no she said it was Way's was on Wayne schedule to be here make sure she is this meeting open school board meeting yeah yes I call the me door please rise for the pledge believe
it I pledge to the flag of the United States of America to the for it stands one nation God Indy andice for all I will read the mission statement or
D Glon Felton School District in partnership with the communities the mission of the Dorth Glendon Felton school district is to educate individuals in an environment of trust and respect so they become self-directed respons lifelong call we've got
all all right agenda has been presented do I have a motion to adopt the agenda or do you want to talk about we have just one change to the agenda that was actually two changes y two changes to the agenda one under board committee
reports we'll have uh c will be the wellness committee and then also uh we have 9.5 was added at the end of the board meeting we need to go into close session for uh attorney client privilege discussion so that was added this
afternoon so do I have a motion to adopt the agenda as rised motion by Britney do I have a second second second by TR any questions or discussion hearing none all those in
favor we're going to do roll call today because Nicole is um bya cell phone or video here so I'll start with Nicole hi hi Laura hi David hi Britney hi Micah
hi Angela hi motion all right on to number five public comments and R recognition um a few um from uh from Britney just a big thank you to Ashley Randall the first grade teacher for organizing the gifts
from the heart fundraiser it took a lot of organization and communication with staff students and families she did a great job students raised $ 3,572 for the art room and supplies for it so thank you Ashley for all your work
on that another one I had is uh from Tracy uh we appreciate the dgf custodial crew for their wavering commitment to keeping our facilities clean throughout the year your tireless efforts never go unnoticed and we're truly grateful all that you do a special thank you goes out
to you and all your hard work during the dgf winter blast basketball tournament your time and energy are deeply appreciate it thank you Tracy uh and then also wrestlers our wrestlers we have six that qualified to go to state so this Friday they'll be
wrestling down at the state tournament and then we had other a bunch of other kids to place uh academic All State I think the team was silver yeah I think or something like that 385
385 so congratulations to them anything else mik with the wrestling on that from yeah it's the long season it's uh some of them get to eat now some of them still don't true the way it is yeah it's true
so so good luck to them any other rebel there was a speech on Saturday but I don't recall how DET well it was a big speech meet up in bigi um yeah I mean there's several people that made it those big speech meets you
get a lot of bigger schools there too so several made it to um honor finals I'm sure some made it fin I guess I didn't hear about that but yeah some really good performers and Seasons just kind to get wared up I got a couple um I know there's lots
of like naal whatever day but I think last week was bus drivers it was so thank you to them it's not an easy job it's not a thankless job but we appreciate you and then thank you to teachers and parents and staff and families for coming to
conferences because I think that's important to get people in the building and it's a long night for teachers and staff so thank you to everyone who showed up like attendance was excellent it was great one last shout out just give a
shout out to chase Johansson and the maintenance C for helping up on all the projects we have around the facility we've had certainly had some challenges so um hudos to them for being so on top of
things and Women's Basketball team took the conference yes yes so congratulations yes that's true and they have a buy in their first round or they'll play on Saturday here so we'll host Saturday yep yeah thank you really lot of good
things going on so um any other all right we'll go on to um reports we'll start with board committee reports facilities Transportation committee we met after the meeting last
time um the last meeting and we mainly discussed the open ad Transportation director position so we had that first candidate present and talked about a potential second and then if that didn't
work out we would open it again and I think that's that's where we're at um we also talked just briefly about um The Outdoor Classroom and how they're getting some people in line to
plant and who's doing what I think that was just the beginning phases y y still working through that uh we have people that are interested in helping it's just trying to align who that is exactly so yep and I think that was it anything
question good okay we'll go on to the DLT committee and I think we'll probably Le on shanon for this yeah no that's fine and I apologize Nicole because I I sent it I was thinking because Britney was on it before so I apologize um yeah
leadership team U met last Thursday um Mr O'Keefe presented to him the meeting before we had a lot of questions about our PSO in college and the schools program and what that looks like um we have some of our teachers teaching college credit some of it they take
outside some are uh take it online so the previous meeting had a lot of questions about that so we switched and had Mr lke for high school principal address all those questions on Thursday uh very good discussion students it's so nice to have them there because they gave us a lot of input and then all the
questions that the parents had were part of that group uh Mr O'Keefe and Miss Omen too Katie was here so they were able to answer all of that so it was just kind of nice to U follow up I guess in the second meeting with all those questions so yeah very very well done
