worked on communication integrity problem solving team building teamwork and how to be a leader me Mason and Amelia are going to talk to you about our favorite parts and and what we learned my favorite part was the minefield it's basically
a It was in the old gym and it's like there's a border and there's a bunch of obstacles in the border and you were blindfolded one person was blind and one person was outside the war and they led you through only with communication and
outside part and we learned about communication and then my favorite part was the mind peel because you got to go through like obstacles and like be blindfolded and get guided by people and you like learn to trust them and like uh learn to like
trust them where to tell you where to go so you didn't hit like the obstacles my favorite part was the escape room because we never done one and it was really fun to do and what we learned was teamwork and communication um we are getting like we
raised up money and we're using uh 1,500 of our fundraising money to purchase cups to go on the Boston Elementary School fence and they're going to say Greyhound pride with two paws and it'll welcome visitors when they uh drive by
or up their kids and it'll be visible from the from the road and Mr helper sixth grade math students will be helping calculate how like how much cups and where to put them and the student leaders will help them like they'll make outlines and the student leaders will
fill them in and they're going to be it's like a real life math math problem and situation um at the start of every student leader meeting we always do a sort of
circle it always starts with like this this isn't whenever you um you like you get to speak and then we all check in with each of us on how we are feeling we can talk about
our feelings and build healthy relationships with our group it gives us a safe space where we can all participate we also do a topic about leadership my favorite part about about the circle is that we get to express how we're feeling and if we don't want to
and if we don't want to we can pass um my favorite part about the circle is you get to play with this on the squishy thing like we can say your feelings and like tell people I guess and like you know it probably won't get told to other people
so you feel like just my favorite thing about the circle is if you say something that you feel like you don't really want anyone to tell about they won't tell other people because it usually stays in the circle
excuse me can I Who does the circle student leaders or that's part of your student leader meetings rules are to respect the talking piece speak from the heart listen listen to understand take the
time you need know that others need time as well honor each other by not talking about anything outside of the circle and you may pass we're going to try to see your group i will pass around with Dr when it's your turn you say something different you can pass if you don't feel
comfortable we But we hope you'll participate i'll start i'm proud that I get to be a student leader with all the other student leaders i'm proud to be a student leader and that I was able to come to the school of art
i'm proud that I get to make people smile when we do something i'm proud to be here tonight to um represent the Boston School Board as long as I have this nobody else can talk
um I'm happy that you guys are presenting today i'm grateful to be a member of this community i am proud of our student leaders and our student council members that come and present to us every I am also proud of our amazing student
council and student leaders that come in and show us um every month what great things are happening with the youth in our community and that there's a very bright future I'm proud to be a part of the Greyhound family proud of the opportunity to become a
schoolboard member I'm new this year so it's interesting and a lot of learning so as we as we continue on hopefully they'll know more by next year well I'm proud of Miss Amanda and Miss Allen for all the hard work they put in with our students proud of our student body and
just in general of how they how well they conduct themselves as such proud of our students our staff and proud of the Boston Greyhound this concludes our circle thank you for letting me talk to you
today um what questions have you guys I don't know that I have any questions but you guys did a great job leading that circle when do you guys think you're going to have are the cups going to be up this year do you think you'll have good math you know I
think Okay it depends on how good those math students are I'm just really happy that uh and thank you Amanda for this the this idea of circle was something that we introduced to our entire staff is it already two
years ago now maybe even yeah and that uh and I know that that you are using it now and I know there are other teachers that are using it as well but it's uh it's a great opportunity for people to be able to share be safe express themselves so
thank you for for arranging that for these kids and thank you kids for participating in it's changed our our dynamics group and we do it every single month and it's been very powerful great so good to hear
thanks for participating with that all right thank you guys moving to 5.3 follow up that tough act margarite i think she can do it i'm Margarite Ru the Spanish teacher here this is my 10th year at Boston High
School a total of 22 years teaching the profession and I love it as the first day I started and leading with that or continuing with that I am requesting approval for a Spain trip in the fall over Thanksgiving break of 2006 uh if
approved it will be my seventh trip i had three successful trips in Bagley and this would be my fourth and we've had three successful trips here in Boston 2019 2022 and just recently in 2024 and hoping to continue this tradition of
take giving students an opportunity to expand their horizons and learn life skills of navigating a airport and uh life skills of practicing a foreign language and seeing how that
um works in the everyday workforce of life so as you can see that is the proposed tour the flexible window guess from November 20th through the 29th of 2006 to 2026 to um November 21st through
the November 28th of 2026 they they don't have I believe so I just don't have Thank you any questions it's approximately a seven eight day trip and the students raise
