um at when com combinations are done and Mr TR is done um you're welcome to leave if you'd like to stay around and listen to a th School Board me you're certainly welcome to do that but we'll understand if you leave so with that we'll call the regular school board meeting of Independent School District 204 to order
we do have a quorum here tonight all board members are here we will stand for the Pledge of Allegiance the flag is in the back behind the rights back there 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 liberty and justice for [Music] all with that do we have a motion to approve the agenda as presented thank you Patrick in a second
second thank you Kate any discussion anything anybody like to see added to the agenda hearing none all those in favor of approval the agenda say I oppose same sign the motion carries we are on to Communications and 3.1 comment
accommodations Mr Tran has got the floor and um welcome all right everybody hear me all right good evening I'm Mr Tran activities director at Cass and Manville and I'm stepping in for Mr langmo who's
uh celebrating his anniversary tonight so wish him an anniversary when you see him and I get to uh give out a few comic comod uh for him and as well for activities so starting off we have our November cast and Manville high school
students of the month uh the students of the month are chosen by the cam High School staff and they they choose students who are responsible for their learning themselves and others and are positive role models and they also help
others and uh themselves to progress academically so not only great students but leaders in the classroom and in the hallways and uh leaders to their peers so um I'm going to call them down they we select one a month per grade and so
our freshman November student of the month is Logan Johnson [Applause] our sophomore November student of the
month Brin [Applause] sprader our Junior November student of the month Ashlin rmer
[Applause] all right and our senior student of the month for November is Aaron [Applause]
Carter uh just a little bit of Aaron as our senior uh the high school senior student of the month for November is Aaron Carter child of Jessica and Tim Carter of cassen Cass medal High School wants to recognize that Aaron has shown to be an outstanding student and
positive role model for her peers in her free time she enjoys playing soccer and plays soccer for the Comets which she'll be here for another award here in just a few minutes um Aaron keep up the good work and we look forward to hearing about your future plans after Cass M of high school let's give them all a big
hand and get a picture [Applause] all right the next activities that we're going to honor are uh the state of Minnesota high school Minnesota St High School league and the coaches associations for the respective Sports
at the end of each year give uh all academic awards given to certain individuals that have a certain grade point average in the classroom and so for the first one we're going to honor football I'm gonna have Coach Joel Swanson come on
[Applause] down so in the sport of football what they generally do is you you have about anywhere from 12 to 16 kids per classification that get selected for the All State academic you have great
requirements and then you also have to be a participant in uh in a way in the sport and fortunate uhon Tomy he's been a fouryear starter for us and has over a 3.9 GPA and so the Minnesota State High School coaches
association wants to recognize that come on up can do soccer at the same time sure yeah that way we'll get all the all academics with that girl soccer coach Andy Abrams come on down
[Applause] good evening um first of all I want to start by congratulating the girls varsity team who earned a state silver academic Awards with a combined GPA of
3.6 but it's my honor my to have a special recognition for the following a athletes who achieved State academic honors while participating in fall soccer AA chinan with a GPA of 3.95
[Applause] five hey a this with a GPA of [Applause] 3956 Delan who could not be with us tonight but had a GPA of 3.96
[Applause] Aaron Carter with a GPA of 3.96 N and by the way all these ladies competed just as hard in the classroom as they did on the field Malia harelson with a GPA of 3.99
[Applause] and Aiden spider with a GPA of 4.0 [Applause] yes
you [Applause] all right the next with uh an outstanding show the last two weekends we're going to bring up the director of
Annie Mel Ferris as she's going wait as she always has to introduce all the shows so no one actually ever gets to talk about Mel herself and uh just to say a few words um and I think she even brought her dog I don't know
maybe she did oh yeah star of the show one of them um but U you know this process of these two weekend shows you know starts about now for next year uh just about or and that's in all reality how much how much planning how much time
how much uh just passion she puts into not only the show but to each and every one of the kids and um it's a it's a task and we are very lucky to have her leading the troops that put together an outstanding show for years and years uh in the past and along with this year so
let's give it up for Mel [Applause]
there so thank you thank you Mr Tron thank you for your support of our program program uh this year we had 56 students on the stage 13 students backstage 14 students in the pit um we had 14 we have 14 seniors combined so
far for this show alone if you saw the back of our Play Bill we had over 110 volunteers uh from the community assist with the production of this play that number will only go up as the season goes along so it is not possible to do this show without all of our incredible
parent volunteers without your support and backing we thank you very very much this was such a wonderful group of kids to work with so kind so considerate of each other and so polite and I actually heard that one of the seniors was telling uh one of the other kids what
