001I know Yes. Don't lose your Yes, sir. You got like Yeah. You're right on time. Hello. How are you? Good. Another one. Valentine's all Get out of the way. Wait. No. That's as far as I know. for the I allegiance to my for the United States of America to the stand indivisible for all. Hello everybody. Looks like we have a full house tonight. Must be a presentation for children. Uh any person present who wishes to address the board or has any questions about public school district matters of governing policy may do so under public participation. No discussion of personnel or individual students obtained 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 followers also reminded they
002may provide input on all wishes being considered by the board at the meeting. Additionally, anyone wishing to make public comment virtually may submit the following form virtual public comment form. All receive any messages that comply with the following criteria will be read at the meeting. No discussion of personnel or individual students is permitted. Included full name and address and the message will limit 500 words placed on each person. The name the same link will be used to provide input on action agenda items prior to board action. Note to guest visitors wishing to record the meeting electronically providing their recording is not described with the orderly content meeting. If your child is presenting, I encourage you to record their presentation, take pictures, do whatever you need to do. Uh, we're going to do course we'll do
003correspondence, public comments. We have Lindy Lindsay Steinbeck. Uh, I would like to request a school to consider a crossing guard on the intersection of Peters and Highway 87 East. Uh, Highway 87 East. The intersection is extremely busy and chaotic. Drivers in a hurry to turn to access the primary school as well as the other traffic moving on the highway. There's a sidewalk provided to encourage kids to walk to school, but I am nervous. My children draw My children cross Peter safely. It turns out in the hurry it turns on Peters. I suspect the drivers weren't always watching for small pedestrians. We with the new school hours. The crossing guard would only have to be present from 8 a.m. drop off on and Wednesday pickup times the rest of the afternoons not the same problems. Thank
004you for your consideration. Is that something we can do, Don? Are they Is that the Are they talking across Peter Street where the sidewalk is or across 87 at Peters? I think they're going just across Peters because the kids come from that neighborhood and they just have to pass the resident. I would say that's probably that would be a good choice. We can talk about somebody and if they're in that intersection, they can then they can watch 87 and Peter Street and kind of just But there's not a crosswalk on people to start crossing there. There's still lock but on Peters driven site certainly we're getting we have a right yeah primary can we get volunteers from to be crossing during PTA actually work school we can look at that I mean it's a my
005kids have been the PTA actually help crossing duty we can certainly put that on our list of things to look at here as we ready to hire for next year. Okay. Um Lindsay, I am going to defer that to Corey. He is our safety person. He will get a work with Don, get a schedule set up for crosswalks or anything else we need there. I think we need to watch it first and see how Well, I wanted to move across 87. We can't block 87. No, but I mean I've watched kids in the class there. So I think there's probably enough kids now coming up. We probably should at least at least if they say there's only three kids and maybe we can just have some we can actually assign someone. It'd be safer to
006do that and then we can always pull that back if it's not be coupled with a couple new speed limit signs or flashing lights or something because we have to go to the county for that state. They said all right. Thank you for your concern, Lindsay. We will definitely take that in consideration. Uh, next one is from Kirby Clubs. In December, the board was presented and read a letter addressing concerns associated with cutting high school athletes in favor of calling out eighth grades eighth graders for their fresh freshman or fresh team. The letter cited the benefits of expanding programs expanding programs and the implications of limiting the access to sports in general. I'm frankly appalled. The ad and board have quietly decided behind closed doors and might answer right there. Is there anything else based
007on feedback? only a field that this practice will continue. Cannot imagine any downside to expanding the boys basketball program to have a fourth team if they have the interest they should always strive to provide access to athletics. I understand the driver of this decision was the potential backlash and worries of parents pulling their players to the school or to discontinue the practice of calling up eighth graders that already have the opportunity to complete middle school. the board ever consider the parents that are considering pulling their players to schools that value providing more opportunities athletic. I can't see that but um for the record that was not decided behind closed doors. That meeting happened with myself, with Stacy, with Don, with Kelly. Um it was discussed in an open board meeting the benefits, the pros and
008cons. So, we discussed with the full board. Everybody saw the benefits of it. Um, I don't I'm sorry you feel this way, but that's something I'm not going to change. So if you like not want that want to talk about that cover. Next we're going to do a correspondence correspondence for the election trustee acclamation. Previously we've had to vote to not have an election because we didn't have enough people apply or we only had the right amount of people to apply. With the new contract that we have with the Yellowstone County Elections Commission, we don't have to do that. It's a subsection to where if there's three open positions and only three people to apply, the election commission automatically cancels the election, which it's a good thing because it saves our district approximately $5,000. So,
009the election commission has called the election. We will not have school board election. It's posted on the front door of the high school. Also, um, the three people that were running were myself, Stacy, and Lacy Rollins. No, running. The three people that applied. Oh, was that? Okay. Yeah. Were uh Lacy Rollins. So, Lacy Rollins will be put in a two-year position by acclamation because nobody else ran. But that whole thing's on there. And it looks like we were not the only school district that happened to Primary student presentation. Hi everybody. I have several friends here tonight that are pretty excited to present to you. Right, Bren? Are you ready? They represent students from three different second grade classrooms and most of them are here with Mrs. Lane to present their steam projects. And then Mrs.
