sorry thank you everybody for joining us tonight and is a beautiful night um you can see a bit darker earlier though so we do have a quum here tonight um so um all board members are present we will
stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for
all with that we have a motion to approve the agenda as presented so mov thank you and and a second second thank you Patrick any discussion any changes on the agenda anybody has hearing none all those in favor of
approval of the agenda say I I oppose same sign the motion carries we the communication we on the com accomodations and I think M car is going to kick this off thank you Jenny okay good evening I'm Jenny carrier I'm the the Community Education
director here at cast manille and I'm super excited for two months in a row we get to recognize another 1,000 books before kindergarten student so this program was started back in 2014 so it's been going for a while and we've had
about 181 students sign up for this program but we've only had 53 actually finish it so it's a huge feat and um congratulations to Philip whan and his
parents as well so part of this program is also just exposing children to literacy and um language development and being ready for kindergarten right Philip okay we practiced a little bit can you tell me how old you are five five and who is
your teacher this year Miss ttis oh wonderful so you're in kindergarten already huh okay what's your favorite book to read a Bible story wonderful and we wanted one more question right did we think what's your favorite animal is that what you want me
a panda oh a panda excellent job so I have a book for you and a special certificate and a comic coin are you ready for your picture Okay congratulations
[Applause] two [Applause] good evening board and community members my name is Trent Lang I'm very proud to be the high school principal at Casten manille and my honor tonight is to
present the students of the month for October of 2024 each month a spreadsheet with comments uh goes out to the staff and they discuss electronically students that they are able to nominate for this prestigious award and they select
students one from each grade level per month it's very selective award these students are responsible for themselves and they help others they are positive role models they go out of their way to help others in need and progress quite well academically uh four students
tonight and I think they're all here come up one at a time and then we'll have you stay up and we'll take a picture all together nth grader Ambry [Applause]
bernatz 10th grader Adrien Dana [Applause] 11th grade noran
[Applause] s and the senior who already halfway up to the podium tonight is Hannah Peterson come up [Applause]
Hannah the senior bio cast and man high school student of the month for October is Hannah Peterson daughter of Lisa and Michael Peterson of Casten outside of school Hannah stays busy working two jobs she works at Buffalo Wild Wings and du North as a cashier and Barista when Hannah
isn't working she likes to play guitar hockey and spend time with her family one philosophy that has helped her be successful both in and outside of school is to ask for help and make strong connections with teachers coaches and managers they'll always have your back Hannah has made very strong connections
through playing and coaching hockey on the student council and I know she was a big help with our homecoming celebration big brothers and big sisters Minnesota Honor Society hope club and Leadership Club after graduating she's planning on playing hockey and studying exercise
science at Hamlin University and in 10 years she hopes to be specializing in pediatric physical therapy Hannah Peterson and the rest of the Encore of students of the month for October [Applause]
okay here we go one two three [Applause] all right good evening again I am uh our activities director Brock Tran and I have a special award tonight um each year uh the soccer coaches get together
and they choose the section coach of the year and uh this one goes out to our boys coach in section onea uh he was honored by being selected as the coach of the year this year for that section so um let's give him a round of applause
as he comes down and then I'll say a few words about season and I'll let him say a few words too Sean bruml cam all right um this was one of my first hires uh as an activities director here several years ago um and the boys soccer
program has just kind of solidified as a quality opponent um each and every game that they that they put out there and even tonight I'll get messages from several boy soccer players pop Clos years uh can you turn the lights on we
want to get a few kicks in on the turf and so again tonight the Bern ances left but it was their other child that was uh texting me to see if they could get out there um and so not only he that he leads our Varsity program but he's very involved in the youth and that showed as
the numbers have developed and uh you know when when Sean started several years ago we had two teams and now we have three full teams to support in boy soccer and um you know we hosted the section championship last year in one of the teams that was in it you know we we
battled to a a draw this year and they've just steadily become better and better in a very very competitive section so I'll let Sean talk a little bit about his uh his team but they also are very involved in the community too as uh Highway pickup and several other things that they they've been been
associated with so Sean thanks BR 10 minutes on that start I don't have too much prepared uh but I do uh want to recognize that the the players are a huge part of any recognition that uh coach gets I like to
tell the kids that if you put great people together great things are going to end up happening and I tell the kids every day to make each day great do great things be great people uh I say there's no such thing as a perfect player but you can be perfect comets and that means different things to different people and I tell them all the time to
uh let the people that you appreciate let them know that you appreciate them let the people that you believe in let them know you believe in them and I think if you get a bunch of uh great kids like Cassie manille has working really hard at something they going to get really good results so uh I'm I'm proud of the growth that we've had we
were exactly 500 on the regular season and then we uh lost in the playoffs but we've got goals set for winning more than just a playoff game in the future and having a having a really long postseason in years to come and we got a good group of kids to help us get it there
[Applause] Co [Applause] okay and that concludes our com accommodations for the evening if you came for Comon accommodations you're certainly welcome to uh stay around or
leave I'm sure we'll have a thrilling meeting tonight you decideed to stay so if you came thank you uh for attending okay with that we are on to our student uh board representative
report we have um three new members two are here with us tonight Addison TR K Peterson met Han a little bit um thank you first of all for stepping up and being willing to sit with us um and share your experiences and experience of
your fellow students so thank you for that um do you want to share with the board just a little bit about yourselves and then uh good afternoon School Board you'll be your school board your student School Board Representatives this year my name is Hannah Peterson I'm a captain on the girls hockey team I'm involved in
student council Minnesota h Society hope Club leadership club and Big Brothers Big Sisters my name is Addison TR I'm a captain on the varsity volleyball team I'm involved in student council Big Brothers Big Sisters and Minnesota Honors Society and then our third
student board representative for the year will be Ella Stafford um but unfortunately she wasn't able to be here with us to we thank you for your time as we present the October board report so the first quarter of the school year a great start just a few
weeks ago we had our homecoming students and teachers got to participate in events such as schoolwide Bingo trivia and door decorating our homecoming petfest where we got to see teachers dance in front of the whole school student uh students got to participate in events like table races Wing eating
competitions a rock paper scissors championship match and other exciting events we also held a power buff and Powderpuff tournament this year for Powderpuff Girls of the same signed up to compete in a flight football tournament this year our school allowed
us to have an early out schedule so that the whole school got to go out to the field and watch the game um for Powderpuff students signed up with teams of six or more and comped competed in a volleyball tournament on Tuesday night and then Friday night night
unfortunately our football team lost but it was great to see how many people stayed to support the team after the game and then on a better note Saturday night there was a big crowd at our homec for as fall sports are coming to an end this is how their seasons are going so
far so football is five and three for the regular season um they just ended their regular season last week at home and they play Fable Saturday at home for their first sections game um volleyball we are currently 13
and 16 for our regular season record and we'll play Austin this Wednesday at home for our first SE girls soccer uh ended with a final record of 1041 they finished their season on October 10th and a loss to the wona Wi Hawks in the section
semifinals boys soccer ended with a final record of 66 and two they finished their season on October 8 in a loss against the Austin Packers during the first round of sessions and cross country is out to against uh end their
sections meet is coming up this Thursday and cam had four All Conference runners and then winter winter sports start next week girls hockey will begin on Monday and basketball and gymnastics will begin in the coming days and for clubs and
activities FCCLA held the annual annual southeast Minnesota FCCLA fall conference at our high school hope Club spread messages of Hope and awareness throughout our school for suicide prevention Awareness Day posters of flags replace out outside and inside school with motivating messages on them
student council by Mr arnison helped lead and plan many of the homecoming events this year as well when finals coming up students look forward to ending the first quarter of the year strong it has been a great first quarter of the year and we can't wait to see what the rest of the school
year will bring with that being said this concludes our first spard report we thank you all again for your time and look forward to seeing you all again next mon thank you ladies H through your first report almost any questions for these ladies before we
let them go just have to know did the seniors take home any wins during homecoming week yes they did we senior girls won our powder b game and then I think it
was like a mostly Senior Team for the power good good all right you mentioned seen the teachers dance so which staff member would you not want to have a dance off
against Brock Trina they were impressed Miss Miss she she's up there she's pretty good too all right anything else for these ladies before we let them
go all right thank you for coming out say heart thank you okay now on to a thrilling part of the meeting the audit presentation Mr like excuse me for those who like numbers
Bob was the first the auditor is not here they've got multiple presentations they found closer to 7:30 so we could maybe just rearrange the agenda items sure we can move to
3.4 um the spring 2024 data presentation H Ashley isn't able to be here so we are each presenting our own building and since we can't project we'll just have you guys kind of pull it up on your screens as well
