001He knows what I to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. And as always, this is your reminder that the meeting is being audio video recorded and the front is approval of minute. Were there any discussions? We can go back and add contracts or since we didn't the hiring. Yeah, you just reviewed them and it wasn't actually. Yeah. Yep. So, we'll just hire everybody tonight. No. We discussed it but nobody made the formal motion. Okay. Formal motion for what? Path. Okay. And Roxy and myself, we talked about but we didn't make formal motions to hire, right? Okay. Other discussion? All in favor say I. I. Oppos. Motion passes. Approval claims. Second. Any questions on the
002claims? Mr. Curious about life insurance. Life insurance. Thought I saw life insurance. Oh, yeah. Right here. Usable light. It's just a little amount USA life. So that was a life insurance policy that the teachers pay into and then we just turn around and pay it out. Oh, lots of them are the former retired teachers that had that at one point. We don't offer it anymore. Yeah. I just curious. I'm ready to vote. Okay. All in favor say I opposed. Motion passes. There's not really any public here, but does anyone have any comments? Not on the agenda. Okay. And communications to and from the board. Um but here we'll save that for later. And the resignation letter dated April 11th from um Kelly Buchanan. Can I pass around And Kyla, welcome back to the board. We
003have to swear you in and you too. Yes. Let me go get my other piece of my notary thing. I forgot. You'll get it. I forgot about yours being the same time. Just three seats. Dusty's and I just Yeah, Dusties wasn't even in question. But nobody else ran, so we're all No election necessary. I think it all come up to the front, right? Yeah. Okay. I do solemnly swear I do solemnly swear that I will support, protect I will support and protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and defend the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the State of Montana constitution of the state of Montana and that I will discharge the duties of my office with fidelity and that I will discharge the duties of my office with fidelity. Okay,
004good. [Music] sign there. put on your lunch. And you too. [Music] Thanks for having me. Thank you. and then you want me to come for the Thank you for your service. Welcome back to the board. Thank you for your you know, you're welcome. Um, now for the fun part. Um, I've been saying for a while now that I think it's time to develop some new leadership on the board. And so with that, I want to open the floor for board chair nominations. I would nominate Stman for chair and D as chair. Okay. Any other nominations? Okay. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. And with that, I get to turn the brains right over to you. Don't know what to do with yourself. I don't know what you're not going to know what
005to do with yourself. It might be weird. It might be weird. Don't answer. Don't answer. Don't answer. Amazon. There you go. Yep. Okay. So, now we need to appoint the clerk. It's really short. Look, there's another one. I'm trying to say it's really I would like to move that we appoint Cali as our clerk. Cali O'Hara as our clerk. All those in favor. Yay. We normally assign one of these during months. So, we can take our you can take another month to do that if you want to make changes. You're welcome to make changes since there's no board member changes. You're also welcome to keep them the same. So, you can look them over and make changes next time if you want to. Is everybody okay with that? Okay, now it's time for Roxy. Wonderful.
006I also have um a report from Jamie too that she's busy getting the athletic banquet all ready to roll and getting our trackers ready to rock and roll state. So, if you would like pass those around. Okay. So, it seems like April has been a busy month and May has been even busier. Um, we had the sixth grade wax museum on April 16th. And this was super cool. We had this in the elementary gym. And I don't know if any of you guys can attend, but the sixth graders took it very seriously in their costumes and playing the roles. It was a It was great. Um, we had a lot of different interesting characters and the high schoolers came down and joined as well. It was fun to have that event open to the community.
