001[Music] Good evening. I'd like to call this regular meeting of the Jamestown Public School Board to order. It is Monday, August 18th, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. in the Thompson Community Room at the middle school. We'd like to recognize all those in the audience tonight. And it's nice to have a crowd tonight. And thank you for coming. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Jamie, would you read the school board norms? The board developed norms are to share and respect opinions and speak with the united voice once the decision has been reached. Execute all duties of the school board in compliance with North Dakota century code.
002Properly prepare for meetings and commit to assessing board effectiveness and ensure high quality governance for all stakeholders. Thank you Jamie. We have no public communication under conflicts of interest. Does the board wish to declare any conflicts of interest other than those that have been declared? Any other conflicts? Any other conflicts? If not, moving on to our consent agenda. Would the board like anything removed from the consent agenda or anything clarified? >> If not, is there a motion? >> Motion by Jamie. >> Second by Jason. We have a motion, a second for approval of the consent agenda. Any discussion? Any discussion? Any discussion? If not, assuming roll call vote, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carried. Moving on into our regular meeting tonight, we get to recognize our folks for years
003of service and awards. And so, as your name is called, I'll have you meet me over here and I'll have an item for you. And then we'll have everybody line up here for one big picture. With five years of service, we have Lyanna Brown, Maya Sar, Sarah Hoffchild, Roxan Nitski, Kimberly Roberts, Carla Fuches, Steve Gapinsky, Jay Schlinker, Jason Waller, Megan Winsel, Cassidy Trevik, one of them. Continuing on with staff with 10 years recognition, Tracy Ilif, Kevin Peterson, Michael Kesler, Allison Mack, Christy Eberhart, Melissa Foster, Brandy Hardy, Candace McName, Nancy Anderson, and Jeff Meisner. [Applause] Recognizing 15 years of service, we'd like to recognize Kelly Bower, Dina Fischer, Christy Kosal, Dorothy Linger, Tiffany Hilstrom, Kelly Kesler, Lindseay Ko, and Emma Mickelson. [Applause] Recognizing 20 years of service, we have Deian Gurgen, Michael Romans, Michelle Prasik, and
004Janine Wrath. [Applause] Recognizing 25 years of service, Mike Armmitage, Jim Rolson, Lynette Ryan, Jackie Sheiley, Tanya Hemer. [Applause] 30 years of service. Trisha Gaffne, Shelley Moltzen, Jennifer Gaul, and Jennifer Michael. [Applause] Ready? >> Thank you. [Applause] I wouldn't be surprised. Congratulations to all our staff. That's fantastic. And thank you for all your years of service to Jamestown Public Schools. Moving on our agenda to correspondence, we have a thank you card um from Julie Kruda um in remembrance of family member of the family of Andrew Kuna. There we go. Under reports, we don't have anything strategic plan. Nothing at this time. We hope to have the strategic plan brought to the next meeting. Um we met um last week. Yep. And we'll have one more meeting and kind of just fine-tuning. Um so um we should
005be ready. Um under board education we have educational competency new staff onboarding Mr. Gayler. All right. Good evening. Is that on? >> It's on. >> Okay. Good deal. All right. Uh thank you Dr. L for inviting me uh to talk a little bit about our new staff onboarding. So um last spring we talked a little bit about our J1 teachers uh and I want to just update everyone those uh teachers are still in process due to some you know unforeseen delays I guess uh in the process but we are on track for hopefully next week for those teachers to arrive. So, they're uh they'll get they're going to get a similar experience uh as our other new teachers and then some additional supports as we talked about last spring. So, this would be all of
006our new teachers that were hired and um ready to go by August 12th. um you guys had uh approved some later hires in July and so some of them didn't complete all of these requirements yet, but we're still working with them to get those uh completed. So any new staff member gets enrolled into uh or has a initial meeting with Stacy and HR as well as Lisa in the tech department takes care of all of those needs. They meet with me and we kind of go through a list of modules. Um, and those modules are just designed to really orient people to our district, to our community, to our strategic plan. Um, as well as to take care of some compliance things to try to take a little bit of a load off of the
007three days that we have with our new teachers. In that three days that we have with our new teachers, they spend time um, if they need to follow up on anything with HR or technology department, they do. And uh it's been great because we've had to spend less time with less people on those tasks. Uh and they're just all taken care of ahead of time so they can kind of hit the ground running. Uh we try to um keep a nice moderate pace because we know that as new people there's you can't be overwhelmed with that information and so having those online modules on the front end help with that and then just pacing differently has helped with that as well. We do some uh getting to know you activities. We say that's really important
008for those new educators to know each other well and to know that there are so many people that uh across the district are there to support them. And so they meet a ton of our veteran educators through what's called the onboarding process. That's really day two where they spend time with uh veteran educators from each building going through an onboarding checklist. It's literally about two pages long. the checklist that they uh want to make sure that they know everything from those onboarding partners uh from you know who makes the best coffee to where's the copy machine and and how do I uh load it full of paper if it's out. So they uh go through all the safety protocols. The principles will also meet with them and do kind of a reiteration of all those
