All right. Roll call of all school board members. Everyone hears except for Hang Slavven. So, we have a quorum and we keep moving. 4.0 is to approve the agenda and I'll make a motion to approve. >> I'll second. >> Okay. Any questions or discussion on the agenda?
>> No. Other than there was one action item removed. If you haven't looked, I forget which number it was, but um so just make note. >> Any other questions or discussion? All those in favor of approving the agenda say I. >> I. >> I.
>> Any oppose? >> Motion carries. >> 5.0 0 is communication and reports and we are actually going to start with our student rep Anderson because he has a concert tonight. All right, just a couple things. Um,
final band concert was last Monday. Went great. Thanks for everyone in attendance. We had more people than the pack could hold and congratulations to the EGF band for an amazing year. The final choir concert is tonight. performance is supposed to be
spectacular, so everyone should go and watch. Spring sports are doing well. We had track and girls golf today. Um, we had our very first career fair on April 29th from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. with 44 businesses in attendance who
helped students find summer jobs and opportunities for the future. So, thank you to those businesses. We also had the EGF National Honor Society ceremony on April 29th in which 20 new members were inducted. So, congratulations to those
20 new members. Over the course of the school year, more than 24,471 students were exposed to a wide range of career paths. Our freshman seminar class made a meaningful impact by packing over
120,000 pounds of food for our local food shelf. In addition for our students to complete approximately 10 hours of community service um helping the school ground stay clean. 45 students participated in job shadowing
experiences with local businesses this year and 345 students participated in um work to school program in which they earn academic credit while employed. Prom was last weekend, um, May 9th, and
everything ran smoothly. So, a final thank you to all of the parents and staff who volunteered and helped make it a memorable night. >> Thank you, East. I do have to give a shout out to the band. Like, I've been to plenty of band concerts in my day, and I was in the band, and that was one
of the most phenomenal concerts I have ever seen in my life. >> So, kudos. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. All right. So, we're going to go back to 5.1 in the EGF public schools community task force.
>> So, if the task force would like to come up and again, you can pass the mic around. I will just um kind of kick off a little bit that again, first and foremost, thank you to the task force, a group of um community members that uh actually met three times. We had only
planned on meeting two times. Um the first two meetings went fairly long or you some would say really long. Um just about four hours for both of them. Um the third meeting um was shorter. Um but I still think hour and 20 minutes or
something. Um you know again I was guessing I thought maybe half hour but good conversation goes a long way. So again thank you to the group. Um you're going to hear from them. Um feel free to ask questions if you so desire. not to put them on the spot, but um and again,
most of the time we don't have a, you know, conversation back and forth, but if there is something on this case, feel free. So, with that, um I I thank you as well as I thank Rob. Um so, I don't know who's starting or >> Oh, it can push
>> tap it. Just hold >> hold it till it turns green. >> A little finicky. >> There we go. Okay. Hi, my name is Kayla Carpenter. I am a junior here at the senior high. I'm involved in basketball, volleyball, band, and a co-president of
student council. >> Hi, I'm Justin Ru. I'm a police officer with the police department here in town. I moved to East Grand Forks in 2020, uh, largely to have my kids grow up in the district here. I have two girls that are in kindergarten and first grade.
>> I'm Rachel Lund. a professor of business at the University of Minnesota Krookton. I'm also the president of our elementary PTO right now. Um, and I have a fifth grader in the district. >> Yes, there we go.
>> Okay. First, I'll just talk about um how it was coming into the task force. I know when I was first asked, I was a little hesitant and nervous just cuz the overview was kind of just budget, taxi, taxes, and bunch of money stuff. And that's not really my scene right now as
a 17-year-old. But, um, getting to talk with everyone and seeing all the different, um, backgrounds, genders, ages, and jobs there, it really helped me feel more comfortable and realize that this stuff actually matters to me as a student and to help our community
become a better place. And it was really nice hearing everyone's ideas and different ways of how we could execute um making our school a better place. >> Well, yes. And um like I said, it was really nice being able to talk to a
whole bunch of different people and bounce ideas. Um like Mr. Dr. Grover said our meetings did go a little long just because of all the different questions and discussions we had. And I know for me, one thing that really stood out to me was the tour of the Central
Middle School and South Point Elementary. Just seeing firsthand the limited space we had for the resources that students needed and how people were adapting just to fit within their means. And also like I said the discussions were very nice and hearing different
ideas and how we could incorporate all them and collaborate. Okay. So as you're all aware a survey went out to all of the residents of East Grand Forks and there was a 14% response rate which is relatively actually very good. Um and we'll give you a good
representative sample if you're all wondering if that's enough people. it is from a statistics standpoint. Um and it was the people who responded were representative of the demographics of East Grand Forks. So in the survey um
people were asked to rank um what areas they thought were of high, medium or low priority. So anything that had a score over 2.0 was considered to be a priority. So, as you can see from the data, safety and security was by far the
highest priority amongst those who answered their survey. Um, followed by HVAC and plumbing, special education, electrical system. You can go to the next one. Um, and then high school CTE addition, and updated classrooms and support spaces. So, those those were all
people felt were important. um exterior site maintenance and a new bus garage and a maintenance building weren't considered to be a real high priority of those who took the survey and you'll see that in you know as you see more of the
recommendations that come out later. Okay, our next slide represents uh a dollar amount of which bond referendum our community would support based on those community survey results. So, this slide is broken down into three uh charts basically or three demographics. The top one is um non-parents that don't
have any students in the district or they're not members of the staff. Uh keep in mind that this is our highest population. It's about 70% of our voting population in the city. The middle graph represents parents of students in the district and the bottom graph represents staff in the district. Um there's a
color coordination for the dollar amount representation that you can see in the bottom left. Um, and the dotted line down the middle represents a 50% support margin. So, you'll see that uh our non-parents non-staff group would support a referendum smaller than $30
million. Parents would comfortably support a referendum in the $30 million range and staff would support a referendum in the $45 million range. When we combine all these together and weight the the percentage of the population, it shows that our community
would likely support up to a $24 million referendum. >> All right. So, when we're talking about, and you probably know all this, but when we're talking about how we can support our schools, there's two types of support. There's operational funding, and then
there's, you know, to do buildings and and those bigger projects. So um so the first part is operational funding support. Um after the committee met and there was a lot of discussion um people
felt that asking for approximately 5 to $600,000 um per year for 10 years was would be viable. and um with the idea that we wouldn't have to increase class sizes. Um that we wouldn't have to reduce
spending on building maintenance. Um it would help us to provide that mental health support and social work for our students. Um it would help us to maintain transportation to allow students access to school. Um these were the priorities where it says we don't
want to reduce these things. These were the priorities of the people who were from the community who were at the task force meetings. um not reducing spending in curriculum and courses, not reducing activities and athletics, um not reducing staffing, and not reducing sped
staffing and support. Um I think one of the things that really surprised me was when I first saw, you know, all the things that wanted to be done, I was like, "Wow, these aren't even fun things. These are just like things that we need." Like I was talking to somebody
in the community and they're like, "What do they need money for?" And I was like, they're not fun things. It's like air conditioning. Like it's it's just like things to make it comfortable to learn. So I thought that was really interesting from my perspective coming into it. Um so our recommendation would be to
request the t um the taxpaying public to approve $600,000 per year for 10 years. Um the reason initially we started at 500,000 but if we went to 600,000 that would allow us to keep our um officer in the school what do they call us
>> school resource officer. Thank you. Um and as you saw on that previous slide that safety and security was a huge issue for people in our communities. >> Oh yeah. Okay. Um one thing okay I'm starting to get to need cheaters so help me here. same.