our next meeting it will be middle school so we'll be discussing the middle school and options for them yeah questions questions is the next it's uh it's on Thursday and it's next month it's March I'm going to say 20
something is it's always the third I think it's the third Thursday so I'm sorry I don't have but got a little time make sure you're on that list got it all right we'll on to On Wellness
committee and go yeah so it was my first meeting a really great group of folks that attend that meeting um four times a year what I was super excited about is the student participation so we had four really great students that brought a lot
of really great um ideas and you know brought some items forward that they wanted to address within the school it's always super fun to see that um engagement uh I do they were all sophomores um conversation around whether or not there's an opportunity to
bring in other age kids as well they provided a really great update on the Rise program which is super exciting to hear and the success of the dance that they hosted and then had a lot of really good conversations around the success of our food program and how um great of a job we do as a school providing really
healthy lunches for kids questions any questions for Angel all all right we'll go on to 6.2 superintendent yeah I guess the first item on there is March 10th the March 10th meeting is the one where all be in St Paul and uh no I think Britney too
said she's out on the 10th is that um so I don't know what you guys want to do uh I'll be I won't be back until the morning of the 12th so we've had meetings in the past where the superintendent isn't here if you want to stay on schedule um that's up to you I
just want to make sure you guys are aware that I will be in St Paul that on March 10th so it'll be a decision I guess you guys have to make I can get you a report still like you know that you can reader go through if you need whatever you want from me so you can just carry on
but that's a decision I get you guys have to decide so um which is our next meeting yeah you know so anyway uh next one on there I just have Lakes Country update was down there last Wednesday we talked a lot about there was a lot of legislative
talk uh Masa Deb hon the director was there Kirk Schneider from msba was also pres at that meeting talking about a lot of bills that are being introduced at the state level um if you recall I think I shared the letter about the finance and hopefully being able to have some
Freedom as a school board um we talked about that there so um we shared it with fles country and all the superintendents that we discussed it with there uh we will be sending it as a whole Lakes Country service Cooperative that same letter and then all the superintendant
have signed off on it so hopefully it'll have a little bit more influence on our legislators that it doesn't have to be forever right the legislation is asking for the next two by enum so through 2029 to have that freedom to move funds Marcus and I are
working on it right now to see what kind of impact that can have on us and what we can um shift and move and still take care of our program so anyway some things to talk talk about I guess so was there anything on the L legislation L is
still on msba platform it's also on masas uh so there hasn't been a lot of talk about it yet uh but they feel confident that that will be something that they're open that can get brought up um the other thing we talked about oh I just want us my train of
thought sorry no it's okay it's okay uh oh just just talking about uh contracts coming up so we all have a shared document so we can start looking at what other districts in the region are doing as they start to have teacher
negotiations um we also talked about our non-certified I mean just kind of so there's a nice shared document so we can all look at how everybody else is doing how we're doing compared to that and U the reason that got brought up is obviously we're going to have some
negotiations coming up but districts in Lakes Country have had to go to mediation and what happens that when the mediator looks at all the information your budget how much money you have in the bank or you know you're un assigned
fund balance he said the b or the superintendent said have gone through this said the number one factor is what your neighbors did so if Barnesville Holly Detroit Lake settle for a big settlement and we go into arbitration mediation
the mediator will look and say well what are your neighbors doing more so than what do you have in the bank so interesting yeah so that's why we said it's very important for us to all have an idea of what we're doing
because we could be affected by it so that makes sense so that was another conversation uh that took place it's just nice to know though because we want to make sure that we're serving our community and our teachers and are non-certified correctly how do compare
in the region we want to be competitive so on that side of it too it's nice for us to to kind of know where we fit so anyway those were the two biggest topics for the day anyway uh and then Capital visit and
that's uh coming up here on March 10th and 11th I'll be at the capital I think I shared that before too and that's why I won't be here for the March 10th board meeting we'll be down there meeting with senators and representatives um regarding this legislation
so questions for me question we'll go on to number 7.1 this is a motion to approve the special meeting on February 10th 2025 do I have a
motion motion by Laura second second uh any questions discussion a roll call vote Nicole I Laura David hi Britney hi Micah Angela
hi all right we go on to 7.2 this is uh a motion to approve the regular meeting on February 10th 2025 have a motion do I have a second Laura any questions or discussion hearing none I will do a roll
call vote uh Nicole hi Laura davney hi M Angela all right on to number eight this is um motion to approve the consent agenda
