May Regular Board Meeting

001The meeting is being recorded. See, that's what happens. Not sitting down. I'm already here and I'm just gonna I'm gonna make sure you sit down and then I'm gonna go. Not gonna happen. Is poised. She's ready. I'm ready. Call this meeting to order. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. This meeting of the school board of trustees subject to the open meeting law is being reported in accordance with section 2-2-301 2-3-202-3-203 and 2-3-214 the Montana code annotated all members of the Board staff and public in attendance are advised that the public portions of the meeting will be recorded in both an auto read it in both an audio and video format. Cameras

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003by the board shall first be recognized by the chairperson. Individuals after identifying themselves will proceed to make comments within a reasonable time period. Citizens may comment on items within the jurisdiction of the school board that are not on this meeting's agenda. Citizens may comment on agenda items when that item is discussed. Citizens may not comment on matters related to student or staff privacy. The chairperson may control the comment period to ensure an orderly progression of the meeting and may redirect or terminate an individual statement when appropriate, including when statements are out of order, too lengthy, personally directed, abusive, obscene, or irrelevant. Is there any public comment tonight? Perfect. We will move on to reports. We'll start. Do we have student council here tonight? Student council is not here. Mr. Price is out tonight. Okay. And

004they have graduated. So they are. They are not. BPA, Business Professionals of America. You guys are up. Hello. I'm Mrs. Richard and I am the current BPA advisor. As we had come to you prior in the year for our BPA national leadership conference in Orlando, Florida, we thought we would kind of share some of the things that we did and while we were there to the next perfect. Okay. So, while we were at the conference, there was 6,825 students in attendance. So, a plethora of children at the hotel. There were 800 school chapters and Montana's delegation represented 60 secondary chapters, 11 middle school chapters and one collegiate chapter. Um we had 518 members in guest in attendance for Montana. Um Montana brought home both the middle school and the high school um secondary professional cups

005which is an award for um demonstrating the highest overall performance in areas of competitive events service and membership growth. So that was really impressive. We also had a Montana student honored as the national student of the year and Montana VPA had 19 members crowned as national champions. So I will let you then talk to you about implementations. Um I'm Elizabeth and I competed in health administration concept this year and after that I placed 15th overall out of 330 kids there. Hi, I'm Anna and I competed in medical coding and health research presentation at nationals and you placed in nationals are going to I'm Ruben. I uh participated in the computer animation team. Uh I believe we placed like eighth out of or something like that. So nice. Um yeah, then we also had some other

006ones like C++ programming. Keith obviously can't be here. Um but uh and then website design team uh which is Keith Aiden again. So yeah, those those I believe did pretty good too, but I remember what exactly they got. Um, so our travel accommodations, we went to Orlando, as you know, and on our way there, we stopped in Minneapolis for a layover. And then when we got there, we stayed at the Gaylord Palms Hotel and Convention Center, and that was a really nice hotel. Had like a water park and all that. In the pictures, you can see some pictures of the atrium, and there's some alligators there. It's all nice fun. Oh, this one. Okay. Um, this is some of the fun stuff we did. We went to a little like old town. You can see

007the the main street like right here is kind of what was like. It was built like a big like old style western town. Um, and we went to various stores. This is one of the sunglasses stores we went to. We just tried on various glasses and things. Um, yeah, there's all kinds of different stores we went to just to see what they had. Um, so with our resort, they had a water park, so they had like they had like three different slides and a really fun lazy river and a ton of pools and then like a flow rider thing where you could like surf. We all did that. She didn't. I um we all had fun at it. Liz was really good at the slow rider. Um I wasn't. So yeah. All right. Uh we

008also got to go to an arcadegoart place. Um the arcade was all right. The go-karts was a lot of fun though. Um, yeah. Laser. Oh, yeah. Laser tag. We had There was laser tag there, too. But that was that was kind of bad. Yeah. Was that it? Um, so we also went to Disney Springs, which uh it's just kind of big plethora of shops and businesses you can buy things at. Um, yeah, there's a Lego store, which is what most of these pictures are. That's all Legos. This is all Legos. This is the Rainforest Cafe. Yeah, that's not Legos. I didn't even see this. So, I don't know where that's at. I don't know what that is. Disney Store. Oh, there you go. Uh, and then there was this giant uh hot air balloon that

009wasn't in use at the time we were there, but it's obvious that they do use it and it sounds like they just take people up and you can like look out over Orlando in it. So, that would have been cool. Uh, we would have tried these little like car boat things. You could rent them, but they're like 125 bucks for like half an hour. So, we're like, nah. But yeah, otherwise the trip was trip was a lot of fun. We did a lot of cool stuff. I think this is the last slide. But so we appreciate your donation and helping us get Thank you. Did you get any new state pins, Elizabeth from states? We didn't get as many pins this year, but I did manage to get a new Kansas pin. And I think

010I got another New Mexico one. I kept my Montana pin. I got a Kansas one. I think I got left with I don't remember. I traded that one a lot. I don't Nobody got a China pin. No, I wanted to. People were paying people were paying money for that pin as much as last year. No, not as much as last year. I was going for like $100 last year. The Canada ones were both. Okay. Any questions for these two? Thank you guys. Good luck for next year. All right. Elementary principal. All right. I'll start off with our last so assembly of the year is this Friday um the 23rd at 10 o'clock. Um we had egg day being put on by the FFA program and Mrs. Stringary for all the elementary kiddos on May 8th.

011Our fourth and fifth grade students performed at the middle school and high school music program on April 30th. Um, we had field day take place last Friday. A big thank you, Mr. Denham, Miss Oklahoma, and the entire seventh grade class for um, organizing and running that for all the elementary kids. And we have a plethora of field trips taking place this week and the past previous few weeks. Fourth and fifth grade went to MSUB's Atomic Circus. Third grade went to the Wildlife Sanctuary in Red Lodge. Second grade is going to be going to Cody on Thursday. First grade went to the zoo at the start of this week. And our kindergarteners were at Wise Wonders Science and Discovery Museum today. So, a lot of uh moving around. Um so, big thank you to uh Mr.

012Smith and all the bus drivers for um getting them all those fun places. The second grade hosted their publishing party on May 9th to celebrate the book that the entire second grade put together over the animals that park expedition encountered on their journey. And with the testing front, our third through eighth grade students completed the third and fourth mass testing windows throughout April and May. The fourth and final window closes on Friday, and we're we're all wrapped up for state testing. been a long journey. So, thank you to all those math and ELA teachers because it was a whole new world this year on the testing front. Um, we had our sixth through 10th grade students completing MAPS testing for our district level testing throughout May. Our K through five students have been completed the

013I Ready diagnostic throughout May and they're all finished with that. And AP testing started on May 5th. So far, we've completed eight AP testing sessions and we have three more testing sessions to complete with the last AP test being on May 28th. We'll be all done on the testing front for the school year. Perfect. Any questions for Mr. Thank you, sir. Mr. Hernandez. All right. Yeah, it's been a bit of a blur. um for the last month. But going back to middle and high concert was with the fourth and fifth on April 30th. Um another great job to Mr. Arama and Mr. Ber. It was a great concert. Um both the band and choir did great. Um we we got our banquetss. We had the Lions Club. I think they kicked it off. Um and

014then amongst that the FFA banquet, honor society banquet, introduction, um activities, banquet, we also have a lot of field trips. Um I think sixth, seventh, 8th, 10th grade have all been going to different places and taking those trips. Um student council appointment that was done, but I don't have the new list of I don't have that final list for Mr. Praise yet. and graduation have all there. But yeah, graduation on Sunday went um really well for graduation tonight. Um the schedule, middle high school schedule went out to staff. Um Friday we're going to do while kids are essentially checking out the high school kind of mock schedules or let them see it. um there's often times changes or conflicts within that that we miss through the the months of those meetings. So take that feedback

015and kind of continue to work on that through June. Um we have 12 students leaving this school year with their CNA license. So, um, really great job to Miss Stratton and those kids for completing that coursework and, um, did a good job. Um, senior projects for last week. Um, Mr. Carrington and Dong were there. They they we had two days of those. They did a great job. It was a really, I thought enjoyable two days um, hearing those kids talk about their job shadows and future plans. Um, fifth grade is the middle school team is doing an introduction into middle school for them this Thursday with a lunchon and kind of welcoming them into the sixth and seventh grade or now seventh and eighth grade world. Um, state track sendoff Thursday morning or no that's

016not tomorrow. Thursday morning at 9:30, we have a a police escort through here if anyone wants to join us as they head off to Missoula. Um, talk 9:30. Y um, and I won't talk much about track because they probably are very give you something. Yeah. Um, did you have anything else? Then I I guess I could just go. Any other questions for Andy? Thank you, ma'am. Sir, you're up. Okay. Uh, as Mr. Hernandez talked about, state track is leaving on Thursday morning. We have 11, I believe, maybe 12 going. I think there's an alternate going in the girls relay. Um, finalized all the rooms, all that good stuff this week. Been working with Mark, um, our track coach, and getting that all finalized. So, they're set to go. There is talk on paper and point

