April 2026 Board Meeting

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002your out of range that means I'm strong. Yes. I think I turned your mic on. >> Is your mic on? >> Uh, I can hear you. >> I can see you, but >> I don't have the sound on the >> Well, how are we going to know? >> I was gonna see how she gonna know. She has a question. They didn't disctically But when you do that, you do have to go and delete the so it goes back >> because where that starts is where the end goes. So I'm thinking maybe Every time she pulls overange with the board set for special meeting of actually did a vote on last month >> even though we've been talking >> later. >> I think he's probably overwhelmed since I met him. I've had a resource like this.

003How you >> been? You know plastic surgery has its price. I can go. >> There's more. It wants me to sign into guest but it won't let me >> just give me a minute. I said she >> don't let us do the pledge. I pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you all for coming. >> Any person present who wishes to address the board or raise any questions about public school district matters or governing policies so under public participation. No discussion of personnel or individual students for man at this time. A limit of three minutes is placed on each speaker. Persons who want more time may make arrangements be placed on

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005you hear us, Stacy? >> Yep, I hear you. >> Thank you. Uh, first we're gonna go to Tony with Whitfle. >> Yes. So, we'll start with Brian Dennis. >> Brian. Okay. Brian Dennis, Boys and Girls Club update. >> Mr. Chairman, members of the board, thank you for the opportunity to visit this evening, share a little bit about what's going on over at the club. Uh, super excited about um where we continue to be. You'll have to excuse the slides. They're about a month out of date. Um all the information still good, but uh we we got her figured out. Here I am. Um so if we can flip a page. Um so just a real quick hit on uh last year's participation. We enrolled 272 members. Of those 73 were in middle school and high

006school. Um that's been a 20-year journey. Um and we saw the same sort of growth across our organization and we're very proud of the work and the success we're having serving that older kid which everybody knows is bit of a struggle. Um continue to serve a high percentage of families in need. I would argue that every kid needs the club. Um but we want to make sure we focus and and reach those kids who need it most. uh kids spend almost 62,000 hours in the club versus being somewhere else in our community. Um and if you think about that as a business owner, as a parent, as law enforcement, that's a big a big benefit to the community. And then the kids consumed over 17,000 meals and all of those purchased from uh the school

007district. Um and we appreciate that partnership. It was with uh Sedexo, now it's with Chartwells, which we're excited about. Um, and as you know, hungry kids aren't very much fun. So, we want to make sure the kids get plenty to eat. We go to the next slide. Thank you. About 107 kids per day last year. Um, and during the summer, the numbers went down a little bit. Like everybody else, we've really been struggling to reach um reach staff um to work with the kids. And as you all know, um the the kids are a lot more challenging than when I started out here in February of 2004. So, uh we've had to make some decisions and we've kind of held our numbers back so we can make sure the experience is what we hope it

008would be. Numbers are coming back a little bit. So, we hope our uh participation will um grow as we move into 2026. I am very pleased though that uh 111 kids are coming two or more days a week. kids are there all the time. Um, which is really important. Even though our numbers are down, uh, almost all those kids are coming all the time and we appreciate that. Um, during the school year, we're only open about four hours and some change. Um, and all the kids don't get there all all at once, but having over two hours with the kids every visit um, is a big deal. And our school year or our summer numbers off a little bit um, and they were off a little bit across the board last year. We're still not

009sure what caused that. Um, but you know, 6 and 1/2 hours, 6 and 1/4 hours, still pretty good. Um, so we want to make sure we're keeping the kids. Um, next one, please. Do want to talk. I mean, this is our oldest schoolbased site. Um, one of the first in the entire Boys and Girls Club movement um to go school-based, and it continues to be a model in what across our movement is well over half um well over half the club houses in our 5,000 plus club movement. um our school base now and Lockwood was one of the early adopters. We can uh thank uh Superintendent Johnson back in the day when when she started this crazy idea um that has continued to be a great partnership. I know when uh they passed the uh

010the bond for the game room in the fourth grade hallway um extra space for the club part of that effort. um when we passed the bond for the middle school, extra space for the club was part of that. Um and we've been able to support and we're grateful for the partnership. We're grateful to have the space um to serve the kids. Um many years ago um when uh we we provided 100 where we raised $145,000 to put those bathrooms in off the kitchen, off the cafeteria there, which was our home base for a lot of years. um when we moved into the uh new space that we love um down in what I still think of as next to Mr. D'Vor's office because that was 411 was my original office. So I've gone full circle

011and come back home. Um and we raised $85,000 to put all new flooring down there. I wish we'd raised a little more to replace the carpet in the hallway, but we'll get there. Um and then the the real nice picnic shelter out by Lions. Um, we put the money together for that. And sometime I'll I'd love to show you our new STEM center down there. Um, uh, the Wagner family STEM center and our new Palm Center, which is the coolest room we have in the entire outfit. Um, and if you love, uh, uh, jellyfish, you're going to love that room. Um, but we're very committed. Uh, love love the partnership. Love to be able to serve these kids. It's our second oldest clubhouse. Um, and we'll celebrate 25 years next November. November 27th. It's not

012It's the November after. We'll get there. Um, meeting basic needs. Um, in addition to all the great stuff we do, I talked a little bit about food service after school. Every kid that comes to club gets a hot meal. Again, purchased here. Um, and in the summertime, they're going to get breakfast, they're going to get lunch, they're going to get supper. Sometimes it's part of the we go up to the cafeteria in the summertime for breakfast and lunch. Sometimes we just bring it down and we eat it in what I still think of as Mrs. Morris's old art. Um but and then the kids are going to get an afternoon meal. Um we want to make sure they get plenty to eat. Um and like I said, all the meals we purchase from the school

013district here. Um and we're grateful for that opportunity. It's pretty convenient just to wheel it down the hall. So we don't have to worry about moving it anywhere. Want to talk a little bit about outcomes. Um we're a safe place. We're a fun place, but everything's intentional. Um and we want to make sure um that we we give the kids positive um impact overall experience. Um 77% and everybody every all the kids take a survey if they're ninth grade or nine years old and up. And those are the kids that love everything, right? Those those are the the group of kids. They love everything. Nine nine years old and up, 77% of the kids said they had an optimal experience. It was as good as it could get at the club as an overall experience.

014Emotional safety, which I think is going to be hard to find anywhere. 80% 81% of the club kids that came last year that took the survey felt they had an a safe emotionally safe experience where they could be themselves, where they could open up to staff and they could get the help they needed. uh adult connections, which is something we pride ourselves on, 76% said they had multiple people that they could count on in the club. And then peer connections. This one's a booger. And I know Mr. Chrisman and Mr. Kinsey and everybody here could tell you connections between each other, kid-to- kid, is a problem all over the country. We see it in every Boys and Girls Club. Last year it was only seven 37% and that was improvement. Um it is a big

015challenge. Um helping kids trust each other, engage with each other and that's something we're working on. So um just kind of a real quick hit on what we're doing inside the club and again I'd welcome anybody. I'd love to give tours, love to introduce you to our great team um and and meet the kids. Individual mentoring uh it's a big deal. um giving these kids those relationships, character and leadership development. Um it's about learning to function and about being part of a team. Big part of how we're going to help make that that peer those peer connections get stronger. Math and reading, daily fitness, STEM activities, uh workforce readiness. Again, as we've really driven that older group, um that older group there experience changes. Um, and we want to make sure that they understand or

016we help them grasp why it's so important to stay in school and where you can go afterwards. And then we want those older kids to graduate with a plan for the future. And that can any any of the three, they go on to college for for the kids that that's where their their path should lead them and they're ready to be successful there. They're ready to be a great employee in our community. not just go get a job because that's what they need to do, but they have a career, they have a pathway that they're excited about, they're ready to be a successful employee somewhere in our community, or they're called to serve their country uniformly. Any of those three choices is a win and that's what we work with our teens to make sure

017that they're ready to go. And that's part of a larger effort, right? We're not doing any of this by ourselves, but that we have a whole staff that just works on teens and the workforce piece. out. Field trips, obviously, service projects, all that kind of stuff. Jump to the next slide. Um, I talked a little bit about mental health, just a little. We're going to talk a little bit more about it. Um, we are not trying to be a mental health agency. There's a lot of things though that we can do to help our kids be more resilient, help them kind of sort through some stuff. subclinical is not the right word, but um there are lots of things we can do with staff training type of environment, all of that stuff that help our

018kids, all the kids we serve be better able to to deal with challenges, right? There's always kids that are going to need more and we're not trying to replace anybody. Um but there's lots of things we found that we can do um to help these kids and we're very appreciative. Blockwood's been our test bed for the last last three years. U thanks to Mike and Charlene Gustoson. Mike just passed away, but um they they believed in what we were trying to do. They backed us um and we've made some great strides um in in creating, you know, trauma-informed experiences, the calm zone. We had a a support animal, which I still think it was an excuse to bring your dog work, but it was a great addition. And even for the parents, they love to

019come in. Where's Blue? We want to We want a pet Blue. We need a little bit of Blue Love. So, um, that's working out great. One of the things we're adding, we added a full-time lead, uh, our director of mental behavioral health. Things have continued to progress and now Lockwood's going to be the home for our second full-time staff that's going to help our team, help our kids working with mental behavioral health. Um, so we're we're shifting our our staffing a little bit. Again, we're not going to be a mental health agency and we're going to we're going to get kids where they need the right help. Um but there's lots of things we can do to help kids um deal with things before it gets too far down the road. Um and like I

020said, we're not planning to replace anybody. We're going to get kids connected to the right resources in the community, a higher level of care is what they call it in the medical field. Um, but we want to make sure that we're there to help those kids maybe that miss something somewhere else. Um, if you look any questions so far, I'm going fast before I get the look and the hook. Okay. Um, just real quick looking at uh fees. Again, the program, the club is not free. Um, but we will never turn a child away because of money. It is free for the teens. We do not charge for middle school and high school. Um we are happy to include those kids. Um and we fee wavered across the organization last year close to a half

021a million dollars. Um we are committed to making sure any kid that wants to get in the door isn't missing out because of money and we're happy to do that. Our community backs us on that. Um about $3,000 Don if you want to kick one forward. About $3,000 a year if you take the total number of kids we have and divide it into our budget. It's higher than that. Um, but that's the math we use. And then we're not small anymore. Uh, it's a $3.4 million budget. We're a lot bigger than when it was 500 when I got here in 2004. Next slide. This was when when we were going to be before the BG Great ball, which was last Friday. Great event. Um, we were, you know, the mission came through front and center

022and we generated lots of resources. Next slide, please. Uh, the big thing this year and every year we have what we call our special project. You have probably seen it called a variety of different things. Um, but our big push in addition to the mental behavioral health and the workforce and well everything else we do is really around family. Um, so many and this is going to be a surprise to no one in this room. Um, so many of the kids we serve, they need extra help. Families are strapped. They're single parents. They're working their butts off. They're trying to make ends meet. they may not know where to go or how to get help or anything like that or may be scared to do it. We want to make sure that we're walking alongside

023those families that we have those strong relationships. We spend almost as much time trying to build relationships with our families as we do our kids. Um because we want to be that bridge, that partner to help them get where they need. I mean, it's the safe places inclusive in the term that everybody feels welcome. We're not going to get into anything else, but we want to make sure every kid, every family member feels welcome in the club. Um, you'll see family members walking through the club to pick their kids up. And the safety people tell me, "You shouldn't do that." And I'm like, "I'm good." Because it's important they feel like they're part of the club. Big efforts on family nights. As you all know, family nights in Lockwood are legendary. If you've ever been

024to our haunted house, it's family nights now because there's a dog on many people that want to come that we have to do multiple nights. It's such a big deal. We want them to make sure they feel welcomed. We want to make sure they have positive experiences. Uh we want to make sure they have consistent support. Again, we have staff that we've shuffled around that we make sure that they focus just on that and making sure that we're helping those families get connected and we want them to be we want to encourage them to be accountable from the standpoint of following through on things that are going to help their kids. Right? We've all we've all seen that where you talk to the parent, it just never goes anywhere past that. That's really where we

