That would be the such. I have a pound. Do you need one? I won't make you use pink. Uh first announcement, I just want to make an announcement that uh board member Keenan will be at is a is with us virtually
from uh Double Tree Resort at 39 3990 South Roosevelt Boulevard, Key West, Florida. Um she's going to be attending virtually. All right. Can we have a
uh uh roll call? Yes. Jamie present. Randy present. Kayla present. John here. Jason here. Alicia here.
Thank you, John. Uh first action of or first uh item of business is approve the agenda. Do I have a motion? So moved. Motion by Jamie. Do I have a second? Second. Oh, second by Randy to approve the agenda. Uh, again,
we'll have to do roll call vote for all these. So, go ahead. Uh, please signify by four or against. Jamie, four. Randy, four. Kayla, four. Myself, John, four. Jason, four.
Alicia, four. Thank you, John. Kayla, are you hearing us? Okay. Yep. Sounds great. Thank you. Thank you. Announcements. Um, if we have any The next school board meeting will be uh
Monday, June 9th, 2025 at 6 p.m. in the GSL High School community room, 443 444. Any acknowledgements at this time? Yes, I do have a couple of acknowledgements. I want to acknowledge everyone that was involved in the spring play. uh last week they had their three
performances and and once again was very very well done. Uh would also like to say thank you to all of the members of our community schools group. Our sponsor, the senior is um beyond expectations and so it's going to be a really neat opportunity to uh get a
couple of more scholarships for our students and get their pictures up with our business community uh showing their support. And so that's going to be kind of fun for the graduation night. And then also a special thank you to Tangletown. Uh they donated some trees out by our softball field um that uh has
put in to kind of help enclose uh some some of the softball field stuff. So I want to say thank you to to them. And then um lastly uh and maybe Mr. Fost has this on his report, but uh want to say congratulations to Shosana Noling. Uh
she won first place at the Congressional Art Competition and her artwork will be hanging in the United States Capitol here for the next several weeks or maybe months. So, uh congratulations to her. Thank you, Superintendent Sanju. I have
one acknowledgement. I wanted to acknowledge the passing of Roger Drager. He was a 21-year member of the board of education um for Brton High School and Mloud West. Um, I talked to his daughter today. It was kind of interesting that
uh back then when Roger first got on, he lived in the city limits of Brownton and then he moved out of the city limits. So, he had to resign for about half his term the first time and then when he lived outside of the city limits, he was able to get back on the board. So,
district, huh? He was at that time it was districts. Yeah. So, they had like city limits and rural. It had to be 50/50. No, and looking at our board, I think we are pretty much 50/50 also with people living in the city or rural. So,
still the same 50 years ago. All right. Any other acknowledgements? Hearing none. Any public input relating to the agenda? Public input relating to the agenda. Third time. Public input relating to the agenda. Reports and
reports and presentations. ECLC Community Education. Mr. Munchel, Jason, can you turn the computer at all? Thank you. Hello. All right. Good evening, everyone. Um,
for those who don't know me, I my name is Matt Muncho and I'm the community ed director here. Um, I just want to start off uh well, pretty much any presentation I do with uh my program and I like to touch on budget wise and where we're at. So we're currently sitting here with including the Panther
Fieldhouse all of community ed and early childhood which is our fund for service budget is currently our ex our expenditures are sitting at just over a million dollars with the expected to be slightly over 1.1 uh with our current revenue current are
at 1.1 with our um revised budget of 1 or just under 1.3 I would expect our expenditures now is thinking with a few more purchases to be slightly around that 1.2 and then our revenue expected to probably be roughly around
1.35. Um, a few adjustments here and there, but it we should be good on the revenue versus our expenditures. I did want to touch on a few things in our Panther Fieldhouse. We've been doing a lot of recent upgrades over the last 5 years, but this most recent year, we did add some more
strength equipment um which did complete our um three-year project of getting all the equipment replaced upstairs. So, that's actually quite a feat for us, especially just looking at the budget and how expensive equipment's getting. Um we did add all new flooring in our back two rooms to help with some shock
absorption. I have a picture on the next slide, but it's kind of hard to tell unless you actually go up there and take a look. But then we did paint those two rooms and we did get our lower portion of our gyms painted as well. It does look really nice. We have a lot of great positive feedback and really brighten it up in
there. And it's kind of hard to tell, but you can see the gym. I probably should have took a little closer picture, but then the upper portion is actually getting painted this summer, and it'll be it's it's about twice as light as what the upstairs is right now.
So, here's uh some current pictures um with the new squat racks that our athletic department uses quite a bit. And then the first picture is actually our new functional trainers, some benches, and just some other functional type training equipment that we've recently added this
year. Um some upcoming plans that we have going on in the fieldhouse this year. Obviously, our rich roof project and HVAC update in the fieldhouse has started. Uh that's exciting for our members. A lot of them are pretty excited about the HVAC update. Um, we do have our walking track getting replaced
hopefully at towards the end of June. Um, should be very similar material to what we have, but uh, it should provide a lot more cushion. Um, we do have four new additional windows that are getting replaced up in the walking track. There'll be two on the east side and two on the west side. Should add uh quite a
bit of more natural light in there. And then our gym one and two floors are getting refinished, completely sanded down and waxed and relined. And we do plan on adding some in gym 2, a lot more additional lines for pickle ball courts permanently and just some other
different activities that we have going on. Um some maybe even looking more deeper into the future. Um we are looking at possibly doing a daily rate increase, but I don't see that happening anytime soon. and we're planning to keep the memberships the same for this
upcoming year. Um, we have been looking the last couple years, but furniture isn't cheap and we are trying to keep up with the times in our fieldhouse overall with everything getting done to update possibly some furniture in there in the commons area by the front desk. And then the multi-purpose room is always kind of
a difficult room to look at. We are looking at some flooring updates and then possibly just some different fit fitness class options. And that will kind of conclude anything with the fieldhouse. Um, for community advertising, we haven't changed that much in the last
few years and we have been pretty successful with it. We do our digital flyer that updates anytime we add a new activity as as well as some community emails and then our social media is definitely a big pusher for us. We added the TV a couple years ago and we do
still try to catch an eye here and there. Um, and then we do have our website as well and we're kind of working on new options there. And then we are looking at some new updated software for um, community ed which will have some advertising features on it as
well. Moving on to youth recreation. Very similar to the previous year. Nothing's really changed. Um, the only thing we might see going into this upcoming year is just our competitive programs. we could see a slight increase and that's not from our side of things. That's just league fees increasing,
equipment increasing where I would see our recreational programming will stay exactly the same. Even if we did increase, I don't see it being over 10%. Um, registrations for the whole year were steady. We didn't really see a massive decrease in anything, nor did we see a massive increase, maybe in some
preK activities, but those are just fairly new. Um, one thing we've been doing the last couple years that has been really picking up is we've been adding a lot of thirdparty camps from outside sources on top of our head coaches and they've been going very well, especially with our prek
activities. Um, trying to find the volunteer coaches at a pre-K level that don't maybe have the experience. It's quite awesome to see some of those companies come in and that work nothing but with preK kids and it's a great exciting atmosphere for them. And then
families purchasing jerseys at this time. We are looking at doing that majority of our programming just because we are finding that families are rather rather than paying a deposit, they'd rather just purchase a shirt kind of almost like a souvenir for each program. It has been going very well and when we
did rent out jerseys, we would probably receive 50% of them back. So, we're wasting a lot of funds just to replace those each year. We are going to continue running our um Silver Lake wreck program. Garrett Cosk has agreed a couple weeks ago over that and that just continues to grow and it's
a great program for our Silver Lake community instead of having to make sure those young kids can make it over here without transportation. Really the only concerns that I've been really hearing over the last year is always officials. It's always difficult to find officials especially if they need to be certified.
