years have you been involved in sand? >> I have been involved since 171. So about 5 years ago. >> Yeah. Crazy. Let's give Congratulations. Here's your ticket. Congrats, Isabella, and thank you for
coming and sharing this with us tonight. Focus on this week. We'll be hosting Congressman uh Brad Pinstead's office in the district. It's a great opportunity for us to share our understanding and explain what's happening across our school district. We'll be highlighting
Americanore serve Minnesota and our reading core and NAF core programs. And these kinds of visits strengthen our connection at the federal level and ensure that Austin's story is part of the broader dialogue and about the future of public education. We recently had our November uh
superintendent student advisory council meeting. Uh I want to thank Corey Hogan was uh in attendance um and also talking about attendance uh with the students. But we were able to uh share with the students uh just our demographics of our
school district but also the importance of being at school every day. And we got some focus group work in with Mr. Hogan on our new digital hall pass system with students uh which was I think very valuable for us as we continue the implementation of that. I just want to
recognize some staff and board members. I want to congratulate uh Cherry Bay, Director Mallister, the recipients of the MSBA directors award for their commitment to professional learning and effective board leadership. And a special point here, our students
performed the national anthem at the Minnesota Tipples game last Friday. And if you haven't had a chance to see that online, uh please do. It was uh just an excellent opportunity for our students to really showcase their talent and their class and their pride. And tomorrow just want to highlight it is
Veterans Day. Uh this year's theme is service to our nation and to all veterans. I just want to say to honor you, remind us that your service and loyalty aren't just words. their values will live out and your example continues to inspire our students and strengthen our community and country. So,
congratulations and thank you to our veterans. I report Dr. You say that. >> Does anybody else have any questions? border courts. Does anybody have anything they want to share?
Go ahead. >> Yeah, I'd like to um mirror what Dr. Paige said about Carol and Carolyn about um um the director's award. I think that's a a great accomplishment.
are lifelong learners and uh I I thank you for that and I applaud you for taking the time to go to conferences and services and things of that nature to become a better board member because that's really what MSBA supports us in
doing. I would also like uh after looking at that in in board update I noticed that there are a number of boards being given out at this uh uh January's meeting. One of them is a district of board of distinction
and Monaco is getting that award and that award is when a majority of the board a majority in this case will be four people uh have amassed 100 hours of education.
So we're real close hopefully next year. I made that plea back three years ago and make it again. I hope we can get that, you know, with this phase three and phase four and the Congress, you're going to rack up, I believe, $45 right
there. So, it's it's and nowadays you can do it from the comfort of your home or in this case the conference room. Um, would like to say that this last weekend the swim team competed in the section tournament
and I'm not 100% um in on the names of teams etc. But I do believe that the 200 um relay 200 meter relay team qualified
for state and Gracie have one, two, three, four, five individuals I believe or four or five individuals going to state. We just had a a student go to state, Sydney Lewis and cross country and now we have some
swimmers. So the fall season is not over yet. I would like to say one more thing. The other night I wandered up to the uh auditorium and uh the orchestra concert just happened to be playing that night. It was I believe October 28th. And uh I
just want to say that um there are people who talked earlier tonight about passion and if there are two people who are any more passionate than uh Jacob Crosby and Jean Shot for what they do uh I'm going to find out
because there's more of these things coming up in the future and I know there are people but those two individuals who really are passionate about music, passionate about their students and uh uh they really push the envelope. And I
just want to say we talked about public schools has 48 languages, but sitting there uh watching that concert and all the young people were all dressed up in either black suit or a black dress. So, everybody was looking
real good. But, um they all spoke in one language and that was the language of music. And it was like looking at a a um a concert on PBS with like say the Cincinnati Philarmonic.
There were people from all walks of life, all different demographic uh uh spaces. It was just public schools and the committee loss is all about and that's including people
and it was really really a joy. So, um, I I feel very honored to have been able to participate in that. So, I think that's about all I have. Thank you, >> Don. That was beautiful.
