001agreed with him though. It's 5:30. I'll go ahead and call our meeting to order at this time. We'll stand for the Lakota flight song. [Music] [Applause] We are we [Music] are we [Music] [Applause] are we [Music] [Applause] I love we are we [Music] [Applause] [Music] Thank you everybody for coming this evening. This time it's public forum and board comments. Um, the Todd County School District encourages participation by the parents, tribal education, the Roseman tribe, and the community before the meeting is called to order, which I already did. An individual who desires to speak at the school board meeting must be verbally or in writing inform the superintendent, business manager, or board president. You are limited to five minutes. And we have Callie [Music] first. Okay. Um, I wanted to address the board tonight, but my
002nobody would tell me for sure if I made the board meeting for tonight. So, I didn't really I couldn't really notify my team members, but the lady from Pier said it was too short to notice. Um, Josh called me about what 1:30 this afternoon. Yeah. was about 1:30 when Josh called and he told me how to do it because I didn't know how to do it. So I called her in here and she said I was too short to notice. Then I called Betty and Betty said they're having problems at Spring Creek with the flooding and everything going on down there. So she couldn't make it. But I want to thank you, but uh really you don't do problems. Okay. Cuz cuz I have problems. Okay. Did you Kelly can ask if this is a
003complaint? Yeah. Kind of sort of. Okay. So if it's a complaint or agreement, then did you start did you follow the policy? Yes, I followed Yes, I followed the chain of command. Okay. I started with Laura, then I went to Roberta and then I told Roberta and Laura that I was coming to the board and so they all knew that I was requesting to address the board and then I fell through because of a short notice and so on the 12th then? Yeah. So my team members can't be here. Thank you. All righty. And next we have Carter. Well, I'm going to pass you guys papers. Thank you. Here we have an extra. We have an extra. Oh, okay. So, hello. My name is Carter Braid. I am a sophomore for Tony Tony High School.
004Um, I am I was recently selected to be part of the team to represent South Dakota at the Disney Duos in Orlando, Florida, which is what is great about the duos is that they gave me opportunity to wrestle and they said I'll be wrestling about 15 20 matches and um it's it's folk style. This allows me to refine my skills and challenge the competitive experience is also known to have college coaches in attendance which is good. Um I have a huge passion for wrestling and I look forward to proudly representing my community school district and uh I'm requesting monetary support to help cover the cost for deposit a fair hotel stay transportation and entry fee from June 23rd to June 30th. any financial assistance. Really appreciate it. Thank you, Carter. So, when you get done,
005are you going to come back and tell us all about it? Yeah, of course. Okay. With souvenirs with No, you don't have to bring us souvenirs. But if you want to bring Mickey Mouse back with you, you're more than welcome. So after receiving Carter's letter, before we adopt the agenda, um I want to add do an addition at 7.3 for a monetary donation to Carter Brave for $1,000 and added uh 7.3 to be added. And then our next public presentation probably needs to go into exec and we probably need to do it because it's further down on the agenda. So um we'll do that now. So at this time I'd like a motion to go into executive session at 5:36 for personnel. Moved by Deb second. Second by Michelle. All in favor? Yes. staff recognition.