>> I'm not I'm not giving in yet, though. I'm sorry. Um so, as you can see, um East Grand Forks currently does not have any operational additional operational funding that's coming from our taxpayers. Um in the orange, you can see all the nearby communities and what they
currently have, what their taxpayer base is paying. Um if we were to, you can go to the next slide. If we were to approve the 600,000, you could see that we our taxpayers would be right in the middle of what other communities are funding for operational funding for their
schools. >> Okay. During our discussion, we discussed lots of different financing options for these projects. Um, we discussed non- voterapproved financing options that would just require your approval and obviously we discussed the idea of a rec referendum. Ultimately, the task force felt it was important for
the community to be able to voice their opinion at a vote at a referendum. So, that'll lead us to our ultimate recommendation. So, the task force recommendation is go to referendum in support of the district's needs with a operational
support ask of $600,000 per year. This would help um maintain a commitment to our school resource officer which again pulled as one of the top priorities of our community to maintain that. The second question of the referendum
would be um a capital bonds support proposal that reflects the priorities identified by the community through the surveys. So, the recommendation is for a bond not to exceed $24 million over 20 years with projects focused on improve improvements that receive the strongest
community support and avoiding projects that showed lower support in our survey. Finally, the task force is recommending a third ballot question focusing on the district's preschool program. While this option would exceed the tax impact level that received the strongest support, it
would provide voters an opportunity to address a critical long-term need for the district. The third question would be contingent upon the passage of the second question. So it would not proceed if the second question failed. And the proposal would be to not exceed $8 million and would focus on creating
preschool space in a single location helping free up much needed educational spaces across our elementary schools. Thank you. So you guys I have a question for you. >> A few couple things to share. So within within your when you're within your
discussions and you guys came up with like that you know that $ 24 million whatever however you came up that did not include the preschool at all. >> Yeah there was a lot of discussion about that on on that the preschool being a part of that $24 million because it is such a high priority of the community
and of the task force but ultimately we added in that third question to specifically address that need with the third question. So if the second question passed and the third didn't, that'd be something the district rep decide if they addressed it in that second question. But we felt that it was
important for the community to have an opportunity to voice their support for that project with a third question. I think the other thing that the reason it also became a third question is it wasn't specifically asked on the survey but when the task force came together there was a lot of discussion about
having preschool fragmented between multiple schools and if we could get them together there would be efficiencies and so that's where that came from. That was like almost a whole another hour in the discussion >> and it went back, you know, just hindsight if you recall because you all
saw the survey and we've worked through it where we we hold preschool and it came out as a priority but it wasn't in the mix of everything you know and again I've just said hindsight's 2020. If we would have, we should have probably had it, you know, it mixed in with safety
and security, you know, the the HVAC, the plumbing, the electric, you know, all those different buckets where it was a separate question out on its own. So, it came out, you know, polling fairly high, you know, people supported it, but it wasn't in those other eight areas.