009protocols for them. Uh we got a great mental health training uh and just general kind of wellness and advocacy for balance training with Danielle Gizler from the counseling department um representing the counseling department in that. Um then on the third day they get introduced to our instructional coaches. They get to know the role of an instructional coach and how they're there to support them as well. Um Dr. elected a overall wellness and financial wellness presentation as well as talking about uh the vital network and our work in trying to um continuously improve in those metrics. Uh they had some training in special ed and 504 law and then the afternoon of their third day is really focused on what are their individual needs. Some of them met with if they're a brand new teacher, they
010may have uh met with their new teacher mentor that's assigned from the state program. So when you look at all of the supports from, you know, the hiring committee and conversations with a principal on through HR and the tech department and the support of um meeting with me in the online modules and then a three-day kind of intensive, uh people report really good results with that process. and people who've been through other districts and experienced something different um either have insights to offer us about how we can improve or they um have given us really good feedback on what our process is. So, we're always looking to improve that. Um we're waiting for all those survey results to come back in. The PD committee and the instructional coach team also look at those results from
011those surveys just to figure out how can we better support our people moving forward. Um, any questions on new teacher orientation onboarding? Um, otherwise I'd just go over the back to school schedule really quickly, too. >> Any questions from the board before we move on. Okay. Right. Continue, Mr. Gayler. Thank you. >> All right. Uh, when it comes for to back to school professional learning, that's these three days here. Um, staff tomorrow will hear the superintendent report. Uh, I'll be introducing the Marzano teacher evaluation model. We had two days of training with a Marzano trainer on that. Um, and we have a kind of a phased implementation. We'll be talking about that with staff. There's a lot of mandatory trainings, uh, Title 9, CPR, AED, uh, safe schools modules for those that are assigned to
012people. Um, and as well as some time in their professional learning communities and some IEP 504 reviews. There's nurse uh meetings and trainings for students with medical needs. Um each of the schools went over parts of our MTSSB framework, which is our framework for behavioral support. Um they've all been working to understand the focused model. Uh some have had some implementation time ahead of an openhouse night and uh collaboration time ahead of that. uh they've been doing sessions for PAR educators today, tomorrow, and Wednesday. Um feedback from last year was that um there was a need to have more information about some of our our students with um special education needs and to have a little bit more time to prepare. So, building principles have set aside time later this week when schedules are kind
013of all finalized for the staff that work with those uh students to be able to be even more prepared than they have in the past. Um the uh they do a lot with emergency preparedness and protocols and kind of expectations for staff as well in this time. Um, so really, you know, we're focused on the Marzano focused model and PLC structures as kind of a ini uh consistent instructional framework and that's the bigger piece that we're we're rolling out this year, but it's comprehensive of all of the things that we've been working on to this point. So, it's not anything brand new, so to speak. um it's just a different way of looking at that instructional model to kind of try to pull it all together. Um, and then we've had a focus on making
014sure we're adequately prepared to support all kids, whether that's looking at MTSSB frameworks, uh, reviewing IEPs and 504s, and then, uh, additional time this year for, uh, collaborative planning and preparedness for teachers and, uh, fostering that early, you know, home to school connection through those openhouse uh, events and being prepared for those. So that's a little a quick rendition. There is something going on uh a little bit different at each building and we do give that autonomy to those building principles but there's a consistent set of u at least in here uh what those things should be that a a teacher experiences and back to school time as well. >> Sand for any questions on that. >> Questions from the board. Aaron, >> are we ready? >> We are always ready. Yeah. Uh probably some
015people experiencing some Mondays today, you know, but um we are ready. We've got most of the materials here. Sometimes we depend on vendors and shipping, but um and kids keep rolling into the central office to register. We're excited and >> you know, encourage families to consider making that choice. is getting registered here at JPS. >> If I can add if I could add something too from a staffing perspective, I think we're we are have struggled in some areas in the past with filling positions like special ed for example. And I think we are uh better staffed uh in those areas now uh with our ability to fill positions internally uh with uh utilizing our special ed techs with uh utilizing now the J1 teachers when we do get those individuals where I think we're better
016positioned in that in in a lot of those areas than we have in the p have been in the in the last few years. So I'm excited about that too to be closer to fully staffed than we have been in probably two or three years. Yeah. And uh working with that group of new teachers, it's pretty exciting to see the the caliber of people that were getting hired at JPS and that, you know, is a reflection of the work that the board does as well. So pretty excited with the crew that we've got headed into the school year. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions for Mr. Gather? All right. Thank you for your time tonight and all the work you do. Moving on our agenda to the superintendence report. Dr. Le, >> thank you.