007I feel like it was really well attended. We also had um such a wonderful experience up at the airport with wildfire education day on April 30th. That was really a very cool field trip for our third through sixth graders. They got to learn about how forest fires are started, how they go about fighting them. They got to hug Smokey the Bear, look at firefighting planes. It was really great. Um uh we had an April assembly an April assembly on April 30th. Our PA PIR day on May 2nd went really well. Um I took some time with my staff to have a meeting and to kind of talk about implementing a little bit of a different like I don't know if you would say discipline structure or maybe like support structure for children that are needing
008breaks from their classrooms or a little bit of some extra love and care. TLC maybe. Um, and so so far we've been working on that utilizing some of our staff that we already had and that's been really working really well. We also took some time to review our parent and student handbook and so I'll pass that out to you guys. We um have added some different elements to it uh and kept the changes highlighted. So we changed the cell phone and personal technology usage just a little bit. Taking some from the high school handbook. We also added the high school handbook had this like wonderful chart that defined all of the different situations, many of which we've ended up seeing this year. And so I feel like it's helpful for us to have these. And
009then on the back, they kind of give us like an option of consequences. So just to make sure that there's clear parent communication. I I think really overall with some of the situations this year, parents have been more than understanding, but I just think that it's beneficial to list these things in our handbook and have parents sign off on them. So, I'd be willing to pass these around to maybe as a first reading. Okay, great. I can do that when I'm done. And one of the best events of the year, we had such a fabulous senior citizens lunchon. It was great. Um, I want to make a big thank you to Peggy and to Eric. They were wonderful in getting the kids prepared. Our kitchen staff did such a great job with lunch. Our sixth
010graders were awesome helpers. Russ did a great job getting the risers ready. Thank you. And so it's just such an awesome event and it was well well attended. Maybe not as many people in the past, but I do think a lot of the people that came are grandparents of our kids. So, that's always special. I feel like they enjoy that. Um, sixth graders uh did their veteran interviews on May 5th and we had our last cooking with kids for the year on May 5th as well. Fourth and fifth grade had a great egg day and we also have been hosting May registration and so that worked out well where we just kind of invited families to come in and check over their paperwork. They have a few different things they have to fill out this
011year like a home language survey and some things from the state so if we ever get audited again we are good to go. Um but and that's been really that's worked really well kind of keeping just like it a little bit more informal throughout the week and we had a wonderful band concert on May 8th. Does anybody have any questions about some of our highlights? Awesome. I want to thank um Karen and Margie. They came in to help us with spring dibbles. That happened May 6th through the 8th and that was awesome. I think sometimes maybe by the end of the year kids are a little like antsy, but they always perform well and it's always such a great time um for kind of like a culmination of all of the teachers hard work before
012the summer blues really set in. Right. And so that's that was great. Um we have a couple well I'd say more than a couple. We have a lot of fun things happening um here these last couple weeks of May before school's out. We'll have sixth grade leap day on May 16th. That's exciting. And we'll have our end of the year assembly and sixth grade graduation on May 19th. And that'll target 2:20. And track and field day. Yay. We love it. Although it's looking a little rainy, but I'm not going to freak out just yet. And I'm going to make a plan if it does rain. Exactly. Roll your eyes. It's Yes. Um May 22nd and then we'll do a movie for the end of the year on the last day. Last day. Yes. Sometimes like
013sometimes there's a lot of kids, sometimes there's it's hard to tell. Do you guys have any questions? I have a comment. Yeah. Um I just wanted to on behalf of the destination for Benton um board, I want to say thank you for letting us use the auditorium. Sure. for our event last night and it worked out really well and Danny was amazing and um anyway hopefully we were out of her way and uh the event was really cool really well a um a tourism assessment and the guy who came in to speak was amazing and he gave us 80 suggestions and we're going to be posting a video and all his slides and everything if anyone's interested ask me about that. But anyway, thank you so much to the school for letting us see the
014auditorium. So yeah, and so he got to come and like he was so he got to see the school. He was very impressed with our auditorium. Wonderful. Yeah, that's good. So interesting. And just stayed right across the street too. Yeah, I found that out. I know, Emily. Yeah. Anyways, so we were there till there was a lot of chatter after and it I didn't get out of there till like 11 o'clock. Yeah. So we were there a little bit late, but Yeah. Well, I'm glad that event went well. That's great. But I also I think this time of year it always gets a little bit hectic, but our teachers are handling it like such rock star. So I want to definitely thank them for being flexible, being willing to even implement and change up some
