good evening good evening it is 7 o'clock um first of all thank you everybody for coming out tonight appreciate it on a beautiful night like tonight um we do have a quum here tonight um Amy Olen uh Kate Ryan and and
Mark Tolson are unable to be with us tonight um but we still have a quum um so with that we will start stand the pledge of Le flag is behind us I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all that do we have a motion to approve the agenda as presented thanks Angie in a second thanks Patrick any discussion any
changes anybody like to see to the agenda hearing none all those in favor of approval agenda stay I I the same sign the motion carries and we're on the communications before we get into com accommodations um we'll have Mr in uh
take over Mr in is yours thank you for those of you that don't know uh September is Minnesota school board uh appreciation month and on behalf of the C Manville School this like to thank our school board members for all their time and effort they put in for our students
in our school community so I have a resolution I'd like to read so please bear with me whereas C Manville recognizes the importance of public education in our community and whereas C Manville appreciates the vital role played by
those individuals who as local school board members establish policies to ensure an efficient and effective school system and whereas Schoolboard members serve as the voice that enables our community to preserve local management and control of our public schools and
Schoolboard members are charged with representing our local education interest to state and federal governments and ensuring compliance with State and federal laws and whereas Schoolboard members selflessly devote their knowledge time and talents as
advocates for our school children whereas local school board members are strong advocates for public education and responsible for communicating the needs of the public school district to the public and the Public's expectations to the school district now therefore it
we resolve that kasm Manville Community School District recognizes and salutes the members of the kasm manille school board by proclaiming September 2024 as school board recognition month thank you very
[Applause] much on behalf of the district a certificate of appreciation and thank you absolutely thank you there you thank you very much for
your service absolutely service service we keep it short thank you Mr in for that recognition uh behalf of the school board thank you uh one thing I should have done before we started uh before we got into
this meeting was um just mentioned that there is public input before school board meetings from 6:00 to 6:45 there was no public input today I just like to let everybody know that um that is the case and and there was no bu um so with that we will go to I think Believe Miss
carrier will kick us off for uh com accommodation M carrier thank you okay good evening my name is Jenny carrier I'm the Community Education director here at cast manille schools and tonight we are so excited to celebrate some of our littlest comment
students who have finished the amazing challenge of reading 1,000 books before kindergarten these young readers have worked hard been curious and developed a love for stories which will help them grow and learn even more in school by reading so many books they
have taken a big step towards learning to read and growing their imaginations and literacy skills we are very proud of each student for their hard work and we celebrate the special achievement with the families teachers and the whole school Community since starting this
program in collaboration with the Casten public library in 2014 180 students have signed up for this program but only 52 have actually reached this big goal congratulations to all of you and keep reading and continue exploring the wonderful world of books
so I'm going to call down four little comments today so Marin Welch come on down Rowan Kelly Tyler Soko Andy Hurley come on down awesome and I've got some questions for
you guys as you come down remember what we practice okay can you tell me how old you are five five five and a
half oh and here comes Tyler five years old lots of five-year-old so lots of hard work right and do you remember can you tell me who your teacher is this year Mrs M house M house Mrs P Miss
tens and Tyler Miss job Tyler Miss Fugler awesome and our last big question for tonight is what is your favorite book do you remember Misty the cloud Misty the cloud Moana book a
Moana book pink alicious oh that's a good one and Tyler's looking for his book my favorite book is nibl the book that is awesome Tyler thank you well congratulations you guys I'm going to give you a coin and a special book
present and then we're going to take a picture okay okay let's give him perect right there good job good J [Applause] good evening board and community members
my name is Trent leimo and I'm very proud to be the high school principal at Cy Manville and to be back presenting the students of the month these students have worked hard to kick their year off in a very positive fashion this award has chosen by km staff members that
deliberate and cast votes each month these stud students are chosen because they are responsible for themselves and others they are positive role models they offer help to those in need and they do progress quite well academically um two of our four are also involved in
volleyball so they are in Redwing while they're getting their award tonight those are ninth graders Hannah aeran and sophomore Katie Borgo so those are the ninth and 10th grade students of the month but our Junior and senior are here 11th grade come on down Jeremiah Peterson
[Applause] and 12th grade come on down amberlin Boyd [Applause]
read a little biography about amberlin cast Manville high school student of the month senior for September is amberlin Boyd child of April Lyn and Jack Boyd of Dodge Center outside of school amberlin stays busy working two jobs she works at Fair viiew Care Center Nursing Home
assisting residents and is also a barista at Kung Fu T when she isn't busy at work amberin likes to draw paint and read a philosophy that has helped her be successful both in and outside of school is quote you always have time if you can