017You do have my written report. Um you have some personal uh updates that we'll talk about maybe in greater detail unless you want to have unless you have questions on them now, but later on in the agenda. Uh one I'll point out with theou for the SLPA. Uh I think those are exciting opportunities and in the type of uh opportunities that we need to look for to grow our own staff. uh and this is a great opportunity to do that and I'm excited about what the future can hold uh in that position. uh title fund uh title one funding allocations and the mechan this is a topic I've talked about uh in the past but now that we had final allocations released and we knew in the past we talked about that we thought that
018was going to be about 90,000 well it's now 110,000 part of that is the decreased uh appropriation from the feds we were down about 2 million uh to our state uh block funding so that means decrease plus this model change um I have gone down analytical rabbit hole uh with this issue. Um I continue to be very frustrated by it. Um the squeaky wheel unfortunately for some is not going away. I continue to push on the department on this model. I just don't think it's the right change. I think it's a change that works really well uh for allocation uh for from the state perspective of allocating. I don't think it's equitable. I've provided some examples that I think as schools we need to really challenge. Um so if you look at the total state
019allocation, you know, I ran analysis on every district in the state. Um and we see what we're seeing is there's nine districts. There's a a net loss of nine districts that were eligible for Title One in the past that are that are no longer eligible for Title One. that that um I think it's around 1,700 students that that impacts. So 1,700 fewer students are seeing title one services than we're seeing before. The increase comes in what I call micro schools, schools that are under 50 uh in enrollment. And the ones that we're seeing drop off are, you know, somewhere between 100 and 500 students that were receiving Title One services in the past and are no longer eligible. Uh there's a couple outliers that that really, you know, raised my radar. Uh you know, we
020have a district uh with about 20 students that wasn't eligible last year. They received $130,000 this year in Title One funding. You know, if you remember, so with our student enrollment, we lost 110,000, but a school district with 120 or with 20 students received it, you know, a new $130,000. And that doesn't make sense to me. uh and that's all related to the census model. So what makes sense to me is that that funding goes to students where students are served funding goes to the students that are served. This model follows the census. So these great so graded elementaryaries for example are generally speaking large winners because they a a large number of students reside there but they go somewhere else for um high school or middle school and high school but they receive funding
021as if those students did attend their districts. So that's why you see these big outliers. Uh on average they're somewhere between like $380 per student uh and $470 per student on average uh is is our are or or what you could get could on average expect for a school district funding. But um what I see that this model has done is is solved some problems by more inequitable solutions. Uh so you see we have districts that are receiving a per pupil payment or per pupil receiving title one funding as much as $23,000 a student. Um it just you know when the average is $400 per student those are some pretty big gaps that I just can't make my mind wrap around that they make sense that that's the right solution for a rural state like
022North Dakota. I to me I don't care what the state or what the feds use. I don't care what's the easiest mechanism to determine um the funding appropriations per district. I care about funding going to kids uh and that kids receive services. And when I see 1,700 students that had been eligible for Title One no longer eligible, when you see equity gaps ranging from increasing from 8,000 per pupil to 23,000 per pupil, that that doesn't make sense to me. So, we're pushing back. Um, I'm having a meeting with DPI later this month and we'll talk about uh a solution that I've recommended that we bring some stakeholder groups together and start start to look at the funding model and see what uh what more we could do here. And I I just think it's something
