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SINGLE COPY $1.25 tax included he iller ress USPS 349-720T Vol. 138 No. 25 www.themillerpress.comM [email protected] Miller, Hand County,P SD 57362 Wednesday, Feb. 19, 20202020 City selected to Still time to get involved in school or city government receive funds for Vicki L. Prentice rently held by Dean Kolda. A minimum of didates will need to fi le with Nikki Rogers, If you have ever thought you would like three signatures from any registered vot- Ree Heights Clerk, on or before the February sidewalk project to be involved in school or city government, er within the St. Lawrence city limits is re- 28, 2020 deadline. it’s not too late to circulate a municipal or quired. The City of Miller has been school board nominating petition–if you do Nominating petitions for positions the Miller School Board selected by the South Dakota it right away. Here is some information you City of Miller and St. Lawrence boards are irculation of nominating petitions is also Transportation Commission to might fi nd helpful. due in the offi ce of the Miller Finance Offi - Cunderway to fi ll three positions Miller receive up to $214,576.88 in Fed- nd cer at City Hall (120 West 2 St., Miller), by School Board currently held by Bryan Bre- eral Transportation Alternatives Municipal positions Friday, Feb. 28 at 5 p.m. City Finance Offi cer, itling, Robert Mullaney and Tara Yost. Each funding to complete engineering hree Miller City Council seats will be- Sheila Coss, recommends getting more than term is for three years, and may be fi lled by and construction of the Miller come vacant when the terms of Alder- the required amount of signatures, in case anyone 18 or older living within the school Bike Path Phase 1. T man Bob Steers, SuAnne Meyer and Anthony some of the signatures are not valid. district. The purpose of the planned Rangel expire. If two or more people fi le for the same Prospective school board candidates will ADA compliant sidewalk would Anyone wishing to run for a two-year municipal board position, there will be an need to gather signatures from at least 20 provide safer passage for stu- term in Ward 1, Ward 2 or Ward 3 must cir- election on Tuesday, April 14, 2020. How- registered voters and fi le the petition in the dents as well as residents at the culate a petition in order to be included on ever, if only one fi les for a position, there offi ce of the business manager at the Miller Good Samaritan Society. It would the election ballot April 14. Alderman can- won’t be an election for that position. School between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on be located on East 5th Street from didates must be 18 years of age, live in and In St. Lawrence, petition signers may sign or before February 28. Miller Elementary School to the registered to vote in the ward they want to more than one petition, however, in Miller, if Petitions for city and school board, along Miller Community Center. represent, and gather signatures amounting the same person signs two or more petitions, with more complete information, may be ob- The project was recently ap- to at least fi ve percent of the registered vot- only the fi rst one they signed will be valid. tained from the Secretary of State website proved by the Miller City Coun- ers of the ward. he Ree Heights Trustee Board also has a at sdsos.gov/. You may also contact either cil, along with their agreement to he St. Lawrence Board of Trustees is three-year trustee position, currently held the Miller City Finance Offi ce or the Miller raise the minimum local match- T also looking to fi ll a three-year term, cur- by Eugene Moser, available. Ree Heights can- School Business Offi ce. ing funds of $47,261.90. T According to Logan Gran, Transportation Alternatives En- gineer, SDDOT-Project Develop- School board discusses outcomes of personnel committee meeting, proposed calendar ment, over the next few weeks a Vicki L. Prentice Though he acknowledged hiring a FACS teacher will need to fi t funding agreement for the proj- Superintendent Dan Trefz discussed conclusions of the recent within the budget–line items, possibly some additional capital out- ect will be prepared by Transpor- personnel committee meeting and next year’s school calendar with lay fl exibility spending–he was certain they could manage the cost tation Alternatives. After a new the Miller School Board at their regular monthly meeting on Febru- for a couple of years. agreement has been executed, a ary 10, at 6:30 p.m. in the Elementary Library. “But as staffi ng changes happen, we may have to look at our work order for the City’s selected Trefz reported that the personnel committee–comprised of Nata- course offerings and make some adjustments for those electives so engineer will be prepared. lie Bertsch, Rob Mullaney and Tara Yost–is recommending the dis- we can make it long term viable,” Trefz said. He noted that the on- “When those two documents trict advertise for a FACS (Family and Consumer Science) teacher. line elective course they are tapping into now costs the district an are completed and executed, we average of $300 per student. will issue a notice to proceed,” The position, he says, will be a full time position, most likely Gran said. Breitling announces bid fi ve periods of FACS and the other ones to be assigned, and would cost about $60,000, with benefi ts. “There’s a lot of great things this brings to the table,” Bertsch for District 23 Senate said. “Bringing the life skills and soft skill classes back is going to be highly benefi cial to the students and that is what we are here Bryan Breitling is offi cially an- for. nouncing his candidacy for the Mullaney agreed that having a FACS teacher would be impor- District 23 Senate seat. tant for teaching the life skills students need. “I am starting my campaign Board member, Bryan Breitling said there has been a lot of com- by reaching out to you, to ask for munity members who have expressed their remorse for not having your support,” Breitling said. a certifi ed FACS teacher for the past four years. As a health care administra- “I know there’s a lot of leadership opportunities there,” Bre- tor, Breitling has worked in ru- itling said. ral hospitals, nursing homes, and The discussion concluded with a directive by the board for Trefz assisted living for the past twen- to fi nd a FACS teacher. ty-seven years. With health care Trefz reported a small group of staff members and board mem- being such a regulated industry, ber Connie Schroeder met with administrators at a staff/admin/ in both state and national regula- board supper the previous week. The group focused on ways stu- tions, he believes his experience dents could learn the skills to resolve problems themselves, rath- working with health care poli- er than having adults solve problems for them. They worked their cy gives him the footing to tack- way through a list of guiding questions and watched a video and le policy in all sectors to benefi t ended with a discussion time, which he thought was benefi cial to Valentine Royalty, 5 District 23. all. “I enjoy the public policy dis- Schroeder said she thought it was a good discussion, with a cussions, determining what is nice group, where everyone contributed and a real learning experi- good policy, what will advance BRYAN BREITLING ence occurred. South Dakota, and how I can He and his wife, Mary, a for- “The TED talk was about getting students to realize for them- help people,” he said. mer elementary/special educa- selves what problems they were facing that were causing their be- Born at Holy Infant Hospital tion teacher and current director haviors, and how a teacher could draw it out from them. It would Inside: in Hoven, graduating from Ros- at the Hand County Library, have take practice and the right questions,” said Schroeder. Top Stories 2 coe High School, and working been married for 27 years. They Schumacher indicated there would be two more of these events Public Notices 8-9 at the Bowdle Healthcare Center have three children, Mason, a in the future, to give others an opportunity to learn, though they and Avera Hand County Memo- haven’t been scheduled yet. Classifi eds 10-11 fi rst year student at USD Law rial Hospital, Breitling has spent School; Camden, sophomore Trefz presented the fi rst draft of the proposed 2020-2021 school Sports 13-14 most of his life in District 23. nursing major at Augustana; and district calendar, which he said was similar to the 2015-2016 cal- He grew up on the farm Abby, freshman nursing major at endar. The only major difference, he explained is students would south of Roscoe in the 1970’s University of Mary. have a three-day Thanksgiving break, rather than the typical two, and 1980’s. As a senior in high Breitling has served on the in order to make it work out for the last day of school to be May Inserts: school, he joined the Army Na- Miller School Board for the past 19. Kessler’s Grocer tional Guard, serving for 11 six years, On Hand Develop- The calendar includes three snow days and one day off for vol- years, including one tour over- ment for the past 11 years, Hand leyball.

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