team, >> huh? >> Well, varsity was up 16 nothing in second came across and was two of us >> and the bases were still
got a chance to do that. I saw the first We'll call the uh May May 11th, 2026 meeting to order. Please join me for the pledge of >> allegiance
to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> John, will you please take roll call?
>> Yes, I will. >> Jamie >> present. >> Randy >> present. >> Kayla >> absent. Myself. John here. >> Jason >> present. >> Alicia >> absent. All right. Four of us are here. Thank
you, John. Approve the agenda. This is an action item. MOT or do I have a motion to approve the agenda? >> So move. >> Motion by John. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Second by Randy to approve the agenda. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. >> I. Post. Post. Same sign. Motion
carries. Announcements. The next regular school board meeting will be on Monday, June 8th, 2026 at 6 p.m. in the GSL High School community room 443444. Acknowledgements. Do we have any acknowledgements at this time?
>> I'd like to just give a shout out to all the uh cast and crew to our spring play Alice and Wonderland. They did a great job this uh weekend, two weekends ago. So, congratulations to them. >> I'd like to add a couple acknowledgements as well. I want to
acknowledge the touch the truck event that was taking place with the um ECF area of our facilities and of our curriculum and of our district. um that touched the truck was just well well attended and stuff. I mean, and it
wasn't just trucks. It was it was a neat community coming together of businesses that provided um things to look at, things to touch, things to crawl on. And I think that that was really fun, a neat for families to experience. And it was
neat to see the number of little girls that were there as well as just little boys. Um, and like I said, it was neat to see the businesses that were involved that took time out of their schedules and provided some of the equipment and and vehicles and stuff to be look looked
at. Um, as well as just in community, you know, in general, um, from Alina Health um, with regard to GR and the ambulance to the Mloud County um, oh, they had the SWAT team there with their
vehicle. They had um the dump trucks there as far as Mloud County, the city of Gleno um with some of their equipment that they have um Silver Lake Fire Department as well. So, it was just really really well attended and and just
a lot of smiles, a lot of fun. Uh families having a great time and their kids just enjoying it thoroughly as well. The weather cooperated too, so I wanted to acknowledge that. I also would like to acknowledge the second grade. Um, I had an opportunity to visit
Lincoln last Friday and the learning in every corner of that part of our facility was just amazing. Uh, second grade had their rainforest wax museum that was taking place and there was a play that took place with knockknock
jokes, some songs, some poems, acting, you name it, a little bit of everything. And it was just, it was so refreshing to see the learning that was taking place. And and once again, sometimes people think that when the weather gets nice and it's springtime that learning stops
or it shuts down, but I'll tell you those kiddos um at all the grade levels uh here at GSL. But over there, they just were going gang busters. And kudos to the 284 staff and the teaching staff um keeping that learning going and just
the support that they were giving the kids. It was so much fun to see the second graders um at the Rainforest Wax Museum um just with the pride that they had and um you had everything from um
extroverted kids just really enjoying it to introverted kids coming out of their shells and and being uh confident and and proud of the work that they did. So, it was kind of fun to see the introverts coming out of their
uh their safe zone, if you will, and um the the ML staff or the the ML students, the ELELLL students, the special ed students. Um and like I said, the support that the the 284 and the teaching staff give to those students
day in and day out. Um this was just another great example of um student successes and the partnership that we have with families, with teaching staff, with the kids here at GSL. Thank you. >> Thanks, Jamie. Any other
acknowledgements at this time? Hearing none, we'll move on to public input relating to the agenda. Second call for public input relating to the agenda. And third call for public input related to the agenda. Hearing none, presentation, we have Mr. Munch,
director of the EC ECLC and community education here to talk about his role. Hello. >> All right. Thank you guys. Good evening. Um, just to recap, my name is Matt Mont. I'm the community education director
here and I do oversee the field halls um, community ed and early childhood. Um, I always like to start my presentation just touching on the current budget that we have for this year. Right now, our current expenditures are just over 1.1 million
with our revenue just slightly above um a million. Right now, once we add our levy dollars throughout the end of the year, we should be finishing over our expenditures. As you can see, our revised budget there. Um, and I would expect it to be very close to that. um
always changes a little bit based on um summer registrations, but it should be very similar. Some brief updates that I wanted to let you guys all know that we did have a kind of busy year in the fieldhouse and I didn't even realize that we actually had this many projects going on, but our
