August Regular Board Meeting // Budget Adoption

001We have a sign in sheet, right? Okay. Yep. Just make sure you sign in. And then do we have the notices out there about this meeting is being recorded and uh we value public comment? Um so any public comment tonight? >> We got a wind tunnel behind us. >> Tammy Bruell, I am just um going to introduce to you our exchange students. So, we have two. I think there's three though at the school. So, um ours came in on Saturday. And so, this is Mori. She's from Japan. She's going to do volleyball and um she loves to do art and craft. So, she's excited about those classes. And then this is Leonardo from uh Italy. And so, he is doing cross country and loved his three and a half mile run today. and he's going

002to do welding and woods, which he's excited about. And he's into physics, so he's he's liking those kinds of things. So, didn't know if you had any questions for them. >> Did you already say what grades they're in? >> Oh, so they're both 16, but he comes in as a senior and she is a sophomore. >> Yeah. >> Very nice. Welcome. >> Well, thank you. >> You will have fun on the farm at the gel. That looks like you guys already have been having some fun. >> Some redneck fun. >> All right. Welcome. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. Any other public comments? >> All right. On to reports. Elementary principal. >> All right. I'll keep it short and sweet tonight. Um the master elementary schedule got shared out to all staff today. Um and then

003on for training front, we have a I ready training scheduled for September 5th for our new hires who um will be learning to uh implement the IRA math and ELA program. So we have that scheduled for the fifth to help them in their transition. All right. Any questions? All right. On to middle school high school principal. >> All right. Yeah, kind of short as well. Um, we did high school registration um the fifth and sixth, I think it was. I think we have all but one high school kid already registered and ready to go. So, Miss Cook did really good with um getting those kids that miss those days in to meet with her and get registered. Um middle school splits are done and those schedules are ready. Um again, Miss Cook's been getting all

004that in infinite campus and kind of ready to roll for next week. Um fall high school fall sports started Friday. Um middle school football you started yesterday. Um, and those kind of roughing out the numbers here, but I think we have 14 high schoolers out for cross country. Um, I think 26 boys in high school football. >> You have 16. >> 16 in middle school football. Um, volleyball, I'm not real sure certain number. 29. Um, and what am I missing? Cheer. I don't have a firm number on cheer. Um, and then those middle school meetings will be at the open house on Monday night, parent meetings at six o'clock, and volleyball will start, I believe, the 28th, and cross country will roll when school starts. So, it feels like we're ready. >> Are you ready?

005>> Yeah. Yeah, I'm ready. I think that having the extra week in August has been really beneficial. It seems that it wasn't just so fast and furious in the month of August. We still opened up the building, opened up the classrooms at the same time kind of on that first Friday uh in August. Assignments were all set. Um so teachers have been kind of sprinkling in um on the weekend evenings kind of at their own time. So yeah, I feel like things are coming together pretty good. Um I'll add in um if I may um uh we had new teacher orientation as well. Um there was a handful of trustees uh that were there but we had all of our new teachers in um well not all of them um but on August 7th uh

006we've been running this I think for about four or five years now. Uh we get everybody kind of in the house uh onboarded. Uh, one of the biggest challenges I think of of being a first year teacher, uh, or being a new teacher to the district is just getting the lay of the land, you know, to be comfortable, how to get into the building, you know, and then how to kind of maneuver at that point. Get your laptop, get your email. Um, one of the biggest things for teachers printing, right? If they can just kind of start printing and get get up up and going, like things for whatever reason seem to like fall into place after that because there's some there's some wall stuff that you need to get up. um print off your

007rosters and you can start to look at those um pretty quickly. So, we go through everything that we do. We talked about a lot of the curricular offerings. Um we looked at the master schedule. We talked about I Ready. Um even though there's not a ton you can do on that front, but it's just kind of fire hose. Um you know, Fridays are a 2:30 release. Fridays, you can wear jeans. Uh, a lot of the stuff that's just kind of come to us um that you don't really know until you go through like a whole a whole year here. So, we try to front end as much as we can. Uh, Jill does a tour of uh of her space, look at the copier, look at the supply closet. Um, this year we also invited

008all of our current staff. We extended the opportunity. I think we had about 20 people um that showed up, current staff, some aids um just to meet people and bring them into the fold and we had some trustees there uh as well. Um the union then also um did did their bit with uh the teachers so they can extend kind of that membership outreach to them um and talk about the resources that they have. Um Aaron and Marina then get everybody tech ready uh and then it ends with for the folks that needed to be background checked, fingerprinted um and all that stuff. So the systems are are really good. Um everybody was on deck for that and um that was a good day. Um probably have one more teacher to on board depending on

009how the action goes tonight at the meeting. But teachers are looking ready looking like >> it's been nice to see the classrooms being put together and just everything looking more together. So, any questions or comments for our middle school, high school principal or superintendent? >> All right, moving on to the consent agenda. >> I move to approve the consent agenda. >> I'll second that. >> It's been moved by Ken and seconded by Don to approve the consent agenda. Any for discussion? Are you public comment or discussion? >> Discussion. Public comment. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed. Motion passed. Seven. That's right. Seven to zero. uh new business adoption. >> All right. So, um I did share out the presentation uh for everybody um so you can have it. Um

010but if you want to turn around or I think in the years past we've had some folks um sit out in the audience um changes to the the format uh this year and they're not major changes but they're kind of just new uh little uh tidbits. Many of us um here um have gone through this presentation on one or more of the the dates that we have referenced um up above. Um Trusty Ingraham was at coffee this morning. Uh so she also heard kind of like off the cuff uh version. I didn't have my slides uh there, but we we did have them up on the phone and kind of went through them um in in that way. So um we'll just we'll just get rolling. And I actually think that have you guys seen

011the budget presentation before? No. Sammy has it twice. First time. >> First time. >> Miss F. Okay. Bubble up. >> He's got six minutes. >> Okay. Ken, the question number one >> um is for you. We all got together and decided that you should take the question. >> Sure. um who determines. So, we put a couple of uh just little pop quiz questions and they're just on the front end of the the presentation. These are from Mike Waterman. He's the business office director, chief financial officer. Um I don't know what his title actually is. That sound okay? Felicia at Bosezeman Public Schools. Um and he does a good job with their budget and communicating out with the public. Um and so he had a couple slides that we were looking through his presentation. Felicia was

012actually at the the conference. I was not. Um, but all their stuff up on NASBO is available as a part of our membership. So, clicking through some of their stuff, they've got some good stuff. So, we've taken it, modified it a little bit, but um, had some good questions. Number one, Ken, who determines the primary mechanisms for how public schools are funded. Is it A, the United States Congress, B, state legislators, C, county commissioners, or D, local school boards? >> Me, local school. >> I don't They they all I think they all have the ability to change set all the way from the Congress with the federal funds down to the state that have their policies that they change and how it's funded and there's probably more nuance uh to it than uh what is

013simply stated. But what do you what did you think Kelly? >> V >> the state legislators. Yes. I I would probably say and we'll look at some Montana code annotated that that shows and that was kind of the lead in here. Uh state legislators do in the state of Montana uh create what I would argue yeah to be the primary sources of funding. Um we have looked at this graph before. They haven't updated but uh this is the uh breakdown of where our money comes from. um local property taxes uh which is what we're going to talk about today and I think this is what you're referring to. This is what you all have the authority to but that authority has been given to you by the state legislature uh to go out and levy

014these monies. Um the state will contribute about 40% of our budget but our local taxpayers are on the hook for uh about 28% of the funding that we're going to use to to operate. Uh we're looking and tracking this federal number. Um it just it's a hot topic. It's being discussed. Um there was obviously here a COVID bump in funding. Pretty drastic increase. We will see in all of our stuff that that money is gone, right? That and those were big chunks uh really big chunks of money that that really helped us to kind of finance the operation. uh it hasn't, you know, gone back down to pre- pandemic levels, but you you you hear that chatter, right, as federal grants are being held up uh and questioning is going on at the federal level

015when it comes to those spending. Um we're going to talk a lot today, uh and this is review for most of us, I understand it, um levied funds that school boards have the power to go out and levy funds. uh some of them are voted in which uh our constituents put that tax upon themselves. Uh whether that's a general fund which we all know that we failed um in this year or whether that is a uh building reserve uh levy which has previously passed here, a tech fund levy uh which we've had pretty good success with um in passing uh those type of uh voted levies. And then there are the non- voted levies which we call a permissive levy that you all because of the state legislature have the power to go out and

016take those funds. Now you also are kind of constrained by the state of Montana and the legislators that says you have to at least levy this amount in some of those funds. Uh which is what we'll look at when we talk about the base budget um here in the future. But your power, as you guys all say here, comes from the 1972 state constitution. It says that you guys will provide a basic system of free quality public elementary and secondary schools. Uh the formulas that our state legislators come up with uh become collected into the Montana code annotated. I did try to update this because I know that we have Montana code annotated 2025 because we're already adopting all the policies. The website is not updated. Uh so uh I don't want that to reflect

017poorly on Felicia and I's presentation here. Uh that is the state of Montana not getting it done. Um Miss Fenus uh for your light reading title 20 uh is where you can find all of your education related uh formulas when it comes to funding. Uh they've got a bunch of definitions. They've got how school boards are operated and the terms that they sit on all defined uh by the uh state legislature. Okay. Um so when we talk about levied voted and and non-levied funds um a couple of things that the state legislature has further defined and I know there's a ton of text here and the point is not to actually see any of it um but the state legislators as this primary mechanism will set for each and every school district they're going to

