001recorded. This meeting of the school board of trustees um subject to the open meeting law is being recorded in accordance with section 2-2-301 2-3202-3-203 and 2-3-214 of the Montana code annotated. All members of the board, committee, staff, and public in attendance are advised that the public portions of the meeting will be will be recorded in both an audio and video format. Cameras and recording devices are placed throughout the meeting room to complete these recordings. Everyone in attendance is reminded to honor basic rules of decorum during the meeting and guidance associated with providing public comment as stated in policy 1420F. By remaining in the meeting, those present consent to being recorded and displayed in the footage that will be posted on the school district's website. Um, for public comment, the board recognizes the value of public
002comment and the importance of involving members of the public in its meetings. The board also recognizes the statutory and constitutional rights of the public to participate in governmental operations. To allow fair and orderly expression of public comment, the board will permit public participation through oral or written com comments during this public comment section. Individuals wishing to be heard by 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
003the 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. Again, welcome to all of our guests. Do we have any public comment tonight? All right, perfect. Seeing none, we will move on to reports. Um, student council [Music] Sorry. Excuse her. Introduce yourselves, please. Right. I'm Keith Frank. I'm Matthew. And I'm Violet. So, recently uh this month, we just arrived from our uh annual trip from Salt Lake City. Pretty tired, but uh it was really fun. Full of memories. Um our video was just uploaded to YouTube. It's about 12 minutes long. Um, sadly we won't be able to show you it tonight, but you can watch on the school's website or sorry, the YouTube channel. Um, but if you
004would like to see the general marryment, that's where it'll be. As Emma said, is that what it's called? Is that the title? Uh, unfortunately, it should be. And, um, some upcoming events. Uh, the student council has a few things for the end of April and the beginning of May. We're playing the senior versus staff game which is going to be softball this year and we want to make it kind of like the end of the school year event where like everyone can join in. So we'll have probably some games going on and maybe some hot dogs and hamburgers um including the end of class competitions. All right. And we are preparing an invitation to the upcoming senior class for those wanting to be a part of the student council this fall as well as looking
005for ways to adjust the student government format to include all classes and representatives. Mr. Price wants kids to make speeches in front of the student body as the run for presidential office. We have been learning how to use the new camera. The evidence is in the video on our on the YouTube channel. and we would like to live stream morning announcements. So, we've been talking and planning um just doing that. Um we would like to extend a heartfelt thank you for all your support and encouragement throughout the whole year. So, yeah, thank you so much. Do you have any questions? All right, good job. I'm glad you had good marment. Thank you. Um, right. Middle school high school principal report. All right. I'm going to start off with um I mentioned in March that Miss
006Sharp was taking our Spanish classes to Billings. Um, so she took them on April 2nd and I just got a letter too late to put the packet um from the professor there, but so sorry that it's a little long, but I'm going to read it. Um, I'm writing to you to express our thanks to Issa Sharp for her campus visit on Wednesday, April 2nd. Issa had contacted me regarding the campus visit for students. I teach all levels of Spanish here at MSC and I'm the coordinator for languages on our campus. While I have visited many schools and language programs in the state over the last 15 years, ISA is the first to arrange a campus visit for high school students who may have an interest in enrolling in language or other classes here after they
007graduate from high school. She worked with our department and our campus staff to make this visit happen for her students. We were most impressed with her students and they were fine repres representatives of your school. Very polite, respectful, animated and overall fun to work with. Her students attended my Spanish classes 100200 level and expressed interest in the material of the day and participated at their level. We were very happy to have them in classes and after for lunch and a short discussion of the options available to them here at MSUD. We would like to thank Issa for taking the initiative to make this happen and we were impressed by the level of skill which her students possess. She's clearly doing good work in the classroom. We would be happy to arrange a visit again for
008your students in the future um and expressing thanks again. So very nice. Um, all right. We've had honor band mini tour played for our student body here on April 9th. Um, middle school high school student body. Um, AP bioanatomy and physics went to biomechanics day on April 9th as well. Uh, quarter 4 midterm was the 11th. Um, also on the 11th we sent sophomores and juniors to Bridger for the distracted driving presentation. Um Scott Delelin, our SRO, kind of coordinated with other agencies in the area, did a presentation, had a mock accident um for several other schools, including us. Um high school special ed went to the Museum of the Rockies on April 14th. Um tomorrow, the 16th, is the Wyoming math competition. Um, we have 52 high school and eighth grade kids going on
009a day off. So, that's impressive. Um, middle school, uh, highway cleanup. Um, Mrs. Sploma and, um, middle school teachers are targeting that for April 24th. Um, high school honor society is doing their highway cleanup on May 2nd. Honor band takes off to Minneapolis on April 23rd. Um, middle school dance is here in Juliet on April 26th and they as well have invited area schools to attend that. Um, Dave Arthin had reached out wanting to um present and do some education for our students um around soil health month. So they will be on campus April 24th presenting to our um biology students. Uh Envirroathon is April 27th through the 29th. They're going up to Great Falls for that. Um and it's the season of banquetss. So Lions Club banquet is April 29th. those scholarships were um
010or interviews, excuse me, were uh Monday, this past Monday. [Music] Um middle school high school music concert is April 30th. Um the musical is May 2nd and May 3rd in the old gym. Um honor society induction is set for May 5th. uh BPA nationals. Uh they head off to Orlando on May 6th. Um we have sixth grade going to Lewis and Clark Caverns. Um and they're going to Pictograph Caves as well. FFA banquet uh May 7th at the community center. Um activities banquet for winter and spring sports and activities is May 12th in the gym. Um, senior projects are May 13th and 14th. Um, seventh grade is doing their Bear Creek Cemetery in Carbon County Museum on the 15th of May. Um, and all of these, whether it's field trips or or math or science