the agenda approve the bills for February 2025 in the amount of 27656 31 pry good thing to uh treasur monthly budget report U this is in your packet
sent out to you then also to approve the resignation of Ky Reynolds Elementary teacher effective the end of the 2024 2025 school year approve the resignation of Lindsay van djk elementary teacher effed the end of the 202 for 2025 school year and approve the
resignation of Wayne lart principal affected June 30th 2025 do I have a motion motion by mic do I have a second second second by Troy any questions or discussion on the consent what
did and first grade both of them y both first grade yeah any other questions he none roll call vote Nicole
I Laura David hi Britney hi Micah Angela hi s passes okay on to new and unfinished business 9.1 this is to approve the read uh approve the first reading of the following policies 5
24.5 personal electronic communication devices 530 immunization requirements 531 the Pledge of Allegiance 532 use of peace officers and crisis teams to remove students with IEPs from school grounds 533 Wellness 534 School meals
535 service animals in school 535 service animals and schools for 540 homeless education 601 School District curriculum and instructional goals 602 organization of the school calendar and school day 701 establish
and Adoption of School District budget do I have a motion motion by Angela I have a second second by Mike any questions or discussion just know that uh we will have our policy committee meeting after our board
meeting tonight so we'll be discussing all of these and then remember we have two weeks to discuss or whatever for our second reading next board meeting okay David y i um did send Brooke and Shannon an email in regards to
532 um section B the third paragraph there's some verbiage I think that needs to be changed in regards to the charging portion of it but I couldn't remember who was all on policy so I sent it to Shannon and Brooke yeah and we did get it and so Brooke has made the changes on
there so we'll discuss it tonight yeah sounds great thank you Nicole very any other questions or discussions none we'll do a roll vote
Nicole I hi Laura David hi Britney hi M Angela hi pass 9.2 this is uh to approve the non-certified contract for Jada Brad par professional class to step one effect
February 19 2025 do I have a motion motion by Britney Laur you want Laur any questions or discussion hear done we'll do a roll call vote Nicole
I Laura David I Britney hi Mah Angela pass 9.3 this is motion to approve the non-certified contract for Jennifer STI fa professional Class 2 step five effect of March 3rd
2025 do I have a motion motion by Britney do I have a second second second by Troy any questions or discussion Hear n we'll do a roll call vote Co
hi Laura hi David I Britney hi Mah Angela motion passes on to number 9.4 this is to approve the 2024 2025 American Indian plan compliance
documentation as presented do I have a motion motion by mik do I have a second second any question get this yep and so we have and
maybe one of you is here tonight did and so we need to have the signature from the parent advisor group through John Dumar we do have the form because we also need a signature from the board or chair so we do have it um it's in my bag
actually because I didn't get it to yeah I got it over there today but we also need to have the parent advisory group they need a signature on it too before it's official so we do need a board uh I think it's the board chair signature not the clerk so so we do have it we just
need to go through it and then it has to have signatures on it so is this something that the whole like committee put together or is this something this is an annual thing with that Grant so the grant that we get through the department of B for the American Indian
studies and then you have to go through it so John is our liaison um here at the school so Y and has a parents group and students he meets with so y any other questions or
discussion heing not we'll go to roll call Nicole I Laura David I Britney hi Mah Angela motion pass on to
9.5 um this is to approve uh motion to approve entering into a closed session to discuss pending litigation under the oaces of policy 205 open and closed meetings under Minnesota statute 13d 05 subdivision
3B do I have a motion motion by Laura do I have a second second by Angela any questions or discussion and I'll just say this is
looking at you know potential um settlement for um part of this case so that's what we're be going under um post session any other questions or
discussion not uh go to roll call and Nicole I I Laura David I Britney hi M hi Angel hi motion passes we will go into
close session um we'll just go into the we're going to go in the rebel store Rebel store because I have to we have to I have to get a hold of John marker our lawyer so do just leave this we have to leave it go to that room yeah but leave the reporting will edit out silence I
think yep yeah because we have to come back eventually to a j meeting just so public knows the only two items we have left on this is really to go over um the next board meeting budget committee and then when the budget committee meetings and then turn so um you're certainly
welcome to stay around but just let you know what was left on the agenda yes this is did John can't ask you guys to sign that today okay so do you want to sign it tonight now or do you want to have do
I have it here questions okay so yeah yeah and I have a poliy meeting after this one but I'd love to meet with you so when can we do it I won't be able to tonight because we have this now have
a policy after that but I would be more than happy to meet with you so do you want to just work with John and I can get a schedule him to meet with you guys yes is that okay yes I don't feel comfortable Sig and you don't have to Y you don't have to until we have a