And so, it came out of how does it fall, >> you know, and so again, the horse. Yeah. So what I read that as if if I'm reading this right, if let's say the 24 passes but the eight does not, it would be up for discussion on where that 24
>> No, the 24 through through the the language when when you have a ballot question, it's going to be fairly specific on what >> but it could go to preschool. >> If Rob can maybe speak closer. So depending on how we structure the
ballot question. Yeah. I think back to the task force interaction. So during the task force interaction, there was a lot of conversation was mentioned about the preschool and how to incorporate it and and the real challenge became of all the items that
were priorities. For instance, the safety and security and the HVAC, the plumbing, the electrical systems. If if we were to incorporate that 8 million into the 24, that tax tolerance, what of the 8 million do you want to give up? And so when we talk about infrastructure
like your heating systems, your electrical systems that are multi-million dollar changes, it's what do we want to give up? And and that left even though the preschool is very very important. You have three schools that are aging at the same time, you know,
from 98. Plus, you do have work in the high school that needs to be done, you know, and as was mentioned, there's there's not a lot of sexy in what we're talking about. This is core needs. All in all, the prioritized list of items came to $69 million and the
public said we'll support 24. And so certainly you can say, well, if the third question doesn't pass, you know, let's remove some of the items from this the first capital question, but then you all will have the
conversation around what is it that we give up? Very similar to what the task force said. >> Okay. Does that help? >> Does have a couple final thoughts of things to share. >> Yeah. >> Yes. Overall, I know we just shared a bunch of information with you guys, but
us as a task force collaborated on more things we'd like to inform you guys on. I know one thing that specifically stood out to me that I think is important is that the CMS will have 22 new um students coming with specific or different needs and how there's not
enough space as we saw in the tour of the central middle school to provide those needs for those specific students and also how our sped program is 30 plus% which is over double of the 14% state average and so we need more room
and resources for of those students. And then lastly, how our first bullet, how we should be prepared um with different questions on what happens if this doesn't pass and what it could mean for us students and us as a community, for
our school. >> And going back to the SPED, I didn't realize this and this was a big thing for me was that we only get reimbured for 60% of the costs of our sped students. And so, you know, we're we're
essentially having to make up for that in our allocations. Um, so that was a really big eye openener for me as a community member. And then I think the best question that was asked in the task force was what happens if this doesn't pass? And it was, wow, like, well, we're going to have to cut positions and we're
going to have to have bigger class sizes. And I think that was also very eye opening to me. One of the things that really stood out to me, I have two daughters that just went through the preschool program. So, I know the challenges that they're faced with kind of being spread all over the place and um intermingling with older
students. So, that was something that really stood out to me as important. And getting a chance to get into the schools and tour them and see those challenges firsthand was really eye opening. So, that really stood out to me. And then another thing is to always try to, you know, keep our wages and things competitive for to keep our our students
and staff strong here. Um, you know, I I new to the community. I came here again to to be a part of this district and I I love the district but I want to keep the staff that we have the good staff. >> Are there any other you know again not not to have a you know conversation but
are there any questions that just pop in your mind otherwise I'll mention a few things as part of my report um you know about next steps and where we go and you know um that type of thing. Um, >> what was the thought process about
adding fifth grade to CMS? >> I can speak on that. >> Yes. Um, us students actually brought that up. Uh, I know it was a little different for us because we had COVID our fifth grade year and so sixth grade looked a little different for us just with green and wave days. But us as
students um all kind of agreed that it wasn't that big of a change from fifth to sixth grade, which in the plans that Rob had shown to us, they would keep the seventh and eighth grade actually um separated from the fifth and sixth grade
area. So, which was a concern for parents just having fifth and eighth graders together just cuz that is a big big difference. But, um overall with this change with fifth grade joining CMS um and the plan Rob made, it would be a
more um easy transition into the middle school and would provide more space for the different needs that students would need. And I will give kudos and and I've said this and I don't remember if I said it to you last last meeting or not, but as part of that conversation, I was a
little surprised that there was that much concern about maybe fifth grade being with the middle school. You know, 5'8 is not an unheard of middle school, but you know, we're used to what we're used to. You know, kind of like there schools that are 1012 for high school. You you know, we're 912 and I don't think any, you know, one right thinks
about it. But anyway, there was and you're probably right by an hour and one of the and I don't know if it was you or um one of the students chimed in, you know, have you thought about as seventh graders, we had preschool kids in the bathroom with us, you know, and I would rather have, you know, middle five, six,
seven, and it everyone kind of just wow, didn't really think about, you know, and again, it's not set in stone. Again, Nexus has done well given some options. Again, keep in mind they're 10,000. They're they're pre-esigned plans. Nothing set. But yeah, that is if we're going to do this preschool thing, most
likely where we'd end up with a 58 building, 912 building, and so on. But >> how did the other two build? So then is it >> preschool? >> It'd be preschool K1 and then 2, three, four. >> 2, four. Okay. >> Yes. >> 58. And and so again, >> the bottom ones,
>> you know, >> ideally, and again, we'll get to that, you know, more down the road. >> Yeah. this this you know preschool question has remodeling at the middle school to make that really work as well as remodeling in a wing of the new new heights to actually make the preschool
rooms bigger have a bathroom in each one you know that's some of the stuff that comes along with that question and of course if the board decides to go ahead with something marketing is going to be a piece of it and you know having meetings and and explaining what 24 million gets what 8 million gets and
then back to the operating question of the 600 um as kind of was mentioned that was a big was the focus of our last meeting of going from five to six again you can't promise it's all general fund money but there is one promise on that 600,000 would be to keep the SRO you
know assuming and we talked about it the you know was it a year or two years ago when the state had an issue with SRO you know if something like that happens yeah the district's not you know but otherwise that's why the safety and security kind of drove that question to ask for the extra 100,000 so that it's
there for 10 years. You know, >> Kevin, I think it's important to note too that that that plan was part of what got that cost down to $8 million to when it was pulled it was, I believe, $14 million. So using existing space got that cost down too. >> Good point. Very good point.
You know, and back to the fifth grade question, parents, there were concerned parents and there were some who were like, I mean, I was like, my kids already playing sports with a sixth grader, whatever, you know, but there were parents who were concerned about their kids. Um, so I think there would have to be an educational component
there as well and how they're going to be separated. So, >> thank you. >> Yeah. >> Thank you guys for being for for involve, you know, your time in Yeah. All right. Thank you.
>> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay. 5.2 is the Indian Education Parent Committee. Appreciate that. Okay. >> Hi. >> Hi. I'm Hi, I'm Ki Shakabe. I'm
president of the American Indian Parent Committee. I have two kids in the district and one in first and eighth grade. Hi, my name is Jennifer Compo. I am a member at large on the American Indian parent committee and I have a first grader and soon to be kindergartener
entering the district. All right. Um the Minnesota American Indian Education Aid Plan for the school year 2026 2027. The purpose and um commitment um of our program is laying the foundation for
academic success, cultural identity, post-secondary preparation, and intercultural awareness. What is a Minnesota American Indian Education Plan? So, the purpose of the Minnesota American Indian Ed Plan is that it's a
state funded program specifically designed to support American Indian students. Our focus is on academic excellence and closing gaps. Um positive cultural identity information formation, post-secary and career readiness. And
our commitment is that we believe in transparency and responsiveness to our community's unique needs and provide data-driven decision-making, culturally responsive programming, and strong family and community partnerships. Goal one is to support postsecary
preparation for American Indian students. Yes. So we work on that by um increasing the post-secary enrollment for our students. Hopefully our goal is by 10 percentage points. Um provide individualized
planning for each student to ensure that every student completes a career interest inventory and post-secary plan by the end of their junior year. and includes 90% activity participation and we plan to do that by achieving participation in at least one targeted
college or career readiness activity annually. Um goal two is to support the academic achievement of American Indian students. So we progress monitoring um systematic quarterly reviews of dis desegregated
data to align with the Minnesota statues through MCA assessments and attendance rates and GPA. Um encourage family and literacy engagement through community events and culturally relevant resources uh through readathome challenges, literacy nights and family learning
nights focusing on attendance and impact and targeted interventions delivered in culturally responsive environments. emphasizing relationship building by adjusted interventions based on quarterly data, specialized take-home tools for atrisisk students and
workbooks and flashcards. Um, goal three is to make curriculum relevant to the needs, interest and cultural heritage of American Indian students. This is some of the most impactful and
important um of the goals we have I believe um to really encourage cultural learning. Uh the opportunities provided for students and families to engage in hands-on indigenous learning and traditional practice is incredible. Um
we offer guest speakers and elders that show us storytelling, traditional art, beating and traditional practices. um offering in incorporating accurate indigenous perspectives across core subject areas with a regional tribal
nation focus. So incorporating that into our social studies and histories, language arts and literacy, environmental education review of instructional materials and then ensuring curriculum implementation is respectful, accurate and free of discriminatory effects through
partnership. the AIPAC collaboration and review, accuracy and identity reflection, and continuous progress monitoring. Goal four is to provide positive reinforcement of self-image of American
Indian students. >> Yes, absolutely. Um, so increasing student reported sense of belonging by providing positive identity and culture. And we can do this by continuing the integration of the seven grandfathers teachings into SEAL programming to
enhance social and emotional outcomes and cultural relevance for all learners. The seven grandfathers teachings are critical in our culture and they include wisdom, love, respect, bravery, honesty, humility, and truth.
The environment is inclusive, supporting students success through dis district-wide PBIS and structured SEAL professional development, cultural enrichment, indigenous guest speakers, annual graduation and recognition
ceremonies, which ours is this Thursday at Central Middle School, and I hope you all can make it. Um, it >> uh 5:30. >> Okay. >> Yes, please send it out. Um 701 barbecue is catering safe, welcoming and
reflective classrooms. Goal five is development, intercultural awareness among students, parents and staff. So we provide staff training. Um so ongoing professional development in all areas of our district is important. Um,
we focus on culturally responsive teachings, tribal sovereignty and history to support American Indian students, family engagement, um, strengthening connections through regular AIPAC meetings, community family nights, and encouraging active participation in school programming, and
then that inclusive climate again, promoting awareness and appreciate appreciation through schoolwide cultural events such as indigenous people's day and guest speaker presentations, governance, and program accountability.
So we do get funding and our funds are strategically used utilized to enhance existing programs never to replace them. This principle ensures that American Indian students receive the dedicated additional support they deserve while remaining in full state compliance.
And then we also have the strategic oversight. Um and we serve as the cornerstone of our program's integrity. With careful consideration and care, we ensure our efforts remain fully accountable to our students and families.
Together, we support student success through academic excellence and cultural pride. Any questions or discussions? Any questions for the committee? >> So, I will just pipe in later in in in
the meeting in the consent agenda and you'll notice the wording. it is to accept the American Indian. It's not something really the board has to approve. Um it comes from the um parent involvement committee the recommendation. I mean, if you totally were against something going on,
obviously it's our school, you know, and you could, but for the most part, um the the parent involvement committee, you know, is making this recommendation along's out of town, otherwise she would be here. And so, um unless there's major objection to what they're trying to do,
um that's why they're here tonight legally, they have to present it to the board. And, uh so unless you have questions, um thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. 5.3 is enrollment update.
Got you on the run. >> Yeah. >> No. Um so in your um packet you have the the numbers. Um unfortunately we are down and again when I say seven students obviously it's not seven for the year. It's from the point. Um we have a little disagreement on one 12th grader um
looking into that, but for the most part we lost one um 12th grader um dropped out. Um we have um there's three freshmen. One uh went online at quarter time. Um there's there's one that 15-day
dropped. Again, working on finding out where where they went because they have dropped off the map. We have reported them to the the county um for some help because honestly don't know where where they're at. Um but um the reality is again from um month ago when we were
here you're down seven. Um again six are from the the high school for the most part. You gain one at seventh grade. You you lose sorry I can't read my own writing. I think three at fifth grade and then you're up one um in third grade
again. um in the like I said um so I don't have um we'll talk about online learning here in just a few minutes. Good. 5.4 finance update. Good evening everybody. Right, we're coming to that that time of
year where things are starting to level off and expenses are coming to an end. So, um hoping things will stay consistent here for the remainder of the year. Um we're going to jump into the general fund expendure expenditures um under object series. So, the second one we're going to and then we'll go back to
revenue. So, um the one that I wanted to point out is purchase services is over budget at this time. Um our PSO and our online bill came in much more than anticipated. So that that is what's driving that cost rate there.
Um I didn't look at the exact dollar amount, but it was larger than anticipated. So that being said, we're going to go back up to revenue. And if you look at the local other, we are up just over 100%. Um so that's kind of offsetting
some of that expenses. So right now we are where we projected to come in at the end of the year. So if that stays consistent, we will meet our goal. Um it's not the way we wanted to end the year, but that's the way we're looking.
So, any questions on that page? Okay. Um jumping on to the next page, looking at the other funds. Um at the beginning of the year and at um amended budget time, we kind of we were conservative on the revenues for food service and community ed. We are coming
in a little bit higher than we were at this time last year. So that those funds are coming going to be a little bit higher than we anticipated. Um food service the cost for food is up a little bit but we are purchasing less so it's
kind of leveling out there. Any questions on that page? All right. So treasure report is the same. We monitor monthly very closely. We are still sitting at 1.5ish 1.4
before um less than we were last year which is expected with where we are in the deficit. So any questions there? >> That's all I had tonight. >> Thank you. >> Thank you.
