March 2025 Regular Board Meeting

001the um read first this meeting of the School Board of Trustees Committee of the Board of Trustees or committee subject to the open meeting law is being recorded in accordance with Section 2-2 d301 2-3 d202 2-3 d203 and 2-3 d214 of 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 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 rule of decorum during the meeting and guidance associated with providing public comment as stated in policy 1420 F by remaining in the meeting those present consent to being recorded and displayed in the footage that will be posted on the school

002district's website um the board recognizes the value of public comment 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 comments the board will promot public participation through oral or written comments during the 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

003control the comment period to ensure an orderly progression of the meeting and may redirect or terminate an individual statement when when appropriate including when statements are out of order too lengthy personally directed abusive obscene or irrelevant again welcome to everybody do we have any public comment tonight all right seeing none we will move on to reports um student council okay um so introduce yourself first Violet I'm to Frank thank you Viet thank you um some past events that we did in the last few months we did two assemblies for districts and divisional basketball um at one of them we did everything but a basketball competition against you know a person from each grade and it was quite funny we had like different objects not a basketball and they all had to run and grab five

004and shoot them all in the basketball it was very fun to watch and then the other prbly we had we did our bottle flipping contest um trying to bring back old Trends and it was very fun to watch both assemblies were lots of fun lots of energy we want to thank all our cheers and BR energy before um Mr oron for running all the music and Mr R for the you know everyone very excited and everyone St inv to help do those fun games and then for upcoming events uh the student council is preparing our trip for Salt Lake City for General Merit M horn um commander and celebration of leadership Mr Price we have run into a bit of resistance for our annual High School Funday um because of various things mostly because scheduling

005we're looking into alternatives to our usual ideas our current idea is to possibly take school to the Cody rec center for that day um it's a big facility with a lot to offer and it would just be a fun time for everyone more to come on that one um I think some of us have been with Cody re Center it has swimming pools basketball hoops it has basically anything you could imagine um student board is also looking toward the end of the year activities which is coming faster than we thought with ideas is about staff versus senior softball game grad cap decorating and the final student body activities we're also going to be testing out a new camera to live streaming morning announcements so T stay tuned and ongoing events um our student council is

006committed to encouraging the student body making a positive impact on faculty and students and priding school spirit and citizenship sorry um any questions or comments W they're letting you guys off easy tonight yeah joking all right well thank you guys yeah thank you oh sure yeah Mr Price uh so they didn't say it on could you introduce yourself sorry Mr Price have a few hats I'll explain those here in a second at those was I think the those Prett jokes that we said in hearing lots of good feedback from that so I'm G keep doing those anyway um so on top of being uh the Stu the student council advisor I have a few other hats and I thought I'd take this time just to to add on those a little bit uh Mr Rana

007and I are going to be doing the school play the School Musical um and so um we want to give a little quick report on that right we're doing the big bad musical so it's big guy wolf on trial um we got some good high school turnout but probably not enough so we're going to tap into the middle schoolers to help out with that um Mr R is an excellent teacher it's been fun to see him after the kids and so we wanted a little bit help with that and I'm a theater guy so we're going see we can do theater tradition here at jolet um my other hat is about the scholarships particularly the community um the J Community scholarship um they do that every year with that so those letters have been sent

008out to the community for those potential donors um and then I wanted to um kind of extend an invitation on April 14th we're going to be interviewing for those scholarships for those kids that have signed up for it and we're in need of a board member who would like to sit in and panel to decide who gets those things so if you're interested in that please let me know there'll be one board member three community members and then a teacher with that all right my other hat that I wear is the English teacher and coming up here near the end of the year are the senior projects that we do every year um with the presentations for those and I know some of you have been uh judges for that in the past or been

009on the panel of that and I also extend another invitation if you'd also like to spend more time in the school listening to students and their activities and what they've been doing um it's rather interesting last year there there's some quite quite some interesting projects they did so um I know there was a lot on addition to my advisor role but I thought it' be a good time to do that as well do you guys have any questions on those the play or the community scholarship or the senior projects that are up coming when when did you say they'll be doing the senior project senior projects will be it's like I usually have it like the second week in May U with that scheduling is a mess but that's usually when to have it I

010think last year was May 13th so be like 13th and 14th right about that time and then they have a week that I can grade those things before they graduate and when were the community scholarships again the interview for those will be April 14th uh the Lions Club they're doing their interviews that morning and then we'll do our interviews in the afternoon for that so the kids can dress up one time be dressed up all day though all day I know it's horrible but yes I would like be dress I would volunteer for your senior project okay if no one else wants to do it if you want to you're sure welcome it's good experience appreciate appreciate it very much okay and DCd if you would like to be part of that just let me

011know right I am here all the time so any other question question all right just another shout out to my student council they are absolutely you so much time this SC so they deserve the marry and Leadership you have to lead them to the bus and lead them to the restaurant okay and with that I think we can thank you guys thank you all right Elementary principal Mr Rich all right so we will start off with our February sore assembly took place on Friday February 28 our next sore assembly for March is going to be next Friday at 1:30 in the new gym it February it meetings took place on February 26 and 27th our March it meetings are going to be taking place next Wednesday and Thursday um we had recross America week and

012Dr Seuss's birthday celebration all wrapped into one to celebrate those two events Mrs posie arranged for all the Elementry kiddos to dress wacky on March 5th to celebrate we had another round of PS Heroes training for teachers to voluntarily sign up for we had four additional elementary teachers take part in that Pack's training and the March Madness book bracket throughout March Mrs Lind has been putting on a book bracket for all Elementary classes to participate in um head-to-head matchups for um Elementary books and the classes go and vote on their favorites that who will advance throughout the bracket so thank you miss Lynn for arranging all that we had the end of the third quarter March 7th report card should start we should started mailing those out this week for parents who did not tend

013parent teacher conferences last Friday and then we have parent teacher conferences take place last Friday the 14th I don't have any attendance numbers or percentage breakdowns we had a few teachers um who were out sick and so it kind of had an impact on our overall numbers we had the fourth and fifth grade students went to a play presented by the Montana shakes Productions in Red Lodge on Monday and for testing updates we have had a total of 21 Juniors voluntarily take the SAT on March 4th and March 7th those scores should be made available to the students the first weekend in April I believe they get posted to the student accounts April 3D and then to the my school account I'll have access April 9th I believe um another new test we have the

014Montana Science assessment the testing window just opened up and that is a required state test for fifth grade and eighth grade students that opened up a couple weeks ago our fifth grade class is completely finished with it and our eighth graders are going to be completing it in their regular science classes over the next couple weeks um then the junior class is going to be taking the state required act coming up on Tuesday April 8th and then the third Mass testing window for 3rd through 8 grade math and Ela testing opens again on March 24th and that goes all the way to May 2nd and then on May 4th I believe they open up the fourth window for us to wrap up the year on that mass testing any [Music] questions they're quiet tonight all

015right um Middle School School principal Mrs Fernandez all right um we had middle school science olympiads um Mrs nard and Miss goodr kind of prepped and planned and took 15 kids to bosan to compete in that on March 4th um High School Big Sky Regional science Bowl um Miss Harford took them to Billings on March 7th we had 18 kids go to Missoula for World quest um with Mr Fritz Miss Harford and Mr Maher went along with them um so they had four I think four teams compete um and did did really well against tough competition uh we had our quarter three Middle School sore assembly yesterday um Mrs Melton celebrated Pi Day and took a couple pies to the face and then some students also got a turn at that too um Tri County

016band day was yesterday Mr R was was in ings for the day with band and honor band kids um we have the actm math competition is March 26 at Sky View we have 82 um middle and high school students going 82 right now that are signed up with Miss Peters miss mton Mr myy and probably a few others um with that many district FFA Miss Stringer was in Red Lodge today um competing as of prior to VI today we have 22 kids qualifying already qualified for State FFA and Boseman depending how today went um State BPA Miss Richard had 20 students go to State and Billings eight of those qualified for Nationals um which is in Orlando this year where you going I wasn't asked you been there once you tried to send Mr but

017he darn you were so sad too weren't you um I think she has actually a parent one of the dad heard y um prom is April 12th in the old gym this year uh Mr Price talked about the musical and Starships um Miss Stratton took 15 students to Red Lodge today for their first round of clinicals um with coordinating with the bar tooth Clinic um their second and final clinical day is April 1 um they were popping in at the end of the day and and talking about it was a really great day and they learned a lot so wearing their scrubs um second or last mini course trip is tomorrow um the Middle School teachers put a lot of work into those days for the kids um and first round last week went really

018well um kids and and adults had fun uh Middle School iats are next Tuesday the 25th um the Middle School ethnic potluck is next Friday the 28th Miss spook's got that um planned and going uh Spanish one and Spanish 2 classes Mrs sharp is has been coordinating with the language department and MSU billings to take those two classes like to the university and let them observe a college Spanish class so I think that's the first week in April I don't know if she said a date for sure yet um and kind of starting to get spring Banquets slowly on the calendar and fighting over those States um and an officer Honor Society types of things moving too so that's kind of what we G have gone on as far as Sports Go um track high

019school track numbers they have 36 kids out um plus two managers so 38 kids total out for track this year other than some soreness they seem to be enjoying it middle school started yesterday and they have 45 um seventh and eighth graders out so those numbers are good we have one girl going for softball my understanding 81 of the those athletes were in the new gym tonight yeah and the old gym was filled with uh kindergarten through fourth grade basketball so um exciting a couple things I want to highlight Mr NIS if I may academic world I do want to shout that one out too on that event it is incredibly difficult uh test that students take [Laughter] there so here ban sen Big Sky Ander which is traditionally always done well we little random

020class school but rightwood columia CMR Sate soit to those kid and that's just all setting on their own you know taking that initiative the material is is dense Andi so I thought that was a great show for those kids uh the CNA is up on Facebook uh take a look at the experience that those am [Laughter] agend I will entertain the second motion Ken hased to approve the agenda any board discussion public comment all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion pass 82 on to actionable items we'll start with new business6 calendar admin opportunity to respond simar comme last year was formed um to discuss the potential options for the 25-26 calendar that happens on February 11th um on that committee was board chair Blaine uh trustee Adams m g Miss Goodwin

021Mr Richard Mr Hernandez Miss Myers as a parent rep U Miss L Meer and myself um the committee reviewed staff feedback discussed the minimum hour requirement for Montana code annotated uh preview the potential options for this year's calendar um at the direction of the committee uh myself and M Myers took the feedback and developed a single best option uh that incord incorporated as much feedback as possible option two was then re-shared with the committee for review option two was shared with all staff on March 6 during our all staff meeting uh staff were directed to share any feedback uh with Mr beggar via email uh there was no feedback um sent to me Miss Goodwin did get a little bit a feedback that I think we also Incorporated um but I think we've done a