their own funds they pay directly to EF tours i continuing with an educational tour company uh it's um like a mother hen they don't stay with host families i actually done that in the year of 1997 it was an amazing experience but due to
the changes in the world uh I feel um more comfortable with them under my wing versus them being separated from the group and also uh with the um mother hen
uh we also experience all of the same um opportunities versus if you're with a host family it depends upon what that host family brings you so your investment you still get you get the same return on your investment of your tour how many kids in the last couple years
have you seen in attendance and what you expect to forecast okay so in the past I've had 23 24 I've had very large groups uh unfortunately due to the change of demographics or um people just
not having as many babies the classes have been smaller so um I project right now Spanish 1 and two is a total of 24 students so optimistically thinking I cut that in half 12 so 12 to 18 i would
be pleasantly surprised if there's as many as 18 uh they have simply given this as an option nobody is forced to go it's simply open to them i I like to plan almost two years in advance for them to raise the money uh whether it be
through jobs um or working on their own um properties i have raised my own money babysitting for example and we do have a couple fundraisers that they can take part in um selling butter braids andor working concessions um
andor a raffle um blanket thing that was donated in the past the past few years there's been a blanket um great question there a minimum requirement from six six to cover me correct
and if we get that 12 to whatever there will be another adult that attends Correct i get a chaperone per every six entrance this has the support of administration been a great trip no question about it and
uh we would uh would recommend approval it made a motion to approve second all right we have a motion and a second on the floor for approval of the Spanish trip in 2026 we have any further
discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I i i all those opposed sign motion carries excellent thank you very much english thank you thank you appreciate it yep
and do the student all right moving on 6.0 finance uh approve not approved donations to the school district so 6.1.1 uh East Pole County Farm or Farm Bureau donation to FFA
believe that is excuse me wait don't say that out loud it's in your packet it's in the board packet yep um and again all donations will be accepted on roll call second motion make a motion to approve
the donation from Eastville County Farm Bureau to FFA we have a motion and a second do we have any further discussion hearing none we'll do a roll call vote director Dupal yes director Nelson yes
director Marcus yes director Catch yes director Chris yes director Munter yes director Bosler yes all right thank you to East County Farm Bureau uh moving down to report 7.1 elementary
principal report number one enrollment uh stable at 348 uh prek through 6 um we didn't go down one in K through six but we went up a couple um uh in our prek so Sable at
3:48 at the elementary any questions on enrollment day okay item number two just an update parent teacher conferences that were held on March 20th uh overall attendance preK through 6th grade was 96% so uh great night with for parents
uh staff and students um and typically our participation or attendance rate at our conferences is between 93 96% so very consistent so like to thank all that uh parents for coming out for parent teacher conferences and thank the
the staff for their work their long days one after another so it's it was good item number three sorry my numbers getting out of whack there item number three this MCA update uh we are we've completed grades three and four uh
reading and math and we will be completing or we completed fifth and sixth grade reading we'll be completing fifth and sixth grade math this this week and science will be next week that will be the completion of our MCA
testing for this year so um a lot of hard work putting in going into that uh again like to thank our students uh not only the ones testing but the ones that are in the hallways during the testing um we're always asking for our hallways to be quiet and we've for the most part
have done that so um just a big round of applause for everybody through the MCA testing uh item number four April 15th we have staff in service um we have some E3 training and we have talked about
this before e3 is emergent 3 it's a public safety uh app for schools or organizations um and what this app will offer us is uh real time alerts so if we have a incident or an emergency within our
buildings or districtwide this app uh goes out to all those who are using the app so we have training for staff on how to use it how to recognize uh the warning um also part of E3 they have school maps on it for both
buildings and if there is a fire in the kitchen at the high school we will all be alerted or the high school building would be alerted and would show on the map and then you got to put on the map where you're located so in any type of emergency um you can also that is one
facet of it um obviously the alert going out to everybody who's involved or needs to be notified because it will go to a teacher's computer it will go to a teacher cell phone any staff member um so we've been working on this for a while i think we had three different
vendors that we went through um and the guy the young guy that we're working with Tanner did a great job of presenting to all of our staff so the next step for us is to do like a a staff drill where we can practice sending out a drill and making sure everybody gets
the alert on their device um then the next step after that would be to do a schoolwide um using that app um the app also has all of our emergency plans on it uh which is a great feature um and I don't
know Don if there's anything I'm missing maybe it's currently your report too but uh it went well and now we're just ready to take that next step for the safety of our students and staff if you recall I brought that information maybe last meeting or the meeting prior um and now
