001Being ordered call vote here. Stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Yes. Yep. Um, we are to the agenda. It looks like we had a couple of items that needed to be added. We have Winter McY added under contract 164A 165B a thank you from Tom Credit and then under 166F a report from Derek Storm. With that we need a motion to approve the agenda with the changes. I'll make a motion to approve the agend agenda with the changes. Second. Okay. Um all in favor I I motion carries. Do we have any waivers? I haven't seen there. Oh waver waiver authorization. I don't think we have any. Okay.
002Um minutes were emailed out if there was any changes. Don't think there was, but if there is, we can let her know. If not, we need a motion to approve the minutes from April 8th, 2025. Make a motion to approve the minutes for a second. Motion and a second. All in favor? I motion carries. Next item is expenditures. Um we would we can pull anything out that you want to look at, but if not, we'd be looking for a motion to approve expenditures A through C. Make a motion to approve expenditures A through C. Second. Okay. Motion and a second. All in favor? I agree. Motion carries. Next item would be 163, financial statements. Again, we can pull anything out if you want to, but if not, we'd be looking for a motion to approve
003A through K. Make a motion to approve financial statements A through K. Second. Motion and a second. All in favor? Motion carries. New business. We're going to start with contract resignation list. Okay. Go ahead and read down. Uh if we don't have any certified substitutes to add classified substitutes, we have uh Kevin Paul custodial, Amanda Wink, custodial, uh Winter McMahon, uh what was it? Custodial. Yeah. What? What did it say? Custodial. And what else? Can't write it all down. Okay. Custodial, right? All right. Yes. Okay. Uh, classified work agreement. Kenda Brandberry Elementary Food Service. Um, 2025 summer school assignments. Kelly Bashawn, Val Minahan, Betty Campbell, Jen Scott, Cecilia Lichfield, Sylvia Tren, Dan uh Alice, Rachel Van Bibber, and Brenda Cup. Resignations and retirements. Trev Feedler, if you remember, he was the middle school CTE instructor
004that we hired and then he unhired himself by taking a job in Morcraftoft. Um Sam Grant, middle school assistant student council. Mandy Ranip, technology assistant, middle school librarian. Mandy is going to be our family consumer science teacher. Um, Amanda Shrier, assistant fall drama coach, high school sped par profofessional. Uh, she got a certified position with, uh, I think Sturgis, right? Uh, Tim Hansen is retiring, high school social studies, boys and girls golf. Cody Brodsky, assistant high school football. Molina Weisman, kindergarten. Bonnie Leates, middle school, assistant track. and Shelby Kuber Waller uh middle school pair profession uh trans uh classified transfer Terra Mau from elementary secretary to elementary food service and then we've got a kind of a long list of um admin contracts and teacher contracts. I guess we we've already had a motion to
005offer those, but the salaries are published at this time. I think did I get everything? Do you have high school social studies? She has. Where do I Oh, but did we have that as a certified? She's on the teacher. Oh, on the certified teacher list. Okay. And that's a new contract. Yeah. Okay. Any others we might be missing? One question. Is Bonnie retiring retirement track forever or is she? Yeah, because she's on the list later on down the list. Oh, is she the extra duty? Probably because we that went out Friday. Okay. So, I just was confused on that. That's a question. Yeah. Okay. Sorry. Uh Brienne Port, was she on the summer school list? I didn't hear. I think you just submitted stuff for the cup. Okay. So, we need to add Brienne Morp.
006Yes. That that approved. Okay. And that's for summer school. Yes. Thanks, Dan. Yeah. Thanks, Dan. Okay. So, like to make motion look the additional changes. Yep. Is that okay? Go ahead. So, I'll make a motion with the additional changes um to the contract and resignation for a second. I want to make sure. So, you should you should second and then second call question. Okay. So, let's go ahead and second and then question. Okay. So you said that we have an employee who is on our list later on then for track. No, she was I she had bring stuff. She is retiring, right? Um but she's on the activities list later on like in the it's this extra duty contract. So it took me three days for it. Okay. So let pl motion second. All in
007favor? I motion carries. Next item is to approve the administrator negotiated agreement. Did you have a chance to look at that? Okay. We just need a motion to approve that. Second. All in favor? I. Motion carries. Motion to approve the LDA negotiated contract. Make that motion. Okay. All in favor? I. Motion carries. The next one is the approve the confidential employee negotiated agreement. Make a motion to approve the confidential negotiated agreement. Second motion and a second. All in favor? I motion carries. Next one is approve classified employee negotiate agreement. Make a motion to approve the classified employee negotiating agreement. Second. Okay. All in favor? I. Motion carries. Um we are to the school board resolution for South Dakota High School. What does that activities association? So you'll need to sign that. Basically, this is uh
008something um like it's just our membership to the high school activities association. Something we've done every year for over 100 years. So, we should continue to motion and the second. All in favor? I motion carries. Um, next one is to look at the South SDHSA election ballot. That is we have a lot of options. Yep. East River Atlarge representative. Um I'll just read through the names. I don't know if you guys have have uh read through them, but like uh Dr. Tina Bour, assistant principal Aberdeen Central. This is for the East River Atlarge representative to be followed by secondary principal or assistant principal. And yes, even though we're west river, we get to vote on the East River Atlarge. Okay. Uh Shelby Edwards, secondary principal Groten. Britney Idy, secondary principal, Corsica Castikney. Tim Lyel, secondary
009principal, Hitchcock Tair. Brian Rollinger, secondary principal, Harrisburg. Now, there's only one in this list who has ever tackled this fuel shooter. Know who that is? Ryan. Yeah. I don't know. Zach, do you have a recommendation on those? the lady. I did some classes with the lady from Porsche saved me. I think she choice. She's Yeah, in a lot of different things with the activities association. Um, she'd be a good choice. She's a good choice. Or Ryan Rollinger if if you're looking for an opinion. Otherwise, it's doesn't matter a lot to us. Just guys think I like Ryan personally. I like that he has the experienced background and when he you know discusses um you know his own experience with coaching repping an image like this that person members do you want to do you want
010to take a bullet upon it or do you want to just come to a consensus uh and you can somebody wants to speak up or any others. You can too. I I'm pretty open. It's going to be a small part of our lives. Who's to say it way? I hate to say it. I'd love to see someone from over here, but that never happens. So, go through. Well, there are West River, but yeah, we aren't really This has to be an East River. We're never going to deal with these schools. Sure. I'm fine with whatever. Ryan's fines. I mean, I I don't have any issues. I don't have any issues with any of them, actually. No, I like I said, just reading through what he had to say I liked. But I also like where
011you have experience working with the other gal. Let's say Britney Britney ID Britney ID. We got two for them. And you can draw straws. I was going to say I'm good with whichever one you choose. Uh, I will make a motion um for Oh, great. I'm on the wrong floor. Um, for Okay. All right. Motion to put down Britney ID. Need a second. Second. All in favor. Motion carries. There you go. That's who we're doing. And what about the backwards? There was another one. Yep. Yep. The amendment ballot will be next. So you'll follow us. Okay. So the next one is the amendment ballot. So I think they were just in here. So are we not? Okay. Wait a minute. There are more. Okay. There's a whole stack of them here. So Billy was first.