gym floors did get refinished. Our walking track got refinished. We did include four new windows around our walking track on the east and west side of the buildings or the northeast western side. We did u finalize all the painting throughout the facility. Uh we
did get some gym floor transitions in the entry areas from rubber areas that were um old and starting to lift up and we did do wood transitions and they do look very nice. Um obviously most of you guys are all aware our roof got replaced and we do have a fully climate
controlled building which a lot of members have been extremely happy when they got to utilize that this fall. I know is very shortlived, but I think a lot of members are very excited for this upcoming summer to have at AC. Uh some a few upcoming Panthers a few of
those plans that we have. Uh we are going to do a service update. This will be our fifth year with our cardio equipment and my plan was to have that all inspected and if it doesn't pass looking at possibly replacing stuff to keep our um equipment up to the standards that we now have here. Um,
we've been talking for quite some time about our commons um, area in the fieldhouse. A lot of that furniture has definitely seen some heavy wear and tear on, and I definitely think it's time to look at some replacements and see what we can do here. Um, our multi-purpose
room has always been a work in progress. We like to turn it into a fitness class area, which we do have our silver sneakers classes in. We would also like to expand it into a meeting room if we would like to and add a Smartboard in
there or some type of um space to just very similar to this space, just another space that we can go and have an additional meeting on. I know this room gets booked quite often, so it just be another space for us to be able to utilize. Um I over the last year I've
been asked by numerous different other communities to um use our facilities for rental for rentals from our gym space commons areas like this or our community rooms and I feel we do need to look at re-evaluating our pricing. We are
significantly less than every other district around. It's definitely in the early stages of that, but I think we could definitely look at that because we are very inexpensive compared to similar districts of our size and even in our um close proximity of Glaco. And then as of
this moment, we do have we have no intent of increasing our fieldhouse memberships. We are looking at possibly doing a daily use increase, but we were looking at that last year and I will be working more with um director of finance Trisha if we do need to do that just
after final um year end reports for our budget, but I don't see it happening, but it could always be a possibility. As for our advertising, nothing much has really changed um over the years besides adding more community emails and active
adult emails, but we still are continuously using our digital flyers, which seems to be going very well. Um we do still advertise on our website. I know we made some changes over the last year, but hopefully we can always improve that functionality of that as well as social media. We update our TV
on the in the commons area most of the time, multiple times a week or once a week. And then um for this upcoming year, we're hoping to have our new software um plan for our early childhood and community ed for
registrations. And this will also have an advertising feature in it as well. And it'll communicate with Dean Schwarz's new platform that he's using. We did have another successful year in our youth recreation program. We did not have to increase any fees. There could
be a slight increase in a few activities, but I don't really see anything drastically changing. And overall, our registrations were very steady this year. We didn't see any major influxes or um programs losing a lot of um registrations. Uh we did host
a large basketball tournament that went very well this year as well as multiple gymnastics tournaments and another large volleyball tournament. It was a lot of great exposure for our facilities. So it was nice to see all the communities come in and um give us a lot of praise on how we offered that for we are going to
continue to try to add more and more prek activities, get our youth um involved as young as we can. And last year we did have some success there. uh we do are we are going to continue to explore new instructors and different programs that offer those classes, but
we'll continue to see and hope that these can provide more success for our youth. Uh we started this year with families purchasing jerseys at uh multiple different tiers of our levels of sports and we're going to do it most
of the time this year, this upcoming year across the board. It's been um it was a very good outcome this year. families did like it, especially cuz we can carry them over to the next year if they don't outgrow them. And we have found that it's pretty inexpensive to do
shirts or jerseys and have that overuse over each year. And if families do want to return them and donate them to us, then we can also utilize those for the following year. Gary Kosak agreed that he will continue to run the Silver Lake Rec program again
for us for this year and it continues to grow each year. This will be our third year offering it. I think it's a great program for him to do. He offers a variety of different activities for those kids and it allows them to stay in their hometown and not have to worry about transportation to get over here.
