happy birthday i did but I Call the meeting to order please rise for the pledge of allegiance i pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation
under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all mission statement admission state court district in partnership with the communities the mission of Dworth Glendon Felton School District is to educate individuals in an environment of
trust and respect so they become self-directed responsible lifelong learners role call looks like we've got all board members here we also have minus Troy minus Troy that's right um
and we've got Shannon's here um And it's also here as well um see agenda do we have any changes today the only changes to the agenda where we added a few more items under my report
so no business changes uh just some so uh do I have a motion to adopt the agenda motion by Nicole do I have a second second second by Britney any questions or
discussion hearing none those in favor say I i oppos motion carries on number five this is public comments and rebel recognition i don't think we have anybody here for public comments all right rebel recognition yeah I have a
few uh things uh number one congratulations to our knowledgeable team they performed or I'm sorry they were at state in Kens uh my understanding is they got eighth place but they were in second for a while so congratulations to Stacy Kas and her
team um that just happened this weekend so congrats to them and then speech um got a email from Kathy Martin today isaac Olsen and Ryland Kudson will be competing in the final rounds in
Brainer uh April 17th that's this Thursday and also Olivia Iverson will be competing in the semifinal round as well so congratulations to them and good luck and uh also in speech um subsections
they held them last week and now sections will be on Tuesday lots of kids going so um any other recognition we had a great uh music program over at the elementary
which was super fun way cute um the many blessings to the music teachers and their ability to be keep everybody musically motivated um it was phenomenal well said little little jokes
and quips here and there to the kids that got them refocused i thought it was really great um and then uh spring sports are off to a great start good luck to all of those and good luck to all our kiddos taking their MCAs coming up yeah that's right that starts
tomorrow so thank you for everybody who's prepped and got all that stuff ready kids study get good night sleep don't watch school work right help them sleep that's a good point never thought about that
things that put you to sleep all right very good we'll go on to uh reports number six uh we'll start with 6.1 food service director good evening everybody thank you for having me just kind of go over all the never
know moments that we have in our department so currently we still have the two sites we are the is 17 staff and one on call float the pre and reduced data is sitting at just over 30% our summer feeding has been approved
application has been approved through 2030 and we are fully staffed for summer feeding this year our farm to school updates we were awarded another grant of $30,000 for this year our local spending since we've started has been just over
$200,000 and that has been purchased local foods within a 50 mile radius of the Glendon School so um it's pretty exciting uh we do have um a couple of brothers that are new that are going to be partnering with us they're based out
of Fargo but they actually farm land in Dworth so they are pretty excited to do some uh vegetable growing for us and I am still working on um trying to get with the milk company out in um Managa I
think yes Managa so we will hopefully find out in the next month if if we will be making that switch so this year is a big year we had our state reviews we have finished our summer feeding breakfast lunch and internet reviews
so it's got some new initiatives that we got going on we have um transitioned the work lunchroom over into the kitchen department so we have hired a supervision breakfast and lunch
custodial that grew us from 11 to 17 staff but all of the new staff are three to three and a half hour positions just to cover that um we've been doing some recipe testing we've done the ribs the roast we're currently working on a brisket and our ovens also have a
smoking function so this summer during summer feeding we're going to try it out that way if we set the alarms off we're not sending so We're going to try that but this year we've been doing a lot of slow cooking so all of our roasts and things like that are actually starting at 2
o'clock in the afternoon and cook overnight into um the next morning for lunch service so it's been a a pretty neat uh learning experience for staff and and a great product for our kids um cultural meals we're getting down to our
last one may 8th we have chicken curry with rice um thank you to Amanda Olsen over in Doer she put together a wonderful umformational slide for the elementary kiddos to know which each one was so she did a fantastic job with that
we also did our special meals for the Native American Heritage the Thanksgiving and the Christmas this year um our participation rates through today 142 school days um we have breakfast and lunch this year our
breakfast um our breakfast is down a little bit but um Britney and I have worked together and shifted our breakfast back up into Rebel Road so we have seen an increase again in in that um in Glendon we're down down about 24
breakfast today we haven't changed anything there so I don't know if it's a decrease in enrollment or what exactly that is but that kind of reflects in our lunch numbers at Glendon also we're down about 15 um meals a day there whereas our Dworth is up um just over 50 but we
have that addition with of the Rebel kids that have has pushed that forward um so staffing total employees 17 positions um we currently have no openings but we have two new employees starting we have a new custodian and
then we also have a newer um I wanted to put in here the missed hours uh I went back and looked today the last few weeks have been a little crazy where it seems like there's a lot going on sick family members surgeries things um my staff