Um, and then one other complaint we've heard is there's, which I don't really see as being a complaint, there's just too many options where we might not be able to register for two programs at the same time or we've been seeing kids that are trying to sign up for multiple
things and then they're giving up one program to join another and then it kind of hinders programs if we don't have enough in them to run. It's you'll see that a lot more in the youth enrichment and I'll touch on that. Um, so we're going to continue to move
forward. We've done it the last three years where we've offered a significant discount pretty much almost free. It's any classes anywhere from $10 to $50. And these classes will typically run anywhere from $100 to $200 for us. We've
tried to run them at the full price where we get charged and we haven't ran one. So, I know I worked with Michelle in the past. She had some additional funding. We're going to just look at continuing to use our fund for um budget to be able to um cover these costs for
these families that actually do want to participate in this. And I think it's a great use of these funds because we've seen a tremendous increase in registrations when we do offer this and I want to continue to be moving forward with that. And then we also do include our pack and our cub house programming
in a lot of our enrichment courses in the summer which also helps hit our minimums. And then we offer a a tremendous discount on the pack and cub house families if not included in their summer fee. Another program we're going to continue to offer um is our driver's
education program uh plan through the program out of Hutch. It's been going pretty well. They use our community room for our service. Every all the registration process goes through them, but we essentially just help advertise the program for them. And then um always for youth enrichment, we haven't had
that great of an youth enrichment program just because of the sheer cost. Um it's always nice to have in-home instructors. It keep our costs low. Um so that's always something we're shooting for to get just more teachers that are willing to offer something. Uh to the right you could see there hasn't really changed too much. Maybe a few
STEM classes and video production classes that were added over this last year, but otherwise our music lessons go very well. Our babysitting and home alone course is always full and same goes for our art club. This is probably the most difficult um area to cover in um
community yet in our community because there's so many competitive other programs like a woodworking clubs at the city center. Um now the city is looking at adding pickle ball courts. I'd like to um combine with the city and try to come up with a league cuz we do have the
four courts going out there. Hopefully those get finished soon. Plus, we have our tennis courts and then with the addition of the three gyms, I think that's a program that's growing ridiculously fast in this state. So, I think it'd be if not just the country. So, I think that'd be a great thing to look to expand. Um our karate's always
been a very consistent class for us. Um I don't see us growing too much on that, especially with the program in town. I don't want to really compete with another program in town. So, we'll just keep it where it's at and see if if it grows on its own or if we move it just to having them. And driver's discount is
always very consistent and it's continuing to grow more and more. I believe um State Farm isn't doing quite as many. So, I know we've been having anywhere from 20 to 30 people that will show up for that class. aquatics very similar to what we've seen
in the past. We do offer year- round lessons. Um it's a great utilization of our pool. Um and I have found that we've been increasing this more and more. We did add summer lessons again even though we're always struggling to find um WSI
instructors. We did manage to have one to for sure cater to our pack and cub house programs. Um but we do see um ourselves being able to add a few classes there. always a topic that most people hear from me all the time. I
really need lifeguards for lap swimming and open swimming. So, if you know anybody, send them my way and I have been working with Liz to try to create a partnership there so we can combine our resources on that side of things. And then always just a reminder, if anybody ever wants to teach WSI or swimming
lessons, we will cover the course in full for them. This is uh our trip category is um one that we've changed over the last three years. We've partnered with Jolly Ramblers out of Lester Prairie. We offered 23 trips last year. Um they all went very successful and we have a lot
of positive feedback. It does cater a little bit more to the um older population in the community. Every time we've tried to really offer some trips, we will offer our a Valley Fair trip, a state fair trip, things like that. But families are quite busy and we found
that a lot of them didn't run. Um, we did plan a couple weekend trips and we did budget it out and we realized that it is very expensive to offer these with transportation. So, we decided to hold off to see if costs would go down. Obviously, we all know that they're not.
So, we'll continue to look at expanding to having uh some overnight weekend trips or possibly even a week-l long trip like we had a few years ago to New York. Uh touching on our uh pack program, which is our school age care program, our current enrollment is
sitting at around 30 to 40 students with projected summer numbers to be well over 50. Um this fall we could see a large increase with our CubCare students transitioning into kindergarten. We're projected to have around 20 to 22 kids moving over and um a lot of them do plan
to continue on with pack. I'm kind of duplicating myself here, but we will be offering swimming lessons this year and um enrichment classes and then we have our summer schedule completely done and we have two trips for them to go to all
summer long plus some organized scheduled activities that we will have inhouse. Over the past year, we did change our um communication and registration platform to ProAre. We've had a lot of great feedback through it. Um and then we are continuing to try to
plan for summer group separation with a K through two to a 3 through six. Otherwise based on the numbers we'll see how we can create that separation. Um moving on to our Panther Cub House program. This is our preschool program. Um it is a wraparound care
program with our um well with our school age our school readiness program. It is full with the waiting list. We do offer 40 spots with the possibility of having 46 with dropins. Our summer schedule is planned.