010Carlton also has some friends with her to present some things. So, I'm going to introduce Mrs. Lane, our steam teacher, and she will introduce them. All right, friends. Bring your inventions and your come on up to the Penelope here. Have Piper here, Micah here, Ter. All right. All right. Friends like Mrs. S. I am Mary Lane. I teach the early literacy preschool kid w kid w kid w kid w kid w kid w kid w kid w kid w kid w kid w kid w kid w kid w kid w kid w kid w kid w kid w kid wows all the way up to second grade and so I get the opportunity to work with all of them and my second graded students we made an invention project and we brainstormed all kinds of
011ideas for how we make life better in the future we came up with ideas that make life easier, safer or more fun. So these are just a few of our innovative amazing ideas from some of my amazing students and I'm going to have Jim go first. If you guys want to say which classroom you're from too, you can So your name is the class you are in. The name of your invention. And it makes life better because it's a solar powered car and at a low low price of just so that's just for the solar panel because we talked about cars are expensive. So how much would you charge for a car? Very good, Jen. Thank you. 70,000 pretty good electric first your name is my name is your class I'm from my classroom teacher
012is I made shade. Good. The name of your invention is the graot. It makes life better because it grabs what you need but those I don't but mostly the reason why I want to have it in the future for like old people that can't like people that can't really walk up. I made it. Were they able to do the without needing to have to move move and put their own Oh, that's wonderful. At a low, low price of just $10. Friends, I was so impressed by his invention, too, because he knew exactly what he wanted to He grabbed the exact materials they needed and he made sure that it would work. Good job. Next up is my name is Michael Rash. I'm my classroom is um Miss Al and I have created an invention called
013speed boots. What it does is um You don't have to like if you were trying to like walk somewhere, you didn't have to like walk there slowly. It um makes you faster like it. So yeah at a low low price of just my teacher name is this and this is the clicker paper 4000 but for short obby 4000 and it like does the dishes for you does sweet off Oh, all the things you need help with and kind of low low price suggest 30. Good job. And last but not least, my name is Anthony [Music] and she had an invention. She took it, but she made it even better because we were talking about things that are already invented. how can we improve them and make them even better? And that is just what Penelopey
014did. So, good job, Penelope. She wants to do a quick demonstration. I would like to thank the primary students for the presentation. Um, He's he did something. He wrote he wrote his little spiel though. Yes. This is Asher's all of Can we open it and show them and then we turn around? Okay. So Asher came to me last year during open court time and now I have him this year and instead of him doing same thing again he wanted to learn about the president. So this is what we kind of brainstormed together. Hello my name is Ashley Perman and I am in second grade. I am in Mrs. Carlson. This project represents the hall of presidents and the research I do. I thought it would be interesting to learn about some. First, I made a
015brochure of each. Then I wrote about them in my book. After that, I painted this shoe box blue and black. I added red paper for them. Next, I have a pin of each president and a QR code to scan so you can learn more about each president. In the end, I put the QR code in the book at directly of the book. Did you learn something you Thank you for letting me present my project? Sure. Is history your favorite subject? Sure. Thank you. Do you have a favorite? What's the wildest thing you learned about any one of them? I don't know. Oh, did anybody want to see your brochure? Yeah. Did you narate all our presidents who were on the QR code? What made you think Calvin Kulage? I don't know. Thought maybe there was
016something I missed when you decades ago. [Music] Good job, boys and girls. Thank you so much. And I failed you. I got to bring the Dairy Queen gift cards. So, Mr. Chrisman will make sure those get out tomorrow. So, will have them for you. I'd like to thank our parents for the support and grandparents. I'll hang on to your back and stuff. Everything over your body facilities report. Well, just getting all the summer equipment ready to roll. What are you doing? Primary report. I'm not gonna follow that. Next we're going to go to the intermediate report. I will follow that. Um darling. Uh so just a lot going on. Uh but I'm just trying to pick you know the top three to share with you. Uh so we have seen an increase in some um
017social media type behavior with students and some of those uh issues obviously find their way back to us. Um even though our kids aren't allowed to have their phones in our building um out and about. They can keep it in their locker or their teacher holds on to to their phones. uh but we decided to try and be as proactive as we can because although we cannot uh control what goes on outside our doors uh we wanted to bring some real responsibility to students um and understand that they are responsible for their actions and words. We had officer Sam, our school resource officer actually just join and share a little piece um with the students but we also really wanted to build character with students too. And so we had them watch a powerful um
018video and just really them taking control and even though they might have done something in the past, how can they move forward making better choices interacting with friends online? Um and so that was hopefully, you know, more of a proactive way and and trying to get our, you know, our young kids to take responsibility for their actions online. um in third grade. We've had this actually going on for a couple of years. Uh but they have a nutrition specialist outside the school come in and they really talk about healthy food choices versus processed foods. And this just takes, you know, 30 minutes um a couple of times now throughout the end of the year and they go into each classroom. Uh but it's the third grade teachers are really they feel so strongly about it
019because the kids learn so much um in third grade through those courses. So I just wanted to bring that to your attention that that's an added um kind of curricular piece that we've added in. Uh and then just I just wanted to to bring this back to the attention. So, we had the capability through a grant to have an outside counselor come into our school and she has filled her time um with the with absolutely what we have needed her to do and she has stepped up um you know even within our school during a difficult um past couple of weeks and so I just cannot say enough about um Shaunette and and just all the good things that she is helping our kids with. That's all I have unless you have questions. Thank you.
