001Texas 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. Any person present who wishes to address the board or raise any questions about public school district matters or governing policies may do so under public participation. No discussion of personnel or individual students is permitted at this time. A limit of three minutes placed on each speaker who want more time may make arrangements to be placed on future agendas. The public also reminder that we play input on motions being considered on the board considered by the board at this meeting. Additionally, anyone wishing to make public comments virtually missed to the following virtual public comment form. All received messages that comply with the following criteria will be read
002at the meeting. No discussion of personnel or individual students is permitted. Include your full name and address. Your message a limit of 500 words placed on each person. The same link may be used to provide input on an action agenda at charge for taking action. public comment. I did not see any correspondence. I didn't have any facilities report. Uh just want to say crews doing an amazing job. Five classrooms in immediate uh phase one hallway middle school. Plus they're finishing up the chair rail second. Um the well we were able to find a more economical way to get that up and running my original estimates. So wells up and running and we did save some money doing it. So it's always a good thing. Oh, I was able to get the intercom upgraded camps wide
003version six to version 10, which anybody knows where questions for maintenance. I just want to quickly thank Mark and his crew because our grounds look amazing. The buildings look amazing. This is probably one of the best summers I've seen here for a while with Mark having enough people to get things done. see the difference. I mean, every building you walk through is just stinging the painting. They painted a whole hallway in like two days over there. It's three people and they don't mess around. So, they came through the high school, touched up everything over here. It's been a good summer. So, I just want to say thanks to Mark because he's kept things moving and everybody's working, but it's it's showing. It looks really good. Like your shirt, superintendent report. uh over so I can
004see this. Um so we were contacted by Rocky Mountain College. We'd had aou with them to host occupational therapist trainers here doing hours towards their degree and then it just stopped and I didn't know why we had done that. And then this guy contacts me and he says, "Hey, I'm the new person and I saw that we had anou with you. would you be willing to take OT um candidates back on your campus now? And most hosted the teachers loved it because they worked mainly in special ed or in like our special ed behavioral programs. So next year we'll be hosting um Rocky Mountain College's OT do their doctorate campus, but they'll be coming here and spending their hours doing their internships here on our campus. So I think at times we had four to
005five of them coming in and spending classrooms and it was a really good experience. So I'm glad we're getting that back on again. the lady that had been running it had left and this guy just got hired to take over. We are still continuing to work with the Jet Foundation which will be a two-year process. Um they have been very kind and very much checking in over the summer to see how everybody is doing and they will be on campus to work with our district leadership team once we get that established and we will establish that once we get everybody back. We have our building level leadership teams, but we haven't done the formal district leadership team like we've always had when the reading grant sunset. We didn't renew that. Now we'll get that back
006in place and that'll be in place for the next five years. And it's going to be good. Everybody's kind of excited to have that that where we get everybody together in a group and the teacher reps come in and talk. We're also working with branching minds to develop our MTSS programs. We have teachers and administrator attends conference in Bosezeman. It is amazing from what I understand and it's not expensive. So that was good. They will be bringing back what they learned there and then sharing that with the MTSS teams across the district. We were able to provide a lot of the intervention stuff that we needed for mathematics which we didn't have before because of the reading grant. We'll be able to continue providing that for reading but now we were able to get everything
007that Andrea had put into our wish list folder for next year. So that's all been purchased. So we'll have both math and reading too. um we did a training on the reading grant literacy grant and it was on how to do egrants. Our proposal was submitted and accepted that day. So that has not changed a lot from how it's been. So in October we will bring in the $700,000 for the year and then that will fund our people doing the intervention and we will be able to do some coaching those things but we won't be required to have a full-time instructional coach. So we'll be able to hire coaches where we need them. Uh, we met with Vicotta. Kelly and I met with the Verata who is the camera person who's been working with our
008safety grant to help update the cameras. She did some work with the cameras around the high school and the vape sensors and they work so well now that Gwen called me from she was somewhere between here and Missoula and said, "Hey, my phone is my vape sensor is blowing up." She said, "What is going on there?" Well, we had people here. And I said, "I don't know. Let me go check." Well, they were using a vapor cleaner in the bathrooms and that vapor would set them off in every bathroom. I said just ignore it for the next couple days. They're spraying down the bathrooms and cleaning. So, it picks up everything. Well, even if they're like perfume is strong, it'll set off the vape sensor. So, I mean, and now the cameras when somebody goes
