with the board agenda. Can you try to get him in case the noise? Might want to call him because last time I text him, he was sticking in there. I might go. Oh, there he is.
Mike is right here. Did you? Yeah, we're down here. Pulled him off the lake, didn't we? This is This is Call the meeting to order. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. I will read our district mission
statement. Like do that. In partnership with the communities, the mission of the Dworth Lynon Felton School District is to educate individuals in an environment of trust and respect so become self-directed, responsible, lifelong learners.
We have uh just Laura and there um so the agenda we have just one item oh yes one item to add to the agenda under um report 6.1 we'll add C um community ed advice
advisory. And with that change, do I have a motion to adopt the agenda? Motion by Nicole. Do I have a second? A second. Second by Angela. Um, any questions or discussion?
Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. All right. Uh, public comments and re recognition. Do we have any public comments today? Signed up. Um we'll go on to re recognition. Yeah, there we go. Uh we
did we just found out um April 30th. So that was what last Wednesday? No, Wednesday before. Anyway, um we did uh qualify and did we were awarded the Pathways 2 award for 2627. That's part
of our U preschool early childhood. And so we will be receiving 28,689.14 for FY26 and 28,68914 again for FY23 for a total of
57 a little over 57,000. So So yeah, so that was good. We have qualified for that in the past. So, we tried again and we got it again, which was great. Um, this is that uh I did find out this afternoon and I
apologize. Um, I did look on my phone, but Britney informed me at about 1:30 today that we did get another grant um, elementary grant. It is from the and
I apologize if I pronounce them correct or incorrectly, Nimi Family Foundation. Um, congratulations DGF Elementary. I'm pleased to announce that you will be receiving a $5,000 grant for your literacy hub.
So, that we just found this afternoon. It's great. Yeah. Shannon, I don't know if you saw your email, Scottson. They got a grant for a shop saver. I don't know. Saw. Yep. For 25.
There you go. Awesome. So, I'm sure that was another email I got this afternoon. So, thank you. It's great work by everybody getting grants. Yeah. Um, any other recognition? Uh, the choir concert last week was absolutely
fabulous. I love when they do Hallelujah at the end with the lights all dim and the kids all over. Gives me goosebumps every time. Love it. Um and then um kudos to all the teachers dealing with the hot hot hot that had to be in the school today. Um that had to be
challenging for the kids which makes it extra challenging uh for the teachers in the home stretch. So appreciate all of that that goes into that and the teachers and support staff doing the field trips that are coming up. Our um fun in the Sunday we've got on Wednesday
um truck and field day coming up. all the things packed into the last few weeks. Uh just kudos to all our staff um at all parts of our building for managing the last few weeks here for sure. Awesome. We've got the band concert tonight and the band concert
next Monday as well and Thursday for the basketball and Thursday for it. Just a few things going on. Not to mention spring sports in full gear, too. So, and our graduation and our graduation. Oh dear. I think we have one
more one more meeting before DAR graduation. So should be the 27th. Dare graduation 28th. Yeah, good point. That's the last we get. Yeah, very good. I just double checked my calendar. Any other rebel recommendation? All right. Very good.
We'll go on to number six.1 board committee reports. The first is policies. I can take that. get in. We reviewed the list of policies that were up for review, made a couple very minor updates based on what came out of MSBA and then
just just a couple of minor ad language changes for clarification. But earlier than that, we saw the first pass and then we'll do the second pass next tonight. It's tonight approval.
Any questions uh for Angela or anybody on the policies committee? any comments? All right, we'll go on to uh 6.1B uh negotiations committee and we met on was it just Wednesday? Last
Wednesday. Last Wednesday. Um you know, we're we're still a little ways apart. Um, we're working on really kind of trying to all get on the same page and u I mean I think everyone's working in good faith and uh so we did send a
proposal today and we will meet about that uh sometime in the future. Dates are hard to find this time of year of course because everyone's crazy busy. So, we will be looking um next couple weeks, maybe next three weeks, probably
find some time to get to a meeting. So, um you know, I don't know if anybody got any questions on not sure where we're at. you know, the priorities for the um for the certified staff really is um
looking at health care um looking at a longevity bonus and then you know pay increases of course and sort of keeping some of the other benefits the same. So that's where we are in negotiations.
