001I'm just reminding everybody before we get started that this will be recorded and uh it's public will be made public to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [Music] consent [Music] agenda. I will make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second move and seconded. All in favor? I pass. Here's the favor for you guys to sign. Jason did the clip. [Music] You're not on this one. Oh, did I only send one gift? No, the other one's payable. Oh, [Music] yeah. Okay, now we're good. Um, okay. Everybody [Music] um [Music] So, uh, reorganization. Sorry. It's like one of the chances. I'm sure [Music] First time in a meeting. Don't go to a water meeting. Just
002these one. Um the canvas of the votes. So it's a little different cuz we the county ran our election. So I gave you guys the summary sheet. So essentially you guys review the summary sheet as the board. That's you canvasing the votes and making sure that there's no questions. Uh they did the provisional ballot count yesterday, but Smith Valley didn't have any provisional ballots, so our numbers didn't change from our original numbers. So that's what our numbers are. And then our new board members were sworn in by Cal Ketchum, the superintendent of schools yesterday, um cuz he wasn't able to come to our meeting tonight. White Fish's meeting is the same day, same time. So he went to that one and swore uh Joe and Josh in yesterday. Okay. So that's all done. So now
003you guys are you get to move to the hot seats and then you guys get to do the chair and vice chair nominations over like they voted for three or four instead of the two. I'm going to leave it here too since we want to write on it for Yeah. Under votes means they voted for one or zero and sent it in. And over votes means they voted for more than two. Yeah. Well, I think we will. What do they do when somebody voted for three? Does it just doesn't count then? Way for them to know which ones to choose. And so it's an invalid vote. And there was a lot I don't know if you saw that. I mean, not a lot. A lot. Well, they have a lot of under votes. Yeah. A
004lot of under votes and they just don't count. Didn't didn't read. Yeah. So, they voted for one. They were like, "Oh, I want this person." And then they didn't pick a second person and then their vote doesn't count either, which is wrong. It shouldn't be that way. Or they could have voted for the high school levy and not for trustee candidate, right? Yeah. That's true as well. Yeah. Yeah. I thought under you could vote for just one. So, you want a motion for No, we don't need to have a motion. You guys just have nominations. Nominate Bob for chair. Second. Didn't take long. Nope. [Music] Do we do chair and then vice chair or do we just talk about the whole thing? Yeah. No. Chair and vice chair. Is there anybody else that wants to
005do that? So, I think that one's set, right? Unless you guys have any unless somebody else wants you guys have any discussion about board chair. Okay. Then Bob's your board chair. Okay. Any nominations for a vice chair? You have any inclination? I was just say I nominate Jason, but I second that. [Music] Jason. Okay. Do you have anything to say about that? Uh, no. Cuz I know that Josh and I both are in a predicament, but I'll figure it out. You're going to be here at most of the meetings. Most of the time I'm going to be here. The biggest thing is having somebody that's going to be available to sign checks when I'm not. Yep. And I know that you can at least put that in. Yeah, exactly. No, I'll I'll do it. Be
006happy to. [Music] So, we don't need to vote on that, right? No. No. Because there's need you guys to sign off on the canvas sheet. You don't sign it. This is the old cord in the trusty spots. Doesn't really matter. I do need signups for claim approval. Yes. And I'm going to grab a piece of paper that will do that. So, and you need to sign this is your certificate um for Calman. So, you can sign that one, please. So, thank you. Thank you. And I'll get stuff from Josh. When you swore in Joe, which of your kids did you give out this? They didn't ask for that. Oh, no. I have I have it. Thank you. So, that's usually the first one, right? I need a pen. Don't usually need a pen. Uh, okay.
007So, I need somebody for June because we don't we didn't do June last year cuz we never know who the board's going to be. So, who wants to do June claims? Don't jump at it once. We can do Bob. Okay. July. Pull out your calendars, boys. We're just going to walk through every month here. So, that'll be the 15th, right? It is July 15th. Yes, I can give you the actual dates. Sorry, I can do Joe. August 19th. I can do that. Was that coming? Thanks. September 16th. I can't do You can put me for the 16th and Okay. I might have to haggle with somebody. We can throw Josh in here, too. You want me to throw Josh on October? Go ahead. And if somebody can't make it, you can always give me a
008call and yeah, I could I just throw it out in a group text like today. Uh, November 18th. Uh, December 16th. I take that. January 20th. I'll take it. Jason, February 17th. Josh. Josh. Joe, do you want March then? Sure. April put me on for April. Okay. And then May is the last one. Josh, he's not doing that poor sucker. That's what happens when you don't come to the main meeting. He's He's going to regret he's dialed in here. It's asked me twice if I want to end the meeting because I'm [Music] Okay. So, we've signed up for a claim. I'm sorry I didn't write my dates down. Will you either recap that or I'll send it out to you guys. Okay. And then new board members for committees. And I have to try to
009remember. So Rick and I were on policy. So So we need a new policy committee member. It's the most exciting committee there is by far reading policy. But you know we have some great discussion. We have really good discussions. It has the best group. I mean the a participants are by far the best. I didn't sell any very very quiet in here. Um, how many different comm but it's not a legislative year this next year. Correct. We have policy because we did legislature this year. So it should be lighter. This year will be bad. Oh, it's this next year. No, they'll be coming out soon as the legislative session gets closed. So, we will start getting we will have a policy meeting soon. You want to do I would like to be on building. I'll
010take the policy though. I'll switch. Okay. We take one for the team. Thanks, Cody. Well, okay. Rick was on building, right? Yes. Yeah, but Joe's taking it, right? But there We just need a community a community member cuz Joe was on as a community member, not as a board member. So you don't have to get off of this the building. Oh, cuz only one of us one of us shows up. So I'll just stay on it. You just got to be on two of them now. It's going the way I I'm going to keep my uh budget and finance. Budget and finance. Uh, I think that this was it because I think Rick was only on policy and building. Okay. Right. And Josh doesn't move. He gets to stay on the ones he was on.