023we want to keep our mind on and around because I think it's really important whether that change impacts Jamestown public schools title one funding or not. I don't think it's the right model for us. And so I want to continue to see us push back on that. uh elementary activities. Uh we've looked we had an opportunity really pretty late in the game, but we had an opportunity to uh enhance uh elementary activities and enhance a community partnership that we have with Jamestown Parks and Recck. If you are familiar with what happens in elementary activities now, um programs all the way up through fifth grade are housed by the parks and wreck. Uh and we have taken on fifth grade. And so what uh we are doing moving forward this year uh and we think that
024it's going to be a more efficient process. We think it's going to be an opportunity to enhance services for our kids. Uh but Jamestown Parks and Wreck will uh complete all the way through fifth grade activities. Uh that'll happen at Two Rivers Activity Center. um because of how our bus drop off works, uh we'll actually be able to I think right now it looks like we'd be able to bus students uh to those uh activities which we haven't been able to do in the past. Uh which I'm I think will enhance opportunities for kids as well. Um but you know it is a change from what we've done but ultimately I think it's one of those efficiencies that we look for and one of those opportunities to enhance the service and enhance a partnership uh
025that I think is important. So with that I'm going to pause there. Any questions? >> Any questions so far? Dan >> uh on that ele elementary activities uh discussion. Um I think this would be a good topic for the communications committee to make sure we are clear of contract and boundaries and things like that for uh the elementary teachers. Yep. That that Thank you for that. There there is a plan to do that. Uh we have a communications committee coming up in the next month. Uh this will be one of the topics that we that we do broach. I do think it's important to recognize that the negotiated agreement outlines not if we will have a various program but if we had a program what would compensation and terms be for payment for those coaches
026or advisers and things like that but but we will bring that up and have had some preliminary discussions already. Other questions on elementary activities you know >> continue. >> Okay. Speaking of other community partnerships, uh we have had a long-standing uh partnership with Collins Aerospace. They've provided support for JVCTC programming. Uh they have done charitable giving for scholarships through through dollars for scholars. Uh and they've even provided funding for our first robotics team. Uh we've had an opportunity to expand that uh through uh some charitable giving at the at the corporate level. Uh and so in the very near future, we're going to be bringing together a group of stakeholders including Collins and look uh at those that charitable giving uh that that uh there's some pre-approval that's happened there already and looking to maximize
027uh that charitable giving and also see what we can expand and align uh moving forward. So I'm very very thankful for that continued support of Collins for um for JPS uh 21st century program funding. 21st Century funds our afterchool programming. Um Tammy, Christy, Adam really did the bulk of the work here. I want to recognize uh what they did to get this application completed. U and we did receive a notice of intent. Now this isn't an award letter, but it's a notice of intent. Uh but in the past, we've had $188,000 uh annually given to our afterchool programming through 21st century uh program funding. and in the 25 to 30 uh program year programs program years will will receive $240,000. There's a still a little bit of a question related to that 240 and if
028it applies to all of our elementary schools uh being eligible for title for after school programming or not. Um that so that might decrease a little bit uh if Gner Elementary is not eligible uh but we're getting still getting some details on that. So, Vital Network is still uh you know, very much at a a core activity for what we do. Uh I'm just sharing a calendar so you can see the different responsibilities that we have as a district from our baseline to our check-ins to our uh more qualitative um information gathering that we issue at the end of the year. But you can see exactly what happens in the vital network partnership. Uh I've included 25 26 facility projects. I won't go through those although we can talk about them if you have questions.