So, I give Gary a lot of praise for wanting to do that. Not too many concerns besides the fact that we're starting to find out that equipment fees are drastically increased. Our main hit is this year is going to be our football program. We're receiving a large bill
for um a large bill that we can pay in one time or we can break it up over the next 10 years. So we can pay a $3,500 bill for this upcoming year or 350 a year moving forward. Plus the activity fee through Hutch is going to increase as well by $20. So that's where we could
see one fee going up, but some of our competitive fees, the league fees are increasing by 10 15% over the next year. Um, and we have had some concerns that we offer too many different sports at one time that are very similar days or conflict with times. That's a problem
we're always going to have if we try to offer too much stuff, but we hope that we can just work through those concerns on a case-by case basis. As for our youth enrichment program, this is always uh a roller coaster for us. We continue to try to improve it the best we can. Right now classes that are
continuing for run are our art classes, our craft classes and anything regarding robotics. There's a lot of attraction. Coding and video productions are just becoming very difficult due to the class being so expensive. Most of those classes are running anywhere from $115
to $215 gets to be a very difficult class to run when it's a few hours and not many people really know the ins and outs of that class. We did cover we did utilize our fund to cover a large portion of that to gain more traction but we still
haven't seen a a major benefit from it. Uh last year was our first year we included all of them. Our pack and coals program will um be invited to take place in every enrichment class that we offer just to make sure it runs and hopefully we can pick up a few other kids that do
not participate in those programs to add to that class. And we're always looking for new instructors to run new programs. And as you can see from the right, those are some current successful programs that we have with art club, our babysitting class, homemade or home alone, robotics, and kids create is
another third party company that comes in and offers some different classes for us as well. Adult recreation and enrichment has always been another one that's been very difficult to um host in our community. Our driver's discount program is always very consistent. with its fairly full 20
plus um registrations each month. Our karate instructor now retired and I've had multiple conversations with some of you about the fact that we do not plan to add this back because of our karate studio in town and I don't want to be competing against another program. I'd
love to see them continue to have success. It's and hope that we don't compete with other things. Um we are exploring more adult options. It's another thing with the city of Glaco. They offer some adult enrichment classes. And again, I don't want to
spark any competition as our um pickle ball courts that we added. There is kind of a little bit of competition there a little bit. It sounds like the city of Gleno is going to try to create a league and we were kind of doing the same thing. So, if we can help them in any way, we'll continue to do that. Um and
kind of let them run with their plan moving forward as now. Quick touch on aquatics. We still will offer year- round private lessons and we will be doing summer lessons this year. Pack and couples will be included in those. And lap swim currently is offered
Monday through Friday 6:00 to 7:15. That is essentially the utilization that we have for the pool. We there is a massive shortage in WSI instructors everywhere unless you're going to a swimming studio in the cities that that's all they do. Um, and we will continue to pay for a
WSI course if anybody wants to participate. As for trips, another I wouldn't say major hurdle, but our continuing partnership with Jolly Ramblers out of Lester Prairie has been very successful. People really enjoy the trips that we offer through them and the feedback
continues to be positive. uh participants have given feedback to um I forgot his name but um so he's been researching different trips and he offers more and more varieties each year. So I think we will continue to do that. We've explored other options for
overnight trips or longer ones and they get into the hundreds if not thousands of dollars and they haven't really gone over too well when we've tried to offer them besides our New York trip where some of these weekend trips are approaching the cost of our New York trip which was around 3,000 per family.
Quick touch unpack. Uh current enrollment is around 30 to 40 students per day. Our summer enrollment is currently 50 plus. I would uh assume by the end of this year we will be approaching that max capacity at 75. Um
again just kind of a recap that they will be having summer lessons. We do have around two trips per week planned for them and numerous activities that we can have that are hosted inhouse. Um one thing that is becoming more and more apparent is the need for separation. As our Cub House program has been here
longer and longer, our youth in PAT is significantly growing. Majority of those students are K through two where they always used to be around that 3 to five uh grade level. So, possibly looking at some separation there to hopefully we can create a better experience for these
families and kids. As for Cubs, we are still currently at full capacity. Uh we do offer 40 spots. We can have up to 46 with dropins. Um, very similar pack this summer with trips. We'll be attempting one to two trips. Last year was roughly around one
trip per week with the attempt of maybe having an additional one this year just to get the kids out of the building a little more. Um, we'll see how it works with us and being able to offer that to the prek level students, especially with transportation. And then we will be
adding um cups to enrichment classes as well and swimming lessons. For early childhood, our school readiness enrollment was 81 students, give or take a few depending on when they if they dropped or left. Um, we would like to move forward and continue
with classes at 16 if our budget allows it. In previous years, we've had had up to 20 students where our teachers did get a little more overwhelmed and we did find it might be a necessity for more staff if we keep it at that level. So, our our goal is to hold it right at around 16. We will be doing a refresh on
curriculum this year. We do have a couple different areas that we're looking to improve as well as our assessment area so we can align better with our kindergarten program in that transition. We have had 51 students so far screened. We do have another screening date coming
up here very soon. Plus, we also have that summer session. Um, so I I would assume that that will be very busy this summer as well. and Tamara and Sherry are both doing appointment based screenings when they are necessary if somebody needs to get in last minute. Advertising very similar to what it has
been in the past with our social media, our website, direct mailers, and our city guide books. And it doesn't seem like we need to do too much more, but we do. We can definitely explore those options upcoming. We are going to continue to update our outdoor classroom even more and hope we can make sure
that's just another extension of our building and then we will be moving ECF back to our early childhood building. I think that's another exciting um place for our youth littles to be and then our summer ECF classes that we will be offering. It's our first time this year.