018they're going to define what they call the basic entitlement that if you operate an elementary districts. Uh, and I think it says up at the top, uh, for each, it starts with high school district, right? And we have that. We have a standalone high school district, uh, here, um, in in Jolliet. They're just going to give you, and these are old numbers because they haven't updated. These things have increased for inflationary reasons. I think they're up about 6% actually. Um, but just for having a high school district, 353,000. There you go. That's the basic entitlement. whether you're Jolliott, whether you're Lone Peak, whether you're uh school district 2, that's the basic entitlement that you get standard across the board. Now, for operating, as you'll see in those other two uh highlighted areas, okay, um for

019operating a elementary program that has an approved middle school, which we do, okay, they're going to kick us for the K6 program, they'll throw us another $57,000. And then for our middle school, there's another portion of the basic entitlement that says 100 thou $114,000. Again, those are uniform. Uh those are across the board. That's one of the calculations that helps us get to that basic uh formula. Those are not set by you all. And so that's when we talk about the primary mechanisms and where do these things come from? Uh how do we get to this this money that you're going to go out and levy? Question number two, what is the primary basis for school funding in Montana? If we have a b if we have a basic entitlement, uh what else contributes uh

020to school funding? Is it the enrollment? Is it the number of schools that you have? Is it the tax base? the value of all the property in the district or is there no limit >> primary C tax? >> I'd say C. >> C tax base. >> C or A. >> D you think A. Why do you think A? >> Because we have to turn in our numbers. >> Good. Yeah. So once we have the basic entitlement, the next key feature here is how many students do you have in your district? Uh and so enrollment, they put a heavy emphasis on enrollment. Um at the state level, we hear this, this is kind of technical jargon, but we talk a lot about A&B, average number belonging. That's just another way to say enrollment. Uh we take

021that number one time in October and we take that number one time in February. And it's those seats in the chairs on those particular days that give you the number of students that you're going to put into these calculations that they have along the bottom. If you lost 10 students the day before, okay, that first week in in October, they don't count. And then if they were to come back uh the day afterwards, they still don't count, right? So, it's not necessarily a perfect system. Uh but that's the system that they use. They run it uh you know twice a year. and then we'll talk about some other calculations that they can do as well to spit out driver enrollment. But you see that and this is the last legislative session for each high school

022kid each the first student excuse me is worth $7,840. That's how much we get for a high school student. And if roughly we have 120 to 130, there you go. You can do the math and see how this thing starts to add up. However, for the second student, they actually take off 50 cents, right? So, they're not worth as much as the first uh student. So, yeah, that's a good question. Who's first? Um in that process, and it decreases up until you get to 800 and then it stays flat. That's not that's not an issue for us because we don't have that many students in our high school. And then you see the funding rates for elementary and middle school students down below. Um elementary students are worth less. $6,123 uh and but it only

023decreases by 20 cents uh per uh per per subsequent student. Uh middle school uh is uh worth the same as as high school. Uh so those numbers matter. And so we talk a lot about enrollment. We talk a lot about attendance here in Juliet and we have been uh and it's for good reason because that's really um what's paying the bills. Uh I think and I don't know if this is this question is confusing but I think we should be able to get this uh 2023 legislature mandated open enrollment for all K12 public schools beginning July 1st 2024. That means >> students can attend any district they wish regardless of residence. Students can attend any school they wish regardless of residence. Homeschool students no longer need to register with the county superintendent. Students are no

024longer required to stay on campus during the launch. >> Students connected to school. [Music] >> Oh, wait. >> A yeah, districts. And we're a little bit unique. We don't have multiple schools, you know, within uh like we don't have multiple high schools. We're not like a school district two or something like that. But yeah, they did it they did uh mandate this. And when you're thinking about the formulas that we just talked about and AMB and how it contributes very quickly uh to our funding, uh it's important to kind of take a look at these numbers. Um I just did Jill keeps this document. It's updated regularly. Um I think our number is actually we had a couple in district students enrolled today. Uh so I think as of today that number as it sits

025right now is actually 393 students. Um K12 across the board. Um, but there's our trends. Uh, if you look all the way back to 2020, um, you know, in all honesty, we're pretty flat. You know, pretty steady, uh, with it. We had that one big bump in, uh, 22 23 where we had 413 students. Um, but other than that, you know, kind of roughly riding, uh, that that that same number across the board. um to go back to this slide. Um that first statement is really important because this is going to have budgetary impacts for us for next year. It says total AMV entitlement means the district entitlement resulting from the following calculations and using either the current year A&B or the three-year A&B average. Right? So, OPI does allow you to take an average

026of the last pre the previous three uh years to come up with your budget numbers or you can use one year and and when Felicia does this, it automatically chooses for you. Like OPI knows which one is going to benefit uh the district the the most. Okay. We have a little bit of an issue that we need to contend with if you look at that three-year average because we're our budget this year is based off of 2223 23 24 and 2425 the last three preceding years and we have that big number that 413 is probably inflating our average when that thing falls off. Okay, we're going to be running into a little bit of complication with that. So, um it it would be nice to, you know, have another here uh by by the end

027of the year in order to balance that out. But, uh those are things it wouldn't take you long to kind of figure the math uh out on that on what sort of budget uh projections we might be looking at. Not this year, uh but but for next year. Um we've talked a lot about that open enrollment process here. Um these are not exact numbers. Uh they're the most up current and updated numbers that we have. That number on the bottom is an exact number which is interesting. I think that was a number that we've all been waiting for for a long time. Uh when it comes to AM, we do get full AM for every out of district kid. It doesn't change. They're students that are enrolled here. Um so the numbers are up on

028the board. We got 53 students from Framber, 11 from Roberts, 14 from Laurel, and then the list kind of goes down from there. Is that based on the number the amount you get per student on the Joliet number or the >> Well, A&B is all the same. >> Is it all on A&B? >> Yep. >> Tax based from that's tuition. >> Tuition is different. >> Oh, okay. >> It's the lowest. So if Froberg has a lower tuition rate than we do, it's only the Fber rate, >> which is the money we get throughout the edition. >> Yeah. Okay. But A and B we're going to get that. Yes. >> Yeah. you get both A and B to find out the state rate no matter where the residence of the of the child. Um, there are

029some Laurel students that we know of that we have out of district that are attending high school in Laurel because remember in that district as a K8 student, you start there in districts, right? You're an in district student and then all a sudden you get to high school and like all this you're out of district. Um, largely in my opinion out of our control. I think we're really kind of at a um at a deficit there. um uh for you know just a halfhazard reason that there's this joint districts uh going on there. So, do we do um you know have those students? We didn't have that number um off accurately um at the time of making the presentation. Um but what we do know is because of the students that we have coming into

030the district, it's greater than the students that we have going out. Our number so and remember this is not I called it net revenue. It's not cash in in any way, shape or form. What it does is just allows us to levy less taxes on our own constituents. And we were able to reduce our levy by $65,96. Right? So, you're going to see at the end of the presentation, the dollar amount asked of the district with this year's budget is 50% less than it was last year. Right? This is one of the contributing factors uh to that process. Our budget is still increasing and there's a couple other things that we'll talk about that we believe are kind of driving why we've been able to reduce it like I said by by 50%. Uh but

031this is one good thing. Okay. Transformational learning grant also we've talked about that that went away. We're not levying that money anymore. Um so there you have another kind of a reduction in that. I I'll make my caveat now. When I say that we're doing a 50% reduction that's what we can control. we cannot control property valuations, right? So, property valuations still went up. So, I'm not trying to say that people are going to see a reduction in their taxes from the school, but what we're asking actually is um a reduction. Okay. Um this just was our transition from last year into the transportation fund. I think we're getting it. The transportation to and from school, that's it. And remember that we have two budgets to adopt. We have the elementary and we have the

032high school budget. To and from school, that's it. yellow buses, unpermissible expenses or activities. Um, and those numbers we've looked at as well. It's a lot to transport bus driver. We just looked at the number bus drivers to activities was >> Oh, I thou no 14,000 >> $14,000 just paying our bus drivers to get our kids stuff. You know, it's a >> that's just one budget. >> That we have two budgets. >> Yep. Yeah. It's it's a lot and we can't use transportation for that. I think we're getting that figured out um here at this board level. Our proposal is to keep that number the same as it was last year. Hey Con um we don't think that we need to u increase this budget. Um we do know and we've already approved and it's

033already in in the works. We did approve the purchase of the Ford Expedition that type of vehicle $75,000. Uh what you might be asking why didn't we need to increase the budget then by $75,000. We had the money remaining. We had about $75,000 left over in this fund last year. Okay. Some of that went in um and if there's questions, we can direct those uh to Felicia, but some of that went into reserves. And so now that now that we had a little bit of money left over in transportation, our reserves are totally full if there was an event we needed to access that cash. Uh, and we still had we rolled over some money um that uh we didn't spend, didn't put it into reserves. It just kind of stayed in the account um

034to the tune of about $50,000. So, you see, even though our budget is 185, we only need to go to the taxpayers for $107,000 because there was still money remaining in that particular fund. So, we anticipate we're going to run that thing probably about neutral, I mean to a zero balance in light of purchasing that Ford Expedition uh out of both the elementary and the high school budget. So, same situation here. Keep the levy the same. However, because of the the cash that we had available at the end of last year, we're only loving $51,000. There's also another factor here um that uh Felicia was was describing. The state reimbursement rate for transportation also increased on that. So we didn't have to levy as much locally uh for for that piece. And I don't know