029Uh but we allocated a little bit over a million dollars uh recently uh or in this summer with uh for summer projects on the capital projects plan and just did a breakdown of kind of the key areas uh in each building. So as you can see really a lot of different activities across the district out of that $1 million. Uh and then the spotlight that I had uh was what you've already recognized. We had 42 staff. I wish I'd counted all the years. next year. I want to do that. Uh count up all the years of the individuals so you can see, you know, when those 42 people come up, how many years of service uh that uh those individuals have given to our kids. Uh so just a a great appreciation for the work
030that they've done and do every day. So with that, I'd stand for other questions. >> Any questions from the board? Also, just um circling back to our facility projects um and we do have a long list of them. Um we have a lot to accomplish in a short amount of time while students aren't um in all the buildings and some of our buildings are used all summer. So, it adds some additional challenges. So, appreciate all the people that um did did the work. as you look through the list, some of those when you go into buildings are visible, but there's a lot of work that we do to and and maintenance kind of things that aren't exactly visible like HVAC and all those kinds of things. Um, and you probably don't know unless it's not
031working, then you notice it. And so like like I said the there's been quite a bit of investment um in up maintaining our buildings um this summer and and so there is a list there that kind of highlights all of those. So thank you for providing that. Any other questions, comments? Okay. All right. Moving on our agenda. We have nothing under old business, nothing under and under new business. We have nothing under activities, building grounds, curriculum, assessment, instruction, or finance. Under finance, now we have a approval of a food service meal price for the 2025 to 2026 school year. Is there a motion? Motion by Steve, second by Dan. We have a motion, a second for approval of the food service meal prices for the 2025 to 2026 school year. Any discussion? Any discussion? If
032not, assuming roll call vote, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carried. And a shout out also to the uh JPS cafeteria crew. They were fun to follow this summer and all their their posts and and um they did a great job. So, also under finance, we have our general fund balance as well as monthly financials. Those are there for your information. Are there any questions for Christie at this time about those? Okay. If not, moving on. Under operations, a approval ofou with central valley health unit for the 2025 to 2026 school year. Is there a motion? Motion by Jamie. Is there a second? Second by Jacob. We have a motion, a second for approval of Central Valley Health Unit for the 2025 to 2026 school year. Any discussion? Any discussion?
033If not, assuming roll call vote, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion approved. Under personnel A. Approval of MOU for speech pathologist specialist in training with James River Special Education Cooperative. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Aaron. Is there a second? Second by Dan. We have a motion to second for approval of for speech pathologist specialist and training with James River Special Education Cooperative. Discussion. Dr. Luck. Did you want to comment on this or just explain? Well, just what theou outlines the process pretty well. I think it, like I said, it's an opportunity to bring uh an employee back to the district, uh provide some training for her, uh so she can expand and specialize her service and special ed or excuse me, in speech language pathology, one of the
034most challenging positions we have uh in the district to find qualified staff. And it's just one of those situations that makes sense uh in the short term and long term. Okay, >> any discussion, Aaron? Yeah. So this is stating five semesters. Is there any time frame associated with that or is it you know backtoback semesters or is it >> two and a half years or what what's the time frame for for continual or is it >> it's continual. >> It's it's throughout and she's there there'll be support throughout the process. >> Did that answer your question? just a time frame of when she's going to complete those five semesters >> within a two years or >> couple years. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> Jamie, I really am excited about this um SLPA opportunity. I think
035it really is a great leap forward for us to get some of those special services in person again, which is so vital. So, yay. >> Oh, thank you. I should have qualified some of the comments. You know, we do virtual when we can't fill uh with with people uh and and those are just never those are good services with very qualified people. It's very hard to replace people with screens and when we can get more back to face to face those are that's always going to be what we're looking for. >> Any other discussion? We have a motion a second for approval of theou for speech pathologist specialist in training with James River Special Education Cooperative. There be no discussion. All those in favor say I. I oppose. Same sign. Motion approved. B. Approval of
0360.5 FTE Dean of Students for the 2025 to 2026 school year. Is there a motion? Motion by Steve, second by Dan. We have a motion, a second for approval of a.5 FTE Dean of Students for 2025 to 2026 school year. Any discussion? Aaron? >> Jason, you're next. >> Yeah. Yeah. So on this one, I'm just kind of curious how the uh the logistics and with the halftime to halftime and then in the case where one of them is not available, um what what is the uh um escalation path to and and where do they go? >> Sure. Uh great questions. The with the f with the halftime FTE, it's really worked up pretty well. uh with Rachel Casted as a dean of students says uh she's an instructional coach. So that means there's a little
037more flexibility in terms of the schedule uh that can accommodate uh the halftime better than a classroom teacher would have been able to. So I think the schedule align pretty well. Um what to do with so there's always somebody on campus uh and and those schedules are made uh throughout the year and we can be nimble and respond because of the instructional coach's uh flexibility of the schedule. uh as it relates to uh what happens if neither one of those individuals are on campus because those things happen. uh we might have a meeting at central office but there's already protocols in place for that now you know because in a single section build or a single administrator building uh and we have a meeting at central office of say our elementary administrator team or our
038full administrative team there's already procedures in place for what we do uh if an eent is situation occurs and there isn't somebody on uh and the administrator isn't on campus there' be some individual designated at the building level to address minor concerns. If there's a more significant concern, uh they would have they would be in contact with another administrator or central central office to come over and address those needs. So, that part hasn't changed. I guess the only layer of complexity is now we're talking about two people instead of one, but procedurally it should operate the same and they'll always have the same level of coverage that they had in the past. It'll just be split between the two for this year. question answering. Okay, Jason. >> Yeah, that was the crux of my question,
039too. But, um, Mrs. Casted is instructional coach at Louisie only or is there another assignment >> at Roosevelt? Okay. >> Um, and the reason I was wondering is because it was just kind of confusing the halftime FTE and then on the personal personnel hiring form, it's 15 days between um, you know, for the school year. I wasn't sure how we got the 15 days. >> Yeah. And I should have clarified that 15 additional days like outside of contract outside of the core contract school days. >> Yeah. >> Any other questions? Any other questions? Okay. We have a motion a second for approval of a 0.5 FTE dean of students for the 2025 to 2026 school year. Any other discussion? If not, assuming roll call vote. All those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign.
