right to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all all right the first it item on the
agenda is the program review Rachel I love to read month good evening every everybody I don't have small children with me so thank you for being open to change um I do appreciate it I I know I had sent um
Mr Shane an email and he forward that on to you um but also as I was kind of reflecting through this and and making this presentation it bringing them in was wonderful right and it's always a joy to listen to kids read but it also felt very detached from what we do as a
whole where I love to read Mon and all schoolwide from all the way to third there's so much that's happening that are those building blocks for reading so I know it's hard that they're not here but I hope you enjoy this presentation
and then I'll um follow it up with a few other things about I love Tre so there is I should have brought you popcorn there's a lot of pressure on you right now just I know is Big here [Music]
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to why do you think you need to know how to read so then we can learn those words what books do you like to read I the last kid on earth and a lot more okay why is it learning
to read important it makes you smarter awesome and what book would you recommend to people who are looking for a new book why do you like that book because it's [Music] all right so thank you to Diane pan as
well she is our literacy and mtss coordinator she was able to SN some those cute interviews of those kids um but anyway it it has been a fun month full of all things I love to read and um um it continues because we have family
reading night and books and Bingo tomorrow night and then um following that we have the reading challenge which is between Mr lwig and I and so last year team schults won and he got put in the dunk tank but then I also went in
the dunk tank it's just kind of the team players that we are um and then this year um as you can see one of us will turn into a human Sunday so it's been a fun camaraderie and the kids really get into it this is the first year we did the team Schultz team lewig dress up
dayses and there's a lot of razing going on with some of those upper elementary kids and uh we all agree that Mr lewick has the best head because uh he won't get anything stuck in his hair so you may as well just go for
it um and then we had the reading Carnival um later in March after spring break and that's just sort of an a all School celebration that our Specialists put on for us so it's a really an an all schoolwide event um to celebrate reading
and our language arts committee um puts a lot of work into this and found that great author Katherine egley so anyway it's been a really fun month any questions about our Island I think we need to know who's winning right now uh Team
show I am slightly will you also be a human Sunday if team sure will yes but I did get taped to the wall this year and he did not so he he could be he could take the Sunday for the team yeah that's what I was
thinking I liked the video I thought it was great nice it was very fun taping was a hit my daughter thoroughly enjoyed so tap to the wall yeah yeah that's a good time anything for the kids anything else thank you I think we've evolved oh okay
never know maybe I'll bring some in now you've s you've set a level set a level for other the interviews the personal interviews have PR very you all right thank you guys you all right next item on the agenda is the consent agenda this section of the
agenda lists all of the board minutes Financial reports from the previous month um do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda DEA DEA with the first second second
Baker second with Baker any discussion all those in favor any opposed motion carries the next item is the uh resolution of gifts and it's quite extensive this
month uh whereas American online giving $680 cents for Delano Public Schools Dees piie $248 69 for reading Carnival and bingo friends for a cause $3,000 for Delano Elementary School kindness funds
Box Tops for education $59.40 for Delano Intermediate School dis Pi $3,500 for Eagle Bluff friends for a cause $3,000 for Delano Intermediate School kindness funds DHS
pi $1,417 cents for Rubik's cube cutter theater conferences snacks and beverages Culver's $500 for indoor scoreboard sponsorship ridg viw $1,500 and Dave's Town Club
$1,500 and annual Stadium scoreboard sponsorships football booster club $ 3,843 for helmets reimbursement Delano wrestling booster club $2,462 for farle rumble on the red
expense reimbursement Delano Legion $1,200 for boys tennis volleyball $2,572 181 for FY 24 expense overages reimbursement cheerleading booster club
$3,448 and3 for cheer clothing and awards reimbursement hockey booster club $ 3,974 5 for girls hockey expense reimbursement friends for a cause $3,000 for Compass Peak Heating and Cooling
$500 for Community Ed archery and the following for Orange Crush robotics Berg exteriors $11,000 harwood's Body Shop $500 and Dave's Town Club $250 all of these organizations have
generously offered to donate uh to Delano public schools for the items mentioned above uh do I have a motion to approve or accept the resolution of gifs I make the motion
I'll second all right first by Corey second by Ryan um any discussion all right then we have a roll call vote board member Black I board member Roser I board member DEA I board
member Baker I board member giry I board member sh hi and board member r i great motion carries the next item on the agenda is the
