001Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. So reviewed the agenda and we'll proceed as presented. I don't believe there's any previous public comment. Old business. Oh, this is there any public comment on non-aggenda items? Comment on the phone. I was just making sure I was doing typing pose here. I can try your ones quick. We'll go to classified matrix and hiring old business. Uh so what you have in front of you is with the with the stars money added in steps for them as well as an addition for the people that I topped out. That last part of it is um 25 cents for each year past 20 full-time employees. There any board discussion? Any public comment board discussion or motion? I will move to salary.
002I second that motion. Mike move to approve the new classified salary matrix as presented. Second the motion. There any public comment? Public comment. Board comment. I can make a motion to approve the new salary classified salary matrix as presented. All those in favor say I. All those opposed same sign. Motion passes. I'm going to pause here. Do the students have presentation tonight? They're in recommendations and reports. Okay. I mean, you can you can move items if you need to. That's what you're wanting to do. If you want to move them, might be kinder. I know. [Music] I mean, you can hang out till 10:00 with us if you want to. Why don't you girls go in? We're representing the senior class and we're just going to be telling you about our classes. So, first up
003we have history. We made some trips down to the courthouse to register to vote and they explained what voting means. We also worked with Corbett Harrington to put together a mock trial which we all participated in. And it was really an educational activity that gave us a close-up look on how the court system really works. in foods class. Several of us seniors are in foods and lately we have been making cookies to fund raise for the girls going to national CCLA. We've learned about all the necessary nutritions like vitamins, carbs, lipids, and fats. We also did a few projects to go along with them. Um, in child development, we did story hour every Thursday and sometimes we'd go to the library or go to the preschool to help Miss Amy out with the kids or
004big projects or something like that. And we also went and hung out with the daycare kids. And uh, child development has been a great learning experience because we get to work with the preschool and daycare kids one-on-one while learning new things about each age group. After doing some classroom work, it was neat to put that into perspective of the real life of being around all the kids. In English, we worked with Eric Loveik and he has given us the opportunity to help out with the Eagleaka Eagle newspaper. We did quite a few of the weekly articles and we actually did a we each did a research article that was posted in the Ealaka Eagle as well. In advanced biology, they have memorized and studied the muscles and bones in the body. Furthermore, they have each
005made presentations to present to the class about certain systems in the body. The the students say they learned about the eyes, ears, nose, and DNA. As of right now, they are learning about bugs. In physics earlier in the year, we learned about all the forces that are applied to an object. We have also learned about Newton's laws of motion and projectile motion. As of right now, we are covering the concept of momentum, work, and power. Aside from all of those classes, a lot of us participate in school the works at fruits, the hospital for grade school teachers, and I think that's all that we do, right? And then uh we also do shop classes, business or accounting classes, and online courses. And uh our class as a whole has completed over 36 college credits this
006year alone. That is also counted on our high school transcript. Nice job. You [Applause] guys all right? We'll go back to old business class uh classified salary matrix. consideration. All right. Your hiring considerations. So you guys have the list of um all of our classified positions there and all of the what their position will be next year as far as based on the new stars uh the new salary schedule. Um and just the key part on the first page there it says that this preserves right to change employment positions affecting the employer's duties assignment to supervisor. We feel comfortable making a recommendation for these. Um their official position may change a little bit. Um but we we don't want them to go job hunting in the meantime. Any discussion? Public comment. Public comment. Any board
007discussion or motion? question because there's five of us here in per there's potential only four of us can vote. Is that fine? That's the majority. I have to abstain. Yeah. Yes. Or you can do them individually or we can do it individually if we need. No, I'll just abain. Thank you. I will move to approve the classified hiring as presented. I'll second that. Mike's made the motion to approve the classified hiring as presented for the 2526 school year. Be the second motion. Is there any public comment? Public comment. Board comment. Let's make a motion to approve the classified hires as presented for the 2526 school year. BB second motion. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed same sign. And I say the bargaining agreement. [Applause] So what you have in front of
008you is we've um theou we've worked on. We do know MEA days will be MF days. will be part of our calendar. Um, and so what those Fridays are, but the details of it are laid out. Did you choose the Fridays on the calendar? No, did not. That'll be that'll be committee and he took away two days for MFP. So, we're down to seven instead of nine. So think you didn't have anything concerning. We only we have we have six. You're talking seven. Well count four, five, six. Two halves make seven if I'm counting that right. I didn't just So you have the Friday before not the Friday before we open one day before one day before correct um one Friday a month which is four five the end of the year six and the
009two MFP days would be seven and eight there's no MFP days in here right but they're part of our professional development days they are counted in a maximum of seven So um then you go back to um like your parent teacher conferences are not a professional development day. They're not what they're not professional development day. Changes so then what happens after 4:00 because our contract is 84. Correct. That is parent teacher conference is that part of that conversation. So they're not professional development. because they're outside of our work days. They're outside of our work days. I guess maybe I misunderstood something along the way as to from we would have two hours. So we have a total of four hours which should be not quite a full day because our contract says 84 and I
010guess I was under the assumption from four to six would be part of our days which would be four hours. I guess I was not under that impression and I I don't know about the other committee members that were there what their impressions were. That was my understanding that they were part of our professional development time. They've always have been in the past. Correct. We had that conversation that they were I mean, but they're not truly professional development was in your opinion in that conversation. So, every other school counsel is professional development. Not every other school. Okay. the majority that I've ever had any contact with do. And if we're expected to be at that time outside of our workday, then you got to call it something, not just donated time that we're showing up.
011So, professional development time is the appropriate designation. I think I guess my question is what happened with legislation with that MFP? Because I did not they left them. They left them alone. So, that would be still partner. Okay. That's why I didn't know because they at one point they were going to get you had to observe them but you didn't have to count them or some district to determine what they were going to do during that time. So theou needs to be amended that's contract and this does totally outline our professional development days right this except for what we're doing on those days. I guess one of my other thoughts was um and I'm sorry if I'm out of line with order of how they do things, but um we did agree through IBP to
012sign anou to put the PIR plan into our collective bargaining agreement for one year but in my opinion it is incomplete. We don't have if say somebody can't make up or can't attend the P days in October now that they're still there because of sports or the things the either the administrative rules of the Montana code says we must have options for them to make them up otherwise they are deducted pay. I don't really feel at this point that this plan is completely solid enough. I mean, I'm not against signing it when it's completed. At this point, I don't feel it's complete enough to be signed. We don't have options for makeup for the October days. We don't have incorporated the two PR days now that in October and then of course we have the
013issue from 2 to 6 or 4 to 6. I won't say 2 to 6, four to six for future conferences. I think our committee should get back together and some of the five Fridays that we will be attending as well as the other things outlined in the Montana group whichever one it is. Can you clarify for me? Was it this did we have it in writing somewhere this year that they had to make updates if they were gone on those according to the I want to say administrative rules 5514 something 110 or something like that not the regular ps and we always at the bottom of the plan say have say uh teachers may go to the OPI teacher portal we would like them to find classes in unit for all or blah blah blah
014So we have something at the bottom right. I just haven't deducted any I was just making sure there's a paragraph always at the bottom at the end of the PD options if they can approval of the administration. Got it. Thank you. And I have some samples in there that must have passed. Is there any board discussion? I'm sorry. I forgot to tell you. Hopefully. Is there any other public comment? Comment or discussion? Motion. I move to table theou until some of the kinks can be worked out the committee. Second that motion. Stephan made a motion to table theou until the committee can meet and work things out. And second motion. Is there any public comment? Public comment. Stephan made the motion to tableou until the committee can meet and work things out. Sam and second
015motion. All those in favor say I. Those opposing sign. I I do have a question. What was that code for the PD days? You told it to us last time something the Montana code MCA. Oh, I have to hold that one up. Okay. You had it last time. I have it down somewhere in my phone. I will find it for you while we're sitting here today. Okay. Um, more of it. I believe they're two different things. They almost say the same thing, but the administrative rules talks about the deduction of pay if you don't have options to make that. And I just I remember I read that Montana code when you pulled up last time. It tells you exactly what is considered a PD day. So, I was wanting to read that. Yeah, I have
016it. We can move on. Just be good for everybody. Motion carries. Can I ask a question on it, please? Are you guys wanting the IBV committee or the professional development committee to look at this? I mean, we agreed to sign theou. I mean, that was part of IB. I would just say once we get this out and everybody's agreeable, we sign. That's what I'm saying. So this this needs to go to the PD test. I'm asking. Okay. Just so I'm clear on that. Extracurricular hiring considerations. Mr. Uh so yeah, we have a couple we got we received a couple applications in the last week. We just have not got those interviews done for um athletic director. Um, so at this point we have the upcoming season. Um, and I have I've been in the process
017of meeting with all of the head coaches. And so the three recommendations we feel like are needed at this moment um based on applications and based on summer um for head volleyball and head football and um as well as moving uh junior high football into the assistant um high school football coaching. Is there any board discussion? Branson, is there a way to click on those so that whoever's here can see like the spot that we're on? Yeah, one. Thank you. Is there any public comment? Public comment. Is there a junior head coach thing? No, not yet. I mean, for football. Well, we do have we have the volunteer that's been on staff. Um, is is Jamie supposed to be junior high football coach and not assistant football coach at the high school? Oh, he's looking
018at him. We have an application. We do have an application in for that. We also have had a conversation with um Southeast Electric about their work schedule um to see as well as make sure if there are people out there that want to apply that they can. So I just was I read it wrong and thought Jamie was still under junior high Peter said something. So we don't So it's public comment right now. You want to say something? It's public comment. I mean Rusty has to reapply. My understanding is he volunteered so he wouldn't have to report. Don't we have his name down somewhere though? We hired we hired I thought we put him down for No, not unless he gets paid. He was on our volunteer list or on our on that part of
019it. I I think he's under the assumption that he's worked here for so long with them that he's put in that role. So you might want to communicate that with me. That's what Jamie Sorry just might. So if they're volunteer to help with the team, do they get travel to the team? As long as they're fingerprinted and stuff, they get to travel like bus. He did everything. Yeah, he drove it. He coached it. He Any other board discussion or emotion? Don't our head boys and girls basketball coaches want to know they're going to do that before summer so they can work with kids over the summer? Um, and that I mean with our board meeting on in June, I have meetings with the basketball coaches this week. So, we're we can also it's on the
020agenda to discuss having our meeting on a day. We're already in town. Oh, sweet. I will move to hire the coaches as presented. I'll second that. Mike made the motion to approve the hires as presented. approaches second. Is there any public comment? Any public comment discussion? So, we're still looking for assistant volleyball coach and the junior high volleyball coach. Correct. Okay. Thank you. I make motion to accept accept the recommendation for hiring coaches as presented. Steph and second the motion. All those in favor say I. All those opposed same sign. Motion carries student activity handbook. So with uh updated pieces it is got it working updated pieces and and whatnot. It is in front of the meeting before um our work session before to go over it um again but all all pieces added back.
