order please rise with pledge of aliance I pledge 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 justice for all um I'll read the district Mission state in partnership with communities the mission of the B Lon Felton
school district is to educ individuals in an environment of trust and respect so they become self-directed responsible lifelong lears roll call we've got uh the whole board here tonight Nicole Reno is joining us by a um Zoom I guess the me here and she's in a public place in Minneapolis if you want to join her you're welcome to do that um because of that we will
do all votes tonight by roll call if I forget please let me know um we also have um Mr O and Mr Hendrickson with us tonight um the agenda do we have any changes to the agenda we do I have a motion to adopt the agenda presented so motion
by all those in favor say I I I call thank you call Troy I Laura David hi Britney hi Linka hi Angela hi oh and Nicole hi thank you motion passes all right um we go to item number five public comments and rebel recognition I don't think
we have any public comments today we'll go into Rebel recognition Rebel recognition there was a 5 through 12 band concert with a special guest that was pretty awesome yeah I noticed the special guest was very special yeah it was talents unknown very go very lucky to get that performance um but thank you to the band teachers directors um for getting all those kids play together it was pretty
fun y she did a nice job and thank you to Tracy and everyone else who put on the big basketball tournament like two weekends ago yes last no yeah you're right lots of lots of volunteers lots of parents kids pries food so also
yes yes so appreciate that effort as well any other rebel recognition all right we'll move on to item number six this is reports we'll start with the dgf middle school report Mr H you're good or where do you want keep coming keep coming you see on screen right there I don't want to get too close um just a few things that we
have going on last Friday our High School National Honor Society put on a um kindness anti-bullying seminar for our fifth and sixth graders that was held last Friday afternoon and we have one of those coming up that dgf has done for many years with the seventh grade compassion Retreat and we have the outside speaker come in and then the high school Honor Society kids also work with those students and I believe that I think it's coming up next week already so that that's coming up on that so doing some things we also have
our curriculum that we started this year with our counselors and our teachers going into the classrooms and and providing that for our students as well so those are some things uh fifth grade um they have their living wax museum that they're doing um they they're doing some cross-curricular stuff with their language arts and their science um focusing on chemical matters and students are learning about the fossils chemistry and using the context clues to
solve a case on a missing fossil in math they're working on their word problems social studies it's focusing on the Constitution right now um sixth grade they got a new project that they just came up with and it's kind of cool and they're creating their own town and all the subject matters are working together on that it's kind of led by the social studies department and they'll be laying out the rubrics for it and um working on the project within that class time um the language arts will be worked on writing the history of that town
and then the science will be discussing the natural resources that are available in that town and are those natural resources good or bad for the town and then math will work on the scale for the grid for the map of the town and the square footage and those type of things so um social studies teacher came up with it and they're going to try and it sounds really cool to get everybody involved and putting what they're doing in the classroom kind of into a real life kind of project for them so that's kind of cool um seventh grade um
we have our social study and science department working together on a kind of a forensics class they're doing some things they brought in outside speakers they've had an attorney come in and speak to the kids and they got a couple more speakers coming in yet the spring for that um right now the uh students uh wrote the Gettysburg address and they're using their handwriting sample and they're using this to do an analysis of the handwriting to kind of how you solve the case if there was something there um the next case they're going to study is the Lincoln assassination and the work on
evidence and science class to do a mock trial in history with that um so they got that going on oh 8th grade um The Outdoor Classroom and I believe we just got a uh what is it Horizon egg signed up that will be doing the ground work for the FFA plot out there and doing the seating for that as well so that'll be coming up um upcoming events that we have uh I mentioned the compassion Retreat for our seventh graders um conferences will be
next week already ready we did student Le conferences in the fall with all of our grades in the middle school and that went really well so we will continue with that so those conferences will be next Tuesday and Thursday um Mid quarter already for third quarter is on the 19th and the end of our second try is on February 28th and then right now we're all looking at our staffing for next year and working on our schedule we met with the different uh grade levels on what's going