006They're all on their way. Oh, okay. Our staff shout out. Sorry about that. Thank you for waiting. So moving on at this time because he's doing his under your superintendent report. So at this time we set aside before we adopt the agenda we do a staff our student recognition. It's the end of the month so it's our staff recognition and we want to give a big shout out to our staff at the high school for the prom and getting and the middle school for allowing them to do the after prom there. It was a success. The students worked so awesome and so I know a lot of work goes into it, a lot of fundraising and a lot of extra time to decorate. So, congratulations to the staff for pulling it off and doing such
007a great job. At this time, I need a motion to adopt the agenda with the addition. Moved by Michelle. Second by Deb. All in favor? Yes. Yes. Superintendent report. Um, for my superintendent report, I'm actually going to turn my time over to Mr. Andre. I'm just going to speak very briefly and I'm going let the girls talk because two years ago, two three years ago, um, we came in, I did a PowerPoint of uh, kind of like a hey, this is our program and then I then I talked and then I realized that uh, the girls spoke not at all because I hugged the spotlight. So, um, so I'm handing you guys, what I'm giving you is our season booklet, um, that I I make every year for our end of the season, uh, awards
008night. Um, kind of just kind of caps up caps off our season. Anyone else? Hold on. um and goes through our how we finished at different tournaments, um our our records, our accomplishments, and um uh if you look at the very first page, uh there are 15 wrestlers listed there. We started um last year, our max number was five, and we we had 15 this year. So, um I have eight of the 15 here. Seven, yeah, seven of the 15 here. Sorry. 7 to 15 here. Um uh and whoever wants to go first, please. Someone's got to start. Um my name is Me Clayma. I'm a junior at T County High School. Um I've been wrestling for three years now and I placed at SA for three years. So Wow. Congratulations. Good job. Um, my
009name is Adrien Bas. I'm a junior. I started off wrestling my freshman year and I really enjoyed it and I I really Thank you. I did and this is my first day in school. Awesome. Hello, I am Sheila Homer. I've been doing wrestling for three years, two years in high school, and one year in middle school. Great job. And I am a sophomore this year. Awesome. Great job. Um, my name is Alexis Strber. I'm a I'm a sophomore. This is This was my first year doing wrestling. I really I really enjoyed it. I got to I created bonds with all my teammates and Oh, I love my team. Yeah. Thank you. Hi, my name is Gwen. I'm a seventh grader. This is my second year doing wrestling and uh my first year doing high school
010wrestling. My name is I did wrestling for four years doing high school. Cool. Good job, ladies. Uh so our growth this year um uh we've had after Lakota Nation we picked up our seventh and eighth graders or at leation we picked up our seventh eighth graders we let them finish their middle school season um and then seventh and eighth graders came up with us and we threw them right into the fire for the coordination and they competed and practiced with us for the rest of the season. Um um Alex is uh you know that that's one of our she got connected with a friend on our team and Alex came out and Alex uh got her uh her first win at LNI which is awesome. Um and I was a little worried because you know
011we had you coming out for your first year ever. You know you have some of this and you have some of this and at the end of the season I'm like are you coming back? And Alex is like okay I love these guys. Um we had we also had um our first ever middle school uh girls that got a varsity letter in Gwen and they both uh that the requirements for the varsity letter are in the book as well. Um so that was that was awesome. Um uh there's there's a buzz at the middle school and there's a little there's a buzz at the high school as well. um other girls that have that have talked to me um uh hey I want to come out for wrestling next year. What do I need to
012do? Um so that's awesome. We lost um Jazzy as our se only senior this year. Um so you know we're keeping 14 and adding you know I'm excited about that. Um a couple of more exciting things about our season. Um uh the girls that are my juniors this year that will be seniors next year. I told them that by the time they're seniors, I wanted to have duels on our schedule. Uh those people not familiar with wrestling, you have your tournaments, which are the all day affairs, and you have your duels, which is us against you. Um and I wanted to have duels on our schedule for next year, and we were able to get a duel this year with our numbers. We got one duel against Lakota Tech. They let us come over, um
013jump into a train or a duel they were having. Um and it's just it's it was our first time. So, you know, the girls didn't know what to expect. the only girl on the team that's experienced the duel before. It was unique because she's been invited twice now. We competed in Iowa at uh representing South Dakota first of some duels there. Um so no one else knew what a duel was. So you know like that's but it's exciting and and it's and I'm hoping to get some duels here because that's something that people who don't know wrestling can understand. It's my team versus their team and that's easy. So, um, so we got one in this year and I've already, um, talked to other coaches. Um, for next year we should have some DS on
014our schedule and I'm hoping to get one here. Um, let's see. I have some talking points. Want to make sure I got to all of them. Um, oh, we had our first um, our first tournament as a team win. We won the the red clutting by this year. We had regions, which was new for girls wrestling. Um, there is only one class in high school girls wrestling. So we, you know, we're mixed in there with the with the peers and the Aberdines. Um, we see all those teams in tournaments. We go to tournaments that have, you know, the toughest teams in the B, which would be the B schools like Canton has one of the biggest programs in the state. We see them at tournaments. Um, so we've had a we had a really good
