Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It's about 60,000. Yeah. Yeah. And it's not like we don't have some projects. I'm sure we could find somewhere to put it. Yep. I agree. In fact, Joan, I think if I remember about a year ago, said to me, "Get that spent." And here we are a year later.
Yep. So, good note. We're looking for a motion to approve the consent agenda. So, moved. Motion by director Deon, second by director Munter. Any more discussion all those in favor signify it
by saying I oppose same sign. Consent agenda is approved. Item 4.0 public comments. So anybody with public comment?
No. Okay. 5.0 Student staff con constituent report starting with our high school student council. You want me to start it? Oh, I'm sorry. Uh, so I go to slideshow or something
like that on it. I never do that. There we go. Sorry. So, we're city council. So, I'm Bethany Richardson. I'm in eighth grade. I'm a freshman. and I'm
really mostly in fifth grade. So, we had teacher appreciation week and for that week we made dress up names for students and teachers. So, for Monday, um it was Monday memories. Write your teacher an
email with your favorite memory from the year and wear all black. Tuesday, uh tired teacher Tuesday, wear your pajamas. Wednesday, warp Wednesday. Teachers just like students and then students just like teachers. Thursday was thankful
Thursday. Write your teacher a note of positivity or telling them why you are thankful for them. And that's when you wear your neon. Friday was hats off to our teachers and you would pay $1 school you used to buy teachers. So
that's what we got for the teachers. Okay. So, we had our end of week kind of like potluck for our student council and each member um brings like a treat or just breakfast item and we all come together some bad
pictures but so really fun and kind of casual and you get to vote on your new officers for next year that um and then you kind of vote on our t-shirt designs for this year. So, good time. So, potential plans for fundraising for
a leadership convention next year. Um, yearly have these on Fridays. That seems to be like something that people really like. Like maybe charging a dollar every Friday or like $25 throughout the year. Um, teacher stickers during homecoming
homecoming and homecoming tattoos. Like imagine how awesome that would be. Having Dave Noel tattooed on him. That would be awesome. You can make a lot of money and then a chocolate fun. Everybody loves
chocolate. Um selling your tickets to pie teachers or tape teacher to the wall. That would be nice. And then so for next year during the fall like maybe the first day or so a
video of the handle rules like no running in the halls the phone policy how to dump your lunch properly no driving during lunch no PA and free passes per class per quarter and that's in the neighbor ready
for Thank you to our seniors. Sophia R, our president, Scott Boston, our secretary, Brena Hawthorne, our vice president, and Teen. Any questions? Did you have any um dress up or people dressed up that's really
stood out for Warp Wednesday? My mom was actually pretty excited. Someone dressed up as she wore you elected your new officers as well. Who are those? President Ellie Wilson is vice treasure. We have two
coordinator coordinators like different pierces. Thank you for your presentations all year. Good job. Thank you. Okay, next up is elementary student leaders. Hello, my name is L. I'm in fifth grade.
Hello, I'm I'm Sed and I'm in fifth grade. I'm Elanor Anderson and I'm in third. I'm Avery and I'm in fifth grade. I'm in fifth grade. I'm in I'm in fourth.
I'm Schwarz and I'm in fourth grade. Um, thank you for letting us talk to you to to the school board all this year. Um, so the school purchased um these football year markers and goals
and we put them on today and everybody had a blowout. I had a very very fun time through the past two years at our student meeting and I had a great time. I was just so thankful that I got to
college. I'm also thankful I was able to get to able to pass on student leaders have been literally glad that we've been doing this because I think every person that's been a student
leader has been more confident after they lead or more helping because some people before they were student leader have been will not just hasn't hasn't standed
up for people or hasn't like picked up if there was basketball stuff just look at it and walk away. When your student you think, "Oh, let's put that away cuz we also did these cups in the
fence." And to be honest, they were very hard to stay in the fence. I think it was really fun because there was a lot of people working on a lot of How many cups total were there?
Yeah. 5,000 plus. Wow. I haven't seen it yet. I got to drive either. Look good. Looks good. It looks awesome. Awesome. How long did it take you to How many days did you work on it?
