001one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. Thank you, everybody. We have a lot of people here tonight. So, I have a feeling though it's about reports. Um any >> They won't last. They won't last. >> Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Any public comments tonight? Oh, we have one. Ta-da. >> Good evening, everyone. I'm Nina Ingraham, and I'm here for the last eighth grade um to be here. >> But I'm calling on calling on you then. >> Thank you for um coming to eighth grade graduation and for doing council so they can pursue and do new things. Um then we had our final student council field trip, and we went to Lava Island, Billings, and Pizza Ranch, and everyone had a really great time. So. And that is all
002I have. Does anyone have any questions? >> I do have a couple. Okay. Okay. Um so, the funds that you raised, are they then left over for like the middle school for next year and whatnot? >> Yes, ma'am. I'm pretty sure. Um it just kind of goes into the one big account that you can use like future years and stuff. And so, we put it into the same account, which I think is just going to be used >> So, it just rolls over year to year. It stays in middle school. Okay. And what was um the best part of student council for you? >> Um as silly as this is going to sound, I loved running meetings so much. I thought it was so much fun. As much as everyone else like hated coming to
003meetings, I loved running them. >> And then what was the most challenging part for you? >> Um probably the dance. Trying to organize everyone and get all like the papers turned in in time so that we had it ready in time. But it was a lot of fun to do it too. >> All right. How many members are on the middle school student council? >> We had 14 this year. So, there was quite a few. We did a couple We did more than last year. We did a couple more like specific committees rather than last year. We just had like the four very specific slots. We had like the chair committee design and all the things this year. But, it was really fun. Any other questions? Well, I hope I hope those questions were sufficient.
004>> No, they were. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you for coming every month. >> Thank you for the help. >> No, no, oh, good job, Anna. >> Thank you very much. >> Any other public comment? >> I have a public comment. Yes, it's it's it's a suggestion or request that's that's as much for me as it is to anybody. But, one of the things that I think is as a school that is a phone-free school, I think it's important that when people are watching online and people spend their time to come here and watch, that we not be on our phones. I think that there if there's a reason that you need and it's a it's very important, get up and leave the room. I'd also ask anybody that's in the audience, it
005should be the same thing because, you know, we volunteer and do a lot of time up here. We're trying to do a really good job for our school. And if I look out and I see somebody sitting there on their phone, I don't know why they came to the meeting. And I know you people out there look up there and I'm checking my phone and I'm doing something, I'm texting something. You may wonder, do I really take my job seriously? So, I mean, it's not a rule or nothing. I just recommend. I think that anytime there's a board meeting, phones should be shut off and put away. If there's something you need to do, you get up and go out in the hall and do it and come back. But, that's my comment. >> All
006right. Thank you, Mr. Adams. Any other public comments? All right. Well, moving on then to reports. Uh first up we have student council. >> Good evening. I'm student council advisor and I have the new student council members that I'd like to introduce for this coming year. So, you guys can stand up. All right. I'll have them introduce themselves and then I'll give the report, final report for this year and then anything else we have. So, >> Hi, I'm William Klein. Hopefully this will be a fun year. >> Um my name is Ford Kerper. >> I'm Justin Bickel. >> I'm Danny DeOrsay. >> Uh good evening. I'm Sophia Shelley. >> I'm Nick Klein. >> I'm Jay Forsman. >> They have already been hard at work with some new ideas, new energy. That's always fun to get
007the new group ready for the next year. So, uh they'll be starting day one um coming up uh the 2026-2027 year. With that, uh we wrapped up uh the last group, the last day of school for them. Uh they had a little ice cream social. We didn't do the staff versus softball game. Things just got a little hectic that last week. Um but they had a good time wrapping up the year. Uh we also didn't go on our kind of annual ride student council trip at all, but I did take them out to dinner. So, I did was able to treat them with general merriment. >> I I support that. >> It was good to have them on this trip uh with that. But um but these guys are ready to go. I'm excited to