009into a bathroom and sets off the vape sensor, the camera automatically snapshots their face when they're coming out. So then the people don't have to search through hours of bill. It just actually freezes it right there when people come out. So they can just go and find it's helped the people in the high school a lot. Middle school hasn't had a whole lot of incidents with the So um what else here? We have our Carl Perkins grant. We have added a new pathway. So congratulations to the district. We now have a healthc care profession pathway and it was funded this year. It the grant application. This is the first year I've ever put it in. It's gone through the first time. So, it is done and ready for next year. Uh that will bring in
010about $40,000 towards everybody's clear pathways. If we don't have a wish teacher this year, I will ask to be able to take that money and put it back in program so they have a little bit supplies and stuff for their programs. Uh let's see here. We did get $18,000 from the reading grant in June and that will pay for all of our assessment programs. there won't be a lapse in our AS web and our NWA ACT is paying for all of those and any of that money left in October will carry over into that $700,000. Uh our new F FSMC, our new third service management, Deian and I have been putting papers together and uploading them and today we finally finished the last which is the contract with Chartwells and now it has officially been
011submitted to OPI. Um they are very excited. Uh we were able to hang on to all of our dry goods so they'll be able to pick that up and along with storage and things that come out and be stored here. They were just left so we'll be able to use those to store the dry goods on. So it was kind of a neat thing and they had district personnel over for lunch last Wednesday and it was amazing. Um the staff that are working summer school are like going wow. So it's kind of nice to have a change. So, I'm excited to see where they go and what they come. But the summer feed, I saw parents there. I It was It was a pretty good turnout every day, but I know we have kids here,
012but I mean, I saw people bringing their kids up to have lunch with them, was like, "Okay." I said, "Maintenance custodial crews are knocking it out of the park." And um Eric Hardle, who is our middle school teacher who does the grounds, he is doing all the grounds by himself, mowing, weed eating, and the water. And it looks amazing compared to where we've even with the pump going down for a few days. Every day I come out here, my favorite thing is when you drive up 87 and all the sprinklers going along the front there in the morning when the sun's coming up. It's really kind of cool. I don't know why. It's just a neat thing. But it was only two days that we were out of town with water and it was back
013on. So, uh, we still have our CT, industrial technology, wood shop, CTE, business and marketing, which is not necessary, but we'd like to find one more person just so that has a plan for those. If we don't, we do have an we put out an ad for a family and consumer science person because if we got a second one, we can fill in those those spaces in the schedule. There have been no applications for any of those. Um, special education, we interviewed a middle school person. We're waiting on references. Nikki's interviewing a third grade teacher tomorrow. Still nothing on middle school mathematics. We're working with those companies, those hiring placement companies, and they have they're on the lookout for that high school girls basketball coach. They have started interviewing but have not finished. And we
014have a person on the um request to hire more assistant soccer. So, we've got that going. Would that be for girls and boys or I think so, but I'm not sure. I would assume the the ad was for both and so I'm not sure. It may just be girls. Okay. I saw she was a girl just Yeah. Um these are the resignations that we have received and when we received them on the date accepted Lacy Bose plug did resign as a par professional because we have a request to hire for her to come in as new lectures. So that she's not leaving she's actually moving into a different position. So, but um otherwise it's been kind of a quiet quiet three weeks for everybody but Deian, although she hasn't screen or anything. So, if you
015come home and visit, just throw cookies in there at Deian's office and walk away. Notice if the doors closed, you go, "Okay." Then you know if you can go in, he's doing an amazing job. That is it for July. Excellent. Any questions on superintendent report? Done. Next, we're going to go to schoolboard goals. I just like to remind everybody we have a meeting on 7:29 of this year for our goal setting. So just what it's think about where you want the district to go the direction and I will send a document out to everybody here probably on Monday just to kind of go over it's just got kind of an outline of the main areas you guys work on and some ideas on how we can build goals from that but based on your guys's
016interest where you want to go with the different committees and I want to ask if we can combine that meeting with going over our budget. We have to do a preliminary budget meeting before the actual meeting in August and I can't see us squeezing another meeting in that week before. So, could we go review preliminary budget information on the 29th? That will make the meeting go longer. That's the only issue. Have anything. It's not going to be extensive because we're just reviewing what the the trustes financial paperwork looks like right now. It's like we're not and we just to say we went over that before the actual Yes, I think we can probably get most of this done in two hours. I mean, the goal setting is going to be pretty I don't know. I'll