meeting if that works for sure okay okay appreciate that Shannon yeah because we can we can table this and do it next month whenever so we can have that discussion okay thank you appreciate it there come
on did I thing did I really miss the whole thing sorry okay um I said that I wanted to discuss with him more than half the people before didn't even know what he was talking about but he had brought it up so he said he can't meet up tonight
he said but I I reached out to um to Trista aers and she is the um assistant direct assistant director of the education through white and she is
actually getting in contact with the American Indian education at mde um just to kind of see because apparently there was another that had Conta right and that's why I'm going to go about the correct way you know through
Minnesota Department of Education through indan you know the Indian program and just you know find the right steps to take to make sure that you know what we have everything that we need to prove to them like this this can't
beeld one other question didn't talk to him about it not something you figure out so that what SP buse then they have salary on they also
benefit we have that so is this freeze effective because of so technically kids next fing is we are currently
running last so then sense but then you know finding out exactly numbers are I think that's kind of the hard part because so basically doing KN what I know the figures so for straight up 20
kids you get straight it's close yeah it was like 6 last year and then I think October so that makes me question I kind of understood that we out numbers and see if they
change if they didn't change so question is that we need to is there a deadine on this and he wants to have a meeting next okay so but I think that there's going to be
a lot of questions I'll be honest just let me tell you I don't I don't know the answer I didn't do thisam I program I feel like it's just going to be a lot of I don't know and so if we wait till next month to have a meeting and we ask all these
questions get push over and together is our needs they've done so if they're not using go ahead [Music] 31 Tuesday morning is good for
me Wednesday morning politics Schoolboard politics yeah [Music] for like it's like we have to find a common and not just people to I really appreciate you guys coming
and helping you know and I I there was a part of me that just was it's a m day and then when Rachel started texting and I'm like it's been a long day but you know what sometimes you got to do what
you got to do to to make things better what are they doing now are you here for a particular issue not really issue just uh order a business that they had that we just need clarification on what that we need clarification on and order a business
that they had I live in the district I've been in the district for a long time never been to here listen to the school board you have issue you to clarify yep
I just uh just stuff on American Indian education americ Indian our program that we're kind of starting oh they don't do that now probably they well they've had it for about two three years now and we're just we're trying to keep it going uh we're just figuring out
like places for everybody and everything so and are they pretty good at listening yeah yeah they've been so far just you know how doing listening and doing is um about way
yeah it just takes some nudging and bringing in some reinforcements and and maybe you know maybe some papers put in front of them it's really like okay we got to do it so let's are are there
large population people distri not quite I think we're right around 5% district is is yeah it's not it's not bad for a school that's enrolling about 16,700 kids but 60 50 is oh really dative
American students yeah yeah and it's it's you know it's becoming like more um more common and more kind of mandatory for Minnesota school dist districts to to have this program and to fund um aid for American
students to get through school and high school and off to college it's kind of what the goal is so now have you ever been a part of the a part of it at all or uh no no I have I have five children
and I was living in Mor and they all went to the mor school then I moved out to 15 Farm in the district and that was years ago I'm in the district come over here
and listen you see what school this my first time at this school board don't what's going and they didn't give me anything to read give no they should right don't you think they should give well he was talking about how
everybody else had it I know I know butl I don't know I can't remember if it's in the are you wanting a physical copy yeah okay yeah I'm old I don't do I know they email out the the agenda
that's printed right there they email that out to The District employees and stuff so put it online nothing else it off you know can't readu on a cell phone well this this is our first attendance to a school board meeting and my kids's been
going here since kindergarten is that right oh oh it's about time then huh yeah I missed it all today but this is my first one with this with this uh School Board here new board members yeah me deal
with been working here about six years this is your 7s okay but you've never spoken to him about Indian education uh the superintendent you know back and forth uh this this school year
so who was in charge of the program before Mr way it wasn't even is just getting it now is he he's not even an M do yeah they're not no so
the programs are kind of put under um uh administrators that don't have they don't have a lot on the plate really yeah so Kent had no say in here you're going to take the keys to the Indian program cuz leart had it Le part was
over here here and then when we transferred schools put all the little kids over there and all big kids here part went over there then when we started this program like I was working here and part was over there so then they figured okay well Kent's here so instead of me bouncing back and forth or