035what the exact number was or the the portion uh but that was another contributing factor to a pretty big offset for for our local taxpayers. Um, we do have we do have charts uh available. Uh, we were able to get these updated uh just to kind of see I'll see if this light changes anything uh a little bit. Let me make it a little bit more clear. Uh transportation expenditures are um categorized in here. Uh salaries uh making up you know over half of both of those budgets. um adding in, you know, some benefits, uh utilities and uh repairs. Uh utilities, is that for the bus barn? >> Yes, they they have their own meter. >> Yeah. >> Um in in those areas. Any questions about those categories? Supplies. Felicia >> um the post Martin

036you know they need occasional supplies obviously it's not a ton it's 14% um but if they need water down there if they need um you know sometimes the parts are contributed to supplies because they're not done as a repair so and Sam will go buy a new headlight that's technically a supply >> but as you can see the big chunk uh of our transportation money going to you know pay for our drivers uh contracted services. >> Contracted services. >> So, there are two ways that we have to build things out. Repairs are um a separate category than contracted services. So, contracted services um I believe this year um we had somebody come and do some grading down at the bus bar to help with that. That's what that gets categorized. >> They had some HVAC

037work, too. >> So, when when Sam takes a bus down and has work done down at Riverside, that comes down which one? That's a repair. So, the utilities, repairs, those are >> Yeah. And how it works is there we're I'm going to geek on you for a second. Salaries are 100. Um object code benefits are 200. Contracted services are 300. Utilities um and repairs are 400. 500 is out of district travel 600 supplies. And that's how we have to categorize them for our finance records. So that's how they show up. That's why utilities and repairs are together because they're in that same 400 categ >> that's in the supplies. >> Yeah. >> It's it's a utility 17% utilities. If that's just electricity, that's high. So that's why >> electricity, water, and natural gas >> and

038also repairs and buses. >> Yes. >> Okay. So that that makes a difference. >> Yeah. >> Do we do track all that? transportation committee has seen that every bus on on a sheet, every single repair that they've had, I think for the last four or five years um and are all kind of tracked on those sheets. >> And each month in your board packet, those expenditures, there's a there's um expenditures by object code. You can see exactly that breakdown what the utility bills are because they're all separate. You can see exactly how much we spent in water the previous month. So, they're all listed on there very separate. >> Thank you. bus depreciation, replacement of buses. Um, this is a a formula that's set by the state. You can depreciate 20% of the of the

039asset uh annually up to 120 up, excuse me, up to 150% of the total asset. Um, so we'll see an increase this year just because we had two brand new buses. So, those depreciate out at, you know, quite a bit higher rate. Um you can uh use this fund and we did when we bought the two buses uh last year. Uh you can use it to replace uh um yellow yellow um excuse me purchase new yellow buses. Uh if we had an activity bus, you could use it to replace that. Um but you can't use and we talked about this one a lot. You can't use bus depreciation to purchase the first uh activity bus. that one needs to come out of uh general fund uh or be graciously donated to the district uh by

040a friendly donor or something along those those ways. And you can't put repairs or maintenance in here either. Um, >> so uh again these are kind of formulas or there is a little bit of a a dollar amount increase but again the ask of our taxpayers has actually decreased u because of the change in uh the mills. Um, so we'll set that budget at 86. Um, this year, uh, fiscal year 24, the reason it was such an anonymally an I don't know >> different. >> Yeah. Thank you. Ken, do you remember why that one was so high that year? >> Which one? >> This one. Why does this one seem like an outlier? >> I wasn't on transportation. >> We couldn't buy two buses. >> Yeah, that was the year that we bought a bus

041out of this one. So what we did, we didn't really increase our taxes, uh, but we had cash available. So you have to increase that budget authority. Now you can spend that money um, in order to purchase the bus um, out of that fund. And so you'll see too in like some total budget history that that budget year looks really big uh because we bought the the two buses, but we didn't increase taxes um on uh, folks at all. So here's the history. We spent, you know, about $10,000 between both funds out of this last year. Um that was to equip all of our buses with cameras. That was some work that we saw done at Mars. Uh so you would have saw all that purchase there. And then no expenditures going back to um

04223. You can transfer money out of this. Um Felicia, do you remember where that went? >> Um 182. >> And yeah, you can put this into it is an allowable expenditure to put it into fund 182. Just remember that if you take money out of a permissively levied fund, you cannot increase it the next year. It needs to stay flat, right? So there is a there is a check mechanism uh on on that high school, same situation. And then just a smaller portion for our cameras. Uh tuition fund um is the actual cost uh to deliver services to our students with um IEPs. Uh and in addition now funds payments to districts for students that are coming uh that we have going out uh to uh area schools. It's a um a permissive levy. Um

043and Joliet there's a couple different ways to run it. Joliet actually runs this kind of like inner rears that we will let all of our special ed expenses go this year. We'll track them. That way we know down to the penny all of the costs that we had. Then there's there's some more formula stuff too that happens and then we levy for it in the next year. Some districts will levy for they will make predictions on the front end that they anticipate that these costs are going to be there. Um but then there's some some backend accounting that needs to take place to to clean those up. I think we've had pretty good luck with it. Felicia running it in that way and our auditors kind of like it uh as as well. So it's

044pretty clean. Um the big expenses that you see coming out of here um are tuition for YPGr. Um and I don't have those rates off the top of my head. Um but they're they're substantial uh tuition bills that come to us uh from from YBGR. >> We have students this coming year. >> Yes. So we'll have um I think one elementary student and one high school student. >> Yeah. So we're actually down though. Uh two we had two students graduate. two high school students graduated out. Um so should see some reductions. >> Yeah. So the reductions will show up in next year's budget. This year's budget goes to pay last year's tuition. So it's always intervenes in the tuition budget. >> Yeah. So you see do you see a a pretty big increase in the

045total budget, but again the way that things are working out, it ends up being a a reduction to to taxpayers. And then the high school budget here is is is neutral. Um here are your expenses from last year. Um about 20% going to fund uh student tuition. Um and when we say salaries, uh we track specifically individual aids um that that are assigned. Um we've got them assigned, you know, to students, uh grade levels, everything down to to that point. and we can uh build them uh to to the tuition fund. Much more tuition uh expended in in the high school budget. Any particular reason on why you think that is, Felicia? >> Um YBGR for high school students is about $25,000 a year. Um when you have three students, we had one that was

046just part-time last year, but we had two students that were there full-time. Um, plus we only had one high school aid last year because a couple of those high needs students that needed a one-on-one in high school had graduated the previous year. >> Okay. So, those change kind of like if you go back in your guys' presentations, you'll see there's just different and kind of odd years and now like the comparative data is going to be kind of blown up because now we're going to start levying for this out of district thing. Uh, so it's not going to be really good comparisons uh anymore. So, we're kind of starting from scratch on that. Quick question. Does the driver for the um for that come out of this fund as well as part of >> We

047can they come out of transportation >> because that is getting students to and from school >> and and we had that conversation with the auditor. You can like you're permissively levying that money anyway. >> Yeah. >> How about the aid on the bus? >> And then if there's an aid on the bus specifically for >> it is Yeah. We wondered if we did have that conversation about purchasing a vehicle for the uh if it's just running a special ed route uh that you could to you could permissively levy out of the tuition fund. Uh but the odds of it only running the special ed route are probably going to be pretty slim. There's going to be other uses in the district our size. So the expedition will be used for that. >> Yeah, the expedition

048will be >> Yeah. >> better than a bus. >> Oh yeah. >> Crazy. >> Yeah. You don't have to have somebody with CDL, >> which is the best part, especially since most drivers are so hard to >> the retirement a little weird. Um we don't levy any Well, we do taxpayers do pay for it. um we can't tell you that number because it just goes into a big county pool. Um so it's a countywide levy that's meant to pay for um the employer's contributions to teacher retirement system, public employment, public employee retirement system, uh the social security, Medicare um and unemployment. A lot of the payroll taxes uh that you see coming out, this all goes into a big chunk of the county. um you and and you can also use it to pay out

049um when we have teachers retire uh which are you know can be pretty expensive uh undertakings. What you can't use this fund for is any of the district's early retirement offerings. So those incentives that we we typically run uh those all um become a general fund expenditure. Um unfortunately that's like I said it's just not available. Um, we did, so we do kind of just like a high level overview. And I'm not, don't take my words to say that I'm implying that anybody's retiring, that we hope anybody retires or anything like that, but what we do is just kind of take a snapshot of the staff. Uh, and you look at employees that are eligible to retire, right? We know um that there are certain requirements. You got to have 25 years in the district.

050Um, and we have a number of elementary staff that are eligible to do that. Um and so did think that it's probably a good idea just to increase this levy uh a little bit in light of that. We had a couple um teachers retire last year. Um the high school when you look at the the kind of the general composition of the high school, it looks a little bit different uh up there. Kind of a an earlier in their service uh workforce uh than what we have in the elementary. So, we didn't think that there was any big need to increase our um ask of of that fund. Even though it goes into the county pool, um if we don't necessarily lose this money, right, if we don't use it, um it still remains ours

051uh and accessible to us. Uh so, here's the breakdown of where this goes. What does FICA stand for again? >> The it's called the federal federal. >> That's social security Medicare. >> That's a cool. >> So, we are in a co-op with um what's it called? Western Harvard County West, whatever it is. They provide services for speech therapy, things like that. Um we're required now to um pay their retirement. >> Oh, okay. >> Because that's new. That happened I think three years ago. They started billing that out to the districts. >> And that's the 45%. >> No, 2%. >> No, >> in the high school and 2% in the elementary. >> So the gray >> the gray is TRS for our employees. >> Okay. Yeah. >> The green is the retirement expenditures for the co-op.

