001Number two is roll call. Chairperson Sandal here by chairperson shar members Anderson Moore Ruland here. Bryant here. Eisen present. 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. Number four, reflection of prayer. Um, 2 Corinthians 4. I'm going to start at verse 15. All this is for your benefit so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God. Therefore, we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. for our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. Thank you, Sally. We have any conflicts
002of interest tonight? We'll move on to number six. Approve the agenda. A motion to approve the agenda. Second. Have a motion and a second. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. I. I. All oppose same sign. Motion passes to approve the agenda number seven. Approve consent agenda. Prove consent agenda. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? In favor say I. I. Same sign. Motion passes to approve consent agenda. Um Number eight perform with that we're going to move to number nine school resource officer discussion have a guest here Linda Eisenbr hello Mr. How are you? Hey, there. Thank you. Um, I have come to discuss with you the resource officer being brought back into the school. Um, I know you I assume you all know that last year I circulated a petition
003uh and the community at large signed it. Not just the moms and dads, the grandparents, the aunts and uncles, but the community at large want a resource officer back in the school. The city council, last time we had a resource officer, as I understand, and the mayor told me this, that the city paid half the salary. Um, so that could be some funding for you. I've understand that you have selected a committee to research the resource officer, too. And I've been told that New that uh Pennington County is hard to work with, but New Underwood has a resource officer and they've had to work with Pennington County. And um my problem with this is that you're betting against these kids' life in the supposition that nothing's going to happen. Sorry, you can't guarantee that. And
004I'm not just talking about the kids. We You have a gym full of community members at all kinds of games and uh things that the school holds with open doors. I really suggest that we'll get a resource officer again because now this is my personal feeling. If I was on the school board and something did happen, you know that everybody is going to blame school boards and I wouldn't want to be blamed for anything like that. That's all I have to say. Thank you for hearing me. Thank you. We appreciate you coming in and speaking with us today. Um just to I guess bring bring a little bit of discussion to them the matter. I care if I thought Bill go right ahead. is a committee. We spent a good deal of time one night
005in discussion over this matter and the committee basically came out of that with consensus that our efforts need to be directed toward security of the building and making sure that nobody enters the building to start with from the outside. And the second premise being the admin and the teachers, they're probably our first line of defense and knowing if something's going on. Anyways, so coupled with presence at the beginning of the school day and the end of the school day, having an officer here or in the proximity um we hope will aid in minimizing that risk. Um it's not something we took lightly and there's discussion out there on you know what can a resource officer do to protect your kids in the event that there is um somebody here with nefarious interests. It's tough for
006one person to protect this whole school and tough to find somebody trained to dispatch them in that situation. And that's it's It sounds really good in principle, but to me when I look at that and think that through in my mind, that takes a really good person. And I'm not saying they're not out there, but is our money and our time best spent in Alice training, training our people, preventing them from accessing the building. Um, that's where the discussion is. And I I I appreciate um I appreciate coming in and your concern. I know it's in the right place. We have a difference of opinion on how to handle that. I understand exactly what you've said. I agree with what you've said except to the point where you have open doors. You have open doors
007when you're having community events, when you're having school events. You have open doors with nobody there at balcony. And I don't think you considered that. We generally have office school. That's or we try to force for varsity. We've asked for varsity to have somebody here um inside the door. You know, you're not wrong in that being a we blank. I mean, during a school day, our doors are locked. we can control but at a game can't necessarily now at varsity event can we have personnel here if the answer is yes we're trying to do so um but in that in in that case I guess you you have a very good point um but I I don't know that a resource officer would do something different than a sheriff would as far standing at the
008entrance to the building. I don't I don't think you have a sheriff here all the time at your at your events. I come to an awful lot of them and I've not seen very many of them. I'm sorry. We had we requested more from the Pennington County Sheriff's Office to come down here for events and be more present when it comes to entry into the school and exiting the school, meaning the beginning, the end of the school day. uh what we found because I was when I first came onto the school board I I was a huge proponent for an SRO. Um it was one of my main things of getting on the school board and after learning more about it and understanding the ins and outs of why we don't have one now. What
009we run into is Paintton County pays half their salary. Meaning when Pington County needs something right now, doesn't matter if it's 2 o'clock in the afternoon, 11 o'clock in the morning, they call that deputy that's sitting in here as the SRO to go respond to a traffic incident, to go to respond to a motor assist, to go respond to some another officer in trouble. Like they're they're constantly getting pulled out. So us to have one full-time would be us footing the entire bill. So what percentage of the time do you think that would be happening? Would you say Kimber at the time? I would say probably more. I think more than that in the history because we had an SRO. We had an SRO in past, right? And she was pulled out quite a bit.