012So let's start with that one. Well, and there's only small uh small school group board of education representative. There's one person here. Do we want to vote for the one Billy Clinton from Harding County? Yeah. Okay. Yes. Good. All right. Okay. There's that. And then while you're signing this, okay, this is division one representative filled be filled by athletic activity director. You got Jordan Bower, Rapid City or Steve Moore, Sou Falls Roosevelt. Rapid City. Yep. On this side. Yep. There you go. Exact same. Yes. He all of the state events when they're out here. He's division three representative to be filled by secondary principal, assistant principal. You got Chad Allison, Lennox High School, Jeff Shehan, Hamlin High School. I guess I would if you're looking for a recommendation, I would recommend Chad Allison, but it's
013up to you guys. I'm going to go with Zach shaking his head. Yes. Okay. Okay. My son teaches at Linux and he said Chad's pretty pretty good dude. So, okay. Sing. I mean, we try to get as close as possible to West. Hey, I tried to get on that board last year. I got defeated. I show Yeah, the amendment will be a separate this one before it. All right. You want me to answer that? Amendment number one. Pass all of them here. Amend chapter one, part four, section one, subsection D. Do you want to speak to these or do you want me to keep going? Nope. You got it. Yeah, he's the only one. Okay. Um, Scholastic academic eligibility rule. uh preceding semester trimester. The student unless they are entering high school for the first
014time shall have successfully earned a minimum of two units of semester credit, one and one half units of trimester credit which are used in the issuance of a diploma for the proceeding or for the most recent semester trimester of attendance at any credited high school for the purpose of this subsection enrollment and attendance in school. Participation in one or more contests shall constitute a semester trimester in determining eligibility. However, the board of directors or the executive director shall have the authority to wave the attendance rule when and if a student withdraws from school as a result of an injury or illness and does not return to any school for the remainder of the semester trimester and the student does not receive any high school course credits. I don't think you need to read the whole
015thing. Okay. I'm just saying everybody got the packet. Do you want to vote yes or no on that amendment? I think it would be better. Yeah. I just want to make sure that I'm understanding based on this students who are not in our district but want or excuse me are not going to school here but want to participate in programs in our district. Do we I know by statute I I went and I looked at it that they're supposed to provide those transcripts to us but what recourse do we have? I mean are we actually requiring them? Here's my issue is with the way things are going with not having to provide proof for homeschooling purposes. I want to make sure that for those people that are participating athletic in our athletics that they're they're
016meeting those basic requirements of post school. So based on what I read in statute is they're supposed to provide those transcripts. My question is is there do we have any enforcibility with that? I don't I don't think we have any enforcability, but we do require those things for the students to be a part of our programs. I mean, I think if push came to shove them wanting to be in, we kind of have to let them. But for the students we have that are homeschooled and participate, they do provide all the documentation needed and give weekly updates as well with their grades. What are boils down basics and we ask them to do that and they do it. But the way the law is if there's no prescribed curriculum or anything. So if mom wants
017to write a transcript on a napkin and turn that in, we have no way of it. Right. Right. It's just Okay, that was my only issue was kind of looking at that and that's more probably on the second amend amendment, but since they both go that sounded really weird, but anyway, the second amendment that's in our packet. Um but that was what clarification I wanted is just what what requirements. Okay. Okay. Well, the first one is related to two units and then one and one half units. So with that, are you okay with voting yes on that change? That's Yeah. Yes. Yes. Okay. There is that one. The next one is number two. Okay. This one has to do with [Music] um middle school participation rule. Yeah. Defining their uh semesters and trimesters and in
018seventh and eighth grade. Okay. Yes or no? Yes. Yes. Yes. Now we're in the gas. Okay. Amendment number three. This one has to do with sit out period. Yeah. So basically if they know of schools they have a certain time period to sit out. That's kind of how I read it. Yeah. That's kind of a big thing going around right now but would be would be a good procedure to put in place. Yeah. as a yes. Okay. All right. Amendment number four. Um, uh, to be eligible at the beginning of a semester, participating in school, students non-enrolled at the beginning of the semester shall become eligible on the 15th calendar day. Then there are some strikethroughs. So, it just takes a longer, they have to wait a little longer before they can participate. So you
019wouldn't just be able to change schools and join a team. Yeah. Makes you think a little bit before you move around. That is they got to practice a little bit. Yep. So are we a yes on that? Yes. Amendment number five. transferring from one high school to another must have the school he she leaves file a transcript of credits with the current state of the school to which they transfer and then talks about guardianship. Change in section F notes the sending schools must notify the receiving school of any ongoing or pending suspensions regarding the transfer student. Change in section H is clarifying language noting that all the criteria must be met for transfer due to guardianship change be legitimate. Yes. Yes. Get sloppier. I'll lose. Okay. Okay. So, we are campus April 8th, 2025 school
020board election. Okay. So, um, there were two three-year terms. Uh, Tim Matson received 280 votes in Lead and 215 in Deadwood for a total of 500 votes. Uh, Robin Lucero received 270 votes in Lead and 217 in Deadwood for a total of 487. Amber Voit received 316 votes in lead, 219 in Deadwood for a total of 535. There were 553 votes cast in lead and 126 in Deadwood for a total of 679. So the registered voters on April 8th was 5,036. 679 voted for a voter turnout of 13.48%. And Amber and Tim will be swearing in at the July annual board. Congratulations, Amber. Thanks. We just need a motion to accept that canvas, right? Yep. So, we need a motion to approve the canvas of the votes. I make a motion to approve the canvas