We've added numerous trips this year and activities. Compared to last year, we've looked over the budget a little more and realized we can expand it to a few more trips like pack and some other activities without um jeopardizing our budget at all. And then just like PAC,
we did add um Cabals to our enrichment and our swimming lessons. And that's just kind of a picture to give you an idea because it is now it's going on year three and it has been a very successful program for us. For early childhood, I'd like to touch on kind of um a year end here
review. So school readiness enrollment, we did uh start enrollment with 105 students. Last year we were at 98. That is considered to be our max enrollment um for screenings. this year. So far, we're at 68. I expect to see quite a few
more coming in. Um we do have a mandatory summer um session that we do have to have in July. And then um our coordinator Tamara is also doing um appointmentbased screenings that did help out tremendously this year for those families that couldn't get into our scheduled dates. So that's been
working out wonderfully in her schedule. Unfortunately, this year ECF, we've had it posted for the year. Our ECF teacher position did not get filled, so we didn't have any classes this year. Um, I will kind of touch on the upcoming portion. We do have a candidate that is
very highly qualified and we're looking at some contract details for her. Um, she's been she has over 20 years of experience in education and she currently is in an ECF position and she's brought numerous ideas that sound unbelievable for our program. Obviously
to expand it, we need to look at some space, but I think we can work around some things to really make it a great program. Again, um for our our events this year, we did a sweetheart dance that ended up um we ended up having 78 registrations with
over 150 people there. It was hosted in our silver gym in the Lincoln building. And it definitely um didn't do justice. We probably could have filled our purple gym with even more families. We had to turn a lot of families away for it and we had bumps come in and cater it a meal
and then we had the uh teddy bear band play the music. It went really well if you were around and got to see it. It was kind of cool for us to have that for our first year. And then we do have um an end of the year spring event. Unfortunately, it's supposed to be this Friday and the weather does not look too
promising for it. So, we'll have to see if we can maybe get it moved inside. advertising kind of like our fieldhouse and community ed. We do you util utilize a lot of online resources with with social media, our website, we do some direct mailers and we do some city guide
books that we can offer a one-page um flyer. Um one negative that we did have this year, we for the next year we did cut cut transportation. So we were not planning to move forward with that or we're not planning to move forward with it this year, but we do still project
our enrollment to be full. So, we don't think it'll um interfere with anything moving forward on that. We will be re-evaluating it each year based on the family's needs, but moving forward right now, we do not have plans for transportation. And then the only really
up andcoming that we have, I think, will be very similar to the schedule, maybe doing some partial upgrades here and there, but we will be continuing to update our outdoor classroom, which we've taken a lot of pride in, but it is a handful out there. There's a lot of work to be done, but I think it's going
to be exciting once it's fully finished. Any questions? Matt, you talked about the WSI um and that community ed would offer up that to people that are interested in um perhaps getting that certification. How
often would that be offered as far as let's say you've got somebody or two people interested right now, maybe some trickling in later. What does that look like as far as when it would be offered to those that would be interested? Yeah. So, the process that we actually do
right now is if we do have an instructor that's willing to come in, we find the class for them. It's actually not a class that we host here because there is so many minimums. Uh we do have an instructor that did sign with us. He plans on doing the class in Prior Lake on June 6th. So, just to kind of give
you an idea where some of these instructors are actually going to get this course. Um, so American Red Cross actually set a new standard. You have to have a minimum of five students in the class, which is actually very difficult when you get out to this um part of the area. I guess when you go down to the
cities, there's a waiting list a mile long to get into it, but out here it's a little little more scarce. Matt, you talked about the our needing um lifeguards. How when's the last time we've evaluated like how where our rate
stands um like next to like the our or outdoor pool? Yep. That's um one thing that we've worked with Liz and typically Mark is the one who gives me those rates and we haven't received them in a couple years and we've normally always aligned
perfectly with outdoor pools so we weren't competing against each other which ours will be re-evaluated started July 1st to match the pool. Okay. Cuz do you know what we're currently at? Uh we're currently at a starting wage of 12 and I believe the current starting at the pool is 14 to 15 right now. Yeah.
Okay. I think Kayla maybe. Do you know the number that is on the wait list currently for Cupcare? I don't know currently off the top of my head. I believe we were sitting in the
single digits at this moment. And it's very difficult to tell because a lot of times midsummer is where we really see that list um jump up quite a bit when we start receiving a lot more um school readiness registrations.
And I'm not sure if I heard you correctly, but how many more are you expecting for uh the pack program this year? Going into the we're currently at 30 to 40. Going into the summer, we're already projected to be at 50 plus. With our
current location, we only can have a max of 75. Okay. That was my question is if there was a capacity limit on the um current gym that it's in. Yep. And at 75, it would be it would be very busy in
there. And and Matt, that cap is staffing and facility. Correct. Okay. Matt, could you do one more thing? And not to put you on the spot, but could you to the best of your recollection just mention who the members are of the
community ed advisory board, the fieldhouse advisory and ECFE as far as public people that are on those committees. Um because I want to compliment you on on your presentation and also the work that you've done putting into it and that you do continuously each day. But I also want
to see if we can acknowledge just a little bit, like I said, to the best of your recollection and not to put you on the spot. Yep. I got a pen here. I might have to write them back down. I'm trying to buy you some time as you're thinking. But, you know, once again, um, thanks to those community members and also our
board members and staff members and stuff that are part of each of those boards. Um, and advising, giving feedback, getting and gathering feedback from the community. Um that's really an important part to each of these programs because I think it gives us um as a
district really good guidance like you were mentioning some some pros, some cons, some pluses, some minuses, just obviously input and things to think about um in what the community is wanting in each of those areas of our district. So, if you can just kind of
mention some of those individuals, and I know that we're kind of always looking for additional individuals to serve on some of those boards, too. That would be helpful. Yeah, definitely. So, for our community at advisory, well, Jamie is our board representative for
that advisory. Uh Mariah Vosik is on that advisory. Megan Dman, Sarah Huer, Laura Dunny, and Trevor Butcher. I would like to see this advisory get to roughly around 10. Uh we can kind of cover multiple areas with that. Obviously,
it's always open. We can make it an open term or we can set it to three years like would be the standard. Um we had a few people that ended last year and it definitely it was they've been serving on that committee for a long time. So I I definitely thank them for their service on that. But yeah, it's it's
always difficult to try to find members and especially because you want ones that are focused on the community overall, not just one particular area. So those are always difficult members to find. Um, from our fieldhouse advisory, uh, we have, um, well, John Lump is the
board representative. Clark Christensen, um, Josh Metaf, um, trying to think, I'm drawing a blank on uh, Lisa Marsh. And I think that's currently all that we have on that border as well. Um,
as for our advisory for um, early childhood, um, Kayla is the board representative. Um, those ones I don't know because they change every single year. Um, it they're all family based, so I know Jamie Moss is one of them.
