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All right, we've got school board and John. All right. We've got uh first thing is the agenda. We got the agenda. Do I have a motion? Do I have a second?
Any questions or discussion? Do you want to add that? I thought the next step. Sorry. Yeah. U resolution for spouses um activity passes to be. So you have a motion to add something to
the agenda to amend or to vote on whether or not to add spouses. Correct. Cass for activity needs. We'll need a motion or we'll need a we'll need a second on that. I have a second. Second by
so we're just voting on that right now. Any questions or discussion on adding that to the agenda? I have a question. I'm unclear on are we just voting to add it or to talk to add it to the agenda to discuss it?
Just adding it to the Any other questions or discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I I opposed. Motion carries and we're back to the motion to adopt the agenda
as amended. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. Oppos. Motion carries agenda as amended. On number five, public comments and rebel recognition. I don't think we have anybody for public comments, but
rebel recognition. Um just uh welcome back all staff this morning. We had a Um great turnout this morning and um all non-certified certified staff were there and so yeah just want to welcome everybody back and getting ready. We
have open houses this week so tomorrow in the elementary and middle school high school on Wednesday night. So yeah, staff is back. They're excited. Everybody I talked to said, "Yep, we're ready." Yeah. Good to see everybody this morning get the pictures taken and uh looks like
everyone's going to have fun. So there you go. So, shout out to Cfields. They did a really good job this morning. It was really organized and we got everybody through in a nice efficient manner. Uh, one other thing I should say, and I did mention it um during our our get together with all of our staff
today, though, is just kudos to our custodial maintenance staff. Chase has got a report tonight, too. But just the building and just trying to get everything ready for school. I just really appreciate it from him and his team. So, there you go. Any other recommendations?
All right, we'll move on to number six, 6.1, the technology report. I just have three items for discussion tonight. Uh, everyone should have a hard copy on it. First one is continue the AI integration. Uh, a lot of little bullet points, some things we talked about
during summer retreat, but a lot of this is what we did last year. We got a lot of different department school office trainings on the different tools from chat GPT to magic school to uh the brisk chrome extension different tools used in
different areas. But my hope is with AI let's continue this. This isn't a one one and done. We've done the training check check the box. It's going to be ongoing discussion of what tools are out there, what works best for the classroom, for you know some of our backend uh processes in our office areas
and different departments. Uh but it's it's going to be ongoing discussion, ongoing training and ongoing evaluation. Some of these tools are ready for production environments, some aren't. It's we're we're learning each day and uh it changes quickly. So got to stay
current with that. Second item I had was grants and external funds. Um, we have processed -ate telecom equity funds. That means that's been submitted. That's 20 grands in our school bank account. We
got a 10K grant that bought some tablets for some kindergarten students. And I have applied for two other grants. One is a with the Department of Justice, a school violence prevention program that if awarded would essentially get new CB
radios all at the Dill site and give some extra ones at the Glendon site and increase some features with emergency response teams, especially for our emergency drills working on a few things to say, all right, when we have these events, what's the best
way to make this so everyone can go to a specific channel and keep something and then I also submit a a MDE security grant and this is through Minnesota Department of Education and it's geared towards cyber security. So
what we pay in cyber security insurance any tech related tool with digital security qualifies we also put in a facility security so door locks all let's put that in. So we put in about 55 grand worth requests on that we'll see
what those two prod I guess a little more in the fall, but that's kind of a few things we're working on with with grants utilizing external funds. Um, the last item I had, appreciate Ryan, appreciate Brian. We had about 36 different projects from last winter,
spring, the summer. We hit it day one on summer when staff and students are gone. We are in the classroom. We're tearing stuff up and it's we got maybe after tomorrow 34 out of the 36 done. a good place for the start of school year. Uh the more
probably public or probably more recognized project will be utilizing more clever features. That's going to allow classroom teachers to reset passwords to their student accounts just in their classroom. It'll also allow
students 5 through 12 to reset their own password. The reality is a DGF student or employee has multiple accounts. You got a Microsoft account, you got a Google account, you got lots of other platforms, but Clever when it resets it, it'll reset that in those two main
leading platforms, which will trickle into the schooly, the Google classrooms to keep it as simple as possible. So, and it helps with our account administration. So, Brook has had a lot of power synergy, but even has more.