have the missed hours have been 870.75 hours so far this year and I totally anticipate it will be over a thousand hours i've got one going out for surgery um so and I've got another one who has a sick mother so I I do
anticipate um hitting that of that coverage we do have one external uh folk that has taken on another job so she has worked 52 hours um all the rest of the hours have been covered internally either by myself or by our leads um we
have one internal float um our warehouse guy covers I've pulled from Glendon and shifted we've done a lot of shifting this year and a lot of crossing over so we we have covered all them hours internally so kudos to the staff for really stepping up and making it
possible to do that we have a lot going on with the USDA and different bills to watch um I have included in the back here we have sugar um regulations coming
up which we are we're seeing ahead breakfast might be a little bit of a challenge there we've tried to do more farm to school options at breakfast but the kids still gravitate towards cereal and bars um it it's we're really been trying to to make that change but it's
that quick grab and go things that we're just really looking for so we'll see how that impacts next year um on what things we can offer there sodium is coming in i'm not worried about the sodium with our farm to school um our sodium is
really good so I'm not not too um concerned with that we're pretty good there we do have bills that are out there uh Minnesota has an HF2201 um Meyers bill that is talking about not
continuing 100% of the free meals um the state would look at setting a guideline and then a certain percent we have to pay to what that means for us I don't know yet um does that mean now I have to
have my office gown full-time checking everybody's income or you know verifications i just don't know yet so I've been watching that um Kennedy has also introduced some bills into the Healthy Lunch for Healthy Kids Acts um
and I included that in here also which limits dyes and additives um and some other ingredients and then also prohibits ultrarocessed food per the the NOVA classification and what
um that is is on that last page it talks about ultra processed you know multiple steps um uh cereal soyburgers yogurts ready to heat meals frozen pizza soft drinks candy all that stuff you know it's not a
matter of whether we agree or or disagree I think food is very important and we do need to look at these things But we can't just target school food it creates a challenge if I can't serve pizza but our kids can go up to the store and get pizza i mean it's not s
going to be sustainable for us so these are just things that I am watching and seeing where they go and have conversation mr huntstead what is more to come so I have a question um you had mentioned
the 30% um of the free and reduced rate have we seen an increase in that recently or was is that a state it kind of No it kind of goes up and down but it has we had more families um put in um with the application or the information
for most of our reduced come through the state so we're still getting increased participation i thought it looked higher but I couldn't numbers are hard so they could be receiving medical assistance sure
and then what can that $30,000 grant used for anything Minnesota locally grown appropriated so we will um probably that come in the fall when we're buying so many fruits and vegetables
and then I have to just tell everybody else on the board i received an email I think earlier this year about the food diet question and I was like I have no idea so I just um sent her an email and she sent a remarkable thing back and this was months ago so you clearly have been on top of that information and
watching those and trying to be very uh cautious and aware um so I have full faith that when that whatever comes up that you will be ready to roll any other questions for Shannon we should chat in a little bit any any
more rumors from the state or federal level at all about changing portion sizes for the high school kids at all i know it's an uphill battle i just didn't know if there was an upper battle and and for us we have done that outside of and when we did our MDE review there was
a few comments you know about um our portions being higher but we're still within that range so so we're good but yeah that comes from a diet you know the dieticians push that that end of it so yeah like our burgers are 4 oz and they
say 2 oz um we do a breakfast Yeah we do a breakfast sandwich um that has uh the biscuit and I don't know if anybody has seen one our breakfast sandwich but I should send you a picture they said that that's too much at breakfast we should cut that in half and I'm like you got to
be kidding me i mean there's no way we we're just not going to do that so we just finagled that a little bit and we do a breakfast bowl um so we can keep that portion there but yeah that's going to be a forever battle with I was just
curious that they sugar and salt changes doesn't need three chickens a little bit more and what MD comes back and says is well they have the salad bar well I I know you know Lyndon isn't as much of of a veggie eater but Dworth
does dworth I mean our upcoming kids they'll make that salad more so yeah so hopefully more but I was just curious that's all if there was more chatter I doubt it but anything they keep trying to
Is that a state rule or is that federal rule or federal so the USDA sets Yep they set the guidelines the states can make it strict but they have to I just need to say this too i'm a school lunch eater uh I have been my
whole life because I was a farm kid and we had eaten school lunch and you ate it all and blah blah blah so last week I'm over here in Glendon and I had chicken kebabs it was fantastic it's like I was grilling it myself it was it well no I
wouldn't have done that one but anyway it it was fantastic so I just chip and hummus it was one of our cultural and we only had two sword fight in the ele I just yeah it's put on radar
and about a month ago and you can correct me if it's two months ago or a month and a half ago barbecued ribs at the Delware site i walked down and was an egg salad day i go down for egg salad every Thursday uh they said we don't have egg salad and I went what and then