011is in between Sam and the teachers, a lot of coordination and planning. Um, and then high school graduation May 18th at 2 o'clock. Um, 8th grade graduation is May 20th at 5:00. That's the same night as a board meeting. So, we'll have to meeting. It's at 5:00 though. Oh, for eighth grade graduation and that's right about an hour. We got it down to about 45 minutes. So, we should be good. That will be a long time. Well, we just won't have any committee meetings beforehand. Yes. Policy. Oh my. We meet a week before. Yeah. We won't want to miss whatever. Wow. The 20th is going to be crazy. Okay. Any questions for Mrs. Hernandez? I didn't write those down. They're all on the calendar. subject to change. I will look. Yes. Subject. I thought I
012do have a a brief report for Mr. Richard. Okay. Um so our assembly for March took place. U Mr. Richard wanted to give thanks to the Masons for their generous donation of Kindles. Had some kids go home pretty happy as winners of those. April s assembly will take place Friday the 25th. uh March IATS uh took place for all nursing classes on the 26th and 27th. Kindergarten roundup uh happened last Friday, April 11th. Kinder one kindergarten kids were home for that. We had 15 sign up for kinder one um and participated in that roundup. Uh students were given a readiness screener, a paper cutting activity, and some play-doh time. Uh we have two students register for kindergarten uh and take part in the roundup along with kindergarten class. Uh next year's kindergarten um enrollment is
013predicted to be at about 15. So we'll continue to keep an eye on that number. Um a thank you goes to Miss Fus, Miss Torbert, Miss MacArthur, Miss Sheffield, and Miss Stratton for all of their help in running uh kindergarten roundup this year. Elementary spring concert uh grades K1 through three took place on Thursday, April 10th. Uh thank you Miss Kerper and Mr. Orana for all their effort in arranging for that events. Um Scott Decline did classroom visits for all of our elementary students on April 2nd and 3rd. Um to talk about his role as a deputy school resource officer. And then testing update uh junior class took the ACT on April 8th. Uh students can expect to see their scores within about 5 to eight weeks. All fifth and eighth grade students completed the
014Montana science assessment. Um the third masks testing window for grades three through eight. Math and ELA testing opened on March 24th and closes on May 2nd. Um and then in the AP testing world, we'll have 10 testing sessions for a total of seven courses um that will span from May 5th through May 28th. So that's Mr. Rich's report. Perfect. Alrighty. Thank you for let him know. Thank you for sending that in. We will move on now to consent agenda. I will entertain a motion. I move to approve the consent agenda. I second. It's been moved by Ken, seconded by Amanda to approve the consent agenda. Any board discussion? Public comment. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. Motion passed six to zero. I can't count that fast. All right. On to actionable
015items. New business. BPA funding requests. Uh BPA is here to present about their upcoming trip to Nationals. Uh BPA is requesting $300 per student for financial support. Uh this year there are eight students traveling. Last year, there were six students who traveled to BPA Nationals, and the board offered a total support of $1,800. Two years ago, the board offered $300 for eight students, totaling again $2,400. uh board should consider um couple of strategic objectives including a robust CTE program that provides students with enhanced opportunities for certification in vocational fields as well as the ability to improve accelerated learning opportunities which I think the DBA helps to provide. Uh so we'll hear uh from Richard. Hello this is Richard and I am the advisor this year. Um, as you can see, I've got some of my
016students, but not all of them. They have a lot of the commitments. A lot of them do a lot of things. So, we had 20 students at regionals. That's how many kids we have in our club. All 20 students qualify and went to state. After state, we had eight students qualify. Four of them are here. And we are moving on to nationals in Orlando, Florida, May 7th through the 11th. As you can anticipate, it is very hefty costwise. So, we've done a lot of fundraising this year asking for the board support. Um, I'll let you let I'll let them talk about what they qualify. So, um, in DPA, I personally, of course, I'm Aiden again, back again, but, um, of course, uh, I I do, um, website design team and computer animation team. Uh Jack
017is actually on the computer animation team with me. Yeah. Um not introduce myself. I'm Jack Klein. I'm on the computer animation team that qualified for that along with my fellow chapter members Aiden and Ruben and Ruben uh Miller and Grady Ardy. Um and then there's Keith. I'm Keith Frank. So um I qualified two events C++ programming and website design team. So I did website design team with Aiden. Um and yeah also so taking the words out of my mouth. Okay members. So um for our website design we designed a website and basically they gave us a prompt to design a certain website for a band. So we had to make a website with a bunch of different pages and functions and a merch store and previews and a calendar and we had to integrate a
018lot into that. And I also did C++ program as I said before. So basically I'm given a test. Um it'll say make a C++ program that will do this or this sorting. And so I have to create a program that has algorithms that will take the information and make a program and then I'm graded upon that. And then for computer animation we had to learn of course 3D modeling which was no easy feat. a lot of online tutorials and stuff like that. We learned Blender which is actually used in a lot of like Pixar movies and stuff like that. It was a lot of work to learn especially with some of the hiccups we've had. Yes. Um personally the largest hiccup for me was I accidentally turned in the wrong video. So I put in
019an old video rather than the new one but I've got that all sorted triple quadruple checked and then checked with my mother to make sure that she saw that I was doing it. Um so it was approved. I mean, even though the mistakes though, we still made it to nationals. Yes. Um, learned a lot. Yeah. Really cool opportunities. We actually learned from someone who's in the business of 3D animation, which was super eye opening to how much there actually is in 3D animation. It was super cool to learn everything from him. Hi, I'm Anna Dul. Um, I made it to nationals for medical coding and health research presentation. medical coding. I'm giving um a diagnostic from a patient and I have to code it through four different books. If that's IC ICM10, diagnostic medical coding