I was just going to add keeping other things the same. Okay. So that's all I got. All right. Angela no all right any questions or discussion all right we'll go on to 6.2
two or 6.1 C community yet report. Uh a couple couple things on that. Uh in the process, you know, they're starting to work and get all the summer wreck put together. The A-Rock system that uh was implemented here in in March has been a uh very good thing. Tracy's heard
nothing but positive uh parents and people signing up. Uh the ability to sign up and pay in the same site in the same platform is been very very well re well well received. uh they're in the process of hiring getting all the coaches hired for the co for the
programs. Uh for enrollment it's been very well received or up I mean some areas are up some areas are about level but overall the programs have been doing very well. Uh Rebel Rebel Kids Rebel Kids Care we have 137 uh kids signed up
for the summer already. Uh 97 signed up for this this next fall. So it's uh the program's growing uh this this summer or this the evening explorers that uh was introduced here in uh March I believe it was we we discussed it uh it hasn't
taken off as as much. So, if people know of uh haven't seen that or looked at that program, it'd be it's a great opportunity uh uh for kind of like a nighttime care for late evening sorry care for for children. But it hasn't taken off as much as they wanted it to,
but we're still it's only been open for a little over a month. So, any questions for Troy? All right. With that, we'll now go on to 6.2 superintendent report. Yeah, the IGR we did have a meeting
here last Thursday. No, Thursday before. Thursday before with the county commissioners and and area um uh intergovernmental retreat, correct? Yeah, that's the intergovernmental and that's called retreat. I don't know why you put IG because it's a committee. So,
it's an IGC maybe intergovernmental committee. The retreat is held every January in Morehead. Uh but we had school representatives from Morehead and the PGF. We talked about truency and the county is supporting truency and how our
uh our the support from the county has been better here. Now recently some changes at the county with personnel and who was in charge of that and we're assigning some different people and that's helped both more head and our
school. Uh Joe O'Keefe presented our information just some of the struggles with truency. It's hard to help kids when they're not here and trying to hold parents accountable um is one of the things we've talked about because until the parents are
invested and or have some consequence, it's hard to get a 5-year-old or a 10year-old or a 16y old to get really hyped up about school if they don't really want to go if the parents aren't on board. So, a lot of discussion there. Uh but again, felt like it's moving in a
better direction. So that was our topic uh this this last meeting. The other thing we talked about at the end was legislation and what the county is going to encounter or is concerned about what the cities are concerned about and then obviously schools and what we were
thinking. Um is thinking in the similar no decisions have been made obviously with us and no decisions with a public school either about whether or not they're going to go out and ask our public for some money. The county knows that based on the state of Minnesota and
the lack of funding for them, they are really feeling a lot of pressure to increase their taxes, which of course is going to trip off the cost and cities are feeling the same. So, that was a lengthy conversation. Um,
and we'll see what what happens here in the next couple weeks with them. Um, evacuation recap. So we did our full evacuation at both sites. Uh little things here, little things there to improve on. Overall it was uh done. So
this site, I was at this site and I had my own influence that good or bad um on on this site. But the one thing that was really nice to see is how everybody got out and got to their location and in a very efficient manner as far as loading
buses and that buses were there. All that worked. We had some communication with parents that could have been better. Um, communication with when buses could have been better. So, we did do a debrief afterwards and talked about those things. But again, if it was real,
we were able to get our people out to the right location. And that was our most important piece, right? And because if it was real, all the loading and unloading and parent pickup would all be different anyway because we would have different instructions at that time. Uh, same with the elementary. It went very
well. got over there, it got really smooth. When I when I talked to um Britney, she said she was really happy with the teachers and the support staff and all that. Again, same thing. Had a little bit of this with drop off pickup and parents, but in general, our number one
focus is to get them off site as quickly and efficiently as possible, and that happened. So, yeah, overall, real positive. Quick question on that. Is there inside space for kids to go if that happened in a blizzard here? Either
side. Yep. So over there, the elementary goes to the Lutheran church. So they're all inside all the time. Okay. Over here they would be if there was a blizzard or it was cold. We we told the bus contractor we would not go into their shop. So we didn't have kids saying, "Hey, what's WD40? Hey, what's cool?
