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All right, welcome to tonight's meeting. Um See the uh first thing we got is our open forum and uh Max you are up. >> You're probably aware of the timers and all that, right? >> Okay. >> Is that on? Pretty good. Max Jeffrey

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Oberly. Lately, I've spent a great deal of time reflecting. Reflection is something we ask of our students every day. We ask them to learn from mistakes, evaluate their performance, accept feedback, and find ways to improve.

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As educators, coaches, advisors, administrators, and board members, we should expect the same of ourselves. Over the past 2 weeks, I've reflected on an opportunity that did not work out the way I'd hoped. I have asked myself what I could have

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done differently and what I could learn from the experience. Growth isn't defined by getting every opportunity we pursue. It's defined by how we respond when things don't go our way. We can become discouraged or we can become better.

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We can focus on disappointment or we can focus on learning. I choose to focus on learning. And after that reflection, I've come to appreciate something even more deeply. My commitment to this community has never been tied to a title or position.

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Elberton is always been my home. My desire to serve students, support activities, and contribute to this community remain unchanged. When individuals reflect, they grow. When teams reflect, they improve.

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And when organizations reflect, they become stronger. That principle applies in classrooms, on athletic fields, in fine arts programs, in district offices, and in the board room. My hope is all of us can continue to

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embrace reflection, not as a sign of weakness, but as a sign of strength. Because reflection creates growth. Growth creates opportunities. And opportunities

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create a better future for our students. Thank you. >> Thank you, Max. >> Mr. Haney. >> Yes. >> A little bit out of the ordinary, but we're happy to let you uh bring up your recording. >> Hey. >> I'm Jim Haney. I'm reading this on

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behalf of Eric Nyquist, 1990 uh alum, and uh lives in Florida. The first step with any open position is to find the qualifications, experience, and skills required to fill that role. That filter is applied to all applicants

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to determine which candidates are qualified. The individuals that advanced to interviews were presumably screened and therefore qualified for this position. To later disqualify a candidate in the interview process is understandable, particularly when new information is

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found about the new candidate. In this case, not only was Mr. Jeffrey qualified for the interviews, but he also offered was offered the job and provided a contract to sign. All of this was done through the active process led

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by the superintendent and the board. As an alum and long-time teacher and coach, Mr. Jeffrey's qualifications, character, and background were well known and understood by all involved. Whether he was qualified or not was something that should have been easily

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determined in the initial stages of the process. However disappointing, such a determination would have been understandable and a good process. Unfortunately, despite no new information and multiple opportunities to privately determine Mr. Jeffrey's

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qualifications, this board and superintendent chose to proceed to a public hearing despite all involved knowing the outcome. To do this at any To do this to any candidate is a poor process and reflects horribly on our community and our school

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leadership. To do that to a cherished community leader, teacher, and coach is utterly shameful at best. Max Jeffrey deserve better, our students deserve better, our community deserve better. Respectfully submitted by Eric Nyquist.

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>> Thank you, Mr. Nyquist. Okay, let's um looking for a a motion for approval of today's agenda. >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Second. Is there any discussion?

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Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. >> Opposed the same sign. Okay, agenda is approved. First thing on it is a number five, request for approval of donations. >> Yep.

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So, May donation nations. Albert Lea Public Education Foundation, $535 for Neitzer Humanities field trip. Cargill, $100 for girls golf. Black Bud Giving Fund, $28 for the early learning special education.

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Wisconsin Power and Light Company, $500 as an FFA donation. Box Tops, $11.60 to the high school I-35 program. Horizon Homes, $100 for mental health fund. Pathway to Healing Counseling Services,

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$100 for the mental health fund. Freeborn County American Dairy Association, $100 for FFA donation. Orchestra concert, $145 for student activities. Box Tops, $12.20 to

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Hawthorne Elementary. Box Tops, $19.90 to Southwest Middle School. Kiwanis Noon Club, $120 to Southwest Middle School Tigers Den. And May concert donations of $145 to the orchestra.

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It's a total of $1,916.70. >> Is there a motion to approve the uh donations to school? >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> I.