020or the CPT medical book, I have four giant books I have to lug around with me. And then I also qualified for a health research presentation and I'm giving a prompt and has to go um basically like in front of um hospital staff and I had to convince them to have therapy dogs and the like animal assisted therapy at the hospital. So how long do some of these take you know because I know you have to go and prepare and present and you guys have to actually develop stuff. Yes. Is it like six minutes? hours. What's the time? I'd like to know the time frame for each of the ones you get. Um, so it's about a couple months we get Oh, you get it ahead of time. I thought, you know, if you're going
021in and say, "Okay, you got an hour and a half, do it." It's Oh, good. I was very impressed. Yes, it does happen with some of the national competitions. So, an example would be last year, um, if we made it a video production team, the you would have to get there at nationals and then they you' have to have all of your equipment ready and then they'd be like, "Hey, here's an hour. Make this and it's so it's a little different at national than Yeah, it is. But some tests are like my C++ test and medical cooking test. Those are in a given time frame and we have to take the test." Anna, can you can you prepare your therapy animal thing ahead of time or is that one they've given you? Presentation a very
022long time. So you have it prepared when you get it. Okay, good. So I have a couple of questions. Anna, um what medical team did you medical staff did you um present? It was just two judges. Oh, so they're pretending to be Oh, okay. So you actually Okay. All right. The other question I have because I know you guys are juniors and seniors. Um, how do you how do you plan or do you foresee yourself using these skills in your future and what you're going to go into? I mean, just the skills of learning how to do something new and being able to pick up something that's completely new to me, I feel is definitely something I would use in the future. like learning how to use Blender or learning how to use a website
023design software was definitely just a big I don't know experience just knowing how to learn to do something quickly. Uh for me it was definitely the presentation skills. Being able to come up here and do this in front of all you is definitely a skill I earned through EPA and not humbling over my own words constantly. I think that is a skill that I will use heavily. The career that I want to go into maybe science, communication, and paleontology. That is like one of my dream careers, but we will see. I don't know the future that holds. Um, I want to go into the medical world. So, being able to do my medical coding is a career that I can actually do in the future. Um, and then being able to present in front of
024people. And then C++, I'm going into mechanical engineering. um in my future. So, of course, I'll probably be using a lot of programming to make CAD models and do a bunch of different stuff, different math, statistics, anything like that. Okay. Well, I'm very impressed. And you guys do a excellent job of presenting yourselves. Very professional. And you get to wear suits in time. And they look great. I'm sure you look nice when you're not just coming. You look fine. pretty unique. Does anybody else have any questions or recommendation is to uh for board of trustees to support BPA with $2,400 to travel to nationals. I move that we support the BPA with $2,400 for their travel. Second. The motion has been made to support the BPA students with $2,400 to travel to nationals by Kathy,
025seconded by Craig. Any further board discussion? Public comment. All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed? Motion passed six to zero. Good luck guys. We want to hear how you get back. We will tell you after graduation. Yeah. You'll be front and center, right? Yeah. Have a great evening. All right. on to STARS Act and meeting with JTA. STARS Act memorandum of understanding. Uh the negotiations committee and the JTA have been engaged in discussions on three issues. The first issue is related to bringing the district into compliance with a potential passage of the STARS Act. Second, the team discussed the uniform retirement incentive. And finally, the team discussed progressive discipline procedures for teachers. Meetings were held on February 24th, March 10th, and March 31st. Committee Chair Dinsdale, Trustee Adams, and Trustee Guell
026can answer questions and give updates. Uh, in summary, anou to address the stars act and the uniform retirement incentive are presented uh for trustee consideration. There was good progress on progress discipline procedures and the team felt like both were better placed into the handbook. Um STARS Act is um in in summary an incentive that's being pushed uh from legislators during the current session um as an attempt to increase starting teacher pay in the state of Montana. Um it is you know largely known that Montana typically ranks 49th or 50th when it comes to starting teacher pay. Um at the same time we have trended in ranking about 24th 25th or 26th when it comes to median teacher pay. Um, so those the thinking here is that the starting salaries are are much lower than they
027need to be to be competitive uh to continue to recruit folks to the profession. Um, so over the past couple of sessions um they've talked about things uh related to the quality educator payment, doubling the quality educator payment if you meet a certain starting salary. Um that work um has been done uh with the negotiations committee along with the JTA. Uh it is my understanding that last Thursday uh the JTA passed the STARS Actsou uh as it appears in your packet. Um and it's up for for your consideration um as a vote here. Um trustees that were on the negotiations committee. Anything to add? I just want to say it was very it was very good to be able to sit down with the teachers and negotiate and communicate and everybody got along and and
028cooperated and everybody listened to everybody and I felt it was very very successful that way been through some that are not quite as cordial and you know I want to thank the teachers for your willingness to do that in the committee. I just think it went very well and I think we have a very fair thing for the school and a very fair thing for the teachers. So appreciate you guys supporting that, approving it and we can move forward. So now that it passes, is there an update on that? Yeah, there was something today. No, there was. So uh thanks to Julie Patterson uh who live streams the session. Um sorry Julie, that's not nice. Um I I did get a text message. Hey, they're talking about Stars Act. So, um I also I also
029tuned it in um and past the second reading um 40 to 10. Um so we anticipate the same. I I don't know if there was an update on when the third reading was scheduled. Um but that'll be the last piece at the Senate level. It's already passed the House. Three readings, three readings required in the Senate, and then of course it has to go to the governor's office uh to be signed for it to become law. Um it's a governor supported and initiated bill. So if it clears the Senate, the the thinking is that it will have no problem with those numbers. It sounds very Yeah. And I I appreciate the fact that we did what we did because when we get the emails that says if it if it passes on the 15th, that