017send out the information. You guys should take a look at it, but three hours maybe. All right. This board goals uh action plan is really outdated. It is 2023 202. That is not it. I have a whole new Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I have a whole new we're looking at the next two years as a district and where we want to go and that's kind of like you guys will kind of be setting that tone of what direction you want to go in and some of the things that you guys oversee. And then we'll be working with building teams to go over where buildings see themselves going. Kelly is having them work on building plans for MTSS and whether they want to see that in the next couple of years. So, we're really starting to move
018on progressing forward now. We've had our year of kind of everything being adjusted. We want to start moving forward with the plans for the district. And this is the time when the trustees can this is when the trustees give Dawn Yeah. our vision and kind of the marching orders of where we want to help mold what we're going to do as a district and district. So, so come with your ideas what you want want to see the district do and I'll send that out to you guys. You guys will see it. It's kind of like this one except it's not it's not as dry. It's a little bit more more thoughtprovoking than it is just here's what we should be looking at. So, uh building visits obviously not applicable, but this is the reminder that
019uh we have to visit every building every year whether we start school. Just let you know. Uh committee update safety committee. Uh Corey is not actually here. He's in Texas uh with the uh national RSO SRO conference. And when this is the first time we've sent a board member to that conference to get firsthand knowledge on safety capabilities and how to secure our kids and harden our building. So that'll be interesting to see what he has. He'll probably have a big update when he gets back. Oh yeah. Yes. You saidw. She went and Gwen said that it's amazing. She was kind of didn't know what to expect and she said it's absolutely amazing. And this is the her second year. Second year. Now we'll probably take next year off and then send after because we
020sent so then that year then somebody else can go and go with maybe Rob or Cole can go with them. So, it's it sounds like it actually is well worth putting and pray for them because they are in Texas. It's like 130 degrees. uh budget committee. Uh looks like we just set our next meeting for 7:29 to 25 to go over our budget. So, no change in that time. Just start at 3. We'll start at 3 and then go till done by seven whenever. Okay. And I will try to make sure that there's no dried chicken as a dinner option. Dried chicken. What do you like? Uncle will never end. Career fair committee that is Corey negotiations committee. if you guys are gotten anything negotiated, but the parent contract. Yeah, we'll probably start setting those
021up in Let's get ahead of that. So, we're not we're not going to do March. No, uh community engagement committee. We still need to set a August meeting probably. Okay. Uh next item is the consent agenda. Is there any issue with the consent agenda as presented? Any concerns with consent agenda as presented? Hearing no issues with consent agenda as presented. Consent agenda is adopted. Uh next we have uh I'm going to bust these two up. High school activities handbook. Let's do that one first. Were you able to get that to Ellie has highlighted the changes that the board had noted? They're highlighted in yellow. Okay. Um, so I don't know if there's more or this is this is the one Kelly sent me. So, okay. I don't think we cover I don't think I covered
022everything we talked about. So, I probably moved to table. Okay. Yeah. Interest on it. When's the start? August 1. Okay. Yeah. And when does Mike stop? I think he's helping out right now. I think he's officially done. Yeah, his contract is he's just helping out. Okay. Yeah. So, I think Jake is in the process of moving here. Is it Sorry. Um, sorry. So, my questions were, did the new AD have input? No, I think he did. I think Kelly was talking to him via email back and forth, but I don't know. Okay. Yeah. And then um we I don't see it noted in here um where we site the specific app or um whatever program the coaches should use to communicate with students. It's an arbiter. So it does not have to pay form. Okay.
023And then maybe outside of that form um prohibited is yeah expressly forbidden prohibited subjects statue disciplinary private text groups and Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Will you email that to Kelly when when Jake gets back? We'll have him or Jake have him over that with Roy. Uh, evidently Corey is watching us as he just sent me a text of it is very informative and I will have lots of information to bring back to the board. So, uh, is it possible to could we loop that into the 729 meeting? have a little board meeting because it's not gonna be Yeah, I can just put that as action. Yeah. Then that will that give uh Jake enough time to I'll ask Kelly if if Jake Kelly is in is in contact with him because I didn't want Jake to
024be overwhelmed with 50 people reaching out to him while he's moving. Wife is also expecting. So, okay. It's kind of like there's a lot going on for him, but I'll have Kelly kind of guide that. I'll put it on there. If we don't get to it, then we do it. But yeah, it would be good to get that done so it's ready before football starts. The other is the crisis manual which we're breaking them up. So we need to we need to vote on the table of the activities handbooks. Recommend that we table the activities. Got a motion from Lacy to table. Second from Stacy. Discussion from the public. Discussion from the board. All those in favor all those in favor of tableabling the high school activities handbook say I. All those oppos same sign.