010Did I ask a question? Would it be worth our Chuck and I were talking today and I don't know if this has ever been requested or asked if they would want to ever office up here. So, so an officer could office up here. You could provide an office. So, there would be that presence. I think that is a terrific idea. And I don't know if it's possible or not. Now, one thing that I do get a little bit concerned about when you have law involved with I I guess I don't want I don't need our kids to become a part of the legal system over things that I can handle myself and I can handle a lot at a school level. We're just going through this whole new policy update. I feel we are very
011covered and when you sometimes have and I don't know all the logistics of it but including them instantly put those kids into the legal system if they have to deal with something on a daybyday piece. I don't know if that's where we want to put our kids. harassment. It's like if there was kids like messing around with other kids and one wanted in the our SRO showed up 50,000 harassment plan through the right things like that could when we had the SRO's last they wouldn't do unless we requested them do that and back to policy I'm not I wasn't on the SRO committee so I can't speak for them but on the policy side of things I believe guys we did adopt a policy that if in the future we ever wanted one, our policy
012aligns with, you know, because there was options on those policies because we we redoing our whole policy book right now and we did pick a policy that aligned with one if we ever got one. Yes. Wanted to get one. We didn't do we didn't decide to do that. I I just I think that my mind, Linda, I picture this. We have a we have an active shooter in a building. you have one resource officer to cover all of our properties, the entire school. By the time somebody goes to do harm, how quickly can we get that resource officer there? How effective will they be at stop? And so I think the answer is there's there's there's officers out there that would be very good at that, but those are hard to come by. Not just
013every town in the United States has one of those people that can stop like is one better than none. And it it's it's not. But if you have a if you have resources, are they better spent somewhere else? Like where? Well, like a well-trained staff, a really well-trained staff, which is where we've been a great security system, a metal detector. I don't know. Um, is that is that And I mean, that's open for discussion, but what's the most effective way to stop them? I would like to address the the games at night. when we had the ISRO the last time they didn't come she didn't come to the games they didn't come to the games when she first came the first the first year she was here she got comp time for going to ball
014games so that when there was um Christmas break she would be comp she wouldn't have she still get paid for that time but after that um that second year she was here they changed that when they wouldn't um do that for so They we never had a a SRO at the games this second. I would think you could write that into our contract. That's up to Yeah, we don't write our contract. Penton County does. We can request it, but if they won't if they say no. Yeah, I understand. We're in the same boat. And one thing that the first year we did, the first year we did, but then after that So, so you brought up, you know, during the school day we got doors locked. We have security cameras, people in they're very statistically
015when are the active shooter situations happening. I don't think you can go by statistics and tell what somebody's about to do. But that's all we can go off is statistics. And statistically when an active shooter happens in a school, who is the who is the shooter? Are you talking about an inside person? You're talking a student. 99% of the time it is somebody from the school, a student in the school that comes in and does the harm. So, so you have just nullified your very first point that this building is safe. It is locked down. The kids are safe in here. Not if it's a student that comes in. No, it's not. Well, that's where your well-trained staff. So, and and they're being worked with. They do all different kinds of trainings and and advances
016that way to know these kids to recognize those signs before that ever becomes an issue. Because when it comes down to it, our teachers and our staff are our first line of defense hands down every time because they're the ones that interact with these kids every single day and they know these kids and having that that officer presence in the mornings and in the afternoons, you know, when people are coming going to that helps because they get to kind of pick up on behaviors and things like that. So, our teachers and our staff knowing these kids and us focusing on training or getting them well trained um will be the safest and fastest defense every single time because they are in every single room. And then you see a kid come in, he's got alcohol
017in his breath, just I'm making up example, something's not right with Johnny today. and he walked in the door and we have an officer here and you know I just we we think that's the best line of defense. That's fine. And and um I just really hope it doesn't happen. I hope we all we we appreciate your concern. Um I know a counselor's good place. We have some opinion. We also have a plan already scheduled in for it's called um first aid for mental health. So it's like a first aid for blood but it's first aid for mental health for adolescence. I intended one for adults last year. They had one for the adolescence and I could not attend but it's DSS for a grant and so we've scheduled with them during our beginning June
018to hopefully help our staff understand a little more what to look for. I think we just want you to know too we take our students safety very seriously. We all have kids or family that attend this school and nobody here I mean safety is is a number one concern. So we appreciate your thoughts on that too. just we are not we would never do something to put our kids in harm's way and we are doing what we can or what we think is best to be able to meet those needs head on and prevent it first but be able to respond. Thank you for listening to me. Amen. Thank you. Thank you Linda. Yeah. Um with with that uh move on to number 10, student staff recognition. Um first and foremost, I want to announce
019congratulations to Dr. Sakura. Mr. Sakura um received his doctorate at the end of May. So I'd like to congratulate him. So, he had he didn't quit and that's that's something that takes us some time. Um, what I did want to say, nobody showed up tonight because I think they just came off of a football camp. A lot of them did, but um, I wanted to congratulate our track kids. Had a really good showing at the state track or state track meet. And then you've probably also seen where our golf team received second place by one stroke and Trevor Schulz is a state beach champion golfer. He's a golfer. So, um we had good showing here at the end of the year and team got sick. You say by one stroke by one stroke. Yeah. And
020I think it was a good lesson to our kids that you know what when things get you have a bad day or a bad time and you want to throw in the towel, you never do because any one stroke over those two days of any one of those boys is enough to make a difference. That's all. Um move on to number 11. Surplus items. Approve surplus items for disposal. the list right there. Um, we have N this summer as an intern and he is planning helping Mrs. Myers. We're hoping a lot of those old um computers and some of those old technology items hopefully be able to sell some of those. Um we're not sure the plan yet, but um for a minimal cost, of course, but those have to be serviced first. Amy, haven't