well what do we need to tweak and stuff so we're looking at that trying to put that together right now and then of course as always every spring coming up we have the MCA testing so you got that and then also we are doing the Minnesota student survey again this year that's usually a test that's given in the state every three years we're doing it every year because of that PCN Grant so we need the data for that Grant so kids will be taking that um I believe that's next week as well too so that's coming up quick what does
that encompass that's um talking to students about uh their habits um you know if they're using drugs Alcohol Tobacco home life what their interests are those type of things it's all Anonymous we don't know who it is it's online and stuff so just good feedback and then they can make some of the decisions with that PCM rant and how to best use that and our parents notified that's yes yep they're notified on that and then they can
opt out to they don't want since I have like how connected you feel at school too your connection to the school y everything y PN stand positive Community Norms yes and that's just the middle I missed that is it just the middle school or what grades are um with that student survey Middle School there's select grades but since we're in that Grant we do all of those grades and then the high
school will be doing it and I don't I don't know that it goes into the Elementary at all or not I think so I think it starts with the fifth grade and then so all of ours will do it and then I don't know if you're all the way through Juniors I think the seniors take it so but otherwise I think it's like five eight and 10 kind of follows an NCA kind of AE the grant has an influence on that too because they wanted to have this this kind of data I think
think it provides good data and good feedback because if you do some implementation on things you want to see the connectivity scores go up the use go down impres the br's functioning what your interventions are doing are worthwhile and just generally all the kids are youing school on the school y it's a good thing I think absolutely um and maybe this would be a question for Joel but when can eth grade parents expect any sort
of Correspondence on um freshman orientation upcoming like when you have to register for classes and it's an awesome question for Mr O I need you to stall so I can think it but I know they're working on some things I'm working on scheduling stuff and then uh high school counselor and uh our eighth nth grade counil they'll be working with the kids too and they'll be getting that information out here the next we I was going to
give you a month but next next couple of weeks that would be something that should be coming your way in mind because I've got we're currently working on our course guides and our offerings and we're expecting to be done with that this week hopefully so it should be within soon any other questions for Mr hendri oh and one of I mean um Katie Omen our assistant she um went over to the elementary covered
as he did a few days and she went in to talk to the fourth grade a little bit about middle school next year just to kind of get a pulse and gave them like three questions because otherwise it would go on forever Main's ones where do you know so and so and what kind of lunches you have that typ of thing but it it was good for her to touch base over there that so great right thank you yes thank you all right we're going 6.2 this is
Mr uh normally I come with a sticky note Brooke yelled at me this morning and said I need to have a report so this is I'm getting better at it um couple things I'm going to start with our Alp so uh I was able to every morning or every at least a couple times a week I go down with the Alp with Mr whis with Mr Boyd and we kind of talk about our clps which are our continual learning plans
which we have to have Alp is our Alternative Learning Program something that we started and we're a couple years into it currently we have 18 students in our Alp now these are traditionally students if we didn't have it would be back in our general population classes and it wouldn't probably you know history tells us that we might not have those 18 students here at the EGF they'll take an online option we'll do whatever but with those 18 students I counted them up this morning we have
recovered one 179 classes of those 18 students now to put that in perspective they need six to seven a semester um so we are on schedule they're credit deficient they're you know to qualify you've got to have you some hardships you've got to be at least a year behind things like that so the program um a we're giving those kids that normally in the past would be finding a different home out of school doing their thing who knows what we've
got 18 that are right now on schedule and they go from they have to be 16 to be in our program so 16 17 and 18 year olds on schedule to graduate giving them another chance at whatever they want to do so that's actually pretty exciting um so that has I don't know it's it's taken off it's pretty well received and and we're we're kind of proud of it because we're keeping that and I I always get told by Shannon it's not my job to worry about the funding that's his job but at
