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MEETING SECTIONS:

Part 1 (Video ID: PGpzpMqUq5E):
- 00:00:40: Approval of April Donations and Consent Items
- 00:02:32: Superintendent's Report: End-of-Year Dates and Events
- 00:04:33: Recognition of Carly's Service on the School Board
- 00:05:20: Board Member Kim Reports on Partnership Luncheon
- 00:05:36: Carly Plans for Future Education
- 00:06:14: School Board Reports: Partnership, Foundation, Awards
- 00:09:46: School Board Reports: Band Concert, Negotiations, CEO
- 00:11:26: School Board Reports: Lake View, Facilities, 5K Run
- 00:13:11: MSBA Annual Meeting and Choir Singing At Grad
- 00:14:33: Teacher's Report: Activities Across All Grades
- 00:20:00: Student Reports: Blood Drive, Big Nine Music
- 00:22:28: Student Reports: Alahasa Publications and Awards
- 00:23:18: Principal's Report: High School Achievements and Academies
- 00:31:12: Halverson Elementary Data Report - E-Reading & E-Math
- 00:38:32: Sibly Elementary: Certifications, MTSS, Kindergarten Orientation
- 00:42:05: Policy Committee Report and Recommended Approvals
- 00:47:34: ALC, AHS Graduation and Entering Closed Session
- 00:49:05: Approval of Executive Director Association Agreement


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All right. Good evening, Chair Clott School Board, Superintendent Hy. Um, this month we have the April donations. Um, and to continue our practice, I'll read through uh the list of the donors for your

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approval. uh $1,000 donation from Worf Line for our teacher of the year uh winner there um Miss Jen Henchel uh $1,000 to use towards her classroom. A blackbod fund, $28 for early learning

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special education, $100 um from Mer County Farmers Mutual uh towards our FFA program. uh at our orchestra concert from various donors in the community, we received $149 of donations to go to our

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orchestra program. And then our Freeborn Mau Operation Roundup, $210 to uh Miss Sarah Bolinger's classroom for supplies. So, we ask for approval of tonight's donations. Is there a motion to approve the donations as read? >> So, moved.

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>> So, moved. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Mary Joe second. Any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I oppose the same sign. >> Thank you, sir. Okay. Consent items. Uh,

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as written, is there a motion to approve our consent items? >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> And a second. Is there any discussion? Okay, seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I

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>> oppose the same sign. Motion carries 70 as the others. So on to number seven, our superintendence report 7.1, ladies and gentlemen of the board. Uh appreciate the opportunity tonight. Um

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just kind of wanted to review some dates that are coming up since it's the end of the school year. Um, you'll see Hawthorne has its fifth grade graduation on Friday the 22nd at 1:15. Um, with its field day and end of the year picnic on the 27th at 11:00. Lake View has its

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graduation at 1:30 on Tuesday the 26th with its end of the year picnic on this Friday at 11:00. Sibi graduation May 21st, 1:30, end of the year picnic the 26th at 11. Halverson Elementary. Um May

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22nd at 1:30 is graduation and then end of the year picnic at 11. Um I I will try to make all those graduations. There are two that are conflicting. So um I'll see what I can do about that. Um and then of course ALC this Thursday at 6:00

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in the high school auditorium and you should all have received an invitation to that. And then uh the high school commencement Friday at 7:30 and we ask board to be at the fieldhouse at 7:00. Um and then just lastly for the high

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school last days for seniors will be the Wednesday the 20th. Uh they'll visit the elementarymentaries on the 21st and so they have plans for kind of the walkth through the senior walkthrough. They'll have their senior breakfast on the 22nd and then again commencement at 7:30. So,

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we're excited and looking for it. We have the choir all warmed up and ready to go. Got a choir concert tonight I'll go to to see where they're at. And, um, just looking forward to it. Really looking forward to it. A lot of excited families and kids. So,

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um, and then lastly, um, she didn't make it here tonight. Maybe a little senioritis. Oh, >> how's that for timing? Well, tonight officially marks Carly's last board meeting. So, two full years.

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So, we wanted to present you with a certificate for the past two years. Thank you. Congratulations. there's any board members that have a comment for Carly or anything? By all means.

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>> Of course, I have a comment because uh Carly and I go way back um when I was the director of the child care center. Carly was little little little and it's been great to see you just blossom in this role and and good luck to you in the future.

