all right roll call we have all board members present none absent so 4.0 i'll make a motion to move to approve the agenda as presented i'll make a motion to approve the agenda i I did the motion you want to do I'll do second sorry uh any if I can just make a couple comments
um number one being if you go back to the closed session if you had printed this off prior I or we changed the language today um of of the reason um I didn't listed as negotiations and it technically couldn't fall under that um
so I just wanted to highlight the the change other than that I think we're good to go okay uh any questions or discussion on the agenda okay all those in favor of approving say I I oppose Motion carries
5.0 communications and reports start with enrollment update so if you look at your enrollment we're we're up three from last month which is always up is a good thing um again you'll just see a little bit one way or the other they're up two kindergarteners up a first grader
up a third grader up a fifth grader down two seventh down a ninth up two and 10th and down 11th so I mean it's just a little one way or the other but for the most part we're in that flat time period which is I think a good thing but we'll
take every plus we can get yep agreed all right finance update Carla good evening everybody good evening all right so um nothing glaring sticks out at me we've been running along just
the way we should be um one note on the first page of the board report um I want to make an comment about the local other revenue and that is elevated this year because of our medical billing or Medicaid billing has up about 100,000 so
that's a big chunk of that that increase there and then also our donations and facility rentals are up this year so those are the two there and then on this anybody have any questions on that page did you want to hit on the other
expenditures just because yep so if we go down to the expenditures in the general fund there um line 50 there it's like 51,000 this year right now we're only at 13% of our budget spent but that's because we're
the line the expenditure is actually in our supplies we just house that overage in that budget line for expenditures so and you're feeling comfortable with where we're at and everything yeah as far as how the numbers are working out looking and what they're projected to
come out at yes yep we're we're pretty we're pretty okay there hopefully opt optimistic um nothing to make a major note on the second page unless anybody has any questions there
and then on the Treasury report um only note we have is we're about 2 million up but I think that is a little bit of timing and a little bit of revenue so we'll see see how that plays out we'll take it yeah me too me too any
questions great thank you y uh 5.3 administration department head reports start with you okay um again just uh running uh number one if you didn't see um the uh web post Facebook post um
congratulation goes to Miss Beth Veter on being named the Minnesota Association of Secondary School Principles the Northern Division Assistant Principal of the Year so um congratulations hats off um appreciate the hard work um in front
of you there's a copy of the strategic plan and just to um again it's in draft form don't worry about formatting you know whenever it's said and done it'll get into ones you see around the school and stuff bigger size print get formatted but just to make sure everyone's on board um started out with
um the district leadership and administration um putting some uh survey questions together we surveyed surveyed students staff parents and community members took that information then um I'm just going to say uh ranked it if
you will you know found common themes like that we then kind of somewhat mimicked this the plan from before we changed the the goals a little bit over here or I should say the focus areas a little bit um came up with some goal areas and again it's it everything's in
draft form um it went back and forth and then the latest has been to put some column objectives but here are some things we would do to meet those okay administration as well as the district leadership team it's where it's all come from um that and some AI as we talked about when we were going through the
survey and stuff um and so now not expecting to do anything with this tonight take it and start looking at it for the most part the major areas in you know the the surveys are addressed somewhere in there okay communication positive negatives in a couple different
places um so that's what this is for to start like I say looking over um and looking for input on if there's things because again just because something wasn't in the survey whatever the board could add stuff could say "No we
disagree." Um the board has final say so um that's where that is if you have questions please let me know um please don't sit and read the whole thing through the meeting tonight uh uh just so you're aware I I passed on um
to Mr lure last week um he's going to work on getting a school board member getting a process for the start of next year to have a student school board member so um he's off and running with it whether it's student council honor society something come up with a little bit of criteria obviously it can change
but um with the goal of having someone in place um and I'll just be honest and I haven't even thrown this at Jill but I did talk with one of her staff see how it goes maybe a year from now we'd put a middle school person on you know um and get you know a new building's
perspective so anyway that's running um I am to uh let you know we did have a sick leave bank request this is in the teacher contract um pulled a committee together um again it's of the right representation and a couple board members were on it and um the the
