April 29, 2020 at 5:00 PM - Regular Board Meeting

1. CALL TO ORDER

2. IMPORTANT DATES

3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Regular Board Minutes 4/14/20 

4. APPROVAL OF AGENDA 

5. PUBLIC COMMENT:

6. ITEMS OF INFORMATION

6.A. Building Reports: 

6.A.1. Child Nutrition, Warehouse, Copy Center - Lynne Keenan

6.A.2. Parent Community Outreach, Childcare, FIT - Nikki Hannon

6.A.3. Spookinaapi (Good Health) Project - Cinnamon Crawford

6.A.4. Blackfeet Language-NAS - Robert Hall

6.A.5. Gear Up - Melanie Magee

6.A.6. Activities Department - Everett Armstrong (Verbal)

6.A.7. 21st Century - Heidi BullCalf 

6.A.8. Technology Department - Everett Holm

6.A.9. Transportation Department - Teri DeRoche

6.A.10. Maintance-Facilities-Security-Construction - Reid Reagan

6.B. Superintendent's Report

6.B.1. Corrina Guardipee-Hall

6.B.1.a. Superintendent Update

6.B.2. Stacy Edwards

6.B.2.a. Building Native American Education for a Better Future Foundation, Inc

6.B.2.b. Browning Public Schools FY19 Audit Report

6.B.2.c. Budget Update-Adopted Budget, Grant Budgets Elem-High School 01/01/20 - 03/31/20

6.B.3. John Salois

6.B.3.a. Hiring Status Update

6.B.3.b. Coaching Season Update

6.B.3.c. Employee Benefits - Verbal

6.B.4. Resignations

6.B.4.a. Willie A. Sharp, Big Sky Colony Teacher, Effective 4-9-2020

6.B.4.b. George Sharbono, Elementary Teacher-KW Vina, Effective 6-3-2020

6.B.4.c. Patrick Armstrong, 5th Grade Immersion Teacher-Napi, Effective 6-3-2020

6.B.4.d. Gaylene Henderson, Elementary Teacher-BES Effective 6-4-2020

7. ITEMS OF ACTION

7.A. Hiring (Pending Successful Background Check/Drug Test):

7.A.1. Elementary

7.A.1.a. Raquel Little Plume, Science Teacher-BMS 2020-2021

7.A.1.b. Sierra Matt, Health, PE Teacher-BMS 2020-2021

7.A.2. High School

7.A.2.a. Lester Johnson, III, Family Consumer Science Teacher-BHS 2020-2021

7.A.3. District Wide

7.A.3.a. Robin Bird-England, K-12 Behavior Intervention Specialist 2020-2021 ($46,000.00)

7.A.3.b. Colleen Nolan, Administrative Assistant-Special Education 2020-2021

7.A.3.c. Reid Reagan, Maintenance/Facilities Director 2020-2021 ($1,359.00)

7.A.3.d. Dennis Juneau, Assistant Superintendent-Director of Instruction 2020-2021 ($102,000.00)

7.B. Contract Service Agreements (Pending Successful Background Check): 

7.B.1. District Wide

7.B.1.a. Rebecca Rappold, Grant Writer for Montana Comprehensive Literacy State Development Program ($2,160.00)

7.B.1.b. Alida Wright, Speech, Language Pathologist 2020-2021 ($50,600.00)

7.B.1.c. Gregory Logan, Speech, Language Pathologist 2020-2021 ($70,400.00)

7.B.1.d. Katie Barcus-Kuka, Speech, Language Pathologist 2020-2021 ($82,280.00)

7.B.1.e. A.W.A.R.E, Inc. (Children Developmental Disabilities) 2020-2021 ($31,350.00)

7.C. Out of State Travel: None.

7.D. In State Travel: None.

7.E. Approvals

7.E.1. Elementary

7.E.1.a. Amend Contract-Alicia Running Bird, Elementary Teacher 2020-2021 ($7,546.00)

7.E.2. High School

7.E.2.a. Create New Physical Education/Health Position for Browning High School 2020-2021

7.E.3. District Wide

7.E.3.a. Create New Teacher on Assignment- Instructional Coach for IEFA/BNAS Position 2020-2021

7.E.3.b. Alternative Grading Plan During COVID-19

7.E.3.c. Standards Based Education Summer Committee (SBE) 2020 ($87,814.80)

7.E.3.d. Leavitt Group Health Insurance Proposal for 2020-2021 ($5,147,320.00)

7.E.3.e. Contract Between Montana Medical Billing, LLC and Browning Public Schools 2020-2021

7.E.3.f. Consent to Representation of NMTC Financing and Building Native American Education for a Better Future Foundation, Inc

7.E.3.g. Purchases Over $10,000.00

7.E.3.h. District Claims Check #430573 - #430681 ($1,293,769.74)

7.E.3.i. Student Activities Claims Check #704339 - #704348 ($4771.13)

7.E.3.j. Additional Pays-Payroll

7.F. PERSONNEL: None

7.G. LEGAL ISSUES: Legal Update

7.H. ADJOURNMENT