017system that we could have some hardware maybe coming home from the state track. Pretty cool. Um, so we'll see what happens. There's uh he visited with me. There's probably about five, six schools that kind of in that mix. So it'll just kind of depend on on how the kids do and and how they go up there and and compete. So that'd be kind of slick. We brought home a a third place trophy in the boys for divisional, excuse me, and a second place trophy in boys for districts. Was that third? It was third and third. So, kind of nice to see that hardware come home and stuff. They've had a good season. Weather's cooperated pretty good. The one meet that we were supposed to be hosting with Park City got cancelled, but for the most

018part, we've had almost all of the meets, uh, which is pretty good. So, um, we were in charge of putting on the middle school meet, um, the last one of the year up in Red Lodge. Got that all put together. Um, had a great high school crew. Um, the the kids that did the ribbons for me up in the booth because all those results are live and we just write those down as they get going. What a crew. I mean, I couldn't have asked for a better one. Um, you know, it's it's kind of a big responsibility. make sure that those schools leave with the packet when the day is done. And I had maybe two or three ribbons that weren't quite there or didn't quite get finished. But there's a lot of stuff going

019on. And for those high school kids, they really stepped up big time. I had a couple other high school kids down in timing shed helping out. So take my hat off to them. They did a great job. So we got our awards banquet. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to be there, but that went well. Um, scheduling, uh, middle school and high school schedules are pretty well set all for next year. Uh, we kind of got them lined up. Mr. Counter has done a great job finishing those off, setting the basketball, the football, um, middle school. I mean, basically everything is in place for the most part. And again, Mr. Counter was huge in that, just so you guys know. So, um I can't think of anything else that's been going on. Say softball. Softball. Yeah. Yeah.

020So, um that kind of going to wrap up the year. It sounds like Thank you for doing that. Yeah. Coming in like to thank Mr. Baker, Mr. Hernandez, Mr. Richard, not not as much obviously, but uh and the board for your guys's uh for your guys' support and and back in the last three years. So, I I do appreciate it very much. And I'll be sending the coaches out something here, too. All of them that I've worked with and Mr. Counter, they great combination. We are kind of the jealous ones or the other schools are jealous of us because we do split that stipen is not any more than what other schools are paying but to have somebody in administrative somebody in setting up gains and supervising a lot of schools would like to follow

021that model. So I think we're we're a step ahead of of most schools in that if you guys would like to keep that which I would recommend you guys do. So we get a lot of feedback on that. Not necessarily positive. Like I said, they're kind of jealous of us, but uh it's that's a pretty slick system, honestly. So, thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Alrighty. On to um Superintendent. Yeah. I'm gonna um before I get to the data, just mention a couple things that the board might be interested. I think a good opportunity because I know everybody's worried about their hours employment that are required of you as trustees. Um Mr. Richard's assembly, the sor assembly at the end of year one. Uh what time was that? 10 o'clock. 10

022o'clock. Uh new gym uh lobby. The masons will be here. We're giving away bikes. Um and so it's a pretty good uh moment. It's pretty exciting. Pretty pretty rockous affair. It's Friday. Um, so if you're looking for something to do Friday morning, um, that's a a great place to be. And then come out, watch the send off. Um, the buses go around. Oh, yeah. It's a big deal. How many buses? Four buses. Well, I was thinking for the trap. It's like that's three kids per bus. smaller now because we got that small bus. Um, okay. I'm sorry. No, on the last day of school and all the teachers will be out kind of waving those kids off and it's kind of a fun moment. Um, the other thing on Thursday morning at Sunshine Club um

023is a teacher based uh committee. They're putting together um a farewell potluck. That's at 7:45 and it'll just be in the uh the teachers lounge here um recognizing these folks. um and their service to the district. Uh Mr. Turk 26 years, Miss Torbert 19 years. Um Diane Mannis uh who was kitchen assistants um seven years uh she's she's been there. Miss Lynn seven years, Miss MacArthur four. Uh Miss String here and Mr. Morgan each at one year. So that would be a good opportunity, I think, to to kind of mingle and hang out and express your appreciation uh for teachers. So, a couple things that they're that are going on for you guys. And I did put um we started doing this last year. Um chunking out the data uh piece. Remember, we're doing pre

024as well as post data. Um chunking it up because it is overwhelming. There's a lot kind of to digest. Um the May board meeting uh last year and this year is the K1. actually we just had K5 data uh last year. So we do have some new data to report um in our kinder one program. So that is the first piece um and this is actually a requirement of the state um as they've made those investments into that early literacy and they're actually funding it fully um and we don't have to you know do anything different on uh enrolling them. Um however they do need to show they do need to show a need for um placement into our kinder one program. So that's what you see on that left hand side. That was the

025work of um Miss Famous uh Miss Ninger, Mr. Richard screening our kinder one students last year as a part of kindergarten roundup. Um you kind of see the scores there of where they're at. the district is um has the authority to set our own cut score on who qualifies and who doesn't qualify. And there's also some latitude in what screener that we want to use. I think we actually vetted four or five different ones. Miss Famous ordered all the stuff in and kind of laid them all out. We got some samples uh and settled on I don't even know the name of Do we know the name? I I don't have it off top of my head. I don't mean to put anybody on the spot. Sorry about that. make make something up and yeah,

026it starts with a G. I can't think off the top of my head. I I looked at it so many times. Sorry, Miss um but what you see there is that we did do a cut score of 100. Um you provide that to the state. Um you know, if they if they want to show where we're at um and what you're seeing on the right hand side, um asks Mr. Richard, Miss Fus and um Miss Aringer to, you know, kind of do a post assessment of that to see the growth and um as suspected, you know, really really good gains in uh all the areas of print knowledge, uh definitional vocabulary, funological awareness. Um I'm more than confident to say that all those kids are ready for kindergarten um and they're they're ready to roll.

027I haven't even actually seen there weren't any summer school referrals. No. Um yeah. So, we won't even be recommending any of those for summer school uh this year, which they are entitled as a part of this early literacy jump start program, too. We can recogn recommend and we've had um recommendations before. We didn't have any. So, we got a good crew um lined up. And what's probably unmeasurable is, and I talked a little bit about this at coffee, the ability for a four-year-old to handle the lunch tray um is a major moment uh in in their day-to-day. And for the last couple of weeks, kinder one has been in the lunchroom. kind of navigating that whole obstacle. Um, and they've done a great job. That's the true test. Yes. That's great. So, hats off to

028those folks um for for doing that. That's another piece. I kind of wanted to start with this. Um, I I really think that we sit here and we hear Mr. Richard talk about, oh, this test or that test, this thing is a this thing is so big. Um, and it's I think a true testament to Mr. Richard, the efficiency. Um, I think the only hiccups that we have in the testing process is when I double schedule and double book over the top of the test that I'm supposed to pro uh and totally mess with Mr. Richard's world. Other than that, it's so smooth. Everybody's kind of helping out. We have space, you know, largely using the conference room, Mr. Ward's room. Total team effort and I think that it really helps the kids succeed when

029it's smooth and efficient of an operations being run. um the as we transition into the I Ready testing. Most of this happens in the the contained classroom. So, it's a it's still kind of a scheduling thing. The window has to open, they have a little bit of flexibility of when they want to run it, but it happens in the room, which we also know can tend to, you know, increased achievement because it's just a more comfortable setting. Um I think the data in kindergarten echoes or mirrors what we saw last year. Um if you just look at those reading scores on the top, 37% came in kind of kindergarten ready and 93% of our kindergarteners are um at grade level better um in reading 85% of those kindergarteners are getting at or above grade level

030in math. So confident to say that most of those um uh students are you know going to be ready to roll for first grade. um first grade data um you know what we see and what we like to see is that number on the far right total percent at grade level or better increasing over the year that students are demonstrating growth at when we look at the data here we're not pouring into individual you know um students but just as a whole um really really big growth in first grade um when it comes to the reading as well as the math you know kind Similar story taking place in second. Good growth. Um students doing better getting to where they need to get to. Uh third grade reading and math. Um also um getting there.

031Um yeah, I think we'd like to see that that math score, you know, like to see probably, you know, closer to 65 um percent 70% at grade level better. So something to look into there. um fourth grade reading. Um I think we I think we got some work to do when it comes to fourth grade reading. Uh fourth grade math I think looks the growth looks a little bit better um on that front. Um fifth grade reading again, you know, something to look at identifying some some needs there whether that's related to the curriculum, whether it's related to the instruction, whatever it might be. I think there's some questions um that that we can begin to ask. The one real positive element of this IRA program and working with the curriculum associates is because we've

032bought the professional development that goes with it when they're here and when they're on site, they're actually pouring through like individual teacher level, individual student level data. It almost is like having a data specialist that we don't have the ability to have. Some of those bigger districts, uh Billings, uh Helena, both they have data. we do. That's all they do is look at that. We're not in that position. Um but when they come in and do professional development, they're asking questions and they're asking hard questions about what teachers are doing in the classroom. So that kind of helps us um you know have that impact. So a little bit of work to do um on you know fourth and fifth grade. Anybody have any questions for Mr. What's the difference on the fifth grade science?