we've just administratively we got trained on it then we took the next step and had our our staff train on it it's an in-house app it's not out to our parents or anything it's it's an in-house app um it's hard to explain it
dan did a good job but it's hard to picture what he's trying to say and maybe what we need to do is uh at a future board meeting have Steve come in and you guys walk through it and um and we can show the board kind of what it is but it's really a followup to more of
the stuff that we talked about as far as protecting our our buildings and our and our the people within our buildings one of the other pieces of that is um so let's say Mr burnson is in his room we have an active shooter um on
that app he can indicate uh green everybody in the room is safe he can indicate red there might be an injury in that room uh and I believe there was a third so like if your room is gray it could be the fact that you evacuated you
know so it's all real time and so um yeah all this comes together right the other piece of it and and Mr narski introduced the love you guys language it it interacts with that or uses that language as well so it they're tied
together so we're not doing one thing with the app and another thing with some other wording and and and talking points so it all should mesh together now it's going to take us some time to get comfortable with it but um we believe that by next fall and even yet this
spring but by next fall we should be able to hit the ground running with that then emergency personnel what else will be a part of that so enforcement EMS um and the biggest thing reduce response time uh improve coordination with all agencies
um being more more aware um and one other part of that app is there is a chat so we as administrators the staff will reach out to us uh with any message or need uh and we'll have that open communication using that app too so
which is a very valuable tool uh there's different levels of access to it I believe right i mean we have a level of access separate than the different than the teachers correct um but um yeah we're just it's one of those you need to use it to get comfortable with it we're
being proactive so we can appreciate that that's good uh another part of the inservice at the elementary we met at grade level and some met grade below and grade above is in regards to our math curriculum uh it's new this year so grades K K K K K K
K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K through five had some time on April 15th to have a discussion on where we're at with that math curriculum this kind of a review and reflection um and then I'll take that information report back to our district leadership team in our main meeting uh and just as an update for
that math curriculum um and then other collaboration uh at grade level having discussions with curriculum so that pretty much used up our day or that afternoon um any questions on that April 15th
inservice and just so you know that April 15th was a result of the early out day because we were the host for the section speech that day so we vacate this building with all of our students and staff move all our staff over to Marles and obviously Mar students took
home as well so speech could happen here item number five is just some important needs coming up uh we did have a statewide tornado drill on April 10th april 25th is our last day of Friday school fifth grade goes to Shrine Circus
on April 25th uh one day to to mark I'll make the circus may 5th is the band and choir concert so that'll be the elementary band and choir at 6:30 and that'll be
here at the high school and then to follow would be the high school band may 9th elementary track and field day for grades four through six uh this some dates for our sixth grade uh May 15th farm safety camp at Bley and we've
been doing that for many many years it's a great experience uh and then May 19th sixth grade class trip to the Twin Cities may 20th sixth grade promotion is that you oh yeah i would love to do it yeah given that I have them and that is
what I have for my report any questions i do have one question when is May 6th fishing audience that's when or when is the sixth grade fishing audience that's what I 13th is that the 13th or 14th i think the traffic makeup day is 16th and
it's the day 14th it's day for safety okay thank you sixth graders have a full month yes robots and seats very busy for the farm safety one is that the same one that you had at the elementary here last year didn't my new one at the elementary here
it's the same she did that for fifth grade and then we go through Clearwater County their 4 office hosts us and five or six other schools in Ber and it's that they've done that for
think years at least um it's been on every year that I've been in Boston which is time yeah I'm I need to connect with my to see if she is doing that again but that was last spring we had farm machinery available farm animals uh
outside of the elementary um and I haven't heard if we're doing that again for the younger grades yeah I didn't remember what grade that was for i didn't know if it was like a rotating thing that maybe moved around that's why I was hoping it was the same
great exposure for kids thank you Mr uh high school yep as there you can see the student enrollment numbers we're up two from last month uh congratulations to our
knowledgeable team they were crowned state champions couple of kudos going along here as well uh fast and speech team is sending seven individuals to the state tournament which will they leave tomorrow uh the team itself actually
tied for second place within the section with DGF came down to a tiebreaker so DGF ended up winning that uh the other thing and I want to include on here is that speaking of Mila and FFA she is taking 30 students with her they will
leave Sunday uh the 27th and return the 30th they are going to the state their state tournament as well so a lot of uh spring activity tournaments taking place uh we will be doing a pep fest tomorrow
uh for all of these uh different teams and such to recognize them so at approximately 8:35 in the main gym we'll kick that off and uh do a little send off for the speech team um as you can see our eighth and tth
graders they attended career fairs at the Northland Community College campuses the eighth graders went over to East Grand on a given day the sophomores went up to Thief River Falls so you can see a few different pictures there of some of