whatever just you know have Kent do it so that we can communicate and then it's over there but um I don't have a how many people are you talking about for
Indian people that live in the district uh total with families and everything I'm not sure I would guesstimate around 200 200 yeah and and are there other groups minority groups of any kind in the
district white isn't it it's it's yeah yeah it's the majority um I forgot the numbers on the demographic there's a stat sheet for Minnesota Department of Education that is you can go on there and look and you can click on it gives you a nice little pie pie chart of you
know these are your Caucasian kids you're African-American you're American Indian one African ameran two Hispanic something about those numbers but uh couple hundred Native American people yeah yeah so you're really you're going to be
the only one only one in terms of minority group be the only one one of the the larger groups yes they're not enough Hispanics or or African amans really make make noise well yeah probably not to make a
big noise but maybe big enough if they had a group together and everything I would I mean I've talked about it as well with some of the people in the school at play I love a multicultural group not just a you know just a Native American one just an African one just get all kinds of people that want to get
together and Shar I know Morhead does it with uh they have whole day over there it's uh is it InterContinental day or something like that where they freaking have all day in the gym they got music food you know sharing pictures yeah all of their ethnic background you know
traditions and everything they they do a day like that over there at Morhead don't have a whole lot of people a lot y that is the vast majority of the population and where we're at so
yeah well I'm part of that you know but I was on more school years nobody nobody people ever came to the school board we couldn't get anybody to come to we could get anybody to run for the
school board hardly you know yeah I'm glad to see you here it's not a very glamorous position I don't think W now you got to run for schol board John you're moving on
up years from thinking about that well I mean it's not you can see the people up here there's the ordinary people you know yeah I like working directly with kids that's where my impact is they can make business decisions
it is different I ra I'm 84 do you have any of your grandkids or great- grandkids in this in this District that go to school here no no there are Twin Cities oh they're all yeah they move out of
here in Georgia DC so did you have you learned anything new tonight listening to these no they didn't give us anything just standard stuff you know it's just you have to bring it to
them in front of them and then shake them a little bit you know I think they'll P I think they I think they will too we just got we I mean now we're just kind of scattered around with doing with it too just we once we get it the puzzle put together and put it in front of them then then I
think we're definitely going to see I so they can see you I don't I don't disagree with you at all that's where I would if I was on time uh people groups like that deal
with people who come to them and make a little an noise you got to ask you got to tell them what you want ask them to do it otherwise they don't know you know I don't they don't do a survey or anything
you know they they have to react to what people want you people and you have a one you need tell get the grease huh pardon squeaky wheel gets the grease that's that's exactly right it always does sometimes the
squeaky wheel gets replaced that's not what I'm Hing for no no no no no you can tell I've been freaky realtime I'd rather that be from the era where they fix things instead of
now they're in there making decisions that we can't even we can't even hear we can't they can't talk about it you know I thought yeah I thought these meetings were like public with everything public but but they can go into executive session and and there are things that
sensitive they have to report out what what decisions are made but the decision process in some cases they need to do that and it's legal they wouldn't do it wouldn't that's
okay and then that's why I was wondering when I walked in here I said is this an open meeting because are there some meetings that they hold they're closed meetings well they have to tell you that beforeand okay and and
uh you can go online and find out when when the the meeting is you know it's in it's in their agenda that this after right after the indet thing it was going to be a closed session so I'm sure
that's had to put it in the meeting uh agenda just so that everybody knows that they weren going to be in so far most of the meeting is Clos and then the more people that you bring here sit and just be here
you the more impact you notice they're all white they're all young rly speaking you know uh they ran for they officed and they they won an election in some cases they were the only ones winning
for the election you know yeah so so they're not beating down the door for this position having been on School Board oneou in of another get whack you know you can't make everybody happy I think in that position you can't make
anybody happy you have to just what needs to be done well we have minority groups now that we never had [Music] before well
theyel how big is the Native American pram in she's on the I'm in the Moran Indian education Bo they have a parent committee that they have that oversees that program and that's kind of what
we're trying to build here too we're all kind of learning yeah yeah that's good so was there anything you were bringing to the table or were you just coming to listen I just came to listen uh all my
