001Would you do roll call please? Vote here. >> Here. Madson >> here. >> Campbell. >> If we would all stand for the for it stands. nation with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. >> Yes. >> Item 100 A. The contract list. I think we're going to increase the wage for Dominic Williams from 1881 per hour to 1956. to pass his test that will be effective on February 2nd. >> And then we're going to under uh resignations and retirements Lori Aly high school secretary effective June 5th, 2026. Right. Thank you. Any other anything else? So we would need to have a motion to approve the agenda for those changes tonight. Make the motion to approve the agenda as there motion and second. All in favor? >> I. >> All right. Motion carries. Um we
002have no waiverss. Correct. Okay. Uh we would need to see a motion for the minutes from January 13th and January 14th. And those were both emailed out to you there with any corrections. I don't think there was, but if there's anything motion to approve the minutes on January 13th and 14th second, we have a motion and a second. All in favor? >> All right, the motion carries. Um, approve expenditures tonight. I would entertain a motion through A through C, unless we want to pull anything out for discussion. To approve A through C. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor? All right, next item is financial statements. Um, again we have A through K unless there is anything that the board members would like to pull out. Financial statements A through a
003motion and a second. All in favor say I >> there. So we are to the items for patrons and others. We have some I guess I don't want to do this one, but school board recognition week. So, >> school board recognition week. So, yeah, we're boy, we're just clicking through this agenda, but I don't know. They're going to keep this pace. [laughter] It >> might slow down or change at some point. So, um we have some certificates for the board members, but I guess before I hand these out, um and they're they're beautiful, multicolored, very American looking. They're great. Uh but these came from the associate school boards. But I guess I want to say and I'm glad I've got quite a bit of public here uh to say this. Uh I get I know
004I for one am very appreciative of our school board and uh the work that they do for our students and you know a lot of people don't understand the role of school board members. I know sometimes people are quick to criticize uh but you know they they say it is kind of a thankless job and that uh oftentimes is true because people just don't really know a lot of times what school boards do and and all the work that they put in and the research they do uh in the governance of our school district and uh uh the oversight and it's it's a big job and uh these five people have been well these four plus Jody have have been just uh very good to work with and and very dedicated. So, thank you. Got
005to show my appreciation for Mary here. She put these in order. It's clever. Thank you. something back there. >> Uh yes, I think we do. We have student council from uh let's should we start with the elementary? >> Sure. >> Yeah. business. >> Um, I'm Shannon Mullman and we are the elementary student council advisors and we have brought some of our student council members and we will just have them introduce themselves starting with we'll start with Rafe over there. >> I'm student council watch. I'm fourth grade student rep. I'm B student B student council president I'm the student council um treasurer I'm Olivia Kel and I'm not class rep fourth grade class I'm Hector Fuller the student council secretary >> and on behalf of the student council Payton has something we would like to share
006>> and the members of the board of education on behalf of the staff in the lead elementary student council I would like to thank you all for your ongoing support and vision for our district. Your commitment to providing us with the resources and environment we need to succeed does not go unnoticed. Thank you for your selfless service to our district and community. Your vision and leadership create the foundation of our students teachers. We truly appreciate everything you do for the lead deadwood school district. Sincerely, the lead deadwood elementary student council members and we have a small little gift for our school board members. We can no longer say it's a thankless job. [laughter] >> Want to go get a picture? >> Get a picture. [laughter] >> Perfect. >> [laughter] >> I know. >> Awesome. Thank
007you. Thank you. >> Thank you to the element. So, I appreciate it. Thank you. Great. Yep. >> Middle school student council I believe is here. Correct. >> Um and I am uh the eighth grade representative. >> I'm Kimberly and I'm the um president of student council. I'm Isadora and I'm our sixth grade rep. >> [laughter] >> Dear school board members, on behalf of the middle school student council, we'd like to take a moment to express our heartfelt appreciation for all the hard work, dedication, and commitment you have shown in making our school a wonderful place to learn. Every day we come to school and have the opportunity to learn, to thrive, and to achieve our greatest potential. The positive environment in which all students and staff are positioned is a direct result of your efforts.
008From providing the best resources to ensuring a safe and respectful atmosphere for everyone, you have demonstrated the importance of education and the value of creating a space where growth and learning are prioritized. For this, we thank you. We are grateful for the numerous hours and unwavering energy you invest in building an environment that supports students through character development and academic advancement. Your efforts do not go unnoticed and it is clear that you each of you is deeply committed to improving the lives of our student and students and educators. Thank you again for all you do. Your hard work truly makes a difference and we are fortunate to have such dedicated individuals overseeing the future of our school. With our deepest gratitude, we middle school student council. You [clears throat] want to help pass out. Oh
009yeah. Daniel's the chair. [laughter] to the middle school. >> And the high school student council I think is represented here as well, right? [laughter] >> I don't know. Gary said he was going to come. Doesn't look like he's here. Uh, I'm not really prepared for this. I'm the secretary of the class of 2027. So, I've been in student council. I was an elementary school student council and middle school student council. Um, and I'm also the South Dakota State Representative on National Student Council. So, definitely pretty involved there. Um, thank you for your support, school board. It's kind of all been said and I didn't know I was going to say anything, but I think that Gary has some something for you guys. [laughter] >> I hope you're not getting off that. This is why she's
010here. She gets thrown into >> Thank you. You're welcome. >> You're welcome. Good job. We always announce that the middle school and high school student, we'll say middle school and elementary students. You don't want to hang out, it's okay. We'll let you can take off unless you really want to. We'll give you a couple minutes. said, "Do you guys want to take off your shirt?" >> Thanks, guys. We'll give an opportunity if anybody wants to move around. I know if they want to, we'll give you an opportunity. >> But we like it when kids come visit us. It doesn't have to. >> All right. So, the next one is recognition. So, you know, this is kind of the life of of a counselor, you know, like uh they're they're going to have to speak for
011their own recognition. [laughter] That's just kind of that kind of uh is emblematic of of the way school counselors are and they're here to serve and uh we're all very grateful for all that they do. Um, but in that spirit, we would like them to just, I guess, kind of talk to the crowd and, um, let some people know the kinds of things that you deal with every day and, uh, just some of the great work you do dayto day. So, >> Rhonda wants to go first. >> Yes. >> Hazard list. >> I got I got Okay. I'm Rhonda Bryce. I'm the high school counselor and this has been um another busy year and it's already February which is kind of mindbogging but mainly what we're doing now working a lot on getting kids ready
012for next year um much of the work of the high school counselor focuses on the future on what you're going to do next year so forth so trying to help the kids get to where they want to go if they don't know we can try to help them find their Okay. Um, couple things um that I thought from last year this year that I would highlight was last spring we had about 24 students doing dual enrollment and this spring we have 35 and our numbers are down overall in the high school. So between junior and seniors we have about half the juniors who are taking a dual credit um through a college or tech school and a number of the seniors. So, um, the price had gone up from 150 to 235 this year per