Personnel report anything I don't think there's anything of note on that pretty short for this time of the year um do I have a motion to approve the Personnel matters DEA DEA first second JY second by Jim
any discussion all those in favor I any opposed motion carries we then move into our administrative reports first up superintendent chain thank you ladies and gentlemen of
the board um as my presentation is loading this is uh my superintendent's report for the February school board meeting as always our vision of systemic growth towards academic Excellence for every learner is driven by all of our Communications and all of our updates I
wanted to just take some time a little bit about just some I don't normally do this even during a legislative session did I give you a lot of detail with regards to How It's Made because it's really changes it's fluid it gets
introduced the beginning of this session for the first two three three and a half weeks the House of Representatives didn't even convene although they thought they were convening but uh the Democrats decided to do another show so it's been an interesting thing but it's just to update you a few bills that are
being broached out there from the education committee um one is proposing to remove Algebra 2 requirement as a graduation requirement uh I think the thought behind it I haven't heard all of the hearing uh testimonials um but it's
the the opportunity to provide math skills in a different way other than Algebra 2 um is becoming more and more of a discussion with how do we prepare what skill sets do our students need to have is it more into the areas of
personal finance and some other areas in that that piece and again these are just introducted bills they might have a hearing here and there but they're nowhere near as far as getting to a point of being voted on let alone a committee with the Senate hasn't really done much of anything yet also uh
another Bild uh that's being looked at is mandating school districts to adopt policies and processes to assist parents who require language assistance and accommodations needed due to a disability we're already working on a plan um uh Ashley Johnson and uh Bobby
and I have met uh a few times just to kind of talk about what are the requirements and one of the things is we just need a little bit more guidance from the Department of Education because we'll need a language plan and language assistance plan that a district will adopt so but that's being uh moved
around a little bit in in legislative procedures at the house and then the last one I just wanted you to be aware of at the house is um one that's looking to require public high schools to participate in direct admissions program through the higher uh through the office
of higher education this office believes that all students are college material interesting point here um I I hadn't seen this before it's the first time that I've kind of noticed and and again I keep half an ear on what's going on in the legislature at this stage of the
game um but this came out and I was like this is interesting so it would be basically be a direct conduit between the senior student and postsecondary institutions within the state um and so when I looked at I did a little deeper
dive into the department or the office of higher education and I don't know what college material is but they do have it in quotation marks as I have in my presentation so again this is a question of are we talking about you know we the needle has moved back to
what is your pathway and it might not NE do they they might mean College as being any trade school two-year program but they certainly don't talk about going into a company and being trained and they don't talk about going into the military and they don't talk about some other avenues potentially that students
can make so this will be interesting to see um political perspective I could see the office of higher education trying to hold their own with their postsecondary institutions so the more kids go off to college the better it is for them so there's always a little bit of a a Twist
here politically um don't know how much but again you're even getting a little sampling but again it's a lot of mandated stuff and nothing being funded and it drives superintendent and districts crazy when they mandate stuff and they don't give you the funding to
do it so we just have to figure it out so we'll see again remember we're in the beginning stages of this deal and a lot can change and happen the Senate is really in just in hearing mode at this time nothing real specific that's coming out that's
real from a from my perspective real anything to think about so the house is finally kind of getting caught up on their work and there's having a lot of hearings and a lot of ideas and people are introducing all sorts of uh bills and things like that the Senate usually tends to take a look at it at a little
bit more pragmatic approach and not hit every single item that people are thinking about they actually focus it in on the process so they're in hearing mode just some important dates to remember coming up uh next month is an updated budget forecast uh it is budgeted to be
forecasted out um to be I think still from the February uh forecast and maybe that's this the March 6th is the actual February forecast usually comes out in February is uh preliminary forecast for around about A600 and some million dollar Surplus but the more important
one is in the next bium not the 20 fy20 it was six and seven but seven or eight and nine it's looking at a real serious deficit um to the tune of close to $5 billion so we'll see how that