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>> Opposed the same sign. Thank you, Dr. Iles. Donations accepted. Okay, we've got our consent agenda. Had a chance to take a look at that. I'd also look for a motion to approve that. >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second.

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>> Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed the same sign. Okay, consent items carry. Uh down to reports. Dr. Hile.

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>> Okay. Um so, get a couple of pieces of paper here. Um you'll see we have a lot of MOUs that we're going through and just a quick update on on those MOUs. We have them for letters in core. That's phase one of the READ Act. Um

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and phase one's deadline is June 30th. Uh we have three teachers left to train. Um they happened to be out on FMLA last year. Um and then the new staff will be on an onboarding plan. Some of them will be coming in from colleges that do have um the READ Act training and some will

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have to make a plan with as they as they onboard if they're not trained properly. Um then we have the STRIVE MOU, which is phase two of the READ Act. Uh that's 24 educators were identified. Uh high school ELA, Southwest ELA, online, um

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and then ALC teachers. Um so, we'll be working um that MOU through um June 30th, 2027. Um I think you'll find the STRIVE curriculum works real well um with our students. So, we're excited about that.

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Um the in um then we have, sorry, the athletic director and the um executive director of finance uh facility or finance operations and safety. Um we're continuing to look.

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Um I've been contacting individuals on the finance side of thing to see if we have um, what we need to do for contracted services if we need to go that direction. Um, but I'm also talking um, I've talked with two of our past um, finance directors just to discuss a

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pathway forward and to see who they know. Um, they've suggested a couple of individuals to reach out um, who may may be able to get the district through till we find a candidate. Um, in talking with um, one of our past uh, directors who

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works for Eide Bailly, she said it's not it's not um, new for any school district to have a 6-month to a year-long look uh, for a finance person nowadays. Um, she said it's getting really hard to get someone to want that top job. So, we'll continue

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to look and and see the direction that we need to go there. Um, READ Act and literacy aid. So, updates on there. So, the READ Act literacy aid um, was that one-time funds was depleted last year and that was 133,000 that we

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used for uh, Wit & Wisdom. Um, the READ Act teacher compensation fund again, those were one-time funds. So, those were 120,000 that we used for professional development, mainly the letters training. Um, and then we had literacy aid which was

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formally the literacy incentive aid. And last year we had 132,500. This year we had 122,000 um, $300. And so, Tanya and I kind of went, I wonder why? So, Tanya dug in a little bit

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um, and we figured out this is a calculation on proficient proficiency and growth aid. Um, so, here's how it gets calculated. The number of third graders enrolled on October 1st of the previous year

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multiplied by the school's proficiency allowance. The allowance is calculated as a percentage of students meeting or exceeding proficiency on the third grade reading MCA averaged over the previous three test administrations multiplied by

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$530. So, there is a reason why we want all of our students to take the MCAs and there is a reason why this superintendent pushes so hard on literacy pre-K K123 all the way up to

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12th grade. But, this is the reason why we want really great readers and we want Wit & Wisdom used with fidelity so that we can really help our third graders score well on that proficiency allowance. Growth aid, the number of fourth graders

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enrolled October 1st is multiplied by the students' growth allowance. The growth allowance is calculated as a percentage of fourth grade students making medium or high growth on the fourth grade reading MCA averaged over the previous three test administrations

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again multiplied by $530. So, that it all goes back to how are we teaching literacy in our classrooms and how are we motivating our families to keep taking and doing well on the MCAs. Um so, as it says on the bottom, the

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usage of funds uh support the literacy um plan um and their plan for the literacy lead and then some of the stipends to to fulfill that literacy plan. I put this in a little bit and I know it's kind of hard to read. So, enrollment update. So,

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um we ended with 2,880 students and that's K-12. We're currently at 2,842 students. But, the trend is not holding right now.

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Kindergarten enrollment is only at 163 currently. We were at 184 at this time last year. So, last year was a 16th, not a 15th. So, we're approximately 21 students off the mark.