013three credit class, but that's still way lower than it would be if you're in college. And Janelle has gave me permission to say her name. Um, but she boasts the most dual credit courses in the senior class. She will have completed 11 courses by graduation. Mo, some of them are three credits, some are two, some are one. So, um, but she's got the record on that. Um, so that's pretty cool for her. Um, and I recently took three juniors to a conference in Washington DC for CADKA, which is a community anti-drug coalitions of America, and it was funded through the Lawrence County coalition as well as through local groups that assisted with funding the students. I could send they could send two and they wanted we wanted to have three. So, the uh Shay like
014has a bunch of people on speed dial that she asks for money. they I'll start coughing up money and we could have free goals and because it was kind of expensive and um so we went to Washington DC just last week and um there were lots of sessions for the students and for um the youth leaders and we did a lot of touring and um they got to see a lot of the museums and the sites of DC and we got to meet with um Dusty Johnson and Mike Browns um as part of Capitol Hill Day where you try to talk to them about the needs of group. So, it was trying to continue funding for prevention programs and treatment programs and so forth um across the country because they're trying to cut most of
015them as you can imagine. So, we're trying to promote keeping those things but um the district didn't pay for that at all. It was um all funded through like I said the donations and the um the grant of the Lawrence County coach and um I would like to see if those students could possibly speak at a board meeting sometime to tell a little bit about that. And lastly, educator rising group. We have two seniors graduating. going into the field of education and will be attending a state conference later this month. And Leah Ryan is competing in a classroom lesson development and delivery at the state conference which she competed last year as well. And um if she advances she would qualify for nationals which would be held this summer in Portland, Oregon. So that's pretty
016cool if that happens. Have to go find some money for that. Um, and this group received a Walter Green grant to fund the activities and paper dues and things that the group does. And so I'd also like to see if someone from that group could speak to the board a little bit more about that's all I have. Perfect. Thank you, Rhonda. Who wants to go? Um, and we do have um the >> um so we printed out some information that um the DOE has put together on school counselors. The DOE has some really amazing resources um regarding school counselor's role. And so we just thought this was a kind of a nice one. it's not um appropriate and inappropriate roles for school counselors because I've um like mentioned you know unless we're sharing what we're
017doing it's really easy for people to not know what our role is and so um sometimes it may be for school counselors to end up taking ones that maybe are the most suited for their training. So just thought we put that in your hands. Um, and Yolanda and I just actually spent the day at a school counselor training, a best practices training, which was really great. Um, and so we just got to spend a whole day with a bunch of like-minded people who loved being school counselor. So that was a really uplifting um, situation. And so um, some things that I do at the elementary level um, and I guess maybe we should say Manda Bender at the elementary school. Um so um if you're familiar with um MTFS and all criteria systems that support
018school counselors should be spending a majority of their time supporting all students. So within like classroom lessons and so far this school year um I have um led 110 classroom lessons um K5 um looking I was able to get the school um paid for me to get SUDA which is um a platform that I can use to track my like my time usage and some other data. And so I was able to see that I've met with at least 61 different students. And so of course some of those students have been more than once. Um and I will say I also I'm working really hard to put in everything I do but it's also kind of everything. Um I also run check-in checkout which is a tier 2 intervention. And those 61 students would be
019like a tier 2 students that need a little additional support um in whatever area that might be. Um, I also am running a couple small groups and starting a few more this semester. Um, with that scooed data, um, you'll see at the top of your papers that little percentage and school counselors want to spend 80% of their time either directly working with students or indirectly like collaborating with course teachers and things on behalf of a student. Um, and then 20% in those um, other duties such as planning and prep and and things like that. Um, and I'm a little disappointed um, to say that I'm at like a 50/50 split right now. So, I wish that I was a little bit higher. However, um, looking at some of that, I do like 10% of that
020is actually fair share duties that I have. So, um, with that in consideration, I think I'm doing actually pretty well. So, um, that's just like a little bit. I mean, it's it's really impossible, I think, for most school counselors to say, to really give like a snapshot of what they do because it's so different dayto-day. Um, I do want to say thank you to the school board um for being supportive in my role in the state school counselors association. Um, I am currently the president and I get to support all school counselors throughout the state, which is really important to me and I value getting to getting to do those things and support across the state. So, thank you. >> I don't like people behind me, so [laughter] uh my name is Yolanda Price. I'm
021the middle school counselor. Um I tier two for or tier one stuff looks a little bit different for me. I'm not in the classroom as much as Amanda, although I am welcome to that if teachers are like, "Hey, I'm really having this problem in my classroom. Please come in and do a lesson for for me." Um but my tier one looks a lot more like schoolwide stuff. So like um red ribbon red ribbon week when I was here back in October and we talked about the competition we have. Um this week we're doing kindness week where we are having some dress up days and competitions with that. And then like in April we'll have a hope week um that correlates with our hope squad and um really getting like the uh preventative mental health or
022suicide prevention stuff out to people. Um small groups I haven't been able to do a lot cuz I don't have a space right now or many know the middle school's under construction and I lost my classroom. So I don't have a space to do small groups really um because every other space in the building has been taken over for other [laughter] things. So, um I do end up having kids in my quite often just kind of hanging out and chatting about life and so those are kind of just like impromptu small groups. Um some other things I'm working on, I'm working on the South Dakota week of work. I'm trying to get some panelists in based on our student needs or student interests and how they want to be when they grow up. Um coordinate
023some new teammate matches. I have 13 matches at the middle school. So coordinating that's been um a deal lately. We got some new matches and some stuff going on. Um and so um to circle back a little bit to home squad um I was able to keep my freshman on board with talking to Mr. Embro and so I have 13 returning home squad members which is great. So they've continued the curriculum and I onboarded five new sixth graders this year. Um, and so we meet at different times um, to go through some of those lessons. And like I said, just talks about prevention, warning signs for suicide. And then really trying to create like an environment or an atmosphere in your building that everybody feels welcomed and supported. And so that's really really passionate for
024me. So that's kind of where some of my focus goes. And I just think it's really important to meet students where they're at to get them where they want to be. Like last week, just the little tidbit of my day, I spent 40 minutes one morning helping a girl get eyeliner off of her face cuz she was so devastated that people were calling her names. She wore it one time. So, propping her up, telling her that that's okay to be different, but yet trying to support her not wanting to wear it either. So, like that was one day last week. So, it's it's different. Everyday is different and I love it. So, thank you for your guys' support and and everything that you guys do, too. So, thanks I want to say thank you just
