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School Board Meeting 06/25/25

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YouTube / Kila School District #20
Date
2025-07-01
Location
Flathead County, MT
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3,170 words · about 18 min
Collected
2026-06-11

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001We will stand for the pledge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Okay, we will start with our consent agenda. Any questions on the minutes from the last meeting warrants? There are 20 lots and lots. I was just going to ask about the Spanami saw but so the Spanami um we do have an extra one that is in storage. Um, um, but and because the intention was to have two so the one wouldn't wear out so fast. Um, but uh, it just wasn't a priority to get it in. We have to go down like 3 ft concrete and stuff. But we'll talk to Liz in July. Yep. And see about installing both of

002them or like Amanda suggested maybe using one of the farts or something. Now, the silk plumbing is in here. Um, so I don't know if it's kind of jumping the horse for the cart here. Um, that bid does not include the paneling behind, but I talked to both Silo in the maintenance and they said for labor and materials it' be under $500. It's a easy cheap fix. So, fiberglass reinforce FRP fiberglass reinforced glass. Yes, that's what um Andrew was saying something fiberglass. So easy. He said it's $31 dish. Big deal. anything else that pops up. Oh, we were able to put 42,000 into the monthly district agreement and in August we need to talk about that because they changed some legislation. Okay. You think anything else that pops out regarding the daily like are we

003for the point4 and then also a full time like are we kind of doing that? Liz wanted a one full time and then we'll see where we go from there and then um the car will after July 1st because so she's on the BKB and everything. Right now we have Yeah, that was the past. 4 of that one and now we're just advertising for full time. Full time. Correct. Okay. And we have that on OPI's website. Yep. OPI and in the daily interate and it also goes out to um um what's it called? The rural schools. get a newsletter and they'll pull any um job openings and it goes out in those newsletters as well too. So we've gotten one and a half applicants applications cuz the one isn't quite complete yet. So okay that

004I know it because they're going to list. Okay. Someone has come here. Transportation contract. Oh, so part of consent. Yeah, that's part of the consent. So we have transportation contracts are that's what we're paying, right? The transportation contracts. Yep. Yeah. Any family that is in district and over three miles is eligible for um transportation reimbursement um over three miles. They have to be in district though. You'll see some that are higher. Some of those families are getting special services in town um like our special co-ops um severe communication programs. So, we pay transportation for them to go there. We also have another family that lives living uh moved to Nevada and they're going to transport. So, wow. And Nigera is in our school district. So, It's just a little corner, right? If we have or

005is it the whole We we have a good chunk of you go up Hard Dam and part of Humber Dam is and my and all that. So Yep. Looks like the daily approvals were pretty. Oh yeah, just the Yeah, our quarterly unemployment adjustment. And then um we'd have to make sure every penny of our um IFA Indian Ed for all is spent. So we report or rej some expenditures that um could fall under that. Any questions on the consent agenda? No. Also got a motion to approve. I'll make a motion to approve the consent. Second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay. Move on to our guest comment sub section. Members of the public are encouraged to comment during this time regarding items not listed on the agenda. The chair will seek public comments on

006agenda items as they occur. By law, the board cannot take action on matters discussed during the public comment portion of the meeting, but may include a matter raised during this time on a future agenda. The board would like to remind everyone to avoid commenting on private personnel matters, private student matters, and pending legal matters. Do you have any guess? Well, I am hoping to see if my children could come. We're out of district, but my two came last year and then my my six-year-old, who's now going to be seven, missed the full year of school because there just was no school in the valley that was um accepting students. and um we had a taking my kids to school is very important to me but as well as their safety while at school and my

007I'm in Marian just outside of Marian and um I had something happen to my youngest daughter that I can't talk about and so I do not feel at all it's safe for her to go there and so I've been trying to get her into school um and like I said my two other my sons come here and um I love this school. You guys are very um I feel like they're safe here. That is a great atmosphere. Um and I really appreciate that. They're the most important being to me in this world. So um but I'm just really hoping to see my daughter get into school. Well, I also need to work so I don't um go further in a negative state. So, uh, you know, debt and whatnot, trying to take care. I have

008six kids. And so, I'm just really hoping to see my daughter be able to go to school. Yeah. Yeah. Rachel, we I'm sorry. What? Great. My daughter, she would have been in first grade last year and so that would be second grade this year. Um, I'm hoping to bet her her off. So, it's just I'd really like to see her be able to go to school and go to school here with my other two sons. So, that's my hope and desire. And I before getting a job where I work right now, um I saw you guys were looking for substitutes and I came in. I'd totally be able to be willing to be a substitute. Um but I would have I said I need my daughter to be able to come to you and you

