001Okay. Chairperson Sandal here. Vice chairperson Shear here. Members Anderson here. Moore here. Ruland here. Bryant here. Here. I aliance 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. Okay, we uh move on to number four. Moment of reflection, prayer. You have anything today? Yes. 1 Corinthians 15:58 says, "Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain." This is what we need on May 15th. What is today? May 14 at the end of a great year. Thank you. out. Number five, conflict of interest. None that I know [Music] of. On to number six. Um I actually need to make an
002amendment before we approve the agenda to add agenda teachers contracts uh the 256 school year to add Rachel Kirstad for teaching contract $57,2122. Okay, we've got a motion to amend the agenda to add Rachel Kirstad to the teacher contracts. Uh do we have a second? I'll second that. We got a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Okay. Now, I think the way we do that is we still have to Did we Was that a Do we need to approve the agenda now or is that just a motion to amend it? So, make a motion to approve the agenda as amended. Okay. Motion. We got a second. Second. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. I all oppose. Same sign. Motion passes to approve the amended agenda.
003All right. No open forum tonight. Student presentation and recognition. So I have two students here tonight who want to share um two presentations on leave that I have excused for them as far or um exempted because of a learning opportunity. So which one is easiest to come up? I got Zoe Posley and James Butler. And I'm going to let them tell you where they went and what they did. James, why don't you um I'm just going to step out of the way and you can come stand right here and then I'm going to try to hold my arms. No. Now go hit the screen. Just push the screen. Just click on the screen. Good. Right here. There's one. Yep. There. Can you see it? Can you see it, Bill? Perfect. And so Jame was lucky
004enough, my dad won a trip to go to West River for the 2025 legislative conference there for all the RCAs throughout the United States and he took me along. So we did some sightseeing and the conference. Uh we flew out the 25th. It was a 5-day trip. 26 we were able to go to Arlington Cemetery, Holocaust Museum, the Smithsonian Museum, and a whole bunch of the memorials, Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Lincoln, Korean, Vietnam, and all the World War II memorials. 27th, we went to a old post office, the Force Theater, and House where Lincoln was carried to after he was shot at the National Archives and eternal protest in front of the White House in the Washington Monument. 28th was a day of the conference and we saw the air and space museum at the
005Smithsonian. Uh 29th was meeting with all the congressmen. We had the great opportunity to meet with all the South Dakota congressmen. Uh Dusty Johnson, Jonathan, Mike Browns. Uh the NRCAs have some laws they would like to try and get Congress to pass to help with the electric cooperatives. Uh, and then the 30th we flew out, had a little weather delay and made it back. So, Arlington Cemetery, it was founded in June 15th of 1864. It used to be a um a slave plantation, but it was seized during the Civil War to become a fort for the army and later became a cemetery. About they do host about 150 funerals per week and there's about 400,000 different grave sites present there. Any US soldier who um was not um discharged for any bad reason, so honorably
006discharged, gets a plot for free. Uh, we saw the tomb of the unknown soldier and learned about some of the history of when it was built, what inspired the US to make their own, France and Britain. And the tomb was dedicated on the 11th of November, 1920. Those are some pictures we have. We saw the changing of the guard and the honor flight was in town the same week. So we got to watch them lay the wreath there at the honor for the honor flight for the veterans and the Kennedy family engraved also there with the eternal film sector Holocaust memorial they told the story of a boy named Daniel and how he survived the Holocaust, how the male his mother and father was separated from each other. um they had to wear the yellow
007star that's um had the Jew word on it and if they didn't get if they were caught without wearing that in public um how the punishments they faced being sent to the ghettos and forced to work before Nazi Germany was able to create the concentration camps and then once they got there they were shaved given a number and forced to work till they were either killed or put to death. Um it wasn't just Jews. There was um Jews, homosexuals, Jehovah Witnesses, Freemasons, and Gypsies were all part of the persecution. Um and there's a picture there of some of the stuff they stole. There is a large pile of shoes that were taken off uh Jewish people after they were killed. Um and they told the story of recent genocide that is taking place in Burma
008starting in 2017 against Muslims where they're burning their homes in Mosix and they brought a little life to that which was good to learn. Sad stories but also important for learning the natural history museum. We only had time to see the geology section as we on a fairly tight schedule. Our tour guide was delayed so we had to get back after that. We saw the Hulk diamond which is a 45.52 karat diamond. Uh and there's over 5,000 minerals on display in there of different types and kinds. They come from all over the world and there is some asteroids and moon rocks on display which we'll see. And there's pictures of different gold from locations. I believe it's on the next slide. Uh there's a piece of gold that was found from South Dakota. They didn't
009say where, but there was some from every state. and um states and even southern territories. Um gold that was found there and pretty soon saw the Roosevelt Memorial. He was a president during World War II, served four terms, only president to serve World War II. He um did die during the fourth and they have the waterfalls on display with quotes that are from him along the walls about the Great Depression and World War II, the effects of it. Martin Luther King memorial. It was cool to learn. The stone he has carved out of is considered the stone of hope and it is carved out of the mountain of despair and it was dedicated on December 2009. Korean War Memorial. They have names printed all along the side and there's 19 soldiers on stand there and
010wherever you stand in relation to them, there's always one that's looking in your direction which is a pretty cool thing to see. It's we learned that the Korean War was never actually ended. Just a ceasefire was called. There's no peace treaty that's ever been assigned to this day. And it was dedicated on July 27th, 1995, the 22nd anniversary of the peace treaties and war. Saw the World War II memorial. Each one of these there has a different state and a wreath on it. Even even the tiny um territories such as Puerto Rico and John, they all have a wreath as shown around a big reflection pool. And it was dedicated on May 29th, 2004. Lincoln Memorial with his speech along the side of the wall on the one he gave at the Gettysburg. So Gettysburg
011address dedicated on May 30th, 1922. The architect was Henry Bacon and the sculpture of Lincoln was sculpted by Daniel Chester. Um and there's he was a French guy and was very inspired by Lincoln and features are on the side of it all. the Washington Monument, largest freestanding stone structure in the world to this day. Um, at a height of 555 ft. Um, we were weren't lucky enough to be able to go up to the top. Um, which they still allow because they just opened it back up after CO. We weren't lucky enough to go up there, but um, it remains a tall stone structure. You can see halfway through a different color of stone. I don't know if the pictures the one over there shows it a little better where construction was paused during halfway
012through during the Civil War and Congress not approving funding till later. The stone came from a different quarry for the second half. So that's hence the different colors of stone. Ford's theater uh theater where Lincoln was shot used to be a church Baptist church but then was later converted to a theater converted in 1861. They did try to reopen after the assassination of Lincoln, but were unable to. It became an office and storage space for some time till the National Parks acquired it and opened it back up. They do still do live performances there. Um, so it still maintains its thing as a theater with a hint of education about Lincoln. Right across the street from there, the National Park runs the house where Lincoln was carried to after he was shot. He survived till
0137:22 a.m. the next morning. However, he remained unconscious the whole time and never were able to wake up. Uh the Peterson houses where it's called there were in no relation to Lincoln. They were just some good Samaritans. They were able to provide a bed for him. Um but the bed was large or smaller in size. So most of the pictures you see of it have Lincoln's feet hanging over the bed due to his larger frame. And saw the National Archives there. They keep on display in these 24 karat goldplated titanium cases. They have the Articles of Confederation, Declaration of Independence, the Massachusetts Compromise, Constitution, and Bill of Rights, plus many more. Some about slavery, different strikes that happened, anything that could be of importance. Um, each one of those little cases have a non-reactive argon
014gas. You can see by the pictures the lighting is turned down low to prevent documents from fading and there's no oxygen in the cases to prevent any form of document um curation. There's a picture we saw of the White House and the internal protest started some in about 1980. I forgot the actual date. Um there they have a tent there with different stuff there's protesting. There's a whole bunch of stuff. Some recent events include the Gaza Israel situation. They have a tent there with someone on station 24/7 and it's been that way since it first created the someone standing there protesting throughout the White House. So, the main reason we went there was for the NRCA conference. Um, and it was a two-day thing, Monday and half a day Tuesday. Um, there was over 2,000
015people in attendance representing cooperatives from all over the United States. Um they discussed lobbying Congress for looser permit laws and um because right now for them to uh start a building project, they have to do over 220 pages of just environmental um approval to do any form of project. Um existing hydro hydraulic dams are under attack for set environmental reasons and they're trying to be replaced by wind and solar which are good alternatives but hydro dams are um industries that we already have in place for new data centers that are being put in one Microsoft data center will take as much power as a small city about city doubleizable wall take as much power as a Microsoft data center and right now they want to put on all these data centers but they don't have
016enough power to provide them yet So that's what they're trying to log in Congress for. Electric companies are being affected by the terrorists in meter cost to put a new meter in. It's gone up about 18% of the meters are made in Mexico with multiple other materials that are imported. Um, South Dakota could be affected by the terrorist as 60% of South Dakota's soybeans are exported to Asia, which equates to about 7 bill and with that and all other exports, we export about 7 billion a year or for every person in South Dakota, it'd be $7,500 a year and tariffs could affect that greatly. Um, we were able to speak to all the congressmen, Dusty Johnson, Mike Browns, John The heard them talk about their take on all the different terrorists. Most of them are