025to all of you guys. You guys do amazing things and I say that all the time every day. We know you're busy. We know you're constantly with kids and helping them through things and we very much appreciate it. >> So next up we are under to business. I told you people start with contracts, resignations, and requirements. Go ahead, Rhonda's brother's like, I'm out. [laughter] Um, so we do this every meeting this time of year. It's pretty normal. We're getting ready and kind of scary, but sometimes we're dealing with next year's stuff now. So, that's where we're at. Um, so we will go ahead and review those. >> Okay. under classified substitutes, Ella Thompson, custodian, 1956 an hour and then um under resignations, retirements. Well, do we want you want to approve that contract first? And
026then Oh, yeah. And Don Williams. >> Yeah, we have Don Williams. And then this is the other one. Yeah, >> we have the Don Williams change. >> Oh, Don Williams. Yeah. >> I'm thinking like Don Williams. >> Also time. >> So we have that addition. >> Yep. You have Dom Williams uh moving to the uh uh certified par rate of 1956 now. So do you want to do that motion first and then do the resations in another separate? Yeah. So, we're going to do a motion to accept the classified substitute as well as the change for Dominic Williams. >> Yep. >> A second. >> So, we have a motion and a second. All in favor? >> All right. Perfect. Now, we're on to resignation and retirements. a lot of retirements and uh so I'll I'll
027just kind of run through um regretfully uh Jay Beagle Middle School principal sped director would be greatly missed Margie Grandpa you sure >> Margie's Margie is going to be greatly missed and been here a very long time So, uh, yep. Lori Aberly, um, second generation high school counselor, been here a very long time as well. Um, and then, uh, some teacher resignations. Kyle Sander, middle school, high school, uh, CTE instructor, welding, metal fabrication. Then Brienne Cook, elementary teacher, uh just got married in the last year and I think her husband uh got a job out of state and so she decided to go with him. >> Understandable issue. >> Uh and then uh yeah, so let we don't we go ahead and have a motion on accepting those. And then there's um quick comment I'll
028make about filling those um I guess before before you make the motion. Um with the business manager um position I've been communicating with the board. That's obviously that's a very big deal. And so, um, we're going to have a process laid out, uh, prior to prior to advertising that. We want to we want to post that position tomorrow. So, I'll just kind of run through real quick uh, basically what that is, what that's going to entail. And so, we're going to have a a committee that's going to be doing the interviewing. Uh, February 11th, we're going to do a statewide posting. March 6th will be the closing date. Um March 9th, confidential application packets will be distributed to the interview team for review. March 11 will be the interviews. Uh and then offer a contract
029uh based on the committee's recommendation. And then March 16th will be um if the board so chooses contract approval at a special board meeting. So that is how we'll go ahead and handle the business manager position and that's going to be a statewide search advertise far and wide for that. Uh and then on Mr. Beagle's position um I'll just quickly run down kind of what I recommend as the plan there. Um right now Mr. Beagle has uh is half FTE full-time equivalent uh middle school principal and half uh special special education services coordinator. Um, and so just for a little frame of reference, uh, the middle school principal position has been at that at that half FTE level and sometimes it's been shared with the high school principal, sometimes been shared with the, uh, special
030ed director, but since 2003, uh, it's been that way. Uh, what I would propose we do is separate the special education services coordinator position from the middle school principal position. Uh and then the special education services coordinator position will remain half FTE and will be addressed separately as uh half FTE services coordinator half FTE uh a practitioner within the district with with an adjusted case load appropriator. So if it's like a special ed teacher, they would have an appropriate case load for for halftime and then they'd be halftime director or spend coordinator and then uh we would reduce the AD position from a 0.85 that it is right now to a.5 FTE. Um and that's been paired with some other administrative positions in the past that lead deadwood. I think just you know since we
031had the esser money that's when we got somebody that was um first time for a long time I think dedicated that much time to the ad position with a decline in enrollment so forth. That's that's one that we're looking to make a cut in. Uh so then we would pair the middle school principal in the ad position for one FTE. uh we reassign Zach Clement to that and kind of an important piece to that I think is proximity or location. Uh so Zach's office would be located in the middle school not splitting between two offices but uh full-time office over there in the middle school. Uh and then we would eliminate the 0.15 assistant middle school high school principal position and [clears throat] uh you know like Mike for example would track down his own
032tardies and that kind of thing. So uh but then you know those uh like Mike and Jay already kind of work pretty well together. When one when one is gone the other might fill in and kind of help out or between Mike Jay Zach. So there would still be that kind of collaboration to help out here and there. So, uh, that would you and it's always kind of an estimate because the numbers get a little bit fluid, but we'd look at that as saving the district about $58,800, uh, combining those positions. So, okay, I just wanted to be upfront with what that process would be before you or as you approve the resations and retirements. >> So, it would be Do you want the extra that separate? >> We can do that separately. So we
033would be looking at acceptance of the resignations and retirements um for 26. I'll make a motion to accept with her threads our resignations and retirements. Thank you guys for all you guys do. You're going to be very very very nice. Second. Okay, >> we have a motion and a second. Um, all in favor? >> I signed. >> Okay. And then extra duty contract, we have uh Dr. Doug Olsen um for uh musical director for $1,60.80. And uh that's going to be exciting. Uh first time having a musical kind of back in production here for quite a while. >> So, okay. So, we would need a motion to accept that extra contract as well. Can we make that motion? A second motion and a second. All in favor? >> I there's your contracts resignations margin. We
034know you guys will both be greatly missed. It'll be tough to hope that will do something. So we appreciate it very much for all you guys have done. >> Thank you. >> Enjoy your retirement. >> Yes. Um so the next item is administrator administrator contracts for the 26 27 school year. Um you guys do have a list in your packets here. You don't want me to go through them or >> Yeah, you can or I can. You maybe you want to tell them why the name isn't on there. >> That's true. So the administrative contracts offered would be to um make the motion would be to Mike Hendrock for the high school principal. Um it's 197day contract. Uh Mr. Van Bber, elementary school principal, 197day contract. Um Zack Clement, which would be the.5 FT for
035the middle school principal and.5 for the activities director at 197 days. Bill Snow, maintenance and transportation supervisor, he gets more days, 240 days. [laughter] He's a liar. He works way more than >> Yeah. [laughter] >> Jerry Rice room, the service director at 195 days and then Jamie Holland, network director at 205 days. Um, so we would work with those ones for the contracts and then I guess I'll kind of let you explain how we do yours separately. Sure. >> You would. Well, that's what we would be looking at for contracts. Motion to approve contract. >> Second. >> We have a motion and accept motion and a second for the contract stud. >> Okay. All in favor? >> All right. Well, that's done. And then just for you know anybody in the room um the superintendent
036contract is on a two-year basis and this year is not the one up for it. He was already under a two-year contract. So, that's why it's not on there is because it is a two-year contract. You want to add anything or that >> that's what it is. So, um the next item is the SECO change orders. >> Oh, the land. I crossed it up. [clears throat] >> Um you want to kind of run through? >> I can real quick. No, it's and it's the same that has been out there and I I apologize it's not in the packet, but it's >> it's been published. I know the board members have it. >> I'll run through real quick. I know there are some people probably want to speak on this issue and and we've had a