theater means to him uh so Brendan make sure you write that down because that's actually the scholarship essay topic so make your notes down now okay uh it it was it was just a wonderful experience this year and then I got to bring my my dog child to work so that's also been
also been a great experience so uh with that we just okay come on down guys [Applause]
oh they they usually figure out their little yeah [Music] [Applause] I wor double braids with my helmet my helmet Al they just [Music] up of shirt in the front will have to
sit down floor the floor [Music] hey you guys look good I got everybody in I'm going to count to one two three thank you
[Music] [Applause] all right thank you all for coming we appreciate it we free to go for accommodations if you came for time accommodations you're certainly welcome
to stay but this will be okay I see how I [Music] apologize caring his baby earlier like oh boy yeah I'm gonna send them allk you're welc oh on the agenda yeah we did sorry
about that you guys are next so I think we cleared the room so with that we're going to move to our next piece of communication which is our student uh board report so thank you for coming and uh putting up with us again
we appreciate it so floor is yours good afternoon School Board it's great to see you all again um so I was unable to attend last meeting I'm staffer um I'm involved in soccer student council keeping and Big Brothers Big Sisters
we would like to thank you all for your time as we prent present the November board report as winter neares we are looking ahead to the holiday season with the season changing our school has fundraisers sporting events and Club activities beginning this week we have
our Thanksgiving break so students are looking forward to a nice week with family winter sports have begun and this is their progress so far this season gymnastics their team consists of 19 members two are from traon andur Varity roster byon host their first competition
of the year on December 7th boys basketball just began practicing last week and has their first game atow on December girls basketball the girls team just won their first game of the season hosting fow FAL Fons last Thursday the final score of that game was 55 to 38
and they host good H wild cats this Tuesday at 7 uh boys hockey their season had just started and they have the first game on the road this Tuesday at River girls has a record of 5 Z and one they're coming off backto back games this weekend
having beat their section rival Sim 3 to Z on Friday and tying against Mina 2 to2 on Saturday evening some upcoming clothing activities that are going on the MHS chapter has been working hard to schedule its largest event of the year
on December 1st new members will be inducted into this the society by care members and friends and family are invited to celebrate this Achi the theater department has held its showing of Andy these past two weekends the play was a huge success with over
110 volunteers to help build props and the costumes fcla held its annual food drive this past month Bridge classes competed to see who could bring in the most non perishable food items and quick DP donated glazers to the winning Bridge
class which was Miss's class student council is also buing candy can drive when we return from breake the council walks around the school with duck and candy canes that are sold for a dollar this money will go to the McDonald's house and T or TOS toys are brought and donated to families who canot afford
them the senior class officer sent in a boat to the class of 2025 and here are the results the class color was decided as purple the class flower was Lily of the Valley class song is we're going to be friends by The White Stripes and the class quote is we cannot direct the wind
but we can adjust the sales by Thomas S hson with fun and exciting events right around the corner we look forward to updating you all next month thank you for your time and this will conclude our November School Bo report very good thank you uh questions
from board members I'm sure we'll have a few what was going to you guys I see right today that our girls wild cats are now raided number rank number one in state after their weekend wins uh
yes for single a congratulations thank you Thanksgiving plans any Thanksgiving plans here I mean I'm sure you're studying don't get me wrong I understand that me you don't have to mention that go ahead just staying here with family and eating a
lot of food I have yeah friends are home from college so looking forward to seeing them again and having back home I guess having them around family I have to say the same thing do a lot of food with my
grandparents so sort of things we all assumed you're also going to do is make clean your room make sure everything's do the dishes and and work your jobs sure sing around studying doing that it's tough life as a
student well thank you so much for coming U anything else for them before we let them go um back to their studies being Thanksgiving were you guys thankful most about the district I would say just like the support system
all over the place with just like teachers counselors even just other students I feel like everybody has at least one or a handful of people that they can go to that they know are there for them and we support them I feel like nobody's out of place
at this school everybody has a place everybody has a CL somebody they can affiliate themselves with and it's just it's nice to see for other people to be happy for them and also know that you found your people as well yeah I'm say the environment here I it's always just
so happy out like school so yeah very heart ansers good question great answers really so I great heartfelt any anybody have anything else for okay have a Happy Thanksgiving thanks
