001in please. And uh before we stand, also want to make a notice and a reminder that this will be recorded and is being recorded and will be posted. Okay. All right. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands. One nation under God, indivisible, justice for [Music] all. Next, we are up to our consent agenda. Um, motion motion to approve the consent agenda. Sorry about that. Anything talk about. All right. All in favor of approving consent agenda say I. I. Opposing [Music] signals. All right. Motion pass. Uh give me one second. Okay. Next is we are for uh public comment. This is a time for comment on public matters that are not on the main agenda. Members of the audience are encouraged to briefly address the trustees on an
002issue that is not on the agenda. Chairman of the board will seek comment from the audience on significant items as they occur. Public matters do not include any pending legal legal matters, private personnel issues, or private student issues. Please do not attempt to address such issues at this time or you will be ruled out order. To ensure everyone has an opportunity to speak, each speaker will be given a two-minut title. Is there any public comment? [Music] Yes. So, my name is Will Hayatt. I'm on school district board. I'm the representative for this area high school and we are doing bloody and I'm here to speak for bloody uh in a few weeks I'm going to be [Music] athletes that are graduating seniors and then a little later on I'm glad I can open it door
003to your eighth graders, Courtney, Riss and Tatum, and they'll be starting at Flat High. So, Flat High hasn't passed a levy since 2007. Uh, when the money from that 2007 levy ran out, uh, Flat High started to work with smaller budgets. Every year they'd have to tighten the belt and uh after 18 years uh we're out of belt tightening. We robbed the piggy bank and we've juggled whatever we can juggle. Uh when these kids get to school in the fall, we don't pass this wedding. Uh they're going to be in bigger classes. There's not going to be as many classes. They've got a special interest. That class might be gone. and some of our best teachers will have had early retirement and they'll be gone. If we don't pass this levy and we don't pass
004the next levy, then we've got to start cutting into our programs and some of the programs are most loved in this battle. So, we don't want to do any of that. That's why I'm here. I want to ask the board to please promote our Revy. I've got materials here that I'll just leave maybe uh some posters. Uh there's a slide presentation if I can get it out and some uh pamphlets and some of the slides here are really good at showing what it is that we're looking at in terms of budget and thank you very much. Oh, my I live here in this district and I know kids across the street who go here and thank you for the job you're doing. Excellent education. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Any other public comment? Okay,
005we're going to move on to uhformational items and reports. First, we have administrator's report. So, good afternoon everybody. Welcome. Thank you board for being here. Thank you, Lacy. Uh, so my report is shorter tonight because the last report was a really long one. So, first I would like to tell you about kindergarten roundup. Uh, we scheduled a second roundup and ended up canceling it because we only had three more students say that they would be attending that roundup. So, the first one we had nine and this last one had interest for three. So, instead we made individual appointments and cancelled that roundup. Um, so it's interesting because uh when I was looking and I told you all this before before at the dates of births, it was uh uh during CO. So I don't know.