030has to be approved by your union and in on the 15th. If they don't pass it till the 20th, it's due on the 20th. So any schools that are waiting to see how it happens before they go through the process are not going to get it first year. We were on top of that ahead. It was nice to be proactive there and I feel like we got a lot done in the few sessions that we had. It was very productive. This is the only process I know. I've never been part of the way the old way that was that I hear about. We're going to keep it this way. Yeah. But yeah, we have good momentum to keep it this way. So I don't know why we wouldn't. So yep, strategic objectives are noted effectively
031recruit and retain staff. Um recommendation from the negotiations committee is the board of trustees approve the stars act with JTA for the quarter. So move second. Motions been made by Ken, seconded by Amanda to approve the STARS Act MOU with the JTA for the 2025 2026 school year. Any further board discussion? Public comment. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed? Motion pass six to zero retirement incentive uhou I'm going to make a change to my recommendation on this but just as background same story issue uh negotiated in commission or in negotiations committee um the essence of the work was to try to clarify um a set retirement incentive based upon the number of years of service to the district uh as opposed to current language in the CBA that essentially that the
032district may offer a retirement incentive um if there's money available um runs into a situation where from year to year it could be different. It could be one year health insurance, it could be $1,000 payout, it could be three years of health insurance. So, I think that both sides and both teams really agree that it's just better to have a set um retirement incentive. Um our current uh CPA identifies 10 years minimum to be able to qualify for that. There was good discussion about that. Um, a lot of I think we I think in total we looked at over six different options that were going on in other similarsized districts. Um, made a couple of recommendations to increase it to 15 years. Um, and then that would be essentially um the retirement incentive for those
033folks having 15 but not yet 20 years uh to be two years of health insurance. And then it kind of goes up once you hit 20 years. Uh and then we had another threshold of 30. Um my understanding is that um the the union did not take action on this just because of a couple of clarifying questions that they have. Um so I don't ultimately I think we're going to get there. I think we're going to get to an agreement, but there was just a number of questions and I don't want to speak for anybody in the union. That's just the information that I'm getting. Um so I think at this moment in time happy to take discussion but my recommendation is to table the action uh for this evening and wait to see what
034the questions were. I move to table. Ken has made the motion and Kathy has seconded to table retirement incentive. the retirement incentive um sorry incentive with the JTA for the 2025 2026 school year. Any further discussion? Any public comment? All those in favor say I. I I all those opposed motion passes 620 annual leave payout for Mrs. Myers administrative assistant per Montana code annotated 2-18-16 annual vacation leave may be accumulated not to exceed two times the maximum number of days earned annually as of the end of the first pay period of the next calendar year. Excess vacation tax is not for forfeited if taken within 90 calendar days from the last day of the calendar year. Additionally, district policy 5334P states the district may have it sole discretion andor subject to terms of the collective
035bargaining agreement provide cash compensation for unused vacation leave in of the accumulation of the vacation leave. Uh, Miss Myers uh has a job that you, you know, it's hard for her uh to to take leave and even when she's taking leave, she's still coordinating a lot of stuff from home. Um, so she did her best. Um, the business office was on her uh to try to get her to use up a lot of leave and she did uh do that. Um, but my recommendation is the board of trustees approve the annual leave payout from Marina Myers of $1,521. Make a motion. Thank you. It's been moved by Kelly, seconded by Craig to approve the annual leave payout from Marina Myers of $1,521. Any board discussion? I think we appreciate Marina and she was on her
036days off also and she's also here. Any um public comment? All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed. Motion pass 620. Asphalt reservicing building and grounds committee met on March 25th to review fiscal year 25 expenditures from both the voted and permissively levied building reserve funds. Uh completed projects over the course of the last fiscal year include perimeter fencing, uh installation of two classroom modular unit, kitchen appliance upgrades, new door locks, among others. Uh the committee then discussed fiscal year 26 expenditures. Committee is recommending the district move forward the bid from Whartans to resurface all asphalt areas. The committee also decided to bring an exterior lighting bid uh to the full board for consideration when we receive it. Committee chair Adams, Trusty Steen, and Trusty Dinsdale can update and answer any questions
037if you'd like to do so. I think we had good discussion. We talked a lot about, you know, asphalt and paving is really important to keep up on it to get behind it's a mess and then you have to completely replace it. The other thing we're working hard on is changing the striping for parking and make it more efficient for traffic flow and a big one and I know at least for me I think the other ones is the safety of the kids and the way that people can't go the right way when they leave the park. There's a right way and wrong way, right? We're going to teach them. So, I think that's that's part of it is to try to try to make it safer for the for the parents and for the
038drop off area and all that and adjust some of the parking. We don't have a lot of parking. We got to get as many spaces we can without making them a lot narrower to where we're taking just adjusting a few things. I think we can we can improve the the traffic flowing. Are you guys going to put arrows in the high school parking lot, too? I don't know. Right now, I don't know if we talked about angling those or not. The ones out front will be angled. So, it's easier to drive in and come straight. And then that way when you back out, you have to go the way you're supposed to instead of turn around, go backwards because you're picking up your kid, you want to beat the other one, and then you're going
039head on into somebody else. So, there's some traffic flow issues that we're trying to correct with changing the angles. Not sure how that would work in in the high school parking lot. It's a thought if it's an issue over there, too. I mean, I don't I don't know if it really is. This space is a lot bigger over there. With the jog into the old school, you know, that space is pretty big. We're going to adjust it at the entrance to the old school where it says no parking parks there anyway. We're going to fix that. Maybe put some handicap there. The idea behind that I think is good that if you put handicap spots there and we don't typically fill those up on a normal school day that those will then be left empty.