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>> Thank you. quick little shot on your plans now when you graduate. >> Okay. So, I'm going to the University of Minnesota and I'm going for English and then I eventually want to become a teacher.

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Thank you. >> Yeah, Carly, thank you very much. Keep this gal on the line for one more meeting, right? That Alandre over there, she's going to be the senior then. Thanks. Okay. Uh, schoolboard reports. We'll

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start with Kim. >> All right. Well, today I think Neil and Gary were there, too. We um attended the um I guess it would be the partnership lunchon for themies. Yeah.

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>> Yeah. So pathways academy pathways whatever word you want to use but very powerful. Max um shared some really good um progress that's happened and I think Sean you shared that um 75% of the nth

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graders have have had indicated a or declared a pathway that they want to be on in those areas. So I think that's a it's a great move and I think um your your comments about the intentionality of students is is well taken and I think they'll be happy that we in invest in

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that piece for them. Um and then uh I'm part of the the parah negotiation. So that's all I have. >> Neil, >> you're right. I was at that that assembly this afternoon for lunch this

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afternoon and it occurred to me that most most of my activity aside from the school board has to do with the education foundation. And uh we have a program which is also called pathways to success. And it it was not I don't think

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either the high school or the foundation uh had any conversation together and it is a coincidence that we shared that label but I know I think it would be entirely appropriate if we did have some conversations

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where we can collaborate a little bit in that area. So good program. Um on the 6th of this month, U high school had their annual awards assembly and and that's big a big event for the education

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foundation. I think we are the caretakers for somewhere in the neighborhood of 22 scholarships and the new arrangement worked out very well. Some there are some things that I think everybody realizes could have been better which will be in place next year for sure and uh but it worked really

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well. Um what else? Uh our next uh for education foundation, our next event is uh the teacher grant program. And just a reminder for any staff who might be listening, you have until the 20th of

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June to submit your applications for at at the at the maximum $500 grant so that you can buy stuff for your students or your classroom. uh the sort of things that that the school district

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typically probably would not provide. Um was involved in the committee that's interviewing uh activities director last week and we had five very good candidates. Quite frankly, any one of

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them possibly would have worked out. uh obviously not at liberty to give any details about that but um I'm encouraged that we we will have a good performance there. Uh that's it. Thank you.

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>> Um this this is no particular order and I think I have my months all mixed up but so give me some forgiveness there. I went to the band concert. Boy, um it was super and and the complexity of the music for that concert band. It is

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incredible the work she's done and they're losing a boatload of seniors too. So hopefully the juniors are going to step up. But uh was very very good. Uh couple negotiations teams, principles, and executive directors. was I served on the interview team for the

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was it coordinator of maintenance and safety or I forget the title the one last >> yeah operations >> there we go um let's see also attended the awards and recognition u the nice part about that is that the the first part of that we met in the auditorium

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and recognized the academic achievements of the seniors and I thought that was nice just to keep that distinct and separate and then I had the privilege to present the schoolboard scholarships. I do want to thank Neil too for the prep he did for

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the foundation scholarships that were distributed that night as well. Um the CEO program um I'm treasure of that group. They've hit nearly $100,000 of fundraising for CEO. So that's big milestone. We're we're almost there. Um

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I think there was a curriculum committee meeting and I did attend the partners um lunchon today as well. Thank you, Ag. >> Okay, I did some face painting at Lake View's ice cream show social last month,

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which was very fun, but I will admit my arm was tired by the end of that. Um, once the line started, it never stopped. Um, I attended a facilities committee meeting with Dave Valerial was there as well. We talked about a number of projects, um, including some issues that are happening. Halverson with the boiler

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and chiller that hopefully um won't be super expensive but could be. Um and then last week I sat with Neil on the interview panel for the activities director position and he covered that pretty well. We had five pretty good candidates whittleled them down to two

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and Steve and Sean have taken it from there. So that's what I've got. >> All right. Excuse me. I attended the Fremont County Family Services and uh Children's Mental Health Collaborative. Dr. Hy comes to that as well. Um this

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last time prettyformational. DHS was there, CPS was there really talking about the needs, the numbers, the processes, um the direction, and making sure we're getting all the information to the schools and um veryformational. So, a