021these been in that back room? They've been in the back room for a very, very long time. So, this is not something that we are just like getting rid of. It should have been gotten rid of probably years, two or three years ago. Yeah. I'll make a motion to approve the surplus items for disposal or sale. Second. Motion and a second to Miranda. All right. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. I. Same sign. Motion passes to approve service plus items for sale. Um, number 12, approve resolution 25-5 FY26, workers comp bund adoption and renewal motion. So, you would have received that in your board packet. Um, it's for our work comp uh for FY26. The other one you said didn't go up very much compared to Okay. Yep. So, um, it didn't go
022up too much. There is um however in August I believe um I do have to do a audit of our payroll and our staff directory list. So there is a chance that it will go up a little bit more um but just depending on what payroll is but um look going to look like for FY26 but it's not a huge expense but yeah so those are two resolutions and you would have received those. They're big long documents, but um yeah, make a motion to approve FY26 compensation fund. Second. Motion and a second. Any other discussion? None. All in favor say I. I. All oppose same sign. Motion passes to approve resolution 25-5 FY26 workers compon adoption motion and then it's just a second then the second one is just the participation agreement it's just FY26
023members compensation discretion second motion and a second any discussion all in favor say I I all the same. Motion passes to approve resolution 25-50 FY26 workers comprehensation agreement. Um with that moving moving quickly um we go on to committee reports here. So budget negotiations and insurance we have not well I guess I wasn't here architects um budget refusal I guess he's trying to make it go quicker you got me um all right budget negotiations concerns um we will next month have um I will send out another next month. Yes, we will have a short break in our meeting to allow for public comment or public questions for our budget but um usually we don't receive any but we will have that opportunity at our July meeting but because I do publish it's a it's a
024more broke it's not the full big one that you guys get but it's what I advise Yeah. Anything else there, guys? Building grounds, transportation. Talk about this one. Yeah, we uh we I we really didn't have a meeting, did we? Origin. We just had that one. Yeah. And I I was not I would not stick around to attend. So, Tyrell, it was the morning after our second meeting last month. Like, no. Um, we end up going to the powerhouse. We walked around. I want everybody to understand when I'm talking about this. This is just giving them a idea and us an idea what it would cost to get that thing. Architects. Yeah. Brad, giving the architects an idea on what we want and how we want it to be like standard of like everything's up
025to code. I mean, we're not shy, we're not cutting corners on anything. That way it gives a true representation of between new and redoing this old building. It's not going to be shortcuted. So the price will be a legit good price on true cost of it. But we decided that um that day we decided we're going to move towards like the old Did you guys want me to get specific of what we're going to do over there? Okay. Well, the old weight room area, we're tearing out a wall where there's a storage room where this and then cinder block cinder block. That might be the proposed idea for the gymnastics room year round. Think of that room back there. The storage room that you see now will be the storage room. It'll be all the
026gymnastics stuff that sits in there now won't be in there anymore. So, there'll actually be room. And we're going to probably I told him the quote kind of like cubbies or closets for every sport so they can store their stuff in there. And that's where the custodial stuff will be in one corner, too. There's plenty of room in there for that. The bathrooms will be tore out, redone. And then we'll bring the wall that where the old kitchen is. We'll tear that wall out and it'll go all the way to the south wall of the kitchen where the freezer is will all come out. That'll be the new weight room. And we're looking at moving the wall that's in the entryway all the way to the window. So there's about another 5 foot more room
027for the weight room and cardio room. So the old wrestling room kitchen will be the new weight room. And then the stage will be redone. The two lock rooms will be redone. Then the gym we'll add another set of bleachers and all new access keypads. All that stuff will be done and a whole new HVAC system, all new electrical. Basically, the shells same, but the interior will be all today. And we're looking at not doing a false ceiling. It'll be all open. Sure. Because that back weight room, everybody's going to think that's too short for a gymnastics, but it's actually as tall as the gym. You tear off the ceiling. You said do stage. Is that including like we're going to do lighting and get all that stuff ready? Absolutely. Top of the line. I
028told him to do lighting for high school play. Not the mount, not like the monuments plays. Not we don't need like crazy like digital like the monument would have for but standard for what a high school play or maybe a play that comes in for the high school would need. So and we want to make it clear because there may have been confusion. This is just an analysis. I want this on recording. This is just an analysis of what the PR of what it will may cost to redo that building. This is not saying we're redoing that building up to standard. That way at the end of the day in August, I believe that they're coming in August. We will have a price per square foot for that 18,000 foot building of $200 square foot.
029I don't know. Just rent 200. And then they're going to give us a price on what it would take to replace that same size building new. Okay? And it might be 400. Wherever it's at, they're going to give us sideby-side prices on what it would take to replace or gut. Gut to stay. I mean, everything would be redone other than the shell, the foundation. Would there be wrestling stuff there, too? Or the wrestling would be in the gym. We we would roll mats up and roll because they want more room anyways. So, they'd get half the gym and it's easy to roll mats up and move gymnastics stuff. And then you'd still have pra, you know, you could put the curtain down, have junior high practice and roll the mats up and you could have
030other practices or and we're hoping to the point where we want this gym to be used for tournaments. So if we have a tournament and we need both gyms, you can use that one that's usable nice enough to be used for tournament tours. And we considered putting the I thought this was a great idea, the uh computer and the the security stuff all upstairs. There's a boy locker room an old boys locker room which are identical opposite sides. All the HVAC, computer, electrical, all the hard every all that stuff can be put upstairs in those two disposal and all the HVAC stuff kept inside is also big whim because it doesn't deteriorate quick, right? So, and it's easier to secure any sort of timeline. I mean, what it what how long it would take to
031do this or wait till the analysis or to do the whole thing? Yeah. I mean, if there was just a timeline just I know might be putting the cart before the horse but to know like I would imagine it would be like a two-year process or if they would do it and I imagine they'll give us that in August when they give us the price because right now they just honestly we were walking around with them and that was their first time seeing it. So they don't really know but we will know that in August I'd imagine that time. Yeah. Let bids it and it's quite a process. I think what Miranda was asking was from or for the analysis from the first, you know, from the first rip out of a wall. How long