for coming guys thank you very much okay with that we will move on to the resolution I Richards introduced the following resolution to accept and move for its adoption whereas the July August and September great Start Grants from
the state of Minnesota were awarded to project kids care and project Beginnings child care for a total of $ 38737 and $1,788 respectively whereas the km PTA has
generously offered to donate 9,613 65 for the following to km $767 68 for a library update $41.97 for kindness
stickers $957 for a second grade field trip to the Minnesota Zoo $200 for staff appreciation coffee cart items $744 for Teacher grants whereas the C Lions have
generously offered to donate $500 to the km Community Education Dolly Parton Imagination Library where as East St Olaf has generously offered to donate $150 to K school supplies for students in need
whereas rural technology fund has generously offered to donate $1,500 to km special education for the purchase of augmented and assisted communication devices where as St John's Lutheran Church has generously offered to donate
$23.80 split between km kmms and kmhs for student needs where is the manal small group autum church has generously offered to donate $300 split between KES KMS and
kmhs for Comet pantry and student needs thank you Miss Richards we have that motion do we have a second a second thanks Kate any discussion on the resolution for acceptance of gifts I once again say that Community
incredibly generous um giving to the district um and once again they U facted that way again so with that we have a motion and the second all those in favor for the resolution and acceptance of GI stay I same sign motion
carries and with that we are on to uh board committee reports and maybe this is a good time to recognize um we have our three um board members elect that are here with us tonight Elizabeth Armstrong
uh Eric stalker Eric Mesa thank you guys for for coming out and attending uh board meeting as uh board members elect so thank you appreciate it a little over four weeks and you'll be right here exciting times so thank
you for coming with that we will um we have public input that happened earlier today we did not have anybody attend that public input that happens before hour before the meetings and for those who don't know that rotates between each of the subcommittees those board members
um attend that meeting in the case that um somebody would like to address the board um with that we also have other uh committee reports we have land and Facilities which has not met um anything from land and Facilities uh we will be looking at
approving the s Construction Tech the 23 24 construction Tech here agre thank you Brandon um anybody have anything for land facilities okay we move on to personnel has not met since we last meeting
anything from Personnel okay um and we have Finance Finance um committee did meet um just before um the public input and this district has always um been very serious
about um we allocate and use the funds that the community um taxpayers um allow us to access and with that in mind I don't know if a lot of people know but um funding we are one of the lowest
funded districts in the state we are 327 to 328 in the state of Minnesota this year um so we always take this serious back about um 20 years ago we did pass an operating Levy that was to go for 10 years um we've stretched that out for 20
years A lot of it due to Mr H and how he um um handles that funding and um so the Board needs to continue to look at that and when we look at the uh compensatory um rate that we receive um uh Bob went
took us through some of the numbers as the finance committee and um we just feel that this is the appropriate time to start looking into that um and uh um we willing that to the board um for more
discussion so anything for finance or any other Finance members have any comments okay all right with that we are on to policy um nothing from policy Student
Activities um has not meant uh Z anything Z meeting was canell last week to the due to the of thank youie um Community Education also M Richards okay and legislative Mark
anything from legislative okay thank you very much so with that we will move to 3.4 and that superintendent uh inss communication Mr thank you I'm just a
few items that I'd like to share with the board and the community today um last Sunday through Tuesday afternoon I had the opportunity to attend the Minnesota World education association's greater education Summit this event features key keynote
speakers discussing topics such as student connectedness legislative updates and staff wellbeing additionally I participated in breakout sessions addressing teacher salaries Rural referendums and the ABCs of school finance and building sustainability and
Rural School budgets we were fortunate at this Summit to have km represented by Jenny carrier and Ashley K during Kaplan during a mini breakout session and they presented on innovate for employee retention they shared insights on our district student programs support
programs including our ongoing process strength based culture staff Wellness initiatives and during that time they had three sessions that were well attended and I was able to sit in one of them and it was one of the pieces that um the individual got a lot out of it and they made some connection with the
folks that are going to reach out to them on basically how we balance work and life balance with our staff and keep that 94% retention that we had after last year so thank you for a job well done last week marked American Education
week and I'd just like to take a moment to acknowledge the incredible efforts of our Cav and Manville schools Community as you're all aware public schools are the backbone of our society equipping young people with the skills and resources necessary to th rrive as productive adults both locally and