the things they got to experience so um been trying to expose our kids as much as possible to the not just simply the campus but of course all the different activities and different uh career fields that they can uh you know
plan to you know their future with uh this ties directly into our world's best workforce and and making sure that our kids are given those opportunities um another thing that occurred today that's
not on my report is Josh Pearson and Miss Mack took some of their CTE kids uh and they went to a uh a career fair as well more of a job fair type of thing uh and so again exposing them to employers
and you know future employers and um kind of ties into uh the public comment is you know giving them that opportunity to connect with uh employers within the area and it's an opportunity to to find out what does it take to be employed and
those types of things the skill sets and so on uh find out a little bit about the job itself so uh March 20th uh as Dan mentioned already parent teacher conferences on average uh the teachers in this building
saw 18 uh parents so uh for our building we were we were busy actually uh my three years that was probably the busiest spring parent teacher conference um I think part of what's playing into that is we have some teachers who are telling their students you know mom and dad show up you get x number of extra
points and it's paying dividends for even those that obviously aren't offering that up so uh gets people in the building uh as Dan mentioned also MCA testing here at the high school we're pretty much into the last week of
MCA testing we have a few students that have to you know play a little catchup and whatnot but uh this really should be our last full week of of actual testing so uh you know kudos to Kathy Carlen she manages all of that uh she does very
good job with uh coordinating with me and and getting things organized and going with it uh again April 15th our staff training Dan covered E3 uh my staff uh after that E3 train uh they were uh
given opportunity to reach out to parents uh to those you know obviously of the students that maybe need some reminder of of where they're at academically or as I mentioned to my staff you know let's not
forget about that student who maybe is you know being much better behaved than they have in the past or their grade is on the incline Let's make sure that we uh give some kudos to those efforts uh the other part
of that day I had Amy Malry here and she visited with a a select number of my teachers uh and talking about classroom management and things like that and so she is going to work uh with some of these teachers uh even moving into the
fall of the year are just the ones that were selected are the ones that are relatively new to the to the game of teaching so uh just trying to give them some additional skill sets and how to manage students and um I felt that it was really timely because of course we
get into the spring of the year uh kids do tend to want to be not in school as much and they do act out a little bit more in the spring of the year and and so that like you say try and reinforce some of that skill set of of classroom management uh lastly some of the important upcoming
events uh today was administrative assistant appreciation day and so uh Todd spearheaded our our uh gift giving um and so we thought to that all the ladies uh admin assistants received
the gift and thank you to all of those ladies and especially I can speak to those in my office Lana and Michelle um you know they are the they're the pulse of our our high school building in a sense of like making sure everything moves forward and
moves smoothly and as I often tell them they're the reason I maintain employment they keep me on on task of things so um April 28th is our annual academic banquet uh up at New Journey may 3rd is prom and
so today we did have uh Brad and Jim Ren uh representing law enforcement to talk to our students who are attending prom uh just a reminder of you know making good decisions and safety and such uh throughout the last 3 weeks we've been
reminding students of you know academic eligibility and so on to make sure because obviously they have to be academically eligible in order to participate both in prom and after prom and so on and then uh the last note there the week of May 5th is teacher
appreciation week thank you Mr king 7.3 superintendent's report sure thank you before I do my report would this be a good time then principles to because there's two new school board members one's chaperon's prom and one chaperon's
sixth grade trip right you guys want to decide that right now or that's the tradition oh yeah promot here by six and then the dancear tie yeah yeah no hat to lose
blind the kids if I do that all right in all seriousness I have a report to share with you um um earlier we talked about a essential health sponsorship agreement where they would become a premier sponsor for us um we gave that lang
drafted the document we gave that document to our legal council and uh he suggested a few changes it's back in the hands of desentia right now it isn't it isn't major things by any means i don't want to suggest there that that we're at odds with Essentia cuz we're not but um
they're just going to put their eyes on it again we're looking for agreement or for them to suggest some changes back to us and we'll get that hammered out we'd like to bring that forward uh at the May board meeting uh monthly I attend Prairie Pine
Children Center and uh Fost Economic Development Authority meetings uh and I did that these past couple weeks it's just good to hear what's happening in the district our in our community um you know that we um I pledged upon my arrival that that we really want to be good neighbors in our community
especially to those um other agencies that promote and support community and these two organizations do and I'm fortunate to be on the board for both of them um I don't know if you followed the the um city council meeting but uh you you may have heard that there's a
developer that wants to come to town and put you some I'll call them town houses i don't know if they're condos or town houses or or what they are um but um that's um a really big uh endeavor on on that developer's behalf and beta stance
to uh benefit our community which potentially could bring families to our community uh might move um an elder um citizen of our community into one of those housing which would free up an maybe maybe a house for family in town