>> We're talking about music and the language and and sports and all the different areas that students can excel in our district. And we're that's the tip of the iceberg. Um I would like to
thank Dr. Paige and his team and I know it was a big team. the work of um getting this referendum information out um was done so well and it had to be
very time consuming and I cannot imagine how you could have made yourself more available to the public for questions or tours or whatever. So, as a board member, thank you very much for making
sure that we were doing everything we could to get the word out. Um, which is collaboration of state schoolboard associations and they did a webinar on the status of finances and
the big beautiful bill. And um I just have to say publicly that the uncertainty at the federal level is so great and listening to these people in this webinar who have done this work for
decades said they just have seen nothing like this there are no rules and we don't know what tomorrow brings which makes Todd's job and Joey's job and all of our
jobs so important and you you um have such a steady hand. So, I really appreciate that because these are trying times. And um I'm going to send you the link of this um webinar and the
PowerPoint. It was so um scary, but it was also very important. So >> yeah, we had a we had a a lobbyist in Washington DC at our Southeastern Service annual meeting and she talked
exactly the same way you did. How did you find out about this webinar? >> I think I got an email and then I signed up for it. Um and then they sent the video and all the things that went with it. >> Yeah.
>> Now you talked about Dr. Paige and all the people that worked. I saw Dr. Paige the other night. He had an envelope in his hand. I said, "What's that?" He goes, "It's a gift certificate for Joe Adamson." So, I mean, he must believe that Joe did a lot of work, too. Maybe
gave out a lot of gift cards. I don't know. But you got you got >> carried around. He carried around some bad pipes. >> He showed me that pipes. It was just unbeliev for the referendum. Cool. because it was like
deja vu stepping back in time from when I was in junior high which is a few years ago. So, um I did not get to attend the orchestra concert, but I got to go to the choir
concert um on October 30th and I had the pleasure of attending a phenomenal choir concert. Um so, I would like to thank um Mr. Acriman for directing
um a phenomenal concert and a shout out to everybody behind the scenes um for making the concert just seemed seamless um from the audience. Anyway, um and I'd also like to thank everyone
who was involved in orchestrating and getting everything to line up for the ribbon cutting ceremony for the weight room. I'm sure that was um quite a feat in itself. Um
and getting the Thelen family to Austin, it was it was just a spectacular ribbon cutting. I really enjoyed it being a Vikings fan for quite a few years now. So it was awesome. Um
and the other thing I attended the Apex meeting um which was on 115 and we had um Christy Beckman was there and she had five of her success coaches
with her and it was just I thought a wonderful opportunity. They um Christy did kind of a question and answer session with the five um success coaches and I'm going to apologize in advance if
I mispronounce anybody's name. Um Hashira Laku um is Karini and Burmese and works within the whole district.
Santino Deng is Dinka and Arabic again working within the district. Um, Teresa Lugo, um, Spanish at Ellis, Valentina
Gleos, Spanish at Southgate, and Chantel Wakey, French um, at Ellis in the district. Um, but Christy did a question and answer
session. And so she asked, "What is the most challenging part of being a success coach? What's your favorite part of being a success coach? And how can Apex and the community at Love support your work?" And it was just really um a
phenomenal question and answer session and I really think it um helped to get the word out about the fantastic work that we're doing here in Austin public schools um
to support the students and their families and ensure that every learner has the support that they need to be successful. I just wanted to say really quick um had the opportunity a couple weeks back uh with Carol to her
Dr. Paige and I wanted to thank one for giving the story of that school and um as a as a parent who used to have a a child that went to that school. I never really noticed a whole lot about the building walking through it. You
know, you go in for sports, you go in conference and stuff like that. So, I just wanted to publicly say that, you know, conferences are going on uh this week still. I believe later on. Um just encourage parents throughout our district that when you go in when you
have the opportunity to go into our schools, I mean, this isn't as we said, this isn't going away. We have long-term maintenance. um required at all of our schools. And so just take a take a closer look at at what you can see uh when you go into our schools for different things. Um