033Yeah. And then so the fifth grade science, Mr. Richard, that maps. Yeah. Yeah. And so it's a different platform. So that goes into what we heard being kind of shared out. So I may have misled um in grade ceremony because in fifth grade we do do the maths test, but we don't maps test for ELA because we have the I read piece. Um so Great. All righty. Any other questions? Okay, we will move on to consent agenda. motion. I move to approve the consent agenda. Um, Ken has made a motion. Amanda has seconded to approve the consent agenda. Any discussion, public comment? All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed. Motion passed 7 to Z. All right. On to action items. New business personnel hires. Felicia Smith for business manager. Recommendation is

034the board of trustees hire Felicia Smith as the business manager for the 26th fiscal year. I move that we hire Felicia Smith as business manager for the 26th fiscal year. Second. It's been moved by Kathy seconded by Karin to approve the excuse me the hiring of Felicia Smith as the business manager group for the 20 26 fiscal year. Any board discussion? Any public comment? All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed? Motion passed. 7 to Z. Natalie Cook with 612 guidance counselor. Hiring committee's recommendation is the board of trustees hire Natalie Cook as the 612 guidance counselor for the 256. I move that we hire Natalie Cook for the 612 guidance counselor for the 25 26 school year. A move by Kathy, seconded by Amanda to hire Natalie Cook as the 612 guidance

035counselor for the 2526 school year. Any more discussion? Public comment. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed? Motion passed 720. Jody Milton, agriculture education and the FFA advisor. Hiring committee's recommendation is the board of trustees hire Jod Milton as the agriculture education teacher and FFA adviser for the 256. So move second make a motion. Hey, Kelly. I have you on the speaker phone for me. Um, sorry, I'm doing too many things at one time. I need to get Kelly on. Can make the motion. Who seconded it? Craig seconded. Um, to hire Jody Milton for the agricultural education teacher and MFA advisor for the 2526 school year. Any more discussion, public comment? All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. Um 7 to zero. Kelly, I'm not counting you on that

036one yet because I didn't have you on the phone for the whole thing. Sorry. Okay, now we're moving on. Mr. Price, sorry. Caleb Price for head high school middle school cross country. Recommendation is the board of trustees hire Caleb Price as the head high school cross country coach for the 2015 season Mr. Price is the head high school second. It's been motion's been made by Jason, seconded by Ken to hire Caleb Price as the head high school cross country coach for the 2025 season. Any board discussion, public comment? All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed? Motion passed 8 to zero. Bobby Bushman for head high school volleyball um activities committee recommendation. Board of trustees hire Bobby Bushman as the head high school volleyball coach for the motion. has made a motion. Kin

037has seconded to hire Bobby Bishman for as the head high school volleyball coach for the 2025 season. Any board discussion, public comment. All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed. Motion passed eight to zero. George Orbertton for head high school football. Recommendation the board of trustees hire George as the head high school football coach for the 2025 season. Craig has made the motion. Amanda has seconded to hire George Warpton as the head high school football coach for the 2025 season. Any board discussion? Public comment. All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed. Motion pass 8 to zero. Kendall Denham for head high school boys basketball. Recommendation. The board of trustees had Kendall Denim as the head high school boys basketball coach for the 256 season. Seconded. Motion has been

038made by Amanda, seconded by myself to hire Kendall Denim as the head high school boys basketball coach for the 2025 2026 season. Any board discussion, public comment. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. Motion passed 8 to zero. Anna Goodrich for head high school girls basketball. Recommendations. The board of trustees hire Anna Goodrich as the head high school girls basketball coach for the 2526 season. I move that we hire Anna Goodrich as the head high school girls basketball coach for the 2526 season. It's been moved by Kathy, seconded by Jason to hire Anna Goodrich as the head high school girls basketball coach for the 2025 2026 season. Any board discussion, public comment. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. Motion passed 820. Bob Reed for head high school speech

039and drama. Recommendation is the board of trustee hire Bob Reed as the head high school speech and drama coach for I move to hire Bob Reed as head high school speech and drama. Motion's been made by Kim, seconded by Craig to hire Bob Reed as the head high school speech and drama coach for the 2025 2026 season. Any board discussion, public comment? All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. Motion passed 8 to zero. Tammy, assistant middle school volleyball coach. This is an epicism hire. Recommendation is that the board of trustees had Tamrell as the assistant middle school volleyball coach of the 202. So move. I'll second that. Ken has made the motion. I'm seconded to hire Tammy Carell as assistant middle school volleyball coach for the 2025 season. Any board discussion? Public

040comment. All those in favor say I. I. I. Kelly, you can't vote. It's middle school. I abstain. Well, it makes it begs the question on whether Kelly needed to be here to complete the board anyway. Oh, that's true. But we appreciate you, Kelly. Oh, you're the man. Kelly, that's true. Do we need any of those? Um, no. Not both. Yeah, because he can't because we just wanted to talk to you. We just wanted to hear the sound of your voice. We want you to feel involved. Thank you. We'll let you go to finish watching baseball. All right. Thanks, Kelly. Bye. So, motion has passed. Six 2. See, I get so distracted and better safe than sorry, right? Alrighty. Well, perfect. On to my personal action. Personnel action report. Included in there is um in light

041of Miss Cook's hire as the guidance counselor who resignation from her role as an aid, Mark Roth as our crossing guard for the upcoming school year. um newish position. Jim Tumble um will be hired to run the summer YPGR route. We have two students that need to continue their attendance um at Del Boys and Girl Ranch over the summer. Um Jim is a teacher there um is passing through and the flexibilities with the summer contract hours at YBGR allow him to um complete the student. you can't do it during the normal school year because of the contracted time. Um we tried to get that worked around uh but we couldn't but um he will be taken over that lift which gets the bus off the road and it gets Rob a little bit of a

042summer break. So I think it's kind of a win on all points. Um so the current consideration is to um pay that at $85 a day which is going to be essentially cost neutral by the time a bus driver gets in pre-trips um the bus handles all that post trips and stuff um the cost is going to be pretty much neutral. So um I think that's a pretty good deal. Other hires are on the bottom. Miss Bergen for concessions, Miss Richard for BPA, Miss Bergen for yearbook, Mr. Press for student council, and Mr. Kelly to education. I have one question. Um, there's no aid on the bus then. No, there's no aid on the bus. Um, there's two students on the bus, front and rear facing dash cam. Um, we feel good. We should be

043good. Yep. We feel good. He's a teacher of IBGR, you know, um is is equipped um you know, has he's been there quite a while training to work with those kids be fine. If we run into an issue, I think then and we still have that job posted uh you know, I think that's key enough for this fall, you know, we need to move back to a bus. We did have an applicant um to to to drive bad in a in a rig, so it wouldn't be a bus driver, but we did have an applicant. It's just such a hard job. wants to split you know, type of deal. So, it just takes a unique person. So, we'll look into that. Any other questions on the personnel action? Motion's been made by Craig, seconded by

044Kim to approve the May classified personnel action report. Any further board discussion? Public comment. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. Motion pass. 720. Request for county election office to administer school elections. Ryan co-op steal my dish. No, double this is an important issue. Uh activities cooperative agreement with Croberg schools. Um discussion is included in the packet. Uh I think there's been a couple of months worth of discussion, so I didn't want to put it into um into the board notes, but included uh once again the Jolly Bramberg um activities co-op survey that went out both to our community as well as our students. So this is the second time that this information has appeared in the packet. Um thanks to all the trustees for, you know, kind of prompting and initiating

045those surveys. I think we've got pretty good community outreach, pretty good community discussion. Um the students obviously engaged in a similar task. Um both, you know, according to the survey, pretty overwhelmingly in favor um of a all activities go off schools. We've got pros and cons that are listed um the other considerations that are there. Um for everybody's review, there's total enrollment. There is projected um activity specific. Remember that a lot of that stuff is projected. Our notes from March 21st um hiring committee which was excuse me activities committee which was pretty well attended. And then I put together just a draft of a of a motion um which would be the board of trustees approved a three-year all activities cooperative agreement from schools for the 25 26 through 20 29th school years including the

046following parameters 5th through 12th grade all coaches hired through J school no mascot name color changes students would participate as jolly at Jay-Hawks transportation of students to jog sole responsibility Joliet Athletes may participate in Throberg's golf program. All games competitions will take place in Joliet. Some practices may be held at Throberg schools when gym space is limited in Joliet. Um and then I tried to formula formulize uh the discussion that was had in the committee in which you take the numbers on the bottom there. Uh 231 is the projected enrollment next year in Goliet, grades 5 through 12. So that's where that 231 comes from. You add in 40, which is the projected total enrollment of proberg schools in grades 5 through 12. Um, and then you divide you take prom total enrollment which would

047be 40 and divide it by that total number um and times it by Jolliad's total activities expenditures of $22,000 which is essentially Brford paying their share based upon their enrollment numbers in school and come up with you know just shy of $30,000. Um my understanding uh and maybe there's more information here is that the prober school board has passed a similar resolution with those set. So that's the recommendation. Is uh if I remember back at one of the meetings is Stroberg going to provide their own helmets in football gear because that they they have the capability to do that. Does that that's probably a shortterm I I would I would probably say that yes they do now because they Yeah. But in if this is something that continues maybe in year three, I I would