barbecued ribs i said I'm good so it was uh anyway thank you and it's also nice to know that we're spending that kind of money locally it's it's been uh it's been a wonderful thing so thank you and I and I really try to focus it because when you ask farm to
school if you go out and talk Minnesota considers the whole state of Minnesota farm to school um you know different school districts will say well within a two 200 mile radius so I've really honed in 50 50 miles i mean that is truly what's impacting our district and I feel
like we're we're giving back we're supporting um you know our community just as our community supports us so else thank you we'll go on to 6.2 director report
all right I gave you all a handout um so like Shannon said testing is tomorrow um so tomorrow through Thursday for middle school tomorrow and Thursday for elementary and then that'll go next week and then April 30th is when we'll end so
we'll have preliminary results in a month um the first thing I want to show you is the curriculum cycle so that's the second page you have there so you can see how everything is outlined um we I went through this with
the DT back in October I believe so some of you have may have already seen this this coming year we will be fully aligned with our science curriculum so that means elementary and middle school high school will all be we'll all have new science curriculum um elementary
we've been using mystery science that's what that's what we're going with next year but the teachers are um they're aligning their reading curriculum along with that as well so we're we're kind of supplementing there uh let's see in the
coming years you'll see we have high ed music CTE fax all of that so we shouldn't be spending as much money as we are in the coming year we are purchasing science
so we're going to go with Savis or Inspire Raw Hill leaning more towards Sabis which is a little more expensive one um but we have gone with Savis for our social studies curriculum and our reading curriculum so I work with them quite a bit they're a great company very
updated with technology um lots of great student materials even for like ELLL learners special ed kids so overall they're they're awesome to work with our new curriculum this year so we have new reading intervention curriculum for the
elementary new math intervention curriculum so we use Newfly so that's what our classroom teachers are using for their small groups and then our interventionist teachers are using that when they pull out and then for math that's what our interventionist teachers are using ready set go math and then
middle school they're using bridges so that's what Ruloffs uses she's having really good success with that and then the middle school and the high school they have new reading curriculum this year which is going going well middle school went with went a different route than the high school so they're going
with a company called EB Academics um a lot more I guess project based and novel studies and then the high school is doing my uh satisfied perspectives so the next handout you
have is the is a presentation so this is the presentation from the DT committee back in October so this is what I went through so I just want to make sure everyone saw it so you know what was talked about and just update on that so our focus areas for the year were
curriculum mapping our partnership with Lake Aacy and then our new assessments platform so I'll kind of touch on each of those so curriculum mapping by April 30th all of our certified teachers will have map in our share drive you want to
see that I can add you to that shared drive but everyone has a spreadsheet where they've outlined their standards the content the technology they used it's all on there um and then our partnership with Lake Agassy so we're
really focusing on building our MTSS system so that's multi-tered systems of support so if you think about we have we have tier one everyone gets tier one so that would be like our rating curriculum everyone's getting CKA amplify and then if some students need a little more
support they're going to go to tier two so we're going to work with an interventionist they're going to use our youth live curriculum so they're just getting a little bit more and then our tier three students which we have not had the capacity to do this year they're getting more one-on-one support
um with a similar curriculum it's just like a short 10-minute burst of instruction so we already have supports in planned for next year to do tier three this year it just it wasn't feasible with our staff and then beyond that would be like special ed
programming so that that's kind of like the MTSS systems of support we have we're excited to have a coordinator for next year so we can be aligning everything at elementary at the middle school um what our current team is doing so our win team what I need team our
interventionists are the groupings are going really well we're having lots of success with those um but they are going to be completing an all school sweep is what we call it in May so our classroom teachers they administer the A- rating a math fast bridge assessment and then our
intervention team they push in throughout the school and they do all of these subtests so as you can see um I listed them out different grade levels have different tests so letter names word segmenting letter sounds nonsense words number ID number sequencing decomposing place values story problems
so a kindergartener they're going to be pulled and they're going to receive seven of those one minute sum tests they're going to find out do they know all their letter names do they know all their nonsense words um do they know all their numbers and then that will give us an idea of where to start for next year with
them um with the middle school Barb they're working hard they pull students who are missing out on those foundational skills so there might be some fifth graders right now that group together that's what they're working on those kids with and they're pulling them
during their non time so it could be during music it could be during science um and those are 25 minutes 25 minutes of instruction so it's not they're not the whole music class just a little bit of it um and then we're excited next year when we work with Alison Stewart