015new things even these last couple weeks to make our school run smoother. Like might sound corny, but teamwork does make the dream work. So we also have um a new theme selected for next year. And if you would like to find that out, you can come to the end of the year assembly on May 19th. We'll announce it. Very exciting. Yes. Any other questions? Okay. Yeah. And with the cliffhanger. Okay. Russ, you get to go first. You want me Can I just do Jamie? Is that okay? Okay. So, Jamie says, "Happy May. I'm so sorry I'm unable to attend today, but it is spring and it is postseason." Um, she would like to commend middle school track for a productive and encouraging season. They wrapped up, we wrapped up last Saturday with our district meet
016and h and it was quite hot while we were up there, but the kids did awesome and we lost no kids, which I feel like is great and everybody made it to their event because I thought that maybe hurting kindergarteners down the hall was a lot, but then coaching middle school track was a whole new experience. So, it was it was awesome. It was a wonderful experience and David and Jenna were amazing to coach with. So, um golf division golf played divisionals in Bosezeman last week. The girls played second as a team. Amaris and Addison tied for sixth place. Michael was in 10th and Aspen was 15th. They will all be heading to state. So that's super exciting. The boys finished sixth. Ethan tied for 12th and Emerson play 17th. They along with Spencer will
017head to state in Sydney. The golf team will leave immediately following Graduation. Tennis is currently playing divisional. The girls are in H today and tomorrow for play while the boys head to Conrad Thursday through Saturday. and state is next week. How did divisions go today? Well, good. Very well. Awesome. Track wrapped up their district in h last week with boys and girls earning second place trophies. There were many places. The girls 4 by 100 relay and edit in the hund set new 9C district records. So that's exciting. Divisionals will take place in Great Falls on Thursday and Friday with state in Missoula next week. Band and choir had an incredible showing in the gym with their spring concert. They represented us well at the state music festival with the low brass quintet. There we go.
018I haven't read a word that hard while performing before heading off to their sporting activities. And tonight is the annual booster club banquet. I'm sure I'll be seeing all of you there, right? Except for you. So your wife can come. Don't let her not come. What a celebration for our kids. Please join us if you're able at 5:30 at the egg center. And then she said, "Don't worry, she will be back next month with a lot of coaching hires and discussions for years to come." So, buckle up and I'll pass these out and it's all yours. Yeah. Thank you. Good afternoon and u um Larry and Danny are doing a great job and contributed to that. Um Larry is still selling a little bit up here and then helping out. And uh again, we hope
019to find a substitute. So if you know of anybody that would like real good full-time job, please like to get them on and start training. um working on the outside. We have um graduation this Sunday at the 18th, which is one of the bigger events of the year. Um track and field day on the 22nd, maybe. And then you say that no, it'll happen. Um it's going to be nice until noon and we'll get it put off like we always do. Yeah. Um, and then it'll rain in the afternoon, but we'll we'll get Tartfield in. And, uh, it's always a great time to watch all the kids and the parents and everybody come out here and having a great day and then they go have their lunches. So, um, it'll it'll happen. Um, we're gearing
020up on the major projects. We reviewed the contracts and um, they're doing some final work on um, wording on some of the contracts for the two major um, contractors that have been hired for the summer. Um the starting date is in June on those and then the staff line um starting after July 4th with um Brennan working on smaller projects and nothing major going on right now. Um just kind of sitting back and we're trying to just make do on on some of the small stuff right now until we start the new school year in July. Um if you have any questions um entertain pretty simple. Um the last thing is to thank the chair dwelling a lot for your help and work and I appreciate it. Thank you. Yes. Okay, good evening. Thanks for
021coming. First of all, we need to hire classified some other staff. We'll come back and we'll do this um once you have a chance to look at the list. Uh because of the right of privacy, we won't be mentioning people by names. We'll be just mentioning by category. So, uh, we would first begin by hiring the elementary staff classified. I would entertain a motion to rehire them for next year. This one and only move second. All those in favor? I oppose. Okay. The second batch would be I would I would ask for a motion to hire the middle school high school classified staff. So, moved. Second. All those in favor? I I would point out that I think Russ uh mentioned at maybe the last board meeting that Larry, it's Larry's intention to retire on
022August 29th. And when we surveyed that, he plans intends to work for the summer. So in order for us for him to work in the summer, we need to rehire him. But with the anticipation that he is going to resign at our probably at the August board meeting, we'll probably have be entertaining there. We'll be receiving his letter of resation. But in order to have it work for the summer, we had to rehires to clarify. Um I would ask for a motion to rehire the kitchen staff. Notice that right now there's two people. We have an opening. We're in the hopefully going to hire a third, but right now I would ask for a motion to hire the two kitchen staff. So moved. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. Okay. Um, next up, uh,