037number of public meetings on this specific issue. Uh just to spec specifically address these things. Um and I'll just be pretty brief here. Um, I'll read through what the phases are of this. This document's been out there quite a bit. And then I I've got a brief recommendation for the board and then I turn it over to you. So, um, we are looking at kind of and we've kind of said like our last public meeting that uh it's time to make a decision on this so people kind of know where it's at and and we can move on. But uh that phase one is kind of stuff that's already in process and that includes doing the boundary plat. That's been submitted to the city u to planning and zoning, breaking up the big land into
038like six different tracks and those will be the same tracks that have been shown at public meetings. um preparing uh covenants uh to kind of direct uh usage of the land if it's ever put up for sale at a future date. Um and then organizing public information meetings. Uh those have already happened December 10th, 2025, January 7th, and January 14th. Um, and then phase two kind of this is where we kind of get into the parts that are u drawing a lot more interest and and a lot more uh discussion and and I guess I I would just say uh I think we've had some really good dialogue and there you know I think that you know people showed up and and made their opinions known and there are probably some people out there I
039know there are people out there with other opinions and this is kind of how it works. if if you don't show up and speak up, then you're kind of yielding. Uh and so I think the board has had a lot to think about and I think the the board has done a really good job with engaging the public. That's just my opinion. But that phase two looks at um basically establishing part of that land to be set up for tiny homes uh for staff housing in the future. And uh one of the pieces in phase two would be adopting policy policies to govern the construction and the management of those staff houses. And then uh uh actually engaging in developing of three to five tiny homes. Uh and so that's that's kind of phase two
040in a nutshell. Phase three was is projected to be school district would approve the building of a single family home at the rate of like one a year or one every other year something like that potentially happening as soon as summer of 2027. Uh and then the other piece of it is taking a large track large track of about 40 acres uh and then uh platting that for sale to a developer on for the developer to come in and uh do a development and put in infrastructure and roads and streets and uh utilities and all that kind of stuff. So anyway, uh, we kind of talked about all the public input and I think, you know, I think I know where the where the board is at, but I, you know, I think you're about
041to take a vote on it and I guess my recommendation is that that phase one seems to be u pretty palatable to a lot of people and I know some people have differing opinions on that. Uh, but I think phase one is is responsible business. uh dealing with that asset and kind of having it ready for future development if the time is ever right. Um then it's kind of ready to go. Uh let's say you hit a hot market. U and we all know how not fast school business moves. You know, you have meetings once a month and it would really behoove the district uh to kind of have some things ready to go that in future years if you'd ever want to sell off part of it. Um so that that plotting is kind
042of underway. We've been in communication about that and then my recommendation would be to just you know listen to the people that have spoken out and not proceed any further with phases two or three. Uh so that would just be and I Greg I'll look you right in the eye and tell you as long as I'm here I am not going to bring up the idea of I mean I think we've looked at we've looked at it. Is this something that would be beneficial for us? And there's a lot of, you know, pros and cons, but as long as I'm here, I'm not bringing it up again. And so I think that we've heard uh kind of what what the public wants, what the public expects. And so my recommendation to the board is is
043to have a motion uh to approve phase one and go no further on phases two and three. >> Turn it over to you guys. >> Excuse me. that point. >> I do have some signatures here of that letter of public opinion that I'd like to handle. >> You can submit it as part of the record. That's fine. >> Okay. Good. >> Y >> I think it's open for the board. Um public form is at the end of the meeting. We did already do a public meeting on this particular topic. So, it's not open to the general public unless there's a specific question that, you know, we had after the last time we got to hear pretty much everybody's, you know, what they thought and where they were going. So, if you have a specific question
044for someone in the audience, you can sure ask it. But if not, I think it's at a point that just a decision needs to be made. We spent a lot of time and effort on stuff, then if you want to go forward, we can. And if you don't, that's okay, too. I think that's kind of where it's at right now. So, unless that's really my opinion. I I think it's either we we give Dr. Pearson the okay to move forward or we say no, we don't want to go forward anymore. Um, the plat has been submitted to the city of Lee. Um, I believe the intention was to have it on the I think the planning commission was February 24th and that was for the six tracks so that it would be set up, you
045know, if we ever wanted to do anything, it breaks it into more manageable parts. So that has been submitted. So that's that phase one. >> I think it's important to continue on and finish phase one get that line is right moving to the point temporarily on track to divide that track. I don't see you. >> I'd agree. I think it's been made pretty clear how um how people feel about this particular situation. I think that we need to be cognizant of who we represent and what's best for our district. And right now, I think that we are probably better off sticking with phase one and not moving forward with phase two. I think that it's we need to do phase one and get the pling done and not build any houses to developer. Make motion
046to continue on with phase one. Not not doing anything more to >> you want those off the >> or do you want those still? >> No, I better still there but I guess the motion is to finish. >> Have a motion. If we don't have a second would die for lack of a second motion. So that's okay to do because I don't have further actions of phase two, >> right? >> Yeah. >> I I think you could >> maybe amen will be a motion to exclude phase two. >> Maybe do that. >> I think it might. I I think if you did one motion to proceed with phase one >> and then >> and and cease activities on phase two and three, I think that might put some people at ease and it might it
047might make the board's intentions. >> We might we might second that then. [laughter] >> So your motion >> finish phase one cease doing anything but two or three. >> Fair enough. Okay, then I'll get that. Okay, then I'll second that. >> Okay, so we have a motion and a second. All in favor? >> I >> Okay, so with that, we will still have public form at the end. If you guys want to say anything, that's fine. I do I know I did have a few things in here. Um the letters that you submitted will just go in the record. That's how it will work. Um so I think with that, we have a motion and a second on that. We will continue with phase one which is planning the track into the six tracks that
048will go forward. Like I said, it's it was submitted to the city. I think their intention was to put it on the February 24th. I think that's right. Planning commission meeting is the 24th, I believe. Um so that's that's that. So that is all we have on that item. The next one would be the SECO change order. Yes. And I can kind of tag team on this. Uh I'll start. You can start. Okay. So that uh this change order comes in three parts. Um the first part is that area across from the offices that they're doing down there. Those rooms that we really didn't touch much in. There's some vinyl base that's coming off the wall. We're going to have them put vinyl vinyl base back on. And then in that office area, there was
049a discrepancy on ceiling height. So they added a bulkhead in so that make it cleaner as as the ceilings made up. And then the last part is the sidewalk going into that CT area is [clears throat] an inch higher on the outside than it is on the inside. So, they're going to have to tear part of that sidewalk out and then put a trench drain in over to the storm drains. And that's where we're at. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Um, and it was we uh it was pretty productive. We had a little back and forth on that particular change order and uh we kind of came to an agreement with SECO on that and and feel like we've got where we needed to be. So, >> okay, >> we'll make a motion to the chamber.