020Thank you. Middle school. So, we had a a really a lot going on this last month, but just a few things I want to highlight. Uh we had a March Madness reading contest through our school that that our students participated in. Uh our middle school success students uh did service projects at the friendship house at Fort Dances doing the clean up there and at St. John's. They they helped out down there. Uh we have one of our students placed in the top 10 at the state spelling meet Elizabeth Saers which is great to see. She's a sixth grader. So uh great showing from us. Uh we have a band and choir concert that um a number of our students participated in and did great work with. Uh, middle school track is off and running. We're
021we're going to have our first meet later this week. Our first one got cancelled due to weather. Uh, so I know we have over 100 kids out participating for track in our school, which is great to see our numbers being that high. Um, and then I just wanted to talk about the four tires you guys will vote on later. I just wanted to introduce first off Jessica is here. Uh, Miss Bolander is here. She will be eighth grade ELA teacher next year. So, we're excited to have Jessica here in that position. Uh, Alan Mccardi, uh, we're we're bringing in to teach eighth grade history. Um, John Mandavville um, will be our seventh grade ELA teacher. She's um, um, she had taught Helena for about 10 years. She's actually been teaching overseas for the last few
022years. We're excited to bring her back. And then Julie Dawson's come to us from uh, from Colorado and she's going to teach gifted and talented. So excited to add all these great people to our school as well. Do you guys have any questions about Jessica here since you have around the house? Where are you coming from? Um round up. Well, welcome. Thank you. Look forward to working with you. I'm Josh the board. Very laidback as you guys. Sorry. I'm very excited. I'm glad you chose my class. Me, too. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. As usual, we have nothing going on. Um I would like Well, we won't talk about that. Um if you are in the building, I would like you guys to check out right across from the coffee shop the um the handprints
023on the wall. Uh I was really really proud of our staff. they um recognized three times as many students uh this last month than they did the month before. So, we hope to fill that up. We hope to continue that next year. And it's a great way to mark left and how we will get a wall of repainted and start that fresh next year. So, those students are recognized for their role being responsible, respectful, optimistic, and active um in the classroom. So, pretty proud of those kiddos. Several of them have two handprints already up on the home. So, that was exciting to see them being recognized by multiple people. Um we have a couple of events just to point out. Uh for Lockwood schools only is a PBR bull rider coming this Friday for McFaren
024and that'll um he's coming uh to sign autographs and then he will be presenting 20 tickets to PBR somewhere students that stop and not Josh. Uh there will also be a bowl. We'll move on. Um there's going to be a bull. Oh, you caught that. Did you? Nice. There is. No, an actual breathing ball. Yes, we think so. But, you know, feel free to stop by 10:45. You know, nothing could go wrong. I've never seen a bulan out of an enclosure before free rides. You know, it'll be I'm not sure they would allow it. Um, next Wednesday though, I do want to point out um that we'll get some more information out to you guys on this in social media, but um service academy day um that is brought by a representative um uh for
025each state uh once a year where all the branches of the military um will be represented. So students uh parents, community members who come and learn more about those um and so we'll get some flyers up on that. I just got the press release from them. That will be Wednesday, um, April 16th from 3 to 6:00. So, we'll open that up, um, sometimes where the students can come down, but then leave it open for, um, a couple of hours in the evening. Um, so that's something new. Uh, we were asked to do it other schools. Our counselors emailed every counselor in the area that they knew um, and invited them to this. They're not having one at different high schools. They're having one for this area at our high school. So, uh, we are excited
026that they asked us to do that. Um, and we'll see how that goes. Um, I just want to publicly thank Andrea um for her work helping us get ready for the preac, which is tomorrow with our sophomores and um ACT with our juniors. ACT is the required assessment for high schools. PreACT is what we choose um to also have so that our kids can get more comfortable with that type of um an assessment, that type of rigor, that type of a setting. So, we try to bear it as best we can. The 3ACT is paper pencil. Um we didn't choose the um computerized version just due to cost but we have the setup Mark and his crew set up all of our tables um and everything like that for the gym. So we'll do our
027preacct uh tomorrow with sophomores and then the ACT which is computerized and it is that requirement that says how are we collectively doing that's kind of our end benchmark for our system actually. So um got snacks what could go wrong. So that's all I had for you. Do you have any questions for me? How many students do you have taking in the ACTs for junior? Uh we should have uh thanks to Mr. Dingering of our distinct learners about uh 130. Oh, great. And we are we are responsible for testing all of our students. So Mr. D when he thought to uh capture our distance learners, they have to come and take the assessment or it counts against us for not having our full collection. So whereas preac that is not a required medicine but not
028all these children are collegebound. No not all of them are. It's just our state required assessment whether they are or not that's high school. If we're having a bull hunt for the bull rider are you like getting a tank or like armed forces thing like do I have your permission? Yes. I I I think I I think I better not a bull and a tank. What could possibly say about Well, thank you, Jo. I look forward to the student council. Yeah, we have um we've been getting rolling with our community carnival which is going to be this May 3rd. I know we just got it um posted on Facebook and I have poster posters printed that once I have time will be um going up. Uh we have responses so far from office clubs bringing
029their barrel train. I know booster club is having a move by talent. The blood drive um poke squad is going to help run our jail. FFA is probably going to do like a petting zoom. We have the army recruiters bringing like a rock wall. We're going to have face painting. It's going to be a really fun time. And we want to involve like all ages, all members of the community. Um I'm talking I've been email chain with Miss Run about getting like flyers sent home with some of the littleer kids um to invite them, but it's going to be a really fun time and we'd love if you guys would show up. Um but that's been a lot of our time and we also have the blood drive coming up on May 1st. Um, and