025want to want to be. Uh two years ago, we had a youngster at one of our clubs, not here, had some struggles and we're talking to mom who was escaping an abusive relationship from another state, had moved here, was running, hiding, was barely getting by on their own. And all we had was a phone number and somebody to call. And we vowed then that we're never going to do that again. We want somebody to walk with those families to help them to be a support that they can trust and and help them get where they need to be so we don't lose another child. That was a second grader and we couldn't help them and we're never going to do that again. So that was our special project, big push this year. Um but we

026want to make sure that we're ensuring those kids have the help from their family that we're helping them along. We're not replacing anybody again. We're we're trying to be there as a support helping the parents help their children be successful. So, um again, next slide, how you can get involved. Um invest in support. That's always great. Um but if you could help us share the news, share the word, tell everybody, you know, um we're signing up for summer. Sign up start on April 20th. It's $570. We're going to be here all summer, 7:30 to 6. Three meals a day, lots of field trips, lots of stuff. We're going to have room. We'd love to have lots of kids. Um, and we're always like everybody else, we're always looking for staff, part-time staff. Um, and, uh,

027we have, um, and, and Mr. Chrisman and Mr. Kim tell you, um, we have 100% placement of the staff that work in our clubs that are good at what they do. Um, because they come preloaded, ready to deal with kids that struggle. Um, and then all all they have to do is help them refine their teaching. They already know how to work with kids. So, happy to answer any questions. That was really fast. I could go on for days and I tend to but I'm going to stop. >> Any questions for the board? >> Thank you, sir. >> Thank you. >> Fixed it. Thank you. >> Uh Mr. Mormmyer, >> how you guys doing today? >> Good. I'm here to kind of talk about an idea that kind of popped up. I I own a

028business besides being a teacher and it's blessed me to be able to international travel. I travel to Vietnam, Thailand, and China about I go to Vietnam every year. The other two I go about every other year. And so I came up with the pro prospect of taking an act group to go to Vietnam and Thailand as an educational educational experience because of the being the development developing country. They do a lot of the agriculture that the US is starting to go back to some of the no tail low tail um cover crops is all being done in these other countries. Developing countries never left that type of agriculture. And I really want to take a group of FFA students, a students um over there to truly experience. And when I go over there for my

029business, I try to spend as much time in the horiculture areas, got to know a lot of the different orchards, some of the different farms there, and just would really like to get kids in there for a very hands-on experience. This wouldn't be just a, oh, look at it. They're going to explain it. This is beginning into working the rice fields for a day, being out at uh dragon fruit plantation um for a day. Saigon crocodile farm will have us there for half a day to help with their hatching and moving pens. One of the big turtle farms, a lot of the soft shell turtle has almost gone extinct in a lot of these Asian countries because of over fishing for it. So, a lot of the crocodile farms have switched gears and gone to

030turtle farming. um and they're very welcoming, wanting to bring us in. This would be an 18day trip for students. Um it would be basically for students who really have want to learn about international commerce, international agriculture, how it ties all together, how this helps with food securities in these countries, how it develops for um how how they're doing things like with the turtles going almost extinct in the wild that they've stepped up and down in the MON Peninsula has one of the largest turtle farms in the all of Vietnam. um how that they're kind of changing with the times to be able to still give that high protein item to people without having to go into the fishing to taking them out of the wild. Um it is 18 days. It is a a long

031time. Um I think we have a really good educ educational objective towards it. It's not just a go out and visit. It's not a tourist thing. It is a tourist thing but it also is the education. Um the chapron goal is I want to be to about a 1:5 to 1:6 ratio just because I think with being traveling over there it's just going to give a better experience to the children and the adults going. Um I do have one chaperone that's already agreed to go. Um I haven't wanted to talk to anyone else until the board has given their blessing. Okay, for this um I did put the itinerary in there if you guys want to look at the itinerary. Um like I said, it is a hit the ground running. It does take two

032days to fly over there because you go over the international date line. Um but the kids will hit the ground running. We'll start in Saigon. Um go down to the MON Peninsula. Then we will go over to Vanong where we'll do some cultural um I didn't want it just to be about agriculture. We will go visit um the statue of Jesus down there. They have a the monkey temple down there. They there's a couple temples that you can only get to during low tide. So I want the kids to also expense experience the culture of Vietnam. Um once we spend a little bit time in Vietnam, we'll go back up to Saigon to fly to um Thailand. Um we'll land in Bangkok. We'll go about an hour north of Bangkok. Um that's one of the

033largest um dragon fruit plantations. And then we've spent a day over at one of their biggest uh passion fruit plantations up there. And these organization, these these owners of these places are very much wanting the kids to get in there. They're going to teach them how to do what they do, how to harvest, how they do the propagation, how they do different types of growing there to really get an appreciation for a different type of agriculture than what we do. Um, so the goal would be is spending time in their aquaculture, their rice plantations in in Vietnam and then in Thailand going more into the fruit production and some of the plantations there. Um, so that kids will get a real touch for a little bit of everything. Um, did take consideration of safety. Um,

034all families, all kids who go will be required to purchase um, travel insurance. Um there's two main companies out there that are probably the biggest rated for travel insurance, but that does um covers them. Trip gets cancelled, typhoons hit, has to get canceled out. A child gets hurt over there. I mean, it covers medical there, covers transportation back, if something had a child, a child got hurt, had to need to come home, it covers all those expenses. Um, the neat thing about traveling to these countries is the expense is not great. The biggest expense is your flight over there. Once you get over there, hotels, food is relatively inexpensive over there. um hotel staying in what we would call a fivestar hotel like where you're really pampered is between 90 and $110 for um which

035you can't stay at the come on in for $110 a night. Um they really take care of it. They give they get a full huge breakfast that we snack at lunch and then you get a nice dinner at the end. Um, >> safety. Both these um countries are considered level one. Um, Thailand is a level two country um just because of stuff that is going on at their borders. We would be nowhere near their borders. Um the Department of State for the US considers both of them very safe for Americans to travel. Um I am a member of the step program which is where I get weekly updates on these two countries because I rely on China because that's where I travel where the state department anything that's happening there I get notices of. I

036mean everything from elections to anything going on those countries. It's way when I travel I want to be safe when I travel but they tend to be actually more safe than traveling to Europe right now. both these countries um travel insurance. The cost for these um for a student would be about $3,500. Um and that is because we will house students four to a room. Um the chaperones will be about $4,000, but that's because we house adults to them. Um like our goal is to take four chaperones. I will be shocked if 20 kids I'm thinking there's probably about 10 to 12 kids that will want to go um refund kids would get their money back until things are purchased that they can't get refunds on. Once they go child goes and gets their passport,

037you now have a passport whether you travel or not. Um the travel insurance once it is purchased that travel insurance is purchased. You can't we can't refund it. But there are things to protect you from the trip, things that happened. Um, and then I kind of have our next steps. Um, once we kind of got permission to go forward, we would have aformational meeting um, for families to come and um, understand what it is, confirm additional chaperones. And the chaperone plan, when you read through this, all chaperrons will have to go through the school background check board approval just like any chaperone. Um then we would start our fundraising grant applications. Um the goal is that the students do all of the fundraising so it's not an out-ofpocket cost for their parents because if they

038haven't raised the money when we go to purchase plane tickets they're just not going. There's that this is there's not money in the travel account. There's not money to go. So, it'd be very vigorous for the parents to go there to really help kind of take control of that and make sure the kids are fundraising. Um, so once the trip's approved, we'll have aformational meeting um open to FFA members and their families and prospective FFA members. We just want people who really have a interest in agriculture and horiculture. Um, I want people to go that will get a full experience um from this event. Um then we would do travel paperwork. Um basically set out the guides because people are going to have to get their um passports done. This is Oh, by the way,

039this is for summer of 27, not this summer. So it's a year out. Um but for the fundraising, because $3,500 is not cheap. Um I want to give the kids as much opportunity to fund raise as possible. Um Vietnam does need a visa. about 60 days out, I will sit down with the families and help them apply for their Vietnam visa. Thailand does not need a visa for US people, for Americans traveling to Thailand. Um, we can travel just with our passport. Vietnam does require a visa. Um, I do have connections. The company I use will help the entire group get through customs. We actually get to go to the front of the line. I've never went waited at line going into Vietnam. So they meet you, they stand with a little sign that say

040Meer and then they take you right to the front of the line to get you through customs. It's really kind of a nice service to have because customs going into Vietnam, my first time was four and a half hours. Um, and it's kind of interesting because being a different country, you go through customs going into Vietnam and leaving Vietnam. In most countries, you don't have to go through customs leaving Vietnam, leaving your country. So that's kind of it in a nutshell. Um, I did write up a pretty good I think a good proposal. Um, any questions from the board. >> Yeah, it it is. I love traveling there. Um, I'll be there this year. Normally, I'm there for about 10 days. I'm going to take an extra eight days if everything gets approved so I

041can go visit these farms and really kind of start setting things. I have a I don't have one in Thailand yet. I have an amazing American a Vietnamese translator who speaks fluent English that will travel with us when we're in Vietnam. Um, she's my translator when I go for manufacturing and stuff. She is just a dynamo when it comes to it because she speaks fluent English. So, it makes it really nice when you want to talk to these people that you don't have to slow down for her. You can talk as fast as you want. She's picking it all up and being able to translate it and back and forth. It it she is a blessing to have on a trip like this. Any other questions? I have a question. Is there insurance that protects

042the district on this trip? Because most of the people that go like to Costa Rica and stuff go through a company that takes care of that part of it. Is there any kind >> typically and I could be wrong like EF tours are considered an outside of the school okays it but doesn't sponsor it. And I think that is the big key thing is you're saying yes, we support this. We're not sponsoring it. So the insurance covers that you're not liable and it's truly an outside. >> So you're going through a company to organize this. >> We are not. >> Okay. >> The risk to the district. >> So I mean we're not again we're not sponsoring the district's not sponsoring it. We're just saying we can continue to advertise and I guess I'm just

043trying to understand what the risk to the district would be at this point >> because the companies that they go with take the full responsibility for the trip whereas I guess we would have to check with like MSIA and say hey if we if we say yeah go do this we're not sponsoring it what are our liabilities since there's not a company saying we have this writer we're responsible for the kids because that's a lot of is going to a foreign country for a lot of days, but it's not about the trip. That trip sounds wonderful. This is a little bit different since it's not a company. So, could we wait a month to make a decision on this? I can talk to MSGIA and say, are is this something we have to worry about

044or not worry about if it's not sponsored by the district? >> Yeah, I don't think >> because this is a little bit different than when Dana comes in and says we're going >> approve pending verification. >> Yeah. I just I was just thinking because I thought >> that'd be good. If we could get it approved till doc Mr. Grizzman the checks on that I would like to get moving sooner and like I said I completely get your >> question. >> I have a question. Uh you mentioned, you know, if a student got hurt while they were there and um and if there's a student to adult ratio of five or six to one, what if a student is hurt and they have to be medically evacuated? Are they by themselves or do you lose one

045of your chaperrons and then the ratio is thrown? >> So when I put in the plan for chaperrons that that's the reason I want because typically you have a 10 to one and my goal is by having a higher number. God forbid Susie gets hurt and has to be flown home, a chaperone would leave with Susie. And again, making sure that we balance that male to female that we're always leaving a male to female there. That's why a goal would be is if Susie got hurt, one of the female chaperones would leave and fly back with Susie. The insurance we do have does cover a million dollars in medical transport back. Um, so there is coverage for that. um through the companies that um do protect for that. But yes, at that point a chaperone

046would leave. That's the reason golds have two males, two females. God forbid somebody broke a femur, had to be transported back to the US, either a male or a female chaperon would leave with that child to fly back. So yes, I think that's why I'm doing such an extreme, not extreme, I'm trying to do such a low ratio of adult to children. Not that I'm expecting anyone to get hurt, but I prefer to be on the safe side than uh I like to be overly cautious than less cautious. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> This is not an action item at this meeting. We can put it as an agenda action item for the May meeting though. Okay. >> After we get the MSGIA information and everything, it will be an action