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When Danny and I went back through and started looking at parents that haven't filled their stuff, there's only about 10 or 11 parents that haven't sent their items back in. So, even if you add 11 on there, that's 174.

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We're considerably off the mark of the 214 that's the estimated mark that we make the estimations on. So, the only piece we don't know is if parents from other districts are going to enroll in and we just haven't had

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contact with them. But, that's our current numbers, right? As of right now. So, again, this is a weekly thing I look at. I don't I don't ever lose the mark. I keep looking. I talk with Danny all the time. The one thing I've asked Danny to

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do is normally they would wait till kind of the end of July to re-engage some of the parents. And I told Danny, I said, you know, maybe at the end of this week or the end of next week, we need to send a reminder email. Please get your paperwork in so you are not missing

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um needed communication from the elementary schools to see if we can't re-engage some of our parents um and and getting the enrollment number back up. But, as it appears right now, there's a potential that this year's uh kindergarten enrollment class is looking

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in the 180s. So, but we'll continue to watch that number. Hopefully, that's not I think it was 194 the year before. So, hopefully, that's not um off the mark too much. Um but I did want to bring that up. So,

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um just to say that's what we're seeing. Um and um it's kind of where we're at right now. And then I've been asked this a few times, so I've been um just slowly kind of putting together uh kind of the next steps for

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uh a school closure, the items that we should be looking at. You'll see some of the stuff we've been doing and we'll constantly review those items. And then I'll give you the direction that we've been going. I've already re-engaged Albert Lea bus. Um but you'll see like under enrollment

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trends uh the district task force was very very heavy in the enrollment uh excuse me, trends. They looked at those 10-year histories. They they've done those cohort analysis. We're looking at that kindergarten enrollment. Um and we're also trying to figure out

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the or uh looking at and trying to look at how do we figure out future non-enrollment resident and open enrollment numbers. With the facility data, we've been looking at those utilization rates. That's how we know on average um we're

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75% to 77% of capacity at most of the buildings. Um depends on use, right? With some of the special ed rooms. Um we look at those uh capacity versus actual, the facility condition. And we had a primary condition um

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working with Wold. Um we'll continue to look at facility conditions, conditions of roof. Um I've had uh been in contact with um Tremco for roofing. We did have some elementary roofs that were due to be done next summer, and we would start

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the bidding process for that about now cuz it takes about a year out. Um I've moved those to the high school cuz there were some high school roofs that were of equal need um so that we can look at all the elementaries equally. Um, also facility data, ADA access, uh,

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cost of building, uh, deferred maintenance items. So, we'll start looking at all that. Uh, financial data, so building operational costs. So, we'll start to get those uh, figures in. Staffing costs, and we've been real keen on staffing costs the last few months.

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Um, and we'll keep a good, um, hold on staffing costs. And then any long-term savings that could potentially be held. Um, the big part is the transportation analysis. So, I've already been in contact with Ben. I've been over to the bus company twice.

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Um, that's looking at current routes versus future routes. Um, looking at when when if you were to figure like if you were to say if this school were to close, where where would the routes come from? How long would kids be on the routes? What would that do to routing? So, we'll have to bring all that data to

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you. And then what the overall cost of transportation if one building were to close over another building. And then something that I've been working on mainly at the secondary level because we've talked about some secondary change, um, is the class size, um,

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and building size. Um, where specialist staff would go. What interventions look like per building. What special ed programming is per building. And then the balance of programming, um, versus and equity, right? So, we don't

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want to unbalance our schools. So, one or two buildings are significantly higher in special ed or significantly higher, um, in socioeconomic status or or that. So, we want to make sure we balance the community in all of our schools out. So, we'll continue to review those

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enrollment trends, um, and facility data. Um, we'll start to update the operational costs, staffing costs, determine those long-term saving costs as we move forward. Um we've already engaged Albert Lea bus. We have a

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program internally that we can start to look at busing patterns and routes and and and what those um what the elementary schools, what neighborhoods would belong to which elementary school. The bus company also has a company that they can work with and it might might be good for us to

