001here trusty D here trusty Lucine here trusty Moran here trusty Neil here trustee Reinhardt here trustee Wilson here please stand for the pledge of allegiance iedge to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible liy andice I believe we have the Whittier Elementary School choir I see them all filing in and Miss Krogan if you would like to bring them all wherever you would like to stand is fine if you'd like to bring them up front that would be fine or if you'd like to be over there that's okay too the heart [Music] [Applause] our a e e e [Applause] thank you very is there more thank you very much to the Woody your choir that was fantastic would you all like to
002come forward and get a picture with the school board this will be the most exciting thing you've done all day probably keep going that direction e e [Laughter] to ask him put his finger there all right branchu your voice carries really well I could hear you are they getting after it welcome to the March 10th Boseman school district school board meeting thank you for joining us public comment will be taken throughout the meeting on agenda and non-agenda items during public comment no member of the public will be allowed to comment on contested cases other adjudicative proceedings or Personnel matters the public portions of this meeting are being recorded in accordance with District policy 1420 and section 23-24 MCA by remaining in this meeting all participants and attendees acknowledge they may appear on the recording which
003will 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 with all the core purpose of the Boseman School District which can be found on the back of our name plates it reads bosan Public Schools exists to ensure highlevel learning for all students we will now open with agenda item 2.1 student representative reports Boseman Gallatin and Bridger and whomever would like to go first can go it's okay mine is pretty short for you today anyway so George had to leave he wasn't feeling super well but we have some exciting stuff going on in Bridger the logo is finally done we finally finish that up this week
004I have it linked here and I believe Mr Mills also has a document pulled up that he can um project somewhere and show everyone but it looks awesome it was a entirely yep there is up there um very collaborative between the students it the mountain that is depicted is Ross Peak we wanted to pick a mountain that was obviously unique to uh Boseman and just unique on its own that really stood out and then the four trees that are all uh that grow as they go essentially represents growing throughout high school and then sort of breaking out of the box at the end so there's a lot of representation in the logo and it's a pretty big step away from we have now but everyone in the community really likes it we're working on trying
005to get it on some Bridger swag so like t-shirts stickers stuff like that for the students hopefully a new Banner for the bridge ring thinking about stuff like that but yeah all very exciting and a awesome next step for Bridger another thing that we have had going on is we had 38 of our students and seven of our teachers walk to Whiter Elementary on March 6th during Hawk time and second period where where we made bracelets with the elementary schoolers and played paper word games we read poems and made acrostic poems and we read lots of books and made fun bookmarks with the kids everyone really enjoyed it it was a great turnout it just and the elementary schoolers really really appreciated it and so did all of the staff it was just a really
006fun thing that we did we have our next Bridger brunch uh this coming Friday miss hestler our math teacher will be hosting that one or one of our Math teachers and we've had lots of fun Community Hawk times we've had games Hawk Times puzzles Rubik's Cube Hawk times Etc uh we've done a lot with registration that's sort of finally wrapped up now we had a Valentine's Day Hawk time where we just did Valentine's Day crafts and we are looking forward to having more outdoor Hawk times once the weather finally starts to warm up and we get out of this fall spring that we've been in but yeah everyone's really looking forward to Spring Break and that's all I really have from Bridger but yeah any questions for Nila from Gallatin Gallatin or from Bridger sorry
007Gallatin Al righty so how we usually start off how we're going to start off again I'm going to talk about sports and activities first so we recently had the state swimming meet and both the boys and girls gallon uh finished third at state so it's another huge accomplishment and shows again how we continuing to build our programs at gallon high school and how our community and our uh administrators are really pushing our students to be successful in and out of the classroom State basketball is um this Thursday uh through the weekend and our boys and girls play their first game on Thursday uh the the girls are the second seed and the boys are the third seed going into the state tournaments so we're very optimistic and hopeful that they will really bring home the
008silverware this year um to get to the state tournament though our boys took a cross town W beating bosan High School in another sport like usual and act and coming one step closer to Bringing Home the silverware our speech and debate team and National qualifiers uh had six qualifiers in total that we are going to be bringing to De Mo this summer and we are all very excited and hopeful of repeating the success that our school had last year our Boseman Ice Dogs uh boys and girls uh won state championships for hockey so it's again another extracurricular where our students are excelling and then our track softball and Tennis so our three spring Sports and activities started their practices this week and are really uh rearing and ready to go to bring home some more
009silverware this season I think you're sensing a theme Here music wise we on on Monday and Tuesday our band had doublea and we combined with Missoula schools um our concert band and our percussion Ensemble have a concert tomorrow and then this weekend is All State Jazz with a couple of our students going to Missoula to really showcase their talents Orchestra wise we have a concert tonight to show for those who are leaving for Europe and for our European tour which is a joint effort between Gallatin and Bose High School which we will be embarking on on Wednesday lots of travel it'll be a little brutal but a great time and everyone in our orchestras is looking extremely forward to that uh trip as it only happens once every so couple of years and then our
010choir after spring break is taking a tour to Denver and they are singing at a Nuggets game on National Television so that will be pretty exciting so keep on the lookout for that then as well we also have many students uh who are going to be participating in Boseman Night Live on April 4th and 5th so if you guys have the time please come support our Boseman schools and uh gallon and Boseman high school and Bridger Charter Academy at a very uh CommunityWide event where they'll be showcasing their talents and their skills one additional thing in this last week llo over here was actually in Washington DC representing our states at the VFW oratory competition where one member is selected from each state to represent and showcase uh their passions for uh change making and
011for civic duty so llo here was a representative from Montana so it's a great honor to be sitting next to here right now and before I get into some of our other activities and stuff happening in the school just want to shout out pranu who is one of two state representatives for the United United States Senate youth program she was one of two from Montana who went to DC last week as well and represented our state uh in that program so super big accomplishment for him as well looking at some other stuff happening around the school our National Honor Society uh is busy working on a uh care Drive putting together care packages with hrdc to uh send out so that drive is going to be up and running in the next month or so
012uh our student council has been busy uh with district convention we hosted that for the first time in school history and that was the first time that we have as a whole club participated and we did end hosting it uh for uh our Montana District there was some weather conditions that made it difficult for travel for many of our groups so was just Boseman high school and ourselves there uh in person but we did have many groups join us online as well for the business meeting and for other parts of the day so super cool to have uh some ideas exchang with other student councils around the state we're also working on some constitutional changes within our own student council Constitution and making some changes uh to our size of stuco looking to expand uh
013to some more representatives for each class uh going into future years um we also have some big plans in the works for the end of senior year for our senior class so look forward to sharing those with you guys as we get more more details but some big stuff in the works our Key Club has been busy uh with a number of projects each officer this year has their own passion project they're putting together and just a few of those have already been underway uh working on some gardening around the school and those that outdoor space that was implemented this past summer and this week we have a fundraiser going throughout the week at lunch selling raffle tickets uh fundraising for Family Promise so some other big projects uh and then Key Club will also
014be going to their district convention right after spring break's over uh looking at registration for next year we have all registration done for all of our students and uh about the same numbers and same uh class registration as past year so really really awesome to get all that done and looking forward to next year for those younger students uh and Miss schne has implemented her brand new principal Leadership Council many of you guys may have heard about that uh offering the opportunity to students throughout the school uh to voice their concerns ideas opinions on things in school matters so once a month they meet and we'll discuss and have those open meetings to really bring concerns they have or ideas they want to share out to our Administration to implement our school and that first
015meeting happened this Mass month April 9th will be the state act so we have preparations during our prime time period and with our career center counselors and teachers helping to get students ready for that act our UNICEF Club is working on the tap project that is a um project with businesses with within Boseman Community selling tap water essentially where it would be free offering patrons the opportunity to pay a dollar for their tap water and all proceeds from that will go to UNICEF USA which will go to their mission globally Science Olympiad had their competition this past week and placed fourth overall as a school with two first place and two second place finishes other than that I don't think I have much else for you guys so thank you thank you questions for the
016gentleman from Gallatin seeing none the Hawks hey guys um all right let's start off with our winter formal dance well what was previously known as our winter formal dance the new and improved Valentine's Day dance combined with Gallatin High School we had that um this past month we sold 84 tickets um which is you know it does it's not a lot compared to some of our bigger dances like homecoming and prom but for a new dance like this such a New Concept especially collaborating with Gallatin it's about getting your foot in the door um it so it's only going to get better from here we plan to make this a recurring tradition uh I believe and so we're just really excited to see how that's going to grow because I mean I was there it
017was a lot of fun and I'm uh excited to see where our two schools are going to take it from there uh as Gallatin said we sent some students to mask it was really fun you know we had a bowling hangout we talked about working more with Gallatin this year um just trying to you know make make our two student councils even more Cooperative um despite our apparent differences we also you know donated money to the academic world quest team um as they went to State um which I will talk about later um looking forward we've got our dodgeball tournament um still working on the date of that we had some conflicting dates um but that is still coming up within the next month and a half we have a blood drive which we are
018setting up we have um and end of the year student body Vibe Fest summer kickoff Wet n Wild event which um although the name is still in the works uh the event itself is quickly taking shape we're really excited for that but we can't reveal too much yet as it is still snowy outside and I'll pass it off to Griffin for sports all right moving into sports um boys basketball we unfortunately had to end to our season but overall they did good uh a lot of support at the home game so that was good to see our girls are headed to state after their win against billing senior um and then swim our boys got first beating Gallatin so you can kind of see upward Trend here um and girls ended up getting fourth at
019state so that that was looking good and then we're planning to start up our Spring sport Sports we got track and field tennis and softball um I I believe we're still figer out or softball coach but uh a lot of the girls are excited to see who they get and then I'll turn over to Tru for activities yeah just moving to General activities we've got you know the school's got prom coming up on the 29th super exciting um it's the reason we had to move the dodgeball tournament around a little bit um but we're really stoked for that March the 29th um we had all state band this weekend that was really fun academic world quest as I mentioned earlier went to State and we play second and third which is better than last year
020um we were there it was a great time uh and it is really just it's a really valuable event we met the consulate gen um general of India and just sort of learning about other countries how all the world is interconnected it's really interesting um in our theater Department we've got auditions for the mouse C which all of you guys are invited to it's a really fun show um so that is getting set up and as these guys mentioned we've got Boseman Night Live coming up which a ton of our students are um auditioning for and uh honing their acts for and that's about all I've got for you guys thank you thank you questions for the gentleman from Boseman High School Gary I don't have a question um I just want to thank thank
021each one of you student representatives for giving us very good reports um I learn a lot when you give these reports you're doing very well and I really appreciate your collaboration with the student councils and uh keep that up and thank you all of you very much thank you very much for all of that that was great you're welcome to stay and you're also excused up next 2.2 board education Montana seal of biliteracy BHS and ghs World language teachers principal Mills uh good evening chair Neil superintendent beram trustees um I'd like to welcome up to the front here uh faculty members from World Language departments at Gallatin and Boseman High we have Sarah Sigler from Gallatin High Megan Wong from bosan Anna kosic from bosan high and also Dana Holland from Bosman high thank you
