beautiful out there and people want to enjoy this weather so um we will we do have a quum everybody's here U Miss olon will not be able to join us tonight um but she will be back um for a special meeting so with that we will stand for the bud Le the
flag States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under Indy andice thank you everybody for coming tonight and board members for taking time away um do we have a motion uh to
approve the agenda as presented thanks Patrick and a second I'll second thanks Kate any discussion on the agenda hearing none all those in favor approval agenda say I oppose same sign the motion carries on to
communication we have the consideration uh considering the approval for resolution for acceptance of gifts and grants Miss Richards I Angie Richards introduced the following resolution for acceptance of Grants and Gifts whereas grants from the state of Minnesota were
awarded to kmce amounting to 9,285 and10 for projects kids compensation and $447 for project beginning comp whereas trento have graciously offered
toate school supplies valued at75 TOS Pantry whereas the km gymnastics boosters have generously offered to donate $1,920 1 to km schools for equipment thank you for that motion do
we have a second I'll second thanks Kate any discussion on that once again um to say the community giv back to the district month after month so we appreciate that thank you very much with that we have a motion and a second all those in favor for the
resolution for acceptance of gifts in a total of $5,695 111 St I I I oppose and sign motion carries we are on to board committee reports um land facilities has not met
um um if you have something here as these haven't met this summer just let me know um the personnel has not met Finance has not met nor has policy although we have a few to approve tonight Student
Activities uh Z and Kate maybe yeah was able to just share um a short update and then if you have any questions feel free to email her um the 2425 initiatives for Zed she listed off was uh the react a
new website a new staff evaluation system um Financial procedures getting rid of even pay for Paras which I had to asked what that was um they previously were paying their Paras split up over all 12 months of the year and now they're going
to transition to just the nine months that they're actually um in house and retention and disposing of sped records policies um and Zed will be par protest site for all member
districts those are her notes thank you Kate for taking us through those anybody have any questions for um that we can take back to Amy okay thank you so uh Community Education has not met and legislative
has not M anything from anybody on any of those committee reports that they would like to um address right now okay then we're going to turn over to superintendent in thanks superintendent ins for your leadership here and uh FL is yours all right thank
you good evening everybody um couple of communications for this evening the first you'll notice is an operating lease ly update I believe uh Bob sent that out to everybody previously um and really what this is going to be is for hockey time
ice operating Levy info um ice time for the hockey programs have been paid by the booster club since the program's Inception um bu requested the districts take over the ice to expense no one their activities pay facility fees other than other our other hockey programs sou
the state it's covered by the district as well um ca for ice time if moving forward the levy would be split among the member schools the first 50% would be split between Byron Triton and C Manville and the second 50% would be split up by the number of app or the
number of players that are involved in each of the programs um expense are estimated Levy for two years in advance so hockey season 2526 would be estimated with this fall and put on this school's 24 pay 25 property tax levy adjustments to the
levy will be made based on the actuals following the 2526 season and made payable to the 26 paid 27 property tax levy based on the 2324 ice time and member participation km share of the
cost be approximately $26,000 the tax impact on a $2,000 home would be approximately $3 per year or roughly cents a month uh for a $500,000 home the impact would be $7 per year or
roughly 58 cents a month are there any questions on that Bob did I miss anything Bob there was a little bit of discussion about course fees or anything else that we WRA or is it just exclusive
right now we're just looking at the hockey um if we added like the for the golf courses probably add another $2,000 per year so it probably be very minimal CH to keep that would that be something
we would have to vote on or no it's the school board has the authority to just go ahead and L without doesn't require action so you'll actually kind of um approve it
at the end of September when you approve the any other question regarding that okay uh my next communication scene is our um admin advancement that we had um on August 7th and 8th um it really
was a for me it was a good time to get together with the uh administrative team and to come together and talk about you know what are our goals what is the history of the district and we move forward so we spent a day and a half together um and really what we did first
off is we each one of the Departments and each one of the buildings talk a little bit about what they've done in the past what they're doing in the future so the elementary school the middle school the high school Community Ed facilities activities um business and business technology teaching and
learning um everybody got about a 10 to 15 minute kind of recap of things that are going on more than anything else what I've always realized is you know even though we're not a large District a lot of people don't know what other people are doing in our district so this was a good way for us to really get all
the information out so that we all know exactly what's going on in our district we spent about an hour and a half doing that and then after that um as I was doing my interview process we talked about strategic planning and what that looks like for our district and
Teamworks International is a group that um the district had worked with previously and I had worked with in three other districts and Dr Queener uh came down and kind of gave a little bit of a introduction of what the Strategic plan would look like um so as an
administrative team we spent the morning talking about the history of Cass and manille um and split us up into two groups whoever the most veteran staff member was was from 1999 to 2017 so for those 18 years they talked about
