001pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all welcome everyone um the meeting's being recorded audio and video recorded a of minutes second any comments or okay favor to say I motion passes approval of claims any questions or discussion on the claims more time okay all in favor say I opposed motion passes next we have public comment on non-agenda items I got some public comment I know that's for you guys I want to so um just you stand up my account it'd be helpful because we have we have to record the meeting so all right um I'm just curious about the state tournament that's coming up and why the seven graders who are a big part
002of our pet band like part of our pet band why we included them from divisionals and districts they have been our only crowd they've been our you can all vou you've all been to the games they're the only ones that stand qu here they've been to every home game they've been to every divisional game they've been to every District game why are we bring to State just curious anybody answer that let's he okay I Mr bogert and I had a chance to chat today and did a little research since we had a chance to chat having a chance to get back to you but technically the seventh graders are not sanctioned by the Montana High School Association to be a part of the high school ban Mr I talked to Mr lennington I talked to
003Mrs ball um the mistake that we made actually by our own policy is that eighth graders if they're going to participate in band are supposed to be approved by the board according to what our policy say the Montana High School Association seventh graders unfortunately aren't sanctioned to be a part of the Montana High School Association in this extra critor activity which in this case is pepan they consider pepan and extra cror activity and so to his point yes we we let them go to District we had a couple kids go to divisional last week and technically we probably the mistake that I feel like we made is without board approval we should not have had them go and so so now we made the decision to not have them go because we were they weren't
004going to stay we they're not coming with the team we have had a conversation Mr lenington about if a couple of them come with their parents can they play they having that discussion but we we already had a precedent because we let them go that's his that to his point that's fair that brings me to my next point so now my student received an email my older student because now we're not allowing my younger student to participate and we're letting school out earlier for a State basketball game 30 below last week Full Speed Ahead just saying for the record we're letting school out early for some people or faculty members to attend the game we don't have enough teachers to substitute substitutes right so now I have to take my kid out right my other
005kid can't participate so I'm going to take them down there right they've been a part of it all year they want to be a part of it I'm going to take them down there right well now my older uh kid was like well have they just bring my instrument and I just bring my instrument and the email that they received this evening was no if if they come my question to you guys is is I mean what didn't we vote last month about allowing like fourth graders to play fifth and sixth great basketball wasn't that one of the boats you guys did we I'm trying to bring them up our kids are dwindling have you guys not figured out like they get to middle school and there's a sh we don't have enough kids to
006fill up a dang basketball team for a class B School we're co-oping with another school if we didn't Coop with them we' have enough girls so we want to tell our kids like hey good job good job now we're the state playoffs we need you all year and hey we don't let you we don't want you we don't need you not to mention the kids are in high school that their parents now they want to drive down there they don't want no money to come out of the school's budget right they're going to supply they have to go they're going to go down there why can their kid not play her damn instrument excuse my language in the band it don't cost you guys nothing she wants to be a part of something she's been
007a part of it all season long and now you're saying she can't why there reason she's not on the but the fact is we let any student drive their by themselves to an event and participate we wouldn't let a basketball player do that all so now ask you this do we not do we not drop our coaches and our students off on the way over from basketball games are we not allowed to sign our kids off of the bus on the way home from any sport event yes or no yes what's the difference here sir and if they come with their parent they can't participate they can participate that was the what was communicated to the teacher was they were driving down on their own and I told them no they couldn't do we wouldn't
008allow a student to drive to a game by our policy we can't drive now is it by policy and where is that this where's this policy I can I can grab I didn't gra where's because now it's not fair we're CH kids know and then we're making parents make a decision if they want their kids involved then you have to drive them down there well now you're bringing your kid down there and they still can't participate we don't have enough kids bkb inness the information we were given is that they were going to drive themselves to to the game and we would not allow them to participate if they drove themselves to the game we're not going to accept that liability if they go no liability for the school for something that is extracurricular that
009if so my kid say if my kid just drives and watches the game she goes and the student section are you guys liable for that she drove herself no but you're asking about her playing in the band so what's the what's wrong she this isn't the right plat to be arguing I'm just asking is the hypocrisy here not relevant no it's not hypocrisy what it is what it is is beyond our control but we're in the school board you guys can control yeah no you can't control MHS you can't but there's nothing in there that says hey your kid cannot participate she's an AG there isn't are you sure is I don't know that's why I like to see I would love to see it I would love to see it you know humor please
010go get the handbook and we'll show him I'm just saying why don't we want all the kids to participate yeah we'll um have to take this offline because it's not it's a non-agenda item we can't take any action on it it's not really a board issue at this point it's a school administration issue so I think that the way we need to handle this is um offline after the meeting so the board members understand your concern and we can talk to Mr hold about it individually um after the meeting since it's a non-agenda item it we can't take action on it but appreciate your time but we can definitely discuss it outside the me thank you glad you're all aware is there anything else okay um next is Communications to in from the board um
011call kind of me I think you note um that says your trustees Administration thank you for the lovely floral arrangement it means so much to be remembered at this time sincerely Helen's family this is for Jim andio Hera's mother right okay um that's it right for um what your report um the one thing that I need to address is um addressing a possible will schedule change for our May board meeting so the um school had contacted me a couple weeks ago about meeting to reschedule the booster club club banquet um they can't have it the week they normally have it um because of can't remember the reason now there was some conflict what was the conflict this is well is it State gol yeah oh I think it's kind of the way that yeah this