040Otherwise now they're subject to you know fines um because they're parked in a handicap space. So that should prevent those those kids teachers. Oh yeah. Then we're trying to do some things back on this back side too. the way the parents come in and park and get ready to grab the kid and boogie out and we just don't want anybody to get hit and hurt. So, we had some other ideas for out there and for supervising part that we're still discussing. Main thing is is striping and as Yeah, there was also, you know, kind of a an idea that was floated at coffee this morning um on this. Somebody mentioned that at a previous school they had been to or maybe a family member's school that the at this particular school in the drop off
041line like we have that they do not allow parents to get out of their vehicle to bring kids into the building. So the only reason I I I think it's it does make sense to me, right, that therefore you would prevent all of that parking down in the dumpster area, the pinch point, all because people want to drop off and they want to bring their kids in. We It would be a cultural shift here in Jolly because Oh, like not bringing them in at all. Not bringing them in. I think if they're in the line here, you got to keep that line. Well, typically those people don't get out, right? But what what they're saying is that well, you're right. You're the only way to get into the building is to do a quick drop
042off and we provide no parking uh for for people, which like I said, I think it would solve a lot of problems. Uh, from the parking standpoint, it would make that line a little bit longer. I do, but I think the flow would go I think it would make in all honesty, I think it would make arrival, you know, um, a lot simpler for that purpose, but it would be a a cultural shift because we have a lot of parents that, you know, we still have that luckily for us, that small community, you know, feel uh to Where would that line go though? Clear down. It would probably go. It would probably extend it down quite a bit. That was an idea that was thrown out. Have a traffic safety officer like move. Well, that
043was another idea on TV. That was that was a segment and that that would I think in my mind probably also solve the problem if you had a person out there managing traffic and that is something that we could pretty easily pay for without transportation dollars, right? So, it's not going to hit hit the general fund. It becomes one of those unique jobs to hire. uh kind of like the crossing guard, you know, they're like generational people that come around that, you know, are available to do a split shift. But I also think that would solve the problem. So if you know anybody out there that's interested Yeah. Well, yeah. No, I mean my husband's one if you don't go over here to drop the kids off because the line takes forever. I go through
044the line but then just rage in my car. I have a question ideas on the bid. Um the additional um can upgrade to sand seal. Did you guys decide to do that? It was worth it. Yeah, we didn't know actually what that was. I don't know if Steve made the connection yet. I think we was just waiting on full board action because they wanted to bring it to the full board before we move forward. So, are we approving the 34 266? I think we should approve up to the um 38. Y Yeah, I think we should approve it with that additional 4,000. I move to approve the asphalt. I'll second. [Applause] K has made the motion. Kelly has seconded to approve warden. Approve wardens up [Music] to the 38 whatever that number comes to. Should
045we say 39? Yep. 39. 39,000. Is there any board discussion? public comment. I have a question. How how often do you think it takes? Can you come and thank you? How often um does it take or do you have to resurface do that as in order to keep up? Yeah. So, the bid is uh life expectancy is 5 to seven years. So, our school usually does it every what five years? Well, the the play just redid that, but it's almost needing some some help. And then I think included in that is the is the the high jump. High jump. Yeah, we're going to do the high jump. The high jump. So, about every five years is your plan. And and it depends. So, you can go with different levels of options um in the bid.
046So, it talks about um if you look at hard drives bid, they've got one coat uh which gives you one to two years, that'll cost you 11 grand. And then if you move down in in the bid, apply two coats, that's 16,000. If you apply five to six, it's 32,000. So, you can up the the level in order to not have to do it as much. um committee thought that the so the five to seven years that's what you're getting with that additional $4,000 and that's well the other thing is if you just did the the cheaper one for one year every year you have to restripe which is another chunk I know so I think it was done like three it was done before we were on the board you know and then three
047years ago three or four years ago I think it's I think at least for because it has done it has been done since I've been in the superintendent. No. Okay. Thank you, Dolly. Any other public comments? All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed? Motion pass six to zero. All right. On to personnel hires uh for certified staff. Victoria Ward hiring committee interviewed elementary candidates on March 28th. Hiring committee's recommendation is the board of trustees hire Victoria Ward as a teacher for the 2526 school year. I move to approve Victoria Ward. I second. Amanda has made the motion. Kathy is seconded to hire Victoria Ward as a teacher for the 2526 school year. Any board discussion? Public comment. All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed. Motion pass 620. Lenor
048Shoemaker, teacher. Hiring committee interviewed elementary candidates again on March 28th. Hiring committee's recommendation is the board of trustees hire Lenora Shoemaker as a teacher for the 2526 wage. I move that we hire Shoemaker as teacher for the 2526 school year. Second. Motion's been made by Kathy Kenned to hire Lenor Shoemaker as a teacher for the 2526 school year. Any board discussion? Public comment. All those in favor say I. All those opposed. Motion pass 6 to zero. April 15, 20 uh 2025 personnel action report. Um included in the personnel action report for this month is uh most of our uh classified staff. Uh there is action on par educators and aids, some hires, some resignations. Uh administrative assistance hires, facilities team hires. Um in the kitchen, uh two rehires and one resignation. Transportation all rehires. Um
049recommendation is made for Miss Metis for summer school teachers. is the sole applicant for that. Um and then Lil Hawks Estate Daycare recommendation is to hire Amber Bailey and Monica recommendation is the board of trustees approved April 15th 25 personnel action report. We'll make a motion to accept and approve second. Kelly has made the motion. Craig has seconded um to approve the April 15, 2025 personnel action report. Any board discussion? Public comment. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed? Motion pass 620. All right, on to policy. 11:30 and 11:30 P1. Policy committee met on April 8th. Policies presenting this month were found to be in need of updates. Policy sheriff Dinsdale and other members of the committee will update the board. First policy is recommended. Board of trustees approve the first reading
050of 11:30 and 11:30 P1. Trusty Dale. Um, so 11:30 and 11:30 P1 as committees. Um, I just thought it would be a good idea to take a look at these um and probably take a look at them every year about this time um before we uh receipat the board and um reassign committees and whatnot just to make sure that everything is still accurate and we're all still in agreement how our committees work. Uh we have a lot of committee meetings throughout the year. I think they work pretty efficiently. We get a lot done during the committees. Um, so I just really wanted to, you know, take a look at these and just um, make sure that they accurately represent um, who we are and what we're doing. Um, I thought we had looked at 11:30
051previously, but we haven't looked at it in a while. So, we are proposing to update it to the model policy, which actually just gets rid of rid of a lot of redundant language. um our current policy just reiterates the same thing over and over again. Um so the the new one, the proposed one is just much cleaner. And then uh with P1 um there was one one I think only one change um and that or no I guess there was two two changes just um the statement about committees and then in negotiations just clarifying that's um negotiations committee also looks at the superintendent contracts. So I move to approve the first reading of 11:30 11:301. Second that. Um Kenneth with a motion I seconded to approve the first reading of policy 11:30 and policy 1130P1.