everything that they could remember what happened in the cast manal school distri during that time what initiatives were in place what leaderships uh styles were what things that went really well what things didn't go really well and then the second group was from 2017 to
2024 about the same thing you know what has gone on in the district from the last seven years what's gone well what what challenges are we facing and so for me that was a really good piece to understand you know where have we been and where do we want to go and really
our group was basically split in half so half of our administrative team has been here for a long time time and have I would say relatively short time so we're able to really have some good discussion and you know some people like why don't remember that oh yeah I do remember that
so again trying to understand a little bit about the district and get familiarized with it and after that we talked about leadership choices you know what is it we want how are we going to lead as we move through the district what is what works well and what doesn't work well and you know what what are we
going to tell ourselves these are the things that we're going to do the biggest things we talk about is um trustworthiness open and honesty transparency you know consensus building leaving the parking lot conversations not even on the parking lot that we're not going to have those
if we have discussions we need to be able to make sure that we're on in the same page moving forward and so again that was some of those pieces we talked about as a district at leadership team how do we continue to push the district moving forward in a cohesive Manner and then uh one of the last things was the
Environmental scan that environmental scan is what is we would say is consistently done in the district without any question marks whatsoever what are things that kind of e and flow oh we say we do these things really well but we
really do all the time and one of those things that are edging or emerging one of those things that we want to do but yet our plates are so full we need to take something off of it to make it happen so again it was one of those pieces that from a historical standpoint
for me to understand what things are currently in place that we do really well and people want to keep moving forward with and one of those things that are kind of out there that people talk about but we really don't need to do that right now let's make sure we have those things that we want to keep working on improving moving forward so
what it really came down to is this was a snapshot of what the Strategic plan could look like but it would involved that would happen with community members students staff um and have a lot of conversations of what does that look like what do we want to continue to what
do we want to get rid of and the next thing is when it's all said and done is what are those desired daily experiences that we that our families and our students want every day when they come into our doors what is it they really want to make sure that they get out of every single day when when they walk into a classroom and they walk into the
building so um it was a little again a day a day of that little small snapshot but I think it was well worth our time to understand what that concept looks like and for me to get the the foundational skills and to move forward with what that strategic planning look
like um day two of it was a little bit different um more of a sit and get type of thing we had Raptor training obviously that's our piece where we have emergencies in our school system how we how are we going to react and and we know that it's a crisis management team
um that we have some work to do on that and we're going to meet early in September to make sure that our crisis management team are um if there's an emergency that our plan is properly in place and everybody knows exactly what to do and we'll invite um DD County
Sheriff fire department uh cast medal please making sure that we have all the people at the table that can help us make those good decisions because again you always plan for the worst and hope for the best and whatever's out there everybody will tell you to do this
or this we just want to make sure that we're doing what our local authorities want us to do if there's a gas leak or if there's you know a situation where something in the community is harmful we just want to make sure that we have all those pieces in place and then after that we did a for me it was one of those pieces that I wanted to learn more about
the community so I used an excuse to put a scavenger hunt together and uh Carin and I spent an afternoon picking out spots between Kath and Manville as far as um we put our admin team up into small groups and they had to find different places throughout the
buildings and throughout the communities and take a photo with them and uh was really a good time and I'll tell you we have some competitive people on our team oh yeah and I'm gonna I'm gonna ask the board this does anybody know where the
pirate park is in Castle these boys do yep anybody else the street and it has a name it's on the Casten Park Board it's called The Sand Park there is not one grain of sand there but that's what it's
called so same slide too it it was fun to go out in the community to to find some of those and the covered bridge over in Manville with a $2 F if you don't want your horse across and stuff like that so it was a lot of fun so I I you know it's a piece for us to do some bonding and um you know have some good
good fun but also learn a little bit more about the community um I do have some things that aren't on the list tonight and one of them is uh it here real quick um Catherine Manderville Elementary School was recognized by the
Minnesota Department of Education uh for their bbis implementation uh one of 37 school districts in the state of Minnesota that were recognized for that and uh for that it needs to be that you have PBIS in your building and you're sustaining the use of it so again that's
quite an honor because um hopefully that Chang the culture of the kids' mindsets in your building and your staff is all believe in what they do and what's above and below the line and and what the values are that you have in your building so congratulations to cathine Mel Elementary School in regards to PBIS
and the last thing I have for this evening is I want to make sure I get this on the agenda we are going to be having our truth and Taxation hearing it will be December 16th uh 2024 at 6 PM which is prior to the regularly school board meeting for that evening for the
school board meeting and what to move public we could probably put it at 6:30 can't we the TNT doesn't take that long usually not yeah we'll figure it
