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Part 1 (Video ID: _P1-Y-9kOos):
- 00:00:00: Call to Order, Pledge, and Mission Statement Intro
- 00:02:07: Public Comment: Transparency and Teacher Support
- 00:08:34: Public Comment: Contract Language Adherence Needed
- 00:11:09: Rebel Recognition: Spring Sports and Senior Speeches
- 00:14:22: MTSS Report: Multi-Tiered Systems of Support Overview
- 00:24:18: Committee Reports: DLT, Personnel, LAC, Teachers
- 00:31:43: Superintendent Report: Enrollment, Fuel, and Work Session
- 00:37:12: Approve Minutes, Budget, Resignations - Consent Agenda
- 00:39:46: Approve Land Swap Resolution With Moorhead District
- 00:43:05: Approve State High School League Membership Resolution
- 00:43:58: Approve Certified and Non-Certified Teacher Contracts
- 00:45:26: Approve SRO Agreement Discussion, Budget Concerns Raised
- 00:53:07: Approve Woodlook Contract and Discuss Building Director Position
- 00:55:28: Motion to Table Warden Contract, Adjournment


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Okay. Please rise for the >> I aliance 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

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justice for all. got as part of the opening Iowa's written district mission statement in partnership with communities. The mission of the dild school district is to educate individuals in an environment of trust and respect so they become

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self-directed responsible here. All right. Agenda. We have any changes to >> No changes. >> All right. Do I have a motion to adopt the agenda as present? >> Motion by Nicole. Second by second.

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>> Second by Laura. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. >> I. Both. Motion. On number five, public comments and rebel recog. I know we have a couple of speakers here. Uh first one is um

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Lara L. You want to come down here? >> Yes. Yeah, sure. Be careful. >> Sure. >> Thank you. Yeah. >> Thank you for having me. Um I just want

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to thank you for having me um this evening and give me the ability to ask a question that maybe could be um discussed in the future. I understand that's how this is at time. Um I've been a member of a school district for the past 13 years. Prior to that I was cargo

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and graduated and there was not a school system in this area like I feel that experience and I think one of the reasons I came here was because of the small school and the community and something really unique that the teachers in this particular district

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bring. So, I really wanted to come in today because I did um I mean I've been aware of the budget cuts. I've sat in on the referendum discussions and I continue to be concerned about the people that actually made the school district who it is the teachers and just

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to offer them come I never come to complain or to have a concern without offering a suggestion. So, um but I do really want to say this on behalf of the teachers. So, as a taxpayer, which we all are, um I've seen I have some questions and I think what I'm seeking

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from you all is transparency and more than we have. Um and I get that there are certain things you have to keep. Um that's that's the rules. But I think in the interest of today's political environment, there's just a generalized distrust of governing structures. And I

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I think it's been earned by a lot of those governing structures. And I think that this one could be weak in the sense that it could be a little bit more transparent. um when I see the enrollment go up and I see my class sizes go up and mine I speak about for my children um and then I see more

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people coming in it's hard for me to understand and my taxes go up um it's hard for me to understand why the cuts keep coming and more importantly to the to the teacher classrooms they need they need the tools to do their job in my job it's really important that I have the

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tools to do my job or I can't provide the patients the care that they need and so I kind of see teachers very similar to the job that I do. They're taking care of patients, taking care of the kids. If they don't have what they need, they can't do it. And where does the suffering occur? It occurs at the teacher level and their families, and it

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happens at the kids level and their families. And I think we forget about the downstream effect of the teachers. So, I know you all think about them all the time, but I think about them a lot because I know that when they don't have what they need, they pull it out of their background. And then that impacts

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their families, which impacts their mental health, their family mental health, their kids, and it has the community suddenly really struggles. So I'm asking for more transparency so that I can understand how I can actually help. I think teacher wish lists are an

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awesome opportunity. I don't think we should be shutting those down. I think those should be open all year round. Sometimes we get money in March when the taxes come through. Sometimes we get money in different places and an opportunity for the for us to step in. But I really do want to know and I want you to help me understand where is the

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money going. Help me. Not big terms, but help me because I can't make sense of it and I can't I can't um defend it if I don't understand it. Um I also think that we need to start really getting we have to

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maybe think about closing our doors, which is a tough subject. I get that and I know we've had some discussion about that and you've been great about giving me some of that information. So, thank you. Um, but open enrollment to me, I kind of look at it like if the state can't take care of what we have, then we really need to think about not offering

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it to more people because the kids are struggling. And when we talk about cuts to extracurriculars like sports, arts, um, music, speech, debate, all of those things, as somebody who has sat on admission boards at higher level schools, those are the things we look

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at. Your grades are important, but are you well-rounded? Because if you're not, you can't. How are you gonna handle the stress of ex of continuing school or quite honestly of life? And honestly, it's those little things, those other subjects that keep us grounded. So, it

