001Join me for the pledge. >> I pledge allegiance 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. >> Right. Welcome everybody. I'm Stacy Leon, vice chair, acting on behalf of Josh Skidmore tonight. Start with public comment. I'll start with the written comments. Okay. >> Any person present who wishes to address the board or raise any question about public school district matters or governing policies may do so so under public participation. No discussion of personnel or individual students is permitted at this time. A limit of three minutes is placed on each speaker. Persons who may who want more time may make arrangements to be placed on a future agenda. The public is is also reminded that they
002may provide input on all motions being considered by the board at this meeting. Additionally, anyone wishing to make public comments virtually may submit the following form. All received messages that comply with the following criteria will be read at the meeting. No discussion of personnel or individual students is permitted. Include your full name and address in your message. A limit of 500 words is placed on each person. The same link may be used to provide input on action agenda items prior to the board taking action. Uh note to our guests. First note, if you haven't signed in, please do so before you leave. Uh visitors wishing to record this meeting electronically may do so providing the recording does not disrupt the orderly conduct of this meeting. You know, I think I'm going to save this comment
003for when it's on the agenda. Yeah. All right. Do we have any correspondence? Okay. District reports >> facilities report. >> That's not Oh, I'm sorry. >> No, Gordon, we will be doing yours during the action item on the agenda. And Sue, I apologize. We will do your public comment, pal. >> Oh, thank you, Madam Chair. Um, my name is Sue Vinton. I represent Senate District 20 here in Lockwood. I uh came directly from my participation today in the Montana Department of Justice Opioid Overdose Prevention Summit. It was certainly very interesting. It was very eyeopening and I wanted to share a little bit about that with with you folks tonight. Um, first of all, um, if I wanted you to be aware that there were 80 overdose deaths in Montana in the last year, 24 deaths
004in Montana from overdoses. Uh, I don't know about you, but that was certainly news to me. Uh, there was a lot of discussion uh, regarding overdose prevention. One of the speakers was Kim Edinger from Lockwood. her son uh graduated from the middle school here same year as my boys did and uh she is now active in overdose awareness and she mentioned to me that she speaks she has spoken at school district 2 um and she said she had reached out to Lockwood in the past but had never received a response and I'm sure this was before your time uh superintendent um but I told her I would pass along her contact information she's a very impactful speaker um someone that I think kids can relate to, especially since her son I I think his name's
005on a banner in in Mr. Gym. Um, and so she has a lot to share about about overdose prevention. Another speaker uh that was there today by the name of Rocky Heron, he was incredibly impactful. He goes around not just in Montana but in many states discussing with students overdose prevention and you know he is of the opinion that overdose prevention needs to start younger and younger middle school uh is certainly not too early to start this discussion and I if you don't mind I just wanted to share their contact information with all of you and uh should you want to reach out to them or to me for more information I'd be happy to share Thank you. >> Thank you, Sue. There's no more public comments, right? >> Okay. >> All right. Go ahead.
006>> Staff furniture. Um, I have one question. Do are the slides in or the lion's lair is that profanity covered and maybe it was a long time ago. >> Yes. >> Okay. Okay. I was just asked about it, so thought I would ask you. That's my only question. Okay. >> Thank you so much. All right, Don, you're ready. >> All right, maybe try August 2025 since our current enrollment just based on what is now in incoming campus without exits and new enrollments going in is approximately 1,600. It's about 93 above where we were last year at this time. So that is a good sign. It puts the primary at about 385, intermediate 334, middle school 372, and high school at 509. So those will change as we get everybody updated and in the district offered
007contracts to fill our final openings in CTE woodshop, high school and middle school special education and middle school mathematics and high school and middle school choir and drama. So, we are fully staffed going into next week's orientation. Some of our teachers will be coming from the Philippines. They are on their way, but they'll be arriving at the end of September. Three of them, two of them are already in the United States on their way to Washington. District was busy over the summer working on partnerships with the Jed Foundation with those organizations that were able to partner with through the stronger connections grant from the office of public instruction. The PTA will be holding a barbecue during open house on the grass in front of the primary building. It is great to see this organization going
008strong. We encourage everyone to enjoy a hamburger and contribute to the PTA. Mark Daring along with his maintenance and janitorial staff have done a fantastic job this summer preparing for the new school year. The facilities and grounds are in amazing shape with the grounds repairs, painting, and multiple other things that they've done. I just wanted to say thanks to Mark and his crew because the the facility looks better than it has in a long time. >> Jumpstart program Mrs. Fox started a couple of years ago and is now expanded into third grade. So we had third grade students at summer school went again this summer and was a success and we'll be getting data from that once everybody is um up and running. We're still getting buildings opened up and things going. So there will