the same time it's nice to know that it's you kind of know what the expectation is we want to keep as much in house as we can so and we'll get to another piece of that what's a what's 179 classes okay so you would have great question so if I get a kid that's a sophomore and he nothing but FS as a freshman he needs to work on a sophomore classes and he has to recover all those freshman so freshman English um Algebra 1 things like that so so they've
been able to just this year alone recover those classes so between the 18 there's 179 recovery classes right so on average you're looking at about 10 per some are more overachievers and some are still working at it but as an average that's yeah so we've been able to okay here's what you're missing here's what you need to graduate as for the state as for dgf um so they're well on their way and we've got a ways to go but that's been pretty it's been pretty positive are those students um dgf students
or do you see any of them because of the program we have are they coming in to take advantage excellent question we haven't Holly and Barnesville know about it Morehead chooses to go with oana which I can get to that it's kind of they've got a weird 6040 relationship so they don't have their own online uh Barnesville knows about it Holly knows about it um when it comes to those students we I
don't know they're invited but we're we're kind of taking care of our own first but if if Barnesville called and said hey we've got a student we think it would do well yeah we'll take it we've got an online piece with this as well that we can do um but we haven't yet it's been mostly kind of ours yeah and I'll say that we've discussed that quite a bit um making sure that we're doing it right we have it kind of dialed in because it is new and if then that ever happened then we have sit down and
figure out okay what's our call for a nonresident what would that look like what is the parameter so yeah but we' talked about when that comes we have yeah and we also use that for our credit recovery piece so what that is is let's say Micah sorry but uh let's say he's not credit deficient he doesn't have a hardship whatever but you know what he failed geometry all right well now he's moving on and he's a junior now well Mikey you still owe this geometry so he
might have one hour a day and we put them down there we can go get credit recovery rather than do a summer school piece he can do it during the year and he can recover that credit from prior still with his peers still so nothing really kind of disrupts his so we've got got those pieces as well how this program this is the first year we've done this this is our second year as the the Alp yeah we've been doing credit recovery for a while but for our Alp this is year two uh we've met with the state just to make sure that
doing things right Brooks had a thousand conversations with Mr Boyd and just with how we build things to make sure and there's I don't know if there's still some gray and we're just keep our head down and so far it's worked out actually pretty well and chrisy our our contact there has been pretty pleased with what we're doing so far so that's kind of good next year so eighth grade you should see some things pretty quick I talked with Mr wisco and he's working on course guides um and scholarship so for
the course guides we always look at our staff and say okay is there anything different that you want to do anything you want to teach elective wise and things like that um and then they submit it and we're kind of all right yay nay let's try it we're able to do that the thing that we have to be careful of though we got to make sure that do freshmen have enough elective do sophomores have enough because well I want to do this but I don't want any freshmen I only want yous and seniors all that doesn't work because they've got to have options too so it's been
you look through it and some of it's sounds pretty good and we're always you know that's kind of the business we're in we try we fail we we try something else um but we're more interested numbers and what do we need to do to keep our students interested and create the different Pathways that they take all right we've got our kids that are going to go on a four-year college track that's great we've recently opened up another huge pathway with we've got welding kids now that are that are seeking that with the welding program with the woods you know with the tech the Hands-On things um and then we've got some that simply just want to work
out of high school and they're going to get on the job training the cool part is with the program that we use um let's say Shannon wants to do hot air balloons or whatever it is well okay that's fine but we've got a program that has tons of classes where you can or military intro to the military I'm going to go into the military where we can actually offer those classes as an elective now so and it's the same program it all kind
of ties together it'll kind of tie together with what we're doing here give me five I want to ramble on that can but um so we'll get the course guides in there scholarships we screwed up we had last year scholarships on apparently we needed to hit published twice and Mr whis was only hitting at once so he notified me that now as of today the real scholarships are on because we were wondering why kids weren't taking advantage so there'll be an uptick in that uh the online issues we are entering a popularity contest you do not like