so it's all you know put pointed towards bringing more people into the city of Fost and very likely those people will have children and uh we can uh enhance our enrollment uh so it's good to know about those things of course Perines serves a a really integral uh piece for
our community uh serving our child care needs so um good for me to hear from those people and uh to be a part of those decisions uh shared with you um earlier that I was at a recent superintendent meeting and budget concerns are across the board every
district that we talked to right now it's in that um is in that boat um and really um we're not expecting great financing from the state but we're hoping that they loosen some of the strings that they have attached to some of the
funding and let us make the best decisions at local i.e schoolboard level than how we spend our money that they provide us uh rather than forcing us into some um situations where we're trying to put a square peg in round hole sometimes it just doesn't make sense for
us might make sense for another district um but we're looking for more local control on how we spend our money and there believe and there's some belief that um that that may be forthcoming um as we approach the decisions tonight
on on some of our staffing scenarios um uh hopefully um that after that after tonight we'll be able to really put together of the budget realignment package that we've been talking about for a while now we have administrative meeting tomorrow morning um and we
really I believe that I can have something in your hands by early next week that would summarize really kind of how we're coming about how we're going to go about um realigning the budget for next year um we posted several positions
last week and we're required to post some of them because we have some teachers on auto placement um assignments um and so annually we have to do that we also um anticipate some of the work tonight that's hopefully is approved that will affect some of our
staffing and the needs for different positions uh we're required by law to post a position if we do not have a if we do not have a certified person in those positions um we have to post it so um April is
um takes the lead on all that and uh if you look in the paper today I see that there's several positions that are posted in the paper as well we also post a statewide posting service uh well we
can't forget that we do own a church and parsonage over here and we also are living right now again the effects of a of a bus um driveway area that is affected by
spring thaw I guess for lack of a better description and so we're at some point we're going to have to come back to that i'm not suggesting we do that tonight by any means but um know that that's still out there we'll have to make a decision as a board how we want to move forward uh with those um two
situations um proud to say that the irrigation system at Thompson Field will be hooked up um really with water in the very future um the mounds the trenches have been now raked out a little bit uh smoothed out um there will be some cheat
sheeting going on those uh we will play through those with our baseball team this spring uh but hopefully over this the course of the summer um we'll turn that into very very lush plush green
grass and then uh lastly you know we are losing our our facility at ions for our ECF program which actually is is is not going to be an issue for us um if we approve the staffing MUS tonight basically what that's doing is
reducing the two grade level three sections that have three sections down to two sections for 25 26 school year which will free up two classrooms which will allow us to move our ECF program into Madison Elementary did I stated
that correct Dan yep so those are just a few of the things that we got going on and we've got a lot of things going on um we're anxious to bring some closure to some things later in the agenda tonight which we really then allows us to take some next steps
and uh within the next few weeks we really should kind of have our ducks in for how proceeding next year question for me when you talk about the funding at the state level is there is there like a group that kind of
represents the schools as as a whole as far as letting school board association lobbies on our behalf um Minnesota Association of School Administrators which is my professional group they lobby on our behalf uh Ma is Minnesota Rural Educators Association they lobby
on our behalf those three organizations work very closely together so their platforms are often very similar so one's not saying this and now they're saying the opposite of that traditionally that message is pretty common throughout those three
organizations um I won't speak on behalf of Education Minnesota they lobby for they we would lobby for school funding as well yeah so um what we found though last time there was some really you know that it's be called historical funding the last
benium but um there was a lot of strings attached to it and so we were doing some things or we have to do some things in order to be able to spend that money and they don't always make the most sense for rural northwest Minnesota where if we have local control we could better
use utilize those dollars in different ways any other questions thank you Mr moving to 8.0 personnel uh 8.1 approved not approved leave of absence request from Faith Peterson math teacher
in your packet is the letter of request from U faith um I believe that we've blackened out um some of the personal information there that's not um necessary but basically the administration
um supports this request and um would ask for approval that we absence it's for a period of three years um and that's strategic in the fact that should we need to fill that position
with a higher Um after 3 years we have to either grant tenure or not um and we would want to know what faith is wanting to do before we would grant that tenure to potentially another person
a motion to approve second have a motion and a second to approve uh the leave of absence request from Faith Peterson is there any further discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I i all those
opposed same sign motion carries all right the next two will be roll call votes um should they when we get to that point um 8.2 so approve not approve uh separation memorandum of