017approving it but they ease caution into increasing it all. Um we learned about different uh for alignment truck to go on government land it is a about 100page document they have to fill out whereas it's from a vehicle that's been in the state its whole um existence except when it came from the factory compared to someone with an ATV from Florida per se they can go online and 10 25 bucks and get an ATV permit to go on that land whereas a lineman truck trying to fix power to people has to fill out a 100page document just to go on there that has to be updated yearly. Um, we weren't able to talk one-on-one, so I wasn't able to talk to any of the congressmen, but it was interesting to hear the linemen from West
018River talked and all the other cooperatives in South Dakota, East River, and West River um, talk to different congressmen and attempt to lobby to get to pass different laws or trying to make it easier for the coopers to get stuff done and get power to people where it's needed. South Dakota's population is growing and power's needed to get to it. So that's where all that comes in and that's all of my experience. Very good. Isn't it fun to to listen some of these kids that go to Washington DC but they go for different reasons like Farm Bureau and West River and Sam went with us to impact aid and it's fun to have the kids experience those different conferences and be a part of that I think. Go ahead Zoe closely. Hi. Um, I was
019really blessed to be able to go with my family this spring to go get stocked up for this summer without with our jewelry. So, show you along with the trip. So, we've been working with generations of artists for many years. Um you'll see here the Taso family. Uh that's Bako, Sheila, and Sheile. Um there are three generations of amazing women who make incredible pieces for our family. Um we've been working with them. My my great grandma's been working with their family since she started their business. So that's the picture from this trip. So a little more information about Baka. Um, we've been working her with her since she's been 18. Um, she wasn't going to do silver smithing, but she decided to when her mom kind of showed her how to and stuff. And here's
020her here's some pieces that she's made. Um, with Baka, we get to handpick all of our pieces and then design it and then we'll send it to her. And if she doesn't like the stone the way we set it, she has full she can change it and make it how she likes it too. So, and then this one was really awesome to see him this trip. Um, this is Ark. Uh, that is my great grandma Jenny with him when he was about 18 or so. He is now in his he's 81. um which is surprising because he does not look like that but he's a very amazing guy to meet get a lot of knowledge from this guy and it's been it was really an honor to meet with him this trip. So um he
021does a lot of our um some of our bracelet and simple earrings too. So and then this is Lyall Cabin. Uh he is one of our best silver silver smmith. Uh he makes amazing silver around the stones. Um we my we've been with him for many years now. Uh he he's a really kind, caring guy. Um super unique to learn about. And this trip was really fun because I got to go go and meet meet with him for like the third time. this my first time or third time. Um in the corner you'll see some of the stones that we've designed and then those are the pieces now. And this is Eric Yazy. Um my grandpa actually met with him for the first time. Uh that was a couple years ago, but this is him
022now. Uh he does a lot of our link bracelets for us and he is amazing with all of our pieces, making them look clean and simple. Uh so that's kind of his work area. Um I was able to take some pictures of his work area too, which is really awesome. So you'll see here me picking out all the rings. This trip I was on a mission to step up our ring game. So, I was able to go through thousands of rings that all of our artists had made for us the last couple years. And then you'll see here stones getting set into um different pieces. And then here are an example of stamping tools that you'll see around your pendants and stuff. And then this piece was really fun to I was able to design
023this piece with my own stones and everything. And I, this was by Eric Yazy, the one that you just saw, the last couple of pages ago. Uh, I handpicked all the stones and I got to design it and I was very I got to actually pick it up during our trip, which was really awesome. So, I just thought I would show you guys that. Um, the stones are a really big part of us. We love handp picking our stones into our pieces. So, it's one of a kind just for us. Uh, we usually just see buckets of stones like that and then we pick them out and then my uncle or papa u makes them into cababishons like this. Um, these were some very big Roy cabons we were able to see. And then when
024we were there, we were able to design the turquoise and then they were able to put them into the bracelets. on the Navajo Nation. Um, it was it rains every day. We were in Gallup this trip, so we weren't able to go on to all the reservations because of the roads cuz it's gravel road and can't get on there when it's flooded. So, this is what this was my favorite picture that I took of it. So, that is the bank fountain and everything. Uh, I thought I would show you the four amazing people I was able to go on with this trip. I got to follow behind their footsteps and learn more and more about this business and how I can help it in the future. And right here you'll see the three bracelets that
025we've designed and how they've come out. Um they're by LA Li cabinet that you seen a couple slides ago and that is what they turned out to be. Any questions for Zoe? Do they go look I That's That's really cool. Do they go look for the rocks like out in the desert or how do they where do they get the rocks from? So, a lot of our artists own the mines now. Oh, okay. So, we're we're like the only family that's able to actually see all the stones from the mines because they're so rare now. But they're out they're out there digging them up somewhere else. Really? Yep. In the mines. Yep. So, when you say in the mines, like how deep? Um, you know, so like down in the ground. What's a mine? Like,
026so there's like every stone comes from a different vine. So, like rock like a big rock actually this evening beauty it looks like like a person so and then they're able to mine it to get the and then they pull it they chip them off or something. Yep. That's super beautiful. Zoe, thanks for sharing. Yeah, I learned as much from my kids as you. Thank you. Thanks. You kids can feel free to go if you want. We appreciate you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. You're very welcome. Thank you. All right. We'll move on to number nine. Approve staples items for disposal or sale. You'll see just a list of one item I or that I put in front of it for items for surplus. Yeah. Make a motion to approve the surplus.
027They had a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. All post. Same sign. Motion passes to approve the surplus items for sale. Um, we'll get some open enrollments. Number 10 approved 2025 25% of open enrollments. Um, we'll pass these around. I think you guys should have got them in your packets. Um, unless anybody wants to and you guys uh that little number up there tells us so we're on three or four, five, and six. So that's our sixth open enrollment for next year is what those numbers are indicating. We have a 3.5. Okay. So it's fifth. Okay. I just want to make sure. I'm sorry. Yes. 3 to 45. I think they're all from the order. And next year we're going towards just letting you approve this and you just inform
028us is what we're moving towards. Yeah. After probably July. Yep. Ste, are you looking for a motion? I'm just waiting to see if anybody wanted to see it. They were in our packets. What's that? Just in case anybody I don't um yeah I'd make a motion to approve the 256 opening moments five. Sorry. Second motion with a second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I all oppose same sign. Motion passes to approve 2025 2026 enrollments. And we move on to number 11. Approve comprehensive sped plan for 2526. One thing we um are really being I mean we have to do is um have right Mr. Sakor had some real specifics on how just processes and procedures for our work with our students on IEPs. And so you'll probably you may see more, but that's
029you got to be specific on those. And so that's one thing we're having to do. Basically what and I like to say I'm sorry. No, I'm done. Basically what we're doing is Ellen documenting that we're going to follow the law and if we didn't follow the law we would get funding. So it's just one of those things that we have to do as a as a school. Every time you get $10 from the federal government you got to spend 20 to prove that you're using it correctly. I make a motion to approve the counter that's expensive. Second it. Have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Both same sign. Motion passes to approve comprehensive sped plan for 2025 2026. With that we move on to number 12 reports. Since
030building is the first committee, I just want to share. Never mind. Budget met 55. Do you have notes or you want to talk about I don't know who should lead it. I guess I actually unfortunately did take some notes and left them in Sou Falls in my binder there. Um, but we we had a meeting and Amy, I don't know if you would more wellversed in how to describe some of it. I guess um I did send out your guys's um the preliminary budgets that um the budget committee did um recommend. Um it state statute does require us to pass a preliminary budget in May and so that's what this is. Um this is very rough cut. So you will see um quite a few changes probably come um the final budget. Um, what you'll
031see in here when it says FY25 actual, obviously that is up till April, the end of April. So, you're not going to see any numbers that are close to what was budgeted because we're all we're not through the fiscal year yet for FY25. Um, some things that haven't been determined yet are some of salaries for admin or the leadership team. So, those things haven't been solidified. Um, I haven't gotten all the data yet from the county for um, uh, growth percentages that we're hoping to have any type of idea what we're looking at for increases there. Um, let's see. I guess I um you some of the numbers in here are that are pretty accurate I would say would be like the supply line items and some of the things that admin has gone through
032as far as approving or denying um requests from staff and um coaches and teachers and whatnot for different things that have been requested. Um but um I'm trying to think of any Did you get the evaluations evaluations or is it how it's called the land valuations or she already said they're waiting for the percentages? Yeah. What did we get right after our meeting? Oh. Oh yes. Um Oh, but maybe we're not prepared to talk about this. No. So, I did send out an email to the budget committee, which I will send out to the full board. I just haven't had a chance um quite yet. There is some information that we did get from the um state um as far as property taxes go as far as valuations, but we don't have the growth percentages
033yet. So if I can that's part of the big part of my um calculation for the state aid. So what happens with the state aid calculation is it's an equalization calculation. So the state determines how much we need and with that need they back out the valuation or back out the what we get from our levies that we decide. So, and part of that calculation is the growth percentage. And that's something that we try to get from the county is a like an estimate at least. And I can't get that from the county. They keep saying they have a new computer system that they're working on getting updated. So, she hasn't been able to get that from me. So, I really hate to give any public information out on that until I can get a
034more definite type of thing. But there is some um information I can share with you guys um here shortly. But nothing nothing in stone by any means. But um does anybody have any questions? I did as far as the levies or the tax dollar or the amounts that I did put in here. I just for like capital instead because those are the levies that you do do vote on and decide. I just put in the same exact that we had for last year just as placeholders. Where do you go on technology? Huh? I'm just curious how how did you technology one? I guess are we going because we're losing staff member. Um so admin kind of talk numbers did you put in there? Yeah. I'm just curious. Um, so what I did for that, let's