It'll be Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday for the month of June. Something new that we're offering and we're going to see if we can do it. We have 12 registered students so far and we are capping it at 16. And then a quick recap on ECF this year. Um our new instructor this year was
Cherylyn Parkinson. She did a phenomenal job coming in especially for a new district for these are just a variety of classes and the numbers are equate to what our enrollment was in these classes. So, it's just a variety of options that we've never done in the
past to utilize the facilities all over the building and we did have a lot of or a lot of success. And then those are some of the events that we hosted this year and the enrollment numbers on those as well. Um, some of them were a little
more um eventful, I guess, and I know our spring fling went really well. We have that at the Glaco City Center and we hope to even expand that one even more. But I just I do like the fact that Sherry's very passionate on it and she does have a lot of great ideas to offer a lot of new opportunities for our
district. And that's all I have for you guys. Any questions? >> Yeah, we should turn this on. >> Adult basic is still happening right now. >> Oh yes, adult basic is still happening right now. They are
restructuring a little different. um they haven't decided if we're going to do the invoicing where in this I can talk with Trisha we would we would gain revenue from them and basically just pay them right back so it would just be a wash revenue wise it looks great
expenditures not so much um it is going to continue Tuesdays and Thursdays I know we are in the works of looking at moving the location for it uh where I don't feel should be an issue and just I guess right it is from 6:30 to 8:30 Yeah. And our instructor is still Nancy
Melmore. >> Yeah. And she's very helpful and does a a great job of that. Every once in a while I get a phone call. Do we offer this? And the answer is yes. We pass them on and um every once in a while you get several people in there, but the
most part it's pretty quiet. But we do offer it. Thank you. Yeah. Going on. Any other questions for Director Montro? Thanks, Matt. >> Thank you, guys.
>> Administrator at community reports, uh, director of finance, Miss Jack. >> Thanks, Jason. Um, just wanted to give you a little update on the projects, um, that are coming up for the summertime. Um, so the first one is going to be the purple gym that will be starting on June 8th. Um, that's going to be the reanding
and refinish. Um, this was part of a bid that we received last year when we did the fieldhouse. Um, and they are still honoring that. So that will be starting June 8th. Auditorium seating um the removal of the seats will start on June
1st to take about 3 to 4 days. He said um right at the end of that of removing the seats then the flooring company will be coming in and to redo the bottom of the floor of the cement area, filling the hole, patching um and then doing the epoxy flooring. The new seats will be
delivered around June 23rd and then they'll be starting the install right after that which will take about a week. Um so that gets us to about the 4th of July and then right after 4th of July around July 6th week then they'll be coming in and doing the carpet. So if
we're looking at timelines we're thinking that this will be completed by the end of July maybe a little bit sooner. Um Lakeside we have a lot of work going to be happening at Lakeside. Um, so the gym is completely done. Once school is out, they will start coming in and
demoing all the cabinets that need to be replaced, the carpet. Um, some of the flooring has to be tested for abatement, which is not covered underneath our insurance. Um, so that would be covered underneath our health and safety dollars. Um, so
we're getting quotes on that to figure out. Um Dan Johnson was here last week and went and tested them and stuff, so hopefully we'll figure out which ones need to be done there. Boilers will also be replaced. Um not sure on dates quite yet, but they're thinking August and then to be completed
by October for the heating season. And then roofing u materials and HVAC units have been delivered here as you've seen um in the back parking lot. They did start doing some work already that doesn't do disruption in the classrooms that they're able to do and then the
full poos will come here the June first week as well. So there'll be a lot going on a >> lot going on. >> Oh yeah, it has been it's been very busy organizing and and talking and uh making decisions and those types of things. But
uh it's also exciting because of the fact that there's going to be a lot of new stuff by the start of next fall. Never want to go through a flood, but there are some positives that are happening because of them.