009be a report from that later on. Uh the ACE, our Alliance for Curriculum Enhancement has been on campus again. They came in and did a boot camp for our teachers that are new to teaching. They did five days with them. They did a one-day boot camp for teachers new to Lockwood. So that was done last week. We also have had a on campus this week doing training with teachers from all over the county. And I don't know how far out they go, but it's a long way. We saw um co buses here with from school districts bringing teachers and administrators in. It's a great turnout here for that every summer. All right, staff orientation. The agenda is attached here. The board is invited to um attend the breakfast. Well, I didn't move that. Anyway, >>
010I noticed that. Anyway, the breakfast hosted by the trustees starts at 7:30 on Monday morning and that is open for all staff and janitorial everybody that's on campus at that time. The district I'm not going to receive or read the email from the department of revenue but it relates to the public school district tax credits for the tax share money that was available in there. Dan, any anything to add on that or was this just a notice? >> Just notice there I think um money in >> Yeah, $84,750. It was unclaimed or returned or Yeah. So, that was just the notes that went out. >> All right. The district has confirmed our intent to apply for phase 2 transformational learning grant that was recently announced at the office of public instruction. In going through the
011actual grant, our grant proposal is already done. It's due September 1st. Andrea is working on editing and finalizing that. It would bring in approximately $285,000 a year to his proficiency based education products or projects. And we were doing that already when the original transformational learning grant money ran out. So that would be a great resource for us to provide supplies, teacher training, those things based on proficiency based which the state is really promoting and we were doing. But then when that money ran out, we went to advanced opportunity, which was more of the college credit, dual credit enrollment thing. So, it'll be nice to have that back. We'll know, it'll be a while. We'll know in April of 2026 if we're awarded, and the funding will be available in July of 2026. Um, due to
012grant funding availability, the district has once again renewed its partnership with Healthy Is. Healthy is believes in empowering people to take control of their health and therefore their life. This will be a service available to district staff. They come in once a month. They do weigh-ins. They do health coaching. They do work with the staff around some mental health um supports, those kinds of things. But we thought it would be good to bring them back on campus this year and have them available for staff once a month. And we have one resignation. Emily Wilson, one of our JOTC instructors, has returned to active duty and has resigned her teaching position. That's it. >> Right. All right, for the first time, our new AD, Jake, >> Mr. Lynch, everyone who hasn't met him yet, this is
013Jake Lynch, our new AD, replacing Mike Ericson. We're so happy to have you. >> Happy to be here. So, thank you all for the opportunity and looking forward to uh hopefully finally getting getting both sports um started here in three days. um a lot of work up that but uh looking forward to getting that going and the rest of the fall season and rest. So thank you and nice to meet you. >> Any questions for Jake? Anybody? >> Jake, can you address the questions about baseball? Whether it's happening, when it's going to happen, or is that something you want to talk about later? We've had a lot of questions about it. I guess it was kind of left after Mike brought it up. Could you kind of maybe clarify a little bit about what that
014timeline would look like? >> I mean, so as far as if if uh administration schoolboard wanted to do it this year, we we still have plenty of time. Um they won't even start um meetings for schedules and stuff till later November, December. So, um that's just I guess that's the conversation that um we need to have and uh whether we want to act that >> we want to have that added as a formal option. >> I think so. Yes, >> we'll get together and make that a formal action item next month, Jake. Just to make sure that we're doing all I just wanted to to let everyone hear that it is going to be something that happens, but we'll go ahead and get that on the agenda for next month. >> Yeah. And I I
015had a um two parents reach out to me worried that they heard that it's got to be in by September 1st. Um otherwise it's not happen that's that's not the case. Um I've been in contact with several people. We're we're good timeline wise. >> Okay. >> Um if we get it uh done, you know, the next couple months. >> Okay. I think everyone will just be relieved that it's, you know, on your radar and that's what people really wanted to hear. So thank you. All right. Move on to board reports. The new goal stop. >> All right. And we we're not making any motions or anything. >> No, we're not going to go through it. Okay. Just for the public's information, the board met on the 29th of July and we had our goal setting
016session and we have redesigned what you see over here, the Lockwood School Boards um plaque that will be replaced once we get this to the printer and get it done. This will replace that document for the guiding for the board goals. And then the board goals are attached here. They're pretty specific and there will be measurements that'll be reported on at the end of each year all the way through 2028. So that will be coming out. We'll get that done first and then we'll make this document available on our website. >> All right. Committee updates, safety committee, Corey. >> Um spent a week in Texas. Um went over some uh of the safety stuff that has to do with like SRO's going to their conference. Found out a lot of stuff that has to do