048suspect that Chromebook's probably going to stop buying helmets, shoulder pads, you know, and all. Do they just buy stuff? But they just buy some so they can bring that over. And then uniforms, we will take care of additional uniform purchases. But what's the refurbish rate on helmets? You know, off the top of your head, they need to be refurbished. No, I think every year that be checked, save and check and refurbished. I think if I remember right, when was in the boardroom, I think they said they just bought 10 brand new. So they've had one year of use or not even. No, after this red, they're white. No. and they'll pay the same activity fees and entrance fees for parents and all the same. They just follow our policies. I move to approve the cooperative

049agreement as stated. Um can make a motion has seconded to approve an activities co-op agreement with prom schools with parameters outlined in option one. any further discussion questions from football this co-op spring this will pretty much solidify yeah if you're using their you know their current numbers um avoid enrollment um it's you know probably that would push us over the edge I don't know what their boy nicely was but without the co-op we tried to go back in and it didn't work. Yeah. So it gives us that much even you know two or three more gives us a little bit of cushion. I don't know. After that meeting, I had a hard time thinking that we were ever going to take a whole step down unless we had a dramatic change of our school, which

050I can't see happening. The only other question I had on the kids that want to go towards health program, will they be competing as Yeah, this one came up at coffee, too. like what we're trying to figure that they compete as falcons. I think this is why if we want to figure this out, it probably would be a good thing. Um I I can see the golf is Oh, well, when we did the survey here, we had a lot of students that wanted transportation as well. And then solving the question, you can't just get grab your cars and hit the phone and that's scary. Well, but that's what we did for softball and wrestling. I know it's possible. I'm just saying it's things you need to think. Yeah, you might have. I would appreciate direction.

051That's the question. I think if we're providing transportation, then we would have to look at providing transportation for softball and the rest of it too. It is a similar situation. Is that a lot less than you know this this might be if we got 40 kids going up make sense to take a bus. So I mean I'd rather have I'd rather provide a bus and have that many kids a handful. We can put a number threshold on transportation like if we have x amount I think those things can be decided yeah can continue with with vote but there are some things that have to be discussed so I think you're going to have to talk to so is this motion also green to co-oping system for golf. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And remember they have

052the threehole pastures golf, you know, which I guess is better than what we got because we used the football practice field, I think. Yeah. You know, do we know how many kids they had and how how their participation went this year? You know, I talked to Levi Loud today. He just calling just to, you know, express his continued support of it and golf came up kind of briefly. Um I do get a number actually. Could we revisit this as you go through next year and you're serving the kids and we see oh there's five kids there. So yeah, I think we could. So we we did a survey on golf. You guys kind of remember this was an option. I don't remember. I don't know the date of this, but we had 17 17 expressed

053interest in involing. This was this was in November 2024, so it's pretty recent data. And we looks like we surveyed middle school. But does that change though once they found out that provider? Yeah. Yeah. We talked about that this morning too that the kids were pretty crafty though and because I think when we think of golf clubs it's like go to golf and get professionally fitted. The kids are like well just play Goodwill and get back and and golf you know which is a good idea. So I don't think cost would necessarily be as big of a barrier. Kids want to have a good time today. Do you think that's something that we should pass the co-op without the golf and spend a little time to finalize it and then add that? I mean, I

054still think it's a good thing to do, but it seems like we're kind of up in the air. I think the transportation thing is like a separate issue because that would cover softball and wrestling, too. So, I think maybe that's something that like the activities committee could address is setting a threshold like how many kids you know, does it take to warrant coming with us or something? So, I think that could maybe be solved through activities, but then the we pay the participation fees, the entry fees. Well, Falcon or do the Falcons pay? I mean, if they have five kids involved and we send 15, [Music] you know, I mean, that's that is a question because we're covering the cost for the football and the basketball and the speech and drama and the rooms and

055everything else. If we send kids over there to golf, do they cover all the costs for the entry fees for golf and participation fees or the green fees or whatever they do? Those are some financial things that need to be worked out. They were going to pay all the logistic fees of our kids coming to golf. They were whatever entry fees from the school perspective. Yes. Oh, I did not know that. That's the way I understood it because we're paying all the fees. That's what it should be. I just didn't know that that was hammered out. Did they Did they approve it? I don't know what exactly their motion read. I think that maybe I almost kind of wonder if we can golf. Can we amend that and take out? Yeah, we can add the

056golf and remove the golf from Yes, I think I kind of think so. And that way it's cleaner. Everything's over. I just think it's good to discuss it with them because golf we go a long distance and spend the night with football. We're paying for all this. Yeah. Yeah. So, I think it's important that if they take our kids for golf, then they're going to come back. But I think they need to agree and we need to all agree before we before that part's final. Will that mess up the unless you want the golf in the motion with specifics to be finalized I mean so just put it in there but then there's stuff that has to be finalized the motion I that would go into the NHSA cooperative agreement says approve an activities cooperative

057agreement. So I think so it doesn't say the specifics. No. Um I think we could leave it in then just the specifics. I think it now we're putting it back in. So it's fine. You got an eraser. Scribble it out. I've got white out. I can print them again. Any other discussion? Public comment. Maybe I don't know. Wait to your next evaluation. What does the motion? The motion now reads to accept um um to approve an activities cooperative agreement with Crownberg School with parameters outlined in option one with further details to solidify costs and everything you said but just specifics about the golf. There we go. Specific regarding the golf program inside of But I think it's good that we get it all in there for HSA. It is co-op is there. We're all in

058on all those because I think we can all work together and hash that out in adult. Okay. You want to know what the the actual motion reads? Board of trustees approve an activities cooperative agreement proverb schools with parameters outlined in option one with specifics regarding golf to be decided at a later date. Okay, that works for me. We'll make you change it. So Ken made that motion. Amanda has seconded that. Any other discussion, Jason? Is that okay? All right. Public comment. Yes, please. I just wanted to know um introduce yourself. Okay, Tam, you're um so in in the agreement um Juliet provides the coaches. Correct. So, is this also involved? Everything coaches in the whole program. It does rejate athletes made for participate in Bramberg's golf program. Okay. Just want to make sure we weren't

059paying for for a golf coach. That's fair. The kids would say any other I'm so any other uh public comments? I didn't hear. Can you restrict the kids from wearing golf? Cooperative. Yes. Yes. No further. Um all those in favor say I. I. Okay. All those opposed. Motion passed. 720. I think it's going to be too. Exterior lighting bid. Building and grounds committee met on March 25th to revis year 25 expenditures from both the voted and permissively levy building reserve funds. Completed projects include the fencing, modular classroom, kitchen appliance upgrades, new door locks among others. Committee then discussed upcoming fiscal year 26 expenditures. committee recommended the district move for the Whartons to resurface all asphalt areas. Uh that passed the board in May. I do have an update that Wharton's in doing the bridge um

060out here south of town asked if they could come in and do some early pothole work that they said they were going to do. So you'll see those are kind of scraping it off. Um and I don't know if it got done today. anybody has seen that um or within this week because they're going to be bringing some asphalt here. They asked if they could just drop it off um assured us that they would not bill us until um the fiscal year in which that's been allocated. But it does them a favor. I think it does us a favor to kind of get that project moving. Um which in all honesty, I think the efficiency, the communication is far superior than what we were doing with the last company. So I'm impressed with them. Um

061Ken will be finalizing all painting. Absolutely. Before um they do that so we can move and maximize some of the spaces um that are out there. But that's still kind of a long ways off. I think we're on their calendar and it's going to be July sometime it sounds like. So in that same committee meeting, the committee recommended that we bring the exterior lighting bid to the full board for review. future Adam Stein and can say I can update um if they would like to if that bid from uh Levi at high altitude is included. Um we we just kind of I mean you never know what you're going to get until you get it seems like. So sometimes these are a little bit you know kind of venturing into the unknown. But what we

062did reiterate and really try to highlight uh to Mr. White is that the this entrance right here. We want this thing just lit up uh like a Christmas tree um as bright as possible. We all know as we walk out um you know in the winter months that it's just dark. Um you put a new bulb in those things and it's just not working. This area what we call kind of like Marina's door coming into that administrative area in that nook that kind of cubby in there where the leaves all light that whole thing up. Um dark areas are problematic. people coming up screwing around after hours and things like that making kind of night and you can't see the cameras very well. So to get that whole front of the building uh kind of

063lit up was the message that we gave. Same thing uh going out to the new gym entrance uh as as well. Light that whole thing up. We got curbs that are really tricky to see. Um we just want to make sure that we're doing that. Um, and the old and and that old gym bottom too, which is increasingly as we see music concerts and things like that going on in the old gym, which is a great use of that space to make sure that that, you know, that entrance is accessible. A couple of lights on our flag poles um so we can just leave the flags up appropriately. Um, so I actually thought that was really reasonable. Um, it's not a full perimeter. um you know, but I think that would be ultimately the plan