030we're starting to plan for elections for student council as we work on the transition from like the next boarding board meeting, having our new elected president fill in. Um, and then graduation happening by the end of set and getting um, this is a suggestion box recommendation, getting the senior photos and then baby photos to potentially play on the TVs. Um but yeah, that's all we have updates from student council. The uh jail um how how much for how long? I think we still need to talk about ticket prices because the polic runs once we do a ticket system so there's not like cash changing hands. Um and then at the end of the day, we take all of the collected tickets and count it out ourselves. But it's open to open to discussion. Okay. Cuz
031last time you had that rule in there for like 8 hours. We can do some negotiations. Thank you. Um, superintendent report. Okay. Well, our enrollment has maintained at about 1573. We're up three students from last month. Our attendance as a district is up over the 80 or the 90% mark. We're back at 91.5% to 005%. Which is far above the state average. So all of that is looking good. Our attendance has maintained. We lost a few kids in one school, gained more in the other. So it's kind of now leveled out, but we're not seeing a decrease each month. So I'm hoping that that trend now has leveled out and we'll be see us building back up again. Um, we are still working through preliminary budgeting information and you all know if you're following the
032legislature that that changes daily. So, they have adjusted as they voted in House Bill 15, which was the inflationary cost increase. That was already figured in. Deian got those papers I think the next day or the day after that was passed. And so, they're pretty quickly putting these in as they go. So, I'm hoping that's how the rest of this goes. I see that the um uh maintenance, deferred maintenance is moving ahead. It's not quite as much. I think they're averaging about 40,000 a year towards that. $40,000 will go along here to get things caught up. Um also stars the House Bill 252 is just waiting to be pushed through. So, it's kind of being held hostage while other bills are going through. So, I think it'll be a little bit later, but I'm a
033feeling those formulas are in place. So when that does the funding problem, we probably will take that. So um I did put a few of these on here, just a few of the bills that that were major and these have now changed as a whole another slate of bills that have been out even since I put this together. Um parent advisory meeting will be on April 29th at the community room for any parents that are interested in coming in and seeing how we can all get together and make decisions for our students in school. Uh I'm with the representatives from MSUB who um have the TRIO and TRIO EOCC program. Mr. Goyette met with them in the middle school. Um I agreed at the high school level, district level, that this would be an amazing
034for us. Mr. Goyette got a hold of me today and I said, "Please sign a letter for the middle school." Their job is not to bring students to MSUB. It's to get students into college, whether that's a two-year college in Cal Wyoming or in Larmy or here in Billings. They work with the families to make sure the families understand how to apply for student aid, what the enrollment looks like, what the kids should expect in the degrees they select from, and help them build that out. And then they're there to help them as they go through. They're not affiliated with just MSB, but that house. So, I told her there's a no loss for us to ever join something like that. So I will be signing the district letter to be a part of that
035and then they will come back and we'll start partnering and they'll have a presence here on campus and helping our kids make some of those career decisions. Also they can help us with screening with doing screeners for career awareness those things which we really wanted to get in place. So it's kind of nice to have a partnership with a local university that um so our TOPS grant is back on. It took us four months to get Deian into the grant, but she is now on to you know energy to finish out the reports that are all zero spend. You have to spend any of it. Once we get in there and do that and end Deian can now access that and get in and do the reports. We'll get that caught up. Um with that
036we are able to purchase let's see um three new walkthrough metal detectors. So that will put four in each building so that when we do this we don't have to share and have two in one building, two in the other. It'll give us the ability to have four and four. We will also be able to purchase 16 high resolution cameras and 10 two new 10 new two-way radios and then some software for zero eyes, which is a gun detection software that will be put into our camera systems. Uh we're working with Ricotta to attempt to streamline some of our service and make all the management in one place. They come in, get all the cameras set up, work on, and what they can do is I told them that we struggle with the vape sensors.
037When they go off, it's hard to go back and find the kids that are in there. They have cameras that we can place outside the bathrooms, which will be part of the cop's grant of purchase that actually pulls the faces they come out, locks them, and then the principal can just go up and look at them. or whoever's going in and following up on this and just literally pull the faces up and here's the five kids who were done in that time period so that they don't have to go back and watch hours of video. So it'll it'll streamline that. I met with Mr. daring and said that what I'd like to do is transfer the control of the date sensors and the management of that to our high school office so that the assistant
038principal and the principal can take that over so that there's an issue they would still come over and repair or replace but that that would be managed here at the building level and then we'll be working on also um having key cards done by our new admin assistant upstairs so when she makes an ID she'll also be able to program a key card for that building and then it's all done at one time to try to help market some of those things off the plate. Verata will come in and take over the management of the cameras and our camera systems. They'll go through and do all the wiring, make sure that's all done. So, we have a young person doing all of that. We're still meeting with them to talk about costs. I'm not saying
039that's exactly who we'll go with, but we're starting to look at finding someone who can manage some of those um bigger things. I am starting to look for grants. I saw this amazing structure and this would sit right next to a teacher's classroom door and there's two latches that are put on the door crane. Teacher rolls this over, flicks the two latches and they have a gunproof bookcase in front of their door so their intruder would never be able to get in and it takes about two seconds to do that. They don't have to worry about if their door is locked or anything else. They just roll it in there. The whole bookcase is bulletproof. They can't shoot their way in from outside. So, we're going to start looking at these are about $2,500 cheaper