021Is there any board discussion? There any public comment? Public comment. Board discussion. Motion. I will move to approve the activity student handbook as presented. Did you say yes I did? Yep. Sorry. That's okay. Yes. Okay. Thanks. Mike made a motion to approve the student activity handbook. See second the motion. Is there any public comment? Public comment. Might make a motion to approve the student activity handbook. Second the motion. All those f in favor say I. I. All those same sign Aries jump start second reading. Uh so the policy is um we kind of worked through some pieces but the piece we from last month that we were unsure of was that we have to specify specifically the evaluation tool in the policy and we don't. Um and so that actually assists us a little bit.
022Uh so policy again opens up the door for us to um do prek through third grade jump start during the summer and it gives us a way to um establish who who is eligible for that as well. Thank you. Is there any public comment or board discussion? I guess the only thing I'd say it has nothing really to do with the policy. Have we found people for sure that are interested in maybe rotating through the summer to do this program? So our original conversation, yes, but until we have the policy, they know we can do it. Say for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Just just curious. I move to approve the second reading and adoption of policy in form 2165. I'll second that. Is there all right Sam made the motion to approve the second reading
023and adoption of policy 2165. Is there any public comment? Public comment. Board comment. Sam made the motion to approve the second reading and adoption of 2165. Second step and second the motion. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed same sign. Motion carries calendar. We have a calendar that was built by the calendar committee. Um it is in front of you. Um the question just comes down to if potentially looking at adjusting days for December and looking at what our end date is or we can go with calendar. It was collectively built. Um, so looking at moving going potentially you could have a conversation about going to school the 22nd um 23rd and 24th and picking up a Friday and ending school a week earlier but you would go on Christmas Eve two
024Fridays. So, it's just a matter of if that's a discussion we want to have with the community or if we want to go with the recommendation of the uh the community did have input um in that conversation. I mean, they had uh we surveyed the community. Uh there was I don't know four or five different options put out there. The option to potentially end earlier was not presented. So, I don't know if that would have garnered different comments. So, April, we're still missing. No. Okay. So, I gave you new ones first and second. I'm sorry. You have new ones in front of you because I downloaded it and saved it. Okay. Sorry, I have the in October from our last meeting. I had circled like the third that was a discussion to go a full
025week that week. So we're missing like a dayc it is here. I'll hold on. Just give me like two seconds and I'll connect the new one. This one? Yeah. She said she the one that was on the like short. Yeah. We were not short days. No. Nope. That's the one in here is wrong. Sorry, Br. We will just have to be very careful when we build our schedule that those lunch minutes don't change or that'll affect correct this. Yeah, I put those in. We just have to be very careful when we do that. We built that schedule that came up. So, is there enough time for lunch right now? Yeah, as long as it doesn't As long as we don't add minutes to recess our lunch. I did the exact same. There's enough time. Yep.
026The fourth through six plow through their food. I feel like I guess you could speak to them more. You're in there, but I feel like they Cooper. Well, and they they can go they get lunch and then recess. So, if they're eating longer then they get into their little recess a little. I mean they can make that choice of which we cut their recess to another which and the littles quite often if it's like something that's difficult to serve it will be another five we'll wait five minutes or whatever because they aren't as restrictive on ours. Okay. Thank you. Everybody has plenty of time to get all the seconds they want. Now, is there any other board discussion? If we're discussing the professional development days again, can you really settle on a calendar? I was
027just looking at that myself. Well, you can't because you don't have any of those set. I mean, unless you're going to change the actual calendar. Yeah, these are these are just school days. professional development are incorporated into this before it's finalized. Purple dates, right? So, the biggest thing I feel like is Missy's already had a couple phone calls from parents about school days and I have to turn something into workers comp to know what days we're on. So, those are kind of my only big they want to know what days we're in. I have to have that as part of renewals. So, we typically have it approved by now. So, I don't know if that matters unless we're going to change school days, not professional development days. You know, you can already add the October
028ones in there because you know they're there. But those are PD days. That's why I'm saying we're talking I'm talking just school days, just strictly construction. Yes. So, instead of it saying like to be determined that Oh gosh, I leave that on there. Sorry. Yeah. So we need 153 days including the three days because at one time calendar said says 153 153 is this there are97 student hours which are 17 hours overly no I just reattached it. Okay. She accidentally attached I attached the wrong one. Question on minutes changing the time. Oh yeah. So that is in here. So this is the 8:00 start time and it's fine. We looked into and I looked into a hours and we're doing a hours. That was what Carol was saying about the lunch time. As long as
029you have the same lunch time for everybody next year, you're a number of hours. So you need 197 in past years did we have like snow days built in? Yes. And we don't have two. Usually you have two days. We have two. Oh, you had an optional makeup day. Is that what you're saying? Makeup days. We have when we did ours we had more Fridays. Yeah. When we had that committee meeting, we had more Fridays. That's you guys. I wasn't there. Remember because we added in you have one there. One in January. We have the 30th and then the home. I thought there was three for some reason. Four. September. You got September, October, January, and April. Okay. I thought that two five day weeks. I thought we had three five day weeks for some
030reason. That's why still Yep. Oh, yeah. It is four day week because it's the holiday. Yep. Easter break. September's Labor Day. I was just meaningful five. Five. We only have like one, right? Two. Two. Two. October and January. January. We really didn't put the 15th here. The 15th of May. Sorry, that just goes back to your guys's conversation about we did have that discussion like it's a lot easier to have your students at awards and whatnot. Correct. On it. I can't I thought you did. I wasn't. It was just there. How fast are you with this? Are you Are you gonna vote on this way? Is it going to try it out? See how it goes this year? I mean, because this will be the first year you've done, but is it worth the pain
031of a new second to last week of school? Actually, just the way Mr. Kathy is, we've made it mandatory like they have to come the 15th to check out and practice. I as a But I'm not on the professional Mike and I and I think I was You're not once legislative legislative contact. Sorry, we should have changed that when you guys read. I should have changed that when you guys read us. It should be YouTube and legislative. Oh, yeah. But we didn't. I realized that now that you said that. All right. Is there any public comment? I guess. Sorry. It would be nice to have the professional development days that are the half days on Fridays put on the calendar so that we can plan so to finish the calendar like parts and I guess
032mine is just since from what I looked at before might and it's changing just a little bit but I remember when we went to the first four four day weeks some added Fridays. We were required to have 180 days, which instant hours have changed that. But even this year, we're dropping off 2 days, 2 and 1/2 days from our calendar from last year by adding 8 minutes to our calendar. 8 minutes a day is not going to help me get a lesson taught. So, I'm losing another two days of educational opportunities or activities I could do with my students to further them along in their educational processes to meet the standards of Montana and the expectations. We've gone from, like I said, 180 days down to 153. That's if you go 4 days a week,
033that's two months of school. And not to say that we can't get things covered. It just takes away some of the other stuff in some way and it makes you push and you push and you push to get the kids to get all the material they need to meet the requirements of the state of Montana. Thank you. So any other public comment board discussion is the caliber committee coming back together or I think we need to just to work out the the bugs that are in it. I think we need to you do like a calendar committee and a professional development on the same day maybe and work together the same people. They are not the same as far as concerned tonight though. So it'll be more Ryan just simple question. How how much different
034is this calendar from last year? Not looking at last year's calendar. You're saying this time you're uh you know pointed to many more days different from this calendar from last year. You got that. I'm trying to find it. I'm trying to find with our with all the numbers on it. I have 157 Branson. Does that sound right? Four less days. 157 before four less days. Four less days compared to last year's 190 hours. We have more hours built in this one. More hours but less days. When you say you have more hours built in, it doesn't mean did we, right? I was just I was just saying to compare those two numbers because I'm not going to get a whole first grade math lesson done in seven minutes here and seven minutes there and you
035know, so we're missing that a whole week of school. Yeah. all week on our four days. That's Thank you. Sorry. Thank you. Are you ready? Is there any other board discussion or a motion? Move to table the calendar and have the calendar committee get back together and bring it back to the board. Second that Sam made the motion to table the calendar and have the calendar meet and bring it back to the board. Do we second the motion? Is there any public comment? Public comment. Any other board discussion? Sam made the motion to table the calendar, send it back to the calendar committee to bring back to the board. Phoebe second the motion. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed, same sign. I think the next item was supposed to be struck.