agreement was to um grant the request and so that's off and running but part of the language is we're supposed to notify the board um that that that request was made and going so that's all I'm doing is private information of who and exactly what but any questions on
that okay um academy coordinator um a group did interview for that um there is a recommendation and I'm just going to throw it out of Mr gracal here to for that position but there is something that has come up um and again it's on his end and I'm not going to say in a
bad way when he retires if he wants to can I draw some money he can't be employed at the time and so it's not I I mean theoretically like for TR I think you need one day of SER that has not what we're looking at so we have an agreement in place it'll come to the
board but it's not going to be taken care of right now okay and t typically that position wouldn't work in you know he's done principal at the end of June so probably later July or the first meeting in August that contract will come forth free all of them no he'll be f
um here's one though and again whether we need action I don't think we do but um the calendar which was approved before I came here and again it's worked just fine you've approved next year's already but um we changed the last day the last Wednesday from early out to the
last day which is Thursday as early release i just assumed it was early release well in the past they've gotten out at 12:50 and 11:15 and we just have to if that's what we're going to do get the info out um I don't know if the And if it is we'll
continue that for the following year that's what's been done I guess is that for this year you're saying well correct i mean it's not noted on the calendar but yep they just have done more than an early out we didn't have early outs
before so it's always been like So Wednesday will be a normal day wednesday is normal and it's on the calendar that way thursday was to be early out and of course when some people think of well most people think of early out it's you know an hour early right well this is more than an hour i guess it's been that
way I don't know how long and just because it's been that way doesn't mean it has to be that way i'm just we need the communication out so make sure correct if I think it's fine we're fine okay and then I'm not going to bring it back to you next year we're just going to we'll get it out and we want to
change it we can change it at any time um facility assessments um and so we had that conversation as part of our work session and I've been in contact with three out of the four that um were uh
interested the one that um I haven't contacted i can't find much from people that have worked with them they're in rebranding it's this in inbuilt they were Apex before and so I'm I'm a little leery to really extend the olive branch i did talk with Carl Anderson ICS and
Nexus i think ICS and Nexus are the two that are interested um I know you'd recommended but I don't know how to you know unless we're going to open the RFP you know it's open and we haven't done anything but just to start reaching out and trying to find um I guess my thought
with IC and Nexus would be to have each of those groups come and present to the board um you know limit whether it's 20 minutes half hour like at our next board meeting do our work first and then let them come and give their spiel um of why
they may or may not be the test um because a little more it's on your dime you know on what it's exactly I shouldn't say our dime you know taxpayer um that's my thought they're both open to it um I haven't asked for any updated
documents because like say if that's what we're going to do let them put their spiel together um thoughts i mean interested in hearing from both of them you know firsthand it's April 28th right yeah and so I guess my thought was you know just
assuming we don't have a ton we'll schedule because again I don't want you know each of them sitting in you know say one at um 6 and one at 6:30 that would give us a half hour if we're a few minutes late you know sure and April 28th is
when there but the flip side is we we can you know it'll be recorded yeah you know I mean at least it gives sure that we all have some great Yeah yes four three that's four four
four of us too so yeah if you're all gonna be we got Oh I'm I'm I'm not going there we're good we would be with Yeah yeah okay okay so I'll get that set up oh uh just so
you're aware too this Ryan from the realtor that's working on that i am going to do a walk through of the furniture store just to get a grasp of like I say I mixed feelings but like I say just to see what it actually looks like what's in there what's not in there if that would become part of the
conversation down the road but I just thought it was probably easy easier i'll see if Ron or someone can go with so a couple sets of eyes just to look at it and have an idea any questions on that anything special you would like from the two groups other than you know they know
what we're kind of looking from um but what their typical process is how they've worked with some districts I do have a packet of them that like you say we can share um it's a lot you know it's a reference doc they're going to give us options or is it all going to be just
this is going to be your option is it going to be one option is it going to be three options yeah I guess I haven't asked for multiple I mean I think here their spiel of typically what they have to offer how they you know would work through what they think should be done
you know and it can be a question and answer you know this isn't like a job interview where we have to ask the exact same thing to both it's a conversation and they're both walking through all of our buildings correct then yeah Nexus came and did prior to the other one and
um and ICS has been in all of them you know and they work with our 10-year plan they just haven't done any major projects with you I don't think um they have with some other schools around so yeah they're they're familiar um to be honest ICS is more familiar you know