040than replacing all of the door metal doors. And it's a little less intrusive than looking at prison doors. So, I'm going to start looking at grants with the props grant for the next see if this is something we can get half of a building done or a whole building done and it would possibly be about the same as what we got this year on the grant board doing the cameras, excuse me. So, I'll start working on that actively this summit. How much was that? That is $5,000. And how many doors we hear? We have 17 to replace. So that at 7,500 the grant wouldn't even touch it. They said the most three. This is something that's already approved and I saw that at the national superintendent conference and it was like genius because it's not
041intrusive but actually it's very they are easier for the future to go over and lock and they just continue walking. Is that something that we're going to use to block off during events as well or no? No. This would be just in the classroom. Yeah, that's also a functional not being used. That's what I mean. I don't want us to make it a scary thing because I hope we never have to deal with that. But if we do, this is something very simple that the teachers be able to roll over and genuinely and it gives more storage to like our CNA certification program is a go. Our teacher is now certified who is Gina Lar our medtech. She will now be teaching an hour of CNA certification classes and working with one of our hospitals
042to partner to do the clinical. So we have a nurse that will volunteer to take over supervising that. She had worked here previously so she will be helping with that part. Uh we will be looking at curriculum and purchasing that through our advanced opportunity grants and 40% of that is to support CP. Our CDL program for truck driving we will wait one year. our instructor. I said, "I want you to take care of your family birth when there's just too many things going on with this." And I said, "Let's work on that. We can bring this back in 26 27. That way, it gives us time to get these programs in place." Mrs. P and I will be meeting with the president of MOSA for our group youth group. We were spend two days at
043a conference with them doing guest judging, but this one away. She very graciously said, "Let's have a lunch talk about what that looks like and then we can look at getting that group started next year." But we want to make sure we have an advisor and we have things in place so it's not spread out over the whole week. We have it up and going. Um, so the Jed Foundation is oh our RFP for our food service program we had sent out two requested. I believe Deian has received a couple more requests. So, we have four food service management corporations that have requested our RFP to bid on the food service program here, which is three more than we've usually had in the last since I've been here. So, it's very nice to see that.
044Um, we'll see what happens. We will end that on June 5th and we'll open those on June 9th and I'll ask more. Oh, the great negotiations committee. Yeah, we can. I'll reach out to you guys. We we can decide. We have a couple months. We have a month and a half where we have to worry about I'll put it out. See if he wants to do it. Um let's see. Combination of both. So the Jed Foundation is preparing to come in and do their first round of meet administrative team and teachers on our student or our district leadership team if we can manage it. business and that I had sent all of our policies on harassment, cultivating, all of those things to them. They're reviewing those. Our policies on suicide prevention, everything that relates to
045anything to do with mental health, I've sent to them. They're reviewing that. We have now paid for a two-year partnership with them. They will now come in and start reviewing what we're doing in person here, and a team will come in and do mentoring and help us build that mental health program over the next two years so that it's sustainable. And with the stronger connection grant that we still have through December of next year, I had our onetoone with the person managing the grant and they recommended that we extend contracts to mental health and use that funding for that. So we have we have extended our care solace which is our referral program for the district and for the city. Our first year we had 3,900 referrals and mental health services through that. This year
046it's not quite as many but I want to continue that service on because it's confidential. parents can call there and get help without anybody knowing or we can refer for a parent and then we we're removed out of that process but we make sure that they get the help they need. So that contract has been extended for two years and we were allowed to add to our special education social emotional programming through goal book toolkit and they now have a social emotional learning goal and objectives for special ed students that has now been extended for two years as well. So, we will have that component in there for the the special education population. They've also provided $8,000 for us to continue our MTSS development. So, we are going to be able to send teachers to
047Boseman this summer. Their institute is amazing. So, we already have four teachers that have that have asked to be registered. I will reach out to the principal and see if there's any other needs and we'll get them registered for that conference in Louis. So, the grant has provided quite a bit of stuff for us. that pays per calendar with the LCPC in the intermediate to do halftime services there and we have approximately $45,000 left in that to get through social emotional learning you know programming before December so they've been really receptive to any ideas we've had so it's been very nice um teacher placement organizations we have been working um I have to say that this year compared to the last two years has been kind of amazing two years ago we had 31 openings
048in July and no applications. Last year we had 23 openings in July and minimal applications. And this year we have two openings. As of right now, openings that had occurred have already been filled. So we have two openings in the high school. And then we have our special education openings, which we've had. They're not new. I think everybody in has special education openings. We met with the company this morning and unfortunately we're not able to conduct the interview. So I'm still working with them. I'm reaching out to placement companies to see if we can secure teachers, free teachers. I have four companies. They're all guaranteeing me in May they will have people available and we may locate and do all that work. Um I will update the board as we move through this. This is
049kind of new for me. You know, I'll be very aware of the costs and if it's not cost effective, we won't be able to do this. But if this is what we need to do to get special education teachers here, then I think that it's time for us to reach outside of just hoping someone applies. So that is where we're at with them. I have not secured any anybody yet. Um we had the required audit of our special education program and we have had that closed out with you know fundings and everything was met successfully. I want to thank Sam Lambert for conducting that and taking care of that and getting that done with minimal amount of interruption. So that is done and we will not have that for probably I think it's five years.