064basically to begin to kind of work with those spaces. So, recommendation is to debate. Um I have a question um too, I guess. Um it says they're removing the flag pole, but then they talk about lighting the flag pole, but is that going to be an additional cost to remove the flag pole? Yeah, remove the existing flag Pole and building lighting. That's bipolar lighting and building lighting. Okay. It's just that's I think it's I think that's what they meant. They're not going to take the whole existing lighting. It's just it's it's written funny. Okay. All right. That that was my first question. Second question is is when we did do the lighting of LED lighting down community center, it is so bright. is it going to have a shield on it because then it just

065goes straight out. Oh, and it will affect our neighbors, you know. And if you think about our neighbors, we don't have Well, yeah, we do have some a lot of trees. Yeah, there is. There is trees, but I think that trees at the community center, too. I think if it hap if that happens we can we can build some we can have somebody on the post office put their new one you go by the post office goes in the front there but there's nothing to browse from the post office no but there I mean that's why I'm saying it's just very bright but I think didn't we put some guards we put some metal covers on I think those were just handy those were specially made maybe it's just something that our Levi pass this

066really I think some of the lights are ceiling now it's just going to show down they're wall mount out they're pretty bright so that was just my only sorry I didn't think of it well I think that's we could let him know too to just keep that in [Music] seniors over there. [Music] Mr. Get a dimmer. put black paper over the window because I think it's great. We do need all that the lighting, but it's a major safety issue. It is. You know, for exiting, you know, emergency exit or any kind of exiting just going out of meetings down by your office. I do need a motion, sir. Jason has made the motion. Craig has seconded to approve the high altitude electric bid for exterior lighting. Does the board have any other questions? Public comment.

067All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed. Motion passed 170. Nonresidential residential nonresident uh trustes your caution um to protect student privacy uh in the upcoming discussion. Non-resident student applications are included in the packets. recommendation is the board of trustees completely attached a list of non-resident students for the 25 26 school year excluding students number 16 number 40 and 49. Um I did try to capture the information a little bit differently. So there's a new document. Um this document right here um I think is worth kind of some some discussion and it doesn't contain any sort of uh protected information. Um over on the left hand side um within that kind of bigger square you see these are projected numbers 25 26 and one that first column just to the right of

068you know our grade level descriptors you see a straight in district number these are students that live obviously within our boundaries. Um, so if we were only enrolling students that lived within the Jolliiet school district in in in the K1 through 5 world, we'd be at 136 students um, in those grade levels. Our middle school number would be at 61 for a total of 197 in the K8 K1 through 8 world. and then adding them to our high school, you'd see that our high school number of in district students would be at exactly at 100 for a total of 297 students. Um, so you begin to see if you compare it if you looked ahead at the um final enrollment number in May, I think we were at 34. So you see that a good

069portion of our population is currently out of district. So those are just in district numbers. If you move it over, the next column is if the board were just to accept students that were enrolled this year, right? So, all of our out of district students that are currently in our program, we say we make a motion to approve all of them. We would predict our enrollment to be at 366. Again, down almost 20 students from where we're at this year, 18 to be exact. The decreasing enrollment is pretty clearly um seen when you send 32 seniors, 32 seniors out the door and we got 15 kids coming through the door, right? So, and that's making up the the difference uh right there. So, um we are contending with um a little bit of decreased enrollment

070because Mr. Richard's prediction um even though it may still come through hasn't happened yet. Then we get by to seven kindergarteners. um they're not materializing to to this point. So, I'll talk about that in a second. Um the next column that you see is a projected number if you were to include all of a new out of district request. These are students that we have not had previously enrolled in the district who are seeking enrollment uh within our district um at the moment which would put us at 377. The next column that you see is the number of grade level teachers that we have in those. Can you guys not find that? That's at the very end of the new business. Okay. Trying to figure out how to rotate it. Kathy's got hers rotated. You

071have to um you have download. I can't find my mouse. Sorry. I included the number of teachers uh per grade level which I think informed the board who has done the work to set those strategic plan ratios of how many kids we want per teacher. um outlined that um in in those areas. Um and then what we're looking at is with the predicted enrollment with the current recommendations, are we at or below those teacher to student ratios um to to keep in mind remember that's one of our only um it's one of a few reasons that we have for denying that addition request. So kind of with that information in mind, I am making a recommendation to um as I said exclude students 16,40 and 49. Uh otherwise the recommendations to accept all of those.

072Uh also just for everybody's information, phone calls have been made um asking questions to all of those families as well. I move to approve the out of district report. I'll second that. Can make the motion. I seconded to approve the attached list of non-resident student for the 2526 school year excluding student number 1640 and 49. Any more discussion? Yeah, you guys might notice that um in the out of district um part of the packet there's requests for out of district and there's people who have been here before that were previously in district um but there was some like relook at the district and redrawing re-examining or whatever. So that was done at this county level. That was not done by any school district or administration. That was completely done by the county. Yeah, I think

073you can update people who had the conversations. And I would also just not I would be clear that there was no redrawing. Apparently their mapping just got more accurate. Yes. And it's like okay. Yeah. what's it going to look like in another 10 years? Yeah. So, boundaries did not change where the county had placed these people was inaccurate. So, they it's a correction on the county's part to the point where a family on one end of the street is in one district, five houses down is in a different one. One house down in a different is in a different district. So technology is great and we also know and we also know families getting ballots for both and joll districts that is you know I think it's just a living but those things any other

074discussion comments public comment. All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed. Motion pass 76. Bus driver handbook. Uh 2526 bus driver handbook. Bus drivers met on April 29th 25 to review the 2425 bus driver handbook and make suggestions for the 2526 handbook. president meeting board drivers Rod, Bob, and Scott. Um, Mr. Smith was was not there that day. I think he was ill. Um, Mr. Richard, and myself were in attendance. We went through kind of line by line. I started off with kind of just a recap of the year. How did everything go? Changes that, you know, you might see coming down the pike. Um, but ultimately made a couple of changes. Um, not many. um did elect to remove the job description piece from um the bus driver handbook in light

075of some changes that every employee upon uh receiving their contract will also be provided a official job description that they will acknowledge and sign off on. Um so it wasn't really complete in inappropriate to put that necessarily in the handbook. Um so we removed that. Um we talked and we did a lot of work last year um on kind of the infractions on the bus that would result in a students you know getting a warning being off for five days off for 10. Uh the one addition that we wanted to include is that the administrator, this is page seven, administration reserves the right to elevate the punishment due to the severity of the action. Uh that some things just elevate more quickly because of the if it's a violent thing or you know threat or

076something like that. So we wanted to make sure we have a question on on that. So on the first offense, it says that there's a conference between the student, parent, bus driver, and building principal. But then on subsequent offenses, the building principal is not included in those meetings. Not in the book, but you are. Did you guys write yourself out of the So was it the bus driver that suspended Yeah, that should be added. Building principle should be added in. And as far as the job description, that does need to be that contract when they sign their handbook, they acknowledge they received their job description, but it's not part of the contract. Correct. So on on the page, I review, receive, and agree with the job description. So, do we need to amend a motion

077to include the building principal? Yes. And the job description description. [Music] Well, they're handed the job description with their hand. Okay. And then just like with the teachers, they have to sign their hand. The job description goes with that. So it can just be an additional page just a separate document that just acknowledgement that they sorry Yeah. So, then I have another comment on the the compensation. Um, so I did ask Felicia about that and that that does need to be updated because that was a little bit off. The compensation is accurate. The meals have changed. Yeah. Montana has this changed. So that's all we have is 2023. The state has not updated it for this past legislative session because there's no rules to be signed. It may change. So in next year if it

078does change, we'll make that adjustment in the handbook when that gets updated by the state. But those we did have we did update that to where it's current. Yeah. Not much. Not enough to pay for Do you want the page with the square that I think? Yeah. Also worthy of discussion are a couple other changes. Um, if you see on page seven, um, if parents wish to have students dropped off at a location other than their normal stop, this information is to be communicated to the attendance secretary. Drivers will not alter student drop off locations based on student requests during the route. I think for whatever reason this year, more than usual, kids were coming up um, and approaching the bus driver and saying, "Can I get off here?" Um, which is not in any

079way acceptable. Hey, my mom's on phone. Uh, you know, if she'll disapprove it. No. Yeah. Well, I mean, so it wasn't like, "Hey, I'm riding home with Johnny to Johnny's house today, so I'm getting off at Johnny's house." It was, "Hey, mid route." Mid. So, it all has to go through. Yeah. Now, she sends a note to the bus. Yeah. Um, or she could radio that information, too. Like if somebody called Jill and then we go through the radio, which is the communication method, but drivers are not on their phones. They're not looking at phones. As long as it's as long as it's all run through jail. So here's my question, though. We already approved a route with specific stops. You're right. But kids are getting off at different stops and going I can see

080if if it's Hey, I'm getting off at Johnny's house today. Not a new stop, a previously approved stop with a with a friend or by the mom, dad today. That still has to be approved. The stops all we won't create a new but we're not creating a new stop. Okay. And then the other um thing that was discussed was on page 11 also under compensation um the drivers were talking about activity pay and activity pay I think has been at $13 an hour for a handful of years. Um there's different ways that districts kind of handle activity pay. Some districts are running a minimum wage. Some districts are, you know, quite a bit higher than that. Um the idea that was kind of approached would be to keep the pay at $13 per hour. Um