forecast comes out that usually tends to refine a little bit about what's required or what's mandated or who gets paid what kind of funding comes about and then the week of a April 14th is the Easter Passover break they don't do work there too um and then May 19th is the
Constitutional adjournment of the legislature and I will probably I I'm not going to bet but if I were a betting person I would say that they would not get their business done and a special session is required important that June 30 is the end of their fiscal year just
like the district is so if the district doesn't pass a budget that's a problem well the state's got to do the same thing so if they go into special session and I would wager to even say that two sessions might be necessary depending on how things go but uh they just got to
figure this out before the end of the fiscal year otherwise it's kind of like a shutdown that they go through and so uh those are important dates that are coming up in the future and then just again an update on strategic plan you did some really good hard work uh even yet this uh this
evening talking about some feedback on our mission and vision and our belief statements and uh all of those uh good things we do have an operational plan that is complete with the exception of developing those implementation strategies and we'll work on that in
June the board strategic m road map will be approved next March so the work that you did during the work session tonight we'll uh next month we'll have you officially uh approve that and then the Strategic road map will include that mission and vision and those belief
statements moving forward to give a good vision and guidance for the operational team to move forward that's all I have for you this evening i' entertain any questions that you might have right thank you Matt you're welcome next up Mr boy the high
school good evening ladies and gentlemen of the board it's a pleasure to speak with you on behalf of high school this evening um as you know I always start my presentation with recognitions of specific achievements by our students and I want to recognize K Hinkle uh she participated in the state gymnastics
meet this past weekend Tate Olen is going to wrestle at State the coming weekend and obviously our boys and girls basketball teams and their boy s dive will compete in sections this week as well it's hard to believe but we are the last week of trimester 2 and then obviously spring break and we start
trimester 3 uh it is amazing how time flies as we transition into trimester 3 obviously we have um the onset of our uh spring activities and I just want to uh put a note out for everyone that participates that we are going to have or I should say Miss Chatterton and
myself and likely Mr Shane is going to be there as well um our parents athlete coach meeting which is on March 18th uh that has been something new this year that Miss cheddon implemented and it's been very successful to get everybody sort of on the same page in support of our athletes but also helping them to
understand you know what it means to be a Delano tiger and to represent our school on the stage or court or field or wherever um the other thing that's happening on that night of March 18th is our first um event to help transition
sixth graders into the high school uh so we've spent a lot of time um internally discussing how we can assist that transition um I know we've been anticipating um working with the Education Foundation to um sort of
support financially a transition program um and while some of that stuff is in the works yet um we do know that we were going to bring sixth grade students and their families over on March 18th just to kind of hey say um welcome to the high school this is what it's all about
the transition to high school starts now so we want them to finish strong at the Intermediate School um give them a chance to kind of walk around the building and help acclimate themselves of course they're going to come back you know in the summer uh and then we'll welcome them again formally in the summer as part of the peran orientation
but we recognize that's such a significant important transition from sixth to seventh grade Intermediate School to high school that we want to provide them as many sort of um supportive steps as possible with that said um also at this time of the year uh we've completed
registration I know I've kind of hinted that registration was upcoming for the last couple of months we are uh we have finished registration and now I'm working obviously with our department leads to assign the appropriate number of sections and the master scheduling process uh so that that can begin I am I know I've hinted that we were adding
some increased CIS opportunities we actually just officially received word we expected it to come for some quite some time but we did officially receive word that we can offer CIS college algebra next year um and we have already received received approval to add CIS sociology so we're in we're we're
expanding our reach of our CIS classes which I think is going to be a benefit to our students um the other thing that we're doing in anticipation for next year in the midst of the um registration process is we are looking at alternative education so you you've I know been
shared before um with information related to our Compass program or swas School within a school um so we have some internal folks spearheaded by Mr bof and they're just taking a look at how we can revamp that um you know since the pandemic the needs for students have