006I have a hunch that our kindergarten rolling is going to drop for a couple of years like statewide and then all of a sudden we'll have a boom cuz co will be over. So it'll be safe to go back to the hospital. So that's my hunch, but I don't know for sure. Uh so that's my hunch. Anyway, uh next thing, good news. We have an MTSS grant. We received the first part of it this year for $5,000 and then we just got approved on the amendment for another $5,000. So, turned out to be $10,000 for this year for our multi-tered systems of support. So, with that money, this summer we will be sending five teachers to uh Boseman to attend the summer institute. So, that is great. It's always a wonderful experience. So, they'll go
007for three days and it's great. It's a great experience. Um, our student awards assembly is this Friday. So, we will recognize perfect and outstanding attendance, citizenship, outstanding academics, and most improved acade academics. So, that is Friday and it's going home via the newsletter uh going home newsletter last week and teachers are contacting their parents to let you know if their child received an award. Missoula Children's Theater is coming April 28th. So auditions will be the 28th and performances will be on the 3rd of May at 3 p.m. and at 5:30 p.m. We will get that information out to our parents. And I would like to thank again Rick and Sarah Gvy for Sarah and Gardi for hosting the directors of Misilla Children's together. Uh regarding facilities, our portable is up and running. We are using
008it for counseling with Mrs. Spect for speech with Mrs. Hegel and Miss Getting and Miss Diggley are have to some testing. Some students were gifted and talented and we are waiting for the results of those assessments. So they were uh sent to I think it was sent to California. I don't remember but they were sent to be recorded and scored. So we will have those results sometime soon this week. We had a fire inspection we passed. Uh we needed to replace some exit lights because um they don't light up and there's no way to fix them. So they had to be replaced. So Jay has worked on that. He's ordered. was getting those in processes and we passed them an inspection and then we had a safety inspection. The police came and walked around our
009facilities and they said that we need to get a NOX box um so that like a key with a code so that it doesn't freeze so that they can get in at any time. And so we need to get a new knockbox and they recommended taller fencing for safety at minimum 6 ft or 8 ft so that we don't have kids trying to jump the fence cuz they have a 3ft bus and they said that that will just be much better for our location to get that 6ft bus. So that's their recommendation. So when the roundabout goes in I will be saying yeah can you help us with that financing? So, uh, even if they just provided the cost to replace the fence exactly as it is and lose their bill for the difference, then
010it helps us get that safety balance. So, that is my report. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we're on to our clerk's report. Okay. Uh, quick highlight on the cash report talking about PJ Club. It's still solvent, which is good. making it through the year. So, $800 to the good. So, that's good news. We're almost to the end. So, that's good. Makes us think, yeah, our price point is where we want it to be. Um, do start thinking about next year. I know that from a billing perspective shooting here. Yeah, I know that from a billing perspective, it's a mess with the how we're doing the $10, $12. That part's not too bad. that it's the families who get here at 335 and you're charging $36 for three kids, they're not paying. They're refusing. So, I
011end up taking it off cuz they're it's they're not going to pay. So, I feel like you need the price point for like 10 minutes, $5 a family, they're late or something. That's not something, huh? That's not something that would make it more of a match for you. It would be I'd rather take I'd rather charge them $5 and give five bucks than to take off $36. I just we need a little bit of money so that they know they can't pick up their kids late cuz they're going to get charged something. But the families that are that I've had most of this done with have three to four kids. So it's 36 to $48 and they're arguing and not paying. Just Matt had one sign a contract saying she wouldn't do it again. She
012still did it again. We still don't have the money from that one. And I have a family that pays for at the end of the year for anybody that hasn't paid their bill. And I don't feel like those people should pay these people's bills because they're just flat accusing. It's not that they can't. Did we ever have clarification on that when we decided on price point for like the late part? They they have if they're late picking them up from 5:30, it's $10 a minute per child. These kids aren't late. They're literally just attending for like 10 or 15 minutes. So, in other words, mom and dad are like picking them up from school or like a PJ club. It's not because there's an accident. No, we have like two or three that get picked
013up by their siblings from the high school. Have a hard time getting and they're 5 or 10 minutes late. Well, is that something that you would if we told you you could you could negotiate with them and get at least what they owe now? I don't know. Some of them I don't I know my family cannot so I know I won't get it from them. I think that we should put I'm going to put a line item on the agenda for our June agenda once we're kind of done with the school year and have our our actual numbered for PJ this year and then we'll talk through things like that like go to the office and sit with Trish still get here and that's what we we're trying to avoid. So maybe just charge them