conferences, sports, stuff like that. Um stuff that you might not notice just walking in, you know, pick your child or go to a concert. Um is stuff that becomes really really apparent when you start taking a close look. I think our maintenance staff does a great job
across this district with the the funds we have available. But there's some some big things that need to be be fixed. What? >> Man, I don't even need to say anything because you just said said it all. Um,
just encourage people to take a closer look because it's easy to look at like the flooring and oh, it looks beautiful. like walk in the he it's just freshly done and it looks beautiful
and you know always looks beautiful and we have amazing maintenance staff. Huge kudos to Joe Adams and his team for what they do on a daily basis to make
um our our ancient buildings look as good as they do. It's all the stuff that we're that that we have coming up is it's the invisible guts of the buildings that that need a little help. And it's it's easy to look
at at the facade and say, "Oh, it looks great." Um, but behind that facade is just old infrastructure. and we just it's not going to be it's not going to be an easy mountain to climb, but we
will climb it and we'll get there. Um Iinging on on the the referendum vote um earlier this week, I just was thinking about how
um you know, we might have to make some tough tough calls. We may have to revisit some some um line items and decide whether or not those are things that we can continue to um
support as a district. I don't know. I was speculating. But the good thing is that we have time to do that thoughtfully and um with our students best interest
in mind. So that's my sense on where we go from from here. Now, we can we can always look back, but it's better to look forward and to think about how we can make things make things work moving
forward rather than dwelling on the past, >> right? I guess I heard from Dan some of those text message chains that that you wanted to sit down as a group
and talk about things that happened that didn't happen and where we're going to go from here. I think that that's a healthy thing to do. Yeah, I guess >> I think that's a healthy thing to do.
>> You know, when we look at the list of items, I mean, it was a a longer list of >> of things. And so, I don't know what the priorities look like from there as far as what's critical, what's what can wait a year or six months. I I don't know, right? I mean,
things we we never know what the the shelf life on some of these things are. So I do think it's probably worth revisiting at some point. So >> I am sure Dr. PH has a plan. >> Yeah, of course. I mean this isn't to say to say we don't get the opportunity
to talk very often as a group and so you know just whether that's a study session or meeting to talk about you know put on like okay >> if we had 100 things here are the priorities moving forward I think would be good. >> We have that coming.
I know you do. >> I didn't say that. >> All right, everybody. Good. >> Okay, we're going to keep moving forward um with our student representative reports with Michael Gary and Lydia Masara.
Who's up first? Michael. >> All right. >> Superintendent Paige, sheriff debate, and members of the board. I'll be presenting the first half of the student. To start, Austin High School recently had an exciting visit from Adam Theland. The Adam Theland Foundation generously donated a brand new weight
room to our school and Adam himself and family came for the ribbon cutting ceremony. A few students had the opportunity to speak during the event and several evening got to take pictures with him. It was an incredible experience for everyone who was involved and a memorable day for our school and community. I'd like to thank the Thie
Foundation for donating the new weight room on behalf of all the students at our school. I'd also like to thank Sam ETSs for making the room come alive. Our music programs have also been very active this month. The choir concerts were recently held and they went exceptionally well, showcasing the hard
work and dedication of all our student musicians. These concerts continue to be a highlight for the school year and a source of pride for the entire district. I'd also like to thank the music teachers throughout the district for preparing students and getting them excited and keeping Austin music traditions alive. The Austinires also
had a major opportunity recently to perform the national anthem at the Minnesota Timber game against the Utah Jazz. It was a great experience for the students and an impressive showcase of their talent. The group is now shifting gears and beginning to prepare for their Christmas music for the holiday season
which we performed 23 times in December. In addition, the packer pantry the packer pant pantry received a generous thousand donation from the class of 1965. This contribution will go a long way in helping support students, families in need, reinforcing the strong sense of community and compassion that
defines Austin public schools. Finally, I'd like to congrat Lewis for placing 42nd in the state competition. This is an outstanding achievement and a testament for her dedication and hard work. Thank you. Any questions? >> I have a question about Packer Pantry.