a teacher you don't have to take a class from that teacher what does that mean it means I don't like math I'm going to take it online from an online school what does that mean for dgf that means those schools we have to still provide everything but the check goes to somebody else not that I worry about kids I don't get to worry about money but I know the guy that I answer to gets whatever so um we kind of battle that and you work with the teachers and you try to tell some veteran teachers you know hey I
know you've done it this way for four years but we've got to try to you know I want the rigger but you know is there anything we can do can we try things that are different there's good news in this right now we have probably 17 kids out of our 450 what's the magic number at the high school that are doing at least one online class the best part about it is we are actually offering that online class they're not going we're not Outsourcing it we're not writing anybody a check we're keeping that full full funding we're keeping that
student inh housee at dgf how are we doing that well oana partners with Morehead and they do a 6040 split with their kids any more had kids that go online oana takes 60% uh they keep 40 they use the same program that we use we use edmentum um and that's something that we've been using for years if you look at Peak plot Lakes right now is in the same boat struggling with with kids jumping ship we're actually ahead of the game so they're asking dgf what are you
and how are you keeping kids here I'm still nervous if we're going up we're going down or we're plateauing but we're we're in better shape because we have something in place that hey yep I get it I can't stop you from jumping ship as for our statutes however I can offer you this hey that sounds good now they're still under our roof our rules and it's our so we're able to I guess mitigate maybe what could have been pretty scary I'm not saying it's it's done yet but
we have the processes in place where we can we can house our own is that just a subscription we pay for to use the online correct curriculum or whatever y last last month we Joe and I if you on the bills we had two more seats in that $1800 so we can so it's a Perce uh cost and so we talked to about we expanded that well we bought yeah we bought 30 more so you can do it as needed
it doesn't have to be well he he got able to smooth talk a little bit but yeah 30 more seats for 1800 and 50 cost us six grand so five grand but yeah one one student pays that so we're able to recoup that it's not ideal I'd like them in the classroom but until we maybe switch some things out and stuff like that what is it I math science all of it so that's the one where you can
yep you've got math science animal science you've got AP courses on there you've got intro to the military you've got cosmetology you got anything so a lot of our students that want to go to Joseph's or something like that they're electives now rather than taking you know elective we offer I really want to do this I want to be a hairdresser well guess what we can actually yep you're GNA stay here and you're G to take hairdressing 101 or you know I don't know the names but we've actually had several students that have done that and then of course we take them over on it's like a college
day yeah let's go tour it and so it's not your traditional pack but hey these are it's a game changer for these students that normally we wouldn't oh you're not going to one of the main institutions yeah sorry good luck no that's not we're here's what we can do for you and it's worked out well more of like an independent stud then yeah yep and we control those so we can't all right Britney you're a go-getter you come in there and you knock it all out in two days now what are we going to do the rest of the semester we control what we open oh nice yep so so it's just a
day by day and Y it's paced so we can control that so the students stay here when they do it or can leave they can leave and go home no NOP they stay here they go into our Al Alp room and that way Mr Boyd has it on there and we can go Guardian it and we can make sure that they're doing the right things and open different things and and Mr whis as well our high school counselor so it's pretty neat um High School the current state we are in the process for graduation we ordered that we're already starting the plan
for that like Kenton said we've got conferences we do an open house and then our site team decided to go and invite only but later on into March that was met with yeah we might go back to the the back toback with everyone else because the time comes when we have to do ours and everyone else doesn't have to stay till 8 and then everyone gets a little bit upset but they're the ones that voted for it so uh culture climate couple things that we did we have four times this Year we're doing competitions with
the students so um staff's got a team usually we did the Olympics in September we did a bad minint tournament in December we've got a knowledge Bowl challenge coming up next week and then we end it in April with a talent show so we'll try to get a group together to bust out a tune and we'll see what we can do celebrations uh FFA week is coming up next week that has really kind of gain steamed and and Alexandra has done a