>> How about Lincoln boilers? Any work being done on the Lincoln boilers? >> Not at this time. He's getting quotes and stuff for the piping. Not the boilers themselves. It's the piping of it. Okay. >> So, he's been working on that.
>> Okay. Will that be will something be done with them during the summer? I mean, he's getting bids. What is the plan as far as timing of the work that needs to be done? I mean, I guess what is he getting bids on?
>> The piping. I think it's some of the piping that's starting to rot and they can't really do any testing or look at it because they're still on, >> right? So once we can get them totally shut down and then they'll come in and look and stuff and but so right now
we're kind of just on a stand still until we can get them shut off. >> And so then it would be finding out what the problem is getting bids on and then getting something yet sort of scheduled to get something repaired before the
boilers are on again in the fall. Right. I mean I'm just kind of crunching the calendar. Yep. >> But also in crunching the calendar, I'm thinking fiscal year. So which side of the fiscal year will it probably fall on? The next one. >> Okay.
And how about the fieldhouse roof? Are we okay with that? Is everything not leaking? >> Well, it has been for a long time. >> Yeah. Um I think we're okay with that at this
stance. I don't remember. I mean, I know we had a little leak in there and I know that they went up there and looked at it and then I'm not sure exactly where they're at with if it's fixed or what they did or the followup with that whole case. I haven't
heard anything since then, but of course, I don't know if we've had any. You know, >> the last significant drain I was in here and Dean was at the time just walking around. You didn't find any back, >> but I thought there was a scene that they fixed up there. There was a scene.
>> I There's so many things I don't remember. I know that >> we dropped something. >> We addressed it. I know that >> we should maybe just double check on that to see. I mean, maybe we'll get some rain tonight, good, bad, or otherwise. But you're right, John. We
need some rain in order to test some of this stuff. But um since we knew that there was a leak and they were aware of it, we should probably do some followup and check to see if it's been found as far as we know where the water is maybe coming in, but
tracing it to where it's actually coming in. >> I can check with John on that and see >> a good idea. >> All right. U Mr. Butler, principal reports. >> Yes. Thank you, Jason. And um good evening. We'll highlight some of the
items on that written report. Um just looking, you know, looking ahead to to summer, our leadership team is going to participate in some professional development with MDE in mid June. You can see um toward the toward the top of the page there. Um if you get three quarters
down, um you've seen the title information there. Um parenthesis was this year's budget. Non parenthesis would be for next year. And you can see there's a there's a slight decrease. Um did add a note there that consolidated application is due at
the end of at the end of June for next for next fiscal year. Um right before the board meeting, Kim Borca and Musulin and I participated in a info session with MDE on the Minnesota kindergarten fall assessment which will become
mandatory in the fall of 2027. Um the info session was was to gauge interest on districts if they wanted to to become a pilot site next year. Um which we do. So I'll I'll complete that um that application and I think it would
be good opportunity to to learn about that assessment and um have a little leg up when we have to do it for real in 2027. I'll go to the back. Um there's a little summary of of summer programming. Um I was able to define some of those ESY
dates um earlier today. Um you can see that we got Cam kindergarten in in August and I'm grateful that that came together. Then if you look at school community partnership, I will let you look at that on your own. I've got an updated kindergarten enrollment near the
bottom. And uh I I did want to conclude first by acknowledging uh you know a couple of people and organizations. Um, your Dan Wattis uh does an outstanding job all the time. Just a couple of examples from today. We had Leap to Lakeside where our second graders went
to Lakeside in the morning, ate lunch, came back um for the afternoon. Had a a couple of couple of challenges. We needed a piece of equipment for seating on a van um that we didn't have. Dan ran it over and then the buses leave and two kids walk in the office. And I called
Dan. And I said, "I know this this is an unreasonable request, but you know, I need you to come and get these two kids and get them up there." And he said, "I'll be right there." So, and that's uh really indicative of of of Dan and who he is. And I from what I've seen who 4.0 is. So, we appreciate that. And then uh
I can't name individuals because there were so many people and organizations involved in teacher appreciation day and week. Um the PTO was certainly involved in that. We had community members bringing bringing treats over, sending words of encouragement. So, thank you to
all of those who who made teacher appreciation week special. That is what I have. I have one question. I was came in from coaching track and the back parking lot looked like a flower garden. The whole parking
lot, the back parking lot, I think the PTO had all the >> But that night it got pretty cold. I was just curious if all the flowers got home. >> Yeah. I you know talking um talking to Bertina I think they they all survived and um yeah the PTO really took it was a
successful event. >> I mean it was there was I mean it wasn't just a few flowers it was just it was really pretty impressive and then I knew what the temperature was cuz I kind of followed that this time of year and went >> oops wow this is going to be interesting. So