021of of the votes. Second. Okay. Um, we have a motion and a second. Motion carry or all in favor? I'm getting ahead of myself. All in favor? I motion carries. All right. Next one is the supplemental budget. Okay. The supplemental budget consists of we had a little bit of SR3 learning laws and SR3 general. And then the title one, we got that grant like in August and that was at the elementary. So we need to approve that. And then also there's the retention benefit and the longevity benefit. So in general fund the total is 28,17058. Total means of finance there's a difference of like 1708 and that's to do with the er money because we did indirect cost but it doesn't have an expense associated with it. It's just the revenue. So that's why the
022difference in general fund and then in capital outlay that was all ESSER stuff and the total appropriations was 35,181 and the means of finance was essenti uh nothing in special ed and then in food service the longevity benefit of 10,000. Question on that? If not, we need a motion to approve the supplemental budget as presented. Approve the supplemental budget. Second. Okay. All in favor? And I motion carries. Um, next item is the FY 226. Okay. I won't go through all of this. I promise you can read some of this on your own, but I'll just hit the highlights of it. Um, the proposed budget is from July 1st, 2025 through June 30th of 2026. And pages 1 through five, the pages are on the right hand side at the bottom. Pages 1 through five is
023the folded budget. Uh, this is what will be published in the paper. Uh the FY26 budget includes the following funds. General fund, uh capital outlay, special ed, the Jensen fund, the enterprise, and food service. That's pages 1 through five. And then pages 6 through 10 is the revenue and the expenditure summary for the three major funds containing the tax levies. On page six, you can see where taxes are applicable to the general capital outlay and the special ed. And then if you look on page seven where it says balance assigned for next year's budget in the general fund, the projections reflect that revenue will exceed the expenditures by 230,887. So these projections will result in the general fund fund balance growing by that amount. Uh the projections for the capital outlay the expenditures are exceeding
024revenue by 1,178 277. So these pro projections will result in the capital outlay fund balance decreasing by that amount. And then the projections for the special ed fund, they have expenditures exceeding the revenues by 177,877. And these projections will result in the special ed fund balance decreasing by that amount. Then on page 8, 9 and 10 are the expenditures for the general fund, the capital outlay, the special ed, and the Jensen fund. Total expenditures for general fund are found on page 10. Uh and then page 11 is basically a comparison. Uh including FY 24, 25 and 26. It's got the revenue and the expenditures and then the highlighted at the bottom there is the fund balances. Uh for FY24, it's the actual fund balances. in uh general fund caplay special ed and the Jensen and
025then in 25 and 26 it's using the budgeted amounts. So in the general fund 2026 expenditures are 531,624 more than the 2025 budgeted expenditures and 872,376 more than the 2024 actual expenditures. Um, in the and I'm still on page 11. Sorry. In the capital outlay fund, 2026 expenditures are 1,1 191520 more than 2025 budgeted expenditures and 2,321800 more than the 2024 actual expenditures. In the special education fund, the 2026 expenditures are 252,53 more than the 2025 budget expenditures and 4540,54 more than the actual 2024 actual expenditures in special ed. So then like I said, page 11 is also a comparison of the 24 through 26 revenues and expenditures. In the general fund, the projected 26 revenues are 722,431 more than the 2025 budgeted revenues and 38,133 more than the actual 2024 actual revenue in the
026general plan. In the capital outlay budget, projected 26 revenues are 235,02 more than the 2025 budgeted revenues and 276519 less than the actual 2024 revenues in capital outlay. In the special education fund, the projected revenues are 82,605 more than 2025 budgeted revenues and 103,98 more than 2025 actual revenues. And then on page 11, like I say, the fund balance for each fund is there. 2024 is actual, 125 and 26 is based on the projected budgets. So page 13 through 15, we start with general fund. It consists of several years of the district's assessed valuation. Um, and the most current shows an increase of 10.67% over uh 2023 valuation. The 2023 valuation is an increase of 23%. And then this year it's or taxes payable in 2026 25 evaluation is an increase of 10,6 or 10%
027almost 11%. Um the district's current assessed valuation is 2.2 billion. That's the 10.67% increase. So that's found on page 13, 14, and 15. Um, on page 16, I just threw the tiff information in there. Um, you can see the tips on the left hand side and the total taxes lost due to the tips for the school's portion is 581,12. That's just forformational purposes. Um, okay. So page 17 in general fund shows the corresponding assessed values and the levies that the district is requesting in general fund. The FY2026 levies are the same as 2025. You can see the valuations in the different classifications for 2024 valuations and 2025 valuations. The levy is the same. Um the possible dollars raised in property tax to finance FY26 budget is the 5,577101 and it's a difference of 540,855 more
028in property tax for FY26 budget. So then if you turn to page 18, you can see what the difference between what the request is versus what the maximum levy is. The one in the blue, the maximum levy, that's the levy set by the legislators, but we're going to request less. So that's going to be a savings of 661,620 a property tax. And you're comfortable with that, you think? I mean, you don't see any reason that we need to increase that levy at this point? Well, yeah. What I would comment on that is when we look at as Margie and I talked and she kind of asked, you know, about numbers to plug in there. I said, you know, with with the growth in valuations, I said, let's look first at leaving the levies the same
029and then that would grow our in the general fund that would grow our fund balance by kind of a modest amount, whatever 170,000 or whatever, 177,000, whatever it is. So, you would have room if you wanted to. Um, I I think that's a that's pretty a pretty nice cushion. I think it's not an irresponsible amount where you're just hoarding the taxpayers's money, but if you wanted to lower that a little bit, lower the levies just a little. Uh, we would have room to do that. That's a conversation we could have, but I guess but based off of this, you'd be comfortable going in to the budget cycle and you can pay all the bills and do all the stuff that we want to do. Yeah. Keeping it the same because our fund balance is growing.