052Any board discussion? And I have copies here. Felicia copies of our committees and who's on each of the committees. just to reorient ourselves um and think ahead I guess to next month when we receive the board. Any other further board discussion? I think our committees get a lot of work done which helps our board meetings run a lot smoother and more efficient. Um any public comment? All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed? Motion pass 620 2310 uh is related to the selection of library materials. Current and proposed policies are included. Uh recommendation is the board of trustees approve first reading 310. Trust. Yeah. So the only change there was just um you can see it highlighted in the proposed one. It got rid of the um school library bill of rights, which
053none of us knew what that was. Um so we didn't want Yeah. We didn't want to commit ourselves to something that possibly doesn't exist anymore. We don't know what it is. So So we're updating the model there. Entertain a motion. I'll make a motion. Second. Craig has made the motion. Ken has seconded to approve the first reading of policy 2310. Any board discussion? Public comment. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. Motion pass 6 to zero. 2311. Um, again, you can see the the highlighted change in the new policy. Um, just clarifying that we're consistent with state standards um, and updating um, instructional materials. I'll make a motion for 2311. I'll second that. Motion's been made by Kelly, seconded by myself to approve the first reading of policy 2311. Any further board
054discussion? Public comment. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. Motion pass 620. 2320 is related to field trips, excursions, and outdoor education. So again, you can see the updated language there. Um, so we liked some of our language and our old policy that field trips um were approved by the building principal and that they have an educational purpose. I will argue that every field trip has an educational purpose. I love field trips. Um and then uh we wanted to um include the language referring back to policy 8132 and then that parental um permission is required for these kinds of trips. I move to move the first reading 2320. I second moved by Ken, seconded by Kathy to approve the first reading of policy 2320. Any board discussion? Public comment. [Music] All those
055in favor say I. I. All those opposed. Motion pass 620. 2312P1 is being uh recommended to be removed from the district policy manual um because it's outdated. Trusty Vinsdale. uh it's removed from the template policies within MTSBA and the language about copyright is included in the student handbooks. So there's a lot of words that we didn't need. I'll make a motion to remove 21 or 2312 P1. I'll second that. Kelly made the motion. I seconded to remove policy 2312P1. Any board discussion? Public comment. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. Motion pass six to zero. All right. On to old business. The following policies are grouped together into a single motion because they receive unanimous support at a first reading. 5120 2162 P2 2163 2165 2165F 2250F recommendation is that the board
056approve the second reading of those policies. I'll make a motion for that. I'll second it. Kelly has made the motion Amanda has seconded to approve the second readings of policy 5120, policy 2162P2, policy 2163, policy 2165, policy 2165F, and policy 2250F. In any board discussion, public comment. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. Motion pass six to zero. On toformational and discussion items. First item is to review the certified ballot. Felician has put the copies of the ballots. um into the packet. Um as you recall, uh we're voting on a $50,000 levy uh in the high school. That's the first ballot. Um elementary school has elementary and high school. Yeah, gotcha. Um elementary um information is included. uh taxable values um increases on property owners um as you know required by state
057law at the 100300 and $600 levels. So those are there. Any questions about the balance? Anything to add on? Um the information on the Milligan survey we approved that um last month was sent out to teachers classified staff has the link to complete that. Uh I'm actually going to remind them and give them till tomorrow uh to get that done. We've got a staff P event in which they'll be able to uh work on that in addition to some classroom time. Um I don't give them till tomorrow with the parents uh so our parents can see it. Um and then we'll also notify parents that students are going to see something similar. Um so aim is to have that done by about May 15th um to take a look at that data assembl um to
058to review the data and track some changes budget. Um Felicia put the preliminary budget data sheet um any notable updates that you'd like to mention there? Um the legislature did pass the inflationary increase. We got our 3% has been signed by the governor. There will be another update if and when the stars act passes. Um, OPI has until June 1st to provide solid year budget data. So, we're still in limbo. A couple bills are passing. And there's also that is the sixth grade A& is that for this year or would that be for I think it's for the next year. So, there is a bill out there to fund right now sixth grade is funded at the K1 through five um level which is a different level than middle school funding. um the per pupil
059is higher for middle school and high school students. There's a bill currently um that if the school has an accredited sixth grade in their middle school that those sixth grade students will also be funded at the middle school level. So that would be nice. So that would have an impact on us increase those general fund projections. from Activities Co-op. So um committee got together to um discuss the potential partnership between Jolliad schools and Fberick schools um on an all activities co-op um action that the um committee recommended uh that we take at the the middle school um I mean at the community level as well as the school level um was to engage the community and students in a survey. Um, so that survey information um is included. Um, there was also a a number
060that came out of that committee meeting um about $30,000 um that Bloomberg would have to pay Joliet schools to participate um in uh a potential activities co-op. And that number was based upon taking total enrollment of Joliet schools in grades 5 through 12 and adding it to the total enrollment of Framberg schools and then the percentage of students that prom was contributing um was 10% or 15 I think it was about 15% of of the students participating. We took 15% times the total activities a rough total activities budget of about $200,000 that it cost us to run our activities pay reps uh activities drivers uniforms um on on a typical year. And there did not seem to be a great deal of hesitation for proper schools. Um Felicia look Felicia looked into their activities spending