>> and there's our our PTO again. So Yep. So >> thank you. All right. >> Thank you, Bill. Mr. Cross, >> good evening. I know I always say I'm going to make it quick, but I'm going to make it quick today. Uh coming up, we
have Valley Fair 8 years in. Here we go. I'm going to make it. Valley Fair coming up on May 28th. This is our incentive trip. We've always taken uh students in grades 7 through 12 on the last day of school. Um incent those those slips were due Friday officially. Um there's a few
training in here today. Um we're going to count those this week. Uh but we always have about 70% of our students attend. The students that don't go, uh we do have staff that stay back and remain at school for those students to come into the building. Graduation is on
May 29th at 7:00 p.m. in the black gym. Graduation practice and senior breakfast is that same morning. May 29th at 9:00 am is the breakfast and then we go straight into the graduation practice um with our seniors after that. Usually wraps up around 11 o'clock. Our summer
credit recovery uh for the senior high students this year is running June 8th through July 2nd. So we're going to get it wrapped up kind of right after school finishes up. We're going to move right into credit recovery. That'll be Monday through Thursday 9:00 a.m. to noon each day. Staffing needs. I always hate
saying this um because things surprise me after I do. Um but currently uh we have art uh our our current art teacher is moving um which has created a an opening for us. I did have an interview on Friday after school uh which was very promising and I'm hoping that we get to
work with that >> and I can update that we are finalizing so good things are happening. >> Yeah. then art may not be on this list, right? Um things that I do not have listed here um but are open right now, access, fax, business, and ESL. These
are all current openings due to lensure um which we do plan on hiring back all of the individual we individuals that we currently have. Uh and then one that needs to be added on if anybody's interested in listening to this is our spelling B coordinator. And that can also be an elementary teacher as it is a
banded I think fifth grade through 8th grade spelling bee competition. um student and staff handbooks. Uh I have an endofear meeting with my staff uh which will be on May 29th where we cover topics that um need to be addressed and adjusted for the next
year. Um they will be presented to you as a board in June. Um and then acknowledgements. Again, I want to thank Emily Kersza and Morgan Hanky for planning prom. In all of the years that I've been associated with prom, in all the districts that I've been associated with prom, I think this is the smoothest
it's ever been. um with grand march, the dinner, and the dance leading right into um after prom, which I know uh Christina had a huge part to do with the junior class parents, but all the junior class parents, it was just an awesome event with with no issues that I heard from.
So, I want to thank you. Thank all of those people and one of them is sitting here. So, thank you, Mrs. >> That's all I have. That's a record right there. I want to echo on what Matt just said about problem. I don't have any more put a lot of effort into, but thank you. um had a lot of positive feedback
from everybody on that. So, a lot of hard work and a lot of dedication that goes into that. But thank you. >> It was way better than a few years ago. >> That's because >> you worked in all right. >> I'm not offended because I'm just happy you keep
>> next year we got a Wizard of Oz and I want to see if the T man will come. >> The theme is a very hot topic. Just not know that, but a lot of opinions. >> Any questions for principal boss? >> Hey Matt, with the MCA testing, um how
many students um did not leave the campus to go home or to work or to do whatever. How many stayed here about? >> So, um most of our seniors, our upper classmen who could drive, they left. Um
I was actually pretty shocked in the amount of freshmen that were here both of those days. Um, I expected us to be around probably 30% of freshmen in the building and it was more around probably 80%. Um, it was great. We had activities planned for them. The second day we
ended up, the weather was so nice, we ended up taking them all outside. We had originally split them into groups. Um, the second day we did split them. We all went as a large group in place of team building activities. It was myself, Mr. Dorsey, Mr. Lamont that that ran them. And at the end of it, you know, I got to
meet with the ninth graders and just say, "Did all of you have fun?" And they said, "Yes." Did all of you get to know somebody that you didn't? Yes. And I just talked about the importance of, yeah, school's about education and school's about, you know, what we're going to learn and grades and things like that. But it's also getting to know those around you and and respecting
those around you and um kind of meeting them where they're at, which is what we really kind of focused that day on for the ninth graders. So that wasn't your question on what we did, but the question was I would say probably 80% of 9th graders were here on both of those days and that was going to be my followup was was thank you for looping
back and not only just telling us the numbers but really more than the numbers is what did they get out of it and and I know that you had already pre-planned and pre-thought about what you were wanting to do and it would have looked different with whatever those numbers would have been. So, I'm happy to hear
that the numbers were high enough, large enough that you could go forth with your plans and that it was successful. So, that's what my intent was in asking the question was really what did you guys do? And so, thank you for what you guys did do and and what you provided for them.
