001I aliance 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. Just do the reminder. Yeah. Um yeah, as a reminder, we are being recorded. Anything you say will be um for eternity in campus. [Music] Um consent agenda. I will make a motion to approve the consent agenda. I second that. Moved and seconded. All in favor? I passes public comment. This is a time for anybody out here that if you have something to say um just remember we can't make any discussion about personnel pro um issues or anything like that uh privacy or that. So does anybody have anything they want to bring up to the board? [Music] No, Joe. No. You sure? He's looking for somebody.
002Okay. Welcome on to the administrator's report. All right. So, welcome everybody. I am glad that you are here. Thanks for joining us. So, I would like to talk first of all about professional development. We were supposed to have some of our staff take reertification for the crisis prevention institute, but that has been delayed and I don't know when it's going to happen. The uh person who is running it has had some family emergencies. So, uh we're just waiting for that to be rescheduled. And then I need to offer an apology to Mrs. Laughin because at our last meeting I meant to talk about her and brag on her, but I did not and it was even on my notes and I skipped over it. So, uh, last month, Mrs. Laughlin was recognized and earned a
003score of 101% for having an excellent kitchen, be clean and spotless, and she earned more than 100. So, an A+ for that. And the reason that she received uh more than 100% is because of her excellent record keeping and taking the temperature of the the readout of the thermometer on the refrigerator more than once a day. So extra credit is a wonderful thing. Extra credit, especially with the health department. Extra credit for that. So congratulations and I am sorry, Mrs. Lren, that I left you off. I did have you on my notes, but I skipped it. I'm sorry. Apologize. I've gotten apologize to her the next day. I'm like, "Oh, I forgot." Um I knew right away at the end of the meeting. I'm like, "Oh my gosh." Uh so anyway, apologies and congratulations to
004uh events. We have several events coming up. So, Friday we have our 78 ski trip. Spring break is happening next week. Oh, yeah. April 4th, end of third quarter already. Time just goes so fast it's crazy. April 7th, we have a staff Monday. We will have a guest presenter on that day from Texas working with our teachers on the into reading curriculum that we have. So, she'll be doing a training a 2-hour session for each grade grouping which will be awesome. So, I'm excited to have her. and Montana is on her bucket list. So, I hope we have good weather. I hope that she can see some things. And then April 14th, we have scheduled a second kindergarten roundup. Um, this year we tried it in March and we had nine students attend and we
005usually have it in April. So, we're going to have a second round up to get more children the opportunity to attend that. So, um, so those are things coming up. Regarding facilities, the portable is almost ready. Um, the alarm system is supposed to be implemented tomorrow. Fully it's installed, but it just needs to be like turned on. So hopefully we can be using it once the break is over. I'm excited. Everyone should be excited. So, um, and if you want a tour, just let me know. I'll take you in, walk through it. And I was thinking that we should have like a like an open house, a portable open house. So maybe maybe in the fall like when we get have our back to school barbecue have like a little tour have balloons and all
006of those things and just or we can do it sooner like we can do it the last week of school or anyway that's going through my head I'm just thinking about you know it's a big deal to have a new facility so we should recognize that and that is our newest building 2016 is when it was made so it is our newest building so we were trying to think of a name to call it the portable or the newest building or whatever. So, we'll think of something. Um, so I would like to next recognize some students. So, we have quite a list of students to recognize from our science fair. So, our county red ribbon winners were Harper Magcguire, Alina Davis, Steel Gizlan, Sydney High Decker, Jonathan Hunt, Whitney Smith, Shelby Hutchondorf, Nolan Sutton, Haley
007Sherman, and Adriana Elliot. They were partners in their activity. Charlie Adamson and Daniel Adamathy. So those were red women ribbon. Red ribbon winners. That's hard to say. That's hard to say. I don't know why. Then blue ribbon and medal winners Beth Wilkkey, Jennity Buckold, Faith Gubby, Courtney Prebble, Breen Ferrell, and Landon Ducket all were reserve winners. Then Blair Alred, Arisa Fetbight, and Isaac Eert were grand winners. And then the overall winners for biological, first place overall was Blair Allred, fifth grade. Third place overall for biological was a sixth grader, Beth Wilkkey. She also won $20. Uh third place overall in biological for eighth grade, Courtney Prebble. She also won $20. Reckon Ferrell and Landon Ducket, third place overall for middle school engineering. and Elizabethite and Isaac Emer Thai for first overall in eighth grade physical