052>> Okay. So the the two big expenditures there are teachers retirement and uh the payroll taxes, the federal income tax. As you can see, PERS is for folks um classified. >> Is it all classified staff? >> No, because aids are part of TRS. So basically PES is um the bus drivers, the lunch people, the maintenance people um and administrative staff that is not a principal or superintendent, >> adult ed. Um it's a permissive levy. can buy um pay salaries for instructors and supplies that are necessary to do um some adult ed instruction. Not proposing to increase this. We still have a remaining balance. Um the primary expenditure in both of these funds um is to pay um as you can see um 75% um on the elementary side and you know almost 100% is going

053to salaries. And that really what that's doing is hoping uh that we can meet the need of the community for the wait room. Uh so we pay uh for you know some hours for that to be open um as an adult debt expenditure. Um one of the allowable things within that is that students can also attend uh those times even though it's kind of built under that adult debt. So it's just open to the community uh to come in and use. I think it's a pretty good service. Uh we had a lot of requests to to use the waiter room. Uh the tech fund um is primarily a voted levy. Uh we'll talk a little bit about it. Um our most recent results in the most recent uh time we ran this uh was 2022.

054Uh remember that these are five-year levies and so it will be up for consideration for the board in 2027 if you want to continue the tech levy. Um pretty good success. Um, in the elementary it's a $30,000 levy and then in the high school it's a 25 for a total of 55,000 between the two of them. Um, the state also and gives us $1,718 for tech and we're greatly appreciative of every penny of that. Um, so that's that different that's why that number is a little bit different. Uh we did expend I think 100% of the the voted levy in both or just the elementary. Do we have like 600 bucks? >> We had a little bit left over in the high school um because we had some some expenditures that came in at a

055lower price point than than the full. >> Yeah. But we try to do a good job expending all of that. Um you can see here um equipment is the primary driver and historically has been the primary driver of all of this supplies and equipment. So making up almost 100% uh kicking a little bit towards the internet um purchases >> and this internet purchase was the um emergency internet we needed at the beginning of the school year for that one day. >> Yeah. So otherwise that most of the internet comes out of the general fund. Um but this one was kind of those oneoff things. It was very expensive um to have our backup internet for for that. Well, I think we had it for a couple days until Centry Link was able to get big

056codes back up. Um the a lot of the expenditures here are stuff, but we the Chromebooks are a key purchase and we're able to, you know, get a Chromebook in front of every kid. Um every every kid that every teacher that, you know, needs them, we have access to those. But there's a lot of expenditures that we don't really see. But if you open up the ceiling tiles in any of the hallway, you're going to see like miles miles of Ethernet cable running through this thing. um and our the the network infrastructure that we have here. Um I I think we we should be really proud of it. Like there's really other than you know major catastrophes uh happening, there's not a day that we really don't have internet service uh unless I make a

057weird rule that's like screen free instructional day uh and we make people turn off the uh the screens. But we we've made a great investment in our our networking um stuff. We're great speeds. Aaron could tell us how many the devices, but there's a lot of devices on online. The one thing that we can't pay is for those contracted services. Is that right? So the rimrock computers is not an allowable expense. >> That's a general expense. >> Yeah. >> Um okay. So, here's another reason why we're seeing a pretty good reduction in uh the um the tax impact in the community. Um transformational learning grant is sunseted. Um it is funded uh through the uh 2526 school year. Last year was our last year, but we have until June 30 to expend the funds. High

058school, we've expended the funds. In elementary, uh we do have a little bit um um still kind of remaining. Uh that also is the the landing place of the U Montana Advanced Opportunities Grant. Uh which we'll see and we've broken those ones down a little bit differently this year in our charts. Um but this so the total budget in our elementary um this is like a good look at it uh right here in one of those first year $66,700. And what we then had to do as a result of being a recipient of the grant, we had to locally permissively levy um half of that money and then the state was matching us uh with the rest. Um you see that so this year it would have all been spent. Uh this year it would

059have all been spent and then we were able to make we were able to save some of that. Uh we purchased I Ready reading, I Ready Math, big six-year curriculum adoptions in those early years. Um and then now we do have a remaining budget in the elementary transformational learning of about 68,000. Uh our proposal is to hang on to that money to absorb one of those curriculum adoptions that's going to be staring us down uh in in two years time because they are they are north of $70,000 uh to make those big investments in quality programs uh and materials for our kids. How long can you hold on to an amount like that and just keep >> this needs to go away by June 30th? >> Yeah, June 30th this of this >> of this

060year. >> It has to be spent within two years of when it's awarded in this particular >> so we're going to probably try to prepay. >> Yeah. I I think we need to prepay on that um feature because we'll have that money and that was one of the big allowable expenditures. It's not really an expenditure we would like to see hit the general fund. Yeah, high school. You can see those. Um, this is dollars that really were invested, I think, pretty well into updating equipment, hard uh materials in the shop. Um, a lot of good investments were made there. Um, but that money is now gone. And so this was this was our concern. Uh and a lot of the rationale for running that general fund levy uh in the high school was to offset

061the loss of these transformational learning grant dollars uh that that were going potentially fund you know kind of a long-term sustainable CTE person um in the high school. Um and so that money um has also gone away. The 17449 that you see here is the Montana Advanced Opportunities Grant and that's a set formula uh that the the state uh spits out. Uh 75% of that is allocated towards offsetting out-of- pocket expenses for students uh for um innovative transformational advanced opportunities. Uh, and so we've been using that money um to to support kids in uh the CNA program, other individual requests um that they've had. Um so we've broken those ones down just because um they're kind of like two different grant funds. Uh this is the transformational learning grant. Uh and where you know some

062of that money has gone to. in in our Montana Advanced Opportunities Grant, um there is a uh requirement uh that 75% um should go to offsetting those out-of- pocket expenses. So, we've got that um information broken down uh here as well. Um we need to continue to track this and Felicia uh as well as the budget committee and myself have been working on, you know, making sure that we come up with an equitable way to reimburse those expenses. uh so all of our students have access uh to potentially offsetting uh individual um expenses that they have as opposed to like a first come first serve. Uh so trying to develop our systems for that and it's not a lot of money. It's $17,000, you know. So and one CNA certificate um was running about $750,

063you know, $750. So so that money goes pretty quickly. Um, if we're sending kids to, you know, the producer partnership and, you know, they're paying fuel, that would be an out-of- pocket expense. That's going to add up pretty quickly. Uh, you know, you have 10 kids to CNA, they're 7,500 bucks, you know, a couple thousand dollars in fuel there. So, what we need to do is just come up with an equitable way uh to make sure everybody has an opportunity that uh building reserve similar to tech. Uh, but there's also three pots of money. This is another one of those areas in which um the state allocation is increasing uh and allowing locally us uh to to levy a little bit more. But we know that we have a voted levy. Um and then there's

064a permissive as well as this state major maintenance fund. Past historical results are available for your review. Um last ran in 2024. Again, this is a 5-year levy. It'll be coming at us in 2029. uh as as well. Uh we did start to see some dipping. Um you know, it's definitely not that 70% uh that that we had with some of those early tech funds. Uh so something to keep an eye on. Um the total budget in the elementary has has gone up quite a bit um to 132,000 with all three of those funds, a voted levy, a permissive levy, and then the state major maintenance. Um all kind of contributing to that. But we're actually asking less of our local taxpayers. Uh again, and that's kind of the thread throughout uh uh the presentation

065uh this evening. Again, a pretty big increase to to support building projects and uh maintenance throughout the building. I've broken down um these ones in a little bit different way um because we do want to be accountable um to the to the taxpayers. So, this is our chart. Stephen and I look at this quite a bit. Um when we went out for the um building reserve levy, we looked at this too. So fiscal year 25, this is actual spending and how we allocated that. We put a big chunk to the installation of the modular classrooms. We ran a fencing project um that uh was $36,000. The door locks were actually about 50,000 uh but we build about four of it to these levies. The rest of that money came from >> state maintenance. Permissive and

066state maintenance. Okay. And then uh the oven went out uh and we needed some steam table uh upgrades. Uh so there was some electrical work that went happen. So that's how we expended last year's money. Um these are actual spending, but some of them are rounder figures. They're not 100% accurate as of yet. Our asphalt job $35,23 to get that done. Um we >> that jumped up to fiscal year 27. >> It did. That should be that should say 26. >> Okay. >> So, it should be 25 26 27 28 2 >> Yes. >> Great. Thank you. Um modular parking lot. That was a kind of an unanticipated project, but it grew out of the the building your grounds committee um doing the playground walk. Um I think that's good bang for our buck. Uh

067I think it's already great to go and be in that space, you know, coming into the building. No one's going to roll an ankle, you know, in a three-foot rut. Uh that >> or get their vehicle stuck in it or it rains or snows. >> Yeah. >> Um it was 14,000 even. Um if you haven't been out there, the 750 extra it was for the four rocks that are there now, protecting that green transformer and that other electrical panel, which I didn't know but had been backed into um at some sort of an event. So, I think that'll end up saving us and I think those rocks are well worth it. Levi White, high altitude have come in. Exterior lighting upgrade, um Jill's door, Marina's door, um going in around the corner to the old

068gym entrance as well as the new gym entrance are all lit up. Came in under budget. We expanded the project. It's not done yet, but we expanded it to the men's and women's restrooms up on the football field and a little bit of that maintenance shop. I believe that will help light up that ramp for football. We may need to look at it though and still add some additional stuff. Um if and when everything kind of lands there. Uh we did three carpets, three classrooms of carpet. Those come in at about $4,000 each. That's our pound number. Um we um added uh four cameras uh out to monitor that new that Lily parking lot area, lower baseball field and get a better look at elementary playgrounds. Um so um there was an addition there and