how can we kind of hone in on that schedule and just kind of make it more efficient the next thing that we're working with Lake Aacy on is our read training so for we are complete for the year so letters early childhood that's letter EC there all five of our teachers
are trained they're good to go uh letters one we have 13 teachers that have completed letters one and then next year they'll move on to letters two we have 24 teachers and admin that have completed letters two so we are totally done check the box and then Ola training these are our secondary teachers nine of
them are complete with that so that is our uh high school special middle school and high school special ed and then once we get into the next phase that'll be all language arts teachers at the secondary level and then lastly our last focus
area new assessment our new assessment platform which is called fastbridge so this is through the redact screener we needed to use so this is what was formerly called are so we do this three times a year september January and May so we'll do this again
may 5th through May 15th is our next window and this test just tells us what skills students are missing what skills students have mastered if you look at the last handout actually I'll go back to this schedule i
printed our elementary schedule for you so you can see all of those green blocks that say reading time and reading nap time so we have dedicated blocks for intervention time so what I need time is what we call it so during let's see kindergarten 8:40 to 9:05 that's when
interventionists are going to get kids and they're pulling them out of the classroom and working with skills they're missing or they might be working right outside their classroom at a bench um and then classroom teachers are working with their remaining students on you know they're doing small groups in their in their room they're doing doing
extension activities things like that the morning is reading afternoon is math and then the last handout this is with all of the scores i I won't go through every single one but when you look um let's see when
you look at say first grade reading for example you can see in the fall conceded pass and low risk that's really what we want to look at so that was about 31% of students are passing and then when you
look at their winner percentage WA means well above so you want to take well above and low risk and we're at third 43 43% so you can see we've made huge gains there um we're still trying to work out
the kinks with 11th and 12th graders um so you won't see their scores on here it's just hard when they get you know so many electives trying to put them together and things like that so this hopefully this next round we get all students yeah we've seen some really good gains if you This is what I talked
to the DT um about in October so it's on the back of this page i just kind of summarized everything so our math scores very good we've had our curriculum in place this is its fourth year um to middle school and high school curriculum is in its third year so now
that we've you know stayed consistent and teachers are showing fidelity with the instruction we're seeing really really great scores our reading scores they're improving they're not quite where they want where we want them to be but elementary we're in our second year with that middle school high school
we're in our first year so hopefully with more years under adults we'll get um we'll get more improvement well that's question um I have one um on your
sheet here and then on this one under three it says 6 to 12 grade is going to get a new science curriculum but on here it shows that science is due in the elementary are we getting an elementary science curriculum or are we just positive that no we we will be using mystery science next year so it's not
really we're getting a new one we're we reviewed about three different curriculums and so the the science curriculum that we reviewed a few of them they were just so big like so much that there's a lot of
content already in our reading curriculum so mystery science is like three 30 minute lessons a week that's feasible for an elementary teacher five 45 minute lessons is not feasible in an elementary classroom um so So instead of getting this huge comprehensive
curriculum for science that we're not going to use everything ideally um we went with the one that we're most used to and that we can kind of align better to what we're using make sense so we're just not changing the curriculum are they going to get what they need to get
into the sixth grade um yes science curriculum if we're not you know following that same so when I say aligned we're like aligned in the sense our purchases are aligned we might not be using the same curriculum
but the purchasing year is the same and we're going to make sure that we talk like fifth grade is talking to sixth grade when they know what science sure so the content is still going to build the way it should yes it's just they're using a different program right and especially like K4 making sure we're
hitting all the standards because in fifth grade they take a science MCA test so we need to make sure we're hitting what we need to hit in you know third fourth fifth grade so they're prepared for that test sure that makes sense um I'll just interject a little bit um the budget came into play a little bit on
this one that's we had talked about it that's where I thought I didn't think we were getting an elementary curriculum but we were just renewing mystery science because the price was right $1,500 versus 75,000 so there was a little influence from the
superintendent on this one with the curriculum director i said "Thanks for bringing 75,000." But anyway so this was part of that evaluation so the other thing that I guess I'm hoping will come from this is that our reading curriculum has some of that built into so that we
can tie it together and Britney you correct me if I'm wrong but that was some of the conversation we had with your staff too they said "Hey we have some science built into this you know we can build off mystery science and a reading curriculum and so major investment in the reading
curriculum so yeah they felt good going with mystery science because they're used to it and they know it's not it's not going to be so much you know sure i just worried about a little bit about the STEM and us like losing some ground