022you can all come forward you can kind of gather around the table and stand on both sides or we can't see you when you're behind the column but maybe that's on purpose could I interrupt I'm I'm so sorry when when you're when whoever is talking would you mind sitting so it goes through the microphone and then everyone can hear thank you sure um I'd like to introduce three students from Gallatin High School who are here uh to talk to us a little bit about the Seal of by literacy um I have over here Bella deerman aisel Alo and McKenna Matson and they will talk a little bit about their experience um hi my name is arisol Almo so I took the SE by literacy last year and I actually speak Spanish I grew up speaking
023Spanish English is my second language um for me it wasn't more of like getting something for a resume it was more like putting my skills and my knowledge to a test just because I know I'm not 100% fluent in Spanish um I definitely noticed that I have like a couple areas that I could get better on I was one away from getting the highest so killed my ego a little bit but it helped me um kind of figure out that it's like hard I guess even I think if I were to take it in English I would probably score the same in English just cuz it's hard being bilingual but I did enjoy taking it it was kind of long and not fun sitting for that long but it did teach me a lot of
024stuff even as somebody who's bilingual so um I'm Bella Derman and I took the I'm not bilingual as aerosol is but I took it honestly for resme I will admit but I think it's really applicable to people who are either going to trade school college or even just working after school because it's good to bolster your resume it's also the second most spoken language in the United States for Spanish at least so I think it's very beneficial it's also a good opportunity to gauge where I'm at in my language learning ability especially because I'm taking the AP exam this year so I definitely recommend it and I think it's a really great opportunity for every student at school um I'm McKenna Matson and I took this stamp test because I wanted to see where I
025was at so this test tests different um types of your Spanish or language for that matter so there's a speaking writing listening and reading section and so you go through through those and see um you answer the questions best of your ability and then you get your scores back on that specifically so I wanted to see where I was in all of these different um types of Spanish and then I'm also planning on studying Spanish next year um double majoring and so I wanted to be prepared for that as well um and for the type of tests that we'll take and see where I'm at to prepare myself for that next year so I think it was a great experience overall all right um I think someone has a slideshow going yeah okay so yeah
026where just going to kind of go through a few slides about what is exactly the Montana seal of biliteracy um this is given to high school students they can apply as seniors um for the actual seal of biliteracy um many of our students talked about the tests that they take to qualify um which is called the stamp test um there's two levels as as mentioned up there the gold or platinum and it appears on their high school diploma all right this is my [Music] great all right um so we wanted to highlight while I make my daughter cry in front of everybody um we wanted to highlight what the ca by literacy does for our students and how it helps um support that picture we have the essential skills for a bsd7 graduate um so
027this promotes bilingualism for our students um for our students that take Spanish and French and German in our courses but it's also um recognizing the biliteracy um that and the bilingualism that other students bring to our district as well um so some of these things up on the slides you can see um are what this seal celebrates for our students and what it communicates to our students promotes them to continue learning languages um and this connects back to a core value that our district has that both of our schools have collected commitments um that are aligned with inclusivity and valuing multiple cultures um so that is one of the pluses we saw to bringing this opportunity to our students so there are many benefits that the Seal of biliteracy and just being biliterate or bilingual
028brings for our students overall uh both academically and professionally so obviously um some of the students talked about sort of that boost to your resume both for applying to college and also if you're career bound I mean eventually hopefully everyone's career bound but um just having that thing that sets you apart kind of from the mass of people that are applying in that those competitive markets uh depending on the receiving University students can also receive college credit or get placed into higher level language classes based on their score on the St test when we look at professionally um lots of research shows us that bilingual people make more money over the course of their career than monolingual people so that's obviously a benefit and then lastly um a lot of government and international work values
029obviously being um multilingual uh you know like our military for example really um values and rewards um knowing more than English uh so kind of wrapping up the benefits and moving into how did the seala by literacy come to Montana and how have we've been implementing it so it started um all 50 states now have a state seal of biliteracy we were the 48th to adopt it but better late than never um and so it really is something that's recognized nationally by universities and um employers and it began in November of 2020 um just a group of current and past teachers mostly associated with the Montana Association of language teachers brought it to the mon Board of public education there was um a lot of conversations presentations and then eventually they also presented to the
030Montana advisory Council on Indian education and the reason for this is that um particularly Alaska kind of spearheaded this surprisingly they are one of the first states to adopt the Cala by literacy and a big push for them was trying to revive and keep those indigenous languages alive so they they presented to the um Macy board here as also sort of sort of a let's try to revive some of these indigenous languages in Montana as well um and then finally in July of 2022 the board approved the Montana state seal of biliteracy and then we moved into launching the pilot program in the school year of 2022 2023 and 2023 is when we first awarded um seals of by litery sorry we thought by having all of us switch and take slides it would keep
031it more Dynamic but this chair thing's throwing us off um so one of the things we want to highlight with um this chart we've only done this as a whole district for two years in terms of both high schools implementing the seal and taking the stamp test giving the stamp test to our students um but in the two years that we've done it our seals have doubled um so what you really want to look at is that data in terms of the different years the lower um bars that you're looking at are the advanced low the Platinum seals um that's extremely difficult for a student to get that is just moving through our program just from the limited amount of exposure that middle school and high school can give them in a language so our
032students that are getting the advanced low seal tend to speak it at home um or have other exposure so we want to see that number go up meaning we're reaching more students that aren't just going through our program um and then obviously we want more students getting the gold seal which is intermediate mid um which we'll explain more in a little bit but that's more so the needle that we're able to move as a program and that we've seen move in two years of implementation okay um right now we are in the midst of uh how students earn the seala by literacy they take the stamp test at both high schools we um are offering the stamp in Spanish German and French um just we just added ASL one of my students actually is fluent
033in ASL and so we're hoping she can get um both in Spanish and a ASL um so the sealed by literacy the seals are intended for all students who master um academic English or proficient English at graduation and any other language so we're always on the lookout um as well as our Administration for students who come to us already fluent in other language and we want to recognize that um and to build upon what Sarah was saying at Boseman high this year we actually have um students three students um one taking a Polish test one taking Russian and one taking Japanese and they're all seeking the SE little of biliteracy in those languages as well in addition to Spanish all of them so some really impressive students um I'm just going to talk really quickly
034about the stamp test um the stamp test is a third-party adaptive assessment so that means that we as their language teachers have nothing to do with the creation or the grading of the test so it's really um an objective assessment of their language proficiency and it's adaptive meaning the more questions they answer correctly the harder it gets so we always tell them if it feels really hard towards the end that's a good sign um in addition to being used as um an assessment for earning the sale of by literacy it's also used in things like um College placement and career um requirement exams and there are like the students mentioned sections in Reading Writing listening and speaking and on the next slide you'll see kind of how they're scored um so in order to earn
035uh well each section of this of the test receives a score um basically from one to nine and each number is correlated with a proficiency level a one being someone that just began learning the language and a nine being usually maybe a native speaker that was highly educated in that language um in order to earn the five or in order to earn the gold seale of biliteracy our students need to earn a five or above in all four parts of the test so intermediate mid or above in order to earn the Platinum seal they need to earn a seven or above in all four parts of the test um and it's not good enough just to get an average of five or above students actually have to earn a five or above um on each
036section so you can see two different examp examples there of hypothetical scores the first one would earn the seal the gold seal and the second one would not because there is one section in which they didn't um demonstrate that intermediate mid proficiency so it's um it's there are high standards for our students and it's really impressive um any of them that are able to earn this uh award um we already uh heard our student testimonials at this time um so we're going to move on to the next slide um I also wanted to mention that um the requirements testing requirements on the English side also get higher as students who are going for the Platinum award um must also have a composite score on the ACT of 20 or higher or there's some other um
037tests that they can show a higher level of English proficiency as well um this of course comes down to uh why we're here and what we're passionate about and that's the world language program here in Boseman um we feel like encouraging students to uh study languages all four years of high school increases a lot of really important skills communication skills um we reinforce basic uh literac literacy skills reading and writing we also reinforce basic interpersonal communication we practice constantly um conversations and polite um ways to interact with people that you may never have met before so we feel like we're reinforcing a lot of real world world um skills in our language program um obviously we we build our curriculum around cultural knowledge and learning about other cultures um represented in our languages that we're
038teaching and um finally we value diversity we're um we really want to recognize students that come with diverse linguistic backgrounds or are achieving um the achievement of becoming um bilingual or multilingual as as high school students and finally we of course want to invite our board anyone else is welcome as well but we'd love to invite our board to celebrate our students um we have two different Awards Ceremonies for the two high schools that I can't see out of the corner of my eye but you can see there and you are very much welcome um should have speakers at each event um coffee and snacks and we hope you can join us to celebrate them thank you very much thank you very much for your attention are there any trustee questions for the students or
039World language teachers Gary yeah thank you very much this is very good to hear so congratulations I'm curious on the if I phrase this correctly but the proficiency standards to get the seal how do those align with the OPI chapter 55 accreditation standards for foreign languages are those is that a higher level than the OPI standards or how do you handle those in this case are we referring to the world Readiness standards that the state uses or okay um our curriculum we um assess our students using the um actual proficiency guidelines the performance of the performance and um proficiency descriptors we it's a little different in our classes because our students work towards a particular topic with us and that's therefore a practice sample of what they can do um but we use these same
040proficiency guidelines to assess student work it's going to be higher when it's a practice topic this exam is a proficiency exam they don't have any context um it's just completely a mix of subjects um they definitely have things from our courses that they use and reference in that proficiency exam but it's the overall skill set that they have that's measured it is assessed in the same way that we measure our own students Sandy this is for the students um is there a way that you can prepare for this I would say that um just general class like day-to-day work is how we prepare for this exam so we are practicing all four sections of of the speaking and writing and listening and everything we're practicing that in class every day but when it comes to
041actually taking the test it's really random topics and so it's testing your knowledge as if you were to go out into the real world where you're not going to know or be able to study for like a conversation so for example I had a writing prompt that was talking about a carnival and it was really tricky because in class we haven't studied like exactly how to put a carnival together and so it was like you have to you know think of these words from class and um things that you wouldn't Norm talk about in everyday life um and then kind of use your skills and your knowledge to figure out how to like talk about this certain topic but you can't study it's just what you practice in class so thank you very much for