okay so our data presentation is for the MCAS uh so for the elementary it really only represents our grades three and four as far as a test score however the way we understand it is um and we present it to our teachers is everything they do in the previous years K through
two builds up to that third grade um MCA proficiency so if you look on slide two it's our reading proficiency um we are we realize we are under the 75 percentile that the district really
strives to be however if you look um we're kind of coming back up specifically in our third grade um and our fourth grade are making gains kind of out of that covid slump uh and you can kind of track the 23 to 24 um the
white the grade three to four at the bottom um some of our celebrations though in Reading was we maintained the proficiency level from grade three to four for the first time in a really long time uh with only a you know previously we were having a 9% decline we didn't
even have a full point um this year we are really excited uh with the redact we are able to Pilot a fourth grade curriculum called my view and it's a comprehensive literacy curriculum and we started it in the spring of 24 looking
at it and we were able to do a full pilot 2425 with the fifth graders um so that's really exciting because it's the comprehensive literacy curriculum that feeds into my perspectives which is what they start using 6 through 12 so we're
really excited about that uh since the science of reading came out we have not had the studies came out we have not had a comprehensive curriculum for literacy everything has been peace meal nothing has been uh purchased or available and so now with the state and the reada
we're able to get some chances to try some different things my view is not approved by the state yet as a comprehensive there aren't any comprehensive ones approved except the free one so that makes a lot of sense they'll pay for the free one um so we're
trying this one and our teachers really love it and we're seeing really good results in the first quarter kids are super engaged it also hits a lot of social study standards and a lot of non-fiction which is great um in the elementary that we can kind of mirror those things together uh we're really
excited with our literacy specialist our collaboration Jess smer does a phenomenal job as our literacy specialist uh but she is not only working with our k for family she also spends quite a bit of time in community ed making sure the students in our
preschool are kindergarten ready and then math um math is always a really strong point for us since we switch to Bridges uh curriculum and you know you look at the 75 is our Target and we are consistently above
85 uh the last two years we've been above 85 in third grade proficiency and then we do have a little bit of a slump in fourth grade however we're still staying way above the state average at 78% of our students are meeting that uh we had a big a lot of new Math teachers
last year uh Bridges curriculum is a lot to learn and so we look for that to bounce back up um some of our celebrations for math we want to continue to perform above the district goal is 75% uh we're really excited that our third grade proficiency is at 86.1 and
our fourth grade is at 78 uh this year and we have added a little bit last year Mr Maker is teaching third grade but he also spends sometimes coaching some time coaching math uh he is a Bridges expert we have teachers coming from other districts all the time to see Michael
teach um he led also has been leading some book studies on bu building thinking classrooms which is really exciting for our Math teachers and then classroom coaching he goes in we tag him out and cover his class so he's able to go in and work with our Math teachers uh
and they really appreciate the coaching and uh the learning from up here uh the last slide we have is our academic goals and next steps uh while we know the district goal is 75% for reading we really feel like we need to Target it on 65 something that's
achievable that we can make a move toward so we feel like if we hit 65 this year 75 becomes more attainable and then to stay at that 80% math right now we're completing our Ola training we just had our first live one all of our elementary
teachers are being trained in react and we should see that our reading scores will B will start to really grow as our teachers are getting that strong foundation and then we are going to continue the pilot of my view curriculum at fourth grade and our attend intention
is to pursue an option as the state mandates or updates their approved list with that mandate we're not really sure right now what the next step is uh we will continue to support with our math and literacy coaches our teachers and then we are doing this year data
meetings monthly we just finished our academic meeting with every grade level our next one that will H happen in the next week or so is an attendance focused meeting so we're looking at attendance looking at student scores how are who's coming to school who isn't what are we
needing to do for support and then we'll also do a behavior one the next month and then we just rotate those and then we are doing Power hours which is Teachers can bring their data they have an hour to sit with one of our coaches go through it they pick a Target group of students or something they want to
Target and our coaches go in and help um coach through it it's like a mini coaching cycle there's nothing um major about it it's just a lot of conversation and then their goal setting so we are really excited about where we're going we think we're going the right direction
we have a lot of the pieces in place I just like to follow up on one quick comment I had the opportunity last week to sit down with the elementary administrative team and and go through their scores and one of the biggest things we keep talking about is even though we're at proficiency we're at
that 75% Mark or above or even if we're below it that our students are still achieving that years's worth of growth wherever they're at I think that's the biggest piece that we can always talk about and I don't know if you want to touch a little bit more on that or not yeah so through fast Bridge it gives us what a score would look like for a
Year's worth of growth so even our students who are in special education were able to figure out what it would look like for them to make a year or more growth um so we always want to be closing that achievement gap for a lot of our teachers though they're using using that growth score of what how many
points or how many skills did they get so even our students that are high and high achieving and at the 90th percentile they still have somewhere to go and a goal to achieve and also are struggling and also our teachers are really excited to work with that number because they feel like that's their goal
is that every child grows a year or more and so that just really hones in on that it doesn't just take that one MCA score and say you either make it or you don't it's looking at what they individually and how much they grow and it's a really exciting number to share with parents at Spring conferences too this is where
they were this is a year worth of growth we already have kids that have made three months of growth and it's only been a month because of the summer side and all that so we're just really excited about that growth score thank you for pointing out the individual grow score I think that's so important especially because sometimes
when students aren't um at a level we'd like to see it takes a lot of time to get them up um to close that achievement Gap so pulling out the individualized part of these big tests is really important and I appreciate um the focus
on that I think too it's also important to celebrate that in the past where we have had declines we maintaining for students and so I don't want that to be over that's a really positive me as well for
staff at the elementary school to celebrate anything else for the elementary yeah I just wanted to highlight too adjusting the overall goal um to a closer metric where we can attain that next year I think is um
smart it's a go setting and it's really impressive to see that adjustment be made and then move forward from there it's using the data we have now to make the goal and that's important yeah it's really important for us that the goal feels achievable for
the teachers otherwise they just see it as a number and now it's something they feel like they can strive for and that we can celebrate they meet and drive that to the next level let's move to middle school then Mr all right well good evening everyone um at the middle school level
we've got all of our grade levels tested fifth grade sixth grade seventh grade and eighth grade um our fifth sixth seventh and eth all see math and reading and our fifth grade see science as well as our eighth grade as you can see at our as you can see our MC reading
proficiency cohort um continue to see high levels of growth moving from third to Fourth to fifth to six um one of the things that we are focusing on is just that um dip within seventh grade that is something that we've seen over time um we continue
to see those levels of growth grow from the elementary setting um but um that seventh grade dip is something that we focused in with the standards and getting a better analysis of why our students just see that dip um as they get into eighth grade they level that off they come back up and so the
teaching is there uh we just want to make sure that we sustain that level of of achievement throughout their middle school experience um as far as our celebrations we are year three of my perspective curriculum last year we started our first year of my view curriculum and
similar to what Courtney had said um it's something that is is focused on the science of reading compared to finest pel which was which is not and so our focus and having to read and getting our trained will certainly help aid Us in better
understanding those gaps that teachers are more aware of at the elementary study um as you can see our fifth grade grew 8% our eighth grade grew uh by 7% and so we're seeing high levels of proficiency and growth and similar to what courney had said as well um instead
of just setting that 75% standard let's focus on the core heart of students and that's set expectations based on the students that we're seeing how are we going to serve their needs how are we going to get them to grow that % per year um and that's that'll be shared obviously later on um as you can see our
our sixth grade continues to perform strong um and our sixth and eighth grade proficiency levels um continue to be the highest in the district uh math we see and this is this is obviously continued from um what we've seen in the past we see high
levels of proficiency and Rise three and four um and then we see that uh dip in fifth and sixth grade and then they rebound seventh and eth and so what we're focusing on um just meeting within our plcs you know obviously there's a there's a time difference you know
they're spending an hour and a half at the elementary setting at the middle school setting you're going to 50 minutes you've got more core classes and so it's something that we're analyzing and and seeing how we can better use the time within our day to help curb um that that time Gap that that we're
experiencing and so utilizing Flex implementing number of Corners to ensure that our students are the things that they need within the time that they have um as you can see in seventh and eighth grade those numbers you know continue to rise back up and that's certain that we certainly want to see as we continue to
move forward with student growth and proficiency as far as our celebrations this was last year was the first year of using six to eight in vision and this is something that we spoke with our fifth grade team about implementing at the third and fourth grade level to use Bridges um we are looking at more of a