015season that way as well. Um, and then I I can't leave without throwing a pitch out there. Um, I have a I've been dabbling on Canva and uh made a little rough draft of what would be an awesome wrestling facility. Um, because I can't without bringing that up. Um, and the reason I bring that up is uh for the last two years, what coach and I have done is we've shared the space and we've shared the coaching responsibilities. um where if you'll lead practice one week and I'll assist and then we'll switch the following week. The pro the pro it worked. They worked last year. Our numbers were small. Um this year we both had around 12 14 kids. Um, and I honestly um I honestly feel like it's we would have had a better
016we had a good season, but I feel like we would have had a better season if we had a little more space for us to have like our practice, you know, and I know I'm not, you know, I know it's that's down the road, but it's hard to get momentum and work on the things that we need to work on. Girls wrestling is different than boys wrestling. We we have different technique. girls have different strengths and boys and um so to be able to have our practice and work on what we need to work on from the last tournament, the last meet or whatever. Um so I I made the dream facility with four mats. It's still one building. It's still one room, you know, we're still we're still a program. Um but I mean
017Carter Carter's example, uh Uni's been invited, Carter's been invited. Obviously, we we've got some things going with our with our with our programs, and I I think that that we could have more of that. Um especially if we could have, you know, this a dream space where we had room to to run our practices and have Yes. Also, the um South Elementary, the archery team and so we use like less practice time because we have to roll up the net almost like every day of practice. So, but yeah, it's just like I said, it's not I I couldn't not throw this out there for you guys. You know, it'd be awesome. Um uh it's just there's so many things. There's so many pieces and you know, we're still a wrestling family, boys and girls. Um
018uh but we're different programs, you know, and that's we're we're still we're still the same sport technically, but we're we're different programs. We're we're kind of a different sport, you know, and and there's a possibility that girls wrestling rules might start changing a little to look more to what girls college wrestling is like and that would even further divide, you know, what our practices look like. So, um I have, you know, I've brainstormed other options if this option doesn't work for you guys either. So, um but uh but yeah, I just um I'm I'm really passionate about Todd County Wrestling as a whole. You know, this is this is my alma mo. this is my program. This is, you know, and I see, you know, where we've been and where we've dropped off and where
019we're rising back up again. And I I love that. And I, you know, I talked to coaches from other programs and I see what other programs are doing. And um there's like there's probably one or two um successful programs with our numbers that aren't separate programs and with separate spaces. And the the unfortunate thing is a lot of those places have they're able to have like a morning practice, afternoon practice, which with activities is is, you know, really hard or a late practice, early practice. And I know the boys and girls basketball team have been doing that. But I know that talking to Chuck and the coaches that late practice, you know, it's like 40% less or fewer kids there at those because they can't make a lot of the practices. They don't have the
020rights. So, um, so yeah, that's my plug. Uh but celebrating the season. Uh I'm super excited about the momentum move. We've got camps planning for the summer. We've got some fundraisers to help with those camps. Um and and yeah, I just it was it was a great season and I got a great bunch of wrestlers and we're going to just keep bringing them these and these guys are my leaders. Um William's going to be at high school next year, you know, four more years there. We just got a lot of positives. So, uh girls, you have anything else you want to add before we All right. Well, thank you very much for your time. Thank you, girls. Thank you. Thanks, Chris. You're doing a good job. Thank you, Chris. Congratulations. Thank you for coming. Thanks
021for letting us. So, out of that presentation, something to do maybe in June because our May is stacked up pretty tight. And while um Chad is here, I know we're still need to get um finish work on what the plans are for the new multi-purpose building for the high school, but I think we should have a facility space meeting and what do we have for space, especially during all the different sporting events and numbers versus numbers and are there other places that we can maybe smaller number things move to a different area, But if we could know what all available spaces, gym spaces we have and the different sport, I I think we should have that discussion before next school year, before the next sporting events because there's no way we're going to have a
022brand new multi-purpose building built by the start of next school year. But with our wrestling numbers coming up, you know, we need to start looking at numbers of participants versus other numbers of participants. And I know that um the dormatory has a gym. Um is it um getting space somewhere else for some other things? But what's convenient for the students too because wrestling, you know, versus archery. I mean, that's kind of we need to start looking at numbers and space. So, if we could think put that on there, Chad, when you want to in June discuss the new building, but also at that time look at um what facility space we have available. If you guys can give me some dates in June so I can talk to the architect and engineering team. I don't
023have nothing in June right now. So pretty wide open. Ask them. Pretty wide open in June. Okay, I'll do that. But I think that's awesome. Our wrestling team is really growing. So I mean we don't want to discourage our students. We want to keep growing. Um, so moving on to 7.1, the consent agenda. Is there a motion? Moved by Michelle. Second. Second by Amanda. All in favor? Yes. Okay. Motion to approve policy IKFB. Second. Moved by Amanda, second by Michelle. All in favor? Yes. Yes. Motion 7.3 for a monetary donation for Carter Brave in the amount of $1,000. Is there a motion? Move. Moved by Deb. Second by Tim. All in favor? Yes. Yes. Not voting. Four. Yeah. Four. One. Not voting. Okay. Moving on to 8.1. Motion to approve the 2025 2026 TCA negotiation.