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and they create that more well-rounded, resilient kid. If you don't have resilient kids, I don't care what the grades and what the records show because it's not worth it. It's not worth the time. So we can't focus on academics if we don't include all the pieces that make that well relevant. So I think that's the other piece I'm looking at is

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why are we cutting the programs that matter. And again I go back to maybe we need to close our doors. Maybe we need to do that because I know that with open enrollment we get kids that come in with different needs. Different needs impact the classroom. Different classroom needs

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impact the teachers ability to focus and to provide them with care. We pull their paras from them. pull these things from. And again, I realize I'm speaking to the choir a little bit, but as a teach as a parent in this environment, it's really important that we kind of stand up here and talk for them, too, because it is

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it's impacting us. So, I had to pay I did not have to. Sorry. I paid for frogs this year and I did it because that's how I got interested in medicine because I remember thinking I wasn't freaked out by death frog and everybody else was. If

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I hadn't done that, I'm not sure. I don't know. You know, we'd all like to think we have this pre-planned role, but do we? I don't know. That was a that was a milestone in my life. So, what is happening? Like, what can we do? And I think when you sit in front of getting to the parents, getting trying to get a

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more, you know, the more transparent you are, the more you're going to get us the table. Then it's an opportunity for us to really say ask the tough questions and be open to them. And having been a leader in a different space, I say, you know, it's it's really hard to be a leader, right? because you got to wear both of those hats. But at the end of

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the day, you represent the kids. We don't represent anybody else. This is this school board represents the kids that come through this place. And DGF is special. And I feel like this isn't that special. And I really hope that you hear what I have to say. Come use a little more transparency

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um and offer parents a little bit more because I think we just need more. We can't lose any more teachers. Teachers don't People don't need jobs. They need more teachers. just that's across all jobs and I have no you all know what I'm talking about.

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So I'm concerned about all so >> I think I kept it under five minutes. >> We can do another one would have probably had to cut you off. >> All right. >> All right. Thanks for having me. Um, I was asked to come here by the union kind

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of as the negotiator. I've been a part of negotiation for 14 years. So, seven contracts now. And the first thing that we always do in negotiations is talk about the language to change the contract, the wording. So, we kind of know the contract pretty well in

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something that's happened three times this year where I've had to send one email asking why wasn't this sent out yet? that has to do with hiring and right in our contract on page eight is article 11 is promotional positions. Promotional positions are positions

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paying indifferent and or position on administrative supervisory level of responsibility including but not limited to such positions as department chairperson. All vacancies including specialists and other special projects, teachers, pupils, personnel workers and conditions and programs funded by the

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local, state, and federal government is where it gets the piece shall be adequately publicized by the district to all staff via district email in order that all qualified DG teachers may be given adequate opportunity to apply and

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be considered position. It happened with boys basketball this year where it wasn't sent no email sent out. So I sent the reminder and we got the email happened with the now he found out on Friday that this department will be

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hired as an assistant principal and ad that is a position that's promotional. It needs to be emailed out to district and it was not again and if if we have language in our contract we should not have to email reminders to follow our

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contract because none of that was sent out. That should be where whether or not this has nothing to do with Mr. Bart himself. He's going to be a fantastic assistant principal and a great 100% agree there. But it's just following the contract. You have to go through the steps, opening it up, letting the

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teachers know about everybody can apply. So it doesn't seem like a secret thing always happening. We always talk about transparency, open policy. It just feels different when things happen that aren't a contract. So that's kind of why they want to become popular. Just kind of make sure we're aware that we're calling contract.

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>> Okay. Thank you. Thanks, Kelly. >> All right. We'll go on to rebel recognition. >> Um I asked Katie to send me a message today. She did. So this is going to be just spring sports because there's a lot happening. Uh girls golf, I think we

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talked about this maybe previously, too, but they're the HL champs. Uh the team had subsections today and as a team they qualified. So uh awesome. They qualified for sections. So subsections was today. They qualified today for sections as a team. So not just individuals. So

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congratulations to them. Uh boys golf. Levi qualified for sections today. So they had their meet today. Levi Kungfell. Did I say that? >> Say sorry. Uh he did qualify for sections today. So congratulations to Levi. Uh,

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baseball got the second seed and they played Thursday at 2:30. It's a home game here. Um, softball. So, softball's been happening in real time. They did win their first game today and now I think they wait until Thursday. So, they're going to be playing the winner

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of Roso Wadina. Roso will be Holly today, too. So, you send me a text. So, that's good. And then track has sections this Friday. So, that's it for that's activities. But um yeah, unless anybody else has some

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>> I I do. Um I have a graduating senior or I guess now alumni of uh DVF and so of course I was at graduation and uh Lara's son Sam did a phenomenal job along with the other three kids who uh got up and gave speeches. They were remarkable.

