CorpusRecord 92754

Special Board Meeting

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Source
YouTube / Lockwood Pride YouTube
Date
2025-05-27
Location
Yellowstone County, MT
Material
Transcript
Extent
961 words · about 6 min
Collected
2026-06-11

Transcript

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001Okay. United States of America and 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. Any person who wishes to address the board must first be recognized by the board chair and make all comments, questions direct to the board chair. No discussion of person or individual students at this time. A limit of three minutes is placing each speaker. Persons who want more time may make arrangements to be placed on future agendas. The public is also reminded that they may provide input on motions being considered by the board at this meeting. Additionally, anyone wishing to make public comment virtually may submit to

002the following virtual public comment form. Any person all received messages that comply with the following criteria will be read at the meeting. Notification of personnel or individual students is permitted. Include your full name, address, and message. A woman of 500 words placed on each person. The same link may be used to provide input on agenda items. Public comment. I didn't see any earlier. Do I want? Nope. Okay. First, we have Quest to hire. We have two coaches. Um, high school assistant cheerleader and a volleyball coach. Is that high school or middle? High school. High school. Any motions on request hire? I make a motion to request to hire. Second from Lacy, second from Shane. Uh, discussion from the public. Discussion from the board. Are they safe in positions or what? Yes. Yes. Yes, because they're

003the sports. And is it a replacement of or a replacement? Both of them are replacements. Okay. Thank you. Any other discussion from board? All those in favor say I. I. All those opposing that motion passes. Next. Approve the LEA CBA 2527. This is the teacher contract that the negotiation committee has been working on for eight weeks now. So to approve the CBA for 2025 through 2027 motion from Stacy. I'll second from Christie. Question from the public. Discussion from the board. All those in favor of the approval of the CBA 25.7 contract say I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Hearing none. Motion passes and that duration of agreement wasn't attached at the end. Hang on. They need to have it sign. So we'll grab Josh one more time. Sign the photo. Uh next a uh

004discussion decision on administrative salary request. So, I guess to fill in the rest of the board, um we met the negotiation committee, myself, Shane, and Cy met with um Jamie Loing, Jenny, Nikki, and Rob and uh discussed um they have we discussed the potential of racis. I guess it would lead into the rest of administration. Um, so that's what we met in dismissed. Did you have an agreement on that? Well, agreement with ID well the board that we would like to look into for next year um making it automatic. the administration gets what the teachers get. Okay. Races. We also like to look at redoing May possible. Okay. But as of this year, nothing. Okay. And by this year, you mean that school year? Yes. Other uh things that we discussed with the matrix would

005be to put more money to the base. Um have the matrix be to seven or 10 years then match teachers and a $1,500 longevity per year after that. Um, so there were some really good ideas given to us to consider. Okay. So I guess the motion would be to pause uh raises for a this year 526 school year and then rework the matrix. over the next year is sorry for historical was that I mean like I'm just not sure what the is that what the request was only for four teachers or for admin or was it all admin? If we do we can't just show it for four people. No, I understand that. I just am trying to understand where this came out of because being back on the board I I think I I

006mean I thought we talked about it last year that we weren't doing anything this year which I know is what you're saying and just trying to understand why it's even on the table. I guess they approached the board and asked for permission to speak about their concerns about not having getting a raise this year. And each of them met with the board individually to express those concerns and that's what the result of those meetings is now is what they're they're saying. But anything that would have been decided would affect the entire admin team. It wouldn't just affect the board. Okay. But they're the four. Was that a public meeting just out? I don't remember seeing any cur. No, that was the Okay. So, you guys just met with the individuals that wanted to say, "Let

007can we even open this up?" Yeah. Gotcha. Yeah. And so based on the board's decision last fall, late late summer to not entertain those discussions this year, that's what we stuck with based on last year's. Yeah. Right. Yeah. You know, discussion. Absolutely. I'm glad that we we got a chance to meet because we came up with some really good ideas. Good. So motion table. You can table. until next year. I got a motion to table the raises for admin until next year. Got a second from Stacy. Discussion from the public. Can I say something? Yeah. Okay. So, I I appreciate you guys meeting with me. You know, the reason I did choose to meet this spring was because with the insurance package and losing the days, I made less this year than I did last

008year. I'm set to make even less next year with insurance rates going up bigger than what my 1 and a half% raise is. So, I really hope that you take that in consideration, maybe not it, come up with something this year just due to the fact that I am making less. And that is pretty tough pill to swallow. you're someone that wants to be very loyal to this school and this district and this community making less not feeling valued because of that. So that's what I got to say. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, I think that there's got to be a way that we're looking at numbers and data. I mean number doesn't lie, right? Numbers don't lie. But I think we're just looking at different as if we're looking at different sets of numbers

009or looking at what a loss is or what a gain is and not I feel like we're not on the same page with what it has been lost and what has been gained. That's my concern. Any other discussion from board? All those in favor of tableabling the admin raise discussion until next year say I. I. All those opposed same sign. Hearing none. Motion passes. That was the last one. Move to move to adjourn from Shane. Second. Second from Lacy. Discussion from the public. Second from the board. All those in favor say I. All those post same sign. number of Thank you all for coming in. It's always like he got in trouble.

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