081but there were situations in which a driver would forego their route and their route pay which is you know 20 21 $22 an hour driving activity and then forfeit your route. They would be back you know within an hour or two. Um, so maybe they would make, you know, 26 um or maybe $39 and they're actually working more hours but making less because they forfeited the route, right? And so Julie did a little bit of research um on it and came up with a kind of a workaround that some other districts are running that in the event that a driver does forfeit like an AM or PM route, we will pay them a minimum of four hours for that time which kind of justifies uh the the ability to actually um figure it out and

082I thought that was a good work and good proposal and I think it was pretty well received in the bus driver. is a is a 13 an hour drive time and sit time. Y it's all the same. It's not different for driving or sitting. And some people do it some people have different rates like when you're driving it's your it's your regular route regular route. You're setting them. It's easier just one. Any other discussion [Music] on motion? I move to approve the bus driver handbook with the adjustments as discussed. Figure that out. I already knew you did. I'll second that. Any further board discussion? So, Kins made a motion. I seconded to approve the draft copy of the 2526 bus driver handbook and correction slash addition slashicious side control motion any couple. All those in

083favor say I. I. All those opposed? Motion pass. Now complete the request for elections office to administer school elections. Uh district clerk can give an update on this year's school election process. Um so the for years for the first um gosh six years I was here the county would not run any school elections. Um we uh got a new county elections administrator and she decided last year she wanted to try it. Um and she's she doesn't run all the school elections of course schools get to choose. Um but the first year of the county running it was last year it was really smooth. Um, and I think the ma the main point of it is it costs us less to have the county run it than to have run because we don't have um the

084expense for the voting machine that we are required by law to have. That's $1,000 just for that programming. Um, we we borrow the machine from the county. Um, so there's no expense to to have the machine here, but the programming for it is about $1,000. So, not having to have that expense, um, most of the other expenses are the same. You have to pay for your judges. You have to pay for your, um, copies and envelopes and postage and all of that. Um, and aside from the slight kick up this year with the updates on some of the addresses, it's gone really smoothly. So, I think it's a benefit for us and cost savings to have. So that is what this motion is is to approve for county to run our Yeah. It's a resolution

085just like we do every year. Well, for next year we have to do it every motion seconded to approve Carver County Election Office to administer upcoming school elections for 2526 school year. Any board discussion, public comment? All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed. Motion passed. 7 to zero. There are no first readings. Um being proposed by policy committee. Um Trusty Bloomsdale. Once we get there, um um I suppose we'll update on the the discussions and the um that we're discussing policy this month. Um we do have some old business. Um recommendation is that the um policy um 11:30 11:30 P1 23 10 through 11 220 um approved for a second meeting. So I just made the motion Amanda has seconded to approve the second reading of policy 1130 and 11321 policy

0862310 policy 2311 policy 2320. Any board discussion, public comment? All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. Motion pass 7 to zero. On to Holy cow. Okay. on toformational discussion 2526 handbook work obviously is underway um bus driver handbook is done um we've got a pile of them to to get at I feel like policy committee did a really good job last year but there's always a little bit of kind of tending to upkeep um so we take direction from either Amanda or the full board on you know how you guys want us to engage with those we do have We had um Miss Myers create a draft folder of all the handbook. We did that early in the year and then as things kind of pop up and you know there's things

087that are handbook related. Um Mr. Hernandez, Mr. Rich and myself can make comments in the margin, but we'd be happy to take direction on that. I like I liked how the committees each took, you know, activities so on and so forth. I think it works well. Yeah, I like it too. Um, it has the board involved in it too. for them to follow that handbook together because you have large coordinated that's just as long as each committee comes prepared and has done their individual work. I think it would go fairly smooth especially kept up on it but that's my opinion. Yeah, I agree. I think we can look at some of that stuff again. It'll go pretty quickly. Um, one thing focus on handsap. [Music] Yeah, I think we should put a goal though to

088try to be pretty aggressive with those. It's nice to get those done in June. We've been pushed we we don't print them anymore, so it's not as time critical, but it's nicer to get those done early. If we wait till August, you know what we seeing is that folks are signing off on handbook acknowledgements that we have. Yeah. Because they just want to get their paperwork done. So, I think June is Yeah. So, how about that? I think that will be good because then that starts us out with new committees and committees meeting right away to start off the new I don't want to say fiscal year but the board fiscal year milligan survey um so the staff uh and the classified um survey is complete um discussion was had um to include that into

089the May um packet, but we thought we just put them in as a collective. We have them all done. Um I think that as of last update from Mr. Milligan, um 100 community members have completed that survey. So I actually haven't looked back to see how we did last year, but seems to be a pretty good number. Um then students are completing that survey um and their English classes. So that'll get done uh this week. Um I'll have Commissioner Milligan close the surveys and we'll probably see both in June. I think we do the same thing for us committee um to data to see some trends and things like that on those fronts. Yes. We did. Yeah. I think it's good for the board to appoint you know who I think in that um master

0906 through 12 class schedule is included in the packet. So um that is essentially a public facing document. It is a draft um you know very much so at at this point in time. Happy to take any questions which I will quickly defer to Mr. um when they've come, but um uh did they choose to move forward with a seven period day to try to get a little bit more efficient um with our staffing and a little bit more efficient with our class offerings. Uh what we really found was um you know there had been times in eighth period day especially in middle school where it kind of felt like we were trying to create classes um because you needed you know a space for for kids to go to. Um there's been years where

091we say, "Oh, we'll put them on digital academy, you know, for language or um you know, we'll try to come up with a a study skills class." And I think there's a lot of benefit to to those. Um but it seemed like we were teaching at some point in time. Heard from the board, you know, this this notion of putting two, three, four kids in a class. Um you know, it's good for those two, three, four. Um it's a pretty good deal. Um uh pretty active instruction, but might not be the most efficient use of um of district resources. So, uh I think we I think we've done I don't think it's it's not done. I would expect changes. Um I I our staff is not complete. Um we always get late resignations, we always

092get late retirements and and that changes things. So, I I would just anticipate that. Um we heard enough kind of desire from the teachers though and I think from students as well to get something out um to them. Um it's there's a lot of hours in the schedule. So happy to take any questions or comments. High school students would like to see the lunch on Friday uh changed to brunch just just to clear that up. Um It is pretty early. The complication that you could run high school lunch after, right, very easily because those kids don't eat in the cafeteria. You know, you could feed them at the same time as elementary. The problem is middle school because they run so intertwining. What time is that? Um well on Monday through Thursday it's 11:09 to

09311:47 which is not in my mind from a school lunch standpoint. It's, you know, it's half an hour earlier, but it's not really that early. Like, you see places where they eat like Friday every day, 10:30, because they're pushing kids through. That's a good point. They're all coming in at that time hungry and needing to eat anyway. They will. Um, you see some flexibilities like, you know, Mr. Ana um the four fifth grade band those students are just not available from 11:45 to 12:45 because that's their lunch time. So you can jockey and switch up a teacher's lunch and then they'll just take lunch um a little bit later. You do see a couple of teachers that aren't listed with the prep. Um every teacher um probably you know and we're kind of working on

094Miss Peters. I think it just kind of depends on how it shakes out with only having, you know, the the one true dedicated high school math teacher. She's taught a full load like that before. It does require an extended contract. She's pretty successful. Yeah. Um, you know, and so that might be something that ultimately does happen. But we do have um, you know, Miss Milton, her prep is not list on there. Miss Mon will have a prep depending on how um you know scheduling kind of shakes out. So you might see like algebra one go away um on her schedule from a prep um maybe the business map drops off and becomes a prep for her. Um Miss Oklahoma is listed under just elementary PE her prep will be determined upon elementary scheduling that takes

095place in August. It's a good start. I think I like it is clear. And that would go back there's There doesn't in our meetings um we've talked about it there needs to be an adjustment. No, I guess we said something. Well, it gives a little more time for each class. Each class a little bit longer. So, you're getting a little more instruction. There'll probably be some bumps. um when we put the schedule from I think they're already starting to to come to us like hey can you move this can you move back can you move this and th those are things that you know Mr. Yeah, you know, as soon as it's like, oh, you get ground swell, that's not going to work. She's like 10 minutes longer. Yeah, that's done. Not too short. 87

09688 when we did that. All right. Any other questions, comments? the Friday lunch. Um, is are the restaurants open for the high schoolers at 10:42? My guess would be they would probably be willing to accommodate. All righty. Um, oh, facilities master plan. Pretty much business as usual. Um, there's just a lot of messes right now. Gets clean and out lockers. Um, doing all that stuff. And Steve's team is is pretty meticulous, uh, under his leadership during the day. They don't like a lot of scrap pieces of paper. uh out during the day. Um so talk to the team like it's gonna be okay. Um there's just gonna be a lot in the hallways and so they do a good job. And so he's kind of balancing um you know his team with managing those issues,

097but they've also, you know, sprinklers are on. Um there were not major sprinkler issues. Um so they've been running pretty dang good so far. They put them away pretty well. Mowers have been out. more running. Uh Stan's weed spray um has been out. They're going to come out and spray. They did the first round already. And then whatever the cycle is on that um [Music] we said they would come back and do that and they're just going to charge for material. They will not charge the school any waiver. Um so that is um the Monson family. Um they've got kids here um in in the school. So do the favor for the school. Not sure. So that was you know much appreciated and much welcome to take things on that fronts. The building looked great