011Yeah. Unless somebody wants to be off of one of their So, I have Cody joining policy and Joe joining building committee. That's not what it's called. Facilities. Facilities. That's not it. That makes more sense. I don't remember which ones I'm already on. I think just building. No, maybe you're on. Who else is on the budget? Public relations. I was on that one. Josh. Public relations. That's what it is. Who else is on that one? The PR one. Josh on that one, too. I didn't know. It was It was just Heidi before and then just It was It was Heidi and Jim before and then Cody and somebody. Do they ever meet anymore? Yeah, we meet sometimes. Okay. I think that's all we needed for committees. We can always do other stuff with that. Um Okay.
012Do we want to rehire Lacy? I make a motion to uh is this Yeah. Do we need to make a motion to appoint Lacy as our clerk for the following school year? I'll second that. Move and second. All in favor? I [Music] opposed. You stuck with us. Not sure which way that sentence goes. Okay, you're up. Done. All right. So, um, welcome everybody. We have public comment. Oh, public comment. Oh, yeah. There is public comment. Um, forgot about that. Sorry. Public comment is a time that you can comment on anything that's not a main agenda item. Uh do not please mention names or personnel issues. Um but does anybody have anything to say? Are you sure? Okay. Now you're Thank you. All right. Nobody want So first of all, welcome everybody. I'm glad you're here.
013Welcome board members on the seat. Uh so I would like to start by celebrating our staff. So the first thing is Mrs. Spect just completed her master's of education in school counseling. Yay. Congratulations. And it was so fun because uh she had her graduation cap and everything and had the kids decorated and so so for the eighth grade kids, you know, they was like she's graduating. it's a big deal because it's a master's and so she just tied that right in with school relationships for our students and so that was a great move. Thank you so very much. Congratulations. Um second, Mrs. Matulovich when she became staff member of the month, one of the things she said was that she was going to have a baby. I'm like you're going to have a baby and
014she's like yeah she said my daughter's having a baby. So that baby was born yesterday and that's what she said. She put it in in her information about herself. I'm like, you know, this says you're going to have baby. She's like, yeah, I know. I am. So, congratulations. She had a granddaughter yesterday. So, very exciting. Her daughter had the baby. So, of course. And then, u Mrs. Noble is recovering nicely from her surgery. So, that is awesome. So, it's worthy of celebrating for all three of those ladies. So, wonderful thing. Great. Uh, secondly, I'd like to talk about professional development. So our paraprofessionals have this opportunity called the Montana OPI para pathways project and that started in February 2025. So it's brand new and what it is is a focus on special education modules for
015our paras and it's offered free from the office of public instruction. And so OPI offers it free and there are actually 40 modules and OPI will redee rein uh reimburse our they won't reimburse they will pay our pairs $20 for each st each module that they complete up to $800 until the funds are exhausted. So we started that and then during the summer pair professionals have a chance to continue that on their own time. But it's really great because the courses that they offer, the modules that they offer, and I'll just read you a couple uh things like uh the first, let me just do the first three. A pair of professionals guide to addressing bullying and harassment involving students with disabilities. A pair professionals guide to field trips and extracurricular activities for students with
016disabilities and a pair professionals role in understanding and contributing to the manifestation determination review process under IDA. So we did those first three at school and the comments that I got from the parents is that this really pertains to what they're doing and helps them understand working with special education students and it's not just another another thing that they can do for for professional development. So I am very excited about this program. uh they are on what they call the spec technician track and so in order to to get this $20 for these modules from OPI that's what they have to sign up for and it goes with a level two which is uh being coursework through Dawson Community College and that would be optional it would be at the pair professionals only expense so
017we are given these 40 modules which are free from OPI and um plus it pays the pairs a little incentive um which is wonderful. So I'm very excited about it. Um and it's been a long time coming. They've been talking about it for three years. OPI has been talking about for three years and so it's finally in the works. So I'm very excited about that. But if you need more information, it is the Montana OPI parapathways project and it's in partnership with Dawson Community College. So it's really great. So I'm glad that we got started. Next, I uh sent home a letter today. It's informational. It came from Flathead City County Health Department. It's about measles and it is just anformational letter just telling all of our families that measles are not yet here in
018Flathead County. But if they come or if our school has a case of measles, these are the things that they need to be aware of and things that they need to that they can do and what our school needs to do. So, just a general information letter. It was dated today, May 13th. So I sent it home today, May 13th, because if something happened, they'd be like, "You've had this since May 13th." I'm like, "So just send it out and just get that information in the hands of everybody." And it's just general information. It's nothing not like, you know, we are going to do this or that, but it's just things just an awareness. So I thought it was good for parents to have. So next I'd like to talk about our events. So cross
019country ends this week and Mrs. Bolson has done a really good job with all of the kids. Missoula Children's Theater was uh about a week ago and um we originally received a $500 scholarship and they increased that to 77 $750 so 250 more. We had two performances 193 tickets were sold. A few of those were comp tickets and we uh doubled our ticket sales from last year which is really great. So, uh, PTC is still giving $1,500 towards the cost of performance. And, uh, it's just a great program for kids. And so, with the extra money, we are hoping to fund meals for our next performance for all the students so they don't have to have something, but we'll have food for them at school. So, we're hoping for that. And down the road, I'm
020my hope is that uh, this will become a lucrative thing for our school and we can perhaps offer some uh, theater camp scholarships in the summer. So start some kind of a fund for kids to get them interested in the fine arts. So that is my hope. But in the meantime, we have money for food for next time. So that's really awesome. And then I'd like to thank our PTC because we had teacher appreciation week this past week and they were amazing as they always are. And they made everybody feel comfortable. They recognized all of our staff, the classified and the certified staff. They provided food. They provided games and competitions and uh it was just fun and they always do a great job. Next we have some field trips coming up. Eighth grade history
021trips to Deer Lodge Prison and Museums, a trip to the Missoula Smoke Jumper Center in and Fort Missoula and a fun trip to the Amazing Fun Center. And the seventh and eighth grade girls are going to have something called Girls Power Your Future at Flat Valley Community College. So that event has a different name every year and it's about being career oriented. And then we will also have the amazing race for seventh and eighth grade which is super fun. May 15th coming up this week on Thursday is our talent show at 2:00. We have our scholarship awards presentation on May 21st. So we're giving two scholarships this year. Mrs. Dong is the presenter. May 23rd a middle school dance again supervised by the PTC and Mrs. respect. I'm assuming that you're involved in that because
022you were last time. You did a fantastic job with that. Um, and then the Kylo Track Meet. And if you're not, no, you know, it's fine if you're not. May 30th, the Kylo Track Meet. Uh, June 3rd, 8th grade graduation 6 p.m. Uh, last day for students the 10th. That's an early out of June. And then last day for staff, June 11. Summer school begins June 24th. So, and we have 25 kids so far signed up for that in space. 30. So that is my report for that. And finally, staff member of the month and I have not announced it yet. So I want to just let everybody know I tallied the results today. So individual recognition for being professional and trustworthy. Mrs. Bole, Mr. Connors, Miss Martin, and Mrs. Scalane for being approachable. Mr.
