001plus. Oh, okay. Paid. And we've also paid for another 2,225. So, we've done 10,225 gallons of propane. And it wasn't easy. So, I'd like to turn our thermostat down a little bit. Don't leave the door open. That's just at the powerhouse. How much the bus barn? Oh, and the bus bar. Yes. Did you look into that or is there two separate days? No, there they are. There's just the tanks that kind of work together. So, we usually we usually decide as a board how much you want me to go and get um quotes for. You know, that's something I know this is off topic a little bit, but that's something we need to take take into consideration too at the powerhouse is how inefficient I mean what you're going to have to do to it
002to bring it up to the efficiency level of new construction, you know, fairly new construction also. So, can we potentially wait on this one until we know more on the analysis? Um, are you just This would just be for next year. I don't foresee us not having it open next year. We don't have to spend it. Oh, yeah. We do. I suppose you're going to be paying for it. to what if you don't use I I don't think we're gonna be building we're not gonna buy over gall next year we're gonna use I don't think we're gonna be building next the only thing I would really like to look into is shutting the heat off of the bus fund I think it's a big waste well does it keep our bus sit outside lot of
003places lot of bus sit outside if this new bus can't sit in a you know in a cold room I don't know how you I don't know do they do much it I don't know if they How many cup? I think he has it at like 40, but I don't know. I'm just saying if we're complaining about heating bills, that's something. But there is water. There is water in that. True. You can blow it out. Well, other than the county cup or the food pantry, the only reason I could But I wonder if they have a separate um heater in there. I'm not sure. Like like a um ceiling heat. Um, and I know like he they did have like our um pool pad over there, but that's going to be over here now. That's
004going to be a lot of stuff and was getting moved. So, I don't know. Yeah, let's we can bring it up at the um building committee meeting menu too. We're discussing this and everybody always come I've heard this for years. Heating bill over there. I'd just be curious as to how much if 10% of that goes to heating our busy warm or 20%. Cuz every time you open those big doors and if it's a little resinor heater up in the corner, it's not like radiating. It's just that thing has to work off you back to 40 and it's pulled out. So we're just approving a number for you to go out to bid for, right? Yeah. Just the number of gallons and then you thousand sounds. I'd make a motion to get bids or maybe
005don't need a motion, maybe just not on the consensus. Yeah, I could you can just um give me a number and I'll go to bid and then you are or RFP actually and then you guys would approve it. So 10,000 you think? Yeah, concession sounds good to me. I think we've got uh is that consensus? Yep. Okay. All right. we get consensus to go out to bid for 10,000 gallons of propane. Um, okay. With that, we'll move on to number 20, elementary principal report. Okay. Monday, we're having our spring concerts. I sent uh the notice has been on Facebook and I sent it out through Remind and email. It begins at 6 PM. uh the information I sent out or the information that went out says when students and musicians and whoever could be at
006school. Um can I ask you a question real quick? Yes. And that I noticed how when the boys went to state or something we got a text message um wishing them luck. Is there any way you get to do that with the spring concert like Bet I can I can kick it out with saying it's tonight at this time. Whatever. Whatever. Is that possible? Just a reminder. That's always okay. That's the like the snow day announcements is I just saw that when the state basketball I thought was kind of handy for events on some when the whole school is involved and I'm saying like especially that one when a lot of people are trouble. Did you guys also hear about the testing? Uh okay, good. I just want to make sure that it is that
007I'm hitting the right buttons. Okay, Monday we're also having kindergarten screening. I sent flyers went home with students. Announcements added to Facebook, Remind message and emails went out. We'll have a better idea of our numbers for next year's kindergarten once that day is over because that came up probably growing or right on the 16th of April next week also we're having the familyfriendly walkth through. It'll be from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. We had quite a few parents committed to attend last time, but uh we had to call it because of weather. I sent out reminder emails today and I think through people I invited and I haven't heard back from anybody. So hopefully we'll have more attendance. So, if you know of anybody who might help us make a plan for that, you just
008let them know that it's Wednesday at 12:30 here. Um, okay. The wall school safety report card is available for viewing through the South Dakota Department of Education. It's a link that'll take us to the um civil rights the office of civil rights um website. So in the next few weeks I'll assemble a booklet for that similar to what I did for the um the district report cards and then I'll also send the the link out to the community. I think we can put it on the maybe on Facebook. Try to put it on Facebook. I don't know if we're going to get a notice that they're copyright or something, but you will just take that off, I guess. Okay. And last month, I talked to you about having students in for summer learning. Is that
009something that we want to pursue this year or do you want to forego it? I agree. If so, let let the teachers know that we're available and then you guys can approve contracts next month. June and June. I don't know how that send out June. They approve in June start July. All right. Well, no. Yeah, they'll prove the in May. You'll approve them before they start in July. Yeah. Okay, and that's in my report. Do you guys have any questions? I don't. Thank you very much, Chuck. Thank you much. Um, questions. I had one for you. Okay. All right. [Music] um breaking out there. Are we Are we good here, guys? We'll move on to 21. Uh business manager report. Um I don't have much. Um on April 24th at 11:30 Central time in Pier,
010the um South Dakota Impacted Schools is having a meeting. So, it's our South Dakota group for impact aid. I will be there. Um, anyways, I it's right after my business manager conference ends, so I will go there. So, I'll be there. I think Sally's planning on attending. I'm going to be driving all over. So, I didn't know if anybody else wanted to attend. Um, let Sally or I know and I will get you signed up for that meeting on the 24th. And here the day before. What's that? Be the day before. If it's raining or something, I see. So yeah, you can jump in. Caroline and I went last year and I'll be honest, we drove for longer than the meeting was lasting, but I still think it is good. We need to be represented.