014a little bit for the like to 10 minutes and then at 15 they they have to pay the amount cuz that's really late. Great. Yeah. So, food for thought for in June. We're going to definitely dig into that deeper. Thank you. I knew I might. And then, uh, my other reports, the revenue reports and the expenditure reports, they're pretty much spot on for where I would expect us to be at this time of the year. You can see that percentage- wise, we're pretty much equal to where we were last year at what we're spending. Um, the one piece I want to point out on the fund 15 report, which has been like this for a while, you know that the grants go negative because we spend the money and then ask for the money. But
015the title one has been going negative and negative and negative and negative all year long if you've been watching it. And now it's to the tune of like $113,000 to the negative. We have not got our check yet. However, I just got notification today that we have a huge deposit coming from them that opened our account tomorrow. So, finally, it took a really long time. I finally had to reach out to OPI and that's a process in itself right now. Finally got to the right person. Found out that we apparently needed to submit an expenditure report that we didn't we didn't submit. It's a $0 report because we're title one schoolwide, but they still expect you to submit a report for title four and title two and title three. Even though we don't, they're all
016$0 cuz they roll up into title one for us. They were still expecting us to submit those reports and never notified me that they were missing or late. So, when I reached out for why they hadn't approved our cash request, they said, "Well, you're missing expenditure reports." So, it took me all 3 seconds to submit $0 expenditure reports. And then I had enough for the next two weeks to actually approve my cash requests. And like I said, as of today, I got an email that we've got a big old check coming for the June of like 108, I think, cuz it's not the whole amount cuz these are more expenditures that we have. So yeah, that's really good news. And the thing about that report is when you fill out the report, you you have
017to complete all those little sections, but then you roll them over. So So you complete all the title two, the title four, the title five, title six. You complete all of that stuff and then you transfer it over to school once. So even though you filled it out one time and it transfers over. It's like there's no recall when you send it in that you even did that in the first place. So it's it's kind of a weird weird report [Music] system. Um and then student agreement totals. I just added that on there. We're pretty much holding. I don't remember we added one, but it's pretty much a hold at the moment. And then I'll just give a short election update. As you guys know, the Flathead County Election Department is running our election this
018year. Yay. Uh we do have four people running for two spots. Um try to say them alphabetically cuz that's how they're going to be listed. It's Cody Brown. Kyla. No, not Kyla yet. Joe Hideer. What did I say? Did I say Cody? Jody Brown. Sorry. Jody Brown. Um I won't even try. Josh Hunt, Kyla Hutchondorf, and Joe Hideker. Uh, those are the four running. And there's two spots open because Rick's spot and Josh's spot are open. Election day is May 6th. The ballots should be going out by the end of this week. The Flathead County Election Department mails out the ballots this year since they're the ones running the election, but you'll be getting them. And it will actually be in conjunction with the Flat High School levy since the county is running it. You're
019going to get both of those things on one ballot now. So, you're going to see the Flathead County levy. Flathead County Flathead High School levy. Wow, this is hard tonight. Apparently, Flathead High School levy and then the trusty election at Smith Valley will all be on one ballot, which is kind of slick cuz then you have one ballot. You can bring your ballot in here. We will have ballot boxes here at the school to collect them just like we always have. You can mail it, which will go back to the Flathead County Election Department, or you can drop it off at the Flathead County Election Department. So, you have options this year, whatever is convenient. Okay. Any questions on the election? I have a question. So, what's their time that how how they kind of
020turn the ball out here on that day? On election day. 8:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. on election day. Thank you. I think that's all I have for my report. Okay. Next, we have no support. You can have you don't have to say anything. You have to do it without. That's what I said. You know, this is a hard decision. A very, very hard decision because I love you, you and your children. And but my body says that ain't happening no more. So it says sorry baby but but know that my heart and lift kids and it's not been easy just but that I love you [Music] volunteer volunteer to read books in the library. Yeah, I can do that. If you need a substitute really bad, we can call you. Well, that depends upon what? No.