022pretty good job with the calendar uh this year it's included for the packet um minimum hour requirement is included this year we haven't typically done that um in the past um and it just depends kind of uh where you look to count those hours um so remember that 1080 hours are required a lot of districts um run 1,080 at what we at that fourth grade level um which is typically the hardest area to get those those hours because they have um quite a bit of recess built in which do not contribute to the hours K3 to meet the minimum aggregate hour requirement is 720 hours so those kiddos are well over uh the the hour requirement a lot of districts are just looking at that fourth grade number uh depending on meeting that um our

023high school number is the hours there a little over 1,90 uh so those are those are you know just discrepancies that are built into the schedu but I think we did a good job uh with it and so my recommendation is the Board of Trustees approve option two revised as the 2526 AC calendar so move I'll second it's been moved by Ken seconded by Kathy to approve option two revised as the 2025 2026 academic calendar any board discussion I think the only question I had on it I correct me I'm wrong but August 27th is later start date than what we have yes and so where did those days go we yeah so we well you know we just Incorporated them uh into there were some days that were I don't have the 24 25

024um that were built in um to to the system but some three-day weekends were taken out um in order to in order to make those changes okay make sure we weren't losing running pretty much the same hours and same days had and that's one of the things we talked about in the committee is to make sure that we weren't trying to be the bare minimum because we want to be better than that yeah I compared it to what we have and it looked pretty similar yeah was there anything that stuck out anything other than that just a little bit later couple things that yeah just to highlight some changes uh that we did so we moved up parent teacher conference I noticed that I think that that's nice because as it is now it's so

025late and there's a problem it's kind of hard to address at that point yeah so that was kind of the the feedback the whole kind of process started with an option on the table that um we know that Shephard we know that school district 2 now again it's hard to keep up with school district to because they were going to this like September start and then they were going to get out in like late June to kind of accommodate to the weather but now they're actually going to a labor dated Memorial Day calendar and as look at districts kind of across the area those are becoming increasingly popular uh Shepard I think has adopted a a Labor Day the Memorial Day calendar for the next two two years uh we had that option right um

026on the table to so that would have pushed it back even the further week um and then what those districts are doing is just lengthening your day by you know three minutes here four minutes there five minutes you know in those situations isn't School District Two doing away with their spring break and they might and you might be doing away with spring breaks in order to kind of you know compact everything I don't know specifically the details that are there um but we started there what we didn't like about it and you know can or anybody else can fill into is that it made your first semester real short because we know that our teachers the feedback that we get from um primarily our high school teachers is where the impact here is is that

027we like to finish the semester before Christmas break that you get a lot of kind of wasted instructional time if you come back for a week and then you need to like review uh because the final is going to be taken place not even that week but usually on the pre on the following like Wednesday or Thursday of that so it just didn't work for us U that that was kind of a non a non-starter we also know that our so the Sim so we did move up to parent teacher conferences we did get some feedback um a little bit later that this could complicate things because you see the end of the quarter is you know the week after that so we won't necessarily have report cards available but I think just having the

028dialogue is a good thing to do and to say hey this is pretty much where we're at for report cards got one or two more assignments out there you know uh and I think we just kind of aired that that wouldn't be you know a critical issue better to have the in-person feedback um sooner you know rather than later that had typically been on uh November 6th so it would have been like fifth and sixth uh this year so one two three whole weeks back and that was stolen I think from Shephard Shephard's calendar was doing that can I just chime in about the start date on and it doesn't affect K through a but once you start with the high school activities you know whether it's cross country football volleyball the kids are here

029yeah and you're going to have activities I think that weekend before Labor Day so oh yeah to me it makes sense to continue with at least Wednesday before Labor Day yeah because you got those that population here and I don't know what the start date this year is going to be if it's going to be the eight yeah like the right around the 10th yeah is it only eight practices now that will help yeah it's down a little bit you don't start as early but when you're starting in the middle of August with your high school activities and then you're starting school Labor Day yep yeah we know that coaches like when fall Sports start coaches are ready to go I'm here all day you know we're train we're practicing we're filming and doing all

030that stuff all those guys are you know essentially ready to go um you counter that with elementary teachers that cook that cook in our elementary down there um and you know would want to want to start day so I think it is good balance yeah you know where where it is and different any other board discussion on the calendar public comment all right seeing none um all those in favor say I all those opposed motion passed eight to zero high school election resolution uh truste should consider a general fund Levy uh the purpose of the High School general fund Webby uh is to offset loss revenue from the sunsetting transformational learning Grant and to fund a um potential one full-time equivalent CTE teacher began exting potential numbers for a levy during the January committee work

031continued in February uh the February regular meeting trustees passed um general fund Levy resolution committee met again on March 11th uh last week uh to review preliminary fiscal 26 budget numbers provided by OPI uh the district's preliminary budget presentation and other budget information is included in the packet for the review um it should be noted that there is a possibility of great changes pending uh legislative action um in that uh budget committee meeting we went through um the same budget presentation that the trustees have seen for the last couple of years uh as well as kind of a dry run at what we'll look at in August um we do have um as we said preliminary pre session uh budget numbers uh from the Office of Public Instruction um that is there are some calculations

032that you can do that are anticipating uh 3% um inflationary increases to some funding um there is a little bit of uh kind of guesswork going on with where and how tuition is going to finally kind of land um the negotiations committee is actively working with the JTA to uh try to come up with some sort of an agreement to make sure that we maximize uh Revenue is from the Stars act um if so what we did with this with with this budget presentation is kind of paint the best case scenario if 3% inflation happens if we can get an agreement on the Stars act if tuition kind of revenues come in as we best see fit that's the budget um as was presented to the committee and was included in the packet I'm happy

033to take any questions or you know discuss what everybody sees with that uh strategic objectives um you know that are potentially targeted uh with the uh high school and then the upcoming Elementary level would be U strategies to enhance learning providing other opportunities um kids are engaged thriving excited um having a robust CTE program that provides students with enhanced opportunities um one of the things that came up and I I did a little bit of work on this um we had some public comment uh so this would be that CTE enrollment document um I just hand it out and Mr Richard there's a couple copies if you want there's just two I'm sorry you guys can make copies if you want um one of the one of the questions that came up in that discussion

034was what impact did the transformational learning Grant have on CP enrollments and are we increasing um in those areas um and so what I did is go back to you know my first year as a superintendent um I have some updated numbers if everybody has a pen ready I I omitted business from these um but you see there um first semester enrollments in AED were 57 and 47 put together all so if you add this number if you put 32 um in there that was the first and second uh semester business enrollments that year um which would give 136 total CTE enrollments in 2022 in 2023 um made some increases um obviously we made with transformational learning Grant some Investments um into um into the woods program a lot of investment at the tools and

035you see the the enrollments there uh we also made some investments into uh that early childhood development class which is the class that we were talking about um that they were doing their first round to clinicals it wasn't offered first semester it was offered in the second semester we had eight students enroll there we had two students walk out the door with their CNA a couple of years ago add into those numbers 39 total business enrollments and that was financing and marketing T by Cindy Cole for a total of 162 enrollments first and second semester combined and then this year you can see that we're just continuing to to add in um you know a great deal of of offerings um that are here in uh in this in this situation so the early childhood

036development class 16 last semester 14 here uh the welding um class is running a full capacity 9 and8 uh woods and construction the enrollments and EP computer science um we also considered the child care aids that are working um in the onsite daycare um agriculture all of those enrollments um excluding welding because I just wanted to say separate that out and then your business enrollments we did not hire a business teacher um we were able to offer 18 enrollments is the number there um and so those were taught by staff that had um appropriate certifications um so 18 students there for a total of 280 enrollments so I think we've made pretty good improvements in our CTE enrollment first and second semester um which is largely credit to some of those grants that we've been

037able to secured but unfortunately are you know going away because they're bounds uh just from a Time standpoint so that question came up so um thank you to the public for bringing that up which is just kind of fodder for the discussion um so with the transformational learning Grant going away and some of that so like with that going away how do we continue to offer this the CTE courses and expand on that yeah there in you know kind of the I didn't know if it was The $64,000 Question or whatever thr whatever whatever threshold it is yeah we did have we were lucky enough under you know superintendent ever to secure that transformational learning Grant was a big chunk of money um I think the Investments that we've made have been lasting at least

038the equipment uh pieces table saws all of those high quality purchases in the shop they're not going anywhere um we are able to leverage some of that money to paper uh a part-time shop teacher the transformational learning Grant is being used to fund um a part-time shop teacher it's also being used to fund Mr Mah he is that's Advanced opportunities but M Stratton is paid out of the transformational learning Grant so then if those things go away they become can we absorb it into the general fund uh purchase so those are the questions that we have to consider so I think it's great that like we have kids that are getting their CNA like that definitely gives them a leg up and I think there's a lot of other opportunities for us to explore in

039the future other things where kids can get their certifications to get that leg up in the world um so like I like I like this visual to see like how this is growing over the last three years and adding that a that welding Maria can maybe look into those guys getting certific to that would be huge get any kind of welding yeah and we looked into that and you know we've made some investments into the IC curricular materials um the welding certification um and I'm going to speak well outside of my expertise here what is what's the what's the basic welding certification call I don't know but I don't I don't know if it's possible to get hundreds of hours or is it thousands well there's different levels right yeah I think so different materials

040and you know having the background and saying I had this even even if we had our own certificate came there gonna be a little bit of a step up of for somebody that's going in I don't have anything so I think it's still a big advantage to have but as far as it well kind of what came out of the meeting correct me if I mess this up or jump in one another whatever but on this High School L end of things we look and saw that the high school's running pretty substantially with extra money about 100 grand um and then there's a very substantial amount of money sit in need too and the feeling with the committee that that kind of came out of there on this High School one is we felt that

041we could continue what we're doing and not run a levy for the high school end of it to try to keep some Ease on taxpayers considering we had just we just ran the the building reserve and the tech Levy stuff like that and something that was actually brought up in public comment in that meeting was we have it sounds like we have quite a few electives that are really low numbers so maybe some restructuring with some of that to move some things around and be able to offer more of this stuff with the budget we already have it in high school but I think we felt the high school was really in pretty good shape h a new teacher to fulfill the C well what yeah well this the High School general fund Levy that

042is recommending to be cancelled is for a CP teacher correct you know I think that would be my that would be my thinking is that back in the February budget committee that was kind of the the trajectory we were on to do an elementary general for additional elementary teacher and then we'd run a High School general fund for a CTE teacher or whatever came out of whatever expertise we could find that's right whether it's family consumer science whether it's welding whether it's egg whether it's woods and that would fund that I think I think at some point the discussion should include the numbers like the dollar amount for this for the Felicia do you have how much and then sorry one more thing just going to add really quick to this is I do think