050So we are good with that. Staying with our food service we are now that is now closed out our service audit. We went through and repaired all the stuff that they wanted us to work on. I met today with the snack person that runs the snack machines upstairs and I told them there is no chance it's going to be on during the day and that's going to be off. So including timers on his and then the coke machine I guess if done too. So, um, until those are, Mrs. Pool and I are unplugging them because I want the kids to be used to not having them, not just keep waiting, then we wait for them to come. So, um, let's see. And then we have the resignations from the both individuals and all, um, our
051school psychologist has resigned and you can build that already from so we are loing out on that. How would you feel? Sig noise has her school psychology um professional license and will be done to be certified next year. Oh, okay. So, if she can work that year, get her internship done when she has a supervisor like that. So, we were very lucky in having someone from Okay. And then for most of these resignations, these positions are already filled or we're working on filling them. So, like I said, we have I think two left to fill of our core subjects and then we'll be done. And that is it. Thank you, Don. I love having only two positions going for the Thank you. Uh, next we move on to schoolboard goals. That meeting is scheduled for
052August 12th, 2025 at 300 p.m. Make sure everybody has that on their stuff. uh building visits. Yeah, I confirmed with Miss P and we believe it was January 8th when I did the high school and I had middle school on March 11th and high school March 17. I did not. Tell me those dates again. Uh March 11th for middle school, March 17. And then I'd like to remind the board this is a law that we have to follow. We have to visit every building every year. So we're kindly running out of time. We're done May 30th. So, and it's not that much time left. That's every school year. Is it 25 26 or 24? Because I went last spring, but this is for this year. Yep. As soon as we're done with school May 30th,
053we go back to school for the 25 26 year class. Yes. I went through with Shane and Josh. Wednesday the second you have a goal setting. So for with the board goal setting this year we are in the process now of constructing a draft instructional model for the district. Um, Andrea and Kelly and I randomly voted on the things we thought needed to be maybe updated and worked on and we all three voted. That was one of the things as a district administration we felt needed to be addressed. Our current instructional framework I don't think relates to where we're at now versus when the high school was opening and we've developed a lot of programming. So, we're working on that. It will go out to the administrators, then out to the teachers before that August
054board meeting because it may restructure what we set our board rules around. I just wanted to give everybody that update. So, this structure on these board rules may change to different focuses based on where we're at now with the district and moving forward. A five, six, and seven intriguing CTE expansion for small engine and CD class. A6 is welding certifications. A7 is OSHA 1030 and hazmat training. We are going to be blue collar to the core. See way. Okay. So, building visits. Uh let's let's knock those out if you can go in a group. Um if not, uh next we're going to move to committee update safety committee Corey. All right. So um we've got um got a bid for putting the stairs the railing of the building stairs. Um I got a call from
055them today said with the tariffs going in effect price of steel is going to start going up and they don't know how much longer we can they can guarantee that guarantee that price of steel. Yeah. So um just So you guys know about that. Um the other thing is uh we had a dog come in this last week and then um I got to sit in and they hit a couple vapes and I got to watch the dog work. It was really kind of cool to watch. The other thing is you never know what a vape is. So while we were doing our thing, this right here is a vape looking right. You never know what kids using is vapor. So this might look like a pen, but inside you can put your cartridges. So
056you know just an update of you know they don't always make them look like regular things. So and you can put cartridges of THC and everything anything you want. So, just an update to let you guys know that you might think, "Hey, there's no babies in my class." But did the dog pick one of those up? Uh, they didn't have they hid them. The ones the dogs picked up. One was wrapped in tissue and in a in a tissue box, one was under garbage can, one was in a bottle. So, the man picked it up. Didn't sign anything. Okay. during during the actual run view they did not have part that's it oh we have another stage committee coming up by the end of the year yeah it's I don't think it's on yet I
057think it's I think it's about May I believe safety meeting yeah May I believe I think it is that ally I think that's and keep uh budget committee. Uh we need to set a date for our next budget committee meeting. Don and Kelly are going through a list of maintenance items and we are going to address those soon. And also I have a a book I want to see if some money so our staff can read it or it's like a whole brain function. I'll explain it. Okay. Never mind. You already have the money for it. Oh, look at that. Look at that. Already you're good. Figure out. I figured it out for the teachers that want or for the buildings that want it. It's going to be about $2,000 for it's $20 a piece
058for 73 people and that comes out to like 168 something. But it was like 19,000 just in case. What is it for? It's uh for how the brain functions and how we can do disunity differently from the K5 region. It's how the brain goes. It's not the stick and carrot method that we grew up with. So it's not gentle paring, but it's a different aspect of it. No, it's just it's going to be awesome. I had a meeting with uh Miss Wolf today and she brought it up and she wants to have this ready to go at the beginning of next school year so she can do like a book club kind of thing. I think Jenny wants to partake as well and then we can do that and then they can do a required
059reading with the teachers and it's also good for a C continue education cue credits so that they can figure out a different way to um actions have consequences kind of thing. I'm completely murdering this book. We do them all the time. It's not any I mean we do this all the time. This is nothing to do with no what is steak and carrot stick. It's called road map to road mapap to responsibility by Larry. That's kind of And there's another one called give them five fivestep approaches and challenging following with children. We don't that's indeed more of a uh a teacher thing. We did send the three principal assistant principal and principles from our K5 to a conference that I think just put on different approaches to discipline and I know that Mrs. Fox has