042coming bill it's great to see you and thank you for coming um world language teachers we highly appreciate you all and sorry to make you stand up and sit down constantly the whole presentation but did great so um thank you very much up next is recognition and awards first item is 2.3.1 Montana Association of language teachers teacher of the year award principal Mills welcome back thank you again trustees and superintendent Bertram for having us um it's my honor tonight well first we're going to continue with the World Language theme um and it's my honor tonight to introduce for recognition Miss Dana Holland who to to my right um Dana's in her eighth year of teaching at Boseman High she's also a proud graduate of Boseman High which gives her a great perspective on our change
043processes and continual growth in our school uh Dana's here tonight for this portion because she's earned the honor of being selected as the teacher of the Year by the Montana Association of language teachers this honor is in part of is part of a a nationwide language teacher of the year program in the Act full organization and the description of that overall teacher of the year for the national program says that it's intended to elevate the status and the public profile of the language profession at the state Regional and National Levels by creating opportunities to recognize accomplished members of the language profession and I thought that that particular description was worth quoting because because it's so well suited for Dana teacher who by her daily and yearly commitment to best teaching practices and continuous Improvement elevates
044herself her colleagues and her students Dana is an Artful teacher she creates a student- centered classroom where student voices dominate she teaches both Spanish and French with the same precision and the same attention to authentic student conversation you wouldn't know any difference in Dana's ability with either language depending which section of the class you walk into in her classroom uh Dana is committed to the connection between language and culture both abroad and locally Dana leads our Spanish National Honor Society chapter helping students serve in various capacities in support of younger students and community members new to the English language as you may have just heard a glimpse of in Dana's response to trust lucin's question uh Dana is a an accomplished faculty leader at Boseman High she has the ability to lead without dominating she
045questions without cynicism or complaint she provokes without instigating on several occasions throughout our uh ongoing change process in the last several years a part of which Dana has been a staunch faculty leader Dana has challenged my own thinking our guiding coalition's thinking and the things that we've uh made Collective decisions on Dana does these things thoughtfully and authentically I usually walk away from our conversations with fresh ideas and inspiration so I'll turn it over to uh your your comments and questions for Miss Holland now but I'm very proud to honor her tonight thank you principal Mills there any questions for Miss Holland it's absolutely fine if there's not Tanya Dana congratulations and I'm curious when you um first thought you wanted to be a language foreign language instructor and what was what was the driving
046motivation and what would you tell the students in the room that might Inspire them or lead them a different direction um I have two um former amazing educ in the room here that told me I could be anything I wanted to be except a teacher only because they knew how much work it can be and what an emotionally exhausting job it's not to say that they said that because they did not have extremely successful careers themselves um but I loved languages I studied them I whenever I met someone that spoke it I was very happy to experiment despite their reaction um and I found myself just loving it but then really only dedicating myself to learning languages and realizing that I had very few other skills besides then English so I taught English abroad um
047and in that process I would come up against things I wasn't sure about or better ways to do it and I would call my parents and ask them about a pedagogy I learned what I remember Googling something like Mom I found this article on pedagogy have you heard this before I bet you remember that um and I found it a really rewarding experience to see um students connect con with cultural information especially see them grow in their languages and feel more capable and then more able to explore the world um and over time I realized that I didn't care very much about English um and I did care a lot about Boseman Montana so coming back and becoming a teacher in the district just made the most sense I was just fortunate in my timing
048um and yeah eight years ago was hired in the rest of History Lauren I was going ask something similarly so um thank you for that and congratulations uh we're super proud of you it's a great honor to have you in our district I've had two of my kids have you and felt really fortunate for both of those years that we had you and so thanks for everything that you do and and for your profession and um I believe trusty Moran and did you have a question you're welcome to ask the question as well does Gary have a question Gary yeah thank you and congratulations Dan I'm just curious what what do you see in the future as far as teaching in this foreign language World um I think it's a very bright future things initiatives
049like the Seal of biliteracy highlight that we've moved away from what most of us in this room experienced um which was that more grammar-based instruction a lot of error correction and the focus really is now on communication and what can you do and um not having one mistake equal minus one point in a red marker so I think that focusing on communication focusing on cultures um is a really great thing that we're we now have embedded in our standards um we're seeing World language education shift to highlight those things and not just grammar exercises um so I see in a global World um people recognizing more and more The Importance of Being able to communicate and now having education opportunities that will get them there um in a better way trustar um congratulations and to
050the students in the room if you are taking a foreign language pay attention I just went to MSU Friday with my eldest and the study abroad programs are fantastic out there and it definitely starts in the classroom learning another language um you've taught both of my children and you probably will have Michael for two more years so thank you very much I move that the Board of Trustees adopt the following resolution whereas the Montana Association of language teachers was founded in 1954 and provides its members with pedological assistance and linguistic resources for language instruction at elementary secondary and University levels the member organization has an annual conference in the spring and whereas annually the Montana Association of language teachers attempts to recognize an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning
051of world languages over an extended period of time and whereas the Montana Association of language teachers teacher of the year candidates must provide evidence of the following number one the connection between the student work and how the teacher addresses the national standards in the classroom two the connection between the student work and how the teacher uses and promot promotes target language communication in the classroom three how the student work demonstrates differentiation of instruction Andor assessment to meet the needs of all Learners four how the students work demonstrates the teachers ability to integrate culture into instruction and or assessment five the type of feedback the teacher provided to the students on their work and whereas Boseman High School teacher Dana Holland has been named the 2025 recipient of the teacher of the year award for the
052Montana Association of language teachers therefore be it resolved that the Board of Trustees recognize and honor Dana Holland for her commitment to her students and content area second motion made by truste Moran seconded by truste D is there any public comment seeing none all in favor motion passes 8 to zero congratulations thank you very much for coming especially in white of having a little one she's pretty cute Dana could would you mind uh meeting trusty Moran in the hall for a picture thank you up next 2.3.2 202 2425 swimming state championship team individual state champion and all state individuals Mr raer good evening board members uh I'm proud to uh introduce you to the Head swim coach at both Boseman high and galon high Miss Siobhan Gil Martin welcome sioban thank you I can almost
053stand and still use this um would you would you mind bring your student athletes forward with you well do you want to do it a school at a time or do you want them all to it's um completely up to you you coach both programs so whatever feels best to you I would say you guys are kind of a one Bosman thing bring them all up at the same time all right why don't you guys all oh gosh sorry come up here I feel shoot did I mess up no you didn't do that okay um yeah how about you guys all come up here maybe yeah everyone come up and kind of squeeze in between the columns and around your code um I'm so proud to uh present to you the Boseman Hawk state champions
054as noted by the Boseman leaders and the members of our Gallatin swim teams both boys and girls as well as our Boseman girls who are all all state finish meaning that they finished in the top six either as an individual or on a relay um and I usually wing it but I just feel like I'm getting older so I wrote some stuff down to share with you all just some exciting um stats I think as I share year after year these kids work so incredibly hard on top of managing often these kids are full course loads AP classes other extracurriculars activities we have Alina leaving for a concert right now um they are incredibly disciplined um incredible athletes but I think most importantly just like really amazing people um and so just a couple of
055stats these were the Boseman stats really trusty Neil I thought you would appreciate the most given some of the school records that were broken this year um as we've mentioned the team Awards but we have uh Max sigiri here was a two-time individual state champion I broke the hunter butterfly state record um as well as winning the hunter breaststroke and breaking that state record I mean I'm sorry team record um we have Callahan Callie right here um who broke 21y old T free record I was thinking you would appreciate that most uh by two seconds in the 200 freestyle um this year we had an eight-year-old School record in the 200 free relay broken by Max Bryce Cal and Kean we had a 27-year-old School record broke in the 400 free relay um this year
056our Boseman girls placed fourth some of them are sprinkled around here just um to kind of like put an exclamation mark on the growth of that program in the last several years um last year with that was only with 10 girls last year they placed 11th um the year prior 10th and the year prior 9th and so to come in fourth only by 11 points this year we're pretty incredibly proud um led by our one and only senior girl BR King here we're sad to see leaving us um for the Gallatin side which is becoming the most expensive record board in the history of Boseman um they broke um the boys broke seven team records and the girls broke five team records um and as um llo and poni pointed out they both placed third
057this year um we are just like so grateful to be coming back to Boseman with three trophies of our four programs and um yeah I just can't really emphasize enough how incredible these kids are and how much recognition I know that swimming isn't always a sport that receives as much praise as I personally believe it deserves but just your willingness to recognize these kids tonight is very much appreciated so thank you for for that great job thank you very much trusty questions for the swimmers Max what was the um sorry Kevin what was the uh Hunter breast time 564 it's a lot faster than I was in the 90s were you brush Joker I was yeah I'm not even going to tell what my time was and I thought I was kind of good till
058just now Rusty black uh for those seniors do you guys have any future plans um I haven't fully decided where I'm going to college yet but I have some ideas and college as the plan so yeah I'm excited I'm going up to main Maritime Academy majoring in Marine Transport operation and uh swimming on their swim team so so I'm just going to stay at home in Boseman and uh cherish my time here I'm going to go to the local MSU and hopefully swim on the club team there excellent well I know how hard hard you all work with the morning practices and what it's like to be in a one or two o'clock in the afternoon class after you had practice that morning and um I've always thought that swimmers and wrestlers from a raw
059physical fitness standpoint are the uh the hardest working student athletes and so I'm just really impressed it was really fun to see you all I went to your last cross town meet and um you all are super impressive um athletes and to have it culminate in good grades on top of everything that you accomplish in the pool is is really admirable so just really impressed with all of you so great job and Coach sioban um you're the only coach we asked to coach two programs and thank you again for the I think maybe fifth year of of doing that for the school district and um you you do an amazing job so and I know that you have lots of other things in your life that you make sacrifices for so thanks for everything so
060trusty Wilson has the award yes well congratulations to all of you um really I have no idea what it means to be a swimmer but it um sounds exhausting and and I'm really proud of all you guys um for showing up and doing what you love obviously so it is recommended that the Board of Trustees adopt the following resolution whereas the Boseman high and gallon High swim teams competed in the doublea state swim meet in Great Falls on February 13th through the 15th 2025 and whereas the Boseman High boys team finished at state champions team members included max aguir if I say a name wrong I'm really sorry um uh aguer a okay Emory bolasco Ali Basco B Boer Gavin broa Matthew Clark Kelvin fall habber Cyrus Gettys Diego Diego onour onour Gonzalez Elias Jacobson
061Ben langen Shinu naer Keen Odum Cal mol Quinn mcau and Bryce thorough did I do all right so far good what's that Thorne Thorne Bryce Thorne whereas the following bosan h my team uh members won state championships Max agary um 100 butterfly and 100 breaststroke Cal McColly 200 freestyle Max aary Cal mccauly Keen Odin and Bryce Thorne 200 freestyle relay and Max agary Emory Basco Cal McColly and Keen odm odm 400 freestyle relay and whereas the following G gallon my team members won a state championship uh Tri trig is that how you sorry okay thank you tri chel Alex Clapper Paul Nave and Caven oconor 200 medal relay uh the whereas the following Boseman High team members earned All State honors by placing the top six at the state meet Max Air first um 100