We did most. Thank you guys for everything you do all year and for coming and talking to us every every month. We have a video to show you guys what we did this year. We're going to do this. [Music]
activities and it was really fun. I think my favorite was probably the movie and it was like super my favorite part of being a student leader with the challenge course. I think they
taught my show kindness. My favorite thing about being a student leader is that you actually get to know more things about kindness because as I said before like when you
weren't a student leader you see a volunt just like oh people can pick it up and they walk away but still that my thing about being part of the leadership cuz I love
just being a student with all activities stuff. My favorite game was the leadership Olympics.
um um leadership Olympics and my favorite part about it was teamwork and some of us have a little bit of a rough time but like in my group some of us have a rough time but
the rest teammates kind of like calmed them down. My favorite part about being my favorite part about being um is because just helping other kids and like I really like going on trips.
My favorite was also because I also like this chain and the thing you're going to hit like there's a
tur you could teach other people like even if they're not there, you could teach them how to be a better person. Well, good job, guys. We're going to miss you this summer. You guys done a tremendous job inspiring
people, not only your peers, but even adults, businesses within the community. There's something that's in motion right now. Some businesses that are looking to look for something for next year that we'll talk with the principles that will high school about uh that'll be
more of you guys and other students for all our work done this year and moving forward next years to come. So, thank you guys for the work that you're doing. Thank you guys for letting us talk at your school. Thank you.
And thank you to Miss Amanda for all her organization and hard work. Absolutely. They just comment like a couple members there's like a membership if you're fourth
grade [Music] set opportunities. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. All right. Next up is item 6.0 finance. 6.1 is to approve not approved donations
to the school district. This includes the a donation from the US Army National Guard for graduation hoods. Joshua Nelson to the science department, Luckkins Incorporated to FFA, Nightrider snowmobile club for state FFA,
Nightrider snowmobile club to the physics trip, and the Boston Alliance to nursing for fourth grade health. We'll do all this as one motion. We have a motion by Director Mer and a second by Director Get. Any
discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Same sign. Oh, she thinks that's a roll call. Oh, yeah. Sorry, it is a roll call vote. Uh, Director Deont, yes. Director
G, yes. Director Munter, yes. Director Nelson, yes. Director Marcus, yes. Item 6.2 is budget realignment update. There will be no acting on this, just a discussion. We should all have this
budget spreadsheet in front of us. Do I have the floor? You have the floor. Okay. Thank you. Uh in front of you is a um is a summary of what um has been presented. Um um you've had a copy of
this prior as has our um staff has been notified of this. I actually had a facetoface meeting uh with staff to share this information. Any of the um things that would need formal action have already happened.
The rest of the reductions or align realignment will really come through the budgeting process which will have a a preliminary budget approved by the end of uh June and then we will make budget adjustments throughout the school year.
Um so the action has really been taken that needs to be taken as far as um u staffing is concerned as far as um some of the other pieces of the realignment. If you recall back in maybe February when we had our
um uh work session, we talked about a a target number of of a half a million, $500,000. as we put this together, um things just fell into place. We a couple other couple things fell into place late
that added to this amount. And so in the end, um all of these adjustments andor reductions total that sum of $664,6269. And what that means is the budget next year will be that much
less than it was in the current year. I shouldn't say that. Um these items will reduce the budget. Yeah, that's a safe statement to make. And actually it this number will be
probably greater because the numbers are based on salaries that that um you know we're in the negotiations year. So those hours will actually change. So the savings in essence will be greater or we'll spend less money than actually
shown there. Now most of the things here um in particular like the staffing piece um those reductions go away and they they don't come back unless we choose to bring them
back. But they're ongoing savings. Some things that could change in a future budget would be eventually we're going to have to purchase a bus. So though it won't be in next year's budget, it will come back to us at some point in time. So um that's how we
differentiate those. Um the technology piece, we really put a pause on some of the infrastructure here at the high school. If you recall, we did purchase new cameras at the elementary. Um at the suggestion of um director uh Larson, we
um are pausing that at the high school. the cameras we have are working. He believes that they can work for another couple years. Um, as we look to the future of the district and potentially a building plan or or some type of a project that way um that's when these
things will be more closely addressed. Um equipment um we have a line item for equipment that we put in when we purchase uh large items for the district. If you recall, the last two years we purchased um cafeteria tables for both buildings. That type of a
purchase is not in line for anything similar to that next year. So, we're going to reduce that amount by $40,000 for next year. That could change. There might be something that pops up during the year or even prior to the to June here where we would ask for some of that
potentially to come back into play. Um but that's the sum of the uh work that you task us task us with us meaning administration. Uh as you recall we we took input from from yourselves in a
work session. We took input from staff. We certainly uh lean on each other administratively for ideas of how we could reach this attain this goal. And um I'm very proud of the fact that we were able to come to the table to you
tonight with the with the final draft of um adjusting our budget by over $600,000. So I'd stand for any questions. there's any piece here that you want more in depth on um is there any concern about with
reducing teachers and the pair of professionals that we have enough coverage and everything? Yeah, not the teachers so much but possibly the pair of professionals. Yeah. And some of that hinges on we get a student that um comes into our district that would be on an IEP that would call for a onetoone pair
or something like that. we potentially would have to bring something like that back. Um, go ahead. As we look at extracurriculars, yep. Right. We see a number of athletics across the boards, especially at the junior high level.