When we have a new account or a new person that sets up, they're in synergy. That information is going to get replicated to Microsoft, to Google, and it's within six hours. And it creates the email. It creates the the site for you. It creates the email group
distribution. And if something gets missed, which can happen, we've had our office staff say, "Yep, you just need to place these X's in here if somebody wants to be in a different email group." We don't need to have as many people in let's say the Google admin the Microsoft
admin all all done within clip. That is a fast and furious overview of what's going on, but I thought I would open it up for any questions if there only I should have said earlier and not to just Chase his department, but to John to um just the tech and the summer
is the time to get through these projects quick before everybody comes back. But then also being ready for them now when they come back to deploy all these devices and the track and just there's just a lot to it. So you branch and my just kudos to what you guys do and staff really appreciate you. It's
like help desk tickets go right to these two guys. If it's a maintenance thing or it's a tech thing that's usually get them. So thank you. Really appreciate that. Just a quick question. I don't remember the Chromebooks in elementary was it decided that they were going to be
sharing or No, not not yet. Okay. Not yet. It's still a discussion. this thing one of the things we said this year now because it was later in the year we thought no I got to do that right now because we didn't give staff any time for input in that so it's something we said we definitely need to
visit about this year and talk about what does that look like moving forward so John you correct me if I'm wrong that was our discussion that's that's fine it's business usual you know this year uh we have like we do in other years we repurpose devices in
different areas so as seniors come we expectation this needs to be a working device. We'll repurpose them with spares. We repurpose them in elementary, you know, sites on it. Moving forward, we're going to have like new devices for sure like at the fifth
and nth grade level. So when they're done at a senior, we got a four-year refresh. It's just cleaner. At elementary level, we met with the first grade team and said, "Yep, we got devices and their Chromebooks, but we'll get tablets for the kindergarten and
through the traditional phone, but we're going to have more discussion. All right, how often is that utilize what areas we can point? We have had a lot of discussion in the spring about it. Just didn't feel like it was probably the right time just
because we hadn't asked and spent enough time with staff to say, you know, oh, David and I share, Laura and Nicole share, you know, Troy and Angel, you know, whatever. We just But it's something we definitely said we got to for sure look at for the elementary.
I have a good question. Um so under the AI integration J it says that chat GPT has been used for sensitive emails um evaluations. Is that the public version of chat GPT? And is there any concern that that
public? Uh we have both. Yeah. So our principles they most people utilize the free version of chat GPT and some of that is is available on it. We do have a paid
for version with myself Ryan and we built some stuff HR related to try to streamline some of the forms that is not public that's that stays in house. So it really kind of depends who's using it to what tools. So the sensitive when we say the the sensitive information that's
using the version no not necessarily uh sensitive that example is if you needed to have a sensitive in nature so like part of the training with the principles I went through you need to draft up a sensitive email we're intentional don't use employee names don't use student names
but you need to use a tool to maybe brainstorm myself included be a little more sensitive on this it's it's it's words smith us in a way but in the Hey, this is an sensitive email that needs to be drafted, but don't include employee
names. Don't include students. So, that's a good question. Thanks, John. A plus for brevity. And second one, just want to thank you for just your constant focus on grants and external funds. I mean, that is really
important to the district. Um, you've been doing it for many years and just want to say thanks. Big deal. All right. Building ground report. So, I'm just going to go over a brief
overview of some of the my departments. Uh custodial. We're sitting good in Dworth. Uh we're fully staffed. We need We've been short all summer. Uh in clinic, we've been short, too. But I've been using parttime work
to fill that in. But hiring. Uh I offered one and they accepted. They should be starting September 2nd. I think on your approval and then I did offer another job to a second. Just
waiting back here. Uh summer cleaning rooms are complete at both sites and teachers are moving in. Everything has been waxed, ready to go, and we're going through our areas and making sure we're getting some of the smaller ticket items just so it's ready for this clear. Uh, we just had a
meeting, so I went over sections and what I my expectations, I guess, for the school year so everybody's all on the same page. Uh, equipment and supplies. We're good on supplies, and we're only getting what
we need and what we use. In the past, we used to have a lot of inventory and so we've gone through that kind of narrow it down to what we have and what we need. Um trying out different vacuums, find a