understanding for Michelle Men Elementary School teacher um I guess I would just answer any questions it's pretty straightforward um I I would answer your question but also our personnel committee has met multiple times i I believe three maybe four,000
four four at least yeah um and I just want to note that the the the it is support this motion would be supported by the personnel committee which they can speak on their own behalf but I think it's it's worthy to note that the
personnel committee has worked through this and it is a recommendation of that committee and supported by myself as well to bring this forward i would say before we get any further I'd like to just offer thanks to the personnel committee for all the work that you did through this and heard
heard that it was a lot of meetings and some early mornings and we greatly appreciate it well and I mean we had our meetings but also Todd and April did a lot of light work to get us the information that we did uh to come to this
thank you so thank you Jim for um providing us with the information that we need i want to say that um the employees listed here have been excellent for many years um I think the personnel
committee um when we oh especially with Mr yourself had reached out to um staff for those that would be interested um this is good timing for the district and for these individuals as well great so
um I would make a motion to approve um 8.2 have a second motion and second to approve the separation for Michelle Mallet any
further discussion i' just like to thank Michelle for her many years of service to the district and she's been a wonderful teacher to three of my children so absolutely must be the same thing kids are hard
all right we'll move through a roll call director Dupal yes director Nelson yes director Marcus yes director Gch yes director Christen yes director Mer yes bosler yes uh procedurally
I thank you for approving that procedurally that implies that Michelle has resigned from the district uh theou because it's a separation we do have a resignation letter as well that we received um I don't know that that needs
its own motion or not i think that this would supersede that or be in lie of but just for the record we do have a resignation letter on file as well okay all right moving down 8.3 approve not
approved separation for Joel Mono prek teacher my previous comments were echoed with uh Jones jones work with the districts um I make a motion to approve second all right we have a motion and a second
on the floor uh is there any further discussion just a huge thank you again to Joan for her years of service absolutely we enjoy our first children and grief for three
all right moving to roll call again director Kong yes director Nelson yes dr marcus yes catch yes director Christen yes director yes director Bosler yes can I make a comment yeah so on both of these I I just want to acknowledge um
Jonathan is in the room and here as well um for every meeting that that we've had as a personnel committee I've also pretty much had a separate meeting with Johnson bringing him along from the union's perspective on what we were doing what we're trying to
accomplish and uh just great cooperation uh with the union and Johnson's leadership for them um is duly noted here that um this is being done um all in a positive way um there was no question that when I reached out to to
staff about this opportunity um we had a number of inquiries uh when we kind of fleshed it all out at the end um these two individuals came to the top um we made it very clear from the very get-go that um there needed to be mutual
benefit to doing this um to both employee and to the school district and um I think we've arrived there and we've accomplished that and I'm very proud of that um but certainly want to acknowledge Jonathan and and his representation of of his teacher group
through this process it's uh it's been wonderful we're working hand in hand with the union um not fist and fist and so we're it's uh it's been a good working relationship so I don't know Jonathan you want to share yeah we as a as a union we really
appreciate the board's um willingness to to offer or make these um separation agreements a thing like um Todd said they're both it's beneficial to the district as well as to these um to these two two teachers and um again just echoing kind of what Todd said again
with communication it's Todd and I have had numerous meetings on on on this and we've been working alongside each other he said is hand in hand for writing this together and it's been we have a very very good relationship right now with um
Todd and you and myself as the president all right moving along to 10.0 operational uh 10.1 approve approved resol resolution redactou between the district and the union yeah and anotherou certainly this
one is of a different nature but um thisou was crafted uh from or it's a template that both the schoolboards association and the education Minnesota work together on uh this is being used throughout the state
this format and basically we go back to what I've shared with you earlier we are required now uh under the read to provide training for our teachers um that will um will begin with the start of next school year this uh memorandum
understanding is outside of the master agreement because obviously when we negotiate the master agreement this was not a requirement of the state this is an example of of um some funding again and and I should maybe not a good
example but um with the readact proposal there was some funding that came with it but nonetheless um we are directed um that we have to do this so this is not a choice matter this is a requirement uh by the state and um again working hand
inand with the union to uh to reach an agreement on how we're going to provide that redact training um with the principal in particular it'll be Dan's building this first year um and the different teachers that will be a part of that training uh this summarizes that
it's not different than what we already talked to you about it just puts it into a memorandum of understanding of which the board will sign off on as well as the union i think uh we have a motion and second on
the floor uh do we have any further discussion right again this will be a roll call vote director Dupon yes director Nelson yes director Marcus yes catch yes princon yes director Munter yes director Bosler yes