Kristen Grock, uh, Tamara obviously sits on Zichek sits on that committee as well. Um, trying to draw some first names. But I know last names for them, but um sorry I don't have those ones as readily in front of me, but I know the other two just because they've been on the committee for quite some time. If
you want those, I can definitely send you all the committee members. But I do like to thank them for their service on them. I have another question. When it comes to the cup care, is there any plans to expand that just due to the fact that there's a lot of concerns with
inh home daycarees with losing kids to come to the cupcare program because it benefits with preschool side of it? Um, at this moment we do not have any intention to expand the program. It would have to be 100% necessary like something drastic would have to happen.
We currently do not have the space for it unless we took one of the rooms. Um, I do know there is some rooms possibly available, but I don't want to take away anymore from our community unless it's very necessary. At this moment, we do have a good thing going. I don't want to overly expand and it doesn't succeed
like it is. That's more staff, more space. And then my main concern with expanding a program, even with our preschool, is what happens if we continue to expand and our preschool number or kindergarten numbers expand and now I have to cut my program down
because it has expanded. That's I mean that's intentionally what is increasing the K through 12 enrollments. So I I want to make sure that we're still good on facilities on that side. I I just see both sides of the spectrum because it's great we're getting kids enrolled but
we're also taking small businesses away. So that's why I asked. Yep. Correct. I understand. All right. Any more any more questions for Director Bunch? Thanks Matt. Thank you. We'll move on to administrator and
committee reports. Uh, director of finance. Thank you, Jason. Um, I just have a couple things. Um, facility updates. The roof project has started and is currently at the point um at this point on schedule. Um, the tennis courts are being resurfacing right now. And then,
um, during our little Easter Good Friday break, four new windows were installed at Lakeside in the cafeteria and those are completed. Um Michelle and I have been continuing to work on the 2425 revised budget and also the proposed 2526 budget. We will bring um both of
these budgets to the June board meeting and prior to that we will schedule another finance meeting. Um summer food program, we will be running that again this July. It will coincide with the summer bridges and migrant summer school days which is from July 7th through July
31st. Um meals are only served Monday through Thursday. Breakfast will be from 7:30 to 8:30 and lunch will be from 11:15 to 12:30. This is open to all children um up to the age of 18 and then adults also can purchase a meal at a
cost. The breakfast cost is $310 and then the lunch cost is $5.50. Um and these meals can only be eaten on site. We did have a little issue last year that kids still thought that they could take the meals out of offsite and you can't. We are able to do
the field trips for pack. Um those we report to the state um already in June. We have the list for the field trips. Report that to June. So those can be taken off site. Um but no meals served can be taken off site. Anything for me?
No. Do you have a completion date for the tennis court resurfacing? You said it started, right? Correct. Do we have a completion date on that? I do not know. Okay. I think within the week. Yeah. It wasn't supposed to be talk to the guys out there. Weather permitting. It should be within the week. I hope that's what
they told. Yep. All right. Thank you, Trisha. Um we'll move on to principal reports. Mr. Butler. Thank you, Jason. And um good evening. I'll highlight some of the items in our written report. the um the top of the report you'll see will give you an
update on our letters training prek letters. They've concluded their online sessions and you can see the schedule um upcoming for um for uh tier one or phase one elementary educators and and um certain junior high high school. Um
toward the middle, our academic benchmark is open through the end of the week and um we are we are actively you know taking e expenditure requests from teams. I will review those with Trisha um probably in in June. If you look
down, not a lot has changed um for title and for Minnesota reading corps. We do have members placed at both elementary buildings. go to the back. Um you can see the school community partnership. Um all of
those all of those events. Um and I do want to highlight one that um I want to acknowledge Mrs. Borca and Miss Usulman for successfully writing a grant so that we can have camp kindergarten this year in August. We will have two oneweek sessions. And um I want to conclude by
acknowledging our our teaching staff at elementary because none of those um events would happen with um without the dedication of our teachers. So thanks to them. What uh what questions do you have, Bill? It looks like our registration
numbers for kindergarten are still at 70 registered and I think I've seen some numbers of some verbal commitments around 20 19. So it it adjusted by one. So we're up, yeah, we're up to 70. Okay. Formally and then 19
verbal verbal with, you know, history in the district, etc. So with close communication with Kim. Okay. So we're still following up those verbals with phone calls or outreach. Emails. Yes. Okay. Encouraging. Yes. Encouraging
those registrations. Yes. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, uh, Bill. Thank you. Um, Matt or Joy, you got it. I have just two acknowledgements. First of all, the windows at Lakeside in the lunchroom do look amazing. It was like a brand new
makeover. It looks so fabulous. So, thank you very much for that. And last week was teacher appreciation week. And um, thank you very much for the cookies from the board. And then also for our PTO. Without them, we um would have missed a lot of great opportunities to
eat food last week and celebrate our fabulous educators. So, thank you very much to our PTO for that. Thank you. Go ahead, Matt. I'm going to go quickly here and try and go in chronological order for the events that are going between now and the end of the school year. So, the first kind of
bigger upcoming event that we have is actually the last day of school for our students in grades 7 through 12. We are taking our Valley Fair trip. Um, historically, this started when I came here for junior high, 7th and 8th grade, and then we did open it up 7th through 12. Um those permission slips were due
Friday. Couple trickled in today, but um quite a quite a large number. Uh which is nice to see because typically when the the trips are go from year to year to year, we see the amount of individuals that want to go on it drop. But Valley Fair has always stayed pretty high. Um we do have staff that will be
back at school for students who choose not to go with or who are unable to go with due to not meeting some of the criteria for that. Um, graduation for our seniors will take place on May 8th at 7 PM in the black gym. We do have our senior breakfast uh the day before on
May 29th at 9:00 a.m. and then we will have our graduation practice right after that. So, um, I've talked to our seniors. I've sent information out to our senior parents, but graduation practice usually finish up finishes up around about 11:30. Uh, we do two full runthroughs, which students in the past
have told me they really don't like it in the moment because it takes forever. Uh but when graduation gets there and the black gym is packed, they're very appreciative that they know what to do and where to go and and how that will look. So um 11:30 looks like it'll be the the finishing time for that on May