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lot of need there. That's good. All right. Uh, yeah, like Angie said, I attended the facilities meeting a couple of weeks ago. We talked about um some of the projects that had been worked on already, some that are coming up, and um got a lot of questions answered. Actually, really nice discussion that day, too. Um, not much else. I was

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scheduled to help out with the 5K glow run for mental health awareness on Friday, but because of the weather that got cancelled. Um, that's usually a pretty fun event that I get to go out there and play some music for and help out. U I don't know if that one's going to be rescheduled. I think because it's too close to the end of the year, we're probably not going to do that one yet

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this year. But yeah, that's it. Okay. Uh just a couple things. We had our MSBA annual meeting uh elected treasure on that. So that's one more duty. Um other than that, uh we didn't have anything special. We're we're trying to uh get

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this initiative for public schools, bring recognition to the public schools and going to be spending quite a bit of money on that over the next year to three years to uh bring bring an awareness of the value of public schools. And that's a program that they actually started probably a little bit

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over a year ago. Actually, I should say about two years ago because some of us stopped by, I think, and did a little recording on what public schools mean to us. and uh that company didn't work out the best for the uh MSBA. So now they

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decided to do it on their own and uh um have started a program and it's they're going to kick it off at the state fair this year. Um at least that's plans right now and then have a booth at the state fair and they might even have a a public school education day at the state

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fair is one of the the talks there. So um uh other than that not a lot from there. I've been real busy with baseball and uh novel idea to have the choir sing at our grad. Thank you, Sean.

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Not that I'm putting a dig anywhere, but if anybody listens, I might be. So, anyway, that's all I have. So, uh on to our teacher report. Go ahead. You're up. All right. Okay. I'm sorry if it gets a

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little personal. I do have a senior this year and I mentioned her a bit, but um I'm here as the teacher rep. I'm Beth Isacson. I've been in the district. This was my 25th year. Um I'm uh a special ed teacher at Southwest Middle School. It's

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really been a great year. I'm excited and sad to see it coming to an end. Um my kids on my case load have been wonderful. It's sad to see them go to the high school, but so excited for them. and they got to take a little tour. So, we sent um our uh Mrs. Dolam's

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kids who are in the self-contained and then mine are they're considered two, three, they're called. And so, some will be in self-contained and some will be out more and they got to see where they'll be next year and they all came back very excited. So, that uh takes a load off because it's like, you know,

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they're going to be great coming up. Um some things that are got mentioned already but happening in the elementarymentaries that I was uh told about they have had many they're having their field days um they're outside and engaging in different competitions and activities and we're really thankful

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that they've had some beautiful weather so far. Hopefully it continues. Um fifth grade tour of the middle school came and went and they Mr. Johnson did a great job of um uh talking to each group and they did it a little different this

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year. They all came and kind of rotated. So, that was neat to see all those kids there. Um we're really looking forward to our new sixth graders coming in, too. Um at the middle school, we've been busy working on the time capsule activities as you saw that there was a few of my

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advisory kids that were in lead positions too. um that to find relics. Uh and it was sad, but they couldn't find the old one. Um although we did see like uh the whites were out there with his equipment. Um Mr. Chalmer's, Mr.

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Johnson was out there one day with the shovel, but just unable to find that. But they were excited. They got a PVC pipe. I don't know if you read about it in the paper. Um they had a nice write up about it. They did this PC PVC pipe.

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They decorated it and they put in things like Takis, um, phone chargers, uh, Chromebook chargers. Oh, I listed a few other ones that I thought were funny. Um, locker badges, which is something we do at Southwest. They do well on a test.

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Computer mouse, um, teachers whistle from the gym, just different thing things that they thought were important. And it was neat to see. So, there was like 80 some kids that got involved in that. So, that was really neat. Um, we've had sporting events, lots of

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softball updates, some tennis, um, baseball. Um, next Friday we go on exploratory day at the middle school, which, um, if you don't know what that is, it's kind of like a field trip slashinschool activity day. Um, it gives

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our kids an opportunity to look at different hobbies and interests. Uh the kids kids can do two half-day things like um crocheting and bowling or they can do a full day trip like going to the history museum or there's a new one this year called iFly where it's a skydiving

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skydiving simulation. Um and then they teach you about the science of of that. Um and all our fundraising money go the students earn goes towards uh so there's no cost to the students. Um, one last