047item for the May meeting. Sorry. >> Do do they does it require an action? I guess just >> if we're putting if we're putting the district's name on it, it requires an action item to vote in that's saying yes, we approve this because even when the other company comes in, we have to approve them saying, can we put up posters and advertise for it? If the company if the district's going to put our name on it, we have as a board have to vote on it. >> Okay. I I just didn't think we voted on any of the other trips. It was justformational. But we're not we're not tied to those trips. This one it would be Lockwood Lockwood school would be part of it. >> How is L >> because he's doesn't he's not

048going through a third party company. It's Lockwood FFA is doing it. >> So it would be the district. >> So like fundraising and everything would go into a Lockwood FFA account. Yep. The district >> manages. Yep. Okay. >> Okay. So I wrote that different. I wrote that normally it would be a stu a parent traveling account set up. Any other questions? Okay. Thank you, Fred. Is Tony here? >> Tony came in last. >> Okay. Facilities. >> What do you got, Mark? Excuse me. All the things that last plows on, right? >> Yes. >> Good. >> Any questions? Is it is it correct that both of the slides in the lion's flare are gone and they're not coming back or is that >> uh just two out of the nine? >> Okay. >> I know it's

049a lot of fun. >> It's big news in the intermediate >> any other questions for Mark? >> Thank you Mark High School. So, I'm going to do the first half of the high school and we get to the questions. Um, so we have um spring sports up and running. Uh, baseball got its first win last week over the senior Bronx 13 to9. So, that was pretty cool. The first game ever the boys won. Um, let's see. We have the preac tomorrow. The ACT is Thursday, so just kind of be ready for that. Um, incoming freshman night is Monday the 14th of April at 5:30 on both parents and kids are welcome to that. Uh, was March 21st out at Chanty's Event Center. It was a great night. great venue. Uh kids had a lot of

050fun. We had a live band part of it. Mr. McShane did a little bit with his band. We had a student band and then they had the traditional DJ. So that was pretty dang awesome. Um the third quarter ended. We're kind of going into the fourth quarter. So we're double checking and triple checking some kids and their grades and make sure we drag some of those seniors over the graduation lines. Um we're doing a peanut butter and jelly drive. So for every jar of peanut butter or jelly that gets donated, um the France or Sweetheart bread company is going to donate a loaf of bread. that I'm going to our food pantry. Um, and we're hopefully hoping to start scheduling kids next week for the 2026 2027 school year. All we have any questions? >>

051I had a question. I think there was some questions about the ACT and the timings and if the timings would be done on the Chromebook or what kind of timing device the kids needed. >> So the kids So the timing device is like the clock in the building. So kids cannot bring their own time on device. So everything's done on the Chromebook now, which is way different than any of us did as a kid, right? With a paper pencil. So on the Chromebooks, the kid have the opportunity to have a timer in the top right corner or you can turn that off. So you either turn that timer on or off. It's up to you. >> The website through the AC. >> They don't need to bring anything. >> And then your peanut. >> Peanut

052butter and jelly. Is that starting now or when? It's It's up and running right now. Um the bins right outside the door there. So yeah, >> full service. >> Yep. That's not for every food pantry. That's for family services. Um >> and full size. >> Yep. >> Whatever. >> Yeah. Whatever. Yep. And it's a it's a great competition, too. So whichever grade donates the most, freshman, junior, sophomore, seniors, there's a a prize. >> Can't remember the top. Sorry. But yeah. >> And then the last question I had is just about the scheduling for next year. You're starting it next week, but it'll probably go through the end of the year. >> Uh potent. We're potentially starting next week night handbook and whatnot. We're hoping to be done by the end of the year. Um we're

053really hoping not to be doing scheduling stuff by the summer, which we've done traditionally. So that'd be great to have all the schedule built and complete and ready to roll by the last day of school. >> We'll just be waiting on like transfers or >> correct. Transfers, kids coming in. There's always credit recovery stuff, transfers, but yeah. Is the counselors is that who's doing it with the students or >> majority? Yeah. >> Any other questions? Part two. Are we doing part two? >> Oh, community questions. Oh my goodness. Where have those been? Um so what we did was we took every one of the comments or the questions that showed up on our two um sets of white paper and so we put those through throughout there. So our questions do you want me to

054go through each question? >> You don't have to. No, just kind of go through your process of >> Yes. Yeah. So what we did is we went through and answered them. Um Andrew and I and our admin then we took them to our school leadership team for their review. any questions, comments? Um, and mostly it was just um a little bit of learning for our staff as well because not all of this is um information that our our teachers deal with on a daily basis as well. So, some of it was just good learning for our school leadership team. Um, so we have a few links in there. If you'll scroll, you'll I think you'll see a link in there on Oh, where did it go? internship. >> Yes, right there. If you'll stop also

055on the uh LHS scheduling, so that's a link with it with it being underlined right above it where it reads policy 2600. Anything that's underlined is a link for more information. Um and so, uh if you're looking through that document, you may want to click on those link. There are a couple, if you'll scroll back up just a little bit, there's one Oops, a little too far. Sorry. um you'll see one that is not answered and that's because it just doesn't if you'll scroll tiny bit tiny bit down there you go. Why are we not filling Spanish classes? That's not a question that fit the scope of that um uh meeting nor is it something that um we want to have confidentiality of our staff. We we don't address personnel. So questions or comments from

056the board or the public? So, is this now let's be put into a document that is um you know kind of maybe a little bit easier to see where the questions I had just come from and shared with the community because I think that was the intent that meeting was those I feel like that right there when you look through it I don't know how I apologize I'm not sure how I could see that um easier if you'll notice through a lot of the questions though those weren't the scope of the meeting at all um for example teachers being evaluated Um, so I guess I could take direction please from the board on how you would like that to look and then how you'd like that to go out. >> Well, I guess any I

057guess I guess what I was trying to get is I could think that that the parents that came from that that meeting thought that those answers to their questions would be published for them either on Infinite Campus or something. >> We could absolutely send that out. This is published now in their board meeting. I am absolutely capable of sending it through a big campus. >> I think if I could add one thing maybe having been involved in this all is um some of the questions aren't really like relevant for everyone to um get that communication maybe through into campus. Like for example, a lot of the scheduling questions or that certain aspects of scheduling or certain course types, we put some of those into another document that we actually do very much intend to share

058with families as we work through the scheduling process. But then there were other questions that we honestly were afraid would just cause more confusion if we sent it out to like 600 families rather than thinking about the people who came to the meeting. So that was kind of where we drew the balance. We were trying to figure out the right balance of how to share the information to not cause more confusion, but sharing information that people do really need to know. um that has to do more broadly with how everyone gets scheduled and what kind of classes are. Does that help at all? >> It does. I certainly agree. I don't want to you have to answer things down that weren't relevant to the meeting, but anything that was relevant. I know that parents were

059looking for feedback on your question. So, if >> so, however you guys want me to share it out, I'm happy to do that. >> Have you got followup? I mean like I guess just when I looked at the documents and even the very first one about um will students be able to earn an associates degree while in high school and it you know says that we'll need to partner but I mean are we partnering I guess is is kind of where I think that that meeting was leaning towards as parents want to know what are we doing? >> Yeah. So ma our main partners is it state this is the MSU university system the Montana colleges um so and then it's also by opportunity you know for example we have the EMT course because we

060currently have that staff that's able to offer that if we don't have that staff then we either look for another partner which currently would be city college um because they have that there so we do a lot that's our first partner um because it is local it's the first one that our students can also see themselves in that community so it makes sense that we would use City College. Um, but it's also because they're wonderful partner. They come out here and work with us. Um, they have us go over there and do some tours, learn some information. Their staff have been very um, easy to work with for our teachers who teach the class here and partner with them to get the syllabus and and the textbooks and things like that. So, they're a wonderful

061partner. There's our they're our number one uh partnership that we go with. Um, we did try with, for example, um, Intro to Psychology. We used a different partnership um I'm losing the name of it but neon I just I can't recall it. What we found out was let's try that partnership. It was brand new. What we found out was it was extremely costly. Uh where uh so that's the thing we have to just check out what partnerships are available. Um some of their courses shift as well because what they're able to offer. for example, um, American Sign Language was one that they were able to offer several several years ago and then that stopped. Um, so it's it's also what they have available on their site that they can connect with us. So it's not

062in concrete who our partners are and it's not in concrete what courses are offered. >> Okay. Yeah. I'm not sure if I have direction because I I just I mean I was at the meeting too and I I think there was it's confusing, right? And >> it is with scheduling starting as early potentially as next week. I mean this this is good timing for this information, but at the same time I almost still feel like it's I think parents are going to still be confused. Our scheduling next week is what we offer here. We know who we have for teachers. we know what courses we're able to offer. Otherwise, other partnerships that might be talking about are the correspondence courses, which the families are going to get those on their own. >> We don't we

063don't do that. Um we don't go and find um medical terminology. If we offer here, it's obviously part of our master schedule, part of our seven periods that we offer between 80 8:05 to 3:05. and we staff it and we have our classrooms or we use university connections and um those are usually partnered with MSU City College. So we are ready for scheduling as far as we know who our teachers are, we know what courses we offer, we know our graduation requirements, we have those. So we can absolutely schedule. Well, I guess for me, um, I feel like the purpose of that meeting, there was a lot of confusion over the dual enrollment. Yes. And so, >> and so we had that meeting to try and listen to the community to find out to educate

064them and find what the concerns were, >> but I don't know that we that we fulfilled our obligation to follow the community on on answering their questions. >> Okay. I would take I would take your direction on what I need to do on how I think it's I mean and the rest of the boards have input. I just I don't know that we have >> fulfilled our obligation to I hope the community be less confused about how that works. >> I think there's some information on correspondence courses which is where the the biggest confusion was what's a correspond correspondence course and a dual enrollment and and sometimes those are the same and sometimes they're not. But what we're talking about in um in these questions, some of them were both um dual enrollments. They're standalone.

065We teach them here. They're with our master schedule. There are classrooms they're in our teachers hands. And then there's dual enrollments that someone might seek outside of. Um they want to take a intro to or a math course or they want to take um you know a a biology college level. and they go out and get that. That's a correspondence course and we have that in the handbook for the process. So, um I I guess I'm not sure we answered the questions that were written on the page. I'm happy to share them out. Um I don't I think there's a little bit that when we get to the handbook, maybe that'll come a little bit more flare on the correspondence. Um what we're what we're hoping to do with that. Um, but again, I'm happy

066to continue working on however you see me needing to fulfill that obligation a little bit more clearly. >> I also think you'll see more of that when it actually gets time to schedule because that's when we start meeting with kids and families. Like right now, that information just to send out in a vacuum doesn't really make any sense. But we have put a lot more effort into what we want to do to communicate with families this year during the scheduling process which takes quite a long time. Um like if we started next week there the portal for kids to schedule would be open probably at least two weeks and that's just them putting in their request that doesn't mean they have to skip. Um, so I think that you'll see that communication and those aspects

067come forward more as we actually go through that process this year. Um, again, I think we're very open to whatever you think needs to be done, but I think we haven't felt that yet because it the information hasn't been particularly timely in terms of we're not actively scheduling. We weren't revising the handling at that time, those sorts of things. As far as the will kids earn an A and associates degree while they're here, I spent over an hour on the phone with the early career administrator and Billings. Um it'd be really really difficult to do in a district this size. Now I don't choose what it doesn't choose. Like none not a single person gets to choose whether we make that offer or not. which is why it doesn't say no, we'd never offer that

068because that's not for me to say. It would be very difficult in a school our size to make that offer. Billings is pulling it off barely and they're not at their full enrollment right now and they have charter school funding to do it. So, they're getting an extra 250 grand a year to do it. Um, so kind of to to clarify why it doesn't feel like there's like a super direct answer on those questions. If the board said we need kids to get an associates while they're in college, then our mission as a district we are or in high school would be to try to figure out how to do that. So, we can't also make those decisions in a vacuum. Does that help, Lacy? >> Yeah. I might also suggest that you put a

069link on our um school website questions. You can do that. choice if someone goes to that link and looks at the questions. But um I I see a few of those questions linking to the um the purpose of that meeting. I see a lot more that aren't that were just questions that curiosity, which is totally fine. Um but I think that underlines why it would feel very odd for 550 families to get a link to all these questions that they wouldn't know where they came from. But if we put a link on our website and we got that out on social media um you know that might be something that would be who's interested in going there might be those people that attended um or heard about it from their friends and so I think