062butterfly first 100 breast stroke first 200 freestyle relay first 400 freestyle Reay relay Emme Basco third 200 uh 200 meter third 500 freestyle and um third 200 medley relay first 400 freestyle relay oi Basco fifth 500 freestyle third 500 freestyle style I'm going to take a breath this is quite impressive let me tell you Alexis hubard sixth 200 freestyle third 500 freestyle fourth 200 freestyle relay third 400 freestyle relay and Elias Jacobson third 200 medley relay and to the second sheet Brin King fifth 50 freestyle fifth 100 freestyle fourth 200 freestyle relay third 400 freestyle relay Cal moli first 200 freestyle 2 50 freestyle first 200 freestyle relay first 400 freestyle relay Quinn McColly sixth 500 freestyle Ken odm Keen Keen Keen odm fifth 200 freestyle fifth 200 meter is that is that correct I
063am I am what's what does that individ okay thank you for that individual metal okay first 200 freestyle relay first 400 freestyle relay Amelia Olsen third 200 individual metal correct medley medley fourth you should be doing this uh fourth 100 breast stroke fourth 200 freestyle relay third 400 freey relay Bryce Thorne fifth 100 butterfly third 200 metal Relay first 200 freestyle relay Lizzy Williams in 6 100 backstroke fourth 200 freestyle relay third 400 freestyle relay whereas the following gallon high team members earned All State honors by placing the top six at State M K Bron is that correct K Bron fifth 200 freestyle relay uh trig trivy CH selich thank you um second 400 freestyle relay Alex Clapper first 200 medley relay fourth 100 freestyle fourth 100 back stroke and second 400 freestyle relay Jane
064kusac six 500 um cusac uh 6 500 freestyle 6200 individual medley fourth 400 freestyle relay uh camea leech fourth 400 freestyle relay six 200 freestyle relay okay uh Elina uh mag magito Magano thank you fourth 100 butterfly fourth 200 medal relay fourth 400 freestyle relay Maya mag magito are you are you related sisters okay um six 100 breast stroke fourth 200 medle relay six 200 freestyle relay Lucas Meyer fifth 200 freestyle relay Paul Nave first 200 meday relay sixth 100 butterfly fourth 100 breast stroke fifth 200 freestyle relay Cav o Conor first 200 medal relay second 200 freestyle second 100 breaststroke two second 400 freestyle relay Lola Lola P pado Smith 6 200 freestyle relay Mo Moira Ross 6 200 freestyle relay Shelby Russell fourth 500 freestyle fourth 200 medal relay fourth 400 freestyle relay
065and and daser almost help me please I'm sorry usov us manov okay R Us manov second 400 freestyle relay fifth 200 freestyle relay therefore be it resolved that the Board of Trustees recognize and honor the Boseman High boys state championship team and individual state champion and all state individuals from both schools second you done I think so so cool motion made by trusty Wilson seconded by truste Reinhardt is there any public comment seeing none all in favor motion passes eight to zero congratulations thank you to all of you for coming in coach shobon thanks again thanks to all your parents for coming tonight for all the support that they give to you and if we could have all of you meet trusty Wilson in the hall for a picture that would be appreciated so thanks
066sioban all right did that one item 2.3.3 NASA hunch critical design review recognition Mr Bradberry uh thanks for letting us be here uh so every year our Advanced engineering students participate in a NASA program called NASA hunch uh NASA likes her acronyms hunch stands for high schools United with NASA to create Hardware yeah uh anyway hunch has a number of different divisions we can we have students participating in the design and prototyping division the goal of that is NASA actually has real flight issues to base flight problems they want solved and traditionally when the program started was mostly with the ISS now we're seeing them move from the ISS to a few projects there lunar missions and Mars missions um and so every year there's they have a list of projects we have students broken
067up into teams that tackle a certain number of the projects this year we had five teams tackling four different projects and we were chosen uh we had one team chosen to be a finalist uh with one of the projects which is the lunar lander legs and payload delivery system uh and I'll have the kids explain kind of what that is uh the process for this though starts back in September uh when the list is is published the kids come in we look at all the available options that nine different options this year we figure out who wants to do what we build teams and then they have to do a research about about two three weeks of research and they have a research review with me going over everything that they learned about the project
068learn excuse me learned about the problem things that they need to tackle then they move on from there to do a preliminary design review via Zoom with actual NASA Engineers down at the Johnson Space Center and a couple of other uh locations throughout the nation this year they did that in was it uh early November I think they moved up the calendar from past year so they didn't have quite as much time during that time they they have to present a presentation of this is what our project is this is what we're doing these are the our ideas on how we're going to solve the particular problem that we're we're trying to go after they get feedback from the NASA folks of whether they're they're on point whether there's directions that they need to look
069at try to get ideas of of different ways to solve the problem uh and then from there until early February they work on their design and prototyping uh PR project uh this year the critical design review which is the The Next Step that was scheduled to be at Montana State unfortunately we had to cancel the loc cancel due to weather uh we have we had teams from Wyoming and Montana coming uh nobody could get here because of the Sub-Zero temperatures uh and so uh it ended up that the NASA folks because they were in Boseman um Dave schlicking came into gallon high we did a little mini version of the CDR uh at that time he went through all of the projects and then spoke with our NASA representative Flo gold who lives in Laurel
070but couldn't also couldn't make it over uh and uh we had one of our five teams selected these three kids here so the next step for them is in April we'll be heading to Johnson Space Center and they will be presenting their projects to astronauts and NASA engineers at Johnson Space Center in space in uh rocket Park which is right underneath the Saturn 5 rocket if anybody's everever been there before uh it's very cool there are over a thousand teams across the nation that are participating in this project um in in the nine different areas uh in our region which is a weird region because our the folk the lady that runs our region she has Montana Wyoming Idaho and I'm not sure where else on the west but then she also has New York
071and Connecticut and something else she has family in the at back East she was only listed with to get 14 teams down to to uh down to Johnson and we had one of them and we were one of only one there was only one other lunar lander leg team on that list so uh pretty high praise for these kids that's amazing wow congratulations trust you questions for these kids or Mr Bradberry Lauren first of all congratulations and what a neat opportunity will you just briefly describe your project and maybe the process yeah so like M BR is saying we kind of all start with there's a list of projects that NASA is like hey here's what we have here's what is available for you guys to pick from um and then we just put like
072our couple options that we wanted to work on um and then he forms a teams from there we do was three weeks or so of research uh kind of just getting an idea of what our project is uh what we're supposed to be working on kind of the direction we're supposed to go um um from there we can after that PDR and we kind of get the feedback from those NASA Engineers okay so we'll talk about my project so we have the Lander uh lunar lander and then payload delivery so our objective was to drop uh a rocket which was comprised of food cans uh from I think it was seven inches off the ground onto a six degree slope uh and then successfully deliver payload um we went well and uh well and Beyond
073the seven in I think we ended up dropping from 20 in onto a 12° slope um so they were impressed by that and then uh Remy kind of designed the payload side of it and uh that was kind of the capping thing that I think kind of sealed the deal for us to go to Johnson well I wish that we had pictures up on our slideshow but we didn't really realized that we were going to be speaking um but our payload system kind of just looks like a ring around the can and then we have uh four bits of fishing line that comes down to it it looks like something that like the military would use to deler like Humvees and stuff like that from helicopters and then our legs are comprised of uh what's
074just found on uh car suspension pretty much we have a little RC shock and some linkages and some legs are there any other questions Gary well congratulations this is are are are you seniors uh yeah senior Junior sophomore wow I'm curious um Glenn maybe this is mainly for you but how do you how do you guide these students how do you how do you teach them what to do you must learn a lot on this yourself well the the beauty of this is this is real world engineering and so all these students have taken the introduction engineering class and so they're in their second or third year with me and it's just the engineering design process you know looking at what's the problem identifying it going through the research uh doing some preliminary designs doing
075some testing doing some prototyping and that's why it's the design and prototyping challenge within NASA um I don't have to know a lot about what they're doing as far as the specifics because the the the projects range quite broadly um this year we had two teams that were doing lunar ejector robots and and the the intent of that was to design a robot that would basically get shot out the side of a rocket land on the ground turn around and take a picture of the rocket uh then we had one team that was designing a lunar camper for astronauts to go and explore the moon and be like a little RV on the moon and it had to collapse it had to to unfold and things like that uh and then uh oh we had
076a a cube sat which is a very common standard format for uh small satellites it's about 10 cm on a side and they had a deployment system to maximize uh solar panel deployment so they could maximize the area of solar panel and try to figure out how much energy they could generate off of that so those were the projects that the kids were working on very diverse but the fundamental idea the fundamental goal is to get them thinking as Engineers along the roads of all right where we got to look at things we have to do research we have to figure out what to do we have to design it we have to test it we have to Proto you know prototype it go back and redo it uh these three printed I don't know
077how many versions of their legs uh because it was constant okay we did this now we did this now we ran into this problem so now we need to redesign it so I get another email hey Mr B will you print another set of legs uh and that's all the teams same thing with all of the teams and and so for me it's more of kind of just managing the overall just big picture stuff of making sure they have the supplies they need make sure they getting they're getting their 3D prints done that when they need them uh you know and and kind of every now and then guiding in different directions of I think you guys are going off in the weeds a little bit over here we need to come back around uh
078but really they manage the teams themselves they have to do all the research they have to look at everything and they have to tell me what they need and I don't I don't tell them what to do sometimes I give them suggestions and sometimes I say that's probably not going to work you can test it and see uh but realistically I'll let them let them learn let them fail if if that's what happens because that's part of the learning process and again it's real world engineering there's these are all real flight tasks that NASA is endeavoring on and so what happens with this information is everything that that they take to NASA um what'll happen is it'll get wrapped into whatever the final product ends up being and NASA takes the best of the best
079of each team and so something or many things about their design and their presentation was what got them to be get the invitation to be a fin down in in Johnson and so uh there's there's probably only going to be about five or six other lunar lander leg teams and so it'll be very interesting to see the diversion of of how each team has done what they've done and then NASA just Cherry picks the best ideas from those and then turns them into a finished product at some point Tanya wow what I really want to know is um for the for the students who inspired you to um look at a hunch project when did it start and who was your inspiration um I guess I'll go so yeah it's it's part of the class
080so I think I mean I'm technically homeschooled so I'm part-time so it's kind of the nice thing about being homeschooled is I can do a lot of things like this and have opportunities to do things um part of the reason that this class caught my eye is when we were looking up in the at like the class description it says you'll be working with NASA hunch on real problems that NASA gives you um so it's not necessarily that there was something that we saw it's just kind of a part of the class well yeah I guess like what Hudson said it's a part of the class and I guess I've always just liked building things and when I saw that there was an engineering class I thought why not sign up for it and liked
081engineering one I like what we did in it and I decided to continue on to engineering too um I've kind of always been like super interested in engineering I kind of want to go into the physics field and uh when I saw there was an engineering course offered at my school I was super excited especially this year when we're working uh alongside NASA for the NASA hun project cuz I'm very interested in the space field and I think this project is a super great opportunity to get like a real life experience of what that job would be like well thank you very much and congratulations I can't wait to find out how it goes at Johnson I will add U this is being a finalist is is the top there isn't like any other evaluation
082Beyond this um so it's not like oh we win no we've won the kids have already won um NASA only picks a very select few teams to get to come down to Johnson and so that's something that a lot of people maybe don't quite understand but it is like this is the win the kids get to go down and do that and uh it is it is a very elite group of kids that get to go that's amazing thank you for that clarification trusty black well CR congratulations to all of you guys um great work sounds like you guys um have a lot of passion what you're doing I guess one quick question I'd have is just how much time do you guys spend in class in this obviously it's the class period of time
083but outside of the class more importantly how much time do you guys put towards this project well I am going to be uh completely honest I don't think we spent any time out of class on it besides besides Prime times but I think uh yeah Prime Times um very similar to Hawk time pretty much we have is it 45 minutes each day to um go into any class that you want and uh further your academic prowess so how many prime times did you spend I mean I had like what 25 I would say yeah about 25 prime times probably extra okay yeah well G congratulations um I uh this is a little bit shorter than the last one a couple less words which you guys should appreciate um I move that the Board of Trustees