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thing, we also have a concert tomorrow night. Our seventh graders are performing. Uh, the orchestra, band, and choir. Um, it should be a great show. They've had a lot of growth. We can hear them. I'm right above them, so I hear them play every day, the band. Um, and

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at the high school, uh, the only I know more about this because my kids are involved there. But, um, that we went through prom and graduation is coming up. I have a senior um Addie who will be graduating. Um she's

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excited about that. Um and then she didn't get to play sports this year, but sports have been ongoing. We've been going to I've been going to a lot. Tennis, uh track and field, they've all been doing great. The boys had great showing um last week. Um, the tennis

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team has doubled in size this year and just a lot of great things going on there. The seventh graders also got to go see the musical Chicago, the teen version. That was neat that we got to go over there. Um, we we appreciated that.

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Um, lots of fantastic talent and I know there's few more concerts going on at the high school. So, looking forward to Well, one more, right? Yeah. you should know because I've been to the orchestra and the band one. Um yeah, so as we end

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each of our seasons, our school year, our school career, um we just as the ALA want to say congrats to all those retirees and our graduates and um we're just excited for all of them. >> Thanks.

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>> Since I always get out of order, thank you very much. We've got our student reports. So, I'm going to go with Alandre and then we get to finish with Carly. >> Okay. Um, oh, some has been going on. I think we had our blood drive earlier

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this month and we also had Big Nine Music. So, for Big Nine Music, um, orchestra, band, and choir goes up and we spent our day in Northfield High School and we basically get to perform and then we also get to listen to a bunch of like bands and orchestras. I'm

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in both band and orchestra, so I had to go in between the middle school building and the high school building, which was a little chaotic, but it was fun because it was still really fun day. And it was really fun. And then afterwards, some of our kids got selected to be on like a bigger like everybody, every school in

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the Big Nine gets to like nominate people to be in this like really big band or really big orchestra. And I think we had 13 people from band and then some from choir and orchestra too. So that was really fun. And then we

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hosted our blood drive last Wednesday and we had a good amount of participation even though some seniors decided to skip was senior skip day that day, but our juniors and sophomores really were willing to um donate blood and it was a really good

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time. So yeah. And then we've had a lot of concerts. There's been a lot of baseball, a lot of time me and I have been spending in the dugout just talking. So, nothing wrong with that. And um we had a band concert, orchestra concert. And in band, we're actually

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doing this really fun unit called our second instrument unit. So, we get to switch with someone and we get to learn their instrument. So last year I switched with Sawyer who was a senior and I got to play the tuba and he got to

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play the tener sacks. This year I changed with one of my friends Jos and I am learning percussion things which is a whole new world really and she is learning my tener sacks. So that's just a fun little thing that we get to do in band after our concert's done. And I

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just thought I'd like to share it because I really enjoy the unit. So and that's it. That's all for me. Thank you, Girly. >> Okay, so you guys stole my all of my things. That's kind of rude of you. Um,

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but our final issue of the Alahasa came out. Um, has our impact student, Cali Noble, our impact teacher, obviously, Jim Haney. Um, yeah. Um,

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we're signing up for awards right now in Alahasa and all of our publications. So, wish us luck for the future. Um, yeah, just excited for graduation of get finals over, I guess.

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>> Well, I see you're both again on the front page. So, very good, girls. Well, thank you very much. Okay. So, ah, principal's report. Come on up, Sean, Christian, Kim, or one at a

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time or all right, Carly, I I feel like you should have let them know that you also, after some mad work, completed the IMAG and got that out there. We should we need to give you credit. So um IMAG part of our publications department

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award-winning publications primag my understanding is was viewed as fifth best in the country is what Zuller Barker said. So just another one of those um our things our pubs department is doing an amazing job on in in terms of getting out there. So, um, high

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school wise, yes, as we come to the end of the year, um, lots of lots of excitement, some apprehension, meeting with some seniors who are very much sweating out the remaining two days with us to make sure things go well. But, um, looking forward to Friday night. Uh,

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we're sweating out the weather decision. 259 on Wednesday is the first I will look. I don't want to know. Katie gives me an update and she's very positive. Becca, our new office manager, a little less. So, we'll we'll see what happens, but um we're going to have a great commencement on uh Friday night with uh

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Jim Haney being our our main speaker. So, wanted to share just some updates on things that we have discussed when I was here last. Um other big celebrations, you know, Alandre brought up track team, the boys true team going for the first time in 35 years. I think the last time