Um, awesome donation. What is the biggest need from the community, from donors for the Packer Pantry right now? We know that um the need is great. >> The need is great and it's often
sometimes things you wouldn't think about. Um laundry detergent goes off the shelf as fast as you can put it on there or shampoo, soaps, >> hygiene things are all in very high need. >> Okay, that's good. That's good to know because it's very easy for us to uh you
know by rope just go grab the spaghetti and the ramen and the cereal and all of that. But nice to know that those are the things that that kids are needing. >> Any other questions? >> How many times are you performing in
December? >> 23. >> When are you going to school? an incredible Austin High School tradition. Thank you for keeping that going to make that alive. >> Thanks, Michael.
Next, we'll hear from Lydia. Hi. Sorry. Hi, I'm Lydia Wasara. I'll be presenting the second half of the report. Chairperson Dub and members of the board. So, these past couple weeks at Austin High School have been super busy and kids have been a involved in a
lot of great activities from helping out in the community and to even competing in events. Um, I would start off by congratulating Addison Walsh for her earning all state honors. This recognition highlights her outstanding athletic performance and dedication to
the volleyball team. Next thing I'll be talking about is the student council district day. At Austin High School, we hosted the annual student council district day, which is something that we do every year. We welcome councilors from all over the district. Banfield, Southgate, all elementary schools and we
students of all ages kind of collaborate with each other in leadership and expand on different ideas of things that we can do as a as a district to stay connected and we also planning new and exciting events for all of us to
stay more connected. Um something else that happened was the student super student super student super student super student super student superintendent student advisory meeting. So this is what this is a meeting of a bunch of students from HS and they all participate and share different student perspectives and discuss ideas to help
improve like the district experience. They had their meeting on October at the end of October and they discussed as Dr. Paige said earlier um attendance with Corey Hogan. Um something else that happened was the AHS debate team. They
competed at Roseville this Saturday and two members actually made it to finals. Congratulations to Maya Ralph and Stephanie Rodriguez Talivara for advancing to finals. And then the Future Teachers Club on November 5th actually went to visited Banfield Elementary and
helped clean up the school garden there. The Latino and Hispanic Youth Club uh hosted a Spanish story time at the Austin Public Library. So, this is another example of students from our school connecting with younger students and families and keeping the community connected. Um, at the end of October,
uh, National Honor Society went around to different neighborhoods and collected cans for their annual trickor treat and they collected a bunch of donations from the factory, which is nice. >> The end of my report. Any questions? Yeah, Olivia, you said you said that um
two members of the debate team advanced to the finals of summer finals or something like that. >> Yeah. >> Um do they go in there with a with a a predetermined topic that they prepared to debate or do they get a topic the day
of and that's what they >> So like with debate there's like different like types. There's congressional debate and that's the one that we're doing here at the high school and they'll send out like the information of like bills you can vote on and like you have to create speeches for each bill. They'll send that like a
week in advance out and then as a team we kind of come together and research different stuff and yeah so we get them like about like a week before prior but you can't really like prepare too much for a debate competition because a lot of it's on the spot. >> Yeah. Yeah,
>> you're pretty you're pretty good on the spot. >> Uh maybe. Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Let's put her on the spot right now. >> Um actually, I kind of want to ask you a question. I know that uh Dr. Pa said earlier that one of the topics at the
superintendent advisory council meeting um was the digital health passes. How do you think they're working? >> Um I like them. I think that it's nice to just ask my teacher if I can go to the bathroom and I don't have to like carry a paper or anything around. Um, at the beginning of the school year, it was
like kind of a big like having to like get my computer out and type it. But I think for right now, it's pretty nice. Room for improvement. >> Always. I think that's a good answer. Yeah. >> All right. Thank you so much for
sharing. Thank you. >> All right. Is there a motion to approve tonight's consent agenda? >> Whoa. Who said Bob said? And then CC second. Okay, got it. Um, any
discussion? All those in favor? >> I Anybody opposed? Motion passes. All right, we're looking forward to our next agenda item, which is an ETS update. Angelberg Training Systems with activities director Katie Carter. And
I'm guessing you might need to hear from Sam. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> Good evening once again. I'm here tonight to introduce our new Franklin Performance Program, the Eagle Bird Training Systems, or better known as ETS, and Coach Sam Perkl. We implemented