012competitions line up this year there something yeah anyway um so they would like to have it the night of the school board meeting and I know there's people here that would like to attend including our Administration so um I would like to propose a schedule change for May um should we almost need to do it the week early because the week later it's getting pretty late well we have the election results we usually square a new board members in there so that's the one thing I need to check on is that for the the election is at six no that's so it has to be after the F okay but that works right no it doesn't work sorry um oh I'm on the wrong month we have concerts now that have been moved to the
0136th and the eth Mr lenington wife's gonna have a baby so we we moved uh the music spring music concerts the high school band and choir concert as on Tuesday 6 and from 6:00 to 7: and the Middle School 5 through 8 Bend concert is on Thursday the 8th from 600 to 7: would the 12th work I know it's a Monday but me oh that's that day FFA banquet um just seems like it's getting late in could we ever do it during the day or is that just like probably yeah earlier in the day that day potentially be an option how early the the banquet is at it doesn't stay on the calendar it doesn't say I would say usually about 5:30 or 6 somewhere in there right I'm not sure for the FFA one
014what kind of that is to be honest if if it's earlier andd no we haven't we haven't had haven't learned anything on that but I mean if it was seven I feel like we could do it but if it's five [Music] um what about day on Tuesday I guess that's what I was thinking oh sorry I was thought I thought you were on Monday still sorry oh Monday does not work for me but I guess you can do the mean about me yeah earlier on Tuesday could be fine too I think um is there who would know what time about the timing that we could no we can table for now and come back I'll ask him now maybe we'll know by the we'll move on toy yeah I'd love to talk about the elementary
015school pass around please awesome it seems like a lot has happened since our last boarding board meeting especially since I was sick the last Bo meeting I believe um so we here are some highlights um since my last board report we had a great February assembly we had an assembly on February 25th and we invited the high school band to come down and play with the kids and it was awesome and it was really cute because we have an elementary school song and all of the high school kids helped the second graders sing it so that was really fun and um and so that was great we had our end of trimester 2 which was February 27th and we had a successful preschool screening so we had seven kids total that came so not um
016large numbers but as conferences are occurring right now we're looking at having some of our current students do another year of prek um so we're looking at maybe a little bit of a smaller kindergarten class size next year so um so that should be great so good looking at numbers and that's always exciting we had a great cooking with kids class on March 3rd and those classes continue to be so well attended the kids really enjoy them so thanks to Janelle barar and Karen Giles for that and sadly I was unable to attend one of my favorite events of the year because I love the spelling be hi will you got here just in time just in time um but we had a great turnout at the spelling be and as always the words are
017difficult but the long word persevered they did not win but nonetheless there was a great showing so um our teachers are busy with conferences and so far we've had great attendance with that do you guys have any questions so far um so speaking of our mtss report we had a yetep meeting um that we moved to be discussed during common planning and we are continuing to we're going to utilize that March 21st day um to talk about our new reading curriculum that we received well we've had it since the fall but our teachers were very eager to dive into it and so we're excited to kind of talk about that we're continuing to get some of our mask results back which is the state standardized testing and so that's been super beneficial to have at
018conferences and it also gives us an opportunity to look at where we need to maybe alter our instruction or just meet the needs of our kids a little bit differently especially with writing so we're going to spend some time talking about the writing that comes with that new curriculum um and talking about next year we've even started talking about a theme for next year but I won't tell you guys just yet but it's going to be great um we have quite a bit of things coming up we do have a CCPA concert coming up on March 18th with no Outreach um in an evening performance only but still we hope that that's well attended we have shto County Health coming in um on March 20th to do our maturation and health programs we have Missoula
019Children's Theater and so that will happen the week it starts March 31st and the performance will be April 5th the show this year is the Snow Queen so we are hoping to even maybe get some Middle School High School attendance so maybe Mr H could Jazz that up with our friends up here um and Anna aren is the contact for that so we're super thankful want to thank her for that we um are also very excited about this like for a couple for a couple years we haven't had a parent team at the elementary school and our parent team has been really really helpful in the past whether it's providing meals for parent teacher conferences or even helping us with possible fundraising ideas making sure our teachers needs are met and I think that's super
020important so Emily Anderson reached out to me and um we have an elementary parent team interest meeting on April 19th and we would encourage anybody that's interested to come it's an awesome opportunity that we can get some involvement and we always welcome extra help so we're super excited and hope that that's well attend it's at 6:00 p.m. at the elementary Auditorium if you could put that in bold please that would be amazing yeah thank you um we have a sixth grade wax museum on April 16th we're joining the high school for that so if you guys are around come check that out that starts at 9:00 a.m. and then we have Easter break April 20th we will also have our senior citizen lunch in the same day LGH horn day which is May second first
021Uno May 1 oh I whoa whoa whoa Uno May 1st if you'd like to put that that'll be at 1 pm and we'll be busy advertising for that as well so that should be exciting kind of crazy we're already like May we're a little bit like whoa so do you guys have any questions for me is it reading curriculum K through6 it is yeah yeah it is take through SE it kind of replaces what we currently have um from Journeys it's called into reading and we currently have into math so there's some shared platforms there like some diagnostic assessments and things like that that'll be really exciting to use one thing where we've been talking about too is Shifting um Mr H is is implementing maths next year which is a different diagnostic than dibles