than Nexus is but um so um couple last things uh just so you're aware with the ongoing discussion of tariffs that popped here a week or so ago we had um and it came from I'm
pointing at Jason the technology groups um very worried about what's going to happen with the the tech prices we typically get third third grade and eighth grade replace the Chromebooks it's in the budget okay um we took and
ordered them ahead so it's what's going to happen is we're going to go more negative in this year and when next year starts we'll backfill the general because they're not going to go down and if they would happen to whatever jump a certain they had them on st and as long
as they're in stock we could get what we needed um and we did the same with um the one group of teacher devices that were replacing so um it was it was a decision they came in we think as good price but if they were going to jump 20
30 40% we just felt you know now you can't do that with everything you know I mean but a given that um it's what's done every year let's let's go for it so just kind of heads up eventually when the budget numbers come through keep
note and it's going to swing for a little bit and that and that'll get us through next year yep yep we didn't get to the like the new line boards we're in conversation with admin of you know we'll get some more of those yet but you can only do so much you know i mean you come purchase all your fuel and all your
you know who knows it's kind of settled a little bit but on the other hand you know just take the Apple devices for teach they're not going to drop you know so I don't think it was a big gamble or even the Chromebooks you know where they're at but they could definitely
have taken a 20 30 well I think they said 50% possibly you know but you know so anyway just throwing that out there um the last thing I gave you a sheet um this one right here okay that
um there's some conversation or a request I use the word plea that um for technology if you recall when Tina earned her position at uh new heights as an assistant principal We then went last year to replace Tina
um in the trades area construction trades um she was part-time out at CMS and part-time at the high school unfortunately we couldn't hire that position we didn't get anyone qualified so in the whatever last hour or whatever
Jill came up with doing Spanish out there to fill the um special area or whatever you want to call we were fortunate uh to find uh a person midy year um so the plan was to bring them back and have them you know back in that
part-time the challenge is and we have that okay that there's more demand if you look at that sheet for the trades area tech area welding wood shop whatever um they do have a solution um I'm not saying a long term but at least
for next year um a person that would do the part-time shop out at the middle school if we're interested in you know having the options here um more numbers are going to go into these classes according to Mr lure and feel free if
you want to if if I'm misspeaking anything but some of the other electives there's too many kids in so they got to go somewhere and some of these classes aren't full some are but I guess the question is it's not budgeted you know what I'm saying it would be for the most
part about a halftime ad the person would be full-time but we have some other things that they could do out there um you know before a like building so so it would Sam would stay here full-time and we would fill the elective the the
shop classes out at CMS it's not a longterm that we can do this i mean if we did it long term we're going to have to find a different teacher um but someone stepped up that has the skills out there and and could do it for a year maybe two i don't think it'll go any
longer than that um but it's up to you if you want like I say and according to Mr floor the reason that the trades number of teachers has went down has not been the lack of students it's been we haven't been able to find people you know qualified does I got a couple questions does this suffice everything
at the high school then kind of if you have two here that'll give you enough to take care of everything here yep yep that's what we were at our height yep
but you wouldn't you would not have a half here anymore you'd have two oh yeah yep yep and then they'd have a half at CMS or Correct and longterm and again um the admin group has to fight you know each for their own building advocate for
their own building you know longterm meaning a year or two if we can't I believe you need a feeder program you know so I mean for some reason if we can't hire down the road or or suffice the middle school has to have some shop if not there's a lot of space out there
that you better redesign and there's your preschool I guess if we want to continue and I don't want no it's not the right No it's very much in this and we want to try to continue having that at the middle school correct we want shops we want those trades offered there and are
these positions all like it's up and it's been up for a year and a half as far as that well we hired the Yep i know we hired that one and so that Well what we had yep so are we still budgeted for the two and
a half here and half at the middle school no the the half out there would be an addition and that's why saying you know I mean it's definitely what's good for kids and it's needed but it will be a little adjustment um for the most part
we my thought is I think it's the right way to go but again it is you know it's it's a little increase um a couple of our hires have come in bottom step which is good um well just financially it's a good thing financially not a lot of
experience this and that there's one that um does have um some credits and stuff so I mean it's hard to say exactly where we're going to wash out there um we're still looking for a couple people and you know where they're at so until they're official it's hard to say with