cheaper and easier to work on vacuum. The ones we have right now are kind of low and hard to work on and parts are expensive. So, I'm trying to go a cheaper route. uh something that we can work on,
something that just works better for us. We also have like rubber floors in our locker room, in our weight room that the vacuums, it's hard to clean, so I'm looking for something that works for those. Then the rest of the equipment is
working pretty good other than our normal maintenance. Still got the two employees, one for each site. They're doing good. Science room has been put back together and we'll keep an eye on the pipes. So
hopefully won't have issues. Fork flooring is done and it looks great. I'm reminding teachers and staff and students that take care of it. It's brand new. Please don't hurt
uh looking for or looking into the drainage fixes over here in this corner. And then we also have one by the shop. You guys can probably hear about that later. And then our boilers. We're going through them, getting them ready for the winter. Uh just want to go through them
before the cold snap. That way we're not hurting. And then an update on the pumps. Uh I think I talked to you guys before and said that we had three pumps that were down with climate control and they had been called for one of the pumps failing. So
they were taking actions to replace it. Uh and then I had all the HVAC units service. So they were cleaned out, filters changed, run through, and that was to also get a list of some of the
issues we have that prioritize. And then I also have a to-do list on the strategic plan. If you guys ever curious some of the things I'm looking at or working on, invite you to go look at it. Tells you in progress, what I've done on
it, it's completed. So, and then we have the grounds. I might be looking into something different. Maybe hiring a full-time position. It's brainstorming right now or
having someone on eight hours a day and during the winter for snow removal. Someone that can just be here for eight hours and help out inside with cleaning. So maybe custodial slash grounds
still like I said then I plan on taking them when I in a time to get service that way next year they're ready to go and don't have any issues. Sure. Any questions?
Would your grounds person um be mostly at the Glendon site or would they would go back and forth? So they go they split the day um I utilize inside too for like fence or if we're a
custodian gone so we're not so short. And during the winter, I figure it help with snow removal just scraping at least doorways 6 feet out so we can
bucket out a little better and then they can keep up throughout the day. The science room. Now it's all put back together. Nice. It looks exactly how it looked when we tore it apart.
It looks good and we were pretty picky with we want it done at this time this day and they came back clean everything up. Special question. Thanks for all right 6.3 board committee reports
facilities transportation committee facilities transportation you want to take this one Troy okay um we did meet we did meet and we sent everyone notes so hopefully you guys got those.
Maybe we can just ask if they have any questions. Yeah. Do you guys have any questions on the notes? Oh my gosh. I can't pull it up on my phone. I should be and I don't have my physical. Well, we talked about the summer work that Chase just addressed. I know we
talked, you know, how that was going. You talked about the gym floor and the science. Yeah. And I think we talked about the flooring. Um Chase's team is working. They've replaced so in the hallway that goes by the new shop, uh, that one had tape and glue coming out all over.
They've replaced replaced 20 tiles already and they're just ongoing. They're slowly replacing that. So, it's it's night and day different. Um, putting it I'm sorry, purchase purchase. Sorry. Can I ask a question about the flooring? Are we putting the flooring down and
we're going to have the same problem with flooring? We are not putting glue on it now. Yes. So, we're cleaning up the glue underneath it and just laying it back down. And then the plan is to put a sealer on top to fill the cracks. And
we're going to try We're going to try it. And if it's successful there, we have a few other trouble areas that we just have glue. It's just not setting up. And they came up, they gave Chase one other glue option. it was a dollar a square
foot more than was like, "Okay, I think we're going to try our option first." Um, just because there was so many square feet that we thought and we'll be reusing the same flooring that's there. where so we put new tiles down that we had in storage
that we had left over and then we take the old ones, clean them up and then we'll just replace 20 more and just kind of cycle them through until we fix those spots. It is. But
it is. I floor stuff at Shopco in high school. It was awful. glue something else. Yeah, it's crazy cuz you can't get it off the tile or the the flooring,
but it oozes out constantly. So, wait a second. What's going on? It doesn't It's like it's warm cold outside today. What? You know, I mean, it just doesn't make sense. I don't know why it doesn't set up. Well, thank you for all that. Yeah. The
other tedious I think the only other thing was the the vans the food service one that transport food and then another one a 10 passenger van that can be used for various things.