um in encouraging kids and stretching their minds in different ways if we're going to just give them snapshots right right and um kits come with these so we could we could possibly order kits and then like with a step we hope to do some more stuff in our media
center so that'll for this one why it's probably just nomenclature but in the fall like it said conceded passed and then in the winter it was W i don't know i don't know why they did that sure did it Did the scoring model change no
it didn't okay i don't know why they I don't know why they changed it okay and then changing the reading curriculum between STAR and Bridges how do you gauge changes between the two because they score very differently like star
the scar the star scoring was very different than bridg's scoring so do we lose visibility into how those kids are doing in that transition excuse me yes star to fast bridge so I guess in regards to like the fast bridge it's more aligned to MCAs it just does a
better job at predicting where they're at with MCAs it's a lot more detailed we get a lot more details and kind of what skills they're missing Sure so I guess it does a better job in that sense but reporting for teachers isn't as great a star um I know teachers are missing that
aspect of it but it does give way more depth to the reports okay so but we're not able to say like it's not a smooth transition between a kid following STAR square score reading and then transitioning into the new one oh no no they're completely different completely
different yes yeah i and I'm sorry but in all my years and I was the testing coordinator and I was the curriculum coordinator in previous districts uh the STAR testing is wonderful but it had just my opinion zero or to 10%
correlation to the MCA scores in a previous district we switched to Fastbridge and we noticed that it was almost a direct correlation so if Britney does well on Fastbridge and her scores show here that's what we're going to see in the MCAs we had star testing data for a
decade that it was like oh they're doing really well here and they can't hardly meet in the MCAs it was like what is missing the one thing my past and my history shows me Fastbridge is if if Britney's doing well in Fastbridge she's
going to do well in MCAs it just felt like we could track that kid better and it it it aligned with it better I guess is doesn't it dial in to kind of more what the specific areas of concern or issues are too fast right because I feel like when I looked at it I was like "All
right that's deep." Okay and even like all those subtests um I don't know if any of you with elementary kids got that report from your teacher during I know you got the A reading and a math one but um like our our kindergarten they don't take e- reading or A math they just take
the subtest so you can see like oh they don't know A B F D they don't know these nonsense words um you guys know what I mean when I say nonsense words okay um so it just like drills into the skill a lot more yeah
and I just feel like the ranges are very large in the new in the new scoring system like it's meeting is very large um and I think if we are confident it's teaching our kids if we it is testing our kids to where they need to be to go into life versus scoring them against
one test the MCA then I'm happy right but I just don't want us to build all of our curriculum based on meeting one MCA test right and I mean we had to go with this too because it's it was approved by the state so that's another reason we had to go with Basridge yeah it was it
was happening whether we liked it or not the good news uh and I good news and it's relative because some of the points you bring up Angela are are very important right um my my history with fastbridge is um has been more positive than the star
test and nothing wrong with the star test but it it's just different than it I guess it made more sense to me so yeah I had one more question and then I promise I'll run um our win time is only reading and math that like is there is
it one or the other for kiddos or if they need both are they able to take advantage of both so everyone gets both but not everyone is leading leaving the classroom to meet with an interventionist but if they do like need to leave the classroom for both is that an option or is that pulling away from the classroom
okay so we don't have a certain amount of I guess we start at the bottom and go up how many slots we have so like fourth grade there's a lot of kids that are needing intervention services well we only have so many slots so I mean we
could we could only get 20 kids number 21 might need to see an interventionist but we don't have a slot so the classroom teacher knows okay this is what this student is missing so that's what I need to do in the classroom so it doesn't matter if it's they're seeing an interventionist or a classroom teacher they're still getting what they need
yep just a quick question on this chart the blue boxes would we anticipate some standards or Yep standard yep new standards yep anybody else have a question
i'll just close with this is one of the things that because it was me in the past and other districts it's the one thing this district I didn't see didn't have a purpose didn't have intentionality and as you saw through these sentence there's some intentionality so I like that there you
can the teachers too can anticipate when what's coming and they can look at it and they have time to think and test it out and I think that's another one having your expertise to be able to balance that with and ask questions I think and yeah we can look and say okay
you know this is where we're at this is where we need to go and that year zero that's where all the committee work happens that's not the first year we have it that's when we go through all the presentations we talk with the reps we test pilot test it that's year zero I
like the intentionality of it thank you thank you thank All right we'll go on to 6.3 committee reports DLT we meet on Thursday we do and we met the other time where you weren't invited to
call so but Laura was there i don't know when Britney was oh it's right she's not on the team i know i'm sorry i did have that straightened out though now yes i I have it on my calendar for Thursday i'm on it brittney she forwarded it to me but I didn't