011Yeah. Yeah, we need to be So I am going to drive from here just run down that morning and come back. So if someone wants to go with Hey, that's all I had. Okay. Thanks. Thank you, Amy. Um, with that, we'll move on to number 22. Superintendent. Um, I'll take up her time, of course, but I'm kind of sorting through these items I have because Chuck gave me some of them. Um, so one thing I did on April 1st as a superintendent and kind of as a principal, um, I was invited along with some other school leaders, the state is making some classes to teach schools how to implement the science of reading. and they were getting they were she's making a class and so they asked me as a superintendent would you come and
012do some recordings to put on their class for it'll be for teachers that are taking the class to implement science reading. So I went and did that last week. Um, just wanted to let you know we had five students come all a couple weeks ago. We had three eighth graders. They came to visit. We had three eighth graders from the country. Um, one of them is one of these the open enrollments that you saw already. Three of them were. And then um we had two sixth graders that will be seventh graders. Um some of them are planning to attend school here next year. So um some interest in that. I am planning to go to the Felissa meeting June 19th and 20th. I didn't know if anybody wanted to go along. That is It's um
013our federal lands meeting and it is on like it'll be Thursday afternoon I go to committee meetings and then all day on Friday. Where is that? Where's that at? Newport Beach, California. Oh, I don't need anyone to go with me to um is that when you'll be on what what meetings is that again? That's that federal land meeting. True. Yeah. So, you know the federal committee that they meet and it's a real small group. When we went to um Clear Water in January, it's a much smaller group, mostly superintendent, sometimes a business manager or two. They do a lot more committee work. They do a lot of work time. Oh, that one guy. Yeah, Tom. Make sure to remind him that you're interested. Don't be shy. Yeah. Remind I'm I'm not, but some people just
014talk more than me. I know you can't believe it, but Oh, I got out of there in five minutes. No, but that is that's why I like to I mean why I think we need to go there is because um well whoever wall needs to be there right now I'm going by myself um so another thing you guys we're going to do um we are kicking out bless Amy's heart and Mrs. Myers is helping her. I'm just bossing teacher of the year. And I'm also wanting we're going to kick out nominations for support staff of the year. Two different things. So support staff would be custodian, secretary, cook, any of those uh staff, parah staff members that do a lot of work for us. Um so you'll be seeing that coming out on Facebook. It'll
015be an online nomination and I'll be putting a committee together to figure I'll figure that and then it will be awarded at graduation, right? U the nominations will it'll probably be the number of people the the most nominees. I don't know. I got complaints last year on how we did it. So that's why I decided I maybe need to put together a committee to do it properly. Perfect. Um I'll give you the data. Yeah. You guys are going to sit and be sick of me in that data word. Okay. So Amy talked about April 24th ISD meeting in Pier. Just want to let you know I haven't gone forth with it but I think I am. We were asked if we could hold a STEM camp here. Um, it's the Compass used to be Thai
016organization. Mrs. Myers and I previously worked for. One of them reached out and asked if they could hold a camp here June 16th and 17th. Um, and so what I was going to try to do is say, "Yeah, you can if we get so many scholarships that we could give to our kids to attend." Um, Amy and I and all our different departments are working on requisitions. We've been having meetings on requisitions. Chuck talked about familyfriendly walkthrough. The sign that you guys had asked for when you drive in Um, and the sign that says office one way and gym the other way, I need to post it on Facebook. One of our students who is an is a special needs students designed it with our new equipment, designed a sign and they cut it out
017on the CNC table yesterday or the day before. Outstanding. And this student um who is very sensitive to noise and sparks and all that moved from behind the door where he was trying to watch it work and before we were done he was out watching right in front of the table. Cut out this sign. He was so proud of it and it looked really awesome. So they're painting it. We're going to have that up before graduation. We'll have to figure out if we want it on the on the side of the building or put something behind it and put it on post. But anyway, that that is going I've been having evaluation conversations with all my staff as hard as I can go. The city just told me at city council meeting, I do attend