023Sutter for being adaptable and flexible. Mrs. Scalane for following school policies and procedures. Miss Evansson and Mrs. Matt for being a team player, helpful, and supportive. Mrs. Scalaney for being a good communicator. Mrs. Lquin, Miss Rutton, and Mrs. Fellaini for seeking to self-improve. Miss Olsen for being patient yet accepting accountability. Mr. Connors for being involved in the school lead. And Mrs. Bole for demonstrating understanding of child development. Mrs. ect. And our staff member of the month is Mrs. Jenny Stellini. So, congratulations to her. Woohoo. So, she will receive schoolwide recognition. Tomorrow, she'll get a Bolton board feature and readerboard recognition is certificate of achievement. She'll get a gift card, either coffee gift card or a Cold Stone Crearyy gift card from myself and preferred parking. So, very cool. I'm excited. So, congratulations. Lots of good
024things going on. That was pretty fast. That was a big report. Thanks. Yeah, you see. Okay. Um, I don't have much because next month is really the big one. Uh, but you can see that not only did we get another deposit, but it was actually positive before the deposit this month for fun 170. if you guys are tracking that one as closely as I am. So, yeah, we're going to finish out the year in the in the plus side on that. So, again, be thinking this summer about what we want to do for the rates on that, but just we're not going to address it tonight. Just kind of be thinking about it. What month did we vote on that last year? Um, I feel like it was late like July, but I want like
025to try to do as soon as possible like June cuz it's good to get the information out. Is that the after school? Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Fund 170 is PJ club. So, uh, was there a recommendation? I know we talked about it last. Not yet. Not yet. We just were kind of discussing mostly just think about what makes sense. It's on the website, too. So, go read the website and see what you think about how we're currently doing it. Um, we were just talking about potentially I was talking about potentially getting rid of the 10 versus 12. Judy said it's not hard from their perspective. And Trish is here too and Tracy, they could give feedback from the office perspective. So, I don't know if that is hard to manage or not. Judy said it's not
026a big deal, but she wanted to definitely address the late, you know, the kids coming for 5 minutes or 10 minutes cuz they're being build for a whole hour, which and they won't pay it. If you have four kids and you're being build $48 for 5 minutes, I mean, there should be some consequence. Mhm. But, yeah, but they're not paying 50 bucks for 5 minutes. So just brainstorming ideas for how to address that. So best thing that I would recommend is like I said, go to the website, read how we're currently operating PJ Club and then I'll put it as an an action item or the discussion/ action for our June meeting and then you guys can throw out some ideas. It'd be good if other people come to that meeting if they have suggestions
027with how that should go because I think it would be a good time to just and then if you guys can't make a decision next month then you could make a decision in July and it would still be in time. Yeah. So, have you had any numbers from the legislature at all yet? Numbers? No. Uh but the stars act got signed by the governor. Yeah. So, we got that going for us. Um, but no, not yet. Nothing yet. Was curious because there's a lot of changes in the way they're Yes. doing some of this stuff. So, yeah, maybe good, maybe bad until we see. Yeah. And if you were somebody that qualified for the stars act, your numbers are even more delayed from OPI like your budget your preliminary budget numbers because they're having to
028recalculate everything now because it's completely changing everybody's funding that's doing the stars act and the majority of the schools are choosing to operate under the stars act. So it's going to it'll be interesting our May and June time and how we're going to try to hit budget time cuz we I won't have my preliminary data from them. I don't have it yet and I don't know when I'm going to get it. So, we shall see. I think it's going to be a little slow this time though. Hold your breath. Yeah. No thanks. I like to survive. Um, enrollment didn't change from April to May, which is good. We shouldn't be having a lot of changes this late in the year. And I think that's all I have unless you guys have any questions. [Music] Okay.
029Um, we got a very short letter of resignation. Yes. So, Miss Watson is moving and uh she said that she's no sad that she's leaving us, but she has to move on. So, she's moving. She's moving far away. So, yeah. So I accepted that her letter on behalf of the board um with appreciation. Not much we can do. We can't say no. No. No. You may not go. [Music] Um okay, we'll move on to the action. There's a bit of that. Um the first we'll go through the um personnel stuff. Um first one is uh increase the counselor position from 75 to one. We'll make a motion to increase the counseling position from 75 to one. Second. You sure you want to do that? Second. Moved and seconded. All in favor? I. All opposed. Motion
030passes. Um, so, uh, renewal of tenur staff. Make a motion for the renewal of all tenur staff. Second. Moved and seconded. All in favor? I opposed. Everybody rehired. Um, removal for non or renewal for non-tenured certified staff. We have to do those one at a time. Yeah. Yes. I'll make a motion for the renewal of Joshua Eastman fourth contract. Second. Moved and seconded. All in favor? I I Okay, next one. Crystal Evenson. I'll make a motion to renew Crystal Evansson fourth contract. Second. Moved and seconded. All in favor? I. I. And inspect. I'll make a motion for the renewal of Sheiling Inspect. Second contract. I'll second that. Seconded. All in favor? Joe second. Joe did have some change. Keeping you keeping me honest. Keep me awake over here. I'll make a motion to approve FY25
031extra duty contract for the eighth grade trip for Del. Second. Moved and seconded. All in favor? I consideration of renewal or non-renewal business manager. Uh I will make a motion to renew Lacy as our business manager. Second moved and seconded. All in favor? I we talk about this. Um, he hasn't been asking for any discussion. So, you just don't get any. Most of it there's no discussion to be had. When there's discussion to be had, I will ask. Okay. In fact, right now, I got to make a motion on that. I need a motion for a wage increase and contract change for the business manager. Uh, I will make a motion for the approval of the business manager wage increase contract changes 2025 through 2026. Now, I'm going to assume everybody has read this contract
032uh proposal. I have. Uhhuh. And is there any discussion? Do we need a second? Second. Now, is there any discussion? I would just like to add even though I have no no voice in your part of this. I would like to add that last year Lacy you took a quarter 25 cents and so she's worth every penny. So what do the quick math on percentage increase on this cuz yeah it was only at 25 cent last year. Yeah, it's 50 cents this year. So if we go up to 25 cents a year, we'll just 25 cents. Yeah, we just keep going. Next year be 75. Okay. Okay. Now I follow now I follow what you're doing. Um No, that's a that's a small percentage for everything she does for us. She keeps us out of
033legal trouble and uh all that other stuff. and [Music] she's she's really good at writing emails for me cuz I don't very well at that stuff. Um, the only discussion that I have that I know that you guys didn't think about because I didn't think about it until yesterday is I didn't have an evaluation this year and it was because of the transition because Rick was the board chair and so I think it's just been a crazy like several months of that whole Do you want to evaluate? No, do it right now. I just I'm more letting you guys know cuz I work for you guys. So, I'm I'm informing you that it didn't take place. So, um if that's something it doesn't I don't think it theoretically we don't have to do it. There's
034nothing in the contract says we have to do an evaluation on um my personal feeling is that you have uh like I said, you keep you you've kept us out of trouble. You keep us going in a straight line. So, yeah, you're invaluable. I second that. My well, I've worked with people that weren't Yeah. good clerks. So, my only thought is how does this compare to other schools with the same position cuz feel like 50 cents isn't enough because you do quite a bit and you keep us in a keep us out of legal trouble which is a pretty big deal. Um, so we one thing we could always do is we could table the contract the the agreement. We could table that until the next meeting if you guys want to think about that.