070pushing this out last would cause more confusion and questions than it answered and I think we should just link it and then if we need to we can direct people there or they can find it on their own. >> Happy to do that and I'll I'll do some social media. So it is directing to so it's not as you have have to go to our website you have to find it happy to do that. >> Thank you >> middle school. >> All right evening everybody this past month uh we got our last uh adventure club ski trip in for our sixth graders. Uh thankfully the snow held out up out there enough for our kids to be able to get that trip in. were there for a stretch, but it all worked out. Uh we

071had fulk week over in the middle school. Uh our whole squad we still have as a club and um the kids put on dress up days and they did different educational things uh regarding um you know making awareness to um what what you do if you have a a friend or another student that is exhibiting signs of of depression or or suicidal ideation and and um you know how to how to support and help that. So um we did that. We had a middle school band and choir concert which was well attended. It was great to see so many people from the community out supporting that. The kids did a great job. Um for our house stuff we had a busy did a swan and sip which was a great turnout. They they invited families

072in for coffee and donuts and stuff one morning. A great turnout for that. Um, uh, House Alismo's got a movie night coming up this Friday night. They're doing, um, House Rober is doing a reverber rave April 17th from 7:00 to 9, inviting families in to come and participate in all the the stuff as well. Um, great athletics. We have track going, uh, which they're they're super busy with getting the events in as we can. got a number of middle school kids playing up on the baseball team. So, it's great to great to see all the the kids participating. Any questions? >> Thanks, Mark. >> Thank you. >> Intermediate. Um, couple of highlights for the intermediate. Um, as some of you might know, the Optimus Club um and the chili cookoff night um donated to our

073music department, intermediate music and to Mrs. Gats a new sound system and speakers in our music room. Um, and so that has been put to the test, I have heard through the hallways. Um, and so that's that's really exciting to get some of those upgrades. Uh, and they are also purchasing the Aladdin rights so that our kids can perform that this spring. So, I wanted to make sure to the Optimus Club because that was really shocking that they were just willing and able to donate everything on Miss Jeff's wish list. No. Um uh something else that we're looking forward to and as I save the date uh the school leadership team in the intermediate has been working on a literacy night for families that will be May 7th and it's also being paired with the

074family book fair night. Um and so we'll have a different little passport that kids will go to to various stations um concluding the book fair. Zlay dams can get the opportunity also to purchase some things for their home as well. Uh we are crazy to believe it or not we are closing in this is our last week for art spring tutoring session that we started in February. It seems like really hard to believe. Um something we are trying um and partnering with is something called just right creators. And so this is something we're going to look into for summer school that every kid gets a little um gift so to speak to really try and up the engagement for reading. They all get a package um a package of or a present of books and

075it's just at their level hence hence the name just readers. Um these will be sent home with families. On the back there's also a QR code and when you scan that there's vocabulary lessons. Um this one specifically um has videos of mammals and seawater creatures. And so it's really engaging. Um something that they're also really and we also um encourage is the purpose of rereading the skill of rereading. And so every one of these books has certain um a set of skills. So, these will be shipped. We're learning more about it, too. Honestly, this is like our first go at it, but it's really exciting. Um, but they're sent so a level up each time. Um, and so anyway, I just wanted to make sure that you I shared this with you because this is

076kind of a little highlight towards the end of our uh tutoring session and and again, something that we're going to look to as as we enter summer school and the the beginning stages of that planning. Uh, and so our target um just so that we're clear primary and intermediate. So we used to be do jump start was K through three. Um but because of the literacy grant, we have an opportunity to do summer school above the third grade mark. Um and so to make it easier for families and and just the clarity of um primary summer school or what is what we call jump start um versus the intermediate. And so we are taking on more of the summer school and primary is taking on more of the jump start. Um that those are a

077few things we're working on and I'd be happy to answer any questions that you might have. >> Is is every 35 student going to get this or just those that are identified that need >> at this you know it would be amazing if we could do that. Um funding wise I just really don't think it's possible. Uh so we are at this moment in time targeting students um that we would identify as needing those um additional skills and also that that hook into that love for literacy. That's that's our goal. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. Primary, >> right, everybody? Um let's see. Last week we had PAR appreciation day and we hadn't done this in a couple years but the SLT team decided to offer to cover parah's duties for the day. So

078all the teachers volunteered to give up their lunches, their other times that they had available in the schedule to go cover all the parrot duties. And um when I started putting them all together on one page because it's multiple, we have 29 duties a day just in primary and I know intermediate has that many too. So it was quite the feat to pull off but we did it and I was really happy that the teachers it was their idea to do it and the parents really felt great about it. We also had a breakfast so that was cool. Um, cookies with the counselor was I mean I think that was some of the best family engagement I've seen. Everybody came, they got to have cookies. Um, Mrs. Paul taught and did some really good educational

079teaching for parents on social emotional growth for little kids and they made breathing sticks and ate cookies and um talked about zones of regulation and all the things how to make kids be independent all the things that are important. So next year, um, our plan is that she starts that a little bit earlier and she'll do that with kindergarten in the first couple months of school so that we can get those families in here and get them engaged right away. So that was awesome. Miss Coma also had a guest author. Um, Edie Bogle came and read her own um books to kids for a day. Kindergarten screening is coming up. It's April 17th. I was looking on the signup list today and we're exactly at the same point with the number of kids we were

080last year at this time. So through kindergarten screening we get about 50% of our enrollment and then the rest of it comes throughout the summer. It's always really hard to tell with kindergarteners because we never know how many we're going to have. So about I used to call about July where are we and every week she would update me. Now, I'm sure it hardly will. So, we just have to keep our eye on that. Um, April is busy learning and then we'll start testing in May besides Ames Web and all of our benchmarks. Um, Miss Combo will also do GT testing with our first graders this year. We're doing it in the spring of first grade so that we know who those kids are going in for second grade placement. So, that's going to happen.

081And then our early learning classrooms, the full-time and halftime, that testing will be June 1st and 2nd. So, lots of testing. Yeah, it's rolling out. Does anybody have any questions? >> Thank you. Safety >> finish key audit. That was painful. Run it again. Run it again in price. Try to do it three times a year. >> Just trying to keep up with it is is diffult. We took probably 90 off. So if you guys got people that are looking for them off there, we can just uh review their we have another meeting at the end of this month to clean up some um details, little drills. And these are not physically master keys. These are the >> electronic cards. >> Just want to make sure that everybody knows we don't have 96 master keys to

082our buildings floating around in the community. >> Do we do we also do like a access audit? I mean like I get the physical to the building, but like software access, do you guys do that as part of safety to make sure Mark Marco sed he sent us the list of people that were still on there. >> Um we try to do it three times a year to cut those off. >> But like I guess I'm asking and I think Darlene might not be in here but like those that leave right they they need their key card shut off but they also need access to infinite campus potentially turned off. >> Oh yeah that's not that's something else we did on today but that's not >> part of the safety. Oh, >> it is a

083procedure though that we just went over today. >> Oh, >> yeah. >> Must have been a fly on the wall. >> Any other questions? >> Thank you. Student council, do we have a representative? >> Okay, that track. Yes, >> that'll happen. So, >> superintendent report as presented, unless there's any questions. We'll talk about the tax reertification when we get down to the board part. We have to we have a meeting to approve paying for them to send that out now. >> Yep. So, we were just made aware of that this morning. >> Any questions on the superintendent report? All right, next. Super Bowl Super Bowl school board goals in that change. Golden Gabble hours. Looks like everybody's good on those. Thank you everybody for knocking those out. Uh building visits, are we good on those,

084Deian? I think a couple. Okay. >> Let's see if we can get those wrapped up before the end of the year so we're not crunch time and finals or SAT prep or testing tomorrow. >> When said she's open tomorrow and Thursday. Uh board work session, it's set for 42126 at 5:30 p.m. Uh next is discussion of policy 33. Um I know the the union reached out about a board works about a meet the candidates. >> Okay. >> I just sent it back to them today just saying hey they have a board work session that night. So if you can work around that time >> I got I got >> All right. So discussion of policy 3300. I want to send uh policy 3,300. It's our expulsion policy to the lady in Missoula. >> Yeah. >>

085Via Khalifa. >> Yeah. Via Khalifa to have it reviewed. >> We'll do that >> because I looked at it has not been updated since 2017 and I know that the MCA was updated in 2025. So I was just letting everybody know about that. Next, next we need to >> Josh just a quick question and they're just reviewing it. So, uh MTSBA doesn't review policy anymore. They just they don't don't know why but via Khalifa she reviews all the policy for every district almost every district >> and that's who we do our policies with. >> Is there a cost associated with that? No, we have a retainer with her >> and we're just I guess >> I want to make sure the 3,300 represents the proper because right now the it hasn't been updated since 2017,

086but the MCA that is associated with it was updated in 2025. >> Okay. And then so once we get that information back, we'll just talk through that policy of that. >> Yep. >> Okay. So, you're just saying we're going to send it out. >> I just wanted everybody to know that I'm sending it out and having it reviewed. >> Gotcha. >> Next is set a date for special meeting approval for paying for reertification of tax bill. Do we have a deadline on that? >> Well, it was April 1st, but he realized today, thanks to Dan, that they never put that in his letter to us. So what happened is that we had to agree to pay for the reertification to be sent out even though we didn't cause it and we agreed to do that.

087We had talked and we agreed well we have to do it because otherwise we lose that half a million dollars in tax money >> and we have to agree that that's how much and then the mills change value but it's >> so it was in it's in your >> that's right >> report here decision which he failed to >> and we didn't get that information in time for making an action item for this board Okay. >> So, we're going to have a special board meeting when it was supposed to be the first. We have to have it done next week. >> Can we take you back the 21st and have like a 5:15 board meeting? >> I think so. >> We also need to get our audit report approved because there's some timeline with that

088as well. >> Sent it. It's >> it's already he was just going to review it. >> All right. Yes. Want to make sure there was a time limit on that one too. Correct. >> We can do that special meeting before. >> So, is everybody okay, Peggy? Back in the work session, have a 5:15 special meeting to approve the new mills and then go into our work session. >> Stacy. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Fine. >> Dian's going to check and see if that's too late. >> Okay. because he had recommended we have it next week and I said, "Well, it's not quite that easy." So, but we'll check. Go ahead and do it tentatively for the 15 minutes at 5:15 and then if Deianne finds out something different, I'll get a hold of you. >>

089Okay. >> And then I'll get a hold of everybody else. Okay. Next, budget committee. We did not have a budget committee meeting last week. Um, could we set one for the >> Josh? Yes. It has to be done prior to April 15, >> right? April 15th. That changes the game. So, >> is that all that's needed? Is there a quick 15 minutes we could do this Thursday at lunch time something? >> Uh, we can't because we're out 48 hours. We did it at lunch time. We could do it Friday. Is it What about Friday? >> Christie. >> Yes. >> You think so? >> Maybe less than that will be the only action item >> tomorrow. So, it's going to be the 10th at noon. >> Okay. >> I'll still be um out of town, but

090it sounds like uh you'll have a quorum. So, >> zoom you in either way. >> Sounds good. >> We need to make sure that we send that out. >> I'll send it first thing. Yeah. Okay, that'll work. What if we did uh the 14th next Tuesday at 5:00 for a budget committee meeting? Okay. Committee is going to be 5:00 on the 15th. 14th 14th >> which committee >> budget >> okay thank you >> 14th judge >> five o'clock >> 14th 5:00 I'm just going to send all these notices out at once that'll >> work efficiency like it will now begin at 5:30 like it would >> yes >> and then Deian you'll have all that your budget, whatnot by the next one. Right. Okay. Uh career fair, Corey. >> Uh career fair is coming up.

