001Look at the field. an asparagus. gas one year. He didn't realize a little bit, right? Well, by the end of the year, it looks like we end. Oh, yeah. This time actually Wow. Another big dish. by all the way down there. She's going to go You got your haircut. How's your face? Then she text me strong independent woman 19 years old. How am I going to get on the population? Go until you see him. If you have it signed in, there's a sign in sheet in the back, please. Done. I'm gonna refer you to It was hard. Yeah, I just wanted Yeah, Sorry. We're going for 100. I'm like, whoa. You want to join me for the pledge, please? I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for
002which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty for all. Thank you. Any person present who wishes to address the board or raise any questions about public school district matters or governing policy may do so under public participation. No discussion of personnel or individual students permitted at this time. A limit of three minutes placed on each speaker. Persons who want more time may make arrangements to be placed on a future agenda. The public is also reminded that they may provide input on all motions considered by the board at this meeting. Additionally, anyone wishing to make public comment may submit to the following virtual public comment form. All received messages that comply with the following criteria will be read at the meeting. No discussion of personnel or individual students submitted. Include your full name, address, and
003your message and limit of 500 words placed on each person. The same link may be used to provide input on action agenda items prior to the board taking action. An OTS biders wishing to record this meeting electronically may do so providing the recording is not disrupted for the orderly conduct of the meeting. Uh public comment I don't see any Don. Okay. Um YMCA principal award recipient middle school. Yeah. I'd like to uh introduce Whan back here. Whan uh was our recipient of the YMCA principal award. Uh for those of you unaware, uh each year, uh one fifth grader and one eighth grader from Lockwood is chosen to um represent our school at a at a lunchon that the YMCA puts on. I think that there was about 100 students from our region uh there that
004were represented. And so, um, Wu, uh, really invests in his academics and, uh, is a great role model for his peers and excels athletically as well. So, uh, we were really proud to, uh, celebrate Whan and we wanted him to come tonight to be able to, uh, present to you guys as well. Thank you. Congratulations. We're going to give you uh, Pam's going to give you a Dairy Queen card so you can take your dad to Dairy Queen. whatever it's on the go. All right. Uh, next we're going to go to correspondence. There is Pam asks is resigning because she needs to focus more on her personal which I completely get. Uh, my resignation block school board of trustes effective May 13, 2025. Sincerely to Pam Hass. Don't run away because I have things for
005you. Also, uh, next in my uh, board chair folder. This is to the Lockwood board and administration. Because it was addressed to the full board, I have to read it and because it has to be considered correspondence to the Lockwood School Board Administration. I am grateful for the opportunity to work for this outstanding school district. I am humbled at the way you celebrate your staff in all the ways. I really appreciate the love shown on administrative professionals day. Thank you. Angie Stokes, she is the high school secretary. So I'll pass that. Next we're going to go to the facilities report. military. Okay, next we're going to go to activities updates. Um, just want to give you some updates on uh I was talking with Kelly a little bit about budgets next year. I've been trying
006to get those in as uh and trying to get them as strict as possible. Last year we were really good about um coming in where we thought we were coming in this year with the numbers I gave you. Um, one thing I want I do is I send it out to biggest cost of transportation. So I send that out to everybody on every trip that we have. And so it comes in pretty hard numbers. Uh, one thing um, we've gone with Sarpie for mainly the inside routes of 100 miles or less. Um, and then Jefferson, we moved to Jeffersonite. And I'll tell you this, every time a coach comes back, the Jefferson bus is uh, like driving a Cadillac. It's it's just the professionalism of all of them and our coaches are completely asking for
007them all the time. And it's the safety issue as well too is they're like some four-year-old buses. Um and so I just feel a lot better giving them the business and realistically when you get outside the 100 mile 200 mile range it's apples to apples against. Uh so um working with them I really put a good budget together. Uh we are roughly up $47,000 from last year's which I thought it was going to come in a lot higher because we are on the road a lot more next year. Um this year we were very lucky to have a lot of home games. Every other year we're going to get that. Um but understand within that $47,000 where I'm roughly at 28,000 of that is in salaries because coach your salaries go up a percentage on
008every time you raise the base. Okay. So $28,000 is that. So we're roughly only up $28,000. And the reason how I got there was uh I contacted First Student. First Student for all middle school activities. They were about half of Sarpie and Jefferson. It's going to be a savings of $32,000. I think we can afford 30. I mean, take a $32,000 savings to put kids on a yellow bus to drive them to St. Francis to Medicine Crow and things like that would save me a skill a steel bank working with first they gave me that quote. So I thought that was a huge huge savings of $32,000. So roughly I'll have harder numbers for you. Still working on hotel rooms right now trying to get all those set. Uh but and also we're working on
009the uh the teacher salary. I mean the base pay I don't think that's there yet. So it could go up and down a little bit as well too. Wherever that sits. just understand that. So, I'll have strict numbers for you, but honestly, I was really impressed where this came out because I was a little worried about all the travel we did. So, I found some extra money by saving some travel stuff with first student. Any questions on the budgets or anything coming up with that? Okay. Um, baseball. I wanted to bring baseball up. It's been a topic. Um, I've been in the background working um and talking to certain people. Uh, I like where we're at. I met with Shields about a month ago. Uh sat down with them and uh they will basically pay
010for at least 80% of whatever our startup costs are. Um it could be more. Anything that they sell that our coaches or I we need as an athletic program and they sell it, they will give it to us for free. Okay. So, I had them um basically go through a list of what everybody else around us has ordered um and what they can get and what they can't get. And so, uh the next day athletic director come in here. Um he's going to have that sheet. Um he'll meet with you guys, get this on the agenda, whatever that is. Um but I definitely think it's manageable. Um, when you got a shields offering probably up to 20ome thousand dollars or more possibly, um, I would say run with it. Uh, the Legion uh, group that
011I've been talking to are open arms. They want us to be able to utilize their field. Uh, we'll probably have one of the smallest fields in, um, baseball, so there'll be a lot of home run balls, but that'll be kind of fun to watch in my opinion. Um, so our plan is to play and practice down on the leg little lake bills and uh working with them. Honestly, we've never set anything in stone, but it's going to really be an open arm policy. Uh, allow us to use their facilities, their equipment, their chalk. We may we may sit down and talk about, okay, it's $5,000 for us to use it here. Here's the keys and we manage that shelf out. Um, so I think that partnership is going to be very very easy to work
012with and I know the little league community is excited about baseball. Uh, talking to MHSA, this deadline is September, so we have some time for next season. Okay. Um, obviously they want to know before rather than later. Uh, just so they can kind of piece this whole thing together. I will tell you that our travel is going to be very minimal. probably the farthest trip right now would be one time the city and so everything else is going to be local but those all the teams that are involved in it right now so I think we're getting in at a good time probably the cheapest cheapest time that uh that we've we've seen in the last three years since baseball part of it so I'm super excited about it any questions on baseball yes is
013that 25 26 or 26 27 that' be 26 27 yes so you would not we would not play next Yeah, you would not play next. Well, no, you would play next year. What is it? 24th 25. Yes. So, we would play next year in 26. You would play if we get it in in September, we would be up and running and playing that next year. In the spring of In the spring of 26. Yes. So, um reason why they want us in sooner so we can start scheduling and look at that how we're going to break that. Okay. Any other questions on baseball? Um, I just want to give a recap. Obviously, you got my resignation. Um, be very proud of this school. When I was interviewed uh 5 years ago, um, I was asked