How are those being funded? The food service is fun too. So that's the fund that we're very healthy in. The other one we are going to use the general fund for because um the mini bus that we have has saved us $30,000 a year. So it's paid for itself. This is a
similar situation because if we can use this and we know there's many options that Eileen has set up already where we don't have to use a full bus. So when the full bus goes it cost you this. If this one goes it's substantially less. Um we figure it it's the same price
virtually as the mini bus we bought. So it's on a two three year for sure it'll pay for itself in three years. Okay. Um the other one paid for itself in two. So that could be the case too. But it just was Yeah. And our bus companies are
struggling with drivers too. So they it's Yeah. So it's a short-term expense for a long eventually it'll correct. And the longevity on those bands is strong. Yep. Yep. It's uh I did a little research on that actually. um another school district buys them from this same
place that we're buying this from and he said he's got a couple that are in that seven and eight years and now as long as the DOT approves them we can keep them longer than so yeah so we're excited about the flexibility well yeah I'll say flexibility because
we're going to use it for special ed probably a fair amount uh but we can also use it for many activities where we can send that with the mini bus and have a full team almost Yeah. Awesome. Yeah. Can a coach drive that or is that you need one of those special licenses?
You you do need a type three still. Here's the other reason why we bought this one is the one of the contractors from another district that I talked to that orders these. He said what's been nice for him is he said the coaches are more apt to drive this over the minibus because it's like a van. So they're not
as scared. You know the blind spots. You know when you drive that mini bus thing, well how hard can it be? When you sit in there, there's there's just a lot of blind spots and it makes people nervous. I get that. Where this is just like it's a little bit bigger, man, obviously, but it's still got that feel, right? And you
can see your mirrors are the same. It's got a backup camera. He said he doesn't have any issues finding coaches in the drive, which has been our issue with this one, I guess. So, which I understand. I mean, you got to be comfort and I want you to be comfortable when you're driving it. That's for sure. So, anyway.
Yeah. Um, again, we it's going to be built in September. We won't get it uh here till Novemberish, maybe early December, I guess is what they're saying. So, but yeah. Any other questions on facilities
transportation? All right, we'll go on to 6.4 superintendent report. Um, enrollment is number one on the list. Enrollment as of today, we're at 1541. If you recall, we finished the spring uh
last spring at 1507. So we have 34 uh more students this fall. Kindergarten numbers are at 133. So that is good. So that's seventh section. And then there's a sixth grade too. I don't know if you guys know this, but there is. And that's at 134.
Uh and eighth grade, not to, you know, be let sixth grade have any steal their thunder. Eighth grade's got 138. Wow. That's eighth grade. That's eighth grade. Yeah. A lot of big classes. Yeah. And then we have some I'm sorry,
one some two that are in the 120s. The rest are in the teens. 114, 118, 119. Kind of. It's a senior class. Seniors at 118. It's one of the bigger classes we've had in many years. Long time. So, we'll see, you know, as
this goes. The one thing too, you got to remember, our ALP number right now is five. Uh Joe is predicting it closer to 20. So some of these junior and seniors may slide into that number, but but you're right. The the senior starting at
118 is I think the biggest since I've been here. Yeah. So that's encouraging. So that makes school board and superintendent happy when they know it's right there. Um so that's good news. Uh B is a referendum update. Last week the site
went uh live. Uh, I did set s set in front of you tonight the fact sheet. Um, so that fact sheet, um, I will have with me tomorrow night during the elementary open house and I'll be at that table. People have questions, we can hand it out. Wednesday night, I'll be at the
middle school high school open house. I'll be there at a table again. Um, and I'll be able to hand those out. Obviously, I'm available for questions and answers. Um Brooke and I had a meeting again today with RAM Strategies and they were just asking how it's
going. We haven't had any hits yet on the emails like so they contact us yet but just started so just got out. Um they could track the traffic on it. There's already been over 300 people that have gone to the site and looked at it is so yeah go ahead. Is there an
opportunity to make it clearer at the top of the homepage that that ba banner is clickable that the banner is how you get to the micro site? Because at this point it looks like it's a banner, but I don't know that it actually appears to be a
link to the new site. It it is one, but you're right. So when you hover over you get the hand. So, but I suppose we could say click here. That's a dumb idea. No, I don't know. I mean, we can No, I think that makes sense. Yeah.
To me, it just looks like a big banner, right? And it I mean, sometimes you have to be pretty explicit. Explicit. See if we can't have a click here. I think Mr. Jacobson, you're a pretty techy guy. Do you that should I don't see why we couldn't or can we do that?