035see, I guess I see the numbers. I was wondering where they came or how you Yeah, I'll tell you. Let me pull it up. You can talk about that. So, there is a little bit where we did talk about um Hope, like Hope said um we're going to talk a little bit about that um salary as far as our new um I just plugged in a number honestly through that. But the the professional services that is um Gold West's number. Okay, that's what I was curious. And I think I actually um Kyrell, I put Golden West's number in there. And I might have actually added a little added that a little bit just to make in case we had to um get extra help for anything. So, but I'm don't quote me on that. So,
036the electronic file I sent you guys. So, this is this is just the pretty one. So the electronic file you'll see on that where to the right of FY 26 budget there's little notes to it. So you'll kind of see how why and what I talked about. So like especially when you get over to capital outlay. So let's say um let's say it's one for example. See, I can't remember one off hand, but like let's say for equipment or there's nothing budgeted there. Um, okay. So, let's say girls activities, let's say we had or boys activities, there's $14,000. So, there might be on the right of that. I should have it pulled up, but there might be uniforms, um, football helmets, pads, or whatever. So, you'll see all that those notes off to the side
037on the electronic copy. If you click in that cell, you'll see it broken down. So, there'll be like a 7,000 plus 7,000 plus 2,000. So, they're all in line with whatever that is for. So if if uniforms are listed first, that's the first um number in the calculation. Does that make sense? So it's like off to the side in the notes that says football helmets. That will be the 7,000 in the first line or in the calculation. So you'll kind of see how I especially in the capital outlay when it comes to those because it's easier to because those are bigger numbers and they're bigger purchases. if that helps. One thing you'll also see in Capital Allay that is pretty accurate is the debt services. So, the redemption of principal. So, we'll only have two
038payments left in FY26 for the complex. And then the rest of those rest of that amount is um has to be um accounting practices that we have to follow is the payments for our coopers has to go to debt services in capital outlay because we lease those. It does right now too, right? What it does already, right? Right. Yeah. So you in years past it used to only be the $90,000 amount and you haven't seen that for a while because we've had the copies copiers but it used to only be 90,000 every year was the debt services but it's different now but that's why it's not just the $7500 a month or 90,000 a year is because of the lease for our machines. So that's it's kind of a debt but not really a debt
039kind of a thing. You know what I mean? But with school accounting we'd have to we have to count it as a debt. It's a debt. It's a lease program. Yeah. And if it was our my first time on the budget I think yours filled in. It's and you know we're lucky to have Amy. She's she's very detailed and what that what I sent these guys to it was a little bit more um and I should have sent it to you guys tonight. Um I just kind of forgot. My apologies, but it'll it'll be good for you when you guys do do the final budget and when I do have all the final numbers. But um it's more um to I'll compile more information on school counting too and like especially levies and how they're
040figured and where we get the numbers and I can show you how I and and how I figure out what a levy should be. So, like we used to do levies and no levies and now it's kind of more so in dollar amounts, but I can still calculate how much a dollar amount equals to a mill levy. So, however you want to do it, cuz that's going to be a big decision that you'll have to make in September. We did talk about some of those too, but yeah, cuz there's going to I mean, you'll have you'll see in the special ed how much we're spending and how much we're revenueing and and our capital outlay, too. So, you'll have to kind of keep in mind right now we're only revenueing or or we're only levying
041200,000 and capital outlay. we do levy enough over what we're spending too. So, we're going to just kind of keep those things in mind and if anybody wants to have any in-depth conversation, I will totally nerd out on you and would be happy to talk about this for hours on end. You're going to see um also for the CTE there we had to we or we didn't have to but we made a special fund for the CT building project. So it's going to be in that it's going to be in our budget and I'm going to keep it in there with all until we don't have we run out of time. So like right now we're you'll see FY23 actual you'll continue to see that until FY26 or FY25 actual time. So but there's nothing
042budgeted. Okay, I'll shut up. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. If anybody has any questions, let us know. Think we have any other else there to really go over. So, well, and we'll be after committee reports. That's going to be what you guys will have to approve. So, save yourself some time. All right, we'll go on to buildings, grounds, transportation. Um, we uh we did not need this. had had planned on it and anyways had some circumstances where things changed and so anyways in the meantime um I don't one of you wants to I went out and plant a garden in there because we did a lot of rain in there and it's wrong and I sent Bob quite a message this morning. They haven't been out to fix that yet? No, they've
043been out the roofing company and I just I did I was pretty blunt. Chris said, "Maybe you need to write something, Sally." So, I did. Uh, he said, "They're coming tomorrow." What it, but I said, "This is ridiculous. We have paid for it. It's a brand new building. We have had leaking. We're leaking in the hallways. We're leaking in PL." Oh, we're leaking in the hallway. Scary thing is we're supposed to get up to five, six inches by next Wednesday. Are you serious? I'm scared. I said, "Bottom, I want this fixed because I don't want us to move into our dry season of summer and we kind of forget about it and things kind of let go and then all of a sudden when the fall comes and Yeah. it comes down the inside of
044the walls, the tiles are all messed up. I Huh. Yeah. But um I don't know if it takes more me. I think slanted rope, but what do I know? The slanted rope is fine. It's that flat membrane piece that it must have I suppose, you know, any little le any little seam that glues, water comes in and it can run to where Yeah. run wherever. So, I just we need to keep on top of it, I think, because they've signed off, meaning it's supposed to be good and all, but we need to know there's a lot of money spent on that project. Like to know what kind of a warranty team we have on those materials or for how long? I believe it's at least for a year, but we have all that. Um, we
045do have that. I can't tell you anything off the top of my head, but we've got books and jump drives and science. even if it's only a year long, but we had documentation. It was leaking before we moved in. Before they approved it, it was leaking. Well, and um we were setting up the the conference room and I overheard Chris talking on the phone and there he had called when it was leaking when it was snowing and they were supposed to come out and they might might have and then it was dry for a while and then I don't know if they didn't or and then it started snowing. Last last November, we had one little quarter inch rain and it leaked inside the wolf one classroom and the tile staking on that outside wall,
046but these most recent rains, I mean, that's pretty pathetic when it's coming in the nice, you know, that new hallway on the interior walls. Well, if I were them, I would be embarrassed. I would be totally. And and there are some comments going out there about RCS, and I really I said, Bob, I I thought working with you was great. This is it's enough. Yeah, we'll see Monday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday supposed to rain. Noah's projecting us to get like that two on the light end up to 6 in. We had first time it rained when we moved into this building leaked. We had it fixed, then it leaked again. We had a volleyball match that we had to uh readjust how the teams played. It's just I think it's just part of being a new
047building. I don't know if anybody other I don't know if any other school districts run into issues like that on a new building, but we have that very first range here. Well, spots where by electrical, anything like that, right? I I don't know. I'm not the I'm not a construction man. I mean, when water gets in Yeah. Yeah. Very rarely does it leak where it's actually coming in. And water tends to run as down the pipe. And I, you know, I was going to go check the gymnasium after lunch today to see because we've had that leap in the gymnasium just not not too long ago. How about the doors? Those two doors on and they're leaking in the entrance of the gym. Really bad. I know. But I don't know about the I know
048years during volleyball practice it would be we'd get a you know a gully washer or something like that during practice and we'd be running to get towels. We did just have was it two years ago or was it last year we just had the seals all replaced on all the exterior I don't know the leak I'm talking about is in the middle of the gym. Yeah on the south side. They could be everywhere. We've had police all over. But do we know? Was it built right? Name of the company that did our Yes. Built, right? I think so. I know. I he'll get a phone call tonight. Yes. Just Just a sec. What? Hi. I know one of their superintendents need will get a phone call tonight. Well, yeah, we'll work through it. I mean,
049it might be better to go through Bob first, but I Bill Wright roofing will be here tomorrow inspecting a roof in the CTE again. They are going to flood the roof. This just came this afternoon, late this going to flood the roof with water as part of their testing. Rain may do it for so many. So, there will be leaks similar similar to what we have now with the rain. Okay. I'm sure to find a leak. That'll tell you if it's a driving rain thing or if it's a moisture thing that you just wet it. But I don't know. That's very that's very disappointing and you know that I mean I don't know. We've all built things that they don't work properly right away. The main thing is they they come in here and make
050it right and they stay on it. So, I guess we'll be watching that. Do you guys want to talk a little bit about the chamber of architects or building? We talked quite a bit last meeting about it. Nothing's changed other than the fact that they gave us their proposal on the they gave us their proposal on forming proposal with the dollar figure. What it would take to do so and that's number 17 about that. Yeah. I mean, so I don't know if we want to talk about that maybe later in depth, but I guess that would be the other thing for the bill. Other than that, I don't have anything to talk about myself. Um, a couple things you guys, we are, um, we're going to move the art room down to the old ad
051room and we had Lurs come in, couple young guys, and I don't know, I don't think Chris, the last he knew, he didn't have any kind of quote. But what we'd like to do, there's a sink out in the shop. She needs a sink. And we were I was trying to figure out how much it would cost to just move it across the cement wall so that the sink the pipes are all in there cuz there's a sink on the shop side. Can we just move it to the other side so that they have a sink there? That was one little project that I kind of have going. Did they say it would be doable? They thought the kid who I don't know who it was. It was a couple. It was a petty kid.