ETS after the start of the fall 2025 season. Working out in a temporary space while our existing space received an amazing makeover was a bit of a challenge up at the mezzanine packer. But the end result of our new space was definitely worth the wait. So, thank you
again. As we've said tonight, thanks to the Adam Thelen Foundation, the feedback I've received from athletes and coaches has been overwhelmingly positive on both ETSs and our new weight room. We're very thankful that Sam has chosen us to be his team. He works solely with us as the
Austin Packers uh strength and performance coach. I'm very excited to see our student athletes evolve, not only physically, but mentally and in confidence as well. With that said, I'm going to bring Sam Perkl up here and he's going to talk a little bit more
about ETSs and uh working with the Austin records. Hello, I am Sam Pole, the new performance coach here. Kind of the reason why I've made an appearance here tonight is just kind of to go over who
we are as a company. um kind of like our mission, what we want your students to get out of the experience um downstairs in the gym and kind of where to go in the future. So, with that being said, we are ETSs performance. We are a youth
sports performance company who help athletes develop physically, mentally, and as leaders. So, a lot of the people around here have been saying, um, the weight room isn't just a place to get strong or fast or jump high. It's a place to develop character, which is
completely true. That's something I try and touch on every day in the weight room. You know, make the kids clean up, stuff like that. Um, just hold them accountable and hopefully they'll carry that over into their daily lives as they progress through high school. So, our
mission is to build better athletes and build better people. As I said, I work out of the Rochester location. Right now, we have like five or six hundred members at the gym. So, it's really a fun atmosphere. We have around 60 locations currently across the country.
We're just starting to branch out like um out of the Midwest, so we just got to the east and west coast recently. We're starting to go down south a little bit as well, which is super exciting. So, our Austin partnership began August of 2025 and really trying to just focus on
accessibility and long-term athlete development with you guys as a school. So, that's kind of why this partnership exists and we want to bring elite level training here locally in Austin. So, it's really we want to act more of an
extension as the athletic department rather than our own entity within your graduate school. We want to stay connected with all of you guys, the community and your athletes specifically. And with that, we will do inseason and offseason programs which have been going
tremendously. kind of the difference there is in season really focused on you know not losing progress that we made in the offseason injury resilience and in the offseason that's kind of when we hit more of our you know getting stronger
faster and jumping higher type of stuff. So this also is a great partnership because it reduces a lot of the barriers that you would see in a typical ETS location. So being able to have this available for every athlete is really
amazing. You know, a lot of this community can't spend however many hundreds of dollars on a membership. So being able to come here and serve you guys, it really just makes me happy. And we plan to align with Austin's mission
person growth and healthy student athletes. So, kind of my impact since August. I've worked with I think every varsity sports team except for maybe tennis. And all of you have been phenomenal. Football, volleyball, basketball. Just started
with like girls hockey. Starting to get into some more of the winter sports teams, which is super fun. They're all great. Um, we've been working in the upgraded weight room uh with better everything, better equipment, better tech. So, that has been a tremendous help. And one thing I will say with
that, like probably the most impressive thing about me coming here is everyone's ability to just adapt. Like we were in that mezzanine, it was first day, no questions asked. We're in there, kids get their work in, get out. And you know, times change, locations change,
all the athletes, all the coaches have been phenomenal at just being flexible and trusting the process and really buying into what I'm trying to do here with you guys. So, kind of building off that, I've had to have a lot of collaboration with the
coaches to align with, you know, how the practice schedule is, um, training and recovery wise, and they've all been great. I can't speak to a single coach that has really rubbed me the wrong way. So, all of the coaches have been great and just continuing that communication
will help us even more because obviously if you know, say ex athlete has a game that day, we're probably going to do something different. If they just had a double overtime basketball game the night before, we're probably going to do something a little different. So, just
being in open uh communication with the kids and the coaches is great to improve how I can help them. So kind of what makes ETSS different, we focus on individualized coaching. So every team program is tailored to their
sport position and their needs. So probably not going to focus that much on like I don't know dancers hitting a one rep max on bench, you know. So we just try and make make the programs make sense. Um we don't do any sports spec
specific training. uh you know I won't have the kids the baseball kids in there swinging a weighted bat or anything. We focus on generalized movements that will help them in their sport and hopefully keep them healthy throughout the se season.