globally at cast and Manville schools we are fortunate to have a dedicated team of teachers bus drivers custodians clerical staff classroom AIDS Food Service workers Administration IT staff coaches directors sponsors Child Care Community Education professionals
substitute staff central office personnel and and school board members that work tirelessly to serve every student this Collective effort is what makes our school's essential of growth and collaboration I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to everyone who contributes to the success of our
students your hard work and commitment make a meaningful difference every day and you'll notice that we have a ton of people in our district that really work hard to meet the needs of all of our students so we're very lucky with the staff that we have in early November we continued
progressing with our student with our strategic planning staff secondary students and families participated in the 90minut sessions to share their thoughts on their desired daily experiences within our school district some of the driving questions of those sessions included for students when I
come to school and engage with my teachers fellow students and greater School Community my desire daily experience would include and students filled in that question for staff when I come to work as a staff member of CM schools my desire daily experience
includes and for parents and families when I engage with my child School teachers and District Community might desire to experience would be and so our next step in our strategic planning process will take place on December 3D when the planning committee will meet to
review the input gathered and draft a Clear Vision of the desired daily experiences from those staff students and family meetings this Vision will serve as the foundation of moving our strategic plan forward and I know that everybody's talked about it earlier this evening but
I'd like to do a quick shout up to the cast de crew of the Fall their hard work and talent were on full display and it was an incredible production so kudos to all that were involved in that um Wednesday of this week I'll be attending virtually the Masa great start cohort session two on
school Finance um the topics include special education financing forecasting tools and negotiations and last but not least our student reps talked about it uh reminder that Thanksgiving break will run from Wednesday November 27th for staff and
stud through Friday November 29th and school resume on Monday December 2nd I thought of one more the thank you email from Patrick Gordon oh yep so uh Patrick Gordon as a
director said and unfortunately one of his parents passed away and he would to extend his heartfelt thanks for um everybody that was involved in the condolences that he received anybody have any questions for me okay thank
you thank you superintendent H so with that we will move to 3.5 administrative uh board reports um thank you administrators um board members questions um based on those
records I was just going to ask uh Josh at the middle school you talked about the flex um programming instruction can you just um share a little bit more about that what that change means for students yeah so Flex is built into our
schedule it's it's roughly about 26 minutes per day um we've been working with each team so it's it's in grades 5 through eight and working with teams to use that time for skill building remediation if there's a skill concept
students haven't learned they're brought into their classroom and taught um we want to make sure that our students are set up for success and so if there's any gaps in learning we use that time to fill those gaps um we also use it for our repr programming as well um so those students that need enrichment activities
are given that opportunity to flex themselves out and so um Flex is multi-purpose obviously it's there to ensure that students are getting the Mastery that that we expect but also for students that have already mastered it what can we do to extend their I have a question on that too um how
often is that adjusted is that like a quarterly thing that you look at the needs because it seems like a lot of work I love how individualized it is it's yeah it's it's it's a lot of work each team does it differently um some teams set like so the fifth and sixth grade Team sets it up about every four
weeks they do a rotation um if you go to our seventh and eighth grade team we've got specific days so Mondays is an England actually Mondays is just a regular um uh Flex class day but then on Tuesday it's an English day Wednesdays it's math day and so our teachers have
specific time set up that they can meet with students to give them the support that they need cool thank you yeah also just wanted to say um congratulations to Katie schen and Community Education
I think it's a pretty amazing tribute to her attribute to her success that she's had here to be named a region award ucation Association has op it's rare for somebody in our be around this
area to nominated and get it excited for I just wanted to comment on that um Le piece in director of staff and student support systems um that visit to hormell Institute looked really cool and engaging yeah the students are um having
a really great time it's really fun to hear Mr iy communicates regularly with the scientists and I can't say that any of us know what they're talking about because it's a very high level um but the kids are very engaged and it's been a really great partnership so far
they'll do also some Zoom meetings with the scientists throughout the year as well and then they'll have two more inperson field trips so a really fun partnership we're lucky to have that opportunity for kids yeah and just nice exposure to um some big biology Concepts
early on yeah and I know Mr L but uh the academic interventions that are happening at the high school um I know that something that um became very valuable is is that