043it's vital um you can look at our strategic plan and our CTE plan I think it's vital that we keep these um here's my personal note I just ran into a guy's 78 years old and he took shop in high school so this is in the 40s in kman county and he learned to weld in high school and a volunteer came in in the winter when that person was out of work to teach them for well and that changed the trajectory of his work and to this day that's what he does in retirement well so I think it's vital to have these available so that the kids can at least be exposed so if we can if there's money in the budget to hire of of 1.0 FTE CTE great I think the numbers I

044think it' be worth putting out the numbers yes I I agree with you I think it's very important that we continue to try to push the CT my one concern about hiring a 1.0 FTE you're not going to get one I don't think we have the enrollment of the students and facilities for full-time FCS and to add a full-time you know welding teacher full-time that's a hard part I think the thing that has helped us do very well is to get part-time high computer science person and a part-time medical person if we can do that part-time because there's I don't think there's any way that we can get a full-time CT in any one of those opportunities and say you have a full-time job and we're going to keep your classes funed and filled with

045kids we can't do so I don't know how we I don't know I don't know what that means it's just that I don't think you're going to go out and you're going to get somebody comes in and says I'm a tech ed person great we're going to have three classes Maybe two classes that we can fun I know what else you can right yeah maybe a different way to think about it is um so we know that we've got um you're exactly right I think we've been incredibly fortunate to recruit and build relationships with the people that we did that are willing to teach one period two period and essentially sacrifice their entire day because you you know you're shocked at that point in time you got to be up here for a prep period

046and do that and then there's a little bit of homework so you know my hat is off to those folks that that have done that yeah I I think you're right can I think that maybe the bigger picture is that the $50,000 could potentially fund our current Child Development teacher who is 28 time right we've got a 1/8 time um computer science uh person and then maybe you can add into that okay one two three like a half time exactly if we can find them you take those three or four bodies together and it creates that that that one full-time equip but to be able to go out and hire a full-time CTE of any kind right we can't and we had just as a kind of test the water type situation we have those

047positions posted zero you know for them so what are the numbers did you present those for the potential Levy yeah the impact on the taxpayers yeah so Felicia has those in the packet um as those draft ballots um so the High School general fund Levy um and what we what we talked about in the budget committee was two potential options a $25,000 option and a $50,000 option um so the $25,000 option on a $100,000 per home uh would cost you $2.66 annually um a 50,000 $266 annually on $100,000 okay thank you sorry the $50,000 option would cost $531 on $100,000 um and I think another thing that wanted to be known in the committee was that general fund levies are in effect this seems like a little bit of an extravagant word but forever uh

048they don't Sunset it's not on a fiveyear it's not on a 10 year like our like our building Reserve Levy and our Tech levies those around five years and they fall off the CX roles uh unless you all choose to renew it and then the voters impose that tax on themselves right so if the voters impose this tax on themselves now they stay in you know for for quite some time so in your annual budget presentation you know I'm looking at the slide here it's the you know how much we can Levy the max without a vote the max with a vote um and like relatively speaking right lower than a lot of other school districts um and I guess the thing that concerns me is things that I've seen in neighboring districts when they

049get so far behind on that that amount that they can Levy than that they're scrambling to pay teacher salaries out of Grants and other dollars and then going to the taxpayers with giant numbers that just isn't feasible because they haven't kept up year to year so I guess that's really like my big concern you know and I'm the first one to say I think the way schools are funded is jacked up like it's ridiculous this is how schools are funded um there there has to be a better way there is a better way but this is what we have to deal with right now um I just don't want us to get so far behind that we end up in a situation where we're scrambling to pay teachers we're scrambling to pay for curriculum we

050can't offer some of this stuff and then we go out to the to the public to the voters with a giant ask that of course is going to get turned down which I think I would Echo that as well um $26.55 $500,000 per year for the 55,000 or for the $50,000 um High School general fund I would much rather put that out to the voters and ask them yes or no do you want that versus 26055 for um there's other districts running levies around like Lou town is running a elementary school levy um this year they're closing the school closing School of Hena um due to age so I think we're doing well um planning um trying to take care of the building that we have the building Reserve trying to retain staff like Amanda

051just said if we have planning you know for to have the money to pay for stack if someone walks through the door and is a certified Woods teacher then we would have that available so I also am in favor of putting that number out to the voters Now versus later when it's for sure going to be a bigger number can you so I was asking about some stuff before the meeting started and so Felicia I'm asking you to talk even though it looked like you're about to cough again but what were you saying it's not just for Teacher it's not just for teachers it's what's the language this so because this is a general fun L when we do our um our voted building reserve and our voted Tech Levy we're very specific on that

052b language on what that can be used for um because this is a general fund Levy um when I was on a zoom call on Friday with the um election official of the OPI our wording does have to be different because this is a permanent Levy um so if we said to hire a new teacher then every year we have to use that money to hire a new teacher um so the the wording on the ballot will be slightly different than what's in the packet it would be to um hire and retain Staffing levels um but General fed lby is it's permanent so you have to be very careful how you work that you say something also about like curriculum curriculum generally comes out of the general fund um we have been fortunate with our

053transational learning to be able to use that Elementary money for that it's way easier to spend transformation learning in the high school than it is the elementary but luckily we've been able to spend that that giant Chunk on you know those are $100,000 purchases per curriculum set um so we're fortunate to have that money when that comes up again for renewal in a couple of years that has to come out a general fund there's no other place for it yeah so that's why I thought it was important to put that in um kind of those two things happening the sunsetting of the transformational learning grants um going on um here at at the same time um as us kind of want to continue to focus down the goals of achieving the Strategic plan uh you

054know those those two things I think are in opposition to each other unfortunately and if you look at that so next year is year five five of six in that K5 and half adoption so next year even so so this should be five to six in in two years time we'll have the committee put together we'll have parents we'll have a board member we'll have administrators and we'll be looking at an adoption um it came up this morning when we were kind of discussing this why can't you just keep the materials and continue on with it uh the nature of curriculum materials especially in the elementary is at such that there so many disposables that that come with it every single year you know that every year all the Kinder Governors get that new book

055um and they you know interact with it uh it has access to all the digital materials uh now that we will essentially lose access to we don't see these levels of expensive adoptions as much in the High School uh because you know the pre-cal book uh is the same pre-cal book that we've been using since 1982 it's the best pre-cal book you can get um the problem with that book is that you can't even get it on Amazon used anymore U because everybody's kind of like f that thing up but we don't see those big ticket um adoptions um you know kind of at at that level where you do in the elementary and those are big chunk big chunk item so what ends up happening is what we'll probably do is just buy a

056Year's worth of that um particular series to the tune of whatever call it maybe $10,000 and you pay more per year so you're going to pay you know I wouldn't say you pay double over the same six period of time but you're going to pay you know one and a half times as opposed if you just bite off that junk in the beginning and they'll give you the 75% reduction you know on the total sticker price but that's usually the track that we have to fall into with some of our materials we have enough to pay for it this year but that's it um so I think that's important to discuss I think think you know this is one of those decisions that that I have a hard time I I try to look at

057every site that I can I appreciate the fact that the budget committee gets together and looks at all these things um and I can and I can understand their position and I think that it's important that we that we don't always Hammer the taxpayers I don't think it's a huge amount like Ken said um my concern would be if if we decide to go ahead with the levy we need to make sure that the public knows that that money is very well spent and us that it's not just oh boy we got some more money and I know that's not our goal that's not what your goal is I think it's very important that that be that be put out there that if it goes through and if we do get it that the public

058knows why we got the money and where it's going I just think that that's important just like what you said you know it's with the curriculum we have books that are way old if we're going to try to improve the higher level math we need to do a good job and maybe need that material that's where some of that money may go which can last for a longer period of time that would be a good explanation of where that money goes um you know to be able to say that we're going to continue our our um CNA program or medical and try to expand on that we're going to try to expand on some of the welding on some of the other CTE things I think it has to be clear I know you can't

059put it in the you can't put it in the in the levy that says this is what we're going to spend but I think if it if we do do it I want to make sure that that is well advertised that this is where your money went and it was thank you for sending it this is what we did with it and it's going to make a difference in the kids in our future so maybe that was a little rambling but that's that's just a thought process I'm going through in my head do we want to keep taxing I wish we didn't have to you know hopefully the economy changes things change I EO use you know the way schools are funded is stupid sometimes you know it's kind of goofy but you know the

060other thing to look at is we need to make sure one of our goals is we need to make sure that the kids want to come here if we're going to have the best possible programs in all area CTE and higher you know and middle and everything we need to have the best we can so if somebody has the choice that person comes here I guess one last thing that I would say is or I guess I'd ask is kind of from that budget committee meeting with the high school funding the way I understood it in the discussion that right now with the money that's in the high school that's available nothing would be cut is that correct or or what would be cut if we don't do this well and we talked about that

061like it sounded like there was the money there to keep to keep us running as like I said there are that's the $100,000 question we're not cutting anything today like if you guys do whatever you want to do we're not going to be laying out fure right that's just it's not you know it's not that easy to just to to just do that right now what we're looking at is on that on this page right here which has our pretty much our general fun projections with our bigger categories uh we know that we're running upside down in the elementary right and I think a large reason that we're running upside down in the elementary uh is probably as we try to absorb these small class sizes at you know 15 or less to one in

062K2 and then as they get a little bit bigger um that's just kind of the world that we're in so we're projecting about $45,000 um upside down in the elementary next year um which is why we believe it's important to run a $50,000 Levy in the in the El District to absorb that uh difference we are projecting as it sits right now about a $90,000 Surplus in the High School uh general fund account which is similar to what we had what did we have last year do you remember off top of your had yeah so there is a little bit of a surplus largely as a result of um you know moving uh half of a counselor into uh the transformational learning Grant at the fa the woods experience right it's a big chunk right

06335 Grand moved out and then remember that we did not replace any coal um would would be that so in preparation for you know harder conversations like this um but even in light of those things we do see uh potentially $90,000 right but the counselor will go back full all the way in right so that would that that portion of the so there's 25 30 grand you know going back in into into that section also like 400 sitting in2 Y which I'm perfectly fine leaving because of our aging building um unforeseen unfor funding salaries out of 182 is not a good idea because salaries are permanent 182 is not and it's funded based on surpluses that we may have um if we have a rough year uh was it the replac their boilers $200,000 the