We're not hiring low numbers. That isn't nec necessitating uh nullification of that program. Correct. It's just the funding for it's just reducing like instead of having x amount of coaches in this
sport, we're at this one. Y So these positions were filled this past year either. Correct. But they were budgeted for. Yes. Right. So these are actually kind of double because we didn't fill them in the current year. So
the this year's budget should reflect, you know, some savings because of this and then going forward they'll be pulled out. They they won't be budgeted for next year. Correct. Yeah. Um just one some maybe with food service. We have um going into this year
and for the larger part of the year we had six um in our lunch hot lunch program, six staff, three at the high school, three at the middle school. Somewhere late February we had a resignation of one of the of those six and we finished
the year with five. We actually brought in our nutritionist um that we um hired via the um service co-op. She looked at all of our numbers, did a kind of an audit of the number of meals we serve on on a daily and weekly and monthly basis
and suggested that we are more than staffed at um having five people in our program. So we will go into the next year with two at the high school and three at the elementary. That's where that savings
came from. So again, we realized some of that savings this year because from February on we were with five and now going into next year we will be at five. And maybe just of note here, you know, like so up above and I maybe could
have written this a little bit different. I know in my head and maybe I'm kind of assuming that others understand it as well, but the reason that we were reducing at the elementary or that we were able to reduce accept retirements and not replace them is
because if you recall we had three sections of third grade, second grade, excuse me, three sections of second grade and three sections of third grade. Going forward next year, we'll have two sections of third grade and two sections of fourth grade. So there was two
positions there that um that were being reduced in essence or that we did not we no longer needed. The retirements were able to offset those those reductions. But I think principles and looking at you guys I think we're
everyone's been communicated to. We've we got a potential um potential situation that could play out yet that we're just waiting on and it's nothing that we're doing. It's a staff member that has some there's a
possibility that might not be here. So, we're just waiting if that might happen or may not, but if that does, we'll just um figure that out how we best fill that. We may have to hire, but at this point in time, we don't. True. Right.
Yeah. So, um the good news is through all of this, no one lost a job. The good news is through all this we believe that we can continue u with the same quality and
that we have had here in the district for many years. And uh so um part of our responsibility as school board and as administration and really all of us is to be fiscally responsible to our taxpayers. And I think this is a big
step in that direction. Um and being responsible and reflective of um and really why are we here? Um a couple of things. We're here because of declining enrollment. um that we've just we have
less students and yet our staffing level hasn't really followed that slow decline as our enrollment. Uh and then the other piece of it is u the ESSER funding that we had for three five years I guess probably
since since co um those dollars have now stopped coming into our district and we needed to make some adjustments accordingly. feedback then teachers and staff.