um continuing in the same model as previous so it's in the same model where students will meet during Bridge with an intervention teacher that will hard schedule them and we use data to place those students what's really wonderful is we've gotten to this point where you know originally we provided a curriculum
online for teachers and now we have so much teacher ownership around like wanting to make sure it's meeting every kid's needs that our math department has created their own modules to kind of make sure that they're giving that specific um skill deficit instruction to
each kids so it's developed over time same model but now it's just keeps growing and getting better and better for kids every year so um a tribute to our teachers for sure and can you talk actually a little bit to how how that was kind of born out of L City that that was just for new
board member sure so I think three years ago um we sat down and started looking at the data which was new to us because at the high school level we weren't doing progress monitoring data we implemented the NWA test or the math test and did a fall winter spring math
and reading test for our students in grades nine and 10 and then from that we were able to see what students were not at grade level and dur time which is from 8 to 8:30 every day students were hard scheduled into an intervention for either reading or math if they we saw
that they needed some extra instruction and so we found a curriculum where we really wanted as we first started to make it very teacher friendly and online kind of module based curriculum that use those scores and then would say Okay based on those scores the student needs to practice these specific skills and
now it's really evolved I think this is our third year with the program and um you can see that I think we've had really great results with our student achievement at the high school so a lot of factors have gone into that but this is just another layer of support for students I will say
um great benefit uh came I believe came out of that program or has continues to come and kids don't um they can flow in and out of that as as as needed if that's still the okay
um oh Mr Larson can you talk just a little bit I saw the eag bluff trip and we talked a little bit about it and value for me and I was hearing before there's kind of three big kind of events as students come together as they progress through the castle man schools
first is that um I I think that trip to the capital and the science museum where they kind of stay overnight and then it progresses to that Eagle Bluff trip down there and then the third one I would say is really that Washington DC trip where they're with all their friends and so um
if you just talk a little bit about that absolutely um continues to be a great experience one of the things that I really enjoy um so I go down typically two nights um I get there about five o'clock and check in on the students and
um it's a it's a great experience for me to connect with kids outside the school right and and they know I'm Mr Larson I'm there you know I'm checking in with students dealing with things that I need to do with um but it's a
great opportunity to see students not have a device talk with their friends I mean we're reading this book The anxious generation and we talk about face tof face interaction that's what they're doing they're not on a video game
they're not on computer they're not on Tik Tok and they're able to sit Converse it's loud it's kids are talking they're up but I think it's everything that we want to see or everything that maybe we experience as older adults in our childhood and and you know it's
something that I reflect on at the end of each year you know kids come back they're tired they're exhausted it's like oh my gosh I'm ready for bed don't wake me up for you know 16 hours um but once we get once we get back and they get time to to sleep and you know go
into their comfy bed they love it I mean they're going out and doing things starting starting a fire right and similar to like what we talked about during advisory or all day advisor uh uh community service day
we've got students that don't get these experiences and so you know this year I think more than anything is you know we're we're providing sleeping bags because kids don't have sleeping bags kids may not you know have gone out and camped you know or stayed in a dorm like this the ropes course is a highlight for
every student they love it and the kids when you're you you know 40 feet in the air they don't think they can do it but when they do it the smile on their face as their zip lining down I mean it's something that you just I don't know I
don't think you can put a price on it I I value it a lot um I think it's really good for our kids I think it exposes them to a lot of different things just with their peers you know for some it's the first time that they stayed overnight somewhere um and it can be a
lot of anxiety producing it can be you know I think of the student aspect it it's certainly nerve-wracking for some um but but I think in the end when you see pictures like what I have up there to me that's what makes it worth it for our kids and I think this the chaperon
um you know we work on respect we work on responsibility all the time um but I think it's good for all of us to come together and show support for for our 12-y old kids and so that's that's the value that I find in it I know I was longwinded but do find a lot of value
and things like that and we've got a great team of teachers that are willing to do that very good thank you um again I'm an advocate for all those programs and I love wion so um the third
thing was saw the veterans uh they um information um and I know but if anybody would like to share about their experiences and and um um the kids reaction and how much it means to um really to recognize those people who served our country in that manner um I