014to bring stuff in and uh, I took that wholeheartedly. And as you see this uh the activities recap, just want to let you know what our community has done for the city of Billings and Long. You posted one district volleyball tournament, two divisional volleyball tournaments, one divisional track meet, four district basketball tournaments, one state girls wrestling, one state um class C boys and girls basketball tournament, one state football championships championship, six six tip off tournaments, six Eastern A loser out games, four southern B loerout games, four state two state loser out games, four county track meets, nine college track meets, two class B track meets, Billings central. We opened up the school for them to run their football season during CO when they couldn't play at Rocky for the whole season. We have we have
015the Billings football games that are being four of those are being ran on our facilities that we opened our doors up to them. the Special Olympics track team meet, Big Sky State games volleyball, Big Sky State Games basketball, Big Sky playing football this year, Big Sky opening ceremonies. I think that is a positive thing that we bring to this community is that that's coming from Davis out to here. So, I'm super excited about that. State Lacrosse Championships, Battle of the Dan Team Tournament with over 50 teams, Volley Fest, Montana Wyoming All-Star Game, three years Class B Allstar football game, three years Atlanta Falcons football camp, four years Montana officials camp, roughly 850 extra events that we brought money into this community and that's what we promised our taxpayers and that's what we did. So, I
016appreciate you giving me the opportunity to be a part of that. Um, I'm going to miss every minute of it, but it's time to go. Um, just a lot. Um, I want to say thank you to number one Jeremy Arthur family. If it wasn't for them, we would have never done it and it was just their family helping us out with all those events. Steve Herbert, rest on this. Without them, none of this would ever happen. Ticket takers, especially my mother-in-law, Rhonda Mason, store paper workers, their time and commitment and their trustworthy to be here on time. School groups joining our concessions, as much as the hurdle of it was, to the ones that showed up, we sure appreciated them all. Clockwood coaches, I've never been around a better staff. coaches, you guys are very
017fortunate right now to be where you're at. Visit Billings, they wrote us a lot of money, a lot of checks to help us accommodate our hospitality room that we reached out to. They did a very good job of helping us out. Our booster club, their contributions and their hard work and their time and efforts. Bryce Wright, I wouldn't had Bryce in the middle school the last three years. I'd have probably been gone three years ago. So, thank you to Bryce Wright. Don for allowing me to van, for allowing me to um trust in me to be a part of this school system. Kelly Kinsey for getting me here. Our student athletes, mostly our kids are thanks to all of them. You've got great kids. They know how to work hard. And you got a lot.
018They've set the standard of what Lockwood's going to be. So, I think we're on a good track. Our pep band and our cheerleaders did an amazing job watching them grow as best cheerleaders and best pet band of the state terms and very very proud of them. You board members, thank you for being honest with me. Thank you for coming to me, the ones that have asking me the questions and and allowing me the freedom to try to build this the way I knew how. So, thank you for that. hardest. This girl right here, notice that hardest working lady I've ever met. The hours that she's put in is amazing. Juggling two type of jobs for the first three years, four years. She's done an amazing job. and her loyalty to this school district and her
019loyalty to me has been outstanding. Definitely be a lifong friend. That's what's the most important about this position. I've made a lot of friends and I'll remember him forever. And like what they say in Crow, there is no goodbye. There's see you later. Thank you guys for my time here. I appreciate all you I want to make sure we take some time and I mean you guys can see the the passion coming from Mike and that's what we talk the community these schools and these students. So thanks Mike being you guys can always come back too. I'll be here or just come back then. Uh thank you Mike for that. I appreciate it. I thank you for all your hard work developing every program that we have here, the the countless hours you did with
020fundraising and everything else. You make my job way easier. Thank you so much. Uh we're going to go right into the primary report. Well, jeez. Um let's see. What are we doing? We got through our concerts last week and so this week we're finishing testing. Um, our second graders and first graders are done. We just have our little kinders left to go and they're smart little group of kids. And I think Andrea, we have maybe the best four team from a kindergarten group in a long time. So I think um those teachers have done an amazing job. So that's exciting. Um today we're we just finished the lid for our early literacy classes for next year. I think we're going to have about 25 27 kids for early literacy program. So that'll get up and
021running in September. Um we're going to work on jump start this next week for summer school and uniting through that together if we can serve K through three students with that jump start money. We're going to run it six weeks this summer. So, three weeks in June, take a break for the fourth, and then three weeks in July. Um, and that have to be 120 hours. So, we're going to do that. Um, daycare is looking really good. There's no shortage of daycare. So, um, a [Music] bless field days are coming up. All the fun happens in the next few week. So, kids are excited. We're just trying to keep a lid on it every day. So, any questions for me? Uh, one question. If you have parents um who whose children don't need jump start
022or they don't need necessarily summertime intervention but want to keep their kids from the summer slide would if they contact you would you have resources for them to reach to or I know that there's a summer reading pamphlet but that's pretty expensive. Yeah. So is is there do you have a list of maybe other options for parents? We can get one together to look around at community things and see what there is available. Kids have to qualify for jump start the state. So we can't just take any kid who wants to come to be based on if they need intervention or not in reading and math which is a change with this session. So that's good. decided to include that. Yeah. Informal just resources that you know can share at school but and I know
023my grade levels do things they send things home and they give parents ideas and stuff. So we can just make that a little Okay, that'd be awesome. coming out of the legislative session that we just haven't just finished. So, we're not quite there. But, uh the new law will allow us there update to the law will allow us to serve one onle off level kids. Um so, that's exciting too. That will open a little bit more possibilities for us to engage kiddos who want to keep coming. Well, maybe wouldn't qualify. Okay, that's your sign. Anything else? Thank you. Intermediate. Good evening. Um, we are also in the middle of testing. We the intermediate kiddos do our district farm testing which is our as web testing and then we also are blessed to participate in the
024state testing which is called masked and so um our students are currently doing games then next week will be masked and then our fifth graders also have the opportunity and get to uh get to be told to do the science um testing as well. So there is a lot of testing for so in the fifth grade level. Um so we're trying to again keep school as long as we can we can keep um testing you know as a priority. Um on a different note today we had our bike and pedestrian safety um committee come and meet with the third graders. They are a group. So there's a gal who always rides her bike and wears her helmet and teaches the kids about the ABC air break and see. Oh yeah, it was a caution. Good
025job like that for 12 times. Anyway, um and and something that's so fun is they bring or buy the group buys 10 bikes and uh we get to give away bikes. Um maybe for kids who've never had a bike and so those third graders were um so so fun to watch. One kid, I mean, he got the award for doing the other, but his name was pulled out of the jar. And so again, something that has been a tradition here and we hope to keep that really that positive um community relationship with them. So we just want to give them a big shout out. Um um the I had a student also a fifth grade student that got recognized for the YMCA principal leadership lunchon award. Um he is not able to be here because
026he's just about ready to start a band concert but his name is uh Bernie Mlowski very uh phenomenal young man who goes the extra mile makes sure to like say good morning to every adult in the hallway checks on his beard. So I just wanted to make sure that I recognized him even though he is not here. Um, and then upcoming events. If you are ready for a good time and a full on uh Little Mermaid musical, come on to the pack. Mrs. Gat has a special treat for all of us. Um, the third grade performance is Go Fish. Uh, that is on Tuesday the 20th. And then the fourth and fifth grade are actually both doing The Little Mermaid. Uh, and the props are phenomenal. I think we're all in for a big treat.