064coll we have a high school bid we have a high school bid for Five O is 90 grand right so it's not 200 but that would be a really good expenditure out of 182 in my opinion um you know not trying to piece a piece of teacher together program together you know I think like I sorry like you said we're not running at our Max budget the other thing I I think I've noticed here is we are the cheapest per people in carbin county for me to understand that like I'm not budget Cal Felicia but if we're running the cheapest pup expenditure in Carbon County to me that says we're fiscally responsible like is maybe we're not I don't know maybe I'm missing a piece there but that stuck out to me as well so

065I do trust like 10 like you mentioned if we do ask for a levy and the taxpayers do approve it absolutely we appreciate it right in this world um I don't think I've ever seen a huge Reserve account that does that just stays there forever there there's never enough money in the school system school budet you know and that's why we put the history in that that document that it hasn't been until the last three years where there's actually been money that's gone into 182 and in fact we have one two three four four five six seven eight eight consecutive years where we drew that down you know on average of 203 grand um you know this year I think we did a good job of you know trying to be a little bit more

066responsible but remember and we've heard this before but we knew this was going to be a heavy you know facilities year with some of the you know the changes that that we needed to make so the 182 is that would be parking lot resurfacing paining does that come out res it could bur a building Reserve that well the one where that money come where the boiler would come from number yeah and the boiler could come out of building Reserve too we did put that on our ballot language um but it could also come out of general fund or it could come out of you know2 as I just think you know like you said our buildings are getting old and we can't I don't want to get to the point where it's like oh no

067we need a lot of money real quick 26 because it could be very high whatever fun that so like we have the money to remain status quo but that's but not really because that transformational Grant is leaving well yeah that's leaving and like we just said the counselor position so the counselor and and the CNA teacher we'll go back into high school so we go back which would eat up that with like salaries and benefits like are sh but it could it could give us the opportunity to expand from two periods to three on the C but then that doesn't allow us for growth for growth I think in light of our strategic plan and trying to give the kids the best opportunities and not remain status quo I would recommend you run the High

068School general ly fund election for is that a motion sure I'll make to run the High School general fund ly election for 50,000 I'll made the motion Amanda has seconded to run a High School general fund Levy election at 50,000 is that correct pleas is there any other um Contin board discussion the only other thing that was brought up and this came from public comment um in the meeting was we had said that we would with the building Reserve Levy after the building Reserve Levy passed that we would give taxpayers a break in a sense of money and with the mathematics in that meeting we can do the elementary one and still they'll still see a decrease in their taxes if we do both they're going to see an increase or is it a wash

069no it's an increase a lot but it isn't we don't have final numbers right um all of that tuition money that comes in gives our taxpayers are break right off the general um and until we do get final numbers we really have no idea especially with permiss of levies um we really we won't know until August because again we won't taxable value what's the increase to the tax I don't remember what I can speak to a little bit so these are again yeah I'm with I'm with uh fici as well that these are largely projections we're doing the best that we can uh with these numbers that that we have so as we believe before you run a levy with the permissive as we anticipate them to be as well as setting the general fund

070um we anticipate a $102 reduction annually on $100,000 property remember I'm not a budget line just repeat that 1025 write that down carus 100,000 if you run both levies at $50,000 in the elementary high school that would increase taxes by $11.12 so whatever the difference is there is the increase that so 75 85 87 cents I was gonna say 11 12us $112 minus $10.25 is 87 that's the tax increase on $100,000 if you were to ran run and pass B but keep in mind we said that we would they would see a decrease I guess did I say I want to be did I say that I'm not sure where that came from it was brought up from the public in public comment and I don't remember when that was said or if it was

071or what brought up public com fair enough it's good to know I'm willing to sck my arm out there my leg out there and if the public said no you told us you wouldn't raise our taxes that's you know for me where I sit in line with our strategic plan in line with trying to give these kids the best opportunity so is it correct that we haven't ran a general fund Levy since 2011 that right okay what Cathy well I think that if it's explained to them that it is only going to be the 87 Cents by the time you take the $10 negative and put it in there um and you know i' I've got a lot of faith in our community I mean when you look back at the history practically everything that

072we've asked for they've given us and if they say no well so be it but I think we need to give them the opportunity to make the decision I you know because it's their kids and we need to give them the opportunity as to whether we can continue this decide whether we can continue that I don't think we can put in the language anything about the tuition and the reduction of taxes that's a that's a communication piece just like we did when we did the building Reserve Levy um it wasn't a new Levy it was a continuation of a previous Levy but you can't say that on the ballot because technically that Levy goes away and this is a new one but again that's the communication pieces this isn't a new Levy this is we

073had this old Levy this is just the continuation of it so it's just the communication piece well and you can't put it on the on the ballot but when you're having coffee with somebody you can certainly Express that and I mean you could talk about it at at coffee with Clark can't you yeah I I I just would want to be um again Poli has been very cautious with me and you know in those conversations if if this is the the wish we'll see how the vote goes but final numbers will not land until after the session however we're kind of up against this deadline um so we can say now as we look at in the best things we have and the budgets that OPI has put out publicly you're welcome to go on

074there and look and do all the calculations on your own you know these are not um you know secret documents by any means we anticipate 87 Cent In but you have to be careful saying we want you to vote for them because maybe they say Hey you yeah you can't tell them the vote for it first of all you can tell them the vote but that's about it um but also if it ends up being a dollar and then you know that comes back to burn us that you know you said 87 be do 12 because it might we don't know we don't know where these things ultimately are going to land it's going to be closed would it be more than $5 yeah know no there's no way and again you as the board

075when we get closer and we do have numbers from Department of Revenue which we don't get till August 1 so we won't know how much of M's worth we won't know how that affects the budget or how that affects the taxpayers um we won't even truly have general fund numbers until potentially June first from the OPI depending on our pending legislation that's out there um but the the power that you guys have is in the permissive levies you know if it looks like oh you know budget numbers the estimates were way off you can adjust those permissive levies down further to compensate for that too well here's another thing though that they see we're going to do intent and increase permissive LS well it's it's called intent to increase but there's also decreases on there

076there are two gen and we'll get to this but there are two giant decreases on that notice too it's called intent to increase that's how the legislature put it but this is what goes in the newspaper and it shows increases and decreases on there so again you guys get the power and these are estimates you guys get the power to control that when does this ballot this so the the permissive Levy um intent to increase has to be published by March 31st um ballot has to be certified by April 4th the county is telling us that the um provider of the um election machines needs Levy Language by tomorrow if possible and that's all this that we're talking this is all this and and granted it's very early if we you know I have until

077um April 4th to cancel the election um any election that we've done whether it's trustee whether it's um a general fed Levy that is the deadline to do that and actually you can cancel it uh Levy election right up until election dat that's that's the power that you have trusty election is is different um but the timing is very difficult because we are having to estimate everything up until we get actual numbers from Department of Revenue on August 1st we're guessing at everything educated guesses but still guessing so so right now we have a motion Ken seconded by Amanda to approve a High School general Levy general fund Levy election for $50,000 is there any board or public comment I'd like to say something you need to come up and God to the state your

078name bonds I'm the chair of the prer school board and I think you guys are smart by doing this because don't get into a buying like we have in the past years where we are scrambling in our general fund and our poor district clerk business clerk is saying okay this is how what can we do this way who do we cut what wages do we cut if we need to and then only have like $100 to survive a whole school year with in a general fund so I think you guys are if you guys vote Yes I think it's smart and it says your taxpayers a lot of money because we have to put out for a huge Levy this year and our taxpayers are going to be like what in the world are you

079guys doing to us so I just you know I think 87 cents i' to be in favor for thank you any other public comment all right all those in favor say I I all those opposed I I motion passed 6-2 so situation in the elementary um with the transformational learning Grant so I don't know if you guys are welcome to you know continue to discuss the impact and kind of dipped into it in the previous action item uh as well but in light of really this conversation I think is driven by um you know the conversation that we just talked about we're predicting about a $50,000 shortfall in the elementary um again driven by um trying to achieve as are outlines in your board notes um you know 15 students teacher in Gres K through

080three 20 in uh grades 4 through six uh we have essentially moved the cohorts through um and now have set ourselves up to have two teachers Ed on first second third fourth we need to add that um fifth grade teacher um so the recommendation and the discussion that we had with the Board of Trustees call for $50,000 Elementary general fund the election so move Kathy has made the motion Karen has seconded to call for a $50,000 Elementary general fund Levy election any other board discussion I think this one was primarily driven by numbers right Clark that was but uh Financial numbers student numbers well Financial numbers but um student numers yeah that was I guess maybe if you could give a quick break down it if we don't have it what happens and if we

081do have it what happens yeah so current class counts are kind of looking like this um you know our kindergarten crew this year is at 28 there's Hine on each side so almost even pushing uh the capacity uh of that there's 14 on the side we're right there first grade this year we know is 31 that that grade is essentially closed out of District um for the moment because it's already kind of capped out um second grade is 26 in in no way is that even close to where we want to be in one classroom uh third grade is 26 fourth grade is is um fourth grade's at 31 so that crew um is um going to need um another teacher because this year fifth grade we have 20 students all in one classroom um

082and that does um fit within the Strategic plan but remember the 208 is the cut off um I'm not saying that you know 21 wouldn't be remember that those are strategic plan goals and I think that you guys in my opinion are doing the work the hard work of allocating the resources at your level which is really the money um to get that done because you can run those figur right you can run fourth grade um fifth grade to I think the number is it's not unheard of CDC 26 put there so that would like right it makes those conversations a little bit but it would be fourth grade 31 it would probably be take your smaller smallest class so instead of putting 31 kids in your room you probably take this year's third grade

083and you plk them down into one room there's 26 there's 26 so you have 26 fourth graders next year um which I can to attest that really is hard on [Laughter] kids public comment what is proed kindergarten for next you know that is that is an open question that we're kind of looking at right now um so we know we have 13 in this year's one right and we talked about this morning at coffee as well that Mr Richard who has done the the historical research on this that number traditionally looks anywhere from six to eight incoming kindergarteners that did not enroll in Kinder one and that's about what we saw last year with that and and Miss FIS is here as well now if those students don't materialize This Crew will stay as a

084unit right there's there's no reason to split them um up up until up until that point in time but it's going to be one of those and I think this is probably the well great we don't have to hire another kindergarten teacher we'll just move him over to fifth grade okay cancel your Levy that's a that's a decision that you you could put to us um we don't typically know those until about the middle of August um and because 25 aren't you yeah once I get to a certain number I have to do a a split somehow so yeah um so that's that's something that we have our eyes historically though you you're pretty pretty solid on those numbers what come after that yeah it materialized last but there's no guarantees right you know you