008science with a $100 prize. So all of those students are eligible to go to the state STEM fair which is at the University of Montana on March 31st. So that's quite a represent representation from our school and it's very exciting to have all those kids going. And then I would like to recognize our staff members of the month. So, first of all, individual recognition for being professional and trustworthy. It was a tie. Mrs. Dong, Miss Getting, Mrs. Markwart, and Miss Nelson. For being approachable, the winner was Mrs. Kennedy. For being adaptable and flexible, the winner was Miss Olsson and Mrs. Scalini. Winners were sorry. Uh, for adhering to school policies and procedures, Miss Getting for being team players, helpful and supportive at Tai, Miss Nelson, Miss Olsen, and Mrs. for being a good communicator. Miss
009Getting for seeking to self-improve. Miss Getting for being patient yet expecting accountability. Mrs. Candidate for being involved in a school leader, Miss Nelson. And for demonstrating understanding of child development, Mrs. Dong and Miss Hansen. So the staff members overall and we did February and March because what happened is by the time I got the bulletin board up, it was actually into March. So I got behind. So we're recognizing two staff members. So Miss Getting and Mrs. Dong, they both are staff members of the month for February and for March. So congratulations to them. Uh so they receive when you tally all the votes, they receive the most votes. And the perks that they get, school recognition, a bulletin board feature, newsletter feature, readerboard recognition, a certificate of achievement, and they get a gift card from
010myself for coffee traders or cold stone crearyy and preferred parking. So, congratulations. We have to fight over the parking spot. Congratulations to all of those. We'll have two two little parking spots out there for them. Oh, and so the really fun part of this is there's this little statue of this Barbie. And so the staff came up with this and they call it the candidate award because the Barbie looks like Marie Canada. And so they so when we had two people win it before they shared it. So for the first two weeks two that person one person had it on their desk and in the last two weeks another person had it. So they our staff have come up with the name the candidate award. So that is what they were calling this staff member
011of the month and it is so awesome and so much fun. Um anyway so congratulations to all of those people and especially to Miss Getting to Mrs. Dong. Wonderful wonderful news. And then finally I'm working on two reports. I'm working on the civil rights data collection report and the title one monitoring report. Last year when I did the CRDC report took me 44 hours to get that report done and the title one monitoring report. I don't know how long it's going to take but anyway I had still had a total of 3 weeks to get those done. So thank goodness it's spring break. Yeah. So that's where we are. What were what were your kindergarten numbers that you got originally? Uh for the one day the first day nine. Okay. And we're going to do
012a second one. Do the second one? Yeah. [Music] Yeah, and that was pretty early. I was thinking um so first of all, I wanted to try to get a number to see how many we would have coming in for kindergarten. But what I didn't realize is uh the other schools are waiting until April to get their kindergarten enrollment going. So yeah, so that's where we are. Any questions? Nothing. Anybody? Okay. All right. Thank you. You're up on climate survey. Oh, climate survey. That's me too. Okay. So, you have access to what is called the gap analysis, which is this document that looks like this. Uh, Mrs. Markwart and myself looked at the results of the climate survey, all of the scores that came in, and a one was like a superior score. A two was
013a strong rating, three was middle of the road rating, a four was less so, and a five was even less. on that we received one four that turned out to be a positive and the four I believe was on the student opinion that cyber bullying is a problem in our school and they disagree strongly with that. So that was a positive even though it was a four it was a positive rating. Uh so what I decided to do along with Trish is we took all the threes that certainly can be improved and bring those up at least to a two. uh that would be our goal to move those up. And uh not necessarily all of these, but I have also a two on here in the first from students grade two debate. And the
014two was um that there's an adult at my school I can talk to if I have a worry about I think we can easily move that one. So that's an easily doable thing and it won't take very much effort. And I've written a little goal here by the first Monday not each student will identify two trusted adults during counselor class. That's easy to do. So, we can take care of that right away. Uh, but what I have done is where it says next steps for improvement is Mrs. Markwart and I talked about this and we said, "Well, how can we turn this around? What will our goals be?" And so, I've gotten I I've written down several things here for students and three through eight and staff. And then on the second page, parents and
015caregivers also. So, ideas of how to reach those. and I'm working with our uh MTSS team, our multi-tered systems of support team to come up with uh three or four priorities and then we will present how we're going to do this and present it to the board. So we I'm working with the team. We've already had one meeting and we're going to schedule another meeting that we have one scheduled for April 8th. 8th April 8th. Thank you. And uh so we're going to talk about this and and get a plan in place. Um, one of the things that was interesting that all of the uh stakeholders said was you and all of three was I like my school building. Meaning our building certainly needs to be refreshed. And so the team um our MTSS team