050>> Have a motion and a second. All in favor? >> I I next item is the music academy development. >> Okay. And we've got Dr. Olsson here to speak to this a little bit. And I guess before I turn it over to him, I'll give just a little bit of context here that uh Dr. Olsen came to the administration with really a fabulous grand idea. And it's an exite it's exciting for us because as administrators um because anytime you you have a staff member wanting to not just kind of do the minimum or just make things average but really have an idea to set our district apart. Uh it's pretty exciting. Uh and so we've had quite a bit of discussion about that and I and I'll let Dr. Olson talk a little bit about
051it. And then we have um part of the discussion was we need to kind of lay the foundation and there are certain things in this grand vision that we can do with existing resources and that we can kind of pave the way and and if that helps build our program up then maybe we can take steps uh towards the grander vision. But uh anyway, so this music academy diploma is one of those initial steps and with that I guess I don't want to steal all your thunder. So Dr. Wilson, thank you all for having me and inviting me. I'm glad to be here and I'm glad to be in Lead Deadwood Public Schools. Um I got into public education after a long career in church music to work with young people who were like me
052when I grew up in Woodtown, Montana. And uh I I look back on the most formative parts of my life. It was uh it was Mr. Irons, it was Mr. Dietrich, it was Mr. Black, it was Mrs. Pennock in Lewistown, Montana as my music teachers giving me much more than music in my life. And I wanted to finish my career giving that back and honoring them. So when the [clears throat] opportunity became available here in Lee Deadwood with the proximity to where my folks retired in Wall, I was I jumped all over and I' I've been thrilled to be here. So the idea of a music academy is just simply a way to expand what we can offer as a music faculty, a music staff here. It doesn't add any faculty or staff. It doesn't
053it works within the confines of our current schedule. It uh just gives us the ability to offer a bit more to all of the Lead Deadwood School District students from grade school all the way through high school. Uh the capstone in the high school would be a an achievement added to a diploma that would recognize a student who had spent a certain number of credits. And we have that kind of detailed in music. If they spent a certain number of years in music, if they've gone to all state choir, all state band, if they've sung at district music festival and received a certain awards for that, uh if they participated in a school musical, uh they could obtain a certification uh in in music on top of their um regular high school diploma. Uh the
054other things that we would add to that would be a music skills classes that our current staff would offer to better help our students be prepared. Eventually, there would be a co- uh credit class for music theory that the folks at Blackill State are thrilled about and ready to jump on. We would be the only school in the state offering uh credit or dual credit for freshman music theory offered through them. We would teach it together. Uh their teachers are excited to come and work with our students. They're excited to have me come up and work with them. Uh so the the potential there for collaboration is huge. Uh we would the other significant thing we would add would be private lessons in addition to what Ms. Rather already offers with the band program. All
055the students there get plugged into that. We would like to expand that to private voice and and independent piano lessons. And in the beginning it would be us doing it. Uh Lexi and myself handling that in both areas. uh if we got to a point where we had so many students wanting piano lessons during the school week, we might have to look at bringing another independent teacher in and and having them pick up some of that load. But in the beginning with in the confines of who we have, we can make that happen. And I threw this idea out at a group of young families in Rapid City, some personal friends and family. And one young mom who has five children looked at me and said, "I'm going to have to figure out a way
056to move my family up closer to Lee Deadwood. I want my kids in a school where they can get their piano lesson, their voice lesson during the school day, where they could go to a practice room in the school building and practice their piano and their voice and their band instrument during the school day. Um, I think this would be a huge draw. We need innovative programming to draw people back in. And if that means some homeschool families only participate in that much of what we offer, hey, at least we've got them in the door for that much. And maybe they get to see that our math teachers and science teachers are good people, too, right? And uh maybe want their kids to expand uh some of their work in public school that way. I
057think it's a way to reach out to the community and let them know we have something new and innovative and dynamic that a lot of families want and just simply can't afford. It isn't available to them up here. We don't have other uh private piano teachers or private voice teachers up here in the redidwood area. We have to go to Rapid City or Sturgis or Spearfish for those things. So, it would kind of put us in a whole different uh position in being able to offer those things. So, I'm appreciative of Dr. Pearson's uh when I threw that at him, I thought this will this will be a real good boat anchor soon because I didn't think uh uh I'd heard him say, you know, I need innovative ideas. We need innovative thoughts. And uh
058that's been my big one for a number of years is how can we help uh uh school level musicians get better? But this doesn't also doesn't happen at the expense of students that aren't in music. And I think that's important to realize. We're not taking away anything from the students that wouldn't normally be involved in music. But man, if your family has students that want to be involved in music, what we would offer here would be a significant upgrade. Also, in visiting with some of my colleagues in Rapid City, they just looked at me and they said, "Well, we would never be able to do that. just would never happen. Just it would be wonderful to see it happen. So I think it would make us not just another school district in the state, but
059in regards to music, we would be one of the leaders in the state of I appreciate your consideration of it and I'm excited to do everything I can do in my power to make it go. And uh you know, my door is always open, my email's always available. don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, and and Doug kind of hit the nail on the head, too. Uh that, you know, that's one of the advantages of being a small school is you can be a little bit nimble when it comes to innovation. Uh you don't have as much red tape to go through to kind of launch an idea. So, real quick, I'll run down the criteria that that we've kind of talked about uh so people can
060kind of hear what that is. And then I guess I would ask the board to approve this and we could potentially have a handful of students qualify for this diploma graduating next year, graduating in uh 2027. So, um, okay. So, here's to earn a Lead Devwood High School Music Academy diploma, a student must meet all regular requirements for high school graduation set forth by the state department of education as well as those established by the lead debit school district plus the following music academy special requirements. Bullet number one, five credits in fine arts and bullet number two, four years of band or choir. And uh third bullet, at least two of the following, and there's a long list here, but at least two of these. All State Chorus, All State Band, All State Show Choir,
061All State Jazz Band, All State Orchestra, Academy approved individual voice or instrumental lessons. Performing role in the Lead Deadwood High School musical production, successful completion with a grade of B or higher of Lead Deadwood High School uh academy level course, u something like the M music theory course that uh Dr. Rosson talked about or successful completion of a capstone experience in music. And then for that, if students achieved all of those things, they would get recognition at class day and graduation. Um and uh we would add a little um extra performance at the uh um graduation ceremony where we would have music academy students uh performing a little bit there. Uh they would get a special embossed sticker attached to the diploma or a separate certificate commemorating the accomplishment, an honor cord or stole to