We had some because we had some question on that question on it. So, yes, we can add text. We can do it. I can do it tonight and it's on there. But for a cleaner look, we should have reach out and say, "Hey, can that can that be part of that
banner?" Because it's it's more polished, you know, on it. But um follow worst case scenario, we can add some simple text say click click on the link below or click on the banner or click here.
Okay. Yeah. No, that's great. Great question. Um, so talked about this, talked about the site. I'll be out in those places, uh, open houses. Um, September 16th, I'll say it every meeting just so people hear it.
September 16th, we'll be in the theater here in Glennon for a public meeting. Anybody has questions or it'll be an open meeting for I'll do a presentation and then we can have Q&A. Uh, when we had our visit today too, the the FAQs on our micro site uh, can be updated
anytime. So if any of you guys get questions and you go, "Yeah, that should be on there." We can add it right away because we want that to be a working document, too. So it has all the information. Um, you know, we think we know everything and we don't. So we got to make sure we do that. Um, yeah. So
yeah, just a lot of things happening there. Just getting started. Um, other thing I I'm going to share is that the foundation table, the DGF school foundation table will be right next to me tomorrow. Um and so on their table I will be
placing the if you want to be a part of the yes committee uh for the referendum there will be a signup sheet and that'll be right there because as the superintendent that's I can provide information I just can
do a whole lot more. So, at both sites, there will be opportunities for people to sign up uh if they want to help out with the guest committee and then that group can get together. The teachers union is in contact and working with somebody uh in Ed Minnesota that is
going to support them too. So, there'll be more to come with that as well. Um yeah. Um see, staffing update. Uh you heard Chase has got a couple that he's just hiring. Uh we have some pair professionals this week that have
decided to find other employment or did find other employment. So as of this afternoon, Kent and Joe I think are so middle school and high school are both short one, but they also have names for interviews potentially still this week. I believe Tracy might
be now short one um in early childhood and she was meeting with them this afternoon to go through the list of names they have so they can hopefully get those interviews done this week. Um they all told me, "Well, we're in a lot better place than we were last year." So, okay. Um otherwise,
fully staffed. Yep. So, that's good. Back to school workshop. So, obviously that started today. Uh Kurt Slater spoke here this morning. So I had a little I addressed the the staff. Uh PCN addressed the staff. Chase had a little opportunity to talk to to the staff just
about taking care of the building and have a sense of pride. And then Kurt Slater who uh supported Teal 360. He's presents all over. He drove last night from Green Bay. He was in Kansas City the night before. We were fortunate if
we had crew here a couple years ago. Uh I know him a little bit from Morhead State days. Um and as he was a principal too, principal, national principal of the year in 2018. Um he but we shared him with Morhead. So Britney probably heard him this afternoon in Morehead and that was just
offset the cost. So that worked out really nice for us. Sorry, I'm not sure what that is. Keynote speaker. Keynote speaker. Yeah. Yeah. It was just uh just to pump up the staff and really challenge them with you know what are their practices? ways we can reach the
kids. Yeah, it just Yeah, great message. Um, and then there's just a bunch. We had a health and safety committee meeting. It's just kind of getting everybody back. Staff meetings, work in your room time, just a lot of prepping for open houses and prepping obviously
for school. So, yeah, good stuff. Um, there was only one other thing I wanted to say that's in the back the room. I wanted to thank the school board for the pens and the little gift that you guys put together and brought and so I grabbed the two baskets and put them in
here because there's some left and I don't know whose baskets they were for grandma. Anyway, so thank you for that. Um there was a few comments that I heard going, "Well, that was nice. They didn't have to do it." Nope, they did, but they did. So that was nice. So appreciate the board uh extending your gratitude to the
staff. It was nice. Initiative on that. Thanks. And if those are your buckets, they're right there. I kind of thought I kind of thought maybe that was the deal. So yeah, that's it that I have. So any questions for I just wanted to say that
I heard from a staff member that that uh keynote speaker was amazing. she felt that the um comments that he had were applicable and they were funny because he's got a comedic approach, but they were simple enough and they were good reminders for everybody, whether you're a brand new teacher or a 25-y year vent
um or um someone working in the lunchroom or somebody working custodial, something that everybody can do and something that's applicable for everybody within our building. Um and she just thought it was uh really fantastic for him to come back um and do it again because she was really excited for that. So, Oh, sorry. Two years ago,
we had a similar response, Nicole, that people were telling me, "Wow, that's the best, you know, person we've ever had." It was really nice to have him. So, then when we were talking about, should we have a keynote again or not? Should we do that? And it kind of got up. Yeah, we should have him back. And so, it worked out really good. So,
thanks for saying that. I appreciate that. It's good to hear. Any questions? All right, we'll go on to 7.1. This is motion to Approve the meeting minutes of August 11, 2025. Do I have a
motion? Motion by Britney. Do I have a second? I'll second. Second by Angela. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I post. Item number eight, the consent agenda.