out I like that those of on public like that are there any questions for me thank you okay so uh nothing else for Mr in we will
move to the consent agenda uh you have that before you do we have a motion to approve the consent agenda is presented thanks Angie in a second a second thanks Kate discussion on the consent
agenda can I just ask about kindergarten so now it still looks like our numbers have been holding pretty pretty low in comparison to where we have been with our other grades we expecting an influx of students this point I don't think
so we budgeted for 125 so good job right on target so that number is just a lot lower than most of our other classes is is that um um pretty indicative of the region the state
anybody know know that drop is it we talked a little bit today in PLC lers same thing that just when we were making phone calls saying your kid is eligible many parents are saying I don't know that they're ready yet I'm going to keep them one more year at preschool and
there's quite a large number doing that right now so we don't know if it's the trend or we're going to get a bigger group next year maybe we so that's just one thing that Mrs spoke to today thank you Dr ton could you can out
please in the consent agenda item you'll notice that Dr Lisa Tuson is uh retiring from cast Manville schools i' just like to publicly thank her for her years of servy here and we wish you best and all your future endeavors and thank you for your service not only to the students
but to the community and you'll always be a valuable member of the km staff thank you thank you very [Applause]
much okay um so we do have a motion in a second um anything else hearing none all those in favor of um approval of the consented in state iose same sign motion carries and we're
on to our action items old business approve revisions and updates to the following policies that are listed up there um do we have a motion to approve of those policy thank Brandon and a second a second thanks Kate uh any
discussion over those um listed policies there okay um again we cycle through these on a um three-year cycle um so they come up we were talking about a little bit earlier um just that
um when you're when you're new on the board there was a little bit of discussion just around the fact that you know we'll have new board members come in January and and um and it takes a while to become accustom and and um you drinking from a
fire H for a while um some of us for for four or five years others you for about six months but um but even the policies you know they only come up every 3 years right and and not necessarily go through them so it takes a while it's an
important member so um I appreciate um kind of the consistency we've had um here at the district both in our our board and in our um our uh members of our admin team and we're talking a little bit about um seccession planning
at some point here um because we have some administrators who have um some incredible institutional knowledge that will also be um at some point here in the future will have to be replaced so longwinded um comment about um consent
agenda so I'm sorry about old business so and those policies so um all those in favor of the approval of the listed policy stay I same sign motion carries and um this
5.1.2 is the approv and Adoption of new policies um 57.5 is the school res resource officer and then the 90 uh 9021 is um the unmanned uh aerial vehicles or drones so do we have a
motion to approve those two policies I'll make that motion to approve and AD the new policies thank you Bron and a second second thank you Patrick any discussion on those two policies hearing none all those in favor
of approval and Adoption of the listed new policies stay I oppos same sign the motion carries we're on a new business 5.2.1 approve the 2425 5 2526 SRO agreement um
anything there um Mr in um that you'd like to discuss uh I met with the chief I met with the chief last week um that we were having our one-onone meetings that we talked about the SRO agreement and uh currently right now we do have an SRO officer in our building
uh Jesse and he will stay at least through the first semester of this school year uh they do have a plan in place for an individual to take over for him second semester hopefully there'll be some training that will go on between that time and I checked with Bob to make
sure that you know one or twoyear agreement and we've always done a twoe agreement in the past so that's a continuation of what we're going to do right now and uh we're excited about the opportunity to continue to have that partnership and making sure that we keep our schools safe and we have something that with the knowledge in the
background to work with our students okay good thank you any questions um on that agreement was there any indication way whether there was such a bump up and increase it looks like uh in 22 was went
up 3K and then all of a sudden we're going to 7K and then another 7K between the 2425 was there any indication of added expenses or anything City I I I didn't ask that specific question I just assumed that you know we had talked a little bit about about it
and just kind of a normal um increase of what it would be okay um so do we have a motion to approve the 2425 2526 as roll agreement thank you Angie second I'll second thank you Kate any discussion on
that hearing none all those in favor approval of the 2425 2526 SRO agreement say I I oppose same sign and we're on 5.2.2 um the title N9 sex uh non-discrimination policy grievance
procedure and processes any comments before yeah um so I've listened to a webinar in regards to the uh two the new title n compliance training um in regards to it uh throughout the state of Minnesota and Iowa it is kind of a cont
they still um a yes federal government thing moving forward there's been some uh stays with circuit courts and also the Supreme Court today I believe did something with the six Circuit Court in regards to it um we were told after
listening to the first uh webinar that we should move forward with it or check with our legal counsil to make sure that it's something that uh our district would support move on so I did reach out to Margaret from Ratz brwi excuse me and
her comments were very uh pointing to the fact that current legal challenges involved federal law Minnesota has adopted these same protections and more under the state law and the Minnesota Human Rights Act while the Federal Regulations are currently at
issue in some states and School District this does not impact the state law requirements further the new to9 regulations went into effect on August 1 and the point of them was to give more flexibility to the schools and are not as requ follow the same process as University as a result they would