016came up with this plan to um do something with the hallways just make it, you know, put some murals or put some nice sayings or something that represents our school just to make it a nice place when you walk in. can delete the bulletin boards but maybe turn them sideways so we have more places for um you know to to put what we want to express about our school. So just little things like that and to get teachers involved. So that's something that we would start in the fall but we are working on a plan and uh this is just an outline of what we came up with for these results. So this is the gap analysis for everything got that got a three. In fact I think I got a two or one except
017for the one thing I didn't write it down because those were already pretty good things. So you know take time to review it and it sounds it's online in our agenda. our agenda packet and go ahead and find it. And um yeah, lots of good information. And then we have Mrs. Is that here? Oh yes. So Mrs. Getting is sick today. So uh Sienna offered to come in and talk about our gifted and talented program. So Sienna, would you do that please? Um so last week we started myself and Miss Getting going into classrooms and um teaching critical thinking activities. Um so for example there's perplexers is what they're called and it's essentially it's a word puzzle. So it'll be like what penguin had a pink dress and was eating goldfish or something. Um and
018the kids absolutely love that. I get to go through third, fifth of course cuz those are my kids. Um, sixth and 8th and then Miss Getting does K2 4 and 7. Um, and the kids just absolutely love it. Um, I did it with some of the sixth graders and it was nine dots and they had to connect it with five straight lines and four straight lines and three straight lines and one straight line and no straight lines. And there was one specifically I remember that used pins to connect all of the dots, like laid them all on top of each other and they're like, "They're all touching." And then there was another one that like stapled them all together and it was pretty funny. So, it's just getting kids thinking outside the box. Um, we
019had a couple kids that were pretty resistant to it cuz it's just a different way. Um, but I'm super excited that we've kind of started it. We have all the testing and everything. We did get our KOAT test last week. Um, I was able to test our sixth graders that were eligible. Um, and then my plan, because I do Wednesday, so every Wednesday I'm here, but I'm not here. Um, I'm doing DT stuff. So, um, my plan is to test some of the eighth graders tomorrow. And then I think Joanna was depending on sickness or if she's back hopefully. Um Friday was going to test some of either the third, fourth or fifth graders um with those Kogat tests which are cognitive ability tests that kind of make them think outside the box as well.
020Um and then like Matt said, our portable will be ready. Um so speech is in there, GT's in there, and then counseling's in there. So when we pull pull out for individual projects or anything for our GT kids, that's kind of where we'll go, which is nice because then we have a home. So yeah, any questions? How are the students doing? They they love it. Loving it. Um I have done third grade twice now and they're like so excited about it. It's hilarious. And then fifth grade I'll do tomorrow. And so eighth grade. Uh, thank you. One of the really cool things about this is that we are doing schoolwide. So, we're making sure that all of our classmates get gifted and talented twice a month. And then the students that qualify for the gifted
021and talented enrichment clusters, then they will receive once a week, I think once a week. Is that right, Sienna? Once a week that they'll meet. Yes. Yes. So, they have to to get a certain score uh in their KOAT test and then plus they have other teacher recommendations and all kinds of other things that we've done to determine who they who they are and we don't know who they are yet. So, cool. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, L. You're fine. Um, so I'm going to kind of glaze over the reports unless anybody wants to dig into them any deeper. We usually just you guys have the opportunity to review them and ask questions. So I'm going to kind of jump down to the A and B counts, the election update and the stars act. So
022I attached the A and B counts for you. And we knew this was coming. We've been talking about this as not a blind side by any stretch of the word. We knew that this was year three of watching our A&B go down. So, we knew that our three-year average A&B was going to go down this year, which it did. Um, obviously, we're going to be talking budget starting next month pretty heavy. Going to be starting to talk about it and you see it attached down in the action agenda, the kind of the initial budget piece. So, as we get down into that, we'll talk about that more. But, um, you know, we we've been prepared. We knew that this was coming. It's just we're gonna start have to start start making adjustments. I know it's
023already on Mrs. Matt's radar. She's got lots of ideas for how to move into next year. Like I said, we'll be talking about that a lot more as we get into summer. Uh we don't get into it too much until after the year the fiscal year closes so that we can see where we actually came out and what our actual budget numbers are going to look like for next year. So June, July, and then August is when our budget is due for next season is when we'll be heavily talking about these numbers. So, but the discussions will start next month. So, at this point, if you was to use a three-year average again, we're only losing $45,000. Correct. I mean, only that's a I mean, that's right. That's But it's better than if we have