022basically just gives us assessments on where our kids are at and how we can grow them so we're thinking about utilizing that in fourth fifth and sixth for some continuity and growth into Middle School and um to help reflect the math standards that we're seeing on that xack assessment but just to help kind of um give us like a more overall picture of our kids it doesn't just match oral reading fluency and comprehension like nibbles does it digs deeper into standards so that might sound yeah so works I'm excited about that I think it'll be really great for our staff they're they're excited about it as well awesome okay than I hope you feel better thanks it's gonna get there someday yeah it's been the sickness has been a lot at that liit for sure
023it evening the uh report tonight pretty quick we went through everything and and then we have a committee report com up thereat um City crew they've been instrumental and helping again with snorm removal all season long and they came out and helped us with the palk pit to finish it up um yesterday Larry and Danny are keeping the school um really really tidy and looking good so if you see those two be sure to thank them um we are looking for more staff so if you know if anybody in town um comeing and see C and get an application because we could reuse more staff to help do that um spring before it started and um so we'll be looking at track prep next week um as it dries out just a little bit more
024um tennis Nets will go up with the elementary and of course golf net in the back in case of in climate weather uh mainly on the track um we've got everything kind of lined up for next week to do the packing and the grading and everything um CCPA on the 18th student council is working on Long Horn day we were in with them today it is May 1st and the kids and staff's already working on the luncheon that she had mentioned uh that coincides with that and the kids program on that same day air intake at the elementary um we're just waiting on hookup of the controls and then the power to it so we should be in pretty good shape um if we um have that guy come back um again CCPA on the
02518th and then the varsity locker rooms will be closed again on Thursday and Friday in the afternoon and morning um we hope to get the toilets finished up and the jeral hung up on the metal um right now we have the sinks going and um everything is replumbed for um hanging the urals up there so they have been on it when the school hasn't been in session not much else other than that are you are you going to mention that later about the career April yeah yeah I think he has it under his okay um one thing um and C knows this the advertisement was going to River Press for bid um Sunday March 16th Wednesday the 19th and the 22nd or 23rd and um we'll open bids on the 4th and it is a
026Friday the bids go in the Tribune oh okay yeah sorry yeah no yeah know it has to be up in in the venue um do the opening will come up and it is a Friday and then I think um we've discussed with Brant a meeting later and how that all coincides so we'll need a couple guys there for war pretty easy to do all right thank you good evening everybody um since I saw you last we uh have had not a lot and a lot happened um basketball for our girls finished up they had a very strong showing and they were able to play through to the Saturday morning of divisional tournaments and did a great job and uh we were very proud of their performance through the season and in that final game as
027well the boys ended up placing second at the divisional tournament and uh survived through the challenge game as well and will be continuing on to represent us at the state tournament um that is this week their first game is Thursday evening against Bridger which is the one seat out of the south at five o'clock um and so they will leave Thursday morning I want to thank Callie for all her help in getting organized as you have a quick turnaround to figure out all the details and so during the week of parent teacher conferences and the beginning of Spring Sports it's been crazy so thank you to her for her help um Middle School wrestling is up and going still 56 basketball played their first jamere last weekend we'll host our jamere on March 22nd so
028if you want to see some um fun basketball you can come on over that day and then like Russ mentioned yesterday was the big day for our spring season so I want to thank Russ because there's lots of work that has to be uh put into getting everything ready for outside Sports and uh he he's my go-to and I appreciate all he does um at this point our initial numbers are 12 Tennis girls six tennis boys um 16 track girls and 17 track boys seven golf boys six golf girls with just a handful of um athletes attempting a dual Sports between some of them Middle School track is still in need we're advertising for another coach so uh if you spread the word we are still looking for one there and then I guess before
029my last thing do you have any questions about any of that okay and then the last thing um I was that I need to do that I I for almost forgot about but I remembered is Miss Ferguson would like to return and volunteer to help the golf team so she uh is very anxious and ready and has done all of her paperwork and she would uh like to come back and and be part of our Lorn team again and so I would like to recommend um Marta Ferguson as a volunteer for the golf team wasn't interested in the Middle School track I did ask for that not yet that's she hasn't forgot that yet no comments all in favor say iOS motion passes and that was my quick report I took up a lot of
030your time last time so this one's quick unless you have anything else turn Okay so the first hand out I have um that goes this way is our current budget and where we're at um and remember this is just the general fund so Elementary High School transportation on that one where we wrapped up the second quarter um so it kind of gives you a good idea and there's the two different columns the one column that has just the budgeted amount um I keep the first set before the Gray Line how I thought the year would go and then I'll change the second set of bold numbers to fit how the quarter goes so I can kind of have track of where I started to how it ended up does that make sense kind of convoluted
031but it helps yeah it's more for my information but think we're doing good on that one then the second pieces of information I have for you are the preliminary budgets so we have to remember that these are pre session um as the legislature hasn't finished up yet and they do not these do not account for the inflationary increases that we will get because they have not gone through the legisl yet so I've highlighted you can't see it on your copy on your copy it's grade the Elementary first and highlighted the number there for our highest budget without a vote if you want to take a different amount you have to run a general fund Levy which I wasn't sure that any of you really wanted to do I don't think our highlights popping through yeah
032Elementary on the back of the front page um and you can see that our budget from last year to this year is relatively the same because we do have some enrollment um changes in the elementary school because they take a threeyear average to your you know to what they predict your fiscal year 26 will look like and that's always on the very front your certified a and and that's based off your spring count so the count that we just had a month ago and then if you look at the high school one our high school budget highest vote our highest budget without a vote and with a vote is exactly the same and that just has to do with stable numbers in your high school that your threeyear average and your current enrollment hasn't changed