052Was it? I believe. Yeah. He thought it was, but he was going to take all his information back and do whatever they do with it. Talk about it right up a bit. I don't know. Um, he thought it'd be doable to move it. We had talked about moving it over and, you know, across and over and I said, "You move it right through the wall. We'll make it work. It's kind of in a closet, but it wouldn't matter. We could put some counters and move the closet area, some storage to another area. It'd be fine. I would I would be entertain I I would like to entertain a quote to go to where you want it. Would you want to in way?" Yeah. The door. Yeah. Okay. And here's another one um we'd really like
053and I didn't realize maybe you guys know this. Um there had been a request that we put a door between one of the small intervention rooms here into our special ed group so that our special ed staff could have a group going in there or we have an intervention group going in there. the door be open and there be supervision to separate some kids because we have some kids right now who we need our kitchen in this I don't like to say sped we're getting rid of the terms but in that area we have a kitchen right now we have a teacher teacher housed in that kitchen we have small groups happening in that kitchen we need that kitchen for life skills for a couple of our students so when I asked Chris about this
054door. He goes, "That came up during the work on the CTE project." I said, "Really?" Cuz that would have been so nice because it's breaking it through the brick wall. That's not a load bearing wall by no means for some other reason. I wouldn't think so. It's an inside wall. it might not be able to do depending on if it is or if it isn't. Does anybody know if it was ever talked about um with that with the when the company, you know, when the construction guys were here? Well, they I mean there's I I guess I don't particularly remember that, but there was those are just a couple, you know, when you talk building things, those are a couple things that have been requested of me to look into to make our school more
055conducive to the learning of our kids. From what I remember, it was never brought up since I I've only been on it for a year, you know, 10 months. So, I don't I' never remember anything being brought up. But why would that been anything to do with the CT expansion? Well, because the crew the construction company is here and so Chris I think Chris just thought that it had been brought to Pandy or they discussed it at some point, but I was out of the wood and I've been around for years now, but uh I don't particularly remember it. I'm not opposed to it. So, I would think inside the classroom that would not be a loadbearing wall. Um, anything along the hallway might but yeah, I don't think so, but just don't get your
056hopes up if they say no. You can't knock out every wall. You can't make it totally open. Um, I'm not opposed to it. But that that would be something our DHDs could look and see if it's a low grade wall, couldn't he? I mean it just take a couple minutes. He know he can look up in the tiles right now and know those were a couple days that was gonna bring up but Oh yeah, I'll make a note of that. We can discuss that again at the next committee meeting. Um that in the sake yeah but I don't um I think consensus from the committee on that s is to do it. I just was making sure it was in the I don't want to do I don't want to spend a$1,000 to save 200
057and end up putting it in a spot that's inconvenient. Yeah, that's what I mean by that. I want to make sure it's in that spot that's usable and not It is. It is. Um where does she where is the kiln? Where does she have the kiln? The kiln we had to plug in where it takes a 220. Right. So it's over on the other side shop, but there will be no kids in the shop. So that's just a teacher thing. So she So it's over on the west side of the shop and she's got some shelving we put up there. So Chris has got the rest of the shop used for his equipment, custodial equipment and then um she's got just a little bit of space, a kil and a shelf to put projects. I
058haven't budgeted that in the budget yet. But just because we don't have dollar, I it's got to come into the building before we put that in. But if she used would be using the shop at all if they would even need to be moved. But I guess for supervision reasons, it probably needs to be Yeah. classroom so there's not kids messing around. I'd rather have kids out. I don't want kids in that. I'd rather not have kids in that shot. Right now that sink is just a dirty old filthy old just a sink. So, we kind of need counter a little bit of counter space. Um, there also needs they were also we took them into the art room because there's a clay I'm going to call it clay catch in the drain system to
059keep clay from going down and so they thought they could just take that and move it or they were going to price it out. Maybe you don't want to take the old one. It's like original, isn't it? Is it? probably is. But so anyway, there's they're pilling or not pilling, they're looking into that. Yeah. All right. Well, if nothing else, guys, we better move on to curriculum, instruction, and technology. We have a lot. We met here the end of April. Um, and we'll be talking about them in 15 and 16, but we uh we're looking at restructuring some IT position things, combining some things, some some teachers, some some staff, some other people, just kind of split some stuff up. think it would be kind of helpful to maybe take some of the computer IT
060part and then maybe some of the locks, cameras, doors, like utility type stuff and that maybe off and then like as far as the infinite campus key cards, bells, things like that may be handled in the office here. Just different things like that so that with the Golden West IT services we can cover the rest in house but not just with one person. Amy was working on wages and budget things like that. We don't have any of that yet, but that's kind of what our what our idea was was like part-time tech, part-time teacher or principal or whoever that happens to be, but we just don't have that finalized or anything like that. But that's kind of what we talked about. Um, as far as to the technology part of it, um, we looked at
061two different web services, the final site and the APG. Um, considerable price difference between them. Um, we looked at different school sites built by both sides and we kind of liked the one the final site one better. I wanted kind of a longer contract, five years. Did they go for the three? No. Um, we were going to see if they would negotiate a shorter contract just until we can kind of see. We're going to really like it. But the other schools that use it really like it, but the big thing too, Final Sight talks to internet campus. Yes, does it. So there's also the one thing that you guys you guys expected of me is to find a communication tool. So these have a communication tool and it is an extra I think $1,000. Um
062but what it is is it can provide um we can roster basketball coach can go put in their kids. I could put in my teachers. We can kick something out to everybody. But what I can do is I can give out messages to everybody. I can also have a parent text me and kind of give me a personal note about their daughter. I am not I don't want the whole group to know everything about some of our personal things. But what this messenger does do, it provides for that private conversation, but nothing is deleted. So if there's ever anything that we question or something going on, we can we can go back. So it provides whole group messaging. It provides back and forth messaging. Um all part of this part of the system. And when
063we talk I think there is another place on here. Maybe I'm wrong. Or maybe we were just pushing it to No, I thought we were doing a recommendation. We are. Can I not see it? Yeah, it's on number 16. Okay. But they also um like being able to push notifications. Final site also has a deal where we can update things in real time. So if they think things can be posted and Sally can send it through or whoever it doesn't have to be Sally but they can send it like to social media to um this notification thing like you can update that all push in real time and so that is super handy. KDOA is the one is a school. So if you guys want to look at a site on your phone or whatever
064if you want to look at their site look at it. It's it's it's pretty messaging work. Does the messaging work through the website or do you have like an app a kid? So there's both. So you can use an app, but for those kids who don't have smartphones, there's a computer browser. There's a computer piece as well. So it can go either way. That was one of the big questions we had. Um the one part about and they are kind of two separate. So, you've got your your website and you've got your messaging piece, too. The website though, snow day, I can say snow day tomorrow and I can put I want that on Facebook. I want that on my web on the website. I want it on the app. It'll push a notification out
065to the app. You have to opt out of this. So, everyone in Infinite Campus is automatically in this. So it would take away we could get rid of our infinite campus messaging system we have right now which we pay money to that would help for this cost. Um it could streamline some things. I think I'm sorry the other day I kicked out a message on Infinite Campus and I found out some of you got six messages and I never got a single one. And my husband, I said, "Did you get anything?" And he said, "I got two texts, but no phone calls." Two texts and three calls and two voicemailers. I think it was like half of a message each day. I loved some of the smart parents who know me well enough to know
066I will laugh at it. Say, "Do we really, do we have school on Friday? I'm asking for a friend." So, we could talk that that's coming up on November 16th. We had a few other things, too. Um, we're working on a process for curriculum review. I think science is coming up next and ELA standards are being updated. So, we're working on just a process to keep our curriculum review cycling and so it doesn't get stale and outdated. Um, we talked a little bit about um maybe a hunter safety course, sixth grade egg. We think that would be good. So, talk about that. And then we're looking at um some options for renting or damage contracts, something like that with these new instruments with kids. Um where the school is paying that cost right now, but
067um you know this kids need to have some responsibility for some of that too. So looking at maybe a deposit or rental fees, you know, of course of maybe some kind of hardship, scholarships or things like that would probably apply, but at least some kind of contracts signed with parents or damage things like that. I mean, they have to do it with their laptops. They probably should have to do it for with the potential at the end of the year. So we're looking at kind of that, too. I think that's all I have for that one. I just look at the rentals right on the front page of the of the bills this month and I've had to deal with students wrestling with an instrument. I've dealt with kids swinging instruments over their heads and
068part of it flying across the room. Sometimes it takes a little money out of pocket to respect what I have, which is sad, but I I think we're at that point. Maybe you guys graciously helped us get going, but maybe it's time where the whole rental you'll see there's $40 to $50 a month. Maybe it's a partial. Yeah, we were not saying they probably have to cover the whole thing, but because we'll be using them for several years, but maybe 15 some kind of or maybe just a deposit. We don't really know ironed out. I I personally really like the deposit and they get it back if it gets returned in condition because we allow all of our sports teams to get jerseys and football helmets and stuff without that. Traditionally, I don't think we
069do. We they're spoiled. They don't we certain sports don't even take them home. They take them off and they get washed here and they get hung up here and they pick them up or they come and grab them and play. Wow, that's back now. I think a deposit with a recurring money back if you recurred and recondition. It's like I said, we just started kind of brainstorming it at our last meeting. So those will continue and may we decide how much that is for next year to get your book. I think it be best to find them after it happens because we charge them ahead of time. They're going to say, "I can't afford that. I'm not going to do it." Well, we that's why we talked about having some kind of other options, too.