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They were inspirational. Um their classmates clapped with them. They celebrated and they did uh wonderful. And so I encourage everybody to listen to Sam and have courage and be kind. >> Thank you. >> You just took my you took my

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superintendent report and that was wonderful. >> As a parent, it sounds better sounds better for you than for me. So that's awesome. Thank you. >> Just like give a big shout out to those Mr.

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and thank them for their years of >> Yeah. And I linked to years of work and to um at the school and their dedication make it DGF worth.

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Any other recognition? >> There's a clap hold for fourth graders tomorrow. >> Graduation graduations tomorrow at 12:30. They have picnic today. Amazing track and field day middle school. Lots of really great

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things happening all by amazing staff. >> And there's several kids that moved on for track and field as well. I don't have them for >> moving on to anonym. >> All right, let's go on to number six reports. We'll start with 6.1 MPSS

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report. >> Hello everyone. There's a report in front of you. Um I'm Allison Stewart and I'm the MTSS coordinator for B schools. MTSS stands for multi-tered systems of support. We operate within a framework that you'll see on the last page of your handout. I'm going to refer to it quick.

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Um systems similar to MTSS have been at work at BGF for a long time. They've just been all different things and looked a little bit different, but this year has truly been our opportunity to become organized, intentional, and purposeful in our actions. The framework that you see outlines each area within

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our district that is connected by the MTSS framework. As you can see, the reach of what we can accomplish is wide, which is why um implementing a strong system typically takes three to five years. And you can consider us in year one here at DGF. Um under each section in your handout, you're going to see the

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areas that DGF currently has in place, but because of time, I'm going to highlight one area under each of the pillars of the framework. So, beginning with the purple pillar, if you return to the back, it's infrastructure for continuous improvement. Now, we have a lot of these areas in place already at our district. So, I'm going to focus on

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collaborative link teams. There are many teams that collaborate on a weekly, bi-weekly, or even monthly basis in our district to support both students and campus. The first one that you're going to see listed is the TAP or BIP team, which is teacher assistance team or behavior intervention team. They're

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facilitated by me by the coordinator at each building level. So, elementary, middle school, and high school. The second one is grade level teams. So, at the elementary site, I meet with grade level teams monthly and I go over student data. I discuss students that are in in intervention whether they're making progress or not. The middle

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school site would be after benchmark testing three times a year and then anytimes in between where we feel it's needed. The last two that are listed are really integral parts of an NTSS framework. That's the leadership and attendance teams. It's important to remember that for this process to

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function in the district teams like site leadership and attendance play a really vital role. The green pillar which is family and community engagement is a really important component of MTSS and one that I feel like we've um really evolved with as the year has gone on. Focusing on the transparent

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communication part, families received communication back to school night about win time services in grades kindergarten through sixth and in grades seventh and eighth. We do a program called student success. After benchmark testing three times a year, families are also shared results. In addition, something new this

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year, um, personal learning plans for literacy were created and shared this spring alone for 310 students. So, each of those plans um, includes screening results, a narrative with action steps, and a link for parent resources. That's part of a read requirement. You have a

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student that is below the level reading, you do additional communication with. Moving on to the blue pillar. This is probably the one that most people think of when they think of MTSS. Words like win or intervention or tier 1, two, and

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three all fall into that multi-layered practices and support. I'm going to focus on specifically tiers two and three because these are the areas that my intervention team and that I directly oversee student learning. So tier 2 support is students in grades kindergarten through six working and win

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time and grades seventh and eth success. Over the course of this year, we provided reading and math support to 331 students in grades kindergarten through 8. Um, I do the lesson planning for all of those kids at 68 groups every week. So, I write the lesson plans um based

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off of student assessment data and then my interventionists go ahead and design things that go along with each of those areas. So, tier three is for those students that aren't showing growth in tier 2. Um, they would benefit from individualized intensive instruction.

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We've supported 33 students. So those 33 are included within that bigger number as well. So they're doing an additional time outside of their own time. That fourth pillar is assessment. This is very important because this tells us the who, the what, and how we can support

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students. Beginning with benchmark assessments that happen three times a year and include everyone. And after benchmark in the fall, winter, and spring, I take a look at all the student data. I organize it. I analyze it and determine which students would benefit from additional intervention support. My

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intervention team then pulls those students for additional diagnostic supports. You're going to see them listed there. Not going to go into detail, but of course any questions if you're wondering what they need. Um, weekly our students are progress monitored in their intervention group so that we can determine adjustments needed

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for student instruction. That final pillar is database decision making. We use a platform called Edge Climber. That is our data warehouse. It assists us in making effective database decisions. It takes all of our synergy information, all of our fastbridge information, and

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then our diagnostic data can be input so that we can see a picture of the whole child. So when I pull it up for meetings, I can see attendance, can see behavior referrals, I can see all of their testing. We can even see grades. So student grades as far as what they're doing in the classes. As you can see, it has been a very

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impactful first year. But I want you to understand that MTSS is more than just intervention. It's truly a team sport that includes district, school, and grade level teams as well as parent and community involvement. While adopting this new system involved a steep