great job with that uh and the last thing I want to touch on we threw this out and this is kind of uh might need some board approval on this I don't know usually I like to ask for forgiveness but MCA test we have a lot of kids that opt out and they're traditionally not the kids we want to opt out they're the ones that we know are gonna so we thought well what's something that we can do to maybe sweeten the deal a little bit so Shannon will give up some of his salary no
so we figured sophomore is a take it what's the harm parent permission or approval but they have to meet or exceed as a class so that means everyone's got to take it otherwise if you don't take it that counts as a zero but if they meet or exceed the state level why wouldn't I open up the last month of school they can have open campus just for lunch so if they wanted to walk up upon parent something like that if they take the test they get their name in a drawing if they partially meet they get it twice if they meet they get it
three times if they exceed they get it four and we draw 10 seniors get parking spots 10 Juniors so if you get drawn you get to paint it over the summer appropriate and that will be your parking spot for the year we would give up some of our front row seats but we're in the business of kids not in the business of adults so we thought that might be a way to sweeten the pot and then Juniors uh end of the year there'd be about a month left when we get their math test scores back if they met or exceeded we would give them senior privileges for the last month which means they would get out of their
study hall right before lunch so just something but maybe they would get talking maybe it'll flop maybe it won't but just something to okayy you know the parking spots that's one thing um opening up with some privileges a month early or before the end of the year so we're trying we're talking about it we're getting kids uh the kids feedback and can we send out something to parents like this is important please try to have your students do it we do we
we are Our Own Worst Enemy sometimes when it comes to MCA tests with our staff so we sometimes let it slip that more communication can opt out okay it's okay Michael opting out is okay Britney no we need you to take because you're going to do you know what I mean so when one kid hears they all right it is and and it's the same thing with kind of an online option like you're going down there to take this I want to do that I want to no and you you don't want to open pan doors Bo so the
thing with an op the same as it does not right it's not a no store it counts against us so I think that it's important that we communicate options to parents but then we also need to do a better job of communicating why it's important like as a parent of children in the district you know I Reed communication it's like it's important that your kid gets all this good rest and I don't even understand what's happening with the scores so perhaps if it's a hey this is important because parents would be a little bit more in
tune to what why it's important for the district can it be non optional no you can't State requirement that they have to have the option it has to be on our website so it's there the yeah it's just ongoing communication just trying to create sorry we're hoping that and and you know we're not in the business of oh we got to make a deal with you every time we want you to do something but
it's there's no all right you get these certain parking spots there's no harm in that and there's come on we need you to you know what do we need to do so we're trying it's a I don't know there's a lot there's kind of a lot of moving Parts but it's fun at the same time and I guess I don't know anything Mr oep I have a question yes um along with your um incentive there um is there any change or information on the check-in checkout process if these kids are if
we're going to allow for an open lunch and do some of these extra things do we have that additional piece in place for the processing if we did that yes we would I know we are sitting at the numbers I gave you last we did send it out on Synergy as far as those that are leaving at noon or during their their privilege time or their study hall if they're seniors and stuff but we don't have we don't have a checkin and checkout process not every kid when they
leave the checks no we don't have that still figure out that's I think that's what she's saying we are it is some accountability to make sure that the right people are leaving and we know who's in our building when they are gone correct and even when they're coming in too so we've got everything locked down but door one Val watches those very close the the propping the doors open has been yeah I'm not going to say it's doesn't still happen but that's gotten better everyone at least is coming through
door one will we catch a couple sophomores trying to sneak out we do um and does Andrea I mean does she have the time and energy to be able to ultimately look and say okay well Micah has a pass he can leave Britney doesn't she can't I mean is there some sort of like checks and balances there are we just kind of trusting that the right people are leaving and have signed the form with their parents yeah honestly more on