021I didn't say what. No, but we'll see what um the Texas, not Texas, but the Montana retirement system. so many days and then I can before I can return, right? As soon as that's through, then yeah, I will come back and sub occasionally and whatever. But I'll come back and visit. I got to get my kid fixed. Got to come back. They're all like to me, they're all like my grandkids. Some of them call me grandma cuz they found out I'm as old as their grandma. So, what time did we drop our kids off? Well, I words probably can't express and I probably speak for everybody. Uh, thanks so much for like I said words can't express but our gratitude just love and care for everybody that's all kids. Thank you. Thank you. A noble
022one. Yes. Well, what should it have to do with it? We would rather have her retire from there. Yes. I'm very thankful that I'm here. Yeah. I always called the library and I don't know if your kids told you this. It's the noble kingdom. And in my kingdom, the children, the girls are all princesses and must act accordingly. And that happens every day. Oh yeah. And the boys are knights because they don't want to be princes. They're just like, you know, you know, so they're knights and they protect the kingdom and aren't good. That happens every day, too. Oh, yes. Uh-huh. And [Music] I'm soverent, you know, some of the teachers go class. I say park heart and they say all hell the queen. Well done. Thank you. Thank you. Well, thank you. Yeah, I
023wish you best too. All right. Next, we are on to our action agenda. Uh following items are for consideration and possible action. First is personnel. Any offer of employment is contingent upon receipt of satisfactory criminal free background check and satisfactory drug and alcohol screening results and for some positions receive um satisfactory pre-employment screening. Uh before I move on to the next item, I'm going to kind of just set some parameters with how this is going to happen. Um it wasn't handled properly or the best in the past. um public will be open to comment. Uh negative comments will not be tolerated. You can say brief vague things like I have not had a positive interaction but that's that's about it. Um if that's clear otherwise I can stop you or whatever. Um and that's it
024for the report. Okay. Okay. Okay. First item, consideration and possible action to renew or non-renew non-tenure teachers. First, consideration of recommendation to non-renew without cause the employment of Sienna Dickley, a non-tenure teacher in accordance with MCA 20-4206. I move the cons to consider the recommendation of nonrenewal for Syri. without a second. Sorry. Second. Any comment? I would like to say that um Ring had her for fifth grade and she came in out of Mr. Fischer's class and she was having such a struggle with her reading and her math and a struggle with being bullied while she was in class continually. and she went into Miss Dley's class and she didn't tolerate the bullying. She brought Rainey's grades up. She had to go to summer school for reading, but she was caught up by the end
025of fifth grade and she's doing so much better now. I just I really wish you would renew. I would also like to say both my kids have had Sienna. You know, as a new teacher, I feel like it always takes a little bit to get to your footing and learn the ropes and stuff. done. Um, I know the board got my letter and I just hope you guys can renew her contract and both my kids have just loved her and Cruz absolutely adors her. Yes. I'd just like to agree with the comments that were made at the board that my daughter was struggling when she got into her class, but Sienna really brought her back up to where she needed needed to be and made it so she could actually be successful in the sixth
026grade where she was pretty far behind. But she didn't give up on her and she didn't take it easy on her. She actually did the hard work she needed to do to get my daughter where she needed to be. I'm super grateful for her. Any other public comment? All right, I have a first and second. All in favor say I. I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Next have consideration of recommendation to renew to non-renew without cause the employment of Tracy Moon and non tenure teacher in accordance with MCA20-4-206. Take the motion. I move that we consider the recommendation of non renewal without [Music] cause second. First and second. Any comments? No further comment. And the first and a second. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Next I
027have C. the Evansson fiscal year 25 MTSS coordinator stipen [Music] $1,500. I'll take a motion. I'll make a motion to approve CSON fiscal year 25 MTSS coordinator statement 15. There's a second. Any further comments? I would just like to say that this was included in the first part of the grant, but we never made the motion at the board meeting. So, it's in the budget. Thank you. Comments. All in favor say I. I. Sign. Motion passes. Next, we are into 300 uh building discussion. Do we have anything? Not really. Um, I can kind of pick this up since I'm the one that kind of put it back on here cuz at the last board meeting, you guys made a motion to put the advertisement in the paper and then I had sent out some information
028to the board. So, I'm going to talk about it board meeting. It's sent out information that I found out from MTSBA that we have to have an engineer or an architect and or an architect involved in the process because it's a student occupied building. So whether or not we choose to still advertise for a contractor and then ask the contractor to hire the architect/engineer, um I wanted to make sure the board was aware of all of that before I put the ad in the paper because it costs about $300 to run an advertisement in the paper. So for me it was more cost appropriate to talk to the board first. So I sent an email to them and just let them know, hey, I'm going to hold off till we can come back. Yeah, I