29th for our seniors. Summer school is all set both at the junior high and senior high level. Um the dates are listed there. Letters have been sent out. Families have been communicated with. Um ADSIS update. Uh unfortunately I told you in April that I was going to have an answer for you in May. Um and I
don't. I did get what I think is positive feedback. Um I was asked on May 5th uh for three very minor budget revisions um to submit back to the state. And I guess I don't want to assume anything, but I don't know why they would have me make I mean very
minor budget revisions if they were not intending on awarding those dollars to us. Um so I do expect to hear from them here in the coming weeks. Um which brings me to the fifth point here, which is staffing. And I always talk about this in the bay the May board meeting
and it always bites me but as it sits right now all we need to hire for next year is one pair professional. So if you ask me in two weeks what that looks like it might change but as of right now one pair professional potentially an interventionist pending the ads dollars
uh if we are awarded that. Um, and then lastly, what you can expect from me as usual in June at the board meeting is our student and staff handbook updates that will come next month. Um, acknowledgements. I was going to speak a little bit about Shosana. Um, but Mr. Sanji had mentioned her already. Um,
huge accomplishment for her. Very proud of her and her artwork. Um, but also want to acknowledge u prom has come and gone since our last board meeting and thanking Emily Caner and Morgan Hanky for planning that along with our junior class parents. I know that that is a huge undertaking um and it's very much
appreciated by myself and and our students and their parents um and their families for for putting the prom together. And then lastly with the school community partnership um our mock crash was postponed uh from a couple weeks ago. Our students did get to see Brad Bigler give his impact uh speech um
but they did not get to visit or get to view the crash scene. So, as it sits right now, we are trying to we're planning on redoing that this Friday during sixth hour, but as Mr. Munchshaw stated earlier, Friday is not looking the greatest as far as weather. So, I'm hoping things change here in the next
couple days, but um if it is not raining out, our 10th through 12th graders will get to view the uh crash scene during 6th hour on Friday. What questions do you have for me, Matt? with the student and staff handbooks. Um, typically do you um
gather input and and kind of coales your ideas with your leadership teams at the at the sites? And I guess a follow-up question to that as well is what are we thinking about in the handbooks with regard to technology moving forward because that was a discussion that we
had a couple board meetings ago. Yep. So, what I've done the last I think two years is the last day, last inservice workshop day, uh, which is May 29th, we have staff recognition in the morning. Um, staff then are kind of cleaning up
their their rooms. Um, what I've done is I hold my leadership, which is just a a handbook leadership meeting from basically noon to 2 or noon to 3. Um, and when that meeting's done, then I'll start signing papers so that they can go uh for the summer, which works really
great because nobody bothers me because I'm in a meeting until that time and it gets a lot of people to show up to the handbook meeting. So, a lot of input. But that's that's what I've done for the last two years, that's what I intend on doing here. Um, the one big one that we'll talk about and I have a Google or
Google form that I'm going to send out to my staff prior to that meeting is going to revolve around technology and what that looks like. So, I've talked to a lot of our Wright County principles and there's been I mean it it's kind of this array of what they do for cell phones and what works for them. Um, what
I would tell you is what we've done this year hasn't been great. Um, and it's got to be adjusted. And I know I said this last month and I'll say it again. I I was the first person a year ago that said we need to teach them how to use this. It needs to be responsible. And I
I do still believe that. But um the system we had this year didn't discourage enough from students being on the phone and it was something that I think was overwhelming for staff in a classroom. It's something that if if Sarah and I wanted to address cell phones, it's what we would consume us
all day long every day. And I think that's going to be a large portion of our discussion on May 29th of what does this look like for next year so that you in the classroom don't have to constantly be giving reminders or having this fight over a cell phone. Any other questions for Matt?
Thank you. Thank you. Superintendent report. Thank you. Um just a couple things here for you. I would like to say thanks to all the families for their flexibilities this year with our early release days. It did help with our letters training and I know that uh when we have those early release times, it
can sometimes put a burden on families and with the transportation and those types of things. So I do want to say thank you. the time was valuable and I and I think uh it was appreciated. Um we will be having a celebration day on May 23rd where we have our district-wide uh celebration of the year that's going to
be happening in the black gym at 1:30. Um and then just talking a little bit more about the project. Um, starting and I got this out that I'll send out uh I sent one out here this this afternoon, but at Lincoln uh with the roof project, there's going to be a little bit of a of
a drive change where you're not going to be able to have that drive that's right in front of Lincoln because they're going to need to get access to the roof. They're going to kind of bubble that out into the parking lot. And so, want families to be aware of that. Uh, we've got it set up. The workers are are
planning that's going to start on Monday, May 19th. and it will last until the rest of the school year. So, the seven or eight days that we have left. Um, we're encouraging families if they could to drop off on 16th Street, but if they do need to drop off at Lincoln, uh,
to park their car, walk their child in is an option. uh the drop off will have to just kind of, you know, the drive will kind of go into the middle of the parking lot kind of around the handicap area and then back uh kind of by the corner of Lincoln there to drop off. And
so we'll have our people out there to kind of guide and cones and all that kind of stuff. But that's kind of one of the things that's happening so that they can have access to that roof. Follow the signs. Follow the signs. Chris, for for the drop off, um like you
mentioned on 16th Street, obviously we would want the drop off for families if they could to be on the north side of 16th versus south side of 16th so that they're not having to cross 16th Street, which which if they do be the crosswalks. They have to use the
crosswalks, right? Yep. So, we would encourage if they do do the 16th Street to do you want to be going west side. Correct. Um, I wonder if it would be and I don't know, would it be any safer to
have them on Prior versus 16th Street as a drop off on Prior? Still, it would be the east side of Prior, which is the parking lot side. I'm just thinking about the amount of traffic on 16th Street. and with buses and stuff. I just
I worry I guess a little bit about safety and and just thinking that through as far as Yeah. how we could possibly make it safer. You know, we always tell people to drop there's no designated drop off sites on the south end of on the south end of 16th Street,
right? Um, so if we ever tell families to if they're going eastbound, please make sure you're dropping off close to the crosswalks because then they can get to the crosswalk and cross off or cross the street. If they're going westbound, there is designated crosswalks there.