No, I I mean really pretty quiet. Okay. Yeah. Clarif ask about some clarification maybe but but no one's um nothing more than that. I don't know if principles have heard anything more than that or not. Clarification. Yeah.
concern or criticism regarding the decisions here in terms of how person okay hopefully certainly I think they would be voiced by now that was a curiosity y I've heard a little bit of feedback just that people were grateful
that nobody had to was told to leave so and you know somebody's asking are you going to do that again next year I think we we do that automatically and we look at our budget and how do we how do we adjust it according to the needs of the district. So I guess the short answer
would be yeah we're going to do it again. Now that doesn't mean it's going to be 664,000 every year or anything like that but I think annually it's our responsibility to look at our budget and be as efficient as we can while delivering the program that we choose as a district to offer.
So that's all I have for that. Any other questions or comments for that enrollment trend? That's normal kind of across the board for similar communities, right? No. In fact, I think we've held on to it longer than most others. Yeah. But it
was interesting because the yearbook came out today and um so I'm paging through it and we have a we have a class coming up. It's in the high school now. Obviously, maybe there's 26 kids, 28 kids, something like that.
At least that's how many pictures were in the yearbook. That might not be completely accurate, but so that's small, you know. You know, that's 10 kids and 10 kids is a rough numbers is 100 grand, you know. So,
every student that we can maintain and keep um is huge. But life goes on for families and they they're more transient than they probably have been in years past. Yeah. Well, it seems like we saw a
little bit of an influx during CO like right after CO, you know, or maybe back down to where we were before. Is that accurate? I think it is somewhat um I guess I haven't gone back but in the yeah I I guess since co you're right
we've um kind of trickled down just and it's it's not any huge drop but it's just a kind of a steady slower decline and as Paul suggests we are not we are not the only
ones by any means. Sure. When I think when we talked about some of this stuff several months back, right, we started looking to the horizon regarding this budget realignment. We had seen a number of the other communities having
significantly higher tax increases or levies to compensate for that. Whereas with this, the intent was to avert Yeah. putting additional strains on taxpayers in our community to maintain the programs that we have here today.
when I look at our enrollment very transitive I mean you start at a certain number and then we lose some we gain some um obviously down a little bit but I think that's been the trend here the last few years
it's a lot of families come and go a lot of that's dependent upon just the job market for those families in terms of opportunity elsewhere lack of here. It is interesting because even though we may start at 40 and end at 40, six or
eight of those that started with us aren't here, but six or eight that did start with us are here, you know, and that's in multiple classes. And I think that's pretty much a trend that happens in multiple schools. Good discussion. Thank you,
Superintendent. You bet. U moving on to 7.0 reports elementary French report any questions appreciate your if not item number two we completed our MCA reading math and science uh and
we'll just uh look for the results as they come in as they're published and obviously they're they're held until basically August middle of August beginning of September. So they're embargoed until that point but once we get those public
we'll pass that information on to you. We also concluded our reading and math through our fast bridge assessment. Our spring benchmark were completed on May 16th and we had four benchmark periods throughout the year in grading and
math and that would be K through six. So we saw I mean fast bridge was implemented this year. We've seen a great use of it. uh it was it's part of the react where certain all schools have to have a
certain uh student assessment program. So being one of the fast bar with it this year being our first year look to continue to grow on that in the future years any questions on testing? Well
fast Dan just just clarify that measures growth right you know I mean and that's what we're hoping for you test in the fall and then you test and you test and you test Yeah, test, right? And sometimes we, you know, that
our school report card or this the information of the state on the MCAs, that's a one time, one day, how do I feel? how serious was I type of a of a measure where really some of the pieces in fast bridge that are showing growth
are more I don't know more important but certainly as important but maybe more important about removing kids um they're growing and that's what we're really in business for it's better reflection one day one task individual