035This doesn't take effect until it doesn't take effect for discussion. Yeah. The other thing that you could do is um part of why I'm not I didn't ask for very much cuz I'm the one that brought it forward the proposal, right? Mhm. Um, everything's really up in the air with our budget this year. Mhm. And I'm just so budget conscious, which is why I only asked for 25 cents last year. Um, so I appreciate your comment and I, you know, I appreciate everybody's comments. You guys are awesome. Um, but I don't feel comfortable asking for more than the 50 cents until we have much more solid numbers. And frankly, maybe not at all this year. Um, obviously I'm not going to turn down somebody wanting to give me more money. I would be silly. But
036that's that's why if the proposal is only for a 50 cent raise. So just so that you have and we we we do always have that option to stipen her if we feel she needs to be afforded more cuz we we really want it'll be months before we have shutter numbers. Right. So, I think this is a this is a comfortable number that we know, you know, we know we should be able to be inside of our our budget with this. Um, could totally change. So, I'm I'm good with the numbers. Uh, I I would like to look reook at it though when when we have a a better budget and kind of get situated. So, did we already make a motion to accept the We do, Lacy. We We do pay you um mileage
037and stuff, too. Right. Correct. It's in there as well. Okay. And we we pay according to government reimbursement. Um the mileage. Yeah. I didn't receive. So, the mileage I did reimbursement forms the first year I was here. And so then I took an average of what that was and figured out a number. It's basically for running back and forth to town to do deposits or go to the county superintendent's office or go to meetings or things like that. That's what the mileage is for. Okay. Um, so that's where I came up with those numbers. They haven't moved since year one. The mileage and the cell phone numbers. [Music] Okay. [Music] really and there are Cody there are the the there's also the raises on annuities and stuff too that Yeah. Correct. Yeah. Yep. So if
038there's no more discussion I will uh ask for a vote. All in favor? I opposed. There you go. You got him. Thank you guys. Just for full transparency, still no Josh out here, obviously. So, I'm going to keep the meeting going so much. See if there's like a 2hour time limit. Okay. Um, it's in here cuz I put it in every time. Or you got any new uh discussion on the 300 building or we just kind of did not um we did not set a meeting. We did not. It is just in here every time a schedule meeting. Oh, so no change. No change. And really I mean it's something that we're going to put in here every time in case somebody comes up with some great amount of of money or ideas to all
039of a sudden make. But yeah, somebody wants to It is serving a purpose right now. know it's not costing us anything to serve that purpose. So, um the the the small amount of money it's taken to keep keep it from freezing to death. But other than that, it is serving a purpose, you're making good use out of it. So, if anything changes with it, you know, all of a sudden you notice water or you know, something rain, I go look through it. I haven't seen anything. I think it's I think it's way better than a lot of people were giving it credit for. Look at that. There's us. I can. Sorry guys. Can you hear me? Yep. Yeah. All right. A little bit of a Got a little reverb going there. You're picking me up
040twice. Are you on your phone and your computer? No. I got to mute this here real quick. Yeah. Now I can't hear you, but you don't need to hear me. I don't know what to say. We are It's actually working right now. Yeah. Our action agenda CC. Um so we're now we're going to go through our those agreements that we have to sign in order to stay accredited. Um, I'll take a motion on uh Northwest Montana Schools um multi-d district interlocal consortium participation agreement. My goodness. I'll make a motion for the fiscal year 26 Northwest Montana schools health multidist interlocal consortium participation agreement. Second. moved and seconded. Is there any discussion about this? This is the same one we do every year. Every The next couple of them are all going to be stuff that
041we don't have a choice really. I mean, we do, but we don't. Yeah. This one's for health insurance. This is the health insurance consortium. And I did go out to bid again this year, as I do every year. Um, and this is sad, but the health consortium increase this year is going to be a 15% increase on our health insurance rates, and our dental and vision are not increasing, nor is our life. So, just health. And that was the best rates that we could find. I went out to bid. We bid four or five different options outside of the consortium and they beat it hands down every time. And it's I it's not something that I think that we will ever get a well potentially next year if the state health for schools goes through.