069then we've targeted some of this money u to paying for those modular classrooms and that lease that we have out. There's still $27,000 there um that is um available and this is the voted levy. Uh, I'll show you guys. Um, this is I'm gonna have to come over here so I can zoom it in. Um, the states portion of our um the states portion of the building reserve levy um is being tracked here. These are last year's numbers. Um, as you look here, between all three of funds, we had $194,500 to spend on some of those building projects. Um, our levy obviously remained the same, right? Because it was voter approved, 60,000 in both districts, but you can see the state major maintenance money, the difference 91 versus 34, a really substantial. So, that goes

070back to that very first question. This is the work of the state legislature uh getting that done. and shipping into more schools. Um recognizing that bonds are not having great success uh in the state of Montana and what yet districts are still contending with aging facilities. Um then you also um like I said you see this is here this um number is down obviously but it's rooted in a complicated formula that the state leverages between state major maintenance and this permissive building levy. So we actually can go out and we can actually oops ask less of our constituents in that permissive levy. So that's a good thing that this number is down because the state major maintenance is coming in with with state dollars as opposed to local. So this this number is a good

071sign when it comes to taking care of the building and getting done a lot of projects especially in light of last year being really expensive. Um so I think we're going to be in good shape. um facilities committee that's that's their work and so what we look at for next year they're just kind of items you know that are out there but I think the big one is here oops uh high school boilers and what do we want to do with our high school boilers as they age you know into probably their their life expectancy um is it something that we want to get ahead of uh before that and then showing that we also have about $32,000 has just differed um in uh in maintenance costs. So that'll be good work for the facilities

072committee to kind of look at. Um and then the last one that we have is just the general fund. Um and I mentioned it earlier. So we're proposing a $2.25 uh million uh elementary uh budget and then in high school it's a $ 1.49 uh million uh ask. You see that here's what it cost us last year on $100,000 61 uh even to to have an increased budget in our general fund. Uh and this is that impact of the um the tuition that's that's coming in. It's quite a reduced ask um on our our taxpayers and the same thing in in high school. Um the did I get the chart? Um, I didn't get the I didn't get the correct one um in there, but the biggest portion. So, Felicia actually has these numbers off

073the top of her head. I'm sure she does. Um, because we just we just talked about it. This one's accurate, the high school fund. Um, so we're running it about 76% of the general fund goes to pay salaries and benefits, right? as threequarters of your budget already accounted for uh with just your salaries and budgets and that's just the way that it goes, right? Um the elementary and this is kind why we're having more problems down here. We actually overexpended the general fund and that number was for salaries and benefits in our elementary the K8 was 90%. Right? So 90% of the the budget was going uh to pay there and that was probably the leading indicator of you know why we why we overextended that general fund. Now we do have those flexibilities with

074182 that you can move some high school money and and kind of channel it in that way but it's probably not the long-term sustainable plan uh to to rely on that for um for too long. >> Well part of that part of that is I think that we have a goal of smaller class sizes. Absolutely. >> And I know it's always the highest cost of a school's budget, but it's also the most important expenditure that we >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that as we've set those numbers in the strategic plan, like we we probably knew that this is what we're, you know, it was going to cost. >> Absolutely. It's going to cost you. Uh and it is >> dang elementary. >> Just you. you know, so I support >> like like I

075said, we do have those mechanisms that are allowable to, you know, uh transfer some money. Um we that number is projected to be down about 40,000. The total salary and benefit liability, we just looked at that too to be about down 40,000. Uh we got away with not having to have a second kindergarten teacher. Um you know, but th that those trends are probably you never know. Enrollment is flat, you know, going back to the last five years. You just never know kind of what that's going to look like. Um the here's the um the sideby-side comparison between the fiscal year 25 and then the fiscal year 26 budget. So all and this is all of the funds that we just talked about kind of taken together. everything that you're levying uh from your from

076your constituents um is is up uh totally. Um here's the big number that if if you had a $100,000 house and the valuation remained the same last year you would have paid $175 uh to the school district, this year you'd pay 86. So we are down 50% on our financial ask and that was you know we didn't have we looked at this in March we didn't have those numbers like solid because the budget just doesn't come together. We anticipated that we were going to be down because of these things and you know some some movement that we had saw at the legislative level. I didn't anticipate it to be down really that much. U but that was one of the reasons that we thought it might be a good year uh you know to go

077out and you know ask for those general fund monies. um it probably you know we probably still would have saw a reduction even if those levies um you know had passed but they didn't um and I think we learned some you know valuable lessons in in the process so um how did we get to that number of the general fund um some of this is within your control some of this is without out of your control um here's this number the state legislature says that at the minimum you have to go out and levy this amount that you can't do it cheaper than that. You must provide for the quality education of your kids. Um in Goliet we then go a little bit above that and we run what's called the max budget without a

078vote, right? They put a topend constraint on this um based upon uh you know the enrollment that you have in your district. Also remember that there's a little bit more threshold that if you do want to go out and ask for general funds, you can increase that. But again, they cap that. So you can't just levy your constituents um you know uh too far even if they approve it, right? Even if they approve it and that's for school equalization uh with wealthy areas as as well as you know um less advantaged areas poor areas. Okay. So that's where we got that. um most states are run most districts are running that. Another way to look at it um in both districts were up about $226,000 uh between the two of them. Uh we knew that

079we um I'll talk about this. So this number is really keep this one in mind. 226,000 is what the budget increase this year. Uh I'm going to fast forward and then I'll come back to these. Um, we talk a lot about kind of that 182 fund. Uh, and these are all they're not final numbers because the auditors haven't got to us, but we did have to dip into our savings to the tune of about $100,000 last year in order to kind of fund the the growing number of teachers that we have in the elementary so we can have those small classes. Um, so if we knew that we were over by about $100,000 last year, this number is really promising to us. >> Some of that increase from the stars >> and some and we

080haven't even touched on the stars act yet. >> That's not even included in that. >> No, it is. It is. >> Yes. >> But we haven't talked about that. >> That was another that was another >> health issue. >> Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was one of the other aspects that we we haven't even mentioned when it comes to the um the general fund. Okay. Uh so this is a new piece of the presentation. What's the impact? Um I found two random houses. One is a townhouse that just right here in Joliet and then one is a house that's in the White Horse district. Um and anybody can do this. You can go look at your property taxes. because you can look at anybody else's property taxes and you can see exactly what they're paying

081uh of that. So, I did that. Um the one thing that I was I was just unclear on what the valuation of the home was based upon the the documents. Um it just puts it I think that this house it said the valuation on this house was like one thou it 1, like 200. Um, and so I'm assuming that you probably add like two zeros to that and maybe like the the taxable value of the house was like 120,000 in that first year and then it went up kind of after that. Um, obviously that's not the market value, but that's the tax valuation that they put um on the house. So this is what and I think it's just interesting to take a look at what we're doing to taxpayers over the last five years,

082you know, and we did have a bump here um in the 2122 school year, but the trend over the five-year period is is down. Um and so I think we're doing we're doing a good job. I think we're being responsible at the board level of trying to do the best that we can. the state, and I said this earlier, I'm not trying to throw shade on anybody for, you know, not doing not doing the good work, but the state is is doing things different. And, you know, we're all state taxpayers, too, right? So, I say we're doing like a little bit less and there's there's a bigger portion coming in from the state, so we're probably kicking in, you know, a little bit on that front. It's all probably coming out in the wash. But

083what we can control, I think we're doing a good job with uh Carbon County, they're continuing to increase their taxes. Uh if you subscribe to these city services, you can see those are just increasing. Uh special assessments, I think that's probably the EMS um thing. And some of those are voted levies uh that you have. But the a couple different ways to look at it, you know. So we're we are in red here. Uh kind of keeping it steady. Um, I think that this is a little bit more informative. So, five years ago, we were 30%. If you had a house in town, we were 30% of your taxes. And last year, we were 25%. Right? So, there's been a a trend in a financially, you know, responsible way for the district. the and maybe

084that's across the board, but if you have a house in the White Horse bench area, okay, that trend is not the same, right? So, I think it speaks to what Laurel's doing differently than what we're doing here. Um, and these are higher because I think the valuation of the house was higher. Um, so the pie charts are ultimately I think what matters most. But again, you see things holding that it's going over the four-year trend. And I only have four years of data because this year they didn't have it. It wasn't separated out at the time. They didn't have they didn't have an elementary and high school broken out. It was all clumped. Um but you see that the trend is still down. Whereas Laurel, look at what Laurel has done. And I'm assuming that

085here there was a a bond. >> Yeah. They have two different two new elementary. >> Yeah. >> They they added on one and they tear another one down and build a brand new one. >> And they're fancy. >> Oh yeah. >> Yeah. And so >> and they took all the desks and all the chairs and everything, threw them all in dumpster. >> They do stupid stuff, >> right? But it's it's a big impact um on on those folks. And it's not very cheap to live in the county either over there. Um so a pretty big, you know, um uh increase because of the the Laurel impact that they have. Um I I take them kind of both together. If you just look at Jollia Public Schools, 13% and now we're at 10% in that uh

086White Horse bench area. But if you take them both together, the school tax that they're paying uh over there driven by Laurel is a lot. So they started out at, you know, 35 and now between the two they're about 40% of the taxes in that area are going to fund uh the schools and primarily Laurel. So um I don't think that you can make the argument that you oh maybe all schools are having the same impact because Laurel is not doing you know doing it in the same way. I think it's also a lesson of what a bond could potentially do though uh to to our taxpayers and those are long-term you know impact that they have. Uh so new pieces of information there. Um the uh last thing that we'll do is talk about