kids and it drives our instruction it also with where kids are need to grow and the target those areas. Bill, you know that that's a good point too and just maybe share with the board. Um the fast bridge
is obviously a measurement of the kids growth, but it also drives as Dan said, our instruction. What do we need to focus on to get the growth that we're looking for? And if we don't get it in a certain time period, how do we adjust our our instruction to meet the needs of
their kids rather than, you know, I'll be honest, when I started this business many years ago, it was I teach it. If they learn it, they learn it. If they don't, that's on them. Well, that's not how we do business anymore. So, we're adjusting as uh educational leaders as
much as the students are trying to advance ourselves through the the knowledge that we're embarking on. One thing you have Mr. S was talking about and it provides us with certain interventions where kids need some support but it also looks at because we
have our higher school and obviously we would like to support them as much as we can but obviously most of our focus is looking at the kids there that need to show them off but I just uh have you know big round of applause for
teachers and all the work that they put into this. it was new. Um, and we're seeing how it can work and excited about where it could go. So, that's been really good this year. So, thank you all for our teachers and and our invention was title one program people doing a
great job. Um, item number three, elementary band choir concert that was held on May 5th. If you guys were there, the elementary band sounded amazing. Choir sounded amazing. Just a huge thank you to Alyssa and for all their work. Um
and then tomorrow at promotion, our sixth grade band and our choir will be performing also at promotion. So thank you again to Melissa and for all their work. Item number four, this uh some
information on six trip. Uh they left about 5:00 this morning for the cities later tonight. You must have got back early because you were on there, weren't you? Or did you go on the fifth grade class trip? No, this is sixth grade. Or sixth grade. They'll be back
late tonight. I'm I'm winking when I say that because weren't the newbies supposed to go on either the class trip or what else were they supposed to do? Graduation or shop prom? in midnight. Uh, also this assignment will be
promoting 38 sixth graders uh tomorrow to the high school. So, Mr. be over and hopefully we'll accept them. And just a note, I'll be filling it for Jake tomorrow. Oh, so okay. Oh, good.
Yeah. Uh, it may not be changed on the program. That's okay. I kind of figured we were too late for this. Another side note with sixth grade they had their annual second annual fishing experience this year. Um I was able to Montana. I uh watched them when
they were fishing. Great experience. And then had lunch with them. Uh man, what a great thing. I know Mr. S was there also. And if you guys can get a chance, that is it's amazing to see all the kids who are introduced to fishing, maybe the kids that know uh fishing, but then also
the high school kids and their interaction with each each kid and the adults there. Uh it's just a great experience, great exposure for our kids and that goes along with their class trips, exposing our kids to things that they don't experience and they're just great opportunities. So I'd like to
thank uh the sixth grade teachers, Mr. Wolf and Mr. for help and all the others who supported the the sixth grade fishing trip. Sportsman's club huge donation towards um the purchasing of a rod and reel for each kid. Yeah. Each kid got a rod and reel um and a lot of
smiles. They got over 107 fish, I believe. Um and they were broken into teams and I didn't go down the road or anything like that, but there's some competitive everybody's a winner. Uh item number five, end of year awards
program. That'll be Friday at 9:00 a.m. Uh awards going out this year attendance student leaders accelerated leader home awards and track and field day. So if you're available on Friday
morning item number six and our summer programs we'll have some summer academy 26 that will be every Tuesday Thursday commune and then our summer es school year that's in our special
education program that will be and those dates are on so you'll need to add those those are June 2nd through June 27th And that would be Tuesday through Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. And just some staffing
reassignments. I know Todd went through some things on on his budget realignment. But some of our changes uh in fifth grade next year, we'll have Joe Woods who's currently teaching third grade to move to fifth grade. Fifth grade, who's currently teaching second
grade this year, will be in sixth grade. And then uh Mr. Hbert obviously will be reassigned to the high school for seventh through 9th grade math. And then the last thing I have is retirement celebration. I know Paulie mentioned it before the meeting. Just a reminder that
will take place uh next Tuesday at model center. That's district. District. Yep. And you're more than welcome to attend. So if you have any questions, I'm willing to answer. Any questions?