084adopt the following resolution whereas the hunch mission is to empower and Inspire students through the project-based learning program where high school students learn 21st century skills and have the opportunity to launch their careers through participation in the design and Fabrication of real world valued products for NASA and whereas NASA hunch is inviting the top five of each project in the country to the Johnson Space Center in Houston where they will share their project with NASA engineers and astronauts and whereas gon high school students Hudson boss Remy um what's that sorry helin and Dakota shraman were selected for their lunar Landing legs and payload deployment system as finalists for their prototype therefore be it resolved the Board of Trustees recognize and honor Hudson boss Remy perin and Dakota Shri Shan for their achievement for this achievement
085second motion made by trusty Black seconded by truste D is there any public comment seeing none all in favor motion passes 7 to zero congratulations Mr Bradbery thank you for coming and thanks to all of your parents for coming coming and as well and if we could have you meet trusty black out for a picture that would be appreciated thank you 20242 speech and debate state championship team individual state champions All State individuals National qualifiers and academic all-americans Mr raer yes uh just real quick we'll talk about uh speech and debate uh galon High coach Shelby Jackson bosan high coach Adam th just real quick bowan jumped in this year and hosted State when another school couldn't do it uh these two this two staffs combined did a great job I talked about Awards night
086the awards night at speech and debate is one of the more cool things we do in high school activities and uh the gton coaches and the Boseman coaches worked extremely well together so I'll bring up Adam and Shelby now and you two are welcome to bring up your students as well with you have them gather around you might get a little bit [Music] tight Mr th and and Shelby if you could have them um maybe come in front of the columns so that the trustees can all get their eyes on them g go in front of the columns y so crowd around feel like yeah don't your speech and debate kids so you're not shy so come on forward forward like take three big steps forward out of yeah yeah I think J in Montana
087so so if you can get up up there I don't think anybody need to see me thank you good job ah you're fine we're all friends here well um for Gallatin the 2024 2025 season was uh an incredibly competitively excellent season um we're an incredibly young team we have a team of 65 members 44 of those are freshman and sophomores um which it can have its own challenges um and yet these guys Rose to the occasion they consistently placed they consistently put in the work and the effort and we're so incredibly proud of this team um when we're looking at going into the national qualifiers I have several members who are not here tonight just because they're an orchestra or they've been doing the uh okona and uh foreign exchange student program um and so
088I'm going to talk about those kiddos first and if you couldn't tell I'm kind of recovering from a an illness from a week ago so I'm going to let my kiddos introduce themselves so that way you don't have to listen to me uh but um when we're looking at the kiddos who are not here Cooper Jones He qualified for Nationals in Senate he took first place um he's a junior and he was a seconde member of the team which is incredible uh we have Ezra Graham who is a sophomore um he placed at State as well as qualified in Lincoln Douglas debate for Nationals um we also have Wilder henningson who is a junior this is her third year on the team and her third time qualifying for Nationals in humorous interpretation and she also
089qualified in dramatic interpretation as well so even though we have an incredibly young team these guys are consistently working hard putting in the effort and we are so proud of them um honestly like watching them all throughout the season grow I think that's the most wonderful feeling as a coach and in the back of my of the room I have my other assistant coaches um who I have two interp coaches Mara Hodges and Andrew testerman who have worked incredibly hard with their interpers I have laurelai Michael Owens who is my LD coach Lincoln Douglas coach and my public forum debate coach who's also worked incredibly hard and uh through her efforts leted our kids like to uh a wonderful placement at Nationals and then we also have um not here but Lynn holinger who works
090with our memorized crew which we have uh one of our members here and we have Halton stansel who is our wonderful policy debate coach who also also has coached our wonderful students and so what I'm going to do just to give my voice a little bit of a break is I'm going to let uh my kiddos uh come over tell you their name kind of like what event they do um and their age and just something about spech and debate that um is important to them so I'm going to start with um Sophie Hi my name is Sophie I'm a senior and I've participated in policy debate for all four years and I would say that I appreciate the confidence that speech and debate has given me hello my name is Jameson Palmer I'm an
09111th grader and I compete in public forum debate and I would say that ultimately what debate has given me is a broader view of the world and our community within it and really just made me a citizen of the world that we live in and it has given me not only perspective but also information so that I may act as someone who exists within this world and can actually perhaps make change hi my name is Montana Gwynn I'm a junior and this is my third year on speech debate I've competed in O for the past three years and just this year I started competing in MPA too I would say for me that one of my favorite things from a speech and debate is the lifelong friend friendships that I have made and I will
092cherish forever hello my name is Shelby Tyler I'm a senior this is my third year on the speech and debate team I compete in extemporaneous speaking and the most valuable thing that speech and debate has given me is more Global Knowledge hi I'm I'm Ava Mard and I'm a freshman this year it is my first year on the speech and debate team I compete in extemporaneous speaking and the best thing that I can take away from this this season is the friendships that I've made through this team that I definitely wouldn't have made without it and so each one of these members uh are going to Nationals um this year uh minus Shelby Tyler who was not unable to go to Nationals um but Ava Mard is going to be competing in United States extemporaneous
093speaking Montana Gwyn is going to be competing in original oratory Jameson Palmer with his partner pronu Krishna who could not be here tonight because he has an orchestra concert as you know uh they're going to be competing in public forum debate um and who am I um I already mentioned uh ezren Cooper and then um we have two of our world School uh students from last year who with uh the collaboration with Boseman High School took uh top 16 at Nationals last year and because of that both Sophie and Shelby are now academic all or national or academic all Americans with the points that they have with the nsda um and then Shelby uh she has multiple awards from this season she was the Montana daa State extemporaneous speaker so she won state in extemporaneous
094speaking also um we have an equivalent award to like the Gatorade athlete of the Year Shelby also um was awarded the nsda student of the year for Montana East District which is one of the highest honors you can achieve in speech and debate um and so that was an incredibly exciting moment for for her and for our team hello everybody Adam the head goer Boseman hi um I'm probably missing like a third to a half of my people for that Orchestra concert it was a pretty big crew uh we're also a very young team this year in fact the youngest team um at state in the top five or six we had because of covid and then a a weird situation where we had a bunch of kids of the senior class their parents got
095jobs out of state and so we had two seniors on our team uh the team was about 90 people so you imagine it was a little bit of her and cats this year um trying to get uh everybody where they needed to be um we started okay and we built from there and um at State we ended up squeaking out a onepoint win which is um tighter than I would like it but better than a onepoint loss as most of you know um so along the way uh had I didn't even count how many All State uh three state champions 25 National qualifiers um so for a team where almost everybody is coming back it was a pretty good year um we're looking strong I think a lot of you know how hard it is
096to go up and do anything in Kalispel and that'll be next year's state so uh if there ever is a year that we can take it in cisp it'll probably be next year and so we we'll be building for that we'll also head to Africa again this year uh to continue our work with the panafrican spean debate league we'll take 13 students and three of the coaches there um this summer so that's our third trip across the ocean to bring speech and debate to other people and I'm definitely looking forward to that my assistant coaches um obviously could not do anything without them uh you have lla Michael who's my inter coach yeah you might have noticed Laura Michael Owens is one of Gallatin's coaches so that's lyla's daughter which is kind of a cool
097thing to see um and then uh the other four assists I have all competed on the team while I was coaching so you have um Jake Hoskins who coaches debate Max Hatton who coaches debate uh and is not here because his boiler exploded about an hour and a half before the meeting um but hopefully he's uh going to MSU to get a teaching degree now after 10 years running dive boats in the Florida keys so hopefully we'll have him here uh often in the future um Chris Warren who teaches at sacka Jia uh coaches short prep for me and then Emily Daniels who's a flight instructor at Summit Aviation is my memorized coach so um a good crew and I think a testament to the way that this team is run that mik coaches are
098all people who competed over the years I think one of the kids counted in between us all we represent competition in five decades five different decades which makes me feel old but proud you know um so I don't think having my kids come up and introduce themselves would be the best for your uh evenings um so I can introduce them all uh if you would like you want me to do it that way okay so uh why don't you you guys because I can't see you all we'll have you just kind of file through and I'll it can be like I'll tell you yeah it's a little bit a little bit pageant to ask here do a little turn on the catwalk we'll start with May we'll start with May and circle around so this
099is May Bamberg so [Laughter] she she's a sophomore policy debater and she'll be going to Nationals this year this is M Williamson uh m is a an exer who qualified in both us and international extemp uh and will come be coming to Nationals with us this year yeah this is Siri Bates and a sophomore memorized speaker and Inver this is Cena neelon one of our fabulous freshmen C no no no which one's that oh gosh which one's that one that's Lily cross Lily croski Lily crosy freshman memorized speaker this is Cena neelon a sophomore memorized speaker I'm tired it's been a long year okay we have River Meyers who is a sophomore interpreter this is violet piery a sop sophomore memorized speaker Rowan Keith state champion as a sophomore and humorous inter coming to Nationals
100all that good stuff this is Aubrey neelson a Aubrey Hansen a June one Junior uh memorized speaker this is kayb ball a sophomore policy debator this is Georgia Jor a freshman dramatic interpreter this is Nathan and Decker a junior I like that one Junior uh Congressional debater will'll be coming to Nationals with us this is Sunni rabinsky a sophomore public forum debater coming to Nationals with us this is Charlie mcgean who is All State in humorous and turp coming to Nationals in Duo actually ended up this year with the best single season humorous inter turp record ever of somebody from Boseman High which for a freshman makes me real happy for the next couple of years this is oie Patterson he is Charlie's partner in Duo and also as you can probably tell that humor
101is interpet this is George dendros one of our uh freshman H or freshman Duo interpreters and also program oral interpretation right yeah this is Cooper white the best dressed person on our team that suit comes hand tailored from Africa uh Cooper is a Lincoln Douglas debater and will be coming in World schools uh again this year he was one of the members of that top 16 in the world crew this is Nat Potter Nat was runner up at state in Lincoln Douglas debate she's a junior this is Quinn wner Quinn is a junior interpreter this is Claire Becker Claire is a freshman interpret yes interpreter yes this is jet Berger jet is a junior Congressional debater this is Adam Bukowski another Junior Congressional debater will be coming to Nationals with us this is one of
102my favorite acquisition this year in the off seon this is Isaiah Carlson Isaiah comes to us from rig high school he's a sophomore and he uh is an LD debater and will be representing Montana in World schools debate with Cooper this summer this is Ryan lofs Garden a junior Congressional debater qualified for Nationals this is Charles Morris a junior public forum debater who will be coming to Nationals to represent Montana in World schools debate this year this is Tommy Meltzer a short prepper of renown who will be coming with us to Nationals this is Phoebe cross who was on that top 16 World schools team last year and has to get her their foot reexamined this year so we'll not be making the trip but happy to have Phoebe back for one more year this
103is Stetson stock Stetson is a sophomore policy debater who will be coming to Nationals with us these two has you ever read Lord of the Flies and the Twins Sam and Eric who could never be mentioned apart from each other these two are Kay wait don't go anywhere get back out here CU these two deserve a couple of accolades so you know Nila Ward her debate partner uh the other senior on the team is Kaylee tadesco these two um qualified for Nationals three years in policy debate state champions as sophomores State runner up as Junior state champions as seniors the two best overall records uh in debate in Boseman High history which is uh more than impressive so these two though we lose only two seniors they're two that are really going to take a
104piece out of our hearts um we'll miss them mostly okay is that everybody who made it today so and then there's like 30 more or so that were on the State team uh and a lot more besides that so um I didn't know that I was supposed to list everybody's individual finish at state for your resolution I'll make sure to add that next year you did a great job I think that's what swim did right there's no rules okay oh yeah great job [Laughter] careful well thank you very much to both of you coaches and congratulations to all of you kids uh you're you're always some of our most impressive kids that come in this boardroom that we honor and we look forward to it every year um are there any questions for the speech