Um, you know, I don't know. I mean, I don't think it's this is this change here will affect a ton because we still have that drop off area at Lincoln for for the families. Um, it's busy, but people have got the routine down. And when you think about
the system that we have in place, it works. Knock knock knock on wood. We have our our patrols out there. Um, we we have staff that are out there. Uh, families for the most part kind of know what they need to do and um and it
works. Um, mornings is pretty pretty smooth because there's there's times that are um staggered in terms of when the people drop their their children off. Uh, after school is always the the busy time because it's right then. Um,
but but we get our walkers out a few little bit early at Lincoln. Um, and our buses try to show up as as fast as they can. brings a whole another challenge because we want the day at Lakeside to be as long as it possibly can and at the same time they have to get the buses
here because having the buses parked when um you know it doesn't quite happen like that but having the buses parked when Lincoln gets out and the high school gets out is optimal because then they can just go right on the bus. Um I think our system is about as efficient
as we can get it. We talk about this every year uh in terms of of that whole piece. So, um, it might be a good idea to just communicate to the Gleno Police Department, too, that we do have a little bit of a change. It is minor, but just for just asking them for some
additional patrols morning and afternoon. We ask them every day. That's excellent. And I think we need to keep doing that because I hear 16th Street is a race track. Yeah. No. And and they do. Our SRO is out there as much as she possibly can. And and you know, we we have meetings once a month with our our
our police. They come to our cabinet meetings and we talk about that and that they would attest that that every time, hey, just so you know, any officer that can be around during after school, we appreciate it. So, they know that and and they're very helpful with us.
So, any other questions for Superintendent Sanju? Hearing none, do we have any committee reports? No committee reports. All right, we'll move on to approve the consent agenda. Please note there is an addendum to the consent agenda. Do I
have a motion? So move. A motion by John. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Alicia. To to approve the consent agenda. John, will you do a roll call vote? Jamie. Four or against. Four. Randy. Four. Kayla.
Four. John. Myself. Four. Jason. Four. Alicia four. Motion carries. Thank you, John. Old business, we have none at this time. New business, item A, donations received, information only. Again, a
very nice group. I just tally I did tally them up. Um, $68,51 are donated to the GSL district for various projects including softball, baseball complex, tennis machines, BPA, volleyball uh programs. So, thank you to
these uh groups um in the in our area have that have donated very generously to our district. Item B, ELA curriculum presentation information only. Assistant principal Fry and staff will present information on the new English
curriculum. Enjoy. Hello. I have um given each of you a budget for the ELA curriculum request as well as a study sync um packet so that you can look over the information. Uh so study sync is a a
McGrath Hill program and the 712 teachers are requesting this for grades 7 through 11. Then they're also requesting five steps to a five AP English language and composition as well as a AP literature
and composition. So this is going to be a 7-year request which would start over the summer and then continue on for the next seven years. And again, this is only for grades 7 through 12. And then also on this budget sheet, it explains
that there's perfection learning um which is a novel that they're requesting as well as four separate novels, The Outsiders and Then There Were None. They're there by Tommy Orange and The Road by Cormarmac McCarthy. So all of the totals are on
the right hand side for each of the specific curriculum items. And then below that is the professional development. Um, it actually happens that the per uh McGraill trainer who trains study sync will be in town on
June 12th, which would be right after this would be voted upon. So, I've made sure that the curriculum company knows that this is it may or may not happen in June, but they want to be prepared because they're in the state actually training a couple other schools. Um, so the teachers hopefully would be able to
participate in that training, four hours with the trainer from McGraill and then we would be requesting two days of additional training for the teachers to work on their alignment with the standards as well as make sure all of their assessments and curriculum is ready to go for the new school year. So
the total package is 152,53967. I'm gonna ask I I I and I my mom would just be thrilled because I see the word books. Okay. And my mom taught school for 42 years and she's an avid reader. I think you know 90 years old and she still
reads a book a week at least. And but um I uh I'm going to have to make sure I mention this to her because she's absolutely going to be thrilled beyond no means. So yes, the chapter books um you know, even as a junior, my son is so excited about some of the books that
he's been exposed to this year in the English classes, which is pretty awesome because he doesn't he doesn't like to read. John, if you can imagine that. Oh, I'm right there with him. Unfortunately, I love science and math guy, but Yep. And some of these just never go away. They're amazing. the outsiders. Y uh so
study sync is aligned with Minnesota state standards. Uh there's also a strong science of reading presence that goes along with this. It's been adopted uh by several districts in the state across the state. I actually have a list a very long list of districts if you'd
like me to share it with you. Um GFW is one that's very close to us. uh Prior Lake as well as it goes from the smaller districts all the way up to the larger districts. We've had a very good relationship with Mcra Hill um as we adopted Wonders and K through six um
several years ago. And um I'm a big believer of the professional development that you get along with whatever program you get is priceless and it's going to help almost any curriculum that you purchase make sense in what kind of a
circumstance you have. Um, so I believe in that the professional development that McGra Hill provides, but also the study sync program and looking at it. I'm excited about the opportunity for the 712 teachers. It is a 612 program
and we are continuing to look at what we're going to do with the K6 level over the summer into next fall. So, I'd like our teachers to look into that opportunity. There is also a K5 program that's coming out over the summer that is yet to be named because they have to
unveil it. Um but that will also be aligned to the um Minnesota state standards for ELA. It is not on the list for 100% approval from the read act for reimbursement, but we are getting that reimbursement to use for our literacy
lead. Um so I'm not quite as concerned about that at the moment. uh because this is a really good program. So Joy, you said that this is a 7-year um commitment and so the
152,53967 is going to take care of the ELA for 712 for the next 7 years. As far as requests coming in from the time of approval of this, if it is seven years down the
road, is that what I'm hearing you say? This is correct. This is not a curriculum with a tail, as Michelle would explain it. Um, this is not something that has a the hidden costs like some of our other curriculums that we've purchased that you can't really avoid. Um, but this one is this is what
it is, unless of course they want to order more novels or things like that. That's something that is um much more reasonable obviously than the $150,000 price tag. But the actual McGra Hill that should be a curriculum that's purchased in whole. Okay. And then you
mentioned K6 or some combination of the elementary. How refresh my memory. How is that on the review cycle with regard to this? So this is the secondary ELA or reading cycle. Refresh our memories as a
board about the K6. Yes, I printed that for you last time. I should have printed it for you again. Sorry about that. No, that's all right. So K12 is actually on the curriculum review cycle at the exact same time. But besides for my first year, we haven't been able to do that in the last 11 or 10 years since I've been