disapprove plan approve the bills for August 2025 in the amount of $21,2989 to approve the file for audit treasures monthly budget report approve the resation resignation of Kendron Newman par professional effective the end of
the 2024 2025 school year approve the resignation of Sarah Burnside par professional effect of the end of the 2024 2025 school Do I have a motion? Motion by Nicole. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Laura. Any questions or
discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. Motion carries. On to 9.1. This is to approve the first reading of the following policies. 701 establishment and adoption of school
district budget. 701.1 Modification of School District budget. 702 accounting 703 annual audit. 704 development and maintenance of an inventory of fixed assets in a fixed asset accounting system. 705 investments. Do I have a
motion? Motion by Angela. Do I have a second? Second by any questions or discussion? We have a policy meeting following the meeting tonight. So we'll be discussing Any
other questions, discussions? Financial policies that they made not a lot of changes. Yeah, but fun. Say it wasn't fun. Any questions? All right, hearing none. All those in favor say I.
I opposed. Motion carries. On to 9.2. This is to approve the donations as president and those donations are just going to quick be in the resolution
but um $500 from loose on the loose 5k and um 13 middle school football fans from the DTS touchdown club. Do I have a motion
by Mike? Do I have a second? Second. Any questions or discussion? Just so everybody knows that caboose on the loose 5K 500 goes to the DGF cross country. Maybe you said that. I don't know. I did. But just want to make sure people know
where they go, where the mics go. Yes, I know. We should probably read the resolution. I didn't know whereas Minnesota statutes 465.03 provides any city, county, school district or town may accept a grant or
device of real or personal property and maintain property of their citizens in accordance with the terms described by the nothing here is shall authorize such acceptance for use. religious or purposes. And whereas every such acceptance shall be by resolution of the
governing body adopted by majority of it members expressing such terms in there. Any questions or discussions? Just a thank you to both groups for generosity and so um yes it's a
resolution so we will go by um oh we'll start with Troy. Hi Nicole. Hi Laura. Hi David. Hi. Hi Britney. Hi Mah. Hi
My bad. No, it's resolution pass. All right. 9.3. This is approve the non-certified contract for Carl Ruth Food Service class one step one effect at the start of the 2025 2026 school year. Do I have
a motion? Motion by Angela. Do I have a second? Second by Laura. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I motion carries 9.4. This is to approve
the non-certified contract for Jaylen Rad professional class 2 step one effect of the start of the 2025 2026 school year. Do I have a motion? Motion by Nicole. I have a second. Second. Second by Troy. Any questions or discussion?
Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. Oppos. Motion carries. On to 9.5. This approved the non-certified contract for Samantha Leie professional class 2 step one victim of the start of the 2025 2026 school year. Do I have a motion? So
motion by second by Laura. Any questions or discussion hearing? None. All those in favor say I. I. Motion carries. Under 9.6 is approve the certified contract for Alex Goldsber professional. non-certified contract,
sorry. Um, for Alex Goldber professional class 2 step one effect at the start of the 2025 2026 school year. Do I have a motion? Motion by Micah. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Nicole. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I.
I. I. Oppos. Motion carries. On to 9.7. This is to approve the non-certified contract for Livia West par professional class 2 step one effective the start of the 2025 2026 school year. Do I have a motion? Motion by Laura. Do I have a second?