036It is okay. Uh let's go to the consent agenda. Consent agenda. Um there are a couple of annual contracts in here and I apologize on MHS and your guys. I see I didn't total but we have the four boy sports, four girl sports and then I did include band and choir which is before our hiring but um if something ever happens like last year we paid it and if we don't end up having teachers I just request it back by August 1st. So MHSAs is in here and then Prairie View Curriculum Consortium is something we've been a part of for as far as I know long before I've been here. We use them for curriculum services, library services, and some other things. And they do a lot of professional development in the area. So, their
037annual contract is in here. And then, um, Whipley has been our auditor for a number of years, and our three-year contract expired. And so, this is just a one year for them to come catch us back up. So, this will be for last fiscal year's audit. They will come at the end of May. I I did put out an RFQ to try to get other bids for audits and no luck, which isn't surprising. I know a lot of schools are having a really hard time finding auditors, especially if they want to travel to them. So, um that contract is in here as well. And then the normal consent agenda, meeting minutes, and financials. What are we buying concessions for in which What page are you on? Not a page, but not page number. You're in
038the That's page three. So, I'm guessing that the kitchen bought the concession food. Were you public schools? Yeah, she bought leftover concession food. The kitchen used it. And as we near end of year, um, to make everything balanced between the general funds, I I do end up having to do just a little bit of transferring just to try to utilize the most so we can expend all of our budget in each one. So, we'll see a little bit of change possibly in June to make those as close to zero as I can get [Music] them. There any board discussion? Any public comment? Public comment. Any board discussion or motion? I'll move to approve the consent agenda. Well second. Mike made a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second the motion. Is there any public comment?
039Public comment. Board comment. Mike made the motion to accept the consent agenda. Second and second motion. And all those in favor say I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Um, in front of you guys, you have the canvas of election results, but it's a different one. Um, so Dan Dorsy from Dorsy Whitney Associates got me what they require for their bond versus the one I have in here is just kind of blank one from Office Public Instruction. And so this is the one that is reattached and needs to be approved. As far as for canvasing the bond results, the same information is on here. It's just in a little different format. So number of number of total registered electors was 885. The canvas of votes is 323 for the bond yes and 193
040voted no to the bond. Um and then we'll have to just certify once you guys are done. Lisa and I will sign it to send back to them. And then also attached is the acronations for the pre-board members. And if we could probably make them in separate motions. Raina's texting now to be called maybe. Yeah, cuz after the canvas it definitely we break and then we go on to the new business. So So I don't I've not been in charge of doing this before. You just move to approve the canvas of election results. That's pretty. That's it. Is there any board discussion? Public comment. Comment. Is there a motion? I'll second that. TB, you made the motion to approve the election results. Mike second the motion. Is there any public comment? I just want to
041say thank you to those of you that have taken on a task again for whatever your terms are and the bond and all that good stuff. Thank you. Another public comment. It was the information was excellent. It was it's really well. I'm glad to see improvements on this building. It's a big part of my life and congratulations. It was done very professional. Thank you. Made the motion to approve election results. Mike second the motion. All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed, same fine. Motion carries. And then you just need to move to approve the can only a couple people here. Yes. I Well, I guess we probably I don't think I don't think you have to because they were all by acclamation. Last we did them separate. So you don't voted.
042Some were voted in acclamation. You can do them all. I think you can do them all at once. Okay. But they can't. Oh yeah. You're going to be staying the whole time. We have to do them separately because there's all of you on this board still. Yep. Go for it. I'll try to keep up. I will move to approve the certificate of trustee election by acclamation for Lisa Porab. Second. Stephen made the motion to approve the trustee election by acclamation for Lisa. Uh DB second motion. Public comment. Public comment. Board comment. Second. Made the motion to approve the trustee election by acclamation for lease board committee. Second the motion. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed same sign. Motion carries. I abstain. I move to approve the trustee election by acclamation for
043Reena tot make the motion to approve the trustee election by acclamation for arena talk. Sam second the motion. Is there any public comment? Public comment. Board comment. DB made the motion to approve trustee election by acclamation for Vina talk and second the motion. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed same sign. Motion carries. I'll move to approve Steph. I'll second that. Mike made a motion to approve trustee election by acclamation for second living. Is there any uh Sam motion? Is there any public comment? Public comment. Word discussion. Mike made the motion to approve the trustee election byation for Stephan. Second motion. All those in favor say I. I. Oh, sorry. All those opposed say. I abain. We'll take a little break to sign oats. [Music] Reorganization of the board of trustees. Do
044you want me to read this or do you want to read this or want me to read it? Read what? It's you. You're calling for nominations. Okay. After new trustees have been sworn in, there should be a call of nominations and election of the chair and vice chair. This shall be followed by appointment of the district clerk. That's one before your evaluation. Y I guess you don't rehire me. I still be the business manager. Someone just take minutes. Committee members are appointed by the board chair. This is a good time to review the trustee calendar as well. Is there nomination for board chair? I would nominate Lisa. I'll second. It's just majority of the vote. Yeah, that's my bad. Is there any other nominations? Mike made or nominated Lisa Board of Inc. for board chair
045Steph and second the motion those. Yes. Oh, just kidding. All those in favor say I. I. All those post sign. Is there any other nominations for vice chair? Sam nominated Stefan for vice chair. All those in favor say I. I. I. All those post same sign. Motion carries. Do we have an appointment for clerk? Lots of volunteers. Okay. like Mike nominated Britney. Is there any other nominations? I nominated Britney. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed same sign. Congratulations. Thanks. Thanks for sticking with me guys. All right. So then we need to do the committee. We're going to committees. So there's no interview personnel committee anymore. Correct. Okay. I would like to know if any of my board members are passionate about any of these committees. Yeah, me policy. I like being
046on the policy and I one might be on professional development or account. Okay. I but you can I think policy is a good spot for Sam and I don't know who Stephan Borg is. Hold on because what? What? Oh my gosh, this hysterical. I'm so sorry. I am I'm not part of that family. Did you Did you call Reena? That's not okay. Before we do, I'm sorry. That was a homie. I'm really sorry. That maybe happened while I was either real pregnant or really tired with the two. I not we got to pass the canvasing and taking oaths and we're um I was nominated as chair and Stephan is vice chair. So now I'm in a I'm figuring out what board members to put on which committees. Um Sam has expressed that she would like
047to be on policy and professional development or calendar. Do you have a preference of something that you're passionate about that you enjoy being on? I didn't mind any of the ones that I was on. I guess I don't care. Okay. I have you on speaker, so I'll go around and ask the same as everybody else. I would like to not be on IB this year, please. Okay. So, policy signed to your agreement. Probably going to be on it. Do you two feel like you're What's that policy? I don't mind being on policy, especially during the winter. Leave that as it is because I feel like you two are good at that. Oh, yeah. change to that's probably the one you were like who's on that committee. So you just took over. So I want to
048change it from Lisa to stuff and I don't want to change the person. I'm okay. So transportation. Are we leaving that one alone? It's always been thievi and I just got added to it and it's only once a year. Yeah. Leaf policy professional development. So can we now you guys were just talking about calendar and professional development possibly being the same people. might Oh, should it be could we It's up to you guys. Can we move calendar and professional developments up there on the same committee and then just have it IB and finance? Can we do that? These are your committees. Down there with IB. So that makes sense. development calendar. What about finance? Can you and finance can stay with IB because most of that is so let's put calendar with PD and for
049calendar let's do Mike um Who's gonna make it to those? She's on the other I would I would struggle to be on my because of my work schedule. Okay. So, so let's put you on the PD. So, Mike, Sam, and Should leave Dave there. Dave is Oh, no. That's fair. So, Mike, Dave, IB, he's going to be really mad at me for saying this out loud, but um I feel like Stefan has really learned the budget in the last year. Mhm. Wolves, not for IB, but for the finance part, like when we actually need to have I need to appreciate that about you. You can say no. I'm just telling you how how I feel. Huh? I mean, we just signed it to your contract. We're probably not having any IB. Just so you know,
050this IBB is contract. We don't do anything this year. Oh, I know. Cuz I was here. Me, too. I'm not on the committee. So IB will do [Music] Stefan, Lisa, and Mike. Good. Oh, Reena. Let's go. Reena, but right now Yeah, I guess you're on three though. So, the hard part is if you want if you need to be on finance or if you should be on the facilities and grounds. So, me. Yes, you because you're I guess you're on three, but you're the legislative contact Lisa and Steph and then I'll let So, that's Yeah, that would be four. I don't need to be on the facilities committee. But you're the one that knows what's going on because you've been seen it since the beginning. So, how many Okay. of what we've fixed. Mike's on
051one. Mhm. Sam's on two. Dave's on one. We could just switch on. Mike could go on to facilities. Okay, let's do that. Mike, not Stephan, Librina, and Dave. Um, facility, ground, safety, food service. Okay. and so Reena and Sam, are you good with staying on daycare? Okay, I think we'll leave daycare probably. It's okay. It's not okay. No, it's not. Okay. Is that I feel like you're eating. Dave's just got one. Dave's got two and has one. That's where you're off. Do you not take care of baby? No. Do not care. Have kids. You're on the wrong board. Sorry. She she needs to hurry place Reena in one of them. Reena has three. Okay. But not. So which other ones does she have? Reena's has facility grounds and ID. Do you want to do a
052facility grounds? Yes. Okay. Reena Pho is going to take your facility grounds because you are on too mean. Okay. So your IBB um daycare and that's it. Can we just go through all real quick? So uh facility grounds is Mike Phoebe IBB. Oh sorry transportation Phoebe Lisa slowly ground Mike Phoebe and Dave. Mike BB Dave on it. IBB Stefan Lisa Reena legislative Lisa Stefen and before I finish this is it like whoever is number one runs it. So we should flip that up so everybody runs something. Um, professional development, Sam, Mike, Dave, um, policy, Sam and Stefan, daycare, Lisa, Sam, Reena. Thank you. Do you want me to just rotate them when I do it to make sure everyone has one? Is it in the one spot somewhere? Is that what you're saying? I think