009said no. So okay, well I can help you anyway. She can't be at home by herself. Anyway, I'm super sorry that we can't have back and forth during best comments. as many things I would love to be able to double check, but I would always point you towards Miss Sharon in the event that there are things that she could double check on our behalf. So, um, do you have any guest comments for this? Thank you for being all right. Thank you so much for coming and commenting. um going to move on to our action items at this time. And we have our um K3 bathroom repair bid, which we have slightly touched on with our warrants, but there was um so Silos's bid is in your board packet. And Miss Sher did confirm for us

010this morning regarding the boys restrooms that it does say that they would be replacing toilets. um that does not include the durals. They'll use the porcelain from the existing urinal but will replace the guts. So which and that's going to somehow make sense regarding it fitting. And I have no idea why that's a good thing. But so the big thing that um Christina wanted to make sure that we did talk about was that maintenance will have to replace the backing behind those urinals. And so she just wanted to make sure that we did take a moment to to not um to make sure that we weren't approving it without consideration of that material does need to be replaced. And that's why Miss Sharon was mentioning that that's will be coordinated. It will cost about $500

011to get that material removed, replaced material labor for install a high estimate. Yeah. So I've I've installed it. It goes in pretty quick and easy. So is it easy to clean? Yeah, because it it's a plastic material. So, it's got little fiberglass strands in it and then you can get bumpy or you can get flat u 30 bucks a sheet and it's just basically plastic and you just clean the plastic. So, so there's little edge trim and inside corner trim. You can get all the little things and parts and pieces for it and everything. But, and would that fall under our summer maintenance or would that be an additional It'd be summer maintenance. Yeah, it'll fall when he does it. Okay. And we'll And it's okay that he can make with they already talk. Okay.

012Make sure it's like sturdy and it doesn't dissolve. Yes. SW. Yep. Any other questions regarding that bid? Um if I could make a motion to approve Sil's bid regarding our um I'm going to say K through three boys and girls. Motion to approve the uh SOCO estimate for the bathrooms. All second. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. We have our preliminary 2526 budget. Um so the budget committee met um and we are finalizing. This is just the general fund. Um so this is just the preliminary for right now. Um it has to be submitted by the end of June. um just shows that you are actually working on your budget um to the suits office. I will tell you now later on on the agenda um we will have a final budget meeting and

013we've al already had a couple tweaks. Okay. So I mean just nothing major like our liability insurance just a little bit higher than I had thought it would. Um so but anyway um we just have to adopt a preliminary um in June. And so your budget is reviewed by a budget committee and that tends to consist of chairman, the admin, two board members, and we've been really lucky to have a bunch of teachers. Um especially because we just had negotiations. So that's always pretty helpful to get teachers to the table to dig through our budget line by line. That's a big thing for us is that we go through it line by line. Um some of those budget meetings are an hour to two hours because we really like to make sure we fully understand

014our budget. Mostly we're reviewing our general fund. Um, our school does have some different funds, but our general fund is our big mahunga. And so that's what we like to spend a lot of time doing. So this would just be asking for a motion to approve our preliminary budget for the 25 26 school year. I had no question. So I will, unless you have questions, I'll make a motion. No, no rest. I'll make a motion to approve the eliminated budget 21st. A second. All in favor? I. Any and you next item. Um this is our audit. Yes. So our wonderful Bob Denning um who's been there since before my time. Oh, 38 years he's been there. He's retiring and they've always done school audits. It's really difficult to find an auditor to do schools. It's

015phasing up because they're getting more and more difficult. So, um, Jonathan, who has worked with Danny and Downing, um, actually done my auto the last two years. Um, he is actually buying, taking over the business, and Bob's going to be his employee. So, um, new change, new name. Um, so yeah, he's just wanting to know if we want to keep working with him so he can get us on the schedule and then probably if we are, then next week we'll get the list. Okay. And are there other firms in the valley that do school audits? I know there's some out of town in town. I don't know. You know, I know one goes to a different one goes to Marian. Um and I think there's one other one that's out of town, too. Um I

016like Denny and Danny. My recommendation would be to stay with them. They know our systems. They know our school. Um any questions about our audit country? I think the letter even was in there right? Yet again Bob Jennings is retiring nice and bold in there. All right. Um I will take a motion to approve our audit contract for the upcoming school year. I make a motion to approve our audit contract for the coming year. I'll second. All in favor? I. Any oppose? Okay. The West Valley School 70 football co-op agreement. So, we as Kyle School do not have a football program, but West Valley does have a football program. And in previous years, some of our students have gone to West Valley to play football. this what we want to do in writing here is