017with like pre-workout, you know, how kids if they don't get a certain certified type that they can actually get banned from sports because a lot of them have stuff they can get banned. Uh they talked a lot about roadblocks and how um they're working harder to make it not as dangerous. Um, yeah, there's a lot of good information. So, as soon as we can figure out what else we can do, then that >> is there anything you think that we could implement for free soon? Well, I know that we're looking at new uh wands because the wands that we did have aren't the best, but the the ones that um when I saw they're they're able to tell the difference between, you know, certain metals and stuff like that. So, you'll be able to tell
018the difference between like a bait or under a wire in a bra, so it won't be as um invasive. >> Okay, cool. All right. Uh, budget committee Shane, Jackie, >> we have anything due to update yet? >> No. >> Meeting for is that next week? >> Maybe. >> We'll talk about that more when we get to the action items. We can talk about when what the next meeting will look like for the budget. >> Oh, we didn't we didn't set it because we were waiting to hear. >> Yeah. >> Yep. Okay. Yeah. Is that a whole meeting next week or that we >> No, we're supposed to >> No. So, we were proposing it and then we decided to wait till we had the info we needed to schedule it. So, we don't have it
019on the schedule yet. >> So, that's a budget committee meeting now that you guys have scheduled. >> We don't have it scheduled. We're waiting to schedule it. >> Okay. Sorry, I was just trying to follow because I thought that we had to have the whole board. >> So, you're going to have a budget committee meeting first and then a whole board meeting. not even been scheduled. They had scheduled for next week to have a budget committee meeting, but the budget's not complete yet. So, that didn't even schedule meeting will be the whole then a budget meeting. Yeah. Yeah. Have to commit. >> Okay. >> And we can talk about that when we get to the action items that was postponed. >> Okay. >> All right. Career fair. >> Uh just stroking along, add more names
020to the list. So, >> great. Negotiations committee. Uh we're just in a quiet phase right now. No update till we work in Paris >> and curriculum. No, nothing specific to update. Uh Andrea wrote me and said that she's been working really closely uh daily with principles. Everyone's feeling comfortable and good and uh lots of questions, lots of answers and everyone's ready to get started. things are going well and community engagement. >> So, we met um last Tuesday, Christy and I, and um had one member of the community there. Please, you guys, that's a really good community to get involved in just to find out where our goal is to engage the community with the school. So, we need parents and non-parents, everybody in the community to show up to that. And it's just fun. It's
021a super like low commitment type committee. Um, what we're doing focusing on right now is the car show. It's on August 31st. It's kind of a back to school get together. There's a flyer on the way out the door. If you want all the details, please enter. If you guys have cool cars, mildly cool cars or super cool cars, trucks, motorcycles, anything in between. Um, also, if you run an organization that might want to have a booth there, talk to one of us, Corey, Christy, or I or Josh. Um, and if you have any other ideas to help make that a little bit more fun, we'd love to hear those ideas. And um, also just show up. It's going to be free. Free to enter your car and free to show up and we'll have
022some fun stuff for kids there. And um, we're also just talking about our goals. We've set some goals for the year and since this is kind of a new committee, they're pretty broad, but um, again, we would really like input from people. We try to meet on the first Tuesday of the month and it's posted on social media. So, if you keep an eye on that um if we change the time or date, you'll get that. But you can also just contact me, Jackie Lurang, on the school board. And um yeah, that's kind of it. Just the car show is the big focus and we're going to meet again here shortly to nail down some of those details. So, that's it. Uh we'll move on to the consent agenda. I um would like to break
023the number four approved deny open enrollments into its own item. There any issue with that support phone separate vote? >> Right. All right. So got the consent agenda. Is there any disagreement with the approval and adoption of the consent agenda as presented? Is there any issue with the approval and adoption of the consent agenda as presented? No. >> Is there any disscent with the approval and adoption of the consent agenda as presented? Hearing none, consent agenda is approved and adopted. Right. So action items. >> Yes. Do >> I need to clarify that? >> Yeah. Okay. You'll have to vote. >> Oh, >> can I make that motion? >> What? Motion to separate. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Oh, motion to separate the >> approve deny. >> I'll second. All right. I have a first from Jackie
024and a second from Christie to move consent agenda item number four. Approve deny open enrollments into its own action item. Um, discussion from the public. Discussion from the board. All those in favor say I. >> All those opposed say no. Hearing none. Uh motion passes. Okay. We just jump into B. Well, are we gonna >> There's not a discussion. [Music] So, we have to go ahead and we are doing open enrollment now. >> Yeah. >> Oh, yes. >> Okay. I thought we would No. >> Okay. Do we have people here to petition for open enrollment? Okay. Uh the board vice chair acting on behalf of chairman Skidmore in his absence has determined that the child's right to privacy outweighs the public's right to know. As a result, individuals will will be heard one at a
025time in close session. At this time, we ask that everyone except administration, the pro prospective student, their family, and any guests whom they wish to remain in the room please exit. If you would like to wave the close session, you may do so. By waving this right, all discussions related to your student and your petition will become part of the public record and accessible online for public viewing. It will not be private or confidential. >> Mr. >> Okay. >> Mr. Kinsey will bring you in if you if you're here to appeal. Mr. Kinsey will bring you in when it's your turn. So he'll be starting. >> Yeah. 13.