024to go Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, absolutely. Right. It's still helping us to use our three-year average because if you look at our FY23 numbers right on that spread on the spreadsheet, if you look at our FY23 numbers, the fall count at 224 and the spring count at 206 significantly better. It's next year. Yeah, that's really going to hit us. So, got kind of one more year where it's going to be not as bad, but yeah, it's this year is going to drop about 40 like you said, and then next year we're going to see it probably a pretty significant jump. Um, unless our A and B does some magical jump up, but I I don't necessarily anticipate that. I don't think any of us anticipate that. So, Lacy, is it I assume you put those
025under LM,N, and O, those three options, the revenue budget. So worst case scenario, 3 years from now as we continue to roll that average, we're going to be 1.4. Yeah, not really. I mostly just kind of put that for your guys' information so that you see that the it's kind of thankfully that there is a formula that that we can use a three-year average is more why I bring this to your guys' attention because if we didn't have the opportunity to use the three-ear average, we would be at the 1.5. So, we would lose $100,000 just bam if we didn't have the opportunity to use the three-year average. The third number is really kind of an arbitrary number because it's using one count, which is not something that you would do. You would use the
026overall A and B formula, but I like to put that one in there because we're trending down obviously. So, the reason I put that one in there is because if we stay on that low number, that's more the number that you're going to see going forward with obviously with the 3% increase that happens if legislature passes the 3% again or if we end up with a bigger increase or whatever it is. But it just gives you kind of a guideline of what is it going to look like if you know if we don't have that opportunity. So, it won't be the 1.4 four because inflationary increase. But yeah, it's going to give you a decent look at what it would look like if our A and B number sits at that 180 for the next
027three years in a row. So to Bob's point, it's going to be potentially closer to that number, which is a $210,000 difference in it would be down the road, right? Plus inflation. Yeah, it's a hit. But a lot of things change if we stay at that number. Staffing obviously would be able to change because we wouldn't need the staff that we have, right? So yeah. So more I mean I put this I I always look at previous year's agendas and on our March agenda last year I had this report on there. So I figured it would be helpful to present it again this March since we have the numbers. It's more just free and B was February, right? Free. Yeah. Yeah. or just bring it to your guys' attention and so that it's on your
028radar. This is definitely something we've already been talking about, so this isn't a blind side by any stretch of the imagination. It's just making sure that you kind of know what's coming. So that first look is going to be about 42,000 like Bob said from last year. So plus or minus plus% that we may be. Yeah. And they're still in session. So, and we still don't know where that's general funds. We don't know where title one or any of that. Correct. And we won't know title one until we don't usually find out till fall, August, September. Makes it really hard. It does make it hard. Yep. Um, are we good on A and B counts? Do you want me to keep moving? Okay. Um, election update. We have received a declaration of intent. Uh, second
029one. So, now we have two seats open. We've received two forms. Uh we've received one from Josh again whose term is up and we received one from Jod Brown just yesterday. So we do have two declaration of intents for the two open seats currently. So that's where we are. So currently if that's all we receive, we will not have an election. The deadline is the 27th for receiving those forms. So if anybody else is interested in running for the board, those forms are due by the 27th. Joe Um, okay. And then the last thing that I was going to talk about is the STARS Act. Has anyone heard anything about the Stars Act in legislature or anything? Okay. So, uh, Mrs. Matt and I were talking about, we kind of want to give just an
030overview, just a very preliminary conversation, and we'll probably both talk a little bit here about what the STARS Act is, what it looks like, what it means for us, or what it could potentially mean for us. Clearly, this is just under my report for now. We're not looking at any action yet, but it may be coming down the pike. So, the STARS Act is currently in legislation. It has not passed yet, but it is looking very positive to passing. Most districts in the valley have already looked at the STARS Act and adjusted their um collective bargaining agreement salary schedules to line up with the parameters of the STARS Act. At this point, we have not because I didn't want to put all of the energy and effort into doing it if it wasn't going to