030Yeah. value or uh the utilities aren't in there yet. They're using that. So, I think it might grow, you know, just a little bit there if if the utilities increase. Not a lot. I mean, we're not on a, you know, $9 million budget, but and just to just kind of like jog everybody's memory, too, we when we talked about doing the middle school project, we knew going into that that our uh fund balance in capital outlay would take a little bit of a hit in this fiscal year, this upcoming fiscal year, but then there's projected growth, even with some decline in enrollment, there's projected growth in the following year. So that's going to kind of I mean it's got not getting dangerously low. It's going we're going to spend some of that down and then
031let it build up over the years after that. So that's all kind of planned. So like you say in FY26 the savings to the taxpayer by requesting um the lower levy is the 661620 and then the savings for FY25 just in the general fund we requested 1,158684 less two two years that's quite a bit savings for the taxpayers. Uh page 19 through 21 is uh the general fund, the 2025 budget, what we received through April of 2025, and then the 2026 budget, and then the change from the 25 budget to the proposed budget of 26. I'll just I won't go through that. You guys can just read that. Then we'll go to capital outlay budget. So page 22 to 30 details the capital outlay fund. Um in FY2025 the district requested the maximum to balance
032the capital outlay fund and you can find that on page 23. Um so in FY25 the total was 2,47430560 we requested all of that and then in FY26 based on 637 students at the 3869 we could uh request 2 million 467570 but we're going to request 2.3 million in the capital outlay fund. uh the per student allocation for FY26 like I said is that 3869 it was an increase of the 2.9% which was the CPI and then uh the enrollment for 25 fc year 25 was 658 and it decreased to 638 in 2026. One thing I would point out to you too again like with that middle school remodel project uh you know people we we told people hey we're not going to raise taxes to do this you know and so if you notice
033we actually in capital outlay lowered our request. So so the capital outlay taxes actually went down in the fiscal year that we're doing that. So um so page 24 is just again like the revenue the budgeted revenue for 2025 what's received through April and then the FY26 uh budgeted revenue for the capital outlay page 25 to 30 you can go ahead and push through that on your own that's just a detail of all the expenditures that make up the 3,734900 130 of the capital outlay. Uh next we'll go to the special education fund and page 31 to 34 details the special education fund and then due to increased valuations the past three years the district has not requested the maximum mill levy and the special education fund. Um FY24 the adopted budget saved the taxpayers
034597,000 this fiscal year 2025 we requested 1,3549 less and then in FY26 the savings to the taxpayers is 1 million 159547 by not requesting the maximum le as shown on page 32. Um just a quick question. No concerns with that paper. No, I I talked to Mr. Beagle about that. Our fund balance is healthy. Okay. And even when we are going to use some of our fund balance, I mean it it's still up there. Um we can't go to the extraordinary Costco and if we would have, you know, something but 700,000 that's that's a healthy balance. So no, I have no concerns at all. I talked to Mr. gave it fine to y uh the Mary Jensen estate is found on page 35 to 37 and basically this fund is a business class at the
035high school. We had a former graduate uh Mary Jensen. She gifted the district quite a bit of money and the business class was started with that. So a transfer is done at the end of the fiscal year to move the expenditures incurred and general fund. That's Amy Todd's salary, benefits, supplies. And then in Capital Outlay, it's her equipment. There's nothing budgeted in in Capital Outlay this year. And then the Digger Depot sales for FY23 were 20,727. That was the first year. And then in FY24, it was 39,95. And then this year so far through April 30th the digger depot sales are 30,850 overall. Yeah. I mean for what it is. Yeah. Yeah. It's not going to be you know it's a business but it's Yeah. It's not a profit business. Most businesses aren't. And then
036on page 37, the expenditures from FY23 up until 26 are there. You can review those. And then our last fund is our food service fund. Uh the food service program has seen lower participation in the last three years. Uh when the meals were free, everyone was participating. um projected the projections for the 2026 show revenues down by 54,419 from 2025. The projections for the 26 expenditures show a decrease of 8,239 from 2025 budget. Um some of that is the supply chain revenue that we got. It was a grant so that's out of there now. So there's no expense for that and there's no revenue for that as well. That um federal uh allocation is gone. So the transfer from general fund for FY26 is 240,713 that is needed to balance the food service budget. Last
037year it was like 210. So that is a little bit from that. The problem with it is is our federal reimbursement. We get less for a paid and we're assuming more paid than we are free. You get more of a re reimbursement for the free and reduced and our free and reduced numbers just aren't what they used to be. So our paid is exceeding what those other two. So our federal reimbursement is down as well. cost and the cost of Google acceptance salaries and benefits and you know cost to maintain the equipment and everything. So it is concerning I'll I'll be uh straightforward with you on that but it's we don't have a ready answer like you've heard me say a lot of times it's very common for school district supplement their food service with
038the general fund to this level. I don't know. Like we're we're hoping to get a handle on it, but it's it's it's a puzzle. Every year we've had a conversation over. It's unfortunate, but I I mean I Well, it's I don't think we overspend on anything and we don't under spending, but it's a needed thing. Okay. This actually isn't an acting item. It's just review. We'll adopt the budget now. The next meeting question. Yeah. And we'll adopt it in July. That's Yeah. So, two months. Yes. Okay. Um, we I think we talked about this last month was moving or no when you're in your memo I guess moving the July board meeting from the 8th to 15th just with the holiday in there kind of messes with getting everything dealt with that needs to and
039then you had said something about a special board meeting but I don't see that at least July 1st. Yeah. And we don't necessarily need a motion for that. We can just we just we just need to publish it and yeah that's July 1. Um and that'll be to uh that'll be to approve bids. What time was that meeting? Did we have a time bill? I didn't we didn't have a time. We didn't have a time. We could we'll advertise whatever time you guys. How about that? What were you 5:30? Whatever. a Tuesday now. Never happens. So, I can do pretty much whenever what works for you at the time. When do you get off? 5:30. I prefer to just be consistent with 5:30. Okay. Excellent. And that's something that like like probably some of our
040administrators in the room were like, "Do I have to be there?" And then moving it from the 8th to the 15th. We do need a motion on that. Correct. Your regular schedule. So I need a motion to move that. I'll make a motion to move forward meeting from July 8th to July 15th, 2025. Second. Okay. Um all in favor? I motion carries. Okay. Next item is physical therapy contract with Katie Johnson. I no Jay is not here to speak to it. I I think we're we're pleased with this is the same we've had before, right? Nothing. Okay. It's just redoing. Make a motion to approve the physical contract with Katie Johnson. Second. We have a motion and a second. A motion and a second. All in favor? I was going to say um I guess
041at this point it doesn't matter, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable with using a contract without seeing what the terms of that contract are. It's right here. It's in here. It's in the packet. I didn't get that. 978 look and see where I missed it. Yeah, the contract's in there and it looks like it's similar to last year's. It's page. I didn't really see anything that was glaringly different. Did you? I apologize. I didn't see it. Yeah. Okay. So, motion. There was a motion and a second and it carried. Do you want to look at this? You can look at it. But we did have a motion in a second. And we Yeah, you're fine. You can read through it. Okay. Yeah. We're going to move on to the next item. Approved. Yeah. I said
042all in favor. Y so the next item is approved 2526 acceptable use. Any comments policy and technology acceptable use? No, no comments. It's pretty much the same as last year. So um I'll make a motion to approve that 202526 use policy. Second that motion. Um we have a motion and a second. All in favor? I. Motion carries. Next item is the surplus list. I think this is the first time we've seen it, right? Yes. Yeah. So, that should not be an action item. That's it's just a review. It was a very descriptive surplus. There's not a piano on there. Nope. No pianos. It was Well, we kind of learned from that. Like that's why we review it one month, let it sit and don't uh I don't know what the roll out bench is. But