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learning curve and some challenges, the results that we've seen this year are truly worth celebrating. Um this dedication of our team right now have eight interventionists, five at the elementary, three at the middle school. um their dedication has directly supported 331 students using data

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informed intervention and reading and math proving that our focus on growth leads to clear academic. >> So there's a lot more information in there. My um contact is off the top too if anybody's talked to me about all of this. I've spoken to a few of you open

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to discussion. >> I have a question. >> Yeah. kind of chat through when you pull a kid. Let's say let's focus on tier two and tier three. >> The communication that happens between like the group and the parents when their kids identify and then the

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communication that continues on as the kids are in the program. Yeah. So, um it's after let's we'll take fall benchmark testing. And so, let's say we do our fall benchmark reading and math testing and we see that a student is higher risk. Now that could be reading fluency, younger grades, it could be a

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specific phonic skill. Um, we would then pull them for that additional testing. Like you said, if they are put into a win group, um, because everybody gets win is what we like to say in grades K through six, there wouldn't be additional communication unless they

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would be in a tier group. So, it's kind of the way that we look at it right now. um they would receive kind of that fast bridge three times a year and then a personal learning if they're below grade level. However, as you said, like I said, I think that we've had growth, but I think there can always be more. I

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mean, I think that open communication and letting parents know what's going on. And I think part of that is a a collaboration between my team and classroom teachers, too, so that they know what's going on. Um actually, as part of my reporting, we sent out a survey. And I would say that's probably the number one thing I heard from

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teachers is hey we want to know you know what's happening and when. And so our lesson plan all of our groups will become a shared document with teachers and anybody who wants to see next year. So >> thank you. One more question. >> How do you decide when is the right time to pull the kid out of the classroom

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when they need additional support? >> Yeah that's a that's a great question. And so when we are looking at kind of that whole scope of kids right top to bottom like who's kind of falling in and could use the most support and um part of um so we receive an access grant and so that's just focus specifically on

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students reading below grade level um and so that's where we would focus first and we kind of work our way up. So I'll use fifth grade as an example. Um they were super flexible. Our single time block turned into a double time block this year. we can see double day kids, but they were also really flexible with

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time saying, "Hey, here are some additional times that you could call." So, we were really able to kind of expand who we could see. Um, even if it's for short periods of time, we really felt like that time. So, just so my question was more about the time of the day. >> Oh, sure. Yeah. So, this year, um, over

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here at the elementary K through six has set wind times. So, reading is a 25 minute block in the morning. Math is a 25m minute block in the afternoon. the middle school, every grade level is different. So, fifth grade had, like I said, that double win time block that was set. Sixth grade had a win time

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block this year as well, we will be shifting that to a student success class for next year. And then seventh and eighth, first period was student success. So, students were placed in that class. Now, if we did see a need outside of there, I pulled up schedules, connected with teachers, and I said, "Hey, could we, you know, grab 10 or 15

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minutes at the starter end?" the class, you know, even if it's three times a week, that extra support is beneficial. >> So, we're ensuring we're not holding like a kid or actual male support during the classroom. >> Correct. Yeah. Yep. Yep. So, with at the middle school fifth through 8th, there

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is a set class period where they're going. >> Yeah. Just a moment of clarification. So, my understanding when you said that you have to look at the student learning and the student data, >> um, if we have, I don't know, 50 kids under grade level

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or something, uh, you can't pull all 50 kids. So, you're pulling the starting at the bottom of the list and kind of moving your way up to assess as many as you can help. >> Yes. Correct. >> Yes. But in addition to, I think, connecting with classroom teachers, too, and saying, you know, here's a test score, but what do you see in the

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classroom? That's a huge part of it, too. Um, that goes back to those grade level meetings. Um, after a benchmark, I meet with them and I say, "Here's the list. Tell me." You know, I mean, this sometimes, you know, kids aren't just one test. We know that, you know, we want to know how they're doing in the

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classroom, too. Any other questions for you? >> Moving on to committee reports. Uh we had the last DLT meeting here last Thursday or last DT meeting. uh kind of went through

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was uh Mr. O'Keefe's turn Joe's turn to to present on the high school. I just talked about what was going on what was going on there. Talked about at that time there was 121 students we get into that here later to to graduate. Uh looked at he kind of presented on summer

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summer school being summer school being an option uh kids weren't passing classes. One of the things they did talk about was the uh back in January how we voted on a 15-day attendance attendance policy and some of the challenge they had or the challenges they had with that

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just the imp implementation of it uh that they sent out some letters that they probably shouldn't have sent sent out through the systemation. So they're working on working on that to try to make that better in the future. Uh we did uh sounds like we got a YS YST grant

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that uh Brooke and uh nurse Megan helped put together for $5,000. So, one of the things I was talked about is next year we'll have a CNA course and an intro to healthcare course that will be teaching. Look at some staff talk about some