027So, uh, that is Thursday the 22nd for fourth grade and for fifth grade it's May 23rd and the main performances are at 1. You will notice a little bit of a difference this year. Mrs. gets is trying to do two performances 10 p or 10 a.m. not 10:00 a.m. on the end because we had so many students try out for a speaking part and she could not um there were just so many like overwhelmingly so many and she wants to make sure that that passion lives within those students and so she's putting on double the performances so I just think that's recognition worthy because she's just done an outstanding job. So that is all I have unless you have questions. First up you have a little mermaid. Uh that's Tuesday the 20th and Thursday the
02822nd at 1. So third grade is go fish. Um kind of same theme, but it's May 20th, Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. And then the Little Mermaid is fourth grade at May uh Thursday May 22nd 10 and 1. And then fifth grade is Friday the 23rd at 10:00 and then 1. Is it true or it is? And so like the 10 a.m. I don't know why PM 10 a.m. is there'll be a different group of main speakers, the main um characters. Exactly. Then the 1 pm will be a new crew or I don't know cast. Thank you. or anything. That's all I have to say. Okay. Any questions? I would like to point out to the public that the organization that does that by giveaway is the Lockwood Pedestrian and Safety Sidewalk Board and it's a
029Yellowstone County People picked by the commissioners and they are currently putting out for some new board members and we're the organization that's building all the sidewalks in for the safety of our kids. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for that. Uh, next, no school. All right, so you saw the people coming in tonight. We do have a band concert tonight. We're excited to uh have our kids have the opportunity to to present. Um, we we were fortunate enough to get our testing done in the middle school, mass testing, games, web testing, and our eighth grade science exam done last week. And so we're we're glad to be on the back end of that. Um, some other things that have been going on that are really cool. Um, some of our gifts and talented students, uh, they,
030uh, earned first place in the Montana Economics Challenge. So, they earned some some cash for for participating in that first and second place actually from the middle school. Um, our uh, middle school success students did some service projects throughout the uh, the greater Billings area. uh clean up Fulsson Park, they went to the apprenticeship house, they went to the Salvation Army, they did the clean up or dances. Just really um you know providing that opportunity for our kids to serve, which is really cool to see and they really enjoy. Um we had for National Library Week, we had activities going on in our library. Our library did a great job of just um providing opportunities for our kids. Gave away books. um had that give a shout out to Corey and all the people who
031did uh uh all the work providing a a career fair for our students to be able to attend last week which was really cool that have uh people in and get those those brains turning for our kids on on what opportunities they might want to pursue when they're done with school here in Lockwood. Um we also have a number of our eighth graders going uh to Washington DC this Sunday. they're leaving and so they'll head out there part of the DC trip. Michelle Dawson and Bryce Wright are taking the kids out there for that and they'll they'll hit DC and I think actually Philadelphia also this year. Um let's see what else do I have on here. Um our end of the year awards assembly uh will be at May 31st at 9:30 a.m. in
032the ELPAC and we'll have our eighth grade barbecue this fall like we've done previous years to celebrate all our students. May 30th, right? Yeah, May 30th. I apologize. I'll definitely do it on Friday. Yeah. Any questions from Thank you. Thank I would like to back up to the intermediate report. Can we make sure that we get a med? Oh, okay. They took care of it. But since you went back to me, I want to share a number with you. that that's so our librarians meaged Jenny and I um so they completed their book fair this last week and I their numbers their sales numbers were astounding and it's so it's really exciting to have that many more books go out into our homes and it's just it's just so fun to see. So Jenny I'll
033share that number with you. $16,35629. I do have a question though. Um, I know in the past board members I um help volunteer for the cookout like your day's lunch or whatever. Are you still doing that? have current board members or people that were leaving the board. We'd love to have you guys there to be able to serve out that day. That would be great. 30th. Um, so the awards assembly starts at 9:30. I'm guessing it'll be 10:30, 11 somewhere in there. 11 probably. Yeah. Yeah. I've done it for the last I think three years now and it's been I mean it's nice to watch serve them and listen to conversation. I did it two years ago and I like it just made it last year. All right. Open invitation then. Anything else for the
034intermediate report or the middle school report? [Music] So I'm going to go on to the high school report now so we can very sure. Um, I just have three things. Um, we always have a lot, but I'm really focusing on three. Uh, one I want to point out, brand new, um, our BPA has created a calendar for next year. And, um, this is just a little template. I'm having to leave it for you guys to look around. They'll be for sale, but it's it really it matches our approved calendar. And then they've included some of their the photo video course uh, that we teach here. Um, so this is being offered through BPA and I'm really proud one the initiative that it took to start this project and then how complicated it got and the
035kids, you know, uh, went through it with the PTA sponsor, but it was no small undertaking, right, Emily? So, I'm really proud of that and proud of their efforts and I hope you'll support that in all my different um the next uh you know we we took a little test called the AP and it is our state measure for high school. Um we knew Mr. you and I being in that room uh depending on not taking the test. We were pretty relaxed on that part, right? Um but we could see change in the past year that we've given that um test. We saw kids we didn't see a kid put their head down during the test. We didn't see any behavior issues that we had to address during that test. Um and so we had
036hope that we're heading in the right direction. Um our scores, an AP score, I was talking to um Mr. did more at one point. Moving an ACT average is very very very difficult and you don't move it by very many points. You move it by partial points. Um and we were hopeful that we are going in the right direction. Um so the first time that we uh as a school took the ACT we had a average composite score of 17.8 the next year 17.4. So basically the same score I mean 4.8 and then last year was 17.7. Our juniors this year, hello front row. Our juniors this year um have an average of 19.2. Was it funny? Really proud. Really proud of our students. Super proud of them. Um super proud of our teachers. Uh
037you know, you can't have one without the other. I'm just really really proud and I hope that that shows us on the right trajectory. Um, you know, you got a lot to model for those. It's coming up, right? All right. So, that's all I had for you. Obviously, you're going to talk about more about the career career upon and upcoming art walk, but those aren't mine to talk about. Um, I do have one more sitting right next to me if I might. Um, uh, Mr. I think Lindsay Stewart, if you would stand. This is uh one of our new hires uh for your approval tonight for English department. Really excited the team that she's joining and um I just think she's just the right person to bring in. Obviously, she's got the right thing. She's
038wearing the right thing right now. That big smile. So, just want to introduce you guys to Lindsay Stewart. Two things, ma'am. You can call me what you want to call me. Graduation. What time? And where do you meet the board? Yep. Um 1:00 will be start time. Uh so we can meet out. Go ahead. What time do you meet us here? I would like you here. Um I'm going to say 12:30. It was final. It's at 12:45. We'd like you seated and ready to go. Um that is the 28th. That is the 25th. delay on it by 25th 1 p.m. You will be late if you show up on the 20th and I will be in trouble. You will. So 25th May at 12:30. Yes, please. We'll have a seat for each one of you
039and uh very excited on that day. Uniform, please shower. Okay. Uh second thing is how much are the calendars? I'm not sure they cost. Um I wish I had thought to think about that. I was just so excited about the whole project. We'll get that to you. They had wanted to start selling some at um the art walk and last week's uh um uh school card. Was that just last week? Yes. Okay. Wow. Times fly. Uh but we just got our proof back. So that was delayed. I I have no doubt he'll sell, but I we can advertise the amount when we get that. BPA stands for Business Professionals of America. How much? 105. That's what I was thinking, too. I just didn't want to commit to it. So, I'm glad I can send the