043other than that, so we don't need any action. No. Okay. Um, next one is the creation of an archery club account. We have an archery club. Apparently, they don't have a uh a club account, a TNA account. I don't know if Margie wants to speak to it anymore, but they're going to competitions and so forth, and it's uh it would be a lot cleaner if they could run their funds and their fundraising through the district. Yeah, he's this is in the in the packet. Um basically, he's getting a lot of donations for nationals for travel expenses. So, um said we just need to get this approved. So, we're just being consistent with our other club accounts just so that it's the same process. Yep. He knows the rules and everything. Second. Yeah. No. So, we
044just need approval to create that archery club account. I'll approve the creation of an archery club account. Second. Okay. So, motion and a second. All in favor? Motion carries. We have one open enrollment request. I believe I'll make a motion to approve the open enrollment that motion. Okay, motion and a second. All in favor? Okay, motion [Music] carries. Everybody's Jody, did you have them? You already had them. Perfect. Thank you. Um the next item we're looking at I'm going to kind of talk about RST and U kind of all together just for for purposes and then we'll go through each one individually. Um the handbooks are being reviewed tonight. Keep in mind these handbooks are not for us to go through and and pick through. We kind of have always allowed our administrators to present
045us what they think is the best option and then we usually look at them. If there's like a spelling error or something that you see, obviously we want to try to catch those. You can just let them know and and they can update those if need be. But for the most part, I think we try to let them have, you know, they know their schools and they know kind of what they're doing. So that's kind of where we're at. But we'll look at each one individually for motion. Correct. Well, they're just first readings. Oh, they're first read. Sorry, they're first readings over here. So they'll go to the next meeting. We won't make motions tonight. So, the first one was the high school student handbook. Um, are you talking you want? No, these guys are
046gonna they're gonna address if if there just basically if you guys have any questions and if there's something that you think needs is going to be a lot of discussion, you know, maybe like just use your judgment if you want to handle it here or if you want to talk to that administrator individually. But real quick as we go through these, like Amber kind of said, there's a little bit of autonomy in each building for them to have a handbook that fits their building. Now, we've had discussions in the past and we probably do need to do a better job of looking at it earlier and maybe certain things being more consistent language between the buildings because we're one district. But also, it's kind of a thing where uh the building principal has that autonomy
047that this is how I'm running my building. this some things are unique to this building that kind of you have questions now would be a good time to ask them otherwise what the first one's the activity handbook is there anything that you want to share that you want to pull out of there or you I would say that the biggest change for me is our uh weekly eligibility so I changed the wording from Friday to the last day of the school week um when we don't have school on Fridays then it would allow us to pull grades on Thursdays and use that for our weekly eligibility. So other than that, they were minor um minor differences. And I think this is the one where usually like as the year progresses that there's changes and coaches
048or whatever, it'll just get updated automatically. Oh, I did some of the updating for what we have too in so there anything else on that document? The only thing I had was um I just didn't know if you wanted to switch a couple of words around because you said we do want to talk about that, right? I I think if it's just wording if you can do it now or you can just send an email to Zach and say, "Hey, I just had a question on this." Okay. If you want to either way, it's a quick one. It's a really quick one. It's just on page three you have transportation activity approval. I'm wondering if it should be activity transportation because it reads quickly. Does that make sense? Because I assume this is a permission
049for them to be transported for the purpose of activities, not a transportation activity. So the only thing that I changed was it used to say activities and it said activity because when they fill out that request, it's for one thing at a time. But yeah, I can switch that if that is something you guys would like. Okay. So if nothing else in that one, we can just, you know, you can read it. If there's other things that come up, you can go ahead and switch it or you can ask them to to look at it. So the next one would be the high school student handbook. No changes. No, no changes. I saw you sent a just a real quick explanation. Yeah. So as student council comes in, we'll update those. Um, one one thing
050that and I don't know Lexi we visited a little bit about it, but um I brought this up about four or five years ago and I got told to not to touch it with a 10-ft pole. Um, but I think with um our new school song banner in gym one, I think it's worth discussing briefly um updating our school song, not the foundation of the song, not changing the song, but changing oldly hide to Lee Deadwood and changing maroon and white to maroon and gold. Um, that's just my personal opinion. Um, I know I'm a short timer here, but I think that that's something that if as we continue to bridge the gap between the merge that's been for the last 50 years, um, it's time that we update those three words in our song.
051I did. We did update our We did on the banner on the banner. Yeah. So, there you go. Had we not had this conversation in front of the Black Hills Pioneer, nobody would know the difference. But it's in Just make it so. Yeah. Make it so that yeah, I will make that change and we already it's in the elementary handbook. Yeah. Has a school song. We'll make it simple. Anywhere that the school song is, just make it match the banner that's in the general. I don't think we need to have a huge discussion on it. I know some of the community may not like it, but we're not here to Yeah. Let's go forward. Yep. They should all learn. I'm good with that. We're all united together as one. Okay. Anything else in the high
052school handbook? Nope. Perfect. Middle school handbook next. Jay is sick. Jay is sick. So I was there. I don't think there was really much. I didn't like it. So if you have someone middle school that's fine. Elementary student handbook. Mr. Van River. Well, we did a complete overhaul. Uh there's a lot of red. Yeah. Um, I had I had our uh guiding coalition, our leadership committee go through it with a fine tooth comb. We found so many outdated policies and things that do not apply. Um, and some of it was cleaning up the language, some of it was matching it to the PBIS expectations for the behaviors and common area expectations. We're also adding a section um about uh the technology use. Jamie put that together. I'm not sure that I got that completely in
053there. You had sent me a separate This is very similar to what the high school does. It's geared toward elementary because we've had some intentional damage to some laptops. We just want to make parents aware that, you know, hey, still applies to elementary. Um, so yeah, we um we worked on this for a while as a leadership committee and um some of it is just things that we took out that were um just redundant like it was in there multiple times. Um just to kind of clean it up again. I'm going to have to um there's one section the discipline matrix um again the PBIS committee was asking to look at that this summer in their summer work just to make sure the language is consistent between PBIS and um and some of the things
054that that we use for discipline matrix because it was a little bit outdated. So we we didn't get a chance to get that done. Um, but yeah, we just we wanted to clean it up, make it more concise. Um, there's some grammar things in there. There's lot of lot of things that are crossed out but have been replaced with something else. Um, just rewarded. Um, so yeah, I'd be happy to talk to you individually if there's anything. Like I said, we kind of um we took it apart like a jigsaw puzzle and split it up into some subgroups and then we got back together as a whole and I put it back together. Oh, it was so early was outdated. Dan, could you just give us a like the makeup of your guiding coalition? You
055have to name names, but like absolutely. What is that? Who how many people? Who is So that that's my leadership team. It's um like grade level team representatives. So I have um you know of course like a a K1 representative, a 23 representative, a 45 representative meaning grade levels um special education uh representative um we also have a specialist representation. So um trying to represent the different sub groups in the building. Um so the main the main purpose of that is to um gather information and to be the communication um you know when we get together and discuss um things like we're we're going to work this summer to work on like the um the schedule for example and the extra duty coverage. So they kind of bring ideas from the team on how we
