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Votes at a glance: Scobey K-12 Schools board approves claims, calendar change, personnel and policy items
Summary
The Scobey K-12 Schools board approved routine claims totaling $124,153.83, activity accounts, a first reading to change meeting schedule, personnel hires and several school-year policy changes during the meeting.
The Scobey K-12 Schools board took multiple formal actions on routine and operational matters during the meeting.
Key outcomes
- Approved minutes and routine claims (checks 19791'019851, Sept. 6 Oct. 9) totaling $124,153.83; questions about an $8,200 line item for welders were answered by trustees who said grant funds and donations covered those costs.
- Approved activity accounts as presented.
- Approved the first reading of board policy 1,400 to set regular meetings on the second Tuesday of each month with Oct. Apr meetings at 05:30 and May Sept meetings at 7 p.m. (amended motion adopted).
- Approved changes to Spartan standards to treat pep band as extracurricular while setting participation and attendance requirements; board discussed enforcement, tryouts and travel eligibility.
- Approved a 2025-26 calendar amendment moving the last day before the holiday break from Monday, Dec. 22 to Friday, Dec. 19 (change requested by the union).
- Permitted the Lions Club to sell 50/50 raffle tickets at home basketball games for the 2025-26 season.
- Approved a three-year copier lease from Office World for the 2025-26 school year.
- Approved several personnel actions: adding Greg Hardy as a substitute route driver and activity driver (pending endorsements), adding Melita Nelson to the substitute list, hiring long-term substitutes (Dale Anderson for part-time elementary PE, Raleigh Paddett for first grade), and naming Rob Rouse, Tammy Nelson, Nikolai Lund and Kevin Nelson as high school assistant basketball coaches (one abstention recorded on Nikolai Lund).
- Hired Neil May as jazz/stage band adviser for 2025-26.
Several items were discussed but left to staff follow-up, including further vetting of contract lengths for the fire alarm maintenance and details of teacher-evaluation software costs beyond the initial contract years.
Procedural notes: most votes were conducted by voice; the transcript records voice votes and some expressions of dissent but does not provide a complete roll-call tally for each motion.