061um because that's all you know public information and they're they're spending about $80,000 on activities anyway. Um so to some extent it would be you know a savings for schools uh to participate. Um but that seems like a reasonable number uh to them in addition to all the other things that are kind of bulleted there. um that all coaches are hired through Jolli public schools. Uh no mascot name, color changes. Um Frberg students would participate as Jolli JHawks. Uh transportation of students to Jolliet would be Fberg's sole responsibility uh to get them here. All games, all competitions would take place in Jolliet. Um some practices there could be a benefit to that. Instead of having to have a late practice, you might be able to leverage some gym space over in Thrombbert. That way, you
062know, boys basketball could practice, you know, over there and then girls basketball could practice right after school. Student, our students would be on the hook for getting themselves to practice just like they would be from home to here. Um, I don't see a major problem with that. Um, the survey results kind of mirrored um, you know, the students as well as the community. 65 um community members and this is these I'm reading most recent numbers so they may be a little bit different than what you're looking at in the packet. Um 85 84.6% of the respondents supported Jelly schools entering into an all activities uh cooperative. Um so 15% um didn't think it'd be a good idea. So 55 votes to 10. One of those was a duplicate. um but it wouldn't sway the um
063the numbers all that greatly. And then the student survey, we now have 147 respondents. Um I think that when I issued the board packet was it was 105 or 135. Oh 105 were 105 had yes votes. Yeah. So that number went up to 112. Um and then the no votes stayed the same. So you have um you know a few more no votes or a few more yes votes. 76% of our students um expressed um a positive reaction to moving to all sports co-op. So, it's not up as an action item. Continued discussion. Hopefully, there's some public comment to help um you know, maybe need to make a recommendation for next. I thought the community meeting was great. Um Craig was there. There's, you know, a handful of us that were there. Community was there.
064From schools was there. Um it's recorded. We linked it up in the survey. uh we looked up the discussion that was had last month. So I think people have been given quite a few opportunities if they want to get the information um out there. There's obviously you know some some concerns you know about it that I think we all know as well. The cons the cons are there uh as well. So was it MHSA activities like speech and drama? Yes. But like BPA no I think we would open that up. FFA they have that. They have us at We wouldn't I mean those would be just question something that they don't offer honor band they offer they would yeah we offer pet bands and they don't all they would be yeah okay I appreciated some
065of the kids's comments yeah thought it was fun to read well and I mean I think you know the ones that I was, you know, really looking at like they they understand that this is an opportunity um for both schools. Um, you know, there there's a comment a couple comments in here that they can clearly see that that it's um could be mutually beneficial. So, I thought I thought that was very insightful, especially coming from I mean, one of them was from a fifth grader. So yeah, and they the students did ask the question. So this is a fifth grade student this year asking about, you know, sixth grade next year. Um would they'd be allowed to participate in code girls, right? Which is not in MHSA, not typical activity. But that thing that's run
066after school, you know, I think if we're going to get into this co-op, I have no problem. you know if their parents want to get them over here to participate in code rules. So that survey also went to the no just could maybe from folks got online and took it. So what we did was send it as a direct message to through our infinite campus platform. That way we can guarantee that every person that's in our infinite campus system got it. Um but then we also did put it up on Facebook. Um so at that point in time it becomes you know you ask people to put the emails in. We didn't share those um out but you know you can kind of look through the emails um and piece together who might be who
067um and most of the folks looked familiar. You know most of I don't think we had a big influx of you know out of area or anybody trying to sway it. That happens that happens. public's public comment. One quick question. Um, so with the 30,000 like what what is Juliet's plan to do with that? Are we giving the kids a break on their activities cost or what are we doing with those 30,000 for our school? I think it was discussed in the in the committee meeting that it would go towards all the fees that we still have to pay for reps and uniforms things like that. Uniforms uniforms. It would be it would be a general fund boost. General fund pays for all of our coaches, pays for all of our bus drivers, pays for
068all of our uniforms, equipment, all that kind of stuff. There might be if we if we get more kids into sport, would we need to add another system? And those from our kids would be required to pay the same amount as the Jolly kids participation because what we charge our kids now doesn't put a dent in the fees for all of those activities. So yeah, I think that it's not a clean answer, but I think I think the real answer is general fund relief. Okay. Any other board or public comments? Yeah, I just have a couple of questions and I'm sorry if these are naive because I may have missed the answers to these. So hopefully they'll be simple. Um, one of the kids asked and I thought this was a good question. would it
069influence our ability to co-op with Central in any way for those sports that we co-op with them? That's still all in the clear that we have with that. And then I think it was worth noting one of the I don't know if it was a kid or a parent asked, you know, eligibility requirements. We hold our kids to a high standard here and we have a different education than they do in Frober. I just think that's worth noting and thinking about how to hold them to those same standards for eligibility as we require of our kids. Um, and last question is this middle school and high school or just high school? 5 through 12. 5 to 12. Okay, perfect. So, yeah, just the eligibility I thought was a good eligibility one came up from um
070does not allow their students to participate if they have a D or an F. In Joliet, we part we allow them to participate with an F. Um, we don't have not in they were a Yeah, it's an F across the board, but middle school eligibility is different because it's weekly and high school midterm quarterly. So high school's four and a half week terms, middle school's week by week, but both are you have to have you can't participate, right? So I don't know if I maybe I don't know how I that came out of my mouth but in so our kids can participate with the Yes. Yeah. In Fr. But there is a there is this kind of like we have this set idea of an expectation of what an A, a B, a C, a