053just how I read them this last time. Who did you read for PD first? Uh Sam. Okay. Who did you read for policy first? Sam. Oh, let's do Stephan first on that one. You should. And then Mike's first on facility, baby's first on transportation. Yep. Stephanieb's on. You want Reena first on IB? Yes. Arena first on daycare. Reena first on daycare. And then do you want to go first on IB then? Stephan Stefan is already on policy. Okay. Yes. Got it. Is there anything on the schoolboard calendar? I'd only have the one moved to May for the daycare handbook to where we're not going to be open in June. Carrie would like it in May like we did this year so that she can be approved before she goes out for the summer. That sounds
054change that I know unless you guys have something else. And is that something that needs you have to vote on it? I just will move it if you guys are in Britney at all. Um she said on as far as the schoolboard calendar, the only change to make would be to um Carrie would like the daycare handbook moved to May so that if there isn't summertime daycare, then she's done by the time school's out. Okay. A question about like work sessions or like the committees we just created. um when they should get together. Is it possible to like set a month for each of those to make sure they're meeting like the normal time say like the calendar committee plan shouldn't that be on our calendar for school board or like handbooks if we're going
055to look at one and potentially approve it in February, we should be having a work session in January to prep for the February meeting. So we stay kind of ahead of that and give oursel time so things are tabled. they're not tabled out in the summer where then we're crunch time and having all these extra meetings and then people can have time to review it I guess think you want to add to the September one that it's going to be at an outline September will be what Mr. will be at an outlying place on a rotating basis based on our discussion um having that one hosted at one of our country schools or the meeting. I see what you're saying. Sure. Are we wanting to um Why do you want to take the meeting somewhere
056else? Most people live here in town. Um ju just as a you know if we do that once a year then when we actually have to go and have a conversation about a bond a levy those kind of things that we're not um just knocking on the door when we want them to vote for something like they get a chance to but they can watch us on video and would anybody come to a meeting well I can't guarantee that. Um, but I I could say there'd be drive time and it'd be fun. That's what I'll say. I mean, I addressed it to Hammond at 5 4:30 in the morning to go talk to the law, right? Is there something you want to set up as far as the policy committee to kind of I think
057have the board reviewing say policy might be hard this year only because you guys are going to have a lot of policy coming I would think in the next couple months with legislative changes. Yeah. Legislative years are all of those updates. I was just thinking like handbooks like if we just have it planned, you know what I mean? And in the minutes and then post the work session and you want are you want to set a policy one though you think or what you I was meaning those are set what month we're looking at them. So activities would be in March classified certified. So going to do Yep. I'm going to take off that student handbook party. I'm sorry. I didn't realize that was on there still. So student activity will go together. So okay,
058classified certified would be in February. Okay, activity would be in March and then daycare transportation would be in April which is kind of way we did it for the day this year just to plan to post for the work sessions. Are there any other committees you think right now besides I mean calendar? We try to do the calendar in April. So I guess so approve calendar for next year in April. So we would have a I would actually say the calendar meeting probably needs to be in February. Okay. Just because based on all things that if you do any sort of survey, give you a chance to get put out, it just gives you a better chance to have a better conversation about it. do that in February. Are there any other ones that we
059need to set for these? County transportation is always in July. Not set by Tracy. Do we have let's see I mean we should walk like I think all trustees are supposed to walk around the school and see the conditions of the school or just do like a walk through. What did we do? I tried to do that last year and then I think it was like bad weather not everybody could come or something. Did we do a couple different ones? We did different ones. We were because it wasn't during like a meeting and so we all be together. I know they had like a goal date in order to do that by each discussion. So you could post it like a work session though and do like a 5:30 whoever could come or you have
060your facilities ground crew do it if you wanted that. Yeah, that's true. Just our policy does say that each board member is supposed to do it once a year, right? It says supposed to I don't remember the wording. I'll look there's something I don't know how it's supposed because then if you come on site outside of that you're supposed to get approval ahead of time by the chair or maybe the whole board. I was just reading this the other day. For some reason I accidentally confess it looking for something else. policy. No, I do not. Absolutely not. Or I'd be somebody else probably. [Music] I could keep that if you find something. Okay, looks like we're starting over again. Recognition and reports and senior class already talked about. So I will I'm going to just
061right now apologize to Marty because that is this is the beginning of the meeting. So this is my daughter's home from She's like, "Oh god, yeah, we could move it up." Oh, yeah. We'll be right out of the gate. Word is words. Coffee on me. Um you're up. So I'll let you talk. I'll just tell you all of you. She She got a chance. Carol, we got a chance to to talk about this. But you do have pictures in front of you. So um just some random assortment of pictures of of the trip last week on Sunday Monday we headed across the the state to Mati Wy. Well actually before I speak on the Mati trip I thought I would share a quick update from the early childhood education project based learning that I actually
062got to go to in Missoula at the University of Montana in April. And the keynote speaker spoke about how young children learn best through guided play. And she reminded us how playful learning helps develop thinking skills, communication, social, social, emotional growth. And as we all know, a lot of the best learning doesn't come from worksheets. It actually comes from the hands-on experiences. So through the workshops I attended on project- based learning, we worked on how to design meaningful projects that meet learning goals while keeping kids curious and engaged. I also saw great ways to tie reading and writing into projects so literacy will still stay strong. We got to tour two Missoula schools where PBL is the model of instruction and the classrooms are designed around play, inquiry and collaboration and it was really inspiring
063to watch the kids engaged in their learning. So then last week we were able to go to visit teachers in Mati, Wyoming. First, we made a stop off in Powell at their high school and oh my word, you need to take a tour through that high school. It was amazing. The our teacher there is above and beyond. But when we went to um Matis, it was kind of interesting because it was their day where they were very first going toward the PBL model. So they wanted to start at the last three weeks of school before the next fall school year started to give everybody a taste to try to figure out the kinks, you know, what was going down. There was a some teachers were a little stressed, some were a little, you know, it
064was very interesting to watch. So the elementary's plan was very different from their K through 12 plan. And I got to visit one-on-one with each of the teachers from pre preK up through fifth grade. And um they do continue to plan to teach their core subjects in the morning, the reading and the math and you know those really phonics those things that you have to have and then they plan to focus on projects in the afternoon which is something that actually our own primary grades are already doing particularly our kindergarten class. So, next year for myself, I plan to have a year-long theme with one larger project each quarter um to maybe share with the community and with parents because the goal of project based learning is to find something in your community that um
065you can help with or that you can help others with. And so, um I'm excited to bring these ideas back and continue growing our approach. So, thank you very much for this professional development opportunities that I've had the last couple months. Thank you, Marty. So, I did not type my speech, but I would just say that um this I had the opportunity to work in a charter school that was very project based and it was it's it made me think back on all the cool things that we could possibly do. And I mean, there was many conversations on the car ride back about ideas and I mean, and to simplify it for you guys, this can be across the border in high school. So, let's say I was just talking to Britney about this. It
066could mean something as simple as the history teacher is teaching geography, right? And each place she teaches geography, Mrs. Walker, could be having them do foods from those countries. And then they could bring in, let's say, the um senior citizens to test taste those meals and the kids could teach them about the country and they could taste the food. So, I mean, these are kind of ideas what project based would look like. So, you're bringing in community members, you're tying classes together, and then their grading is a little I thought it was very, very cool. Um, it's just something that we'll have to look next year and kind of base our ideas around. And I think really the takeaway is is that we have some teachers that could work together and do some really cool
067things. It's just designing how that looks like in our schedule and making sure that we actually take the time. And Mr. got these um got some ideas on how we can have some time to actually work together to make this work. So, I'm I'm pretty excited. So, I think we have to start small and kind of build out, but this could be an awesome opportunity to make our school kind of stand out. Thank you. Thank you, Karen. I'll just throw in there just so everybody you remember to start with we have a grant we got a grant out of the Helen Foundation from Mile City that um we I built this plan on zero dollars and then we got a grant to kind of help with uh expenses as far as travel and hotels and
068those kind of things. And so we have uh in September um this week I will lock down with with the superintendent in teaching. In September we'll take another group over there and in December we'll take another group and in April they will bring a group to us. Um my only main request with their group coming to us is that they bring students with us and so bring a few students with them. Uh and so hopefully we'll look at that for ourselves as we get closer to that. Um but just some pretty uh interesting possibilities to take school and not make it about a class or grade if you will and more about you know what what students need to learn and the skills they need to have as well as you know how reading, math,
069those important subjects fed in there. is and there is um it didn't work out because of just the time of season but um the next trip um the all the trips we will work to take board members with us to meet with their board as well see it and talk to it and hear the good and the bad and the ugly about it just so the more we know the more I was very very very appreciative of the the four teachers that went um thank god for hearing aids because I can turn down sometimes but um they on the way back their conversation uh about ideas and um I mean there's a document being generated with all sorts of things um possibilities uh as far as how those projects can work but but in the
070end it all comes down to time and giving teachers time to work together to to do it. you can't you can't uh you can't build those things um from 7 to midnight every night because that's not that's not a fair expectation. So the one point the reason we stopped in PAL though I will say um it it is something to see but the teacher is the the teacher that I feel more comfortable modeling for students than for for other teachers than a lot of other teachers in a sense because he is he's a person that protects his personal time in a way like no other teacher I've worked with. Um comes to work at 7:30 he leaves at 4. Don't ask him to say later than that. But from 7:30 to 4, it's game on.