032do they think it'll take if it's going to be six months or two years or three weeks or they didn't say that? I'm hoping in August they'll answer that though. I'm hoping I All I know is this and and I'm not I want to keep moving forward and if I can remember anything Pandy Pitman tells us told me, you're going to have to pay. So, you decide what you want to pay for. With everything in life, we've got to pay. So, do you pay for this amount today for this piece or do you pay for something to fix up later? You're always going to have to pay. She used to tell me that another um contractor told me the best time to build is now. I know at another school they put off put off
033put off $5 million project a few years ago is now $11 million and so they're they're struggling because they thought it was too much back then. So, it's it's kind of a tough decisions to make. And that's what's nice about having this because if it's like 40% of what a new build would be and we already have a nice gym here and that could be a really nice add-on gym for which we can afford the next couple years rather than eight years down. It all depends on financials and if you want to take out a loan or then you got to also consider we're going to fix that up nice. You better plan on a full-time salary for a full-time person too. So there's a lot of those other little pieces we got to keep
034in mind. transportation if we're doing kid things or are we walking out just things like that that go into place whereas if it was connected to this building which wouldn't necessarily need no but the caveat to that the community which I brought this up the community wouldn't be use it if it was over here like it's over there it'd be locked down more being connected to the school over there security stuff that like they do pass through like there are schools that do that have the public waiting connected to the But they have you have to build extra corners. And if we're going to staff somebody over there, that's something we could talk with the city about too maybe split it. But it would be nice to have side by side because that's the number
035one question we get from people in the community whenever we talk about this is why aren't you doing about the powerhouse? It's like we don't even this no one ever even knows what it would cost. So I I should bring up the city. What I was told by the city was um they don't have any extra money to help with this project. There's no there won't be helping that $8,000 donation every year. They went up in the minutes and looked it up and that has no strings attached. It was just to better the community's help. There was not us having to allow them in. So that's I mean I mean we we want to we want to be good to our community, but we want to be good to the local community, not strangers come
036into town for a month or two and destroy our stuff, right? So, I'm not going to name name by any means, but we want to be good to the older people who want to come watch, but there has to be a line drawing that needs to happen there. Like our gym on base, it's not staff 24 hours, but you have a key card that you can get in with. And when you scan your key card, just like this one, it logs who that's registered to. There has to be some sort of again back to the same the trigger word for me. There has to be accountability that if people are letting their kids go run around in there and break stuff like you have to sign a a statement of understanding saying like this is
037what the rules are and my kid's not going to be in there. I'm not going to let Joe doesn't have access to use my card and and if you do you lose your privileges contract right now that they signed like that when they are issued a card. I just it's just a matter of catching or let let someone lets us know that it's happening. I have a couple people and kind of who will call me when something happens. I don't know if this would be perceived as going too far, but show being able to show like a city utility bill to get a key card. Yeah, I do that in a lot of things. some something to prove that we can an address some connect place an address physically they ask for an address to
038put on the application so yeah we usually get an address I mean yeah true you could give anybody an address though because you're sitting somewhere but so how do the workers get access to it come up and purchase we allow it and that's another thing they brought up Brad owns a BFG membership and he was talking about membership fees and that's something we could look into doing is for some raising it for you know for community members local year round leaving it a little cheaper and raising it for others so it's more I don't know I that's avenues we need to look at when we actually attempt something but right now that's what we're looking at the bones of the building's good there's no cracks I mean it's all the bones are good from what
039we've been told what he said so it's a matter of like he said it's always cheaper greenoing like we imagine you don't have a lot of the dirt work sight work there's no foundation work. There's no all that's easier and yeah, for the community members, the location's nice for them at that time. But we'll see. It might come in at 80% of what new build is and all of a sudden you're like, "Wow, that's makes no sense then all of a sudden." So, yeah, we'll see. August. Thank you for going and doing that by the way. Um that I don't think we have anything else we need to visit about other than I would like to mention to be on record. We are looking for other buses because we do know we need to replace
040a bus and we are looking into buses that have AC and seat belts that we can do the same thing the other one did for more affordable price school district. So thank you. Good to know. Um, we move on to our third committee, curriculum, instruction, and technology. The last one you guys met was the one I was at golf. So that was I think so. Okay. So working on finding some or updating some science science curriculum is old and shabby. I am looking at some of that. I still am trying to put together a process for curriculum review or a plan. So we it happens on a we just need some plans written down. Good systems have plans well just to keep it moving to keep sort of like with the new building and even
041the powerhouse thing maintenance plans. I feel like our curriculum and our policies also need maintenance plans. I think sometimes we do things on the spur of the moment and I'm not a knee-jerk reactor. So that's a bad habit to get into. We fix it when it's broken. Let's keep it maintained and things will go smoother and longer. Those are some of the things I'm trying to be able to see those things coming like with the ELA standards when we change like kind of be able to knock those out and we have them. I just don't think they're they're written out. Uh to talk a little bit about technology, I do know Oh, Mrs. Myers and Nate have been working like crazy updating um cleaning, securing. She just went to a three two or three day
042training in Madison with our state system. So, Golden West is meeting with us I think I've got a little meeting just a 30 minute meeting but um to get some things going maybe next week the online teams meeting but um I think some good things are happening there. You have a update on our website Stephano? Um we're signed up. We're signed up and that's about where we're at right now. Um, I know I did talk to Rebecca. She's looking at the different options as far as like the layout. Um, I know she's been we were busy trying to like reload computers for staff. Um, so I don't know if that's as far as it's going. One thing they told us to do um is kind of go through our website that we have right now