>> All right. 5.5 is administration and department head reports. And we'll start with you, superintendent. >> Before I forget, just I I looked at my calendar. 5 to 7 is the American Indian um ed graduation ceremony at C CMS on Thursday if anyone wants to um attend.
So just so I don't um again in no specific order as normal um we've been talking online learning and so working with Brian um and some of his staff um we feel like we're coming we're going to have online ready to go for next year. um the the I don't want to say biggest
debate, but the biggest conversation that we've been having is kind of what it should look like. Um and as you look across the state, um there are some places that you can come and take one class, you know, kind of onesies if you want be halftime, be full-time, you
know, it's up to you. We don't agree with that being the place to start. Um just afraid that someone will come in and I don't like that math class or I don't like that, you know, English teacher, so I I want to take that. So again, looking there are places like Oatana that you have to be full-time
online. You know, there is no in between and and I guess we're we're going to fall in the middle and go you're either going to be halftime or full-time is is is and again where we're recommending and so um I throw it out to the group to have some thought. We don't need, you
know, there's nothing on action tonight, but we will um start putting stuff into the handbook and obviously unless there's going to be a major change, we want to get word out so that we don't want everyone registering. When I say everyone, whoever's interested in this,
you know, on August 28th or whatever the date may be, we want to get word out and you think this is going to apply, why don't you make an appointment at the counselor's office and come in and look at what it looks like. So, that's where we're looking at starting. um is, you know, you'd either be half or full. And
obviously, as a parent coming in to work with the counselor's office, you know, they're going to ask when, you know, would you prefer having mornings off or afternoons off? You know, what are you looking for? And then we do the best weekend to schedule. There are certain classes, you know, band there's only one hour. You know, Coke, there's only one
hour. You know, certain things that, you know, um we can't guarantee it'll be perfectly a half yet, you know, where you get four, five, six, sorry, five, six, seven, eight off. might be you have four and you have to be here five and then you know if that's what you choose that's the way it works or there are
some that may be you know like now we have everyone's full-time that is online maybe we'll pull some of those back in the building you know if they could but Oatana is not that that way but we we're just too skeptical about doing the you can go take one class two classes right
now to start let us get our feet under get the program going and see so again I throw that out if you have you know um how would I say it uh strong feelings you know one way or another or different from something I guess we would be
interested otherwise you know Brian and his team as well as it could be oh the other thing is we're looking we don't have any elementary kids right now we're looking at saying this is you know middle through high school you know um as an option because that's what um
unless we want to you know pay for another piece of it but again we don't have any first graders now online. So, I don't foresee that um being in and again we don't know how many this is going to be. Any questions on that right now?
Um negotiations I um I I have gotten something from the paras not you know just the request to negotiate. We don't have any dates set or anything like that. Um the administrative assistance um again it got the same thing but they emailed a um you want to call it an
offer and I guess in the past like last time it maybe just went back and forth in so I guess I'm just reaching out to Lyn, Amanda and Josh. I'm I haven't gone through and and kind of I will get something to you. I don't know if you want to us to meet at a certain time to
go here's what they did. would do you want to counter with or whatever. But um what I am understanding is last time the group actually never formally met. >> I don't I don't remember it. >> Well, it just went back and forth through email, you know, sharing proposals, so to speak. It kind of
caught me off guard. I've never had But >> yeah, >> so anyway, we got something. >> I got it last week. I didn't have a lot of time last week with being gone the week before. I might as well hit on that. As you're aware, I took vacation, went to Wolfridge. What an experience.
and and I got nothing but um awesome and kudos and to see kids and staff and and family or parents in a different light. It was really cool and um the amount of work goes into um it's just cool. So that that was awesome. An awesome
experience. Um graduation, you should have a letter um that Mr. Lure had put um if there's any questions or if anyone knows that they can't make it, you know, just so we don't have extra seats up front and plan. Um and again, if you
have any questions, I guess, you know, I can maybe answer, but Brian's the key. Um again, he has set up and I don't know if he contacted all of you or how they chose of who's handing out diplomas. Um but it's kind of set there. You can read through it. Um,
any questions on graduation? Because we won't meet before then. We have a meeting on the 26th if I recall. I don't have it in front of me, you know, Tuesday. We can talk about that. Um, mentor, we the the groups have been meeting throughout the year and so the
union has that at this point to start looking at. The committee has kind of went through redone. Um, I'm going to say simplifies, but also um I think tightened certain things up. And so, um, the union's going to look at it. If if they're somewhat in agreement, then it'll come to the board to look at and
and like I say, um, just wanted you aware that that's moving forward. Um, we'll we'll start looking at the evaluation plan following that. Um, I've mentioned to a couple people, uh, the Career Impact Academy, you know, we've talked about having a few kids that have taken like say Woods one and two here to
be able to go take something that we don't offer. Um, and again, we've started that process. Um, Grand Fork School Board is actually looking at anou tonight. Um, and again, so if they're on board, it'll come to you at at the next meeting. And again, it has, you know,
financial piece to it, but for the most part, um, Chad and I have been over and met, um, with their team a couple times and and, you know, for the most part excited to see, again, dip our toes in it. It's it's limited at the number of people and what they can take right now. And we'll see, you know, for instance,
like our um, CNA, we lost our instructor. We only have one class. That's one that, you know, 10 kids can go out there and take um if we have that. And so, um more to come on that. Um Nexus, as we um talked about, we've had several meetings. We actually, um um
going forward now, you have a month or sorry, you have a couple weeks um to think about it. And the plan would be to get a recommendation from the board um at the next meeting. Does it have to happen? No. But obviously at some point we need to. is this um I would again I'm
just going to speak openly you know recommend we take what the task force but again the board has the final say um and that was part of you know um having to bring them back a third time was to look at this you know SRO position that um and secure and safety and so they
chose to up it or recommend up from 500 to 600 um and again um going forward you know it's the other pieces you notice the con the um question two comp contingent on question three. Um and again there can be some conversation. Do
you want question two contingent on question one? You know you can do that and again you know we can have some conversation you know but it's something to think about you know where because you know and part of the reason for tying questions and that
came up as part of the task force is you know just say we tied nothing and you got the preschool approved but nothing else. you know, I mean, does that support the highest priorities of the district or not? You know, um, and that's something that you have to think
about, you know, and what and it's not uncommon, you know, one person isn't holding something hostage for something else. Yeah, you can look at it that way, but many of the referendums, you know, the groups do that, you know, and so it's not so it's it's a piece we have to