062wear at graduation and designation on official transfer. And I I would add to that, I've spoken with uh administrators at Indiana University School of Music, Jacob's my alma mater, spoken with music faculty at Black Hill State, uh Alabama, the University of Alabama, the choir director was at our ICDA convention, and all of them said if we saw a high school student graduating with a good GPA and that added to their diploma, they would immediately receive strong scholarship. ship recommendations from all those schools. So, I believe we would have somebody come over from BHSU in the least offering our students scholarships for having that part of their uh education in campus music. And one last thing I would add, this would not take away from, I guess, the uh casual music participants. I mean, there may
063be some kids that like, hey, I want to be in the band, but I'm not like I'm not going for the music academy diploma. I just want to I just want to play the drums. You know, there's still room for that. Uh, in fact, you know, we need all those kids. Uh, so there you go. >> Dr. Olsson, I've got to say, you sold me. So, I'll make a motion um to approve the music academy diploma. A second. Okay. Motion and a second. All in favor? >> I think it sounds really exciting. Yeah. >> Yep. I like it. Thank you. >> All right. Next item is to look at the calendar. There's no action items tonight. That's better. You have our first reading of looking at the 26 26 27 um schedule this year. for
064cancer review. So, >> and the reason for doing for looking at a two-year calendar, it was it was really evident today. Um, Amber Deers and I were at the Deadwood Chamber meeting and it it really having that conversation really helped with planning with the Deadwood Chamber and this calendar has been a lot of work. It's been tough. We've had a calendar committee and and our process for staff seeking input on that and even the the community seeking input is, you know, first of all, we have a calendar committee and the first draft that goes to that committee is probably not what's going to be brought to the board. Uh it's the board's job to adopt a calendar for the upcoming year. Um, but we have this calendar committee with with representation from all three buildings,
065certified staff, classified staff, administration, and we talk about it and and kind of a little bit of horse trading in the room there and then it kind of goes out to the staff and then and then it just blows up and people just go crazy about it. Uh but uh we do we do have a process for those people to uh share their input through the calendar committee through their building level administration and then we come back do another draft. I think we've had uh I know we've had at least two but I think maybe had three calendar committee meetings. Uh and I think what we've got now is a pretty darn good calendar. And it's actually very similar to after all of that work. It's very similar to what we've had the last few
066years. Uh, one of the big changes I guess before I go into because it's in the board packet, but I know not everybody has it right in front of them. So before I kind of go into the bullet points of what we landed on for the calendar, one change that came up and I guess first I would hand this um to the board members and the folks at this table uh is looking at the uh August 2027 count or looking at the 2728 calendar. So the second year that we're looking at pretty significant changes in August and one of the big issues on this was that Sturgeist moved the rally back and then there was talk in Deadwood of moving then cool Deadwood Knights back a week uh so that they weren't back to back.
067Well then that puts it right in amongst where we're starting school. Uh and then you know one of our big things is uh the last few years we've tried to get the semester wrapped up at Christmas and there's a big challenge trying to get parody between the two semesters and the number of days and all that. So, there's a lot of moving pieces to this thing, but the big change that happened um today at the Deadwood Chamber meeting was they set the dates for the 2027 cool deadwood nights and where they had been talking about starting cool deadwood nights like the 23rd or 24th of August. Uh now those are going to be like the 17th through the 22nd. So, kind of on that traditional date, the third week of August, and it is going
068to be up against Sturgeist rally. But you know what? That's not our decision. That's not our problem. That's that's the Deadwood Chamber made that decision. And I'll just say too, the chamber and the city have been very good about communicating with us. We've had several meetings. Um, a lot of collaboration on how this is going to work. And so some of the things that were a little more I would say controversial with the staff were the ultimate overlap of pool nights and and uh the first week of school. Well, with what the chamber did today, it pretty much eliminated that conflict alto together. Now, you'll notice for those of you who had that August of 2027, I'm kind of going backwards talking about the second year first, but there is a day of inservice on
069the 16th. Okay, that's very similar to what we did uh I know what we did this year and I think it worked pretty well. Um and you know, when we get later in that week of cool dead with nights, having an inservice is problematic. it it's it's probably doable if you can do it up here in Lead, not at not at the elementary school in Deadwood, but uh it's it's problematic. So, doing that inservice on the 16th um work will work pretty well. So, um that was kind of a relief to see that conflict taken out of it. Now with that, I guess I'll speak a little bit to um some of the things that we talked about. One thing was um there's an opportunity in this upcoming school year, the 26 27 school year,
070that um the traditional spring break dates are in March and Easter is going to be earlier. It's going to be in March. There's an opportunity that instead of having like four 4 day weeks in a row, what if we combined spring break and Easter since they're that close to each other and just had rather than doing like Easter Monday off have that whole week off uh leading up to Good Friday. So long spring break and for a number of reasons that proposal that got talked about, but that's not in the proposal that's here. Now, if the board would say, "Hey, we want that, you know, it could be put back in because we're not taking action tonight." But some of the reasons that the committee kind of steered away from that was the thought that,
071well, people are still going to want Easter Monday off. So then if you have a whole week off and then Easter Monday, you're gone for 10 straight days. That's a lot of that's a big hiccup in the learning um in student learning. Another thing is if we don't have school that Easter Monday, the way our negotiated agreement reads, our classified staff members, our hourly staff members would lose a paid holiday because it's not a holiday on the school calendar. They wouldn't get it as a paid holiday. So those people would lose a paid holiday. And the other thing is taking a week off, an entire week off for the hourly people, uh that's going to put a hiccup in the paycheck. And so, you know, we're still going to have the same number of school
072days. So, if you're a parah, for instance, uh you're still going to get the number of days, but having that gap in your paycheck can be a little bit problematic. So, kind of steered away from that. Uh and then um some of the other main points again of 2026 if you look at that uh it's kind of just like that the next year for that inservice that's on the 17th first day of inservice. Um and the details of that aren't worked out yet whether it would be in both buildings or just all up in lead at that time. But, uh, this calendar works really pretty nicely that we can get three school days in that first week. Um, we've heard some feedback from the elementary that going a full week the first week is pretty