coherent system within the Middle School 58 and ensuring that we're seeing the growth um as well um our seventh grade group excuse me our seventh grade Cort grew by 12 and a half% and we still see a high level proficiency within that eighth grade
math and so our students certainly have the skills um within we just want to better utilize the time that we have within our day to ensure that our students are growing in regards to Science fifth grade is the first time that they see a Science assessment we continue to hold um relative even across fifth grade
science um eighth grade science we've seen increase and I think that's heavily related to our stands based grading focus and assessing where students skills are at and how we better meet their needs within the classroom again celebration for science we've implemented year two of the TCI
curriculum we're aligning our pltw standards in fifth grade our eth grade sixth grade still remain above 50 60% obviously all of our scores are above the state average um but we certainly want to continue to see that growth
overall as far as our 24 25 goals um a big part of learning is the relationships that students have with their teachers and it's important for us that 100% of our students have at least one positive relationship with an adult at KS if you've got that positive strong
relationship with students you can leverage that for for learning our learning goal is to increase proficiency by 8% per each grade level within their respective MCA math and reading and lastly that empowerment piece um
focusing as as you guys will see in the board report tonight focusing on That explicit instruction being responsive to student needs and including everyone in our instruction um we're implementing a variety of components throughout the year and presenting their learnings through our staff
meetings as far as our next steps continue to prioritize our data meetings with all staff where our students at how meeting their needs focusing on that PLC alignment of explicit instruction reading strategies and engagement as I've said we've
implemented Flex time we're using a different approach to ensure that we're utilizing the time we have within our day to better assist the instructional needs and outcomes for our students Le programming is new this year for our high level Learners and a focus on math alignment
and consistent teaming to support fifth sixth grade math Learners as well as seventh and eth and then lastly implementing consistent practices across grade level teams and disciplines any questions I have a question yeah it might be a little premature but will you
give some examples of the empowerment goal absolutely so on the if you look at my board report later on it has three images and those images certainly represent a level of of instruction that
we present at the middle school and what we really want to do is not only Empower our teachers with the tools and skills but how those School those tools and skills relate to the students so that the students have those tools and skills so that they can focus on their learning at various levels and so it's really
giving adding tools to the teacher toolbx to meet the learning needs of all Learners in the classroom thank you one of the areas I would like to see is as far as our PLC work is that vertical alignment we know that when students transition from elementary school to
middle school and middle school to high school there's always there always seems to be a little bit of slide back so at some point as a district we get that vertical alignment where you know the fifth grade staff members can meet with the fourth grade teachers and figure out where there's gaps or most holes are at as as regards to standards I think that
would benefit us as we move forward to making sure that you know we're not back filling all the way up but what does that look like when students are transitioning from one building to the next where those holes and gaps are at and one of the things that we're focusing on math specifically is at the elementary level they have a a number of
ways to solve a problem when you get into fifth and sixth grade Mo standard algorithm was the most effective efficient way to solve a problem and so we we have students that are learning abstract and you're taking that abstract ability to count and manipulate numbers and we're FOC focusing in on that
standard algorithm because that's what's proven to be effective and efficient and so we're focusing on that to see hey what can we do how how can we take these skills that our students know and bundle that into the standard algorithm that becomes common practice throughout mle
schol Josh can you touch just a little bit um you mentioned the these were above State uh standards can you touch a little bit about how our Middle School is comparing to other districts across the state yeah I mean I don't have the numbers iny but a lot of their are with
States within 30 and 40% and so what we do see at the middle school levels is testing fatigue I mean I'll be honest by eighth graders by the time they take their science tests a lot of them are done um and so we try to find ways to continue to engage students
in their learning um eth grade they asked you know what's in it for me and so focusing on addressing the students and saying you know when we look at these tasks and and granted is it's one task one day however this helps us determine how our teaching is impacting
student learning and so fortunately we've had um you know buying that way uh but at least from the state level I mean we we far exceed you know within the fifth sixth seventh eighth grade expectations for for achievement obviously we want to achieve more
but um there's certain things that we we certainly want to analyze and look at and figure out what we can do better any other questions this is not a question it's just a comment I do appreciate how you just set a metric to grow by for your
goal um I think again just like with courney it's really important and uh it's a goal that's achievable and it's started from what we have right now absolutely and we just want to be practical and I think sometimes we we lose s of that and just being able to be practical within the
classroom I know helps the teacher but helps the students as well thank you Mr L I was feeling pretty confident about my presentation until Mr Larson started talking about algorithms no plan of talking about that
for high school data with that said we're very proud of the effort and engagement of our students and and our teaching staff and uh we are all very appreciative of the hard work and support of our uh teaching and learning coordinators at the building level to
because they drive a ton of this uh student data and efforts to improve um starting off reading 67.5% proficient in the 10th grade um class last year on that test on that day and we were we were very proud of that
frankly um a little short of our 75% goal but again an improvement even over the year prior to that which was also a big big Improvement so we know that we have uh students and teachers working hard all year to teach the standards assess the standards and as you look at
the the celebrations there I think that the the effort to reach those students that are close to proficiency and uh utilize our Bridge period to do interventions throughout the whole year we already started it was early October and we rolled out the the
10th grade reading interventions and the 11th grade math interventions and it's kind of built into that expectation and culture now that they know um it increases our our assessment effort um frankly when they know that there's also
extra math or reading time in richd in store for them if they maybe uh maybe if it's an effort issue they know they can just show up that day get their best score a high score and then not need that intervention piece which is very motivating for high school students because that student motivation factor
is a big part of of this uh test performance frankly uh so that effort all year to engage students with the the intervention work is led by teachers we do the nwas in fall and the midwinter
and the spring and then students know that that data is used and teachers have access to that and then they plan um modules and efforts to support students a day or two per week then in Bridge all year long whether they're in a in an
English class or not in this case we are in our fourth year that my perspectives implementation that's been a nice piece of continuity from the grades 5 through 11 uh students know what to expect it's a very prescriptive curriculum that
drills into usage and mechanics that are tested on that MC test so it is helpful to do that um and then I I put there the building wide MCA test engagement and effort emphasis and the teachers buying in I mean that is something that I I
will share we had to get created with student incentives grade level achievement incentives are set communicated when we roll out late March and we get ready for the test we we do some creative ways to try to make sure that students give their best efforts so
that we have the best gauge of our student achievement that's what we tell like we our school is is kind of gauged by your results and so all we want you to do is try your hardest so that we really know where we're at because the the most defeating thing is that if we
have students not trying on the test and then we're not getting accurate data so we really encourage the the effort with that certainly happy with where our eating scores are at and hope to continue to grow those 11th grade math uh again a strong showing from that
group 57% proficient uh Andre you asked about the state average that is one that I always know that's always in the low 30s for 11th grade math it's a it's a hard test and it's also at the at the end of it's at the tail end of student
buyin in the value of a test um often times by the late junior year students are more concerned about college prep ACT scores things like that sometimes they view this test as a non impactor for them and so we we did get created
with motivating them to give their best effort and we're proud of that's a really high number I'm not supposed to use comparative data but I did tell our Juniors they were the conference Champs in math this year um a lot of Standards align our
Math teachers just not surprising ly they really like the data they really use it um they're the most cohesive PLC not that all our plcs don't get along but they're just so bonded by that you know standards and
scores and it's pretty clear like this G does have this standard grasp and you can see it as it tracks from Intermediate Algebra to Geometry to Algebra 2 and so the math feutures really called their data that's I guess what I would say um and and then the thing that I'm looking forward to
because we do interventions with Juniors too and some of them aren't super excited about it and the probably the worst thing to do to a group of Juniors that aren't excited about more math is to give them a web- based computer module program or they're clicking and
do it it like brings back bad memories offense to some of their like middle school drill stuff inl and and so the Math teachers came forward this is exactly what you could ask for nothing better as a principal math department comes to you and say hey we want to write our own modules we
got a plan the group of kids that score in this band they only need six modules so we can get them out by December and they just own it and they pitched this to us they presented with us to the Juniors a couple weeks ago on on math intervention of what it looks like so really really couldn't ask for more
effort from our Math teachers um when it comes to continued growth in that very difficult test in the spring of the junior year question on math at all we reading so far I guess I should ask your questions at the end science um we