think about. Um, but again, thank thank you to Nexus. Thank you to the task force. Um there's actually um a and I'm going to call it a chamber group that has been invited for tomorrow night in this room to bring in and just talk about where we're at. You know,
nothing's been decided, but we want people, you know, if they're not tuning in, not attending meetings to to start hearing about, you know, I guess I'm fairly confident something's going to come. we don't know what and exactly what form just like we had group of um
the A group in you know to to hear and talk about it and ask questions and learn. So um I'm excited. I think it's it's going well. Um and again you know going back to like the operating for the most part we don't promise anything. You know it's operational revenue. The only
thing with going to the 600 though I think there would be and again I say promise you know the board keeping their word that the reason it's at 600 instead of 500 is we're putting 100,000 you know towards and it's no different than a
group donating 5,000 to robotics. We honor that you know and so this would be a similar type deal. If you don't when you go for an ask we're going to have to answer to the public you know. So, um I think that's what I have at this
point. >> Okay. >> Do you have any committee reports? >> No, other than like I say the negotiations and we are going to have some policies changing and so as we get into summer um I'm going to be bending bending here on that to you know things
over. >> Okay. All right. We're on to principles. grow. Hold it. Hold it. Turned off. Okay. Hello. It is May. That
is wild. Um it's kind of getting combined because we haven't chatted for a while. So um we wrapped up reading month and held our closing ceremonies. We have had two spot assemblies. So we talked about our spot of anger and our spot of sadness.
We had a successful kindergarten roundup. So that was fun going through for the first time. We actually have 135 kids registered at this moment including our super K. Um, so just in the back of your mind to think, I believe right now we're sitting at 148 and we're already
at 135. So that's like if anybody wasn't in preschool before coming to us. And so that number is expected to grow. Um, we will be wrapping up spring assessments this week. So I'll do a report on our goals at our June meeting. We had the Minnesota Toward Zero Deaths
Coalition and Safe Kids Grand Forks came to kind of observe the safe driving habits um and seat belts and smiles campaign. So they came April 22nd. They shared with us a few things that they noticed and we'll get that out to the families. The biggest thing is a lot of kids riding in the front seat and so
Minnesota actually changed their regulation. Um so that's in the little flyer that they put together. So, we'll get that out to families for them just to have a heads up and then always as a reminder using the crosswalk when you go with kids. So, we know that that's maybe an area of growth in my building. So,
we'll keep working on that. Um and then we were finally able to find a date to reschedule Kota Arkment um from school when we was canceled. So, that'll be Monday, May 18th. So, thank you to those that helped to make that happen. So, that's what I got. I'm probably missing things. Like I said, it's miday and my
brain is Wild. Do you have any questions? >> Questions for >> Thank you, >> Melissa. Good evening. Since we've last spoken, um, a lot of
things are happening also out at South Point. We had our third grade program in April. Um in the last couple weeks we have had our fifth grade honor choir perform and if you were there it was um just spectacular. So what was really
cool about it is that u Mr. Moffett and his wife Lindsay who is a music therapist at um Valley Senior Living coordinated to have residents. So we they had four residents on the stage and they performed they sang with the
students. Um they had um employee or uh staff members from Valley that was there and helped. I mean if you know Mr. Moffett and his wife and know how talented they are so they were playing as well as other staff members from Valley. So they had a band. Um they
ended they they sang Lean on Me which was a tearjerker is it was just beautiful to watch the residents and the the students collaborate and sing and then they ended with and I I apologize I don't have his name um beautiful voice
but they sang Alan Jackson's um the older I get so he sang and then the kids came in on the chorus. It was just >> did anybody make it through? >> Uh well then I tried to get up and thank Mr. Moffett and everyone for being there and I was like I told him I was going to cry. So it was very emotional but it was
just a really beautiful way to you know as we're wrapping up the end of the school year and for that that fifth grade um choir. So I just wanted to say a shout out to both Mr. Moffett and his wife Lindsay for coordinating that and we're just hoping that collaboration continues down the road because that was
just awesome to have. Um this last Thursday we had Mrs. floor with her fifth grade band, which was another phenomenal performance as I heard talking about the band um earlier. Our fifth grade just to know where they've come from October when they just get an
instrument in their hand and where they've ended. Um just talking with Miss Lure afterwards. Um a little smaller band than we had like in the last couple years, but they were just phenomenal. They just really rocked it and it was just really cool to see them up there
doing that. Um, we have finished our MCAs. Uh, fifth grade just wrapped up last week um with their science. So, we have both reading and math in all three grade levels, but fifth grade has that third one with science. So, they finished up last week. Um, we're
continuing working on our district assessments. Um, finishing those up and then we're also finishing up our interventions which have gone really well this year. And so um each grade level we're actually the final one will be meeting with fifth grade on Wednesday and just um the collaboration that's
happened with our sped department, our grade level teachers and title and it's just been really cool and really nice to see those students actually moving the dial um with that. So that's been great. We've got field trips coming up tomorrow. Our fourth grade's going to
Bonanzville and so they will be doing that. Our fifth grade is doing a canoe release with um on the river on Wednesday and third grade will have um we'll have the bike rodeo um put on by the Optimus Club will be coming to South
Point to show them those bike safety and what to do with that. Um other fun things that are happening um we have our variety show uh that will be on May 22nd and that is going to be fourth and fifth graders presenting but the whole school's there to encourage and support everyone. But it's that's an always a
great event. Um and we also have our field day scheduled for Wednesday, May 27th. And so we've sent out a schedule to families letting them know when their students are per um participating in those activities. Uh again, it's just
another fun day and a fun way to wrap up the school year. So a big thank you to Mr. Nagel and his team for coordinating that event. And then the last big um celebration that we have is our fifth grade graduation and that will be held on May 28th um the last day of school
from 9:30 to 10:30. And so um that's another emotional which the honor choir and the band will be performing and the each um class picks a representative to give a short speech to represent their class. So it's a very special way to to
end our school year as well. Um so yeah, any questions on anything? All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Hello everyone. Um CMS is busy, has been busy, will be busy um just as well as
South Point and New Heights. Um, Wolfridge. I didn't hear a bad thing about Wolfridge really. It sounded like it was a a very good week for all the seventh grade students that were there. Um, we had 110 115 students participate
and so that's a really cool experience for them. Um, sixth grade concert is tomorrow night, May 12th at 700 p.m. So that's the band and choir. Um, sixth grade and that's our last concert of the year. Um, we have a middle school dance on Wednesday, this Wednesday, May 13th,
from 6:00 to 8. Uh, pizza included with their ticket price. And so I it's been a while since I've shot a middle school dance. So it'll be it'll be good probably. Um, we are done, as Mel said,
with MCA testing as well. And we are doing our star testing. um will be done soon to finish out the year, our benchmark to see where we are with our our growth that we've made this year with our math and reading. Sixth grade's got a field trip coming up on May 21st.