098for graduation. Um they were contending with some tile issues as the rain was blowing through. I know that Steve was up here early Sunday evening. So making sure changing those out to to put just a nice school. They got all the four-wheelers and all the side by sides and all the other celebrity showroom pieces um that our seniors uh put into put into the lobby out just in time. So really hats off to to our facilities. Did you approve that? Good job. Um, I will say that Stephen Austin came down to stuff on the stage. They're a couple of good hands. Yeah. You know, and we said under Steve's leadership, I knew they were going to take care of it from the community center. We appreciate the fact that that they do take care of

099it and they listen and I explain how to put it together and how to tell you the parts so it doesn't get destroyed because it's easily damaged. And we do appreciate the $1,500 stip. I was hoping you were more. All right. Next. All right. So, cookies. Committee reports. Committee reports. Uh, Trusty Dale, anything to update policy? Um, no, we're still plugging through um the 2000 series. And so, we'll keep doing that. We'll look at um so we're just still playing through all of the all the policies. So, I really appreciate everybody sticking sticking through it building and grounds. I think it's going well. I I do think that it's really important to continue with interior and exterior ground walks with the maintenance people to see these little things as you go through the maintenance. They're

100great about getting them done. And I think that's the way that we keep this whole facility in the best shape we can. sometime, you know, just just to take the time to walk around. Everybody's so busy and they're busy, you may not see things. So, I think we see different things. So, I think that's good. Um, this the striping in the parking lots. I think that, you know, we talked about that for safety reasons with the buses and and the flow of the traffic. And I think we even talked a little bit about getting another crossing or somebody. I think that if we improve the safety, do the best we can. So, I'm looking forward to that, too. I have a comment facilities. Okay. Well, because when I was coming in tonight, um down there

101at the gym entrance, the new gym entrance, that handicap button doesn't work. It won't open the door. And I'm not I did I did I you know, there were some other people that were going to walk through and open. I said, "No, just a minute. Let me test this. I want to make sure that and I did. I pushed it several times. So there's a button on top of that. Yeah. When they're moving in and out fourwheelers. Okay. So I bet I wonder that's a first place to check. You wouldn't be able to just see if that's the issue. If not well and if that is the issue I mean is that I mean it's fine. I would know that and I could check that if that's the issue, but other people that are coming

102for that. You know, there's usually somebody who knows, but I mean when we have big events, that might be something. Yeah. But we have to just look at them like so it's been on probably all weekend. So that's an issue. That's something that I miss a lot. Transportation's moving along. That was funny. Wheels on the bus. We will be entertaining a a bid for an expedition vehicle. So, we kind of see where the transportation budget lands. Mr. went and got a CDL. He is licensed as of today. The cameras got installed which are working great. the um we does he have the issue with the the BB? We have not gotten that solved yet. Yeah. So, well, I don't know if it's soft, but yeah, we had a we had a BB or a marble.

103What do they call those? A metal ball. Yeah. Came through one of the bus windows on Rod's route. Rod thought it was like right in front of Clear Water Jewelry. Those are off. Okay, great. Window. I don't know if the window totally shattered or if it kind of just came through in spider rope. So, I don't have full update on that. Um, thought it was kind of weird. He was kind of radioing back and forth with Sam. Says, "I want to check and see like what that was." So, they had the kids kind of look around, find a rock, and sure enough turned up like a muddy ball. Um, turns out the Rev Lodge, they have a short bus that was moving some kids. Um, I think there was a field trip because I ended

104up driving by. They had, you know, six or eight kids standing outside of their bus at Void and the same thing happened to their bus. There was another ball that had flown through um theirs. So there was um a guy out driving around whether he had an accomplice or not slingshotting um yeah metal balls through buses. Yeah, they got it. They did catch. Yeah, thanks I think to the cameras on the bus and there's one on the wheel well that faces you know outward pretty detailed. Saw the whole thing. Nice. Yeah. and another semi in Yellowstone County or somewhere had essentially the same footage. So hats off to Kelly's team that done but dangerous and scary. So but I think that's what we do. That's it. We did volleyball interviews. I think this the last

105one hiring committee. We're probably looking to get them together um to try to finish up um a couple of outstanding applicants that um you know can move forward with some elementary positions do have some considerations to make there on that front. I can also walk through some stuff that is included in the packet that that is up. So, we just posted Mr. Richard and Mr. Namies are working on kind of next year's staffing. We're losing quite a few parents um whether they're moving into a teacher role um or just moving on. So, we did begin to kind of open up the professional position um to try to develop a pool there. Um still have our middle school, high school math coaching up there, elementary teacher. Uh like I said, one applicant for special life travel

106um coaching positions are still uh posted. We'll update those though as the board has taken action on on those funds. Um on the OPI website, um we did post four and this is according to the office of public instructions kind of parameters for some of our emergency authorized teachers. So Mr. on as an emergency authorization um feature in this visa. So, they do require that you post those jobs uh just to see the applicants that are out there. They've been up for two weeks and we have zero applicants for either of those positions. So, we'll go and take those down and now we submit the paperwork for the emergency authorization um that you prove that there was a job posting applicants for those position. You did get a quality. Then we have to Yeah, we

107have to entertain that. interview. Yeah. And then ultimately the board makes that decision. Um you know if you want to move forward those two they are continually working towards Yeah. And that is that is a discussion that needs to be had. We're engaging with the union right now on that issue. Um there's nothing that says they have to do that. Right. But I think that as a school um I think we want to push I feel like the sentiment that I'm getting from the teachers as well as from the board is we want to make sure that they're doing everything in their power to continue to make progress to be a fully certified teacher. It's urgency. Yeah. I think in our hiring committee we discussed that expressed that that that is the route that and

108I think the feeling on all sides is in that same direction. And I think we talked about too like talking about this negotiations. So that's a little bit of a hiring update. Enrollment update was in there. So that's the that's the snapshot on enrollment. Got a full year um of that issue. Um, nothing report. I had one quick with the uh the levies. Are you still preparing that? Yeah, I think that's definitely a conversation that we need to have. Um, we I don't think we have any other choice to hire um a fifth grade teacher based upon numbers and where we're at. Um the consideration I think that's on the table is the situation that's shaking up in kindergarten right now. So if you go back and you look at those numbers in kindergarten um

109the current number as it sits is predicted to be 14 14 students um is is kind of where we're at on that. Um, we did not include this month four out of district kindergarten applications which would have put that number up to 17 and with the trustees ratios of 15 to1 would have pretty cleanly made that 82 staff member operation. Um so that's the consideration you know in light of you know some projected uh budget shortfalls going on. Um whether or not kindergarten holds is is kind of a big question. Are the are the four that you said hold off in case in the next month or so we get three more that pop those phone calls will be you call them say you might as well come. Yeah. and they're okay that time. Yeah.

110Yeah. Those phone calls have not been made yet, but that that will be the message that's that's delivered to them. So, they haven't been they just want to know there was no action on those students. But we're getting back into that position where the we're beginning to push some of those students out in a way and the perception of Jolli closed is going to start to pretty quickly take hold again. It's just tricky though because you can't pay for you can't split 147 is we do I I would I feel like it's prudent to be cautious at this moment in time and engage those families in conversations. say in June in July 182. Isn't that where the money is? I don't know. I'm just throwing it out there. something we wait the longest to split

111them then we scrambling for thanks for [Music] making you know yeah again happy to take guidance uh from from the board on on those issues. You know, when we put out class assignments, you know, we're putting them out as uh you know, kindergarten postings and things like that. So, there will result in some changes to to the state if those fun don't don't materialize. If we don't get any more in district kindergarters in the number of days stays at 14, I think it's probably from a budget standpoint like a pretty good deal. I don't think it's going to happen. I think the trustees are going to be faced with a decision. Do you want to run a a kindergarten at 20, 21, 22? Um, which we've done here in the past um or you know

112if the recommendation is made to hire that secondary. Yes. Yeah, you have to. Yeah. as soon as you from an accreditation standpoint um in kindergarten as soon as you what is it? Yeah, you you have to have every time you have an overload, you know, my own kid was in first grade. Yeah, our kids it was their class. It's not ideal, you know. at all to run that. My question is though, I mean with the housing situation as it is in this district, where would they where would these people live that are going to come in with these kids? I mean, I don't know. That's magically they seem to find a place. Well, and also what happens is, you know, first time first- time parents, you know, aren't necessarily always tuned in to like the

113district Facebook page, like even though we put the kindergarten round up posting in town at the gas station, sometimes they're just not, you know, queued in um to to those type of things. Um because it's their first first student and you just maybe thought, "Oh, gee, it's July um on those issues and they already lived here, you know. we just don't know. We try the best we can to make those outreaches work enough and kinder one really helps with that a lot you know because that that that word is out there but yeah migrant families can you make public comment at any time in regards to what we're discussing? Yes. Yes. Um I have I'm Julie Patterson and as a community member um I'm not sure if this was just stated because um as like