087just some other funds that we have that supplement the budget. These are not voted on by you. Um all these are either grants or federal money. Uh you will hear a lot about title. These are interventions made uh to um increase learning primarily at the uh elementary level. Um staying about steady. We anticipate about $100,000. Uh some pre-employment uh transition services for students with 504s or u IEPs. Uh we've got a little bit of money remaining there. Perkins is a federal grant uh meant to support CTE programming. Uh we use our business uh support for our um uh students in Agg as well as business professionals of America and other areas. Got a little bit of money remaining in packs. Um gifted and talented grant. We'll write that again. Um supplemental base aid is money

088that can be accessed if we have increasing enrollment. So, if you needed new desks, new chairs, uh because of, you know, an unexpected increase in enrollment, um we've got some some monies there. Um an advanced opportunities grant, we talked about that. We get about $5,000 from the the gym signs that we have. Um we've written an egg west uh grant um to to hopefully support some learning. Um the transformational learning grant. This one's obviously it's in both places, but it's a big chunk uh that has gone away. Uh we've expended the dyslexia aid uh donation. Um and so those monies um I skipped this one here. Here's the COVID money SSR 2 SSR three that are no longer there at all. Uh and in this year you were looking at and we were we were

089small potatoes compared to some districts in what they got. Even some districts our size um because we didn't have quite the um the title population that other people have 200,000 people were getting millions you know uh as you guys all know but all that money is now uh gone and unavailable. Uh again just our historical we have a look back um on what we've done from an election standpoint. Um I updated it to show that we did fail a levy um in 2025. So it's a good picture for us to kind of consider. Uh we have been talking about this in the past u kind of a a possible path forward. Um not saying that this is in any way what we want to do. Um 2026 potentially run no levy. Um 2027 we'll have

090to make a decision at least on the tech levy. Do we want to let it go or is that something that we would like to see continued? probably not advised maybe to run two uh levies in the same year because you're actually asking to vote on four ballot initiatives, you know, then at at that point in time. So, just I think things to consider for the budget committee and and the whole board uh as well. Happy to take questions um at that point in time, but other than that uh we're done. Uh we do need two separate motions. One is for the elementary and then one is for the the high school. >> All right. Presenter left. >> He was kidding about the question. Are we ready then to vote? >> Are we ready to

091vote? >> I'll make a motion to approve the elementary 2526 budget. >> Second. >> It's been moved by Don and seconded by Kathy to approve the 26 um elementary budget. 2526 elementary budget. Any board discussion? Public comment. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed. Motion passed. 8 to zero. >> Seven to zero. >> All right. On to high school. >> I move to approve the high school. Second. >> It's been moved by Ken and seconded by Jenny to approve the 2526 high school budgets. Any or discussion? Public comment. All those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed. Now we have an eight to zero. All right, on to personnel. So, our first um >> Oh, you want to go ahead? >> Yep. Uh first recommendation is um rooted

092in hiring committee's work uh interview candidates for high school social studies on August 11th and 13th. Parenting Committee's recommendation is the board of trustees hire Sam Shepard as a teacher for the 25 school board. >> I move that we hire Sam Shephard for the uh 25 26 school year for the social studies high school social studies position. >> It's been moved by Kathy and seconded by Ken to approve uh Sam Shepard. Any the hiring of Sam Shepard? Any for discussion? Public comment. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed. Motion passed 8 to zero. >> Substitute teacher list was um actually approved in the consent agenda. So there's no action required there. Then personnel action report. >> Personnel action report. Yeah. Board of trustes recommendations. The board of trustees approve the

093August 19th personal action report. >> I move that we um approve the August 19th personal action report. >> I'll second. It's been moved by Kathy and seconded by Craig to approve the August 19 personnel action report. Any board discussion? Public comment. All those in favor say I. I. >> I. All those opposed. Motion passed 8 to zero. On to handbooks. recommendation is the uh board of trustees approve the emergency procedure handbook uh policy committee met on the date off top of my head uh reviewed it and recommending to approve >> like a week ago almost all >> I'll make that recommendation to approve the 2526 emergency procedure handbook Second. >> It's been moved by Don, seconded by Ken to approve the emergency procedure handbook. Any board discussion? Public comment. >> All those in favor say

094I. >> All those opposed. motion passed 8 to zero >> non-resident enrollments. >> Yeah, I just um so students are included in the packet and trustees are reminded not to to discuss the students by name. Um there is one addition uh to the list. So I would ask trustees to refer to uh their email if they're able um to uh that document has been shared with you. Um there's one student um that um I'm going to be recommending for approval. Um so my recommendation is that we approve students one, two, three, four, and five on the list. What was the recommendation? Which >> recommendation is for students one through five. >> And others we've previously addressed, right? >> Oh, sorry. You have to sorry. You have to click on uh the tab at the bottom

095that says sorry. August 19th, 2025 agenda. Oh, that's better. >> It says August 19th. >> So, one through five you want to approve. >> Okay. >> Not. >> I have a question. So, the kindergarteners What does that bring? >> So, we're No, we're not considering So, yeah, the recommendation is not to accept kindergarten student. >> Oh, one through five. I'm sorry. >> The student is We are not considering any kindergarten students this year because we're full. >> Okay. >> Y >> All right. Could I get a motion on the non-resident enrollments? I move to accept numbers one through five out of district. Uh Ken has made a motion. Craig has seconded to approve students one through five on the non-resident enrollments. Any board discussion, public comment? >> All those in favor say I. >> I.

096>> All those opposed. Motion passed 8 to zero. The assembly board management platform. >> I think we have another presentation. >> You got presentations all over the place. Um You You've exceeded your 6 minutes. >> I thought it was 8 minutes. >> Eight. Is >> that what it was? I should have been a little bit more ready um before this. So um Amanda, do you want to tee this up? >> Yeah. So you guys know um have you guys looked at like policies on the website recently how like they're kind of organized like that? Um well Simi also has a um platform very similar to that but for meetings management. Um there's a handful of schools out there that use it. It just um it makes our board packets so much more streamlined. Um the

097public packets are also very streamlined. It's very easy to find exactly what you're looking for, the different sections what you're looking for. Um and then I think archiving those documents too um is much easier. Um so the meetings platform is really what we started looking at and then there are some other options that came up um as we were looking at this. Um, but with all of the committee work that we do, um, it's kind of hard to keep track of when committees are meeting and, you know, the schedule and the minutes and all of that kind of thing. So, um, assembly's been sending these or MTSBA's been sending these emails out about this option. Um, so we've been looking at it and whatnot and looked at a few of the schools that are using

098it and it really looks, I think, really slick. um really easy to find what you're I mean that's the big thing is easy to find what you're looking for easy to track when meetings are happening. Um so that's why I really like this. >> So I wanted to I'll show you an example Craig and I remember this kind of being a little bit tricky to get to. Um I think I'll just drive it right through their website. I remember actually how I got there. >> Yeah, you had to click on a couple of different things through their >> didn't have it right, but I bet if I go to their school board school board right there, that one. >> Thank you. Um, okay. and then school board >> recordings meetings and minutes. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

099Okay. So, um I just I showed you guys or we had this up and this is what um Amanda was referring to that all of our our policies are kind of housed in this platform. Felicia now has the the power and the ability to go in directly edit these. Is that correct? uh Felicia. So they're pretty good. >> after we voted on them, she can go in and kind of make those changes. Um you toolboard or the the toolbar over there on the lefth hand side. So you can see these little different areas. Now the only button that you see here for us is policies, right? They have a number of different modules, meetings, they have documents, uh and a couple other things that you can unlock. Obviously, they're pay to pay or payto-play services.

100Um, but what you will see on um like the Belgrade school district who is using this, they obviously they have an about us page. We could very well link to this um simply I I had about an hour um long meeting with these guys and we already have pictures up on the website too, but we get another picture uh of you up there. So, we be in both places simply. will build this platform and you can kind of build it out to to do whatever you want. I don't think this is necessarily the key piece. Um, great. You can include your administration. We would want to be careful not to do too much, you know, double dipping um in in different areas. But just like they have in the policy platform, they also have a

101meetings uh template that manages it in exactly the same way. I try the best that I can and I'll admit that it's not updated um to the the best extent possible. We have a Google doc uh the board of trustees calendar in which um we you know manually go in there and update the meetings. I share it out with everybody. I click if I want Mr. Richard to attend. I click it if I want Mr. Nandez to attend or whatever it might be. um this would essentially take the place of that. It would also serve as our public notice um agendas and this is where they would house. We wouldn't have to worry about uh fit posting it in on the website on the new meeting agenda. Uh and then also making sure that we

102link it up in Facebook. Uh we'd have to change that policy, but I think it could all house in one position because Marina is constantly copying and pasting the same thing in multiple areas. um this houses it all in there. We would still obviously have our physical locations um of those places. But just like we do, um they've got, you know, a ton of committee stuff going on. Um you can click in here. Uh you can find your agenda. A lot of this stuff too is rolled over and you can just create these templates in there. Uh so you can see exactly what's going on. um if you want. These are committee meetings, so it doesn't look like they've necessarily built those out um to to an extent, but if you clicked on um one

103of their regular meetings, uh you might see um you know, stuff that's in here as well, you can go in and you can make attachments in all of these areas. What this is going to prevent uh eliminate is the How many pages is the packet this month? >> 260 or something or maybe it's 300. Yeah, primarily all financials from Felicia. Uh, but for you guys having to scroll through and scroll through and there's times Kathy where we're we're holding our computer sideways uh in there because stuff just scans in funny. Um, it's it's, you know, really not the best way to do it. Um, instead uh if you want the warrants, what we'll end up doing is you just attach it and when you're on that and boom, you can get in and that's exactly