017just it's making it more formalized um so that there's an understanding between Kyle School and West Valley that we will communicate grades we will communicate behaviors we will communicate um if there's any suspensions drug alcohol you if the student no longer goes to school at Pilot just more of a formalized this is how we're going to effectively communicate with your school and thank you so much for letting our kids participate um Mary Eli is our athletic director. She sent a quick little uh email just making sure we understood that she's very appreciative of the opportunity for our kids to participate in the football program. She's hoping that this will be a stepping stone towards us being able to have our kids, for example, maybe our girls participate in basketball at Smith Valley if we don't

018have enough other schools. So, it's just kind of formalizing the communications that are necessary and then also that it is still the hosting schools program. So, we're not saying that we have this program or that we're involved in this program. We're just saying that we are willing to communicate so that students academics and behaviors are a priority play and it opens up the opportunity for kids to participate in that sport because we just we can't Yeah. Yeah. We don't have it on. Yeah. And we tend to lag on girls basketball. So, we're just trying to make sure that our kiddos have all the opportunities by some of the rural school resources. But West Valley is hardly a small rural school anymore. They're seems like it's a whole campus. Yeah. Any questions on that? I will

019make a motion to accept. the West Valley School 78 football cooper. Second. All in favor? I I any item on our agenda is our maintenance contract in your board packet. Maintenance/custodial summer 2025. Looks to me like um each I'm hoping each teach teacher was asked if they needed things. It looks like there's some room specific items on. Yeah, she probably could have an email. It had been two years, three years, two years since it had been updated. So, they thought it'd be best to redo it. I see the list on there. I think she sent she sent the contracting email. Yeah, I had received it on the 18th of the approval. Yep. June 18th. Miham construction maintenance. So it on this it looks like the old contract Oh, it was at $45 an hour. Sorry,

020I just hit my here. Um, you'll contract labor rate at $45 an hour. Um, minimum hours per task. You know, minimum hours per call I would assume is two hours, right? That's how I Yeah. I don't know how long this is. Well, the problem they're running into is we've sent an email that the uh spring needs fixing to fix or this need fixed and there's just like and it's like now we actually need a list. Yeah. Give get give that's what I tell my customers if I'm going to do just like an stuff for them. Give me a list of things. Don't call me for one thing. You can call me the next week. Yeah. He said, "Oh, later you at my house forever. Um new contract looks like it's it is going up a

021little bit. $60 um per manh hour will be build. No less than half hour increments. Minimum hour per test two hours. Um it looks like they also added emergency calls for service build at the rate of 75. Um honestly I think both these labor rates are pretty good. So just knowing what my labor rate is for that type of stuff and everything. Um especially the emergency one. Yeah, that's very reasonable. It's it's it's overall it's reason. So, it's higher than it was, but it is reasonable. Okay. Just in current. So, will any maintenance be starting before list starts? Um, yes. And will you be comfortable coordinating that? Absolutely. I'll test. Yeah. We'll get to facilities. So, I'm totally fine with going ahead and renewing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, I'll make a motion to renew um

022the maintenance contracts. Second. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. Information items. Rebecca Stacy resignation. Um doesn't have any. And um she's only a year, right? Yeah. What position was she? She's up 45 and she was I think when Josh went on she was picking up some of that we had a teacher going paternity leave she picked up some of that slack for us but he's back full time now. Um, yeah. So, she's just a part-time teacher and we have posted for a full-time position because Yeah. And the advertisement is is nothing specific because we still need to cover part of kindergarten and it could be a teacher. We don't know yet. It depends what wants to do this vacancy. But, okay. Um, and in in your packet, um, there was a reference to the

023CDA collective bargaining agreement, and that has been all taken care of. Okay. Uh, next item was the follow-up discussion regarding the title audit. Um, so the state title poll program federal got audited and so it was a domino effect. So we were to have our audit audit. Never had one before. We weren't really sure what to expect but we drew in everything we could. We had um a couple corrective actions which we immediately got the documentation we needed and we um so we are good to go on our audit. Um our next year's allocations are starting to come out. Um we've gotten three notifications. I'm still waiting for two more to come in. Um our title wide is a little bit lower um which we already anticipated. Um but I'm waiting for the other allocations