070So, I mean, but if they have to sign a contract saying, you know, they damage it, they got paid for the first year, fifth grade, the instruments stay here for the first year and then sixth grade they take. They don't take any instrument. They w she welcome them. Kids don't realize you should practice an instrument like you practice a ball. they don't catch that. So, a lot of them just stay here. Um, we don't push them to go home, I guess, right now. Um, kids, there are some kids that will come in and take them home. Do we really have it? Probably first year they have to leave them here and then choose to go on with I've seen fifth graders take them home practice for their concerts and stuff really excited about it. Those
071kids probably take them home better this older kids. Yeah. So that's all we had for that. Do you have anything to add, Bill? Thank you and all the interesting n um we'll go on to legislation policy strategic planning. We are meeting very regularly this one trying to get these done get through it. We did get contracts all done and back and that did have a few hiccups or little suggestions from teachers on that, but we worked through that. And just so you guys are aware, under the school board's deal is I want to make sure everybody understands that um our old contracts or that we offered everybody in our new contracts abide by the same policy the school is under. So if you sign the old contract and the teacher signs the old contract which
072we did not do and we approved new policy in July it adhered by the new policy the old contract but we decided to come front with our new policy or our new contract that is a newer version of it or an updated version which is more like legally correct abides by the ones they signed abides by our old policy as of now it's binded to that but if we approve in July it goes to the new policy no matter what contract they sign is it goes off the new approved policy by the board. The teachers were a little confused by that that way because the board updates changes revises policy year round. So those contracts that's why the negotiating agreement is so important for teachers but there was just some confusion there I think with
073the new contracts but I think we got it worked out but we'll talk more about that later too. So, I was able to um so the the board or the committee has been working on those policies and they're in different um and I've been trying to um the ones that you guys have gone through. Um I did send them I have them on a shared file and I've sent them out to the staff so they can view them too. So I've gotten through the 4,000s that I was able to share. saw it cuz I we have a bunch of comments and I went and cleaned them up to make sure they're they're clean. It's taken us a long time because we're going through them all. Um there's a lot of them. Our lawyer, we talked
074we visited with Sarah a little bit. She said, you know, some schools they just go and they just blanket adopt it and then just work through them. And we decided not to go that route. We wanted to go through them all first, make them unique to wall to fit us the best that we can to take care of our teachers and our staff and our students um before we just adopted them all and said go. So if you guys I could share them with the full board because you guys are going to be looking at these in July. You might want to start looking at them now. Yeah. So the ones that you the the committee has already looked through and they've kind of like said yeah these are our recommendations that they've seen I
075could share it with the full board so you can start these won't take three readings. No we're looking to approve these in the July meeting. Yep. All of them. There's some some ch some things like that too that one of the I'm just going to say it. One of the biggest problems in schools is allowing the comment. That's how we've always done things. And that will get you into big time trouble. And I think there's a little bit of that going on like with the three readings. Okay. That is not a law. That is not we're learning. Yeah. And and so I think because that's the way it's always been. That's another expect there are just expectations here. I think um by some staff who've been here longer and I'll be honest, I don't know
076why some things have continued for as long as they have. But we've got to quit doing education like we did in the industrial age. That's where our struggle is. And some things like this are the same way. I sometimes struggle with how many policies and wording and and our attorneys said, but this is abiding by state law. It's as clean as it can be abiding by law. It can be abiding by law. And when we get it all done between our policies, our contracts, and our handbooks, it's going to be just nice, clean. Everything is going to be the same across the board. Right now, it's when you start going through stuff, it's it's just such a mess. And our old teacher contracts I want to say were at least from the 80s if not
077that's what she said. I want to say the word there's wording in there she said that was at least from there's one part that was from the 70s 70s that was out that it disappeared in the 70s and switched names or switch entities but our projects have never been updated. Yeah. Haven't been updated since. But so again it's a we're appreciate you guys. It's several we have meeting coming up. We got a couple a month anyway or one every other week or whatever for a while trying to get everything done July. Put in more time in the policy. Thank you guys. Yeah. So yeah. Um anything else on that or No, just if Amy wants to start sharing them and you guys start going through. Yeah, I sent myself a note to send them out.
078I'll share that link. And there was I when I was going through them, I found some we missed in the 30,000. So, we got we got them to our list. But what I've done and so just so you guys know and I'll send you the numbers. They're they're a lot of what have to do with like fiscally. So, I put the updates that I think that would pertain to us and I'll just show them to you and you guys can look at them and see if you agree and then we can just be easy to miss them whenever we go through them. The 3,000 and the 4,000 were and the 5,000 was pretty they're like they're okay. Anyways, that's all we had there. Okay. On to career development, scholarship, marketing. We did not meet We're
079very busy. I can just comment that I did read through some scholarship. Oh, hell yeah. I do too. And they were all It's kind of very very hard to pick because they're all great. Thank you for doing that. Last night was a great night. Last night is the reason we hammered through the year so hard is to celebrate with kids at the end. And so, thank you for going through those because there was a lot of money and such awards given out to kids last night. That was fun. This might be random, you know, pertaining to anything in the section, but wondering like how long I wasn't there, but I know how long the night can get. Has there ever been any discussion about allowing each sport to have their end of the year after
080their season like their award banquet instead of having to do all the fall, all the winter, all the spring? I think so too. Uh I we used to do it that way but um we we also separated the um academic awards and when we started when the PTA started up that was one of the big complaints that came up was athletics was getting more recognition than academics and so that's why um they chose to go to the combination of the my opinion is you can sit through a two-hour basketball game you can sit through a Last night was a great night. And so often those kids don't get the public recognition that was given last night to the band person to the to the girl who gets the scholarship who never gets anything else. So
081the football and volleyball come to the same one that this and volleyball doesn't come to. It's just there's a fall one. Okay. Still so is it just fall? Okay. I misunderstood that. Sorry. Is there another one for like golf and track? That was all last night, but their seasons are done automatically. Yeah, but they just told how they were doing and make it work. Kind of make it work. Track doesn't end until like after school is out until like August and it might kind of go on how they did last year a little bit, but All right. Well, if nothing else, keep on pushing us through it here, guys. We'll go on to 13. Approve FY26 preliminary budget. Well, because we didn't seem to have a lot of questions or Amy answered them all, I'm
082going to make a motion to approve FY26 budget. I'll second motion in a second. Any any other discussion? All in favor say I. I oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. All right. Number 14, approved prepaid propane bid. All right. Um, so I sent them out um the request for bids to all the companies that I've sent out for years and years. I got three back. Um, CHS any propane and kadoka oil. CHS was for $135 per gallon. Any propane was for $1.40 and Kdoka oil was for $157. Currently we have any was cheaper. Sorry, I didn't remember his name. It's CHX was $135. Inning was 140. cents cheaper and kadoka was $157. I think it's usually cheap. That's great. Well, our our band teacher's husband delivers it. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, I think so. They're kind
083of the local outfit, so that's a struggle for gallons. Are we contracted to 10,000 gallons? Just a thousand. 10,000. 10,000. Okay, David. Well, I can tell you in the past, I don't know that we took the cheapest kid every single time. You don't have to. Does any do do they sponsor us? Like I mean, De's always did. So, of course, you'd want to do they did they sponsor us any more than CHS does or has anybody ever I don't think we've ever asked either. Yeah. I don't know though. Don't I don't know how they've sponsored not necessarily school things but local you know maybe this isn't something I should say but we be gone with them banning for cocaine city and I noticed one of the whatever bid they gave us that one year and
084they didn't change it well it didn't go that high so they were giving us the low bid that it currently was they didn't to that, I think. Well, and if we have leftover, I know with any um if we don't use all the the gallons that we we pay, they'll let us use it into the next year, which is nice. Um they're they've always been good to work. I think we've done CHS before. I'd have to look. Couple years ago, you guys did. Yeah, I think we have. I think we used them before any. Yeah, because we've kind of gone back and forth. Um I'm pretty sure we've used CHS and um they were fine, too. So, I mean, ever since I've been here, anybody we've worked with for prepaid, it's been fine. I mean,
085billing wise. So I don't think we've ever used kodoka oils, but I think for $500 I think we I make a motion to accept any bid for dollar reporting. Have a second. Second. Hope one of you. Okay. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose same sign. Motion passes to approve prepaid propane bin from any propane $140. Was that you? But we should probably put in the mot,000 gallons for 10,000 gallons. You guys are going back and forth pointing at each other. can't figure out. Okay, we squared away there. We'll go on to 15. Um, approved Golden West managed IT services proposal. technology committee kind of went through this too when we were recommending this service. They kind of added things and changed things to fit us more. Do you have I
086didn't bring coffee. I did have so much paper. When did I give it to you Sally? Sorry. I know. I thought it and then I start traveling at an updated price. There it is. Okay. So, um, Golden West, um, it will be $2,695 a month for the managed services with I, um, Golden West. It was about $1,000 more. Um, for the original proposal, we kind of talked with um, them and kind of got that down. There is a one-time setup fee of the same amount. And so um we need if you want we can their approval for that and then also that website proposal. That's the next one. Amy Oh, they're the same. No, they're not. No, that's this is just the IT services. The gold one. He came and talked to us. You're right.
087So um and it came as a recommendation. What I've tried to do is committees you guys are supposed to kick out recommendations to the full board and that is what we're we're trying to updated package contract from last 26.95. Yeah. I'll make a motion. Motion to approve Golden West management IT services proposal for the fee that was Amy has on her paper or listed. I don't know. 26.95 a month. Perfect. So it'd be 26.95 per month with a onetime setup fee of 26.95. Yes, that's what I will make a motion. Thank you. A motion. We got a second. Second. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. I. All those same sign. Motion passes to the Golden West managed IT services proposal for $26.95 a month with $26.95 setup fee as well. Okay. Going to
088go on to number 17. Approve Chamberlain Architects powerhouse analysis. I am sorry. Approve it website management company approval. Committee is recommending that we go with the final site. I do have pricing here. Um the proposal they sent to us and Mrs. Meyers and I have visited with these guys several times. um their one time and it is quite a bit cheaper than um the apt to ge that we had looked into. Their one set for us one time implement cost is 3500 and this is 5 years. They could do a three-year, but it was going to cost quite a bit more. But the 3500 is just a setup fee. That's a setup. And then the annual subscription depending on what we want. So if we want the website hosting, so that'd be for the website.