008see what they're doing. They're already the kids in the school that already run things. So, uh they're they took on a new role, but it's really they're really just continuing on with that. So, I'm very excited for them. Uh do you guys have any questions for me or them? >> Well, I'll just say welcome and thank you for coming and introducing yourselves tonight. >> Very good. >> I look forward to watching you on when I'm watching the meetings every every month now. It's cool, yeah. Thanks, Connor. >> All right, thank you guys. >> Thank you. Thank you. I know. >> You guys can >> Sit down. I'm going to too. She'll be the one blowing up my phone. I'll have to look at my phone because someone will be blowing up my phone, but you
009>> Don't look at Shut her off. She has no reason to be contacting a board member during a board meeting. >> She can, though. >> Huh? >> It's her first amendment right. Thank you, Connor. >> Okay, moving on. >> I don't care if the students sue their school. >> Moving on. >> They're not. >> Moving on. Elementary principal reporting. >> All righty. Um we have our final soar assembly of the year taking place this Friday, the last day of school, at 10:00 in the new gym. We'll be giving away some bikes and some um Kindles and you know, a lot of fun to wrap up the year. We had the egg days take place on April 29th. Thank you to the FFA program and Mrs. Milton and Mr. Alf for putting that together for our
010elementary kids. Over the past few weeks, there's been a plethora of music programs going on. We had our fifth grade choir program on May 5th, our K1 through third grade spring spring program on May 7th, and then our fourth through 12th grade spring program on May 12th. So, big shout out to Mr. Rona and Miss Kerper for all the time, energy, and effort they put into those programs. Um we had elementary field day last Wednesday. Want to thank Miss Kokoroma, Mr. Towner, and the middle school students for hosting that event for the elementary students. Um we had an ambulance show and tell today to celebrate the national ambulance week. Our first through third grade students had a show and tell, got to tour an ambulance. Want to thank Joliet EMS for putting that together for
011our students. And the past few weeks, a plethora of field trips. Today, or not today, yesterday, fourth grade went to the Audubon Center in Billings. Third grade went to the wildlife sanctuary and then Fish, Wildlife, and Parks Lake. Second grade will be going to Cody on Thursday. First grade went to the zoo. Kindergarten went to Wise Wonders in Billings, and they also went to the Timber Nook program in Joliet. And our Kinder Wonders went on their second ever field trip, and they went to Timber Nook. Um Last week we had our second graders hosting the publishing party on May 8th to celebrate the book they created over people who have raised the standard. And on a testing front, third through eighth grade students have completed the third and final math testing, which they've been working
012through all of April and May. Sixth through 10th grade students have been clean have been completing math testing throughout May. We finished the last math test and last math test yesterday, so every student finished those up. Our elementary kids have been working through their i-Ready diagnostics. And AP testing started on May 4th. We've had five AP test sessions so far, and our final AP test of the year will be taking place tomorrow afternoon. >> All right. Any questions for our elementary principal? All right, thank you. Uh moving on, middle school high school principal. >> All right. I feel like I don't have everything cuz it's been really busy, but uh we had some highway cleanups, Mrs. Melton and uh Honor Society students uh clean that section of the highway on May 6th. Um we've also
013had a lot of field trips. Um Mrs. Buckley-Wolma and Mrs. Goodridge took 6th grade to Bozeman's Museum of the Rockies. Uh Mrs. Goodridge took 8th graders to the Cody Museum on May 8th. Uh Mr. Kristovich and Mrs. Buckley-Wolma took 7th grade to the Bear Creek Cemetery and Carbon County Museum May 11th. Um Miss Hereford and her ecology class did a couple of They went to Greycliff in Columbus um on some river grade projects and then went to the Shiloh Wetlands, Sundance, and Zoo Montana. Um Mrs. Bergum and Mrs. Buckley-Wolma did the annual 8th grade last day of school trip uh last Friday to Billings. Um and knowing that I might have missed some there, a huge shout out to the drivers um cuz they're doing all of those all of these track and the routes
014and I think they're exhausted. Um Mrs. Melton and Miss Farrell and the the ag and the FFA students have been working hard on the dog tags and crosses and getting ready to get those up along the highway. Um all of the the FFA banquet, Honor society, elections, the activities banquet I I went really well. Um well attended and had some really good recognition for the students. Uh Mr. Rana and the middle school high school band and choir had their concert on the 13th and did a great job. The 25-26 draft schedule went out last week. I believe. And already had a few tweaks from Mr. Hurd's band, you know. Um running through that with students and kind of finding conflicts and changes, but it's pretty pretty right there. Um and then graduation, Sunday high school