I'll second. Second by Angela. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. Oppos. Motion carries 9.8. This is to approve the non-certified contract for bar men transportation class 2 step 10
effective the start of 2025 2026. Do I have a motion? Motion by Troy. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Cole. Any questions or discussion? Yeah, if you guys recall, Barb uh was retired last spring um based on everything with
Eileen and being helped on certain times. And uh we have one of our transportation um guys that has a bus license or bus endorsement has to help herself out this fall at least through November. So, we won't be paying that person. Barb said
she'd come back and fill in for that person. So, it's kind of a fill in uh at least through November, it sounds like. And uh after that, Eileen said it could be like maybe 10 maybe 15 hours a week we would use her. So we said, "You know what? Let's just have her come back." So
be a part-time basis. So yeah, I talked to her this morning. She said, "I just had to get out of the house, too." So it's good for good for you. Anyway, so good for us. Yeah, good for us. That's right. Good for her and good for us. Yeah. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I.
I opposed. Motion carries on to 9.9. This is to approve the non-certified contract for Leela Ericson par professional class two step two effective the start of the 2025 2026 school year. Do I have a motion? Motion by Nicole. I have a second
second by Angela. Oh, sorry. Mother longer. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I opposed. Motion carries. On 9.10, this
is to approve the non-certified contract for Glenn Christensen custodial class 2 step 4 effective September 2nd, 2025. Do I have a motion? Motion. Motion by Angela. Second. Second by Troy. Any questions or
discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. Motion carries. 9.11. This is to prove the non-certified contract for Teresa Johnson par professional class 2 step six effective
the start of the 2025 2026 school year. Do I have a motion? Motion by Nicole. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Laura. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I.
I. Motion carries. All right. On to 9.12. This is to uh approve the amendment of the price schedule we previously approved to include free passes for spouses
of staff of staff to school. We have a motion motion by do I have a second by Troy. Questions or discussion?
I um have an issue with this because we raised the reason that this originally occurred in the discussion that was behind it was because we were needing to um change our res revenue streams a little bit and we felt that we weren't keeping up with where we needed to be
and so we raised fees for our students and I I think it's um not the right thing to do to raise the fees for our students but give free passes for our staff. 's spouses 100% believe our staff should be at all the
events. Um but if we're raising prices for our students to be here, I think that should be um across the board and it should be on just the backs of our students. Any other discussion, questions or discussion? I will I'm sorry, M. I just I will say
this. So when Katie went out and checked on area schools, this is what area schools were doing. That's why she made the recommendation. It wasn't like, oh, we want to take something, you know, and that's all that's all it was. There was nothing more or less into it. I just want to make sure people know that's where it kind of came from. And which I
said, that sounds good. But they were they were getting they were not spouses didn't get them in other schools and I like I shared with her too and the other school districts I've been in, it's the staff gets it. Yes, for sure. But no spouses and that's what she found out when she checked within the region as well. And that's
why we said, "Okay, that's just another way to Totally agree. To me, this is uh small perks, too. It's something we've been doing for years on end. So, it's not something that's just brand new. Um it didn't cost us anything
per se uh by offering it before. So, I don't think necessarily the school's losing anybody by still offering that small faculty and staff. So, that's my two cents. So your thought process is that um spouse may not come to the game
if they don't get free possibly staff. This scenarios would be a continuation of previous seasons that hasn't affect us monetarily one way or another. It's just another way to show appreciation to the staff.
Whether they take it up is no different than going savings or so and so there is an option. They use it great. They don't they don't uh with this day and age it doesn't cost us anything in my opinion to keep doing
what we're doing. So my goal is to uh or my suggestion for for the group is to consider continuing that going forward. You know as far as income from activities do we have a ballpark? We maybe discussed this but how much
revenue do we get from that? We're not talking about large dollars. No, not large dollars at all. Visited with Katie this afternoon because Mike had reached out to me too about this discussion tonight and uh she said it's it's a small number for sure. It's a
small number of people that use it. Um but so so it's easy to say yes and it's easy to say no because it's it doesn't have a huge impact. It doesn't. So financially I should say. So it's more of a decision from the board and
was it her recommendation and previously what we already decided I mean prior yeah her and I her and I had that discussion about the whole season the whole sheet just it was in on that as well. Yeah it was and and the change again was
you we're just kind of looking like hey it's it's it's a good thing I'm not and I it's a it's easy both ways right so we just thought well we're making a lot of adjustments to a lot of fees and you know to try to you know send the message that we're trying to watch our P's and