033at all it was a vote for a permissive Levy is that work it's not permissive it's voted so if you want to go over your highest budget without a vote you have to run a general fund yep and you have to run it has to be voted yep so when you say it's exact is that 148 1. 1481 versus 1. 1462 on the high school no it's the same as the number right below it oh okay Goa yep and you're looking at this year and this is next year's so this is and this is next year so you can I printed both these off so you can see what our budget is this year on this sheet but what it will be next year on this sheet so we're like talking about $15,000 or something
034difference between our in our elementary between our non voted ly Authority and our voted ly Authority correct so we talking about well since we just ran a levy nobody really wants to run another $155,000 Levy so and we have I mean there's been those differences in the past and we've never done it um because there is some other funding that comes through um that tooking next up that different so I sometimes don't yeah risk reward and I think Callie's really great about like communicating with me and saying no and which is I don't it and so yeah I mean so communication there is good and something that we're willing to do for sure so that we don't have to run the general okay the next bit of lovely information I have for you is non
035voted levies so these are permissive levies so these are the levies that will go into effect that people don't vote on um and we'll put this ad in the paper you all agree with it for transportation bus depreciation tuition and that's special ed tuition that's not General tuition Adult Ed technology and building Reserve you'll see the building Reserve is different there the state M dictates what you can Levy in there you don't get a choice so it's a little bit less this year and the reason it is is because the state is putting forth less money so I Levy a a certain dollar amount and the state matches it for the total amount that's listed on the bottom for both schools so we only Levy like a quarter of that and the state makes up
036the difference so it's still benefiting us to do that um and then that just goes in our building Reserve fund too we've done that for the last three years because as long as the state I figure matches more than what we lovey it's still a good thing to do yeah so no we need to be right we need to be loving as much as we can in that fund because that prevents us from having to Levy big much we couldn't Levy anything more in that building n like without running without running a voted ly like we did no well I just hate to see a netive because yeah like it's only it's not going backwards for I mean I get that but I mean we need to build that fund right because we've got I
037mean we've got levies that are getting fixed problems but there's more problems eventually going yeah so you can just Levy what the state tells you to every year we are um levying a little bit more in our um Elementary transportation and our high school transportation just costs have gone up and we do have more um out of District transportation contracts than we ever have in the past and last year as a result I was a little bit short in that Elementary School transportation fund so we have more students that are further away to get to the you know where the bus would be so because anybody that's more than what three miles fall from the bus stop we have to make up that difference Y how does the um how a tuition fund helps cover
038special ed C okay so our elementary how does it cover the new tuition law yes it doesn't it doesn't at all on here your permissive tuition Levy covers spred cost so you can see that we Levy in the elementary school because we have a student that has a one-on-one Aid that's the only reason you can Levy in the permissive tuition fund is to cover for that Levy or cover for that one-on-one Aid and the tuition Levy in your schools your permissive tuition levies are in a rear so what I'm levying for now is what we're spending this year so we Levy for the money next year but we already spent it this year and anything that have difference you have to give back so you can't Levy in your tuition fund Forward Thinking you have
039to do it reverse which is the polar opposite of all the other funds so the the out of District student tuition cannot be non voted levies correct so if you had out of District you wanted to Levy for your out of District students that is a voted Levy that is why we're entering those um contract s now and I've entered all of our kids that are coming in and then I build the schools for our kids that are coming in we have some students going out and I have a list of those that have been entered into the system from all the contracts that we have signed of students going out versus the students coming in we are still in a net positive so I didn't feel like we should lovey take that to our
040voters because we're still we're at a wash it's not costing our taxpayers any money to have students from out of District coming in and our taxpayers aren't having to pay because we have students going out it's a wash um and just to be clear I think that's worth stating that so I signed a bunch of these the other day it's students that have chosen to go to other districts that have previously gone to forban but it's also a group of um students from the sunny brookite colony because they have a charter school set up um so I I don't remember what students was there 16 students that's where the that's that's where the that's a lot of students that leaving our district so then obviously the students from Geraldine or other districts that are coming
041here so yeah it put in mind because there's a lot of students and then they have to have a voted Levy they have I don't have a choice they have to the district and you don't have a choice to pay it so once you enter through the legislation once you enter those in the system you build those districts and they pay them based on when the taxes come in so your taxes come in in November and May so you build them in June and December and those are also in a rear because next month you'll see you guys will have to approve all the kids for the next year but your billing is a year behind a really bizarre complicated MTH if you must know but I guess that that's how you know that's how
042those charter schools are funding themselves then is your students you know District of choice that you can go and it's prated out so like we had a student that moved over here from Geraldine late we only get the tuition for the days that she was here not the whole year and likewise we had a student that left our district and we only have to pay for the time that he was gone so and you do the same thing if you had students that had to go to and that's where it gets pricey if you have students that need to go to the Yellowstone Boys and Girls they'll charge your District like we pay them if we recommend children to go on us if if we recommend them to go there so this whole District of
043choice thing I think it's a much bigger problem and you know from what I've in my meetings in like the Gallatin Valley Boseman area those kids move around a couple of times a year and same over in Callis Bell they move from Callis Bell to White FSH to Thompson Falls and they're constantly moving around I a little bit of confusion about this do those dollars come out of our general fund no yes they do so I'll pay them out of my general fund but it effectively lowers our levies so the they income that I get if I get any net income from it it'll essentially lower our general fund Levy to our taxpayers but I have to pay it out of my general fund so I'm a little confused because we don't get dollars for