did add more effort into the science test this year in terms of student incentives and um MCA prep in that and we made it at separate day and the year before when we really changed the testing environment uh we did have the
sophomore state reading and science on the same War and then our feedback was they car a lot about the English or reading and then they weren't super excited about science they were tired so we we pulled it off of that day and put it on with Junior we all this schedule stuff and and always feel supported by
the board for when we modify our schedule to do these days and uh kids showed up we worked hard and we were well above State average in science again and continuing to grow moving forward our our emphasis this year is is to continue that that
high expectation for for effort all year maximizing the block um we're talk a lot about teacher ownership of the learning space and of the learning that happens in the space meaning we got to manage our classrooms well we got to build relationships with kids and really in
investigate the learning that's happening in my class like I am the impactor on the learning that teacher ownership pie will always continue to be uh have a large effect on student achievement those are the things we talk a lot about at the high school but
overall very very happy with where our data is at and we'll continue our efforts questions Mr I have a couple questions first 8% matches the middle school was that strategic in some way okay you explain it's that incremental growth like we
just we put that 75 out there and we got to talk like what is it going to take us to get there I feel like we've said it that culture is really developed we're working hard all year really in tune to the data and now we can we really have to hone in on those those smaller number
of students that can get across that threshold I know that in the world of data it doesn't do good to talk about how close we were but if 49 is the number that's just one short of the meats and you know if you would added in the 49s we would have just been like off
the charts is year you thank you and then also um so when they have a performance of the test and you mentioned that they can get extra support then throughout the year are other things considered so if they're not great test takers is the support
looking like testing skills um do you guys consider generally if they're doing well in a class yeah so the nice piece about how we look at the take the NW in the fall and then the the data goes in the teachers hands first and they're
able to know the students and recognize maybe some poor test performance or something or they're an honors kid that that clearly has the Mastery of the concepts but showed L on mwa so we can we can dig in more and teachers have
discretion to recommend removing kids or adding kids to that intervention plan based on what they know as the experts and the practition on the ground with the students and we probably remove more kids from the intervention plan than we do put on just
based on teacher recommendation in the MCA prep sessions right before the tests in the spring there are test taking skills added into that also yeah they slow down and try your hardest yeah yeah sometimes that's a big bump so thank
you all of this data really talks about student so this is maybe a little bit of a stretch question but there's been some changes at the high school this year in relation to cell phones in the classrooms what is your connection to what you
foreshadow to happen with test results or student achievement because of that I think I think the media and the kind of public attention to cell phones increased a lot this year um really this is kind of a we're kind of ourd like
what Courtney was there that's the first year we really reset cell phone stuff it um yeah we did kind of put some more tweaks in this year as well I think it'll help I think that um I don't know if that'll translate right into spring
test data but it certainly helps engagement all year um can help with behavior which does impact learning certainly it's a good direction to go I want to be clear about that
yeah anything else just one thing so it is obvious in the scores at the high school that the engagement and any incentives you encouraged were effective in there so thank you to everybody um
for that and the other thing of notice is it's really nice to be for all all the of our um buildings to be out of the um Co I'm going to call it the co slump and to see that we are now back to um
the expectations we had prior to co and two years running now um gives us a little bit of a um it gives us enough data to say that I I feel like so thank you to everybody for their work and
effort um anything else okay thank you guys appreciate the update okay with that we are on to our um audit presentation thank you tonight we have from our audit firm
Clifton Marson Alan Craig Copenhagen to present the a report for us great thank you for coming tonight you are welcome pleasure to be here in October so I can tell you the audit went
well um tonight it didn't go well so thank you Bob um let's see everyone have presentation in front of you all
right um so I'll just start um get the Highlights here on uh the audit summary so clean opinion on the financials normal for uh for C Manville so basically it means you know all the
numbers are U as presented are measured and kept track of and accounted for in accordance with accounting principles um um correctly in all material respects to the best of our knowledge and ating ability um we look at processes and
compliance along with just looking at numbers of course so I had one finding on preparation of the financial statements um this is kind of nothing new here so basically we as your Auditors um assist the district and U
compiling all the 80 some pages of uh reading and disclosures and commentary and all of that that goes along with the numbers um let's see so that's basically kind of defined in auditing standards is a weakness and controls so as we report
the finding um that's uh the only finding on controls that you have so I would say that's nothing unusual there um nothing I would recommend or foresee a need for you to change anything so
um B enough to do without without doing a gap checklist in addition to everything else he does on a daily basis so um which is fine um one finding on Minnesota statutory compliance so there's some U outstanding checks that are aged over three years um just need
to report those to the state of Minnesota um and the next window for reporting that whenever that comes up report those to the Department of reue that will take care of that finding um nothing Maj
there just kind of housekeeping item U but yeah that's all I had for um findings on the on the whole audit so good results um other Communications then so we had our normal um kind of
federal compliance audit so uh this year we tested the Child Nutrition program and had no findings um over the Child Nutrition program so that's always a good result no findings there either um there's always some changes it seems
like every year there's something being thrown at us it's new or different so um there was a a change in standards or a change in principles for 2024 really had no effect or impact on uh on your District so really nothing to nothing to
report there um in the 24 25 year here there is a change um around basically St absences and sick leave that we'll have to take a look at um that might you know acrew or require recording an additional
liability into the fund statements but um I would say more to come on that um as we as the year progresses so um talk about some numbers here so um I'll talk about uh fund balances first
so we kind of break those down into different components and I'm all just starting with general fund um unrestricted fund balance and basically that means uh resources Financial Resources remaining in June 30th of 24 that carry forward um for use
and can be used in future years so had a nice uh kind of a increase in um the unrestricted fund balance for the general fund so close the year at 1.7 million dollar um unrestricted is kind of an important one because basically
it's kind of think of it as as your safety blanket your safety net um things it's an area of uh resources where you have control over how much you spend if you spend when you spend what you spend
it on um it's also kind of your safety blanket because it gives you a little bit of a buffer for things unforeseen maybe unplanned so things like that so um as it as 24 the fiscal 24 year out um
your bottom line for the general fund actually exceeded exceeded budget what you what you had planned versus where actual came in actual came in um higher and kind of closed to unrestricted fund balance here so
um that's good um a couple things contributed to that uh I think your your enrollment was was trending up after bottoming out in probably 2022 um during the co years kind of the the peak of Co
I guess if you will um but your your enrollments trending upward a little bit um as well as um a couple other things the Department of Education increased their general education formula R so they're reimbursing you $275 more per
student in 23 24 than they did the year prior so um and then investment income being on the investing investing side of the yield curves with higher interest rates that's a good thing so um your investment funds are earning a little
bit more money so um kind of where the year closed out then is if you look at your goal um to have a minimum of 10% um unrestricted fund balance um is compared to expenditures uh you're at
about six and a half so you know moving in the right direction um 24 was was a good step forward um but you know you're moving toward your goal you're not there yet um so you know kind of a recurring
thing keep working on that that's good it's measurable it's practical all those good things can I also asked did the sale of the um construction Tech house using that term right did that factor into
this um so it that's one that kind of turns over so I think that yeah you have a little bit less invested in the tech house comparatively at the end of 24 as you did
23 so that differential yeah that kind of hits what happens is the 23 house hit in 24 24 will hit in 25 yeah so you build it one year and generally s the next
so but this is probably sh more of an increase in funding firstc year year as well as your enrollments up so it's bringing in more and with contracts and everything else like next
year drop down because spend over two years right yep so I think um so the the student house or the spec house that was just over about a half million dollars and I think
a year ago it was a little over 600,000 so um anything else on that topic I have a question when you see enrollments trending up will you explain more like overall enrollment yeah so just looking at what
we call adms students you know attending class basically is that b we clarify is that on the numbers you budget or in comparison to previous numbers it's prior prior
years so if you look at 11 you know we're jumping ahead y got it thank you so we're about you know say 2150 students served in
2022 um 20179 the4 so that's a POS yeah thank you yep um the next um slide that I have is um restricted or Reserve fund balance so
this is excluding Capital um spend items so um and it also but it does include like the student house so kind of a couple things going on here but more kind of education
related spend if you think of it in that uh kind of that context so um here kind of the um the increase or increment for 20124 was kind of related to basic
skills um programs fund balance so um couple things happening there kind of the the end result of increased um kind of free reduced meal serve D your compensatory Aid which is component of basic skills so more basic skills came