071And um as as they said, when you see the projects that he gets his kids to do and really run with, um it it says a lot about what what we can do and get kids excited and kind of let them run. So, thank you very much. Bye, Marty. Bye, Marty. Thank you. um trustee report. We're wondering if we could do our June meeting June 2nd starting with the work session with Mr. Capy at 5:30. Great. Yep. So I have to have a meeting at our June meeting. Um there's different people going to be gone at different times. So we're looking at having it on June 2nd. Okay. at 5:30 starting with a work session um with Mr. Capy's contract. Okay. Does that work for you? Yes. No, I will not be I'm not that
072week. So, but you can proceed without me. June is crazy. June is June. Does it work for everybody else? Yeah, I just put it in my calendar. So it's done deal. June 2nd 5:30. Superintendent report. Oh, state and federal issues. Superintendent report. Uh okay. Uh so last week um we had staff appreciation week and uh hopefully everybody got a chance to see pictures and whatnot online and and Lisa, thank you for coming and helping serve make root beer boats and whatnot. But uh an amazing amount of work um but amazing amount of community support for our staff um our staff across the region. As far as that, um, the the office staff did a lot of work to get donations and whatnot and and and we had lots of different prizes and and things to
073say thank you from businesses from Rapid City to Billings to Spearfish to Baker to ELA, uh, all across the board. And so just a a really nice from coffee on Monday morning till coffee on Wednesday morning. I think they had coffee every day. a mix of sugar. They were very very hyper last week and then uh a lot of fun things for them and and and welld deserved for our entire staff. Um the legislative update they you know the stars acted passed and so was signed into law on Friday. So we had 15 we have till the 15th to have our um official sign off in to the um to OPI for the state to make sure we get that funding. So that was taken care of today actually. Uh we did get they did
074pass the 3% um maintenance inflationary adjustment. Uh so that that puts us in kind of does not catch us up from the past five or six years but it does at least give us something so they can focus on what they need to during the dennial study. Uh during in the last month the week of Easter or the week after Easter I guess it was uh I attended the bar conference which is um uh building assets and and working on relationships. And so we just a a really cool um way to look at how they work with students. And so um been looking at at what that might look like. Been been torturing the uh admin meeting every every week since since we've got back about how you how you kids don't know how to
075communicate with each other until we teach them how to communicate. Um and if kids can communicate with each other, the the research is pretty pretty astounding that um the rest of it all goes with it. So when kids kids have that positive atmosphere at school and they can communicate with adults and communicate with each other, then everything else seems to not seems to everything else goes with it. And so in particular reading uh and math scores go with it. So it was a pretty powerful thing. And so looking at where and how that can fit into what our school does. Talked about the Matiti visit and and what that um is coming up with that. Um talk a little bit about um fundraising kind of updates. So the the best part about fundraising uh best
076part about ideas is when you have ideas, it gets people thinking and it gets people asking questions and so that puts us in a good spot. Um we have uh some parents that are looking at some other fundraising some of the fundraising opportunities we talked about last week last month. But then out of that has came other fundraising um opportunities as far as looking at uh using roundups on point of sale um transactions. Most of you probably experienced that at some restaurant gas station. And so how that works. And so we are uh exploring like what what software how that works because that is a another opportunity that again gives us potentially a way to try to fund raise without going through any of our community. I mean any of our county members. I mean
077really trying to um leverage people that are traveling through whether it's for uh summer visits or the dino shindig or any of those kind of thing. So working working at those pieces and uh kind of trying to align out all that fun stuff. We're still I will we were told by the 15th and so it's the 12th. I was hopeful that we know before tonight but by the 15th they are supposed to um but there are the government so they can play by their own rules. we were supposed to know whether we received the Montana reading grant. And so, um, at that point, I will send you lots of detailed information. Um, we do essentially, here's the here's the the good news moving forward, and we'll have a couple recommendations with that, but potentially we
078are fully staffed going into before the school year's out. And so truly gives us a chance to lock down schedules, look at what that um how all these pieces fit together and not be trying to figure it out during um July, June, all those. So that's an exciting piece as far as um academically speaking. Border on here. Border typ. I know you did after I Oh, you go. Oh, so at some point it's there's never a right time on here, but we I will be working to um get us locked down for a board retreat, meaning an evening or whatnot. Um, so we can truly, I mean, we'll work to take maybe some of the information that we're going to discuss later and and lay out a plan for where we go in the next
079year, in the next 12 months, and so we can all kind of get on that same page. We can shoot my board. I think we can shoot my board. Yeah. Yeah. guidance. Okay. Um, our chords Wednesday. I would sure love for you guys to come if you haven't. It's kind of a fun time. Um, it starts at 8:10. Uh we I'm assuming will have a little more awards than normal, but it'll be kind of a celebration to kick off um the end of the school year. Uh MAPS testing, we are very close to being done. Remember that's our benchmark testing just to kind of see where we're at throughout the school year and watch them be able to kind of pinpoint who's above, below, and on academic level. Mass testing. We have one test left
080and I will be taking the seventh and eighth graders and we will be finishing that bad boy up when we are done. So remember mass testing is our new state testing. Um and like Mr. Capy already said schedules we're going to get um started on here soon. and a science assessment. Just so you guys know, um we have to still do a regular science assessment at the end of the year and that's for fifth, 8th, and juniors, but the juniors is for the ACT. So, um we actually got our ACT scores back and I am very very very impressed with some of the scores we got back. We're we're uh our average is a lot higher than it it's been this year. So, I thought that was a really exciting piece to be able to
081share. Um, we get any questions before we roll into athletic. My counterpart is home getting ready for she has to for the senior banquet tomorrow. So, she went home and I told her I could cover. But, um, Mr. Bronson Rogers, excuse me, Branson is going to pull up our districts, our divisionals qualifying. We're I want you guys to know we kicked some serious tail last week. Um, boys only lost by two points to be first and girls did win first by a lot. Um, Amelia Bruce won every race she was in. So really, I mean, we we kind of kicked some serious tails. So, just going to let you guys kind of look at that. I mean, we we're going into divisionals very well set. So, Yeah. What do we have? Two. Two of us
082win all five events up there. Oh, yeah. Xander and Xander won. Oh, yeah. I forgot. Xander won and Ameilia. Ameilia that won all five that they took the districts. Yeah. No, it was it was it was really impressive. Well represented. We kind of kicked butt all day. I was very Mr. Rogers, could you help me out go back because I can't remember what I'll say. Um, oh, did you email him over the Yes, pull that up. Um, so um, sorry for your put them on the spot today. State track. So, divisionals is Thursday. We're going to do a spirit walk on Wednesday down the hallway and get the kids out the door and put them on the bus. They have practice at 6:00 to 8 in Laurel um on Wednesday night and then divisionals on
083Thursday. State track is in Missoula this year May 22nd and 23rd. I believe the plan is to have them practice. Tuesday stay in Billings then drive to Missoula on No, wait a minute. I'm off. Wednesday, Billings. Thursday is we get to Missou because you have practice time. And then Friday, Saturday is the 23rd, 24th. We definitely You get the idea. You get You get the the Yes. Um Mr. Rogers in just a second is going to pull up. Um next year's sports schedule is pretty well ready to go. So, um remember this is always tentative. Okay, always tentative. So, um refs have been contacted. Um will is back up and running. We have seven seven teams that have told me yes. I'm still kind of doing some searching for others. Um it's really really hard.
084So, from what I'm understanding, the state of North Dakota and the state of South Dakota and Wyoming kind of been making their schedules for their teams, so it's hard to try to get. So, it's already done for them. They're already at their max capacity. So, I'm having trouble reeling in a few others. But, I'm really happy we have seven back for the Willies. So, um football's ready. Um homecoming will be that 10th. We have that on the calendar, just so you guys know. Um, basketball is in there, too. We won't worry about it right now. I mean, it's dead as well. So, any questions? So, you got homecoming and senior night the same night? Sure. Looks that way. It's just how it worked, don't Yeah, it'll have to. It'll just actually It might be nice.
085We might get it all done in one's down. One just one big celebration. as we go. Yep. Against weeble. So, any questions? I just attach that so you guys could It's clickable if you guys go to the website now. And I'll have Mr. Rogers put it up on the website just so kind people have an idea of what that is going into next year. Um, really just so you guys understand this and then I'll stop talking. But, so the state of Montana technically sets our schedule for us now. Okay. So, they kind of give us the week we have to do it. So, these dates are where they these come from. We're we're operating off of what the state of Montana gives us and then we fill in the gaps where we can. So, no
086when everybody's asks, you know, well, why is this like this? The state of Montana is kind of setting it for us. We just fill in like our our Baker games, our non-conference games. So, if anybody asks that is that is why. So, I missed anything else. Did I Mr. Rogers? Sorry. Thank you, Carol. Yeah, maintenance. I'll take maintenance, but I just want to throw a couple things back there. So that willise we um part of getting teams here is making sure they don't want to go anywhere else. So, um I I will be working with the chamber, but we'll be working as hard as we can to make it as as amazing of a volleyball tournament as it should be, but so that those teams don't a want to not be there and b talk
087about it and and continue to spread the word because I actually already have a team that's booked in the Midway Motel. There you go. I mean, it is a it is a competitive draw for those and um it sounds like a great class project to see what the economic impact of having a volleyball tournament in your town all day, staying it overnight, all those things could be. So, it it does fall on us to really think about all the ways we can make sure from food to, you know, how we take care of it and how we support that is a big deal. I do want to throw back out there and I apologize for not having it in mind. the information will go out to to teachers. We kind of worked through some of
088it. Teachers were made aware of it last week, kind of brainstorming through um emergency protocols. And so we will be sending out information tomorrow to all the parents um that we will be doing um an active shooter drill on Wednesday at the end of the day. And so um we just want to make sure everybody is absolutely aware of it. it. We do want no questions about it being a drill. Um, and so they will actually end the day with that. We've coordinated that with the sheriff's department. Um, and the hardest part about any of those kind of things is drill and there is no there is no outlining it um on what you need to do. Um, because if it ever truly happens, people are going to have to react and they give them
089a chance to think through that. Um, so we we will start those announcements tomorrow in school as well, just to make sure, especially our our littlest of littles, but especially our our kids know that, hey, we're going to practice this, but it is absolutely a drill. So, just want to make sure you guys are aware of that so you don't um get a random call or something about something happening in uh maintenance. Arnold is out um through most of through he's been out for a month and he'll be out through the middle of June. Um he is recovering well. He had a he's getting healthy. Um had a little process done to to get him healthy and serious thing, but uh I've been checking on him and he seems like um he's Arnold. He's doing