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engage on our side and then have another company say this is what we think and then see how the two um match or don't match and why. Um so we'll look at that the transportation analysis and then I will continue with

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the executive directors and the principals and myself to evaluate the educational programming. I will report to the board as we have progress um and we've already started those uh conversations in the secondary building. Um and then what I would like

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to do is I'll kind of push everybody as we go through the summer here into the early school year. Um and then potentially have try to be ready for some school community meetings starting in October sometime because I think the feedback I think the board would really really like the feedback. Um ultimately

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I think we should be trying to get to a decision around late November December sometime because there's a lot of preparation that has to go in um on closing a building and working with MDE and working with the current staff and and adjusting from there. So

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um that would be a rough timeline. Of course everything could adjust if if needed um but I would I would tend to think that as we're working through July, August and September we can get a lot of that data to the board. I know I just threw a lot of information

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out at you. So and I'll I'll get more of this typed up and and sent to you just so that you have it. Thanks. >> Any questions for Dr. Heil? >> I have a quick one on when you're talking about the enrollment all that

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with the kindergarten. Any idea on the budget projections, what numbers Paul's working with at all or is that something that waits until November? >> no. Uh when Paul and I talked about that, I had him factor in a smaller kindergarten.

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Um I'd have to go get the exact number that that he used, but I asked him to be conservative with the kindergarten since we're already seeing um less enrollment than we thought. So, the the budget that was presented last board meeting is built on a smaller

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kindergarten. >> All right. Looks like we get into school board reports. Davey, I'll let you swing away. >> Uh I don't have a ton to report. Um I do have a couple of meetings coming up that we'll be able to report on next month here. Um I had a facilities meeting recently. I can't remember if I had

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talked about that one already, but that was a fun meeting to go through um the different things that are happening at the schools and uh what we're working on, what's been worked on, what's been done. Um I attended the ALC graduation, which there was a really nice turnout for that. Um unfortunately, I wasn't able to

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make it to the high school graduation, but I heard that was great, too. Um and I helped out with the 5K uh glow run. Uh we were able to find a new date for that one. We had a just a ton of runners out there for that one. So, I helped play some music and

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spray some runners with paint and uh had fun setting up and tearing down and it was fun. Uh but like I said, I got a couple more meetings coming up next month, so I'll have more to report on. >> Uh I attended the finance committee meeting and then Paul presented the projected budget for 20 fiscal year 27.

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And I think it was like 193 for uh projected kindergarteners in that 190 range. So, there's still quite a gap if with the numbers. Um, then just attended graduations and no other committees. >> All right. Last month was busy with a

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number of graduations I attended. Otherwise, it's been a little bit slower. Uh, we did have a policy committee meeting before this meeting, and we have quite a few policies coming next month. >> Okay. >> Um, our finance and policy committee meeting,

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um, I would probably true for all of us, but a lot of feedback on the athletic director hiring process. Uh, able to attend the high school graduation. And I I liked it inside. I have to be honest with you. I thought it was a very intimate setting, and again, I'll say

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it's a good to hear the choir. Almost brought me to tears. Um, and just on a personal note, the band, uh, helps us with bingo at the Freeborn County Fair, and they're already lined up and ready to go for the best days of summer in early August.

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>> Neil. >> Yeah, I can add to Dave's report. He was also in the dunk tank last Wednesday. >> Yeah. >> How'd that go? >> It was cold. >> It was. Okay. >> Hot outside, cold in the water. >> Right. It's an awful drop, too.

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>> Other than that, I we had a uh, education foundation meeting last Wednesday, and uh, couple of things came out of that. Well, scheduled to occur are the teacher grants deadline for submitting

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applications for that as Jan is a June 20, and so far we have about 21. I picked up another one yesterday morning. Uh, the total is somewhere in the neighborhood of $8,000. We budget five,

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but I'm thinking that we can afford pretty much anything that is applied. So, um, our general fund is fairly adequate at this moment. Um, Pathways uh to success, that's in

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October, but I'm already nervous about that. Um, we we honor distinguish four distinguished alumni and four distinguished educators every year. Uh, typically we have no pro- uh well, not a lot of trouble getting people to

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nominate distinguished alumni. Distinguished educators is like pulling teeth. Uh, and so I would encourage anybody that's listening to um go to our website or contact me or Gary.