in you know and didn't use all of it during this school year so that cares forward so that was kind of the um the main add to to restricted fund balance there um operating
Capital so um this is kind of a capital spend item but you do that down about $100,000 so that closed 2024 with 340,000 remaining to carry forward for operating Capital so um 2024 was kind of
a um a bigger year for Tech purchases um so Chrome pads or Chromebooks iPads uh phones security cameras uh things like that so you had a little bit bigger year I think project wise um that put some of that
restricted area that restricted funds to use there so anytime you you kind of draw down or put restricted funds to use try to use those first it preserves your unrestricted so kind of you know kind of balancing the teer tire and the
playground a little bit so um but that's kind of The Balancing Act is unrestricted on one end on the other so um long-term facilities maintenance here you had some larger projects um again in
2024 so um exterior doors uh some flooring some carpeting um grand stand um bleachers things of that nature so what typically happens with um long-term facilities maintenance is you know
you're getting a combination of um property taxes and a on each year coming in to fund the projects but it's fairly evenly metered from one year to the next U whereas your expenditures are not so generally
Capital spend or Capital expenditures um tend to be larger in dollar amount and lesser in frequency so they don't happen this often but you know you have a larger spend compared to your Revenue so if you were to say freeze uh um
long-term facilities maintenance projects and not do any you know you'd see this fund balance come back to zero and probably two year three year time period so that's just kind of how the funding works but anyway all of these these
spends in that this area are part of a year fiveyear Capital Improvement plan so they're all mapped out you informed Department of Education about what you plan to do when you do it this is all part of that so that's what they're
funding you on um food service so Food Service this has been interesting um Food Service uh in spite of you're trying to
you know put that put money to use there um you're pretty restricted on what you can spend on um so for example you can't transfer it out of food Food Service it has to be spent in Food Service um it has to be spent you know
either on food or for example equipment so you're trying to put that to use um you know purchaseing freezers coolers ovens serving racks you know trying to spend it down MD wants you to spend it down um and we kind of got here during
Co the way it was so um just a quick history lesson basically um 2022 um 21 and 22 basically all meals were free to students you know federally funded participation was up the Federal
reimbursement rates were higher so he saw a build in Food Service fund balance and that's exactly what we saw from 21 to 22 2023 Food Service operated back to normal like pre-co so normal free and
reduced 2024 the federal part was normal free and reduced except now the state picked up the difference to make meals free to all the students so meal serve your meal count went back up again so
with you know more meal serve you're getting reimbursed more because you're reimbursed for meal serve so you're bringing more Revenue you actually had the opposite effect of what MD is wanting the districts to do now to spend to spend
the fund balance down but you have higher participation so you're bringing more in so we try to spend it down um but um and this is this is you're not unique here um we're seeing this kind of thing
happen with all the school districts that we're out this fall so interesting situation um do you see a cap being put on that as far as how far you can let that grow well
so that they've had a cap so preo it was um the fund balance cap was 25% of expenditures during Co they saw you know fund balances being buil building um so then they changed it from you know 25%
to 50% all so went from three month cap to six month cap but we're above you know the six month Gap so then it was well you know we're not going to claw back on it we're not going to take it back or capture it
we want you to spend it spend it down you know buy equipment you know put it put put the money into your into your kitchens and all that stuff so you made a gallant effort and fun balance went up
anyway so so I don't know what they're going to do now um I don't know if you've heard haven't heard anything but moving forward with this isn't the school district going to start being responsible for a portion of
the free meals is that an effort in any way to decrease these fund balances I haven't heard anything to that effect okay so you know but there is the expectation from the from the
federal funding to to increase reimbursement what charging per me every year so I just I don't it'll be interesting to see how this plays out but I guess on the one sens is I'll take that problem on this I'll take take the
problem of how we how can we spend this down ased to not having enough so is equipment for like culinary a kitchen equipment for student use andate
be ser so if the students started preparing desserts every Craig what about um reconfiguring at one time we had significant discussion around reconfiguring some of the elementary
food service area what is could this be used for some of that for that type of thing I would I would guess not um anything structural doesn't work so in on a
webinar this afternoon and somebody asked that question you know person said that like if you needed to do some rewiring in your kitchen but that would not be allowed part of
structure like they're very tight it's very strict yeah so I've heard you know basically you know sounds like maybe they're allowing for purchase of new tables whereas before that was kind of
off was not allowed but maybe is allowed now because of this very situation so hopefully they'll relax maybe some of those restrictions a little bit so we can to use um community service um the
community service fund balance uh is about right at $400,000 pretty stable with last year so um yeah think you know kind of within their School Readiness and
ECF um you little help but overall um service in total is hold PR um Debt Service really nothing um different or exciting to report here um fund balance increased modestly U to just over $1.1
million um that's basically as a result of like the statutory requirement that you have to Levy taxes five 5% more than what you're expect to pay on on
bonds and you know when you have good taxpayers in your district and they pay their taxes on time you know you see it build like this so that's just normal normal behavior for The Debt Service fund um in that regard kind of like food
service you can't transfer that anywhere else it ask we to pay the debt so that's what you're doing um enrollment um trending upward we talked about that a little a little bit um but at
2179 at the end of 2024 uh comparatively you're still down you know good 80 students compared to where you were five years ago so but it's good to see you know kind of the the enrollment coming back a little
bit so that's definitely a positive so quick question on that maybe this is for Bob so I know that enrollment in our um High School classes are higher than our enrollment in our
Elementary classes right now but this is just that total ADM the students in the seat not the funding we receive for those students in the in in the seat is that true right
okay so not directly corresponding to the funds we receive right could you Bob can talk to it maybe better than I can but you receive more um students in the high school are counted uh at a higher percentage than
the students in the in the elementary or younger grades so as those students graduate that money goes away and then you're going down to the New Classic kindergartens who aren't it's not as big and you're not receiving as much funding
for those kindergarteners does that make sense so so may be actually relatively flat even though the ADM is part trending up right this based on our demographics
here yeah the mix is different so if you think of like you know maybe a kindergarten count you know figure each one of us sitting here at the table is one but for funding a
kindergarten might be count as like A9 whereas a high school student might be counted as a 1.1 multiple so depending on the mix yeah of your the number of students in each
grade affs your fund um let's see so distribution of GRA so if we look at um general fund Revenue $26.5 million um for 2024 um with the enrollment trending
upward um a little bit and then the increase in the general education formula rate your percentage of revenues from State sources that percentage increased so it's about 82% of your total general fund revenue
is state sourced um Federal sources are shrinking basically the co the co money the co grants that's kind of going away now um and then
U interest income was a little bit higher on your investment funds um just because of the the yield curve the interest rate environment is higher so on the investing side it's a good thing so
that gr a little bit more Revenue into the general fund for 2 this year compared to the year prior and then expenditure wise 26.1 million in total for expenditures
yep on that P graph is that a common breakdown in other districts that you see as well um it's yeah it's starting to be so the um Federal sources P shrinking um State
sources are expanding at least on a percentage basis and is State generally like 82% um had been in you know the high 70s maybe 80 now it's a little bit more on a
percentage basis thank you um expenditure wise um 26.1 uh million in expenditures in the general fund uh largely goes to um salaries and benefits so um pretty common but um
about a little over 74% of your total general fund spend um is salaries and benefits um purchase Services is a little bit under 133% um so that includes for example um zero education District so that's part
of purchase Services um the cap spend on a percentage was a little bit larger um for 2024 um because you had some larger you know those larger ltf projects so
increased your Capital percentage spend little bit and then same that expenditures um looking at kind of where um rather than what so um almost 50%
going to regular clro instruction um so kind of working clockwise um so regular instruction about 48% vocational um about
3% um special education 13 a half% and then instructional support and pupil support and another 14 or 15% so in total um about 78% is going to
basically instruction support so I think of it as you know 78 cents on a dollar of that 26.1 million schol to the classroom and to support students um Administration wise um
you're pretty mean so Administration dollar um about 6.7% so kind of a normal normal range that we see is you know usually about 8% to 12% so so the larger the
district population the more turns for 4% so your running in that category so um Capital spend same as what we talked about as far as like the ltfm projects mainly so
um and then just the last three slides that I have for just taking some expenditures right off of your statements and dividing it by your enrollment numbers so uh start with um Administration again
so um about $85 per student uh for 2024 so I think your actual your actual real dollars out I mean this area were l the year before and then you're
dividing that over a little bit higher um enrollment number um so your total spent uh on a per student basis actually decreased about $20 compared to your prior so um but that's kind of how these
charts work is the dark blue shaded bars are cast man and girl specifically for the fiveyear trend um the light blue bar is kind of a Statewide Benchmark for district with population um enrollment between
2,000 and 4,000 students um and then the light green bar on the right is all districts in the state regardless of enrollment so you know similar size districts um spending about um