056can make things better. So if there's other changes after we approve like next time, let's say there's some stuff that they work on this summer, they can do an amendment, couldn't they? If there was some stuff that came up. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Okay. So again, if you have questions, there's a lot to read in that handbook specifically. You can go ahead and read out. I I appreciate the immense amount of time done because it it was needed and so that's good. Yeah. Thank you. Um, one to one handbook first reading. No real changes aside from dates and a few periods that might have been missed before. Okay. Again, first reading. So, you can view it if you have questions. Darth Jamie. Um, wellness a policy AE for wellness. Darcy, would you mind speaking to
057that a little bit and you don't have to go into a lot of depth, but just kind of tell them what it is, why it is. Well, actually, would you mind just kind of introducing why we needed to reook at the wellness policy because actually we really did just update the wellness policy I think October October of Yeah. So, so we had our administrative review for food service 5 years ago and we did really really well on it except for the wellness policy they did not like. So, um, Darcy Kenny took it under her wing and, um, held meetings. I got policies from other school districts who have had their review and then it passed such as me school district. So, I think she kind of developed some of their stuff. And so, it's I
058mean, it's all about smart snacks. I mean, that's what we have to serve while school's in session. Um, even the school store, the Digger Depot. I mean, they have to comply with that. Our vending machines, our pot machines, you can only have this many ounces in middle school. So, like I say, we need to to comply with all that because we are having a review this this fall. It was supposed to be this school year, but um with the co anyway, it got pushed back to next year. So, that's how the conversation was started because we need to update it. It's more almost compliant. Had that been edited already because it said in there you'd serve smart snacks. It said something about serving healthy snacks. This one is not that. Okay. It didn't really meet
059the requirement, right Marie? The audit requirement of what was required in this policy wasn't that pretty much. So the new document here is the new that's the edited. Yes. So, the state has a model policy that has required things that have to be in the policy in order for us to pass. Um, and so we we had the model policy and then we had some examples of policy of uh policies from other schools in the state that had passed and we kind of looked at those. We tried to keep it as simple as possible because we know that we're a unique district and we have things that um we're trying to do here. We're trying to keep our kids fed in the district in school as much as possible. Um lots of different things going
060on. Um so we wanted it as simple as possible and we wanted to meet the requirements. So that's what we tried to do. It is a first reading. It'll be on the agenda next time. So if you have anything that comes up, you can sure ask questions. Thank you. All right. So it looks like we have four thank yous in our correspondence. One from Mr. Lynn, one from the high school staff, one from Lisa Rand, and one from Tom. Um Gary's was about retirement. Looks like mostly retirements and we are on to administrator report please. Okay. I don't have a lot here, but just real quick, um, we talked, uh, talked about having that special board meeting, uh, July 1st. So, with the middle school project, we're going to have that 96% page turn meeting
061on Friday. And I understand that I think Robin said you maybe won't be able to make it. Is that correct? Um, or did you or No, that was Never mind. I'm I'm Yeah. Yeah. It got moved to 7:30 though. Yeah. We were the ones who had the conflict. Yes. Yeah. Class. So, I think I I think Rob and Amber will be in there as well as uh our administrators kind of on the leadership team with that. And that's where they're going to go through the construction documents kind of page by page. Uh big overview of that making sure that we're ready to put things out for bid. Am I missing anything on that, Bill? No. So, I added a security portion to that to the end of that just in case that meeting goes over,
062you guys don't necessarily have to be there for that make still make class day. So, okay. And I did notice she sent it in her update. So, Robin, if you want to look at it before Friday, click on the thing and then it's attached in the bottom. I found it by me, but it is there if you want to kind of see what what they sent it did come through today. Oh, the the documents the documents, but it's attached within her email in or her invite. Okay, got it. Um, and then some requirements are are changing with this past legislative session. Just so you guys know, like Amber and I have been kind of in conversation about that and I've made a note to Mary uh to put on the July agenda, but we're going
063to be required once a year to review the open meeting laws and kind of just go through a you know, basically an overview of what it is and what it means. And then we have to have it in our minutes that we've done that review annually. So we'll just add it to the July agenda for years. So those are the things I have right now. Mr. Van Bieber Elementary School, I think. Okay. I've been told I talk too long, so I'm gonna go quick. All right. Uh, and I always like to start with the enrollment. Um, we are at 243 in the end with 243. So, I look back on the September meeting, that's three more um elementary enrollment from the beginning of the year. We're down one if we include um early childhood. Uh
064hiring update. Uh uh have an offer out to a kindergarten teacher. Uh we had interviews this week. That went really well. Um waiting to hear back. Uh now secretary and ACE room uh Paris still to hire. Um so hopefully we'll get that rolling here soon. Uh just quickly with the new hires that we've had in the elementary, we will have four sections of kindergarten, first, third, and fourth grades for next year. So that's up a couple. You mean three? Uh yeah, three section. Yes. Wow. I have four grade levels. Three sections now instead of two. So sorry I didn't talk Dan. I hired a lot more. Four grade levels will have three sections next year. That's up from two grade levels having three section. Numbers are hard. Okay. That just blew Margie's budget. Yeah, we
065don't have any room for four segments. One said it was okay. Uh let's see. Since the last update, spring music concert, we packed the house again in the high school auditorium. That was fantastic. um looked like to be well over 500 people in there. That went very well. Kids had blast performing. Um third grade since our last update has done they kind of taken on a new thing like fifth grade has famous faces which by the way went very well this year. My son was a part of that. Um they spent several weeks researching, writing reports, getting costumes and presenting in front of their classmates and parents and judges. Um, and third grade then did something similar but more of a wax museum style for presidents. That was really cool. You push the proverbial button
066and then they come alive and they talk. Um, so that was really neat. Uh, we had again our famous faces. We had our spelling bee um that just went down grades one through five that went um was very well organized. Vina Flores was the one that secured a lot of the donations and um kids got some very good prizes. Uh lots of positive feedback from staff, students, and parents. Uh Friday we had our 100th anniversary fundraiser concert. Um Nina McIntyre performed. We had um it Cleveland's Jack Sprat original recipe from uh the beginning of the building. Uh we had that for um our food. We had a silent auction. Um we're a little over we raised a little over $2,500 in that event. Um but we have more donations coming in and a projection that
067I got was could be as much as 4,000 from that event. So that's pretty exciting stuff. Um it was it was a lot of fun and we got a lot of great feedback from that. And then field trips. Uh it's field trip season. Kids are all over the place. Anywhere from Old McDonald's Farm to Mount Rushmore to the local museums in Lead and Deadwood. Like they're they're having a blast right now celebrating their learning from the year. So good. Any questions? Was that Jordan? That was good job. Okay. It was a really cool event. Friday night was amazing. We could do something else like that like as a school. It's It'd be a great school fundraiser to actually make up a long concert and if she would come back and do it. It was It
