001So frustrating. >> Call this Monday, August 11th, 2025. Scripture School Board of Education meeting to order. >> Please rise. Say the pledge. I pledge 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. >> First order of business is to swear in reelected school board member >> rights. This is kind of like pulling your own. >> Yeah, that's swear that you will support the laws of Constitution of the United States in the state of South Dakota and to faithfully perform the duties of member >> standing record this for me. shorts. Jeans. >> All right. Uh, next order of business is to approve the agenda. If I can get a motion. >> Make a motion to approve
002it. Second. >> Second. With the add agenda. >> With the addendum. >> Second. >> The amended motion. The agenda. >> All those in favor? >> All those opposed? >> Unscheduled. Scheduled audience. Nothing. School reports and fanfare. >> Nothing. >> No conflict of interest waiver. >> None. >> We'll move toformational items from the superintendent. >> All right. This is going to seem like it's a facility update, but uh it's kind of what it is. Today, I met with city officials and uh engineers from DGR Engineering on our Mountain View Alley project. So, we're looking at the summer of uh 26 for completion. Uh hopefully by the end of August year they'll have their plan 60% completed and they'll be able to give us a cost estimate as to uh what that will cost. But essentially the
003city's got to put in a new water man in there. And so we'll look at uh the service lines going into the school, both the water and the sewer and then uh to fill things back in and uh reassphalt over there. So we'll see. There is some things that was a bit surprising. They're going to put curb and gutter along the west side of that alley. And because it is our project per se, uh that curb gutter will fall on us to pay for. So once it's put in, it's kind of like a land owner is putting in a new development or whatever new street. Uh the initial cost of the curb gutter is on the land owner. So that will be on us, but then after that, the city inherits all the maintenance and
004upkeep on it. So there also will be a possibility of a rightaway uh that we will be asked to approve. Uh that water line right now is on our property and we may even move it a little bit further on our property so we don't disrupt water service. So a whole new line will go in just to the side so we don't have to replace the old one per se. We'll just vacate it when it's all said and done. So, but likely there'll be a rightaway uh request from the city for that. Uh 11month walkthrough through the middle school high school locker room project. Uh didn't yield a whole lot of things. We got a few little items both in the middle school and high school locker rooms, but there's not a whole lot there.
005So, um they did a nice job uh on that for us. Middle school track design update. Uh all the field work is done for the site survey or uh site survey. I did uh a lot of GPS and LAR scanning and all that type of stuff. Uh they have all the data. They're just putting it on the site survey. So I would expect in the next week or two, we'll see that and then I'll be forwarded on to Mammoth for to start the design process. If we get started here fairly soon, I would say by late October, early November, we'll have hopefully with enough meetings, we'll kind of have an idea of what we want to do and what the cost will be. Uh, I think we'll want to go out uh or Mammoth will
006want to go out and try to find their subs no later than January to get the best pricing. So, uh, last thing I have is a Stutter Conference. A couple of weeks ago, the majority of the admin team and then Alicia and Ellen and I went to Chicago for the Stutter Conference. Uh, it was a really good conference. Um we learned a lot about school improvement and there's a book that uh one of the co-owners or founders of Stutter wrote the nine principles of effective leadership. Um we all read the book prior to going and they talked about some of the features there but probably the most important was the school improvement cycle the process and um based on conversation that uh that I've had with admin and stutter stutter has come in and now
007they have uh different pricing categories. So it's not just 50,000 or more and take it or leave it. Now there's different groups starting somewhere right around 12 grand all the way up to probably 75 grand. And they got kind of an all the cart. So Lana and I uh have a Zoom meeting with them on August 19th and we'll kind of put together what we think as as a package that u we would like to enter into an agreement with them. So uh we have some CRF money left over. uh the COVID relief fund that some of uh Trump's initial money that he gave us with no strings attached. We have some of that left over that we could utilize that funding on this if we so choose. So that's all I got questions. Okay.