040number. There we go. Donation. No. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Question for um Mr. Kim. Maybe he might know. Do you know when we started our um stars in the preschool? When did that all start? January 12th. That would be I think Jamie was the first teacher. Um was on here. So yeah 12 to 13. Yeah, I do think maybe maybe 50. Well, I'm thinking it was probably closer to 12. So, would it be their class or the class? I mean, I would have to get a couple of curious I guess for for stuff like I mean. Yeah. Okay. Because I think you were in it, right? I don't remember. It's almost summertime. No, I just thought the correlation they just huge those early childhood programs are critical. I have a question. Yes. These
041guys who chooses the day for the school carnival and how far in advance is that chosen? Student, you're fine. Student council selected those dates and we look at what else is being offered. April's pretty tight. Um, you know, May's just impossible. Um, March, you know, we're just working around not just the day calendar, but our fourth and everything like that. And I am aware that that was on the same day that baseballs. Uh, but we really ran out of there. It was set well ahead of time. Um, it didn't make it on, it's not part of our calendar. It's just an event. Um, we didn't, you know, get it. It was there last spring. We picked it. So, so it's quite a ways into Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Maybe maybe our little league. Well, take a
042look. We're going to always have conflicts. That's the that building community, you know. Um, and I It was fantastic. I came got sunburned. I didn't see too many people lining up in the dunk tank and Kelly said that if I got 10 kids together, we would do it. But didn't have any luck. But I mean there were there were do again alone. Yeah, it was so much fun. But I know so many kids were at the the league complex too. So to maybe have two separate events if ever possible would be nice. But I know they're working with weather too. We are really working with weather. We'd be unfortunate but um you know car that day last spring for this spring. Okay. Thank you. student council. We actually our election closed today. So, we have
043a whole new set of officers that we'll be investing in tomorrow, which is super exciting. We also have um been doing a lot of work with uh updating and adding to our personal competition. Um, part of those changes was the position that Harrison was going to be filling is brand new. We got rid of our student body treasurer since they essentially served no purpose. Um, and they did nothing. Um, and so we decided to get rid of that position and um, create this new one which Harrison will be serving as our next year's student body representative. And so his job will essentially to be his job is gonna be like doing this part. So he'll come to all the board meetings and give the reports and then we'll put back student council. Um and then
044our student body president for next year is going to be Madison Reinhardt. Vice president is Ray Staffen and secretary is uh Isabelle Leard. And then um we have had an unprecedented amount of candidates this year. We had I think it was 21 candidates ran for different student um both student body and class representative roles which is huge compared to last year where all of us ran unopposed. So that's also really exciting and um like seeing the programs grow as a whole is really cool. Um we are also putting on well helping plan and put on um senior fund which is going to be May 21st and we are still uh needing some help from adults for shops to help like cook and make the dinner for all seniors if anybody is available and wants to
045come help. I believe that add seven. Yeah, 79. Thank you. Um, and then yeah, my my job almost over and so I'm just really excited and super super proud of all of the underassman who are coming up. What are you cooking and where? Um, Lion's Layer hot dogs and hamburgers, right? Yeah. It's that new little canopy picnic area over by that shelter tomorrow. And with that too, we're also doing kids with me in Dubai. It's the little notes where you can write a note to a senior and pay $3 and give them a note with a little bit of app. In the past, Don, hasn't the board bought one for everybody? Bought one for everybody. Can we do that again? Yes, thank you. Somebody asked me about that. Thanks. Anything else, Emily? I think that's
046it. um the carnival. Oh yeah. In we like to we like to try and plan it for the last Saturday of April, but again then we take a look at the um what's going on. Then typically it's the last weekend in April and then we kind of look around see how it would work best around that. I have an idea. Mr. I um want to personally thank Carrie for the work that she does with the student council. I you you've done a lot in the past with these kids and and I appreciate it. I don't know if she's been recognized but she has been nominated for advisor of the year for the state. Congratulations. Thanks. And then we did host a blood drive and it was pretty and we're going to you're going to see
047a lot of purple and yellow ropes because those are the kids that either donated or participated in three or more projects and we got think between 15 and 20. Excellent. With that, we move on to if there's any questions from the board of comments report blow up. I can't believe our attendment is up again this month. Not a bunch, but we're up. So, that trend has changed. Like I said, we would start climbing back up again. So, we're at 1576. Our attendance rate for the district is 92.54%. So we're back above 90% in all of our buildings. So I think that is something to be very proud of at this late in the year to be above 90% attendance in all of our buildings. Our highest percentage of attendance is in the primary Mrs. Fox's
048building. They're at about 94% attendance. So we've held on to that pretty well through the year. Um we have been working through the preliminary budgeting. I want to say thank you to Deanna Nielsen and Kelly Kinsey because I can tell you that we have spent hours sitting in Deian's office and I'm allowing her to eat lunch because we have to try to figure out where we're at. Um, it has been kind of a different year in school finance and budgeting and we're still waiting to find out the final outcomes, but everything has been signed and we'll probably know, I would hope by the end of June, July 1, what the new funding looks like, but we kind of have an idea of what it is. the district has applied for and the application has been
049accepted by the office of public construction for the new funding. So, we are done with everything we need to do and we qualified for the highest level of funding yet. So, we're there. It's just waiting to find out what that looks like. Um, I want to say a thank you to Larara Larson for painting. She's one of our seniors. She painted our first mural in the mural contest has been going on for years. Lockwood has its first wall mural and I don't know where it is located. Do you know it was on brand on the board? I saw it today. Yeah. Or 16. No, it between 17th and 24th. It's like you go past base camp, few more blocks. Yeah. On the south side of the road. Our music program achieved um two perfect scores
050at the state music festival. 13 superior ratings and five excellent ratings. Amazing job by them. Congratulations also to our JOTC program for a first place national title in archery competition. They came back with their first competition by winning the national title. I'm sure now they will be everybody's target, but was a great way to start competition national title. Um, Lockwood School is featured in the Montana Innovation Guide. They reached out and asked what our district was doing that was innovative and what practices we could support to or what practices we are involved in to support innovative education through our advanced opportunity grant. We have a two-page spread there where we are featured. And I'm not going to go if you go down, it's on page 14 and 15 in this guide. Um, it was kind
051of neat to be asked what we're doing and to be able to just talk for 10 minutes on everything was good for the school. Uh, our high school was recently recognized by superintendent of public instruction Headlin as a tobacco preschool of excellence by the office of public instruction. We've received grant money from them several times now. I want to say thank you to Courtney Hos, a local resident here who also works for OPI and she has been she'll call and say hey I have some grant money and it has provided us the grants that the money that we need for projects that don't need a bunch but we need to get them off the ground and Courtney has provided us I think twice this year with funding for different programs and we also did get
052funding for a tobacco preschool. So Mrs. school has that. There was a really nice frame certificate that came with that. So, uh, also the property the proposed property tax relief that came through with our new legislation. I included that in here. Again, I'm not going to read that, but it is a for average home savings is around 29.3% off your property tax. So, that was a nice bump. So, I'm hoping that lasts for a little while so people can get a little bit of relief with that. um our RFP for bids for our school food service program. This year we had three companies that showed up to bid. One from Missouri, one from New Mexico, and one locally here in Billings. Um they are all three calling, asking questions, and preparing our responses. They're due
