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TCSD Regular School Board Meeting Aug. 11th, 2025 @ 5:30 pm

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YouTube / Todd County School District
Date
2025-08-11
Location
Todd County, SD
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1,038 words · about 6 min
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2026-07-02

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001I just wanted to go You better run. >> You want to turn that one off? >> Definitely move up if you want. >> No chat today. >> Father's uh funeral. Oh, >> prayer service is tonight. >> The prayer service is tonight at 7 at 11 tomorrow. >> Winner method. >> Good. We're just going to start our live again if it's all right. >> No, but it's not my choice. >> All right. Hi Chris. Hi. Hi Chris. We're just getting ready to call the meeting to order at 5:30. Um, welcome everyone. Brand new school year. It's so far just talked with a few people and it sounds like it was >> so automatic >> here so far. >> But let's get started here. Regular board meetings. Oh yes. Sorry. And he has a flag song for

002us. [Music] [Applause] We are We are We are [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] We are coming. [Music] Thank you. Oops. So, next up on the agenda, um public forum board comments. We didn't have anybody there, so that's not needed. So, we'll move over here um to adopt the agenda. Does anybody want to want to move to adopt the agenda? >> I'll make the motion. >> Okay, I'll second. Are there a little bit further? >> We're not there yet. >> And did what was the vote on that? >> Yes. >> Chris, >> yes. >> Okay. I sir. Okay. Then now it's time for a superintendent report. Um, I've listed all the policies that are out on policy alert. Um, I hope to have them all ready to go for your review. I put them down

003for the new ones, especially to review them before we end up changing them. And then there's the three new ones that I need everybody to review. Um, I need a sick leave bank rep. Anybody want to take on the >> Does anybody want to volunteer for that? Meetings are usually after school. Ethan sits on it as the teacher rep. When you pair a board of admin, um I'd say maybe five to six a year. >> Oh, yeah. >> Minimum. >> Everybody else is working, so I'll do it. >> Perfect. >> Thank you, Tim. >> If you notice, we only have six staff openings. >> That's amazing. >> What are they? >> Um, exceptional. all of them. >> So, three of them are such lab. The CTE that remains open um and a couple paras. But

004other than that, we're doing really good. >> Nice. >> And then you have your upcoming meeting dates. We have don't forget we have a meeting this week at 5:30. Then your regular meeting and now we also have another meeting on August >> 25th. >> 27th. Okay. and at 5 and 5:30. >> It's a student hearing. >> Okay. >> We'll be getting the information from that probably by the end of day tomorrow. >> That's it. >> You have the welcome back on the 29th. >> You have to welcome back on the 29th at 8 a.m. >> No, but I bought all the cute stuff for the lunch. >> That's it. questions >> and we don't have anybody to make any other reports because we're kind of early in the year. So then we'll move on to

005the consent agenda. >> Oh yeah, >> we just I'm so sorry. 6.1. Yes. Um board discussion and Mark did want to bring something up. >> I just um wanted to you know with the new school year and stuff if uh I've heard reports of like our transportation vehicles like dirty and stuff when people are taking them to trips. So, I just didn't know if, you know, starting off the new year if we can kind of get it. >> The majority of them get cleaned all summer. That's why they get parked up here. >> Yeah. I mean, like just like like So, I'm going to take it on a trip and it sounds like when they get the next one, it's >> Yep. I'll look into it. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Was that Did Chris

006want to bring something up to something? >> Chris, did you have something for discussion? >> No, I'm good. >> Okay. Thank you. >> So, if no other Great. >> Discussion items. Yeah. >> That was a good training for everybody. I was really glad to see everybody there, >> especially the first day Mark and I sat in on the new board training. I >> It's always good to sit on even if you've been here for a while cuz something new always comes up. >> But what I'd like to do, Robera, there was one on here. Get I'll get with you >> that I'd like to have you download the slideshow. Okay. >> For the board members and just all the board members that get it, I'll give it to you. So that's really a good training.

007>> Was that the early one? >> No. No. This is one where the lawyers were in talk with the lawyers all talk. >> Mhm. >> So as open meeting deals, wasn't it? >> Yep. So I'll just download the slideshow and we can all have >> I think ASBSD also adds it to their on their site. >> They do. Yeah. >> Take a look. >> That way you can put it in your packets, your book, and you can all there. So >> that would be helpful. >> But yeah, it was a great training. >> Good. I thought it was well. Did everybody >> Yeah, >> we were talking about we could maybe share out because we went to a lot of the same classes, but then we went to different ones as well and we could

008share what we learned. So that would be helpful for all of us. So >> that first day is pretty helpful for me. I mean just getting to know dos and don'ts and this kind of process of things. So >> and then we everybody remembers that training on the in September on the 16th. Correct. >> Y >> with Dr. Pony >> I'll confirm the time with him when he emails me back. >> Okay. because he just said I'll circle around at the end of August time. >> Okay. >> So, it'll kind of just be like a refresher. >> But just for your for the information for you, we had problem with our rooms. >> Oh, just a check in. >> Oh, well, there was some terrible rooms. They were really >> Mine wasn't bad, but poor

009Tim and Amanda got >> lucky. >> Mine wasn't bad. It had a couple big stains on the >> Yeah, the carpets were horrible. >> Yeah, but they had to switch out my TV cuz it was broken. And the smell is fair enough. >> You'd expect better, but it won't tell like that. >> Mhm. Okay, >> that's all I have. >> Thank you. Anything else, Chris? >> No. Um, really good. >> I thought we talked something about vehicle sizes, weren't we talking about that? >> We were just kind of briefly talking about um if we can go. Yeah, looking into those Ford Transit vans instead of Suburbans because they hold like 12. >> We started talking about that last kind of spring last year. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Cuz I kind of dug around just

010looking at them before and uh like for personal stuff, but there's uh they make all-wheel drive ones and everything, you know. So, >> and that I think that eliminates some of these people taking two Suburbans. You just have one van, you know, >> and and they said you don't need a CDL for it, but it holds more people. So, it kind of makes sense. >> Yeah. maybe something to discuss down the road. Well, if there's not anything else on the board discussion items, we'll go ahead and move to 7.1 to the consent agenda. Um, does anybody have anything they want to pull out? Anything that they wanted to discuss or take into exec or I wanted to go to exec for personnel for just a few minutes. It won't be long >> with the consent

011agenda stuff. >> No. Okay. It's just >> we just motion on this one. >> Yep. I'll move in >> on the consent agenda. >> Okay. So, >> I'll second. >> Is there a second? >> I'll do it. >> Take a vote on that. >> Yes. >> Chris. >> Yes. >> Okay. 5 Z. All right. Um, well, I don't really have anything else except for just a very short executive session for personnel. So, that will be South Dakota Codified Law 1-25-2. Um, it's the sec Oh, no, no, no, no. 21 for personnel. >> Yeah. >> What time? >> And we'll go in 5:39. Yep. Yep. 5:39.

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