025Hearing none. Motion passes. Now we'll go into the district crisis management plan. This is in much better for all the staff has been updated as our current health personnel updated. All the building numbers and everything are updated. Yes, it was. Does the staff have like a training on this or are they just expected to read it and know it? This is in their in their employee information that's handed out, but there's also trainings on our phone app. The we're using this this year. We're using I can't remember the name of it now, but it's on my phone. It goes off whenever there's a training. It'll say intruder training. Goes off on your phone. You have to mark your safe. They do polo. They do all of those trainings at the at through Kelly and then
026the building reps to go back and train the buildings as Kelly directs that from our safety. Yeah, there's just a lot in there and I'm like, you know, are people actually going to learn it enough to implement in an emergency? Well, they do all the evacuation training. We actually do evacuation drills. They do fire drills, tornado drills, all of that stuff. They do active shooting drills. Um, hazardous material stuff is more high school based and they do the training in the classrooms. Yeah. Intruder lockdown training they do. So, a lot of these are done as practice throughout the eight things they have to practice with. And I do know that K2 does their training differently. Yeah. because they're littles, so they have to kind of turn it into a game almost. Gina does all of
027the medical assistance, allergic reaction, all that stuff is medical. Gina does a session with the entire staff. She's going to ask to do it by building this year, but she does a training with them on how to use the AEDs, what to do if somebody's how to stop the bleeding, that kind of stuff. She does all of those. So, there's a lot of training that goes on. This is just a lot of things you don't want to have to deal with. Severe weather. I recommend we approve the crisis district crisis management plan. I got a motion from Blazy to approve the district crisis management plan. Second second from Shane. Discussion from the public. Discussion from the board. All those in favor of approval of district crisis management plan say I. I. All those opposed, same
028sign. Hearing none. Motion passes. Thank you. Next is our contract for OT services through Ross. This is No, this is OT which is actually for the students here. This is an occupational therapist who um was here up through January of last year. left on maternity leave but said she asked if we would hold her job. So, we had somebody come in and fill in for the rest of the year and now she's ready to come back this year and be our again. So, she's amazing. Staff loves her. This is her very basic contract, but she does a really good job. Motion to approve the OT contract. I got a motion from Jackie to approve OT contract. Second from Stacy. Discussion from the public. Discussion from the board. All those in favor of approval of the
029contract with OT services say I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Hearing none. Motion passes. Next is the bus routes for 2526. Is there the one that's extra? I'm sorry that 25 26 was highlighted as well. Julie sent me another to add to that and I couldn't add it to the group. So they're they're all the one, but it was just another one she put in just to be safe for special education. Okay. For the next year. And as we all know, as kids move in, kids move out, this is going to change. We're gonna I think we had to buy this three or four times last year because of mileage share. So, and if you go through here, you can find your kid and their bus stop and see when they're going to be
030picked up and dropped off. If you can decipher it, it only took me an hour. It's a whole lot of information. To approve the 2526 bus routes. I got a motion from Shane to approve the 2526 bus routes. Second from Christie. Hey, this is your first motion. your first second. Congratulations. Thank you. Say now. Yep. I got a motion. Uh got a motion from Shane and a second Christie on approval of the bus router 2526. Discussion from the public. Discussion from the board. So just a quick question on the I know in the past we've had to highlight the ones where the kids are walking across. I don't think we have anybody in all. They're all on one side. I think they've done the ones. I I don't think I think Melissa had kind of
031tried to phase that out as much as she could. Okay. So, they have to go. These are preliminary. So, then Kelly and Julie go to the county meeting at the county. At the next board meeting, you guys can ask and maybe Julie can I'll email Julie and say, "Hey, are we still having kids crossing front?" I don't think they did because I remember somebody ran across the culde-sac to get on the bus and they weren't supposed to. They were they the bus was supposed to pick them up over here and they ran across. I'm thinking they're doing one side pickup but I can't guarantee that with any buses we have run out. So I'll ask you later about that because they did just to highlight that. Yeah. And then the other question I had is
032just looking at this. So last year we've added how many buses for next year? 14. for how many that was due to our time change, right? Yeah. Then first student did cut our activities cost for local transportation this year. So they did throw us a little bit and just to because I sometimes this is hard to read. So just again for that start time we added four classes. Um, but then they're all going to be all grades on those buses. That, right? Yeah. Okay. And then this extra, the 25 26 is a special education route. So, yeah, she just threw it in there just in case we need to have one. She said it's kind of hard to guess until you really get everything going. So, we may not have that route. I put I
