the buildings. Um, handicap designated parking and then there is a lot that is outside of the locker rooms that we have designated as the senior lot and they have to have a different colored placard. Our students that park on our campus have to buy a parking permit for $5 for the whole year, but it's a different color for the seniors in that lot. Um, and that was actually driven by the student council handful of years ago that came up with that idea and to help the seniors get the premier parking, but there's nothing specifically for athletes. Perfect. Thank you. I like to squash these rumors while I can. I mean, please do. Yeah. Like it's part of my job. Any

109otherments? I was just going to say because Dave and I have had conversations um that and it had come up before the topic I don't know several weeks ago now but I appreciate um the continuing conversations about speaking of athletes and speaking of transitions that as we have a big group of eighth graders moving up to nth grade and looking at all the activities and things they want to participate in is truly looking at like a sticker shock cost to participation in these activities that's beyond just the activity fee but in theory an estimate which I can always move. But if I try out for volleyball and I make the volleyball team, how much are those volleyball shoes? And yes, I'm required to wear the same volleyball shoes as everybody else. Like just what does

110that look like in cost? And if I join DECA and I want to go on a trip, how much does that cost out of me out of pocket? I think that's very helpful in these times of financial strain for lots of families. Um, just a plan, you know, if that's possible. I know that it's hard, but I think it's helpful. I appreciate you commenting on that. I know we've talked about it here in different sessions and things like that before. We have been doing some area working on making sure those kind of lists are kind of people who are coming into those programs as well as looking at considering a cap. Yeah. So, so that's uh there's a some work in that area and we'll see some of that coming soon as students starting and

111you had also mentioned that that one scholarship is perhaps underutilized that offers support for things. So, how that information is rolled out, you know, that kind of just there's definitely some work going on in that area. Appreciate you. Yeah, it's great. So we do have opportunities for those kids who cannot afford to participate where they can get. I think the trick is is that more often than not they won't they won't or they're I think the middle class of white is shrinking and so it's just tricky to still feel included, right? Yep. So you maybe aren't low enough to think you qualify or maybe you do qualify and don't realize it. Um but you're also not someone who would consider yourself Yeah. That would Yeah. So I think no you need it until you add

112up this score and this and this and this and it adds up to be a lot of money as someone who just had a high school graduate like it's it's expensive to to be an active engaged student and that's not just white fish and that's every that's not unique to us. Um I think it's just something to talk about and acknowledge that as much as we want to include everyone and we celebrate it economies at a financial cost of parents or just letting people know how to get help which I guess that students are often told but maybe they don't tell their parents you know like for example AP test fees I've heard from students oh they told us if we can't afford it we but I've heard from parents oh why is this costing

113so much so there's you know in the student and then parents don't read their emails I mean you know yes there's no perfect I was just the multidia approach is probably yeah Or if you want to talk about it like that. Yes, it's in the hand. So if you have any other superintendent. Okay. So um the calendar events changing yourself and Jake is here to go really uh what's coming is students or staff finishing the year. So it's exciting. um some of the events has been talked about already. The graduation is just a wonderful event. It was really neat to see those students walk across that stage as it always is and was done so well. I think so by administration at the high school and everybody who's been involved in that staff that were

114involved and all of your participation in that event was great to see as well. But I think Mr. uh summarized that well and saying what a group of leaders. So I think that would be a way to capture it. So really neat to see that happen and neat to see in the new stage. So exciting you know every time I go it's just it reminds you what this graduation is like really special. love seeing kids come across and getting an opportunity to shake their hands. It's just really special to see their, you know, they're nervous but excited. What a special time. Really those kids have come through our school. We've seen them. We know them, right? And we've all been here a long time. I just Yeah, I love it. And uh great job to

115everybody involved in that. So, and then we have lots of other things happening in our schools as well. And um you know, I think we've got summer school coming up soon, right? Um our jump summer jump start program. Um and then you know as as we think activities are starting to slow down really they're starting to start participating in lots of different things throughout the summer getting ready for school year. So, and as an administrative staff, this is extremely busy for next few weeks or after this this week getting finishing up this school year, getting prepared for next year, doing things like you just talked about, getting prepared for getting information out to parents about costs, things like that, preparing our communications, things like that. So, really busy time, but an exciting time. And in