check and see it till too late so I was like "Oh when is that meeting?" She goes "Yesterday." Oh my gosh right what's that she is not anymore and that was my mistake cuz I kept wanting to invite Britney instead of Nicole and Nicole goes "Hey in the meeting." Yeah i'm
sorry and so now we do have coming on Thursday though that's awesome but Laura because she is still on it was there i was there and Kent uh presented to the group and went over all the middle school stuff
um and I'm trying to remember if there was like what the specifics were but I'm really kind of um not Yeah he just kind of went through went through like what the programmings are in the offerings and Yeah and I know the students were
pretty tired because they had just got back from Florida so they weren't super vocal on any It was the quietest they were they were pretty quiet yeah just a lot of discussion middle school uh kind of what the schedule was
the electives that they have and the rotation and what next year some changes talked about recess that the teachers were managing that now and that is going smoother um yeah and then I ended up some questions from the crowd when he
was done so I talked a little bit about budget and legislation and kind of the closure on that and this week Thursday we have it again uh which we just talked about nicole will get to be invited this time um and Britney actually is going to
be there present because it's elementary time to talk so we had high school we had middle school and now it'll be elementary so Britney will be there on Thursday morning so any questions for D all right on to personal so we met um
a while back now um we can get a half to go I think and so just few notes there um you know obviously we have some budget constraints coming up and so we're looking how to make the personnel budget
work with our budget and um it's like we're trying to do that through attrition where we can't you know with folks retiring and whatnot um we have a elementary principal positions coming up that's been posted
interventionists um we we changed the model for interventionists and um with the eye towards getting more time and actually saving some money at the same time and it's worked out better than we had hoped
um Allison Stewart's going to move to be the MTS coordinator but we look to have several staff coming back which is great and um really looks like the kiddos are going to be able to get more time with intervention that's a real positive uh
negotiations and I'll do a negotiations update but um we are working on negotiations with certified staff the confidential staff and um looking to start negotiations with transportation
um yeah I think that's pretty much all I've got on any questions all right we'll go on to negotiation and I think I've got that too um okay so I just wrote some stuff out
here uh negotiations we're working through the U negotiations on certified uh staff we're pretty well through the language portion of the contract um there's not been a whole lot of real
meaty issues but trying to get things to align clarifying some language here and there um and we're working with staff it's been actually very good everyone seems to be aligned so we just about have some things wrapped up but I think
the teacher group is looking at getting some language to us on one particular area having to do with um the crude time and so uh just very thankful for those folks we just started um talking about
money and um I think we just we made a a proposal that amount to just under 6% for two years um looking at getting something back from the certified staff they should be proposing something if we
have negotiations again on Wednesday that's what I have so let's see if any questions or all right to the
link um not a whole lot the meeting went pretty smooth like anything it's finishing up finishing up the year for next year approval of calendar year looking some spots where they needed
to get some hires in prepping for next year um their numbers from last year to this year but that's also because DGF joined so um they just had a lot of good things to say they were moving in a direction that
they felt very positive they are really uh happy and excited with DGF joining for some other opportunities that it presents and like a lot of things it's just they're plugging away to see what other things they need to bring to the
table because the group I have a question on the co-op so the staff that we had that went to the co-op is now the co-op staff um is it like if they feel like moving that staff even though we kind of said like oh they're
probably going to stay here do they need to They probably don't need to but do you think they'll consult I don't know if they say that consult with Shannon on like moving our staff to other places yep we talk they meet with the principles and talk about those things
they talk with us a uh Scott and or Sarah joins our principal meetings and our admin meetings and we discuss all of that um so just like anybody else um for example our speech numbers changed a little bit and so and they had to hire a speech person and somebody retire here
um and then they ended up hiring a person they gave the person the option to be our employee or theirs and it kind of went back and forth a little bit and they decided to be their employee which is fine but they're going to serve us um with with the knowing or the understanding I should say is that if
our numbers renew okay maybe somebody has to shift and that's some of what's happening with some of the staff that they just took um it's not perfect like their o still because our numbers showed that we didn't need that much so then there was some adjustments which
um our students are still being met and those are discussions they have with the principles it's like okay how many hours or how many minutes are in a part of an IEP or whatever but um yeah so that's the good thing if we needed eight and we didn't need fulltime we're saving that
money but on the other hand we want to make sure that staff has some stability and you know where are they going i think maybe that's where you're going with that or question yeah just wondering if like if we presume they were going to stay with us like and then they're being told they'd have to go