042So I don't know if you guys remember that from legislature 2 years ago, but it's now going into effect. So it's we had to say if we were interested in participating, which we are interested in participating depending on what the rates and whatnot come back at. So they're supposed to put that together this year and it would go into effect next year in FY27 26 27. So we'll just see. Hopefully it's awesome like the county healthcare. Hopefully it will turn out to be something awesome like that. But uh we have to hold on to the consortium for at least one more year cuz it was it was the best we could do. Okay. Any more discussion about this? All in favor? I I oppos I um crossroads Evergreen and Flathead crossroads interlocal agreement. I'll make
043a motion for the fiscal year 26 evergreen flathead crossroads interlocal agreement. Second. [Music] This is another one that we really don't we can't provide our own. So, um, all in favor? [Music] I I Okay. Now, we have, uh, special aid co-op, two different, um, two different programs. And these are both required, correct? This isn't an option. It's not an either. It's a it might be an option if we approve it, but it's not choose one or the other. No, we need to have both of these. And so it's for our high needs uh preschool children uh and the for high needs communication. I make a motion to approve the preschool program. Second. I'll second that. Moved and seconded. All in favor? I I I Okay, I need a motion on the STARS communication program. I'll
044make a motion uh to approve the STARS communication program. It's Star. Yeah, just the reason I said that is because of the Stars Act and this is the Star Communication Program. Yes. Thank you. I'll second. Did Cody make that motion? Sorry. Am I going too fast for you? No, I had created them. I thought you were going to motion them together, so that was my fault. Oh, well, they were both highlighted, so I thought we had to do them separately. It doesn't matter. You guys are all good. Okay. Moved and seconded. All in favor? I opposed. Joe needs a shorter last name, though. Just put bill H H. Okay. Now, um we need to make a resolution to have Flag County Election Administrator um administer our next school election next year. I be doing this.
045Uh she wants to know. No, you actually have to do it in May. You have to have to do it at your May board meeting. It's actually pretty funny because I had it on our board agenda and a a email went out amongst the clerks yesterday and they were like, "Oh my gosh, we have to have this approved every May." And they're like, "I left it off my agenda." And I'm like, "I didn't. It's on my uh by the way, just as an update about our election, too. We did have a ballot box here. I don't know if you guys knew that, but we had a ballot box here just like we always have in every other election because that was part of what we decided to do obviously in the transition. But we only
046accepted 41 ballots at our location this year. So I did we have a judge too? Did we have that box? Nope. We just had the office. It's the office staff um is the I othed everybody in the office. So they were election administrators to help be there with the ballot box. Um, but yeah, we only accepted 41 ballots and then I filled out a survey with the county to let them know how many we accepted at our site. And I think that they're going to look at not having sites if it's that few cuz we had 1,200 votes, you know, or 6 what is it? 640. 600 ballots. And we only took in 40 of them on our premise. So it doesn't really net out to do that, but we'll see what they say. But
047that just so that everybody knows that that's what happened this year. And we did take quite a few that very last day. We the first week I think it was was it seven and then three or three and then seven three. So maybe the thing to do is just have a box on the on election day. Yeah. Maybe you're always going to have those people that can't get into town and and want to drop them off. Yeah. It's just going to be up in It was nice when they had their little dropbox in the alley. Yeah. They have to be manned now. Yeah. And and I don't have a problem with that. It was just easier. Yeah. So, okay. Yeah. So, you have to pass the resolution. I need a I need a motion to
048uh I'll make a motion to approve the resolution 25-3 request for Flathead County Election Administrator to conduct the fiscal year 26 annual school election. Second. Okay. Um I think it'll work great this year. We didn't have to do anything. So, um, it went very smooth. There's no other discussion. Um, all those in favor? I I want to hear real quick one time. So, you can say I to [Music] oppose. Okay. Uh, summer pro school program. We just need to approve the program itself. We have we have numbers and uh teachers. We just have to approve paying the teachers and uh funding the program will be will be so we got it out of title one. Right. I found the line here that said we can do that. Okay. I'll make a motion to approve the
0492025 summer school program. I'll second. Any discussion? I know that my granddaughter loved this summer school program when she was able to come down here. So, how many students were enrolled or 25 so far and they have space for 30 and that's where we've been in the past is 30. So, that is what I put in for this summer and last summer also. And so, it's a more of a remedial program. The summer school program is not just for any kids. for kids that really need the assistance. So, um yeah, so we came up with the number of 30 and we can comfortably serve them well. And so our since you got the money out of title one, are you going to put in for the grant at all then or So title one um
050we put in for it every single year. We put out the information and I always do what I can do as far as finding every little piece. Yeah. So, cuz we can always use that title one money somewhere else if we don't have to use it. Cool. Okay. Um, yeah, if we didn't have the title one, we wouldn't have this this year. So, yeah. So, we're lucky. Okay. Moved and seconded. All in favor? I [Music] All oppose. Okay. Um, this is the one I had a question about. So, I'll make a motion to approve the STS education PC bid. Second. And is this the only bid we got? It's not the only bid we got, but I did look into prices like say on Amazon. They're actually more on Amazon. SCS is usually who we
051get all of our Josh, can you hear me? Yeah. Okay. Who we usually get our devices from, they come with the licenses, uh, warranty, so I think the warranties are up to a year. We can send things back if we need to. I feel more comfortable going with them than I do going on Amazon. Um, but I did look into other prices and these guys did come in cheaper actually. So, and and it's a apples for apples um replacing the PCs that are utilized right now cuz they are all going out of date with updates and security this October the 14th I think which huge security vulnerab vulnerabilities. Uh I mean there's a whole list of things. So it's these are all window highly suggested so that we can keep everything running smooth. I've gotten