changed but also our schedule has changed you know we we we're now on a sixth period day obviously we're a year and a half into that so just how can we kind of uh you know work within all of the different variables to produce a program that's going to be supportive of our of our students specifically those
students who maybe are most at risk and and need a little bit more support to uh successfully complete high school so stay tuned on what that looks like and how that unfolds um just to give you a very brief update on the site based leadership team we um we will continue of course through the rest of the year
to allocate our PD funds um a lot of the PD funds that are uh being allocated at this time are going towards um curriculum writing time for our teachers to revamp and and bolster our various curriculum throughout the district specifically the high school I should say um we've recently recently uh
finalized our 25 26 school year budget and and we have uh just begun um discussing proposed changes to the student handbook so you'll obviously hear more about those things over the course of the spring uh that concludes my report I'd be happy to answer any questions that anyone has about the high
school questions all right thank you R thank you Miss Schultz hello again happy to be here on behalf of the elementary school I'm going to start with our site base um
update from our building and um we have had some good conversations surrounding our parent drop off and parent pickup procedures um we've had a pretty large increase in the amount of um families that are dropping off and picking up so
we're trying to figure out you know how to respond to that I think it just obviously I don't know if we've ever been on tiger Drive in the morning or towards the end of the day but it gets a little bit backed up and most of those cars are coming from the
elementary school so um we're just kind of digging in a little bit more into that um most of the families have access to busing um and so trying to figure out maybe some of the reasons why they're dropping off picking up Etc um and just
to see if there's anything that we can do to kind of help with that and the um we're also noticing some groups of Walkers that really aren't walkers but they're just meeting families at the back ends of the parking lots so they
avoid the line which is um pretty unsafe for for some of our kids so um we're just kind of feeling it out kind of doing some sit and watch and kind of see what's happening out there making some calls home just for the safety pieces um
and then that supervision piece gets to be tricky too because we need a person entering numbers um for our system which does work really really well it's just getting to be bigger than it was um maybe because it's working so
well I don't know um but anyway so um yeah there's just kind of some ideas floating around about how to kind of navigate that a little bit um and with what options and resources we have um and spaces and you know parking lot availability and all those things so
we've got a lot of um dedicated staff though that are you know they they might share a few complaints here and there but they're also very good at coming with Solutions and um that's always really helpful and welcomed when when it's kind of one of
those situations that can be a struggle from time to time so that's an area and then um similar to what Mr vo said we are looking at our handbook now and looking at what revisions or changes additions that we're going to be making um mostly just consistency pieces and then some clarification on items to add
a little bit more detail we had some things come up with our field trip in the fall that we're like oh is that in our handbook yeah maybe we should put that in there just um different things with transportation and parent involvement and things like that um and then we're also doing our midyear check
on our school Improvement plan so we our goals that we set at the beginning of the year kind of how are we doing on those are we still making progress did we totally forget to try to tackle one of those things um but most of them are centered around our core goals of that
mtss um and everything that kind of falls under that umbrella and our school climate and and those pieces so I feel like those are always things we continue to work on uh for professional development and our late starts obviously we are um letters into that
half of our staff and then one of our staff meetings we had Emily hlink come and do a zones of Regulation refresher we had a training by her last year um so she came back and gave us another kind of um broader scope of what that can be
for all students um several of our kids in special education use the zones um as part of their curriculum and and then we you know everybody can use some of that from time to time so that's helpful and then it's familiar in all spaces we finished up our Sabers our second round
of Sabers so um Diane is working on compiling that data for us so I'll have that to share at the next meeting and then um as part of Diane's work in this coordination position she really wanted to find out kind of like where are teachers at what are they needing what
are they wanting so she sent out a survey in January and from that she was able to develop some after school um sessions that are optional so this first one was small group successes so um teachers showed up and they learned and
shared and it was a really collaborative time for the teachers to get new ideas about what to do in small groups for their reading and then the math curriculum adoption heavy conversations around that tonight um no decision made at this time