105and Debaters seeing none Rusty black all right well congratulations on your year um who's going to Africa so there's a few behind the pillar here and a bunch of them in Orchestra as well yeah eventually the goal is to get Gallatin High students in as well um the expansion depends on fundraising and then also on well this year we were expecting a uh Embassy support but with the election that happened um this fall there was uh a little bit of unsur there so we decided to hold off at least one year before expansion but the goal is to get Galla and students and coaches coming as well as soon as we can where was State supposed to be held Belgrade it was in Belgrade but uh they had some coaching turnover the past couple couple
106of years and their head coach last year quit right after the season and they had only had three kids on the team so it was decided that maybe that wasn't the best place to host State this year they got an uh an old new coach uh who is great and they had I think 23 24 on their team this year so it it's looking a lot better for Belgrade in the future too great trusty rehard so in the paper Pap last week there was a letter to the editor that suggested that one of the Boseman high school speech and Debaters debate one of our current Senators um I'm wondering if any of the students here have any desire to do something like that if it truly was an opportunity I always thought that would be
107a great fundraiser you know it's like I think people would pay to see that well thank you all so much for the incredible dedication to time rehearsal um I know how much Sweat Equity goes into this I know how much thought goes into it um the coaches what you put into it the parents and for those of you that have completed a successful season I know that many of you probably shed a tear or two in frustration over the over the course of the time so I'm as a community I don't think we could be more proud of any team than we always are of those of you who go out for speech and debate and stick it out through the entire season so thank you to all of you and it is my pleasure
108to recommend that the Board of Trustees adopt the following resolution this is almost as long as the swim team one so whereas the Boseman high and Gallatin High speech and debate teams participated in the state daa speech and debate tournament held in Boseman on January 3 31st through February 1st of 2025 whereas the Boseman High Hawkers finished as state champions team members include Kylie tadesco Nila Ward Roman Keith Avery Harris poppy kenam Gabby laques Stetson stocks Val Kyla ball Charles moris Alex Hansen Phoebe cross Audrey Wells Wyatt Maguire Solomon schneck Sunni rinsky Tara Gallagher Nat Potter Isaiah Carlson Cooper white Luke mitton Charlie mcgean George dendrinos akie Patterson Gabe stall Tommy Meltzer M Williamson Owen Bernat Bridger blot Emerson Ritter Aubrey Hansen River Meyers Reagan Fenty a J Edgar Sam thunderberg Siri Bateson aliser no
109Koby Santa Nelson Sienna Nelson Adam Bowski Nathan Ander jet Borger Ryan lgarden Quinn Warner Violet piery Claire Becker Lucy child and Lily crosi and whereas the following students are individual state champions from Boseman High Rowan Keith with humorous oral interpretation Kylie Tedesco and Neila Ward with policy debate from Gallatin High Shelby Tyler extemporaneous speaking whereas the following St students earned All State honors from Boseman High Kylie Tesco and Nila Ward Avery Harris and Poppy kappenman Nat Potter Alex Hansen and Charles Morris Adam Bowski Gabe stole Rowan Keith Charlie be Sam thunderberg from Gallatin High Shelby Tyler whereas the following students are National qualifiers and will compete in the National speech and debate Association High School tournament on June 15th through the 20th in De Moine Iowa from Boseman High Kylie tadesco and Nila Ward with
110policy debate Avery Harris and Poppy Capman policy debate valun and may Bamberg policy debate Gabby lisna and Stetson stocks policy debate Sunni rabinsky and Audrey Wells public forum debate Charlie MC and oie Patterson Duo interpretation Aubrey Hansen and Emerson Ritter Duo interpretation Sam thunderberg informative speaking and original oratory M Williamson International extemp Tommy Meltzer United States extemp Reagan fanty program of oral interpretation ation Charlie McAn humorous interpretation Roman Keith humorous interpretation Nathan Ander Congressional debate from the Senate Adam Bowski Congressional debate Senate Ryan lgarden Congressional debate house Gallatin High students Ava Mard United States in extemporaneous speaking Ezra Graham Lincoln Douglas debate Montana Gwyn original oratory pronu Krishna and Jameson Palmer public forum debate Wilder henningson humorous interpretation and whereas earning academic All-American honors from the national speech and debate Association are from Boseman High
111Kylie tadesco Alex Hansen Avery Harris Cooper white M Williamson Kylie Tedesco Lucy child poppy kappenman Reagan fanty Sam thunderberg Tommy melter and valun and from Gallatin High student the students are pronu Krishna Shelby Tyler Sophie wood Woodard and Wilder henningson therefore be it resolved that the Board of Trustees recognize and honor the 2024 25 Boseman High speech and debate state championship team and the individual state champions All State individuals National qu qualifiers and academic all-americans from both schools second motion made by trusty Reinhardt seconded by trusty Wilson is there any public comment seeing none all in favor motion passes seven to zero congratulations coaches thank you very much Shelby especially when you're not feeling 100% for coming and presenting your on behalf of your kids and if we could have all of you invite all
112of you to gather with trusty Reinhardt for a picture we would appreciate it and thanks to all the parents for coming out tonight as well I know that was that was new yeah up next is consent agenda I'd make a motion to approve items 3.2 in uh 3.4.1 through 3.4.5 second motion made by trustee Black seconded by truste Moran is there any public comment seeing none all in favor motion passes 5 to zero check that 6 to zero up next 4.2.1 singular action consider certification of May 6th 2025 High School ballot language Mrs Clark whenever you're ready take your time we're starting to get that down good evening trustees um it's my pleasure to speak with you tonight about the recommendations for the levy requests that um we are looking at for the May 6th
113election um as we preliminarily did the budget discussion at the February 10th meeting not a ton has changed we've cleaned up some numbers um the OPI supplies us with a budget projection spreadsheet on March 1st of every year so since we are after that date we have a little bit more firm of um an estimate of what we're asking taxpayers for and for your recommendation on um the three Levy requests that we are recommending are two general funds one in the high school for 240,000 and then one in the elementary for 250,000 both of those are permanent levies um and those are for the overbased portion of the budget that we have to get elected each year the third um recommendation for for Levy request is the building Reserve Levy and that is in the
114elementary only this is due to our current Levy of $2 million a year in the elementary expiring at the end of this fiscal year I wanted to add um because we are still in session and not anything has actually been signed by the governor yet these are still all preliminary however the numbers that are on the recommendation for the levy requests are based on House Bill 15 passing which is inflationary increase that's 3% over two years so just a little bit of um background as to why we're asking for the High School general fund if we did not take a vote on additional amounts um for the general fund in the high school we would be looking um with our expenditures exceeding our Revenue by 143,000 so that is um being in the red we
115are asking for the um 200 $40,000 Levy for the High School general fund if that were to pass as of today the projected balance with a vote would be 96,000 to the good um I want to remind you guys as you look at these numbers that this is based on budget not actual and I know we've had a lot of conversations about the difference between the two obviously we budget for cold Winters lots of snow plows um fully staffed in every single school that's not always the case but just so you guys keep that in the back of your minds when when we put these on the ballot we are required by law to reference how much it would cost a homeowner or um renter for each $100,000 worth of value so for this High
116School general fund Levy we're looking at approximately 0.56 Mills the Mills are based on the current taxable value um as we know it's a reappraisal year we don't honestly know how that's going to be impacted there are some laws and legislation right now that would um change how that would be structured um from a house taxable value um standpoint so from the best of our knowledge with information we have at hand um we're using the current taxable value 0.56 Ms on a $100,000 home it be 74 cents a year all the way up to $444 per $600,000 home any questions on the high school levy then moving on to the elementary general fund you'll see that these numbers do look a little bit different um our projected highest budget without a vote is 38 m528
117193 um our expenditures exceed that by $5.3 million we are asking for an additional $250,000 in the elementary general fund um which would give us a projected balance with a vote of5 million once again um this is what will be seen on the ballots $100,000 home for the elementary Levy would be 95 cents a year all the way up to $5.70 a year for a $600,000 home and that's with approximately um a value of7 Ms and then finally our elementary building Reserve it's really important to note and to educate taxpayers that this is not um this isn't a total hit to taxpayers we're offsetting these costs because of the $2 million Levy expiring so we want to make sure and communicate that well um the top line is the recommended request as stated on the
118ballot the 2.3 million building Reserve over the course of six years um for a total of 13.8 million over the six years um that's approximately 6.48 Ms for $100,000 home that's $8.75 a year um that seems like a lot however when you look at the expiring building Reserve Levy of $2 million you can see the offset is a11 per $100,000 that would be the net increase this is what it's going to appear on the ballot wording that's in the um board packet that you have in front of you $2.3 million Levy approximately 6.48 Ms ranging from 875 a year up to 5250 on a $600,000 home we do also if you read the ballot language for the building Reserve Levy we do notate it that it's offsetting a $2 million Levy that's dropping off so
119that people have that information with them when they make their decision so when we look at the overall tax impact of the three levies together um we can see the total of the general funds and then the elementary building Reserve up above at $104 per $100,000 however with the expiring Elementary building Reserve Levy we see that offset so the estimated net annual impact on a $100,000 home is $283 cents so with that being said um like I mentioned earlier there are a lot of unknowns at this point House Bill 15 which this is all based on is um not yet signed House Bill 252 Stars act which you guys are all very um well aware is out there House Bill 156 is a countywide base Levy that would just change how the taxes are spread
120out for our general fund um and then some legislative bills that are on the bubble that we did not account for Within These projections um sixth grade A&B funding as well as A&B for three and four year olds with d disabilities um so those are huge unknowns election outcomes are obviously unknown um we've always had the supportive Community passing the levies in the past and we hope that that continues into the future but we don't know for certain until May 6th comes along and then the other part is this is a negotiation year for both our classified and certified unions so we'll be going through negotiations with that those staff members um and we don't yet know what those outcomes look like so that's all I have for you guys if you have any questions
121for me I'm happy to answer them G yeah thank you Lacy um so the numbers you gave us are based on the assumption house broke 15 will pass correct yeah which I it looks like it that will pass so um and we have to have this language in by Wednesday yeah the 12th that that's when the county needs it um they're really worried about everybody leaving for spring break and not getting the approval for all of the ballot language they have so many different ballots and districts and um requests that they want to make sure we all take a look at it before the break starts um one thing I do want to add is these Levy requests for the general fund if House Bill 252 passes that's not going to change our our request
122for those um everything for House Bill 252 funds the base and so these are over base levies that we're requesting is there a motion and there will have to be two separate motions Kevin I'd make a motion that the Board of Trustees um let's see approve the general fund Levy for the high school district as proposed second motion made by trusty Black seconded by trusty Wilson is there any public comment seeing none all in favor motion passes seven to zero lot lot of pressure today I'd make a recom I would make a recommendation to approve the Boseman Elementary School District number seven general fund Levy Elementary or for the Elementary District as presented um which also includes the just sorry clarification do I need one for each of these are we one for the elementary
123and then one for the um oh nope the elementary is one um one action item for both levies Okay so I'll start over since I messed it all up I I'd make a motion to approve the Boseman Elementary School District number seven general fund Levy as presented second motion made by trustee Black seconded by trustee D is there any public comment seeing none all in favor motion passes six to zero thank you or discussion 5.2 committee reports one more action item on the bottom sorry Rachel's been sitting there all night I'm like where is the 4.3.2 consider approval of metalark Elementary School interim principal superintendent Bram Miss scaner come on down hot seat thank you chair Neil trustees as you were aware um current metal Arc principal Adrian advincula uh has been selected to be
124the Chief Joseph Middle School principal effective July 1 2025 for a variety of of circumstances we need to fill the metal Arc position with an interim principal candidate for the 2526 school year the district recently convened an internal search process and interview process um thank you to to um Dr Mars King for managing that process at metalarc uh a panel interview uh made up of stakeholders from metal Arc including certified classified and parents um and then I interviewed um all internal cap uh candidates separately um pleased to bring a recommendation uh for Miss Rachel strainer uh Rachel is a longtime veteran in our school district a teach highquality teacher leader has assumed different positions in the Elementary District as a fifth grade teacher as a kindergarten teacher most recently as a behavioral support specialist at