031pass. And ours is frankly a lot smaller of a CBA than some of the bigger districts. So, we waited. Uh what it essentially means is if you are able to pay all of your teachers the minimum salary that they require, 41. It's about $41,000. If you're able to pay all of your teachers minimum that dollar amount, then you'll receive two quality educator payments. So, currently we receive a quality educator payment for every certified staff member by law. It's in legislator legislature already. It's in the law. So, we receive one QEP payment for every certified staff member, which is about $3,700 per staff member is what we receive. And it's part of our general fund budget. It's in our basic entitlement. So, it's not something that we receive above and beyond our general fund. It's in
032our general fund budget. It's in our basic entitlement money. That's per certified staff. Per certified staff member. So teachers. Okay. So what the STARS Act says is that if you are meeting this pay minimum, then you will receive automatically a second QEP payment for every certified staff member. Well, that equates to a decent chunk of change if you can meet the salary requirement that they're saying. Now, if you look at our salary schedule, that's about step eight in our BA0. I say what what's our base right now? 31 $10,000 in the BA0 in that in that one. Just preliminary numbers. And like I said, we're only talking about it right now just so that you guys have an idea of what what is potent what we're looking at. preliminary numbers, we would need to pay
033about an additional $40,000 in order to get all of the staff that is not on that number up to that number. But we would receive about 60 under the STARS Act. Okay. However, that's only getting the staff that isn't currently at that number to that number. That doesn't touch any of the other stuff. If you do that, then everybody's going to want to go. I am I am well aware of that. So, uh the reason we wanted to talk about it for a couple reasons. One, the majority of the valley, if not all of the valley is adjusting for the stars act. So, that means that their base pay is going to be that $41,000 number for a new teacher. If Smith Valley School doesn't look at this with some serious reality, we will not
034teachers. We will not be able to employ teachers here cuz we will be the one school that is not paying back. Um we obviously have things not going for us in this direction. We just talked about that with our A&B and our general fund number. However, the stars act brings in money, right? So if we can get creative with how we can build a matrix, okay, if we are able to reopen negotiations with our union and we are able to get creative, which we have done in the past, and figure out a matrix that makes sense, bring the attainment level down potentially. It's only way it works potentially. Um, people are freezing steps, which we used to have here. We used to have frozen steps and they don't move for 3 years and then they
035move. people are, you know, all sorts of things are happening across the state. Uh MTSBA has been helping districts try to figure out how to negotiate this so that it makes monetary sense because it doesn't make monetary sense if we can't make a pencil, right? Um and then you also in order to continue to get it have to raise each year to their next level. However, they again give you that extra QP payment. So, it can equate to more money for your district overall if you can get creative with how you create your matrix so that you're paying your teachers more competitively, which we all want to be able to do, right? We want to be able to have quality educators. That's the point of it giving you a quality educator payment is you want
036to have quality educators in your school. So, the point is to retain those teachers at our district. we want them to be here um stay within our budget number and then the state is going to give us extra money if this passes in legislature again most districts that are that are already in negotiations and by the way it's just anou or an MOA whichever one so me memorandum of under memorandum of understanding or a memorandum of agreement whichever one you choose they're basically the same thing and in that you can state that if the stars act doesn't pass that none of what you have agreed to goes into place is what districts are doing because obviously if it doesn't pass none of these districts can afford to pay these higher rates of pay, right? So
037that's how they're doing it. So we wanted to just kind of have a conversation, let you guys know that it's out there. Um this is the next thing on my major project list is to start to see what I can do creatively with numbers to see what we can put together to see if this is something that we can touch. If if we did got everybody up where it's at, there's about $20,000 left over, right? Correct. To basically spread along the rest of the matrix. Correct. Or to do it's it's general fund money. So it isn't it it doesn't have to be, but correct. We know what Yeah. Yeah. I think if obviously if this goes through, we need to make it work somehow because it's better for staff, gets us more money. I think
038with the big thing I'm looking at is how many kids we've lost and how how are our staffing levels compared to that versus the minimum requirements? Because if we did end up losing more staff or if we were good at the staff that we had then that you know that we can have more money to play around with at that point. Do we have a was there a rough timeline on the vote for that? So May 1st it has we have to know for sure by May 1st. So we have to have the MOA by May 1st. Uh for your information it's House Bill 252. Thank you. In case you want to go have some light reading. Mhm. So the only thing actually there is something we should have acted on tonight. Yeah. Except I'm