There's a nice ranch." Uh so yes uh when they so this site we're going to go down to Pender's garage. We're going to go into the garage. We're going to load buses first to get them in a bus. Um just so they're in the building and have a you know a
certain area and then the rest of the space would just be filled with kids because we want to get them inside. There is a little shop right across the little alley that they also own that we could also put kids in there. So, I am not positive everybody will fit over there because we have a lot of kids
here, but we're hopeful that get everybody. So, great question. Well, we can move the buses out of that garage and get them moving towards the Dworth site um or another location uh in the interim which would open up that bay to allow for additional room for the
student. Correct. Yep. So, that was the other part. Once we get loaded and if not everybody could fit, we would have to have people step out so we can back the buses out. They could be running and heating obviously and then people can. So yeah, we feel pretty confident we can keep people safe and warm if it was
nasty weather. So yeah, so I'll I'll do a shout out to Val um Val Kellen, our SRO. She did a lot of work on this. Chase Johansson also worked with her, obviously our principles and staff and just talking through. But um yeah, it it
overall I feel much better knowing that we at least walked through it and so if we ever had to use it. Yeah. Uh next thing is FY26 staffing. Um we've had some changes. Uh we just hired an ELLL teacher full-time. Um we've accepted some resignations. We've filled some of
those positions. So, we do have a as of late last week, we have hired a new fied um teacher. So, that's good for the middle school language arts. I think we approved that one before if I remember right for middle school here. Um yeah, we're still looking for an
interventionist uh at the middle school. We're one short, so we'll continue to work on that. Um yeah, so for the most part, we're in a good place. Yeah. Questions? I just have kind of a comment on the the truency issue. I as a former SRO that
was probably my biggest headache. Uh the problem with the county is that they um require so many um situational pieces to come into play and early intervention is key uh because it takes a solid three months to really get anything going. So if we don't
identify a child as truent until November, there's no action being taken or at least started being taken till like February. Um so that is where one of the challenges poses. Um and Quinn and I worked very closely from social services and he now took um the lead
position at social services and um that's been a positive. that has been a u yeah and Rhonda was terrific before that and and did a lot of great things and she had her niche um but Quinn kind of ran the truency or tried to uh from the line side. So that is one of his
passions. So we have seen an uptick in kiddos coming into port. Um they always have them after the three o'clock hour because they don't want to miss school, right? They're truent. So that's part of the problem. Um, so we've had an increase in juvenile hearings um over the last couple um months trying to
shore up some of these issues because the slate starts fresh again come June 1st. So, and there there's just such a high volume unfortunately. Yes. In Klay County and so I appreciate and I understand there's a lot on the county
and the steps and all that. um they just uh you know it's like anything even if it's not happening it feels like it's happening and that's I guess for any other you know that's what our staff feels like as far as I think we've been doing a better job of getting the numbers into because we have to have our
steps taken care of right like we have to notify parent the students absent we have to notify the parents they have a three-day absence and a seven-day absence and and checking all these boxes and our staff is doing a great job of checking the boxes so it can be pushed forward to social services because they're ultimately the ones that that
file the grievance with the court. Um Val can't do that for on our behalf which is unfortunate because then we would know that that would be done much faster quicker. We just write the ticket and it goes right to the court system but unfortunately it doesn't work like that in the truency world. Y how many
how many students do we have that are true? I don't have the number on too many. Oh, it would be an alarming number for anybody who doesn't see it regularly. I would say that in the elementary and I can only so bear with my memories there. Uh the elementary I
saw the stack of letters uh on Wayne's desk um last year and I want to say there was over 90 letters because remember it's commu it's cumulative. So if you have it it stacks up and it's like three hours or three periods of the
same class like like especially in the high school or middle school when you're missing the same class multiple times. You can become truent by missing math class because you're skipping that one class. Um it there's different qualifications but when you break it down um people can be truent in
physically in our building but just not in in classroom. they're giving a class elementary it's more that they're just not there and that becomes that's not necessarily truency that's educational neglect they're not old enough to get themselves to school that's kind of what we were talking about that day too you