044those students coming into our general funds so why are we then paying out of our general fund we get get we do get am money for them yep because we count them in our spring count even though they're out of District okay okay you're getting the state money not just the& money you're getting your state money so you're effectively getting the tax quote unquote District taxpayer money for that student so they break down how much they figure each student is worth in their separate tax District so like our students that live in Liberty County that come to pbon are way more valuable than our Ino County students because Liberty County has a higher they have a higher tax Liberty County has a higher tax base so those students cost their District more money so like
045when we are we're sending the colony kids up to Liberty County we're they're we're not they're not getting as much money as their students that can you know by because it's based on where they live their residents to the district they're going through and like students from Great Falls you know far less than our stto County students it's because of the property tax base that they're basing where those students live so it's complicated yeah so you're trying to just get you to pay that your District your tax revenue is going to the district that your student is at I guess that's why we get for the big bucks so many glasses this is what I did at radiation I took all these glasses so but it's very confusing and of course she could be telling
046us anything where the school district line up there for us county line line and that colony is right next to my house now yeah I know they use my Rob by the house make some eye twit but um the only other thing I have and it's not on my report so I'm just going to tell you about it and you'll have to vote at the next meeting we have some obsolete property and Paul has taken some lovely photographs here um of this trailer that we would like to dispose of so I will pass that around we've had it on the agenda forever just in case and and now we don't and now we don't so just want to take a look include that next month so that's all I have thank you don't the form
047or anything and that's just for notice it's just for notice so that you guys are aware right yep okay thank you okay so first of all um evening we had we put together the calendar committee uh calendar committee consisted of two admin two certified and two classified staff members and what I'm sharing with you um this these are also shared electronically in my portal s up tomorrow um these are the two options that were presented to the staff for a vote I have extra C to you need one I'm good okay okay um basically the differences the biggest differences between these two um calendars that the Cho the uh staff chose from option number one has us starting um with P days on the 18th of August and getting out before Memorial Day Option number
048two has it starting on the 25th of August with p and getting out after Memorial Day the trick with those two starting and ending times in the in August are obvious you know people are harvesting and that kind of thing but at the end of the school year with the way the calendar is next year we will have high school activ ities going until the end of May State competitions will not be over Memorial Day weekend they would be the following weekend so um that is why we settled on these two options um people some people feel very strongly about ending Before Memorial Day some people feel you know but this is the first time help me out Jamie in the last few years that we we've had high school activities that continued after Memorial
049Day Weekend uh both calendars have uh two weeks at Christmas and um those to me are are the kind of the highlights unless you have specific questions we the vote has already been taken so I can tell you the one that was that received the most votes and the recommendation I'll be making tonight is for acceptance of option number two so you start later and finish later start later and finish L I think this is closer to what sometimes we had in class we've got until May 29th off and we've started around the 23rd 25th [Music] off any questions I guess we do approve this as so I would recommend you tonight based on the vote from the your staff um we had about a 70% voter turnouts I guess for the for the calendar
050and um with classified certified staff so my recommendation to you tonight would you to accept the vote as uh calendar as voted upon which is option number two I'll make that motion I'll second it public comment questions need more time to look it over all in favor say I opposed motion passes thank you the accreditation process has been completed Rox and Ice SP it was uh this is a new process the office Public Instruction put out beginning last school year much more intense much more involved last year um but the system this year was much more user friendly you might recall last year that it required us to enter all of the data at one time you couldn't save it we so anything we uploaded anything that any reports that we anything we had written
051in the report we literally sat in the wake up one almost one whole afternoon and early into the evening or six hours I guess literally loading everything we had collect everything we had to we had to copy and paste and type and whatever this year we that you could do it in little Snippets and whatever and so it's been completed a lot of that accreditation process now with the way they you the state uses the infinite campus student management system that data is entered by our Roxy Allen so they're looking at uh our teacher loads our teacher certifications those kinds of things and so we don't have the report back yet but it's it was it's a timec consuming process and it's been completed and uploaded and we'll wait for the report back um I
052reported to you last month that the um middle school high school staff had looked at the revision of our um honoral policy um and it it's been now been shared with I bring it up again tonight because that that those that revision was shared with Middle School excuse me high school student council and National Honor Society members they really liked what was proposed and so we it's it'll be attached electronically to my report when you see it tomorrow but we would move forward with um our First Assembly recognizing students uh from their third quarter grades at an assembly in mid April um and uh and the and the first ever students to receive the be the bridge award so we're going to move forward with that we're very excited about that and think we got
053really really positive feedback from the kids so that was pretty cool can I hop in there for one second yeah I just brought to mind that um this idea had been proposed once upon a time when we were talking about the Lorn can and all the record boards we have up there somebody had said wouldn't it be cool if we had a um you know Hall of Fame for students who have gotten over 30 on their act or something like that so anyway I just thought I'd throw that out there yeah you're looking for ideas of how to yeah give credit to academic accomplishments part of the um unique conversation I felt like we had with the kids was about certificates you know do you how do you feel about if I if I you