>> It was nice because it was an extended time. So, you know, there was I'll be honest when when you start dealing with freshmen when you hey, we're going to do this today, it was a lot of are you kidding me? And then when they realized that, yeah, we're actually going to do this, uh, and they bought into it, I think they all did enjoy it. And it was
fun to see them smiling. It was fun to see them interacting with each other. And it was fun to see them outside of an academic setting, but still learning real world skills that they're going to need when they graduate. >> Yeah, thanks for providing that. Another thing I just want to touch on too are all the sponsors for the prom, the after
prom party and all the gifts and the things that were from the local community that it gets those kids a reason or excitement to come to that party and hey, I might win a $50 card or I might win $100 or something like that. So, it's a, you know, if it wasn't for
the sponsors, kids would just be bowling or playing some games with nothing to win. So, thank you to them. So, >> all right. Um, superintendent report. >> Thank you. Uh, just to echo a little bit, lots of my work has been along with
Trisha going through lots of the building stuff um and that type of stuff. Uh, going into May 29th, obviously it's graduation night, but before that, we'll have um our staff recognition breakfast along with our senior breakfast. And I want to give I
just finalized some donations from Michael Foods here today. So, I want to say thank you to them for providing breakfast for our staff and for our seniors on May 29th. Um, other than that, the other thing that I do want to mention is is that I've gone to uh Southwest had also an I love you guys uh
crisis plan training uh that was a part of our Southwest superintendent meeting. Um, Southwest central superintendent meeting that I had. And so this was the second time that I've done done this training and that's something that we are looking to implement um as we move forward into next year. And it it's a
it's a very good plan. It it's one of those plans that has, you know, try to simplify it and one of those things that instead of having a a crisis plan that is really really thick, it really simplifies like here are the things that that you're going to be able to do. So
setting up um you know the training and the introduction and all that kind of stuff as we start working on uh workshop schedules because we've been working on workshop workshop schedules. Uh I know it's a lot of things that are happening at the end of the year but we're also planning that and I always kind of say
this with tongue and cheek but you know the the start of school is only about three and a half months away. So um that that's going to be coming up pretty quick, right? So, um, we're we're finalizing all of our workshop schedules for this fall and and getting ready for the the 2026
2027 school year. Any questions for Superintendent Sanji? All right, we'll move on to committee reports. Are there any committee reports at this meeting? Hearing none, we'll move on to approve and set agenda. Please note there's an
addendum to the consent agenda. Uh another retirement. Um so that's action item. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? I'll make that motion. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Randy. I have a motion by Jason, second by Randy to approve the consent agenda. All in
favor, please indicate by saying I. >> I. Same sign. Carries. We have no business at this time. So we'll move on to new business. Item A is donations received information only. The following donations were accepted with appreciation. Again, a nice u nice group
of individuals there from Silver Lake Lions to LPTO and Peter and Barb Smith. Um so, some good things for for our community. Again, item B, summer school plans. Action item. Administration has been
making some plans for the district's summer school program. The summer school plan includes the following programs. Elementary summer bridges K through 6 July 6th through July 30th. Migrant summer school July 6th through July 30th. Elementary extended school year.
This is to be determined. ECSC extended school year is to be determined. Junior senior high extended school year is also to be determined. Senior high accelerated to graduate program Monday through Thursday, June 8th through June 2nd. Super superintendent Sanji recommends the approval of the summer
programs to be presented. Do I have a motion? I'll make a motion. >> Motion by Randy. Do you have a second? >> Second by John. Any comments or questions? >> Jason, I'll just say for the three for all the ESY bill does have the dates on
his update. Um so extended school year for prek through 6th will be July 6th through August 6th. And then grades 7th through 12th, junior high, senior high, they'll be um intermittent days from
June 16th to August 6th since he just finalized those dates today. >> Thanks. Thanks, Trisha. >> And everything is is going to be here at this site. Is there anything besides construction things going on at the
Lakeside site this summer? Silver Silver Lake wreck program will still go in there and use the gym. Yeah. And they can kind of >> We will be Bill said we will have one student doing ESY in August just because of the transition from second to third
grade with the higher needs. They want to go a couple days there just so the kids used to going there and stuff. So that will be in August. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> So motion by Randy second by John to approve the summer school plans. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. I.