023building administration, building and grounds. I would ask for a motion to hire our maintenance supervisor. I will stand. Second. All those in favor? I. Okay. would ask for a motion to hire a transportation supervisor. So move second. All those in favor? Opposed. And I would ask for a motion to hire the four route drivers as listed. So moved. I'll make a second. All those in favor? I opposed. So in addition, uh what you don't have in your paper is that um we need to extend contracts to the business manager who was previously hired tonight as the clerk. We need to hire offer contracts to elementary principal and hopefully to the middle school high school principal and superintendent. Do those need to be separate? Okay. Sorry. Yeah. Thank you. Sir, I move that we hire Kelly
024O'Hare as the business manager. Second. All those in favor? Okay. Elementary principal. I'll move. I'll second. All those in favor? And finally, the superintendent middle school. This is all moved. Second. All those in favor? I thank you for that. Okay. I have uh you'll see my report tomorrow. I have just lots of of good news to share. We've had such an incredible month since we last met. And so I'm just going to highlight some of the several things that have have occurred. Uh you'll see attached again to this report when you get it in the mail tomorrow just another version of the calendar. Just remind you what the calendar is for next year. Um I did in my last report talk about we had our first crisis intervention team meeting. I thought that was very
025successful. In the minutes from last month's board meeting, it lists the members of that committee, but it was a very successful meeting. And remember, this is the committee we hope never has to meet. The only reason that meet that committee would be meeting was if there were emergency of some kind or we had to come up with a plan as to how we're going to address it, how we're going to communicate to the to to our staff, to our p to the rest of the community. So, uh it it is a meeting that was first held now, like I said, on Wednesday, April 9th, and it's our intent to meet a couple times. We talked about even meeting quarterly. So, we plan to meet again in the fall and probably meet quarterly just to refresh
026ourselves on the protocol and and discuss uh any things if there's been changes to uh procedure within the school district. So, um, again, that was a successful meeting. I'm happy to report that on right after this this board meeting, we sent our seniors, you approved the seniors to go on their senior annual senior trip. They had an overnight trip and it was extremely successful. I can tell you that the three chaperones nothing but nice things to say. The kids had a great time. They were very well behaved. Uh, they did what they asked to do and they had a lot of fun. So, I would thank you for and I I had a quite a I gave them my my little speech to them. and I pitched to them was that they they will not
027be here next year when the board is considering next year's class to go on a senior trip, but it's a legacy they can leave by making good choices and behaving. You talked about this as the board chair when they came and pitched the idea to us about giving them having an overnight trip. And so, um, we had a very good conversation about that and and honestly, they lived up to my expectations and I was really really happy for them for that. I would also chime in u that on the 16th of April we had the wax museum and never having done that with high school kids we had pretty good expectation that the sixth graders were going to take it you said seriously but the high school kids I felt took it pretty seriously as
028well I'd say the lion share of them and now that they've seen what it's like I think moving forward I think it would be even better received by the kids but I I thought they did a really nice job and it was a really fun event and it was nice to have our sixth graders with the high school kids in the same face, too. That was that was kind of a fun thing. A compliment to the uh Chamber of Commerce, to Joelyn and the team for suggesting we have this career expo. Again, we had such an extraordinary day on the 23rd of April. We had uh 18 people represented businesses from from Sha County and Fort Penton represented. We had a small group sneak in from Big Sandy. Um and and it was really incredible
029the the feedback we got from the businesses. The the kids were mature. They were they were respectful. They were friendly. They asked good questions. And and it's fair to say that the middle school kids wanted the trinkets and and we knew that was going to happen. But the there was to have high school kids say to us they wanted more time. I thought was a was a sign that they really enjoyed it and and it was a huge success and uh we probably need to meet sometime and recap. But it was and we got we got feedback from them. Pretty decent. I looked through some of that feedback. It's really good feedback. Yeah, I thought so too. So, um, yeah. Anyway, hats off to the chamber for making the suggestion and and really tickled that