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I got to talk to to everyone here, we had just celebrated the girls going to state for the first time in 11 years. So, another great um success from a program that's been building numbers, building success. So, a lot of credit to Kevin Gint and that whole coaching staff. My understanding is we're around

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200 kids out for track this year. So, um an impressive number when you when you go all the way down through the sixth grade area. So, um learning track myself as my kids do it. So, this is it's been fun. But, um some other successes I want to point out. Kim brought up our academyy's work. Uh yes. So last year

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when we did registration we had just around 60 kids commit to an academy. 75% is is where we are at this year. So a lot more excitement, a lot more interest. We're really we're really looking forward to where we can take this in terms of getting kids out into the business community, connecting them

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up, making them feel prepared for what comes next. So that's a that's a huge thing we're excited about. Another thing that we really pressed this year was uh we've been trying to grow our reading intervention program. Last year we serviced just eighth graders. We had about 60 of them. This year we expanded out more eighth graders and 9th graders

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to about 120 kids. Just starting to see the data come into us from our our testing at the end of the year. But some major victories already. Um we looked at we'll call it the high average range. So those kids that are exceeding expectations in the beginning of the

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year 27% of our kids are meeting it in vocab or up to 40. U morphology which has been the number one focus of our eighth graders. we went from 30 to 49%. Um and then our world word word recognition um this was the one that has

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been our main focus of those 120 intervention kids. We went from 22% up to 38 but more importantly our at risk group haved and so we're now we started the year around 36% of our eighth graders were at risk when it came to word recognition. We're down to 16%. So,

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some tremendous work. Um, Becky God, Alinda Willoughby, Christina Gerber, Amy Steele have led that program. Our eighth grade teachers, Jen Henchel, Rose Camelik, awesome work. They've done amazing work. Um, really made literacy a main focus this year, we're going to

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continue it next year. Um, already talking to teachers, the more we put books in kids' hands, magically things happen. So, we need to do it. Um, other great things we want to celebrate, you know, we talked about recognizing, uh, students who have done some great things, whether it's on a field and all

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that. Uh, got a great idea from Amy Wading, who also will happen to be our CEO, facilitator moving forward. Um, she'd reached out in the fall and said, "We have AAA award winners. What about a quadruple quintuple, excuse me, a award winner?" I said, "What is that?" and she

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said, "Activities, arts, and then attitude, attendance, academics. Can we do it?" And so the counseling department spent a week looking at every student who had 95% attendance, no office referrals, a four a GPA, and participated in arts

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and activities. And in our,3 students, there are only 22 in a high school who met that. 14 are eighth and nth graders. And so we have a tremendous amount of talented people. Uh so we wanted to recognize them. We're going to

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be having celebrations throughout this week to recognize those 22 and recognize some of those other students who have done well when it comes to attendance and grades. So um the the last thing really wanted to touch on is I know with um our proposed transition moving forward, a lot of the questions we've

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been getting is about the culture of the building, safety of the building, that type of thing. Questions from parents. Um, from a culture standpoint, we just completed very scientific study with our uh, staff. We actually surveyed them through our weekly update. Um, they get

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to click on one emoji that expresses how they feel about coming to work. 88% of staff are positive. No poop emojis this month. I'll take that as a victory. But, um, at the start of the year, we were in the low 70s. So, it' be up to 88% especially in May. For those of you in education,

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you know what that is like. So, if we can get 88% of staff feeling good about coming to work in May, we will take it. Um, and we know when our staff is feeling that way, our kids are going to feel that that love and that caring as well. Um, on that safety note, asked Adam Khan to pull some data for us. Um,

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we have work to do, but also some some massive progress. So, as of right now at Albertly High School, we have had nine fights, violent incidents, if you will. Um, nine is still too many in my mind. We had 15 last year. If you go back to

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2022, we had 44. If uh looking at our our vaping marijuana, um 37 incidents there, again, we'd love to see that drop. 37 incidents across 16 kids. So, what we're seeing, again, students who need the help of our

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chemical dependency council, Melissa Boyceet, who's working hard with them. Um put that in perspective, 2022, there were 80. Uh, other one that we we're just looking at in general is our our overall office referrals have have