116there are very few professions that do that. Close the year, start the year or like that, but we do in public education. So we have been through that before. Uh but it it's it's exciting time to close that year and then see those graduates but then then begin immediately preparing for the next year. We have enrollment uh to go over. I want to make sure I touch on that. Um we do have a lot of out of district enroll enrollment that we just approved and and really that makes sense because we've seen some um declines in our enrollment during the school year a little bit a little bit more than we would typically see. So um but we are seeing some people enrolling out of district. So it's kind of interesting. We'll have to watch

117this really closely as we begin the next school year. Um were there some of the movements within the school year? Is that just going to be an up and down movement, you know, that we see within the school year and it comes back to what we had at the beginning of last school year or is that due to economic reasons or people coming back to fill those places, those homes that people left? It's really hard to say. We'll be keep watching that really closely. But what we do know is our middle school and our high school are still in really high numbers. Our high school will be in significant high numbers next year. So our work in towards expansion is very well thought out in terms of supporting that growth in those build in the

118high school building. But you can see in the details there that most of that movement see this time is western US changes here right newly enrolled and withdrawn and then some who um this is something that happens sometimes people leave them early so they're unenrolling so they're going to come What's the H L? Oh, high so it's a type of graduation graduated to high set. So we sometimes see that as well. Oh, they graduate. That's like December, January graduate. They just missed the last month of school like second of third grade. If they unenroll and then they enroll home school, they an interesting continuation. We didn't know there were all these things when we were little these things. So clever. It's an unusual, you know, step of but we're seeing some of that and I

119think it relates to the conversations we've had related to attendance. Yeah. Like for continuity reasons that you just missed the last month of second grade and then you come back but all your classmates had it. But that's why you know someone says we just like to take month well we can't do that but you can unroll enroll in a home school or enroll in another school but not you know we might some people yeah I don't know what that what that entails okay in this situation at all someone enrolling in a different school could be someone enrolling in a whole And it's not very common. Only two people did it. They're probably, you know, second. Yeah. Right. Yeah. It's probably what family. It's just unusual. Yeah. And you feel bad because a huge part of

120the school year is all those memories in May. And so just for the classes. Yeah. Yeah. To change their own. Can I ask an enrollment question because you hinted at it a little bit with um the conversation about kindergarten um for next year because obviously we don't have next year numbers yet but um how did Roundup look compared to or kindergarten round up compared to years past or looking for John slightly lower than previous years um but we've average close 220 every year I think we're a little below that right now in terms of where we were in the past. Yeah, that's a hard thing to predict, right? Absolutely. I was just curious a lot lower or just a little but not that we didn't fill in. We removed one of those teachers. That's what

121I was wondering. And they move to a new spot to another at this time. Now we have an increase in enrollment have the ability to to address that. Let's see your list of resations here. Can I ask a question about that? Um, just because you I actually have the same question. You just ask about the unenrollment of is it common for like the crossing guards like that they resign at the end of the year and then get rehired at the start of the year or is that atypical? Usually you just stay on through the like what's happening just like Josh does such a great job out there that I mean I or like playground supervisor like what's going all the parents are leaving like what is happening? Yeah, it's quite a few par educators and

122things like that. I think that was a little surprising to us at the end of the year, but you know these positions that are hard to fill right now. Yeah. Hard to fill everywhere throughout the country, throughout our state, throughout our valley. Um, and so we have been seeing more turnovers if I recall like Rachel meeting, but we also lost Tia from the middle school special ed. So, you're down a couple last time hit. Yeah, we have interviews this week. Thanks for question. Thank you. Greetings. [Music] So the financial report that's presented in uh presented uh as part of the agenda um was posted uh before uh the county treasurer uh received all the real estate tax revenues. So most of these numbers are really uh not final numbers as of the last day of

123May. Uh both the uh cash balances and corresponding revenues in the general fund and all the other tax limited fund uh are actually approximately $4 billion more. That's nice. Yes. Yes. So um so as you can see the u the report was uh uploaded on June 5th and I only uh received those those numbers uh this morning so I was unable to update it. Uh other than that uh everything is going well. Uh there's nothing unusual ever aware of at this time of the year. And as you can imagine, the last uh month of the fiscal year is just crazy. Uh the payroll person especially this um super assuming that the double attachment there's no difference. What's that? We have the financial report twice. Yeah. If it was good once, it got better twice. That's

124the same. It was just and see if you know what happened. Just go with anything else moving to the consent agenda. There any uh public comments on the consent agenda? Is there any motion on the consent agenda? Happy summer everyone.