039not ready to reopen. Correct. Except I'm not ready. So um and we talked about that as well. We talked about having it as an action item, but the problem is is I I couldn't have the numbers to the point where I felt comfortable reopening or asking you guys cuz I can't do anything, but asking you guys to reopen negotiations. Um, we're both feeling obviously strongly that we're moving that direction as I can hear you guys are as well because it obviously makes sense, right? There we have to do it. We can't afford to not be able to hire cuz we'll lose good teachers and we won't be able we won't be able to hire anybody that's not already. The only way you would be able to hire anybody would be to pay them, give them
040more than the five years experience. And the ones that we have like, oh, I'm going over here because they're paying, right? So, yeah, all of our younger teachers would leave. We kind of talked about the reopening of negotiations on this on the sport agenda, but kind of I don't know. I I didn't really feel comfortable asking you guys to do that. The only thing is if we have to know by May 1st, it's going to be a short negotiation. It will, but we can schedule a special board meeting to reopen negotiations. It'll be a twominute meeting. Open the meeting, reopen, close the meeting. And what we have to have initially is that MOA that we, you know, are working on things. So, we don't have to have anything resolved right away. So, um, do the
041has the union been advised that this may happen? No. So, it's only just come to light that this is a thing that is actually happening. Like within like the last week or two weeks, it's only just come to light. So, everybody's been talking about it and now it's like, "Oh, well, it's likely that it's going to pass." Like, very likely. Somebody needs to go to the legislature and say, "Hey, if you passed this, you better give us more money, too." The STARS Act passed the House. I couldn't remember if it was the Senate of the House. I Googled it real fast cuz I knew it had passed one, but not the other yet. It passed the House on February 22nd with an 88 to9 vote. It's currently um in the Senate and has not yet
042been passed in the Senate. So that's where it's sitting. So it's part of why I haven't been I mean part of it is just myself. I had to timeline things with the what I had going on. So I had to timeline what I was working on and the stars act got kicked down the road a little ways. So, now we're here and now it's time for it to come to the front of the to-do list and that's what's going to happen. So, and we've actually been talking about it for quite a while. Lacy and I have, but it just it's been one of those things like like Lacy even received the communication saying, "Oh, no, there, you know, it's not they're wrong. They have it wrong. They don't know what they're doing." And um and
043things turn around and all of a sudden, you know, things become more factual and less rumors are floating around. So, things weren't very factual for a long time. It was a lot of supposition because people were saying, "Well, I I believe if it passes the house, say the age of nine, even if even if the governor vetoed it, it's going to they'll override it." Yeah, it's going to go well. And the other thing now is that since it's on the table, you can actually go read it, right? Until it was actually on the table, it was I think this is what they're going to try to put into action. um like MTSB had sent out a bunch of communication about it, but it was all kind of wishy-washy at that point in my opinion about
044what's it actually going to look like? What is what does this mean? What they didn't have the number threshold. They didn't have the uh any of the that information wasn't out there yet. So, uh now they even have a spreadsheet that can help you calculate where we need to be, which is how I know which people we need to bring up and what we need to do. But now we have to figure out how to make a matrix that'll work. Any other questions about that for now? So, you want to hold off before we meeting? Well, I just need scheduling a meeting um in a row before we Yeah, thank you for asking. Yeah, we're going to do that. We do start working on that. If you want some you can come some assistance. Okay,
045it is on my this week's docket. So, I expect by Friday I'll have several options there. Don't forget. [Music] Okay, let's see. Remember, do we have to take a motion on this since it's got all of the money stuff? No. No, that's just budget partisan information. We'll just move on to the action agenda. Um take care of the personnel side of the agenda. First, um hiring E. Olsen as cross country coach. I'll make a motion to hire E. Olsen as a fiscal year 25 head country cross country coach, grades K through eight. I will second. All in favor? I opposed. Um, need a motion to approve the contract. I'll make a motion to approve the contract for E Olsen Fiskier 25 cross country coaches K3. Second. All in favor? I. All. You're going to run
046with them? Oh, my wig. Okay. 300 building discussion. Go ahead, Cody. I was hoping Joe would take one. No. Uh, and Joe do it last time. So, we had a meeting last week. Mhm. Um, or was it this week even? I don't remember. We had a meeting. Um, we haven't had a lot of uh interest so far in bidding for the 300 building cuz we haven't opened it up to bid. But we've gotten enough information that what we want to do is run a news article in the daily interlate for a general contractor. So, it'll be an all-encompassed. Whoever wants to bid can bid and they'll be bidding as a general contractor. Um, we want to set a end date for April 30th. Is that right? I think so. I think so. And then, um,