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decreased and I think that goes heavily to the classroom management of our teachers, the positive atmosphere that the teachers are building. Um, the great work our deans Harrison Kates, Christina Gerber, uh, getting out connecting with kids. Do we have work to do? Definitely. We still want to work on the attendance

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piece. We're still trying to make sure that, but really wanted to get out there to to our families that we understand that the safety of the kids is the number one priority. We're making strides. It's not perfect, but um also a lot of credit to Adam Khan on that front, too, as I think his presence in

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the building, the presence of of Officer Hughes has really made a difference. So, uh, hopefully as we get more information like that out to families combined with the the attitude of our staff and how they feel about coming to our building, the more we feel people comfortable as we make that transition. So,

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>> thank you. >> I think that Alley High School has seen just such a dramatic change from last year to this year. And I think a part of that major change has been the fact that we got an awesome new principal who when I talk to people in the hallways,

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they're just like, Gaston says hi to us. Gaston talks to us in the hallway and he makes this a better building. So I think a lot of that is thanks to him. And I just I think we need to show it out that he's been doing great for our school and he's been making that change that needs

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to happen. All right, let's see if I can figure this one out. Good evening everybody. It's a pleasure to be here. I've presented before on fast data, so kind of going along with Sean. There's room for improvement, but let's celebrate the great growth that we

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have. I'll be going through the data of the four elementary schools, but of course highlighting Halverson as well. All right. So, and I asked um I need to give credit to Don Wear, our instructional coach. She put this together for me. Originally, she did it with a nice teal background.

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I said, "Oh, no. You need to elurtly this up." So, as you're looking, look to see what a great job she did as she added some awesome um pieces from Albertly. But here, we're looking at e-reading. So, of our littles, kindergarten, first grade. And I really want you to focus on above that line, right? That's the low risk at 40 to 70%.

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So, if you look at the district, they had a 8% um increase. You look at top right, Hawthorne, a 2% increase. Bottom left, Lake View, 9% increase. Bottom right, Sibi, 4% increase. And there's Hson 21% increase. So, yes, would we

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like to see it higher? Absolutely. But look at the great growth that's happening. All right. Looking just now at Hson at our kindergarten, first grade, and e-reading. great growth in kindergarten, 34% versus fall. Um, when you look at this data, it's also very important that you look at from fall, the scores on the

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far left compared to the scores on the right, spring, winter in between is different because sometimes you get to some of the standards that they want you to get to and sometimes you don't. So, that's different. So, please look from the left all the way over to the right. Um, so kindergarten showed great um

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improvement. Um, first grade we have a 6% increase. Looking at e-math. So top left the district a nine or 8% increase. Top right Hawthorne a 9% increase. Bottom left Lake View an 8% increase. And

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bottom right Sibly a 0% increase. And top middle Halverson a 16% increase in math of our young ones. Um looking at EMath now specifically just Halverson going from 58% to 83%. So 25% increase. And then first grade,

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that's 7% increase. But as we look at that, I really need a spotlight on one teacher because this is like a first ever. So looking at e-math on the left and then e-reading on the right, Claire Lenning, kindergarten, look at they went from 60% to 90%, a 30% increase on the

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right, e-reading, they went from a 35% to 80%. That's phenomenal. 45% increase. So teachers are working really hard. They're bringing that teacher magic every single day to make Halverson students learn and grow. Moving on to a reading. So this would be um second

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through fifth grade. We have on the top left we have a two a negative 2% for the district. Top right Hawthorne we have a negative 1%. Bottom left we have Lake View negative 3%. Bottom right Sibi negative4%. And if

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you look at top middle Halverson, we have a 12% increase finishing at 47%. Um, and we achieved our building goal, but the fun part is we doubled our goal for we wanted a 3% growth and we made a 7% growth in a reading. So hats off to

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these teachers for working so hard and our students who come each day ready to learn. Um, looking at our A- reading, we have um, so looking across top left is second grade. we have a 27% increase. The top middle is third grade 14%

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increase. Fourth grade -2 or I'm sorry negative3. And then in the bottom middle um fifth grade a 9% increase. Moving on to a math we have the district had a 0% increase

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on the top left. Top right Hawthorne a negative six. Bottom left Lake View a 5% increase. bottom right, Sibi negative one and Halverson had a 7% increase. Looking at a math, let's look at those grade levels to see what that looks

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like. Top left is second grade 18% increase, third grade negative 1%. Fourth grade 9% and fifth grade 4% increase. And now we need to spotlight a grade level looking at each one. So on the