make time for it she's worked two jobs takes college classes is very involved in FCCLA and is the senior editor of the yearbook there's no doubt that amberin knows the definition of hard work after graduation she wants to pursue a career as a medical illustrator or a position
in Neuroscience once she has her career of choice she is hoping to have two cats and then possibly be married and travel the world congratulations to both students who are very involved inside and outside of the school walls congratulations
[Applause] can come on down if they need to [Applause] and if you're here for com accommodations you're certainly welcome to stay around but if you have other things to attend to tonight feel free to
exit now thank you for coming guys we promise a thrilling board meeting though I promise okay um with that we will move on to uh 3.2 consideration uh the
acceptance of gifts and grants um Mr I Angie Richards introduced the following resolution to accept and move for its adoption whereas the following entities have generously offered to donate to the Cass and manille Community Education Dolly Parton Imagination
Library Care and Share $10,000 Rochester area foundation Grant $5,000 Dean and Barbara shr $500 and Anonymous persons $200 whereas a grant was generously awarded by Smith for 50,000
to cast manable Community Education to help fund Community Support Services position whereas Nancy cleberg has generously offered to donate $75 to cast Manville Elementary School for students in need of school supplies where a self zal Lutheran Church has generously
offered to donate $700 to cast manal Elementary School for supplies whereas Deb Canen has generously offered to donate $75 to C and manal Elementary School for school supplies whereas the km Lions Club has generously
offered to donate $500 to C manille High School Comet Pantry for food supplies thank you for that motion Mr Richard do we have a second thank you Patrick um once again our community um incredibly generous to
the district and the students uh and everybody involved I was a question um Deb Canon is that um Lion uh Canon's wife um it's not it's
different okay um so with that we have a motion and a second all those in favor of the resolution for the acceptance of gifts and grants stay I I I same sign the motion carries and we are on to board
committee reports um public input as I talked about a little bit a little before there was uh nobody in attendance tonight so land and facility has not met anything for landing facilities thank you personnel has not
met Mr tlon is not here Finance um did not meet tonight so there's nothing there's no report there policy has not met um Student Activities has not met but I don't know if there's anything okay um and then
Zed uh that did meet and M olon sent me um just an update a quick update and that was that there was uh a little bit of talk the first item was that they've had their first um superintendent meetings of the year and it went very well that
always um exciting to have the superintendent back um chatting and giving a chance to interact um so with that the other um update is that the solar panel update they currently don't have it so if you remember they were um
Zed was looking um into potential solar panels as part of um the Z building and maybe on their grounds um but there currently is not enough Green Space for this for a solar garden um so they wanted to put those on
the roof that was approved back in 2022 um but um due to delays um that um that will have to go back um and be applied for that Grant um so there they will uh they will have
followup discussions on that process so um that was what Miss Olson had for us from Zed um any questions on that okay and then we're on to Community Education Community Education um last
week so I just mentioned as part of the gifts and grants um a lot of dollars that were um awarded for community say that's a that's really a kudos to the staff and Community Education who's working hard to secure that funding and being creative in ways um to go about
that so there was one for um the student support services and so just to clarify what that is that's a year round position um in order to help work with um more children on an annual basis um through our our school district and so that's a really great way to support
students and by position of a um so that also is going to work in collaboration with the wellness committee or that position will also work in collaboration with our Wellness committee um to try to expand those social physical emotional health Wellness offerings um for students and
for staff the other part of that was there was um a $50,000 Grant um award through Smith and that is going to help Community Education expand current programming um curriculum and education infrastructure to increase
their support of those different areas that I just mentioned the social emotional physical health and wellness of our leers uh we also mentioned during the gifts and grants the doll um Department Imagination Library the amount of
funding that came in for that that truly is an expensive um project for us to support and so while it looks like we just had a large am come through um I know that Community Education is always looking for different grant
opportunities or donors um to help participate in order to keep um that program operating so again there's interested people who are in our community who are looking for ways to get involved in literacy or what's Young
Learners that doll Imagination Library might be an opportunity for them um just in background we had 572 kids participate in that program uh and 182 have graduated fromr so that's pretty amazing that's a lot of
lot of Little Learners that have been touched through just that program um also just a couple key dates if you're uh have young young ones or even if you don't are interested uh the transportation fair is coming up on September 25th so that's always a super
fun night that you see big vehicles and things parked out in the Community Education um parking lot and then the Halloween trick or treat event is coming up on October 27th and that's a great collaboration with Community um as well as student groups so look for those two