And with that we do regular testing. So like I just had my first round of testing with basketball boys. This really is a great way to just drive our programming needs. see what they're good at, see what they need to get better at, and then track progress uh especially through the season as their bodies get
more worn down, more tired, and then see how much we can get better in the offseason. And then character development, that is something we focus on tremendously at ETSs. So leadership, discipline, accountability, it's built into every
sess session, and I really try and touch on it every time I see the kids. I know at the gym it's a little bit different where they just come in um on their own time, but still we're making sure they're doing things right. They're being a leader. Um nothing bad is
happening. No attitudes are bad. Really just trying to drive that into their everyday life so that they can replicate it when they're outside of the gym. And then culture. Obviously, I've been trying to change the culture here a little bit, just slowly but surely, you know, getting kids to buy in, getting
them to the lift. And I can do that by just being positive, high energy every day because if they don't like coming to the gym, they're probably not going to show up. So just driving that intent to get better every single day, slowly but surely change the culture and then from
there we'll get better. So kind of our future vision for Austin is to expand athlete testing and pro progress events um you know with semester evaluations, things like that. strength and coach collaboration for
inseason integration which is has been going very good but can always get better obviously um develop junior athlete pathways including the middle school which we have been doing with Jesse he's been great and I think have they started that yet?
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. So I haven't talked to him since they started but probably it's going well. He's a good guy. And we also were thinking to host community education nights for parents and coaches and um let them sit in with
me for a training session. Like if any of you guys wanted to shoot down there, if you had any questions on how I do things, how the wheel turns, like feel free to stop in. And then I would just like to express my gratitude towards all of you in the
community for kind of accepting me and trusting me with this very important position. It's been great since I've been here. I've literally haven't had a single qualitive energy and build that intent, build that culture slowly but surely. So one day we
can have every team in state, right? So, that's kind of it. If you guys have any questions, which I'm sure you do, feel free to ask and hopefully I have an answer. >> Hi, Sam. >> Hello. >> Nice to meet you. >> Yeah, you bet. >> Thank you for being here tonight. Um,
you didn't mention the middle school program. Um, my son's in that program and I guess there's a waiting list to get in there. It's so popular right now. So, >> awesome. >> Um, >> that's a really good thing. So, I don't know what programming they're running compared to what you're running. If it's
any different, frankly, it doesn't matter. I trust you guys. >> Uh, but if you wouldn't mind, could you just tell us a little more about yourself and kind of how you got started with ETSs? And >> yeah, so and then also what your schedule looks like dayto-day here. >> Yep. Uh, I'm from Blooming Prairie, Minnesota. So, I grew up 15 minutes
away. I still live there. Um, I actually went to PSO at Riverland, so did two years of college there, which was awesome and really helped me financially especially. And then from there went to University of Wisconsin River Falls, played a little bit of football and then
graduated with my BA bachelor's in two years thanks to my postsecary work. So that's kind of where I ended up after college was ETS. I started with an internship. Probably say like 80% of our employees do. Um but yeah, I just like
first day there it was something unlike I've ever seen before. like every I feel like every team lift I've been to kind of has a certain vibe and that was just completely different and I wanted to be involved with it right away cuz I remember like the my first day at ETSs I
think I was lifting with the coaches so that was super fun and then the next day came in for work and it was crazy like every coach was just on point. All the athletes had maximum intent and they really seemed to care and I realized that was the place I wanted to be. So, I
probably think I was an intern for like technically a yearish and then landed this full-time position about 3 months ago. And then I'm sorry, what was your other question? >> What was what's your schedule look like today now in this role? >> Yep. So, I do two sessions in the
morning, 6:15 and 7:00. And then I have three um in the afternoon, which is 3:45 right after school, 4:30 and 5:15. So, I basically just have a Google doc and I collaborate with the coaches to figure
out the best schedule. Most inseason teams are lifting max like two times a week, but then for some of the offseason teams, I want to try and get them in three times a week. So, I know like football right now is three times a week. Um, I think that's it for three times a
week, but most of the teams are trying to get in there at least once or twice a week. And with that 5 hour schedule, it's kind of been actually a challenge. Like I probably could go like 6 to 7 or something or
6:15 to 7, but just making it work with all the coaches and then like a lot of them have been open to sharing a weight room. So like I know I have baseball and wrestling because Nelson coaches both of them, but I also have in the winter starting like gymnastics as a small
group. So, I asked them if they could live with football and they were totally open to that and it seems to be running well and it's a great way to like really condense the schedule. >> Sure. Thank you for sharing. >> Yeah, >> we're very glad to have you here.