>> Post same sign. Motion carries. Item C, select auditor action item. Director of finance I check has received the scope of limitations and management responsibilities for the audit agreement with Clifton Larson Allen LLP. It is her recommendation that we appoint Clifton and Larson Allen LLP as a school
district's auditors for fiscal year 2026. The total estimated base fee for 2526 audit is 44,250. Total base in comparison the total base fee for 25 was 39,250.
Final audit cost was 48,44. Do I have a motion? >> So a motion by John. I have a second. >> Second by Randy uh to appoint Clifton Larson Allen LLP as the school district's auditor for fiscal year 2026.
Do I have any comments or questions? Hearing none. Um, all in favor of this motion, please indicate by saying I. I. >> Post name sign. Motion carries. Item D, activity passes and fees. This is information only. Activities. Director
Schwarz will request board approval for the June at the June meeting for to increase activity passes and fees by $10 per activity and pass. So just to follow up on that, you know, we kind of looked at the big picture of
things and just like in the audit, prices and costs are going up and so um this was a reasonable amount. It still fit kind of in the middle. We're still in the middle in terms of our conference when you compare to our conference about activity fees of increasing those. And
so, um, it it's we haven't done that for a few years and, uh, we'll we'll let this be an information item for this month and and take feedback with those types of things. I also want to make sure that we people know that we still have the scholarship program. We still
have the abilities, you know, for families that do need um, assistance with this that we do have that. So, um, we'll bring this back for approval for next month. Then if anybody has any input on that as to the please reach out.
>> Got a question. How I know in years past it always went back to free reduced school lunch kind of for scholarship or whatever. Now with that kind of being shoved out of how do we determine you
know if they qualify for you know free for the scholarship. >> They still fill an application. >> Who there is? Yep. So there is the application is still out there and so a lot of schools use that for tuition based like preschool stuff um for kind
of a discount and then activities as well. Um the state is still trying to get legislation to include applications in compensatory where right now compensatory they just want to do by direct certification so that won't
include the applications. >> Um but there's been no further decision on that. Yeah. And I didn't mean to open a word, but I knew that discussion all these pieces were moving this. >> No, that application will always be be there. >> Okay.
>> Yep. >> And we work hard. I'll just say this because we do we work hard with every family to make sure that we allow them to get into that. >> And I agree 100% there with >> Y we'll make it work if we need to. how
that you know with everything changing and depressed and everything raised >> and you kind of want to keep the applications just as a thing for the families because you know yes we do have the free meals act but what happens if that goes away this way families get
used to still trying to apply turn them in and apply and stuff >> we had then it went away and then we went back and then it went away again >> right >> okay Um item E, achievement and integration coordinator contract action item. Superintendent Sanjay recommends
approving the three-year contract with Dan Sabota achievement integration coordinator from July 1, 2026 through July or June 30th, 2029. This position is directly connected and funded with the achievement of integration plan through the Minnesota Department of
Education. Do I have a motion? >> Motion by Randy, second by John. to approve a three-year contract with Dan Sabota, achievement and integration coordinator contract from July 1, 26 through June 30th, 2029. Any comments or questions?
>> Can we have Dan be part of the rotation of presentations? He maybe already has been. I I think he's maybe come once or something like that, but somewhere where it makes sense once he's kind of done something with coordinating to get him on the rotation of presentations.
>> Absolutely. I think would be helpful for the board um to hear from him as well as the public. Thank you. >> Any comments or questions? All right. I have a motion by Randy, second by John. All in favor of this
motion, please indicate by saying I. >> I post same sign. >> Motion carries. Item F, formal evaluation of Superintendent Sanju in July. This information only. Schoolboard will be conducting a formal evaluation of Superintendent Sanju. An evaluation
report will be made by the person personnel committee, directors Keenan and Director Leky at the July 15th board meeting. No schoolboard action is necessary. Item G, second meeting policies. Action item is the recommendation of the policy committee to bring back the following
policies for the adoption at the next school board meeting. Do I have a motion? I'll make a motion. I have a second. Second. I have a motion by Jason, second by John to bring back policies listed above for adoption to the next school board
meeting. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. >> I. Same sign. Motion carries. Item E is miscellaneous. There's none at this time. Um, adjournment. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? Motion. >> Motion by Randy. Do I have a second?
Second by John to adjourn at 6:50 p.m. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. >> Post same sign. We are journ. I would say