125metal Arc Elementary um she is a strong leader with a skill set in the science of reading with trauma informed practices um has helped um Metar moved through the transition of increases of multilingual English Learners uh she understands where metalark is at and while it's an interim position she's fully capable of moving that school forward in the next year excited to bring Rachel here this evening [Applause] any questions for Rachel screener Kevin as I fumble on my mic um well congratulations ra Rachel pretty exciting um what are you excited about in your new role oh boy that's a that's a good question but first I have to say when I first arrived at 545 I thought everyone was maybe year for me so it's like completed down to like one um what am I most
126excited about you know this all happened relatively quickly you know Adrien was just asked to take on the CJ job um six months ago I don't I don't know if this was in my my wheelhouse thinking next year but the more the reality sets in the more that I'm excited to work with the individuals in our building I think currently we have a really dedicated passion staff um I feel really fortunate to go to work there every day and work with and and amid the the individuals there so just continuing working with high quality people that are passionate about what they do laen I just want to say congratulations and I was really excited to see this um our times in metal Ark it's been very obvious that you have great rapport with the staff
127and you are very student centered um and there are a lot of kiddos there and you have already uh made connections um so I'm really excited to see what happens this year and I just want to wish you good luck because I know it's a lot um but I think you can do it thanks and I also think that all the people were here for you they just got tired Gary yeah well just thank you very much for stepping into this position Rachel and I have full confidence you'll do very well so thank you thank youate that thank you for stepping up you have my full confidence as well we've known each other for more than a day or two at this point you're swimming yep yeah and um it's true so I I think
128you're a great fit you check all the boxes and um you have the the relationships well established at metal Ark and so I think it's going to be um a win and I'm I'm just super grateful for your willingness to step up so thank you I move the Board of Trustees approve Miss Rachel as the metalark interim principal beginning July 1st 2025 second second motion made by trusty Reinhardt seconded by trusty Lucine there any public comment seeing none all in favor motion passes six to zero congratulations Rachel thank you for bearing with us oh it was great it's nice to see all been a long meeting thanks for coming Adrian now we will move on to 5.2 under board discussion committee reports good evening the student inclusion and resiliency initiative committee or Siri committee met
129on March 7th the committee developed a clear understanding of the profile of a bsd7 graduate and we uh had great discussion and reached consensus on utilizing that profile to serve as the overarching framework for academic and social behavior standards across all grade level bands and that discussion uh will did set the groundwork for um future instructional cabinet discussions starting tomorrow about what this specifically specifically looks like at grade level bands thank you Dr King any further okay Pat you're staring hard at me there anything to say okay 5.3 legislative updates goe uh good evening trustees chair Neil thanks for um I don't know where everybody left even Rachel left for this part but we're going to talk through some uh legislative updates specifically um with regards to taxation um couple uh three tax bills we
130want to walk you through as they have um implications on our on our election coming up on our brochure that we're going to be sending out and just want to make sure that there's some some questions answered um I'm go through one of the bills House Bill 231 in in pretty slow granularity the other two a little bit quicker just so you you know where we're headed um I have if I can figure out um just a just a couple graphs to help you understand um where we were at this uh this bill is house bill 31 uh sponsored by uh representative Jones out of Conrad this the the purpose of this bill is to bring um tax relief to primary owner occupied residences and longterm rental properties I want to walk you through what
131um Ju Just what we're expecting impacts to be um Statewide and then and then I guess by inference on on the bosan school district so I isolated out from the fiscal note of House Bill 231 um the size of tax base for residential property this is Statewide tax base so this is not specific to the bosan school district Statewide tax base um residential property 2.6 billion dollar is is the taxable value of all the residential property in the state this year you see it's broken out um 745 million of that is short-term rentals um long-term rentals is 715 and then owner occupied uh homes is uh one point just short of $1.2 billion the owner occupied information came from the mailin property tax rebate information that the state accumulated that's where that's where that $1.2
132Million number for owner occupied homes came from I don't know the source of the um the lighter blue and and the red ones other than than it came from the fiscal note so as you look at this um the two blue lines are um owner occupied properties one's one's actually owner occupied and the other one's long-term rentals those are the the properties that the legislature is trying to provide tax relief 2 through House Bill 231 okay um as we go forward I want to show you comparison of what um what what the tax base for residential property looks like next year Statewide um with and without House Bill 231 okay so first of all this is next year's property tax base Statewide residential property tax value um under current law so no tax breaks House
133Bill 231 but with growth so next year is a reappraisal year for again you recall last time we had a reappraisal year it ended up in in in quite a a scene we had a 54 perc um increase in our taxable value um the state is expecting overall uh just over 15% a lot of the growth I think this time is going to be happening out in the eastern part of the state that wasn't affected as much by the by the reappraisal two years ago as as it is now um what I saw some information from University of Montana indicates that our tax growth rate here in gallon County around 10% so if you look at these numbers here so they're expecting total residential property to grow because of reappraisal not New Growth but because
134of reappraisal from $2.6 billion do $3.2 billion as a result of the of of the reappraisal um if you do the 15% math that I cited for you these aren't going to exactly tie out and I'm I'm aware of that I took the information right out of the fiscal note so I can't speak to it but roughly 15% growth in in all categor across the state so um House Bill 231 takes into account that growth but then it's going to Discount it's going to try the impact is going to be to reduce the taxes on the owner occupied homes and long-term rentals and increase it relative on the on the short-term rentals okay so um next year if House Bill 231 passes you see that um instead of a $3.2 billion residential um taxable value
135for St wide would' be down to$ 2.8 billion dollar Statewide still an increase over the current year 2.6 million this year goes up to 2.85 n uh but what you also see is about a 30% reduction in the size of the blue bars so a 30% reduction in the value of the tax base for um owner occupied properties and long-term rentals and a 30% increase on the value of those short-term rentals okay and when you apply the Mills out and and and the tax calculations that all the the state will come up with and all the local governments in the state will come up with you'll see that the taxes shift away from owner occupied homes and then onto onto short-term rentals does that kind of make sense in concept of of what we're talking
136about here I again I pulled the information I can't speak to the numbers specifically but I pulled them out of the fiscal note for House Bill 231 so that's the that's the source of that there's a similar thing happening in commercial property so if you you know look at all the all the stuff out here so for lower priced commercial proper property again the house bill 231 looks to move the tax burden away from those less expensive smaller commercial properties and on to the larger ones as well I didn't graph that for you but the same concept holds as we're looking at the resoltion does that make sense Okay the reason I wanted to bring this to your attention obviously just for education purposes but when we look at the brochure um that we're looking
137to send out for the um legislative or excuse me for the election coming up I know superintendent Bertram shared this with to you earlier um this is the uh this is the inside of it the the top of it is kind of the the outside looks like what you've seen in the past um we are waiting on uh trustee election finalization we still have two candidates for two open positions uh the information that Lacy just went through here regards to the general fund operating levies building Reserve levies and then over at the top I'll make this bigger in just a second this is the table she just shows you with the tax impacts that you um approved this is based on current law so not including House Bill 231 it's based on current law and
138it assumes no growth in that property tax um in the property tax base that's important and it kind of gets back to what's happening with House Bill 231 even Statewide again we're looking at a small increase here 15% Statewide 10% in in gallon County we want to be a little bit conservative so we assumed zero increase from here to whatever this ends up being to come up with uh to come up with these numbers that'll be on the ballot does that make sense down below um and this is what I'm going to blow up for you a little bit we can figure that out this house bill 231 and and residential property tax um relief is is a big important thing at the legislature so what we did is we talked just briefly about it
139everything I explained to you in the last five minutes I wrapped up into eight short lines here with a picture of the capital on the side of it um so it's very level this information here is the impact of our tax requests all of them um you see the $283 per year per $100,000 worth of home value that's in this table down here $283 per year per $100,000 of home value and then we also did the math on a $500,000 home a $750,000 home and a million doll home these are different amounts than are what's on the ballot the ballot requires A1 100,000 300,000 $600,000 home on the on the slides just showed you and proved in the ballot language we tried to get some more realistic numbers specific to what's happening in BOS so
140we picked the 100 because it's required 5750 And1 million this is the tax impact of the of the requests on under current law this is what they would be with House Bill 231 again this assumes the same number of Mills which mayor may not come come to pass as our as they take as um well we we just don't know what the value of their taxable value is going to be to calculate those Mills so all other things held constant it it provides important and and pretty significant tax relief to um owner occupied and long-term rental properties does that make sense this information is going out in the brochure so it's important that you all understand it in case in case you get questions or if it doesn't make sense we'd like to make some
141changes um before it becomes finalized here in the next couple weeks questions on House Bill 231 those that are opposing House Bill 231 what is their um primary argument yes I it was a really interesting hearing I watched it um on online Senator again Lou Jones is the one carrying it and and in his um um opening remarks to the bill when he when he presented the bill to the to the committee he he talked about that and he said that um what you're going to hear when you do any kind of um tax redistribution you're going to hear opposition from the folks who take on the larger burden so you know going back to this case um you're going to hear um opposition from the folks who own short-term rentals their costs are going
142to be going up that decreases the demand on their properties increases the price they they have to charge and he was real clear about it before he before he opened it up to to um opponents and proponents he said those are going to be the O opponents you hear what you're not going to hear is all the people who are own owner occupied properties in the state of Montana who own long-term rentals in the state of Montana those aren't the people who come and testify on these bills in support of that you me a lot of us who who who own our properties aren't going to go testify in favor of that what you're going to hear is is the opposition so the short answer to your question is the folks who are negatively impacted
143are the ones who are going to oppose it two other bills just briefly from a taxation perspective um I don't have slides for them so you'll just have to listen to me talk but it's going to be a lot shorter um House Bill 156 um talks about and and Lacy mentioned this in her slides as well countywide Equalization so right now the levies for our district are taxed upon our our taxpayers within our district um House Bill 156 proposes to combine some of our taxes um our our general fund based budget specifically with all of the other districts in our County and spread that Levy across the county taxpayers the um most districts has a pretty negligible impact including ours the big losers in this case um locally is is uh is going to be
144Big Sky they will have a significant tax increase if if that bill passes the other one is House Bill 483 that reconfigures some of the the work done with the 95 Mills um essentially um the 95 Mills will continue to operate and Float as they have so as our property as our taxable value Statewide increases it will generate more Revenue however they've set thresholds within House Bill 483 and if the revenue from the 95 Ms exceeds that um then that excess Revenue will be used for um Equalization of taxes in various different ways across the state and the the message I want to leave you with I don't have any slides or anything like this but once again Boseman Gallatin County are not winners in the equalization um equation that General when you hear Equalization