>> Yes, I'm very glad to be here. Thank you. >> As a parent whose daughter is going to be here at 6:15 tomorrow morning, thank you for coming tonight. Yes. >> Is it dance? >> Yes. >> We actually start at 6:05.
>> Drive that way. >> We There's such a big group. We had to like start at 10 minutes early otherwise they can't get through everything. >> Thank you. >> Yes. Thank you >> for all you're doing. We appreciate all the effort.
Sam State you tested and you uh you look for growth and progress improvement. How do you keep track of all these students names? >> Uh usually just through Excel. It's I don't know just make a spreadsheet but usually I'm testing like your pro
agility and some form of sprint. We don't usually go like 40 yards like how the NFL would. We do um it's called a fly 10 build 10. So you have a 10 yard run up into a 10 yard split. I use I have lasers down there. So, I time them with the lasers and I just have it all
on a spreadsheet. I can type in all the data. And then as far as like your primaries, your benchm squad, I just have that right next to it as well. And then I think at the Rochester location, we do have a couple more
programs that um help with that. Like ball, you have force plates, so we can get a lot of extra data from that. And then mostly other than that it's just all on Excel. >> So you played football in Blooming.
>> Did you use the weight room a lot up there? >> Yes. Our tiny weight room. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. I mean you had a successful football program, did you not? >> Yes. When I >> were highly successful. >> Yes. >> Well, thank you for coming down.
>> Yes. Sam, is there any testing that happens in Rochester or is it all here? Um, as far as the athletes that are here, it'll all be in school, but I know for like the individual members that go to Rochester, they have every time they
complete a program, which is usually three to four weeks, we have them retest on our course plates and then it's just all uploaded into the program to the computer. >> Thank you for all that you do. So, when you're doing the testing, performance
testing. Is that information shared with the coaches then? >> Um, I haven't really thought about it. I mean, it could be something I share with the coaches, but mostly it's just for me to um see what we I need to put in the
programs as far as the movements. >> You invited us all to come out and take a peek at how you do things. That visit does not include a workout. If the group was small enough, I would probably >> just
>> Thank you so much. >> You could try to warm up. >> You want to do the sprint or what? >> You know, I want to add too that Sam is very visible at our activities as well. He shows up and supports the kids that he works with. So he goes to our events
and um so it's just been a real pleasure to have him here. >> Yeah, that's one more thing that ETSs does that's a little bit different as we really try and show sport in the communities and obviously I'm kind of behind the curtain training these kids, but really our sole purpose for training
the kids is to see them perform. So why not go to a couple games or meets especially if they make it to, you know, deep playoff run or just stay even. So, we're going to see you at Saturday's dance competition. >> On Saturday,
>> we'll get you there. >> All right. >> Stay tuned. >> Did you have to put the dome up? >> Huh? >> You seen that? >> Well, we might have. I feel like we did practice in there a couple times for like when we went to state.
>> Might have had baseball practice in there when it was cold as well. >> All right, let's man. >> Thank you so much, Sam. We appreciate you. >> I did look um LS is maxed out at 26, so they must like 25 to 26 for their
programs right now. So, they're capped at 26 for theirs after school. >> Thank you. >> All right. He's never coming back. >> All right, we're going to move on. Uh, our next agenda item is to certify
the November 4th, 2025 school district special election results. Our speaker is our executive director of finance and operations. >> Thank you, Chair Person Bay, rest of the board, and Dr. Paige. I'm here tonight. Um there's resolution in front of you.
