Board Meeting 11-10-2025

001Roll call. Miss Clark. >> Trusty Burlesen >> here. >> Trusty Black >> here. >> Trustee D >> here. >> Trusty Lucine >> here. >> Trusty Moran >> here. >> Trustee Neil >> here. >> Trustee Sandy Wilson >> here. >> Trustee Sarah Wilson >> here. >> All right. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. You guys jumping in right away? All right. Tonight we have um the GHS Camarada Orchestra um Chanderland here. All right. You got any words for us or just get going? All right. Thank you guys for being here. Thank you very much. Do you guys want to come get this afterwards? I'm sorry. Do you want to get get this stuff afterwards or was it already here? >> Okay. Uh, we'll get it afterwards. Perfect. Thank you guys very much. Appreciate it. Welcome

002to the November 10th Boseman School District board meeting. Thank you for joining us. Public comment will be taken throughout the meeting on agenda and non-aggenda items. During public comment, no member of a public will be allowed to comment on contested cases, other adjudicative proceedings, or personal matters. The public portion of this meeting are being recorded in accordance with district policy 420 and section 2-3-214 MCA. By remaining in this meeting, all participants and attendees acknowledge that they may appear on the recording which will be placed on the school district's website for a minimum of one year from today. Further instructions about participating will be provided throughout the meeting. Before we engage in the business of the board, I would like to share the core purpose of the Bosezeman School District, which can be found on our

003back of our name plates and to the wall to my left. It reads, "Boseman public schools exists to ensure high level learning for all students. In honor of Veterans Day tomorrow, we would like to take a moment to honor those among us who have served the United States Armed Forces. If you are a veteran, we invite you to please stand, be recognized. We thank you for your service, your sacrifice, and commitment to our country. Your contributions are deeply appreciated by our community. [applause] Thank you, Pat. All right, we'll get going here. Um, Boseman School District experience, uh, student representatives, who's up first today? All right. Um, good evening. My name is Taylor Trojan and I'm a student body president of Boseman High School. I'm Jenna and I am the student body vice president. >> Yeah.

004Um, so our school is doing really well. When we talked to you guys last, it was before Halloween happened. Um, and we got to decorate our whole school in Halloween decorations, which student council hasn't done before, at least in the past couple years. Um, so we got to decorate and I know that the school really appreciated that. And then we also had our teacher costume contest, um, which is always really exciting. And then our club fair. Um, and then we also just funded our model UN who is going to go off to state. Um, we get to fund a lot of our clubs. Um, but we just like to make sure that they fund raise and Model UN does a really good job at doing their own fundraising as well. Okay. Um, and then we're

005also very excited to go to the mass conference this week, this next weekend on um, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. Um and then um so for update on sports stuff, it's our school. Um football, their record was six to five and they lost to Glacier this last weekend or last Friday. Um our cross country boys and girls got state or one got first at state. Um, and then soccer boys finished their season with an 1142 record and then girls soccer finished their season with a 954 record. Um and then our volleyball we are this is our by week because we are second in at state and our record is 26 to three and we have state this week Wednesday Friday. Um, and then for music stuff, we have our choir, double A festival, which is happening

006today and tomorrow, which is a combination of a whole bunch of choirs. Um, Gallatin, Belgrade, and Sentinel are all at our school and we're playing the same music and singing the same stuff and it's pretty fun. Um, and then choir, their winter concert is December 18th. um orchestra, their winter concert is going to be December 11th. And um band, their winter concert is going to be November 19th. And then for theater, um we just had the Princess Bride played this past weekend and the weekend before, which went very well. Um yeah. Um and then other clubs, we have our turkey bowl coming up, which is always really exciting. And then we have a thing called Operation Christmas Child going on right now. um which is just boxes of gifts that get sent to countries in

007Africa and all around the world for kids who don't get gifts. So that's what our other clubs are up to. >> Yeah. Thank you guys. >> Good evening everyone. My name is Rich McGovern and I'm the student body president at Gallatin. >> I'm Logan Haynes, student body vice president. Um, as student council, we're getting ready to head to Great Falls for the Montana Association of Student Councils where we where we will be spending three days and two nights learning from student councils all across the state. And then our theater program is in in the upcoming weeks is performing Legally Blonde. Speech and debate um had multiple first place finishes with the best turnout yet. And then key clubs from both Gallatton and Boseman High are holding a cross town competition where it's can the Hawks

008or can the Raptors. So it's a food drive and in many of my classes I've already seen multiple canned goods and have even donated some myself. And then HOSA hosted a blood drive where they collected 40 units of blood which accounts for 120 people. And then DECA hosted a clothing drive where they had over 20,000 pieces of clothing while majority got taken by families in need and the rest were donated or sold. All right. And then as far as sports goes, um our boys soccer, they were state champions, so that was that was fun to see. I was there. Um our girls soccer played second place second place at state. Um, and then our girls cross country also had second at state and our boys did well, too. And, uh, both our cross country teams

009are preparing for regionals coming up in Spokane soon. Um, our football team plays Glacier in the semi-finals this Friday. That's going to be exciting as well. Um, volleyball has state this week. And our varsity is currently ranked number one. And, uh, our freshman A, B, A, and B teams, our sophomore and our JV teams all went undefeated this season. So, that was fun. And then uh recently we also had we had our uh Special Olympics state sendoff and we had kind of a fun event in our gym during prime time. We uh they just played a little scrimmage and we had tons of students show up. We had two different student sections going supporting the Special Olympics players. It was a good time. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Thank you guys. Uh hello, my name

010is Sarah Stenish. I am one of the uh Bridger Charter Academy representatives on student council. >> My name is Rosie Cassava. I am the other Bridgetger representative. >> All right. So, first off, um we're going to start with our like full overview of mostly teachers and what they're doing to support students at the moment. Um so, we are having our Bridger Thanksgiving, which we have. It's an annual tradition and it is on Tuesday afternoon on November 25th. Um, so it'll be during blocks three and four and it's going to be pretty similar to past years because it's a very traditional thing that we do at Bridget Harter Academy. And so we'll have an educational piece. This uh this year we were changing it up a little bit with um service berry uh which is a

011book written by the same author as uh who wrote braiding sweetgrass. So, it's like really good about learning about where your food comes from and all that type of stuff. It's really interesting. And then we always have our gratitude piece, which just is how we how we like to be grateful to everyone around us in our community. And then we also have pie insider just for fun. And then we also have some community activities that we do with our whole Bridget Harter Academy. So, we'll do like card games or like board games or sometimes it'll be just like fun activities like slideshows or whatever. Yeah, we'll draw on the table. We do like a turkey hand or a hand turkey drawing competition which is really funny. Um, and then at the moment with hawk times,

012our academic hawk times are like they're going really well and kids are really preparing super hard to meet the late work deadline of November 21st. And we our community ones have also been like very well attended. So just our like fun ones. So like our bridge of beautifification where we like paint on the windows outside of like our community room and our board games, our brunch and our Halloweens have like our Halloween celebrations have been very successful. And then our next brunch is going to be on the 21st which is going to be hosted by me and Rosie which will be really fun. Um and then we are working as a PLT with Joanna uh Burkin to learn more about how to best support overall student well-being. So that's what the teachers are doing at

013the moment which is really helpful and it really like widens their knowledge about how to like help with like trauma response and everything like that. It's really really good for especially for BCA people and sometimes you guys ask how many people we have in British Carter. At the moment we have 133 students in our academy. >> Yeah. Um, from the student side of things, um, really quickly, I was actually just asked this question and I blanked and I just came up with it. Uh, on behalf of Fox Hawk Theater Company, we want to invite you guys back in the spring. We're going to be doing Mamma Mia the musical, which is really fun. I was just asked about this and I completely blanked. So, I'm just adding that. Um, from our BCA student view. Um,

014currently we have a 12week late work deadline that supports students with not having an overwhelming amount of work. Missing work is more current and that is a more present feeling. Um, in the past the late work deadline has been the semester end. Um, which means that work can really pile up and get overwhelming. So, they're trying to bring that back to hopefully really take off that pressure. And I feel like it has been really I've really been seeing that it's taking a lot of this pressure off. Uh, consistent emphasis and support is always still available for students if this deadline is like maybe still overwhelming or they just need that additional support. Um, BCA teachers have been working really hard, I've noticed in my classes, just at the end of classes as a quick tidbit,

015to really make sure that students are connected with proper access to resources with everything that's going on in like our political reality right now, like especially with SNAP and everything like that. Our teachers have really been working hard to make sure that each and every student is connected and make sure that they have food resources throughout the weekend, which is just wonderful. Um, me personally, I have a first period every other day, a free first period. And I love to go to the BCA community room. And something that I personally have been noticing from the beginning of school to now is at the beginning of the school year, my first free first periods would just be like silent in the community room. And I've noticed that students have really been coming in for support from

016Sarah Powell, Arty Jenkinson, and all of their teachers. I've been noticing that like while I'm doing my work, people are coming in much more frequently for additional support. So people are definitely getting more comfortable with our teachers. Um and students are building like a community with each other, particularly the freshman and new students to BCA. Freshman, you know, you're still kind of finding your friends and we've noticed like strong friendships are really occurring. And a lot of the times sophomores often have a large like fluctuation and our BCA numbers are we have a large increase with sophomores. And so students who are new to BCA are really starting to like find those connections. Um, and we've all just kind of been seeing that which is awesome. >> Thank you guys very much. Are there any

017comments or questions from the trustees? >> Gary, >> uh, thank you all very much for all your leadership and reports. I have two [clears throat] questions. One is just to clarify it is >> [snorts] >> Uh, Bridget Charter Academy have representatives going to the student council meeting next week. >> Yes. Uh, Rosie and I are both going to Are you talking about mask? >> Yes, we're both going to mask. >> Good. >> Thank you. So, I'm curious from all of you, what are the hot topics that will be discussed at your meeting next week? >> Um, yeah. So, BCA, they meet with us at our meetings. So they don't have separate student council meetings. Um so they're part of Bosezeman High student council and then they also go with us to mask which is Montana