events and then just one last thing and then I promise we'll be done Community yet but um it's just as interesting so over the years um the operating budget for Community headed has almost tripled since 2014 so in 10 years we' that
budget has tripled so think about the impact that Community is making for our students our staff and our community that's an area that has really grown and so as we think about the future of our community knowing that it's tripled over the last 10 years how do we make sure that we're meeting the
needs of Community Education very nice M Richards um anything for Angie okay legislative Mr T is not here but they have not met so with that um we will move to
superintendent uh in communication Trends in your board packet this evening you will find a proposal for strategic planning um throughout the interview process and throughout my short tenure here we've talked about what does it
look like um but our strategic planning and uh I know that you've done work in the past with Teamworks International I have myself done that in two other districts and there's a proposal in there to do the start to finish strategic plan with Teamworks
International and it's Unique and that it's not your traditional strategic planning where it's from the board down to the classroom it's more of the involvement of the community students staff administrators and then bringing
back to what those desire daily experiences are to the board um it might be a little bit different than what people are used to as far as the process and the cost um but it is one of those pieces that um it is a one-
time fee it's not something that you have to continually come back and revisit every two to three to four years um as a administrative team we started a little bit of the process this this summer to get a little bit the taste of what it was um with the building
principles and the directors and a lot of it was just sharing what the history of the community was what do we have on our plate what are the things that we can get rid of what are the things that we desire our desired daily experiences are moving forward and having the voice of Staff members and students and family
community members is really an intregal part of that that they have a voice in what we move forward at a district on so that is a proposal that you see um I didn't cut up the hours exactly but um it is a lot of time uh that takes to
to accomplish this uh somewhere on 40 hours when it's completed to end and that doesn't and that's just time that we're sitting in the seats not the other work that's outside that so um my recommendation is that we would move forward with the strategic planning proposal from Teamworks International um but I'm more than willing to take any
questions before uh the board takes a v was able to ask a few questions in advance but one of the things that I did like about this particular proposal is it really seems like it does a good job identifying what the role of the board is from the government's perspective and
then talks about the management perspective of whether's administrative in the school district da responsibilities and I think that is really important and something good to come back around a great way to set that toone and I thank you for bringing that
up and that is the reason that we'll have that work session on October 9th because we are going to lose uh valuable board members that have a lot of experience being on the board and we'll have new board members coming on that might not necessarily know the roles and responsibilities and we want to make sure that uh as much as we can it's a
seamless transition we forward on that seems like a good time to do this we again bringing everybody together um it's been a number of years since we've um gone through the strategic planning process I can't tell you how many years but it's been a number of years and I
think this is the perfect time to do that as Mr in mentioned there is a lot of um uh institutional knowledge that's leaving the board and and I think it's um it' be good to um have this as at
least three new board members who will be joining the board in January I think we would take a vote on this later but for questions or people have question that's like the process that it wasn't a one andone that there was builtin touch points for one year
followup and then twoe followup as well I think that's important because often times you put together something some sort of plan rate and then pivot or learn and tweak or um something comes forward and as Mr ins is will have
a full year as leader of the district at that point we might see some direction that needs more engagement or less engagement would allow us to to make those evit to The District in kind of a formal process I
would say one nice thing about this plan obviously um I did in my previous district and obviously not there anymore but they continued on the process so when they went out to interview candidates whether it be now or 10 years down the road or five years down the road you look for people that can follow
the plan and not starting again from scratch and and working with the administrators who are currently on point here so that you're not starting every time over when someone new takes a position in the district and so if a building principle would leave you know or whatever the case might be you'd look
for someone that can fit what you're trying to do and not you know try to just grab but have a plan in place as they move forward so with that even in the proposal I see that the follow one or two year it's an optional line so do you
feel with your experience absolutely we wouldn't have to do that if we chose not to and the reason that you know we could probably cut cost down for some of this early on I mean I could lead some of it but think it's very important for me to sit back and listen and learn as much as well and
trying to lead it and because I could guide a conversation inadvertently and that's not something that I would want to do I want people that have been here and have that experience and that institutional knowledge to have more of voice than I would any other