054come up and I shake your hand and I give you a certificate as as part of the award well to the students they they weren't uh let's use the word impressed by the notion of the certificate but a couple of them said you know we they recognized that your students recognize that it's important to parents so we talked about some variations on the theme do we recognize you but don't hand out a certificate and we may email certificates to parents so the because I said the last thing in the worldle I want to do is go to the TR trouble of killing a tree and then printing out all these certificates handing him out and then I find him in the hallway in the floor because that's been my that's been a previous experience at
055other schools I worked at so um we had a really good discussion about that and um I said because we're we're in jumping into the middle of the school year I said I'm not really I may not be prepared to give you something that this third quarter grade to give us a chance to kind of work into this let's see how it goes but there it was quite the swing of of opinions about certificates and so so I said so we give trinkets keychains or whatever you know and they weren't they weren't that crazy impressed by that but we we're working on an idea that gave me for the be the be the bridge award so um so stay tuned about about that but it was great great conversation and they gave us great input
056so I've heard a lot of positive talk about it too that's great um I think I I wrote this down Roxy that we've completed all our teacher appraisals yes I have not completed all of my veteran teacher appraisal but I'm working on it okay I think I I have one you are a okay okay I just wanted to report to the board we we repeated them all and we would have uh contract renewals for you in April um we do not have school on Friday April 21st uh it will be a p day half day for us as a staff and one of the things I wanted to point out on that day we've been talking here about the emergent three application uh app that we're going to have we using and this is for
057communication during emergencies and so the leadership team has been given training on the Emer 3 app the um office secretaries uh which will include Connie are going to be trained next Tuesday the 18th then all staff on that morning of the 21st will it be trained um and so then we would begin using that system in the event of a fire drill lock down communic it's it's really a communication tool with our people and so that's in the works on that P dat we'll have some building level other uh building Level Training on that morning but that is the one districtwide piece that will happen on the morning of March 21st uh we have the agreement for um the golden trial curriculum cooperative and so I have to joela needs to sign this this is
058for um the curriculum uh Consortium that we belong to provides uh organization of curriculum within our school district as well as others and uh some professional development opportunities as well we currently have uh three teachers within our school district uh participating they have um library media Services help me out Roxy uh art fine art or yeah V Visual Arts and physical education are the three curriculum areas that're reviewing right now and so we have people from from the school district that are participating in those trainings and um we' had some people last summer that got training from the cooperative and this is an agreement for us to continue being a part of that Cooperative a lot of my teachers almost every single Elementary School teacher utilizes their summer courses and I teach a couple summer
059courses a great time for teachers to get together and talk and share ideas yeah come up with behavior plan $ 7,294 and. 75 yep that's our yearly fee and we usually have yes and then yes please so I would recommend that we accept uh this renew this membership to the golden TR triangle curriculum cooperative I would make that motion we use them for a long time any questions comment in favor say I Mo passes great one of the final things I have tonight is that we're excited to announce that we're going to host we had the Joellen and members of the local Chamber of Commerce approached us T Martin and I my high school counselor and talk to us about hosting a career Expo and so we will hope to host this on Wednesday April
06023rd um with an evening on the April 22nd for members of the community to come and uh businesses within Fort Benton within shto County have been invited to come and have a table and the intent here and Joel and feel free to jump anytime the intent here is for um our students our student body 7 through 12 to begin to have interaction with members of the community businesses and how they could um what our students need to uh know and and understand about applying for a job at the hemp plant at the newspaper where wherever the businesses are uh the the um educat we're going to have a table the school district is going to have a table restaurants are going to have tables these are the people that have been invited and so we
061are going to we're going to have our students the morning of the 23rd at an hour at a time go through and interact with the people at these tables and um uh yeah we're very very excited about the opportunity the folks from the job service were here today and we met T and I met with with her she's going to do a little um little short video clip to kind of set the stage for us then T and I will go around and meet with the students from grade 7 through 12 about a week 10 days two weeks prior to the event to be having them begin to think about interested in local employment they're interested in a career in a career path to to a certain job they wonder what they need what they
062need to do they're going to I do they need to approach these tables and talk to these folks at these certain businesses and so uh the job service is going to create these video for us and then we're going to be get setting the table with with that um our plan right now is to have the kids have a passport and we talked again today about sort of an assignment what the kids are going to bring out of it maybe the older kids creating a resume if they haven't already created a resume and the job service is willing to look at those rums but as a followup to the the interviews and they're going to conduct with businesses that day we talked about one of the things for the oldest of our students would be
063to make sure that they have a resume created and that's something we're working at what what does that look like at the end the younger kids maybe would have the passport idea and so they're getting information from different from the tables so that they're not so they're interacting with multiple people to get a taste of what for for Bon has to offer yeah and we um the the purpose behind this really it is twofold one we hear from a lot of local businesses that they have a hard time finding people to work so um you know we've experienced this with the school that if we hire somebody who's from here they're a lot more likely to stay here and um so it's just kind of that theory right if we can recruit from our local
064Workforce and our local student body that's better and um also from a students P perspective there's so many kids graduating nowadays who who are really hesitant to go spend the money on a college education when it costs a fortune and they don't maybe know exactly what they want to do we do a good job of connecting kids to um degrees or you know programs that they can take in a college and we take them up to the H career fair and so on but we don't necessarily do a big job of connecting them to the actual jobs and careers that they can have so we're working really hard on I have um a few Flyers here um that if anyone has a business and they're interested in par participating I can give you one um