but it is um definitely going to be something that we need to consider regarding our PD time for the upcoming year and how to navigate that implementation um summer school planning has begun already um so we're in those beginning phases getting staff and then
um teachers are starting to recommend students for that and just as a reminder I know last year I kind of put some context around our summer school purpose and that is really to um maintain the gains that the kids have made this year it's not meant to be like
a real focused closing of the Gap so to speak because there's 16 half days that the kids meet um it's much more loose and structure there is structure of course um but it does not have that same amount of instructional time um that we are able to dedicate so if we can
maintain those gains of kids that have made a lot of growth that's the goal um so we're going to continue to have that philosophy and a kindergarten update for you currently we have 140 kindergarteners that have um committed or said that they are attending we have
16 undecided and then we have 45 that did not respond yet but they are eligible so we have Roundup March 18th and 20th and then that is likely going to bring in um a good chunk of those that are kind of waiting in the wings
there um and then our format is still similar where we have a little presentation and then the kids go and hang up with the kindergarten teachers in the classrooms so we are looking forward to that and then to end with some celebrations and successes our book fair was a huge huge success Jen Verge
and Jill York do an amazing job um getting that all set up and organized and we bring in um some parent volunteers and they come and help run that with them it was busy all night long so very very thankful for their work there and then we had 97 %
attendance for conferences um which is great and then nine were rescheduled um just due to illnesses and family circumstances so we had a great turnout of our conferences and those nights are just so fun to have the building buzzing and you know people visiting and all
that so it was a great night of conferences any questions or comments any guesses why there's so many drop offs oh I do not I wish I knew I'm holding session when it's really cold up that's what we were wondering yeah
because I was like oh yeah you'll see an increase right tracking them to school themselves instead of waiting at the school bus it's your fault are is there a way to survey the F that have drop off numbers yeah I mean I'm sure I could yeah we can probably datamine that and
get the those obviously guess this I mean from what you're seeing like the mom Community Pages as to what's going on but to kind of datamine that and see if there's a way to cut that back a little bit I think there's there's potentially sort of this underlying uncertainty of because
there's kindergarteners with high school kids on there you know that seems a little scary but the bus company does such a great job of how they organize the buses it's it's really it's been really good they're they're wonderful stalky is great they communicate with us
all the time um so I wish I could like say it's going to be okay but you know that's their little babies and they're just not quite sure how that's going to look for them maybe there's a fundraiser in there for you five bucks per drop off or something like that you know can't say I am not about
thaty I would I would say um there's a there's a significant amount of parents I do drop off my kids in the morning and I would say my neighborhood does the same and it's weather related it's kind of difficult to send the little little littles out there in the early early
morning when it's so chilly not not that I the voice of all but that's I would say that the majority of the parents I do see that's probably the majority of the cons as we look at the data it'll be interesting to see next month yeah yeah for sure when it warms back up yeah
exactly absolutely we also opened a box at a certain point of our lives and some people just didn't go back yes so agree and I like to grab a coffee in the morning I still bring my fifth grader to school but she rides the bus home yeah
but if I'm home and I bring her that's cool it's a little time we talk together so mhm no yeah don't charge me five bucks I'm not going to P I'll all right sorry all right thanks all right tell
I'll never forget thp to bring to my kid at school I sat that line one day just to get got the backg good evening ladies and gentlemen of the board thank you for the opportunity to present to you this evening on behalf of the Intermediate School um I have a short presentation
for you this evening since we did have some longer time to um chat at the work session I'll start by updating you on our site based team um we have a site based meeting tomorrow morning and believe it or not the bulk of our agenda is looking at all of our plans for the rest of the year um trimester 2 is
ending and trimester 3 gets really busy and so was taking the opportunity to kind of lay everything out make sure there's no conflicts no questions that sort of thing so that'll be our task tomorrow morning um after the break we'll also take some time to look at our Improvement plan and just do a quick
check in on where we're at with that um for professional development we had our two-hour late start last week um similar to what Miss Schultz shared our staff had time for the letters training with Diane um and then we also did some data review on our fast scores um teachers take some time to look at that and they
do a data analysis and protocol just to ensure that kids are placed appropriately in their interventions and then also we did um a growth analysis this time around where they just looked at individual students growth as well um for our fast scores I didn't have a chance to share those in January so I'll