040Motion approved. C. The approval to hire for the 2025 to 2026 school year upon a successful background check and appropriate lensure. Number one, Stephanie Wall. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Jamie. >> Second by Jason. We have a motion, a second for approval to hire for the 2025 to 2026 school year upon successful background check and appropriate license lure for Stephanie Wall. Any discussion? Any discussion? If not, assuming roll call vote, all those in favor say I. I oppose. Same sign. Motion approved and welcome. D. Approval of semester 1 extended contracts for the 2025 to 2026 school year. Is there a motion? Motion by Dan. Is there a second? Second by Steve. We have a motion, a second for approval of semester 1 extended contracts for the 2025 to 2026 school year. Any discussion?
041Aaron? >> Never. We're going to pass up a chance to talk about extended contracts again. So again, we have we don't we're really lacking definition on why we do this. I would like to see us somehow come up with a form of definition. Um I don't know what that looks like yet. Um but it's just uh you know, we do it because we've always done it. I I just like to operate with maybe a little bit more structure. Um especially considering we only really do it for the high school. Uh we don't do it for a teacher who's also going to be u reading coach or instructional coach or you know additional stuff there. There's no definition. So I think it would bode us well to to give some level of definition whatever that looks
042like. Um, I'd like to see something in policy if we want to try to, you know, generate something up or just, you know, how do we interpret the working day for a teacher? Help us keep that work life balance, but also, you know, I do appreciate the stipen for those that go above and beyond. So, um, it's just I just like to see some some definition around it. >> I agree with you wholeheartedly. uh it's found its way into language in the strategic plan where we do I agree having definitions of what denotes an extended contract at every level you know at elementary what would if if we offered an extended contract what would that be and why would it be at the middle level at the high school level and u providing a greater
043level of clarity and equity around uh the extended contract I I think uh at central office we certainly uh respect that question and understand the need and I think our staff would appreciate the definition of those two. >> Jason, >> yeah. Um my my question was going to be we're looking at pretty much the same um format or the same as we've done yearly, right? Um no no additions, no new extended contracts. Um the these relate to uh shortage areas in three different uh in in science in math and what am I missing? In English, thank you. In ELA, that's mostly related to that. Uh and it's related to the five of seven. You know, right now instructional preps are five of seven. Um if if we go into six of seven, that denotes an
044extended contract. So that's where the definition comes in. um uh you know and if that needs to be redefined or defined in a more definitive way, we certainly can do that. Uh and I I I think it it it denotes um you know, a little more clarity there. But but that's what that recognizes is is those three shortage areas and trying to fill those needs. Some were later fills, later resignations than others. It made it really tough to hire. >> And it's my understanding too that as we look for efficiencies, um, whether that be >> the school day looking different at the high school or the school semester looking different. >> My understanding is some of those decisions can lead into >> Y >> not necessarily needing this as much. Correct. some of those equity,
045you know, equity uh studies. You know, we'll certainly look at time uh in schedules and how that time is uh structured at every level. You know, uh we're talking a lot about the high school now because the extended contracts, but that I mean really when we're looking at the those schedules, we need to be thinking about every different level, not just one. Aaron, >> just to kind of piggyback on that a little bit, is this something that trimesters would help us uh with and and adjust to? >> We believe that it would. Uh I think that there's a a greater conversation that it needs to include our staff and and our community members, our parents before we ever get to that point. But yes, that's part of what um we've identified in the strategic initiatives
046as needing to study. Any other questions from the board? Okay. So, we have a motion, a second for approval of semester 1 extended contracts for the 2025 to 2026 school year. Any other discussion? If not, assuming roll call vote. All those in favor say I. >> I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion approved. Number seven, policies and procedures. A. We have one through four. Is it okay if we do all of them at one time? Is there anything that we'd like pulled out prior? Okay. Number one, resend policy DDB military leave and adopt policy DDBd Military leave. Number two, amended policy AB wellness. Number three, first reading of policy ACG, child safety leaison workg group and mandatory training. Number four, amended policy FF, extracurricular participation requirements. That's one through four. Is there a motion? Motion by Steve.