053on June 6th. On June 9th, we will meet here in the community room and open those RFPs. It'll be Mr. Kinsey, Deian, myself, and I'll ask the board members to be present. We will review those and select the person we would like to move forward with based on the responses to that RFP. Is that correct? Is that open to the public? Yeah, it is a public meeting. Yeah. Uh we have had our first meeting yesterday with the Jet Foundation. The Jet Foundation is part of a a grant we got through the Office of Public Instruction for mental health supports. They uh will have a two-year partnership with us. Yesterday was our first day meeting with their their not corporate but there are people that go out and set up programming in the schools. I have
054to say that I thought it was it was a lot crammed into a day but we also got a lot out of it. They will now be working with us over the next two years to develop a strategic plan for mental health supports at local school. Um, the Jed Foundation was started by a family who lost their son to suicide while he was in college. And when they went to the college to ask them what they had done to help prevent this, they said, "Well, what did you expect us to do?" And so, they did not like that response. And now their foundation does nothing but go out and help public school systems. And she was flying in. One of the ladies blew from somewhere way out in the bush in Alaska yesterday. Blew every
055day before flew and came to Billings and is here. Then they departed, went to three different spots after that. But it was a very informative day. It's good to see our staff come together and say, "Okay, what do we what do we have?" And that's as far as we got yesterday is what do we have? And then we'll start filling the gaps in that on this wheel of of progress that we show. That'll be a two-year process. Then we'll have a district committee that will meet regularly with them via Zoom to continue working with us and then they'll do one or two more. So, it was um it was pretty enlightening to have somebody come in and start to help with that because there's just not enough of us to do outreach for that here
056now. All right. And also with that, we will be working with a organization called Branching Minds. And this is these are the two big initiatives we'll be working off for the next two years. It's the only two things we're going to introduce right now that are major initiatives where we have people coming in to help us organize. But we're going to be developing our MTSS program which is our intervention programs and we're going to work K5 does an amazing job of intervention because it's been in place for so long. Mr. Goyad has introduced intervention programming through a actual in-person teacher in the middle school. Mrs. P's looking at how we can bring that into the high school. The branching minds will come in and help us build an MTSS program which builds those tiers of
057intervention and we'll work with everybody here to put our data all together in one place. Andrea has been doing that manually for quite a while now. We want this to be someplace where we can upload it and it builds the charts and graphs. So Andrea's time isn't every end of every testing cycle, she's in there building our charts to see where we're at. It'll actually pull that for us. So that will work in conjunction with the Jed Foundation. So we'll be working on tier tiers of intervention for behavior as well as academics. Behavior of course is really related to mental health etc. So, we're going to try to tie all those together while we have these organizations working with us. There's a recap of the 69th legislative session. Um, that is everything that has come
058through and there's a review of the major bills. And we had letters of resignation this month from Julie Dumday, Mike Ericson, Melissa Kdman, Kelly McCann, Matta Burke, and Isabelle Reritz. So, and I believe most of those positions have been filled or we're interviewing to fill them. We have secured our special education teacher for the high school life skills. We're interviewing two teachers tomorrow for programming in the intermediate and middle school. So we are moving ahead. We have approximately seven in the district. We have the ad has been ad has accepted and will be hired tonight and that is Jake Lynch from 34s comes in with experience as an administrator and as an ad and we had great candidates all the way around including so it really it was a good bill to choose from. I've
059been asking him this time. So, yeah, he has he will be hired tonight. This will be uh where is the trophy for the ROC going that they have occasionally down the hallway um of our band and choir hallway right across from the uh they will have a whole section. They they seem to do a lot. So, we anticipate that TR is filling up so they know what's actually. That was a that was a loaded question because it's going to caveat into my next statement. Fabulous. Uh, evidently there was an uproar on Facebook about the lack of recognition to our our JOTC program because we were not putting them on the MSHA wall. Uh, and they were less than uplifting. Let's call it that. And well, that was quite a gotcha in the middle of the
060meeting. Yeah, but I I can interrupt it if you want. No. Uh, I knew what was happening anyways. I tried to put it out public, but some people just want to not be happy. But I just want to put it out that the JOTC does have a portion of the trophy case, and all their awards and everything will be going to there. They're not being overlooked. They're not being subside, anything like that. I just wanted to put that out there in public meeting. I think a lot of those comments were pretty misinformed. Yes. Superintendent's reports done. Any questions for Don. All right. Schoolboard goals. We have the work session uh August 2025 at 300 p.m. We're going to go over our goals. Um the spreadsheet building visits. Everybody has completed the building visits. Correct. Deian.
061Okay. Committee updates. Safe committee. Um, well, uh, I had missed the last one because I was getting my real ID so I can go on a plane in July to the NASRO conference with I believe Gwen and Sam and so we are going to that conference July 6 to 11 in Texas. But I'll have more information. Excellent. Budget committee. Um we are waiting to see where the stars act and everything lands and then we'll be meeting. So as soon as you find out that I'll put it out there and see if we get a meeting set up. Uh careerfare committee. It says Corey Josh and Pam. I want to give Corey all of the credit for this. Exactly. Corey knocked it out of the park. I went and visited it and evidently we had students
062showing up with resumes to employers and trying to get jobs. So yeah, we had 24 companies come um which is pretty decent for our first one. Um we had huge differences between companies because we wanted to make sure that it covered a large spectrum. We got uh two uh beauty schools. We had western native boys. We had farm come out. We had the electrical union. We had the pipe fitters union. Um Bureau of Reclamation. Bureau of Reclamation. We had Yeah, we had a good turnout. We have a list for next year. Um we had a whole bunch of them ask if we're going to do it again or do it twice a year. We're not doing it twice. Cory Corey apparently shut that one down, but we will do it next year. And we have
063a list. So hopefully we'll have even more next year. I don't even need to vote for Cory will bail. That's right. Thank you, Cory, for putting that all together. There was a lot of work, but I saw the fruits of it with everybody. I was excited. Uh, negotiations committee. Looks like you guys have a May 19th at 4:30 p.m. schedule. We're going to go to curriculum next. Stacy, uh, I met with Andrea recently and we talked about a number of fantastic things and she's here. Um, I'll let her You're you're speaking, right? Oh, sure. Oh, I thought that you Oh, I can give you some type of an update, but um so I'm going to defer to Andrea because she's far more articulate than I am. But we we just talked about uh there was
064so many exciting things that she has been working on with when and the awesome progress in primary, intermediate, middle school, just you know, great numbers and um yeah, it was a really exciting year. I mean next year's flipping lots of exciting things are on its always. So that's the best part about being around here. Um we've been working on getting ready for uh getting plus placement and the handbook um implementing those policies and procedures. I have a meeting tomorrow with the plus team and then J teachers um and then working with the K5 principles on that. uh they do amazing things for all kids every day. So that's been just it's just exciting and rewarding to watch. Um Jenny mentioned earlier our kindergarten stories are probably some of the best we've ever seen here and
065that's not just in literacy that that's enumerating which is incredible. So, uh, and then like in terms of our incoming third graders who are currently second graders, uh, we noticed their scores were a little bit lower than we'd like and, you know, flexibility and adaptability. We're going to do a coronics intervention for the third grade next year and Nik's team has been ready and excited to go on that. So, it's just really cool to see us having that adaptability to look at what does every kid on our campus need and be able to try to respond to that. Um, middle school is knocking out the park. They've got a solid team right now. They're I I like feel like I never go over there because they're kind of just in a continuity phase which is