043and clean house in there. figure out what things we want to keep because what they'll do is take those pieces that we want to keep and just move them over into there. So that's that's another thing too as far as the policies go is how um if you guys want to kind of look at the website just a little bit. We have them all loaded on as individual like PDFs when they if you click on a policy it comes up as a PDF. I don't know if that's the route you want to go as far as our new website when we when we do pass policy next month. Um or if there's a different what other way would there be or why? I don't know. Um maybe go we can what was Kadoka has the
044same the same um company that they use. I don't know as far as how we want to Um I don't know what date cuz Yeah, cuz theirs is looks like it's a like a whole book. Scroll. So you don't open up. So it's got like a table of contents. Can someone print it off? They want to print a certain page off if they want to. Yeah, or and I don't know if they might have a different I can save a copy just to the phone. So that I wouldn't be you know how we have ours categorized with you know numbers ones or whatever. I wouldn't mind that having a scrolling page for like our six or one two three like or do we want the whole thing? 1,00 2,000 3000 each one you can click
045on them and scroll through it. I would love the whole policy instead of going into 2001 2002 like you click on 2000 series and it says all two 30,000 crickets all scroll through the 2000s rather than going and then have an index 1 2 3. It's a nice So that's that's something to consider too because it is because you can't just print out on our current website like a like let's say if you ask me Tyrell Amy can you print me out a policy book. I'd have to go into every single one. is kind of that's you like paper stuff. Usually when they usually when they go through a policy they look for one up there theories there should be a you guys can you don't have to think you don't have to decide right
046now that's what I'm saying because we're not going to be even launching the website the only problem I can do it in the next policy committee meeting our policy so we have a few printed another thing too is we need to think about because we're going to passing policy. Next month we're going to have and but the website won't be ready next month. So, we're going to have to take out all the old policy and put some sort of something on our old website with the new policy, too. So, that's another that's another Yeah, I don't think so either. Just a hyperlink to it. that table program that we have with website on is updated and we can't update it or something just as long as we can make them public so I guess we're
047wasting time here but um any but we're going to have a sub meeting first we're speaking to yeah so we can get it to the last in the handbooks we're almost done much later. Done with policy. We're working through handbooks right now. Policy committee. You guys have done a lot of work. A lot of work. If you guys have a chance to jump in there and read through them before the next meeting. Okay. There is some comfort. I still I was changing things today with the attorney. There are some things that I know in my heart that we're going to encounter as we live life that we're still going to probably want to change down the road and that's okay. Every year the policy should be being updated a couple times a year just to
048be on good keeping staying up up to speed on there are so many details and one thing I rest assured in is all of this policy I know some of it seems long and detailed but she they write it according to state law so we will be covered there it's when they have it we've got an update on Thursday I'm going to a meeting where they're they've got an update according to more state law. So which that we just that only applies to ours for the next three years and then we got to pay a fee every year. Just to remind you our 9500 we paid originally only for three years of updates. After that you got to subscribe to their services resubscribe just to remind as a member though I I'm not complain for
049this round. I don't know what the subscription is. I don't think it's not. I just reminding you that um and we have to do it. No, we have to update no matter what. Yeah. And so those and we've been tweaking even since our committee meeting, there's been little tweaks we've been finding like I've been going in there and updating a few things too. So those that file I sent in your board packets, those are live. So like the little updates we made today, um if they're they're live. So, even if like we change something at our next policy meeting, when you guys go in there to start reading them and make sure you read them before our ne our July meeting, they're live. So, you're going to see everything that's going to be read. Really,
050what we changed was just for clarification. Yeah, they're like adding this clarifying words. Yeah, sorry we kind of jumped ahead. Well, we kind of melded a couple of them together, but um we have do we have anything else? I guess as far as legislation, policy or strategic plan is concerned. Not yet. Um how about career development, scholarship and marketing? I'm the only one that I'm gonna say no unless Sally's got something there. No, I think we do though need to consider I've had this has been on my mind. Chuck says slow down Sally. I quit saying it. I quit playing Mustang Sally for him. You heard that song. Oh, that's a good sign. That's a good sign. Um anyway, marketing know our school. Here's what I'm watching across the community. I'm watching it happen and
051I'm not saying it's a good thing, but schools are jumping on this online piece left and right. I'm not going there. I like what we have right now. I feel it's manageable what we have right now. If a kid came and said, "I'm going to have to go someplace else or I need to do something online," Mrs. Sundal and I meet with them. We make sure they've got a plan. We make them okay with you guys. and we have a few of those students and it's been very very successful. Um I think some of these schools see it as a way to bring the money the funding back into their schools because they've lost a lot of kids to um homeschool and to other options. Now I'm not afraid of that because we have a
052good thing going here and people know that. But I do think as all these online programs are popping up in these other schools that we need to make sure that people know what we're about here. That's comes in the place of marketing. I see our website. That's why I want this website and we're going to have interviews with teachers. I'm going to put interviews with kids. I want this to be a site where you can go on and you can get the feel of the good things we do here. That's where I'm going to say I'd like to put my efforts into. But that marketing place is that's a real thing. And that sounds as silly as it sounds. There are so many options to go to school nowadays. Um I want them to know
053our school is a good place. and that we can have those options of better than they're seeing out and about because they are watching can people watch the glitz out about um we move on to number 15 report um the only thing I have is um that's on the school. I just put 40 letters of of for students who will be invited to come to summer school and those will go out in the mail tomorrow. And summer school will run from July 21st through August 24th, I believe. Monday through Thursday, a letter going out and asking people telling people that they're invited to attend and they're hopefully they'll reply with the self address down that they're either interested or not interested and if they are interested what time works best for them and I'll try