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staffing updates. Uh talked about both Kent and Eileen retire retiring looked at uh yeah uh Concordia. One other thing, Concordia. So, one of the things that we had to work on as a uh as a school was a partnership with

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Concordia where uh going forward that students that have a GPA of three or above and depending on their ACT score kind of fluctuate in there, but have an opportunity for a 16 to $21,000 discount college. So, it's awesome to

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hear. look at next year some industry engagements uh talking about uh bringing some more professionals into the into the high school to kind of give students some ideas of potential jobs uh for them whole gist of it ask the kids what they

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want to see for next year so there will be some seniors that are leaving off of it uh so there will be have a new group or some more kids involved in it or is that today. >> That's about best notes anyone's taken

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at committee meeting. So, anybody got questions for me? I guess >> we did I did ask um so we have some staff that are on that too and there's on a rotation and I did have somebody say, "You know what? I've done my two years. I really liked it, but we'll give

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somebody a chance or somebody else a chance." So, every year I send that out to staff in the fall. uh anybody interested, those that were on it, if you want to stay on it, you want to get off if you've done your two years. Um some stayed and uh some new so just like Troy said to we got to do that. We got

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to get ners to replace us. All right. Any other questions? All right, we'll go to personnel. This is going to be poor report compared to Troy's. But um we we talked a little bit about staffing. Um some of the positions

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that were open and some of the ways in which we back mostly um a lot of employees that have reertified but >> oh yeah they were out of out of field out of field tier one or two. a lot of

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those folks hired back and so glad to see that. talked about one potential issue that we had um discipline issue um talked about the SRO contract and at

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that time of course we just um received the proposal so talked about where that could go and then also superintendent contract will be at the end of next year. So, it's something just put on our

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radar to start thinking forward. That's what I have. Anybody got any questions? Did I miss anything? >> Any questions? All right. Go to LAC.

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>> And that was even shorter. Yeah. Go ahead. We didn't meet because of a big chunk of four members that were meet. So, with that. So, but a complete report. >> Yeah. >> Didn't miss anything.

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>> All right. And then um embrace some teachers here. Uh one thing's uh positive behavior initiative in the elementary. Uh one of the things that they're doing is giving out uh tickets for good behavior. Um students are demonstrating Rebel Way and one of the interesting things or incentive that

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they were doing is a special lunch table. So they decorate a lunch table here in the elementary and kids will get to go sit at easy deal to do that to kind of help promote uh video behavior in students. Uh they did talk that it sounds like the middle school was going

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to start doing something like that that PD had started looking at that or potentially doing something there. Um the staff was very grateful for when we had teacher appreciation week and and what the what was offered for him from the PTA uh and others and throughout the

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building leadership of what we offered. Um they did talk about how they were thankful for the the snow days and being made up. Uh thought that was really good. We looked at some of the key events coming up here. Everything's passed now. So go through that. uh

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talked about middle the middle school that Katie has been over at the middle school since about the middle of April kind of figuring out what's going on there. Uh looked at high school we did talk about uh and I might get this wrong so please bear with me but we talked about

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the OLAP program that went to the letters program that's now the new house new house model. So uh just what that what was involved there and how that for each person that had been through it. You know, one thing that they did ask uh some of the general things as we

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talked about the count the calendar for this year that there was a little confusion on uh graduation day here last Friday of it being a half day for students and a full day for teachers. So maybe as we look at calendars for next year just to make sure that we're 100%

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clear on that. Um yeah, talk about enrollment uh for for kindergarten classes for this next year. At the time you're at 112 112 students. Um, just so >> I agree.

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Any questions for Troy Army? All right, we'll go on to 6.3. This is the superintendent. >> Yeah, first one on the um for my report is the enrollment. So, this year's current enrollment as of today is 1526.

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Uh, so we've been pretty stable up or down a little bit here or there, but 1526 is is a good number. Next year projection right now as we move everybody forward, this is why you see in your um board packet that we're adding a kindergarten teacher back for

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next year. uh because our number is at 114 or 115 is kind of going back and forth and we still well we have the summer we usually get well I'm not going to make a prediction because I've made predictions before and then it doesn't come true but we typically gain you know

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somewhere in that 10 to 20 more so if that happens we have to look at again uh adding the personnel is important because that gets us that just under 20 right now we're at 22 if we did hire so hopefully that goes through tonight and we'll have that position. So 1522 is

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what we're projecting for next year as of today. Obviously we know this summer and a lot of ins and outs can happen but in general we usually gain a little bit so that's good. So wanted to give that information first uh graduation recap.