090he's he's improving every day. And so uh that's that's that's where we are with him. We're looking at some options to uh bring in some professional lawnmowing services um that uh can assist while he is out but collecting clippings um it's different conversation there um so anyway that's maintenance Branson transportation Um, I was actually out a good share of April because I now have three kids. Um, but April is usually the tough month with track because you have all these things scheduled and then the day of or the week day before it's like, "Oh, never mind. We're not going to go." Or, "Oh, no. How about in two days instead?" So, I don't know. They handled it very well. Everybody got, I think, where they needed to go when they needed to get there. So,
091that worked out pretty good. Um, and we're just ramping down to the end and then we're figuring out things for what next year's going to look like yet and have few conversations yet to have. um technology. It's the end of the year and there's a lot of things going on at the end of the year. Um just re getting ready to recollect Chromebooks, getting plans ready in October. Microsoft is no longer supporting Windows 10. So that means this summer I need to move everybody to Windows 11. Um and I've got a few things I'm trying to figure out the best way to do that. and heard of some other schools that are doing a serverless project where they've gotten rid of their active directory and that's the backend server that manages all your credentials and
092so it's like the login that you use to log into the computer. It also handles a bunch of other things that I haven't quite sorted out how they handle that, but I'm hoping to visit Glendive in a bit to see how that works because we got rid of a bunch of his servers and so he doesn't have that hardware cost anymore. And then does authentication through Google, which is what we use with Chromebooks. So hopefully this summer I can figure that all that out before the next year starts. Um, then there's other summer projects that I do that are things that will disrupt the internet for everybody that I can't really do during the school year because sometimes I make a mistake and then internet's out a little bit longer than needs to be. Um,
093I think I've got a couple other things written up there, but it's kind of what I've got unless you have any questions. Thanks, Johnson. Custodial. Uh, they're busy getting ready for the end of the year with graduation. Um, and getting all their, um, stuff ready for, who knows, maybe the last official stripping and cleaning of our tile floor based on all those kind of things. So, um, that's that is headed that way. So, Um, I said the end of the fiscal year is upon us. A reminder that Drake and I both work in the summer. Um, typically it's only about three days, three to four days each. And so we'll kind of have some different schedules. And then Misty, oh god, commission sent. Missy works a week after the week before typically. And so she
094will be in for a little bit with us to do end of your reporting with our student information system. and then usually right around a week or so um to do the back to school packets and sometimes she does them a little earlier than that week so that she's not in the week affair just because it gets crazy and wild and lots of interruptions. Um I do have two things that showed up after this went out so or one thing for sure. budget for the bond timeline. Um Tyler Bush got a hold of us and maybe we'll have something to approve for them in June as far as for Mckin Street for the finish of design build so they can start putting out bids come this fall and so he will have that for me
095um before the June meeting and then also something from Bridget Extram. So DA Davidson is our bond issuing company and so we have some stuff to do with them also at the June meeting and then um budget amendments. Um Mr. Captain may be bringing a budget amendment to the board or a transfer of funds. And so just to kind of give you guys a perspective, um we have betite money in the county because of the vet planet colony and the revenue is far stretched from 10,000 to 60,000 and it depends on the year and everything in between and so it has been advised to never put that into your general fund. So there are schools that have consistent revenue from other shortages in their counties and it goes in against their mills. The reason that
096I've we haven't put it in and what Laura told me is that you never do that because if you budget for the 16, you get the 10, you just shorted yourself the 50 because there's nothing to make that up in between. And that happened to her one year. And so I do have a little excess of what we consider cash sitting in there. And so um you want to keep enough cash in there to where you can fund your next year. So July through October, you're funding on cash because you don't have any budget until taxes are paid. I mean, for the most part. Um, but we do feel there's maybe a little bit of cash in there. We're just trying to figure out the best place to put it um before the end of
097the year. And we are in the process of writing a safety grant. And so we're trying to figure out if that could be the percentage match for the safety grant or if it goes into the interlocal agreement or so. We'll have a just to kind of give you guys a preface I guess of what you'll see in June. There will be something to do with the budget and moving of money at that point. So that's what that is. Other than that, I don't think I have anything. I will be gone in June. That's why we're moving the meeting. I have my yearly meeting in Great Falls this year. That's second week in June. One caveat to add to that. if if we go with jump start that is funded in rear is funded after the
098fact and so um having cash on hand allows us to pay that and then we're reimbured at the end of next year based on numbers of students in it all that stuff. So you've got to have the money up front before you get it back from the state. Thank you. Have you heard anything from the IRS? I actually just got something in the mail today. Just more paperwork. They said, from what I can gather, I need to call the ladies though, our really, really big one is the one I got the letter back on, and she's It sounds like if they move it to the right quarter, then the quarter before that is short. But I know we made all those payments, so now I have to go and look at that quarter. So, and
099I already made all the payments for it. So there's no payment to be made. I was just hoping for the refund. So I got some more research to do now. That's the first thing I've gotten back that didn't say please allow 60 more days for your inquiry. So whatever you call it. Um, I just want to make sure everybody remembers the graduation's Saturday and it's a 2 o'clock and Lisa, you are good to give out diplomas. Is that a factual statement to say? Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. We're good with that. If I would echo on there too, just so make sure there's nobody missed that that um Miss Squire is um speaking as well as the governor is coming to address our our students on that. So I I would I would be it would
100be great to see our entire board. We just wanted to make sure we were had our ducks there. Okay. Take care. Scrolling right along. Um at the end of the year numbers have been up and uh things have been agree. Uh extended contract consideration for Carol. Uh so based on kind of past practice with with Carol um locking down all transcripts and getting ready for the next upcoming year um we usually have her for 10 days. And so uh it can be a mix because it can be a fair number after school. It can be five after school and five before school starts to kind of come in and meet with students. Move to offer an extended contract with girl Spencer for a maximum of 10 duty days. I'll second. Sam made the motion to
101uh make the offer to extend contract for Carol Spencer for a maximum of 10 duty days. Mike second the motion. Is there any public comment? Public comment. Board discussion. She's not in here, but I think we all need to tell her congratulations on actually graduating with her counseling degree. Congratulations. They denied your extended contract. Thank you. I am now certified. Sam made the motion to extend Carol Spencer's contract for a maximum of 10 days. Mike second the motion. All those in favor say I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Thank you. Uh activity funds banking. So based on um a lot of things that have been going on where our money currently is housed, where other monies are currently housed, we would like to look at changing our banking partner um and and moving
102it out of where it currently is and and looking at other options. So where is looking at other options? The activity account still sits with summit and the funds sit with the treasurer. Everything else is with the treasur. So the thought was to move everything so it's in one spot in one place. Yep. One place for everything. I'll make the motion to approve the transfer of activity funds to the treasures. I'll second that motion. Mike made a motion to approve the transfer of activity funds to the Carter County Treasures Office as presented. We second the motion. Is there any public comment? I just have a question like how does that work? Like when you need like we have a game or concessions or whatever and you got to go get pulled and pulled over or
103whatever and if it's not fun like how do you go get money then they have cash on hand for us. Okay. I was just like I I asked her that too because I didn't think she ever had cash. I mean like I do my deposits but yeah she does make Yeah, she does have cash on Any other public comment? Board comment. Mike made the mo motion to approve the transfer of activity funds to car county treasures office as presented. Loose a second. The motion. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Job descriptions. Oh gosh. You ready to go? Um, how many? We have lots of pages here. And so, um, in in the process of looking at all of our going through IB and looking at all the
104different pieces, we essentially have we we had zero job descriptions for positions that were paid. And so looking through all of that, um, you you really can't have a position that's paid that's going to be evaluated without it having some sort of actually knowing what's expected, nor is that really fair for anybody applying for one of those positions or taking one of those positions, if you will. And so we have um two of those positions were on there, athletic and activity director and head coaching. And then the list below that is the ones that we have developed and built those job descriptions for. Um some simple changes. You can look through those. But just some simple changes on the um on the athletic director and coaches on that athletic director one looking um to supervise
105just changed the wording there. supervise athletic activities and to meet the the district um financial and activity needs of the entire student body. Um added the step in there as far as you know lead one of the responsibilities is help lead fundraising and money management strategies for the activities athletic department. And then if you jumped over there to page two, um, develop long range purchasing plans for uniforms and equipment. And currently we have kind of a we've had a enough change over in those positions that we don't really have a clear plan on uh, you know, when when is basketball up, when is football up, when is track up, and those kind of things. And so working to um develop those and then that that's the only changes on that one. Could we like comment
106on each one as you would be great? Okay. So on the athletic activity director number five says may assist with selecting and assigning. Is that just good wording or will assist or Yeah, that's don't that's the way it was worded so it didn't didn't don't have a problem with that. I mean I would think will would be a better option if you have one in place for sure. Okay. And then on page two, number 25, should that why is it limited to just high school? So there really isn't any I mean part of MHSA there is no meetings for Oh, you're doing this. Okay. Maybe you want that to say like state meetings attend state meetings. Well, it could be district. It could be Yeah. Well, that's what I didn't know if it meant like
107parent meetings or other meetings or those are always like the sidebar conversation like okay we're going to do back or football and then we'll play the junior high over here but it's not a it's a high school meeting. So can it just be attending athletic meetings? Sounds good to me. Okay. Anybody else have anything on that one? What do you mean on number nine on the athletic director or the head coach? Excuse me. Um leading community service projects like what's in mind with that one? On which page are you on? On my next one. Head coat. Sorry. Coach, sorry. Um, keep going. Number nine. Oh, so one of your your big pieces of I mean, you're going to build a program and you're going to evaluate your coaches then how they how they build that,
108you know, to give back to the community. And they those do not have to be, let's be clear on it. Are they trying to do something that could be as picks up trash out? Could be pick up trash. It could be go down and serve a lunch at the senior center. It could be, but are we, you know, it needs to be an expectation otherwise it gets lost in the show and nobody like, "Oh, I'm not going to do that." If it's there, do I think it's important? Yeah, I do think it's important. So, thanks. Question. Okay. Um just coaches overall and athletic director when we had discussed the student and activity both you know being combined um is there anything that you think would be beneficial to me putting these position descriptions like they