054to schedule them at or nearly if possible but it's cause a little stress on my or we are a doctor now. So or responsibility, right? Well, usually doctors will have someone do their appointments for them. That's what I have. You guys have any questions for me? Thank you. Thank you. Um number 15, just manager. I've got a list tonight, guys. All right. Um Okay, I got this after I sent your package out, so my apologies, but you'll have on your in front of you a proposal from EMC. They do our um property and liability insurance. So every year we get a update from our property and liability insurance carrier about how much it increases and it always increases you guys but this in this year it did increase quite a bit. Um so let's see
055here. Um, and on the the the front is just a little bit of an explanation from our agent Jeremy. He was here last year um and kind of talked about because we did switch companies last year and um talked about or two years ago we did and he was here last year because we got a new agent, I'm sorry. And um in this um explanation here, it talked about why we saw an increase. Um and mainly it was because that's just what the market is showing is that property and liability insurance is going up across the US. That's something that's inevitable. And then of course we had the increase in our bill, you know, with addition. So um we don't have to do anything today because this will be we can we'll approve this next
056month because it wasn't on our agenda and it doesn't have to be approved in June. But I wanted to give you this to look through to um for our July meeting and this will be in the reorg part. So the second half of the derivat but where we saw the substantial difference and you'll see that it's kind of right above is the 20 24 25 the the commercial property was 68,581 and then it went up to $80,90 and that's what that was because of the addition that we had. So, and then there was some little tiny changes, but that was the difference in that uh chart. Okay, question Amy. So, if you look at that kind of itemized chart on that first page, I'm just noticing after our discussion this morning or this earlier tonight,
057crime is lower. What What is our like liability? I mean, it's What's that? What does that mean? Do you know like what are we paying for crime went lower? Does that mean we have less or No, that's just that part of the premium if like if there was any crime that happened any property damage like what like vandalism or something like that? I'm assuming. So I'm not honestly not 100% sure. Interesting that that went down. Um but one thing um I did he did offer is if you wanted him to um Jeremy he can come next you want and explain all this if you wanted to. No everyone else is going up so it's not like it's okay. I'm not surprised by this. I guess I was I I I guess at first it was
058a sticker shock to me and I was like holy crap like that's a big jump like I mean and then after he's like well you did add I'm like well done but I mean cuz we cuz we when we added the new addition it wasn't a for a full year and so it was like okay then I kind of and insurance is also criminal. I mean let's be real honest. Okay. And this isn't just this isn't just property insurance. This also includes liability. So So does the commercial estimate on the front page is that is that included liability? Yep. So this is this is um this is commercial property and then the liability stuff and that's is also included. So that is what we pay for insurance. That's just for property and liability 109. I'm
059sorry. That's the full year's repair. Yep. And then we have workers compensation insurance. That was the one we approved tonight. And then we also have, if you guys remember, we almost lost our coverage on the bus. And so we had to have special property and liability coverage because EMC would not cover. So he went and got special coverage for that. And so I also got that quote today and that came in $35522 more than last year which again is not anything substantial. Um so that is the second little packet. Um, one thing that they do offer is a $500 per year terrorism premium. We can add on if we want in case there's an act of terrorism on that piece of property. We did not come we did not choose to add that last year,
060but that's something that they do offer. So that 37 or 3,79722 that does not include the So I'm assuming you probably don't want to do that. But again, those are two things that you can will decide last month, but I want to just give you this and offer to have them come next month every month. But I'm getting consensus you don't need them to come next month. the that's our monthly. No, that's a year just for the bus part. Just for the bus part. Okay. So, all these costs that you'll see that we did for everything property liability and workers comp is annual. Okay. Also um next month um during our reorganization meeting um we set we you guys vote on official entities. So that means like you set your official newspaper, banks, all those
061different kinds of things. So I included that. I I did a lot of redlinining in this document because it needed to be updated and just to kind of go off some policy type of things. So, um I want you guys to look at this because by no means because I went through and updated it doesn't mean that you guys have to go with it. But, um and then all of the changes in here, I gave a little rationale. Um because some of them like for instance the last two talk about bus driving pay and substitute teacher pay. Bus driving pay was a policy that was an old policy we had. With our new policies there's not a specific policy that talks about bus driving pay and most schools have route drivers which are then a
062an employee essentially. They have like a classified contract. Well, we don't have that. So that's why they don't have that in policy. So, I thought since we're not going to have that policy to maybe have an official entity to set a rate for our bus drivers. So, that's what basically what our current policy said, the $16 an hour minimum amount. And then I also we don't really have anything in writing. We did have an old substitute teacher handbook. Well, we're getting rid of all of our handbooks kind of and we're starting over. So rather than having any type of handbook anymore for subs, I thought we should maybe have something as far as getting a substitute page in our entities because this kind of our official entities list our prices and stuff for the year.
063So I have that as well is what we've our current rates that we have. Um I changed the lunch prices. I don't know. As far as the Wasp rates, we did do a large bump up last year and but we hadn't changed rates for three years prior to that. So, that's something for you guys to think about, too. If you want to keep them at the same rate we are at now, that's fine. And then do larger bumps up every few years or to just do smaller rate increases every year or just kind of assess it each year. I don't know. I'd like to see it be self- sustaining. Like that's why we raised it so much last year. But maybe it always kind of we did have a loss this um in FY24, but
064I mean we still have enough in our fund balance. We're doing fine. So it's kind of up to you. I I hate to to not raise it just a little bit. It's kind of like a log. You don't you don't want to raise it, not raise it, and then when you have to raise it because it's not self- sustaining, then you raise it a bunch and it's noticeable for families, like a huge amount. You know what I mean? So, that's just But I don't know because last year we did $3 per rate. You got to raise it 50 cents a year. It need be instead of $3. Yeah, I was thinking a dollar. because I don't like change. But I mean it it's essentially your guys's decision. So I was thinking like a dollar per