kids my youngest is 32 and they all graduated from Morhead uh and then I moved out The Farmstead you know and I've been immedately come over here and just see what's going on I've been on School
Board in Mor so I pretty much know what they do but I wanted them to see me also old person here that is watching do you know any of the people on the board at all no okay I only know some of
them well they have teachers yeah well these people have to live in the district you know they have telephones you can call their ear Nobody Does that when I was on school board nobody called me uh nobody
came to the meetings I mean we we could have spent the whole Budget on on alcohol and and you know nobody would have known the difference right maybe not
alol right the point is that nobody pays any attention just you do the best you can but you need somebody that has an issue to come and talk to you and get a result does it feel like these meetings
are just like you go through the motions like there's really like you just pretty much yeah they what they decide you don't have much choice you know the U uh the laws of the state of Minnesota says you got to do this and this this
and this they have to follow the law and then the decisions most of them are just kind of Common Sense thing you know um and they'll go through and they but uh they don't think about
uh our indigenous peoples or anybody's uh different uh they don't think about it nobody comes and complains about it or talks to them they don't know I mean what are they going to know you know uh there aren't enough of you to get
votes against somebody on the uh on the school board if you got together organiz you know you might be able to get somebody on school board maybe that'd be one way to get
attention but I think you're being here is what's important I agreee I kind of scared him I think when I first show it up this scared of well they never nobody
ever comes to SCH more meetings I'm the only one here e and I think they were wondering what the hell this guy here for but I kind of put e I'm old and you know I'm in the district I just like to
see what's happening like Ina my old white guy you know no problem there huh no problem there no their legs got to be getting tight in there pretty soon none of them have a chair in
there starting to sway on that piece of paper that we signed in when we came in and asked if we had something to discuss with the board and so Rachel before we got here
was pointing out the questions that she had and so I was like you might want to put a yes there and she didn't put anything on hers either yeah yeah I just but but she she sat over there with the piece of
paper and I wasn't sure like at what point in times you interject yourself like to discuss something or ask questions I don't know I've never done this before if I were just coming and not on the agenda for it I would honestly just sit back here and tell you
know like asked if they asked when they talked about American stuff like do you have anything to add or concerns to to to bring up or whatever and then I think you probably ask questions
but unless we're unless we go to the board and say hey we want to come to the next meeting we want to talk about you know the state of Indian education and our program stuff like that and we have questions but I think we need to talk to
hunstead for sure um well and that that was the thing when he's like does anybody have anything to discuss when David was asking like he's looking at the people sitting up next to him I I I wasn't sure if that included us or was just the people sitting at the tables that I think at the end they'll
ask anybody you know any comments and if they don't I will stop them and hey we got people back here that want to talk you want to talk I mean if they ask you would you have something to say to them
what you said to me know why you're here no cuz I don't really want it to be in front of the school board really I kind of just wanted I want to square it out with Shannon with with the superintendent first if because then then you know kind of chain of command
deal like the coordinator that I'm working with like he doesn't know what he doesn't know either and he he's definitely looking at me to be like what do we need to do and then so then next in line is Shannon and you know once me and Shannon either you know get on the same page or we don't if
we don't then then definitely it's the school board I'll have to talk to to be I'll have to get on the agenda come in here and tell him that you know we tried to resolve you know some issues we haven't we might need yeah I don't want to want to do it
right that's all that's all I've ever told these guys since the beginning I want to do it right I don't want to just's anything or you know in a Twisted about way well and like I said when he brought it up Britney didn't even know if she
asked what that what that she didn't even know so gave her just a quick little always have to sign off on I so I don't think they even know anything and he's like and I'm guessing you guys are here to sign that paper one
of you guys yeah he was kind of told he was kind of told that by uh Kent earlier today is that that's what we talked about when when the docy sign wasn't available there wasn't option on that
Doc and I guess new right as of October this year sitting right around 56 56 57 all AES ages yep that's kindergarten through High School through
seniors having problems with school system they are attendance is bad for some academics is you know it's a struggle for some but
you know social social I mean are they accepted they get along kid normal everyday kid stuff middle school stuff for sure normal everyday uh kid things middle school things where know some kids get picked on I mean it's not
because of their culture or Heritage really it's just yeah it's just their daily but I think having sense of belonging oh yeah I mean so what we've done this year with with