109must you know like some people had commented they didn't know for like dress code came up like who's going to enforce that does that need to be somewhere um on who's going to be responsible for that or just anything in that student activity book. Who's going to be enforcing those rules? Um like if you're not present, do they know or that's or I didn't know if you wanted it specifically in here, Mr. Capy, or where that piece would fit in. I don't think that's a I mean I don't think that's a bad thing. I So what would we what would we want that to just be? So parents are responsible for enforcing the student the student the regulations. Yeah. If that is part of Yeah. I think that's safe to have. Can I ask and
110that's for both athletic director and coach description or I guess I would put in both personally because there's times like at district tournament the coach is busy but the ad's in the stands they see something they you know and maybe theirs could be worded as they are to ensure their coaches are abiding by or enforcing the regulations. I don't know how you word it, but something theirs should be a little bit different because it's if they're evaluating, you know, your head coaches and stuff, it's their role to make sure that their coaches aren't forcing the regulations in handbook because they're going to be the ones that players athletes. Yeah, kind of because now we have kids excuse all day coming to practice. Do the coaches still get a report from the office that their student
111isn't there, but they're practice that they've been having all day. I thought it was half day. So, yes and no. It depends on if they've been if they did their they got their pink sheet and did all of those pieces. So, is that clear, Britney, on what you're adding? Yep, I think so. Okay. You good to move on to music? Yeah. I So, these ones are these are new and so we have zero on these. So, I please don't make me read the entire job description, but um I hope everybody Yeah, basically we have those broke up into you know 712 and obviously there's a similarity with that. there's a little bit of an expectation um trying to lay out um what they will do um what the expectation for that is um and then
112what they will also as far as um so they know whether they're supposed to be playing every week every day those kind of things but in in essence just getting them to get it started and um go through that and then it jumps right into the other one with uh you know choir for 712 goes hand in hand with that. Does anybody have any comments for music? I do on the band one you have that they have to do a marching band. You only have five students. Is that still a requirement? Uh what page are you want to go that be? Or like what number are you so I can follow? I just under the sort of qualification it's under number three the last coordinate and manage marching band activities. Yes, thank you. And there
113are times you don't have enough kids and I did mar in high school and it's just yeah I mean they usually go out and play in the stands like do thing but that marching band instead of marinate says marching 712 band preferred qualifications like I think that would be I mean I think that would be a good point to have that just change that from margin to pet band just pet band or or you could even get away with pet just put band I was going to say just manage band activities then you're covered under everything That's how I read it. I skipped over the part when I read it. I did too. I didn't even catch it. We did marching. I was like, where's marching? I read like three times right there. Yeah, I'm
114here. Oh, so we taking marching out completely. So you guys are up top. I'm down by preferred qualifications. Sorry. She's also here. She's Yeah, she was at the bottom. I didn't. Okay. And then there's also going to be one on the front. I think it's taken out under three. The first bullet plan, organizing, direction, performances, concerts, and marching band. That that you just say pet band activities or you say just bad activities. And then there bullet right there. And then are you qualifications prep band and not marching? Yes. Okay. Scribbled that out. Okay. Anything else? Um I have I have something on the head coach under evaluation. So it talks about performance of this job will be evaluated annually in accordance with the provisions of the board's policy on evaluation of administrative personnel. Is that
115something we need to develop or I don't know that we have anything outside of like our I would honestly just say Mr. Yeah, specific. I don't think you need that specific in the evaluation. Would that be done? Sounds like by the athletic director for your coaches maybe in conjunction with you and the athletic director. I I Yes. But I think you could actually end the sentence that annually. At a what? At annually. Annually. Annually. Okay. Performance of this job will be evaluated annually. At least annually. That's how you have the other ones. Did you want at least in there just in case it needs to be more than one conversation? Well, you know, maybe it's not a formal evaluation, but then you have that flexibility if you needed to have an additional conversation. I think
116the other ones I'm going to cross that same line out on the activities one. Um, yeah, performance of this job will be evaluated at least annually. Yeah. And the same thing on the athletic on the activities director one. Yep. It's got that long line. Anything else there through music? Uh, I would make a change just to um I would change the qualifications for um that first one. I would just move that first one to um preferred preferred on music. Yeah. So the first one under qualifications move it to preferred which would be preferred but actually yeah we may or may not ever get that right. And then we go back to the director. So I'm on page two. Yep. And and maybe I missed it, but go to number 28. Serve as manager for home
117track meets and tournaments. Is that just specific to track or were you meaning like all activities? So that would I mean I would say that's I mean but that would not be just track. So, so if you have ever have a home track meet, which we would be potentially hosting, right? Baker. Okay. But it's not intended just for track. No, it would be like for the wilderness. Specify that. Just to be clear, serve as manager for take out track. Yeah. Home activities and tournaments. You just take track out and it reads. Okay. And then number 26 on that same page assumes leadership role in the orientation and inservice training of coaching personnel prior to beginning of season etc. Um is there anything about their responsibility for evaluating coaches? Did I miss that somewhere? Oh, yeah.
118Okay. Number six on page one. It's there. Yeah. I thought I had seen it. Okay. Not sure where I am. Music. Um, I haven't heard anything else to do with music. So, let's go to closeup. Okay. So, what do you want to go to? K6 first. Okay. Just I just want to make sure we tried to spell out like what K6 those performance. So, there's one fall performance, one spring performance, and then many performances throughout like going over the senior center and those kind of things. So that just simple expectation, but I'll quickly move to the next one that close-up advisor. The biggest piece about close-up for our school is that it's an every other year trip. And so um well, is that at least an every other year trip if not potentially longer? It's
119not an every year trip. Both of you were have done. All I ever did was fundra. I've never gone. Oh, you were probably um I got to be the worker. Yeah. I've never gone on a trip. History teachers. Yeah. And it really should be like a junior high or high school position. It's been really hard this year being in elementary and getting the kids, you know, to gather together and do want to do something for that. Um, I mean, ideally the history teacher so you can implement it into the program would would be best and usually the test. Yeah, it's been hard this year being on the other side. Yeah. Being a degree school does not make it conducive to work with the projects over here at the high school. That's why I needed that
120because she was in junior high. Yeah. So if it was under preferred qualifications, if we have a junior high high school person, we have 10 people applying for it, then we're going to start categorized to do it or somebody, but That is a great program. So if you want to change that valid teaching certificate to referred instead of qualifications if you're consider a parent I know He didn't he didn't say no right off the bat. He the look said no. Anything else for closeup? Yes, I will. I missed evaluation on closeup. So yeah, add that back. Well, that one has I guess I don't know. Yeah. [Music] FCCLA. Does anybody have anything on [Music] FCCLA FA? journalism advisor. I would say on journalism move because that one does not directly FFA and FCCLA has to
121be connected but journalism we'd want it connected but it may not be connected to the class. I mean it could be to local newspaper guy potentially running that. So preferred qualification would be valid teaching. I'm going to pull Sam Oh god, don't have to go backwards, but I think that under evaluation we should put or leave and say in accordance with board policy and I can put in there 5222 because it does talk about the fact that they just should be evaluated given a copy of evaluation and it goes on file. That way we make sure that we always have those steps in process. We do have a policy. Yeah, nice. Sounds good. I'm very excited. 5222 evaluation of non-administrative staff which is everybody else and it does talk about certified staff or by their
122CVA and so thank you lead teacher. Okay. So remember these two positions are um defined in the collect bargaining um added to that as far as for all those instructions. I tried to be as specific with those in particular the lead teacher on the bottom of the first page. So the changing of the guard if you will. If if something if there is no contract to the administration or administrator then this the second piece kicks in there if you will. Is this where you speak? I'm on the map. Oh, almost. Okay. Um, does anybody have Do you have anything on mentor? Go ahead. Okay. The mentor teacher on page two under number four book three um communicates with lead teachers. So, did you want to be in there too, Mr. capy like the so I
123didn't know if they if you wanted them to report to you as well or maybe you get a report from the leads on how the um no I mean I wouldn't I mean it's it's small enough that I'm not worried about that but they're going to be that those first conversations are going to be like that's where the the lead teacher would be coming to me like the with the poll saying, "Hey, we got an issue here. We got really struggling." Okay. That's all I uh National Honor Society. Hey, a little bit of a change to National Honor Society, but um it has a high school and junior high component. And so, but other than that, everything else is pulled from the honors national honor society website. Any comments on that one? Student council advisor
124That's the last one. There any public comment on job descriptions? have assemblies. Say that one more time. I helped develop and organize student assemblies just as I mean student led activities activities says right there manage all student council events and activities including planning, organizing and supervising. [Music] rallies somethings where it says right underneath under three. [Music] No, under homecoming. It'll just be number five. Yeah. Okay. Make sure that they give it to somebody else. That's usually where it falls to make sure it happens. cheerleading by us, but you don't cheerleading anymore or very often unless you get any other public comment there. Any other door discussion or motion? Thank you for getting these prepared, whoever helped or created them or took off. Thank you to everybody. I move to approve the job descriptions as presented
125with the changes we discussed tonight. I will second that motion. Sam made the motion to approve the job descriptions as presented with the changes discussed tonight. Stephan second the motion. Is there any public comment? Public comment. Board comment. Sam made a motion to approve the job descriptions as presented with the changes discussed tonight. Steph and second the motion. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. certified pen consideration. So, um we have a couple music teachers that we have been uh working with. Um actually the power of a conversation. So, uh this conversation started on we've had this position open for two years. Um and uh on the ski trip there was a conversation conversation about well maybe there's a couple people that would be interested and so uh
126I I started that conversation and said what could work what might work how could we have music for our kids at least step one then there was a second conversation then there was budget consideration conversation and then there was a fourth conversation so Um there there was uh a a deeper interview process for these teachers than anybody I've had on staff so far. They are tentatively going to if approved we would have music on Mondays and Thursdays in the afternoon. Um Peggy Bizwell would teach our elementary kiddos and Cely Monise would teach our um high school um band and choir uh on those days. Um we we we are aware of some situation where there there might be some time out but as I told both of them it's essentially easier to find a sub