066exciting. Lots of great teachers there. They've been working a lot on culture. Um, so we've been talking a little bit about that. Um, in terms of our kind of just bouncing ideas and things like that. And then high school the in the growing phase which is awesome. Um, it's interesting, you know, uh, Jamie kind of alluded it to it earlier, but you know, the kids who first had really strong orthoponics instruction in kindergarten, like science and reading based instruction, what do we know now, are currently seventh graders. So, it's really interesting when we make a change in kindergarten how long it takes for those kids to metriculate to our high school and how much we have to be patient and stay the course to see those really big moments. Um, and that can be really
067hard to do, but I just say that to assure you that we're getting there. Um, and I can talk anecdotally to our middle school team and they can say, "We see the fruits of those language." Like, "We see stronger core instruction. We see phonics instruction. We see uh stronger knowledge base, stronger vocabulary with our kiddos who are coming through now. It takes a long time for them to get high school. So, it's exciting, but it does require patience." um high school ACT scores. Very exciting. We also, if you're a parent of a high school kiddo, you saw we made available in campus um academic planning tools. So, you can work with your kiddo to look at how they plan their course in to meet graduation requirements um across their four years here at Lachland. We
068met with all the grade level classes in the last week. And then the other thing kudos to when the high school team um we've met with teams all year content area team and there have been so many who have been willing to say uh what would be interesting to our kids. So like in uh science in the future kids are required to get two science credits in Lockwood High School. they will be able to choose earth and state science or environmental science and then forensics or biology. So again, just opening those options so kids have more things that they might be more interested in today. Um, our social studies department also and Nicole helped with this. Um, goal Kevin here um to develop some new course offerings for sophomores to take. So, they'll have five
069new options because they will have they might have a credit that's not for them that they have to get social studies. So, the more options, anyways we can give kids, um hopefully that results in more engagement and like kudos to the high school team for being willing to take that on and work on that. That's exciting. So, that was a lot, but there's always a lot going on in our building and people are doing a lot of great and hard work. So, I'm appreciative of you for this, too. Yeah. Thank you, Andrea, and all of you. Just awesome stuff going on. Um, I think the community doesn't know a small fraction of it, all of the the great things that are going on inside the building. So, so well done. Exciting thing. She did she
070did leave her name off. you know, the work that we've done has been done and I won't pull her down on a Tuesday. But, you know, I think that we probably need more of Andrea's time in the other building right now because we're early and I just I'm appreciative that she know that she is, but she left her day off. Thank you, Andrea. Anything else? Uh, no. Then we move to community engagement. Um, so we did meet. We didn't have much attendance. Um, but that's the thing. I mean, I think even just all the people here today are starting to hear about all the awesome things Black was doing. And I that's the point of this committee. So really trying to get it off the ground and get running. We do have two big focuses
071um through the summer um to hopefully try to get those in place for next year. there's kind of the groundwork for the community engagement committee so that we can grow and grows from there. Um, but the big thing coming up this summer is the car show and uh we're going to get some really good websites and fire Josh is working on um he's got some helpers working on that and looking forward to that end of August August 31st. August 31st. So keep that in mind if you or someone you know has some cool cars or tractors or it's open to cars, trucks, tractors, semis, and motorcycles. We did not allow boats because well the housing cars racing and uh yeah and I think it's just going to be a good opportunity for the community to
072get um attend. So if you have any other ideas um please join the committee and share. We can have booths there or whatever to try to be a great place for EPA to put out some of those calendars and stuff. Please have them come. We can set up some tables. If you have a organization that wants to do some fundraising, we'll have the people. We just need cool things there. So, and it's going to be free to attend and it is free to put a card in. We're not This is literally just bringing the community together. It's after the first week and a half of schoolish. So, please stay tuned for our next meeting day. We need to get together and figure out how we're going to meet during the summer. Um, we've been meeting
073by monthly. So, that kind of leaves us with a kind of a weird time in the summer. So, we might adjust that slightly, but usually the first Tuesday of the month. Excellent. And I'd like to throw out that the 406 art walk will be tomorrow from 5 to 900 pm or 5:00 p p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Uh we have central and hard outside schools. We did have a couple of schools that dropped out, but those three are coming. It's going to be up on the track upstairs. Um and pieces, some of the pieces are for sale. Um, I've already put dibs on a few things. I know Mr. D's put dibs on a few things. Shane has threatened to run my prices up, but and the the proceeds from those they uh the door charge
074and proceeds are agreeing to donate food. And they will be having a bake sale and Italian sodas. Everything goes to Q's fundraiser. And it sounds like some of the kids are donating the proceeds of the orange sale to the Q also. I guess tomorrow 5 to 9. 5 to 9. 5:00 p.m. tonight. So come one, come all. That'll be the first one. Our teacher is excited. She wants to do it next year and she wants to start planning for it. Yeah. Soon as school gets out and back in. Miss She is the art teacher but it's not with the art program. It's with the board that she's going on to she's splitting the money between students and um like right next we're going to go to the first action item is going to be the
075consent agenda. We have two consent agendas today. This is going to take care of all business before the restructuring of the board. Uh any issue with the consent agenda as presented? Is there any issue with the consent agenda as presented? Hearing no issue with the consent as apprent as presented. It is adopted. Next one we're going to approve the superintendent's contract. To approve the superintendent contract. I got a first from Shane and a second from Corey to approve the superintendent's contract discussion from the public. Discussion from George. All those in favor of the approval of superintendent contract say I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Hearing none. Motion passes. Next, reorganation reorganization of the board. I'd like to take this time to order things Well, at least he knows where it is. I thought I
076turned on my hand. If anybody I'd like, I can read my contract. It's eight pages long. It's a lot of legal stuff in a few minutes. I'm really not that guy. I have a question. My name is Lana Herd. Um um there's a few of us here for to requesting the close session for the denial application. Yeah, that is the second consent agenda. There's a whole another consent. I didn't. Yeah, we have to do an old board to finish up and then we do more than twice then we cons. Okay. I just couldn't tell if we were like almost ending. No, we have a whole another agenda after two. Okay. Thank you. We're going to agenda item 10. I need to get Oh, yeah. You have Yeah, there's going to be a time here when
077they have to swear in the new board. You're Thank you, Mr. Yeah. We're going to do Pam first. Uh Pam has been on the board for 11 years. That is 3 6 9 12 four cycles almost four election cycles. So that is a huge thing. She brought us through the high school getting that done. She's instrumental in a lot of change. She has helped me enormously as I've grown into my position on the board. She was there to tell me when I did things wrongly. Tell you how to do them right. Yeah. But I'd like to recognize Pam. Uh even though she's stepping down to take care of herself and her businesses, you will always have a place to walk with school. So that's I just want to tell this group of people and whoever's
078watching via the uh internet that this has been one of the most amazing opportunities of my life to serve this school and this community. I have learned so very much and come to appreciate the quality of the administrators and teachers at Lockwood School. They have a really good reputation throughout our community and they deserve it. They're just an amazing group of people and very talented professionals who first and foremost put our kids first and and that's what really has mattered to me. And I can't tell you enough about how pleased I am to have the board that you have working for you right now that you're working for right now. um very talented, engaged, active people, probably one of the best group of people that's ever served on a a local school board in in