$1,180 per student on Administration they're spending 805 so the other thing was the kind of the benchmarks is you're behind too so yes um for our specifically do we include TLC's in our
admin no so they're separated out what about Ashley she's in the admin okay um the next one I have is regular classroom instruction so that one real dollars was about $2.5 million um for
just regular instruction and that equates out to about um $5,700 per student a little bit over 5700 kind of the increment from the year prior uh it's kind of a normal thing that we see when you're you know for 2024 you're
in the first year that you're do twoyear faculty agreement so that's kind of a normal um increment so that went up about $150 a student uh comparatively um other kind of the 2,000 to 4,000
um students enrolled districts is about 60 to 100 so kind of training that direction um special education uh being part of zombro Ed District um you're kind of sharing you
know some of that special education uh cost with other districts um so that does help from under budget um in that aspect because you know comparatively you know you're spending
$1,600 per student in special education whereas you know other districts are $1,000 more than that you know the Benchmark for the 24,000 en rolled so um that certainly um helps you manage
um that uh spend um transportation um actually transp cost decreased a little bit on a first basis about 14 about $24 so uh
$514 for student spent on participation or Transportation uh compared to the benchmarks of you know $900 so this is where kind of owning your Fleet of buses um that kind of the
differential kind of stands out because the other other districts that were pring against um includes districts who own but also districts who contract so when you contract it out you know you're paying for somebody else's bottom line and all
their Capital you know costs and everything like that so U so owning your Fleet that does um that does U show up here to the tune of the savings are about $400 per student um fuel costs were down a little bit um compared to
the year prior your SP spreading it over a few more students um two more to go um so vocational SP quick question on Transportation do what percentage of districts approximately in the our size own their
own buses any idea versus contract that maybe 40% on 60% contract so that's where I I I would say
probably as enrollment gets higher it's more like really Contracting out so the other thing you have is you know you got the headache of the bus rods and the drivers and all that on your own but it does it is cost
effective uh vocational um so even though that vocational sliver was only about you know 3% of your total uh general fund um the differential compared to other districts really stands out so cast
manil you're about $350 per students uh spend on vocational uh compared to $200 for other districts so um you have a pretty more course offerings for certain um in this
area so a good new here more of an opportunity to be career ready when you right AB right so um like five in our kind of our exit meeting last week facts uh business
construction welding egg you know so a lot more a lot more um opportunities there relative to other districts that's kind of a bright spot that in the community when you you
know roll students and things like that um the last one was I had to talk about was is the capital spend again um this is just within the general fund but about $600 per student um and that's
largely tracks with your NFL projects that's what I have for prepared Remar for thank you thank you any questions before I just think as a board and as a school district we should be really proud that we're offering the
vocational instruction for students and those opportunities know that that chart looks different in comparison to a lot of the other charts that we looked at as as Mone this very supportive that we continue to
offer those opport yeah I think it's great to you know introduce students to the to the trades you know that's a real option I have a son of my own who's in the trades
so he'll do just fine well thank you Craig yeah coming home thanks very much good evening thank you thanks Bob for your help Bob thanks for your work on that are we last stop for tonight last
stop for tonight thanks again for thanks for your time okay um we are under 3.5 so the board did receive a letter of re resignation from um board member Olson so like to thank her for her time
and effort on the board and we do declare that seat vacant until the new board members are elected um and seated in January so um with that we are on to 3.6 um
consider the approval for the resolution for the acceptance of gifts and gr to the district I Andie Richards introduced the following resolution uh to accept and move for its adoption whereas the following entities have generously offered to donate
$250 each to C schools for broadcasting costs Hubble House La electric M Financial magelia storage canes and plumbing Harbor Hank Ellingson drainage MBT Bank Colligan and the manille
saloon whereas the and Kim harport have generously offered to donate $500 to cast and manable Community Education with a dolly Imagination Library whereas South zro Lutheran Church has generously offered to donate
$325 to kmhs Comet Pantry for Food Supplies whereas Lance and Claris Peterson have generously offered to donate $100 to kmhs Comet Pantry for Food Supplies whereas the football booster club has generously offered to donate
$28,000 8,644 football uniforms whereas the Rochester area foundation has generously offered to donate $33,000 to km schools for an Esports Club whereas kmdt has generously offered to
donate $100 to km schools for a hot dog Rover finally whereas km kta has generously offered to donate $1,000 for Teacher grants and $175 for field trips thank you m Rich for the motion do
we have a second thank you Brandon we have a motion in a second um any comments on that again Community incredibly uh generous I was interested Esports I know
that's becoming maybe in do we have um an active Esports Club right now Mr shinan or are we putting one together we do yeah we started it last year um youth pastor Cameron Baker
uh expressed interest in advising it so we started it up and um joined an actual site that be a motive for how they compete against other teams and schools from all over the country so it's just continuing
to build and it's been good yeah he's been great for it it should be a little article in the DCI was another opportunity for you know kids who um who have an interest so thank you for that so we do have a
motion and a second anything else hearing none all those in favor of acceptance of the res acceptance for gifts stay I oppos same sign motion carries and we are on to board committee
reports starting with public input um tonight was policy but uh we did not have anybody attend this uh this evening land and Facilities um met on October 10th land facilities we an opportunity
to meet last week um couple couple of the things looking at right now is considering an overall facilities assessment throughout the district um and so looking at additional help with that
and gathered a couple different quotes as far as other entities helping out there's also one that was brought up that could potentially be free looking into a little bit more as far as what if there's any tals on theend that one as well um but it would be good I think
we're at a good time and stuff look all over be able to prioritize moving forward to you know what are those maintenance costs you know we have a a 10e plan but you know we're finding that maybe this needs to be shifted a little bit just
first what what all is going to be coming first in addition and kind of coming off that too is is the tur and stuff is is nearing the end of life um it does have a little bit of life left
um it's definitely overdue for the time that was originally projected when it was first installed um and we've been able to get extra extra time and stuff out of it um but that is something that will be coming up here in the coming
years as far as UL pull that pull that trigger in replace and so yeah Gathering some more information as far as the overall estimation and really what our when we need to do that and spinning
off a little bit too we've had discussions in the past about you know what are the ultimate needs out out there as far storage um do we need to be reping were out there at this time at that time as well and also our
concession stands and bringing them up to speed a little bit maybe some potential there as well but these are all preliminary discussions and trying to get some rough estimates and really
coming back to the ultimate need and how we move forward from here uh the other positive um information and stuff is that construction Tex house uh does have ATI here right now so hopefully May
closing by the end of the year so facility assment is that possibilities such as Community end and Elementary School needs I think overall encompasses a little bers buildings as ASR
yeah Z was looking into that too that would be cool to such close space that maybe that's something that they could coordinate with us um who does the facility assessment well over facility assment you know a number of
different and stuff but we are looking at additional assistance as provide that so is it multiple people that are like specifically looking at individual things or is it a company
that could be like one comp anything else for land facilities okay then U moving on personnel has not met nor has Finance or policy or Student Activities um and Zed
I think Miss Richards was going to reach out and um have a conversation about coverage forette yes I did um the next meeting is coming up on November 21st I am able to attend that meeting however if there's another board member who has
interest please let me know I previously served on the be there to be thank you for that then we have Community Education and I have aity just wanted to
provide so although Community Ed hasn't met there's some activity going on in community ed just for the board to be aware of so um the team's been working on intentional kind of restructuring plan a little bit to as Community Ed has
grown a lot over the last 10 years I think talked about the growth that that has at a previous meeting so over the um future year they're looking at adding um and replacing positions so making sure
that we're meeting the needs of the students and meeting the needs of the families in the community so elimination of some of the entry level positions and adding some more key leadership roles into that space so for example an assistant Community Education director
um a child care coordinator and manager um to oversee our child is an early learning um coordinator as well um that's actually a suggested directive from MD to have that position and so
looking at making sure that we're meeting the needs of families and that we staffed appro and I think it's good to the community at to really take a look at that um and make sure that the staff is set up for success and that our families have the support that they need
in Community Education um there's also um um with these new um and expanded I guess leadership roles it'll bring um a greater level of expertise to the staff um additional supervision um for the
programs as well as capacity to support um programs um and BR Community initiatives that you we haven't been able to tackle in the time so I think that was just something I think should be aware of but it's an intentional
process to make sure that we're doing the best things that we can for students staff and Community thank you Angie anything uh for Community Education also I just have to give a plug the uh trick-or treating is coming up um but that's also a great
um opportunity to have um the community in our building and so it's a community trick or treat program that's coming up otober 27 and it works in collaboration with the castle of Commerce as well so just a great Community