030we were able to do that. Uh, we had another big hit on May 1st. We had Longhorn, the annual Longhorn Day celebration. Couldn't have asked for a nicer day. We had a morning of of incredible service. We met today. Karen Giles and I and Amanda Brown met this morning to review uh kind of how we felt that the day went. And honestly, um, other than a little bit of a slip where our head of transportation wasn't notified very timely, that was a couple people we could point the finger at there. But anyway, um, and Paul was very gracious and helped us out, but that that we need to notify the head of transportation a little bit sooner than than the day of. So anyway, lots and lots of positives, incredible support in the community. And
031a cool thing that came out today with Karen was this gentleman was here last night and a couple of things he commented about were reflection of the fact the work that the students had done, the bricks around the chef statue, for example, had all been cleaned up and Karen pointed out that that's something our our students had done to make it, you know, an effort to to beautify the community, right? And so that's something he pointed out. So, if that hadn't been done right then or whatever, uh Russ did a great job with cooking as always organizing the student council and and really it was absolutely incredible day. Really, really amazing amazing day and right start to finish. So, that was really really cool. Um we held our um uh the National Honor Society induction
032with our awards ceremony this year. That was the first time we tried to combine the two of them. The the intent there was that we hold in the past they've held the National Honor Society induction in the evening and so none of our students get to see really what that's about and so we decided to kind of elevate that in the eyes of our students by having it in front of them. So we had it in the before the awards ceremony and again I think we'll see what happens with applications next year but it was again a very positive event. It was very uh wellreceived by the the adults who were there to give awards and the the parents who were there with their students to receive awards and then we had just an incredible
033awards ceremony as always and uh it's amazing to me the the things the the awards the kids are able to give and a lot of time and effort goes into making the application for those awards. So uh it was a really again a very very positive event. U and again the highlight Roxy said that night we had the spring band concert. It was funny at the so the high school middle school concert was on Tuesday and then Thursday we had the middle school and uh excuse me the high school one was on Tuesday and the middle school elementary was on Thursday and Mr. Lington got up and talked about the fact that he had spoken to his baby asking him not you know asking the baby to wait till after the conference are over. Well
034then she was born on Saturday night. Yeah. So Inz Lennington was born on Saturday night and mama and baby were doing well. So, uh, he was he was he did a good job talking to his baby pre pre-birth. So, um, Roxy mentioned the leap up day on Friday. Um, I will be able to see a note in here about some some days I'm taking some vacation days in June. Um, and I'm going to I planned I've talked to Connie and Cali and I'll be in touch through my computer and um, I will be working some but staying in touch through the computer, but I will be gone some dates in June. Um Russ mentioned uh high school graduation and um I would finish I guess you'll see some calendar dates on here but we uh
035because Amy's gone right now we have made a list of things to address in the student handbook but we've not adjusted those um and it would be to our advantage as a board the policy committee to finalize that policy. We we we didn't finish up the um drug alcohol policy lots of conversation about it but we didn't finalize any changes. So the policy still ex still exists. So at some point we should we should address that and make that's one of the adjustments. But there's others as well um that would need to be changed and we'll come back to you probably in June, July or August. Pick a month. So yeah. So So stay tuned. Any questions about that? Sure. I I had a couple please. Just uh the is the bus schedule for next
036year been finalized or is that the sign of last week? Was that just kind of a wish? So it's a uh what they do it's just a it's a taster they we ask kids their input so that we can have an idea to build the schedule and then they come in in the in August and actually schedule for their classes. Okay. But in order to build the schedule we have to kind of need an idea how many kids are going to sign up for this class and that class and you know we have an idea was some classes all the seniors have to take grade 12 for example. So, we know that, but it's some of the other elective type classes. And so, we we go around they they have a it's a preliminary interest
037inventory, you might say, of what they might want to take. So, we've done that. Okay. Will we tweak this summer or or So, we have a um that's another thing we'll do when Amy gets back. We've got a preliminary schedule on paper. And so, you have various teachers that want to have certain things. Like, for example, we've hired Jamie to be our athletic director. One of the things that she asked for was last period prep. makes a lot of sense to have this athletic director who's the PE teacher have last period of prep. So you you move one thing and it's a domino effect. So there's several teachers have asked for certain things to teach certain classes certain times a day and that kind of thing. So we have a preliminary schedule built based upon