091Uh it's going to be at 4. Um, I think we're still having a season, but uh, went to one of the home showings and talk to people, get their emails, and she got a lot of interest. So, a little bit later. >> All right. Um, negotiations. >> Uh, still chipping away at it. And the next meeting is set up for 3:45 on April 13th. >> Okay. Community engagement. >> No real date. We didn't need a little break after the after the event. But we do have our next meeting May 5th 6 p.m. in the comments. I like it. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> 6 p.m. >> All right. Next move consent agenda. Any issue with the consent agenda as presented? >> So Josh, I would like to request that we separate um Negotiations meeting 3:26

092and the negotiations committee meeting 3:31 are links to agenda. I don't see any meeting minutes. So I'm not sure. I think the 331 is the one that we were waiting on the reporting for. >> Um but I don't see minutes. I guess I just see agendas. So, I'd like to separate those and approve them when we get the meeting minutes so that we can >> Is anyone taking minutes? Because I don't think anyone's ever taking minutes at those meetings. Is anybody writing down any notes that can be >> Well, they have to at least say what time they started >> and who was there, what time they >> and what time they ended. >> Okay, I guess those updated. Okay, >> we'll put those on their special. >> That's fine. You already negotiation the 32.

093>> I'll just kill the link on them. >> Yeah, the 326 and the 331. Any other issues other than the removal of committee meeting 331 and 326? Is that correct? >> That's correct. >> Yep. >> Any other issue as the removal of committee meeting 331 or 326 for the consent agenda to be approved? Hearing none, the consent agenda is adopted with the stipulation that committee meeting agenda 331 2026 and 326 2026 be removed until properly shown and they will be reflected at the special meeting on Friday. >> 14% agenda is adopted >> uh Whimley audit report and we don't have I'm wondering if he assumed it would be the second Tuesday instead of the first even though they told him it was tonight. >> Okay. Do we What does it have to be done by

094J? >> Um I've already sent it off to 31st >> and it's already been filed federally as well because there was a deadline with that. So I had to certify that the information we provided was accurate because it's already been audited. So >> guess we could take >> Well, I'd like to get it approved and then have him come in and still talk about it. Not as >> I guess it's not going to change. No change it. I'll make a motion to approve 2025 audit report. Second, a motion from Lacy and a second from Corey to approve the 2025 auto report. Discussion from the public, discussion from the board. >> The only thing is just if we can get Tony to come in and give us a high level, >> that would be helpful. >>

095Next month. board. All those approve adoption of the 2025 audit report say I. >> I. >> All those opposed, same sign. None. Motion passes. Next is the approval film rating proposal. >> Can you go over this? I don't really >> Mr. Carlson is asking if there can be an exception made with parental consent to show R-rated movies for social studies. that would typically be banned because we can't show them. Is he Mr. Cross? >> I think I didn't see that. Sorry. >> Just to change the handbook to kind of get on the same page or district two still requiring parental approval. Um the films would be appropriate. Usually that the Rated films would be language and violence like but to to foster a little empathy and kind of provide a realistic contextualization all about genocide

096World War I World War II things going along with that and PG-13 describe jail and things like that. So yeah, nothing inappropriate. I don't think I listen to the kids talk every day some of these movies. Um I think the tool for that. Um so still if kids don't get the parental consent to >> parents still have final say though, right? >> What's that? >> Parents still have final say. >> Parents have the final say. I would provide a list to actually for admin approval beforehand. I probably put in everything I can think of right choice I want to make that semester year. Um, just so I have the approval. I probably sorry to clarify, it wasn't the uh LHS. It's found at the point. >> Okay. >> That's my my intention. I've seen it

097to where it kind of can be on the fly based on, you know, within two weeks ahead of time get to send out But I will just mention like Oenheimer which I know is just based on actual events but yeah >> there not any there's not any documentaries that can have the same effect rather than showing Rated movie theater movies. There is and that that would apply to documentaries. Uh there's one on uh PBS does on the Holocaust yesterday TV I think that I show this year because we're 13. Um but I also do it as a reward to kids once a semester type of thing usually. Um you know we benchmark a couple which have that move as as because I would not show anything with any sort of explicit sexual right. So it's

098language and again I've shown these last >> just to for probably many of the elections we required to do a day notice. >> So we would do the your notice just like here's everything and then when the selection are coming up to get another notice um that would be >> I move that the board approve the film rating proposal presented by Mr. Carlson >> I got a motion from Stacy and a second from Shane on the film rings disclosure rule uh presented by Mr. Carlson discussion from the public discussion from the board. All those in favor of the film rating publicly presented by Mr. Garrett Carlson say I. >> I. >> All those same time sign. Hearing none. Motion passes. Next we're going to staff rear hire list. Uh Deianne, I will be abstaining because

099of my sister-in-law and Corey will be abstaining because of his wife7. >> A second >> Shane and a second from Stacy on the approval of the staff list for 2627. Discussion from the public. Discussion from the board. All those in favor of the approving staff retire list for 26 27 say I. >> All those oppose say sign. Hearing none. Motion passes. Next uh porticulture program artwalk funding request. This is going to be the second year of our art walk coming up. And last year we did it where uh if there was anybody that needed I think we sponsored as the board. This comes out of our 115 account. Correct. 115. And we sponsored photography paper. Um I think we did some paints, plays, stuff like that that teachers didn't really budget in and that kids

100wanted to do. Obviously, we've told people no titanium for welding, no stainless, no exotics. We're not ordering um Israeli iron wood for a cabinet or something like that. But the only one that's come up this time is Mr. Mormier is asking for funding for his art walk and it looks like to be baskets, hanging baskets or things like that mostly. So just basically we we're trying to think trying to think we tried to do some stem rooting in class. We've got that going but it's going slow. So the group came up with ideas. I found one of my suppliers for annuals that actually does some house plants is do like some hanging baskets or some different um arrangements of house plants that we can grow. um trying to do something a little bit horicultury that

101kind of brings them into the art block. Um as we kind of develop that more for next year because they want to do some strawberries for next year, some other things, but those are going to take six months to get going. This would allow them to get involved this year. >> Okay. And the cost is $279.25 and that will come directly from the board's 115 account. And instead of just making Dawn okay this request, I thought it was nice that that actually shows that the board is actually supporting things. So at this time, I will entertain motions. >> I approve the program. >> I got a motion from Corey and a second from Shane to approve the horicultural program artwork funding request. Discussion from the public. Discussion from the board. The only question I have,

102which again I'm not against it, but where what is our overall budget and where >> for our 115 account? >> Yes. >> We have 22,000 roughly. >> Yeah. >> Okay. And so all of the other trainings that we've got planned, we're still >> Yep. We're still way good on that. >> 15 is it's been typically used to go back to the staff. And so how that's funded is um with different things and then that's how we pay for a lot of things for all of our so >> we do the breakfast back to school breakfast we do that >> teacher appreciation on Christmas and so that's >> and that's what I'm so we're sitting right now we're still about >> so we're Any other discussion from the board? All those in favor of the approval

103of the whole porticultural program on our walk by request say I. >> I. >> Stacy >> I I'm sorry listening to my kids. Yes. I >> all those opposed. Same sign. Hearing none. Motion passes. Next we board approved a list of 2026 early graduates. Miss Pool, I'm going to ask you a couple questions. All of these students on the list, we don't get to see anything on them because they are actually minors. >> Correct. >> And I'm just going to ask you that they have met the requirements for the state to graduate early and the district to graduate. Correct. >> Both. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> I will move that we approve the 20 26 early graduates as presented. Second. I got a motion from Josh and a second from Corey to approve the 2026

104early graduate as presented. Discussion from the public. >> Discussion from the board. >> Will they be walking then in May or do they just that's part of their application if they choose to or not. Um historically we've had only one say they didn't want to um and it's time to walk and they came. So we uh this year all of our early graduates are indicating graduation. We have those planned. >> Any other discussion from the board? All those in favor of the uh adopting the 2026 early graduates as presented say I. >> I. >> Stacy >> I I said it. >> Okay. >> I'm with you. >> All those same sign hearing none. Motion passes. Next we have the middle school 262.7 handbook. >> So within the link to our handbook there we put every

105change in as a suggestion and so you will be able to see anything that was updated and changed um on the it should come up as green for you guys. uh any changes you can see there obviously like you know the bell schedule change you know Mr. McKenzie is you know um we're starting at 805 instead of 808 and getting out of 305 instead of 308 you know that kind of basic changes um that was the only thing really there um the the district adopted calendar um we'll be adding that in uh the updated staff list at the top once we get all those positions filled will be added in but that's nothing that you know, it's you should be holding us back right now. Uh, as far as getting that taken care of. Um,

106if you scroll scroll down farther, you'll see that we made some changes to our party policy, which Mr. Barb, do you want to talk a little bit about that? >> Yeah, I mean, the big changes right now is I think currently at um eight parties for a quarter. We're having a kid do a data refocus and the more Mr. I talked about it like want a kid all day refocus for tardies. Um we still do a day refocus once they hit 10 just because we do that tri program refocus. So then the student will have a chance to reflect on a quarter. Um, and they attend, they'll still be put on an attendance contract where I need to parents and students. We come up with, you know, they end up having consequences every time plus

107usually some sort of incentive parents want if they can get to class on time um for a certain period, usually two weeks. Another thing for tardies that we added in there is since I've been here now, we've gotten kind of tardies under control better in between classes, but we are struggling to get kids to school. Um, so on here we're going to add um some consequences for kids getting to school for an excuse started. So it'll be the exact same as in between classes, but I'm hoping that if kids are starting to do so much detention, not being able to hang out with their peers, they might get on their parents a little bit about getting class on time or to school on time. We have a handful of kids that just show up in

108the middle of first period every day, second period. And parents, when I talk to parents, some Yeah, we know we just struggle to get out of school. So hoping that if we add a little bit of consequences to the kids, it'll put some responsibility on them to get to school on time, especially when we have kids in the lock zone to go up late every day. So that's a struggle, too. So those are the two kind of big parking changes that we are going to implement next year. Any questions about partying procedures that we're going to change? You >> scroll down a little bit farther. Um, you know, once we get to this policies and procedures for academics, the standard based grading stuff, we have the link to the uh the standard based gradings handbook

109for parents in our uh in our handbook for a number of years. However, Andrea has that hasn't been updated for a number of years, correct? just because the high school changed. So, we just get some wording in there. >> So, we just we just decided to take it out because it wasn't updated and we wanted to include the process skills uh breakdown of what all directly from that document. We haven't changed that. We wanted that directly in our handbook as well. just uh so parents understand what those process skills are and process grades and what we're looking at uh within that as well since we do assess those every every two weeks at the middle school level and that can impact eligibility as well. Um yeah, besides that there's some little name changes or uh

110we're going to try to offer a woods class for eighth graders next year. Um, so that's another one we've put in there under potential course offerings. So, we'll we'll um, you know, do our our course um, selections here in the next couple of weeks with our students and we'll see what kind of interest we have for that course and and kind of then start to plan it out with the high school schedule and trying to make make things mesh. So, within our offerings, that's uh, one of the big changes. We're changing the name of from Lion Mentors to Lion Leaders. We're really going to uh focus in on um leadership skills and teaching our kids to um you know there's a competition called the great shake that um is a national competition that we really

111want our kids to participate in next year our leaders to u teach them how to speak to another person making eye contact how do you shake a person's hand how do you um interact with another person a lot of skills that I feel like we just need to continue to grow and foster within our students. So, Lion Leaders will take on uh more of a leadership growth opportunity for that student. Those those students still might be um house leaders within our our house system. They might be do have other roles, but that class will kind of shift a little bit towards more of a leadership class, I would say. Um we had over 60 applications for the class. Um and um I think we we we decided to do two classes next year of 20

112for first semester. So 40 kids will be able to take it first semester and then the kids who show the um they made the most growth and and everything will have the opportunity to take a second semester of it. That's when the great shade competition will go on. So we'll narrow it down to 25 students per second semester. So, um, excited about that. Miss Campfield will will continue to run that as well. Um, what am I missing, Mr. Barber? That's big changes. >> Okay. Thank you. I will entertain motions for the middle school. >> Second. A motion from Jackie, a second from Spory to approve the middle school handbook. Can I add a presented? >> As presented, discussion from the public, discussion from the board. >> I would just say as presented, but it's I