Um we held a parent meeting for students who were um I'm going to say invited identified by um some criteria and some teachers for a AVID to be in our AVID elective. Um there were more families that showed up than I honestly thought
we're going to. Was good questions, good conversations, and still continuing to get emails and phone calls from families interested um in having their students in that AVID elective. Um so we're still working on all of that AVID and um going
to just continue to work up. Uh let's see. Um we had a fifth grade transition to sixth grade um special education transition night on May 5th where we invited the
um students on an IEP that are currently in fifth grade over to the middle school just to kind of get a lay of the land. Um our special ed teachers from CMS were there. Um there were special ed teachers from South Point that joined as well to make that transition just a little bit
easier for them. Uh the full fifth grade transition day is coming up this coming Monday where they will be on the 18th where half of the fifth graders will be walking over in the morning um to get a little sneak peek of what middle school
will be like and then the other half of the class will be in the afternoon. And so that's this coming May or is this coming Monday. Um I want to say congratulations to Danielle Larson and the theater music department. Um, they just got a $13,000 grant from the, and I'm going to pronounce it wrong, um,
Isomeer Endowment for the Arts to update some of the sound equipment on the stage at CMS. Um, that was a little short of what they needed in all. Um, and I they found the funding for the rest of it, too. So, it'll be completely um through grants and donations paid for some new
sound equipment at CMS. um 8th grade transition day. Eighth graders are coming over here to the senior high this Wednesday um morning on the 13th. And then the last thing, uh thank you to Poke County Public Health on Wednesday afternoon. They had a grant
to get some apple trees for nonprofits in the area. Um and so we're getting a couple more apple trees. We have an apple tree and a plum tree at CMS already. Um and so we're getting a couple more apple trees at CMS and those are getting delivered on Wednesday. Um, so a lot of stuff happening. Uh, are
there any questions about what's going on at CMS? >> I'm going to plug one more not to pick on Matt. The 19th is Outsiders Day. >> Yeah. >> Oh, no. Just because so many communities bring vehicles and again I witnessed last year that was awesome, too.
>> It is cool. >> Yeah. And that'll that'll be a first for me as well here just being first year here and it's been talked about for months by staff and students. So, I'm excited. Yeah. Cool. Really cool. Yeah. Thank you, Laura.
>> Hello. >> Hi. >> Uh, so we've been busy with community ed. Also, uh, Hunter safety was in April and we had 22 kids registered that was fil of at capacity. Um, and then we did a slime and play-doh class at New Heights, which was a repeat because in
the fall that filled fast and was um at capacity and filled again this spring, so that was fun to have um that happening. We had inter mural basketball for first and second graders that ran in March and April. There were 43 kids mass. That was good. And then we've
collaborated with the LiveWell Grand Cities to do some cooking classes, one for middle school kids and then two adult classes. summer waves coming up and we have 75 kids registered for that at New Heights this summer. And then um preschool
registration is open and we're getting kids in there. So um if anyone needs to register for that, you register for that just like for K12 on the website and they can reach out to me with any questions. Any questions?
>> Sure, but that's a lot. >> Did you Did you also do interal basketball or who ran >> high school? High school too, right? >> Yep. For high school, too. Yeah. >> How's the turnout for the community ed classes? >> They're almost always full. >> Yeah. If not, it's like maybe one spot,
but usually they're full and then people realize like as it gets close that they haven't registered, so >> Okay. >> They're reaching out. So, it's fun. >> Seen some snaps of people making like noodles or something. >> Yeah, we did ramen. Yeah. Yeah, it was good. >> It's fun. Yeah.
>> Thank you. All right. 6.0 is the consent agenda and I'll move to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> I'll second. >> Any questions or discussion on anything on the consent agenda?
>> All those in favor of approving the consent agenda say I. >> I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay. Motion carries. 7.0 0 is opportunity for citizens to speak. 8.0 is district business. 8.1 is to
approve the resolution relating to probationary teacher non-renewals. Um I will move to approve the res resolution relating to the non-renewal of the contract of Amy Driscoll or teacher as presented and attached.
>> I'll second. >> Any questions or discussion? Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes.
>> Zero. Motion carries. 8.2 is to accept the donations districts. Okay. I will make a motion to approve the following donations. A donation from EGF boosters to boys tennis for an overnight the amount of $824.78.