our predictions where we exactly come out um I think it's in my humble opinion as part of the board i think it's very important well I think to have a halftime Not only does it help with the students
and the trades and engaging those um those kids who love the trades even if you don't love the trades i mean I love the trades and I was terrible at them um but like for Jill too like for scheduling and the like that that's
important so um I would be on board for half an FTE out at the middle school is that something where we could look at a rotation like we've done before from local people local trades it's open i mean right now we have a person that can step
in and we can you know fill down the road i think we're going to have to be open i mentioned to Lynn earlier um it's kind of hindsight and not that it's completely too late but um I believe Mr hopka plans to retire don't have anything in writing in a year that's what I've been told i mean if you knew
that we should almost be posting now and if we could get someone you know get them a year and because we've struggled and a lot of school schools have struggled to get I think I think you know it's it's probably u a high risk but it's the reward at the end if you know that we have someone in the trades
that's going to be gone soon to to post something and then that's another option and then we figure out the budget unfortunately we figure out the budget because at least that we have that person then because it's worse it's worse off for everybody if we don't have that person because that's what happened
this year the way his decision too if he knows we have somebody if we were to find somebody could I mean like I say the demands there right now so I mean you know like you say the person that is an option if you would like to before we do a a movement we can post for a couple
weeks and see if we get any bites of Do we get CTE dollars yes yep we we we get some Carl Perkins assuming they qualify yet you know to will completely come out of our who wouldn't come out correct correct it might be something where you move
forward with the halftime person who is wanting to step into the middle school post you know and see if there are any bites but but the internal we went I guess I would say we post and if you could hire then that person can stay doing what they're doing out there and
this person would either be you know part-time out there and some hours here you see what I'm saying where if we move that person and then you get a full-time now we you know because we're going to have to replace what that person teaches you know that's where the extra is so I mean if we want to post
and see if we get any great but the the idea for planning would be is that we're going to have tech out there are you with me Joe do you have room if we got a full-time or no
well if we got a fulltime Yeah that's what Yep that's kind of what I'm post post everybody okay with posting see y again whatever works out we can update and have formal action down the road so that is all I have at this point
unless someone has questions we'll move on to principles This bad all right good evening um so new heights report um March last obviously last month was I love to read month had
um which was a huge success like I said before our group has been awesome um organizing um we had book bingo and stuffy night um if you don't know what the stuffy night is um had about seven boxes in my office
of stuffed animals or the bodies of the animals and then the kids were able to go in and stuff them and do their thing in between the book bingo um we had a parent readin we had a character parade we had UND aerospace UMC science uh groups came out
and um Aaron Peterson Dr aaron Peterson I for those of you that don't know was a fifth grade teacher with us um for a while she is now an author of the book When the Going Gets Tough so she came and presented to each one of our grade
levels so that was fun to have um kindergarten registration has been open and online for a couple weeks and as of right now we're expecting about 130 kindergarteners um with the
preschool and Head Start um and then a few others and we're probably we've estimated always between 15 and 20 walk-ins so we're looking at that and that's not
including the super K so um Oh they're already part of that registration we thought of that last year and we ended up perfect so we'll just we'll just go with it so we're going to be all right um kindergarten is
having their music program on the 29th so that'll be in the afternoon and in the evening um the Northwest Service Co-op has been doing a um like a a recognition one person can
make a difference um we've had four people that have been recognized uh Mark Deetsz who was our fill-in um janitor for about eight weeks um did a remarkable job our staff loved him
um I wish he would have stayed but uh he had to move on uh Tammy Schumacher and Rachel Heming both were um recognized and then uh Jod and Lacy our front office people were recognized as well uh our teachers are looking forward to
finishing up OLA the readac training um we're getting close to being done we should be done by the end of the month uh we've been busy interviewing trying to fill positions um it's always a fun time of year when you're stick handling trying to move around people and trying
to find the right fit um we've we have found a few um and you'll be approving some of those tonight um this is an interesting number so um Miss Hulse does the jump rope for heart for the American Heart Association she raised $7,000 at
New Heights this year wow about $2,000 over her um goal pto is doing the backpack to school toolbox um kind of a fundraiser it's a nice thing parents can get online order that it's delivered to