018Association of Student Council. Um I think we referred to it as mask and they referred to it as the proper name. So same thing um we're all going to leave on Sunday but we mostly discuss issues within the state of how can we enforce things better, what has worked, what has not worked. um parliamentary procedure is what we use there and a lot of student councils don't enforce that. So it's really good practice and learning opportunity of how to enforce that in your student council meetings. Um they might want to touch on that too a little bit. >> Um yeah, I went last year and it was super fun. You learn from a lot of different people. Um there was an Olympic gold medalist last year that we got to learn a lot. You learn

019a lot about leadership and you just hear from a lot of different people and connect different student council ideas. A lot of student councils do things so different than you would ever think. So you just learn from all around the state. So it's pretty it's really cool. >> Um there's also some bills that we talk about. Uh we like go we do a little like faux um faux voting on it which is really fun and interesting at mass because we I don't remember the exact like thing that we went over. Do you remember this? When we talked about like the bills and we like went we went through Montana state bills and legislature and we voted on them like things that were passing that year and we voted on them just as like student council

020and we had like red and green cards which were really fun and you just like raise them and however many like people vote green or red then it like passes or it doesn't pass which is also really fun. So we talk about like re real world things which is really nice and interesting as well. All right. Any other comments or questions? Well, thank you for your guys' time tonight. Of course, you're welcome to stay. Um, but if you don't, we won't hold it against you. Have a great week. >> Yep. Have a good night. >> All right. Next up, uh, board education. This is Westfall Johnson. Then I have to remember to push to talk. Greetings board of trustees and district personnel. Uh my name is Jennifer Westfall. I'm the proud principal of Irving Elementary

021as well as the district multilingual English learner coordinator. And joining me today is Kelly Johnson, our newest addition uh to the MLE team. She is our district MLELL coach. Uh and she's going to talk a little bit about her role in a little bit, but um yes, I am an elementary principal. I'm sorry audience, my slides are very cute, so I apologize. Is there a way to hold the button down? >> Yep, there you go. >> Technology is fabulous. So, we tasked with just giving a brief overview to the board about what our MLE program is all about here in our district. So, a couple things by the numbers. Uh, how many do we actually have? How many multilingual English do we have? We have 569 currently K12 in our district identified as multilingual English

022learner. How do you are how are you identified as a multilingual English learner? First, it is based on how your parent or guardian fills out the home language survey when you enroll. If there is any language listed in those questions other than English, that is considered a flag. We do a little more digging usually and then we decide yes, we need to assess this student to see if they qualify. We use what is called the WEDA screener. It is across the state of Montana. use the same screener and if a student scores below a certain range they are considered an English learner and or a multilingual learner because sometimes you can speak many languages but we do know that that can have an effect on learning your academics in English. Um, so we do have

023569 and there's the breakdown. 288 are level one. That's the lowest level. That's like our brand new to learning English. 97 level two, 110 level three, 60 level four, 14 with no level. That is because those are transfer students from another district. Out of state is the common uh reason. And we know they're MLE. We've gotten that confirmation, but their scores did not make it to us. So that's why there's 14 no score. We have, if I counted correctly, 14 different languages represented in our district. Spanish is predom is the predominant one. There is a little tiny graphic, but I broke it down for you. Um, so 84% um 84.1 to be exact of our multilingual English learners speak Spanish at home as their home language. You'll see English there. That is because even though

024maybe your predominant language is English at home, you're still an English multilingual learner. Um, and so that's the second highest. And then you can see as we go, I did put the students next to the ones that are smaller numbers, but we have quite the melting pot. Um, and it's very exciting. Um, but predominant language is Spanish. Uh, this is just a breakdown of how many um, MLE students we have at each site. You can see that highlight by far is the elementary school with the largest number and Gallatin is the high school with the largest number and SMS is the middle school. What we are hoping though will happen with pretty much all across the district is these will start to level out, start to become a little more even. Um the exciting part

025is that we have some new personnel we have added to our arsenal of people. Uh Kelly being one of them. And so this is just a little breakdown of who we have at each site. We have Ellen Gler at Highlight. She is full-time for obvious reasons because there's 113 MLE students at Highlight. Uh Irving, we have a split with Meark. We have less students than Metoark does. So we get MLE teacher for 0.25. So we get her about a day and a half a week. Emily and Whittier split evenly. Sakajia has a full-time MLE teacher. This is a new addition. Chief Joseph Middle School finally now has an MLELL teacher which is wonderful. She's there about 6, a little more than half the day. Then she goes and supports highlights because again that's a large

026number of students. And then Bosezeman High School again new addition. Uh they have Taylor Speaker. She is their halftime at Bosezeman High and we split her with Gallatin High. Gallatin High um has so 1.5 alto together. They also have Francis and Hannah. Uh Maggie is in our welcome center. Her position was added last year. She's wonderful. She enrolls all of our newcomer MLE students. Um assists with just everything you can imagine, busing, lunch application resources in the community. She has a welcome addition last year. Uh Evelyn Polis continues her work as a student support advocate primarily focusing on tier three social emotional learning and behavioral support. And then we have Kelly Johnson who is our MLE instructional coach full-time for the district added this year. So I believe if I counted correctly I think that's

02710. Don't quote me. Do this quickly. So what is the MLE program? People might ask, well that's great. We have all these people but what exactly do they do? In the elementary world we focus on our level one and two students. Those are the ones that need the most support in learning and acquiring English in all four domains, listening, speaking, reading, and writing. And so for 30 to 45 minutes at least three times a week, the only exception to that is Irving. Uh because we only have her one and a half days a week. Um they get English language development, which is focusing on those four domains and developing language in all four of those areas. Um they receive MLE students should be receiving all tiers of intervention. So, not just a pull out ELD,

028but in their classrooms, they're receiving that tier one instruction and then intervention support at the tier 2 level and then their pullout EL is considered tier three. Um, the very exciting news is that all three of our elementary MLE teachers applied for Spark grants to purchase resource specifically for EL. So, cross your fingers that they get that they will be happy beyond belief. Middle school. Middle school is a little bit different. So SMS is continuing the same program they have for a few years. They actually have an EL class, several classes for level one students, mostly newcomers. They don't have to be a newcomer. It's just for level one students. They're in this class for one year and one year only. And it takes the place of one of their electives. And they have it

029every single day. They're only required to be in it for one year and then we move them on. It's kind of a crash course, if you will. They also at SMS have pull out support in the core subjects as available. So Jennifer Worth, who's the teacher over there, when she's not teaching her ELD classes, she pulls students during their intervention time from math and ELA. So that's considered a tier two. And then CJ, they have a little bit different model because they share Allison with another school. So they kind of have to work within their means. And so theirs is a pullout model during ELA. and it is an ELD, but they're pulling them out of that intervention in ELA and it's for level one and two students. They're it's kind of a pilot. We're

030seeing how it goes. If we find that we need to move to the Sakia model, then that's what we will do. But they're seeing how it goes and seeing what the effectiveness is with that model. High school programs pretty consistent and the high school principles are here. So, if I butcher this, you can just shout out. um they have at least a few if not at least one but most likely a few EL classes same as Sak Juia for level one students mostly newcomers same thing for one year but it actually replaces their English class for one year and one year only then they move into collab classes so for English and for US history English combo they are co-taught with an MLE teacher um and these are mostly for level ones and twos as

031well and then there is an MLE study Did we get it right? Okay. All right. Um, and then how do we communicate with our MLE families? That's probably the biggest concern I hear from staff every day. Secretaries, front office staff, teachers, I mean everybody that works in a school. So, we have two main forms of communication and then we have something for the teachers. So, talking points is what we use the most. It is a it is a You can either do it on your phone or you can do it on the computer. For staff members, we all do it on the computer. And it's a text messaging service for families. So, we type the message in English. It translated into whatever English is their home language. There's over 200 languages. 150. Excuse me, I

032was close. And it helps everyone be engaged. So, for example, we use it all the time in the front office. Your child's absent today. Please share with us the reason they're absent. We hope they're feeling well. Um, teachers use it all the time. Hey, going on a field trip. Hey, this I need, you know, your student needs to help with this, whatever it is. But the coolest part is we type in English, the magic happens, it translates, and it comes across as a text message to the parents. So, this is the main form of communication that schools use to communicate with families is talking points and vice versa. If the families need to notify us, they just get on their phone and send a text message. They they write it in their home language. It

033translates to English for us. So, it's wonderful. It was a game changer. Um I think if you ask anybody at a school, they'll say, "Oh, yes, that that helped us a lot." The other um system that we have is called Aculine. We've had this since last year. There's two parts to Aculine. There's an actual live interpreter interpreting. In the MLE world, we call um spoken interpreting. We call that interpreting. And then we call words on paper. We call that translation. It gets mixed up all the time. So you don't say, "I want a translator." You say, "I want an interpreter." So just one of those things. So you can have a live remote interpreter in 60 seconds. And and this is true in 60 seconds. You can do it on your phone, your iPad, or

034your computer. And I'm having a parent conference with Kelly. Kelly's my parent having a conference. She doesn't speak English. I pull up my computer. I say, "Hold on." I pull it up. And there's a live person right there in that one is for 200 languages and I talk and they interpret. It's wonderful. We just had parent teacher conferences at my school. Wouldn't have been able to do it without it. Um you can also use it for a parent phone call. It will do three-way calling. So again a great this one is great for face to face or phone calls. You can't use talking points for that. The other piece of this for staff members is document translation. So, if I want to translate my handbook into Spanish or another language, I use the website, I

035put my document in, they give me an estimated time frame, I can rush it if I want to, and it gives it back to me in exactly the same format. So, very, very helpful for those really important documents that we cannot mess around with when we get them translated. So, that's been a huge level up for us as a district. Elevation is what our teachers use, mostly our teachers, our our in-house staff. This is just a way for us to house all our MLE data. There's all sorts of things that teachers can access in here. The WEDA levels, so we screen them with the WEDA and then annually we give them the WEDA access assessment to see if they've grown in their proficiency. Um, that comes along with can do descriptors. What's great about it