the trusting side I don't think we I think we need to develop that right it's just it's so efficient if so we have to figure that out and that's been our discussion like okay what are other schools do can you zap a card can you zap an ID because you can zap it in zap it out that's what it would be other I mean Andrea would have what 70 kids that are oh it would be a flood and yeah to's point is is there a way to do it and I think that's have to work on see yeah
let me give me some time on that and I'll see what you know PM's different because they're college kids they treat it like an open campus they come and go all day long and they don't keep track of it yeah um I just think there's an accountability piece to an emergency whether it's a natural disaster or a um active threat or whatever the case is I mean we should know where our kids are uh if they're coming and going in our building yeah and over from about 12:00
till 1:00 that's the that's the time frame that we're iffy I guess but other than that yeah we know exactly where everyone's at from you know during the day and during structure time I guess but with their yeah there's always always room to improve I'll I'll check around to see what other schools do just that open lunch Juniors have open lunch as well seniors have senior privileges so they get the 20 minutes stuff Hall before so
they get a little bit extended time and we could shut it down but we don't have the space for them all and I think they know that too so we open it up to Juniors as well because we don't have we go 912 lunch now we could do a split lunch but Kent already has a split lunch going so now we're that really messes with our schedule so that's why that I think part of the concern is that uh kids are not necessarily driving uh respect respectfully around town
or being respectful in that time off and Val being one person is very it's very difficult for her to have that but I've heard from multiple community members that our kids are not driving uh respectfully uh coming and going from from lunch probably any other questions for Mr I one is the 16 for the AL the age is at the state or our rur State
okay yeah curious yep and there's a couple different qualifiers chemical dependent um broken home pregnancy credit deficient along with age yeah yeah okay Y and then each me meet one correct yep thank you any other questions from Mr thank you app all right we'll move on to 6.3 board rep start
with personel um we met after prior to the or after the last support meeting y uh we talked a little bit about um enrollment uh where things are at and Shannon had shared out a chart showing enrollment over the years and so one of the things we're seeing is sort of the shift at one time we had all the kids in the elementary and that is kind of moving that group is now moving moving
basically into the high school and so one time we didn't have any class size over 100 kids in high school and now just about every class size in high school and part of middle school is over 100 as well as the elementary but the elementary numbers aren't quite as large as they want were so um and everybody knows kindergarten numbers this year down next year so we're looking at budget how is this going to affect um Staffing for next year and still a lot
up up in the air legislature is in session so there just a lot of things um looking at in order to try to um figure out a way to make budget for next year so that's all I have then unless anything else no it's kind of it yeah it's gonna it's an ongoing discussion right now with Elementary Middle School and High School how many staff and what's that what that we talked about the to what that might look like and so those
are things were working I'd say it'll be at least a month to finalize all that so be early March between it may be soon or not but we just got to dial it and make sure we have those numbers correct we're going to Lakes aacy head co yeah and I attended it uh Mel was out and I was I attended via my pickup phone on the way back from mediation from bloming um the only
thing was just a standard meeting uh nothing crazy other than he requested to add a assistant director um he he checked with um eight other special cooperatives in the state and all of them that are hit the size of ours like I see now that we joined them they all had an assistant director he just it's ending upward too much he's running to IEP new's up in new he's running barville because he has to serve as the
School site too for some schools he's just spread so thin that he can't get to everything that he feels he should Andor his job and so that was something that was discussed at that meeting and uh the board approved for him to go into that and get more information and post that so that was the big news or the big question from that meeting otherwise it was just a standard that something we have to help pay for them it it's the co Cooperative Hazard
p is is yes yep and he has the breakdown and stuff too yeah I was in my pickup so I I just heard the conversation and then they wanted they approved the other schools approve that we should like does each School get one vote so like would you have been our vote to approve right I don't get to vote because I'm a superintendent so mik is our vot I yeah he's our representative y so was