024as soon as we get those. um uh Amy Iverson the title teacher Liz and I will all sit down they'll do the grant writing itself we're already get the allocations and then I'll do the financial and we'll get the ball right so and as part of the audit the title committee will meet at the beginning of the year so Okay. Like what she said gym girls bathroom. So we've been signed with an order for years. We've tried to fix this, try to fix that, try to do this. Well, dur over a long weekend. Um Silvis came in. He did what they call smoke bomb thing and all three bathrooms were smoking. So he went and we already approved the last board meeting to fix it. if they're fixed, there hasn't been odors, but they um

025we are in August, we'll have it'll be on the agenda to discuss, but um the boys bathroom in the office building um the wall isn't insulated real well and we've had problems with freezing and so we're looking at changing the different kind of pipes because the pipes are all yeast and stuff. So, we'll discuss that later, but just heads up. Okay. Um so, yes, girls bathroom was done. um fire panel alarm. So um the fire panel is required to have two communication ways in case one fails the other as a backup. Um, it is so right. Well, it was connected to a cell phone that is with the alarm company. And then one was also a Sentry Link phone number that kept on going that we found out didn't work until I got I hadn't

026had a Century Link bill in months. And then I got one for $80 per month for this phone line that didn't work. And so I got a hold of our technology people and our phone people and I said, "How can we get rid of Sentry Link and upgrade our fire panel?" And it was on the last set of Yeah. the last set of books. Um so they came in, looked at everything and said, "Absolutely. All you need is two communications, not two phone lines." So what they did is upgraded it to a still the cell phone, but also an IP address. now. So, and IPR technology people, they hear of all that. So, the fire panel is updated and good to go. And yes, thank you. Yes. Good job. Oh, I tell you what. Um,

027office stairs. Office stairs are prepped, ready to go. Handles are down. Um, they are going to start the project Friday. Um, they are doing the coat and, uh, the rails look beautiful. They're white, right? They're just coat. So yeah, starting Friday, it'll be completed by July. Um kind of off um on the facility issues, the car in the parking lot. Yeah. Um so it had been there for over a year and I had to get a um sheriff's uh plane order uh some kind of report. A report. Yeah. Um so once I got that, I was able to get a hold of a tow company. Um because there's only one to two co companies that don't take cars anymore. Um and I think I heard heard them but uh he said all we had to

028do is write a permission saying yes we can pick it up. Case number that's it. And I put it on the windshield so it should be gone by tomorrow evening. So where is this car? It was right in the parking lot. This car with out of county plates just hang. It's been abandoned. Looks like it's abandoned. It's been sitting there for what? Two weeks? Yeah. Well, at least two weeks. about two weeks. So cool. Um, yes. [Music] I only come down once a week. Yeah. Okay. So, summer school is starting summer school next week, two sessions. So, what we had I think she put a note up to or I did somebody to the board. We had a little less than one, little more than one, and it was supposed to be I think 10

029and 10 or something or 20 total. 20 total. 20 total. So she said, "Is it okay if we have a little less hair and a little more hair?" And it was absolutely, you know, the parent that we didn't refund the money to the parents and it's just so good for the community to have those kids here. And uh so yes, starting next week. Final budget meeting date in August. Um so we need the final budget date for the final in August. So, I was thinking if the budget committee wanted to meet maybe a half hour before the August meeting, would that work? Y I really don't see any more changes. I mean, we should have all of our members now. And like I said, it was just $1,000 uh was increased in our liability insurance.

030That's usually the catch all where we we do stuff. So, um 330 is usually our August meeting. I mean, you sticking with the or whatever works August for you. I guess maybe we should do that first. What date is the August meeting? Wednesday. Second second Wednesday. 12 in Washington the first week. Yeah, it should be. Yep. Second Wednesday. So, August 12th, 13th. 13th. 13th. Perfect. Hey, let's say Wednesdays instead of usage. 12th. I was like, does not compute. Well, August 13. The budget meeting would be August 13th at 3ent. Mhm. Does that give you enough time or do you um you know, let's do 2:30. Yeah. Just in case there's questions. Budget meeting will be at 2:30. Our board meeting will be at 3:30. And we do not need a meeting in July. No. I

031made, but I will have to do um claims and warrants midmon. So, I will be emailing those to you for approval so we don't get any like fees. I have to tell you a real funny story that I got called for jury duty. Oh, no. You actually got a call. Well, I got I got the thing and I flat out said, you know, I have to be that's when we have to set all the tax levies for the taxpayers. I have meetings and I got Yay. I'm going to cry anyway. Excellent. All right. I would take a motion to adjurnn our meeting. Oh, wait. Motion to adjurnn. Second. All favors. I close. No, we have to stay here. That was our shortest meeting in a long

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