questions Mr what um timeline can you talk a little bit about the timeline you forceed um with the Strategic plan sure um so the first meeting would be October 9th with the current sitting board and any potential
board candidate members that would want to be there and attend and then after that it would be pretty much in November we'd start working with staff and stents and families and the whole the whole time frame would be be completed with the whole process by miday at the latest
and then everything that we would have in place would be um ready to go for the 25 26 school year the during November and stuff with staff and students and families and stuff what does that look like sure uh
what they'll do is um they'll sit down with they'll bring them in it'll be a mixture of students from a high school and they'll just ask specific questions on you know what are the good things about what are the good things about school what are things that you could change what are things that you would like to see done differently and for
families it's really what is your desire daily experiences what do you want out the school system when you drop your kids off they get off the bus or they walk into the door on that day and they'll tailor it to fit kind of the needs of what your school district has for questions maybe in the past that
people might have have and really it's a it starts out generic and then it kind of drives it to where people want to take it um but they'll meet with students um high school students they me with middle school students they'll U it really it's families they can either do it via phone
or survey or they can come in and do it in person it just depends on you know what is the best more to get people to communicate with that process how many do you perceive being engaged
students sure well in my previous District we had 40 middle school students and we had about 40 high school students and parents you know you never know it's a hit mess depending upon how involved your community is but I would guess you know with h with the community that we have here I would hope that we'
had at least 20 30% of our families want to be a part of it maybe even more I mean it just depends on you know evening that the involvement and what that looks like and for staff members um we usually take about four or five from each
building um and then it's all the district directors and building administrators are part of that and then um the the building principles will also reach out to if they're more aware than I am of community members that they think would be uh good to bring in as well
I also believe it's a good opportunity for us to reach out and uh engage with um parents and people in this community which I think is something that um and maybe due to co but that we've kind of missed it hasn't been um hasn't been as
obvious um in the last few years as was so I think it's a good opportunity to do some of that so I like the um in participation out of families hence that not really knowing what You Know
full you know what it fully entails but is this something that you know we can structure I think it would take a lot more time than having somebody that's done it multiple times and has the you know the knowledge and the background of how they would want to run it so if we
were to do it inh housee for me to get a hold of the community members and all that would be pretty difficult because I just I just don't know how necessarily that would be done the overall search plan process is is very Val and he learned so much you know through
that process looks everybody at the table and you know multiple different view points and administrators board members superintendent and it's an unbelievable experience to walk through all that um when and you know I guess
going through it in the past and stuff everything was essentially you know within house and kind of within the house structure in house Hing a firm and stuff so just having a little just trying to understand have a little reservation
about you know the cost and the expenditures of bringing outside to assist and and I understand um I understand that when I looked at you know the C here
um I I think about two things um one how long it's been since we've actually been through one um and so when you when you look at let just say you do it every 10 years it feels like it's been about 10 since we've done it then that cost
is is less significant it's not significant in my mind in that the second piece of that is um is the timing of this like with a new superintendent a new turnover of our board
um I think having somebody from the outside come in do this um is more advantageous in those circumstances to me just my thoughts on that anything else on
this Mr anything else for us think this anything else in the in your communication okay then we also move on to administrative board reports um the
first thing I'd like to elate off bat is Care and Share some big changes for Care and Share and uh Miss carrier is still leading the charge um with uh is it re is she Co okay and then um that date is
November 7th um November 6th um or before that if you'd like to drop off um donations they can come to committee education or to the bank at in community ed education and if
you're uh dropping off but the 6th the 7th or the 7th and you want to drop off um uh any donations you can go right to the fire station which is um will be a good a great location for it as uh as um it's been hosted here um at the district
for seven years six years something like that and so um with the new fire station going up and and the support from um cast fire department and um I think it's a it's a great opportunity here um so want to put plugy in for that and if I
missed anything SC uh you can correct me yeah it's for those who don't know about par share it's um a fundraising group and committee that's been along been around for many many years well beyond the time frame I've been here so um Ron alright is a long time member and he's