052to go to a lot of cyber security seminars this year and we really really need to take it serious. Um, so yeah, there's there's a lot coming up that now is not the time to share, but this is kind of one of the many things. Have you had to pay your toll yet? My toll? Oh, I got that one. Is that a Is that a new stamp? Oh, I haven't seen that one. And it got me. Almost got me. Trish got to go to the last one with me and it is amazing. Glacier Bank how well Yeah. Glacier Bank put it on. Thank you. That was awesome. It was awesome. Um the AI that's out there right now that duplicates um the it looks authentic and and really I wish I could just go into
053details with you guys, but we really need to uh passwords, multifactor authentication. We need to do a lot of things a little bit differently here which I would love to put into effect for fall school year. There talking about the AI, there was even an AI generated House Bill 252 which was the star act that just went through. So it was AI generated and I found some stuff in there like what do they mean this and what do they mean that? So I contacted Rob Watson who is the president of the school of ministers of Montana and he did some research. He's like nope. He said that is AI generated. He said, "This is the official bill the most recent." It's like, "This is AI generated." So, you just got to be careful. Yeah. You
054got to be careful. Montana and didn't pay my toll roads. Got a phone call and it sounded exactly like her daughter and she needed money and she sent money to this address. That's scary. That was part of what we got to learn about too. You can make somebody look like yourself, sound like yourself. Um, but anyways, there's Yeah, and being mindful you guys too because you you have school organization emails and really so we have a great firewall with DCS and it's actually going to take an operator within our school that could that could be a threat to us by clicking a fishing email. So, we really have to be mindful of the emails that we're looking at. and um like a W replaced by two V's for instance two I's being replaced by lowercase
055L's things like that so just really if you're not sure call Lacy call the toll almost because I had just been through a toll road in Seattle and I hadn't been out of Montana so I was pretty sure I had I I got all the way to the point where I realized that what it said Virginia on it instead of Seattle And that got me, but I had to cancel my card after that. Okay. So, yeah. Well, if we have to replace them, we got to replace them. So, I will take [Music] Thank you. It's not a very often replacement. So, when was the last time, Kelsey? I've been using We've been using the same. This is my 11th year combined volunteer everything sub and coaching and they're they've been the same that long. Now
056is are these all kid for the kids or are these all these are staff staff members. So our Chromebooks are sitting pretty good right now. Um and I always go through every summer and get the outdated ones really outdated ones out of inventory. So yeah, we were able to purchase them last year, but I think technology funds, but okay. Do we have a second? Yeah, you just need a vote. Okay. Moved and seconded. All in favor? I All post. Thank you. Josh has voted against you. [Music] uh social studies curriculum. Don, you want to do some explaining? Yes. So, so this curriculum is called my world interactive. Uh fifth grade already has this curriculum and it is just phenomenal. And this would be for grades three and grade four. The curriculum curriculum program is amazing.
057It is exciting. It is fun for the kids and so it makes them want to learn. It's full of a lot of projects and a lot of hands-on type activities. Uh the the curriculum that third and fourth grade currently has for social studies is really awful. I mean the books are they're falling apart and they're like these little yellow paperback things and and they don't have current information in them. So it would be great for our kids to be able to have this curriculum. So this proposal is for a six-year curriculum. It includes a digital component and it includes books that the kids would get every single year. So all of the curriculum that they make these days is so we don't have to renew anything every year. So no, this is a sixth year.
058Um in this quote is a professional development $750 and at the very bottom of the quote is another um three-hour training which is $1,500 for three hours. I'm like I don't think we need that. We just do the professional development. So, so the total is $6,863 and it would be so great um the third and fourth grade teachers have looked at this curriculum and they they like and this is coming out of our curriculum. This is coming out of curriculum. Yes. Yep. Okay. [Music] Um if somebody is going to make the motion, will you make it for the 6863 so that we have it in writing that we're not picking up that additional 1550? If somebody's making a motion, so I just move that with to approving it. I'll make a motion to approve the
059social studies curriculum six years for grades three and four at $6,863. Second. [Music] Okay. Does anybody else have anything? Uh the question I have is you said the digital component is included. Yes. Do do we have to have a digital component? Yes, we we do have to have that digital part because it has like maps and all all kinds of resources that go along with the program. Otherwise, you're paying for extra printing and it's a lot of extra printing. So, yes. Are we allowed to print off of this pro this this program? So the teacher would have some some things that yes they can print off of and a lot of it uh so the kids get a a book they so they get a paper resource that goes along with it for each section.
060Yes. And then um when the teacher needs to print out different activities and maps and things they can do that that's one they can't no this is with permission. Okay. Any other discussion? Okay. Uh call. All in favor of uh new social studies curriculum for third and fourth grade. I I I. All opposed. Motion passes. This is uh renewal for our reading program for third and fourth grade. So the renewal for the reading is for grades K through two. When I first started working here, we had just purchased this curriculum, but I didn't realize it was only a three-year curriculum that could because usually I would get like a fifth or six, five or six year curriculum, but this is for three years. So it is time to renew the student resources. So, uh, the
061cost is much less than the initial cost, which was $35,000. So, to get three more years out of this, the amazing thing is the kids have grown so much because this into reading curriculum doesn't just do reading, it brings in social studies, it brings in science, it's like reading across the curriculum. So, it's really an amazing curriculum and it includes writing. There's so many great things about this curriculum. Um, so I recommend the the three more years for that. So, and we've had training. We've had people come to the school and train our staff. It's amazing. Amazing curriculum. [Music] I'm sorry, Don. Did you say the original was $35,000? Yeah. [Music] Curriculums tend to be very expensive when they cover and and the sad thing about this is only three three grades and three years.