065per level, but whatever. We just need consensus on that and I I think that's at least and that's something that you guys can decide next month. Um lunch prices, I just updated it to what it is now. um that kind of is dictated by the National School Lunch Program application that's done this summer and that will be it's kind of out of our control. If we want to receive funds from the feds, we kind of have to go off of what they say and then just some small changes throughout. But everything that I kind of suggested here is explained. But if you have any questions, you can let me know and you can tell me to shut up and you could do whatever you want. So, would it be possible to increase the state predium
066meal? Can't. You can't. Don't we have to go with the state? So, $5 for breakfast, $7 for lunch, and $8 for dinner. No, not for we can for students. We can It's for students is what I'm saying. Not. I mean, why I bring that up is while there are people in the community that have no problem throwing their kids a couple hundred bucks to go to state and eat, if they don't have that kind of money, all they're going to eat for breakfast, lunch, or dinner for a whopping $20 a day is going to be something junky from McDonald's. So, and usually, so what happens, how that works is usually if the hotel has continental breakfast, then we don't give them $5 either because it's free, right? So, which usually continental breakfast most of the
067time is decent, but no, we you guys set the student meal per DM rates. Just something for maybe everybody to think about. And I I'm not saying we need to give them $20 a meal, but what I'm $20 a day to eat. Like that's it's nothing. I stopped at Freddy's today and just got a meal and it was $12. Say 10 for lunch. It was wonderful. By the way, my breakfast. Yeah. And that I mean and I've checked around as far as what other schools do and it's really all over the sport. So like some schools give the adult rates and some the adult rates they're set by the state and we have that we follow what the state um permium rates always you can students for everybody for everybody but you at least have
068to give the adult but um yeah that's something you guys can think about too and um usually the and this is not ever guaranteed. So, usually the booster club does give $10 a day to the students for the days they're in competition. Okay? So, like um for instance, if they go down a day before and they, you know, come back the next morning, it's only the days that they're like, but but that's not always guaranteed either. So, I just think that those prices are very outdated with the way the cost of things anymore. So if that's something people want to think about, that would be one of the things. Yeah, for sure. But yep, that's absolutely that hasn't been changed probably for I could look probably for four years or more. Wow. So that's that's
069something that needs to be thought. Any other questions on that? Also, um, one of the biggest things that happens every year at the July meeting is we open up parking spot bids. So, I will be advertising that this month. So, FY unless you don't want to do it at a board meeting. We don't There's nothing that said that we have to open them up at a school. I was going to ask, is there a reason that doesn't approve those? They just have the highest. They go by the highest bid and then the highest bid gets the first choice. So unless if you trust myself and I always have someone else. We don't have to waste your time and do it out of order. We do that in executive session, don't we? I don't. Maybe that's
070why they started doing it. So it was I mean I really don't think they trust you. So if I have like Jennifer sit there and if there's a tie I draw we draw out of the hat or Chuck and I Yeah Chuck and Jennifer you office folks take care of it and then we'll just announce it at a meeting who's where or just follow along and do it. Sure. You could Facebook live it Amy. Oh there you go. On the website. put it on the website. I can just record it. Dr. Sally loves going Facebook live. So, are you sure you're that would scare some of us? You don't know what I may say out there. Okay. It'll there'll be sealed bids because that's you have to do that. I won't require it at a
071board meeting because it's not like it's a stateu auction. I like Miranda doesn't get to sit 50 yard. [Laughter] Okay. Well, then I'm not going to waste our time because that usually takes a good half hour. But I think that's all I got. Thank you. Appreciate it. Um some things going on. Uh we do have extended school year. Um Chuck mentioned other summer school, but extended school year to clarify everything is for those kids who um the data is showing that they will not retain if they lose so many days out of school. So we have a couple students in extended school year. It's usually for students on IEPs. It has to be written into their IEPs. It's not just a a wish or a want by somebody. And so we've got a couple students.
072So we have extended school year. It's kind of fun. One of those kids goes down and works at Dairy Queen. Bless their hearts. They provide a couple hours of work for this student um at Dairy Queen wiping off tables, things like that. one thing. So, I asked two of our teachers who I felt were ready for a little more leadership opportunity to attend uh Dakota Dreams, which is a big leadership. It was couple about six days last week at different times through the year. Um, and that was Mrs. Kier and Mrs. Shriber. They have put together a book study that our entire staff and when I say our entire staff I'm talking secretaries, doctors, everybody are participating and we are reading the energy bus and they have put together some reflection opportunities. I'm also getting
073a graduate credit for us. I got to get it applied for but um through USF University of Sou Falls. So, we will be um hopefully getting we will get a credit for it. We will also um even the people who don't have degrees, I'm going to I can usually get an undergrad credit for them and a graduate credit for those who want it. We'll be discussing it at the beginning of the year. So, I was really thrilled that those teachers came to me and said, "Can we do this? It will be good for our staff and we want to include everybody." So, we're doing that. Um, I think I made some of these notes before our last meeting and then we didn't really have a regular meeting. We hired Jenna Elure. Um, kind of idea
074there was to help with the K big kindergarten class that's coming in. We don't know exactly what that'll look like yet because we don't know all of our numbers. We'll also be able to use her elsewhere as well. Um, we also hired Mrs. Martin Moss. She just went through the teacher prep program where Aira goes through all the classes and so she is certified to teach some English and to teach business and we hired her. She's taken the U practice for science and she's business. So she is going to be um teaching some technology to those it's all middle school. So we've got her for that position. We just heard word today and I am so excited for her. Trista Reiner just got accepted into the present cohort for teacher um the apprenticeship program that
075Mrs. Martin Moss just completed. So the state and Dakota State, it's a project they're doing. They will pay for her schooling to finish certification. So Trista has already been taking a lot of classes. She is an ideal employee. I'm excited that she got into this program and um so that was fun to hear today. Something I get lots and lots of emails about and I want you to think about where we want to go with this esports. You've maybe heard a lot about esports. There are lots of school districts in our school that are providing esports. So, I listened to a guy. They're from out of state, but they provide all of the infrastructure for our South Dakota high school activities. Um, there are five main games. Uh, one is chess. I mean, so they