Um I'm going to go to page two of the resolution and just read the results. Um so on school district question one, the yes votes were 1,551. The no votes were 2,276. For school district question two, the
yes votes were 1,492. The no votes were 2315. So, we have a resolution in front of you to certify these results tonight. >> Right. Is there a motion to certify the
um November 4th, 2025 school district special collection results? >> Motion by Don, second by Carol. Discussion. >> All those in favor? >> Anybody opposed? Motion passes.
All right. On to a much brighter note. Uh we're going to move towards the approval of our donations for this month. Also tell me. >> Thank you. So the gifts that are in front of us and the donations um we have reviewed them. They are in accordance
with school board policy 706 which is our acceptance of gifts. So I'll read these out individually and then ask for approval at the end. Newan Scalin Foundation, $10,000 for a special service department. Austin
Packer Football Booster Club, $3,30.34 cents. Austin High School football. Austin Area Arts, $200. Austin High School band gymnastic team parents, $352.
Austin High School gymnastics. Girls soccer booster club $869.58. Austin High School girls soccer Wendy Peterson $100. Boys and girls cross country program. Darren Dash $700.
Boys and girls cross country program. Heidi and Vernon Neel $50. Boys and girls cross country program. Formal financial services $500. Austin Packer Dance Team. As always, we like to thank
all these individuals for their donation. >> Is there a motion to approve the donations? >> Motion by Maggie, second by Dan. Discussion. >> Todd, since that uh first donation,
$10,000 is quite significant. Can you tell a little bit about the Dub Scandlin Foundation and how it appear, how it came on this sheet of paper? >> So, this is one I apologize. This is one we get every year. Uh we've gotten it
last three years. It is a grant that we filed through. Um and I'm looking just to make sure I have all the facts, but it goes towards our special service department for some of our staffing and some of the expenditures in there. So, it's um it's an annual grant that we fill out every single year.
>> So, we applied as a grant every year and we received uh some money every year. >> Yes. Last year was 5,000. This year was 10,000. Thanks. >> Further discussion. All those in favor?
>> I I opposed. Motion passes. Thank you. Um our next agenda item is our request for the approval of revised policies. Um we'll do a motion and then a second and then if there's any conversation that
needs to happen on the we'll do that. Um, is there a motion to approve the revised policies? >> Motion by Peggy, second by Bob. Is there anything that anybody wants to to specifically call out or talk about?
All the all the policies on here are MSBA and legislative updates. Okay. All right. Um, >> all those in favor? >> I >> I Anybody? Motion passes.
Um, it does not appear that we have any delegations tonight. Correct. Okay. Um, so basically just some housekeeping things. Um, we are looking to set our organizational meeting um with a suggestive date of Monday,
January 5th, uh, the 26th at 12:00 p.m. I know that Carol has a conflict for that day. Um, might not be avoidable, though. So, we'll have to figure that out unless there's other times that we can look at
for a calendar. And since it since we're mentioning the organizational meeting date, um if you would like to uh put in any requests or any um committees that you might be interested in um switching
to or continuing on, please let me know um ahead of that. Maybe that's in two months, so you have time. Um I think u on that line Carolyn um actually
organizational meeting um someone suggested maybe um say we have the world I can't remember the exact terminology we have the world work force we have three people on it >> and we say okay
um CC you're on it you want to be on it yes do I have any other members who would like to be on who are not on it mean and you you have an organic discussion where people can actually have some input on what they might want to do and might not want to do and I
think it would be I think it would be healthy that was brought up last year was it not >> you brought it up so >> I did not I did not >> you didn't say word >> well it doesn't matter it was brought up
that's all that's all but I mean I think it would be a healthy thing for us to do then you're You're not I just want to make sure that we exhaust all options before we have somebody missing. Yeah, she's going on vacation. Yeah,
that's fine. Wednesday also from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. And the district packets nice. >> No. >> Okay. You said that you borrow I think said you have to have your phone ready
or something. Is it just being >> we're attending online? Everybody should have their their Oh,