in this role because the ticket is so big, 150,000, you would have multiplied that by two. So K5 or K6, excuse me, will go on over the summer to be purchased then next year. But when I say over the summer, that's when we're really digging into what the curriculums
are. So currently our K through six are using Hagerty and UFly. Not all of the teachers K through three are heavy into it. And then um a couple at four, five, and six are dabbling in those intervention programs which are very reasonably priced for us to get our
hands on and also part of readact so that we can start getting those interventions in right away. Yeah. And that was going going to be my followup as well is with regard to the read act and professional development. What will the read act professional development
look like at the secondary level for some of these teachers that will be undergoing perhaps this ELA um professional development for the McGraill if it's adopted as the curriculum and also read act um
expectations and training and things like that. How does that look gelled together? That's a great question and one I actually asked multiple times especially because last meeting I was here and you asked is it c putting the cart before the horse in getting an ELA
curriculum for 7 through 12 rather than K through six first. So I we belong to a consortium through Southwest right just like all of the the districts in the state of Minnesota do. Um and so read act or mde is telling us
that they are not giving um 7 through 12 any kind of a curriculum advice or a list of approved instead what it's going to be is interventions and so this program does allow inter or have interventions embedded within it. So, you know, maybe
I'm going back in my words a little bit. This the um McGra Hill portion of it will be 100%. Part of that seven-year adoption. However, any kind of an intervention maybe like a UFly if it's appropriate for the upper kids age- wise. And I
don't think UFly is necessarily appropriate, but others that might be similar to meet the needs of students, that could be something that would need to be purchased. and for the PD. Um, it's all part of the curriculum alignment that we all have to participate in. And now that we have
literacy leads at both Lincoln and Lakeside for, you know, next year, that's really going to help us as we continue to unpack those standards and make sure that we are meeting the new 2020 ELA standards. Yeah. Um, I'm still I guess one of the things
I'm still kind of trying to wrestle with or or think about is the alignment for K12 and knowing that the elementary uh staff has gone through and is going through the letters training um and kind
of getting that completed, right? I mean, they're very close to we have units seven and eight left that so full completion will be by the end of January. Actually, the beginning of January next year. Okay. So, as that's taking place and
they're getting that staff development, they're getting that training, then they're going to be doing their selecting, piloting, their curriculum adoption, if you will, right? With that background knowledge of the Reed Act, I'm just still I guess kind of
wondering about the alignment as it goes into the secondary then um with regard to if this is the adoption that we do and then they're getting their read act training and and development and staff
development on this. Um, I just I guess I want to make sure that as a district we're aligning the elementary with the secondary. I'm just and I know that I understand the reason and I think you articulated very well with regard to the price tag of a full adoption at one
time. Now I'm just kind of worrying about the staggered of having that adoption in two halves, if you will, and just making sure that we do get that aligned. So that's what I'm wrestling with and just trying to figure out in my
mind how to make sure that that happens. I think it's going to have to be very purposeful no matter what it is, whatever curriculum. Even if sixth grade ends up going with this exact program and then we were to maybe do the McGraill that's yet to be named for K
through five. If it's that, if it's um some of the other ELA curriculums that are on the 100% approved list, no matter what it is, there's always a barrier between sixth and seventh grade because there's 10 miles in between that seems like an ocean for certain things. So, it
has to be very purposeful planning. We did it a couple years ago with our math when we had K2 purchase one curriculum and then 36 purchase a different curriculum and that transition has gone quite well between second and third grade. Um our students, you know, are
are really applying the math well. So I'm hoping that the same strategies can be used then when we whichever purchase we make and that we can make sure that everything's aligned from six to 7 as well as second to third grade and whatever curriculum it is. it is uh
Minnesota state standard aligned which I've said it a couple of times because that's a struggle when it's not aligned and we don't we have to start creating our own things or figuring out how the scope and sequence is going to fit on top of matching those standards. So I think just by that is going to help us
because whatever else we purchase is also going to be aligned. Yeah, I think that's going to help a lot. Thank you Joy. Any other questions for principal Fry Dog? Thanks for your report information,
John. All right, we will uh move on to item C, foster care transportation action and item and closure number two. Superintendent Sanjay recommends approving the foster care transportation memorandum of understanding with Mloud County Health and Human Services from
July 1, 2025 through June 30th, 2027. Do I have a motion? So move. A motion by John. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Randy. Uh I'm going to ask for a little more information on than this. So, basically, this is a a standard agreement that we
do pretty much every two years, and it's basically to kind of help families, or I should say students that are in the foster program, and if they're going to school here at GSL and then they get placed somewhere outside of our transportation hub that we have a
mechanism for them to be able to still continue to go to school. I get there's probably some practicality that comes into place if they get transferred um or placed and it's very far outside. You know, you can only do what but the example would be uh you know a student
that's going to school here and then a foster family now has them in they're in the Hutchinson school district. We would then have an agreement with uh the transportation company here that that child would still be able to get picked up and still attend our school.
Thank you. Any other questions or hearing? None. John, a quick question. Is this something that in your example that Hutchinson also does? I mean, surrounding districts as well and and how I don't know that for a fact, but I
would assume that they would have the same type of situation. It's it's put in place for to protect students so that they can continue to go to the school where they're where they're continuing to go to. a requirement as far as like it um for schools. Yeah, schools are
required to preserve the school of origin. Okay. Yeah. So, yes, every district is required. Okay. Um and that is I I see July 1st through June 30th. So, it's a 2-year agreement. So, did we
do this two years ago then? I believe so. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Okay, hearing no other questions at this time. John, will you do a roll call vote? Please signify four or against. Jamie, four. Randy, four. Kayla,
four. John, myself, four. Jason, four. Alicia, four. Thank you, John. Motion carries. Item D, summer school plans. Action item. Administration has been making plans for the district's summer school program. The school the the summer school plan uh includes the
following programs. Elementary summer bridges K through 6 July 7th through July 31st. Migrant school migrant summer school July 7th through July 31st. Elementary extended school year uh intermittently between June 9th through
August 13th. ECSE extended school year uh August 4th through August 21st. Junior senior high extended school year intermittently between June 17th and through August 7th. Junior high summer retreat July 14th through July 31st.