008Uh moving on to action items. Uh action item A is to approve the memorandum of understanding with West River Mental Health. interest anything you want to add there Kurt first or >> I don't know if you want to do a motion and second first then sure >> I'll move to approve >> okay discussion >> discussion >> yeah uh this is something that they've requested that we put in place with them u they have it with other school districts we had one last year uh have another one this year it's essentially for them to come in and provide counseling services within our school so we provide a private safe place for them to meet with students and uh internet connection if they need it and then possibly we will do our counselors or maybe principles will
009do some referrals at times uh but again it's through the parents. We do not pay uh it's through the parents or whatever entity is paying for it other than the school uh but we're just providing the setting and possibly uh some referrals and u internet access. So I would recommend to approve questions. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed, same sign. Passes. Action item B, consider Black Hill State University facility agreement. I can get a motion. >> I'll make a motion to approve it. >> Second discussion. Well, I'll lead you in and Daltton, if I'm missing something, feel free to, I guess, to chime in here. But Dalton and I met with uh Mark Nory and President Elliot here, I don't know, three weeks, four weeks ago. Uh we t
010just talked about the facility agreement, what was working good, what was working bad, some of the hang-ups that we've had in the past, and uh they've really shortened or reduced uh the amount of verbiage in there. It's pretty straightforward right now. Uh it's 20 grand a year like we had last year, and it's a two-year agreement. So, I don't know if you have anything you want to add with that. >> That's one question I have and might be too early for us, probably more for Dalton, but I know we had some conversations city-wise, like softball. Did that get brought up at all? Like just even initial conversations about potentially utilizing some of their facilities for that or what that might look like? sit down with the city. >> Okay. >> Are you talking about our
011high school team utilizing their >> high level conversations with the city on potentially youth and or high school because it's closer to our our campus for practices and stuff if that was even a in the realm of possibility. So, I just didn't know if that was talked about at all in that conversation yet or if we're I mean, I know it's still early on, so I just just out of curiosity. >> I guess I I hadn't heard of it. I don't >> not yet. >> Yeah. And I think in that conversation, the youth president was in their mind high school because it's right there. Practice wise, they wouldn't know because Skyidge or Keing has had some hurdles here and there, but um so I was just more out of curiosity if it was to that
012point yet or not. Something that may we may add in the future. >> Okay. >> Perfect. Thanks. >> I assume we'll have access to the the freshly paved parking lot across from for a price. >> So that it would be it would be paid parking for us to use that as well. >> Oh, I No, not for our games. >> Okay. >> Not for our games? No. >> Okay. I just want I wanted to check and make sure that >> I thought you were personal use. You have to pay for it. >> I I was the wrong senior class and didn't get to have a mud fight over there. So, we we switched principles around that time. >> They were good last year. Any other discussion, conversation? All those in favor say I. >> I.