got the history he can give you's with allance he can give you a whole low down as well but um the money that we raise goes right back into the community so it's Christmas gift distribution mostly um but we give to lots of different they care and gives a little bit to Dollar par um The Ready Set learn I'm trying to
just think of think lots of church organizations we' given to a place at the table you know so it just it goes it stays within C bill so that's what's so neat about the fundraising efforts and we traditionally pull in over $4,000 after expenses you know for the
EV itself wonderful um Community event so we're excited to try a different venue and bring back some of the older style with and drinks hows and the district still heavily
involved will have carare trees I believe at um in the buildings I don't know if we will have one in the building again this year yet or not so um that is up for discussion I know we will have one our
and county seat like we have in the past so if that's still something we want to do we can definitely it's always nice to get the kids involved so keep visibility there y the kids will still be involved we've already made
connection other things on the reports um was just wondering if you could us through chart that you had in the report um with we have I believe looking at 4 students um just across how we're
serving our students that have special needs but then there were some different ALC numbers under yeah they break it down so yep when you're looking at um cast and manal Futures and choices are evb so those are setting for um behavioral emotional behavioral we have
eight students that are there um zero in the transition to success that be the 18 to age 22 we have our own program here and so we keep our students here ALC was 16 um that is some special ed students
but they are not all special education and that's where they start breaking that down below um and I don't have a whole lot to do with the ALC at all but um and then birth to three was 20 students that we are currently have just evaluated that are coming in summer was
very busy with our birth three um but if you go down to ALC middle school program they have only three I that would be we have one we have one from km that's in the Middle
School toal numbers yeah that's and I was trying to remember if yours is still middle school or would be nth grade or not gr okay um ALC SP students so they have 23 students and that's from the all the districts
combined that they have so they have one special education teacher over there who has those 23 students um and they their services look a little different than they do here when they're in the Traditional School setting um 504 they
must be started I have not seen them break that down before and then their graduates they don't have a number so ELC I very little to do it because they're not on IEPs there necessarily how are students um working with the having the transitions program
in our school building good um our students are out in the community every day um until 10 10:30 they're at um 31 at the shake place they're cleaning the legion um they're at Oxo park for years
now they've been out there cleaning um chopping wood um stacking wood whatever jobs they have in front of the golf course um oh gosh I'm running they had been at the hotel and that didn't go so well so we're no longer there um sorry um where
else have they been they they are out every day though in one of those different locations and they have so many students right now we break up a lot of times that are going to different locations um and then they're doing their coffee program throughout the day Fridays they're still delivering to
Elementary and Middle School um and then the students that are in the transition program make their lunches so they do their own grocery shopping budgeting um cooking their lunch cleaning up their lunch all of that every day are they using a classroom here to do them nope
it's in Alissa Swanson's room we do have a small kitchen so we have a washer and dryer a stove um yeah so they they do everything with them there um think what else that sounds good it
just yeah no I think the 18 to 2 um it's gone very well keeping them here most parents at first I think they think they need a different setting maybe because they've been here for four years but it be good for them um but once they come and tour it and realize kind of with the
programming that we have they've been very happy with it so we accept all of them so far would you also talk a little bit about the New Hope program sure yes uh we in an effort to try to um keep
students um we're kind of finding that we were sending to ALC on IEPs were some of the non-traditional that were just really struggling being in the block schedule getting their credits so Nick is running a three block hope program in
his room um and the students are getting citizenship in there and they're getting credits so Mr Pine is doing a um half a block of citizenship with our students we have math program that they're doing within there um working on math not set
their local there is some algebra and different skills at it too but then some more um trades type math programs for them uh focusing more on what they need they do have the English and the reading and work skills all within there too and so we've gotten there several different
curriculums that we're trying this year and try to keep them engaged in that um and so far I would say majority are doing very well we have a couple that are still struggling with the the system and how it works I'm not going to lie but
um that are still kind of not sure that it's the right thing for them but I would say majority 80% at least were doing really well posi yeah yes as high school principal in working with
the ofation so the transitions program 18 to 22 we run that Co has developed that and added to it that doesn't just serve the 18 to 21 students
our ninth and 10th and 11th 12th grade students that are fall into the DC category kind of get I say folded in mixed in and have the same access to opportunities that those 18 and 21 year olds do when it comes to Common coffee
and these work skills at learning and I can just tell you this fall with a student that is in nth grade with that in that DCd category um to be able to watch he and his family take and invest