089They keep it up. You'd have one person here. Um, but the cool thing too is it'll feed off all our Google calendars we already have in place. And then we'll set it up saying this is how we want our calendars to look, but it will feed it all. Another thing Mrs. Myers and I would like it to do, you click on a teacher's name. It would maybe push them to plan book and then we're going to ask the teachers to um write out their plan book program, which is their lesson plans. Then it's going to link out to the assignments on Google Classroom. We don't want a bunch of teacher pages and a bunch of stuff. Here's my goal. We live in way too fast of a world. If I can help slow it down,
090I know you think I'm going too fast. Most time is Sephora, but they can kind of slow down life and slim down all the stuff, but this will it's still with it celebrates kids. There's lots of pictures. That's what I want. I want this website to show what Wall Eagles are all about. You want people actually use the website? Yes. And I want people out there because right now people are telling me, Sally, we looked at your website and we just they then they have all these questions and they're wanting to know about us. We're not getting it out there. So anyway, this annual fee is the website hosting is 2,000. the mobile app and a two-way chat and teacher communication. That tool is 2,000. Um, and then there's $1,000 XR Enterprise, which it all
091works together. I don't know exactly. So, it's 5,000 a year. So, you're saying it's 5,000 a year for um for five years? Yeah. And that would include the the setup fee that would also include the setup fee is 35 for one time. Okay. So that's separate then. Yeah. So should be included which is Yes. But you're also saying we're going to save money somewhere else means it's taking place of something a little bit infinite campus. It's not infinite campus not a lot. But that's why we were able to also put down that Golden West because um we had Samra go through it with us and we did have her look at all the bulleted items that Golden West was going to provide. And I said, "Sam, you've told us a lot that the state of
092South Dakota, who runs our K12 system, can do a lot of these things." So she went through and said, "You need Golden West to do this. Make sure Golden West does this." And so then we went back to Eric at Golden West and said, "Here's what we really think we need. Um, let's for sure put this in." And like he said, "Hey, if things if we need to change things, we can change things." But so anyway, with that input, we got that down, those services down $1,000 down. Right. Huh? Wasn't about thousands cheaper, too, right? And I forget what you say in the campuses, Amy. What's it about messaging? We don't message very much. I do snow days. I feel like I'm wasting that. It was like 600 bucks a year or something. So, it's
093not a lot, but and we had, just so you guys know, I don't know what matters much, but the pricing for what we got from the apt was almost double. So, it was 5775 for the setup fee and then 9,800. And we didn't like their site as well. Well, that's enough explanation for me. I'll make a motion to approve you guys recommendation on the final final site for the dollar figure around 3500 setup and 5,000 annual. Yeah. Part of this you guys, I don't know if this is necessary to say, but I believe in being transparent. If we go to down to number 24. So, you can see where we've got a combined position of a full-time tech coordinator and K12 assistant principal. You guys, Mrs. Myers has been invaluable this year. After she came
094back from her maternity leave, she dove in. And I tell you what, between taking care of long-term sucks and helping with discipline and she does so many little things I don't even know about to keep things going smoother. I want her to continue some of those things. So, I want some of the tech services um if we're able to. I don't want her having to stand behind a computer all day long. Can I pause you for a sec? I will second Tyrell's motion. Well, now you ask my discussion. We're going to do some discussing probably, but um All right, we've got a motion. We've got a second. Any other discussion? None. All in favor say I. I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion passes to approve IT website management company approved. Um, okay. With that,
095we'll move on to number 17. Approve. Chamber architects powerhouse analysis proposal. Anybody any questions on what this is offering us? Just them saying they're going to go look at it and this is what's going to cost. Right. Basically, they're going to give us together a price for what they think it would fix it. The building committee is still going to get together and kind of give them a rough idea on what we'd like the building to be when it is. So that way when they do do this, they have an idea of what we won't wear and how we want what. So any suggestions of course speak now but that's what that's basically what it's saying. If if we're trying to look at what it would cost to remedy that or build something new we
096have to give some ideas of what would make what would make people happy there. So um you know that includes that would include security that would include movement stuff who knows what up to code everything. Yeah. Well, for the for them to give us an idea of what that would cost, it's going to cost us seven, what was that? $17,400. The bitty would it would give them ideas of, hey, this this would mean taken off the building. This would mean move to here. We would want the, you know, stairs taken out or who knows what, but that would all be part of the process. And um, you know, probably know something about cost by August or something like that. I think actually um June June they're going to do this in June. So by the
097July meeting we would have oh supposedly they said June they' have it done estimated schedule of August. Oh now they changed it. Well they changed one of us is one of us is incorrect but we're not if it's in the contract. Yeah some reason he said he had room in June to do it. So I think originally they did say that. Um, I don't know what happened, but I think from us, we we recommend that that this is $17,400 worth spending here because we can't have an honest discussion with anybody without knowing this. And so, and and we have no idea what actually needs to be done. I mean, they might go in there and say, "Ah, structure, the structure is not even feasible." And then you would find, you know, I will say this,
098uh, they don't see any structural problems with the foundations of that building because they're not bringing in a structural engineer um, for that part unless they need to, which tells me just by chamberling blocking the building. They've said it's it's it's got a solid foundation, but if they see something, both they'll come to us and probably ask for more money to bring in one if they see something. Y and that and that would be extra, I would say. I believe Brad his instructional engineer was when they did fill up. Yeah. Okay. I didn't know if they brought in somebody outside the but what they're going to bring us guys a square foot estimate like $150 a square compared to what a new building you they also mentioned that he you he you'll give us what
099a new building would roughly cost to replace it. I remember him in the meeting mentioning we'll give you like a $380 for new per square to replace this and this is only be 150 or whatever it was. If you look at five on that second page I think it reverts to what we're just talking about. These these are the guys to you know our in our opinion work with. I mean they're on contract with Rapid City Schools. Yeah. So you picture a lot of different buildings, a growing population and a lot of buildings that are pretty old and they work on a they work on a plan with them to say this is what needs fixed this year, what needs fixed that year. Um they went in and you know I think Terry shared with
100us they they completely cleaned the house at Philip Motor and made that look awesome. Um they specialize in fixing things and making them look good. And I think they're doing it right now. They're at the city. They're slowly working on it. So they're like in, you know, their whatever you want to call it 10 or something and they know exactly. Yeah. They're This isn't new to them. No. So make a motion to approve the chamber analysis proposal to 17,400. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion passes to approve chamber architects powerhouse analysis proposal. All right, moving right through to number uh number 18. Open um coach 57 passenger bus field bids right here. We'll find out. right? Yes, it's very
101safe for service self service. Looks like we've got one midback guys and got a used Freightlininer executive coach 57 passenger bus. um with a bid price total bid price of $343,625. That includes a a grill guard installed on the on the bus. That's We haven't yet that same event being you were acceptable is when they would deliver that. Do you know the chance? I mean they should probably want to know delivery after July 1st is what it says. Okay. We discussed it with Travis that we'd want it on the 2526 budget. So So just give me a call and we'll send a purchase agreement. Mark told that you're going to be ready for it. And that was 343 625, right? Yes. It says coming in here to 2025. Oh, see you have no other bids
102on that thing. You pay it. I did have one other company reach out for information for the bid information that I sent it to. Yeah. No, I'm still looking. But I think am I missing something here? What's the miles? Is it brand new or is it used to use? So, where's No, we don't have the exact mileage until they get it back. It's on a lease program with Dakota State University. Okay. But if I remember right, it wasn't what was the approximate time. He said 15 to 18 max. Okay. That's I just for some reason could not remember. You say they're leasing it. Okay. State University. That's what they do is they lease performing these buses and they, you know, whatever activities and then they just roll them back. Um, I think the 51 passenger
103they had available was 12,000 miles. It must be somewhere in that mid team when they turn them back and get a new one. And um, which you know, like here's my opinion. I've been in the car business for over 20 years. Everybody's like, "Well, it's used. Why we want to buy a used one?" The price of a new one and the mileage on this one, it would be $2 a mile is what we're saving off of this cost of this bus slash more than that because the price we'd gotten did not include the grill guard. $4,600 installed in this grill guard. The bumper alone on that bus is $4,000. Excuse me. The init just the bumper is $4,000. The hood is 8,000. The air to air unit, the AC condenser, that's all going to be
104taken out with the deer. Obviously, you're going to be looking at $20,000. $4,600. I have a question on this. So, we have a 57 passenger bus. Does this bus go I mean, how many kids do you do you have to take on it? You know what I mean? I don't know what I'm trying to say. Our other buses take how many kids? 47 31. So if if it's under 30 kids, are they taking the other bus or are they always just going to be taking this bus because it's Spain? That depends on where they go probably. I don't think well they don't go to I mean I wouldn't for 20 kids. I don't think we should take this bus to New. No, we've got another bus that we can or even even the two white
105buses could take 25 kids. I was going to say you bring up new price. If anybody's complain about this, I'm having troubles gutting the price in general, guys. Yeah. For our school's expenses. I've just I've been thinking about a lot lately and being It's just a lot of money for a bus. It's a really nice bus. It's a good It's a good price for a bus. But yeah, I just absolutely struggle. I'm busy and why we I mean I I understand that the number like I get the 57 maybe we have all these track kits that need to go. I have and this is just my personal opinion. I am struggling with the fact that we don't cover that many violence. We don't we have four away football games a year, maybe five. I mean,
106I get the storage thing and everything, but this is a lot a lot of money for a bus or extracurricular extracurricular things for nicer accommodations. And I I I went so we were in Gillette here two weeks ago and there was a bus that rolled in there and it was a a yellow bus. I mean, it was nicer. They had seat belts, but those kids, they have a traveling welding team. There are 20 kids that go on it. Uh, but it was a 31 or 30 whatever passenger. They have all their packout things, all of their welding equipment, all of their things. They were from uh down in Texas and they go to six welding counts a year all over the state or all over the country. And I visited with that guy for a
107long time at that welding competition. And I asked him, I just said, "Just curious, like, have you guys ever considered getting, you know, one of these coach buses, you know, whatever." And he said, "No." He's like, "You live in a town of 14,000 people." And he's like, "These are high school kids and they they learn to take care of what they got. Um, they do cover a lot of miles. Seat belts are important, but I am just struggling with this amount of money for for no more than it's going to be going. I guess is I mean I'm not necessarily 100% opposed to it. I'm just voicing my concern or my struggles with this because it is a big chunk change. So this would be the price no matter the mileage change from now until
108then. Or would that be prrated? It might be a couple hundred or it's not going to change. It's not going to change. Yeah. And then also drivers and the drive who's going to go and bust those kids this church school and they go to church school or like go and van deals that I just 47 passenger. But the air brake system on this thing you do have to realize that's a it's a it's a factor. It's a whole separate endorsement. We have two people that can drive it, right? Right now. Yeah. Mr. Jules has an air brake endorsement. Who? Gerald does. Gerald does. Okay. Yeah. But he doesn't. And I've already talked to him and he said he would drive this bus like Monday. I don't know. Monday. Monday. My track team's having to take
109full buses because I got to have Chris here and it's a it's a it's a track meet. It's in Chamberlain. We haven't had track meets. They're cancelling tomorrow's conference. I said, "I don't care if you go, but Chris can't go with you." And so, it's going to mean a lot of smaller vehicles. Um, coaches can drive those, right? Or the But the point is we do have to have a co person willing to go. So then you've got cabin time, branded time, people. It's tough to find. I'm trying to get some training. I've had guys call me and say I'm interested in thriving whether or not they'll be able to when we need them is you know but um I am trying to get better more drivers for buses just overall and we discussed having
110CDL classes with our Cent expansion right tech still on board with that Well, I think you can get something way less expensive than what schools can get better things if you just do the right talking versus even different entities. And so, yes, what I'm trying to do is get that get them to come do some work. I've got two or three people who are willing to do it who have expressed interest. I said I would I got to get involved. So, what's the pecking order of who gets to use this fancy bus if that's the route we go? We have, you know, similar numbers in certain sports. So, my concern is that, you know, the football team and the basketball team is going to be like, "No, it's our bus." And then we're going to
111have to not necessarily fight over who gets it, but like who's the decide or what's the deciding factor on that? And basketball's at complete different years or different times of the year. Sure. Yeah. But there are other sports going on. So probably um it's probably headcount more than likely. Is it Chris and I having the conversation? what bus is available, who is able to drive, and that's how we make our decisions. It still comes down to my question. It's just the dollar figure, guys. We're a school of 200 kids, a town people. Budgets are getting tighter. Impact aid is not going up. And it's just struggling me sitting here thinking about paying 340 some old change for a bus when you could do the same job for half that. I've been thinking about it a
112lot last few weeks. I'm really struggling with you guys. And I I visit with other people in the community. Some say, "Yeah, we we need the bus. It'd be awesome." Others say that's a financial that that's a big financially financial undertaking for a school district your size for as much traveling as we do. We do do some distant traveling. We will lease a charter bus if it's really far if the parents want to usually, but other than that, we don't go far enough. Harding County is a trip, but for football, I'm thinking football, but I've talked to people against this thing. I really have. And we'll be going to Mitchell twice this year. Um, you want to spend $10,000 each time to run a charter bus? Well, and Mitchell's three hours on the interstate. I
113don't know. I just can't ride three hours on the interstate in a yellow bus. Got bigger have to take two buses because it's both double. I find it a little bit funny. I like I guess, you know, we sit and, you know, you look at classified pay and we look at, oh, I don't know if we can do this or we can do that. And then and then, you know, $343,000 plus. Absolutely. I I struggle with that. And like the old school, we're talking about spending a bunch of money on that. And I look at the other hundred 200 we can save or not even get a new bus. We don't even actually we don't even need a new bus right now. We don't have to do it. This was a suggestion brought to us.