062Um, But they do tend to be very expensive with because you don't just use books anymore. It's not like it used to be where you just had to comb your your math book and the paper cover. Yeah. And made a paper cover so you didn't ruin anything. And and the other thing about this particular curriculum for these grade levels is they have um like the writing response journal. They have um comprehens comprehension journal. They have all these different journals that go along with this. So, the kids are using all of these little books all the time. Uh, which is one of the reasons that when they first started it, it was so expensive. Plus, I'm I have a feeling that the program was brand new when they first started and so I think since then
063prices have come down because when we subscribed last year to 3 through six, it wasn't as expensive as this K through two. So, but two, they don't have the number of printed resources for the older grades. But the kids have been so successful and and there's just been a huge change in our our map growth and I think it's we should continue with it for sure. So do we have the digital student licenses today? So the digital student licenses we currently have Yes. And this also includes that. Are we using them today? Yes. Yes. And I asked So the ones that aren't using them are kindergarten. So I took those off. Yeah. Um the other thing that I saw in this court is the shipping is over $2,000. Yes. And I I asked for a
064reduction in that shipping. So I haven't heard back on the reduction in the shipping, but I did ask for that. Where are they shipping it from? But I did ask for a reduction. Um, so I haven't heard anything and I I will send me also. $2,000. I'll take a vacation and go pick it up. Maybe they're taking a cruise while they do. [Music] Um, okay. I need a motion. Make a motion to approve into reading renewal for 3 years, grades K through two. And three years is as much as you'll go for. Uh, no, you could go more, but I would like to at that time see what's out there because that would have been six years with the same curriculum. So, I want to see what else is out there. And if the teachers
065want to stick with this, they can stick with it. Uh, and there comes a point, but it depends on every curriculum that they will um, you know, it fades away into the night, so you can't get it anymore. Um, and that's happened to us in the past with other curriculum materials, but this, I think, is still going to keep going. So, if teachers want to keep going with it after 3 years, we can find out. It'd be very interesting. I wish some of those teachers would just um Okay. Is this something if we got a reduction in the shipping and handling that we have to revote on? Yeah. Good question. But there's nothing in here to There's nothing in this quote that we're omitting, right? Everything in the quote. So, we don't have to put
066a number a dollar amount on the motion. Okay. And I've had success before asking different companies um for reductions in shipping charges and I've usually gotten it. So, you know, by like 60% sometimes. So, I'm hopeful. Perfect. Yeah, that's the one number that bothers me. Yes, I I get it. I get it. It's ridiculous. Um, there's a motion currently, but no second. Second. Second. Okay. Is there any other discussion? Seeing no discussion, we'll I'll take the vote. Um, all in favor of the new of the renewal of the reading curriculum. [Music] I motion passes. Okay. Go math. So the go math is for grades K through five. They currently have been using it for two years. this particular edition of it. They've used it historically in the past. So, I'm requesting a 2-year renewal because
067at the end of two years, I want to see what else is out there because everything changes and get to a point you want to just see if there's something better and if there was something which does anyone like it. Kim was teaching Go Math when she was fourth grade teacher. Yep. And so, it's been around for a long time. It's a reliable series. Um, and so this I think is the 2019 edition that they have right now, but students are are doing well with it. That combined with what Miss Evson got for the reflex and the fracks, kids are doing well with math. They're doing well. So, I'm recommending two years, not three or longer. Uh, just because I want to see what else is coming up. And we have to have those resources
068either way. We have to have some kind of math because they're out of the student resources. I want to ask about this digital license again because that's almost $8,000 of this $10,000 quote. And again, I asked kindergarten, I said, "Do you guys use it?" They're like, "No, we're not using it at all." And this is for grades K through five. But are the other grades using it? Yes. To the full extent. Well, they're using it regularly. Yes. That's part of our having promo. Wait. So, are you getting a new quote without the kindergarten digital one or are you So, is it not here without It's on here. Oh, it should be $230 cuz they don't use that. I'll have to get a new quote. Oh, wait. Let me look at you. It says digital. I'll
069have to get a new quote so we can table this. Yeah. I'm sorry. My apologies. Yeah. $1,230. Look at Joe pictureing things right. Okay, I will get a new quote for that. I'm going to table this mean vice president. Okay. Um, unfortunately he's not here. We're into correspondence now. Unfortunately, he's not here. But if he was here, I would thank Rick for his uh years of service to the school and He is traveling or else he would be. So is there any other correspondence that anybody has? Okay. Special discussion. Okay. We need to schedule some meetings. Do you really want to schedule a budget and finance meeting before we have any numbers? Probably not. I was hoping I'd have them by now. Well, I I know how this Yeah, and like you said, we're going
070to be way behind. I can just make a note that I'll say because they have changed so many. Um I was really I was really surprised how much of the funding stuff they were working on changing. I don't know when all passed and what didn't, but um I just made a note that said I'll send out an email to schedule this meeting once OPI releases it for living on your budget numbers. Okay, cool. Um, you guys can certainly schedule a facilities committee meeting anytime you want. Um, keep in mind we don't even have to deal with building 300. There's other things I'm sure you've seen that need Mhm. I know that we need to to deal with some siding on that on that east end or west end of the school. Spices all the way
071around actually, but you know, not as bad as that end, but yeah, I think that end takes the most heat and sun and wind, but we definitely need to think about uh spending some money this summer on uh maybe some painting and uh screwing rescrewing the sighting. I think it's all nailed in and maybe what we need to do is think about going into it on this building. Yes, on this building, especially on that end. That side's literally coming off. I mean, yeah, those nails are all rusted and coming backwards. Well, the facilities committee is supposed to put together a plan, right? 10ear plan. We can do a do a nice big walk through and talk about ideas and things we notice and prioritize. Yeah. So facilities [Music] committee both of you and you're here
072so that's good and you and I are here so we can figure out a date for that one. Okay. So my question the amount that needs done is that something like will it be a three-hour meeting or could because me and Joe are out of the loop. So could we come in? I I think like the first meeting probably would be like maybe a 45 minutes to an hour where we walk through and look at all the things and I can tell you everything that I've learned since I've been here and uh things and Jay too things that he's noticed and things that are obviously upcoming like well we heard that this will only be good for a couple more years so you have to plan ahead for budget for that kind of stuff you
073know so personally I'd like to spend a little more time than that for walk around you know checking everything out Well, maybe what we could do is because it's mostly for me and you that we need to spend time is all the stuff that like this summer work we'll do during the meeting. But then the 10-year plan, you know, if you figure out, you know, Hback, that kind of stuff, how how are we looking? According to the people that come out and look at that stuff, it needs replaced. But but but they're always going to tell you that. They're always going to say that. So if if we can maybe come in and we'll meet with you and try to figure out, hey, how old is this equipment? How old's the one in the gym?
074And go through and then the stuff that we plan on fixing this summer, we'll discuss the meeting. Okay. That works. And then I'm available to, you know, anytime you guys want to come and just walk through me, I'm available for you. the uh the HVAC probably in the gym is going to be the stuff that's that one in the corner is probably Well, this building's 25 years old. Oh, we really back in that one is probably 35 years old. Yeah, but that one in the gym's been here the whole time I've been there. That's 23. Yeah. No, it's 35 years old. The one in the corner in the gym. The one in the far corner. Yeah. We're open Monday to Wednesday next week. Okay. Anything for you guys? I think as far as that that
075kind of stuff goes, there's got to be a a list of the equipment. In fact, I think our comfort system has that a list of all of our equipment. And then it should have the dates. They should be able to gather all. It might even be in the last report that I believe it probably you got from them. be a good place to start cuz then we could get them on a schedule of that would help with the 10ear plan. Yeah, I know those people like to say, "Well, you need to replace, but if you're not having problems with it and we're keeping them clean." Yeah. And we do cleaning on these every year, right? These singles twice a year or just once I think twice. Okay. Yeah. So, they come out twice a year.