an assistant Su special director that you're say it's assistant director yeah yeah and so he already has some coordinators out there this person will be doing some of the coordinating would attend some of those early meetings um yeah just a lot across districts it's we're bigger than any District they had a lot of them combined so I feel like well we're 30 what 35% of the cour right have 35% of the share um
no it doesn't come out that perfect there's a billing thing it's so it's a portion is based on population you have and I'd have to go back and look at it everybody pays a percentage the same can't remember i' have to go back and look at what that agreement is let's say 20% everybody's in for that and then it's based on population after part of that population then we do it's all figured out at the end of the
year because ation of kids and special ed in and out you know how special ed works we get reimbursed the following year so he has to do all that numbers and then it'll be proportionate based on that based on our contract yeah yeah for sure yeah yeah because he has to close out the books that because he has to get up yeah any questions on all right we'll go on to the construction update now was just on there for our meeting there's not much to share we just add
it on there if there was anything you guys wanted to share just said we went in close section earlier today at special meeting about the disputes regarding the building project and what we're doing to try to get those resed about all okay let's go on to 6.4 superintendent report uh first thing on there's March be the city EXC me half the capital on March 10th uh and I won't
be back I'll be back um on the 12th coming home in the morning of the 12 because we're uh at the capital on the 10th in the evening with representatives and Senators then the next day we spend the day at the capital various not just our people but as a group a bunch of and so it'll be I don't know how we want to do that if we want to we just something it's not tomorrow so we got to think about that I just want people to know I will not be
here for that the other option is you can have the meeting without me um or we can move in try to figure out another we I'll gone to much time so we just wanted to bring up here tonight you guys think about it and uh let me know we can send out something tomorrow I just want to give you that heads up today um administrative evaluations are going to start at the end of this week and we'll run through the rest of the month all the principles directors so just letting you know that's
all getting started this is their midterm um intergovermental retreat was last Friday there's a lot of talk about the drug use um in Clay County and then also the housing and what they're trying to do with the state to get more more seats more seats more beds um in the county to help with that so and there was also some homeless do there too so a lot of presentations uh they're not super positive but it's just talking
because the legislators were there too talking about how we need more State funding to help build facility is pretty more B for this un unfortunate problem that we have to play um just so you know too I'm starting around March we are the host so last year the county hosted it year before was the city of Morehead before that was the Morad School uh and now it's our turn when I first came here in 21 they asked me to do that year they don't even know what this is so they
agreed that kick me down the road so uh we will be hosting in the high school conference room uh we meet quarterly uh and so we'll be hosting and then next year at The intergovermental Retreat um I won't have to kind of leave the retreat and we'll put plans together what that will look like and what the agenda will be so it's our turn to lead that uh legislative update um lot of conversations uh when I was gone on Friday I got an email
from Sam WTH that uh because the house came to an agreement and they're going to get back to work there's already a house file six that was written before they had to throw it up it's already written again uh they asked me to testify on Wednesday I said I'm not and been gone I'm not going but Brandon Lun is going to go to T 6 I know there's other superintendents in the state so that one is basically saying kind of what we talked about and what represented i' like to just in produce of internal
transfers with their own funds by board resolution that's not L that's not L is not yet but they feel pretty confident with that this is one the flexible span uh the Senate also has one Senate file something 77 it's 477 177 there is a senate file too on this Flex um and again I be going down there here early March but I'm going to
out more Dr Sam and our Representatives here this week to see how this post uh in the space survey um I just got that back it's from the impact uh what it is it's a it's a superintendent survey asking the impact across the state of Minnesota uh of the 2023 rep legislation and how we're looking today and what we're doing uh I'm going to just share it with you on my weekly update this Friday so you can see it look through it lot of numbers it's it's just a variety of things so