From the boosters to girls and boys golf for a launch monitor in the amount of $1,5173. From the boosters to girls golf, boys basketball and volleyball practice at the albatross and a CMS scoreboard $268.12.
and $595 for the scoreboard. Um, the boosters also donated to boys tennis for practice at choice in the amount $120. boosters for baseball for an overnight $1,456.92. The EGF arts and crafts to South Point
for lighting $3,92.93 and EGF arts and crafts to CMS for theater sound system in the amount of $2,33821. So total donations today are $10,512.99.
So, thank you. >> I'll second. Any questions or discussion on the donations? >> All those in favor of approving the donations say I. >> I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 9.0 is
moving to approve the payment of claims and accounts. I make the motion to approve the payment of K12 bills 131547 through131734 and the electronic fund transfers in the amount of1,754,97861. >> I'll second.
>> Any questions or discussion? Favor of paying the claims and accounts say I. >> I. >> Any oppose? Motion carries. 10.0 I know. Board member comments. Josh, we'll start with you. >> Uh, I think there's a lot of lot lot of stuff, a lot of information tonight. Um,
graduation just around the corner, summer. Hopefully, we'll get a little taste of it this week. But, and there could be other things, but I I will say that I know that there was one that we didn't talk about, and that was uh the National Honor Society inducted, I think, 20 new members. >> Um,
>> oh, he did a little bit. I can't remember. But, I mean, that was a really cool ceremony. Um, and just hurry up graduation. Let's get let's get this over with. >> Um, not much. I There's a lot going on. A lot of end of the year stuff, a lot of
busy things happening and hopefully um, yeah, we get through all of it and have a successful end of the year and bring on summer. >> Agreed. >> Um, my main one, there's a lot to say. is such a busy month >> for everybody in May, especially
>> May, summer. >> Yeah. Um, but I think we all need to start thinking about PSO classes. I know that they're good for the students, but we need to try to get them in house. We spend a lot of money on them. >> And if we could get them to go get their
college credits here, that would be great. I think they're working on it. >> We're working on it. We'll we'll have, you know, again, it's going to take some time. And competition is the right word. you know, we need to compete and there's some things um we've started having conversations, you know, and again the
board has a final say, but um different places do things differently, >> you know, and and again, right now we, you know, I don't want to say forced, but you know, we we make kids take a full, you know, slate still. I mean, there's places that are treating, you know, with college in the school at the
high school where, you know, if you only need four courses, you know, that's what you can take as long as you're on track to graduate. And it's a piece um we have to think about. I mean typically it hurts your electives, you know, but on the flip side kids are leaving.
>> Yeah. And they >> piece like I say, we're going to bring you something at some point here, but it's a piece that, you know, what's good for kids is taking seven classes, you know, one study hall. But on the flip side, what are a chunk of our kids doing? You know, some are going
full-time because they only need four classes, you know? So it's it's a piece that we do have to talk about, you know, competing >> and like I said, >> yeah, >> just like we are with online. >> Yeah. >> And I also wanted to say that um the
education foundation did the scholarship interviews last week and they were amazing. >> The students that applied just phenomenal. One of the ladies I think >> is done with two years of college ready. >> Yeah. >> With her PSO. She is going to graduate in two years. These students are
amazing. It was awesome to be a part of that. That's all I got. I did freshman interviews today for freshman seminar. >> Oh my goodness. >> And they are amazing. Freshman impressive. So, lots of good kids here.
I wrote down just a few things and I know that wasn't even slightly of what we talked about today, but outsiders day on May 19th. Um, American Indian graduation on May 14th. this week. 5 to 7 middle school. >> Yep. Yep. >> Um graduation next week. Uh thank you to
Nexus and all the task force and everything that's gone into that. There's so much going on sports and activities. Choir concert tonight. One one more plug just for graduation because again even communitywise Chester Fritz
>> Chester Fritz >> you know which is different you know because the marina's under construction and so on. So, um I mean I've never been in the building so I can't say much. >> Question on that. Is it hot like it is in the >> I think it's climate control.
>> It's climate controlled. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Just wondering. >> Yep. It's climate >> parking is just >> parking is can be tough. >> That's Yeah, cuz the last time I went to a show there, I had we had to walk so I don't know what >> I mean they have a parking lot but it's not like right ne it's
>> okay. That's >> hope everybody can enjoy the weather but I went outside today. I felt like I was sand blasted. >> So, um Oh, sorry. Next meeting. >> And and that is not necessarily accurate. We have
>> Right. We can have a meeting second >> for the It's Tuesday instead of the 25th. It's the 26th. >> So, I think >> if we need one, right? >> I think we should tentatively we're going to have a meeting and we'll see what comes and on there >> with Tuesday at 5:30. That
>> can everybody meet Tuesday 5:30? May 26 >> like say >> we'll see what's on and I will coordinate with Lynn to you know are we meeting not >> know what we need Josh says no >> okay >> oh Tuesday I'll figure it out
>> well because Monday's the holiday >> right I Josh's no like really you're no or you just being funny >> uh no It's going to be like no >> have to find a coach for soccer. Make
sure my husband can be there, but >> um >> I feel like I could figure it out. >> Depending on We've done morning meetings before. >> Yep. I'm I can do morning. >> I can't do morning unless I can bring my sidekick. >> You can bring your who? >> The baby. >> Don't ask.
>> Yeah, it's the whole thing. >> Well, okay. So tenatively there's a meeting >> at a time >> the week of the 26th. >> Okay. But we got to figure this out. Can we do morning? >> Yep. >> No, you can't do morning.
>> I can Well, we don't know about >> just going back. What about an evening? I mean, and I don't mean this in a bad way, Josh. Yeah. You know, like Matt couldn't make it tonight. You know, I mean, >> right. 5:30 work for everybody else on that day. >> Yeah, that's fine.
>> That's fine. So, let's just see if we need it. But at least >> 10:30 26. >> Okay. If we have a qu >> we need to have one, we'll have one. 5:30 on the 26th. Okay. 11.0. The next meeting of the board of education, if we need to have one, is scheduled for the
Tuesday, May 26 at 5:30. 12.0 is to adjourn the regular meeting. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Josh. All those in favor of returning