collaboration and FCCLA got back to me they have over like 60 kids volunteering to work so we have to find jobs oh wow and I I think those one of the initiatives that you see that years ago that wasn't even something Community Ed
did and now we've got 60 students just from our high school so just goes back to showing you know the opportunities that are there we have one place what it means for our Comm very good thank you again anything
um for Community okay legislative has not me anything legislative a couple updates on as far as the executive board goes as for that um we did uh come up with a legislative platform draft and hopefully
that'll be approved here shortly um we did approve contracts for the new lobbyist and financial specialist and then once again for the office manager so I don't if you if I told you get before but we did reorganize things we don't have an executive director we kind split it up
since Brad retired so that's all I got thank you Mark anything for legislative from Mark okay um with that we're on to superintendent inss communication superintendent
yeah thank you um I know that the board and a lot of the individuals in this room were involved in it but uh I'd like to just do a summary of our October 9th um meeting with their admin team school board and potential school board members um as we met for the first evening of
our new District strategic planning process um the overview of the evening there were four major takeaways of that evening the first one included the overview of the strategic planning process uh the presentation from TM marks International
and how it develops actual plan and strategies in line with our District's vision and vision the process focused on practical steps for turning long-term goals and meable outcomes uh the second major point from that evening was the overview of the educational leadership system or El and
that's excellence in governance management and consultation the El model emphasizes shared responsibility and collaboration among leadership groups including School boards administrators and Community Partners to achieve excellence in our decision
making navigating among the three authorities which really talks about the governance of how school boards District leaders and staff navigate their individual yet interconnected roles to build alignment and maintain accountability within the
district assessment of what is versus what ought to be participants um were included in a current state of the district to identify strength and challenges using the educational leadership systems framework to bridge gaps between the present situation and
desired or desired outcomes for Student Success which is those desired daily experiences that we all want our students to have and the last part of that evening was hopes and dreams um it was a reflective session that we sat down and we articulated what the vision is for the future of C menaville schools
focusing on the student achievement staff development and Community engagement that was the first of many meetings that will involve um School Board Administration community members students um as we go through this process which hopefully will have WRA by
wrapped up by the end of May October is a big month uh for staff recognition um I just want to extend a heartfelt thank to many of the staff members who dedication keeps our our schools running smoothly October 2nd was National cast
custodian in building at g bay um I want to recognize the custodial and maintenance staff for their vital role maintaining a clean safe and welcoming environment for students and staff October is also a national principal's month a big thank you to our building principles for their leadership guidance
and commitment to ensuring Student Success and supporting our students in Staff last week October 14th through the 18th with the national school lunch week uh we want to celebrate the nutrition services staff for preparing healthy meals and supporting student wellness each day and finally this week is
national school bus safety week um I'd like to take a shout out to our bus drivers and transportation staff for making sure that our students safety and their in their essential role in getting students to and from school safety and activities each and every time they take the road uh thank you to all these
incredible staff members for your hard work work and commitment to making cter Manville schools an outstanding place in which to learn and grow last week um I had the opportunity to attend Masa region one Workshop uh that included the following topics
project momentum which is initiative to create more opportunities for teachers who are interested in pursuing El or English language learner opportunities um there was a Minnesota Association of school administrators update from Deb Hinton um providing key updates on
current efforts and PR within the association there was a legislative panel with Masa M EA which is the Minnesota R Education Association and msba which is Minnesota School Board Association they talked about each
organization um and how they're going to provide legislative updates and agenda items to the during the legislative session uh one of the last things we we talked about was an emergency preparedness and response uh mark levold from Ro Sky Consulting and really was
exploring opportunities for effective leadership um in regards to being prepared how we respond to things not in times of emergency but in times of day-to-day work and strategic planning relationships and Technical communication and last but not least uh
we learned about AI leadership and one of the big things to take away from that is that should not fall just on the RO of our technology department but also in outline what school leaders need to do to make sure that AI is used appropriate within our school district so uh well
worth the day of learning and I really had the opportunity to uh learn not only from the presenters but also from other superintendents within the area so it was a good day of learning for me as well I think any questions any that was very robust thank you thank you
superintendent H okay with that um if we have no questions on to uh administrative board reports um anybody have anything for administrators yeah Josh Mr Lon over there um I see all the pictures from
Community Day it's always fun to hear about what the students are out doing do you want to touch on any highlights from that you know I think one of the things that I think I take for granted um is of our students I mean we live in cast and manille but some of our students have never been to a
farm I mean and you know I've got kids that are holding chickens and the chickens around their arms and of course you know they pee and poop and they they realize that a little bit later but um you just take those things for granted I mean I live you know my grandparents lived on a farm so I was you know with
cows bailing hay things like that and kids are like I've never seen a chicken or a goat or you know a pig and they get those experiences and they're shoveling manure you know and and this was at that was at the red learning Red Red Barn
learning bar yes something like that um but it's just a great opportunity to get out and about and just watch our kids serve the community um I went into a number of of stores quick trip was honestly fantastic they just told their
teachers if there's kids without money don't worry about it um any kid that went in there they gave each like a box of donuts I mean it was it was just phenomenal to just see that and hear that from our from our community and
just how supportive they are and in helping our kids like hey if if they don't have enough cash don't worry about it we'll take care of it and it's those types of things that just continue to reiterate why we do what we do and our work with kids and um just them I mean
they're smiling they're playing in leaves I mean kids that we have students that are coming from other countes you know learning whether it's um Guatemala whether it's it's Mexico and they've never seen mes and they're playing in Lees and so it's just those those little life experiences that I think we take
for granted that our kids get the opportunity to just play and have fun while while helping the community so does each group do they get to decide what they're doing does that change because it looks like a wide variety of
things that all students could participate in yeah I mean a lot of of raking um but a lot of like uh a lot of people went to Maple Grove Cemetery and cleaned veterans um um gravestones
tombstones uh yeah raking helping out at Community Education helping on at the elementary school um cleaning out just the buses just just the little things that I think we we Overlook sometimes and it just provides service to to those that need it and there's nothing better
than seeing like a little grandma that's so very happy to see her yard being wed up and so and the kids love that and I think the little grandmas do too yeah thank you just particular love that day because our I have the privilege of
reading every month the donations that we receive from our community often that comes from organizations and businesses but those organizations and businesses have people who live in our community so maybe it's the business owner's mother getting her lease rate um but it's so
interconnected and so it's such an important tradition so thank you absolutely well thank you for allowing us to continue to do that Mrs Bri I'm GNA pick on you but I just thought this arrangement we changed around some of the fundraising efforts
in the elementary school so if you wanted to elaborate on what we did different and how um you guys managed to raise that incredible amount of money yeah so typically we have probably brought in um in the 50 to $60,000 but we only got
like 40% of it um 50% of it because the package and what booster did um the one thing we learned is no one should ever tell micel weaker you can't do something because he will do it a thousand times um so when we talked about what would it
be if we went to your lowest package and they're like well we'll take five% or 10% and we're like okay we can do that they're like but you won't have a challenge and you won't have prizes and you won't have this and you won't have that and Michael and Jess Meer and um
stepped up and they like and Becky Johnson went to all the different businesses they donated gift cards um they're again the community thing um but the prizes that were most popular we're going to have a group of students going to to school on a fire truck we have a
group coming in police cars um I have 12 assistant principles over the next one of mine though I was glad you read a thousand books before kindergarten because he's got a big day of assistant principal coming up um but we just really stepped up um we did
nightly challenges there's a picture there Mr in made a video and gave a cookie challenge the same class won my doughnut challenge so I've decided Mrs Spencer's class likes food um but we just kind of owned it this year and the challenge um Brian hun was down on the
track and they had a awesome if you got down there um an awesome obstacle course that the kids just had a blast out there so really we owned it we made it our own Boosterthon really all we got from them was the platform they collected the money and then gave it back um so going
from typic like last year we were super excited to be like at 38,000 by the end we were over 67,000 last week but that doesn't cover cash donations that came in um one of the things we found is that um there's a discrepancy if your parents don't go sign you up you don't get a
ticket which means you don't get a prize which means all the fun things that you um that you see your peers doing so on the last day we just threw it out there we got a box and we were like hey if you bring a $2 or any change we'll give you a ticket we ended up with over $1,000 in