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So no perfect it's awesome. So uh one thing that I think um Troy you said 121 that's Joe had the actual number ended up being 118. So, we were close. Um, but um yeah, but like Joe said too in that meeting is that some of them if they

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don't make it, they can still have a summer opportunity to if they make up those credits that they lost, then we still graduate. So, uh, next thing I have on the list is fuel escalator. Um, we cut them out this last year. Um, and our fuel escalator, we still spent

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$11,000 more than last year. Obviously, fuel prices are up right now. So that's just a up-to-date impact. Uh about $11,000 higher than last year even after cutting the route. So anyway, overall though, our contract

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payment is about a wash to last year, just a little bit above um of what last year was for that contract. Uh we know that the weight bus that was up almost six or 7,000 when we go just short just over $6,000 more but that's the one that

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we've talked about cutting. So hopefully we can gain some money on that next year. So questions well that if you have questions on that we can get summer work session. Um, we talked a little bit about this, didn't really pin it down.

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Today, Brook and I are hoping that June 15th is the day of a board meeting. That that can work. I guess the reason and if it doesn't, it doesn't. We'll figure it out. But, uh, I'm meeting with the full admin team on the 11th. Um, they know

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they have to get all their priorities up to date, give me the summary by the 11th. So, we're going to go through all of that. So, are your teacher plans up today? Did we take a step off? Are we adding? How do your priorities go? So, then when I meet with you on the work session, the admin can meet with us that

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morning as a full board and you guys can ask them questions about the priorities of whatever department. And then in the afternoon be my evaluation and other district things. That's referendum. So, if the 15th doesn't work, we're just hoping because that was a board day and

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I know that's not too far away. If that's an issue for this group, let's I would like it to be the 15th or later though, only because it gives the admin team time to get through all their stuff. Just let us know. Brooke can send something out to see and people we can

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figure out for everybody. So, that's something that we we're hoping for. The one thing that we talked about there is if we do the work session in the community room and then have the board meeting in that community

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room, we're going to have JL volleyball running all over the place over there. So, we thought it might be best to come back here for the board meeting just because we won't have JL people running all over us. But I said, let's just ask you guys to we can stay there. We can.

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Maybe we can move to a different room over there since we're already over there. Or maybe we want to take a break, run home, change, whatever, and then come back for a board meeting if the 15th works. Okay. Anyway, so things to think about there. Questions?

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The only thought I have is that if we have the work session and there's volleyball or whatever um to keep the um board meeting at the Glendon site because it would give accessibility to parents who are dropping their kids off given that age group is typically not

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drivers since we don't have J volleyball in high school. So >> um >> yeah, we could find another location there for sure or stay there. >> Be quiet. We just have to like stay focused. >> Yeah, true. We can turn the table that way. >> Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Any other

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questions, comments? >> All right, we will get on seven. This is to approve the regular meeting minutes of May 11, 206. Do I have a motion? >> Motion by Troy. Do I have a second? >> I'll second.

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>> Second by Angela. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Item number eight, this is the consent agenda. Approve the bill for May 2026 in the amount of >> $400,7596.

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Approve and file for a treasur monthly budget report. Approve the resignation of Diane Guthrie for care professional effective the end of the 2025 2026 school year. Approve the resignation of B crop par professional effective May 22nd 2026.

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Approve the resignation of Dan Boyd, special education teacher effective the end of the 2025 2026 school year. Approve the resignation of Eileen Mun, transportation director effective June 30th, 2026. Approve the resignation of Melanie Christopherson, teacher

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effective the end of 2025 2026 school year. and approve the resignation of Alexandra Webker's egg FFA teacher effect at the end of 2025. Do I have a motion? >> Motion by Nicole. I have a second.

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>> Second. >> Any questions or special? >> You mentioned it earlier just to thank you for a lot of these people that have been with the district for a long time. So just a thank you to them for their service. All I had to >> What's that? That's all I had to do. You

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always Any other questions or discussion? >> I actually So, what does that look like? >> Yep. We have our middle school person can move up to it. So, we're going to

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post the position, but he also has experience with the MFA and he was we were already starting to talk about are we adding a junior high FFA and he would be interested in that because he has the A degree as well. Now, so we have to post this position first and then

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hopefully can find somebody else that doesn't mean he's shifting from his middle school high school position as far as teaching goes, but he can be the adviser for the MFA. We know that and it's just going to be depend on what we find for applicants and what that looks like. Yeah. Any other questions or

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discussion hearing? None. All those in favor say I. I post. Motion carries. On to 9.1. This is to approve the resolution regarding the land swap with more heads

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and Um resolution is um well essentially to approve the land swap. The board would formally accept the transfer of parks from Morhead in school district 152

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as detailed in 2026 implementation timeline. implementation. The board directs administration to share these official minutes and resolutions with Klay County with Klay County in June 2026 to ensure boundary adjustments are effective July 1st, 2026.

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And the board reaffirms it dedication to unifying district boundaries to strengthen the communities. Um, do I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Motion by Nicole. I have a second. second. Any questions or discussion?

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>> I have a question. Um, was there a final decision on the monetary exchange that was going to take place as a result of this? That's not really listed in the resolution. Is there a monetary exchange? >> We have discussed the 26,000. So, what they're going to be looking back is 262.