it's it's nice by charts easy to see easy to follow and I'm going to just share that with you guys so you can look at on your own because it's it's about eight this there you go question questions I don't have a question but I do want to thank Shannon for being so active in our state because I know that adds a huge uh responsibility and time
commitment and energy uh so just thank you for all that you've done for that yeah thank you Nicole appreciate that you know for so long we had Paul Mar markor here um and we had able to bend this year and so now a lot of That's Falling a chance so thank you very much okay we'll go on to 7.1 this is uh motion to approve the rigor meeting on January 22nd do I have a motion so motion by Britney
do have a second second Troy um any questions for discussion hearing none do a roll call Troy hi Laura David I Britney hi Micah angel Nicole hi All Passes go on to the consent agenda um this is to approve bills for February 2025 in the amount of
16888 43 more like it let's keep that up that's right Treasures monthly budget reports in your packet um have a chance to look at that and then also to approve the resignation of Rica shano professional effected February 13 2025 and then last to resend the approval of administrative contract for Aon shin do I have a motion motion
by Laura Mike you want to second that sure M any questions or discussion I guess I just had a question regarding the with shler so you've gone back to look at the interviews from the other candidates or Y yeah when uh when we went through we had a had two finalists he was one of
them we decided to go with her and now that he's made a different decision here we're going to go we're going to other final I did meet with him morning Thursday morning Thursday morning um and did meet with him uh visited with Joel and Kitty a little bit about that too and I I'm sorry and I and did make an offer and we're going to work but that's what I'm working through right now so I'll give you guys more information yeah
any other questions discuss hearing none do roll call uh try hi laa hi David hi Britney hi Micah hi Angela hi Nicole hi all right motion passes we'll go on to nine new and unfinished business 9.1 this is a motion to approve the second reading of the fiscal year 2026 school calar which is do
I have a motion motion by second any questions we had a chance to look at this and I think last last meeting and seem like there's a whole lot of opportunity to move much around anyway so any questions or discuss hearing none we'll do a roll call hi Laura David I Britney hi
hi Angela Nicole hi very good on to motion passes on the 9.2 this is to approve the resolution directing Administration to make recommendations for reductions in programs and positions and a motion motion by second second Angel Angela sorry I've got hearing aids now but apparently
still doesn't quite do the job U any questions or discussions on this this is just an annual thing in case we need to have something this in this case sometimes it could be driven by a program that we need to cut because of the cost which is not the case here but or Reus of staff due to enrollment this is just a annual meaning 20 calendar year 2025 or so this is me yep for next school year
if we need to make changes 25 26 yes yep yep questions or discussion yeah go to it all right yeah all right whereas the financial condition of the school district dictates that the school board must reduce expenditures immediately and whereas this reduction in expenditure
must include discontinuance of positions and discontinuance or curtailment of programs and whereas a determination must be made as to which teachers's contracts must be terminated and not renewed and which teachers may be placed on unrequested leave of absence without pay or fringe benefits and affecting Contin be it resolved by the school board of Independent School District number 2164 as follows that the school board hereby direct the superintendent of schools and administration to
consider the discontinuance of programs or positions to effectuate economies in the school district and reduce expenditures and make recommendations to the school board through the discontinuance of programs for tment of programs discontinuous positions or fulfillment of positions very good any we have any other questions or assumtions hearing the resolution hearing none I we'll do a roll
call TR hi Laura hi David I Britney hi Angela hi Nicole hi resolution passes on to number 9.3 this is to approve the updated 2025 committee Representatives as present do I have a motion motion by BR do I have a second uh we'll say Angela any questions or discussion I think sh sent
out a note on this or maybe Brook did it's just me andco just one so I thought it was idea which one um I took the community ed one instead of Nicole because she had several and I didn't have team player team player very much appre any other questions or discussion hearing
none we'll do roll call Troy hi Laura David I Britney hi Mah Angela hi Nicole hi motion passes 10.1 the next board meeting is set for February 24th 6 o'clock in the dgf community room so we'll be back at our home um following that as policies committee meeting U that'll be following the school board meeting at
the community on to number 11 this is a motion to approve to adjourn the regular meeting do I have a motion motion by Laura second second second any questions or discussion here none we'll do a roll call try hi Laura David I Britney hi Micah hi Angela hi