036is, you know, I can tell you you have a level one student, but what does that mean? Well, the can do descriptors describe what the students can do at level one. This is what students can do. We want to push them to level two. Those are all in there for all students. We as an MLE staff, we add the instructional modifications. These are scaffolds and supports. Um, you know, read aloud the test to them, not not a district test, read aloud the class test, use realia, pair them with a buddy, teach them how to take notes. There's a long list of them. We put them in there based on their level and then teachers can see what they need to do to scaffold for their students. You can run all sorts of reports. You can

037run last year's WETA access test to this year's Wita Access test, see the gain or the loss. You can re um print parent reports. So when a student qualifies, those of us that assess, print a parent report that goes to the parent, here's what your child's receiving. Um and the best part is on demand professional development for our teachers. This is probably the thing they love the most about Elevation is there are 11 pathways, 34 modules, and 108 activities that teachers can access to learn how to work with their MLE students. And it's on demand. They can start it, finish it at their leisure, go on to another one, and they can earn one CEU for each module. So, it it it is benefiting them. Um, but the great thing about it is it's quality

038and it's and it's it's not super tight and it's stuff they can go to the classroom the next day and use with their students. So, from just these three resources, we are getting a lot for our teachers and our staff and our families. Um, I want to show you this graphic. Mike actually pulled this graphic, but I won't make Mike explain it. So, on the bottom, this is our acadian. So this is the test we give, the assessment we give kindergarten through fifth grade, beginning, middle, and end of the year to test literacy to see where our kids are with their literacy. This is MLE students. Okay, you can tell in kindergarten we have quite a high number of students, that's the red, that are not proficient. But look what happens as they go into

039fifth grade. It's hard work and it takes time, but students are learning. This is just population. So imagine how hard it is for our English speaking students to attain literacy. These are students who English is not their first language and they're doing it. What our goal is every year is for students to grow at least 0.5 of a level in their WEDA scores every year so that in five to seven years they will be considered English proficient. And you can tell that's what's happening. So again, it's hard work but it's worth it. And then to wrap up my portion before I hand it off to Kelly, of course there's always the challenges and this is something we always have to talk about time in the day. So this is what we struggle with with all

040of our MLE programs is just having enough time in the day to pull all the kids that need to be pulled, work around everyone's schedules, work around lunch and recess, work around electives and classes and all of that stuff. So that's always going to be a challenge. Personnel, even though we've added personnel, we always need more. We do have three schools in the district that do not have an MLE teacher. Their numbers are rather low, but as we continue growing, we anticipate those numbers will go up and then we're going to have to have that conversation about how we share some more or maybe adding additional personnel. Uh resources, we do not have an EL curriculum, an ELD resource that is consistent across elementary. Uh middle and high school are using National Geographic as kind

041of their tool. Um but elementary does not have a human resource. So that's why the Spark grant applications and then budget, right? We get about, don't quote me, $56,000 a year for our 569 MLE students. Am I roughly correct on that? $100 a kid. Little less than that. and we have to pay for 10 people personnel-wise and resources. So, you can imagine that the district is being awesome with paying for this all of this stuff uh and giving us what we need, but budget is always going to be a problem when it comes to MLE because the state does not give us any money. >> And I will be quiet now. Okay, your turn. Hit one more button. Awesome. Hi, I'm Kelly Johnson. I won't take too much of your time boring you about I

042came here from Salt Lake City. I moved here in June. I'm incredibly honored to be here and in this position. It is not a position we had in the district I was in Salt Lake City. So, I'd like to applaud you for forward thinking in that. Um, I have many endorsements, EL being one of them. I was an anal chemist for 20 years before I went through the AP program in Utah to become a certified middle school science teacher. Um, my students there were 75% multilingual learners. I had um some languages in the school alone across the district. 30% mobility. So I lost and gained 30% of my student body over a year. I would have new students just about every week, sometimes more than one per day. I learned a lot of skills as

043being only fluent in English to make my um input a lot more comprehensible. And I'm bringing those here and teaching your teachers here how to do what I do. Um it's a new position, so we're kind of flushing this out as we go. The main thing is for me to continue to be educated and bring cutting edge evidence-based research practices here to the city of Bosezeman. I do a lot of professional development in tier one and tier 2 interventions. These are contentbased teacherbased interventions. Eventually there is plans for me to do professional development for our own staff as well. In tier three interventions I meet with PLC groups only, PLT groups only um because there is only one of the whole district. So, we're trying to maximize what we have. I am also curating a

044library of resources, digital books, other things, um, technology for teachers to access and making those available to them as we kind of build it. Um, data analysis. I'm also looking at data. What schools are making growth? What teachers are doing a great job? Where can I mainly be of the most use? I've been meeting with all of the principles to kind of really hone in on how we can use that resource the best. Sorry. >> Um, these are just some examples of in the last three months that I've been here. Three months. Three months. Yeah. Um, of some things that I've been helping your teachers do. So, this is, um, an example of a picture glossery. Um, this is a great tier one intervention. It helps all kids, not just multilingual learners. It adds a

045picture to a definition. Um, and multilanguage. Um this is an example of a welcome welcome slide that is engaging. It again has a lot of pictures. It has more than one language on it so that we can engage those students the minute that they come into our classrooms. Um this is an example of a illustrated um multilanguage video that I recorded with the help of DL my favorite translating software um for a seven a sixth grade ELA social studies combo. And then we have our class labels. This is one of the things that we did pretty early on and pushed out to a lot of the classrooms. Um, making a languagerich classroom is one of the ways that a single signals to a student that they are welcome in that classroom as well as help

046um them learn English just sitting there. Okay. Again, this is an illustrated text of the Odyssey. That's it. Nth grade text and graphic organizer goes with and discussion questions. Student interaction is a thing you'll hear me talk a lot about. Um, it's one of the ways that we can help all learners, not just multilingual learners, but it's crucial for them to get that speaking piece. Thank you so much. Any questions for us that we can answer? >> All right. Yeah, Sarah. >> So, for the schools that don't have their the three schools that you mentioned, do they have access to talking points and some of those resources? >> They have access to all the resources. Yes. across the district, everyone has the same resources and Kelly is >> working working with those teachers. Like that's

047kind of one of her priorities is those three schools because they don't have the ML teacher. >> I've also provided resources for tier 2 um supports and programs in that school. They have some volunteers in one of the school um from the the PTO, is that the right term here? That are helping out and and delivering some of those lessons that I've provided. Thank you both. This is very good information. Just to clarify, is level one an area of students that require a lot more resources and work and level four is >> Yeah. So, in order to exit and be considered English language proficient, you must score a 4.7 or higher. There is actually six levels on the WEDA, but our state has chosen 4.7 as the exit criteria. So, we don't have any students

048in the district that are level five or six because they exit at 4.7. Um, so level one is brand new. You know, hardly any English and then it goes up from there. So, yeah, very good question. >> Well, I just want to thank both both of you and everyone who's involved in this whole um this whole program to serve all kids because that's what we're here for is to meet the needs of all kids. And this just sounds so fabulous. So much more than I even had an idea was going on in our district. So, thank you very much. >> Thank you guys very much for your time putting all this together for us. So, appreciate you sharing. Have a great night. >> You too. >> Thank you. >> Okay, wait. >> All right. Up

049next, uh recognition and awards. Um 2.3.1 MHSA all state musicians uh Mrs. Campbell and Mr. Ruffin right or is uh Mr. Burle here as well. >> Okay. You guys can also stand like behind that the chairs if you want. The columns are just a bad spot for for you to stand. So I think there's some more room for you guys [clears throat] maybe over here on this side. All right, while they get set up, um, hello. My name is Beth Campbell and I am the fine arts coordinator for the Boseman School District. Um, this October, um, our high school sent an astonishing 59 students to the All-State Music Festival in Great Falls. These students, not all of them, some of them are very busy and have other festivals and other things going on. uh today.

050Um but these students sent in audition recordings last spring and were chosen to represent the best of their instruments and voices along with other students across the state. Uh many of these students started their study of their instruments or voice in elementary school. And with the support of their music teachers, these students have learned to persevere, to go above and beyond what is expected in class in order to be recognized here. Um, please join me in congratulating our 2025 MHSA All-State student musicians from Bosezeman and Gallatton High Schools. [applause] All right. Well, thank you. Is there any trustee comments? >> Mayana, you got some questions and comments maybe? >> Yeah, I do. >> Or you're just going to read. There's a lot to read. >> There's a lot to read. I do have one question

051and you don't have to all answer just, you know, one or two of you. Um, first, congratulations. That is amazing. And, um, what a what a great accomplishment. Um, my one question is, what did you find the most valuable about this experience? And just one or two of you want to answer. >> And what's your name? >> Evelyn. I think getting to experience a just having a musical experience with everybody who all enjoys and loves music and being able to create something beautiful with each other and connecting on some sort of deeper level in that sort of way. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> Hi, I'm Riley. Um, I found throughout just my high school career in general, um, this is my second time at All State, that like it just like it's an unexplainable passion

052and being able to go to something like All State or All Northwest or anything like that, it's just such an amazing experience and you just find your community of people who love the same things that you do and it's just super cool. >> Awesome. Well, thank you Well, um, so I get to present this. Um, it is recommended that the board of trustees adopt the following resolution. Whereas members of the Bosezeman High and Gallatin High music program have excelled as musicians through their hard work, dedication, and talent. And whereas they prepared and performed individual auditions which were sent to the MHSA music committee in the spring of 2025. Um, from these auditions, top scoring students in the state of Montana were chosen to participate in all state ensembles. And whereas the students went on to

053perform at the All State Music Festival at Great Falls High School in Great Falls, Montana on October 13, October 15th through the 17th of 2025. Therefore, be it resolved that the board of trustees recognize and honor Bosezeman High School band, um Kelly Burle as director, Rowan Williamson, um flute all state orchestra, Zo Douglas clarinet, Lola Mccertie, French horn, Max Kabaki, bassoon, all state orchestra, Sam Kank, tuba. Um, from the Boseman High School choir, Jacob Malchek as a director, Laya Malchek, soprano one, Taylor Leairard, alto one, Riley Robinson Yado, Alto 2, Alex Broker, Tener One, and Xander Bird base 2. Um, Boseman High School orchestra with Nathan um, Holler as director. Valentin Coons violin. Luke Minton violin. Addison Rutherford violin. Sophia Gascal viola. Osa Kl Hodgej viola. Jackson Matney Baguette viola. Caitlyn Welsh viola. Colin Foley

