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Special Board Meeting 3.24.25

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Source
YouTube / Lockwood Pride YouTube
Date
2025-03-25
Location
Yellowstone County, MT
Material
Transcript
Extent
1,047 words · about 6 min
Collected
2026-06-11

Transcript

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001e e e join to the pledge the flag of the United States of America and the rep for stands Nation indivisible andice all thank you everybody for coming any person presid who wish address the board to raise any questions of public school matters anding policies may do so under public participation no discussion of personel or individual students remained at this time a limit of 3 minutes is place on each speaker persons who want more time may make arrangements to be placed on a future agenda the Publishers also reminded that they may provide input on the motion being considered by the board at this meeting additionally anyone wish you make public comment virtually may be submit to the following virtual public comment form all received messages that comply with the following criteria will be read at

002the meeting no discussion of personnel or individual students permitted include your PO name and address in the message a limit of 500 Words placed on each person the same link may be used to provide input on aend action agenda of taking action on uh we have one public comment from James Miller I'm interested in the school board meetings for Middle School please let me know how to go about this we don't have Middle School school board meetings we have school board meetings for all grades on the second Tuesday of every month at 6: pm at this location in the high school any person who wishes to do so on the community can come as long as you don't have a trespass warning against you next we're going to go to approv of funds resolution uh

003the permissive ly came a little bit higher but you have to if you don't ask for the full amount and you come in short you have to pay it out of your general fund so it's like a military where you ask for more and hope you get the minimum that you want um it's going up because of the three additional bus routes and the tuition because of the ystone academy and non-residence enrollment bills coming from the district oh on here it says $100,000 home be $298 $300,000 home will be 8946 $600,000 home will be $178.96 so that is if every one of these predictions or what we tried to work out came in at the full amount so last year our busing for example was predicted to be a 30 miles came in at 22

004this year it's the 32 predicted but I'm hoping we come close to the 26 that we had already told the public we'd be at but we had to adjust things in here to make sure we're not under budgeting ourselves and our budget is still we about 160,000 bus this year am somewhere in that area it's not a lot but it's still money we need to make up but we also took things out of here that we didn't feel like we needed we didn't do a $75,000 SC back a couple of things scale back even in transportation scale back some of those higher salaries and scale them down a little bit so this is all based on how the taxes come in and weed that so we'll know now in August we'll probably get three more

005of those prary budget sheets from the state and then the county will update us on what's actually command our taxes so this is as accurate as we can be right now and if it came in everything at the clest amount we asked for that's what be the impact on the housing on um each taxpayer um I'm hoping we come in less than those and one of we asking what the 180 yeah 180 is what we're asking for the busing yeah well for the busing only now the busing budget is 1.8 well no yeah it is we wanted a $189,000 increase addition of three bus so the the busing the 1.8 V is all of them added together the busing doesn't come in at 1.8 million it comes in a little over what I mean that's

006with the 11% increase I mean the actual increase we did to change the the times and get everybody on the same schedule was kind of minute compared to what the increase was so it kind of was a wash when we got done with it so the transportation is 98,000 so it's gone up about 160,000 170,000 we took some out of the actual budget to drop that down a little bit and you can see last year actual levies it was put in not much less than what we were predicting and it came in at 50059 something so there's a big variance on there that occurs after we know what taxpayers paid what taxes came in how the county distri that we just moving to approve it yeah move to approve okay I got a motion from

007Jackie second from Shane on the approval of the permissible resolution question from the public question from the board Point tuition fund increased significantly because as year we have more kids at the ranch and it's always in a re years so this money will come in to pay for this year next year and then we also DM budgeted for money coming in from open enrollment and money she has an idea how much we will have to pay out so that that money that we pay out comes from tuition that we get in has to you move we doesn't go back in So and that's so that is a that was a pretty big increase there that was the one that probably increased the most yeah and it cost yeah it's almost doubl it is doubled yeah

008and next year it can go down to back down to 300 it just depends on how many kids we have there how many kids do we have there we have seven out there two in high school and that's almost the ranch doesn't charge us by the day they charge us by the yeah when they're enrolled in the they so if they even if they don't go they say hey my kid needs to go to the ranch we sign them up to the ranch on SE August octember whenever we go back to school end of August versus September and they don't go so to pay day does it day by and there's summer school estimate on there too I don't know that was estimate I got from the ranch um we summer school and this so

009it's an estimation that was in this 69,000 and we almost can't really estimate that that probably will come in at that amount because we have to have the money in there to pay those those kids it's always a year in a risk it's really hard to I understand it better now that we've done this process I we do this we're planning for last year this year it's kind of if we have less hits this year then when we plan for next year we'll budget what we have this it's afterwards it's always in a re a year that's and then what your don't it like why it went it went from 16 to 60 the year before there was not much asked for is that right yeah and that because we had had no activity this

010year we haven't really active so we went ahead and ask for the F can get in there because we have a person actually directing at with her salary with teacher salaries that are coming in to teach it's actually really robust CL so so don't isn't there adult budget b that comes from that comes from that permissive right but don't we have like over 100 or 200,000 how much do we have in I was like 68,000 it wasn't very much yeah there that's not a big one there's not a lot yeah okay the other genu like flexibility yeah there we maxed out all the other reserves but that one no because you can't put money back it any other discussion all those in favor of the resolution attempt to impose increase Levy say I all those

011oppos same sign hearing none motion passes move to ad from Jamie second from Jackie discuss the public discussion the board all those in favor ofman say I I all those stand sign hearing n motion passes thank you everybody thanks for coming in guys

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