029did reach out to vice chair cuz um the chair was not available at the time and got confirmation of that and just make that decision on my own. But I wanted to make sure that the board was had all of the information before we just spent $300 on an app that doesn't make sense. So that's why the discussion items back on the table even though the board took action at the last meeting and kind of put the brakes and brought it back to the table. So, that's where we are is what we found out essentially what I sent out to you guys in the emails. I'm just going to voice my concern cuz I I have the floor at the moment and can do so. Um I'm I'm really concerned about spending our nest egg
030per se, if you want to call it, to bring that building back up to snuff. But I'm obviously more concerned with having to pay for an architect and or an engineer because we can all agree that that's going to exponentially increase the cost. I don't think there's anybody in the room that disagrees with that statement. My biggest concern is our bond just ended on the 100 building, which means that it just hit the 20-year mark. So, if we don't think that that building is going to need or doesn't currently need maintenance, we're kidding ourselves. And this building is older than that building and it also needs maintenance. So my concern is using our building reserve fund and or our Mormon fund and or our inner local fund to bring that building back up to snuff
031and putting ourselves in a bad position to be able to keep our current buildings running and operable and in good condition. So there's my concerns and I I'll just put them out there. Obviously, ultimately it's the board's decision and the community can weigh in as well for you guys, but um that's where that's where I'm at and whatever you guys decide is what you decide. [Music] need that right now. If our if our numbers are staying down where they're at, granted, yes, it would be great to have our a separate room for lunches and all that stuff, but a lot of school chiefs have been. And the reality is that if we if we end up in a problem, we'll end up if we use money for my doing service which I never thought I
032would have spar because they don't give a choice and I would rather as much as I'd like to see that building be it great story it doesn't um and maybe we can think about think enter into some of our stores and the most income from some of these um containers up on top. Um if we're able to store all our papers and stuff in that um it's not safe to have kids in, but it is more than sturdy enough to uh to use it for for that kind of thing. [Music] And I I would just like to uh add to that, Bob. Um as far as maintenance, the exterior of the 100 building, the lower part of it, the siding is peeling apart. So So some of that's going to have to come off. Um
033we have to do some stuff. And then the all of those heaters they said it's going to start doing a rotation where we have to replace some of them and start start replacing them. [Music] Yes. Yes, we do. And then this here in this building probably two or three more years and they say it will be done. So that this is our reason not to spend. I I think what would be a better plan instead of trying to make a decision or give a head one or another figure out how adventure the budget's going to look how our how many incoming students we're going to have and then maybe have the building committee come up with a 10ear plan of you know let's evaluate 100 let's evaluate here how much in the next 10 years
034are we realistically going to need and then make that decision over the building's not hurting anything. Um, originally when we were thinking of tearing down, we were all under the understanding that the building was falling [Music] down and we looked at, you know, we went in and personally looked at the building and it's got good bone stud. The wood is not rott. The only ride that you would find out has maybe a little something in good shape. I know people said that that building was sturdier than that building. Oh. Yeah. Uh I personally really like Cody's idea. I think, you know, our facilities committee, we've gotten really narrow-minded because our focus has just been 300 building, 300 building, 300 building. And I think that that's a great a great Yeah. And it's a great comment
035to look at our facilities, not our 4,000 piece of our facilities. I think that that's a really Joe's nodding. I think that's a really great idea for you. I think that might be a good idea just for my own since I went against the motion from last meeting to advertise. Second. Any further discussion on that? All in favor say I. I post any time. Thank you guys. [Music] Yeah, that's great. We'll try to plan a facilities meeting meeting in a couple weeks and then just start building three more evaluates. [Music] Okay. Next is 2025 to 2026 uh district 5 meal agreement. Everything's [Music] been fun. They've had a whole new crew from the the top of the person to leave cook and they can't count. But, you know, we're working our way around. Dorothy's very
036creative. When you don't have enough pancakes to serve everybody, she comes up with something. We order 100. All right. Yeah. I just don't feed a bunch of stuff. Figure that out. She's really good at figuring out. We need to bring you the dirty girl. I got those beautiful ovens. I can and I don't freeze. There's all sorts of stuff in it. She stocks up on unprustables and things so she can feed them those kids. Um we will see that this contract is a little different than in years past. It looks different. And that's kind of what Doris was saying about since they have new people in charge. They kind of revamp their contract. But this Matt read it cover to cover and that it looks just like the passage. But it looks good. I move