Q's and that's what the regional schools were doing let's follow suit that's again kind of how it went do you feel that by keeping it the way we voted on it is the spouse pace do you think we're going to lose lose attendance of our
school staff at games you could I mean they don't nobody has to pay anything to watch YouTube right now so I right there. We're losing money by just not charging it in for YouTube games. I guess I'm asking
you just looking down here. Not my fault. I mean, what's what's your thought on it? I mean, yeah, it's a small dollar. It just really is. It's not going to have a huge impact. So, as far as Yeah. So, attendance is will teach will we lose teachers from being at or teachers or staff or anybody
being at games because now their spouse has to pay. Yeah. So, I guess and and I started with money, but money is like, "Oh, if David's spouse can't come and now she has to pay." I get, you know, that's it's a direct correlation kind of to that. Um, uh, I'm not at every game. I
come to some home games and whatnot. I try to make sure that I'm present here and there off and on. Uh, Katie said it's a small amount that use it, but, you know, a small amount is still a small amount, you know. So, I would say there's the potential to to lose some. I
mean, um, I think, uh, and I understand this from a staff perspective. If my kids are our kids and my wife and I's kids are playing in sports right now and I'm a teacher, that's nice to have, right? Because we're going to go to all the
games cuz our kid is playing. And so now I've got to pay or my spouse has to pay, right? And I think those are the people affected, the ones that live in our community that have kids in our activities because they are attending obviously to watch their
son or daughter participate and that's the group that's affected. It's not a large group of our staff but it is some so any other a huge impact. Any other questions or discussion?
I just the only thing I would add to it is, you know, I think it's probably a little bit like, you know, moving somebody's cheese a little bit. Nobody was expecting it and all of a sudden it's like, oh, felt like somebody was taking something away.
And of course that was never our intent in passing it other just to conform essentially to what most schools do but we did you recall uh senior citizens do get in free to games. So that's a little
different than what other schools do. So guess I'm I'm okay with adding free passes. I don't think it's really a budgetary item. I mean I think we made the decision to conform. That's not I don't know that's the right decision. If we made it for a financial decision or an optics
decision, that's a different conversation. But I think I'm hearing that it was to so for hearing that people are upset about it and it's not a not a big financial choice. Yeah. I mean, then I think
for me it's pretty clearcut decision. Yeah. We conformed on the student activities fees and going to the um digital only payment and all these other pieces uh to conform with other school standards and
we again um put that on the backs of our students and our families and we're now asking them for referendum money as well. Uh so I feel like it's unfair if that's we're trying to balance that budget and we're using that as a reason or at least a partial reason that we are
then not being equitable in that. Yeah. And I'll just I'll say a last statement and then we can do what we need to do, but you know, you think about conformity and we think about optics. Um I guess for me as your
superintendent, the only reason that Katie and I have the discussion, I want to know what our region's doing, right? Because we are going out for a referendum. Where are we different? And sometimes being different is a good thing. you know, I want to stay different or be different because it's like our elderly. No, we're going to let them in. That's
awesome, right? And so it's just another example like, oh wow, they let them do this and this DGF lets all that. No wonder they're broke. And it's probably 400 bucks. But it's just an optics, right? So it's the same thing. It's like, okay, what is the region doing? Our parents talk to our regional people
when they go to events and say, "Oh, you don't have to pay or you pay again in this chair in this seat. It's kind of like, yeah, you know what? That's a good reason to confirm, right?" And and I guess that's what my thought process was. But and to support Katie in
that discussion, but it's again nothing more than less than that. It was more of an optics probably than anything for me. So yeah, any other questions or hearing? None. All those in favor say I. I.
I. Sorry. That was the Yes, maybe we got to do it. I wasn't sure. Those voting in favor say we have raise your hand and say I voting in favor of to amend it
of amending it and having spouses have a that is that is of so if you are voting yes you're voting to allow spouses of staff to get a free pass. All right. So all those in favor say I.
I. I oppos. I twice. I'm going I Yes. So, four in favor
against the motion pass. All right. Sorry. That's probably my fault. Work on my skills here. I'm so confused on that. I just say yes. Yes or no? So what was the res? It
passed. It passed. Okay. 10.1. The next board meeting is Monday, September 8th, 2025 at 6 p.m. at the DGF community room site. 10.2. The budget meeting will follow that Monday,
September 8th, 2025 at the same site. On to number 11. This is to adjourn the regular meeting of the Dillworth Clint School. Do I have a motion? Motion by Nicole. Do I have a second? Second. Sorry, M. I got it.
Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I hear meeting is there's any question. John J.