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Anyway, is that that Yep. One time payment when that is basically what their piece is going to be. you did share remember my presentation. >> No, I know I said it's not in the resolution. Does it need to be listed in the resolution or is it just like >> um it's well with this and you guys can

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correct me. This is to to accept the plan. The plan does have that showing in there. So >> I would say that it's here. So when you guys got that plan for me and you shared it here, I had that. So, okay.

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>> And this is essentially completing the plan that was in place >> from 2015 or 16 when it was originally set up. >> Yeah. >> Schedule essentially. And >> well, it's actually they weren't thinking it would already be done, but

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just because of resident um property values going up so much, it kind of tweaked the whole plan and that's why we got together to make sure can we get it done. So, Mora is going through the same thing tonight. Uh Brandon is going to send me a text tonight. We are going to meet tomorrow. We think we'll go to the

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county hopefully two months long and we'll take it and share with the state realign boundaries. Well, assuming that that passes more grateful for our district thanks

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in Morhead for working with us and wishing as well spearhead any other questions or hearing none, we'll go to roll call Laura. Nicole, >> hi Troy.

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>> Hi David. Hi. >> Hi Angela. >> Hi. >> Resolution passes. >> All right. Um uh 9.2. This is uh to approve the 2026 2027 Minnesota State

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High School legal res resolution for membership. Um, and I don't know if we I don't think anybody really wants to resolution because it's long, but we do this every year and it's a resolution that we have to do in order to be a part of state high school. Do I have a

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motion? >> Motion by second by any question. >> Troy, did you get the email from Okay, perfect. I just

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Maybe I didn't see it. It's a bit of chip. Okay. Any other questions or discussion? We'll go by roll call. Laura Nicole. >> Hi. >> Troy. >> Hi. >> David. Hi. >> Hi. >> Angela. >> Hi.

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>> On 9.3. This is approved the certified contract for Kim McPicker high school science teacher VA plus 30 step 16 effect at the start of 2026 207 have a motion motion by a second

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by any questions or discussion hearing none all those in favor say I motion 9.4 Accord the non-certified contract for Hannah Kzinski care professional

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class 2 step five effective May 13 2026 I have a second by any questions or discussion hearing none all those in favor say I >> I motion carries 9.5 this is approved

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non-certified contract for McKenna I pair professional class to step one effective start of 2026 2027 by a second any questions or discussion hearing none all those in favor say I

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>> I motion carries 9.6 6. This is to prove the SRO agreement for deputy val Kellen for the 2026 2027 school year for 1340 total hours and a total of $82,38.

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I have a motion motion by I have a second. Any questions or discussions? I'm struggling with this as I understand the position that we're in today as a uh

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school. You know, we look at our bud our budget. Uh this the final budget was put together and we're at a $400,000 loss currently with there's some potential upside in it. But even with the upside, we still are going to end up operating

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the loss. uh to have and looking at her contract now of going from 40 to to 39 hours is minimal. It doesn't really mean is that anybody even going to notice. I don't think I could sit here today and say that I want to have a deputy school

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in US. So I I struggle that for the $1,800 that we're going to save that it's worth. I know Shannon shared some information that uh that Joel was good with it. They think it'd be fine. We have Glenn, we

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have Glendon to help cover us. We have other other people, but in my head, I can't I can't sit here today and say I don't agree with any other questions or discussion. >> I second that. as a former and um

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somebody who knows how much time she spends in our school beyond her typical 40 hours. I think it's um what's the right word? Um I disagree with the with the option of that and I've shared that uh sentiment and I I

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just have a hard time thinking that we're going to to give religion in that way. Any other questions or discussion? >> Just just so the public knows this was just solely a percentage change

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um that I felt if our teachers are going to get 3% our admin is going to get 3%. Our non-certified are going to get 3% our SRO should get 3%. That was my whole stance. And so since she'll be consistent with that, it did affect the

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hours in the flesh, one hour a week. So yeah, that's what this is. And I Troy and Nicole both share. I appreciate it because that's important. That's >> transparency in the in the eyes of the public. We as a school board do not

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affect her contract. We don't get to choose what she gets paid. we don't get to choose um how much she was under prior or what the county decided to provide her for compensation. Um, and so we don't get to determine that, but what

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we do get to determine as a school board is how much time and effort she's able to dedicate during her work week uh to provide to our students and the safety and security of our schools and to um take that into a pending account and and

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uh I just find that unfathomable my >> I guess I I don't have a problem with contract and I think it's similar to any similar to the transportation contract where it comes in it's higher than what we expected. We didn't want to negotiate

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down. I think the county came back with pretty reasonable solution. Went one hour last week which I think is you know over the course of the week. I don't think that's um that terribly significant. Uh and it's