uh 10.2 approve approved health insurance bid uh to Medicica Minnesota Healthcare Consortium for fiscal year 2526 as presented yeah we put out bids um to three I'll say or four three three
um insurance companies um the um the uh tourist walk that we belong to um houses in River Falls um but nonetheless number of school districts in the northwest Minnesota northwest service co-op um also Blue Cross Blue Shield and PEP
which stands for public employee insurance program uh we got back bids from the Northwest Service Co-op and we did get something from Blue Cross and we did get something from Pete eventually right yep there was
some misunderstanding or miscommunication that they claim not on our part on their part um anyway uh we've analyzed that actually again the union is part of that analyzing as well uh the union does not have any formal
say uh in the choice uh that's a board decision um but I can just say unofficially um the union is in agreement with the director that that we've um are recommending for approval tonight and that would be to stay with
Northwest Service Co-op which provides our insurance through Medicica uh we've been with them now four Jonathan two four is this just this is four and then this would if we if this is approved this would get us this this would be six
okay the next few years would equal five and six y um there's some certainly some comfort in staying with the same company um the um um some of the the working that April has to do on behalf of all of
our employees Um it's easier I she's not a body easy so that's those are my words and those are her words um it's more seamless to stay with medicica um um and some of the procedural things
that have to happen for our our staff to take advantage of this um insurance program so um it does reflect an increase there's no question about it it's uh about an 18% increase is it 18
or seven there's seven at the bottom it's last year or what we currently have and then the other sheet is the new proposal so last year we had like seven oh that's last year okay
was really good we actually I think our neighbors to the east are 36% they're trying they they vacated Northwest Service Go out they're trying to get back now they had a couple good years and I think that's typically been
what happens is you vacate uh and you get a couple good years with a new provider and then they stick it to you a little bit yeah and uh they're trying to get back with Northwest Service Quad and Northwest Service Quad won't take them
back because of but I don't know the but so even at 18% which we know is significant um they're still we're still in better shape than a lot of our neighbors
i think statistically they had mentioned most insurance premiums expected 20 plus% increase you know across the board till 18 seems yeah well I would say I I have eyes on a lot of different insurance policies through my through my
work and that's not abnormal right that's about sad to say but that is reality that's why I make a motion to approve all right we have a motion and a Is there any further discussion was medicico the lowest bid
so the bids were really different um I think they were out they were not that's kind of what I was expecting but I was just And there's a lot of value in staying with the same provider not just as the insured but also from an adi
administrative standpoint um exactly it would take a lot of time to transfer over to a new carrier yeah and the different risks of So logistically they were the most sensible choice they really were
and they provide great service too right and we have a real comfort working with them yep any further discussion hearing none and all those in favor signify by saying I i all those
oppos same sign motion carries do we have any reports i think the only thing to comment on is uh both Todd and I need to go back to the drawing board on writing grant applications um we were both denied by the Minnesota Dean program kim Rue on
the other hand hit it out of the park and got the maximum $25,000 award uh my understanding is that will support a lot of the fishing programs uh through the sportsman's club um in further discussion with the representative from the Minnesota DNR um at least on my
application the the comment was made it was highly similar to a program that already exists in fertile uh with snowshoeing and Nordic skiing so I think the idea is for next year to try and find something that's a little more different that stands out um and then an additional comment that I
think covers both our backsides was the fact that with $25,000 going to um a Boston Langu Sportsman's Club an additional grant within the community would be viewed as a problematic uh from the DNR with limited funds and the high
number of applicants that they had so where did you get that feedback i called her you did well because you had asked about it i didn't get an email and I'm like I called i I haven't called i don't I don't know i don't necessarily know how I failed so I
haven't called but I'm going to get some feedback from them as well yeah our plan is to go at it again next year i kind of think that ours was maybe too broad um because I really tried to write a K12
um so I I don't know that's just my own guess i've already got some ideas in the works for next year yeah we'll talk about that so what would what would be the what's holding it back as far as in relation to
something going on at Fertile I guess well so my application was focused on basically purchasing equipment for cross country skiing as well as snowshoeing that can create events and activities for kids not only within the school but the community uh Ferno has uh I guess a system where uh Nordic skis are
accessible to individuals uh within the community out there at uh Agassy's Environmental Learning Center um so they basically felt that with that program in existence in a neighboring community it would be competing in a similar space uh
because again this is the Minnesota DNR's overall perspective um that basically comes back and benefits them and the programs that that they offer within the state so the we're supposed to drive I guess that's what
which is very cool sure they're neighbors but they're not next door neighbors but so one idea for next year's could be focusing maybe more on environmental and agricultural um one such example that could be done would be uh within some of the high school