038teacher requests and on and student input. Yeah. At this point. So still needs to be finalized but we're pretty close. And then we'll do the registration in August and we should be good to go. Could we get a copy of that? Sure. just next month. I'm just curious how it all works out. You want a copy of the class schedule? Yeah. Okay. If it's finalized, but if it isn't, don't worry about it. But, um, so what I can do for you, let me look at the version I have. If I don't send it with a board report tomorrow, what I will do is be happy to send it to you like in maybe the next board meeting. Sure. Excuse me. 100% be happy. Just just to comment on the job fair. It didn't occur to
039me that the timing was ideal before spring. These kids are all looking for jobs. So that worked out nice. Well, and it was interesting that your point because today when meeting with Karen Giles, she talked about some of the employers that were here talked about the fact that they didn't know some of these students and so they had a chance to connect and interact in a way that if that kid had walked in before then and tried to apply, they would never know. But now they walked in. So two times they saw him at the at the expo and then they saw them out in the community doing service. So it was it was really the opportunities they lined up great for for them and great and obviously great for our kids. That's an interesting
040comment. It's something we've talked about because a lot of job fairs are in the fall and for seniors and things like that that might be more ideal. But if we're catching them earlier on we we like this timing. We like it for summer jobs. That kind of thing. Yeah. I didn't even thought of it. We have to talk about whether or not we should do it every year if that's overkill. And we also would like to to expand it to the county. Yeah. Um we could have accommodated more businesses and more kids at once, but we didn't really know that till we tried it. Sure. So, that's great. It was Yeah, it was incredible. It it far surpassed my expectation. I think businesses and kids alike really. Yeah. Okay. And then uh to close my
041report tonight, I'm uh asked to read this following statement uh from our head of technology, Carly Beu. It says, "In order to meet the children's internet protection act, Fort Benton schools use an internet filtering system through triangle communications seek securely filtering for Chromebooks and GoG Guardian classroom filtering that satisfies the requirement for the US government." That was so I was like on to the question. Um you can see in the back I think they're pink this time. Um where we're sitting um I think we'll finish up. We are right on budget. I don't know if there will be any extra but that's okay. We will have finished the year with what we needed. Um but that's all okay. I don't think there was anything pivotal this month. Um this is next month is a month
042that you'll see that we'll run all the payrolls and you'll see all the remaining money disappear. I didn't get it done um this month. I was trying to um but doctor's appointments got in the way. So um hopefully I'll have that well it will all be done at the next meeting. Um and then I just need so in order to do all that how the bills fall in May and June we try to get everything shoved in by the board meeting. So I just need your permission to pay the bills through June. So if there's any straggling um things between the two months, I don't have to wait for the board meeting for plans to be approved. So I just need a motion to do that. So move second. All those in well discussion and
043all those in [Music] favor. So you just have to make it to July 1. Yep. Okay. Life will be I have a lot of things if I can make July will be really good answer, schoolwise, all the things. And then the next thing I have is out of uh the tuition agreements. So these are all I have the kids's initials there for right to privacy. And the only reason some are in red and some are in black. The ones are in black are the ones we've gotten back. The ones that are in red are ones that have been sent out and the children are enrolled here mostly in the Carter school, they obviously have to come here. Um, and because the Carter school is nonoperating, they still essentially are out of district students until next
044year. Um, if that school doesn't operate in the next school year, then it'll be the last year. So, those children in red, we've resent letters out to them. Um, I'm assuming they just haven't gotten it back. It's not on their prior view list. So, I just need a motion to approve these group of out of district students. Real quick, Cali, do we need to add yours aren't on there because they're foster kids and we haven't gotten your new agreements back, but that's what I was wondering. Yep. We'll just have to include them in the June meeting. So, moved. Did we already have a motion? I'm sorry. again. Second question. So, interestingly enough, just this week, we've had two students who have visited our campus, both high school students, neither one of which lives within our
045school district. One does. Oh, one does live in school district. Okay. And one does not. One lives actually in Great Falls, right. Correct. So, they'll just go on with the other ones. Okay. And we would just need to have them sign the other district agreements should they two roll. Yeah. I mean, I'm I'm feeling pretty positive we're going to get both of them, but I don't know until we know, you know, so so that that can be done once once they make a decision. Yep. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions, discussion? All those in favor? I oppose. Okay. And the only other Can I say one other thing? I I do think it's a it's you should be really proud of the fact that we have students and families who wanted to consider bringing their