033think a couple of them probably just for there's more kids. I would I put them into um the data sheet today. Okay. And so I was putting them in and I noticed there were a couple that were not K2 involved or intermediate through high school. Gotcha. I think all do we have an idea of any specific numbers or even like a generalization of how many parents have chosen not to have their kids on the bus because they're going to be with August and she sends out the bus determination. She was working on them just to kind of make sure we had enough buses. I don't know that that's changed since last but I was just that'd be interesting to know if they're going to be a little more stringent on if your child signs up
034for a bus and doesn't ride for month. So and the data I put in today is pretty um you know with numbers in it. Halloween. She's done a really good job at organizing this around the topic of a change. Jul's done a really good job with organizing the buses. And again, it'll probably change three times. It will. It'll probably change before September. Have to do that first initial run to see. These numbers are based off of last year stops, kids, who moved and who didn't move. This is the best guesstimate right now. Yeah. Yeah. I think it was just didn't they ask for who was going to do to add but our participation was not 100% of that. Oh yeah. Yeah. And then just curiosity like you said if they're not riding the bus. So
035how how is that? They take attendance every day again and they'll let the parents know that you have I think that'll go out with the bus cards when they send registrations that'll be the parent who's using the bus will be fail to use it then it'll be will be taken off. Okay. And then the other question just does the routes and stuff I think um we're still busing even if it's within that three miles. Correct. Okay. Yeah, that's I don't see that changing until we get side of the lock system out here. Yeah, I don't either. I just wanted to check. Any other questions from the board? Sorry, Mr. Char. I missed the public question part. Um my question is with these additional buses um do we know the difference in the transportation levy for
036the coming year? I'm working on it. Um the transportation our um funding our reimbursement went up for the state. You're welcome. That seems like questioning today. kind of worked on it and put out that resolution. Um, and you know that will change again because reimbursement is higher. It wasn't a horrible but it should be better with what should go up some I think with the adding of the four buses over the year it was like 108,000. Yes. Is that and then the increase for the first student contract? Yeah. It's all going to be. And then they've got the charges for the athletics, too. So, I mean, there's been some changes that Yeah. It's not going to be horrible. Oh, sorry. And now I have a followup question if I could, Mr. Chair, because you mentioned
037the activities buses. Does that fall under the transportation levy as well? I just it's just a student was doing a little bit back. So they they cover a charge for local just going to local just no activities comes out of activities. Thank you for budget. Sorry not. Any other questions? All those in favor of the adoption of the bus drive 2526 say I. I. All those opposed same sign. None. Motion passes. Next is theou for alliance of curriculum enhancement. If you want to actually see a physical copy of this, I have it my packet. This is the ACE. We hold a lot of ACE functions at our school for surrounding districts, Harden, uh, Alleian, Independent. So, they wave our $2,000 uh membership fee for us hosting here, which saves us because we don't have to
038send anybody out of district or away. We don't have to pay um mileage or anything like that. So, that's what's going on right there with that. ACE has also agreed to start paying for facilities, new facilities now for training and also anything over three hours for it, they will pay their contracted equity cost and then also like custodial those things which we have not been billing for but now it'll start next year. So, and they were they said they're based on an issue with that. So, and the rental cost is going to be $2,000 per day for any age event that we get. Seems like overall a good deal for us. Yeah, it's been a great deal. One, we don't have to pay membership. They're going to pay us. Yeah, we did take out there
039was a clause in here that we provide office space for them and they've never used that. So, Kelly worked with them this year. We took that out. They they don't need office space. It was more just using the facility for their And it's mostly just this war, isn't it? No, they've used at times they've used the whole building. Okay. Yeah. We're have there will be 750 people there in the fall for a national speaker that's coming in. So they sold out. There's not a seat in the auditorium left. So what speaker is that? Muhammad Anthony. He's amazing. I sat through eight hours of lecture. He just did twoour lecture blocks and every lecture was different. I sat through eight hours of it. I was like he never telepromptered, different subject, two hours talk. So it's
040pretty amazing. So I thought all his books pretty excited and Andrew and I get to go out to dinner with the groups, but no, he's just really really motivational and really has some good outside the box thinking about education. So it'll be good to have that push over. What day is that? Oh, she'll have to go back and look. Yeah, I recommend that we approve the updated M We got a motion from Stacy to approve to approve Emma curriculum enhancement. Second from Christie. Two in a row. Discussion from the public. Discussion from the board. Just if you could let us know the date of that. Thank you. Does that mean I can just put our little lanterns on both? No seat. I don't think anybody would Well, and you know what? Out of 701 some
041seats. I'm sure those All those in favor of the adoption of for a say I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Hearing none. Motion passes. Move to adjourn from Shane. Second from the public discussion from the board. All those in favor of adjournment say I. I. All those post same sign. Thank you all. That was a 36 minute meeting. like button and happy for us.