the cash box parents were throwing in hundreds we were like oh we were just thinking like we were G to get like a bunch of ones from kids um so everybody in this community just supports that um and there's nothing that you get there's no wrapping paper there's no cookie
dough it's just pure donations um yeah it was amazing um so now we're super excited because Sarah darvo has been working with innovative solutions and the furniture that is coming for the media center is just going to completely change that space so um they actually we
called a bunch of other companies and they actually said we don't charge to come out and draw it up for you and then we started talking to other schools and they were like nope they're the best they will get you and they I think it's who the high school worked with so they had the kind of designs at the high school and colors but um the kids were
so excited we had dress up days we did say it was a lot to go homecoming fundraiser mea three weeks in a row that was a lot of excitement but um the kids had a had a blast the teachers had fun we've got the prizes this year compared to the crud that you get the foam dart
your kid shoots at his sister and your whatever you know this year they're earning like the fire trucks or candy or um we did have some prize packs go out but um assist a teacher they're really excited to be a teaching assistant for part of a day they're really excited to have lunch with a teacher just little
things that got them really excited so uh we're excited for next year and we only have to do one PTA fundraiser this year instead of two so that's exciting but yeah I would guess when it's all said and done we'll probably be closer to 68 69,000 in our takehome that takes
their part because they're booster th if you make a donation you can also give money towards the platform and almost all 90% of our platform was paid for by our donors on half of their regular donations yeah we couldn't have done it without Michael maker was at and
Jennifer Flynn were at school every day at 6:30 running reports and sorting everything no one asked them to do it they just were and their kids were there every morning I think the Marley maker probably as excited as anyone that it's over but they had a blast it was so fun
yeah it is so impressive thank you well yeah I compliment the whole Elementary group and PT and everything else for for for doing something different than actually owning this year it's been you know it's been a long time
that you know boosters down or other organizations and stuff but a part of this that you know they take such a big chunk of the donations and this is awesome that you know like you know get stepped up and you know you hear all
lar to use yeah so we turned around and yeah we turned around and they we earned so much that more because we're hoping for 60 so the 7,000 we invested back and everyone's getting an additional field trip or experience paid for by PTA so we
actually have our first Big Field Trip heading out tomorrow the first graders are on their way to KO Zoo we've never done fall thank goodness it's still warm but um yeah we've got some fun stuff and honestly like you said though this I think when we took it over Brandon you're right that we had ownership our
teachers had ownership and pride in the product so they were getting into it the dress up days is the teachers were into it the teachers and then they each got if you saw like the teachers got Amazon cards throughout the week for you know pushing things out they put their names in drawings and so the teachers were
pumped get a $25 Amazon card and Sarah O'Reilly had the coolest thing I went in there they won a $25 card her class had pulled up board games and they were voting on which class board games they wanted to buy with their Amazon card so they were just giving it right back so
it it was really fun almost as in fun as the Inflatable Race that's still a topic around the building go ahead um I just wanted to ask Jenny if you could touch on the numbers you know we continue to have a
waight list and you know that is very tied to Staffing but if you could just give the board update on that yeah we're a little bit lower in our child care numbers this year um and it is completely tied to staing we are it seems to EV flow a little bit but at
this time we're having a really hard time keeping and finding staff for those positions so and as you know DHS that's all based on numbers and ratios so you be really strategic with how you staff and make sure that you are meeting those ratios so um right now our weight lists
have jumped up but part of that is because we're we're struggling to find especially in theant program qualified DHS assistant and teachers yeah we're monitoring it and we're we're trying to get as many kids in as possible we always staff based on
the number of kids we have so um I wouldn't say like we're we're losing money but it's something that you know we can't serve as many can't we don't have stff are any of the kids on the wait list from staff or is it all District
staff that are waight list or community members all community members but there is some District staff that that's the hardest part when I don't have room for District staff or it's grandparents of somebody who works here you know um so yeah a CH infant Toler by the time
they're often aged out of infant Toler care and going inol anything else actually superintend this last this last one on special education fa professionals that are funded by state federal special education dollarars now
is this an increased requ their employment or just more axed than it was before I guess I'm not familiar with with the requirements before this so basically kind of the last couple of years with Co they kind of had relaxed
the requirements of not having people be as highly qualified as they are now so by the end of this year anybody that works in the special ed program as a par has to meet those requirements
otherwise we end isn't there a shortage profession so that Mak sense anything else Mr L just one other thing the Hope ambassadors program and cl um do you want to talk a little bit that you know something I was thinking
about maybe presenting to the board you know if you wanted to Spotlight anything later but that's really been been a long time coming but it's been a good partnership um that's taken quite a bit of of work to kind of coordinate everything and and get a kind
of a mission for what it is that this group of students that's interested in promoting mental health but what is it that you can do you know so it's it's been uh the large scale goal is to really have these students trained and
give do some kind of like it's actually a program called mental health first aid and it's to kind of create a peer network of student listeners that can be available to you know talk to kids and promote positive mental health but that
a lot of credit goes to Mrs Jones and Mr henslin um in working with a light and Jen hey and Don in the leadership there a really generous organization all all for the common goal of um improving student mental health or at least U
diminishing the stigma around mental health and getting kids talking about that's okay to not be okay thank you for that just have one more thing um Brock it wasn't in your report but there was a
Friday night mobile $5,000 Friday Night Lights award can you just talk about that and what the district might be using that for yeah um I actually got a an email former cam student works for
T-Mobile and said hey just if you're interested you might be able to get some money if you apply for this grant so I worked on it for a couple days and submitted it and she emailed back the next week in their said you're one of the $5,000 winners so um yeah you've had
a lot of needs helmet requests and uniforms and stuff so we got to organize what we want to do exactly with it but we're still in the running for the next round of prizes which is a $25,000 uh Grant as well so um yeah it
was worked out pretty well they were they brought a ton of different pink things that we had to pick up after the game but it was a a neat thing and they were super jazzed about it and I think uh the other area of school that that received
some money was rad we also and so yeah we can put it to some good use which should be great thanks for doing that that's awesome the grants make a big difference yeah just one other thing before we let admin
go um want to thank everybody involved in the medical situation we had at the football game and um and all the work and how the um Community um engaged in
that had a couple conversations um had a conversation with Mr cazel out here and we he kind of wanted to share about the situation and walk through it said um it was handled incredibly well um and I
think that was um I don't know that um it could have been handled better I asked him if there was something that could have gone better he said um could have dialed 911 faster from somebody in the audience which you
know that's right there because um they they were already well on their way of of of providing that Medical Care there before um 911 was even um engaged and um and then he just said maybe it was was a
little bit difficult because there were so many um people in the in the uh Stadium right to get there but I know as fast as uh he could get uh across the field um the they were already hand
handing the um ad um up to uh to be used and by the time he got then up there it was already being used you would not get that kind of you'd have to be in the hospital to get anything faster than that it came from right down below right
there was a um right down below and and and everybody moved out of the way and handling that um in an incredibly professional manner so um tough situation and I wanted to make sure that we recognized and thank everybody involved in that
so thank you anything else before we let admin go okay thank you admin appreciate it have good name with that
um we have consent agenda do we have a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented so move thank you Angie in a second thank you Brandon any discussion on the consent agenda hearing none all those in favor of
approvals consent agenda State I I appr same sign the motion carries action items we have no old business new business we have to approve the audit report at 5.2.1 do we have a motion to approve the audit report thank you Brandon a second second
thank you Mark any discussion on the audit report I will just say an additional thank you to Bob I know it's a lot of work to um pull that information together so thank you for again for all your work on there so with that we have a motion in a second all those in favor
of the approval audit report stay I I same sign motion carries and we're on to 5.2.2 um the approve the resolution retiring requiring the tally of write in votes so um every uh MSB just recommends
approving it in case you need it case we need okay thank you do we have a motion to approve the resolution requiring votes so thank you Angie and a second a second thank you Kate uh any
discussion on that hearing none all those in favor approval of the resolution requiring and the tally of writing vote stay I oppose same sign motion carries run informational item next special school
board meetings Monday November 4th here in the Forum room next um special election to Canvas election results is 700 a.m. Friday November 8th in the for room here and the next regular school board meeting is Monday November 25th in
the for room here anything else before we adate nothing all those in favor of adjournment say I need a motion sorry thank you Kate and second we need a second thank you Patrick it's a long night yeah any anything else before
weour okay hearing none all those in favor say thank you for always coming okay good