share now just overall um at the Intermediate School um for reading in fast we started in the fall at 85% of our students meeting benchmarks and in the winter um we were at 83% um and then math we started in the fall with 82% of
our students meeting The Benchmark and then in the winter we are now at 87% so doing really well and just very grateful for our teachers and our intervention um team that keeps kids on the right track um and then I'll just end by sharing some updates on some fun events
that have been going on we finally got to go ice fishing so we're really excited about that it went really well um it was just a really unique opportunity we had a lot of volunteers um a lot of people who said they would come back even if their kids weren't coming because they just had so much fun
volunteering we had some really awesome Community Partners so all seasons partnered with us Coburn's partnered with us so um it was just um kudos to Andy Brown he's been trying to get this off the ground for three years and he did not give up um and so it was it was a fun thing might have to try to get out there next year I did not go out there
this year I'm not a nice Bishop but the kids had a great time so um and then on Wednesday this week the fourth graders are also they're getting a lot of winter outside time they're going to go to um Ridge on Wednesday going to so um and then a couple other things right after
spring break our fifth grade is going to BizTown they've gone to Bown for a few years so Bown is part of a curriculum that they do during their life skills class and they get to um interview for a job and take on a job and the biz toown is like this little town and they're
assigned a company and they work the company and um it's just a cool little life experience kind of model for them and so they've done that for few years now and that will be happening right after the break with our fifth graders um otherwise February's been busy just with some um fun I love to read things
we've done some cozy Fridays some book trivia our book fair uh and then we're just getting ready to wrap up triester 2 which is really hard to believe time flies when you're having fun any questions for the intermediate school and it's Battle of the books too or
something is that this month too or yes March all the things let's put that on our list too busy busy well I'm glad the ice fishing tournament went off it looked like lots of volunteers and helpers so has a freezer full of fish at home fish only one foot through the hole
that's kind of impressive I know actually makes feel really good so I was worri great thanks so much Kate all right next up we have our business manager Mary reer y so at this time I'm working on updating the budget projection model and then Matt and I are
planning to have a meeting with finance committee in either um March or April end of March beginning of April kind of thing and then we will bring the preliminary budget to the board work session in May for final adoption at the June board meeting any questions thank
you thank you Mary next up Chris Ry Community Ed ladies and gentlemen the opportunity to speak tonight on behalf of Community Education tonight I'd like to speak a little bit about our ECF program or ear Early Childhood family education
commonly referred to as ECF um a little bit history about the program ECF is celebrating its 50-year anniversary this year so that is exciting ECF was established in 1974 as a pilot program and this next comment I was I was given to or it was given to me by our ECF
coordinator mag Olson I had to kind of fact check it or look it up for myself I just couldn't believe it that ECF is not offered in any other state in the US so that was surprising surprising to me and this just speaks to Minnesota's commitment to realizing that the parent is a child's first and foremost teacher and families need to be supported in
their parenting journey to fully serve children from birth to kindergarten in their growth and development and then some of the funding sources for ECF it's funded through a combination of state aid um state aid provides the base funding local levies they supplement and
expand program offerings then also the sliding scale fees which also help to make sure that the programs that we are offering are for for All Families um and that's just based off of the income based um a little bit more about Delo ECFE Delo ECF is all about building
relationships and we build those relationships through classes and programs like our community events like your sans's Workshop our holiday Boutique and our tou truck events our non-traditional classes like our nature classes at Rebecca Park our Coffee Connection which is a great opportunity for parents to come in and discuss a
certain topic for the day and M ideas off each other gain some insights from other people and how they've hand situations and then our cabin fever program which is a great way for parents with young kids to come into the district they you open up the ECFE gym I think it's once or twice a month on
Thursday mornings for a couple hours and they get to run around the gym use the equipment that we have in that facility and it's a great time for them to burn off some energy in the winter months here then also through our traditional ecfu programs like our tfic twos and threes and wild Wednesdays which offer
some classes that provide opportunities for parents separate from the kids and they again go and discuss a certain topic while the kids stay in the classroom and work with a um a classroom teacher and assistant um another great opportunity for parents to to discuss