114a suggestion as a like a this would be where we would come up with the funds. But it concerns me as a taxpayer to use onetime money to pay a teacher salary. Um, speak of the 182 account. Know that the 182 account is not funded every year. Um, you're going to look at paying the teacher out of the 182 account this year and then next year have to be prepared to say, "Sorry, we don't have the money for you." So, I just wanted to bring that up as far as like one time money. If you read the news, look at what's going on in Missoula. Look what's going on in Halo. All these people paying money, paying teacher salaries with onetime money. when it's gone, it's gone and then your land is lost. So, just

115keep that in mind, please, when you're Yeah. I 100% agree with Julie that having a 10% in is, I think, a very sound decision. Um, and you know, I know that there's a perception that there's, you know, a ton of money in there balance that's in there, whatever, not a lot of money. Schools are cutting it out, right? We don't want to. All right. On to um correspondence. I interrupted. Yeah. Nothing to report. Nothing report on that. Thanks, Jason. Um Montana Department of Transportation. So, um I was asked um just from some community members to write a letter in support of kind of the concerns that are going on um down at the crosswalk. Um I did that in December. Um we have had you know multiple issues of people driving around March um coming

116up on kids not slowing down um in in that area. Um we have shared this with law enforcements. uh we've shared it you know with the city um I don't know what the solution is um I don't think that traffic control is within it's not within our realm you know we can put out all the signage we did buy it recently so we have four big kind of signs down there um I think that the city is is working with the Montana department of transportation so you do see some correspondence which I think Montana department of transportation correspondence just put it back on the the jolly city come up with something a little bit different. Um it's concerning. Um but I just wanted to include that that I think we're in support of the city

117of town as well as Mark everything. The sheriff's office does go down. They patrol it occasionally. Um but they can't do that every day multiple school districts. So are they? They're waiting for the town to give them a proposal. Okay. All right. Suggested topics for our next regular agenda. We have fund transfer authority, goal setting, strategic plan, annual goals, um review and update the organizational chart. Does anybody have anything else that you guys can think of? We will have more out of district. [Music] potential. Oh, assistant coach. So, yep. Middle school and assistant coaches for those coaches. Anything else? All right, we will move on to um canvas to votes and then certify the election so we can move on to the next meeting. will entertain a motion to well any discussion put um I

118put stuff in the board packets um that are the the return forms. These are the forms that the judges fill out um and then their individual tally forms just so you have this is the documentation the board has to use to the votes what the judges provide. Um but as just kind of an overview um there were um 725 ballots that were cast. Um four of those ballots were rejected by the judges due to various reasons either unverifiable signatures, no signatures, over votes, um those types of situations. Um six of those 725 were undeliverable. Um we only had in the the combined elementary, high school, we only had a 43% overturn, which is unusual for our school district. Um, so you can see the the results there. Um, and then in the small high school

119only district, there were 296 um voters with 116 ballots cast. Three of those were rejected, three of those were undeliverable, and there was only a 39% voter turnout. Wow. in the high school in the district. Um, and I just wanted to bring up there was a apparently we had a voter who's confused um as to why there was a question mark on the ballot itself. Um, a careful reading of the ballot shows that that sentence is actually a question. So that's why there was a question mark on the ballot. Um, all ballot initiatives are posed to the voters as a question. So, shall the district be allowed to blah blah blah blah blah question that it goes on to detail the the tax impact for that. So, I just wanted to clear that up in

120case you know anybody else had those questions. Um it's just a simple reading of the ballot um because that first sentence is indeed a question. Um since both um of those failed um obviously we have implications for next year's budget on that. Um, as far as the trustee election, we had equal to or less than the number of candidates for open positions. So, that election was called and cancelled for acclamation. So, um, Miss Jenny Abraham um will be sworn as trustee um along with Ken Adams and so we do have um forms that have to be sent into the county. Every um board member that's currently constitute will need to sign those. Um, so I can get those into the county and we can do that in the break. Um, but that's all the information

121there for you guys to certify the elections. I should have asked this question earlier, Felicia, because you probably don't you know lots of things, but um have you noticed or do you know if when we don't have a trustee election, when we have a levy election, um does that affect the amount of voters and returns that we get? I don't know. Mainly the reason is this is the first general fund levy we have run in 11 years. Um we have had one year where we had trustees on the ballot plus I think it was a 10. Um generally we get much more voter turnout than this. So I'm not quite sure if people are just fatigued with the election process since we just went through a big um federal election. I don't know the reason

122for that because that's very unusual for it is. So I'm not sure what the the dynamic is there. Um I haven't looked at other districts to see if they're experiencing that same kind of voter fatigue. So and this again this is the first time we've asked for a general fund levy um in over a decade. I know there are districts that that Red Lodge asks for one almost every year. Um theirs are super small increments because they do that. Um but I know there there are several districts in our region we've asked for general fund levies for the last three years and they all failed. Yeah. And so Red Lodge did pass their building reserve levy um for pretty good dollars. Um you know, keeping in mind that they also have a lot more facilities

123uh than than we do. Um, we were incredibly grateful to the voters last year for their pretty overwhelming support of, you know, our building reserve revenue, which is going that made some major improvements and some of that pressure um that we're feeling. Um the look around which I'm sure you guys have done to county um I didn't see one general fun in this area past I did see a lesion past a miser so you know I I think it's something it's a lesson learned moving forward I think that voters like kind of the nuts and bolts um type ballot initiatives where you can put specific information, you know, on uh on the job. I think that we tried to do that with by I think being being more narrow than we were encouraged to do.

124So with hiring staff, um yeah, there was something spoiling about the question mark um on that which um I think is you know some misinformation being spread. Um, but you know, I'm appreciative to the voters for the message that they've sent. Um, and you know, the ones that that build that favor, thank you. And the ones that that didn't. Um, and I think that just means that they want us to be a little bit more sound. Um, and a little bit more responsible with with our resources. Um, and I think we've taken taken the message. Um, the stuff that you see is, you know, that second period trying to tighten things up. Um there there will probably be some positions that are rotated around that we're not going to fill um that we will you

125know um have not actively be searching for. So hopefully we can absorb a little bit of that. I think I look at the world kind of interesting they don't understand they voted in the bond and built two brand new schools. Yeah. and tear the other one down and then they turn around the levy. Yeah. Big time. Well, they're paying for two big scoops. Yeah. And and too, I think it's important especially as you guys are out talking to voters, um ballots are very specific. So, just like with our tech levy, with our building reserve levy, even with their general fund levy, whatever it states on that ballot, that is the only thing we can use that money for. So if a ballot says to hire and retain staff, that's all we use that money for.

126It cannot be used for anything else. And that's why it's very specific in there. If we wanted it just to spend on building maintenance or general funds, that's what would be on the ballot. That's the requirements of the election law. So when we sit down as a building committee or when we sit down and do tech purchases, we actually pull out the ballots and say, "Okay, are we allowed to use the money for that?" So ballot language is specific for a reason because you are bound by that for the entire time that that levy is in place. Speaking I think hats off also changing the subject a little bit to county election. So I did hear from multiple people in the county who were called to verify their signature. I was. So, you know, if

127you're if you're ever worried about election integrity, I think they're really damn good. Multiple people were calling, "Hey, they made fun of me because they had to call me my signature and they see it all the time, but they still called and made sure that I had pretty tight." All right. So we are um waiting for a motion on the elementary trustee election byation. By the canvas to vote certify. So Matt has made the motion. Kin is seconded to accept the results of the elementary trustee election by affirmation. Do you need any more discussion? public comment. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. Motion passed seven to zero. On to general fund levy for elementary. Recommendation. The board of trustees accept the results of the elementary general fund levy. Motions were made

128by Amanda, seconded by Craig to accept the results of the elementary general fund levy election. Any more discussion? You're going to say I don't accept this. Yeah. Do we have to say what the results were in the motion? Okay. Um, Manda has made the motion Craig is seconded. Any board discussion? Public comment. All those in favor say I. All those opposed? Motion passed. 72. Recommendation is the board of trustees accept the results of the high school general. Second it. Second. Matt has made the motion. Can I second it again to accept the results of the high school general levy levy election? Any board discussion? Public comment. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. Motion passed. 720. All right. Thank you. Next regular board meeting. Well, we'll have take a short break. We'll

129do another board meeting tonight to reorganize the board. The next regular scheduled board meeting will be June 17th. After that, July 15th. And then, of course, make a note that August 12th will be the August budget adoption and business meeting. So, that will be considered a special meeting because it will be at the time motion or we are ajourned. We'll take a think we'll take a couple minutes break. I would just I would like to thank Jason for his time even though it was a bit short. Oh that he came in he learned with Amanda and I and I very much enjoyed his perspective on a lot of things whether we agree or not. We get along and I and I appreciate that. I think that's the only way a board can work is when

130you have people that can say their mind and then you get over it and work for a better school. And Jason did that and I just I appreciated the fact that we sat here and uh and you made a difference and I appreciate that. All right, motion or meeting. We'll be back in a couple minutes. I'm going to send these around for you guys to sign. I have one more I need to print off that the county did not send. You need to sign before your door. Yes, you need to sign those. I have to go. So,