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And uh and and come up with some applications for nominations for distinguished educator candidates. Finally, um, in the donations report, uh, one of the things that was on our agenda last Wednesday

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was that we have a fund which is called the Tiger Student of Tiger Alumni Student Assistant Fund. Uh, the alumni were mostly graduates in the 1950s and they contributed enough money in by

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2006 to uh uh realize a principal that earns nine- oh, uh, 19,200-plus dollars, and that is one of the funds for which the grant goes directly to the

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district in March. So, we can add that to the fund because it's our it's our fund. The money was given to us, the Education Foundation. We invested it, so it's our fund, but the

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but the grants go directly to the district. So, um we I I thought I'd make note of that in the spirit of the donations report. >> Thank you. >> Uh just a couple updates for me. We attended the policy committee today. Um

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going to follow up with Sheila on a couple of them just for um she wasn't able to attend, so we'll talk with her. But, June 18th at 1:00 is a webinar on policy and legal updates from MSBA. So, I'm planning on on looking at that

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webinar and we'll report back on that. Um and then graduation was always is always fun and it was probably my last, so that made it extra special, so. >> Thank you. Uh just a couple things I attended the finance committee meeting with Mary Jo.

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We did have one interview for finance director and um it's always fun with the graduations every year when we see that. Uh I do like it inside. I wish we had more seating. We always hear that every year and we hopefully we can find that someday and without hanging anyone from

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the rafters, but uh it uh well was a fun time of the year, so. All right. Um Olandra, you Ho ho ho one second. Janice, are you here for teach You're here for the ATTP? Oh, you

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Well, let's come to the teacher the We'll come back to Olandra. >> Wait, I think we got it now. >> I'm Janice Jeffrey, a high school teacher and the ALEA president. After a challenging and contentious school year, educators are taking time to rest, reflect, and recharge. They are

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traveling and spending time with their families. And even so, many are still giving their time and attention to students through summer programming, curriculum writing, sports camps, music lessons, marching band, field trips, and their own educational pursuits to improve their classroom instruction.

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As we look ahead to the '26-'27 school year and the many discussions that will be focused on big changes, teachers hope to be heard as professionals with specialized knowledge and to feel respected in the process. Thank you. >> Thank you, Alondra.

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>> Okay. So, um the track team sent a good amount of people to state this year, which was really exciting cuz I think the last few years it's only been like one to two people. So, they sent two whole Sorry. Okay. There we go. They sent two whole

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relay teams, and then a bunch of the people in those relay teams also qualified for individual events. And even the girls track team sent a girl up to state, and that was honestly a little surprising because girls track is great, and they've been growing in numbers, too. So, golf sent

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one individual to state, too. On our last day of school, we had a half day, which was pretty nice because that meant going to school for half the day, having two finals, and then having a little mind rest after that, which was very nice.

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Um marching band is starting up. We are playing the Patriotic Spectacular this year, cuz if you didn't know, which I think you all do, 250th year of America. So, make sure you guys watch us in the parade, and like K Gary said, Lions

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Bingo is coming up soon, too. And if you want to see me during the fair, come to Lions Bingo, cuz I will be there every day. Especially during blackout. It's kind of surprising how many people how many how many people like to just gamble. And um student council um worked on a

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fundraiser. So, next year we're doing senior parking spots. So, you get to paint a parking spot. You got to pick your own parking spot and you get to paint it. And there's a lot of commotion about that because we're so excited to be able to do it. So, >> Okay, thank you very much.

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All right, um Therese uh going to fill us in on the humanities Italy trip. Thank you. >> Uh I'm Therese Netzler. There's a slideshow coming up here. Um I teach CIS Western Humanities and uh

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honors composition. You guys let us go to Italy last year well, this past school year for spring break and it was the most amazing as a teacher, the most amazing educational thing I've ever done in my life, I think, for my students. I

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brought four girls with. I wish they could be here, but they all have jobs and are very busy. But, they loved it and I was so impressed with Albert Lea kids. It was so cool to see them love what we were doing.