Thank you, Mr. 7.2 high school principal report. Mr. 249, we don't have it. We are at 249 down two from our April 4th. Next item on there is our
MCA's wrapped up and I want to thank Captain Cardine for all of her hard work with that. That is one of her job duties is managing our actual testing. Uh her collaborate for generating schedule and things of that nature. But when it comes
to the students in the room and and firing up the tests and things of such uh that is something that she manages. So she does an excellent job at that. Uh in fact got all kids to the point where we actually finished slightly early this
year in terms of the calendar. The annual academic banquet was held on April 28th and see there's 22 students grades 9 through 12 that were recognized. When it comes to our freshmen, they only select the top two to be recognized. Other than that, on
average, we're between six and seven per grade. U had an opportunity to attend that. It was a great recognition. uh students of course get this wonderful medallion and things of that for their GPA uh throughout the course of the
year. I want to thank Ron. I think he said this is year 18 that he's been doing this bank with. It's a lot of time that goes into not only calculating GPA but then of course finding a cater and lining up workers and all the things
that go into it. And and then of course Lana is working, you know, hand in hand with him when it comes to who or which students get recognized as far as based off of, you know, the courses they've taken to the
GPA. Uh May 5th, again, as Dan mentioned, our spring concert. Again, I'd like to congratulate all of our directors. Kids sound uh wonderful all the way from elementary up to the high school. It was fun to stand outside of the gym
and I'm monitoring the doorway and such, but just to kind of hear the the performance maybe a little bit more pure if you will as you step away. It's just it's they sounded great. A definitely sounded great. It was fun to look in and just see uh in particularly thinking
back to our senior high choir and just the performance that those kids gave uh Mary as as a last harra I thought was uh just just excellent on their behalf. Um if you were there you notice there was a small display from our tech
department some of the things that they've done throughout the year. That's something that hopefully as we move forward over the next years that's going to just build. We'll have more and more things being displayed um to allow our students to be recognized. Of course, uh some staff
recognition. Uh I just want to recognize all my staff on the year of course for you know just working hard and being dedicated to our kids. Uh couple that I want to point out. Mila Donovan of course just that FFA program just continues to grow and grow and grow. Uh
she puts so much time and effort into that and energy and so on and the kids really gravitate to her. They really enjoy being in her classroom. uh even on the side of electives over our master schedule, she's if you look at students
entering her classes, uh if that's an indicator, she'd be considered the most popular teacher in our building. Uh it says a lot to just the rapport that she develops with our kids. The other thing that I want to note is just last year they got the plasma
cutter and that was all new to her and she had to learn how to operate that thing and then teach kids how to operate it. Um we have a couple kids in this building have just absolutely taken that thing and ran with it. Uh one of the kids was actually complaining. He's like
I don't have enough time to do all the jobs I have lined up between track and this and that. But, you know, the kids are really enjoying that piece. Great investment for our kids. Uh Mike Ops at all, just want to give him some kudos
for taking on a different role this year and really uh embracing that role. uh he's our student success coordinator and you know I assigned him with the task of meeting with a handful of uh freshman boys and a handful of sophomore boys and
just to help groom them as young men and to see the maturation starting to take place. The growth that's taking place um through his labor is has been again hats off to him for doing
that. um staff teaching assignments. Again, all of our staff are aware of what they will be doing next year, where they're at, things like that. We didn't have a whole lot of change up here at the high school as far as that goes. Um our one change, of course, we will go down to
three case managers in our sp. Uh the individual that will be coming over to the uh elementary has been notified. Um, and again, we're working closely here at the high school with ASEC to kind of take a look at our case
loads, our schedules, things like that. Trying to help it coincide a little bit better with our overall master schedule and and have just probably a little bit um evening of our day loads as well as a smooth transition from having four to
three plus three and a half I should say. Yeah. Um and then lastly, our class of 25 of course u had a meeting with them on the 9th. We talked about what their last week of school looks like, what the last day looks like, uh which
is tomorrow. And so they will be here by approximately 8:30 tomorrow, do the locker cleanout, then by 10:00 we're on the bus to go to the elementary for their last walk through and capping ground. Uh then they're back here for
group and individual photos with Cfields again in cap and gown. And then at approximately 11:15 they'll have dinner with staff. And then by 12:30 we are gathering in the old gym getting organized for practice and we will
proceed with practice which takes anywhere from 40 minutes to under an hour. Um we'll practice walking in together. walking out, walking in, sitting down, standing up, all the fun things, almost kindergarten like and uh