068was really really good. Maybe we could do it in that container. We should. But no, it was it was a fun event. There was about 100 people the piano in the room. It was It was good. So, okay, next one. Um, well, there is no middle school update, right? Unless there's something you haven't known. Did Jay give it to anybody? Anybody? No. Um, high school update, Mr. Jacobs. Uh, hiring update. Obviously saw we were fortunate to get a socialized teacher and quick turn around. Excited about that. We're still searching for the elusive English teacher. Um, but working on some plans. Um, alternative plans if that doesn't happen. and you know, looking at our enrollment, looking at our sections, I don't think it's going to be too big of a deal for us um to shuffle
069a couple things around and we'll get that figured out. Um so, working with Jay and um and Yolanda and working with uh Rhonda, finalizing our master schedules, getting those ready to go. Uh we had our CTE open house, spring open house. um last week uh we decided that it is best to do one instead of two going forward. Um just kind of got worn out in the in the springtime. There's so many other things going on. It's hard and people are torn. Uh but the kids put in a lot of hard work. Um they had a lot of a lot of great things they created. Everything from the eighth grade business class on. Um it was it was really neat to see. So um we have obviously graduation and class day coming up. Our seniors
070finished up today. Um got a few more laptops and things to track down from some individuals, but everything went pretty smoothly. Um tomorrow we'll go down to the elementary first thing in the morning and they'll get to do their senior parade and their cap and gowns and give some high fives to the little guys and and see some of their old teachers and it's always a fun time. Come back up do their handprints in the wall up on third floor and we'll do graduation and practice and feed them some lunch and get them out the door. Uh we got back la Laurate will also be tomorrow night hoping to get a good turnout that'll be in gym 2 that went a lot better in gym two last year a little bit more uh just closer
071interactions which I thought was good. So um the ministerial services is excited about coming back and partnering with school again to do that. Um and yeah, graduation 2 o'clock on Sunday. Be there be square. It's going to be fun. So, we celebrate all of our our seniors and their hard work over the last four years and um we're excited to see them walk across that stage. Okay. Thank you. So, we have our student representative report. Um so, uh with academics, um Smarter Balance took place and uh Memory Gford and Zach White both received all fours in every category there. So, that's really nice. Um, at math contest, uh, Carl Williams, uh, got, uh, got third in geometry and Travis Pier Pierce placed fourth in algebra 2. Um, it's pretty competitive, so it's really cool to
072see kids place in that. Um, NHS had the highest number of inductees that Miss Campbell has ever had this year. So, they had to move that um to a bigger room. So, it was really cool to see all that. Um, and then, of course, semester testing next week. Uh and then um large group was on April 30th and uh choir performed two songs uh and they got superior scores of 31, 33 and 33 out of 35. Um band performed three songs and they had an average score of 2.5 out of three. Uh choir had their pops concert on the 28th. Uh, and that's usually like the community favorites, so a lot of people showed up and that was the case of course this year. Um, and they performed really well. The seniors had uh solos
073that they had the opportunity to perform and they all did great in my opinion. I'm a little biased. Um, uh, band had their spring concert on the 5th. Their focus of that concert was, um, to do storytelling through music. Uh, they were really great. Um they had multiple small groups and soloists also perform. Um the spring play had their school performance. Um and the students really seemed to enjoy it. They uh engaged a lot and that was kind of the goal of the whole play. So that was really nice. Um for events, uh prom went really great. Uh, I've heard a lot of students say that they really liked the um move from the opera house to the gym. They said the decorations worked better and um the dance was a lot like bigger like
074there was more room and stuff. So that was a really positive um move. And then for royalty uh for boys there was Eric Coers, Bowen, Ben Werman, uh James Burke and Jonas Runi was crown king. Um, for girls there was Brier Rose, Emily Farmer, Taylor Hansen, Delaney Madson, and Piper Rogers was crown queen. Um, for track, uh, or for sports in track, um, Nikica Black broke the school record for the 200 meter. Um, and then Cruz Mullman tied with the current school pull record. Um, and then students have also shown a lot of progress in their PRs and um, many have been placing in their meets. I think there's quite a few that have that are looking at state already. So, um, that'll be a lot of fun. That's all I got. Thank you very
075much. All right, Derek. Sure. All right. Thank you. I'll I'll try not to talk too long either, but Dan, you let me know if I do. Okay. I'll tie it. Um, all right. So, we'll start with the good stuff. Um, you guys have a little bit here of our community highlights. This little uh just quarterly um newsletter Bonnie kind of put out. Uh, some things I just wanted to highlight are the top left our workbased learning site. Something we've worked really hard to grow over the last year and a half is a workbased learning program where our graduates typically towards the end of their time with us um get out get a chance to work in a job that's related to what they've been training in. Uh we partner with a lot of different community
076businesses to do that. The students get paid um a competitive wage, whatever somebody in that job would get paid. Um but it costs cost the business nothing. Um gives them a chance to build some job skills. Really importantly gives them a chance to save some money so that they can, you know, move out, get a car, hopefully get an apartment, that kind of stuff. Um and end up on their feet as they transition out of the program. Um and then for the students that work live in the area, um most of the time those jobs are able to transition into full-time employment for them. So, they leave job and they're ready to go. Um, other things, we got some students there that participated in the uh I think the Marty GR competition. That's kind of
077an annual thing. They love that. They generally do pretty good. Flip it over there. Lawrence County uh public safety and services, our painters went up there. Um, uh, did some community volunteering there. I think they did all the the demarcation lines on the floor in that building. Um, we also as a workbased learning site, um, had a culinary arts student who just graduated. He started up there working as a part-time cook as a workbased learning site. Um they ended up needing some help as a CEO also. So he started doing that and I think now he's hired on as a co doing a little bit of cooking on the side. But uh so that worked out great. Um transitioned right into that. Um you know just other stuff. Got out did some snowshoeing. We've had
078a great some great after school clubs. Um Native American drum club. Had some students that wanted to get that started. We managed to find some funding to to buy a drum. They've been uh singing flag song at our graduation ceremonies and some honor songs at our graduation ceremonies. That's been a great addition. Um sewing club, which you'd be amazed how many people show up to a sewing club. I mean, they love it. They really do. So, that's been wonderful. Um a lot of fun. Kind of a lost art, actually. So, that's been really neat. Um and then we just hosted our annual guard camp school, and that's a firefighter training school. We had about 30 students that ended up going through that. um got certified with the training they needed to be a type two
079wildland firefighter on a hand crew. Um and we just had about 15 of those students get through do their pack tests so they can uh they're actually certified now to go out and uh participate in firefighting and we just sent our first crew out down to New Mexico I think uh last week. So So that's awesome. That's some of the fun stuff that's been going on there. Um local stuff I guess and yes at the national stage there was kind of some stuff too. Um, before I get too far into that, I should probably say that I am a a federal employee and here in official capacity and I'm not trying to advance any uh political agendas one way or the other, but we have a partnership with the district. So, to just kind of
080keep you guys a breast of what's going on nationally, um, you probably don't Google job core as much as I do, but if you did, um, you'd see kind of the last month or so, there's been some things. Um, first thing was that there was a job core transparency report that came out. um that looked back at a 2023 fiscal year, which is the most recent fully reported one. Um that accurate reporting um but you know what it kind of showed was that what the costs were per graduate and per center. Um and what the graduation rates were. Um they didn't provide any context for it. It was just a numerical report. There's been a lot of news agencies that probably have tried to provide some context. Um it generally has not been very favorful.