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Uh when we were in Venice, I remember looking around at Doge's Palace and one girl is taking notes in a tiny notebook. One girl is taking notes to go with her photos on her phone. One girl is just staring and the other girl is crying.

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And I thought, this is what it's about. We're looking at Tintoretto. You know, we're looking at things we studied in class and they just loved it. Here, you can see we're at the Pantheon. We got to go inside the Colosseum. Uh St. Peter's from a distance and up

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close and then we got to see Michelangelo's Pieta. So, it was just out of this world amazing. Um I also wanted to do this because I thought it could be a good draw away from post PSEO

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and to keep the kids at the high school, which luckily I think it's working. Uh, I went into junior classes at the end of the school year to recruit for our next one. Darcy, you can hit it. Greece. So, we're going to hopefully go to Greece

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for spring break this year. I have five already signed up and hopefully more. Uh, it's just very cool and we want to thank you for giving us the go ahead to do it. >> Any questions for Greece? >> Yeah, I can comment on that. I also took

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a sort of humanities trip to Italy a couple years ago now. I guess it was maybe more than that with three girls, my wife and two daughters, and they cried too, but it was because I dragged them into every museum and cathedral including in the Pantheon, all those

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things that you mentioned. It was wonderful. I'm glad you were able to do it. >> It's nice that you're willing to do this cuz that's a lot of planning and responsibility. >> It is, but they were great. It was just flawless. So, I'm hoping that it always

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is flawless and they were really good troopers too, so. >> Hello. Janice Jeffrey, the HPPS district coordinator. Um, here to give the year review. Um,

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let's see. You can go forward, Darcy. Turn. On the side. Got it. Yes. Thank you. All right, this is our 22nd year that we just finished is a part of the HPPS

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program with the purpose of improving instructional practices, student achievement, providing professional development, and encouraging collaboration amongst teachers. There's five components required by statute that there be a site goal, student

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achievement goals, career advancement, leadership positions, observations, and job embedded staff development. Um regarding the component on teacher leadership positions this year, we had

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0.2 FTE that was the district coordinator with release time and a stipend, and that would be my position. And then we had 4.6 FTE spread amongst eight core uh building coordinators, instructional coaches. That included release time and

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stipend. Uh they were both the combination in the classroom and coaching other teachers. Changes that will be happening for next year to help align the HPPS budget is to keep the 0.2 FDA FTE for the district

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coordinator, but uh we have removed um the instructional coaches, the coordinators from the classroom and made them a 2.0 FTE just doing peer reviews and and coaching. Uh that is uh

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no classroom time as I mentioned. And that is accomplished by changing the observation schedule, which I'll share with you in a slide here soon. Um some of the job embedded professional development that we see is mainly

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through the PLCs that meet every Wednesday for 45 minutes where they review curriculum, um, align instruction and assessment with the standards, focus on picking out their standards. This is where they would be, um, making

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proficiency scales have been been a big push with the HRS program. Analyzing student data and implementing new strategy strategies. These are the four or five, I guess, plus one it says,

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uh, questions focused on during these meetings. What do we want all students to learn? How will we know when they've learned it? How will we respond when that learning hasn't occurred? How will we respond when they've already learned it? And how will we increase our

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competency? Of the observation peer review schedule this year was that probationary teachers, teachers in years 1 through 3 had their formal evaluations with an administrator and they did not have any

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required meetings with the the peer reviewer. Many of them did work with peer reviewers. Sometimes a principal would, um, offer a recommendation and the teach the probationary teacher would seek out the peer reviewer, but it wasn't part of their observation schedule.