060applied this to something that she's working with already. So I think that if principles are willing to do this then I think it's a great idea to do a study and maybe get this concept out into the the system see how it changes people's app can't go wrong I asked if we could bring the author Larry Thompson here do like a area wide like other districts evident this is the do you have a grant to say it So budget committee he probably charged about 100,000 have a big sale probably I just wanted to insert in a comment so you know we have a lot of planning and ourselves to do um around what we have learned um and although yes we are absolutely putting it into practice it's not like you can just snap a
061finger read a book and voila right we we have a systemwide different approach that's not it and so um I just thank you for listening to my giddiness today because I'm so excited about it. But there's just so much more planning I guess to on our part that needs to be done before we just you know. So thank you very much. And the reason why I like the eventually bought into this is I asked her during my walkthrough. I was like, "Is there any like schools or anything you want to do like and she jumped up out of her chair, ran over desk, grabbed those two books, and said, "I want to do this book study. I think this would be beneficial." And I told her, I was like, "Do you know why I'm okay
062with this?" And she said, "Why?" I was like, "Because you're so idiot." And she's ready to go with it. And that much enthusiasm is so refreshing, especially at the end of the year when everybody's exhausted. Cases. Yes. So, thank you for that. Uh, let's go back to the budget committee. want to when do you guys want to do it a Tuesday? How about uh uh do a tax day? Okay. What time do you want that? Uh 6. Okay. You're good with that. Okay. So, 6 o'clock on April the 15th is going to be our next budget committee meeting. It is a week away. Uh, next we're going to go to CareerFare. All right. Well, um, been spending the last week driving around town dropping off careerfare uh, invitations. uh drops some off at the college
063of taxiderermy drops them off at the um the cosmopoly cosmetology there and that line the school and um dropped some off whole bunch of other local businesses at the vet clinically um so I've just been doing that making some flyers trying to get some emails else to send out talking to some recruiters. So, I'm just going to keep doing that the next couple weeks as if on social media. Uh I've posted a couple places. Um Don's gonna have it posted throughout our Facebook and then Yeah. So, we're just trying to get the word out there. You should try to incorporate paper. Yeah, maybe maybe you should give the flyer to uh There you go. I got one right there. Uh negotiators committee. Uh we had our last meeting last of two um last week. Our
064next meeting is set for uh Wednesday the 16th at 4:30. That will be the third meeting. It's going well. Um it's collaborative, pretty quiet. Um you know, I'm chugging right along with you. No issues or no flare-ups or anything. Just getting issue by issue. Doing well. And these are open and the public's free to come April 16th. But in the curriculum that okay um Andrea and I will be meeting uh we spoke briefly about um I was I revisit we had this um indigenous people's day in the fall and it was fantastic and so I was thinking about that and the rest of our um the rest of our students but 13% be Hispanic and asking if we should, you know, expand their recognitions. So, Andrea and I will be um discussing that very soon.
065Um kind of in a concise articulation of our thoughts here is um a primary consideration, a true goal is that all of our students see themselves every day they come to school. Ideally, this means they are exposed to literature, music, games, etc. and ideally educators that represent their culture, values, and even gender when teachers are predominantly female. In Montana, we get specific funding to support our Native American students as written in the Montana Constitution. So, training and resources are more readily available at this time. Uh, one of our greatest challenges remaining is addressing the impact of poverty within our community. finding effective ways to engage and support these students and their families is something to con continue to reflect on as it plays a critical role in their educational experience and success. So, you know,
066a very simple topic that we'll be discussing. We just like to, you know, make sure everybody is is recognized. There's plenty of students to celebrate, plenty cultures to celebrate. So, you'd like to to start tackling that? The minority population is about 27% about 12% Native American and 15%. So yeah, so I think this is good that we're discussing just celebrating all everybody. So we do have funding through our Indian education for all stuff but benefits everyone. Obviously, it's not just about the the subgroups being recognized, but you know, the more we can expose every student to everybody's culture and the more they can learn about each other, it's a great day for that. So, that's it for curriculum. Love it. Thank you. Yeah. Uh community engagement. So we have not met since our last board
067meeting. We're considering kind of decided we're going to meet by monthly was adequate for the committee. So we are scheduled for May 6 p.m. here. Um before that meeting I'm going to meet with so we've already met with all the principles and then for that meeting we'll meet with activities PTA and adult ed kind of put it all together. Really we're trying to make preparations for next year. the big item seems to be the after talking with the principal it seems to be organizing volunteers better. um kind of the thing and then uh really trying to be a little bit more cohesive as a as the entire district when it comes to fundraising opportunities, events to try to get um everybody so that the primary feels like they belong in the high school and at
068the events and all that kind of stuff so that everybody just feels like visits their their campus, not just their building. So, can I do two updates? Uh, I was brought to my attention. The art walk is May 14th. Uh, your number, Mrs. Delcan. Um, set up for the art walk is going to be May 13th at 4:30. So if anybody wants to help with that would be appreciated. Set up tables, things like that. Uh we do have other districts coming to exhibit their things. I don't have a firm count on what districts or how many ch are coming, but again this is our first one. So we're going to see how it goes. Um the feeling I've gotten from the students and the our teachers is very excited about it. Um, I know Bo,
069our medals, is putting something and he has a group of kids are going to be putting things in. And let it be known that the things, a majority of them will be for sale by the students and all the money goes to the students. We're putting this on for free. We're not charging at the door. This is strictly to exhibit a kid spend their awesome talents. Next one is car show is going to be August 31st. Um the school board is sponsoring that. So we're going to cover that stuff. I do have a website made. It's got the fair bones of it. It's got a drop down box. It has all the sign up stuff. Right now we're looking at cars, trucks, motorcycles, semblance, and tractors as categories. I'm going to turn all of that