076aren't out there games. One is a version of what's the craft? Um, Minecraft. There's a It's a version of that. Then there's three others. I forget all of them because it was several days ago when he called me, but they call me constantly trying to get us to participate. And at first it was just I ignored it. I didn't want to deal with it. But then it was interesting that one of our students came and asked me if we could do something like this at our school. So I thought, well, that's interesting that they're ask start coming and starting to ask. So I don't know if it's something we want to look more into. Right now I'm just throwing it out there. If you hear more about it, I've got contact. Is the chess portion
077like learning how to play chess because we're born in pieces or is it online? I'm pretty sure it's the online. I don't know. I just Our kids are online. Yeah, because I think esports are I think they're all online, right? I can just tell you this from where I sit, it's it's getting to be a pretty big thing. It really is. It's scholarship. There's scholarships for it. Like they do esports tournaments on Ellsworth and there's a lot of involvement with younger folks in the military that do it. It's It's very very It's getting They still haven't figured out if it's all like if they go places and compete or if they compete from home but they've got their own room. No, typically they go to like a gym and they have all the computers and
078everything set up or the video games what whichever they're playing on and they play in the So it is a social event too. So because he was saying you all get on but you have a room in your school where you do it. So that's what was kind of confusing to me and I'll be honest you guys. had 25 different things going on the day that I was visiting with him. They did do a state tournament in South Dakota in February. If a group of kids are passionate about it in my mind and want to come speak with us, I'd love to so many things for our kids to do. Unless I saw a real drive coming from them, I don't know. If they're not doing that, they're doing something else. So, well, I'm not
079saying it's bad. I'm just Some of those kids might not be active and other activities. Some might be a good Yeah, I'd be interested to hear. Okay. And if you want to go there, I just got told today and I've been familiar with Skills USA. But that's another thing with the CTB program that we got out here. We should be involved with Skills USA. That's a big where they it's welding competitions and it's it's all those type CTE type skills. So wear yourself out trying to get your kids into everything. And I don't know if that's where we want to go, but I want every kid to be able to be a part of something if that makes sense. Um, I guess that's my goal is I don't want anyone to be left out just
080because they're not a basketball player or a track runner or a wrestler, whatever. Um, November 12th, you guys. So, we've been asked the last two years we've had a very successful and I'm going to Megan Judson has done a nice job of organizing. I thought this year went even better than the first year as they usually do. um the district LDE. So those are like some of you maybe judged it. I'm sure you probably did, but the speaking contests and such for FFA, they want to have a another FFA competition here the afternoon of the 12th. What we did was we had school till noon. We let school out. All the staff stayed and helped with this competition or did some type of work here. Um, so I'm going to request your approval of allowing
081us to have that on the 12th. They came to us to ask if we'd be willing to host that again. Um, today is my last day on campus for a while. I'm going to go to Wild West leadership. Don't worry, I'm not going to Wild West. I'm not going wild, but um leadership conference Thursday and Friday morning. I'm also going to the Felissa meeting in Ma in Montana in um California next week, Thursday, Friday. This my I finally talked my niece into it. Um he found a plane ticket same plane happened to get on the same plane and she was game to take a couple days and go with me. So California, Newport Beach. You say the Wild West I'm going to go by myself and do wild. And you know what? I should I
082know this is being recorded. There are too many people who know me in Deadwood. There is nobody that knows me in Newport until there is. Huh? Until there is I don't think we've ever gone anywhere with this alley with someone. You're not flying into LA. No, I No, I don't think I don't know where I'm flying into actually. Yeah, that's right. You guys, I want to come back. Um I am kind of taking some time off through July 4th. I know that we've got some committee meetings and such and I'll be here for and I'll still be working on things but probably more from home for the next couple weeks with those trainings. One thing I do want to tell you I went to and it was so powerful and I'm going to expect staff
083to go next year. We've got this ELA. Um I went to a conference last week. 1,200 teachers, very few West River teachers. I before I started this work, I was one of the big trainers and everything in our state for reading. They asked me if I'd present. So I took a grammar lesson because that's phonics when you need awareness, reading comprehension. You got to know your grammar. and and we're coming back to the basics, brain research. So I said, "Yep, I'll come." So I expected 40, 50 people, small group. All of a sudden, I have 350 people and they put me with on the big stage with big cameras and all. I had to readjust the night before to make this a totally different presentation than just a small group. But it was a good
084model. That's what we expect our teachers to do. Don't don't be fixed in your thoughts. Be able to be flexible and to brainstorm and to rethink. And that's what we got to do all the time. And I'm not afraid to do it myself. So that was a great experience. And I'm going to expect some of our staff, in fact, people said, "Sally, where's your team? You're one of the leaders in this. Where's your team?" I said, "They will come with me next year. They're having babies this year." And I do have a lot of teachers. I'm excited. I've got teachers taking two or three taking college courses this summer. Summer's not a time for to take off. They're training and reertifying. So things are great. That's all I'm doing. When you go to your Felica
085meeting, make sure to speak up. I'll try. You know, the first day is committee meetings and I was going to even contact that woman that knows my name now. Say, I'm coming. Can I work with that committee? You know, Mr. um No is not going to be around anymore. So, I think we need to have a voice, you know. Um when I went was here, I tried to stay in close with being from South Dakota and having him his backing. I don't know if that does us any good, but yes, I will speak up. Don't talk to the main guy. It gets really liberal there. You know that. I know. And this is a small group of puff work on both sides of the aisle though. If you need both sides to work things, it'd
086be good if you were there and you visit with him and try to get wedged in there. He told me specifically to make sure you go visit with him when you go to the summer meeting. Okay. So, I will get I will shake hands with him. That would be good. Two. Ali daring our students part. We have three kiddos got scholarships to go to Black Hills Playhouse. They do a summer theater and camp. And so um Ada and Gold and Journey are going to that the second week of July. They'll be up there by Kuster that whole week. They'll do a whole musical up there at the end of six weeks. When does that I mean that's something we can attend. I'm sure it's um July I know July 12th is three on your phone.
087I don't know. Tonight, thank you. Well, you guys for your reports. Um, we need to go into Is that tonight? We have one short thing. Yeah. Okay. Just let me make sure. Yeah. I believe that would be hang on me before. is dash two person but yeah person believe that's good motion executive session according to Southakota followed by law 1-20 cash. He's blind. You be right there on the ball. Now, after an executive session,