015graduation and um last night eighth grade graduation. The halls were quiet today. quieter I should say. >> And thank you. Thank you to all of the teachers and like you said, bus drivers, and chaperones, everybody. I've said it before, I love field trips. I think there's I think it's an important part of what we do here. There's a lot of learning that can be done outside these walls, so um I'm really thankful that we're able to do field trips and continue to do field trips and have um staff who are committed to planning them and and putting them together, so thank you to everyone um that has any part in that. Um I heard a lot of positive feedback about the banquet, the sports banquet, so kudos to Mr. Counter. Um lots of very positive
016feedback, so um it sounds like it was a really good time and I'm sorry I missed it, but I'm looking forward to next year. >> That sounds good. >> Yeah. And kudos to administration for sticking with everything. The end of the year is so busy. Um just the you know, what the board has to extra stuff the board is involved in. I'm exhausted. I can't imagine how you you all and the rest of the staff feel. So, we're in the final stretch. >> I was wondering about middle school graduation. It is Is it always the Monday? Or did it used to be a little later in the week and it got changed? I'm just curious about that change. >> Yeah, you know, last year it was on a Tuesday. Um and then this year it
017was the Tuesday. It was the same night as the board meeting. >> So, it's never on Wednesday. It doesn't go that late usually. So, okay. >> Normally in my experience I think >> I just can't remember. >> Yeah. >> Just a hundred years ago it was on a Wednesday. >> Yeah. I think just last time out of school >> Since three of us had eighth graders. >> Well, I know not Tuesday's not good. >> Yeah. >> Which this year >> With the board meeting. >> I was thinking it was Wednesday. Sunday and Wednesday. >> It's never been Wednesday since I've been here and I think the Monday justification Mondays happened before too like if the last day of school is a 30 day. I don't know if they if they do change it or not.
018Monday they moved it to Tuesday last year. They moved it now on Friday. So, yeah. You want to give too much works out. >> All right. Well, thank you. Um Financial reports. >> I'm happy to take any questions you guys have. >> All right, seeing none we'll move on to BPA. >> So, I'm Mrs. Richard and I'm the advisor for BPA. We're just coming to talk about our trip and thank you for supporting us. So, I'll let them take photos since I have lots of them. Okay. >> So, I'm Zeke Jordy and I competed in computer programming concepts at Nationals and placed 178 out of 311 students. And during the trip, it was really fun. We went around Nashville and we saw the sights. Lots of live music, really good food. It was really interesting.
019We went on a few tours. We went to the backstage of the Grand Ole Opry and got to learn about the musicians that have been there and played at the Opry and that was really interesting. We We explored Broadway, as I said. Printers Alley. Um we went to the Hatch Show Print, where they've been making prints for shows, music shows for decades. And we made candies at a place called Goo Goo Cluster and they were really good. I'll pass on. >> Um just other general conference stuff. Um when we first got there, we went to opening sessions. Um it's just they get all of the competitors and advisors together that first day just to introduce the competitions to us and just go over like there's a parade of flags and all sorts of cool stuff
020there. Um really long though. They go over lots of stuff there. Um there's also usually a career expo and business fair and college fair there. Um I think a few of us checked that out. Lots of Lots of different businesses there. Uh Raising Cane's is a big one, apparently. I think they even sponsored uh they're a huge sponsor for the thing this year. Um there's a BPA mall there every year. You can buy a couple things there. We got shirts, um, national shirts. We do every year sorts of fun stuff for all the high school to do. Um, the last night on the finale night after closing ceremonies where they give out awards, and we all got cards and got to play for a few hours, and that was a whole bunch of fun. Um,
021I'm Elizabeth Schlemmer, by the way. Um, sorry I didn't I forgot to do that at first, but I competed in health administration concepts. >> Very good. >> I'm Anna Duel, and I competed in health research presentation, and mine's a bit different cuz we go into like rooms, and there's 10 people in each room, and I got fifth in my group out of 10 kids. >> Um, we had one other kid that got to go with us. His name was Liu. Um, he's our Italian foreign student. He forgot to do one Um, so he was supposed to compete on Thursday, and he did the certification test for it, so he was certified to take it, and then he forgot to actually take the real test. But, he had to take two tests for his event, and
022he forgot to do one. But, on the one he did >> They're letting him experience Nashville. And a large scale conference. There were close to 7,000 other students competing there. >> Did you get any different state pins bonus with? >> Um, the Illinois one was really cool this year, and I made it a point to get one, and I got it. I only remember to bring two pins to trade this year, but