081Um it's an expensive program. the per cost allocation per student is expensive. Um they live there, they receive basic medical care, food, you know, all that kind of stuff. It's expensive. Um and the graduation rate settled out somewhere around 30%. Um you can look at that as saying it's a low percentage rate. Um I guess the way I look at it is most of the students we have were dropouts before they got there. Um so we're going from 0% to 30%. I'd call that a win personally. Um, and as far as the cost of the program goes, I guess if you if you look back, there's a 2018 study that was published. It's a 20-year look back at JobCore. Um, from that point, um, and their conclusion over that 20-year time span was that not
082only does the investment pay back, but usually pays back at a rate of two to three times what's invested. Um, and they looked at, uh, you know, lifetime of taxpayer differences and what they're paying income tax, they looked at reduced, uh, use of social services. Um, and so that report would say that the investment is a good investment, um, regardless of the cost. Um, so if you have any questions about either of those, um, let me know. I'm glad to point to anybody to, you know, those reports and you can review them for yourselves. Like I said, uh, I'll let the dumps speak for themselves. Um, and then shortly after that transparency report came out, um, presidential budget recommendations came out. Um, I think there's no secret that there's a lot of recommendations for reducing
083budgets. Um the department of labor specifically they looked at around it's a little under 30% I think reduction. Um in there they named two programs that they believe should be defunded. Um one was a senior's job program. Uh the other is job core. So under the current president bud president presidential budget recommendations um job core will not be funded in the upcoming fiscal year. Um in a lot of years there's a you know presidential budget is kind of a recommendation. Um, this year's a little bit different. There's not going to be quite the back and forth. It looks like, um, it's going to go through a little bit different process, the reconciliation process, and it's going to be um, grouped with the tax bill. Um, so I don't know that we're going to get that
084uh, that opportunity for that back and forth um, in Congress that would maybe afford us a chance to to move forward. Um, so the way things look um, pretty substantial chance the job core will not be funded in the next fiscal year. um which would which would end the program. Um our fiscal year the way it works we're July to June 30. So starting this July 1 will we're funded because we're funded from the previous year's um budget allocation. So we're currently funded from July 1 this year through June 30 of 26. Um and anything beyond that will depend on what comes out of the budget this year. So we'll see. That's all I have. Hopefully something comes around. Would it be helpful to get a hold of our US representatives? Yes. Um, you know,
085and I'll leave it to you, however way you want to do it. Um, each person can speak their heart to it. Uh, probably the the best way to go is if you have an opinion on it to take that to your your representatives in the House and Senate. So, yep. Well, yeah, I understand Derek's position. You know, he's a federal employee. He He really can't lobby here. Um I guess I don't know. I'm caught a little flatfooted on that. I don't know if I should I could we maybe look into it because we I mean since we know that obviously we have a year but I think maybe we could look into it for the July meeting and just add maybe a discussion onto that or maybe that would give us a little bit of
086time to look at because I'm going to bet we're not the only school district that's looking at something like this. I mean we Right. It it is a little unique like this here than other places. There are not a lot of local partnerships. Yeah. Um, you know, there there certainly exist. Um, but it's not the primary method through which we Yeah. job course, for example, in South Dakota. No. No. I mean, like like regionally, you're one of the few. North Dakota one, Nebraska one. Um, so not on a lot of people's radars. No. I mean, we went through this, I will say, you know, 2018, we went through this. Um they tried to privatize the federal job course um which would have just been closing the federal job course and the forest service ones like
087the one that I work at um got right down to the wire on it. Um Congress took action and uh stopped that and I would say that that was largely because of public outcry. Um so that's just looking back at the past. Um I don't it's not quite not quite the same situation this time around. Um that was just a singular thing. This is a bigger thing. Yeah, just Yeah, there's a story for you to do. Go out to the jungle. Okay. Well, you mean I was going to say something very nice and I feel like you probably mean something to make you feel better. So, I was going to say that Amber and I were at a function a couple of weeks ago where um it was your culinary arts students who did all
088of the meal prepation and it was incredible. Absolutely incredible. And the kids were great. And I'll pass that on to them. They'll appreciate it. They were amazing. Yeah. It's crazy when you're at an event or you interact with those kids. It's uh like they're very I mean and yeah, like you said, I I kind of characterize it as uh it's a school full of dropouts. They that's that was the their path or that's where they were at when they came there. And those kids are so proud of their trade that they've learned and the future plans they have. And they're so proud of getting that high school blown. And it's Yeah. I wish more people could see that. And they're so polite. And when they come in here, they're so proud. Oh, yeah. Yeah. what
089I love about them when they come in here and tell us their stories. Thank you very much. Okay. All right. Thank you guys. So, the next item is public forum. We did not have any forms turned in for public forum stuff today. Um, so with that, next meeting is Tuesday, June 10th at 5:30 in this room. Move to have a motion to make a motion to adjurnn. Second. Okay, most right. Thank you.