recommend us adopting this new policy and within the policy itself there were 13 uh changes overall and most of it was just wording to meet more of the the federal guidelines that we than we currently have um there is another webinar that I will be attending uh with
Alicia snow who is our social worker k12 and hopefully this will get more clarification as we move forward as far as What specifically those challenges are and how it will relate to schools really what it does it gives a better uh definition of what sex harassment sexual
harassment sexual discrimination is along with getting rid of some of the cumbersome investigating processes that take place so that's really what we got out of the first one um there is a lot of I don't want to say uncertainty but there's a lot of how you interpret things as you move forward so hopefully
after attending this next webinar we'll have more uh solid information on how we're going to move forward as far as doing the investigations and making sure that um we have all of our pieces in place and the changes that are what we currently do and the changes that we'll have to make moving
forward any questions on that do you think that would bring about revisions to this policy of that I think the policy that we have in place would be appr proving United what MSB put together uh and the Schoolboard
Association I don't think they'll make another any other adjustments to it it will just be kind of probably what we have within our handbook as far as how we do some different things based on the former policy you know I guess that's more to be seen when it comes to that and it
really comes down to you know what type of harassment or what type if there was harass been involved and what does that look like and how we investigate that and some of it is um outside of the school day if it's brought back in the school district which puts more responsibility on the school itself based on what was previously involved in
the policy any other questions Okay so so so this is the first and and final reading so we will uh take a motion on this to approve 522 Title 9 sexual non-discrimination policy agreements
procedure proes do we have I'll make the motion that we approve this do I have a second I'll second than okay any other discussion hearing none all those in favor of the approval of 522 TI
uh sexual nondiscrimination policy Grievous procedure and process St I oppos same sign the motion carries and we are on to informational items um next special school board meeting is Monday September 9 in the community Forum room
next regular meeting is Monday September 24th here in the community for Community Forum room um anybody have anything before we adour I just have one thing it's Monday September 23rd right
oh 24th 24 sorry September 23rd thank you 2024 yes what did I say you said 24 24 okay so let me resay that next regular Schoolboard meeting is 7 p.m. Monday
September 23rd 2024 in the community Forum with that um just one quick thing know as we get into this uh season and um had um it brought to me just that um
we have to be hly vigilant um as a board if there are um uh private HR matters here in the district um and we've seen those um in the past that any um information that is
gathered as a board member in meetings or as a result of being a board member needs to stay within the board um we've had that um we've had a um we've had a couple things that have happened in in the past and
um um and we just I think just uh be cautious about people cannot get their their name back if if things come out and um we just we don't want to be propagated any of that going forward so
um I just wanted to share that with you um and with that any any other thoughts go ahead a last informational item I know it's uh the beginning of the school Year's coming on own we will be welcoming we will be welcoming new sta
staff on Wednesday um but if you're available on the 29th the all school um picture as 11:30 got make sure I got that weate um 11:30 and then the all District staff lunch is at 1145 1:00 and
if it fits in your calendar and you're available um we'd love to have the opportunity to be a part of it if you get a chance to thank you for the invite you also have one in your box for me thank you you're welcome she's she's
looking at me going did you not read it she be not at all great um okay um anything else before we adjourn for the night and we do in about 30 minutes I did I got just something quick I did get
a text today from somebody that kind of it's involved with with the district a serious question did we get a new recruiter at km schools the new hires we are getting are from all over the place in very diverse backr I think this is fantastic we will see how it plays out but for now someone's Zer some credit
for thinking outside the box thank you I think to me more than I think it just reflects that um it's a high highly desirable place to be and we're getting outstanding candidates from diverse backgrounds from all over um hopefully the country including our superintendent
including our superintendent it was a wonderful article the DCI well thank you I will share one thing and it I don't want to drag on the meeting but uh one of the individuals that we hired uh I had the opportunity to meet them
and we talk about what world it is uh we know a number of people that were together and you know one of the individuals that I I think highly of that was a former superintendent I'm like did you know this individual and he goes oh yeah he's one of my favorite people he's my favorite principal that I ever had and so you know we have a we
have a lot of things in common It's a small world but we do uh we do have the opportunity really gather some great people that work with our students here and we are very fortunate and it is one of those pieces I I can't say enough I said it this morning um when I when I
had the opport we speak with our PLC leaders is this really is an outstanding district and if you're from here you just assume that's the case that it is everywhere and that's not the case so um Kudos der that's been working hard over the years to make this one of the again
Premier District which to teach which to learn and teach thank you for that Mr inss and thank you for your leadership going forward to continue to be a place where um we have a commitment to Excellence and we attract the best so um with that
anything else before we have an adjournment do we have a motion for adjournment then I'll second she's had a lot of seconds when she gets home she might get more she might get the left over food
with a second so okay we have a motion a second all in favor ofour say I I thank you everyone we areed point