in and and have faith in what the high school experience will look like because of that program because the cognitive level is so low but we still want the Hands-On classes and some of those electives but the core content English
language Math Science Social is not doable so to have to be able to sit with the family and say hey look you're going to be a high school student you get all the things high school students do plus you get all the trades classes and instead of some of those core classes that are just a stressor and not
appropriate um they get to go out and develop these workplace skills so that is a true blessing in our school that I think sometimes Bo we appreciate your support and you don't get to see the the actual impact that it has the other one the Hope program um
that that really us being supported by last year uh Dr Thompson and their for board that was an add in Staffing it was a small ad to a social studies teacher who was less than full-time adding this component and and a social studies
teacher teaching going into a special ed room and teaching in this hope program was a slight add to his FD made him full-time kept him here and is benefit to those students and that also relates back to those zet numbers that you're referring to earlier the whole program
is to keep kids here and if we didn't do something different we were losing those kids because the struggle was was pretty intense when they are pushed into all the mainstream rigers academic classes we needed something you couldn't just say well we we'll shuffle them around in the special end rooms throughout the day
and call it good no we advised the was a leader in that and nious come up with the plan um the minutes the design on the curriculum and then we're supported by the ask for the FTP ad so again just it's really appreciated that we those
opportunities we wouldn't be able to it's allow the kids to transition back too because we do have a lot more students transitioning back from Zed to us um part-time they start with one block then they go to two three and we've been building back and we've had
one this year now just returned full-time to the transition program and then we have one who just um is in the whole program and so to come from ALC and not just get I hate to say dropped in here and expected to go to all these Science Biology core
classes with little support um I think they're being much more successful I'm seeing a lot less behaviors other question questions from board members uh Josh take an opportunity to put a pitch out there for the
com comic time for the community service events yeah so community service day coming up October 15th um great opportunity to get 687 middle school students um out and about around town um honestly it's one of my favorite days uh
we''ve done it snowing we've done it when it's 80 degrees um you never know what you're going to get in October but uh you know time and time again when I when I have that conversation with students obviously you know the day of they're tired they're exhausted I mean there's a lot of physical Manual Labor
uh but getting back that next week they have mea to kind of recoup how was it and they can't wait to do it again and it's just an opportunity for us just to to to show appreciation for our communities um they Prov so much for us and I think when they get out there and
they can have those conversations with you know somebody that looks like their Grandma you know and they're raking up leaves they're you know having fun doing it um working with each other building those those relational skills there's nothing better and you know the the the
older folks that we work with are just they're awesome and anytime that we can get out um to their houses or to where they live we want to do that um students love it and I love it just as
much are you still looking to fill spots yeah absolutely um we're working on that now um yeah if you guys have any neighbors elderly neighbors that just need some support help give me a call send me an email and we'll get a a group
of students out there um we walk to manille we walk through Casten it's strictly just Casten and Manville um sometimes we go a little bit South um towards like Oso area not too far but um try to stay within our within the cam
District so yeah if there's anybody that needs support let us know thank you well so I know I always like to hear how the the year kicks off and so we're just into the first board meeting of the year um can you just talk a little bit
about just re heard about the stucture of the year and how's been in each of the buildings or each area I guess so including Ashley we've heard from Nicole a little bit but M BL will maybe start at that end really good just really schooled a
lot fewer new teachers this year which just kind of made everything feel a little more familiar for folks um It's Been a Good Year the kids have responded well to expectations and routines I can't say anything but good about the start for relatively quiet days to start
and then by the second week it felt we were running High School yeah I was second that I felt like we had a wonderful start to the year you know we've got some amazing people and to working with team we're just all checking in with each other
making sure different ways and that's been really great um so little things that always pop up but overall I couldn't have asked for a bun rolling congrats on the grant thank you that was
exciting I'll EO everything that has been said I think great start great new staff welcome was a really fun and engaged group of new teachers and parents that enjoyed this um probably my favorite start to the year with that so far we've had a lot of great donations from the community for our new staff
members so we're always very appreciative of that and they feel very welcome when we get here and we have a lot of great feedback about for them but just being at every building and I would say everyone's doing an amazing job um
yeah it feels really good around here as we got the year started so and we're just a couple weeks away from our first big Staff Development Day that's coming up soon so we have lots of friend for our teachers fun learning experiences for them