with each other and get some great ideas for how to on how things they've handled certain parenting issues um so far during the 2024 25 school year our ECF programs have received 750 registrations so we are able to we have been reaching quite a few families quite a few
participants um the ECF staff that are serving our families include three licensed parent Educators three licensed Early Childhood teachers three licensed nurses one licensed family therapist one State Certified Early Education trainer and five program assistants
um the last few things here that I have are a few quotes we sent the survey out to our ECF families and the question that was asked was what would you tell other parents about the Delo ECF program and one quote was from a parent was it's nice to hear other parenting experiences it helps you to feel less alone
it is also a nice break in the day for yourself and for your kids and another comment that we received was you learn great information while meeting other families from your community that turn into friendships and then just another great point from our ECFE coordinator was that ECFE is many times the first
experience families have with our school district and you can see that through the many um programs that we're able to offer so we're trying to reach out to as many of those families and make sure really leave a lasting impression with them that concludes my report if you have any questions for me glad to hear
them at time thank you Chris thank you all right next up our student board Representatives report yes so for the elementary and media school this month was very busy with I love read mon just as M and Miss Thompson mentioned um we had some high school student athletes go
up and read to the stud students which is always fun to see um they were they were asked like we their jerseys or certain sports attire which is always fun that they get to promote the sports when they go I think they read through they read kindergarten through sixth grade
classrooms um yeah it was it was great for the students that's always a fun time um in the high school Sophia and I are planning on hosting one final listening session to get feedback from Seniors um we plan to ask a few general questions about College registration process post School planning and then
just their overall senior experience um we hope to receive their opinions about this year and then also maybe if they have any advice or things that they would have rather changed for this year um so we can possibly Implement that in future years um and then I think it was last
week M Mr Voit and I met with about 10 students to redefine the statements of the desired daily experience which is very interesting it was random like a very random mix of students but it was great and to see
some of those students really actively participate and engage I was kind of surprised to hear that some so many of them were like so engaged and participating in the conversation so it was really fun to see um yeah so that was just a really unique experience and we're very much looking forward to the
senior one hopefully it can kind of be like an exit ticket um I know Mr voit's super excited about it as well um so yeah we're excited for that last one any questions thanks thank you thank you both all right next up our board reports
first we have maso with uh Sarah Baker um our January meeting was the organizational meeting at maso so we elected officers and did all the designations um that we typically do at our board um we did change the meeting
time of our meeting so we're now meeting at 5 p.m. um heard from the director we reviewed um her midyear goals talked about some changes and learned about her uh really strong connections to
um to her colleagues uh throughout the state of Minnesota and talked a little bit about some possible changes to special education qualification processes that may be coming down meliss is very connected to all of that um so I
feel like we're very uh well represented in that space and um she's a great Advocate we will have our other our February meeting tomorrow thanks Sarah next up right tech center with Jim so we also had our
organizational meeting um and it brought up an interesting point that we should really consider uh there is no SRO at right Tech and we do share the cost of an SRO at maso is my understanding and the eight member districts really should
or we should consider at least a part-time if not a full-time SRO at right Tech if anyone needs and SRO they really need one if that's at all in the budget of the eight member districts it should be something considered is a
request from from Brian and the the principal and there seemed to be a surprise among the board that there wasn't one so something to think about and of course uh a majority of our time is spent uh finding a new director as
Brian is retiring um there's a hiring firm that we're using and there's also a Committee of three superintendents and four board members and uh 14 candidates uh filled out an application and we've
narrowed it down to four um so that will continue um some really good candidates and we'll see where that goes did you apply I did not apply thank you all
right thank you thanks Jim all right uh next item we've got old business there is no old business so we'll move on to new business um the first item of new business is the policy uh the first
read for policy uh 519 which is the interviews of students by outside agencies due to statutory changes so again these we um we Bobby has categorized first reads now into three areas one is if there's a