that we've hung up um tribal Flags in our school building um they're painting a mural as we speak to hang in the school so um I've done I've done a couple of uh couple of uh demonstrations in the
gym in front of the school kids and everything so they've seen a lot of things they really you know like it and they kind of want to see more and do more so um you know everybody's been receptive of it and you know there's some one or two in the crowd that always
have them say but we get that everywhere so there nothing to worry about that sounds good yeah it's been it's been a good year and a half I'm trying to build it's just can't stop now I got to keep going so yeah we just kind of want
to we want to figure out how this is all working and everything so we can figure out how we want to you know come to the table about it and everything and get it all put out so that we can we can operate well um if you would get one of the school board
members and tell them what you've been telling me get them on your site they'll they'll run interference for you you know if there's one of that lives around you or that you know or have some you know can get them in teach them tell
them what's going on if I were on school would I do that really you know yeah too old I think you you put a lot of good uh knowledge and experience up there like you said they're a little
young so I don't know I was on School Board in Morhead for six years for two terms and uh teachers didn't like it principles didn't like
it parents didn't like it nobody likes you when you're out school really oh yeah you're doing and making you know discussion about things nobody wants nobody wants to deal with right we didn't with that
either have much joice you know she's got that all cleaned and ready oh mommy did it for her well she went ice fishing how ice fish you terrible what I mean no sorry it went absolutely amazing terrible thing was I never even I never
got really only thing that made my pole go down is my Domino I had on there no my son my oldest son he caught a couple of fish he caught a couple of bass and uh nice Northern that um we thought had him on the
leaderboard and everything down there but smallmouth bass nice yeah fish get ice fish in so yeah E
Yeah bass we we haven't eaten a lot of bass and not a lot of Northern I don't like dealing with bones yeah if we caught some Walley would have brought some of them home the river like bullheads but
catfish catfish are good to eat yeah throw them back you know it's an ugly old fish you good to eat okay so you said Hal we ice fish y she went she went she went ice fishing when
did she do that she no she left uh uh Saturday morning okay and she came back Sunday morning ask her about that she didn't leave the freaking cabin what do you mean they all were supposed to walk down
they were in the cabins on the ice or you know on the shore of the ice and she was supposed to walk down to the ice house she never went down there not even step one foot on that ice I have to ask you how many fish you caught then no it was a gorgeous gorgeous day she
should have been out there I go Georg and go around behind Georg a little Bridge you can fish off that bridge and you catch all the C you want and you don't have to walk you must did you grow up ice
fishing at all you know uh 100 years ago I did um and it's me every time uh I do that uh just not
right walking on Frozen water that's not right no no people people they go they go through you know at the bottom I don't want to do that I want my car top so just keep it off the water that's
the safest place for it I don't like that I thought maybe this okay so when do fish houses have to be off in the state of Minnesota I know I don't know the heart date but yeah with this warm up coming I bet you it's going be pretty Dar soon February
March oh yeah the first week of March I told Al I said this is your last opportunity to get on the eyes she's like it's all right yeah that was my only time going out this year over the last two years my son and
I have accumulated everything we need for ice fishing augers poles like all kinds of bait and everything pop bucks and heaters and yeah we went out a lot last year but with me taking this basketball coaching job like was a heck
of a lot more busy than I thought so well you're going to have to find closer laks yeah because and then it's just half day trips or you know yeah yeah we have done resident resident license for Minnesota and me and him have gone last year a lot more you know right over here
you need to get some connections know any connections to give me a good license what do you do for a living uh I work as uh I was a pair professional here for six years this is the first year as a cultural liaison for American Indian education
you have a degree we have three colleges y 10 minute drive more head State y we let you in and get you some classes
and all yeah and they would love to have they need I know we need students here too how do I know that MSU all right got here we'll reopen the
meeting um and we'll go on to number 10 uh board U comments and future agenda items next board meeting is Monday March 10th uh 2025 at 6 o'clock here in the Glendon Media Center uh and then following that will be the budget
committee meeting obviously and here in Theon Media Center do we want to move the budget yes I'm gone and Janet's gone and I'm oh yeah that probably is we're going to have to that for sure because I need to be in that one is are we sure that
next week is a six o' start I was just to say the March 10th is at 5 five o'clock okay so to the public the next board meeting will be Monday March 10th at 5:00 pm with no committee meeting
follow correct all right that gets us to number 11 this is motion toour the regular meeting I have a motion motion by La have second Angela second by Angela any questions or discussion hearing none all those in favor we'll go
to roll call Nicole hi hi Laura hi [Music] hi Angela meeting is adjourned have a good week Mar