the school and then PTO comes in and separates it out and delivers it right to the school or right to the kids' classroom so they're they're working on that second graders are going to Good Sam the first week of May do a little program for them that's always fun for
those people to to fill in their uh sanctuary there and our kids do a great job our students will be doing fast bridging OG testing to finish up to see where we're at and what our growth is here beginning the second week of May
nothing else any questions for Chad all right thank you thank you thank you good evening i have a lot of similarities to Chad over at New Heights um our teachers are very excited as we're wrapping up Ola um that our last
live session will be on April 30th so that should be the conclusion for that OLA session throughout the year we've had our third grade music program so all three grades have had their music programs we'll have our choir and our band will also have a final presentation
in May we are also in the middle of MCA's so that's been fun um good times the kids have been working really hard though and really doing their best on that so we're kind of wrapping up with our reading right now and then we're slowly getting into our math and fifth
grade will um end with science that first week in May so getting that done as well as with fastbridge and OG and morphology assessments that we'll be doing as well um we're really excited we'll be welcoming over our incoming
third graders on April 24th um that's a chance for those students who are on IEPs to see how similar but yet different that South Point is to New Heights and get a chance just to meet those resource teachers see those resource rooms and take a little bit of
that anxiety off the plate for them is that the everybody or just that's just our students on IE that we do that for at this time um something that we could look at in the future um because I do know that those second graders just as our fifth graders because our fifth graders will also be doing that
transition over to middle school that Jill probably will be touching on um just for that opportunity just to walk in the school and just see what the school looks like and so that's just takes a lot of anxiety off of the plate for those kids and so it's we've done it for the last few years and so excited
that we can continue that and yeah we're just really in the midst of working on scheduling and like Chad said um looking at those new hires and placing people in maybe different areas and so it's a busy time of year
very much any questions all right thank you thank you all right let's talk middle school um I uh have to recognize to um Mrs veter and the work that she has done with our students and the recognition of being a
middle level assistant principal is a pretty um great thing the when he said it was MASSP northern division that is our state is divided into eight principal groups and she's um among a really nice group of really great um
leaders uh Brian can attest to that too um lots of really good principles to choose from and really great to get that recognition among peers we know we really appreciate her last week it was assistant principal week and in our buildings we do our own celebrations of
who our staff are and um one of the things that we did for Mrs veter was just notes of appreciation from staff and I really wanted to read them because they secretly were submitted to me but um Beth got to share those and um or got to read those and and to know that um
you know the work that she does is hard it's difficult to be an assistant principal it's tough to be in that position because oftenimes you're perceived as the bad guy um and she is not she does a lot of things behind the scenes and so certainly uh well deserved to get that recognition um also wanted
to recognize a couple of other um of our staff at the middle school um Mrs freriedeland and Miss Helman two of our sixth grade teachers who are making plans that are different um than being teachers next fall and I need to just
recognize them as incredible human beings um as fantastic teachers and often really quiet leaders um just knowing how to redirect students and support and love them in the ways that sixth grade teachers do and Mrs freeland and Miss Hillman are
top-notch um we do have plans to move some staff over to South Point they shared interest in um joining the middle school team and I know that um thank you Chad and thank you Melissa for working through and um and staffing and
restaffing and hiring quality people and thank you for your support board and in making um or giving us permission to make those adjustments and changes so that we can um have people who want to be in the positions and do well with the students that we'll have next year too
um need to also say a thank you to New Hope for Immigrants on Friday um I was invited to a dine and dialogue and um part of the reason why um this was a really cool event is that and New Hope
puts it on a couple of times a year um but we were given over 70 multicultural books to add to our school library that is a lot of money and a lot of support and a lot of ways for our students who um might come from many backgrounds to
now have um a place a person uh a book that they can connect to and see themselves on the cover of a book and so that was a really great gift um New Hope had reached out in the fall and just said "Hey are you interested we're writing a grant." And I said "Yes for
sure." And so we we gave a list and some suggestions and I worked with Mrs hubdy who is our um library leader and met with them a couple of times and then found out that I thought we were getting maybe five to 10 books um so it was a really nice surprise on Friday when she
said oh and I'll drop off the other 50 um on Monday so those came in a they had to be carried in hoisted in actually so thank you to New Hope uh we too are in the midst of MCA testing um and so really what we try to do is keep the day