073hard for the little guys just coming back to school. Um, this calendar also allows us to get our um half a day of inservice slashopenhouse um there in that first week of school instead of having to do it the previous week. Some other things that may or may not be popular, but we we talked about it in the calendar committee and something that is on here to try is uh wellness day has traditionally been end of October, early November. Um gaining a day in the first semester by moving wellness day to the spring. we have a little more flexibility there and it's kind of a you know change is hard but if you have u iffy days in October, November, you're going to have an iffy day in April just around here you might have
074a foot of snow or it might be just beautiful. You just don't know. So that was a change that happened. Um trying to think what else are some highlights that we want to hit. Uh, oh, another thing that is on here that I just want to draw your attention to, and again, this isn't the final calendar necessarily. We talked about some things with parent teacher conferences. And you look in October the 21st and 22nd for parent teacher conferences, it's it's a two-day deal instead of a one-day deal. Uh but kind of the sweet part for staff is like on the 21st is 3:30 to 5:30 and then on the 22nd we have that early release that we normally have and we'd have parent teacher conferences from 1 to 5:30. So it eliminates that long same
075number of hours but eliminates that late night that extremely long day. So that was something we had talked about at committee level as well. Um >> yeah. So with that it's Yeah. 23rd is a school day. It's because nobody really wants to do parent teacher conferences on a Friday night. They might not be well attended. Um, any questions from the board on those calendars? We can let those marinade for a couple months and approve in April. A lot of work went into that. And so, thank you to everyone served on the committee, the calendar committee, and really having to get their instructional days in. And I think no matter what, you're always going to have somebody that doesn't want to schedule, >> right? Both of these calendars uh give us 177 contract days for teachers.
076>> Okay. >> And that's a little one thing I'll mention. I've heard some talk lately about can we get our snow days back if we, you know, we don't use our Well, we have 177 days. I guess I'll just kind of explain it to people. We have 177 day calendar and if we have a snow day one or two or three, the board has always been very gracious to the staff and said, you know what, you can't control if there's a snow day. We're not going to make you make that up. But when we get to like five, it kind of starts to get that's kind of seems like a natural tipping point that hey, maybe we need to make that up, get back in the classroom. So the idea of like five extra days
077that we can somehow give back and take off on the end of the school year, that doesn't exist. That's not a real thing. That's a unicorn. And so we have 177day contract. And like I said, the board has been really gracious on that in the past. So >> right. >> So this is this will come back to us. I'm assuming that there's any changes. >> Yeah. I I wasn't necessarily going to put it on the agenda next month, but it but if but if you see something say, "Hey, we need to discuss it, we can put it on the agenda and it'll definitely be on the agenda in April." Okay. >> So, that's also like if Yeah. If people in the community see something that they want to comment on that that's kind of why
078it sits out there for a couple months. >> Okay. >> All right. Thank you. >> Got a question. [clears throat] This uh so this they moved it back. you says >> KDM, >> right? In 2027. >> Yeah. >> Um but this year, you know, I know that people in Deadwood I'm just I'm just thinking ahead, you know, because Deadwood Chamber did this, but like the people that are working in Deadwood, they're already dreading this because there's no no break in between the rally and stuff. I mean because after this year what if dad would change is it back again? Will they do that or not for 27? No. So we they they set those dates because they have to get their publications out there >> and they they've kind of said, "Hey, once we set
079that, >> you know, I don't know what they're going to do in 2028 because the Sturgis rally is going to be bumped ahead for a couple of years. I think till like 2030 or I don't know." And their main goals were that they wanted the kids to be safe because they didn't want kids going to school and cars going down the road because people driving muscle cars don't really watch for kids crossing the street and buses and everything else. Teachers trying to park and everything else. They didn't want that chaos. >> So that was one of the main concerns is >> and for the record we didn't ask them. In fact, I was very clear. >> I said, "I'm not going to tell you when to hold your event." >> And and they I said,
080"Okay." And then as they discussed, >> they decided they made that decision, do that. And I said, "Okay, that is helpful for us." And I can tell you that as long as your pool dead with nights is there. I said, "I don't think my board has any appetite for moving the start of school up a week into the into the previous week." You know, we kind of talked about it. There's an earlier version of the calendar. We explored it and I said, "As long as I'm around, I don't know. I might get hit by a bus tomorrow. I don't know. But as long as I'm around, I we're going to kind of stick to this kind of a gentleman's agreement is where we're at." >> Well, I think ultimately what's important to know is the
081chamber requested that we make a two-year schedule so they can in turn mage a two-year schedule. That's kind of how this came about. So, I think the chamber is looking at doing two-year schedules moving forward. So then they >> actually we offered it but they they really liked it. >> They know when our start date is so they can look at their stuff because we know that we cannot have cool dead nights at not >> and they want to communicate with us and work together with us. So which is a good thing >> not ideal. We have to deal with that. And as far as the backto back thing, I mean, yeah, that's not in our control, but it's also, you know, like like if you're a if you're a farmer and it's harvest time,
082you [clears throat] can't say, I'm going to park the combine for a week and then come back to it. I mean, it's everybody's got their busy times. So, >> I will say that I very much appreciate how much the city, the chamber, and uh well, the city and the chamber specifically have been willing to work with us. Um, and the comment was actually made to me um by a Denver commissioner that they very much appreciate the amount of communication that's been occurring and that they feel like this has been really been having these open conversations. Okay. So, this will be on the agenda in April for approval. Whether there might be some changes, you know, between now and then, but that's kind of where it's at. So, next item on the agenda is a correspondence
083that we received from Barb Mdan. I believe it was in our packets and just a thank you from her. Then we administrator reports. Well, first up and uh I don't know. I feel like this whole meeting has been my report. So, I'll be fairly brief. just have a couple of things I would talk about and uh we've been talking about you know exploring the possibilities of of doing an alternative school and again these are things we're talking about can we do this within the structure of our existing staff facilities all of that kind of thing and and serve a number of students who uh frankly are kind of disenchanted with public education maybe with our schools specifically and and it's it's a problem statewide, nationwide. Uh but anyway, um we've been at the administrative level
084really looking at that how we can better serve those students, reach out to students that have gone to homeschooling or as we call it sometimes no schooling uh in some cases. Um and part of that is is we're doing some visits to some existing alternative schools. Last week, a group of us went over to Sturgis and they were very gracious and hosted us at Sturgis Brown High School and their uh alternative program and and it was we saw some things that like we maybe do differently, but then we also saw some things that like, hey, that's that's really cool. We maybe didn't think of that and and so that was informative. Our next big trip, we got two kind of big ones that we're in the planning stages of, trying to nail down dates. And