085know five of those kids could also move away you know any other discussion public comment all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion passed eight to zero seven sorry thank you keep us all on our toes all right hard stuff okay on to Personnel 10e certified staff um recommendations the Board of Trustees rehire all 10e teachers in the district for the 25 26 school year current 10e teachers are Miss Atkinson missbo Mr denim Miss FIS Mr Fritz Miss Goodwin Miss Herford Miss Harvey Mr kriskovich Miss Lind Miss Milton Miss ninger Miss odor Miss peers Mr Price Miss Fula Miss GNA remove that one um Mr wton and Miss water I'll make a motion second all right let's see um Kelly has made the motion Amanda has seconded to rehire all tene teachers

086in the district for the 25 26 school year um I have to repeat all those names know ibly had to um any other board discussion have a comment all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion passed eight non- tenured staff uh per District policy 1512 and Montana code annotated 2-2 d302 uh we have a nepotism hire U was appropriately noticed in the February 20th edition of the Carbon County News recommendation is that the trustees really like Cy GRE up for the 25 26 school year this is the third contract for m second no doing so good she yes oh okay so you can reff I stand corrected second all right so Ken has made the Motion Kelly has seconded um to reelect um Tam gell for the 25 2026 school year as

087a nepotism HED any more discussion public comment have a comment I'm supposed to wait so everybody feels welcome to come make their public comment all those in favor say I I I all those oppos and I abstain thank you so motion pass seven two on a good Rich the recommendation is the trustees re on a good Rich for the 2526 school year this is the third contract from wants it I don't care all right Amanda has made the motion Kathy has seconded to to offer Anna Goodrich um a contract for the 2025 2026 school year any board discussion public comment all those in favor say I I I all those opposed motion passed 8 to zero I to self report is she Elementary Middle School or high school you know my recommendation we hire everybody

088both the chicks yeah if there're certified okay staff what we've been doing because then it's listed as a teacher for okay Miss mettis uh recommendations the Board of Trustees real like brandy mettis for the 2526 school year this is the third contract Second Jason has made the motion Kathy is seconded to rela Randy medas for the 2025 2026 school year any board discussion public comment all those in favor say I I I all those opposed motion passed 8 to zero as Nelson uh recommendation of the board of Tres re-elect Ashley Nelson for the 2526 school year it's the third contract for Miss Nelson I move that we reelect Ashley Nelson for the 2526 school year rehire okay Kathy has made the motion Craig is seconded um to reelect Ashley Nelson for the 2025 2026 school

089year any board discussion public comment all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion passed 8 to zero this posing uh recommendation is the trustees re life pery posy for the 25 26 school year this is the fourth and 10e contract for Miss posy to reos I'll second we move by seconded by Kelly to reelect Darcy posy for the 2025 2026 school year any board discussion public comment all those in favor say I I I all those opposed motion passed 8 to zero Miss Richard recommendation is the Board of Trustees reelect Shel Richard for the 25 26 school year this is the fourth and 10year contract for Miss Richard I'll make motion to accept M Richard's fourth tenure I'll second moved by Kelly seconded by Amanda to reelect sh uh Shel Richard for

090the 2025 2026 school year any board discussion public comment all those in favor say I I I all those opposed motion passed 8 to zero Miss Kerper recommendation is the Board of Trustees reelect Selena Kerper for the 2526 school year this is the fourth and 10e contract for M seconded it okay thank you it's been um the motion has been made by K seconded by Craig to reelect Selena kper for the 2025 2026 school year any board discussion public comment all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion passed 8 to zero Mr Orin the recommendation is the Board of Trustees reelect Nathan Orin 25 26 school year this is the fourth and 10e contract for Mr to rehire Mr it's been moved by Jason seconded by Amanda to reate waren for the

0912025 2026 school year any board discussion public comment all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion passed 8 to zero M yel recommendations the Board of Trustees rect Hunter yo for the 2526 school year this is the fourth and 10year contract for Miss yo I'll make a motion for Mrs okay Kelly made the motion Craig has seconded to reelect Hunter y lip for the 2025 2026 school year any further or any board discussion public comment all those in favor say I I I all those opposed motion passed 8 to zero Mr counter recommendation is the Board of Trustees reelect John counter the 25 26 school year this is the third contract from Mr con I'll second Manda has made the Motion Kelly has seconded to reelect John counter for the 2025 2026

092school year any board discussion public comment all those in favor say I all those opposed motion passed 8 to zero Miss sharp recommendation is the Board of Trustees re Isa sharp for the 2526 school year this is the third contract from the sh second carers made the motion Jason has seconded to reelect e sharp for the 2025 2026 school year any board discussion public comment all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion passed 8 to zero M string recommendations the Board of Trustees reelect Maria string Gary for the 2526 school year as a teacher and FFA adviser with a 20-day extended contract this is the second contract from M I'll move to rehire mooved by Jason seconded by Ken to real Maria Stringer for the 2025 2026 school year as a teacher

093and FFA advisor with a 20day extended contract any further discussion or board discussion any public comment all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion passed 8 to zero Al there he is recommend that's what we were talking about we didn't see it on agenda it's not on the agenda the agenda it's not on the board notes yeah oh okay not on the computer in the drive but it's in the agenda yeah it is because I just pulled it up it didn't get it it didn't getter the one in the drive in the drive I know we I know we made the the change it was it was at Thursday night Edition it was a Thursday night Edition it's just not in there now yeah we got it changed in the public packet

094but it may not have done to us been updated in the drive okay but it was on the agenda conversation was constructive we just want to make sure it's okay and we're not gonna yes the back story Rana was omitted 100% my fault um it was identified by Patterson we got Thursday night it was put in the packet well in advance of the 48 hour deadline made a personal phone call to Mr AR apologize just like to a little make sure yeah so recommendation is the Board of Trustees real Al for the 25 26 school year as a teacher this is the second contract from I move all right Kathy's made the Motion Kelly has seconded to reelect Alec Arana to for the 2025 2026 school year as a teacher any board discussion public comment

095all those in favor say I I I all those opposed motion passed 8 to zero a round out Personnel for um the March meeting uh recommendation is the Board of Trustees approve the March 18th 2025 Personnel action report we have a resignation from Mr Morgan we have a resignation from Miss MacArthur we have a retirement uh from Miss tobert um and we um are recommending to hire Rob Robinson um as an assistant school high school track coach um he did have some prior obligations so we're going to prate his contract based upon days that he can actually make it toce I move to approve the personel Action Report second move by K seconded by am mandate to approve the March 18th 20125 Personnel Action Report any board discussion public comment all those in favor say

096I I I all those opposed motion passed 8 to zero back to budget discussion so exciting so um some entertainment keeps calling it a new law but it's actually been in place for a handful of years now we we've been doing um publishing the intent to increase permissive levies for quite some time uh state law requires school districts to provide notice to the public um of its intent to increase or decrease permissive non- voted levies in the ensuing fiscal year uh F and I have worked towards a draft resolution of the intent uh it's included in the packet the notice provides estimates of expected increases in or decreases and the impact of those on taxpayers the notice must be published by March 31st um these are estimates only and final numbers will not be available

097until fiscal year 25 folks are closed and we receive tax valuation numbers from the state in August uh District Clerk and myself can can give an overview and potentially answer any question questions but um remember that this is just the intent this is in no way signifying what the final uh levies will be we did use these numbers however to um estimate that kind of minus10 dollar overall impact um on our budget projections those do take into account um the projections that you see here so if you have any questions for us on on what we did and why um feel free to um POS them now budget talked out um I can go over we went through it um transportation you know relatively neutral bus depreciation relatively neutral the reason that you see a

098large increase um in the tuition fund is twofold you will recall that we use the tuition fund to pay for the actual cost of special education services and we know the actual cost because you build it in aers so the students that are at ybgr this year we will not pay for until next year um we they bill us and then we'll put that into our budget um so even though it's a permissive Levy it's bound by the invoices and the bills that we get uh for from ybgr as well as actual um parah Aid Services one-on-one situations we can build salaries to that but again you can't bill it until the year after so that we can present the Auditors with these were the actual cost of those services so tuition had been um

099running if you see an additional enrollment of ybgr one student two student that can jack up that permissive Levy um uh quite a bit additionally they're using the tuition fund to force districts to pay for out of District resident costs right so if we have students that are um going to Roberts if we have students that are going to to fber Bridger wherever or even going to Laurel this is where the the taxpayers are seeing increases in in those particular funds um so you did see an increase in there uh remember that if you have a net gain of students if you have more that are in District um that money is then taken off of your general fund Levy and reduces your tax rols which is where we get to Le 10 less dollars

100that we're asking of of our taxpayers so again you do see a a big increase there you see a big decrease in the flex fund is that was called onia so the flex fund the reason that that drastically reduced is because we are no longer permissively leving for transformational learning gr uh and that was about $30,000 permissive Levy which was matched by the state so that came off the tax roles uh as well entertain a motion starting with the elementary per Lees so move okay I didn't know how to word it can made the motion C has seconded to approve the resolution of intent to increase Elementary permissive levies any more discussion which you said Felicia doesn't always mean everything increases that's just the ballot are the language that we have to use right yeah

101so this came out of the 2017 legislative session if we don't publish some kind of change then we are not allowed to make a change so our transportation could be could be a decrease by the time we get all said and done with it but if we don't publish the notice then we can't change it at all has to stay exactly the same as as this year so this just gives us the ability to move those numbers um again everything's a little different and nothing is positive until we do budget any other board discussion public comment all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion passed 8 to zero no seven sorry keelly make issues motion to pass 7 to Zer recommendation is Board of Trustees approve the resolution to increase High School

102permissive L I'll make a motion made the motion Kathy has seconded to approve the resolution of intent to increase High School permissive levies any board discussion public comment all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion passed 8 to zero non-resident enrollment request in line with District policy 3141 trustees may consider late applications of non-resident students at their discretion uh there are three students up for out districts um enrollment student number one uh is an applicant for 8th grade in the Strategic plan trustees have identified 20 22 students per teacher as the cap on average there about 14 students enrolled in eighth grade course offerings enrolling enrolling the student would put the eth grade class at 29 students student number two is an applicant for third grade um that number has identified as

10315 students per teacher uh the current teacher student to teacher ratio in third grade is 13 to1 enrolling the student would put third grade at 27 students total uh student number three is an applicant for seventh grade strategic plan identif 22 students uh per teacher as the cap the current teacher to student ratio there is 16 to1 uh enrolling that student would put the seventh grade class at 39 students um please keep in mind that uh confidential student information is included um Board of recommendation is the Board of Trustees approv student one two and three for non-resident enrollment for the remainder of the 256 I'll make that motion second amender has made the motion K is seconded um to approve student one student two and student three for non-resident enrollment the remaining of the 2526