071B or an F is. Is that expectation the same at a different school? Yeah, just food for thought. But thank you for the answers to the other questions. Thank you, Mr. Because I think that the cooperation with central they've allowed us to run our eligibility as we best see fit. Right. And correct. Yeah. So if we want to keep it get out we're and that has seemed to work. Yeah. Yeah. We haven't had any issues with that. But they we did discuss in that committee meeting um the drug testing policy as well. Yeah. They follow ours. And they would follow ours. Yeah. Anything else that needs to Mandy that we've missed discussing or questions that were asked that at one of the meetings I think at the very first they say that Braber would pay
072for their helmets for football because that's an extreme expense. So they're going to take care of that and that's like six 700 bucks a helmet. So that would not be dropped on us. They're red. No, they have they just I think they have a red face mask. Yeah, the face mask instead. And they did say that they would change those face masks to green in that committee meeting. Yeah. Any other public comments or board discussion? All right. On to kindergarten. ground up. Report was made in Mr. Richard's uh report on that. So, moving along, master K12 class schedule, ongoing discussions, ongoing uh ongoing discussions, some good momentum on uh putting together, you know, both a seventh period and an eighth period day to continue to weigh those um as we, you know, have resignations come
073in. uh those things then you know create like a whole different plan um on on those. So I know that there's some anticipation you know and rightfully so uh from our teachers to get the master schedule out um and we're recognizing that and we want to make sure that they're feeling comfortable. Uh we are engaged in you know some personal conversations with teachers that might be making a bigger shift um than than they would typically see. So it does take some time. Um, but you also really, I think from from our standpoint, want to be cautious with those conversations because you don't want to upset uh the apple cart too much if we then get a resignation or two come in and then they get moved back and you're you're jocking people around the story
074here and Miss Richard's not here anymore. Uh, but when we hired Miss Richard, she was going to be a fourth grade teacher. Um, and then we moved her into like eighth grade English and then ultimately she landed in art. Um, so it's just a lot of like unnecessary conversations. So I know that there's a desire to get that information out, but sometimes it's less bouncing around, if you will. Um, facilities master planning, I put in the committee looked at the boiler, uh, the high school boiler bid, you know, to the to the tune of something, you know, about 90 $90,000. um decided that probably better to hold off this year and then maybe think about that for fiscal year 27 um on those that was kind of the big the big issue that we didn't
075choose to move forward with in the facilities master planning. Uh we just completed the interior grounds walking looks pretty good. We got a pretty good list though things to add. No, I think it went well. It was good to go through the building. I like doing that period. Interior next year. Encourage anybody that wants to go whether it's public or on the board. I think it's good to walk through. And as we finish one negotiations session, we are straight into the next. Um, Miss Fis, the president, has submitted the JTA negot negotiations opener. Um, so I think the committee decided that it would be good to start that early. So, um I reached out to the Department of Labor and Industry to get Max. Um good news on that front. He did not retire. Uh
076so he will Yeah, he so he will be able to um I I scared a couple people up there um when I said that we heard Max retired like no. Um so he'll be we'll get him secured and so he can be here for interest based bargainings hopefully in September. Enrollment update is included. um current openings uh staffing update. We'll get we'll get the traffic guard um put on onto the hiring page. See if we can't get that figured out. Kitchen inspection was included. Overall, pretty dang good job going on in the kitchen. They were directed to clean up the ice maker, which is pretty typical of commercial kitchens. Did you just say you need a new crescent? Someone hand me down. Are we all just the ones? [Applause] We forgot Mr. Right. We forget
077every year. I always forget his contract. I have not heard otherwise. Have you asked? Don't mention those. All right. content. Um, did you go through everything superintendent schedule? Nothing to report. There wasn't any correspondence. Um, suggested topics for the next regular agenda, which will be after the eighth grade graduation on May 20th. I always thought they did. I thought it was Wednesday, too. I think it was Wednesday. Why did you guys mess that up? Well, this is what happened. Graduation's on Tuesday. Always. It just used to be on Monday. Depends on depends on our class at the school, right? So, this year we're gone a full week. High. So seniors graduate on a Sunday. We go Monday through Friday. Um so normally like eighth graders, it's actually normally Monday. Yeah. Is it? Yeah. Because they
078would finish up um do a trip and then like Friday morning. Anyways, long story short, it's because we're going the full the full week. Yeah. I believe. Thank you. Um so topics for next regular agenda, hire the crossing guard. Um non residential enrollment, higher fall and winter extra and co-curriculars will canvas the votes and certify the election. And then anybody else have anything to add to that? And then we'll immediately after our regular agenda, our regular board meeting, we will go into a special board meeting. We'll swear in a new trustee. Two, three new trust. Well, one one new one, brand new and two two. Um, we'll reorganize the board assignments for committees and we'll think about appointing appointing the clerk. wait till after the evaluation for that. Yeah. Um I we should have added
079on here um is everybody going to make it to high school graduation because that will be before our next party. [Music] He said he'll be there next year. Well, there we go. Yeah. I think he doesn't have a choice. Yeah. Let's talk about it. Yes. Yes. Because I wanted to I already talked to Mandy and she approved it. It's done. Okay. Hey, it's done. Isn't that right? Discussion. Perfect. So, you just wait till you get there and we'll put on anybody cares. So, we do. Well, I mean that we changed it. It'll be good. I think it'll be better. I think it will be great. Kids will like it better. They'll be able to actually see their kids. See their kids. You're welcome. I'm brilliant sometimes. Only on occasion. I know. Only on occasion. I
080had help. All right. Um, we are going to go into executive session. We have a couple performance reviews and we will come back out and and end our board meeting. But our next board meeting is May 20th at 6:30 and then our special one will immediately follow after that. Thank you for coming. We'll take a quick five minute