054cello. Ameilia Hexom cello. Flor Florentin Coons cello. Alexandra Hansen harp from the Gallon High School band with Jeffrey Rufforn as director. Anna Paige Elwell flute. Kendall Levert flute. Aubrey Lewis flute. Lily Dodge clarinet. Kai Braun alto saxs. Daniel Chen tuba with All State Orchestra. And the Gallatton High School Choir with Michelle Maher as director. Olivia Haskell soprano 1. Breen Hler soprano 1. Khloe McDaniel soprano 1. Kate Rosco, soprano 1. Rachel Corelli, soprano 2. Joy Han, soprano 2. Elizabeth McClean, soprano 2. Capri Quigley, soprano 2. Haley Staler, soprano 2. Evelyn Vaughn, soprano 2. Violet Hillmer, Alto 1. Sydney Leighton, Alto 1. Brady Boswell, tener one. Wade Stolman, tener one. Jake Apparach, tener two. Isaac Ashcraft, base one. Bridger Gors base two, Bridger Hler bass two, Blake Ross base two, and the Gallton High School Orchestra with

055Chandra Lynn as director. Lucille Bryce violin, Carmela Longardi, violin. Maya Magminito violin. Jacqueline Staglia violin. John Stag Santigla violin. Kayn Si violin. Uh, Evelyn West, Westau, violin. Eden Hyatt violin. Jackson Fid viola. Kaden Jimmerson viola. Francis Fry cello. Elsa Stern cello. And Josephine Graass. >> Second. Motion first time. Motion passes eight to zero. Uh good job. Congratulations. [applause] Since you guys are already up here, you guys can just come like right in this area. >> Yeah, we need to get So you guys can just come right here. Some might need to kneel down. >> We'll try to make it quick. Congratulations. All right, thank you. Next one up, 2.3.2 doubleA cross country state championship teams, individual state champions, and all state individuals. Uh, Mr. Ader, >> good evening board members. Thanks for having us here

056tonight. I'm looking to see if Graden Curry made it. Coach Curry. >> He did not. All right. So, wow. Come on up, assistant coach. >> There we go. >> Hey, how you doing? >> Hop in here with me. We're going to talk about our Gallton High athletes first. We'll talk about our Gallton High athletes first and then we'll have our Boseman High athlete. Uh, uh, Coach Jerine will come up with the Boseman High athletes and we'll get going real quick. Okay. >> All right. You can you can bring up the Gen High. >> Gton High. I need Laya, Hazel, Claire, Natalie, and Bridget. Come on up. Coach Danny, he's an assistant coach. >> Sorry. >> Oh, no. >> All right. And just a reminder, as far as the athletes go, >> go ahead. Yeah, I

057think it's better for you to >> Yeah, that's much better. >> We like to be able to see you. So, You don't need to see me. You guys >> Yeah. >> Columns are tough for us. >> So, >> All right. Cool. Well, yeah. Um, guys, uh, school board, thank you guys for having us. Um, this is really cool that you guys recognize these kids. Um, it's been a long season and it's they put their heart and soul into it. So, it's really cool that they get this recognition at the end of the year. Um tonight we want to recognize um Hazel Cooper. Um Natalie Rutherford, Laya Carol, Claire Rucker, and Bridger Warner. Uh these guys were all um all state athletes for us this year. Um Hazel had an awesome year. Uh first year running

058cross country. We got her we got her from the soccer team this year. So um our our our win our win on that front. Um Natalie Rutherford came back from injury last year. Um worked really hard all summer. um had a great year and um it just kept getting better all the way until the state meet. Uh Llaya Carol uh second second year running and just kept getting better all the way from last year. Uh we got Claire Rucker uh freshman uh got stole her from the cross country ski trails um for for our cross country team and uh the snow translates well to land. We found out she had a great year. Uh and then Bridger Warner u this is the second year being all state. put in a lot of miles this year

059and they they paid off at the end of the year. Uh so congratulations guys, great year. These are the Gallatin High All Staters. [applause] >> Now I'll have uh Casey come up with the Boseman High athletes. >> You guys either can go back to your seat. Gan High athletes, you guys either go back to your seats, but you're going to come back up here. So you could also just stand up right over here if you want. whichever. But don't go too far. You will be coming back up. Yeah. Yeah. If we can get the guys in the G team up, all of you, they can kind of just Yeah. fill in. They don't need to see me. Hayden, jump up there. [cough and clears throat] All right. Uh we've got both the boys uh and

060the girls team up here. Um both state championship teams, which is awesome for the uh Boseman High program. Uh I would say over in Missoula, it was uh it was definitely a good day to be a Hawk. Uh if you were out there on that course, um we put on the guys side, I'll start with the guys first. We put four guys in the top 10 uh to garner all state honors, which is which is very impressive. Um, this kind of goes for the girls team, too, but it's kind of fun when I I kind of get to reminisce and look back through these results. On each side, you have an average of 110 to 112 runners that tow the line at state. All seven runners on the girls side and the boy side, Zeke

061being seventh on the guys side, and Adele being seventh on the girls side, finished in the top 50. So, if you if you think about that and take a step back and look, the top 50 in the entire state. So, in the top half of the state competitors, all seven of our runners were were across that line, which is which is very impressive. Um, with with the guys, um, all state, you know, Brandon Foot was 10th, Christian Landers was sixth, Taylor Neil was runner up in second place, and then Miles Halverson as the state championship on the guys. Um, I think the guys, if I were to reflect back on that on that trip, definitely I would say it was it was a business trip on the guys. I think they were they were pretty

062serious. I think it was safe to say going into state, uh, you you could you kind of knew we were pretty confident that we were going to get that win. You've got a pretty good preview throughout the season, but what I really liked about it was even though those guys kind of knew that, I think they just stepped up to the plate and ran super hard um, and competed extremely well. Um, rounding out the the guys places, Jacob Pausen was 22nd and Finnworth 38th and like I mentioned, Zeke was 46th uh, for that seven. So, nice job to those guys. Uh, moving on to the girls, uh, we put four girls in the top 12. Um, Phoebe Maxner in third, Kylie Neil in fifth, Tula Higman in sixth, Lucy Ericson in 12th to garner all

063state. Um, Caitlyn Lucenau was 23rd, Ingred London 39th, and Adele finishing 48th to have all seven of those girls in the top 50. Um, a little different uh, tale for the girls versus the guys. I think the girls uh, like to keep things interesting. I think the first half of that race, uh, we weren't quite sure, uh, we knew Gallatton was sitting in a really good spot. Uh, but you could definitely see after that that big hill on the course, those girls, uh, really had super strong finishes in that second half. Um, you know, Tula Higman and Caitlyn Lucen out were kind of standouts in h having a tremendous last mile. Um, and um, getting the win for us. Um, so yeah, uh, season's not over yet. We do have NXR this weekend in Spokane.

064All right. Thank you very much, Charmaine. Um, I guess invite back up the Gallatin high athletes as well. So, wherever you guys want to manage, same rules apply. No columns. Any comments from trustees? All right, Greg. We'll turn it over for your questions and the reading. >> Well, congratulations everyone. Uh, it's been super fun to to be along for this this season to to all the kids at both schools. And um I used to sit where Kevin does and and lead these meetings and when we would have these awards and recognitions, everyone would get to ask questions. And Kevin's put in some rules so only one person gets to ask questions, which means this is all on me. So, um, I'm gonna keep it real brief and I'm not going to ask all of you

065questions, but I I do have some questions for some of you just to engage you in front of the board. And so, I'll start with the the kids from Gallatin. Natalie Rutherford. Uh, you're a sophomore, correct? And you battled some injury this year. You're a legacy kid. Your sister is a three-time Gatorade champ running at MSU now. And it was really fun to watch you um come in. And I I know that your freshman year you had some injuries and and kind of had some frustrations, but give give us an idea of how your sophomore season went for the Raptors this year. >> Um I don't know. I had I had pretty low expectations at the beginning of the season. I kind of just wanted to finish my races and not get injured again. Um

066so I kind of just work myself up from there. >> Did a great job. So, congratulations. And, um, next, Hazel, I can't can't go without talking to you. Um, it was was really great to see you come in. I I know that you also had some injuries this cross country season coming over from soccer, so there were some negatives, but if you could maybe give us an idea of some of the positives. How did the summer training go? I know your decision was really hard for you to switch over from from soccer. Are you happy that you did? Did you enjoy the training? Uh, get give us an idea of what that looked like for you. I don't know. I've enjoyed the season. >> I think after your injuries, you ended up only running two

067or three races total counting state. So, it's pretty outstanding to finish all state. So, congratulations. And um where's Bridger? There you are back there uh with back with the Boseman boys like you always are. You beat them all in the center run last year. Um, you were gone for a semester on exchange last year, but you had a had a great cross country season as a sophomore finishing all state and had your second consecutive all state finish this year. Um, tell us about your season and also I know you're a super well-rounded kid. What are your other interests and interests and activities in addition to how your season went? >> Um, do you mind repeating the the first half of that? >> Um, tell us tell us about your season and your interests. >> Um,

068okay. To be honest, I'm pretty proud of the season, but um I'm pretty proud of the season just coming off of a semester without any running a little bit more like rear delt strength than anything else anything else paddling South America. But um I'm I'm pretty proud of the way that I was able to bounce back and get in the swing of things. Got my mileage up and you know got another allseason. So awesome. I can't complain about that at all. But right now, I'm just focusing on I guess talking about my interests. It's just writing a little bit for journalism and then getting into the swing of things, making some actually a film festival in Livingston this May and then also trying to get together a few films and also working with this organization