104school year those are all elementary so board she reminded um any board discussions [Laughter] oness [Laughter] members of the committee will update the board um first recommendation is the policy committee as recommending the Board of Trustees appr the first reading in 5120 so this one is about um like background checks and how long the office would retain a background check on somebody who was disqualified for high so it just it was just kind of an open gray area so um we decided that 30 days was plenty to be able to keep that in case there's any question about you know why or whatnot um and then after 30 days those documents are shredded so adding that 30 days I moov to approve the first reading of second motion Kathy is seconded to approve the first

105reading of policy 5120 any board discussions public comment all those in favor I I I all those opposed motion passed 8 to zero 2162 P2 uh related to section 5 policy committee's recommendations the Board of Trustees through first reading2 P2 justy uh so this is a procedure it's in the model policies as a required policy but we did not have it um mtsba did update how they're posting their model policy so we can actually now see when they implemented a policy or when they updated a policy so my world just got a little bit better which makes ours better yes um so yeah so this kind of it goes along with the policies that we have I'm about 504 this is just a procedure I move that we approve the first reading of 2162 B2

106second Kathy has made the motion can has seconded to approve the first reading of policy 262- P2 any board discussion public comment all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion passed 82 Z 2163 is related to Traffic education uh so we have this policy it's you know basically the same as model however we do offer traffic education for kids outside of our Geographic boundaries of the school um it's actually a really great program there's a lot of schools that don't offer um driver's ed so we've been able to provide a service to kids outside of our district so we're just getting rid of that Geographic boundary language in that policy I move to approve the first reading at second been moved by Ken seconded by Craig to approve the first reading of

107policy 2163 any board discussion public comment all those in favor say I I I all those opposed motion passed 8 to Zer 2160 5 and 2165 F uh are Rel the early literacy targeted intervention um more colloquially known as Kinder one uh here in uh jolet um looks like they updated that from the last time that we looked and we'd spent quite a bit of work making sure that you know we were enrolling those students correctly um it did come with some action had that conversation with Miss FIS that they are looking for end of the year kind of like summi of assessment to compare uh they are um at the beginning of the year so ask Miss FIS uh to just conduct the district screener that we run and it's part of Kinder one

108Roundup um she'll administer that to the students at the end of the year to see what kind of growth U that we saw um be fantastic good grow so other than that I mooved to approve the first reading at 2165 2165 I'll second that it's been motion the motion has been made by Ken seconded by myself to approve the first reading of policy 2165 and 2165 F any board discussion public comment all those in favor say I I I all those opposed motion passed 8 to zero 2250 f um recommendation the Board of Trustees approve the first reading 2250 just um so this is related to adult and continuing ed um authorization for emergency care and acknowledgement of risk so you know we have um adult continuing de going so if somebody sprays their ankle

109during thinking dance class but there you go we or what did you do Jason Bree your pinky yeah spr your pain be straight so just acknowledgement of RIS [Laughter] discuss [Laughter] um old business pick up that next on to the good stuff discuss um believe we have some representation from FR here in the audience um backstory uh kind of going um back a couple of weeks now superintendent HCK um inberg we were on a legislative call actually repr um that meeting um as if I give her a call and wanted to just open up some dialogue related to a potential Sports Coop mandz and myself met with superintendent H and Mr Lowry um who is the athletic director over there had a good discussion early initial conversations schools I've put together some information in the

110packet General pros and cons you know Rel to any um off the the potential you know benefits would be increased participation you strong teams and groups expanded opportunities um offer a lot of stuff here I one that Express interested in offering program something a little bit might as you can see here some shared costs expenses potentially equipment travel um you know longterm bigger pictur St coaching ring making programs all that more affordable interaction between students um friendships lifelong friendships something like facility resource sharing we got you know facilities as well programs we seeing more and more me she for a long time program sustain program over there in Alberton um and I'm happy to say that we're moving in the other direction uh with with that things to increase energy and positivity um so I

111don't see that but you know as the legislature does things like open enrollment um and even there's a little sniff in U what has become known as the Stars act um which is an attempt to you know increase starting teacher pay there's a little sniff that that might also be targeted in some way at small schools and en closing them because small schools aren't going to be able to keep up with um you know some of those necessary salary increases whereas all of the douas are going to get the Stars act Revenue without even having to negotiate with their unions at all because they're already above the 41650 threshold so um it's it's in the air you know as you guys all know and as we've discussed this school school consolidation piece so want to

112make sure we're protecting our programs and our offering for kids um more specifically related to jolet you know we know that we probably would benefit from some short-term girls basketball numbers um I've updated for whatever reason I don't know if this was the same thing that happened with Mr Arana the the document that was included in the public packet on our activity numbers was incomplete um that number has since been shared with everybody um you know our girls basketball projection is four or five eight you know for eight in the high school next year add in you know five eth graders and you could probably be at 13 if you wanted to bring up those eighth graders as we said um you know so there's a short-term gain there pet band increased numbers would you

113know be more than welcome and you can accommodate you know a lot there track is the same deal we know that we're right on the cusp with football of being kind of that eight man versus uh the 11 man um our high school enrollment you know know this would some be something to consider because you take the cooperating schools high school enrollment chunk them together and that's your total enrollment it would push us probably pretty firmly into that 11 Man category whereas we believe now if the numbers kind of hold in two years time we're going to be back under and we'll be publicly playing man football that conversation probably moved if the trustees want to move forward but maybe the numbers you know from from robber help to justify an 11 man longer term

114uh you know uh participation at that level speech and drama we've got great individual performers I think that Mr Reed would love because some of these teams bring like 20 30 40 50 kids uh to to these meets and that's how you gain team success so we would we would you know welcome those you might be able to recruit coaches from reer pool um could potentially be you know the beginning of a long-term partnership um you there might be possibilities for gym space as well as other physical assets um there's a number of cons you know that I think you guys need to consider logistical challenges practice times travel event schedules can be difficult um we're going to be working with a new Administration um you know so communication is going to be critical working

115with a whole new group of parents um which you know brings challenges you know um you know people want to see their kids play um and if we're getting into a situation that we're not necessarily forced to yet um those those could be complicated conversations on our end as well as you know maybe um from prer as well um there might be some identity and some school spirit concerns we made it very clear that um and this could change but my position I think M Hernandez M Hernandez's position who used to be a bulldog but it was it was not popular either community that was not that was well I ran cross country but I was I was you weren't a bul no what kind of a [Laughter] loc I the new Bulldog or the

116old bulog yeah the red and green we made it very clear that at this moment in time we are not interested in that conversation wants to come over you will be a jolly at jhawk um and I think that's just a good place to start um talked about that unequal representation you know one school may feel overshadowed um there's some travel burdens administrative complexity parent and Community resistance culture classes um specifically related to programming that we have now that could be problematic we do not need any midor numbers in middle school basketball um you know boys or girls um I don't think you know you might benefit maybe from some some girls numbers but we're running into I think already some complications with playing time you know I I just know from coaching that as

117well you know 10 kids on you know the the Middle School B Team 10 kids on the a team is it's a lot still you know to try to get everybody in and get them the exposure you you see you see Columbus who brings like 15 kids on a team and you just it's not a positive experience for for a lot of them um you know volleyball numbers are strong um in that situation um so we've included you know some some predicted numbers um in there um you may take criticism from the community if if rary kids are you know maybe playing in front of jol at kids um but um ultimately some sports would probably need to be considering um some cup policies uh with that we also stated in our meeting that it

118would be our wish that jol Public Schools would hire all coaches conduct all searches um that fromberg would not um you know be a part of that no mascot color changes all home games uh we stated in the meeting with Jolette cromberg could off for golf um you know we would retain our activities director prach would also maintain their activities director um there was discussion over brombert providing and paying for all football costs um you know those are expensive you know how much is a helmet now 700 800 yeah is not necessarily a cost that when we already have questions about the price T of football even though um it might be there we bu this to they would be able to come over to you guys um so I asked um superintendent hook Hickok

119to put together some numbers so what you see there is 6 through 12 that's their General enrollment um that is um is kind of what we're looking at um you know so if you take the high school numbers six you know 17 or so it's going to pretty squarely put us over 130 um for eight man football and that's just something that we have to contend with um in in that area also I think the immediate need which you know and we've had some some questions and some people come in on you know girls basketball um we're looking at two freshman right so it might not provide the juice uh you know immediately um that that you might need probably going to see some complications with boys basketball um and you know potentially with volleyball

120as well cross country you know and one um projected participant is is not going to make that that big of a change so we'd be happy to hear the the discussion um that the are any questions uh that the board would like us to look into research um and then maybe we board share bla will speak out don't know I think it would be an advantage I think for the most part I see there are some challenges I know you said well you know you say well your kids Jolly why is that fror kid playing over Jolly at kid you're gonna have that but you're gonna have why is that Jolly at playing over my Jolly K it does make any difference where you came from and that I mean that's that's my opinion we

121may have a kid that goes to school here that's from fber they just don't go to school during the day atber so fromberg kid because when they're here they're a j-hawk and I think that comes down to the ad and the coaches making it very clear and you know that this is what we're going to do we're going to take everybody as a group we are a team and we're going to do the best we can to put the best team out on the floor so that we can win so I think I think that would be one that you might see but hopefully we can avoid that by you know preemptive explanation so it seems like to me the the small numbers that are jumping in I think it'd be great I think it's

122an advantage to the fber kids to have the opportunity because I hate to have any kid lose out on any opportunity like this so my opinion is you know I don't care where they're from if we can help that kid join a team be successful and go on then then I'm okay with it hopefully we can work out the other bucks I'd like to pursue I Echo Ken I I agree with Ken but I think the hardest thing is going to be figuring out the two communities the Deep roed support for for each School J and they're Falcons when here right love you um I like get speeches so Levi L the athletic director coaches about everything over there um it's been hurting me you know I've had kids that have come up through fber

123um not to break but pretty damn good athletes but we just can't compete you know last year I was head coach I I took over after Mr over and came here got another person you stole from us you know it it's been tough last year I had eight for a six-man team I had eight athletes I did not have a bench warmer I had eight athletes and we could compete you can't playing the six-man genre when you have you know schools like absor and Bridger that have 18 Shield Valley brings over 22 Custer he brings over 20 and they're still playing six men so it's been a struggle my kids I've had to watch not only my personal kids but I consider every kid in that school my kid I've had to watch them face

124defeat you know we haven't had anything to resemble a competitive team just because of numbers not because of athletes not because of how hard my kids try it's because we just can't it it is I mean I played Sports my entire life doesn't matter how good of an athlete you are but if you don't have six more that can go with you the whole time you're not going to be competitive same thing in basketball you know we started off Gang Busters with 11 and ended the season with nine you just can't you know those are sports you just can't go and we haven't had a girls anything in four years and not just because of numbers um it just it kills me to know that I can't tell these kids that they're going to be