104where the warrants are. and I can click through and that's the agenda item that we're on at that particular moment. It looks like they have an approval of um you know student association accounts. They've got cancellation of checks um that you can click and there's no attachment there. Um they're going to review some policy. It looks like they do they do their policy in the consent agenda. That's interesting. Um and then you can see here's the draft policy and then here's you know their current policy or something like that. and those are just contained in those places. Super easy to click in and um get out and you know close that tab and stay with it. Um we've done this our bus routes we'll do that in September. Um the recommended motion it's here the

105details are there and then they've got click in that one is a little bit of a different attachment uh but everything they got their ridership whatever it might be on on those fronts. So, um, >> so anybody who's ever looked at our public packet, like it's just a giant packet. >> It's just >> it's very difficult to find what you're looking for. >> Well, and this alleviates us going back and forth from our board notes to the file of new business. And >> Yep. Well, and we there's also a click here that on every agenda item, you can make it publicly viewable. So, when you want to release the packet, you make this particular agenda or this item publicly viewable. So, we would not click that for our out of district stuff. That way, it's

106masked. It's available in the trustes packet, but it's not going out to the public. We actually like physically make two different packets. Um and we we had um a conversation with uh managers last night that there was a couple things in the board's packet that didn't make it in there. Everything was in the public packet. Uh so we were making some changes which she was adding some you know upload >> upload the document like the button didn't get clicked you know or or something like that. So I think that there's a lot of ability to you know streamline um when it comes to the minutes then Felicia also as you guys have all seen like manually does the minutes typing those things into word that she will be able to follow along in the meeting

107and it will autogenerate the minutes like all the trustes names will be there so you can go look at her notes um because she's got it all written down um by hand but all the trustes on every motion, whoever made the motion, who seconded it, and then the vote are super easy clicks. And then the minutes are like autogenerated. >> Is it a onetime purchase or is it fee? Annual >> annual fee, >> you know. So, there is a there is a fee, you know, there's there's a cost to it. We'd have to add it. So, we already subscribed to the policies. Um, but the meetings piece is there. Um, they also have a I just want to minutes real quick to see um you know what those will those will look like uh for

108for you. So Felicia is doing all that right now. Um this piece is going to be autogenerated now as a result of you know work that's that's done in there. Um so I think there's a pretty big time savings uh that that could come out of that as well. Um, so when it comes to the Yeah, the price tag on it. >> I can't find it in my packet. >> It's about in the middle. >> I saw it once, but I'm not going to look for it. >> Yeah. Um, the a couple other features that I thought were interesting and maybe just, you know, to be considered. Um they also have a um a board evaluation feature and that cost is really not that much. It's 400 it's $450 and it comes with two things.

109It comes with a uh a template for the superintendent's evaluation. And what they will then do if we wanted to, you can add in this strategic planning portion of it. And you can then input the district strategic plan and then every vote that we take and I don't know if this is totally necessary or not. You know how I put the strategic plan like this is the area that it's targeting. you can click that box and then monthly it'll show you a report of like, oh, you had 48% of your agenda items hitting this particular element of your strategic plan. And he showed me a couple of examples of of school districts and then you had zero like if the over the course of a year you had zero action taken towards that that's reflective,

110you know, of maybe that needs to go away in the strategic plan or maybe there needs to be an emphasis um on there. So I thought it was interesting maybe at this moment in time not necessarily worth the the additional expense. I thought the evaluation piece could be strong though um the board evaluation self-evaluation individually and then collectively and then it also includes that superintendent piece. Um but you know at a minimum I think that the meetings module would really help a lot. Um I think there's a lot of stuff that maybe we folks that have been on the board a lot longer you know you just kind of take for granted. Oh, it's August. It's budget. Uh, or it's summer. I know there's going to be a lot of committee meetings on handbooks and

111things are going to get rolling quickly. But if you're a new trustee, you know, it might be where do I look for the meetings and how do I know that they're coming up? Obviously, we publicly post everything. Um, but sometimes our internal stuff doesn't get updated. >> The public would like it better, too, because it's more transparent. They can find everything instead of just getting a big packet and going. That's what I like best about this is that public is >> it just shows them that we're trying to make sure that they can see everything that we see and that >> that they have that access. So I think >> what's the annual fee for that board management? >> 1875 for the for the meetings. >> So that seemed like it took care of a

112lot of stuff. >> The thing is it's an annual subscription. So, like my thought was we could try this and if we're not using it, if we don't like it, if it doesn't work, if we find something different that, you know, works better for us, we can drop it. >> And we pay a lot more in labor hourly rate to do it than 1,800 bucks, >> put everything together manually, scan it. >> Well, yeah, scanning stuff. Like, that's a silly use of time. >> But I don't think we need to reduce salary because she doesn't have to write all those names. it it from a a document management standpoint truly because um by law we're required to keep our minutes and any document the board utilizes to make a decision forever. So all these board

113packets they're sitting in my file this thick. If we have an electronic way to do that it would be so much better for us. I Erin and I have talked about trying to to scan, you know, the minutes because we have them clear back until, you know, the school was first organized um and finding a way to do that. Billings um had a fire in one of their warehouses, so they have lost years and years and years worth of of minutes. So, this would be a great a great way to do that. And then also, you know, when we put the the public packet together, the reason it's all in one document is because it has to be a PDF file. We can't give them access to the board member drive where everything is broken

114out because there's information in there that is student privacy and staff privacy. Um, so I think this just makes it easier for everybody. And then once the minutes are approved, she doesn't have to do anything usually. So what happens, she just signed those. Now I will go back. I will scan them in. I'll email them to Marina. She will dump them onto the school website. It's a multi-step process where this is a click and it's done and it's available to >> I think we need to find >> the strategic eval or strategic planning piece. that part um sparked my interest just because we spent a lot of time and money doing our strategic plan and I would like to see it continued and we've talked about that you know continuing with our strate strategic planning

115and updating it and keeping it as like a living document and I think this would be a good way uh for us to do that and to track it. >> Does that give us access to them to come and mediate and work on that like they did the first time? >> No, I don't think it I don't think it um involves any sort of like professional development or anything like that. Um we I don't remember what we paid Deb Silicon and the SBA to do that, but it was a lot. >> I would imagine it was a lot. She spent a lot of time here. >> Yeah. Three different three hour >> plus drafting plus travel expenditures. >> Yeah. >> So, what would the what's the total cost for the things you recommend? 3450. >>

116Is that for the policy too that we already >> No, we already have the policy. >> So the 3450 is the added >> Y meetings at 1875, strategic planning at 11:25 and then evaluations at 450, which were were the three that I I thought the other ones I didn't there was some communication stuff where you communicate with your internal and external stakeholders. Um, you know, there was there's some document management. Um, but and you do get a 20% discount, you know, if you buy everything, but it would it would be an additional, you know, 1,500 bucks for those, but I didn't see a lot of value in my mind. >> On the evaluations, did you say it's a board evaluation and >> and the superintendent evaluation is there, too? and they're both kind of rooted

117in like the district's strategic plan. So, there's a little data input, you know, to get to the strategic plan. Um, but as we get that committee together here now that school starting back up, I think it it could be really powerful because that thing could change a little bit and alter uh depending on what what that committee comes up with. I think it's worth it for the for the year and if we don't utilize some of it then we can drop that. >> Is it going to take a lot of training or hours to get twisted over to that or is it not so bad you think? >> No. So the Simly platform um when we uh moved to that portion where I had control over that it was one webinar for an hour and

118that was it. It's so seamless >> and easy to do because before when we did policies we would do all of our work. Then I would email MTSBA with the policy number, any of the options that we had in there, any changes to language, blah blah blah. Then they'd email back, is this right? Blah blah blah blah blah. Yes, it's right. Then they go through and it takes them a couple weeks to do that. Now I open it up. If it's adopt the the um the MTSBA policy, I click adopt, put the date in that we did the second reading and it's done. It's live on our website. >> This is took them a couple weeks and sometimes reminders, >> correct? >> I I think that there'll be like a learning curve, you know, on

119on my end. I think Felicia and Marina were were the ones that are involved in building the packet. Um I think that it'll involve one one meeting and we just kind of learn it as it goes, right? Kind of like, okay, hey, yeah, click here. Here's where it is. Um >> seems very selfexplanatory. >> It's going to be a big benefit in the long. I do. I think so. >> And I think like any change a couple you you have to continue to use it. It'll be probably a a month. It'll it'll take us at least a month to feel comfortable with the new the new software. But I think the meetings piece I think we'll all benefit from it. I think we'll really like it. The strategic planning and evaluations I think that's something

120that we'll have to keep an eye on if we >> yeah decide to move forward with that. Those are the two pieces I think we'll have to keep an eye on and make sure that we're actually utilizing it and want to keep doing it. I think the board evaluation would be an important thing. Um, when I first got on the board, we were going to do something like that and it never came to fruition and I was really disappointed because I think, you know, it's a way for us to know are we doing things the right way, the way we should to make it successful and stuff. So, I like that part of it. I move to subscribe to the three suggested modules for meeting strategic plan and evaluation. >> Go ahead. >> It's been

121moved by Ken and seconded by Kelly to add the meeting strategic planning and evaluations modules in the assembly board management platform. Any board discussion? Public comment. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed. Motion passed 8 to zero. So, how quickly will we be able to get that? >> I will. Um, >> you think we would have it like in place by our next meeting? >> I think we can. >> Okay, cool. >> I think it's just they're just commit since we're already kind of subscribers. the relationship with MTSBA is already good. Um I think we will um get it done pretty quickly. I'm really excited for that and I would love to hear from the public how they like the that new platform. policy. >> Yeah. So the packet's out

122of order would be another reason. Um we we are blaming the packet is to be blamed. Who are we blaming the packet on? Uh >> you give it to Marina in >> technology. But we had a our auditors were were late and >> they weren't there was some complications with >> it's a very long story. I'd be happy to regail you with the tale but my blood auditors but >> let's go. >> Okay. Policies >> 2334 uh policy committee met on August 12th to continue review of the policies that changed the legislative session. Uh recommendation the board of trustees approve first reading of policy 234. >> I'll make a motion for policy 2334. >> I'll second. >> It's been moved by Kelly and seconded by Don to approve policy 2334. Any or discussion? Public comment.