yes. So then of course graduation is Friday at 7. Hopefully they're remember when to stay home and sit by the block in any questions. Thank you, Mr. Madison. 7.3 Superend. Yeah, I don't
have anything written for you tonight, but um spent a lot of time on budget the last few weeks obviously in staffing and um just want to thank our principles but other administration as well um running
numbers looking at situations looking at certifications um doing all that. It's a big puzzle and it's good work and it's it's I mean we sit down and we do it and we have fun doing it. I don't know if that's the right description, but we we know that
that's part of our responsibility and um I really feel confident that we've come up with a plan that is very much doable, workable, and we've communicated it well. um been very transparent through the whole process and um it's just it's it's
been it's been a lot of our time here recently. Uh the other pieces right now are just kind of hanging on to our hats here until for the last week. You know, that's uh Will actually called me last week about an idea. It's a great idea. And I said, "Well, talk to the
principles, but their plate is a little full right now and and we're going to defer it to to sometimes summer or fall or whatever." And it's not that the idea is good, bad, or different. It's just that's the realization of right now. It's just it's a busy time. And u but
you know what? I've been in this is my 40th year and every year the school year ends and every year there's a graduation and it always happens and it always pulls off and this year will be no different. So, um it's fun work. Um graduation is certainly a highlight at
the high school, but I love the idea how we we keep our kids involved in our elementary as well. And uh they have fond memories of their days in the elementary and uh that we can bring them back to that building, literally physically bring them back to that building is important for them and but
it's important for us and the legacy that that we want faucet schools to be. So, that's what I've been working on. Um, it's been plenty and it's been good and uh looking forward to the last week here. Thank you, Superintendent Silk, and
thank you guys for all your help with the budget and everything else, too. Uh, 8.0 personnel. Uh, 8.1 is to approve or not approve the promotion of April Megan to director of business services. Yeah. And
as I just spoke of staffing, um obviously this is a huge staffing piece for us and um you know I I'd like to think I'm a fairly intelligent guy and fairly smart. Took me a while to figure all this out, but I had the answer to what I was
looking for right across the office from me and right in my back pocket. And uh I brought April in last Monday, I want to say it was, and I said uh I figured out who's going to be the new business director. Oh. And I said,
"You." And that's about how it went. And uh we're just really pleased to be able to bring this forward as a recommendation to Phil Joan Nelson's spot. Um I have all the confidence in
the world in April. uh she will do a tremendous job and uh it just makes all the sense in the world for how we want to transition this position um and the working relationship she currently has with Joanie and will continue to have into next year as well um and just how
she's proven herself in in the two years that she's been on board with this district in her current role and we just know that that will blossom into her new role as well. So, it is with the highest recommendation that I have to uh recommend April Weeden for the
director of business services position. Motion motion by director get second by director Jupong. Any more discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I I All those opposed, same sign. Motion is approved.
Congratulations. Congratulations. I think she accepts, right? Um obviously with that um approval by you just now, um that creates a vacancy in in our uh HR payroll spot that April
currently fills. In anticipation of this, uh we did propose that position last week. Um and uh we will be moving swiftly in replacing that or in hiring that position so that we can enjoy the full
benefit of that person coming on board as soon as possible and working with April for a while and then kind of releasing April then to work with Joan. Joan is with us through July 31st. So really we're looking at two months of
having all three people together and then at the end of July June would exit. A paper would be in her new role and our new hire would be in April's role. So um on that note um and I think this is an
okay time to bring this up. Um, we would be looking for a special board meeting this Friday morning to approve the hire of the new person for April's um for April's position. Um, it will be posted tomorrow, which would allow us to
have the meeting on Friday. Monday. Yep. That's all messed up. Yeah. Well, that's and that's strategic in in doing it that way. That's why um we we couldn't have it any sooner than Friday. But um if we could get a quorum on Friday, we would
ask for that special board meeting. Uh and maybe we maybe we'd bring that up at the end. I don't I don't know. Yeah, let's talk about that under the meeting. Okay. Schedule. Yep. I put it out there. So, okay, perfect. Okay. 8.2 of teacher. We have three. Um
and these are all a roll call vote. So, if I skip that, yell at me. Um 8 point is it 8.2.1? Yes. Okay, that's okay. 8.2.1 Approve or not approve the tenure of
special education teacher Janette D. McCall. Make a motion to approve tenure for Janette. Second. And just informationational Janette is a special ed teacher here at the high
school. Oh, says it right there. Sorry. I have a motion by Director Deong, a second by Director Get. Um, any further discussion? This will be a roll call vote. Director Deong, yes.