EXC far as donations go I seen the four beds yes we got CNA beds from actually um and so JJ went and got them for us I'm very grateful for that so that just can move more money towards other supplies and equipment for the CNA
lab so that's helpful to seeed but now will we put uh no from the Middle School side um there's nothing better than uh Middle School School energy uh we certainly got that back um honestly those students have really done a great job um we we
focused on our fifth graders this year spending half a day just getting them acclimated to that transition you know in fourth grade they're they're walked you know from point A to point B in fifth grid we want to build that responsibility and obviously that's that's still ongoing um but they've they've done a great job of just transitioning in um and I'm very
apprecia of our eighth grade class um you know each and every year I I stress the eighth graders that leadership their ability to to um come together create a school environment where where fifth sixth seventh and eighth graders want to be um and that's That's essential for us and
our success and um they've done a great job and teaching staff has done a wonderful job just addressing the 4bs everything we do we're safe responsible respectful and engaged each and every day and and that's our focus and um I've been very pleased with with what we've
done so far um obviously excited to continue into uh our November December January February March and so um no we're looking forward to it you mentioned the ministerial Society was there for lunch was that just the one day for meeting or they well so we met
up here but then they'll come in for lunch usually about it's either Wednesdays or Thursdays um and it's just a great opportunity it's just another Avenue for for students to build those connections and you know it's important for us at the middle school that each student has an trusted adult and whether
that's within school or or somebody part of a faith community we want we want to build those relationships and that's just an opportunity for for our faith community to come in um support us and I will never turn down additional adult support at at lunch when we've got 360 students
eating at once so there's nothing better good start we're full staff I do professional but other than that it's been a good start to be a lot of the board reports mentioned the speaker he was here it was a three and a
half hour Workshop so it was a long um presentation we're used to more like a 90 minute keynote but had a really good job of engaging staff around positive relationships um he really looked through the lens of students that maybe have non-traditional backgrounds and so
many takeaways he had he was really good at offering like one kind of one liners and acronyms for things for staff to remember about working with students so you saw some of those staff feedback pieces in my board report um I think everybody walked away with several things they could do right away with
kids and I'm hearing that um we're keeping those things going and I want to thank our principls because they're doing a really good job of incorporating what they call menler moments into staff meeting um it's coming up on our PD day they're just making sure that those messages stay with with staff and it's
not just a one and done so that I really appreciate you good parenting tips in there also good par I would just like to say it's been a great start to the school year I mean I've enjoyed every day I've had the opportunity to step into a building step
into a classroom you know talk to staff talk to students and I would also like to say you know the the individuals that are sitting up there do a great job of leading their buildings their departments um they have those expectations for their staff and you know just having the conversations that
we have and um the leadership that they provide um I think is outstanding and you know it goes a long way from them leading in to our staff members actually doing the work so we have a lot of great things going on in our community it's been you know the first four weeks three and weeks whatever it's been it's just
been a pleasure to be here and the first day of school is always one of my favorite days some of my most unfavorite days are teacher Workshop days I'm just ready to get the kids back in school and get it ready to go and when September rolled around and they got back in the building that was the best part of the de here so
far it was great not to hear anything about Co I think we're back you know um it was interesting went out and um had an opportunity to talk to a number of people from a number of different areas and they talked about a couple
different things there was kind of a theme and that was communication that the kids coming through now be able to communicate I think it's one of the things that um we've done really well you've done through your leadership and and you're uh the staff here has done a
really good job making connections and communicating not on that phone all the time right or that computer all the time and and learning those skills um the second thing that came out was the fact that some schools do really well they were sharing that um life skills are so
important and I think it's something that I think um this District's done extremely well in just life skills um and having kids um well-rounded when they when they come out into that to seg
way into that it was a talk about being career ready you know more and more um students are are career ready and it doesn't mean they're not going to go on and do some some more education but they are career ready when they come out and they're successful when they come out and um and a number of um individuals
were sharing that with a lot of schools they don't um they did not invest in their industrial Tech um and those skills and the fact that um not only did cast manille do that but they also put the the uh programs in
place to be successful and to be desired uh classes and and things to learn so kudos to uh the leadership team um the the staff um and and all the way down to um when we talk about uh those