046students to Fort Benton public schools and these happen to be two high school kids that we had one spent uh twothirds of the day with us today, one spent uh all day with us yesterday and they left here with a really big feeling about our school staff, students and the environment. So, I I think you should be really proud of the fact that if if we can if all they have to do is come to spend a day with us and interact with some of our people and they want to be here, I think that's a really positive thing for us. So, you're here. Excuse me. Oh, good. The only other thing I have is obsolete property and we had one bid. Remember that little weird trailer? Okay. No name on it. It's on his
047name's on the front. I was confused. You can. Okay. So, we have one bid from Paul Benhart for $10. Way to go, Paul. Put a high ball. Yeah. Second. Okay. Any discussion? No. Okay. All those in favor? Opposed? And it passes. All right. That's all I have. We approved the budgets earlier. I just got left on there from last night. So, I am done. Congratulations, Paul. Oh, I have one question. The stars act is it still? It did pass. It did pass. The governor just signed. The governor signed it. My last like Tuesday or Thursday. So, we um now I'm waiting on Jamie. She's been a little busy. Um we have till the 15th, Thursday, to get it all submitted to OPI. So, I'm waiting on the union's um and we should be good to
048go. So, it's still we are still money ahead to do it. Um even though we'll now have our newest science teacher, she'll fall under that. um and what we chose to do with the matrix instead of making a new matrix or a separate matrix or offering stipens I've visited with Jamie and Pat and the personnel committee and that we because we and for have already always had the agreement where you know on our matrix it starts 0123 we've always started our incoming teachers as a BA level three if we bump them down to a BA level Is it five? Five. And they just stay at level five for five years with us, then we meet the requirement, we don't have to change anything. And then as long as the teachers receive, you know, a slight
049pay increase, we'll qualify every year. It was the cleanest, I felt, and easiest thing to do since we already started them at level three. And so we just had to change the matrix and basically white out those um line items that we don't use. And so the union just has to agree that we'll start them at five for five years. So, and very few of them stay there. You know, they as they gain their educational credits, they slide over. So, they're not usually there very long though. Go ahead. Okay. So, committee reports and meetings. I don't know if we have any this week. have to schedule uh policy meeting before the next board meeting. If we're going to have one that last week in May would be the best situation for me because I'm traveling
050after that. So if we could get one in that for a week after schools that would be I'd be great. West the alcohol tobacco policy that we were discussing with the last one was just we haven't I mean we we left it center around the table. We just we had a lot of discussion about it and we may get together not want to change anything but there we talked about maybe we change this maybe we add that and and we just sort of left it hanging because that particular night we had about four four different things to talk about. We just ran out of time. So some title N things that we discussed from our title N audit. Okay. So there we go. policies, but I'm sure they have like six things under the title
051N thing um that have to do with ADA compliance and where we've got some like like our facts that we don't one of the kitchens isn't ADA compliant. Well, it states in the audit that you can either revamp the kitchen and make it ADA compliant or have a policy in place that says if we have a child that may need um you know that can't reach the facility or something, we offer an alternative. And we don't have anything in our student handbook or policy that states that we'll offer an alternative. Okay. And there's a couple different incidences with that, especially with the facts and um the FFA classes where you know they're out in the other building, you know, so we just have to formally put it in policy. I think we've done it in
052the past, but it's not written in there and so OPI kind of hammered on us a little bit that we needed to put that in policy. Would the handbook first reading fall under policy stuff or just a general? It's just a general. Sometimes I'll run through the policy committee if there's a lot of changes or something that the policy committee needs to but normally is there a time to the updates that you're talking about kind of not necessarily. Um I think they want it done before we have to renew our Carl Perkins grant and our Carl Perkins grant gets renewed in like October. Okay. So we have Yep. You have time. Time. I I think the next couple weeks are hard for me. And then you're going to be gone. The only So that the
053last week of May, the only day I really couldn't do it is the 27th and I will be on campus the 2nd of June. Monday the 2nd. Could we do the 28th at like five or six? I I'm really flexible. Six or seven, whatever looks better. What are you? I'm trying to figure out which appointment this is. If it's mine or someone else's, that would make a difference. Yeah, time of day. The 28th worked for me. The time of day makes no difference. So, whatever. We completed like six or seven. That would work best for me. Yeah, I think that would work for me. You want to go to seven or six? Else is currently on there. I am um and isn't it? Yeah, I think six I think. Yeah, six o'clock on the 28th.