113mean there's things that'll change potentially, right? Or changes in May like just I mean common things that you're absolutely Any others? All those in favor of adopting the middle school 2627 handbook as presented say I. >> I. >> All those opposed, same sign. >> Is she a nay or a yay? >> Were you a yay or nay, Stacy? >> Yay. >> It sounded like nay. Motion passes. Next. You think you want me to roll too? >> Well, I think we a few things that we have. Do you want to jump in? >> Uh, you'll notice the same thing that Mr. Goyette just spoke about some of the logistic changes based on the new schedules, things like that. signals here in there. Um, I think one of the biggest ones, excuse me, that I'll talk about

114is the correspondence course is on 17, but I think you might have a couple. >> Yeah. >> Kind of some of the cell phone changes we made was that's on page nine. Um, so we just realized that our paragraph and our matrix on the very last page did not line up. Um, so on the, you know, second offense, the conf second offense, parents have to come pick up the cell phone from the office. Um, the kids are going to get into detention. Um there'll be a little bit of loss of privilege there. On the third offense, the kids are going to go to refocus and the students will lose their cell phone for the remainder of the semester. So that's the third time a kid gets to jump right in their cell phone. That's one

115of the change. It's a change, but it's not a change. So we had that in the matrix, but we didn't have it correct in the paragraphs. So we just kind of matched up our paragraphs and um the matrix there. Um, see here. I think those are kind of the biggest ones for now. The correspondence and the other ones are >> So, if you'll scroll to 17, please. That's the correspondence courses. What you'll notice there uh is that we are hoping for approval that is connection with the policy 2167. So you see that link or uh highlighted there in the heading and then you'll notice that we're asking for prior approval for students to complete. It'll be a Google form. Um at the very bottom of this little section there are two dates um that'll happen

116for those. We want those uh Google forms turned in by the 15th of December and May 15th. Recognizing that sometimes those colleges want an earlier um date, but that gives us enough time for the student to make that connection, a student and family to make that connection to those providers. Um and I'd be able to identify what is the course, how is it going to be taken, which is all in line with that policy. It's it's to me it feels like outdated language when it reads that it's a um a male m form um or correspondence type course but that's how that policy reads. So we kept the language on that Google form that students will be submitting um with the language of that policy. Um then following that after the students turn in that

117form by one of those dates then u we will send an approval letter home that says again the top pieces of that policy. So again it aligns with that policy and that will be where we gain um the student signature, the parent signature and our uh approval. Those forms then allow the student to take that class and when they provide a transcript to the school then we will add it to the transcript. But you'll notice that it is not going toward LHS graduation requirement. Um take as many as you want. Um but they won't go toward GPA. We want our students to be Lockport High School graduates. So they're going to be um taking credits that are courses that are filled within our school by our teachers. Um but they can obviously take whatever they're

118interested in um or to get ahead into college. Um we will add those to the transcript if the process of getting that approval um and the signature is done. They turn in an official transcript and then our counselors will be um asked to write that onto the transcript. Questions or comments there? I um I really appreciate that M actually as far as the changes made and reconsideration. I do have some questions about it but Bor also appreciate this and Mr. Chris as well reconsidering the stance on the on the coursees. Uh first one is the dates that you put up there. Are those the correct dates because December 15th for the fall semester would be eight months in advance >> for No, it would be May or the fall if we have those out of

119order. Do we have that for for semester? >> Oh, it is my Thank you. Good catch. Absolutely. Those need to be adjusted. So, it would re due date for fall semester be May 15th. Thank you for that. And due date for spring semester is December 15th. >> The second question. Um, so you're saying that if it's approved then it would go on the high school transcript. >> Yes. >> Just as long as it's approved and it would be the kind of based on those guidelines. Yep. And it's absolutely just like what's the purpose of the course? Those types of things. What kind of course is it? The cost will be in there. So that's part of the policy that we wouldn't be paying for those. But yep, absolutely. It just wouldn't go into a weighted

120GPA. Um so that it doesn't impact validictorian or saludiatoran. Those those would be our our valadictorian, our saludiatoran, our students that take our courses. So it wouldn't be weighted. Um it would it would it would >> it but not waited. It would provide no it would provide the equal access so parents that u may or students that may not be aware of or so uh it wouldn't give a certain particular group of students an advantage over all of our other students >> like a 4.0 GPA instead of 5.1 >> I'm sorry 4.0 instead of 5.0 would not be. >> No, we're not putting those courses. We're right. The request from the community we heard was that they show up on the transcript so that they are then applying for scholarships or access to college with

121all of those transcripts into one. So that's what we listen to and put on. Uh but it would not go into the GPA. >> So would that be like a pass fail? >> No, it would have the letter grade. It just mathematically wouldn't be put in there. So >> like a pass fail. it just would have an empty. >> So instead of like 10 grades, say 10 grades being in the calculation, even though you have more grades on there, those are just tossed out. They're not >> No, they're not tossed out. They're just not factored in, >> right? So instead of >> the credits counts towards graduation, >> the credit does not count toward graduation. >> The credit doesn't count. >> No, no. We want our students to be Lockwood High School graduates. Um and

122so we we we feel like we're paying the board is paying for uh space uh time for our teachers in seven periods um that we want actually lockwood high school that what we heard from the community was that they wanted the transcripts to be in one location so they're not turning in multiple pages of transcripts. So we would write that on there. So in the situation of we were talking earlier about doing community members asking about getting an associates degree while at partners with the college. If they were to do that many credits with the college, they may not be eligible to graduate with a lock without the credits. >> They would not be able to graduate from lock, >> right? Because you're requiring how many credits to graduate? >> Uh 24 >> 24. So

123in order to get 24 credits and do all of those dual enrollment, it's actually going be very difficult to get 24 credits if they're not factored in as credits at all. >> A four year second class period, >> right? >> Which gets us well over 24 possible, >> right? And and part of the application is they would take it during the school day in a study hall which would come with no credit. So you'll get that or you would take it on your own which many of our kids do above and beyond the school day. >> Right. So at seven periods per day four years that' be a total of 28 credits. So that means that they could get four classes done >> At most four years no they could take more above and beyond.

124>> They could take more above and beyond. A lot of our kids don't take everything during the seven periods. >> So pick ones we offer here on campus that are >> right. >> How many do we offer? >> That's where it's going to be really difficult for kids who really want to take that reverse course. For example, one of my next questions would be you're talking about if you offer it at the school and it is on like a a response course. What is that equivalent? So, for example, >> US history is a dual enrollment course. >> Can I interject for a second here? I'm obviously doing this remote. You're asking Gwen questions, but you're not giving her the opportunity to speak and I'm having a hard time hearing. So, one question, one answer possibly.

125So, uh we may get more out of that. >> Yeah, I appreciate that. Um, one question that was asked or what, if I can recall the question, um, one was asked, what classes do we offer? Um, we offer quite a number that are dual credit that are housed within our master schedule in our building. So, those would be part of the seven periods. Those are already written in her transcripts. Those are awarded credit, those are awarded the five GPA scale. Um, some of those are uh, civics in the history department. Miss Olsson has been teaching several math classes um throughout we've had intro to psychology, we have had EMT. So we have a lot that are housed within. So um we we already offer plenty within and we're always looking for more but this is

126saying if you want to take above and beyond what our master schedule is, please feel free to take it. Um but we are just not waving it in to the GP. So >> no. And it's it is >> excuse me. So what I'm hearing is is that we are basing this on what is going to get our kids ready to graduate with a high school diploma. If they want to get an associates degree, they can do that on their own through an MSUB or whatever it is on their own time or they can do it during study halls which they're not going to get credit anyway. >> Right. And >> and our prim and our primary focus as a district is to make sure that they have a high school diploma. Correct. >> It is.

127At this time, I'm going to move that we approve the high school 2627 handbook as presented. >> Got a motion from Josh and a second from Shane, discussion from the public, >> discussion from the board. >> I did have some more questions about the MTDA stuff and some other things. hoping to get those answered, maybe even more on a oneonone and wasn't able to connect with them today. Um, so I'm not ready to go, but that's just my >> right. Why is it CCA? >> Because those could fall in the correspondence courses. So that would open up the whole cate. it would open the whole catalog whereas we had selected five or six courses this opens the whole catalog to students that way through the correspondence course. One item I did see in there, maybe

128it did say that um uh schedule conflicts were not a reason for approval, >> right? >> Um which is one of the concerns I did. Well, it is one of the concerns with my student and it's a concern I heard a lot. So, I was hoping to be able to work that out for I guess you can >> if I could address it, I'm happy to and if we if that still doesn't help you, I'm happy to meet with you. I was just I took a day today. Um so with the schedule we have seven class periods. So we are not going to fix everything. I did have our counselors go through the whole master schedule for which is every section of every course for every hour. Um and I had them look through okay

129based on semester 1 and semester 2 where were some ill fits? Where were some things that kept conflicting? Um and so they went ahead and made a draft that hopefully fixed some of those things. And I already noticed that there's there's conflicts. There's always going to be conflicts. If your student wants a cooking class, it's at the same time as a math class. I we don't have seven periods of that math class and seven periods of that culinary class. So, it is going to come down to a little bit of math of of how many times can we offer things. Um, we talked about it before where we share some staff. We share quite a be number of sections. We share three sections of choir, three sections of band, uh, one FFA for egg ed,

130and now I'm excited about the woods. So all of those then pull from the numbers that we can offer. So there will always be conflicts. Um, but there are four years to also obtain some of these selections. But I guess I don't understand why since there are conflicts are roadblocks that we can't overcome in our you know which is that's why >> well it says in there that that that schedule are not a reason. >> No but that's not the reason like we would hope that you would say well if I can't get it this fall semester could I get it next spring or could I >> Right. But if you are in a situation, so I guess in a situation where say my student wants four years of ban and it's not looking likely

131that you know there's only four years. >> It's not looking likely that they're going to be able to take both based on their current schedule. Would that be an opportunity or an exception to allow them to sign up for an MT class or not? Our master schedule schedules for our full enrollment legal classes. We don't create individual education plans and and have a group of teachers in here so they can what did your kids need what does your kids need how I can fit my my sure >> I guess all I can say is I don't see how I can make sure there are no conflicts that the question would be more like so say band is at the same time as honors sec math whatever specific honors class that we don't offer that in

132the well we offer it in the building but it will never work out. If he wants to stay band for four years, it'll never work out. Would he take that through MTVA? Because the way I read it, it's not allowed. We do offer um jazz band as well, which is before school and activity. Um but we also have you're going to find choices throughout your entire life. You send your child off to college, they're going to have something that's on a Tuesday, Thursday at the same time that something else is. So, I'm not saying that we wouldn't work with, but I schedule. I can tell you the thing that we heard through many meetings is band. So I'm doing my very best but he gets one hour one hour to teach band. I just don't

133understand why if it is available through MTVA and there are very few situations where it is an absolute >> why we wouldn't open the door to potentially approve that because your particular would be banned someone else's this that and the other thing and so now I'm doing individual scheduling a building for 550 kids some staff members to spread out seven class periods I just think that you're asking for me to do a lot of individual scheduling. >> No, can you do it? I can do that. We also have a very large population of specials who also require >> another part of the equation when we're balancing it all out. And the problem is to say the kitten wants geometry and band. It's more important than the kitten needs that foundations of algebra class in special

134education and more band also. But then when you put the whole puzzle together, it's really hard to meet all those needs. And that's where it gets trickier. So, and if and bottom line, if a student takes a class on MTDA and it's a class we offer here, we have to pay for them to take that class. >> My daughter has to graduate. >> Let me know. >> Yes. So, four credits to graduate, right? Ma'am, we have a motion and a second already on here. Does this have anything to do with the motion to approve it? >> No, we're we're discussing approving the the high school 2627 handbook. >> The other discussion from the board. >> I I've got another question or a question um on page 35 where it dis and into 36 where it

135discusses hate speech. Just a small suggestion would be um it mentions hate speech includes and uh there's another Oh yeah. Um this may include slurs, derogatory language, symbols, jokes, etc. Um, could we add includes but is not limited to and then list those things just so that we um, you know, have an expanded uh, idea and just aren't caging ourselves in. >> Yeah, I think that makes a lot of sense. >> So, we're going to have a hate speech. >> So, second paragraph on page 35, it says, "Hate speech includes but not limited to any communication that targets." Is that correct? >> That's correct. And then the following sentence also >> slurs very tough sentence. >> Yeah, >> is not limited to slurs derogatory language symbols. >> Okay, >> so I'm going to amend my