079my tenure. So, I appreciate each and every one of you and thanks for how really great and professional and and involved that you are. And I would like to say that the first thing Pam told me when I met with her after being elected to this position was don't screw up the Golden Gavl. Next, uh we're going to have uh Jamie Patrick. She was only here for three years, but she was instrumental in a lot of the things she had last a lot of the questions, especially about the budget items. She always kept us on her toes and we thank you for your dedication for these three years and we hope to see you again. I'll just say a little bit. Um I just want to thank Blackwood and the community for this opportunity 16
080years. Um it has been I serve for 11 years. Um and I thank Pam for that. Um being sitting behind here for the last three years, I've learned a lot. I um and appreciate what these guys do and what they go through. Um, so I just want to thank the local community and the board and the school district for allowing me to have this opportunity. Thank you. Uh, next we're going to reorganize the board. Uh, Josh Simmore and Stacy L were elected by acclamation to a three-year term on the board and will be sworn in as trustees. Lacy Roland is elected by acclamation to a two-year term on the board and will be sworn in as trustees. Christy Hartley was appointed by the board of trustees for a one-year term and will be sworn in
081as a trustee. I do swear I do solemnly swear that I support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. I support, defend, and protect Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Montana. and the Constitution of the State of Montana. That I will discharge my duty of office with And I will discourage my duty of office with I have to correct that. I said lace and I apologize. Uh next we will have to reorganize the board. We have to have a chaired and vice chair for the upcoming year. I will attend motions for vice chair. I move that I would like to put forward Stacy Leon as vice chair. Second. So I got a first from Josh, a second from Shane. Discussion from the public. Discussion from the board.
082All those in favor of Stacy being vice chair for the next year say I. I. All those vote same sign. Hearing none. Motion passes. Congratulations Stacey. Next we need a board chair. I would like to motion Josh get it more as chair. Second. We got a first from Lacy, a second from Stacy. Discussion from the public. Discussion from the board. All those in favor say I. I. All those oppos same sign. Hearing none. Motion passes. Okay. Now we have to reinstall the uh I recommend the board appoint as the clerk of board. A motion to grab on Deian Nelson from the board. First from Lacy, second from Jackie, discussion from the public, discussion from the board. All those in favor say I. Josh, sorry, just really quick. Will you just kind of give a what
083that means? Okay. Um, the we have to reinstate I mean last meeting we instate her as the clerk of the board. this meeting we have to do it as well. The clerk of the district is in charge of uh preparing annual trustees reports. She handles the uh filing of the board agendas past and present. She is also uh the clerk of the district. I'll provide the county treasurer with a minimum of 30 hours notice of advance for cash demand. She does payroll claims, electronic transfers. She covers all of our fiduciary responsibilities. That's And what else do you do? Pretty much it. She has to do reporting for service program, which is a new thing to do. So, she learned that on Friday. She's um she's amazing. Basically, she tells Don and I what to do.
084Comes down to it. All those uh in favor of Ian becoming to the board, please say I. I all those same sign motion pass. Uh I recommend that the board designate Don Chrisman and Deian Nielson to serve at the district's authorized representatives at the board's discretion. What that means is they can spend Don has authority spend up to $80,000 before asking for board approval on things. That could be anything from ordering curriculum to paying the trash bill, having outside contractors come and things like that. Same with Dean. She is our check and balance, too. If something isn't quite going right, she has full authority to come to me directly. No, it's not doing what he's supposed to be doing. I motion that we designate Wilson's authoriz from Lacy, a second from Cory. Discussion from the
085public, discussion from the board. All those in favor of Dr. Chris Neil Neielson to serve as directors authorized representatives for direct discretion say I. I. All those opposed same sign. Hearing none motion passes. Next we have a second consent agenda. Second agenda agenda covers the request to hire approve and deny open enrollment students. Do we have people here to petition for their open enrollment? At this time, the board chair has designated that the public's right to know does not outweigh the child privacy and will blow session one at a time. So at this time um we will I would like to do so. So at this time everybody else has to exit except for administration and Are we on hold? You want to break it out? Okay. We're going to second consent agenda. We're going
086to break to two parts. One, G3, we're going to do request to hire. And then G4 approved deny because we have one approval with one, two, three, four, uh, denial. Denial. Thank you. So, can I have a motion for G3 request to hire? I'll second. First from Shane, second from Corey on G3 request to hire as presented. I'm assuming discussion from the public, discussion from board. All those in favor say I. I. All those post same sign hearing none. Motion passes. G4. Uh we are going to approve deny open enrollment student cases except for student 102 which we are going to approve. I have a motion to approve student 102. I'll second from Jackie, second from Corey. I got first Jackie, second Cory to approve the denial open enrollment with a caveat of student 102
087will be approved. Discussion from the public. Discussion from the board. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Hearing none. Motion passes. Okay. Appointment of Courtney Bryant as interim activities on custodian. Courtney. First Jackie. Second from Shane. First Jackie. Second of Shane. Appointment according Brian as intern activities fund custodian in public discussion from the board. Is this just interim structuring left and we want someone to be in charge of that? We're trying to see interim if that's something that she can sort of take over. So okay. So is she working with Melissa? Yeah. Has been the whole year. Okay. Gotcha. And the caveat is if she has to tell Bonnie there is still that twoman rule. She just grabs all the other people in the office. Perfect. Okay. All those in
088favor say I. I. All those same time sign. Hearing none. Motion passes. I approve bus routes. This is interesting because there's not 90 days left in the year. So your approval is all that they're going to require at the county. the bus route's already been changed and um it was submitted to the county and then she sent me the county s office saying there's not 90 days left. So just get board approval for the rest of this year. This is just before the end of this year. Yeah, we'll go now until the end. First from Shane, second from Jackie and this only has to do with rep. Yeah. Dispatch from public discussion from the board. Was the change adding stops, removing stops? Added one to that bus route. And is that adding a across the
089street route or is it on the same side? And it's on the same side. Okay. Just extended them out with Yeah. Thank you. All those in favor say I. All those post sign motion passes. Uh next J. I recommend board approved handbook present as special ed K5 handbook, par professional handbook, employee handbook, middle school handbook, and high school handbook. I move that we handbooks. All once. All I've got from Cory. I saw no massive changes. I'll second it. Second from Shane to approve all handbooks as presented. Discussion from public. Discussion from the board. So the only thing that I wanted to just ask um since it was a little bit different uh I I think last year from last time we saw the the the changes. So is there any major changes like that you
090could point out that we need to be aware of just kind of a synopsis? I mean, I look at them, but I know in the in the years past, right, we did the cell phones, so that was a big topic of conversation. I'm just wondering if there's anything that you would want to point out that the board should be aware of in in the avenue of change. I guess maybe the high school, but it's already been approved. We're still a little away from standards based grading traditional, but that was approved in March, I believe. So, that's really our only big I didn't see anything in K5 that was blaring. I saw the document. That's me either. I just wanted to ask if there was something you guys wanted to point out. Yeah. So, there's one
091thing in the middle school handbook I just wanted to get. We're pretty excited about um the uh the way that we're going to do advisory. We're going to implement a house system within our our uh our school next year. We're going to have four different house academy system. So all of our students will be assigned one to four houses and our advisory classes are going to be multiple grade level. We're going to add more advisors. So our number of advisory classes are going to be down to about 12 to 13 students per class. And we're going to have a lot of um you know little house competitions whe academic behavioral things like that house t-shirts that we're ordering for the kids. Um just really trying to build that culture environment should be really really fun.