04730 days. Mhm. Yeah. So, so we we give it wait till the end of the month, give it 30 days in the inner lake and then at that point we'll collect them all as blindsideds and go from there at till we have a pretty good idea of what we want. We we've got a good idea. I mean, we we can't get hard numbers from anyone because no one's going to spend the time to give us hard numbers because they legally couldn't. But we know what we want to do. We know about what we want to do um at at a very high level. Yes, I would say we don't have details. Yeah, we we've kept it pretty high level to let people come in and kind of give us what what we need to do
048cuz they knew what they were doing. All of the numbers that we've gotten, I'm pretty optimistic about uh to stay within budgets and everything. So, that's why I want to go ahead and advertise in the other leg for general contractor. Okay. So, I need a motion to uh produce an advertisement for uh for a general contractor for the 300 building. So, I'll make a motion to advertise in the daily interlate for general contractor. I'll second that motion. Move and second. Any in favor? I opposed. Okay. Motion passes. You guys I I assume you guys have a pretty good idea how you want to you already have it pretty well written and figured out what you want to do. Well, it was in the facilities committee me meeting minutes. It just says we need to advertise
049in the daily interlink and accept sealed bids from general contractors for the whole scope of the project. Project includes roof, drywall, electrical, HVAC, insulation/vapor barrier, ventilation, plumbing, ADA, possible mold remediation, bids due by 4:30 at 4 p.m. Bid opening on 4:30 at 5:00 p.m. [Music] And just because we get bids doesn't mean we have to take action at that point. We're just soliciting. Yep. Interesting. We want to know where we're going to be at. Yeah. This gives us the option numbers wise to get numbers and people actually spend the time to do it, but we don't have to take any action. If they say we can do it for what we already have in bank, go for it. Yeah. Exactly. Well, we really don't know until maybe we know. I mean I mean we we
050come down to that all still comes down to the fact that if if we stay at 180 students do we really need I mean we need to winterize the building well so that it's there well at this point Jay we've been going through it and feel pretty confident that winterization we we don't have leaks right now. Yeah. And that's so far. So far, so she's a nice solid building. I mean, that that building is a good bones. Yeah. Very few buildings as good bones as that. Even the fire department said that when they were here. Yeah. For considering how old they So, I think given the timeline that we're putting on this, it it'll kind of work out with the staffing issues and looking at budget as a whole, right, before we make decisions. I
051was going to say, make sure I'm thinking about this. So, the opening of whatever bids we get on 4:30, again, no decision needs to be made. We have to have a board meeting, a vote, and by then we'll be well through budget or on our way through budget process. Okay. We'll have a better idea. We'll have a way better idea. We still won't know title one, but Okay. I mean the reality is the the money that you guys are going to use for this project is nothing that's in the general fund. So I look at them as two very separate budgeting projects. It is basically building funds. I mean it's reserves. You can't use reserves for just you can't move reserves into general fund. So yeah, you're really looking at the Borman fund, the anything
052in fund 15, the miscellaneous fund, and all stuff pretty specific what we can spend it for. We're not going to touch the general fund and we're going to can't touch any of our grant funding like title. So unless we can find a grant to build. There you go. Okay. So, okay, let's move on. uh res resolution 252 intent to impose an increase or decrease in levies. Now this does not mean that we are asking for a levy. Correct. It is just something that we have to do. Make a motion for the resolution of 25-2 intent to impose an increase decrease in levies. I'll second that motion. All All in favor? I I opposed. Uh, school calendar. Don, you're on again. Yes. So, our um calendar committee met a couple times and I presented them with
053information from a couple of the district calendars that were already created for this year and then plus four different district calendars from the valley from last year just so that everybody could see how they were structured. And one of the things that the staff really liked was having those occasional Mondays where they got to work um as a staff and some of that for for professional development and some of it just for work time. So we came up with this calendar that you see uh before you and one of the things that is important is that our spring break and Christmas break match that of Callisville School District 5. Uh so a lot of our kids go they feed into the high school. So it's important that we have that same safe calendar. So we
054have that. Um one of the things that is different this year is uh we have increased our school day by 15 minutes. And the reason for that is because um we cannot count. So let's stop. I'm I'm going to start this again. So um our lunch recess for all of our kids in grades 4 through has to be supervised by a certified teacher and it has to be a structured recess of where you count those minutes for the day. So what I had been doing was I had like a generic lesson plan saying that these are the activities that kids will be doing but they were supervised by paras during that time. And so the law says that it has has to be a supervised teacher or you can't a certified teacher or you can't