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left we have second grade a math went from 38 to 56 at 18%. The middle in a reading from 29 to 56% that's 27% increase. And then on the very right there look at that math going from 28%

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up to 65%. That's a 37% increase. So way to go Brady. Um Brady last year was third grade. He was third grade for quite a while at Halverson and I um moved him to second grade this past year. A lot of our um parents of our first graders last year said that the

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piece that their student is really missing is a positive male role model. So I put two men in that grade and they've made a dynamic difference in our students. It's amazing to see the incredible growth. But it's awesome too for Brady because he knows where the kids need to go to be set up for success in third grade. And so he brought it. He

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did a fabulous job. All right, so that's fast scores. But now let's look at MCAs and see how MCA's um look. So on the top we have Hawthorne. So looking collectively you can see from 2024 27% and that goes to 25 and 26 this year. And then looking

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over into reading it's a new um assessment. So we don't have the preliminary data. That's why it's NA on the very right side. So looking across from Halverson. So go down to the blue. So we went from 41% to 44 to 46. So we're seeing growth. Could we see bigger

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growth? Absolutely. Um, and I'm excited to see what we end up with um, in reading we'll find out in the fall. In the middle section, we're looking at math and math is divided by grade um, grade levels. And you can see then looking down vertically at Hawthorne,

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Sibi, Halverson, and Lake View to see where they're at. Science. Um, last year we weren't able to see any of the scores because it was a new assessment. And the science um, test scores kind of keep changing as they come in because there's some of the written responses. So, as they grade the written responses, but Hawthorne was at

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3.9% proficient, Sibly at 10%, Lake View at 16%, and Halverson at 26%. So, I'm really proud of our teachers and staff for bringing that teacher magic every single day to make a difference in the lives of our students and for our students coming to school ready to

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learn. It's making a difference. Any questions, concerns? Okay, thank you. I'm Christy. I'm from Sibi. I just wanted to go through a couple of things that we're doing at Sibi right now. Um, I wasn't sure if I had mentioned it before, but we have been now certified

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with our HRS level two, which means we have effective teaching in every classroom. Um, that was one of our big highlights and a lot of work that our staff put in through this year, especially, um, Amber Jensen, our instructional coach, and Julie Eaton with a lot of our data. Um, we also

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continue to focus our literacy instruction with Whit Wisdom, just our foundation of supports with all of our kids. Um, we have also continued our focus with phonics, decoding, fluency, and all of our intervention systems with our MTSS.

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Um, and we have completed our MCA testing, which um is it takes a lot of planning throughout uh the end of the school year to get all of the testing scheduled and prepared and prepped and um so that's always a a big

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goal of ours is to just have a successful MCA testing time. Um our um regulate and return, our RNR at Sibly is still working with great success. Um it helps us um kind of focus in on um

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specific students that might need some assistance. Um usually that ends up being between 10 to 15 students in the building that we need to focus on that that spends more time in RNR. Um our LSCI, the life space crisis interventions have been working really

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well with our students. Um so we continue to see a lot of improvement there. Um we also continue with our efforts to improve student attendance. We've been doing a lot of communication this year with um um absences. Um I think it's been a little frustrating for

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some having to reach out to some families, but um being at school is very important and we want to just make sure we let the parents know that being there is what makes the student successful. So, we've been doing a lot of reaching out and phone calls with that. Um we recently had our kindergarten

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orientation on May 12th. We had quite a few families join us. It's always fun to see the littles come in and and prep for the, you know, next school year. It's It's always a fun time. We had the um one of our family members had

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their son be the tiger for us and and they got a lot of pictures with the tiger. Um we had a great teacher appreciation week. All of our teachers, I feel at Sibly, were um felt very appreciated through the week. um a lot of um activities that we had with them

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and a lot of snacks and foods and drinks and everything. Um but then through the rest of the year, we've had our choir tour. We had the fifth grade field day. Um we do have our um student celebrations coming up as well at the

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end of the year. Um we have our graduation coming up as Dr. Hy had pointed out. Um we have a family cookout on May 26th from 11 to 1. Um, so if that's something that you guys are interested in coming to, it's nice. We do have a fairly large turnout for our