statutory change so if you notice in the bottom of your policies there's legal references and so this only requires the board to do a one read one and only and that's what this policy is an example of the next group of policies um are just
we found out from the school boards Association that even if a board doesn't make any changes whatsoever whether they're substantive or non-substantive and they need to annually review them we have to document that you've annually reviewed them so that's the next group
and then there is another first read category that we've had is just due to nons substi of changes so something grammatical something that doesn't change the the the interpretation of the policy or anything like that so the next groupings here I thought I'd just give
you a overview of the first read policies that are organized a little bit differently now thanks Matt is there anyone here for public comment on this first policy policy 519 all right with that no then
I'll um look for a motion to approve I motion second motion by black second by DEA all those in favor I any opposed all right motion carries this next grouping
as Matt mentioned is the grouping of policies that is just must be reviewed on an annual basis with no changes and those are the educational equal education opportunity policy out of state travel by school board
members equal employment opportunity sorry I stumbled I didn't realize we were traveling anywhere out of state school we barely get out of town well didn't you know that anytime whether it's personal or got to bring it to the for all your vacations now to be
approved by by policy that's a terrible all right is there anyone here for public comment related to uh any of these three policies okay with that I'll entertain a motion to approve these three policies I'll Mo Ryan is the first second second
by Baker all those in favor I any opposed I motion carries to approve those three policies that had no changes um the next set of policies is the first person only reads for policy 212 which is Schoolboard committees and
policy 421 gifts to employees and Schoolboard members due to non-substantive changes is there anyone here for public comment related to these two policies that none uh if there is none then I'll accept a motion to approve these two
policies so Baker DEA Baker uh first and second um any discussion all those in favor I I any opposed all right motion carries the
next item of business is the 2526 school calendar the school calendar is attached to the agenda for 2025 and 2026 this was discussed at last month's work session there um um there was minor changes I
don't know Matt if you want to talk about the changes related to that no we didn't make any CH we just added some conference times but uh uh the committee did some really good work over the first few months of school did some feedback and so we've landed on a calendar for
the 25 26 school year it's uh it's nice when Labor Day starts this early um the following not so much because I believe uh Labor Day is like the 7th of September so we'll be going back at it again right away at the beginning of the
next school year to prepare the calendar for for your review great one big piece of information that we discussed last month and that the committee recommended was the movement of spring break for 2025 26 so that is not at a trimester break it
is at a later time in the month um and that was again a recommendation by the calendar committee that decided that so um with that I'll entertain a motion to approve the 2025 26 school calendar DEA DEA
first Mo a second any discussion all right all those in favor I any opposed all right motion carries okay the next uh policy or next
item is the removal or the recision of policy 522 Title 9 non-discrimination policy grievance procedures and process due to a federal court order we discussed this in work session thereby we reverting back to the 2020 version of
this policy as if this policy version never existed um and is there anyone here for public comment related to this policy right with that entertain a motion to approve the recision of the
2024 version of the policy 22 reverting back to the 2020 version of Title 9 non-discrimination policy so Ryan for the first a seconda DEA with the second any
discussion I okay this is the vote to resend the next one's the vote to install the old one correct toy got it so this is just the vote to resend because else we're repeating ourselves again thank you Rachel all right all those in favor of
resending the 2024 policy any opposed right motion carries to resend it with that we'll move on to the next with item of business which is to approve the first read of the 2020
version of policy 2022 Title 9 non-discrimination policy grievance procedure and process is there anyone here for public comment to approve this policy all right I'll ask for a motion
all motion DEA first second second second by Corey any discussion all those in favor I opposed all right motion carries to revert back to the 2020 version of the title 9
policy um next section is public comment School patrons are given the opportunity to address the school board regarding items that are not on the agenda all patrons will be asked to State their name for the record while the board appreciates feedback from the public in this form board members will not comment
on or discuss topics brought up by speakers at this time is there anyone here for public comment anyone here for public comment anyone here for public comment all right motion motion to
adjourn all right thank you we are injured