092So I'm I'm loving this. Um this is sounding very familiar. JPA rolling did some sorting actually. actually already has one as soon as we started talking about it. He pulled that out and we had a good laugh forward to it. I did the only other thing was the mobility devices and that any other questions? Thank you. I just um want to share the one thing that um you probably need to know. So, our gifted and talented identification process is going to change. Our librarians and our GT um teachers went to a national conference got some phenomenal information and they recommended this test. Um and it actually is um opening up a lot more opportunity for students. So in second grade they will be um screened with the NG at and I'm not going to probably
093try and bring some of it. Um so that all students and we're not missing particular students that are being identified as gifted and talented. will actually be a screener for all. I just wanted to make sure that that was known. There's like more an allincclusive more. Yeah. So all students will have the opportunity to be identified instead of taking a screener then based on a particular score then they're getting tested again. All of our students will be tested. Awesome. Thank you. It's our party. Y any other questions? All those in favor of approval of handbooks after presented say I. I. All those opposed same time. Okay. Don't freak out. It's just because I like to go through it visually and the devil details for me. That's all. I prefer. Okay. So we have one, two,
094three, four, five, six affirmative and then one may the new vice chair of the school board has decided to go no on the approval agenda. She just needs more time. No, just to go through it individually. Yes, Miss hearing one descent. The motion still passes. Uh K. Uh recommend a board approved increase to driver's education hourly wage from $35 an hour to $38 an hour. This competitive salary for this resident carrier. I move that we increase the driver education wage 3538. First Cory second. Second from Jackie. Discussion from the public. Discussion from the board. How does this $2 an hour impact our budget? Absolutely. We're buying in drivers. That comes out of the driver funds itself. Excuse me. And we have two drivers teachers. Is that correct? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, this is for driving
095that one. Any other discussion? What was that? All those in favor say I. All those hand sign. Hearing none. Motion passes. You can see me in the back. L I recommend that the board approve a 6% increase into salary of proposed matrix for all classified non-un employees. All classified non-un employees will now be on a salary matrix related to their assigned positions. This is the last group of people in our district that has not had a matrix for ever and with any kind of significant raise with the matrix that's put out there now. Hopefully this helps us with approving because then we have different ways to show people, hey, no matter what happens, we're going to get a raise. Um, we also have a secretary that has I mean she's been here since my wife
096went to school here and she's been a secretary for 15 years, 11 years. So, it's time that we get the matrix up and get recognized. Uh, this is not just something that issu has been kicking around. I mean just randomly we just didn't decide he has% Shane has been working with Don for this for three plus months. Maintenance is one of the most because now we have matrix set up to where they know what they're going to get and also if they get extra certifications board lights electrical stuff like that they can see what they can possibly make. So we're hoping to get some growth in that area also. 90% awesome. Yes, because his wife is a secretary or not. Why do those in the administrative office make so much more than the building secretaries?
097doesn't mean it's not competitive with other districts around the right direction. Yeah, it's not. So, does this matrix reflect the 6% or do you approve this matrix and then Okay, thank you. And you'll be approving the proposal. Got a question from Shane. I'll do a second. I didn't have a question from Lacy. discussion from the public. Lacy, you have a question. Yeah. So, just my typical question of um how does this impact the budget? So, I mean, I know again we need to get comparable. We need to do that. This will help us impact. The impact is around $64,000 for the first year and it drops in go back. Okay. Yeah. And that was budgeted into what we were figuring. So this is already And the reason why custodian goes to 72 that has been
098here for 32 years. I have to thank for building this into a spreadsheet because I got way crazy just puts it into a thing and gives it a formula. But those are the calculator doing self. So I got a first chance second from Lacy. Is there any other discussion from the board? All those in favor of the approval of the res uh no proposed matrix for classified non-un employees say I. I. All those opposed same sign. Hearing none. Motion passes. recommend the board approve resolution of Gstone County conduct school elections and the mail and ballot school district election agreement to do it now instead of when the elections are coming. So now we're doing next year's elections already. Yeah. That the board approve a resolution county to conduct school elections and balance school district election.
099Okay. First of safety, second from Cy, discussion from the public, discussion from the board, and if we only have the only person up next year, Cory and Chris for one years. And if there's nobody and you guys want to get in, we cancel the Y County council of the election. We don't have to do that anymore and it saves us. So all those in favor say I. I. I. All those same time. Motion passes. I recommend the bro. Okay. I recommend that the board approve a pow-wow for the 2526 school year. This will include drafting a letter of support bringing POW out to Lockwood next spring. This was brought to me by Corey from Western Heritage. Western Native Voice. Western Native Voice. Um they would like something from Lockwood School saying yes. We would like
100you to bring a pow. Uh he dug that through the the career career fair. I also talked with Stacy and maybe we can get some sort of a curriculum involvement with that too because we have a Native American unit. Correct. Yeah. So, you're trying to build one, right? And that's something that Andrea um has been putting a lot of thought into for next year already along with a Hispanic base. So, it would align really nicely. So, I move that the board planning work. I And then Stacy, I'll get that information to you from native to western native voice. Awesome. I'll get you the email address so you guys can start working on I got personal safety discussion for the public discussion from the board. So I guess for purposes of understanding like is this a
101high school during the day campus during the day? Saturday probably on a weekend. Yeah. But they said they they would help do the fundraising and everything. They just need a place in the time. We have all the information provided in place. We have to we have to say yes, we want to do this before they put any time or effort or money into promoting it or getting the dancers and TVs and everything else here. Yeah. No, I mean I understand all of that. I just want to make sure that I mean from an admin perspective, right? That that can be an additional event that they would be responsible for. So that's why I'm asking the the logistics of it to to confirm that it's, you know, not something that adds additional stress to our administration.
102We're not going to allow them to do put it here during a time that interferes with our they're going to still have go with what we dictate for days. If they they come in and say, "We have these days open. We'd like to do it. Admin teams will meet. Yes, this works. No, it doesn't work. This day will work better." and then we can have that discussion. Any concerns from you guys? I have no concerns. It was kind of an area that we were headed toward already. I've been visiting with uh the group uh and Andrea has met. We were um kind of because of our planning for our fall, we weren't able to secure some some dancers in some of the events. I think this could help us uh gain some of that access.
103So, I personally want to go Thank you. Any other questions? All those uh approved the All those in favor of recommendation board approve planning of power 256 school year say I. I. All those vote at the same time sign. Hearing none. Motion passes. Second. Okay. I got to prove some chain second from Corey