as normal as possible so calm positive safe do what you do show up as a student and do your best and so um thank you to the teachers and and the behind thescenes pair of professionals who are helping with the MCA testing um next month when we meet I want to share um
our SGP our student growth percentile um I'm excited to say that we've had some really nice growth and I want to share that with you our AVID um plans for next year are progressing we now have a site team that's been established we have some plans for some summer learning and
our two goals and I think it's important to say goals out loud because when we say them out loud then we're held accountable for them our two goals um for next school year is to build into our schedule um two classes two sections of an AVID elective and then second
we're going to do staff development um schoolwide that's connected to the practices of AVID um which are really best practices for teaching and helping kids to um be focused to be organized and to hold themselves accountable um
when it comes to their school work too uh we have concerts that are coming up next week we have band and we have choir um Melissa mentioned too or Mrs croach mentioned too that we have transition planning um that is coming we have our eighth graders who come up to the senior high um on the 14th of May we have fifth
graders that are coming to us on the 19th of May um and we also do an open house for our um fifth graders who have special needs and they get to come in and do kind of a private tour meet their case managers and transition their South Point case managers to their new case managers um so that's an evening that we
do on on May 13th as well too and that coincidentally is our sixth grade band concert as well um so lots of really fun things um but again trying to keep the day as normal as possible that's really important to keep that structure at the end of the
year um and during spring season um questions oh also thanks for your support with the trades and tech we'll continue to do the best that we can really think that that's an important thing for our students um that
was uh missing this year they enjoyed Spanish and that was a good stretch um there is something about hands-on woodworking uh racing CO2 cars and getting to build and sand and use a table saw a little danger in a middle
school's day is sometimes really fun questions is outsider day ah yeah outsiders day that is May 20th we typically have that yep may 20th yep it is um and again Mrs adams um does a
fantastic job of putting together a day that is um incredibly connected to a novel that some students might say "Well that's old." She does not make it that way um and the story is pretty universal um that being said there was a
fundraiser in March um there were two nights that De's Pizza did fundraiser for us and there was over $1,200 that was raised incredible so people really support eating pizza um but also support eating our um the outsiders day and know
that it is a it's a um it's a school event but it is a big deal in our community too so yeah lots of good things going on really proud of all of our district staff so thank you thank you thank you hello everybody um I'm going to need a
little bigger sheet I think next time so um lots of stuff going out the high school as well um first of all thank you for um supporting the the industrial tech stuff i appreciate that that's uh well needed a lot of things i don't want to beat a dead horse but just to just to kind of fill you in a little bit more
and in and brief but with with our high school schedule we have 28 credits in order for kids to graduate um seven of those credits which is 14 classes or electives so that's a big part of the fact that we need places for people to go like Mr grover said um part of the
problem um on the business side of it which is a lot of used to be a lot of electives now has half of his schedule being required with the requirement of uh personal finance classes uh not that that's a bad thing but that just takes away instead of him teaching 12 things
that he can be electives for now it's half of that so six of his classes are electives six are required based on every single senior has to take uh personal finance so it's a it's a it's a windfall or a or a snowball I should say of of a lot of things so um there are a
lot of kids that are wanting to take Paul's electives that can't because he's full so that goes into the different areas so this will help immensely um trust me Sam is not going to be uh uh resting he'll have lots of things in which to do so um and kids like hands-on
stuff they love getting their hands dirty that's 100% of why our why we're doing themies in the first place you know we want to get kids not only college ready but career ready so that's how we get kids career ready is by doing that so like I said thank you for letting that happen and now I'm done
with that um lots of stuff like I said um we had an art contest we took uh 12 kids up to Warro for a Minnesota State High School League art contest um 12 of the 12 uh um won an award of some sort uh two of the 12 won spotlight awards
which is the best in show in that category um if you ever take a gander around the school here uh you'll see artwork everywhere uh Mrs janette does a great job mr lunberg does does a great job of putting stuff out and up and all around it's incredible some of the stuff
that the kids draw u coming from a guy who can't even draw a circle or a stick figure that's amazing i mean it's absolutely amazing so they do great work uh so a lot of if you ever want to take a walk around feel free and see all the stuff that the kids are doing it's awesome so um that was cool um robotics
um did a big fundraiser pulled pork thing couple Saturdays ago I think already um overall they've met their $20,000 uh goal to get to Worlds in Dallas i believe the number that they got at the pulled pork thing was like