013All those opposed, same sign. Carries. Uh, moving on to the consent agenda. The There's an action item on the addendum. >> Oh, the change order. Yeah. >> One last action item. C. Approve change order number one for high school domestic water project. Can I get a motion? I'll move to approve. >> Second discussion. >> Yeah. So, there was three small changes. I guess small in the in the realm of things, but uh three changes. Uh one was the ceiling replacement in the cheer room. Uh another was the u basement mechanical room ceiling painting uh ceiling painting and wall infill. Um for that, they were going to put a suspended ceiling in the basement, which didn't make any sense. That's where all the piping goes and if we were to have a leak again, we would
014have to deal with it. So, uh, they painted the bottom portion of the roof or the floor joist and stuff in there in the ceiling. And then they also had the lights ordered, so we had to go for a suspended ceiling. So, we had to order different lights. So, we have some lights to put in a different area, but we still had to pay for them. So, that's why there's a cost to that. And then certainly the wall infill. And then the storage room, epoxy flooring, same thing. uh why put in a floor that we have to maintain and wax and so on. So, we eliminated the flooring even though it was ordered and we have some additional flooring for another area. Uh we're just doing epoxy flooring or epoxy paint in there. So, it's
015an addition of roughly $5,900. So, um that should be all the change orders that we have for this project. Questions, comments? All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppos. Same sign. Carries. Uh, moving on to the consent agenda, which we can do one motion for all items unless one of you wants to pull one of them out. Um, there is an additional item on the addendum as well, it looks like. So, if I can get a motion. Move to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> I'll second it. >> Any discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those post same sign. >> Motion carries discussion items. Mr. Crossway, you're up. >> Thank you. Um I sent you sent the board um a word document and several spreadsheets. Um
016it's typically the case. I have line by line item on the spreadsheets u called up on my laptop if you have um any any individual questions pertaining to that. My preference would be to go over the word documents um and just kind of review some of the highlights going through there. Just kind of an overall perspective of how we came in this year. Uh we did have considerable differences revenues and expenditures had some unforeseen expenditures that kind of pushed us um over the budgetary amount. As I told Ryan and Kirk in the finance committee meeting, I still have confidence in our budgetary process. Um it's just kind of one of those years I guess as much as anything. the revenue part. Um, a lot of that was due to interest um earned that we had
017just because of the interest rates. We had this discussion in the finance committee meeting before we went through the budget. Um, we really didn't want to put the um carry the expenditures on the back of where we were projecting um interest rates to be. So, we just kind of left that kind of as a side budgeted part of it of course, but it came in a little bit higher. um capital outlay. We have the transfer of a little bit more than $600,000 from the CTE construction leftover money, which is also a good thing. But when we try to compare how the budget turned out to what we had uh what actually came came in, obviously that's going to be impactful. Um drivers education and we went through that. Um food service is an area of
018concern. I think we lost roughly $190,000 in food service. Um the school board did approve the price increase of 25 cents uh per meal and lunch. We did have a projection uh from Lunchtime Solutions. We ran some of our own numbers, too. But with that increase, we're still looking at 50 to $60,000 for a loss this upcoming school year. It's hard to predict of course where our uh participation will be. That's using kind of a national average of 44%. Hopefully we're going to be a little bit higher than that. Um but my question to them was we need um a strategy a recommendation that we could consider that the board could consider going forward to try to slow those losses. Um we do still have fund balance there or net position as it's called um
019proprietary funds of $300 and some thousand dollars but at $190,000 loss per year that's going to evaporate pretty quickly. The other expenditures that we had um we did have some that that came in under I think a capital outlay is is a pretty um good example of that. It's just kind of earmarking some of our potential projects and trying to pay for those projects as much as we can with cash. Um whether we have something going on at West Elementary, whether a board approves the track or the football field, um all those projects add up to a lot of money. Right now, we do have some funds. Um but those are pretty much earmarked going through the course of the budget cycle. It's kind of a really high overall view of it. Anybody has any
020individual questions or line items now or later. We have to answer everything that we possibly could questions, comments. >> Thank you. >> Y move on to approval the minutes. Uh so consider the regular uh meeting minutes for July 14th, 2025 and the annual meeting minutes for July 14th, 2025. Get a motion. >> I make a motion to approve them. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those approved. Same sign. Okay. Uh move on to the financial reports and bills. If I can get a motion. >> Move to approve. Second. >> Uh, any discussion? >> We're waiting. >> I didn't have anything to add. I don't know if you two had anything to add, but I don't. >> Okay. Right. >> All those in favor say
021I. >> I. Same sign. >> Um, I move we go into exe executive session. South Dakota Codified Law 1-25-2 paragraph 1. Discussing the qualifi qualifications, competence, performance, character or fitness of any public officer or employee or prospective public officer or employee. Term employee does not include any independent contractor. >> Second. >> All those in favor, please say I. >> I. I. >> You're in executive session.