085one is we're going to do a kind of a long cannonball trip to Mitchell over and back in a day and visit Second Chance High in Mitchell. Uh they've got a highly successful alternative program there. And uh so we're going to go take a look at that. and ultimately and then another one we're going to look at is just right uh right here in our own school district and that's uh the box elder job core. Uh I think they're having some real successes and we've seen those kids come into this room and talk about the successes they're having um through kind of a trades route uh pursuing their high school diplomas. I think there are some things we can learn just right here. Uh and then ultimately looking at can we construct a model that
086will serve portion of our student population and possibly even draw in students uh from the bigger area uh if we're better able to meet their needs and and what policies might go with that and all that. So, we've got those visits kind of coming along. And then in amongst all of this stuff that we've been talking about um with, you know, like whether to fill certain positions and, you know, make some cuts and we've the board and and I guess our administrative staff have all taken the approach that yeah, we need to we need to kind of trim some things. Uh but the way to do that is through attrition. uh we don't want to be in a position where if you ignore a problem long enough then you got to make a huge adjustment
087and you have to do reduction in force rifts let people go that kind of thing but find opportunities uh when somebody's already leaving uh you can do that through attrition and a little less painful but I've been researching some enrollment numbers and it's just kind of interesting right now our and the student to staff ratio it's it's it's a little bit complex and I've talked about this before that when I give this number that doesn't mean that's how many kids we have in a classroom because there are number of teachers you know just like our counselors for instance they go into that student to staff ratio well they don't have a class of 20 kids uh they work with all kids and it kind of sort of and like your music teachers your PE teachers
088all of that figures into the mix but right now we're sitting at an 8.4 4 uh to one student to staff ratio and our enrollment is sitting at 5.88. Well, if we go back 10 years, uh we were at like uh 10.8 student to staff ratio. That doesn't sound like a lot, you know, two kids. Uh but it it's it's pretty significant when you're looking at a number that small. And like at that point, we were at 10.8. 8 uh we were uh 784 so almost 100 or almost 200 more kids in the district. Now here's kind of the interesting thing. Certified instructional staff were sitting at 67 right now. Well at that time uh back then we had 75.2. The [clears throat] year following that we're at 70. And so we're our staffing doesn't
089look a lot different than it did when we had maybe a couple hundred more kids in here. So that that's my reason for giving these numbers is just to kind of show that it's it's not a thing we're making up. It's uh it's something very real that we need to deal with and we're finding opportunities to kind of gain some ground on some of that efficiency um as people retire and some different things happen. So anyway, I just thought I'd share that. I thought it was a little bit interesting. That's all I have report. actually back. >> All right. Well, this is kind of a busy time of year for activities now transitioning from the winter to spring. So, um probably latest here tier for us was the one act um play. They were one
090spot away from qualifying for state. So, they got third at regions. Um really close with Kuster. That musical is coming up fast. Kind of right around the corner here. It's been the first time in I don't know how long, but it sounds like it's been a while since our school's had a musical. So, kind of a neat opportunity for our kids. Um, right after that, we're looking at the band and choir spring concerts will be here before we know it. End of April, start of May. Um, we have archery club going on right now. Um, Tuesday and Thursday mornings they practice and last weekend they were in Kilder, so almost every weekend they have a competition. Um, getting into kind of more athletics that we have going on here. Um, girls basketball has two more
091opportunities, you know, to beat last year's win total. So, last year they won their first game in 48 games. Um, and they ended up winning three last year. We're sitting at that right now. So, still kind of improving in that program. Um, boys basketball is in the region four seed right now. Um, and we have an two more opportunities there to get the three seed. The game with Hill City last Friday was a pretty big game for that team. um for our boys basketball team. Um and we're right kind of right behind them right now. We're sitting in a position to host a first round region boys basketball game. I don't know how long it's been. Again, uh Bound doesn't have that. So, it's before B we used Bound that we hosted a first round
092region game. Um and that's a pretty big deal for those kids. That program's come a long way in the last three or four years since Dan's taken over. Um for wrestling, uh this week we had four girls in the rankings. So, um, pretty big improvement for our team. Um, and and we're looking forward to the end of the season. You know, we're pretty young on the boys side, but have some weight classes at regions that we might be able to push some kids through. So, um, should have a healthy amount of state qualifiers and have some some girls, especially in positions to to place at the state meet. Um, kind of moving forward for track and girls golf. They're both gearing up here. So, cross your fingers and hope for good weather because we really
093need that for those two programs. and opportunities to practice as well as compete. >> Thank you. Um, Bill, >> hey, so I got a couple things. Uh, we for transportation, we had a spot check over Christmas on our school buses from the highway patrol. They came in and they checked five buses and they didn't find anything wrong with any with any of our buses. So, that went really well. Usually in the past they'd come in and they would check two to three buses. Um but this is the first time they've been back since co. So um >> and the guy did mention when he was up at the bus bar and I was up there he said uh well your buses are pretty nice. Like we only need to inspect two or three but if
094we inspect five of yours that'll bring our quota up. We kind of want to inspect some good bus. So honestly they >> that's what they said. >> Yeah. M. [clears throat] >> So then uh in maintenance over Christmas break um we had uh uh Barllet and West Engineering come in and they did some testing on our water for lead. Um they tested several different places through all the buildings and uh we they found that we are below the EPA standard for replacing fixtures and plumbing which is 10 parts per billion. So, we've come back pretty good on that. And then the last thing that I have is kind of to give you guys a rough idea. Uh on the 31st, Randy and I came in and moved snow with the loader and dump truck that
095we bought. And I kind of figured that out with the 6 hours between us and the fuel that we used was about under $500. And normally on a snow removal like that, that' been between $1,500 and and $2,300. So, >> thank you, Bill. >> And the dump truck was only $5,000. >> We paid for the dump truck already. >> Yeah. >> All right. So, we are to the public forum items. Uh, we did have three people submitted. It looks like some letters that we wanted to during some public. So, I'll just go through them and if you don't want to, that's fine. If you want to, that's fine, too. >> All right. >> Okay. Thank you, P. >> Hey, Greg. >> I'm good. >> All right. Thank you guys. I think that next regular board
096meeting is Tuesday, March 10th in this room. against be looking for a motion to motion to second. All right.