076I think we have more problems with them right after we put them in. this for any a fire in the one in Mary's room. They took them three times coming out here and find it. I'd meet him down here and they take their little gun. Well, there's no hot spots and then they leave and I get another phone call and I'd come back down here and meet them. I finally made them come in the building and we walked into that room and it was you could smell. It was just a wire inverter. I'm available Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Not Monday. I could do Monday or Friday. So Monday, if Monday is good for everybody, Friday, actually we could spend time with you on Friday for both of us like this coming Friday. Next, the 23rd. 23rd.
077Oh, okay. What is that? So, we want to do that instead cuz we could probably do cuz we work. Yeah, we can spend time doing walk around. Oh, you want to do that instead of the facilities meeting? But could we do the meeting during the day? You guys don't have to stay late. The facilities committee meeting. Yeah. Okay. We can do a walk around in the morning and do a meeting in the afternoon. Sure. Or something. That works for us. Nobody's home everybody away from any uh responsibility. So, you want to do Friday, May 23rd. Do you want to do like 5? What time are you guys want to do? Sorry, I'm always used to you guys having to do after work time. I know. They want to do the walk walkthroughs. No, they were
078saying to me that to have a meeting later. If earlier is better for you guys, let's do earlier. Doesn't matter. Noon. Two. Two. I like two. 2:00. 2:00. And you guys work with Jay on what time you're doing your I'll stay [Music] before I think so 2:30. Is that when you leave? 2:30. Yep. We can move it earlier then. Yeah, it's easy. Like thing I've got going on on 23rd is they're coming coming in to replace a couple windows and but it doesn't matter. All I got to do is show them and they can do their thing. But at noon's good anyway. You guys come before then. Meeting at noon. We'll come before. Okay. Does that sound good? Uh our meeting's at 1:00 cuz he's doing the windows at noon. Okay, that we have lunch
079clean up. Yeah, we have lunch clean. We'll do our meeting. Does that sound good? So, the official facilities committee meeting is at on May 23rd at 1 p.m. Okay, perfect. and you'll I'll post that. getting close and then check see if see if Rick wants to be on the as a I was going to suggest that okay I'll just put him on the calendar invite and then he's just invited otherwise let me know and I'll you guys talked about too we had kind of talked about it a little bit but he never really said yes or no but a lot's going to depend on how things are going so for me. Okay. So, Friday, May 23rd at 100 p.m. Okay, I got that one on there. Um, as far as hiring digital right now, if
080you ask So, um, so that would be the next thing I'm going to talk about. Okay. So, I am excited because we have uh two applicants for the music position. One is a music teacher and the other one has a music background. So, do I want to be a librarian? So, so that is something that we can actually put on the interview question if it was something they would be interested in. When I when I posted the positions today for staff, I said, you know, if you're interested in changing your career, you might be interested in getting a library endorsement, something for you to consider. So, I put that out there in the staff announcement today. That's certainly something that we can ask, you know, if the people that we interview would be interested, so
081we can certainly put that on our question would give us the ability to hire somebody. Yeah. So well either way we can I mean we still can have out of our title one funding the other part of that position can be title one if we can't if we can't double dip. So like I said you know magic fairies there might be one and then I would I would be lying right. So uh today I sent an announcement out to our staff about the library position and the fourth and fifth grade positions and I did write down that music position also even though we do have some candidates that we can interview. So, we need to get an item committee together for that. So, okay. We uh who else was on there with me? Josh. So,
082it can it can doesn't have to be the same all the time. No. What would be nice though would be to have like one group of people that would be the hiring committee like for for this set of people that are that we're advertising for. So, we don't have to always be looking. Like it needs to be the same group of people for each position in my opinion for the we do all we do all of our teaching positions open two of them when you are special when we do our we'll do all of the like all of the music ones be all in the same day so you don't have to worry about that and you were on it for the pair of professionals Cody you were you the person there yeah so it'
083be nice to have a board member myself Mrs. respect its counselor and to have a staff member on the committee. I I I want to request two board members because it is our responsibility I guess would be to to make the decisions but that's I mean that's my preference. Yes. So I mean you could discuss that. However, if we only had like a four board member voting that day when we were hiring and two of the people had been on the committee, that could cause a conflict. It's just something to think about. Yeah, I guess it could, but it's not likely. It's not likely. [Music] Yeah. I just always just When I was doing it before, it was always two board members so that they were us and we always just took a score. Yeah,
084if we have two board members, we have Mrs. Spect and regular staff member. I think that that's fine. So, and I won't do one. So, I don't need to figure out. I could do the music one as well. Okay. So, that's the ones we've got. Yes. So, can you get us that? Can you then get us the application? So, we married them before. You bet. Nice. And so, we do our own this for the music. And did you have a teacher in mind or I just need a volunteer? Just one teacher. Yeah. Last time it was Melissa. Melissa was on. No teachers here. Has to be a certified teacher. I'd like to have a teacher. Yeah. [Music] So I can put it out in an email that we need a teacher. We just put N1
085teacher for now. I did. Perfect. And so I will um if if we can the people on the committee if we can meet afterwards and see what dates are available and I will reach out to candidates tomorrow and see if they can come. Okay. Perfect. Thanks. And then for the others, do you guys want to just be on the same for all of them? That's fine. I like Yeah, I like to do hiring. Yeah, I can. Nobody else wants to, I guess. But okay, that way that way we just have the hiring committee for right now for the four. I have a music background a little too. So that's why you for that one, but I do. Would you like to get your teaching? Just asking provisional. That's what I'm saying. For two years at
086least. Yeah. Is there a conflict though and the teacher? We can just remove him from the board. That's pretty sure. Okay. And then Mrs. Beck, I'm asking if you will. Yeah. Thank you. You will do this. I just I love to have the counselor because the counselor always has a special way of knowing people and it's just my experience with counselors in general. They just have this insight that other people don't have. I'm like I'm like how is that possible? How is that a thing? So I will reach out [Music] sense. Okay. That's it. Okay. There's no other discussion. This meeting is adjourned.