024Moved by Amanda. Second. Second by Michelle. All in favor? Yes. Motion to approve the 2025 2026 TCPSA agreement. Moved by D. Second. Second by TM. All in favor? Yes. Yes. Motion to approve the 2025 2026 educational support staff offers. Moved by Michelle. Second. Second by Deb. All in favor? Yes. So, we don't have ESP's agreement yet. We did that last. Okay. Approve the 2025 2026 professional staff offers. Moved by Deb. Second. Second by Michelle. All in favor? Yes. Yes. Is there anything else? Did everybody see the giant calendar? I haven't. All right. Before you leave, there's homework on the giant pretty sure I'm calendar sign up so Josh knows and then you can put it in your calendar book when all the events are. Um, and the ones that you have your name next to,
025I will send you an Outlook invitation as well. So, you'll have it in We just put our initials. Yep. Yep. So, anyone you put your name next to, I will just take those names and put those in a calendar invite to send them to you guys. So, then on just to clarify, so on May 1st, we have a student hearing at 100 p.m. Noon. Noon. On there, it says 1. It's supposed to lunch time. Okay. So, 12 noon. It'll be super quick. And it'll be super quick. I can call into them because they'll be going some. Well, and then we were supposed to do book study. So, we're not going to do book study that because NHS induction is at 5:15. So, book study and the board eval. And I forgot to do a shout
026out to our admin, but thank all our admin for doing an evaluation on the board. It was much appreciated and good feedback for us to move forward and set some goals for the board. Um, that will be on the 8th starting at 5. But we'll do book study first, then we'll do our board eval. If you haven't given me your board eel, I need it before the 8th. And if you don't get it, if you don't have it this evening, I got Deb's. I give mine to Chad. Okay. Then give them to Chad. Chad Chad is a keeper of them. Then I can get them from Chad. Do you want me to because that might be a long evening at five. Bring your book. Read your chapters four and five. You can make it. You
027should. That' be so good. I do not do not have time this I have plenty of time before we are in the marathon. Um if you have an opportunity, get out and support the schools and our youth and our students and all their events. There's some really good things coming up. I'm excited for the district-wide concert. I'm really looking forward t-shirts today. Oh, awesome. I'm really looking forward to it. It's going to be spectacular, I think. Are is Rosewood's little band coming? They don't have one, don't they? I thought they did. Not a band. It's mainly elementary and middle school and high school. And what does Roseford do? They never got their instruments. There's silver here as well. Oh, okay. So, hopefully next year. Okay. But what did we figure, Bob? Close to 100 if
028they all show up. Maybe um over that, I think. I think I had 50. Tammy said she had 60 something. Oh, wow. Big. They practice this. They're going to practice this Wednesday and next Wednesday. Oh, awesome. Okay. Does anybody have anything else? Uh Roberto, I talked to Cha Chuck and uh Fer about the high school basketball coaches. It's not on the vacancy list. So ask if they're going to advertise for those two positions. We'll open up get that out of the way as soon as possible. Okay. If nothing else, then I'm going to adjourn our meeting at 6:17 p.m. But you can't leave until you can't leave until then. We are done. Then enjoy the rain. I know it's a pain right now, but come July, you're going to be wishing for it.