047Is is there a second? Second by Aaron. We have a motion, a second for approval of recommended policies 1 through 4. Any discussion? Any discussion? If not, assuming roll call vote, all those in favor say I. I. Opposed, same sign. Motion approved. Number eight, under tuition, we have approval of tuition agreements for the 2024 to 2025 school year. Number one, Mont Pillio. Number two, Jamestown. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Dan. >> Second by Jason. We have a motion, a second for approval of tuition agreements for 2024 to 2025 school year. Number one, Mont Pillar number two, Jamestown. Any discussion? Any discussion? If not, assuming roll call vote, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion approved. Any items for future agenda? Jamie. Um much like Mr. Meisner and Miss um
048Eert's experience with the Dina students. I'd love to see Miss Castit and Mishmitt come present to the board once or twice this next school year. >> That's a good idea. Thanks, Jamie. Any other items? Jason, >> I I'm sure at some point we see we will see a breakdown of enrollment per elementary school. just kind of curious as to some of our redistricting thoughts came to fruition or we were off somewhere or >> Yeah, we can do that next month. I'll bring it as part of a superintendent report. >> Um pretty much exactly as we anticipated >> thus far. >> Yeah. Yeah. And I think we sometimes will get the numbers and so that's good of each grade level. So that's great. Okay. Any other items? Any other items? Okay. We have upcoming and obviously
049if you um think of something later please let Dr. Luck or myself know upcoming meetings. We have a back to school breakfast on Tuesday August 19th which is tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. and B strategic plan committee meeting on Monday August 25th at the central office conference room at 5:15 p.m. And we have a schoolboard meeting on okay Tuesday. It's on Tuesday. It's our only Tuesday meeting, September 2nd, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. in the Thompson Community Room. Any other meetings that we didn't get? Dan, >> do we have a schedule for the communications committee? >> Yes, I think that is after our next school board meeting after. >> Yep. Yep. It's in September, but it is after the next school board meeting. So, it's not between now and September 2nd. So, it's the middle of
050September sometime. >> September 4th. >> 4th. Okay. There you go. >> So, right after our next meeting. >> Sometime after. Good. A little closer than I thought, but it I knew it was after the next meeting. Jason, >> have we discussed uh um strategic planning session um potential to discuss some of these facility issues? Um >> retreat. >> Yeah, board retreat. Sorry. >> Retreat format. >> We need to find a date. Uh the idea was we would have our strategic plan first >> have our u you know sometime maybe Novemberish that would work >> probably early November late October early November so somewhere in there >> we can start putting together some some dates and looking at those um the strategic plan um is is very close we have some um feeling better about the
051metrics um that are built into it. And um so we'll um have one more meeting here and hopefully kind of fi try to finalize it so we can get it um to the board for full board approval at the next meeting. Any other finance facilities? Anything else coming up that we have scheduled so far? Okay. All right. Um remember to your monthly superintendent evaluation. Oh, this just reminded me. I'll finish this. Section two, board relations and section four, curriculum and student support services. Um so reminder to complete that I'm going to ask a couple of you to um look at the superintendent evaluation that is coming up again in November and we especially now that the strategic plan is also getting very close um we looking at possibly lining some of it to um the
052evaluation to align with the strategic plan. So I have one volunteer so far and so if there's another um board member or two okay Jason um to volunteer then um I will we'll create a little task force and as long as the board I think we discussed that at a previous meeting and the board was okay with that. If you have any concerns with that let me know but we'll kind of bring that forward and then we can be ready for for November. We'll have to finish with this one and then we'll be ready to start between no November and March. November will be here in a couple months. So, all right. There being no further business before the board, this meeting is adjourned. Thank you everyone. Hey,