114So like then we look at the new old school project or the new addition project thinking how much Yeah. Yeah. I mean we've got a 31 passenger bus that's got enough issues that it it it needs replacing. I mean, I don't I don't think there's any doubt that it's time for it to go, but I just I'm telling you where my mind goes because I can see both sides to this. Like, it's not cut and dry, but you know, you sit there and we talk about pay or we can't pay more. We can't Is that not a little bit of a slap in the face, then turn around and buy a $343,000 bus? We also look at the classes coming up. I mean, we're going to have to add positions. We know we are at
115least pair of physicians, probably at least two, you know, that we haven't confirmed yet. But I mean, we're looking at adding positions and struggling. I would rather see us get the pairs that we need in our school and pay our staff and not struggle with that so bad than $343,000 for a bus so that the kids have cushy seats to residential. or next time we turn around budgets come next year and we have proposal of raising levies on on the taxpayers in this time who wants to pay more for their t house taxes and you're going to hear about it every time we I don't know I I'm struggling we talked about that too many times kids are hard on things so then you know it comes with some bells and whistles what if those
116get broke who's responsible for that or who's where does that money come out of you know. Yeah. I mean I I think our you throw them in the old bus with no air conditioning getting exhausted. A priority for me on a new bus would be some form of air conditioning and some seat belts for safety reasons. Um I in my mind I don't I don't need to go this far. I haven't from the beginning. Um, but I mean to me those are priorities in a bus in 2025 when we travel. But yeah, I don't know. 57 57 passengers. I just I don't guys. But I'd love to know everybody's thoughts and then I'm here to hash it out. So I want to hear it all. Well, is that 10,000 an actual not,000? You said 10,000
117every time we use a It's 5,000 every time we get a bus from the court bus. 5,000. Okay. That's only if we But the school doesn't pay that. That's usually parents, isn't it? And I don't know why we would charter a bus. That's only when we go to state. Well, my own thinking was it takes a lot of 10,000 to get the 300 some thousand. You know what I mean? So I like you could do that a lot of times is my but I would rather do that. I heard the same I heard this that we keep the bus for a long time. In this day and age I look at trading more often than keeping a bus for longer because no one knows how to fix no one knows or can fix things anymore
118without sending them to a dealership. Yeah. So like a 5 to 10 year old bus is 5 to 8y old bus is getting to the point where I think we need to be trading them more closer to that 5 to8 rather than keeping them for 15 and if you buy a little more affordable bus they're easier to roll because there's less money out there and they're depreciate well the dollar value per mile. Yes. And and if you go back to our committee meeting, um our initial thing that that I thought or think we thought was that we go to gas, we trademarking it. Every 120,000 miles the bus is new. We don't worry about jelling. Now we go to this. This is a whole another way of looking at the bus, right? Because yeah, we're
119going to depreciate this thing over many, many years explosively. Let's see how that happens. Um, it's not shiny in 15 years and are we going to want to fix it and send it to Yankton? I don't know. Um, but that was originally my idea. It's gasoline. Trade more trade more often. Um, is if we get rid of the bus barn, I'm not in favor of building a bus barn over here. That money needs to build some somewhere else. So, that's why I was thinking leaning more towards that too. But it will have less power. It might a gas bus. The biggest the biggest bus you can get in a gas motor is a 34. That's the biggest one you can get with a gas engine. I didn't know that. And that's why we were talking
120about replacing when in the beginning of this conversation to give Ridge a little backing on that. We were talking about replacing the 315 or 30 whatever passenger bus. So, and I guess I should stand correct. I mean, we need a bus that's bigger probably than 34 passengers. And so if that means we have to go to D. So I'm sorry I didn't understand that you forget. There's still it was like 240, right? Like there was still about 100,000 more than gas at that size. Yeah, but it's 100,000 less than what we're looking at here. And yeah, I guess I'm hearing more cons than pro sports. Well, in my mind, I'm not I've said I make a motion we accept for bus lines bid on this motor home or motor bus. I call it a coach.
121That's what they listed as an M2 coach. Okay, we got a motion. Do we have a second? Bill, can you hear us? I can hear you. Got a motion to approve the bid for the coach 57 passenger bus. Do we have a second? Anybody here? Well, sounds like uh with no second motion or motion fails for lack of a second. All right, that we move on to number 19. School board member appointment discussion. It's just Yes, sir. If it Do we need a motion to disapprove or do we have to not take the bid? I don't think no. I'm just asking just failed. As far as I don't have a second, there all right. Uh, school board member appointment discussion. Um I don't know how to discuss this I guess but um I did put
122out I published in the paper because we do um so for the FY26 or the 2025 um year we only had um one candidate for the two open spots. So we had someone needed you guys needed to appoint. So um I did hear of two people that might have been interested. So, we did reach out to Wade Pogveny who did our board training and he recommended so Sally and I did and he recommended since there are there were a couple people that were interested in that position to be appointed to publish in the paper um for anybody who wants to be appointed to um send a letter of interest to the schoolboard president. So, I did publish that and those letters are due to Ridge by May 20th. Um, so I just wanted to let
123you guys know. So, by the next school board meeting in June, you'll need to um I haven't gotten anything yet. And if we don't receive any letters, we'll still you'll still need to someone. But that gives the public more soul than the two people that have expressed interest to anybody on the board already. Well, it was in the paper already profit, I believe, right? You just submit like a letter of interest or just and then what you guys could do is you guys can decide how you want to proceed. So, do you want to interview the person? How that's completely up to you. Do you guys just want to read the letters and then make a decision at the Zoom meeting? Is this So, the two people that already have have to do this as
124well or is this additional? Yeah, it's up to you guys. I would assume everybody who are interested should have to interview with us. If they're that interested, why didn't they fill out a petition like the rest of us did and try to get elected? I mean, could have filled out a petition. Nobody else is running. Congratulations, you won. Instead, they didn't go through the wickets, so now they're just going to try and jump on. Like, I don't really I don't really think that's just we've kind of decided I think that we need to interview them. So, there is some um discussion portion. Um I we do potentially have a special board meeting at the end of this month. So um that might be a time that that you could do that too and then um
125appoint them or make a decision in the June board meeting. It's kind of up to you because then they would their first meeting would be in July. When when are those appointments due? I looked at in the paper and didn't pay attention. May 20th or well the the letters are due to you by the 20th of this month of May. Can they just drop it off at the school or or they can mail it to our they're due to the school and it was attention to bridge. So I wouldn't open them. They'd be given the bridge um for him to open. Right. Um, so if those people that were interested that you talked to, the board members that you guys had interest or that you guys talked to, make sure to remind them that that
126was and if you want on that um special board meeting, we can add time to have Yeah. Okay. to remind whoever you talk to, it's only a one year. Yes. And that and it is in um that was in the um advertisement that was published. It is a one-year term because then they'll then they'll run for a two-year term. Yeah. Because it is a cycle then then they'll get on the same cycle as I hope would be as Yeah. Um Okay. Yeah. Anybody have any questions on that? That ran for only a week. So that was a pretty quick one. I wanted to make sure the public was aware. You got three phone calls on it. You did really all old people. Older. Older. We don't we don't screw it. We don't And that is
127just that's not how we've not how we have worked in the past. So that's probably why you move. But that's that I think that's a a fair way to do it. I said older people than myself. All right. Yeah. Any other discussion about that? Um go forward and think we get the gist of it. Um elementary principal report. Okay. May 27th, we're going to have a title one meeting at 5:30 p.m. I plan to have it in here, but if you guys have another meeting, we can find another room to do that. I will also be emailing a Zoom link out for that. Usually, we have meetings here on the school. Doesn't matter when. We don't have anybody show up except for staff people. So, hopefully we could get some more interest during this call.