somewhere else but that's the co-op's final decision because they're an employee at the co-op correct yes with a lot of safness okay yep but there is nothing that hasn't happened that hasn't been discussed i'll say that y that's
sure that was a good question any other questions uh for Mike all right then we'll go on to 6.5 superintendent yeah um so foundation just that we had a foundation meeting last Wednesday the the foundation's
getting really close to getting things going there was one of the things that slowed the group down um was making sure the dollars for scholars money was transferred correctly that the foundation had the authority to do
anything because dollars for scholars was passing it on and just that transition um was challenging we'll just say like that manon who's the treasurer for the foundation has worked with the dollars for scholars previous group he's had
multiple meetings he's got at the bank and right now he feels like it's all coming together and also that no senior this year will lose out from any dollars for scholar scholarship because they're ready now to to work through that so that was I guess the biggest challenge
is that we didn't really think was going to be that big a challenge and it end up being a big deal um they're getting very close then uh the marketing group is getting together to say "Okay are we getting ready to send out a letter um um asking for those initial donors
and whatnot?" So getting very close it was nice it was in person this time instead of remotely it's so I shared with them too have a lot of people excited about what that can be for us in the future so for me I like to drive
through McDonald's and get my burger i'd like to go to the foundation to get my money anyway u but it takes time and we have to realize that that I want to do it right or they want to do it right and I do appreciate that um so it's still working it's we've had a lot of people
reach out to them they had a list at something was it back to school or kindergarten roundup or somewhere they had a signup sheet and they had over 40ome people sign up that they wanted to help at some capacity so that was really nice to hear uh our the meetings are kind of just the board of directors
right now because they're not fun meetings uh they're just more businessy uh and now they're already t other people have reached out to this group saying "Hey I want to help call me when you're ready i want to be a partner or be a support." So yeah it was just a real positive meeting going in a better direction and knowing that the dollars
for scholars was taken care of so uh principal posting that we've touched with that the posting is uh the close today i'm going to be calling candidates tomorrow i met with a couple teachers today asking them to be on the committee they said yes i'm looking at next
Tuesday hopefully but again I got to reach out to the candidates to make sure that works so that'll be next week i was going to do it this week but Thursday was too quick and Good Friday I guess so okay graduation representative oh that's
for you guys so something to think about after um Andrea needs to know in the office and I think David uh you would like to be a part of that this year we do need one other board member to be on stage uh for graduation so I can do it i've
never done it hey Laura well there you go easy i've never done it so did you tell her about the speech that she had no I just can't well they were pointing at me for a speech i was like I
volunteered i'm not doing two yeah I remember you have a graduate right oh two no next year next year don't speed that up anymore sorry no it's we all gain next year i don't
know that I would be good for that when uh my child graduates i might be a mess you're supposed to be a mess that's important i know but in front of everybody is not necessary well it sounds like we have this group taken care of thank you Laura and David i think we'll pass it on Britney or
Britney perfect make sure you're not book that okay uh next one on there I have the family healthcare mobile dental update i have some numbers for you that was shared with me by family healthcare
uh 13 school days where we had dental care was provided they visited every month from November 24th and they well through May 25th they've had 169 total dental visits that's fantastic 84% of
the visits were covered by Minnesota Medicaid uh assisting exactly the students that we want which is great 64 unique DGF students we have 32 DGF elementary 32 middle school and high school i should have maybe read this uh
72% of the students had two or more dental visits during the school year of the 52 unique dental treatment plans 46 of them were able to be fully completed with mobile dental services so they were able to start and finish during the at the mobile unit which is fantastic
um 45 students received 87 restorative visits um yeah so she just wanted to give me an update i thought "Oh that was perfect." So something to share with you guys it's very nice that they come and obviously it's getting used and we're serving kids that need
next year great so good news there um about MSBA legislative handout oh I gave you a handout and this is from MSBA uh I think I gave it to everybody um and this just
thinks it's just information um there's a lot of there's a lot going on right and last Friday uh was a date that they got to set budgets you can see there for the FY2627 what the governor with the senate
with the house is thinking about education and pensions you can see the FY2829 investments uh there's a bunch of bills listed in here and other information i just wanted to make sure you saw it u I talk about this a lot with you so you've heard some of this
from me uh but there's always something new um going on and so yeah I just it's just a lot of information so if you have questions or anything uh I did have a meeting last
Friday um from home with area superintendents to talk a lot about this and uh Klay County Superintendent uh we sent an additional letter to Representative Jim Joy Senator Coopek and Senator Johnson um asking if we can
be a pilot if the whole state doesn't want to do it as far as the flex spending could Klay County be a pilot for them so we'll see i think the L bill L is is is it's been really planned