055count those minutes. So, we've extended the day so the kids can still have their pre-recess because if everything's structured in the kids's day, they don't get to develop. They don't get to think for themselves. They don't get to develop those social skills. So, those are really important skills. So, we have extended the day by 15 minutes so that all of our kids in grades 4 through 8 can have a free recess at lunchtime. Um, one of the things that will be coming up for uh, grades four and five is that their recess that they have during the day in the afternoon cannot be called recess. It has to be a structured supervised activity with a lesson plan every single day. I know it's it's a lot. So, so we're going to be creative and come
056up with some ideas for kids and uh I will make sure that that um if they call it outdoor learning or if they call it motor action skills or whatever they call it, I'm going to make sure that they have that um aesthetic learning time that whatever whatever we call it. I like that. Actually, we need an E in there so we can have like Kelt or something like that. Anyway, we need a name. Um, but something uh that in the morning because we'll be getting rid of a recess. Uh, so that will be countered with either music time or PE time. So, they have two physical activity periods during the day. So, one in the morning and then that's some kind of a structured activity in the afternoon supervised by certified staff with a
057lesson plan. So there's a requirement. Um, Fairmont Eaggan got audited last year and thankfully they were already in process. I spoke with Cal Ketchum in October and he said a few years ago that uh, West Valley actually got in trouble for that because they had like what we had with just a generic plan that the kids would be doing this, but it wasn't a certified staff out there. So it has to be certified. Um so in the past in that afternoon recess the PE teacher was out there in the past and that's so then we did have a certified teacher. So um again you know if you're just talking like 15 minutes I'm just thinking about the whole schedule the whole schedule because we have eight grades nine grades for PE teachers teach. So um
058anyway I haven't decided how it's going to happen. we have to talk about it. Um, but it has to happen and then the day is lengthened so the kids do get that free recess at lunchtime. Otherwise, that would have to be supervised by certified staff. How does the longer day affect the contract? Um, it doesn't it doesn't. So, what time would the school end at? So, school get will get end at 3:20 and it will start at 8:25. Uh, 3:30 and start at 8:25. Okay. But they'll just have students for a longer period of their contract time. Is there a conduct? As long as it doesn't affect the contract. Okay. So, um anyway, yeah, it's a it's interesting all of the stuff that is mandated. Um there's so much stuff that's mandated. They keep adding
059more. They keep adding more and kids don't get to be kids and it's it's pretty rough. So, that affects Sorry. Oh, go ahead. That affects your budget planning for next year too because now you have to keep pairs longer for hill duty and all of that stuff after school. It'll have a small effect. Yes, it will. We got a start date of uh August 27th this year. Oh yes. So before because the teachers wanted to get out earlier in June, they didn't want to go into that second week of June. Okay. So starting earlier I was going to say, you know, it wasn't just me. To me, I would rather go June is nasty. Yeah, exactly. I would rather go longer in June and wait until like the second week of September to start because
060early September it's hot. Yeah, it's beautiful. Well, they had a committee and they voted. I know. Yeah. And we also looked at I wasn't on the committee. We also looked at the other calendars. You could be. We looked at um We looked at Cal's calendar. They're getting out like the let's see what is June. They're getting out the 11th of June I think. Cal School District is getting out late. So and our staff were like no because by the end of the year that time of year kids are not thinking. I mean they're not thinking about anything except for summer going outside. They're checked out at Memorial Day weekend. Yeah. But would they be if they knew they had to go until mid June? I think they're checked out because it's the last week of
061school. No, they're checked out two months before the end of some of them are checked out. Okay. So, you would like us to approve this calendar? I would like you to approve this calendar, please. Okay, I'll make a motion. Oh, sorry. I'd like to thank the committee also for working on it. I'll make a motion to approve the 2025 through 2026 school calendar. Second. Moved and second. All in favor? I I oppose. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Um that's the end of the action agenda. We got some correspondence. The a letter from the Secretary of State. Yeah. I just always attach this every year to show you guys that our election plan was approved. Okay? They send a letter and then the MOA that you guys approved at the last board meeting, I just attached
062the one that the county signed so that it's the fully executed version. That's it. Okay. Do we have any other special discussion? Anybody want to bring anything up before we adjourn? If not, meeting a journ. Good.