128the elementary uh test scores are all in and I hope that next week uh we'll be printing the results off and sending them home and I think we're going to I talked to Mrs. Sandal and we talk about printing off all of them and sending them home next week with the students or in the mail. I don't remember how we're going to do that. the uh the proficiency rates in elementary third grade is 50% of the third graders are proficient in the state is at 45% fourth grade is 56% for reading and the state is 49% fifth grade 60% of our students proficient then the state has 60% of our students in fifth grade are proficient in reading and language arts and Um, the state is 50%. Math is pretty much the same way. Third
129grade is 64% proficient versus 51%. Fourth grade is 72% versus 49%. Fifth grade 60% versus 41%. And then in science, the fifth grade in wall was 40% and the state was 41%. But um it's nice that our students are above the state average in both both the English language arts and math, but we aren't at 100%. So got a lot of work to do. So kindergarten graduation graduation will be held on Tuesday the 20th at 6:00 p.m. in the gym. That's the end of my report. Question. Do we have a number on the or a rough number on the kindergarten class for next year? 28 is I think 28. Thank you, Chuck. Um, all right. On to number 21, businessman. Um, I sent you guys uh requests about a special board meeting on May 28th
130at 6:00 p.m. Um, we um have quite a bit to go over still for contracts for um admin or will some of our leadership team And then also now the um administ or the appointment for the school board. Is that an okay time or a date or I'm going to try to come back back for that from Sou Falls? Um works for me. I mean I'll have to make it happen. But you guys think Okay. Um it'll be a short agenda because a lot of it will be executive session because it'll be talking about I want a contract. I do need um so what we'll do what we'll do is so those contracts like you guys know like the teachers the classifi everybody's contracts are new. Um, we'll work on those because, um, I'll update
131them and send them out in like a mini board packet kind of just like we've done with the other ones, but I don't think we've even really had a chance to look at them. So, they'll be pretty it might be a night or two before the board. So, don't be surprised if you don't get a lot of time, but it's nothing earthshattering, I don't think, either. Um, and then anything else on that, Sally, you want to add on on transfer? No, I just think that Amy, we knew tonight was going to be a long meeting and she asked if I'd be willing if we could leave the advent contracts to the 28th and I said yes. I think that's all right because we get about run too late and we have we have busy with
132graduation and words banquet and so I appreciate you guys. I think um we have a lot and we still have a lot to discuss. So, okay. So, I appreciate you guys making time for that extra meeting on the 28th. Um, and just the last thing I have is the staff appreciation dinner on or supper at May 20th at 5:30 at the golf course. Um, please if you can, you're more than welcome to attend. Bring your um, significant others. Um, please let us know if you can. Um, we will be celebrating Carolyn because she's been on the school board for a long time and we want to w or celebrate her out. Um, so please come and say good I mean she'll be here for another month but still and we'll see her all the time
133but um celebrate her and thank her for all her time as well as our we have three retirees for staff members. So please come and then just celebrate our staff. So we have Mr. Stroshine graduating Saturday as well. going to celebrate a little bit. We're going to celebrate teacher of the year, support staff of the year. Yeah, usually we do a graduation depending on if you know who comes where, but yeah, just nice night. So that'll be at the golf course, but I think that's all I have. So, thanks Amy. Y you're up. Um just a little bit mixture here. I just want to thank there were some of you that maybe knew about it. Well, some of you were in the video for the recognition last night. I struggle with those things simply because
134the success of this place is about all of us and no particular person. And so I give you guys a lot of credit and oh Mr. Sakura and Amy and Becca and Kelly and just our staff. Um, we have some good things going. I will not let any negativity pull us down. We don't go there. Um, so I know there are complaints, but I won't live in that world. Thank you for the recognition. Track was cancelled for tomorrow. That means middle school track is over for the year. Golf is cancelled tomorrow. supposed to go like 67. Yeah. And I'm trying to think, was that regions tomorrow? No conference. Okay. Conference track. So anyway, um I we're going to have something a little fun next week. Last day of school on the 22nd, we have a
135I want to call it a sunset, but I think it's called a twilight. Track meet starts at 2 o'clock and they run under the lights. I used to run at the hearing track meet when I was in high school and we ran under the lights on most of our long um days and so I think it's becoming a huge track or a big track meet because we have been so short on track meets because of the wonderful weather. So, and I love the rain. Final exams. Well, no, let's back up. I have 26 seniors ready to graduate. We walked through and God help us, we got two more days to not burn down the building. Um, I tell you what, I love that bunch and it's funny, they are not a formal bunch and the
136nerves show it. The nerves and the giddiness and the chit cchaty stuff and it's a nerve thing and so it's fun to watch them excited and I'm excited for them. So, um, we got they are bringing they've got good music going. They've got speakers. So, graduation, I invite everybody. Um, Ridge and Hope are going to help us hand out diplomas. I also have was requested last night by one of our seniors to have the Navy. Sorry. I'm just so excited for some of our kids. He came to me and said, "Can the Navy recruiter give me my diploma?" I'm just excited. He's traveling. Yes. He's excited. So, it's really exciting to to have these kids excited. Um, graduation, final exams. You guys, I really am a believer in what we have put together. Every one
137of my classes are required to do a graded review because I feel everybody needs to review what we've done for the semester and then based on their attendance and their grades over the whole semester determines if they have to take a final exam over that review. But so I want every kid to have to go through the review. But um those final exams are going to be the 20th starting at 2 o'clock. So, this will be an event. Again, if the kids aren't don't have to take a final, they don't have to be here 9 through 12. Well, the the 12th graders will be done, but all day the 21st 21st, I've also got the National Guard coming in and doing an activity with our middle school kids because I'm not going to let them
138take off. Um, so they're in reg not regular classes. They follow the the schedule like the finals, but um they've got a few extra activities. So, they're coming in, National Guard's coming in to do some fun things with them outside. We will end the week on the 2, end our year on the 22nd at noon. And um there were two finals that morning. I'm pushing them pushing these guys to the end. Kids will check out as they take finals and then we'll have that track meet afterwards. The 23rd we have professional development and I am we are kicking out a few things that we're going to have our teachers do through the summer. Some professional development. I had um Heather Shriber and Ashley Kier go to a leadership training this year and they brought some
139ideas. So, they're leading a book study um for our entire staff and I'm going to we're going to do some paying and everybody's going to do it including the transportation director all the way to the cooks to the parents. Um that's a culture building thing. Everyone is involved with these kids at a K12. Everybody does this work. So, I'm excited about where that could go. We did like I said we I got a committee last together last night and chose teacher of the year and support staff. We will announce those. I I brought a support staff is new. We have too many good people here to just have a teacher of the year. I am expecting the teacher of the year to um apply for to go to do the application for the state teacher
140of the year. I don't know if we've ever done that a wall, but I did that and that's what I'm expecting them to do. Dr. Graves at the state really pushed that out to us last week. We're letting school out Friday at noon and I'm letting teachers go at um 12 15 and and the IC trucks out front. And the icy truck is out front that day. Yes. Huh? at 11. Yes. Prices are from5 to7. 23rd we're going to that's our PD when um like I said we're having a short meeting that day but teachers can work. Then we're going to have a potluck lunch and I'm let teachers go at 12:30 for the year but they have to be signed out then because I know not everything is done yet by June 5th. Um,
141thank to Kelly. All our testing went well. I don't I'm not giving you results. We had some good some good pieces in our middle school. I'm not about a test score right now. Um, I do want some of our academics to improve. And here's what we notice. Our dual credit grades are very high. Our tests aren't. So, our tests right now are different are expecting different things than what our dual credits are expecting. They're not maybe teaching to the sta the standards. We're also doing a lot. What I've also noticed is a bunch of us will take a dual credit class and we'll sit here and kind of work together. So, we can do real good that way, but then when it's time for an individual test, we struggle with some things. However, I'm going
142to say the math contest at school of minds um out of some of those contests had 30 40 kids. We had a lot of kids in the top 15. Um and a lot like out of the placing by a point, you know, they got seventh, eighth, ninth, 10th, right in there. Quite a few of them. So, I was excited to see some of that. I think our kids are happy. Um, talent show went very well the other night. Um, Mrs. May started that. That's going to be something we keep going with. Any questions for me? It seems like there's so much going on even though we have two weeks left. A lot of our end of the year reports are June 13th. You guys, I am going to be done. I'm going to go to
143Wild West. That's wild on. It's the leadership thing up in Deadwood 11th, 12th, 13th of June. And then I am going to Melissa. But you guys, I'm taking off till after the poll. Not going not going anywhere. Going to go clean my house. Good. Thank you. So ask a question about that. If we have committee meetings, will you be present? I'll be here anytime something happens. Okay. Just wondering. But yes, you can plan anything and well, unless I'm like fully out of the area, but no. Yeah, that's a good question. I don't mind coming over, but I'm going to go garden for a while. Like I said, maybe I should bring my garden over the whole. Sorry. Let's hope it doesn't get um All right. Thank Thank you very much. [Music] I would make a
144motion that we enter executive session according to South Dakota by law 1-25-2 sections 1 and 4. Second. Have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I oppos same sign. Now entered executive session. It's a nice watch. One's per pound.