123Oh, our public has returned. >> They're not going to say anything. Um, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed. >> Motion passed 8 to zero. >> 2450. Recommendation is the board of trustees approve first reading. Pulse 2450. So move. >> Second. >> It's been moved by Ken and seconded by Craig to approve policy 2450. Any board discussion? Public comment. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed. Motion passed 8 to zero. >> 5123. Recommendation is the board of trustees approve the first reading policy 5123. >> I'll make that recommendation. >> I'll second. >> I'll make the motion. I guess whatever. >> It's been moved by Don and seconded by Kelly to approve policy 5123. Any board discussion, public comment? All those in favor say I. >>

124I. >> All those opposed. Motion passed 8 to zero. >> 8560. Recommendation is the board of trustees put first reading of 8560. >> I'll move. >> Second. It's been moved by Craig and seconded by Ken to approve policy 8560. Any board discussion? Public comment. All those in favor say I. >> I. I. >> All those opposed. Motion passed 8 to zero. OTSBA election ballots >> membership electronic ballot. Um included in the packet um is a draft. Board chair Dinsdale, Vice Chair Blaine, uh District Court Smith, and myself reviewed the information and have completed a draft of a potential vote. Also included is the reference NTSBA 2025 annual meeting packet, which includes the principles and guidelines as well as the foundational elements of NTSBA's DNA. Uh the recommendation is the board of trustees approve the drop

125ballot of the membership electronic ballot and direct board chair Dale to submit it. >> I'll make that motion. >> I'll second. >> It's been moved by Don and seconded by Kelly to approve the MTSBA membership electronic ballots. Any board discussion? Public comment. All those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed. Motion passed 8 to zero. >> Old business. >> Recommendation. The board of trustees approve the second reading of the above policies. >> Oh, thank you. Wait for you to read everyone. I'm not making sure you didn't miss a number. >> I don't know if you missed the fiscal year. >> It's been moved by Ken and seconded by Craig to approve the list of policies in old business. Any more discussion? Public comment. All those in favor say I. I. >> All those

126opposed. Motion passed 8 to zero. >> Are you trying to leave before uh open house discussion? >> You will be here for open house. I'll be late. >> Well, according to this, we already missed it. Yeah, this is August. [Music] >> 25th. >> Yeah. >> All right. Most of those um committees we've already kind of talked about in my budget uh discussion, but the minutes are included from from those July meetings. Um, I'll go through my bit and then I'll let Felicia say a little bit about that draft. Uh, trustee financial statement, also known as the TFS. Uh, Mr. Dan has already hit on high school registration. Um, looking good. I actually saw schedules are printed. Um, and will be available. Um, I think middle school got done today, too, or will be printed in

127the next couple of days. >> Yeah, they're not quite done yet. >> Yep. Um, but they're rolling. Enrollment update we um is included there. Um, so just as we kind of think about those new kids that we just um accepted tonight, one, two, three, four, five of those. Couple of them might have already been in the class counts, but yeah, we're looking at 394. If they weren't, we're up to 398, which is a good number right where we want to be. Um, so looking strong. Um, hiring and staffing update, those open positions are are still posted. Some of them will come down as hiring was completed this evening. Um and we're here um administration's around um for the rest of the week just meeting teachers and meeting kids and still doing tours. So um ready

128to roll trusty financial statement. >> Um so we had kind of a wrinkle this year. It's never happened since I've been here. Um the county um was incredibly late giving their um June financial information to us. It was about 2 weeks late. Um because of that when the auditors showed up to do their work, they could not um until I am balanced to the county, the auditors cannot do any of the the financial um reporting that they do to provide us information for our trustees financial statement. Um so we got the county stuff about 4 days after the auditor showed up. Um a week after that, everything was balanced. um auditors made time to come back last week for a couple of days, you know, trying to squeeze in while they have other things going

129on. Um and I am still waiting um for final information from them. The the auditors provide us um our um depreciation schedules for all of our um equipment. They provide um budgeted forecasts for us on all of our um potential liabilities as far as um retirement funds, as far as post employment benefits. Um so I worked on the TFS today um but until I get final balance sheets from them and all of the fixed assets, um I cannot finish the TFS. So unfortunately is not ready yet. We'll get there. Um, I will note though the TFS is not something that you vote on like the budget. Um, the TFS is a financial statement of where the district is. It can't be changed. Um, so it's something that that the the board looks at. Um, it's

130just a anformational piece. The board chair signs it, I sign it, then it goes to the county and the county commissioners sign it, and then it's submitted to OPI along with our budget. So, there will be a copy of it in next month's board packet. That's it. >> We already talked about high school registration fall open house August 25th. >> 25th >> did not already happen. We did not all get off the hook on it. >> Wrong number. 20. >> Do we get assigned task for that or do we all just show up and >> Oh, yeah. You weren't here. >> We volunteered you for every and one of my questions too was um all the sixth graders that go to the um >> orientation. >> Yes, orientation. Thank you. And like cheering, can we

131sneak in and out? I mean, how does how how rigid is this expectation you're going to be? I know there >> you're not going to be there. >> No, remember I'm not going to be there. >> You can come early and help set up. >> Yeah. >> Get started grilling until >> Yeah. And bring your girls. Um I historically have brought my boys to help like set up. There is a lot of shuffling um back and forth from the kitchen and whatnot and setting up. So it does help if there's a couple of kids. >> What time What time do you want to start the barbecues? What time do we feed the staff? We said 3:00, didn't we? >> Yeah, I think we I think we aim for 4 o'clock >> to feed the staff

132fee. >> Okay, I'll be there at 3 and I can help get the girls going. >> And Craig said that he would help grill. He's just going to be late. You said that you would help get the grill set up. >> So, >> yeah, it helps to have two people on the grills >> um because then they're shuttling over burgers to whoever's putting the burgers together. or putting the burgers on the buns. >> I usually take care of cookies. But >> yeah, you sit with the cookies and self deplete the cookie population. >> I have to test them sometimes with bags. >> Can we have bottled water this time? Are you going to >> I don't know if it's bottled or how they're doing, but the booster club is doing the >> Are we going

133to move them? So, are they going to be kind of in row and they can sit there? because they sat on the side before and that was the thing that we talked about was that people didn't know that they had water. >> Well, and I think if we block that if we block that corner off and set some tables out there, they could actually be out in that corner parking lot. So when they walk through to get their food right opposite us >> almost in the parking lot, they can they can have their table not good on the grass. Yeah, I said I think we need if we get some more tables and stuff because people come out and there's no place to sit, >> couple park benches. So, if we have those and I

134would say move them out, spread them out, you know, unless it's super hot. It's nice to have shade. But >> I think we can expand up. >> I think you were going to ask facilities if they move or something. >> Picnic tables. >> Yeah, we talked about moving something down. We did. I don't remember. >> I don't remember what it was. >> I don't think it was >> I think it was tables. >> I think it was just a couple more tables. >> I also thought about the cross country tents. Would those be >> Yeah, those might be. >> You want to sit under the cross country tent? K. >> We could. Yeah. >> Could we just have all the food and water down this side and tables and everything on this side so that

135they have a place to eat? Got it. I'm going to remind you. >> Are you gonna be there? >> Yeah, I'll either I'll either be late or confirmed. >> Oh, >> or I can not come. >> You can make an appearance. >> Usually I am a runner like back and forth to the kitchen. >> Not having junk lemonade made a big difference and the wasp and the mess and the sticky. So that was good. >> We have somebody to put the hamburgers. Yeah. Yeah. So, we need So, that's what I usually do is put the hamburger on the bun. And that's a much more stressful job than you think. [Music] >> The whole thing. >> Okay. Now, but as long as I can sneak in and out. As long as I'm not the only one

136responsible. >> Yeah. It really helps to have two people. Well, and if you're maybe you could >> Yeah. >> that. >> Yeah. >> Cuz then hopefully Craig will be there for the barbecue. >> Yeah. >> I have faith in you guys. You all can figure it out. >> Unbelievable. >> It all comes together. >> You have not shown up yet for one. >> Yes, I have. One. I've been there for two. Just one. I have a real job that I have to attend to. >> The thing that allows me to pay my taxes. >> Yeah. [Music] >> Okay. Superintendent schedule. >> Nothing to report. >> Correspondence? >> Nothing. >> Uh suggestions for next agenda? Exterior ground walk. >> Yeah, it was on in September last uh year. I think it's a good time to do

137it after all the summer, you know, work. So I think we should go with that and probably get budget because if we start at four then I think what we found is we can get it all done. >> If we just do an hour it's not quite enough. >> Anything else for next agenda? >> All right. Our next meeting is September 16th right here at 6:30. And with that we can adjourn. Thank you everyone. It's right on you the whole time. >> It just was right now. >> Was it recording? >> Yeah. >> Right on. But