tomorrow morning every Tuesday morning I listen I get on with MA they give us a legislative update uh that one has got quieter and quieter so unfortunately for us it's a funding thing uh Senator Kbeck does have a bill with equalization which
would help us a lot it's also a very expensive bill it's going to cost about 143 million I think it is over two years and so they're kind of going "Well thanks good idea." But we don't have any money so it's it's just difficult right now i have a question on this paid leave
one yes is that like FMLA paid leave or is it like funeral paid leave or is it sick and vacation time this is this is to take care or to be a caregiver for somebody in need so this is not law yet this is supposed to be implemented in
January well it's supposed to be implemented in January uh this was passed before but the imple the impleation easy for me the implementation is January and so it hasn't happened yet there's a portion of
legislators that want to pause it and kick it back another year and don't start it now because it's we're not ready for it and the it's not just schools it's every business in the state in the chamber of commerce conference
for every region has been down there saying can you please put pause on this not so sure it'll be paused um and so that's going to affect all of us and so when somebody needs to take a leave for 12 weeks 20 weeks to take care for a parent to care for it's it's got a
purpose it's just going to put employers in a be it would be similarly for an FMLA type purpose but it's just that 50/50 contribution split it is yeah that's where I was confused oh I'm sorry yeah you were asking about how it's going to get taxed or how it's going to
be 5050 yeah just always putting into this bank so that if you need it then it's there yes and it's a statewide deal so it's not like DGF paying supplementing DGF sure our employees and the and the school district putting money into that
so when anybody it's to cover the state so it could cover somebody in Rochester or or Rochester can be run just a little bit like unemployment gotcha very similar it's a 888% and they're looking at a split of
044 for the employee and44% for the employee is what they're talking about there's a lot of discussion on that right now actually it's a super hot topic so um that's all I have all right any questions for
Shannon i just want to um throw out a thank you to all the folks that are working on the foundation and the family healthcare mobile update just wonderful that you're giving back to the
kids okay we'll move on to number seven this is uh to this is uh to approve the regular meeting minutes on March 24th 2025 do I have a motion motion by Nicole i have a second second
by Angela any questions or discussions this hearing doesn't work as well i think he's got a good hearing aid and not on the other any questions or hearing none all those in favor say I i opposed
motion carries item number eight this is a consent agenda to approve uh the bills for April 2025 in the amount of 201,1879 right your treasur's monthly budget report that's in your packet then also
to approve the resignation of Gamer Food Service effective April 4th 2025 and approve the resignation of Trisha Latney food service effective April 7th 2025 do I have a motion motion by Britney do I have a second
second by Florida any questions or discussion hearing none all those in favor say I i oppos motion carried it on 9.1 this is to approve the certified contract for
Elizabeth Middle School Language Arts BA Step One effect at the start of the 2526 school year i have a motion motion by Angela do I have a second second second
any questions or discussion this is to fill uh the retirement that we had earlier this year any other questions or discussion hearing none all those in favor say I i oppos motion carries on
9.2 this is to approve the following ESY contract for the summer of 2025 susan Morgson teacher $35 an hour up to 28 hours at $25 an hour up to seven hours matt Przer teacher $35 an hour up to 21
hours $25 an hour up to seven hours stacy Jensen Parah $19.50 per hour up to 49 hours and Elda Lomboreia Parah $19.33 cents an hour up to 4 million
hours do I have a motion so motion motion by have a second second second by Laur any questions or discussion hearing none all those in favor say I i motion carries on to 9.3 this is to
prove the non-certified contract for Rahena Cummson custodian class 2 step one effective April 2nd 2025 i have a motion motion by Nicole do I have a second second by Angela any questions or
discussion hearing none all those in favor say I i oppos motion carries 9.4 this is to approve the certified contract for solving medicine early childhood bea step 2 effective the start
of the 25 2025 2026 school year do I have a motion motion by Laura do I have a second second second by any questions or discussion and members yep and we were you know back when we had to
approve the uh the two coming off we knew we were going to be in pretty good shape pretty quick and it ended up being that way so we're back uh we don't have enough for both of them yet uh talked to Tracy today um she's optimistic that we can
get there but we're not there yet yeah so any other questions or discussion all those in favor say I i I opposed motion carries on 9.5 this is to approve
the non-certified contract for Samuel Lo Food Service Class 2 step forward effective April 16th 2005 do I have a motion motion by a second second second by Nicole any
questions or discussion hearing none all those in favor say I i carries on to 9.6 six this is This is to approve the non-certified contract for Melinda Labs custodian class 2 step
one effective April 9th 2021 do I have a motion motion by Laura do I have a second second second any questions or discussion hearing none all those in favor say I
i motion carries it on number 10 this is uh board comments and future agenda items next board meeting will be Monday April 28th 2025 at 6 p.m here in the DGF community room um and policies committee meeting
will follow that meeting number 11 this is a motion to join the meeting do I have a motion motion by Nicole is there a second second second by Britney questions or discussion hearing none all those in favor say I i motion carry