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likely she's gone times anyway or an hour of time. um you know we're not going to ever get complete coverage. So I'm >> What happens next year then though if she gets a raise higher than the teachers or the year after that? Are we just going to if since we've set a

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precedence then of capping that? Are we going to work our way down to 30 hours a week if for whatever reason she gets paid more um because she hits the next step county or she hits you know that the county has determined that we need

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to look at another um pay comp study and we just keep working our way down and we say well we've capped her at this this position at this percent and now all of a sudden we worked our way down. That's my concern. one hour a week. Um, can

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Glendon PD or Dworth PD potentially cover it? Do we have coverage as a as a sheriff's office? They provide um before and after school coverage as needed um or as available, excuse me. If any deputy is available, they cover a school all around our county. That is um a

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mission of the of the sheriff's office. However, what does that look like in year two, three, four? I'm not looking at just next year. That is one piece of the puzzle. When I look at it, I'm looking at whole term. I know what it looked like when I was in uh in SRO in in a

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different school in a much smaller school district. Um and they reduced my hours. Then I was trying to get all my things done in a shorter period of time and I wasn't able to serve those students the way that they needed to be served because I had to do the required work. I didn't get to do the pieces

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where I got to connect with the kids because I didn't have the time to do that. And that's my concern is the the true role of an SRO is to build the bridge and it's a trifecta. It's teaching, its enforcement and its

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connection um with the kids, with community, with the parents, with the teachers. And then when you have that connection later, if you get into a car accident, you are a victim of a crime or you're even a suspect of a crime, you've built that relationship with law enforcement. And we're cheapening that

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$1,800 in our big budget, right? And I get that we have a budget crunch, but we're cheapening that rule by saying it's not worth that. So, >> I'm going to just say three things, not to counter anything. I was worried about the same thing. I've already been in

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contact with Steve Larson, the county uh director or the county >> administrator. >> Thank you, administrator. Talking to him about the county levying our SRO's in the county because he can levy for it. I can't. He doesn't know if he can. He's going to look into it. So, I would like her to get everything. I'd like her to

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be here all the time. But the the state of Minnesota gives us $62,000 for safe school dollars and it's $20,000 short. It's the same thing again. The state gives us the money, it's not enough. And so that's why we played with it a little bit to that. And the last thing I need

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to say, which is very important, Val has done a fantastic job. So, this is nothing on Val. I met with Val. I sat with Val about this discussion because she has been outstanding. We'll see it tomorrow on our day of graduation. This is nothing unbalanced. So, I just want to make sure we get that too. She's been

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fantastic. >> And to be fair, when Shannon and I have talked about that, that has never been a question. It wasn't due to the lack of job that 10 has done. It's not nothing to do with her or her performance. And so, yes, you have never once said disparaging remark about the program

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itself. I don't want that to be >> No. And you for sure. She's appreciated. Any other questions or discussion hearing? None. All those in favor say I. >> I

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motion passes. All right. We'll go on to 9.7. This is to approve the certified contract for Liza Woodlook Elementary teacher BA plus 20 step 16 effective to start the 2026 2027. Do I have a motion?

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>> Motion by Troy. Do I have a second? >> Second. Any questions or discussion? This is a kindergarten position we question hearing. None. All those in favor say I. I. Oppos. Motion carries on 9.8. This is

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to approve the contract for Jason Warden transportation building and grounds director effective May 206. Do I have a motion? >> Motion. Do I have a second? Second. Any questions or discussion?

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I just want to say for this one um this position was changed as a result of other conversations happening on another position that was identified and I think we've heard about it today. I think us voting on this decision on this decision

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today essentially cements the decision that was communicated previously without going through props. So I think as a board unless we know what's going to happen to federal a position who's going to be there and if they can fulfill the duties that we are asking for in both of those roles I

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don't think I can this position exists today because the this position was rewritten because of previous decisions. >> I would second Angela's sentiment. I think that should be tabled until we determine what truly is happening with

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that other position and what's uh what that path looks like for the future. >> And I think it is incredibly important with that other position we actually follow the process, open the role, interview everybody that applies for the role and hire the best person for the

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district, not who's the easiest. And that is no dig on the previous conversations that happened. There's a process for a reason and our district deserves the best person. Any other questions or discussion? Are you making a motion to take?

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>> I will make a motion to take the motion. Do we have a second? Second. Second. Any questions or discussion on the motion to take? We'll deal with the motion to take before we deal with the other motion. Um

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all those in favor to table the motion until uh next meeting say I >> I motion carries table that I think the rest of the motion move at that point we don't have

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so that motion is tabled until uh it's time all right 10.1 this is um next board meeting is Monday June 15 2026 6 at 6 p.m. at the DGF Elementary Media Center. Uh following that will be the

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policies committee meeting in the same location. On the number 11, this is uh to motion to adjourn the regular meeting of the DL fellow school board. Motion by a second.

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>> Second by any questions or discussion hearing? None. All those in favor say I. 9. Motion carried.