connections I was having a conversation with the grounds crew and they were talking about stop down the shed and they were talking about some of those connections with kids and we we see it up here sometimes we get a chance to talk to the custodians we know that they're creating some of those relationships but um to see it go down
to um to our ground screw and stuff is is says that the culture is Right Here Right says cultures everybody's doing the right the same thing they're in alignment and I think I heard Jenny talk about alignment across the curricular but um I think across all these buildings so thank you for your your
work in the start of the school here so um we appreciate that anything else anybody has for the admin staff um superintendent ins um we're okay if the admin team leaves now it's up but as long as you right that sure yeah abely
thank you for coming you can certainly stay around okay sorry okay we're uh got a few things let left here um consent agenda do we have a motion to approve the consent agenda presented thank you Brandon a
second thank you Andie any discussion on the consent agenda carry none all those in favor of approval cons agenda say I same sign motion carries we are on to action items there is no old business
there is new business 5.2.1 approved the 2425 preliminary property tax levy maximum which is something we do um annually here um any um short snippet you want to talk about on this
VI um just that gets down about 2 and a half% from where it was a year ago at this time which is kind of good news so I don't know if you got any questions specifically probably the biggest
decreases in The Debt Service fund and that's primarily because we did that Bond refinancing last spring and then also that 5% additional balance that we're able to request to make sure that we got the
funds on hand to make our bond payments that's gotten to a point where the state said you need to back off a little bit so that's caed that's probably the main reason for the
being how does that correlate to taxers they um it's down $70,000 over2 billion worth of market value so that's going to be very minimal again it'll depend on what's
Happening to each individual property so if somebody's market value went up they might not see a decrease whereas some if their property values remain the same they might see a few doll decrease
maybe even as the district has seen it really is because indidual but the wonderful thing is that it's not at least from the school side from the school side right from the school district side and I think you know
that's a message as well that maintain there's a lot of school districts finances it's all formen somebody has to know how to read that this this is our maximum L right so
essentially we could be more negative come you could or it could be up by doing the maximum if there are some changes that happen between now and December it's not you having to come back and say we need adjust adjustment
will just happen good thank you Bob do we have a motion to approve the 2425 preliminary property tax uh Levy mat thank you Patrick second thank you Brandon any other discussion on that
hearing none all those in favor of approval of the 2425 preliminary property tax levy maximum State i i i same sign motion carries 5.2 uh2 approve the teamwork strategic uh planning
proposal um I will start with uh the motion to approve that strategic planning proposal do we have a second second thank you Angie any discussion on that before we vote I will start with um there are some um in some situations I
might be more concerned about uh spending the money to do that I think um in the position we're in today I feel like it's a extremely good use of the money I think it's um it's going to be uh well
worth it over the next number of years to do this work so that's mine anything else I agree I see it as an investment in our students our staff and our community and I think when it meets all three areas like that it hasn't done in
a while but leadership place also this is very you know it's very for the district the people involved this whole process and something obviously we're due for we due for it and we needed to sit down and do it and the change you know
superintendent and you now as well it does it does change things and I think looking at through the lens you know you know positions and stuff Essen the
same you know not hire a right trying to keep things in structure and everything else within house and stuff too um but I do see the other side as far as andse being to so it
doesn't there's there's going to be a lot of people just try to and and run at the same time you're setting the whole Direction vision mission and the entire district and so as far as investment in the future
and stuff I think that you know with all things our current situation okay so I have a motion in a second all those in favor of the approval of the teamwork strategic plan
propos to State I I stand sign the motion carries we are on to 5.2.3 approve uh an annual approval uh of assurance of compliance with the state and federal law for hi and discrimination we have the title uh nine
coordinator humans rights coordinator section 54 combination coordinator and Essa point of contact UM as listed do we have a motion to approve um thank you Patrick a
second thank you Brandon any discussion on that we'll just say it's again it's an annual approval been through it every year so that all of those in favor of the approval of the stance stay
by say sign motion carries R informational items the next special Schoolboard meeting is Monday uh October 7th at 6 p.m. in the morning the next special U meeting um uh is also oob 9th that's is the
start for the thank you um at 5:30 on October 9th in the High School Learning Center then uh 63 is 6.3 next regular school board meeting is October 23rd here in the Forum room
700 p.m. and the special Schoolboard me to Canvas the election results is 7 a.m. Friday November 8th in the high school Community Forum with that do we have a motion forour second any discussion before we
ad none all those in favor say hi thank you everybody for coming thanks for coming