069called Friends of the Montana Constitution to produce some videos for >> Excellent. Thank you. And again for you Gallatson kids that I didn't get to get get to. I'm not going to get to all the Boseman kids either. Um but congratulations on your on your second place finish and and Bridger. Great great job. Um onto the Boseman kids. Uh Caitlyn Lucenau, you you were the you along with with Phoebe and and Finn were the fab freshman this year. And you were that freshman that popped a really good race at at state. It seems like that happens every few years where a freshman kind of comes out of nowhere and puts their team over the top for a trophy. Natalie's sister did it when she was a freshman. player. Uh Christian Landers did it when he

070was a freshman. Uh they were they were the freshman that had an extra good race. Tell us about how that race unfolded for you. >> I don't know. Is it on? Can you make sure it's on? We >> just flip that button up. Yeah. >> So wait, how the race was? >> Yeah, tell us how your race went. >> Um so like so obviously we started and then at the first mile it was like 6:30 and I I kind of have to like speed up. Um that's not very good. Well, it's really Great job. Congratulations. And u Phoebe, you're you're next. I'm going to ask you a question. Um it was really really great to see you establish yourself as a leader on this team this year. And um I think everybody knew that you

071were going to have a great state race by based on the way that your season went. Tell us what it means to you to be a member of Boseman Hot Cross Country and and how your first season went. Awesome. Congratulations. And no, no, Braramlin. Is that accurate? He's off the hook. If he didn't come, that's too bad. Uh Kristen and Miles, you guys are our our seniors this year. Miles, you're the state champ. Kristen, you are uh the one that popped that good race as a freshman and won us the state championship in 2022. Wouldn't have happened without you doing that that year. And um and Miles, your your story was equally amazing. Uh you you could have won state last year, but you got real sick and it was a a year of redemption

072for you and you could close it out. It was fantastic. I know what you're doing next year, but I'm But if you if you guys know, I'm not sure if you know what your plans are next, Christian, but tell the board what your plans are for next year if you know. >> Um yeah, next year I signed to Well, actually I signed on Wednesday, but I'm going to run Colorado State University, which I'm super excited about. Um, the team's building this year and they've won a lot of championships. I'm just excited to help contribute to that team. >> Excellent. Christian, do you know what you're doing yet? And if you do, would you like to share it? That's awesome. Well, you two have been outstanding members of this team for a lot of years. So,

073congratulations on three out of four state championships, one runner up your sophomore year, and uh and it it's been it's been it's not over, but it's been really really great to be a part of your your ride. And uh Tula, you're last but not least, but it's been an honor to have you in this program as well. You're only a junior, but you're a national champion Nordic skier, multi-port athlete. Uh what are what are your goals for this year in in Nordic? >> I'm not fully sure, but That's awesome. Well, congratulations to everyone. Um, I have the award. I'm going to read it and get you guys out of here. Thanks so much for for coming tonight and to all the parents for sitting through all of our half our board meeting. I support the

074recommendation that the board of trustees adopt the following resolution. Whereas the Boseman High and Gallatin High cross country teams participated in the 2025 state doubleA cross country meet in Missoula on October 25th, 2025. And whereas the Boseman High girls team finished as state champions, team men members include Lucy Ericson, Tula Higman, Sydney Hoe, Adele Kosiki, Kase Caitlyn Lucanau, Ingrren London, Ingred London, Phoebe Maxner, Kylie Neil, and Nia Nicholas. And whereas the Boseman High boys team finished as state champions, team members include Zeke Donahghue, Branlin Foot, Miles Halverson, James Henrich, Christian Landers, Ta Taylor Neil, Jacob Posden, Hayden Shupe, and Finn Worth. And whereas Bosezeman High's Mile Miles Halverson finished as the DA boys state champion. Whereas earning all state honors by finishing in the top 15 were Boseman High, Lucy Ericson 12th, Brownlinfoot 10th, Miles

075Halverson first, Tula Higman sixth, Christian Landers sixth, Phoebe Maxner third, Kylie Neil fifth, Taylor Neil second, Gallatin High, Llaya Carroll 15th, Hazel Cooper 8th, Claire Rucker 14th, Natalie Rutherford 7th, Bridger Warner 12th. Therefore, be it resolved that the board of trustees recognize and honor the 2025 Boseman High Girls State Championship cross country team. Lucy Ericson, Tula Higman, Sydney Hoe, Adele Kosiki, Caitlyn Lucenau, Ingred London, Phoebe Maxner, Kylie Neil, and Nia Nicholas. 2025 boys high school state championship cross country team. Zeke Donahghue, Brandlin Foot, Miles Halverson, James Henrich, Christian Landers, Taylor Neil, Jacob Posden, Hayden Shupe, and Finn Worth. Individual state champion Miles Halverson, Boseman High. All state individuals Lucy Ericson, Brandlin Foot, Miles Halverson, Tula Higman, Christian Landers, Phoebe Maxner, Kylie Neil, and Taylor Neil, and Gallatin High. All state individuals Llaya Carol, Hazel Cooper,

076Claire Rucker, Natalie [clears throat] Rutherford, and Bridger Warner. Second motion made by Trustee Neil, seconded by Sandy, Trustee Sandy Wilson. Any public comment? All those in favor? Motion passes 8 to zero. Congratulations. Uh be before you guys walk off, you guys need to come up here. >> You guys, all you guys come up here, turn around. We'll take a picture with you. Uh thank you to the coaches and all the parents for their support. Thank you. >> I'm gonna bring a step stool. Yeah. >> Next up, item 2.3.2. to 2020 oh uh ASBO materious budget award for the 202526 budget document. Mike, once again, you have cleared a room. It's all yours. Good evening, trustees. Um thanks for sticking around. Um here to congratulate um Lacy tonight on the meritorious budget award from the Association

077of School Business Officials. This district is a pretty wellawwarded district as you all know. the the Golden Gavl is something that we've historically received. We've got lots of financial statement awards over the course of the years. This marks 10 years of the the budget award. I was even thinking about as the the strategic plan um the the model PLC school district um designation that is that is part of our long range strategic plan. We don't do these things for the awards. Um we do them for the the work that goes into it. Uh the trust that that they build and so it is with this uh meritorious budget award. I'm not going to belabor the point. I know Lacy's got a long speech prepared and she's looking forward to the photo opportunity with the board,

078but um it's important to us that we do things right and it's also important we how we do them and that this is just another tool in our another feather in our cap I think for um to build trust with our community. We've got answers to any questions that they may ask. We obviously tr uh prioritize transparency and I think that's what this budget's about. Couldn't be happier to work with Lacy every day. We are blessed to have her in this district. um thankful for every day and for her work on this award. >> Lacy, you have a speech as well. Um well, thank you for all your work and everybody that that supports you in it. Thank you very much. Um are there any trustee questions or comments? >> Yeah. >> Um I just

079want to say thank you for all your hard work. you you make it easy as a trustee just knowing how well this is run and what you do. So, thank you so much. >> I would also like to add that truly um there is so much trust in this community when it comes to funding for our school district and I'm so proud of that. But it's you guys who do that and uh the transparency in which you do that and how easily your presentations when it comes we're coming up on a couple of those presentations are so easy to so much easier to understand um than not I guess I should say but I really do appreciate how much you work um how well you work and how well you work together too. I do

080want to point that out. you guys in that office work so well together and support each other and that's just another um another plus for what you do for this district. Thank you very much. >> Any other comments, questions? >> Great. Yeah, I just want to say it's the the entire time eight years or so that I've been a trustee, it's just been nothing but confidence in in your office and the human beings that we have um leading you your doing what you two do and um it just takes a lot of um uh resources off of everyone just being able to have confidence in in the business office. So, thanks for um doing what you do and and uh we we don't say it enough, but we we appreciate you you too and thanks

081for leading leading Lacy. >> All right, Melissa, I think you're up. >> Um Lacy, thank you for all the behind scenes work on uh the budget and explaining the budget. I've got 13 general managers that would love to listen to you explain a budget because none of them can meet their budgets right now. So, I might bring you in. Um, I move that the board of trustees adopt the following resolution. Whereas the district's long range strategic plan core values state that we operate with honesty, use researchbased decisionmaking, and provide open communication and we are responsible in the management and expenditure of all district resources. And whereas the association of school business officials international ASBO awards a meritorious budget award MBA for excellence in budget present presentation and whereas the MBA promotes and recognizes best practices

082in school district budget presentation. Districts that apply to the MBA program recognize the importance of presenting a high quality easy to understand budget internally and to the community. And whereas the attainment of this award represents a significant accomplishment by the district and its management. And whereas Bosezeman School District received the award for the 10th consecutive year for our 2025 2026 budget document. And whereas director of business services Lacy Clark is primarily responsible for overseeing the completion of the budget. Therefore, be it resolved that the board of trustees recognize and honor Lacy Clark and the entire business services staff for excellence in preparation of the district's annual budget document. >> Second. >> Motion made by Trustee Moran, seconded by Trustee D. Any public comment? All those in favor? Motion passes eight to zero. Congratulations. [applause] Would

083you would you like to come to the middle for a picture? >> Yes. action items. Uh, consent agenda. I entertain a motion. I move that we approve action item consent items 3.2.1, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3. >> Second. Motion made by Trustee Sandy Wilson, seconded by Trusty Lucine. Any public comment? All those in favor? Motion passes 8 to zero. Thank you. Uh, next item is we have no action items. So, tonight we have board discussion uh 5.1 policy first reading. Casey, I think these next two are yours. >> Thank you, Chair Black. Uh, first one is discussing recommended revisions to policy 3110, which is the entrance placement and transfer policy. Um, two different areas um that we've adjusted or are recommending adjusting. Um the the first part is around um early entry into kindergarten for students uh

084who are under five years old. If you go back in time, We used to have that exceptional circumstances provision and an early running start kindergarten. Now we've moved to a targeted um early intervention um for math or numeracy. Um these policy changes are intended to um communicate that ear that we don't have early entrance into kindergarten that we run a targeted um program for four year olds who need reading or math support and that kindergarten is for students who are five age five years of age um or older. The second part of this um policy um is due to the result of a um lawsuit that recently um worked through the state of Montana um disability um rights of Montana um sued Montana OPI in the state of Montana and um were successful in that