136motion to approve the high school 2627 handbook with the hate speech >> amendment. There we go. Yeah. Cor, are you still okay or Shane you still okay with the second? Sure. Okay. Any other discussion from the board? >> If we would add that on the the dates, the edit dates correspondence courses that fall semester would be May 15th, spring semester would be December. >> You're going to hate me, but can we uh amend the motion again to approve the swapping of the spring and summer start dates? page 18 second. Any other discussion from the board? So I guess I'm just going to say that I feel that there's still quite a bit of confusion on the correspondence, the course cataloges that which refers back to the earlier conversation about the meeting that we had. Um

137and kind of where this belongs. Um I still don't feel that I understand it enough. Um, so I know it belongs in the handbook, but I just feel that there needs to be more discussion. >> I think not understanding it and not liking the answer are two very different things. And I think what we're having here is people aren't getting the answer they want. So we keep coming back and saying it differently, hoping that this pool will say you can take whatever you want here. You can have whatever classes you want. That was the whole point of cleaning this up is to say this is how it is. You get your two classes that we offer. Anything else you want to do is on your own. You can do it anytime you want to. It'll

138be on the transcript. It's not going to count how much clearer we can make that we can't build a high school with every child's individual needs in place. And this keeps coming up over and over again. And it's the same answer. That's not what we decided to do. Mrs. Pool has worked on this with Andrea and her team for months now because she was asked to. And we're still going back to the same things that people didn't get their answer to or didn't get the answer they wanted. And it's very frustrating to hear this keep coming up over and over and over again because it's not the answer people wanted to hear. I think an honest effort has been made to do this and I think it's ridiculous that we keep coming back to this

139and saying we're not going to approve it because I didn't get the answer I wanted. That's the end of my comments. Thank you. >> And I I appreciate that and I where I'm going is just that there's still confusion and I I know what you're saying. Okay. But it's the community also. It's not just one person or two people. The community in themselves are still not understanding what is in this handbook. >> And I hope a little bit when you say um excuse me uh when you say course catalog that one of the limitations that we found when we moved from infinite campus that we've made better is that the course catalog what we service through our classrooms with our teachers during our daily schedule is in a or printable course catalog. All of those

140things, these are all the math courses that we we offer. These are all the English courses we offer. These are all the um FCS courses that we offer. So those were part of Infinite Campus, very difficult if not possible for anyone to find. So I think when people see that concrete piece, which we will first uh unveil at the uh at the freshman orientation next week, um it'll be a QR code. You want it there or you want to see it on your phone. pretty pretty hairy on your paper because it's a big document. Um but we'll have some printed copies as well for that. Um we're hoping freshmen they can kind of get an idea. Here's what all I could take. Let's try and get that figured out for my four years. They can

141then go into infinite campus and use the graduation plan and start plugging those in which are not a commitment. They can take them on play with it all over the place uh every year that they they uh are part of our school. The correspondence is the same. It is outside of our school. I'm sorry. It's outside of our regular um course offerings. >> Good. I'm hopeful that the concrete um paper copy or downloadable item the course catalog will help uh clarify some of this for them. >> I guess my frustration maybe more is so like this was brought up and I really do appreciate all the work that was done on it. I was hoping that at some point there would be a little bit more even not at a at so much like a

142work session or something where it could be better understand so that there could be some thought and input based on public feedback that has been given. I just that was what I thought was going to happen was going to be a little bit more of like a let's work this out and then it was just on the agenda as an approval for the handbook. >> Did the board want another meeting? We did a meeting outside of the regular school day with any parent that wants to call or come in or email. Nobody has. But if you the board wants me to come in the evening again and do something that could be productive, I'm happy to do that. I just feel like we're circling around the same items. Um, and honestly, that's just above and

143beyond really where we're at. We've already done one pair of meat for several hours. Parents were we wrote down questions, but we weren't allowed to like ask questions and get answers. And I think that's what the community gets, right? I think that's where the misses that you guys let us write down questions, give us answers. This is how it is. But there was no there was no opportunity for a community to voice something in regards to what was happening. I'm just saying like I've heard that feedback a lot throughout. So I feel like that's a good point just to hear >> I think you have a good turnout community question answers. I hear that um we did have this on the October board meeting where a lot of community spoke and the November one and

144the December one and the February one. So, I feel like I have listened a lot to the community several times, but again, if the board directs me to have another parent meeting, I'm happy to do so. >> So, if you limit to two credit card is actually even better than this plan because at least you're getting two credits. This plan, you're getting zero credits for correspondence for citizen. >> Any other questions for the board? All those in favor of approval of the high school 2627 handbook with the hate speech caveat and the spring and summer dates corrected say I. >> I post same sign. >> So I have two nays from Jackie and Lacy. Correct. >> Yes. >> Hearing that motions pass. Next, we're gonna move on to a director's matrix raise. Don, can you

145talk about this, please? >> This was discussed at Mr. Kinsey, I'm going to let you go to the timeline because you've been more >> Sure. So, this is ran through the negotiations committee. Um, this is just what that was sent out. We did talk about on February 6 and agreed this is what we're going to do. We did move it from the March meeting to this meeting. And Paul Craig is moving into the tech director's position. Craig at step three after >> as you can see will not even be there. So that'll allist will just be >> but he's moving there because he's taken over for Dart. Correct. >> And we're doing away with the old that old matrix >> the old matrix the director. Amazon. That one's going away. It will just be the

146one that tech director. There's not a one or two or we won't have two people being directors. It'll be a a desire somebody else to help. Nothing will be on that matrix. >> Okay. Oh, I just I guess had a couple questions because I think the meeting this was discussed at was the budget meeting that I listened to in March >> with Paul saying yes >> and this a little bit about this but so back in 2024 we separated these and made a matrix >> but we also have a director's matrix for all new hires just a blank at once. Correct. >> No, that's just for like Paul and all those guys. >> Well, we have >> Paul or anybody coming after them. Like if somebody came into maintenance, that would be that director. Yeah.

147>> So, just new people, but then so this curriculum director matrix up here and here. We're specifically tying it right now to Andrea because she's in that position. But if Andrea were to leave, the starting pay for a curriculum director >> would be at that zero lane. >> Yes. >> Okay. Trying to make sure I understand that. And then I guess just um with that, what I don't think I ever saw what this 3% to the director's matrix for those three people. One, two, three. Right. um does to our budget. >> So that was sent out to let me see on fe February 6. I looked it up on there. Um but it's going to be a minus because we won't have the actual tech director. >> You know what I mean? >> Right. So

148we're losing Darlene. >> Yeah. >> And we're doing Paul and we're giving Paul a stipend or not a stipen but we're moving him. But then in that meeting, we also you guys also discussed hiring an aid with them, >> right? So >> aid would not be on us. >> Okay. So they're not going to be a tech director. >> not a director but like a support. >> Yes, it'd be a tech aid. >> Okay. So this So will we have a separate matrix for the tech aid? >> Okay. So, the tech aid will not be on the director's maint. >> That's why we're only having one. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Um, and I I'm sorry, Kenzie. I looked again multiple times. I don't know what that that budget difference was from this year to

149next year with that 3%. Unless it was staring right at me and I just didn't see it. So, if you could get that and then um I I just again want to make sure that we're asking the questions because last month we thought we were going to get a huge discount with the insurance. So this 3% whether it's small, big, large, whatever, still seems like it's something that it's a negative 66,460,000. >> So I think Lacy, what you're talking about too is this. We all have our mind wrapped around cuts that need to be made in each building, in each department, and we're we're going to make out for it on trying to reduce our budget. >> Right. >> So, I mean, that was even before this, but we still are are making things work,

150whatever we need to do. >> We have a rough idea of what an 80 would be >> 50,000. That's just a guess. >> That won't be a full decision. >> We're thinking >> 10 month. Yeah, 10 month is classified. I guess again I just feel like we talked about it um in March or whatever that meeting was at the budget meeting. I wasn't here but I did listen to it last month. We said that we are in trouble now because of not going with the insurance. And so without seeing a big picture, nothing personally against these people, I'm just concerned with yet another raise and negotiations still going on. >> They could be very costly without some of these people too. >> Again, leaving people >> with losing the correct one for savings. >> That's

151what the negative 66 is. We're still 66. >> But last month we heard that they were $480,000 in deficit, wasn't it? >> No, that's the tax 480. >> No, that's the tax. >> That's the tax bill that they're >> It's not the same thing. >> So either we had to come up with that if we said we don't want reertification or >> that's for this year. >> Yeah. >> And that's fine. That's what I'm trying to say is that those conversations, right? Like I just I'm black and white. So if that's what the tax bill was, but we claimed last month that by not having the insurance go to the trust that we were going to have this huge increase, but now we're okay. I I just want to make sure that we are looking

152at the bigger picture. That's >> my point. >> So we've done now for weeks is look at the bigger picture. telling Dan and I have sat in meetings and meetings and meetings talking about this and saying here's what we can do. We just had one last Thursday that was two hours of saying yeah we can do that we can move this here we can do this that goes on every week. >> Yes, >> I just have a question. I didn't see that attached to just saw that today. Actually, I just saw it here when I when I got here, but still couldn't open it. Just so you >> I just opened it on the agenda while we were sitting here. >> Oh, I couldn't open it when I got there. So, my question is though,

153it didn't give I don't feel like it gives the public time to look at what you guys are doing. I'm just saying. And to the point of what's been said at every meeting, we're tight with negotiations for Paris. That's been said, we're in a deficit. We're like all of these things to the public in order for us to like follow along and try to see what you guys are doing. I just feel like it would be nice to see these kind of things and whatever Kenzie is talking about that is that public, Kenzie, like for the public to see, whatever you're sending out. >> I I mean, I can send it whatever they want. If I >> It's hard to follow something if we don't have something to follow. That's all I'm asking for. >>

154When was this put on? Don, >> what's that? >> When was this hyperlink put on? >> It was put on this morning because there was nobody here over the four days. >> That's right. >> But this has been sent out numerous times. It's not like it's a secret and brand new. People on the budget committee, we've talked about it. We brought it out multiple times in conversation say nobody saw it. Up here is is not true. I would just like to see it attached to stuff. Whenever you guys have something, it would be nice to see the supporting documents for this so we can look at it. >> I think too. Yeah, Cherry, I think that's fine. Um, >> it's an easy fix. >> It is difficult to to put everything on all the time.