know that educational neglect I think I want to say it's age 13 or 14 I know officially but is it 12 okay because we talked about that there too and there was some discussion on when that happens because we're talking about having parents being held accountable and when that changes to the
student and it's actually quite I forget I I won't quote the the year because it's been a while since I've had to deal with it, but I thought there's no way my child at that age would get themselves up and get ready for school. Um but it it the accountability changes to the child much sooner than one would expect
considering the developmental um capabilities of that child at that time. Yeah, good information. Yeah. So, any other questions for Sha? I have a question. How is the construction going? Solar panels on the schools. Is that
what's going on? Yes. I'm sorry. I was going to add that to my list. Yep. Solar panels are going up. They were delivered. All the pieces and parts were delivered a week ago, week and a half ago, and now they're starting to construct the layout of it. So, that is now just so the public knows. Yes, we're
getting solar panels on the drill work building, but the Glinton building did not qualify due to electrical uses and our farm our solar panels out in the fields by Felton or on the way to Felton. So, this one didn't qualify for it because we're already getting access to those. Um, and it's not it's not
um it's not attached to the roof. It's just weights holding it all. This is a system they put all over the state. Morehead has done it. We checked with them first. They said it's been nothing but positive. And so, yes, they are installing them. Uh they're in the process. So, we were up there today
making sure nothing was blown away. Uh and they actually kind of halted their work for a while just because of the land. It was just that couldn't function up there. Um but yeah, so that's what's happening. And that is all part of a grant. 100% covered. Nothing out of our
continuing maintenance as well. Uh they take care of everything. Yep. So, yeah, we just have to call them when something's not working. What's going to do is we can't go off the grid and just run off the solar panels. What it does, it just it lessens our load and so it's not like it's stockpiled in the corner
for, you know, we were hoping it was going to be a little bit more of that. Really, what it's doing is we're going to take power from that so it's not always coming off the grid. So, we're going to have a savings for sure because it's going to offset that. Um, and we'll learn more as we go. They have a whole grid sheet on remember if they presented
I think they presented you guys. Yeah. Yeah, they presented here a year agoish maybe. Yeah. So, yeah. Yep. So, no, thanks for asking. I'm sorry. I was gonna bring that up today. Any other questions for Shannon? All right. We'll move on to
number seven 7.1. This is to approve the regular meeting minutes on April 20th, 2025. So, I have a motion. So, motion by Angela. Do I have a second? Second by Troy. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I.
I. I. Oppos. Motion carries. On to number eight. This is the consent agenda. Um, approve the bills for May of 2025 in the amount of 201,24.78. All right. Then your treasur's monthly budget report is part of the
packet. And that's all we've got for the consent. And do I have a motion? Motion by Nicole. Do I have a second? Second. Second by story. Any questions or discussion? If you look sorry, excuse me. If you look at our overall budget,
we're 0.05%. So we're a half a percent over this month right now. And that's kind of where we're trending. Some of our budgets are good. Others are just over and maintenance. The one that's a little bit most of that. Okay. Any any questions or
discussion hearing? None. All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. On to nine. This is new and unfinished business. 9.1 policies. This is to approve the second reading of following policies. 413
harassment and violence. 425 staff development and mentoring. 512 school sponsored student publication and activities. 516 Student Medication 603 Curriculum Development 604 Instructure Instructional Curriculum 605 Alternative
Education Services 606 Textbooks and Instructional Materials 606.5 Library Materials 607 Organization of Grade Levels 608 Instructional Services Special Education 609 Religion 610 Field
Trips 611 Homeschooling and 704 for development and maintenance of an inventory of fixed assets and a fixed asset accounting system. Do I have a motion? Motion by Troy. A second. I'll second. Second by answer. Any questions
or discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Motion carries on 9.2. This is to approve the tenative list of class of 2025 DGF
graduates. And uh the list is in your packet. It say graduate is in there. Mine is in there. Do I have a motion? Motion by Nicole. Do I have a second? I'll second. Second by. Any questions or
discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I I opposed. Motion carries. 10.1. The next board meeting is Tuesday, May 27th, 2025 at 6 p.m. The DGF community room by Jim and um the
blended site 10.2. The personnel committee will meet um following the schoolboard meeting on May 22nd 27th, 2025. Uh on to number 11. This is to adjourn the regular meeting of the DGF
school board. Do I have a motion? Motion by Nicole. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Troy. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. Meeting is last.