085lawsuit around educating students up to age 22. Um and so there's some um changes to the policy to sort of clarify that students with disabilities become eligible at age three um and have some eligibility through age through their 22nd birthday. And there's um quite a few nuances to the serving students through their um 22nd birthday, but we're making these um adjustments in alignment with with that court case. With that, I'd take any um questions you might have on this policy. Is your mic just on from last time or do you have a question? No problem. All right. Any comments or questions? All right. And then they'll be come back on consent next uh next meeting. All right. Thank you. Um so moving on uh committee reports. >> What one more policy? >> Oh, sorry. >>

086No problem. >> Sorry. Uh, also recommending revisions to policy 3150. They're really just a cleanup um of some areas that we we missed in in the last major policy overhaul. Um, so uh I think it was the 23 legislative session um opened the door for non-resident enrollment as we know it today. Um and and so policy 3150, which is a part-time enrollment policy, used to refer to our our old um non-resident enrollment and so we're removing those um policy cross references and updating them to the correct policy 3141. Again, uh not a not a result of a law change, just a cleanup um policy change and it'll take two readings. Questions or comments? All right. Thank you. Now, this time for real uh 5.2 to committee reports. >> Yeah, thank you, Chair Black. Uh, we

087don't have any committee reports and I also wanted to comment on committees because you might have questions why we never have committee reports. Um, we we've made some changes to our standing board committees. Um, the DOCC is the one regular committee that meets monthly. Um, the November meeting, if you're on the DOC for DOCCC for tomorrow, has been cancelled due to lack of agenda items. uh but many of the other committees have become a u meet as needed instead of a quarterly meeting or three times a year and trying to find agenda items um or meeting to meet. So um the LRSP, the long range facility plan, the equity committee, safety committee, student well-being, all of those have turned into a meeting as needed. So when we do have important um agenda items for those

088committees, we will pull them together. That's why you uh rarely see committee reports on our agenda. Okay, thank you for the update, Casey. Next item, 5.3 202526 enrollment update and future projections. Mrs. Clark, >> good evening trustees. Um going to present the enrollment projections, but before we get started, I kind of want to preface it. Um Mike Vanver's team in the curriculum and data office have revamped and revised and updated and made [clears throat] this process so smooth and so streamlined. Um it takes a huge team to put these numbers together and it takes a lot of detail. Um we have we as you know receive funding based on the number of students that are in our schools. Um so it's really really important that we get it accurate. We have it audited every single

089year and um we've never had an issue with this and I know that with all the new reports and um updates that the data team has made, we're going to continue down that path. Um so big thank you to Mike and the data and curriculum team for making this process so much more streamlined than it ever has been in the past. Um it's it's a big big ask that takes a couple weeks to put together um to make sure it's accurate and concise and that we have the numbers right. So with that being said, um I'm just going to jump right in. This is just a summary of the last 11 years of the enrollment history. Um I went back 11 years because I think it's really important. Five years ago was a really weird

090time with 2020 and I feel like we have rebounded and have some normaly but I also think it's important to know what transpired prior to 2020 um and how it is reflected now. Um, when you look at the blue line, that's our elementary line, and it's obviously going to be the most amount of students because it's the largest grade band, um, K through five. It's really interesting when you look at total numbers in 2025 in elementary versus total numbers in 2015. We only actually have 29 students more in 2025 than we did in 2015. Um, but now we also have the increased ability to count additional students. we can now count sped prek students and we can also count the um Boseman reads early literacy. So that those have been huge contributors to bring our

091K5 elementary levels up. Um if we didn't have those, we would have seen a decline overall. The red line is going to be the middle school line. That's obviously the lowest enrollment count because it's the smallest of the grade bands. Um when we look back 11 years ago at the elementary, we actually have 30 more kids in elementary um since then. However, of the 130, 120 of those were an increase from 2015 to 2020. We've only actually increased 28 kids in the middle school levels um from 2020 to 2025. So, you can see that the big increase was prior to COVID there. And then for the green lines for the high school, that has just been a steady increase. Um and the huge increase really kind of started in 2020, which is um counterintuitive to

092what the other numbers are showing, but we have increased since 2020 to 2025 in the high school, we've increased 443 students. In the five years prior to that, we only increased 402 students. So since COVID, our high school numbers have really really grown. Um and in this you can just see that the purple line indicates the total enrollment from 2015 to present. Um overall we're looking at about a thousand um kids in growth. We went we had 6,5005 in 2015 up to 7,5009 in 2025. This is just a breakdown of our elementary schools showing smallest to largest. Um a couple important things to highlight this year. Irving was the only school that had the exact same enrollment as last year. Um there was absolutely no change. they remain at 173 students. Um going kind of

093down the line, you can see that Morning Star um did increase by 16 students, but part of that was the addition of a fifth classroom for the Boseman Reeds um which accounted for 17 students and they also house our sped prek students there that have always been um however this is the first year that we were able to count them for A and B as well. So there was an additional 15 students with the sped prek. Um highlight actually decreased slightly from last year. They decreased by 19 students um for a total enrollment of 499. They're our second largest elementary school. And then Emily Dickinson um increased by 10 students. They are now at 539 students, which is the largest enrollment history um in the history of our elementary schools. So, previously it was highlight

094with 537. Um they've decreased. Emily Dickinson has gone up and we've never had such a large um elementary school before. This is just the breakdown of middle school enrollment by building. You can see Chief Joseph is on the left and Saka Jia is on the right. Um this year our sixth, seventh, and eighth grade enrollment is the highest enrollment since 2021 with 162 students. Of that 773 of those students are at CJMS. And you can see it doesn't look like a huge increase. Um but it is significant. It's the highest enrollment at CJMS since 2017. So they are um they've bounced back from COVID pandemic and they are now at their highest um enrollment for sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. And then here's the breakdown of the high school for the last few years. Um

095in these we combine Boseman High School and the BCA. understand that they're two separate schools, but the amount of students that actually have dual enrollment within the two schools is really significant. Um, BCA, as the ladies alluded to tonight, um, has increased substantially. They had 101 students at count day last year. This year they have 134 students. Um, the majority of those students are dual enrolled in BCA and in Bosezeman High. Gallatin High School, excuse me, on the right has 1464 students. It isn't actually the highest enrollment that Gallatin High has ever seen. The largest was in 2023 when they had 1480 students at count day. And this is just kind of um a breakdown of the grade levels by school. It's been really interesting to follow this 11th grade class. Um two years ago

096when they were freshman, I believe is about the time where um we as a district and you as trustees decided that it was time to level out the playing field between enrollment at both of the schools. Um that 11th grade class is just substantially different. The difference in their numbers is actually about the difference of the total between the two schools. So once that 11th grade class drops off um you're going to see much more equal um numbers between the schools moving forward. This is just the K8 enrollment totals. Um so number of students by grade level and this I did not go back into sped prek and early lit early literacy. Um I just started with kindergarten on a couple really important things that I thought were really interesting um as we looked at

097this. We have 11 more total kids in grades K through eight. Um, when we projected kindergarten for this year, um, based off of the live births at Bosezeman Health, we were only two kids off, which I thought was really cool when we were looking back at the numbers, we had projected 446. Um, and we actually have 444 this year. Um, and if you just look at K5 by itself, we've actually decreased 26 students overall. Um when you look at some of the other graphs it'll look like an increase but that's once again because of the sped prek and the running start students that are included in there. Um you can see the middle school those that sixth and seventh grade class has grown a ton. Um however it is a smaller eighth grade class than

098we have had previously. When that eighth grade class actually moves into the high school it's going to be a smaller class than they've had in a long time as nth graders. Um, so we expect for that to start to level the line of high school enrollment in the future. And this is what we find so interesting and fascinating to look at. This is the Boseman Health live birth data. So obviously um we have to look back five years um and see what we think our enrollment is going to look like in the future. Um, currently right now with our 444 kindergarten students, we're looking at birth years of 2020 2021. Um, next year we do anticipate a larger kindergarten class size by about 43 students. That's because we're going to be looking at 2021 and

0992022. And you can see 2022 is an increase from 2020. Um, so one year drops off, another year comes on. Beyond that, um, for the next couple years, it's not going to increase quite as substantially as next year's increase because of the huge jump from, um, the year 2020 to 2021, but it will continue to increase, and that's what we project moving forward. What was really interesting, um, Bosezeman Health is projecting 1422 live births in this calendar year. So, that red bar isn't actually a set in stone number. That's that's what they're projecting. They know what they've had so far. and then they can look and see um what they expect to have over the next few months. But um in the past we've always been told that 1300 is roughly their capacity. Obviously if

100somebody needs to deliver a baby they're going to deliver that baby in there. But this is really really pushing their beds and their um facility uses. So 140022 come 2030 we're going to have a really really large um kindergarten class coming in. Yeah. Lacy, didn't didn't we also hear from them that a large increase in sort of like medical tourism, like people from outside of Bosezeman coming to Bosezeman >> to have a baby? >> Yep. It was kind >> home. It was interesting. Um >> they called it their their second second market or >> Yeah. Not their primary market. We have no way to distinguish which of those are going to stay in our our community and go to Boseman School District or who's going to go out. Um we can only go based off

101of the numbers that we know. So, so we'll kind of see how those develop. I thought that was a really interesting increase. Um, looking at the trends. So, this slide looks 10 years prior. That middle black bar is the current and then the projected increase for 20 going all the way to 2035. Um, K5 enrollment is decreasing. Um, that's mostly due to the larger classes in third, fourth, fifth grade moving up to middle school. And we do have some smaller classes in K through 2nd. So as they move through um our elementary enrollment is um expected to level out or decline slightly. Middle school is still climbing for the next three years as those larger um three through five classes come into the middle school. And then we're expecting a slight decrease in grades 9

102through 12 um in the enrollment next year. Mostly because the eighth grade class is just a bit smaller. I think they're smaller by about 30 kids than our previous eighth grade class that's now 9th graders. So, we expect a very slight decline um in grades 9 through 12. With that being said, I know you guys have seen this slide a lot over the years. Um if you look at the dotted lines, that's our capacity. And if you look at the solid lines, that's our actual enrollment. So, I this is really blurry. Um there's a lot of lines up there. So if you'll click on the next slide, we'll break it down. This is our elementary um enrollment versus functional capacity. You can see back in 201617, that was about as close as um we've been