037we accept this five meal agreement for 256. I'll second. Any further comments? All in favor say I. I. All post. [Music] Next MOA reuse stars act. [Music] So I move that we accept the memor memorandum of understanding or actually um for agreement memorandum of agreements for the [Music] start. Yeah, I was going to say as part of discussion, I actually sent out an email today to all staff and all board members because there was a call to action on House Bill 252 today. How do they feel? Um, it's moving positively. It's definitely going in the right direction. So, but it's actually on the floor now. So, now this is like the period of time where it's actually getting voted off to go into law or not. So, if you have the opportunity to grab that
038email I sent out today, it is actually really fast cuz I did it and it was really fast. You have to create an account, but it's literally put in your email, create a password, and then you're in. And you can email the senators, and I even gave you guys in that email which senators to email. Couldn't find one of them in the search. Just ignore that one if you can't find that one, but send it to the four cuz they're the senators from our area. And then I just put in there why it was so imperative that they pass this. And for those of you that are sitting in the room and have no idea what we're talking about, um the STARS Act is a bill in legislature right now that's going to get us
039additional funding um in our general fund. It goes directly into our general fund in the form of an additional quality educator payment for every certified staff member that we have on staff, which for our district comes to the tune of like $60,000, which is a really big deal. And this MOA is a negotiation that the board did with the union to create a new salary grid that meets the minimum requirement of the STARS Act in order for us to be eligible to receive the funding that's in the bill. So, it was awesome watching the union and the board get together with this, make a make a decision about it. Everybody was really excited. It's I mean, we're already going to move it. We're going to pass it tonight and then we just need the Senate
040to do its job and then we'll get to pay our teachers much better. Let's put it that way. Should I renegotiate the I do respect the play. It's really it's it's it's a very exciting um piece of legislation for us because we would never be able to put our teachers where this is going to work. And as teachers who have chosen the state in this district because we prefer the smaller districts, we have consistently been paid anywhere from 8 to 12,000 less per year than what a teacher in district 5 does. especially per year. Especially our base, our base teachers are here. So, just to give this to like a 10,000 foot view for those people in the room, our current base is 31,587. This is going to bring our base pay for teachers up
041to 41697. Kind of pulling that up. 695 695. So close. 416.95. So, a huge win. Um, and 95% of it is going to be paid just purely by the legislature. It's going to cost the school district like $700. $700 to be able to pay our base teachers $10,000 more dollars as well as give all of our current teachers significant raises for going forward. So, this is a huge piece of law that we're trying to get in effect. So far, like like we were saying, it's positive. It's going through. It looks like it's going to pass, but if you have the opportunity to send an email to legislators, go home and do it tonight. It's really important that it passes. It'll it Yeah, correct. Time is of the essence. Don't wait. It gives all of our
042all of the school tools that are adjusting their software all the chance to be on with a huge thing. We've never had that opportunity before. That's great. Okay, further discussion. Uh, I have a first and a second. All in favor say I. I. All same time. Motion passes. Next we have PCS vote for new phone system. I was going to say I'm going to stop you guys. We're going to I'm going to ask you guys to table this one. Uh Kelsey and I met about it today and we want to just do a little bit more research and I know one of the first questions that the board always comes to us with is have you guys looked into other options? Have you checked with other members? I'm looking at you. [Music] So Kelsey and
043I are digging deeper and then we'll either have a special board meeting or we'll talk about it at the main meeting. So wasn't this was this last year too? We've been working on it for a couple years. Couple years. Okay. So, we kind of have dinos a dinosaur phone system and at least twice a month probably there's bots that try to hack into the phone system. So, it's actually it is not safe, okay, for our school right now. So, we we do need to look at something. All right. And then anytime we have a power failure, it something happens to our phones and so our phones are not operable for a while. So, it's a problem. So, I don't know. You guys can I think it would probably be good to make a motion to
044table it even though if it was for discussion and possible action. You don't have to have motion, but we can if that sounds good. I will do that. We're going to table DCS quote for concludes our action agenda correspondence no special discussion and then this meeting is adjourned. Thank you all. Thank you.