018city council meetings once a month. Um their cleanup is the first weekend in May. So, I've kind of playing with um doing a K12 cleanup like we did last year. And I've I'm considering that Wednesday before May 3rd. I believe the city's doing theirs Saturday, May 3rd. So, it would be whatever that Wednesday right before that. Um that was a good event last year where we did some K12 work. That's something you have to like parents sign a waiver for. No, we didn't. But what I was going to do is send out another message like this and say if you don't want your student out doing that, we'll have another alternative activity for them. Um because there were some who told me they'd rather not have their kids doing that last year. Really, they're afraid
019of them catching things, getting a disease. So again, that's what that's why I said earlier was I really want our kids to realize the importance of helping each other and keeping up what we have and so forth and it's not the custodian's job and it's not the city workers job and those kinds of things. So I'm a believer in it. We will continue it, but I will give make sure people know that we're doing it. Folks, we did get a note from Dr. Graves. She is our secretary of education in South Dakota. There was some ESSER money, that's COVID money, that was cut immediately last week. It does affect just a couple things not going to hurt us at all, but some social studies trainings, social study activities at the state level that I was
020I attended last year. It was great great training. I was um encouraging our teachers to go to those will not be offered. The one part that they're cutting that does affect a couple of our teachers is um the mentoring program summermies. So right now all I know of is the summermies which is a big conference in Rapid City was cut and I'll be honest it was kind of a big event probably cost them a lot of money and it's not necessary but the part I hope is not cut is our teachers by attending all this different work they were getting reertified and so I hope um they don't get that cut or they find some other options, which I think they will. A few principal things, our middle school and our juniors will finish uh
021state assessments tomorrow. Something that's very interesting that we're noticing folks today, our kids don't have the attention span. Um, what we find is those tests are not timed and so some kids take longer and our kids can't hardly sit and Mrs. Sundal was in with the juniors. They have to take more frequent breaks. They cannot um, we've got a society that's just going like this all the time. In fact, our DJ at prom said, "I cannot play a whole song anymore." They have to cut clips of songs and put them together. And that's what they do because we're just in a world where we're we're kind we're and it's made sense. This is why we um hurry up and get done. We don't do quality work on some of our work. It's hurry up and
022finish it. So, we don't read our directions and we don't do a thorough job. And it's a very interesting just phenomenon that's happening. But it's all because of what our technology as Chuck and I said should be a tool for us. This is making us into a very very busy people. Hurry up and so we can do the next thing instead of shutting it and saying so I'm working through thinking on what we need to do for that. We have our online chemistry teacher now. Um, we get online chemistry and online anatomy from Northern and fabulous classes, fabulous teachers. The chemistry teacher came this week uh to visit our kids. She did a lesson. I'm going to share it out with the curriculum committee, but um we will continue. We've held our places in those
023test or in those classes depending on what we have for staffing next year whether or not we need to offer those online classes or not. Mr. Stroshan who is our CTE director and I have been I just showed him how and he's taken it from here by applying for our Perkins um grant. We have on Tuesday we have Mick and Rick. They are a couple of little short guys, funny guys. Um the church is bringing the churches in the community are bringing them to the community. They're doing an assembly for us on Tuesday morning and then I believe I think it's headed by the Methodist church or the churches downtown are doing a big pizza blast for the community that night with these guys and then they're all going over to New Underwood on Wednesday.
024They're in the schools and in the church that night as well. So that's happening here on Tuesday. We also have a lot of track and golf going on. That's about it. Things are happening. Good. Thank you very much, Sally. Um, lots of good stuff there. Anybody have any questions for her? Forget. All right. Well, if not, we'll I think we'll move on. Um, move on to number 23. Um, executive session. I make a motion to go to exe executive session according to South Dakota compat law 1-25-2 discuss personnel and negot personnel negotiations and all right motion we got a Second second. All right. Motion. Motion in a second.