155It's like noticing two meetings for negotiations for Paris. >> I could go on and on about things. I mean, some of this not really dayto-day educational driven. Like, we're not talking about education very much at all in our daily work here, which is which is frustrating um to people. This though, I mean, that's why we have the negotiations committee. I mean, that's why we went that far. That's why the board put that negotiations committee together because they're the ones that we get together, we look through it, and then they they make um you know a suggestion on where we go with this, which we did in February. >> So So maybe the negotiations team could include their notes as to why they came up with that. I don't I'm just saying some way to share

156that with >> Okay, >> it would be nice to follow. >> That makes sense. I will entertain motions on the direct matrix. I would move to approve the separation of the director matrix and moving to the tech director matrix. Step three got a motion from chain second from discussion from the public. discussion from the board. >> I'm just going to say that I think I'm I mean it's when we talk negotiations committee, we had some issues with meetings. I don't remember this discussion, but I do remember listening to the budget meeting. So whether it was negotiations or budget, I I don't know. I don't care. Um, but I I just feel like again there would be value in that number that 666,400 that would that would have helped me tonight. So >> Deian said it

157I don't understand. >> I I didn't have it prior to though to understand and I've like I just I don't have enough information. >> Any other discussion from the board? And like Kelly said, we, you know, started this discussion. It was via email back in February. So, it's not new information. It's not a new concept for >> more egg left if you want >> for the negotiations committee. And like Charity said, you know, we could um bring more of this information, but as far as the negotiations committee itself, we have had this since February. >> By email, she asked. >> Yes. >> Any other discussions from the board? All those in favor of uh approving the director's matrix and moving Paul Kraut to the tech director matrix step three say I. I >> I. >>

158All those sign >> I have one opposing from Lacy. Hearing that the motion still passes. Stacy can you read the correspondence please? >> Sure. Uh it's >> Oh, the public comment. >> Yeah. >> Or the public comment, sorry, >> starts on line 89. >> No, but the >> from the one on top and the one second, and then back to the one on top. >> Yeah. I don't know what happened here. We think that maybe there was a formatting issue when it was being archived by >> Thank you. >> We'll have Darling go in and reformat that spreadsheet so it stays where it's supposed to be. Can you do that, Stacey, please? >> Sure. Uh, first comment from Amy Rich. I am writing to respectfully ask the board to review and reconsider the current policy

159requiring a physician's note for students to use crutches or other over-thecounter mobility aids at school. I think there was more, but there's only this line. >> Skip to recently my daughter sustained a knee injury is the next paragraph. Okay. Recently, my daughter sustained a minor knee injury at home that temporarily prevented her from safely bearing weight. Like many parents, my goal was to simply allow her to attend school safely while the injury improved. The most appropriate way to accomplish this was through short-term use of crutches for support and fall prevention. However, under the current policy, she was unable to use crutches at school without obtaining a physician's note. This requirement creates several unintended challenges for families. First, it can create unnecessary financial burden. A medical visit so solely to obtain permission for the use of

160an over-the-counter assisted device may cost families hundreds of dollars depending on insurance coverage. For many families, particularly those with high deductible plans or limited access to health care, this requirement effectively forces them to choose between paying for an unnecessary appointment or keeping their child home from school. Second, the policy may unintentionally create inequitable access to education. Families who cannot easily obtain or afford a medical appointment may have no choice but to keep their child home even when the child could safely attend school with a simple mobility aid. Third, crutches over the crutches are over-the-counter assisted devices that do not require a prescription. Schools already allow the administration of over-the-counter medications such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen with parental consent. In a similar way, it seems reasonable that over-the-counter mobility aids could also be permitted with parental

161authorization for short-term use. There are also reasonable alternatives that would continue to support student safety while reducing unnecessary barriers for families. For example, allowing a short allowing short-term use of crutches or similar mobility aids with parental consent similar to the process used for over-the-counter medications. having the school nurse assess whether the student can use the device safely and independently. Requiring a physician's note only if the device is needed beyond a defined time frame, such as more than several school days, allowing the school to place activity restrictions such as no PE or running while the student recovers. These types of approaches would continue to prioritize safety while also recognizing the realities families face. Another concern sometimes raised is the possibility of crutches being misused as a weapon. However, students already bring many everyday items to school

162that could cause harm if intentionally misused, such as metal water bottles or other heavy personal items. Rather than prohibiting necessary assistive devices, it may be more appropriate to focus on supervision and expectations for appropriate behavior. My intent is to raise My intent in raising this concern is not to criticize the school staff who have been trying to work within the guidelines they have been given. Instead, I hope the board will consider whether the current policy may be creating unnecessary barriers for families and whether a more balanced approach could better support both student safety and student access to education. Thank you for your time and for your continued commitment to supporting students and families in our district. I appreciate your consideration of this issue and hope the board will review the policy with these concerns in

163mind. that first sentence on that one. There's another one, just a one-s sentence request. >> Okay, that's David Robinson. I request the board move public comments back to the beginning of each meeting. With the public comments at the end of the meeting, the board is not able to hear the opinions of the public who are unable to attend the meeting before the board me board members vote on agenda items. And that's all I see. >> Next, we have two public comments here. Um, first one is Charity Bowler, JOTC programming. >> Um, I'd like to speak to the decision to eliminate the ROC program at the Lockwood School. Under Montana law, decisions of this magnitude must be made transparently. The public has a constitutional right to know participate. That means proper notice placed on an agenda

164discussion. >> You're going to go. >> Okay. >> I'm sorry. >> What's that, Stacey? I'm sorry if I interrupted. >> Okay, you're good. Okay. >> It's about accountability and transparency. The community deserves to be informed and to have a voice. I'd also like to speak on behalf of concerned students, parents, alumni, and community members that respectfully urge you to retain the Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Force program at Luckwood School. The program is far more than a military or oriented elective. It is a proven leadership development program that's positively impact students from all backgrounds. Through its curriculum and activities, students qual qualities that benefit not only the individual students but also the school environment and the broader community. For many students, this program provides a sense of belonging and purpose purpose. It offers opportunities

165of leadership roles, academic growth, physical fitness, and civic engagement that are not always available through other programs. Cadets participate in community service projects, color guard presentations, and events that build school pride and strengthen community ties. The program has also brought significant recognition and achievement to our school. Our cadets have been invited to compete in multiple national championships and have proudly represented Lockwood on a national stage. Notably, our archery team returned from a national competition with a championship trophy. In addition, we have sent both a full team to a national tournament and an individ individual cadet to a separate national level competition to represent our school, demonstrating the program's excellence and high caliber of our students. Additionally, the program helps prepare students for a wide range of future paths. While some students may choose military, many

166others go to pursue college or careers with with the confidence, structure, and leadership abilities developed through this program. It promotes citizenship, character education, and personal accountability, values that align with the mission of public education. Eliminating this program would remove a vital support system for many students and diminish opportunities for leadership development with the school at a time when students benefit greatly from structured positive extracurricular involvement. Maintaining this program is more important than ever. We all ask respectfully that the admin and school board continue supporting this program. engage with students, parents, and instructors to understand the school impact and explore alternative solutions before considering the illumination of this program. We believe preserving it at Lockwood School is an investment in our students futures and in the strength of our community. Thank you for your time and

167consideration and this this was written by students and that pretty impressed. >> Thank you. Next, we have another one. Drew Johnson about JOTC. I just understand what happens with the program. Both my boys have been involved in it. It has made a very significant impact on particularly one of them. Um they come from pretty troubled backgrounds. So just kind of want to understand what what was going on behind it and if there is any recourse whether it's contacting senators or congressional reps in terms of uh maintaining funding um where reaching out to veterans groups uh might be able to provide some grant func for students to be involved with it >> in all their years they've been on su they've been on what's it called when >> probation probation now for their entire time >>

168for four years now. Also, it's due to the fact that the we still have five months of outstanding bills, four months of outstanding bills that the Air Force has not reimbursed us for. We can't carry those costs and hope that the Air Force it's we we don't know the Air Force we send them request and everything like that and it's when the Department of Defense and the Air Force reimbures is when we get our money which also includes half of the instructor's pay. But the main issue that we have is that they didn't meet the recruiting requirement which was >> 50 and they've never our lowest with our highest number of graduates. We know >> and also in that program we're required to have two instructors which next year would have been two instructors for

169approximately 12 to 14 kids even though we've opened this up to 8th grade. We've had no the recruiting has not gone well and Major Banuk admitted that in our meeting that it's not gone well. So I don't know how much longer the Air Force would have supported this but our district can't afford to pay for two full-time instructors. It would be like me coming in here and saying, "I'm going to hire Ging and one other math teacher only to work with eight or 10 kids and they're going to get a 12% raise at the end of the year when the rest of the teachers get a 3% and continue to know that that's what we're doing. If we want transparency charity, this was never followed or started by any constitutional law. Gordon Clasna filled out

170an application, the Air Force approved it. There were not community meetings. There was that's how it happened because he called me yesterday. I a lot of these programs just happen that way to be honest with you, Don. >> But there's not any lack of transparency here. I'm I'm hired to manage the fiscal part of this. This is not fiscally responsible in any way. And it's not about the quality of the program. I think the kids that have gone through this have done amazing because I know some of them that struggled and now they're a whole different child. It's not about that. I can't sit and look at us saying we can't do this, but we can hire two instructors to work with 14 kids all day long. It's not about the quality of what that

171brings. It's not fiscally responsible anymore to continue to maintain that because in that contract, we are required regardless of how many students we have to have two instructors. And we had another one apply. And I said, we have to make a decision here or we're going to end up where it's just really imbalanced. So, >> just one moment, please. Lacy, you had something. >> Well, I was just gonna say, um, I I guess I'd like clarification. Have has it been decided that the program is no longer because that's where I am not privy to are we cancelling the program? That's why we're having public comment and rumors or is it a guarantee we're not having it next year? >> It's just a set of courses we're not offering. just like we're not using uh uh

172that I forget that neo neon or intro to psychology. Those are part of that um right in the handling where we are making adjustments based on our our course offerings are are being adjusted. This is an adjustment being made. >> Okay. I I guess and that's where I'm confused because I didn't realize that that was a decision and it seemed like there was I actually had quite a few people ask me and I had no idea. So, I I feel like it warrants a conversation >> um and an understanding for the entire board. I'm not disagreeing that you shouldn't be fiscally responsible, Don. Again, not going against the decision necessarily, but the way that it was coming about um is news to me. >> Would the would the board like a list like is this

173something that falls in courses? So would I need to bring before the board every time we alter a course? >> No. I do think I don't know whether it would have been relaying it to the kids in J OC or something that some way to prevent the rumor mill from going. >> We can't this was u we talked with the instructor then there is a certain order wouldn't talk to students prior to the instructor. We wouldn't talk to the instructor without talking to the Air Force and there's there's certain ways that we have to talk and the students unfortunately because when we talk to instructor we talk you know then that gets out. So we wouldn't be able to prevent all of that but we will stay in the order that makes most sense and

174we don't talk to the students before we talk to the instructor. So and to your question about courses I guess um I mean I think it is important for us to be aware of those things that are changing right so if we have a huge interest in EMT then you're going to come ask to do an EMT class or you're going to tell us right because the interest is there same same with the JOTC I mean if the interest is not there and I mean we kind of talked about it in our Sure, but just having an awareness so that we're aware high level of what courses are are coming and going. And our course catalog would be that avenue, I would think, because last year, for example, our social studies uh created some new

175courses in their department, but I didn't bring those to the board. Um, for example, fil history through film. Um, I didn't bring that to the board. Um, or forensics wasn't a class that we brought to the board. Um, and so it's just really what you guys want to see and how much heavy-handedness you want on that versus like how much time we spend in the classroom on instruction. >> Yeah, I I think you bring up a good point and I think this one was just one that I'm still like not sure. I mean, now you clarified, John, but the fact that the that we weren't aware that this was being cut is um was kind of a disservice, I think, to the board because there were questions and you were not aware of it. >>

176The curriculum you ask questions that only one person reached out to me about this entire thing >> and this went out. >> Yeah. last week >> on Jerotc >> it was and I said we need to be prepared because yes >> I must have missed that one I apologize >> it's fine >> I I have a question so John just I guess I'm aware that a lot of those programs are on probation for a long time and they get started and so I get that but I have to ask like Rur Academy how many students do you guys service in Rur Academy come, but they're not a separate program that school also does a host of things during the day. That is a teeny tiny thing. He's a an assistant principal. We don't we don't

177give a staff member like we have in that case. We're teaching staff members classrooms um and low numbers. So that's not comparable in my mind because that ROC is its own program and that's the sole responsibility where Mr. cabin or myself years ago. I only have Roar Academy, but I had a host of other and Mr. Cav has a host of other um jobs that he does during the day that is a teeny tiny fraction. >> If it would have been approved as a charter school, that would have been different and that's a whole different thing because that would have had to come. >> But so you're saying that programs that you guys eliminate don't have to be voted on by the >> not JTC? No, >> it was never voted on the board to

178start. That's what >> I don't know why I I know we're in public comment right now, but I don't know. I I mean I think we're teetering on the edge of something disastrous having everybody vote on everything that the admin decide to do. >> Jotp did not meet their mission on their own. These recruiting numbers were set by the Air Force. There's nothing we can recruit. >> And here's another thing I'd like to point out to everybody is that if the Air Force comes in here and removes the program from us, instead of us saying, "Hey, our program is not flourishing right now, we will never get another one." So instead of waiting for that to happen, we not we sorry, Miss Pool recognized that and said, "Hey, this is not their not meeting mission.

179It's the cost and everything else. And if we want to revisit this in the future, she made the correct decision. And at this point, I'm going to move that we adjourn. >> Second. >> Got a movement from Josh and a second from Shane to adjourn. Discussion from the public. Discussion from the board. All those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed, same sign. Hearing that motion passes. Thank you. room talking about room upstairs. Thank you. >> All right. I'll talk to you later. different.