7,000 bucks or 8,000 bucks so it's ridiculous amount of money so that's awesome good for them um so they're going to Dallasish uh beginning of May I think right in the very end of April beginning of May um so that's happening obviously we're doing MCA testing we we test uh uh sophomores
in reading and uh science and we test juniors in math so that's the test that we we give ninth graders are out of it and seniors obviously too um we have a National Honor Society uh awards ceremony on the 23rd of April um
that's at 7:00 in the new gym uh we got booted out of the pack because the pack is having a spring play going on so um we had 41 people that applied for being in our National Honor Society and 21 got inducted so it's roughly about 7% of our
population of our students of 600 so pretty high honor very high honor to be in the National Honor Society um with that spring obviously spring band spring choir concert those are coming up uh beginning of May um I can get dates but
that's early May uh that's all on our calendar um and then obviously the big thing that for our seniors graduation I've mentioned that to you guys as well that is May 23rd 7:00 at the Civic i'll get a uh a formal sheet for you just to remind you at this at the next school
board meeting um I do need two people to hand out diplomas i actually need one because Mr perkowitz has already graciously volunteered to do it miss King you want to do it that's great um if I at some point I know you're going to have a kid that graduate you're going to have a kid that graduate you're
going to have somebody that graduates are going to but around here there's nothing more cool than being able to hand out a diploma to your own kid or somebody some relative right so I didn't get to hand them out but I got a hug from each of my three boys which is amazing I have pictures of all that in
my office but if you have somebody that you want to h hand out a diploma to in in the future then let me know and we'll get you on that spot so that's that's a that's an awesome then one of the few perks that you get to be on the school board so um there you go but other than
that um because of staffing Steph's retiring we did we're going to move Katie Cleven to my building all day and then like Mr grover said um eventually we're going to hire Mr grassel to be our coordinate coordinator for academy but we'll figure out when that happens but other than that knock on wood i got no
other staffing issues right now but things could change in 12 hours but we'll see so any questions for me thank you thank you any committee reports otherwise I don't think
All right moving on to 6.0 of the consent agenda i'll take a motion to approve i'll second any questions or discussion about the consent agenda question do how many more positions are we looking for currently i believe
and then with the hiring do teaching positions okay okay and then um with the hiring of um a social worker and then Yeah are we going to still have to split the Anyone doing the buildings anymore no what
happens to we put together high school okay so it won't be as Okay it's not somethings changed
any other questions or discussion on the consent agenda the only comment I would make right all those in favor of approving the consent agenda say I i i any opposed motion carries moving on
to 7.0 opportunities for citizens to speak on items on the agenda not on the agenda none okay 8.0 is district business uh I have to recuse myself from this from 8.1 yep yep okay so we're going to 8.1 is to approve the hire of
Sierra Hanks as a new Heights principal beginning July 1st 2025 i'll make a motion to approve i'll second any questions or discussion all those in favor say I i any opposed
motion passes with five and then one recusal all right 9.0 is a payment of claims and accounts i'll make the motion to approve the payment of the K12 bills 129149 284 and lot and the electronic
fund transfers in the amount of 1,333,20.70 seconds any questions or discussion okay all those in favor say I i any oppose motion carries 10.0 move on to board member
comments matt I'll start with you um just congratulations to uh Mrs veter that's awesome assistant principal of the year um and the uh art students up in Warroad um congratulations to them for all their awards and congratulations to Mrs hanks
i think it's great that we're seeing all the recognition of not only our our staff but um everybody else that's that's working really hard to be flexible in in what we're doing with moving staff and the kids and I I think it's really it keeps that uh that east side pride in our school really strong
when we're able to do those types of things nothing new i like the update i like hearing what's going on in the schools and like what's going on with the different groups and activities and everything so spending here what's going on and it's hard to believe it's already coming up on the end of the year again
May April so busy but um yeah a lot of moving parts and I think yeah staff and everybody's doing a great job so I hear that I'm like "Oh I got a band concert oh I get I don't Amanda um it was nice to hear about all
the recognition from staff." And then yeah I don't really have anything tonight so this is the best time of the year so busy welcome back Sierra we're excited to have you yeah i uh I don't have too much either
but I you know say congratulations to Miss Better welcome back Sierra and this is great work that everybody's doing it is really exciting to hear all those updates so we do have a good group and proud to be an insider all right the next 11.0 the next board of education
will be April 28 2025 5:30 that will be a long one um as we're going to have those um biders come and talk and now we'll take a couple minute u adjournment i guess we'll just pause close session
let everybody because we have to go to a close session due to the purpose of discussing an attorney client privilege matter yeah thanks guess if I'm pausing I don't gabble