science programs doing program where basically money is gone or spent towards whether it be ducklings uh feeasant chicks I don't know what their scientific term is as earlings but there could be an educational component there for the students as well as them being
released uh into the environment that would basically show and demonstrate that we're creating opportunity back uh within our natural resources in our programs um that's not one I've seen anywhere in our nearby area so I think it's an opportunity that we are in that
delta um being neighbors to North Dakota as is a pretty high pheasant population um not heavy here but opportunity for it but at least in the waterfall region we are in the midst of the Mississippi Flyway Delta which um there's always
always a dying need for for more back to waterfall habitat and population so there's a rooster fant over by I saw there's two of them on the road i go hit them every time I go there we need to miss a feeant so that we can
they were fighting the road right um I just have a question for the board is there any response or anything that you want to direct administration to to um respond at all to our citizen that's commented tonight dumb question do we have a work release
program for Okay so that's already in effect do we do I mean I guess to me for us to engage in any type of curriculum around that I guess the first question is we need more than one business to step up and express interest right because how many students would we be
looking uh from our high school body that would take interest in whether you want to call it a job shadow an internship and then the process behind that with businesses right and if I heard him um he's more looking at the soft skills of right people wanting to have work ethic and communicate with
people that like we don't have our our kids are not applying for jobs are there tons of jobs that are unfilled at tone i guess that be sweet i know there's comment there's a lot of work help that's needed how it's solicited might
be just as we we were going through the board meeting if we maybe create a job board within just something start with that just just a starting point where they could reach out instead because it's hard I mean I don't know how many business I don't
really see any advertisements in the paper unless you know someone and somebody made a comment if it was you about kind of directing it at the parents right well that's right I didn't want kid to work that's I mean the school has some responsibility to promote
but kids know that what's available maybe even reach out to the uh do we have a chamber i think there must be a business yeah economic development whatever call gas well I'm on that board i'm going to bring it
forward there just start with it there what about the Rotary what about the Rotary yeah i mean well I mean there's got to be a business director that we could just blanket you've got jobs that you want i was hoping he'd still be here because I was kind of curious right to
his comments you know like the student body brought up or student council brought up a great thing that they were doing in Biji and I was like first light that went off in my head was like hey if we can get some of these businesses to step up and express interest in in the help they need to to work at a program like that we could easily facilitate um
some of those things right and I know like the Lions Club we've evaluated uh scholarship applications and some of the things in there are work and volunteer experience you know and I know um Blank one of the girls that was
awarded the scholarship last year one of the things that really stood on her resume was uh volunteer work experience at uh Boston Family Dentl like there's a classic example of integrating within the community whether it's a paid job or just well yeah and I don't know that
when I heard that that he was looking for volunteers so much he's just looking for workforce he just wanted work force to come to come with some level of commitment and that's a national you know what I mean like that's that's not something that we can solve in the
classroom again certain but I think some exposure opportunity problem right here we're just as guilty as the kids but everybody's absorbed into those things and that interaction skill isn't there and I think kids are scared even
if they want a job they don't know how to go ask things like that but even if we got let's say five businesses in the community that would be willing to engage that program we construct some type of curriculum right you move a group of students around and you spend x
amount of hours of time with each small business learning and understanding what's unique about them how they work how they function i think a lot of the skills that he's concerned about can be brought out through that and then okay you spent some time with their business you go to another business we'd have to
determine you know a spot for that to sit yeah it's it's not easy i mean at the very least we certainly could invite businesses to host their openings in our buildings that that's the very least we could do start with that and it maybe
doesn't even need to be something that's taught in the classroom specifically but if you could have an opportunity like after school the business would come in they could have job applications you know if they wanted to be part of that to make it grow talking like a local yeah I was just going to say they could
do that once a month or whatever they thought was a good timeline come in with job applications maybe they don't get an employee but maybe their neighboring business does but they teach them how to fill out a job application and how to interact and what we do mock interviews you know some of those businesses it
gives those kids a chance where it's not real where they don't have to be scared of it to practice tim Ser Tim Ser okay I think we can we'll discuss some of this tomorrow we have been a fair meeting tomorrow so
right meeting schedule next regular board meeting May 19th 6 p.m right here looking for the 14.0 motion there we go scott through it that's the first time
all right uh all those in favor of adjournment say I i same plan help yourself pick up food candy is this candy thank you