065but we are trying to make sure that we represent the egg sector and the me you know like benef has signed up and we have um the Emergency Services coming and um we'd like yeah we'd like to get some businesses from agriculture farming um banking oh the bank called me today so I think we're going to have some good participation I'm excited about it is it going to be in the gym is it yes and again our thinking was that we would open it up in the evening the these businesses would come set up in the gym that night we'd open up to the community to come for any people that are looking seeking an unemployment or a different career path or anything like that and then the students would would go through on the
066morning out we had we had lots of different ideas and suggestions but we want to kind of put our foot in the water we want to kind of get this started so we're kind of thinking small that's why we're going to do in the morning of the 23rd uh and then just a little window in the evening and then we'll we we hope to have it become an annual event and so certainly I kudos to the chamber for bringing it to our attention and suggesting uh give this a give this a try I was just going to mention yeah that we had gotten a question about um inviting other schools to attend and because we don't want to overwhelm businesses right now we wanted to not make it too much of a time commitment for
067them and we do want to test the ladders here and so we decided at this point we're going to just do for Ben students hopefully other towns can either model this program or eventually we can expand it to include like the whole County or something this is fantastic kids who don't realize graduation coming there a lot to them and they feel forced into finding a career path in college and they don't really feel ready to do that and so I think this might really resonate I think so this going be T in the past we've done some feel with the egg exens AG maybe as that but I mean like have we talked to them just I can't remember exactly who put it on like the egg days exension is EXT with about it yeah
068get them involved in this we don't double up Janelle Barber is to reach out I've been mean to reach out to them so I will com and I they'll have there'll be some dates on here um upcoming things and and that's it thank you okay before we move into our committee reports and meetings and all that um let's go back and read this visit our um board meeting reschedule so Tyler said 6 o' we were going to do it before we probably have to do after school like 4:00 maybe and you're supp to be sworn in so we to S you in the following board meeting or just let you show up when you I don't know what what time would you be able to make it probably not um that was a Monday Tuesday
069oh it's still Tuesday um moving it just earlier same day it would normally be just earlier in the 4:00 I might be able to just take the day off and work to make it I don't want it to be a hardship for you no no no I just got to Bak my schedule some even if you yeah could make it till a little bit later we would be here till 6 or so and I'm sure he could swear you in later we don't have Rick do it anymore right we were able to do it ourselves here so um well we can I mean I'm assuming that no's gonna run against you Dusty I haven't even heard anybody yet so um okay so 4:00 May 12 okay is everyone okay that Monday May 12 May 1
070I'm sorry Tuesday May 13th Tuesday May 13th same day is our usual [Music] board okay okay buildings and grounds committee report so we met on February 25th and discussed the pro come project we've got money um which the two that do need to go out to bid are going to be the element water and sewer pipe project and then the high school electrical project and like Russ said the bids will go out March 16th 19th and 22nd doing a pre-bid walk through on March 28th bids will be opened on April 4th uh 300 p.m. will be the elementary 330 the high school followed by a buildings and grounds and we will have a recommendation at the board meeting on the 8th for contractors as far as all the other projects we're kind of waiting till
071these bids come in then we'll just kind of Lay It All Out see where the money will work hopefully we're going to get a spreadsheet and kind of get things so we can follow the whole timeline once's decide so you said April 4th you have a walk through no is that March 28th they do pre walk through April 4th we will be opening the bids oh okay and then you have you have talked about having a buildings and grounds committee meeting before then April meeting yes we're going to we have a buildings and grounds following on the fourth following the bid openings okay I think we decided on 3:30 or yeah yeah yeah 3:30 buildings and grounds 345 345 right right yeah last one we open 330 move right into buildings and grounds the walk
072through is on Friday on break so that there's nobody under school okay or relatively perect okay okay uh that's kind of the gist of what we discussed the only other thing is we're working on planning a long range planning committee that we haven't had that meeting we're g to is that where you'll discuss the msgia report and everything right right and all we had it scheduled the other day and then weather and doctor's appointments just you know so we have't no chance to hope we get that all put together so next time we got money out have extra money we'll have a place to okay all right that's what the meeting was done so you already have that meeting scheduled are there any questions um we also need to schedule a Personnel committee meeting um
073for upcoming negotiations and I think we're a little unsure about what that looks like this year but we can um you know have discussions about our Administration and um about we we really need to talk about to like what we're expecting for funding um most of the the state funding increases are coming through um star payment um which is like basically a teacher incentive if you remember we've had to um raise teacher pay to meet a minimum requirement to qualify for this star payment and they're rather than raising you know doing General across the board a and increases they're basically trying to funel money to schools through the star payment instead um in an effort to raise teacher pay across the whole state so um it might require it probably will require anou um with
074the teachers union um for us to meet that minimum and get that money so um another kind of complicated School pass Stars pass hasn't before looking like it yeah you have to school districts have to have it in place before they want to pass it I think they want to see how many schools are willing to do it before they pass [Music] it yeah and then personel also has to meet with myself and rock so all of our admin and um it's classified negotiations this year it's not clear to me if we have a classified representative what do you think time lies here um can we meet in the next month or do we need to wait a little bit we pin down because you have to we have to have the Stars acting in
075place before May so we need to meet April Jenny joen and okay well you're on both committees right lucky all right um so we don't want to do our next our April board meeting is on the 8th your buildings or your um yeah your buildings and grounds meeting is on the 4th could we could we meet before on the 8 a board meeting 6 or something that for yeah I don't Ro and Away what we okay we're doing so April April 8 at 6:m the fact if I go long you can always um okay was classif she was yeah who there who's figuring that out okay I had to reach out to the head of the Union to the head of the she just our area she's next year but she yeah I mean yeah