103in a long time. We let's see um that was right about the time when we expanded Hawthorne. Um and we were within about 190 students at capacity at that point. Right now we have um capacity of an additional 436 students. So that's on the side of one of our larger elementary schools that we could facilitate. Our middle school numbers um are a bit closer to um to each other. Right now we're currently sitting below capacity by 201. Um in 2017 where you see those two lines hit up um we were actually over by 65 students and that's when we did the SMS expansion. We don't have any um any thoughts or suggestions to anticipate that we would need to add additional room at the middle schools over the next 10 years. And then our high

104school, you can see that bump is obviously when we added ghs. Um we're currently at below capacity by 159 students. If you click to the next, you'll see in 30 2031 um we actually have an enrollment projection of spot on to the capacity at 3,00. I think that's a really interesting conversation to have. When we built GHS, um we had a much different schedule than we do now. Um the block schedule, I think, has allowed for some kids to have free periods. It's allowed for a little bit more flexibility and dynamics. So, it would be really interesting to go back and analyze what the capacity is um with the new block schedule and how that really phases into things. I don't necessarily think that we're going to be concerned come 2031, but it's just something

105we'll have to keep having conversations about and keep our eye on. And then switching gears a little bit, um last year was the start of House Bill 203, which was the open enrollment where districts of residents can attend other districts. Um and we've seen a more students taking advantage of it. Um but nothing that's going to significantly swing our numbers. Um you can see the red line is where um House Bill 203 really got implemented. Um the green line is Boseman school districts um that are enrolled out of district. The blue line is out of district kids that actually come into the Bosezeman school district. So you can see that we actually have more kids going out than we have coming in which has really always been the way that's that's been the pattern for

106the year for years. Um mostly because Bosezeman School District never accepted outof district kids prior to open enrollment. Um and so that was not an option. Um if you go to the next slide, you can see the breakdown of where our kids are going. What we're seeing is um most of the kids that are leaving Bosezeman School District are K8 students. So they are going to our feeder districts and then they end up coming back into Boseman School District for grades 9 through 12. Um currently 174 BSD kids going elsewhere. Um Lamont I thought was an interesting one. You can see the jump from 24 to 25. We previously had 11 of our students attending Lamont and this year we have 23. Monforton was another interesting one. Um, previously last year there was 13 kids

107going to Montfortton and now there's 21. And then Anderson on the left hand side there you can see has always um accepted out of district kids and they have 71 of Bosezeman School District children attending there. So, just to recap a little bit, um this is our highest year of enrollment on the books for Bosezeman School District with 103 students overall um increasing. A huge amount of that is our sped prek. Those are our three-year-olds. We have 15 students that we can count for A&B in that um program. We have more students than that in that program. There's stipulations for the number of hours that kids are served and how you can count those hours um towards enrollment. So we have roughly 40 kids actually in the sped prek program. The majority of them are

108under the allotted hours for us to count them for A and B. PreK increased by 17 students. Um overall kindergarten through fifth grade continued to decrease and then you can see once again the jumps in grades mostly sixth and seventh. Eight did see a little decrease but that's 37 students in the middle school and then 9th through 12th increased by 60 students. Um BCA is continuing to increase um approximately 69 A and B based on part-time status shared between both of the schools. Um what we're looking for for next year for Boseman Reeds looking to increase for the 202627 school year if we add two more classrooms that would be 36 additional students that we could count for A and B. Um which once again is contributing greatly to our overall enrollment. Um that would

109basically be a third. And then the BSD7 or the BSD resident students attending other districts increased by 25. However, the kids coming into Bosezeman School District from other districts also increased. It increased by 52. So we saw more kids more new kids signing up to come in than signing up to go out. With that, I'll take any questions that you guys. >> Thank you, Lacy. Very good. information is in the BCA student enrollment. Are any of those out of district students that enroll in BCA? >> I don't have that level of detail. I'm not sure. That's a good question though. Can find out. >> Um I I feel like I should know the answer to this. Are the BCA numbers counted in the BHS numbers? >> They are. When we're looking at the graphs, it's

110a combined total of BCALBHS. >> Okay. So, when we're comparing the two high schools, BCA is a part of BHS. >> Correct. >> Thanks. >> Yeah. >> Um, for those sped kids, you said there's actually 40 that we're serving, but 15 that count. Is there a way to know like are any of the ones that are not counted that they is there like way that they can be moved or do you know project anything about them being counted next time or >> does that make sense? >> Yeah, I can I can take that one. Uh there's there's not a lot of clear guidance around um from OPI around part-time special education students. It's the first year that we're doing that. So, in other grade levels, um if a IEP student is on a partial day

111due to behavior or other things, we're counting them as a full-time student because we're fully implementing their IEP. Um at the three and four year old level, we have virtually no three-year-olds that are there. They're all part-time um students. And then um four year olds really varies. The four-year-olds that have inclusion opportunities and Boseman reads are spending more time. So, we took a pretty conservative approach um in terms of the number of minutes and hours adding it up to um meet the quarter time, halftime or threequarter time thresholds. I would imagine that the next legislative session is going to turn on some guidance around three and four year old um A and B numbers >> because like we th those three-year-olds um we feel like we're giving them a great um quality education and it's

112just right for what they need as a three-year-old. It's not just right to have three-year-old in a prek um special preschool all day long. >> So, the application of this data as I I mean I as my takeaway from it is that we we aren't looking at really doing any building or expanding of any for a a long time and then boundary adjustments either. Um >> yeah, I mean the the data doesn't show a glaring need for any of those items. The >> um 36 additional students in Bosezeman Reeds um Morning Star is out of extra classrooms. So we are looking at um sort of the northeast corner of Irving Elementary, that little vestibule that has two classrooms. um facilities is looking at um putting some restrooms in those two classrooms and those would be

113the the the additional two moving from five to seven classrooms. We also have some we're kind of there's some it's another kind of blurry area in the law around you technically shouldn't have a waiting list for your four-year-old program. It should be treated like kindergarten students who move in and qualify get into the program. We currently have a small waiting list, so we're trying to build capacity so we can take all students who qualify. >> Thank you, >> Sarah. >> As somebody who likes to look at charts and graphs all day, those were exceptional. You guys did a wonderful job. >> Any other questions or comments? >> Thank you, Lacy, for all the work on this and all the information. Greatly appreciated. All right. Next item, public comment on non-aggenda items. All right. You can

114sit right there and then if you want to fill out your name, I'll I'll read this little blurp right here. Um there should be a Yep. And then uh when I tell you to go ahead the um button on the right when you're looking at it, if you just push that once and let up. All right. This portion of the meeting when the board invites committee members to make brief comments on any matter not included in the agenda. Public matters do not include any imped impeding legal matters, private personnel, or private student issues. No members of the public will be allowed to comment on contested cases, other adjudicative proceedings or personnel matters. We ask [snorts] you that you keep your comments within two minutes time limit and offer civil respectful comments to the board. The

115board will not engage citizens during this time as topics presented are not on tonight's agenda and therefore have not been noticed to the public. Before you begin, please state your name. Write down your name on and address on the clipboard and then make your comments. A timer will be started in fairness to all who speak. Please finish within the two minutes. But since you're the only one, maybe two or minutes more. All right. It will go green. So I think the one on the right. >> I don't know my directions. Um my name is Madora. I'm a senior at Montana State University and I wanted to comment on the work being done in this district to support equitable education for MLE students. So although it was on the agenda, it's sort of I was planning

116to talk anyway before I was aware it was on the agenda. Um so so I just wanted to call to attention the need for further resources to support these students. Having volunteered through Benonito Saboseman and the serving service learning course offered at Montana State University, I believe in the importance of uplifting all students through accommodating their difference regardless of language level. Um, so seeing as the Montana State Constitution carries a goal of a system of education which will develop the full potential of each student, I think it is important to first recognize the work already being done in this district which was very well talked about today. Um the evolving long range strategic plan first adopted in 2007 in the 2025 report highlights the recent hire of three additional staff to serve these students. Um

117which brings the number of staff that works up that works with the student population of about 569 students up to 10 which compensates for the high increase of students that this district is seeing who have um needs beyond the average classroom. Um, I believe it is important to f to further plan for an influx of multilingual English learning students that have diverse language needs within the district. Having observed the current upward trend, I propose that the district create a goal of eventually having at least one ELA instructor or language coach in each of their schools who are then supported by the three program coordinators across the district to create cohesion in that education. Research shows that English learning students are usually consolidated together in a classroom and only given around 30 minutes of ESL instruction

118per day. and then put into classrooms with teachers who may not be able to provide a uniquely tailored instruction to their individual levels of English and other uh subjects. So, by having an MLE coordinator in each school, these students would be able to receive instruction that's more closely tailored to their personal level of education. Reserving space in the budget for full-time pay of additional staff may cause strain on a pre-existing education budget deficit, but ultimately results in further further equitable education overall, which is a main goal of BSD7. Um, since only around $29,000 in federal funding through Title 3 supports education program for these students. Um, and I think around less than $100 per student, which was discussed earlier. Um, the rest of the financial obligation falls to the district to allocate money from their

119budget to pay for these proposed additional staff. I'm proposing a long-term goal in order to provide uh time to either rework the budget or find outside additional sources to support these students. So, in summary, I'm proposing a goal implementation of having an ELA or language coach instructor full-time in each school within the next 10 years in order to better accommodate the influx of MLE students in the valley. Thank you so much for your time. >> Thank you for your time. Glad you sat through our meeting. Any other comment reports? Executive cabinet. >> Uh, Chair Black, I've got some information to share with you. Property tax bills are available online. Ours haven't actually hit our mailbox yet, but um, dug into my own. Wanted to share some results with you. Some good news, I think, overall.