070over to Miss Lang and she's going to run with it. I'll cover that part. But uh that is going to happen. It's going to be the 31st of August. Start looking for flyers. Kelly is telling Kelly is working with a student to make a flyer. So, and recognition that's going to be anywhere. I've already been uh approached by a couple of radio stations about coming and doing a tour on what we're what our district's doing and things like that. So I may well I'm going to ask for a little so I need oversight in that area. So those were the only two things I had was art walk set up May 13th at 4:30 and then car show is to go August 31 and it's going to be here in our so what the tournament
071no I checked with Melissa and there's uh because we're going to do the 30th but the eighth grade I think had a football game and we were not going to try to compete with that. So, we're doing it the 31st parking lot. Yes. So, we have an empty parking lot and I think it'll be fun because we're going to open at the dirt track drag and also Shane looked and we don't have a dirt track or a drag race that weekend. It's the first one I think. So, we'll have I mean we're going to invite dirt track guys, drag race guys midgets. So, all of that stuff. I mean, I think it's going to be great. And food trucks. We need to figure out food trucks. We're going to have a little mini drag race
072here. What's that? I said you have a little mini drag race here. No, it's not a whole lot. We got that loop over there for the bull. Yeah. situation. Yeah. But no, we're done. We need to figure out uh we will not be draining. We will not be doing burnouts. They have to consent and sign a sign up. Again, that that's going to be 3T. Two, it's not going to be charge anything to get in and it's not going to be charged anything to sell your vehicle. So, there's going to be no cost on that. It's just going to be a little thing. if anybody has any. Is Deian the one that usually reaches out? He knows how to do this, but we can maybe Yeah, I think it was brought Well, we're going to
073use We didn't want to do concessions because that's But I'm hoping that like the PTA and maybe like Mr. Buy had mentioned like fundraisers if we can get some of the student clubs. This is kind of where the community engagement if they want to set up booth. I feel like I we'll support them. We could do a barbecue. So, there's some opportunity there. We're bringing people on campus to raise some money. So, we just need to And school starts the 21st. [Music] So, that'll be the first week of school or that'll be our first full week back from Memorial Day. Labor Day. Yeah. So hopefully this will get lots of participation. All right, next. Oh, uh, anybody have any updates on the areas of focus, curriculum, safety, students, family, community resources? Okay, so last week
074our FFA advisor, Mr. Mormier, came to me and said, "Hey, we went to our is it our state convention?" and came back with 80 meals that our students packed and sealed and we are now putting those in our backpack deal. So this week and next week our 80 or 40 backpack meals will have a macaroni meal that our students packed and says made by FFA and so those will be sent out there with 40 food banks and he said several schools didn't pick those up so they brought them back and he said we're going to send them out to backpack deal. So they're going out this week for the first round and next week we'll use the rest of them up. So, I wanted to thank him because I thought that was really neat that
075he brought that back and it's a meal for four people. I mean, it's it's a pretty big deal. So, it'll be the family. So, I wanted to say thank you because he really does think a lot about the district. Thank you. So, uh next we're move on to consent agenda. Consent agenda. Is there any issue with consent agenda as presented? Anybody have an issue with agenda? issue consent agenda hearing none. The consent agenda is pass adopted. Next, we have to swear in our district. Yes, sir. Am I swearing in or you are? I am. Then all board members need to sign Mr. Okay. You have to stand and raise your right hand. Uh here we go. Yeah. Repeat after me. I do solemnly swear or affirm I do solemnly swear or affirm that I will
076support protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. I will support defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Montana and the Constitution of the State of Montana. And I will discharge my duties of the office with fidelity. and I will discharge my duties of Congratulations. You're enrolled in the Marine Corp. Thank you, Dean. I appreciate that. Do you have a copy? Uh, yes. I do not do not. Do you want me to run up? Yes. Need rabbit on. And then we're going to move on to staff rehired list. I just want to say really quick before we get to this that we did this differently this year. We put every list of everybody that's up non-tenure, tenure, pair of professionals, custodians, maintenance, everybody on one vote instead
077of doing several of spreadsheets. Everybody now is in one place so that we can update this as we go through each year. So it's a little bit easier for us to follow and for the principles to go through and update. So this is our non-tenured tenur classified secretary. Yes, classified as our custodial maintenance uh pair of professionals, administrative and managers. And then there's a list of those that resign and those are listed on in my report as well that uh myself and Cody will be abstaining from this vote and motion because my sister-in-law and his wife. Is there anybody else that needs to abstain vote due to relative office? At this time, I will engage in motions to approve the staff regardless. First from Shane, second by Jamie. We got a first from Shane, a
078second from Jamie on approving the staff rehire list from the public. discussion from the board. All those in favor say I. I. Oh, I voted. Sorry. So used to that. All those oppos. Okay. Hearing none. Motion passes. Next is going to be the language on policy 8210. We are uh when we buy stuff with food service. So, it's $5,000, $4,999. We don't have to send it to duty and the state. They have a list of pre-approved items we can purchase. If it's not on that list and it's above $5,000, we have to send it in. So, our ice machine was $52 over. They did approve it. Our steam table, which is $27,000, is on their list, so we didn't need to get that approved. So, it's kind of a this language on the 5,000 was
079missing out of our policy. So, she asked us to update that. I'm gonna go get your form really quick, Josh. If you open that form, it is the red purchase of more than 5,000 food plus may include check OPI SMP preapprove list and submitting request for purchase of OPI SMP prior to approval. So, this was already in place. It was just written. It just wasn't written down. Yes, we had to add that the board approved changes in language report. Yeah. The first um second [Music] Jamie discussion for the public discussion from the board. All those in favor of the approval of policy 18 to 10 language change say I. Second. All those same sign hearing. No, motion passes. I do adjourn from Jamie. So I meant to do