125successful so I'm not going to lie to my kids Unfortunately they are going to be up against the wall nonstop and I have a lot of people in my community maybe some in yours that say well Sports ain't everything some kids it is some kids that's the only reason they come to school that is the only reason they stay in class that is the only reason they get good grades to graduate I realize as an educator that is our number one goal but if we're not keeping kids in the school they're not going to get educated right now I have two kids in my senior class that are going to college because of sports I myself was not a great student and attended College not once but twice because of being an athlete and sometimes

126that's the motivation those kids need to move on and find something different I have lifelong friends because of sports not because we were in math class together you know and I just want every opportunity for our kids um yeah we may have a closer Co-op down the road but when you're speaking of Jolly at kids and fber kids they don't really have a rivalry that's not going to mesh right versus our neighbors who we have competed against and bashed against for decades yeah now I know that you guys you know we had to co-op of the Bulldogs I know that because I was a Park City Panther it didn't really bother me a bit you know but I mean we've been pretty rooted in you know this value you know both of us and I

127just think that the best that we can do for our kids is given me an opportunity and honestly in our day and age kids are getting to the point where everything's given to them you know I got one kid that may be an athlete but he's a little punk I still can't afford not to play or hurt you know what I'm saying and competition is what drives you know kids to being productive adults in society when they get to that job they're not going to just get the raise they're not going to just get the job because they show it up and said I'm here they've got to compete for it and competition is what everybody should strive for so you know and the numbers and honestly you're getting them anyways to like you said

128sir they're not going to know if they're a Jolette or a fber because you know they're going to be a student year they're not going to know that they're not a fromberg kid they're going to school in Jolette and you know I've spoke with several of my fellow ads throughout the state that have join into co-ops that have been absorbed right get for example first couple years kids were still wearing their demon jackets kids were still like well we're demons we're playing for harlo they've got kids now they're in high school like what's what is that on the floor well it's a demon well what's that for well that's what we used to be no we're Engineers so yeah next year the year after after that kids are just going to assembly before you know

129it you're they're not going to realize that they're not a j their parents might say well we've been a you know we've been a felid well not anymore you know it's just the way of the life and to speak of the possibility of the 11 man I'm actually trying to propose in MHS next year that we don't even count female students towards football because I've already been saying that because we've got so many that you get countered for you know you've got these schools you know or neighbors down the road they got a ton of girls and that's what their fear is is they're going to be kicked up to eight man because of girl enrollment so I've been working with some other ads to propose maybe not even counting females with less than 1%

130of the State playing High School football so I just I think it's a great opportunity I know there's going to be hurdles and I just want the opportunity for my kids they need it because if not they're just going to leave many ways and we're struggling to hold our school as it is yes sir since you are the ad and you're at the school and you know what's going on over there what's the feeling of the community and the people that have those kids that are in your classes now just the overall I mean is it 5050 is it 7 how's it no I mean obviously kids here no matter how tight you say kids here and we've got some kids are saying well I'm not going to go over there have to a be

131well if you down the road to the other side you're still going to have to because then you are going to have that stigma of being the from kid playing down there versus here it's like no we're coming here as a school we're coming here as you know an activity and playing here you're going to get that opportunity yeah you're going to have to earn it but so be it so it's mostly positive from your side do you believe I well if I don't know like I said I I get some I've got some kids you know and like I said I've got kids in the school so they come home and separate between and the dad but it's like but the kids are going to make their choices I mean obviously we're already losing

132a few here when you might have a kid goes to school in fber comes here and plays right next to a kid that lives in fber but might go to school here there's still of our kids well you guys right now have 42 of our kids and you got three more coming your way so 45 kids coming from our school already and I mean right now there's a senior here that goes here that's from bronberg um house by first one of the are house fired um kids but um he comes to a lot of games and he sits with our crowd and visits with everybody and vice versa my sister moved my older sister moved her kids over here to Jolette and so I have jol stuff too still but anyways you know it's it

133is what it is and I think I think the kids will adjust and like Don said in our meeting last week when she attended our school board meeting she said this you know we're the adults we need to take control of this we need to figure out these answers and some of these kids don't want to compete but some of these kids do want to compete and that's where you'll see when they get classified on Varsity JV cquad you know and that's just it I mean we our Junior High boys basketball team currently only has five players because we had we had a hes school kid and ended up going over to Bridger and two other kids ended up transferring over to Bridger midseason so we have five Junior High boys right now playing on

134our Junior High team you know we're losing kids to Bridger we're losing kids to over here and we're trying to battle that but I just I want our kids to have opportunities I don't want kids we had a basketball player this year hit his head pretty hard in the PLP game up in pyu he was out the rest of the season so it takes a boy away you know and then when you have an an eligibility or sickness or death in the family whatever you taking those kids away and pretty soon you only have a varsity team and that's what we ran with most of our boys baset High School boys basketball this year was in varsity team only and you know some of those other kids aren't getting those skills that to play varsity

135basketball they're expected this to play as eighth graders on a bar C so you want them to have those skills and we're losing you know we have kids who have divorc parents who are going to go live with their you know their other parent in a different state that's just you know that's why speak to that when we are losing probably one of our top basketball players just because there's no opportunity for him to be looked at by a college because you know I mean as the you know as the going to you know all conference meeting and talking to you know fellow coaches and other ads it's like they want to assume because you come in last you don't have any good players and that's not true I've got players I think that are

136better than the teams that take first place but they're not going to be able to shine and we get so caught up especially 60 and I don't know you guys remember being in the 60 but it's vicious boy you know it's vicious you know it's like if you a if your team didn't win none of your kids are worth it I don't and it just it drives me nuts and I think a break from that let the kids see something else get more opportunity get more travel opportunity and and not have to worry about I can only afford to get six new basketballs this year and two or for games and well and it's it's one of those things where we can't we don't have enough coming to pay for our reps you know we

137don't get enough family because you know we have a lot of our kids who have one and two and even three on the same team you know siblings so you only got one set of parents coming to us you know and that's and that's where it kind of comes down same thing with our you know Junior High kids they all have you know it's this we don't have enough and our community is just not big enough to support to even keep our GES open well go ahead well I'm just just think that too because I think we've kind of talked a little bit about it it gives us another gym if we need to for some some other games some other practice for the middle school they said we we had 800 track kids in

138the gym today after school and the little guys were playing in the other gym you know you start getting crowded that's what it seemed like probably well they choose access to our instruments and stuff so say you guys have couple out for repair and you need to Bar some trumpets or whatever you know know we have all those instruments sitting there too you know just access for that and we haven't had a pet band for years that I since it's been probably since I've been on board I've been on board 14 years now yeah the last would have been my oldest yeah yeah and so it's it's you know um it's just because you got people who want to play in that band but they just don't have enough and I can't break out of

139trumpet it's been 25 years since I played one so um the other thing too is I know that you guys in your last me kind of talking you know I'm sure FR would make a smoken deal I have another board member here John Carter but um I'm sure FR would make a smoken deal with jolia for that Cruiser bars because we really don't need it we bring all the sports over here and we we got it for fairly decent price color is it's white any color you want it's white and it ask Robert Falcons but I know somebody that would probably do it for you guys um for a good deal but um I mean we bought it's it's red l as had a new transmission when we got it um put that on your

140transport Transportation agenda we we paid fairly cheap price for it so and we've only had it this is our third year of cabinet so and we've got plenty of equipment like I've got 18 brand new helmets um all refurbished and they're all within two years um all of our own pads I mean we have everything that we need I mean Surplus definitely a football s that's you know that's for sure I actually have a brand new set of volleyball net and poles that we had order only to find out they didn't fit in our holes so can't really send it back to go they went so or to not device so I mean I think there's a lot that we can add and give um I got some good coaches and I'm not going to

141lie I've got a lot of people that been doing it for years myself included what's the next step for us CL yeah I think that you guys um I don't know uh probably just direct some questions towards me um and we can be in touch I think on that um I don't know what we're looking at from a deadline standpoint well we're unfortunately under mhsa we're passed the deadline of February 24th but I have been in contact with Brian melot president and say he knows of our struggles over the years and I've told him that we have you know reached out to neighboring schools trying to figure out a way to keep our kids in a program so he's understanding um I get a lot of a lot of emails weekly from you know master

142schedulers of basketball and football and 6c like what are you guys doing what are you guys doing I'm like we're working on it so we would have to have something by the next board meeting we so yeah leave I wouldn't it would have to be board action even for an emergency C fromberg board our board so we meet the 21st and you guys will meet the 22nd so we could do our ours that way and then you guys could do like that yours right and then it would go to mhsa board so there's basically but if you've been in contact they're probably going to accept if we hopefully Brian you know mhsa board is very on board with keeping programs alive that's and our I think our boards cons like we need to do this

143we need to do a right John so do you guys like charge your kids activity fees or we have activity passes for families but we don't charge the actual player for play so we charge our kids per activity yeah is that going to be an issue what if we took that P schedule and you presented that at your next board yeah we could do that um because yeah because some of our families have have like lifelong family passes I know like fouses do you know they have a son that's a sophorn this year um but you know we could maybe try to work together as dist as districts on that on the activity pass and stuff why they're talking oh participate I'm sure these fees are not astronomic they are not as you know they're

144not asking some for over, Max want I'll tell you right now I'll cover four them well that's and we will and if you think about it if J it's going to incur the cost on the coaches you know and all that we could pull money that way it's ruce do you guys have a budget that you could kick some in for like ref I toand today and with the coaches that we didn't have because of no volleyball no girls basketball no Junior High this no this you know uh 135 that would have been used was not used I mean that's just a number for what this year is going to look like um you know a lot of it came down didn't have a cross country coach so and falls on a certain ad to

145take I I would think probably our Activities Committee or something they'd have to put all those little pieces together that we could have available for your board to look at I think this is the cost Ken I I think let's go there um let's go to the Activities Committee um we'll get a meeting together within the uh Within by the end of next Friday U we'll sub commmittee out kind of hash out whatever details that you want me to share with um superintendent Hickok and then maybe we communicate out of that level yeah on any potential fee sharing outlining you know some of the harder details um and I think we'll kind of be I hate to say this I think we'd kind of be at your guys' back in call a little bit because

146you guys are GNA can charge so I guess as the athletic director been here for a while I do have very deep my wife prob my all my kids are graduating from there um I realized we don't really have a dog in the fight we're just kind of the puppy sitting there looking um I would really appreciate as a personal favor I realize you guys have your own activities board um not that I want to have to say so but I'd like to be involved um I really do care about every single kid in my school and not that I think you guys are going to be like oh well we'll bring them over here so we have tackling dummies that's not what I mean I just communication that's kind of where Rel lacked with