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family cookout. Um, and we're doing our first ever color run on May 26. So I'm hoping for good weather then. Um, we have the teacher the um, students have Sibly Elementary t-shirts and then they also have a white t-shirt for the color run along with some sunglasses. So we're

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kind of looking forward to that. Um, and then we have our awards ceremony um, the very last day on the 27th. So, any questions for me? >> Thank you, Christie. Okay. Uh, number eight, curriculum. Nothing there. Number nine, efficient

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and effective and efficient operations. Uh, Ashley Madson, several policies, I think. >> Go ahead. >> Good evening, board chair, superintendent, school board members. Uh, so we held a policy committee meeting on March 16th. um bringing

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forward tonight a handful of policies. Um and then what we'll do in June is bring another set of policies that we we reviewed as well. Um there were a number of policies from MSBA that had technical updates and there are some that I think

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just um for transparency we'll uh break it up into two and that was also the feedback that we received from the committee as well. So uh we will start with policy 306 administrator code of ethics. Uh so this

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change oh that's me I got to change the slide. Uh there are revisions to um the code of ethics that are listed in this policy. It comes directly from the Minnesota statute. um it is no longer part of um I

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think that was originally from um a national organization um the ones that were listed in there. So now what is listed is straight from the definitions in the Minnesota statute listed there. If we go to policy 410 the family and

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medical leave um this policy did have uh two revisions. um one is regarding uh taking out the parenting leave under state law. Um and then that did go into further in detail about what that state law meant. So in Minnesota with

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Minnesota paid leave and ESST that now replaces what that Minnesota parenting leave. Um so just again removing that portion as that falls under um MPL and ESST. Uh the next item or next policy that we reviewed was employee use of social

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media um policy 524.1. Um this is a review only. So this was um kind of in our cycle of doing our our three to fiveyear review. Um there were just a couple of items that we changed changing from Twitter I think that was a

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good catch on uh director Schindler's part um to uh the new X I believe is what it's called. Um but it was a good policy just for our uh committee to review. No recommended changes. Any questions on those three before I move on?

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Okay. Uh again, another policy for review, policy 528, student parental family and marital status non-discrimination. Um this does go handinhand with policy 522, the title 9 policy. Um again, no

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revisions to this policy. Policy 529 was staff notification of violent behavior in students. Um, this had no changes to the actual policy itself, but did have title changes to the references listed on the back.

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Policy 606. Uh, I I will do my best for uh, executive director Frank's. Um, this is regarding adding a section under um, a paragraph under the textbooks and other instructional materials. So, um it

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really does state that any parent community member can come in and request uh let me bring it up here. All instructional materials including teacher manuals, films, tapes and other supplemental material which will be used

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in connection with any survey analysis and evaluation as part of applicable pro program shall be available for inspection by parents or guardians of the students. Um so that is a change to uh a state statute as well under

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protection of pupil rights. And then the last policy that we did review as a committee was policy 709 student transportation and safety. Um it did add some procedures for type three drivers if they are convicted um of a

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driving um um what am I going to say here? of driving conviction, um driving while impaired in offenses, controlled substances. Um it has a list of items that they do need to notify us as the employer if they are a type three uh

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driver and then also updates the use um of the word removing handicapping condition and adds disability. Any questions on those policies? We do ask for uh recommended approval. These are actually revisions. So, it's a

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a one time for approval tonight. I'll second. >> Second. Any discussion on any of them? Seeing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I.

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>> I. Oppose the same sign. >> Thank you, Ashley. >> 9.2. Uh before we go uh in close session, just again a reminder for ALC graduation on uh Thursday night at 6:00 PM and then uh Albertly High School

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Friday night at 7:30. Um so uh 9.2 2 persuant to Minnesota state statute 13D.03 labor negotiations. I look for a motion to go into close session. >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second.

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>> And a second. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. I. >> Oppose the same sign. Thank you. We'll go into close session. Let's see. We did have a motion to come

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back into open session. So then I will be looking at 9.3 and looking for a motion to accept the Albertly Schools Executive Director Association master agreement for 25 through 27. >> So move. >> Is there a second?

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>> Second. >> And a second. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. Oppose the same sign. All right. Thank you very much. That passes 70. And

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uh getting to adjournment. Again, just reminder, our fun time is on Thursday and Friday, our graduations. Thank you for coming tonight. So, I look for a motion to adjurnn. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Is there any discussion?

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Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I oppose the same sign.