Senior high accelerated accelerate to graduate program uh June 9th through June 26th and July 7th through July 17th. Superintendent Sanji recommends approval of the summer school programs as presented. Do I have a motion? So
move. Motion by Alicia. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Jamie. Any questions or comments? If none, I'll Yeah, we do this each year and it kind of helps just from an audit purpose as well. Uh because it may help
with hiring if we needed to hire somebody, that kind of stuff. And and it just kind of allows an overview of the approved programs from the board standpoint, being able to say, "Here's what we're offering from summer school." And all of these are at the Gleno site.
Yeah, everything is at Glenco. Correct. Thank you. All right. I have a motion by Alicia, second by Jamie. Uh John, can you do the roll call vote? Please signify four or against. Jamie four. Randy, four. Kayla,
four. John, I sell four. Jason four. Alicia four. Thank you, John. Motion carries. Item E, action item. uh director of finance Zichek has reviewed the scope of limitations and management responsibilities of the audit agreement
with Clifton Larson Allen LLP. It is her recommendation that we adopt Clifton Larson Allen LLP as the school district's auditors for fiscal year 25. Uh the total estimated base fee for 2425 audit was
$36,750 oh excuse me will be $36,750. The total base fee for 24 was 34750 with a final audit cost of 37,984. Do I have a motion? I'll make a motion. Do I have a second? Second. Second by
John. Uh any questions or we've had them for quite some time now. What was the cost last year? That that isn't what is listed here, right? This is all for the So the audit last year final audit cost was $37,984.
That was last year. Okay. Yep. So your base prices out is that 36 36,750. And then they have extra fees in there that's stated um for um travel, postage, word processing, and um report
production. Um it doesn't say how much that is. It just says as an extra cost. So that's where that difference comes from of last year's 2024 audit of the 3000. Okay. And then right now the audit is scheduled for the August 11th week. Thank you.
Okay. Any other questions? If none, I've got a motion by Jason, second by Jamie. John. John. John, excuse me. John um to appoint Clifton Larson LLP for fiscal year 2025.
John, can you please do a roll call vote? Please signify for against please. Jamie four. Randy four. Kayla four. Myself John four Jason four. Alicia four. Thank you John. Motion
carries. Item F eval formal evaluation of superintendent Sanju in July information only. The school board will be conducting a formal evaluation of superintendent Sanju. An evaluation report will be made by personnel committee directors
uh Keenan and director Lumpky at July on the July 8th board meeting. No schoolboard action is necessary. Item G, first reading of policies. Action item is a recommendation of policy committee to bring back the following policies for adoption at the next schoolboard
meeting. Uh, policy 413, harassment and violence. Policy 420, students and employees with with sexually transmitted infections and diseases. Policy 425, staff development and mentoring. Policy 502, search of student lockers, desks,
personal possessions, and student person. Uh, policy 512, school school district administration. 516, student medication. 530, immunization records or requirements, excuse me. 607.1 Early Entrance into kindergarten.
621 Literacy and Redact. 704 Fixed Asset Accounting System. 906 Community Notification of Predatory Offenders. Do I have a motion? So move. Motion by Alicia. Do I have a second?
Second. Second by Randy to bring back policies listed above for adoption for the next school board meeting. Uh John, can you please do a roll call vote? I have a quick question. Before we take a vote on um policy 621, literacy and read
act. Is it typical that we have a policy on legislation that is um in progress, I guess, or that has maybe an end date. I don't I guess I'm just kind of wondering what that
policy is going to be doing. I don't I guess I'm trying to think of other I'd have to go back and review what it says specifically off the top of my head. I don't remember what it says, but you're right. I mean, one of the things that we always hear about is,
you know, the law supersedes the policy. Um, I guess I'm just wondering what our policy about that topic is going to say that would be different than or that we think would supersede what's coming to
us. But this is only the first reading. So I guess I highlight it for the policy committee to drill down a little bit on policy 621 literacy and the read act and Jacquine this came from MS. The policies always come recommendations come from the Minnesota School Board Association.
A lot of them incorporate like what's in the legislation that's in the law and then the then the cabinet meeting cabinet committees go through those policies. No, I understand I'm on the policy committee so I understand how the policy committee works and I understand that we get recommendations from MSBA.
Yeah. I guess I'm just wondering tell you what is is 621 a new policy for us because I understand if MSBA is giving us a recommendation on something or a change on something that we would adjust our policy to fulfill or meet or
whatever but I guess I just I know it's the first policy reading. I guess I'm just highlighting it for the policy committee to just drill down a little bit on 621 and maybe report to us at the next board meeting before the second reading. I guess that's all I'm asking
for. You can do that. Thank you. The literacy and the read act policy was in effect since January 8th, 2024 is when we first adopted it. Did Okay. Thank you. All right. I have a motion by Alicia, second by Randy. John, can you please do
a roll call vote? Please signify for or against. Jamie four. Randy four. Kayla four. John myself four. Jason four. Alicia four. Thank you, John. Motion carries. Item H, second reading of policies is the recommendation of the
policy committee to bring back the following policies for adoption at the next school board meeting. Do I have a motion? I got a motion by Jamie, second by John. Yep. Okay. Uh, can you do a roll call vote, John?
Yep. Please signify four or against, please. Jamie, four. Randy, four. Kayla, four. John, myself, four. Jason, four. Alicia, four. Motion carries. Uh, any miscellaneous at this
time? Hearing none. Um, I do I have a motion for ajourn. So move. Motion by Alicia. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Jamie. John, can you please do a roll call vote? Please signify four. Yes, I didn't write all the names down
again. I looked at the top of my page. Jamie, four. Randy, four. Kayla, four. John, myself, four, Jason. Four. Alicia, four. All right. Thank you, everyone.
Motion carries. We are adjourned at 7:15