145you should hear that money is leaving our district our County going to hell and it's going to be redistributed to other districts other areas of the state that don't have the the property wealth that that we do in in B those are the three bills I wanted to answer happy to answer your questions or go ahead please uh the only other bill I want to um put on your radar um in addition to inflation and the Stars act which we're planning for on the revenue side and um beginning to think about what that might look like in negotiations um is House Bill 339 which is sixth grade funding um some language in that bill tied to CTE and expanding CTE PA Pathways for middle school students as you know we offer comprehensive middle schools um
146and our sixth graders are funded at an elementary level on our seventh and eighth graders at the high school level so that's been talked about for many many many sessions um representative Romano is carrying that bill and um it's something that's going to be ch eared on um the fiscal note was originally um quite large and and so theyve found some happy medium where the sixth grade number is somewhere between the Elementary number and the high school number but not not one or the other um and that would be in addition to inflation and stars act um add some flexibility um to our already upside down budget Sandy just curious Casey I don't know um what what currently what's what do we get for a high school student versus um Elementary the difference $8,000 for
147a high school student and six or seven for an elementary student any further trustee questions thank you is there any public comment on non-agenda items come forward during public comment no member of the public will be allowed to comment on contested cases of other adjudicative proceedings Personnel matters or student specific concerns well thank you for having us here tonight it's been really awesome to see all the extracurricular activities that all those students are doing uh I apologize I'm a little nervous here I'm a young person I haven't really gotten up in front of uh Boards of Trustees before I've sat in many a meeting but a little bit background about myself uh my name is Drew Curry I'm originally from Westchester Pennsylvania and I re relocated out here in 2018 I'm I'm a graduate student
148at Montana State University and I'm working to bring first robotics competition teams to Montana as a whole specifically here in the Gallatin Valley as was just mentioned by the superintendent uh more C programs are a good thing and first is working to become recognized as act program but also provides an excellent educational opportunity for high school students around the country this was something that I had uh put in an email sent to the trustees in general I don't know the proper formal manner in which to get on an agenda or to talk to you guys as a whole but one of the things that I'm limited by I can't really go into a high school and start talking to high school students obviously I wanted to try and follow the proper channels to do this
149back in Pennsylvania my dad sorry been sitting for a long time and a long day with the university uh my dad's a director of it for the Avro school district and so I've always had the ability to go in and be part of the school district there through going in and helping him with work additionally my mother is a professor at a local college and my great-grandmother out here was a professor here and my aunt here is a professor in um Chief Joseph uh middle school so quite involved with the education process and I'm very interested in bringing this program here but I wanted to talk to you all about it today and see what I could do as the next steps to get you all on board with it thank you very much um
150and Drew if you could please write your name and address and phone number down on that clipboard we will get a response to you during public comment we're not able to have back and forth conversation because this agenda item has not been pre noticed so will receive your comment and respond to you we appreciate you sitting and out tonight for us to talk to us thank you for having us yes either of you gentlemen have anything you'd like to say we're just here to support um first in Montana we're both from Washington State both um college students at the University as well um we're just here if the trustees wanted to share a little bit about our our experiences with first and just uh promote the the values of the program um and hopefully show
151that it's not just drew there is some some broad support um for a first program in Montana especially in the gallon Valley thank you I'll St being my two cents on this there's one one two few chairs um in with in my high school experience with first um I had I spent four years in the program and I just want to say that it is an absolutely amazing opportunity for high school students to have you get you're able to get connected early with like industry standard practices for uh for stem and work with adult mentors who have been in the in the stem fields for in some cases uh double digit years and I just wanted to say that it is an amazing opportunity for students to have so I it would be awesome if
152you would consider thank you working with Dr to build off of that briefly here one of the other things that I've gotten recently was Buy in from the Montana photonics and Quantum Alliance to support partially financially but also through providing mentors that have those Decades of Industry experience additionally from Christina Henderson the executive director of the Montana high tech business Alliance is also pledged to support the program in order to bring that here currently there's one operating RC team in Montana and that's located in Missoula and personally as someone who's from Bose not from Bosman but I got family that's been here for a long time and quite like to think of it as my home I'm a little offended that Missoula beat us to it so I'd like to see that this be something
153that we can show Missoula that our students are just as capable as theirs if not better so thank you again for your time tonight appreciate those comments and since you two commented could you also please write your name down and and address and phone number on the clip board it probably doesn't matter for got it thank you very much for coming thank you all thank you for having us is there any further public comment on non-agenda items please write your name and address and phone number on the clipboard during public comment no member of the public public will be allowed to comment on contested cases other adj adjudicative proceedings Personnel matters or student specific concerns good evening uh my name is Lori little do um I have a son at Gallatin and another little one
154here drawing robots in the back I apologize for the distraction there um but I wanted to discuss the new technology uh restrictions that are happening at both Gallatin and Boseman um it's my understanding that on February 19th um the students were abruptly cut off of of um using their personal devices um at the high schools for internet cell phone um and whatnot there is a discrepancy as to whether the district agrees that there was any kind of jamming um or signal reducing device installed but the lived experience of um the high school students at both schools is that they don't have access to using um the cellular signals at the high schools for so for like Wi-Fi um I did have some written communication with Mr Bertram um regarding the situation um and there was
155a discussion of like our safety concerns as parents um for things like school shootings how are the students going to have um access to contacting law enforcement and parents in the event of those type of emergencies and um all of that's on record with the emails and stuff as far as um the school's uh positionality on the the safety concerns but um when I talked to the people in Washington DC um at the Federal Communications Commission they had advised me to talk to our state attorney general um they said that that it's a serious issue and that there were federal laws that protected the students rights to be able to contact and not have the signals impeded so um that's why I'm here today is to just you know put it on the radar of
156the board um I know that the students are all it's a chatter of the Town um there is a petition going with the students at both schools through change.org and you can um just look it up Boseman on change.org and um they're using QR codes to sign the petition right now we have like I don't know 281 students that are um have signed it um and it's going to grow so I think that there are some serious issues when it comes to the legalities of um federal law and what the 30 schools across the country that are participating in these safety safety I guess blockages of how the districts are handling like a no um cell phone or a no person electronic um situation but the problem is is um you know the students they
157have just a lot of concerns you know like if you read the change.org like the C synesis letter that was given to the district and to the principes um you know there's a a few different arguments there talking about um guests that come to campus not having access to the Wi-Fi um sports teams that come and visit they don't have you know the ability to post on social media about how the games are going um but most concerning is the safety issue when it comes to um you know calling dispatch and and having the communication with parents so um I I know that students are feeling like that was taken from them um without consent um like they don't have a voice in that so um that's why there's like you know a petition going
158around and if it has to get to the point of a school walk out then maybe that's what we need um in order for them to feel like their voices are being heard and that they have a seat at the table um that little one in the back was just talking about drawing a robot she's three years old so I think that moving forward technology kids are um it's here to stay and I think we should be focusing more time on um responsible use of the internet time management um how to protect like for cyber security issues like how to protect people's personal accounts um and the community in responsible ways rather than just saying no we can't have that at all so um I'm sure I'll be speaking with you all again about this
159matter but just so you guys know that um this group students for Action involves both high schools and um we're hoping to be able to have um internet installed in the schools and then to have proper um education on how to how to interface with that in a safe way thank you thank you is there any further public comment on on agenda items seeing none we will move on to Executive cabinet reports there any executive cabinet reports I just have a couple items uh April 2nd and 3D uh tied to the revisions of the longrange Strategic plan staff well-being consensus um is scheduled for two days of consensus uh we need two trustees for that um it's been uh the planning is happening via the doc so I would um give those trustees probably first
160right a refusal but if you're interested in the two days of um staff well-being consensus the point of or the goal is to create the the actual measurable goal and the action plan similar to the student well-being working group that came together um please communicate your preferences to um board leadership and we'll take it from there uh the other item uh Board of Public Ed is meeting in East Helena um tomorrow um one of those agenda items is the disillusion of the Boseman charter school we went through that process here um to you know formally um dissolve the the charter school they're asking me to speak to to that tomorrow so that that's taking place online um and then I I believe uh Mr Waterman has something trustees um an introduction if I could please
161ell Turner is the executive director of the Montana Association of school business officials some of you may have met her some others have not um Shel is here on transmitt break from um being busy with the Camp's Lobby and the assistance that she's given us in Helena to come down to bosen we've got a regional meeting tomorrow for um the region four I think we are U masbo group and Belgrade and she's here tonight for an awards presentation thank you everybody sorry that was fun to watch all those Awards I didn't get all of them but it was great to see and now as Mike said there probably wouldn't be very many people left in the room so I'm kind of sad that they're not here to celebrate Lacy um but I am here to
162give Lacy an award today um so I'm just uh delighted to present an extraordinary accomplishment in the realm of school business administration it is with great pride and admiration that I extend my heartfelt congratulations to Lacy Clark for achieving the distinguished Montana certified School business official designation earning this esteemed designation is a testate to Lacy's unwavering dedication commitment to Excellence and Relentless pursuit to professional growth the journey to becoming a Montana certified School business official is not for the faint of heart it requires countless hours of regular rigorous cours work demonstrating Proficiency in a multitude of areas maintaining active membership status throughout the testing process and she accomplished all this while actively being employed with your district and serving as the masbo on the P masbo payroll committee it really is a true achievement Lacy
163your dedication to your craft and steadfast determination has not gone unnotice by completing over 120 hours of curriculum coursework achieving excellent scores on three rigorous tests and covering various subject areas committing to Future professional development hours you've showcased your exceptional comp competence and expertise in school finance and operations what makes your achievement even more remarkable is the fact that it's very exclusive there are only 26 individuals in the state who have this designation currently your accomplishment is not just a personal Triumph it's a source of inspiration and pride for our entire educational Community your commitment to Excellence and passion for continuous learning and unwavering dedication to the students and staff of Boseman public schools serves as a shining example to us all on behalf of the Montana Association of school business officials I extend my
164sincerest congratulations once again it is our sincere hope that your community family continue to celebrate and honor your accomplishments we take great pride in welcome welcoming you to this exclusive group of experts I have a speech speech should we get a picture of the awards presentation Lacy can you come back and can we do a ceremonial hand off on the award thank you thanks for coming shell thank you what are we was that executive cabinet reports okay is there any further executive cabinet reports all right any Board of trustee reports Gary yeah just uh brief summary I know some of you attended the parent meeting last Wednesday in this room I was well attended uh by people in the room and people on Zoom I think a little over 70 uh people got off to
165a really good start uh have some people step in the leadership role and uh we're going to continue to move that forward and I'd like to give big shout out to Mike ban for handling the technology of the meeting so thank you very much Mike for that and uh it's moving along very well so I think we're going to have pretty good uh parent and community group moving forward so thanks for those that attended thank you any further for trusty reports