076so I think there's two options either the the state union comes and represents them or they choose a new one or they disolve it right they got to decide you okay um I didn't realize we had superintendent negotiations on here did you add that or do you want to do that tonight it doesn't have to be but we can wait till that it's up to you we can we can go in and close s discuss it well let's um let's since it's on the agenda let's um let's discuss Personnel though so that anybody wants to go can go and then all we have to do is to be can and'll do it at the end so we're just going to run through um res really quick so I've received uh two resignations uh you received
077a copy of one of them I sent you in an email uh I did not have the at the time I sent the email reporting that these two teachers were going to had resigned one is Jeff bser our Middle School High School PE teacher the other is em Emily shawa High School science teacher um and um so yeah it's unfortunate but we've received both of those resignations and the science position has been posted uh for a week I posted at the end of last week I guess and as I mentioned in my letter it would be my intent uh based upon our collective bargaining agreement that I would uh reassign uh Jamie ball to be the High School PE teacher and she's certified to do so and again by our collected bargain agreement Jamie had
078previously already sent me Mrs ball sent me a message couple a month or six eight weeks ago whatever expressing interest in the event that the position became available and um I'm able to as like said CBA to reassign her deposition so I don't have to even posted we I supp theard has to approve yeah the board has to approve that so I would like to recommend Jamie ball be hired as the new High School PE teacher that would let you go at all no I can it can be reassigned yeah you're so powerful yeah yeah um is there any other discussion what does it look like to fill that void at elementary so part of that discussion before we got to this point was I did speak with Mrs Benjamin and um I think she
079has a a very good option and is exploring that option Mr a yeah and so we would have a recommendation for you we would it has to be posted inside in the in housee we would post it in house but um depending on what feedback we get internally she has a good at least one really good option moving forward so we would come back at the April board meeting with a recommendation likely so that was that was a consideration I went to when this first became the the thought of a possibility we had a conversation what both of us independently talked to Mrs ball and then and here we it played out the hand played out so here we are I have one question the high school midle school PE is that the way Mr
080cler currently teaches one period of PE the Middle School PE the rest of it's all high school okay yeah so do what what all coures are from besid like weight liting healthification okay does is it like six I was just curious how many periods you had a day or we have eight period day and he teaches seven period of one period of prep we have discussed what that could look like if Mrs Ball's the athletic director here and uh it's we had to jump through this hoop first but we'll begin looking at a schedule for how we could accomodate maybe a little more time for her if possible yeah I personally think that would be a good fit having you know once one period at least one period for more ad type yeah no we
081that's exactly what we've discussed yeah talked about what time of the day would best suit her I mean she's she's done a really great job of coming over here in the afternoons um but I realized why she come over here the afternoons you know she's um she's got someone covering our class and so we talked about the end of the days a lot of times especially if we're hosting events are important for gym setup and meeting officials and meeting teams and that kind of stuff so that's that's a preliminary discussion that we' be to have right well all in favor say I oppos motion passes uh the other hiring tonight I would ask uh I would kindly recommend that we hire Emily Wicks as a substitute teacher um Mr lennington uh his wife as I
082mentioned is having a baby and he's asked for to take his uh sick days at the end of the school year so he could be with his wife upon you know and we all know that predicting when his wife's going to have the baby is is difficult so we mve the spring concert dates but um she has agreed to help substitute teach for him in his absence so um it would be a short-term situation and she's got worked out with the library so she would come and be the substitute teacher for our music program while Mr lenington is out with his dear what which we're lucky to have because normally if we have a substitute in band they're watching movies she's qualified actually so we will we will get through uh the spring concerts and
083she would be uh help with high school graduation with the band playing High School graduation that's the only other sort of event uh public event that's left after the two spring concerts and we're trying to bribe her for Elementary music and they're trying to bribe her for Elementary music yeah so but she'll be on our the school district sublist yes that negotiation or bartering that will continue thumb wrestling or whatever is happening with that is is in process okay we have a motion for that so second thank you any comments or discussion all in favor say I opposed motion passes okay so the only thing left on the agenda is um our superintendent negotiations this is a situation where um personel um Mr hold's right to privacy outlays the public right to know um so
084we are going to invite him to have a close session he can choose the way that chooses a close session okay so um given that let's take two minutes I'm sorry K on the volunteer oh oh yeah yeah can we have that now but we can well so anytime like you come like do anything or help out you know with driving any school equipment we have to hire you as either a volunteer or an employee due to our liability insurance so yeah yeah sorry about that yeah so yeah so um kale and Kelly have helped out uh here during the winter and it occurred to us because of reliability insurance that we need to have them not noted approved by the board as volunteers um for that purpose so I would recommend that we hire
085off hire than us volunteers pry pleas I thought that was just for coaching I don't know I reach out I'll sign a contract I'm not going to Su anybody I know but it doesn't matter even if you fell it's still a work comp plan so I did reach out to work comp and they're hopefully in mtsba to see if you can volunteer and still be honest like volunteer for you know other types of duties B onard yeah okay so hopefully they answer me back we can just wait till the next just wish with Kelly tonight or wait till next just wait we can just do the next that's all Happ all right so let's um we'll go ahead and add okay so we're coming out of Clos session um we don't actually have um any
086um motions coming out of this we going to um review his negotiation asks and talk about it in our next Personnel meeting there were so many we will that till next month and um I think with that we have a motion to keep this going all in favor say iOS