127for music than it is to find a music teacher. So they'd both be quarter time and I would recommend that I would recommend that I appreciate the work into this and open open mind to figure out how to give our kids some kind of music. I don't know if anybody's ever been out to Med Rocks Church when Peggy's there for music, but my god, it is amazing. She can say anything on the piano. You just tell her she just You hand her sheet music and it's there. Like she's good. Is there any public comment? Public comment. Any board discussion or motion? I move to approve the hiring of Peggy Bizwell and Celely Menz as music teachers for the 2526 school year. I'll second um Sam made the motion to approve the hiring of Peggy Biswell
128and Cy. Second for music teacher for the 2526 school year. Uh Lisa's second motion. Is there any public comment? Public comment. Board comment. There's going to be some excited kids music. Is that C? Yes. Yes. Sam made the motion to approve hiring of Peggy Biswell and Cely Manise as music teachers for 2526 school year. Lisa second the motion. All those in favor say I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Reena, did you hear that? I'm sure before that started. She's going to be so proud of us, right? handbook approvals. There they are. We went from the only thing that we didn't talk about in the work session was I did include the two single pages, one certified page, one classified page that have the recess added. Remember, we took recess out of that student
129handbook. That chunk that makes more sense to go on the other two handbooks. So, I only included the one page that makes the whole pile. That's the random floaters at the back. Is there any board discussion? Oh, just the daycare handbook was not approved by the dayare committee. It says that in here should I say approved and I think we talked about earlier but it says the daycare handbook has been reviewed and approved. It was just review. Yes. Recommended for or approval by Right. Any discussion? Public comment. Public comment. Board discussion and a motion. Um I just have a question. Um so the changes we discussed in our work session or any additions that needs a motion. Yes, please. Okay. So those So the only note I remember is my line 15 page n more
130inclusive language and your daycare and your dare mind the remote communication. Yes, those are the two notes that I have. Those are the two you have. Okay. Transportation check and then the ECS remind. Did anybody else have any notes? Otherwise and then what was your transportation? Oh, just to use more inclusive language in line 15, page nage. Yep. Sure. I think that was the only part that I saw it in. Any other discussion or motion? certified and classified. Is that just Yes. Thank you. Yep. I'll move to approve the handbooks with the additions and corrections as stated in the work session. Does that work? I would just say as stated in the meeting. Yeah. restated them. Transportation 15. Mike made a motion to approve the handbooks with the changes of on for transportation on line
13115 page 9 and with the changes in the daycare handbook to add the remind app for communication. Any public comment? Public comment. Board comment. Might make a motion to approve the handbooks with the changes in the transportation handbook on line 15 page nine and in the daycare handbook to add using the remind for communication. PB second the motion. All those in favor say I. I. All those same sign. Motion carries. 3510P. So, um, we worked we reached out to MHSA to see what their actual policy if they have guidance on that and they really don't have guidance on bringing in new sports. And so we worked to find what that looks like just so we have a process in place um with that and potentially there's one sitting on the desk in the office right
132now. um but by students uh which is fun but we need to have a process in place uh with wrestling being in the mix all of these kind of things as well as who knows when professional you know high school pickle ball will suddenly be the thing but how we decide how we we start those what we co-op what we do those um if you look through this policy it the the beginning of that is a title n component that we we have to have in there. So that first little piece know the disclaimer is what we have to have in there. Next part about that is just walks you through like what the what the sports are. Then there's an initial review of that and then um we look at you know starting to
133look through that process in in numbers. So, um whether we have more than eight students, over eight students, um looking at that over a couple year span, and then potentially where we would go to for what our minimum would be to to start a sport if we needed to. Um or look at that co-op part of that as well. go at the bottom of page two of that though did try to put the looking at numbers and put the for individual sports and team sports. Um so a minimum number of eight actively participating for two consecutive years. Team sports a minimum of 10 competing for two consecutive years. How many kids does it take to make a wrestling team? Did you know that? I just wonder how many like how many points does it take
134like do you have to have so many I think to have a team score. I should know that. I just think you know whatever is it like golf is let's see is B was four you had to have four sports so on page three under item D review and approval it has the superintendent schoolboard so that means that's together is it either is it or or an and yeah I think that needs to be over here review the superintendent as and school board or school board and or I think it would have to be both because of the financial implications. Yeah. So I think I would think it should say the superintendent and school board. So that was the first sentence for you and then the second one again has it. Number C has Where
135you at? Oh, sorry. Application. Got it. We got this back from MTSBA a little bit late. So I will actually have this formatted into and this is the first read. Yeah, you have to have at least two readings. Educ not normal policy an appeal process assuming they would have to appeal to the board. I'll probably put the can just for the fact that that way they'll turn it in so it can go on the agenda versus then to show them to a board meeting. Yep. Is there any public comment? Public comment. Any other board discussion or a motion? I move to approve the first reading of 3510P with the changes discussed. I second that. Stephen made the motion to approve the first reading of 3510P first uh with the changes discussed tonight. Uh maybe second
136the motion. Is there any public comment? Public comment. Word comment. No, we're not starting go. What's up? Said no, we're not starting. Go. Stephan made a motion to approve 3510 keys first reading with the changes made tonight motion. All those in favor say I. I. All those same sign. Motion carries. much louder but super intense survey feedback survey. So my thoughts on this have changed a little. I don't know that I specifically only want superintendent, but more of a a climate survey to help us as a district know how we're operating, know what we can do to improve and meet the needs. I did uh reach out to MTSBA to throw my thoughts at them and try to help them have me get some direction. And they did um send me an option and I
137think it's really good. It's something that has where you can be certified, classified parent, community member or business owner. and it goes through and um like the the first page is whether you strongly agree, don't agree, and it's questions like the school environment is one that supports our students. We have high expectations for our students. Students embrace respect and diversity. There's other questions too. And then the next one is parents are actively involved. Parents know what's going on. Parents are aware of expectations. I was going to questions. Um district supports collaboration among staff. Um access to tools and resources. Employees are treated treated respectfully. Um enjoy going to work. Proud to tell others they're employees of the school. Um, next one is school administration recognizes employees for a well done job. Um, administration and staff
138communicate with each other effectively. It kind of hits on every piece I feel like. And then there's a board page also for um, do we recognize our employees for jobs well done? Um, our board trustees the board of trustees hold themselves to the same high standards as their employees. Um, effective communication, community activity. I just felt like it touched a little bit of everything. It's something that we can um customize to try to fill in the blanks as board members to get a better picture since we don't live here day in and day out like all the employees do and give us some direction of where we can improve. I feel like if you guys get phone calls it's probably usually the complaints and not the we see the good stuff. Absolutely. So you're more
139not not necessarily like a superintendent evaluation but like a a district for the administration school board like how I think the word they use is a climate survey. Climate survey. Yeah. So I didn't know if that was something that Yeah. and where we saw all the feedback on it, not just like a compilation, but I' I'd like to see like I really Yeah, I really like this. I can have Britney um send it to everybody and then I don't know how to go about it, but they are willing to administer it for us and customize it for us if we want them to or we can do that ourselves. think we can do it ourselves. We pay them every year. Anyways, I mean it's a part of our policy services for them to do. I
140will ask the question. But yeah, anyways, I thought it was if not if I can I could probably just send you guys a copy of that and then we could come with the questions that we like or don't like on there or if there's something we think we need to add to it. there's a piece that feel like we're missing or need to take off or then we could finalize it in June and send it out. So we'd have it we'd have re report in July. I feel like July we've done so good with all our handbooks should like July. I know. I'm sorry. Like this summer like end of the year kind of a That's what I'm saying. Send it in June as like end of year. So then we we can review the
141results in July. I thought if it could get emailed to everybody then they could you all can come with your thoughts on our June 2nd meeting and or you want to send something out before then. Is that what you're saying? No, I was just so then push the survey out like right after June 2nd meeting and then have the results by our July meeting. Yeah. Or I mean we could have them I mean the only thing I would want us to think about is if we which is I'll I'll quickly try to get a a retreat date on the board because that we would want that information for for the retreat if we're Oh, sure. I mean if if it's June 15th for some reason then we just want to make sure Well, can we
142just do like a quick Zoom Can I don't know what's legal and what's not. Can people just email their suggestions and push it out? As long as they're not emailing them to the whole room. They should email to me directly and not to each other. Okay, why don't we do that and then I'll get together with Britney. As I say, the only thing with parents I was going to say is you probably want it sent out in this next two weeks because at that point I think they're going to be pretty well checked out. So, could everybody come up with what they are thinking by the beginning of next week? Send us that. I will send that and send that out. Yes, I'll do it in the morning. We should put it with my bills.
143I will do my best. The next two weeks are just a ball right now. But you can look at it and be like, "That sounds good." I'll look at it and drive and you can I have a question. Would the evaluation like after it's compiled need approval by the board before it is sent out? Because there's no motion at this point to do a climate survey. Do we have to have a motion to do a survey? I think I don't know. Well, why don't we just Maybe you don't. I No, you're not doing any. I mean, you're it's not affecting them financial or anything of the So, after Britney gets all her questions or whatever, she could send us all the template. We could all say, "Looks good." I'll probably send you guys the survey
144to take so you guys can play through it and then if it looks Yeah, because I mean I will say if it goes out before the end of school parentwise infinite campus right we have an easier direct link to people correct and then can we just like Wednesday because that's the day I We'll have Wednesday just not after 2:50. Not after 250. That's our active drill is the last hour. I mean next Wednesday. Oh yeah. Because we're giving or Monday. I got Monday. I'm in for kindergarten graduation. Let's Okay. Yeah. As I said, we can send out at least a couple days before school. Just come in early and because then we'll have it out before. Also, I'm going to say this while she's sitting here and she's probably going to kill the interviewers. Val's
145retirement party is at 4 on Tuesday next week. I won't cry yet. After Trails End all day, right? After Trails End all day. We just moved that one. So, I hate to say this, but I'm hoping it's just going to get rained out, pal. I want my kid to go so bad, but I'm like just rain. I'll take the rain. I know. So, anyways, if you guys can join us in the room at 4 on Tuesday and celebrate 28 years, clerk evaluation. Okay. Adios, everybody. He's got to turn us off first. Close the meeting. Can I get water really fast? Nope. That is the last that's the last thing on our agenda. Thank you, Branson. [Music] Yes. Recess. I heard part of that.