147the people we share with now there's no communication games get canceled and we don't know about it and we're you know hired a teacher that comes out of absor to take a one player and they don't realize until they get there and oh no we changed that game you know it's like and that's what we would probably do is hire somebody to transport kids over for practices or if you guys need to use our gym you know that's all fine details we can work out later but um and other thing is Levi of course will stay the athletic director because we would like to keep the golf program um and then yeah just if we have leave I really involved the other thing too is foror school week so we by through Thursday and so

148we're off on Fridays of course and so I'm sure Bill Cody our bus driver would love to drive an activities bus for you guys if you guys are in a desperate need like that bill loves taking the team and he does all the books too so and as manyy knows with the actual Co-op even if it's just it's still a jolly at from j-hawks when mhsa comes up and when you guys you know when your athletic director goes to their B meetings that does get them two votes having me as an athletic director in the C I have a question that with the J kids be able to join golf with them yes in fact we actually present to you to have and bridg come over to our so I know that Miss they were

149more than welcome that's that's not separate from this though just an option it would still be I mean it would still be I think still be part of the program part of the whole thing yeah it still would be whether we just kept because we do have a coach that is an Golf and we have a Four Hole Golf course buil three hole three hole that our M Sky built and we're going to get some DET fromet DET so I just so I will um figure out a day and and let you know and you can come to our activities committee meeting and get some has out and John wanted to come and our school board thank you thank you guys you guys have any other questions we're both Birds of Prey right so exactly

150yeah [Laughter] all [Laughter] you [Laughter] survey is instruction process they have construction have last year a couple of other um outfits have put out just kind of Google forms that we could do um the discussion last year was that we kind of like the longitudinal data track things over time uh presents a little bit um more more um you know a digestable format I think it's led to some good action uh we got a course catalog out of it um right off the top of my head that was the one and we're going to be working on uh some uh orientation materials that are kind of rooted in like kindergarten experience here are some of the highlights fifth grade experience here are some of the highlights it's a Yellowstone thing so expect the fundraiser sophomore

151year senior year so that came out of there so a lot of positive it is a chunk of change um but you know I'd be willing to take direction from from the trustees if you think we're getting our bank for our buck out of it I can go forward with it if not um we can go a different route and a pre Google form um I don't think there is in all honesty I think consistency is is is good and worth it but that's my opinion you know I like being able to of have the same information of being able to compare apples to apples year after year if you have a strong opposition give me a call um we can talk about that later uh to family scholarship is there work to be done

152here do we have a committee we don't we need to name a committee we need to name a committee we usually do three um it's a $1,000 scholarship we come up with a the committee comes up with a prompt ask for an essay um KS turn that all in through Marina um then the committee reads the essay say if they feel like there's something close they will um make um some interviews with those kids that have turned in essays and then make that and it goes out from the board then presents it at graduation so does anybody want to volunteer for that I would prefer not to do that things you do it I'll do it Cathy one more I'll have one thanks Kelly so I'll email you guys um so last year and I

153think it was kind of Kelly that kind of came up with some criteria or whatnot so I'll email that out to you guys that we used for like review criteria and ranking are the anonymous then so you know what who the kid is when did yeah but that like for me as a reviewer I didn't know the high schooler so it was pretty anous yeah no that's fine I just question well and some of it too like they talk about like what they want to do they reflect on past experiences and then like what they want to do in the future and whatnot so it is a little bit more difficult I think to keep it purely Anonymous okay okay good we're good there thank you guys kindergarten Kinder one round update that's April 11th

154we've kind of hit these numbers um already in previous discussion Kinder one there's 13 new students register there are four on the list to be in consideration kindergarten we have the 13 currently enrolled and then we have as of right now we have zero new enrollments uh we have that average number six to eight um is usually the addition to kinder one so we're keeping our eye on it we're tracking it um and we'll keep you posted um we've had about three or four six through 12 master schedule meetings um this team has been um involved with those as well as Mr Turk um some discussion over a seven versus an eight period day um we' be happy to take input from the board on uh whether or not there's a strong preference either way

155we did send a feedback form out to middle school and high school staff on their preferences um do you do you enjoy the E Period day or do you think there's um you know any any reason to switch to a seven period day uh we can do more of a formal uh we you know won't be making the decision today or you know probably anytime in the immediate future uh but we can do something I can do some pros and cons for the board um if you'd like to see something like that um but any initial reactions to um seven versus eight period day I think I voice my thoughts towards you advocating for seven period day just more time in your core classes and less need of elect class yeah yeah it does kind

156of address that need s Mr tur kind of just pull numbers you know in in some of our electives and you know some of our electives in all honesty are running up three students uh students you know five five is kind of like for us a good number uh in some of those electives that justifies it but once they start getting lower than that it kind of becomes a little bit tricky and if you've got all these electives um out there you know they're kind of hard Phil especially as people are kind of drawn to Apex and some of the distance offerings um so they it's not going to limit their ability to take any of those things um it just doesn't they don't need to do two of them or three of them uh

157and they can you know take what's what's being offered here on I kind of wanted to go back to seventh period because I was I was teaching here when we went to an eighth perod The only reason we did that is because we were looking at blocks get yeah you know that was the only reason we did it and then it just stayed there we never we never a block just went to and one thing when it did you know it shortens class periods like you said it also shortens the teacher TR and they have one more prep to do um you know I think with the core and with some of the things I want quality education not just lots of options and when you get down to two and three in an elective

158then it's like and then you can eles that are offered and and it becomes a little bit problematic in middle school where you it's almost like sometimes we feel like we're finding locations you know because they have art here but then they need to be opposite something else you know and you're you know sometimes creating you know not the most quality class you know for them so we're having those discussions did the teachers come back with mix actually you remember well I'm gonna say it was heavier around seven because that's what I you're on my side for once no it was it was it was mix you know and I think there's there's pros and cons there is like very valid mixed opinions but how many schools around have eight I don't I know red

159L is in a block yeah they if they don't have a block I mean like buildings only have six yeah so and there would be some changes with with graduation requirements and credits and you have to adjust some stuff yeah I still I still would prefer would we though have to you know it seems like we're probably over anyway I mean when our kids get into their senior year they they need two credits to graduate right yeah 90% of them so really if you left your standard still at 26 credits they'd be okay they'd be okay I feel like we talk about this every year right yeah because remember that we had a strategic plan issue we want to have a highly efficient schedule that maximizes learning um so you know this is it the

160responses from the teachers were seven we we got 15 respon 12 responses seven wanted eight five wanted the other one but I do think that Mr nandz has talked to some people that said that they actually would have went either way they might have voted for a seven for an A but they actually would have been so I think it was you know across the board and as I'm you know maybe just listening to some reactions here I think you could get support for the seven and the eight period day I don't think it'd be too much of a drastic um Uprising for our teachers but I think from the kids standpoint you know I think you'd see good impact yeah so okay we'll continue to explore that all right we included the marsh mclenon

161inspection report remember that's our liability um Insurance folks did iip something no no okay so that's included um Steve has essentially already addressed all of these um issues that were flagged um in the uh liability report so that's something that we get um done every single year in addition to that we have Steve's um maintenance report for the past month uh we also have some correspondents from uh Ken who is doing the work to try to find us a a cheaper option um for maybe some alternate building plans so I appreciate it um and hats off for reaching out to the architectural department and bosan any any more to add on that Ken no he he said it's a little late they do have an actual group that does stuff in that works on projects

162like that he said also there's the gall County or whatever it's like the College of Technology up there that they Drafting and that program may also be available so he was going to pass that information on so I think I think at this point in their Academic Year and their seniors they're they're done you know they have their stuff planned out but I thought you know it might be great to have a couple kids out and say here's some ideas you want to put something together give us your ideas I mean if I was a kid in that program I would feel pretty proud about having something like that in my portfolio when I when I'm looking for a job is what I'm thinking so it might be something that we can encourage some to

163do and then I want to look at that other group that he talked about I remember what it was called that maybe we could put in some kind of a proposal from us to that committee or group to say will this work for a project that'd be more the fall which we're kind of on hold on everything else any that might' be a good time to to to look at some options so again hats off can for keeping that on the forefronts um included the um District letter for the continued funding of the Mont Advanced opportunities grants uh formulate Grant but you see our numbers uh um that are included between both districts about $118,000 uh activities committee meeting minutes uh budget committee meeting minutes negotiations committee meeting minutes are included um update on enrollments

164employment opportunities as they currently exist are also included in the packet uh for everybody um we have um on my schedule this is going backwards I had a chance to attend ms's um job fair kind of interview Blitz they run it in like a speed dating U format you know you kind of rip through um all of these all of these teachers is how they build it um it was good it was fun A lot of Elementary potential Elementary applicants um told a couple people to you know get an application in we left the interview of you so we'll see kind of what we get out of that but a lot of good Elementary candidates out there a lot of good art uh candidates out there we could probably hire an art teacher if we

165wanted one um you know uh pretty pretty dang easily we richer keeps making characters of all of you guys yeah that's right yeah we wanted to add an Elementary art teacher um that person's out there there was some science um that was out there um atic directors the what athletic directors did not um you know you never know um there was yeah no counselors no no CTE uh folks almost like everything that we need and everything else that everybody's looking for um you know was was not there so uh that was a fun event um to to go through for clerk evaluation tool this is the same tool that we used last year um obviously there are things on here that you don't interact with me on um so there's like an an NA um

166option on there for you and some things you you may not know anything about like elections there's a lot of stuff I the board um just fill it out the best that you can and Don can set a time to to have you guys return those so that she can compile and then the email next month in a special session in an executive session my brain is fuzzy right now I know Jason want know fumigated these first I didn't cough on them they were other papers on top so you should be okay and just to Julie like literally wiped down her desk after I was in there this morning she's like no offense yeah cleaning yes can you guys have them back to me by the nth because I know they all won't come back

167on the night ask for on the nth you might get him by the 16 yeah and I was the last one to do our last yeah yeah Kristen our board meeting is the 15th because Monday our the first is a Tuesday oh so you guys will be a week ahead of us uh that's okay I mean we're meeting on Eastern Monday I'm like I don't travel out Town my whole family livs in Fr yeah all right [Music] um suggest the topics for next regular agenda we'll have our quarterly review superintendent um consideration of summer school teachers classified staff vacation payout classified staff contract renewals review preliminary budget data we'll go into executive session for the clerk evaluation we'll riew certified ballots anybody have anything else they want to add to that million doll list NOP

168are we G have to do the yeah we'll have to put the co-op on there just my mind haven't heard about it forever oh it's get anything after nine kind yeah kind of R all right um else on if nothing else we'll excuse are well I guess you guys can stay because we are moving rooms for an executive session everybody wants to take a quick two minut bre we will move down to room