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Um, non-probationary teachers, years 2, uh, Excuse me. Non-probationary teachers, uh, years 4 plus, excuse me, would have two peer reviews with an instructional coach each year. And in cycle non-probationary

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teachers would have, uh, one evaluation with their administrator and one with their peer reviewer. Changes for next year? Uh probationary teachers now, in addition to their three uh evaluations with an administrator, will

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also be observed twice by a peer reviewer. This is to increase the support offered to them. Year one is the only year with a mentor, so we're hoping that years two and three, with the support of the instructional coach or the peer reviewer, will help them keep building

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their skills with an experienced teacher by their side. Um the non-cycle, non-probationary teachers, so they're not in the year where they get evaluated by a principal, well, we've um have targeted support. Here, teachers in years 4 through 9 have

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two peer reviews from a instructional coach. And years 10 plus would just have one with an instructional coach. The year that they are in cycle with their um evaluation by their administrator, they'd have no peer reviews.

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Um the performance pay incentive has not changed this year. It's uh 1,150. The cycle Meeting the cycle is $150. That payout is determined in August. The individual growth plan goal, the

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smart goal, uh based on the student achievement, is $50. 61% of our teachers met that goal that they set for them their students this year. Uh the peer reviewer, the observations, are worth $500. 97% of our teachers completed their observation schedule

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this year. And then the PLC work, where we talk about the four questions and um look at data and make the proficiency scales, that is $450. And 98% of the teachers completed that goal this year. Um there will be no

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changes in this for our year. As I said, the building cycle, we report on that in August, so last this um not the 25-26 school year, but in the 24-25 school year, the following schools

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met their literacy goals: Brookside's ECSE, Brookside's VPK EC, Haverson Elementary, and Southwest Middle School. Going forward, um all of our schools have achieved the Marzano Level Two High Reliability High

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Reliability School Practices, which includes unified instruction, personalized growth and reflection, monitored practices, data-driven evaluations, and professional development and collaboration. HBPTS continues to have a high success

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rate with uh 98% of teachers completing their IGP plans and observations. The HBPTS budget has been adjusted to keep it independent of the general budget, and we have hired all of our teacher leaders for next school year.

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And that is it. Any questions? >> Thank you, Janice. So, if you're 10-plus, no peer reviews, do they still get the stipend of 450 then as a peer review? >> They will. They'll have their evaluation, their time with their principal, and so that they'll be

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completing the steps of that, the pre-observation meeting, evaluation, observation, and the post-observation meeting. >> Thank you very much. Have a nice summer. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Um effective and efficient operations and

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transportation contract, Dr. Iyo. >> So, I did meet with Ben. We were up for the 26-27, 27-28 um adjustment for um for our transportation contract. So, uh for 26-27, we've negotiated 4% increase,

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and for 27-28, a 5% increase. And so, that's how they calculate out. Um la- or this year, there was almost no increase except for they had moved that driver time per hour to $45 per hour was

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uh the only change, so. That will put us in line to for 2 more years. >> What was the first percentage you said? >> 4%. >> Okay. >> Any other questions, Neil? >> I I hear advertisements that that bus drivers are wanted constantly. How are

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we coming on that? Is there a real problem getting applicants? >> The um overall, pretty much in the entire United States, yeah, they they struggle to find them. Um Ben has said we've been able to fill all our our positions here.

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Um but there there are a lot I went over there at their end of the year um kind of get together thank you that Albert Lea bus puts on, and so, a lot of there's a lot a lot of uh retired or potential retirees going walking around there, so.

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Um but but Ben said he's confident he'll keep advertising. They seem to be able to um get drivers, so. >> It seems like it would be a neat thing to do if you weren't already overwhelmed with things to do. >> Any other questions on the contract?

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All right, well, seeing none, I would look for a motion to accept it as read. >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Is there any discussion about the transportation contract? Again, just 4%

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this year, 5% next year. All right, seeing none all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed the same sign. Okay. Passes 7-0. And that will bring us right to about

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adjournment, but I got a couple meeting dates to announce on June 24th. There'll be an admin retreat out at the field house from 8:00 to 11:00. And then July 20th will be our next regular scheduled board meeting right

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here in the board room. I'll look for a motion to adjourn. >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> there any discussion? Seeing none all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed the same sign.

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Meeting adjourned. Thank