Director Ges, yes. Director Munter, yes. Director Nelson, yes. And Director Marcus, yes. 8.2.2. Approve not approve the tenure of special education teacher Emma Sunquist.
Make a motion to approve. I have a motion by Director G. A second by Director Deong. Any discussion? Hearing none. Director Deong. Yes. Director Gch. Yes. Director Mutter. Yes. Director Nelson.
Yes, director Marcus. Yes. And our addition of 8.2.3 approve not approved tenure of ECS teacher Angie Derman to approve. Uh I have a motion by director Deong, a
second by director Munter. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Director Deon, yes. Director Gch, yes. Director Melter, yes. Director Nelson, yes. Director Marcus, yes.
Okay. Uh, moving on to 10.0 operational. Uh, we have 10.1. approve or not approve the Minnesota State High School resolution that the board approves. Uh it allows our school teams and
activities to participate and compete in Minnesota State High School League sponsored activities. Um, obviously this be approved by the board. Mhm. Yeah.
It's funny how they asked us to join. Yeah. I think that after couple years ago Yeah. They brought it down considerably. They realized that. Yeah. They kind of have us. They kind of have us in a between a rock and a hard
place, you know. Yeah, I think they got a lot nearful. Yeah, I'll make a motion to approve the MSHs. Okay, I have a motion by Director Deong, second by Director Munter. Any further discussion? This is another roll call
vote. Uh, Director Deon, yes. Director GH, yes. Director Munter, yes. Director Nelson, yes. Director Marcus, yes. in 11.0 reports. Does anybody have any reports?
I just want to thank the personnel committee. We've met multiple times this winter or spring winter and spring late winter and spring and um appreciate their willingness to to come together and discuss ideas and uh bring stuff forward. So, thank you to those people
and that is director Dupong, Director Marcus and Director Christian. Thank you. Any other reports? Um, any additional comments? Hopefully, no.
Todd, I know we talked about trying to plant the seed here, but I think it's more so for you guys to kind of stoop over in terms of what we're trying to work on and kind of alluded a little bit to student leaders. We've seen, I think, very positive response from both kids
and paying it forward in the community and going above and beyond. Um, with that, we've got at least a couple businesses thus far in the community that want to contribute uh as a donation to an opportunity for whether it be a high school, both providing
opportunities for for staff to award students during that by offering treats, snacks, stuff like that that can be basically given as recognition uh to students for that for that uh act of kindness. A lot of those things that they're doing. Um, so we're basically
working to see how many businesses we can rally up and then when your schedules aren't as chaotic, uh, find time within, you guys know what's best to allocate those donations for students schools.
Cool. Very cool. Any other comments? Where did that percolate from? You uh, we had a couple of different things come up uh, with within the KNS company. Um, but when that was brought up, I then I think it was two
days after the last school board meeting when they talked about, you know, a lot of work being done paying for it. Um, I reached out internally to the organization to see if they'd be willing to support like that. Kenny Nelson overwhelmingly agreed that that would be something to bring on board with. So,
awesome. Thank you. 13.0 uh meeting schedule. So what time do I would like a special board meeting? Um it would be a one one agend one item agenda, one agenda item.
Um it could be you know 7:30. I mean it's a matter of minutes is all it's going to be called order and I'll be on on Friday. Okay. Out of service basically Thursday morning through Sunday. Okay. Um,
we got four for sure. I'm sure Scott I'm not sure, but I'm hoping Scott could. And I think Jake thought he could be back, too. No, he had unless it was really early, he because he's missing now, he would have some patience. So, he said if it's not before 7, he probably
couldn't. So, we shouldn't count on him. When else you could run the meeting again? Yeah. Yep. So you're you tell me 7 7:15 7:30 7:30 is okay unless somebody wants to meet earlier.
So Friday May 23rd at 7:30 April you got that special meeting. Okay. And the agenda item will be the U recommendation for hire for payroll/HR/benefits specialist is what
we're going to call it. Okay. And then our next regular meeting is June 16th, 2025 at 6 p.m. right here. With that, I would take a motion to adjourn. Thank forget. All those approved. All
those or all those in favor? I same sign. We at 75. Nice. Nice.