054Yep. I'll I'll get with Cali between and we can we'll send a reminder out. I'll try to give you a list of things we can re we'll have to review between the title N stuff and if there's anything going back to Kale your question if there's anything in our hype handbook other than that one policy that we needed to review we'd already approved the revision of the early graduation policy so that was the other one I can't I would have to look back at that list but the other ones I think we already approved at least you know board just that one that and again the discussion may lead us to not change anything but because it was left kind of up in the air with the discussion I thought we should revisit it again.
055So, May 28th, 6:00. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Are there any other committees to meet? Are we in good We're talking about the building the crown. Yeah, we need to have a meeting also on the 28th at 7. It worked out good for me. Was that anything else? Hey, if not, I guess personnel. Okay, let me You're good. Okay. Just write down maybe like seven o'clock with the total dates. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Will you be done in an hour on the six o'clock one? I don't see why not. We kind of depends on how long the title N stuff takes. But it's one policy and just the title Niss. So take too long. I don't think 28. I think so too. Okay. Um, we got confirmation from the last boarding. I talked about that we were having
056some success with some quality interviews and I'm thrilled to announce I'd like the board to accept the hire um Milo Clark's a young girl coming out of Montana State University to be our high school science teacher and uh she's actually willing we're going to try we're going to figure out the certification but she's willing to teach a sign language interpreting class uh live which would be fantastic. So, so um we need to do these separately, don't we, Kelly? What to accept the hiring? Yeah. Okay. So, I would request a motion from the board to hire Milo Clark for teach high school site. I'll move second. Any discussion? Where's she from? Washington originally. Oh, that's right. Yeah, Washington originally, but she went to school in Bosezeman and and again, here's a feather in our cap. She
057was being courted by Bosezema public schools. She's doing a long-term substitute teaching situation this spring and she wants to live in a small town and she really liked it here. She met I sent her to lunch with some of our younger teachers and she had a really nice time and you know um she chose to come to us. So nice thrilled. Absolutely thrilled. Excellent. Yep. Great. Okay. All those in favor? I I post Angela Fondale is I'd like to ask for the board to recommendation the board to hire her as our high school math teacher. Uh you might recall that her husband of the folks that just bought the lumber I guess a year ago bought the lumber yard. Uh she came highly recommended. She was a teacher in the um western western Washington state
058in the Seattle school district most recently. And uh um yeah, the again the reference is on her. She's she's a more seasoned teacher, but took some time off to raise kids. Her son, she wasn't here yet because they agreed when they took bought the the lumber yard that they were going to let their son graduate from high school in Washington State. So now she's trying to transition here this summer and they uh already bought a house. They're here. So, and it was good for and we're the only schools she applied for. So it worked out great for us and she comes highly recommended. So I would ask for recommendation. I'd recommend that we hire. So moved. Second. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor? I opposed. Kayie Hansen was a we allowed her to
059graduate early last year, you might recall. And she was a substitute teacher at the end of last year. She's taken a year of university and she's come back to town. And um I took the liberty. We needed her to sub actually before we had this boarding. So I did call Joelyn and ask her if we could begin to hire her. So she's already been working. So I would kindly ask that we approve formally approve her hire as a substitute teacher. So moved. Second. All those in favor? Opposed? And then um we had two for summer help. Can I hire them as a group? Okay, we had uh you might recall last summer Brooke Cunningham helped us out and so she's wanted to do that again. Uh Jackie Aragon is a current employee. You might recall
060Russ used her during the Christmas holiday. So we kindly ask for the district to hire them uh for summer help um this coming summer. So move second. All those in favor? Oppos? Anything else? Future agenda items. Second reading element number and I will not be here for the June board meeting. I will prepare a report that I can zoom in where I am. Connie usually sends out the agenda uh draft ahead of time and then if needed you two can discuss over email or something. Yeah, that'll work. the building and ground report on that future. Second. Those in favor. Yes.