120and then certainly also on on behalf of the district. So, I'm going to walk you through my property tax bill on my property and um let you kind of know what what you can expect. The black line is our property value. Uh this dates back to pre- pandemic. I I I picked 1920 as a start year for this graph. Um you see the stairstep pattern up. That's the reappraisal years. Um the steps up were reappraisal years. Flat part is the uh the non-reappraisal years. Reappraisal year. This year my property increased from 561,000 to 564,000. So not much of an increase this year. We were we were pretty flat I think overall in Gallatton County. Overall uh property my property value went up 96% which on a percent basis is not an uncommon number for what

121we've seen here in uh the Gallatton Valley the last seven years. The colored bars are my actual total property taxes paid. You can see a significant increase um including 23 24 and then 2425. This year um the legislature implemented two bills as they were leaving Helena, Senate Bill 542 and House Bill 231 to provide residential property tax relief. And you can see from this information up here that was hugely successful. My property taxes on on my place dropped from just short of $3,000 to just short of sorry just short of 4,000 to just short of 3,000. So, a 25% decrease in my uh property taxes overall. If you see a legislature legislator, thank them for this. This is long time coming in Montana and u we're we're grateful for their work to get this done.

122The next slide breaks down those um what we kind of did is is took the orange bars, the total property taxes, broke it down by taxing jurisdiction. Take a couple minutes and walk through this information for you here. Um Gallatin County taxes, I live within the city limits, so I should tell you that that's that's an important saying if you walk outside of the city limits, your taxes are going to look different um than they do in the city limits. But if you live within the city limits, your proportions are going to be the same amounts of value based on your on your property value. Blue represents Gallatin County taxes. Um red is the city of Bosezeman. Um the green portions up there represent all taxes that go to support um K through college education

123including the 95 mills, the six un uh six statewide university mills there. Um the the kind of the I don't know what kind of green that is. There's a dark green, there's a bright green, and then there's a what? Kelly green. Um that that represents the the Boseman school district piece. Currently for this year, if you live within the city of Bosezeman, the Bosezeman school district taxes represent 28% of your tax bill. Uh those those education taxes, all of the Greens combined represent 51% of your taxes. Um one of the things on here you'll notice is that Bosezeman School District for years and years was the largest taxing jurisdiction within the um city. That's that's no longer the case. um 2020 um 2022 23 the city um kind of grabbed that dubious distinction from us

124and they're the largest taxing jurisdiction um for for um within the city of Bosezeman. Also the the city and county special assessments up there, those have increased pretty significantly. Those are mostly um tree ma uh tree open space and and street maintenance u levies uh mostly for the for the city. The next slide um want to call your attention to is just the percent change since the start of this graph. Um some pretty important information for us to know I think as as we walk out of this room. You'll see increases um for every taxing jurisdiction except the Bosezeman school district. And if you look from um the from 2019 to 2021, Bosezeman public school district taxes have actually gone down um overall. That's tremendous news, especially as you think back to our our community

125support of our levies. We've we've asked and received permission to increase our levy amounts pretty much every year over the course of this levy over the course of this uh this chart and still our taxes are actually down. We're the only taxing jurisdiction with the with a with a decrease um overall. And um I think that was that was really about it. Um, only one has dropped. Oh, if you look back, I didn't go back that far, but uh, property taxes on on my house, Boseman school district taxes are lower this year than they were every year since 201617. Um, so almost 10 years since our our taxes have been this low on on my house. So, I think that's good information to know. Um, just a a conclusion slide up here. Um, the property

126tax relief worked, the the work that the legislature put in um, worked. um taxes I think for residential properties are going to be dropping pretty significantly. If you haven't received your bill, you will soon. Um we talked um earlier this fall that even though our taxes went down on residential property, that doesn't mean overall taxes went down. There was a shift, a redistribution away from residential property onto um large commercial property especially and onto centrally assessed property. Um that's who's paying a larger share of school taxes than they u they were before. especially beneficial to school taxes. Again, ours ours our our taxes overall are negative uh from the from the last almost 10 years. Um take a look at your own tax bill when you get this. You'll every year the Gallatton County Treasur

127does a great job of building some pigraphs out for you and seeing where your money's going, but take a minute and hold it up next to last year's tax bill as well, so you can see the changes. I think that's an important information for us to um understand and and communicate. So, I encourage you to do that. I'd be happy to help you if you have questions. um can make a graph like this pretty quick for for most anyone here. And then communication. I think um the goal isn't to throw anyone any other taxing jurisdiction under the bus. That's not what this is about. But at the same time, I do think we have something to celebrate here and I do think we have a message to share. So, um, we're talking about I was

128looking at all the, um, information online and all the comments and things about Belgrade's bond passing and just the amount of misinformation, misunderstanding out there, I think is is is bigger than ever. So, I feel like we've got a communication challenge in front of us always uh, but maybe even more so um, this year as we move into tax season. So, happy to answer any questions for you. I'll conclude by telling you that um, the Montana Revenue Interim Committee meets on Wednesday. I'll be sharing this information with them. At that point in time, they asked me to speak on behalf of schools. So, I'll share a lot of this here. And then, um, one step further than that, the next day, Thursday and Friday, school funding interim commission meets in Helena. We won't be talking

129about taxes, but we'll be talking about lots of other um, good things as well as we move forward in that denial study. Uh Mike, just uh for clarity on the SIDS for that the city used to send out. The last two years they've had a significant shift. So that 888% increase. The city instead of billing out all the SIDs have moved that to the T the county tax bill. Um I noticed this a couple of the SIDs that we've got now only have like maybe a light improvement district specifically. Um, so that that large really I mean I don't know what the I know it's gone up as well but um I think that's a part of that big increase for the SID piece of that the 880 I think that's 88 maybe 86. >>

130Yeah it's a six. >> Okay. Um >> so it's a billing change. It's it's a it's a billing methodology. >> Maybe not 100% but a big portion of it is um because I've noticed a couple that I've put in recently on commercial properties is that the bill is like $25 and it used to be 190. So >> portion of that is bill. Yes. >> Any questions for Mike or comments? >> All right. Next. >> Uh Mike Mike was talking about communication. I just want to give trustees uh update around um some of the communication changes that we've made over time. So, uh, you should now be seeing we're into, um, I'm communicating weekly, but it's one week to staff, one week to parents. Um, the staff is going out midweek instead of on on Friday.

131So, you'll see those on alternating weeks. Uh, we've tried to um, as I've been in schools more, tried to increase our social media um, presence on primarily on Facebook and Instagram and those also populate our um, website. Um, and then uh, the newsletter. The newsletter began as sort of a monthly endeavor and then went to kind of a bimonthly endeavor. Um, and as we've had changes on central office and had had to prioritize what we're doing, uh, we're moving to a fall, winter, spring version of that newsletter that sort of corresponds with all the celebrations that the board does in here, fall, winter, and spring for different student groups and teachers. Um, so that'll be coming out late November. Um and then the annual report. Um we I Water Waterman and I are talking about

132topics for the annual report. We think this tax idea is one of those um items, but we have also noticed from OPI um later um a later date each year that they make publicly available the student achievement data. Some of that is due to changing um assessments. Um but we you know it's not till Wednesday of this week and we're mid November that um or early November that we're getting access to last year's data. Um so it typically around this time of the year I'm bringing that annual report. I'm just letting you know it'll be coming to you in um December because we're waiting on publicly available data. Uh the other thing going on that I wanted to draw your attention to is uh we spent a lot of time with a staff well-being consensus

133group and unpacking um the panorama survey data and it's that time of the year again. So we launched the panorama staff survey at all the sites today. Um principles are are trying to carve out time um for teachers and pair professional classified staff to take it during the school day so they don't have to do it on their own time. Uh that window is open for two weeks and then we will be able to share um uh our data and uh this will be the third um time we've taken it. So we had fall and spring data last year and we'll have fall data um this fall. I think that's it. Chair black any questions comments on that? Okay. All right. Thank you. Uh, next board trustees new quest calendar. Trusted. Um, I just went

134wanted to say that I went to my liaison school highlight for Halloween and watched their Halloween assembly and Halloween parade and they had the Gallatin High dancers there leading them in the Monster Mash. Um, so it was fun to see another side of the elementary school. Um >> yeah, [laughter] >> three of the um three of trustees went to MEL and I will have to say that um it's been a while since I've gone to almost every I no every single one I went to. Every single one of them I really learned a lot. There was a lot more variety this year. I thought in uh in the uh breakout sessions and the uh speakers were wonderful. Um and so I just wanted to mention that that was it was really a good it was

135worth it trip up. I don't know if you had anything to say, >> um, just just to piggyback off of that, there there were some really great sessions and got to see some of our own Boseman teachers um, and admin presenting. So, that was really great, but there was also just a um I thought it was a really good discussion about our resolution um, and it was well supported. So, I was really happy to see that that dialogue happen and that that that was voted on. Um, and then I I also want to mention that um been visiting our schools and um I I went to CJ and it's just really um it's just really gratifying to see, you know, a new principal and just how it's going and having those conversations with um how

136that's happening there. And I went to their veterans assembly that was every year I've I've been able to attend that. It's um it's just a pretty amazing group of people and speakers and things. So I just appreciate that Ruben Ggo is taking the lead and putting that together. Sarah, did you have something? >> Yes. On the 21st of October, I had the opportunity to spend time at Whittier and I spent about an hour and a half working with teacher who was engaged with science of reading and got to do that firstand with a bunch of first graders. So enjoyed that time at Whittier. And then that Friday, sorry I have my notes. all the good students do. Spent about an hour and a half at Metoark Elementary and again they put me in a first

137grade classroom so they must feel that first grade is my people. So I spent more time hanging out with first graders and then also had the opportunity I spent time in two different first grade classrooms and helped out at the kindergarten lunch. >> Thank you. Melissa, do you have something? Um, I went to Sacka Julia and participated in a sixth grade town hall meeting and then I went to I think three math classes and then Mike and I actually got to judge the eighth grade Halloween fashion show. >> You guys You guys were the celebrities. >> We were the celebrities and I dressed up as Danny Waldo. [laughter] >> So you are blue. >> All right. Uh any other reports? All right. [laughter] >> Well, uh thank you for all the extra time and the

138reporting back on the things that you guys are doing in in the schools. It's greatly appreciated. Um and with that being said, uh there will not be a second November meeting. So you'll have that day, that night, that evening off. So plan accordingly. I'll adjourn this meeting.