open up to any any administrators that are here to talk about the programs because I know they're in all the buildings unfortunately I don't think it's a great experience um I was not able to make it this year I was on vacation
uh however one of the things that that we started a few years ago was um lee wood not Lee Woodward not it's it's proba be American but that's not the name of it it's but all of our kids sing it out loud and it's it's honestly
one of the best experiences that I it's one of the favorite things that I do as a principal is I get to sit and watch 700 kids sing proud to be American on the screen and we have such strong community support for these events and and honestly on my end you know the
thanks the appreciation um you know for those that have served those those that are serving it's a great honor to actually be able to do things like this for our community and you know there's nothing more that I appreciate than when people come in
veterans come in and share their experiences um to our students and you know this year we're fortunate to have Mr Wilkin son pton join us and he was there to provide us you know his his take on on what it was like to be in Greens and so forth so I I think it's
just a great opportunity for our community U and more importantly our students on just taking on to your comment I was able to go to the elementary veterans um assembly and I thought it was incredible to see how many students had a family member were
impacted um in some way um by a veteran and how many students have had to sacrifice in their families so it was a wonderful way to um honor and appreciate all of that within our district and uh really highlight the importance of it
for our students anything else before we move along well I have a couple more things okay so one other thing that um I'm going to go back to from your comment earlier Kent was that km has almost the
lowest funding in the state and on information technology department um Ashley C kapn hosts um with Lindsay has the the computer science advisory council meeting and I
think it's incredible that we offer computer science in our district um Minnesota as a state is one of the last um in the nation which is embarrassing to in computer science so I just wanted to highlight how incredible that is the opportunities that our students receive
despite um lower funding and then the other thing I noticed um on the same one and just just wanted to give a shout out I saw Cody ricei downstairs and the incredible work he does I mean with Annie just now um he mentors students
through all of that so the opportunities is not just on stage in theater but it's behind the scenes um he's an incredible mentor and then when I went down I thought you'll get a break now for sure and he doesn't it goes right into choir and and starting for the one act so I
just wanted to do a quick shout out for him Lindsay did a wonderful job highlighting him in her report so that's one thank you for thank you for that um also in the fact that I almost forgot about Caren share and I couldn't so
Jenny do you want to talk about car and share um a history of it a little bit and and how it's evolved and what you know how benefits Community yeah Karen um C Mar Ken sh has been around for more
years than I can speak for um this just a long history in this community those of people who grew up in this community probably know that as well um I got involved oh gosh I'm not even sure how many years ago now maybe seven or eight and um Bob is also our Treasurer so he
helps out a lot um on that piece and we have a great Trio of our it's um Bria coal Katie and myself that do the the co-chairing of the auction part part and each year it just amazes me how much
donations come in um our giving and online donations or checks Bob gets I mean that's half of our or even I'm not even sure if this year almost half I think of what we made was just people just giving and so um or businesses
giving so that was pretty amazing and we moved the dinner and auction we've held it at the school for the last several years maybe five years even and um we decided to try something a little bit different we have some new committee members that have joined and we hosted
at the cast and fire hall fire hall so few different things came up that we had to do differently but it it turned out really really well so we served 190 meals and there was quite a few people there the event went really smoothly um people liked the new the new spot um
fire the firen were able to serve drinks for everybody so it was just just a little bit different atmosphere but really fun and I all that money just it's all volunteer work and all that money goes right back into the community so right now they're working on Christmas gift distribution so I would take applications for that and um the
community just picks up that piece if they qualify so that all the families in our community can have a nice Christmas that's our biggest biggest thing but we offer um we support many organizations within the community with our dollars
so thank you Miss carrier um so I know wasn't here but I see Mr tryan and I I um I know it was mentioned just a little bit earlier but I think for the first time in history of girls girls hockey they're ranked number one in the the state you want to talk about that uh
program just a little bit yeah we've had a a boatload of home games to start I think six times already um they are very fast and one of the games that they played was against bre was also State
team and that game went overtime and we won very fast b game and then over the weekend they played at minona for their first away game and minona came in as the number one rank double so I think
Anderson said they have eights that are toing a TI so they're playing very well and they're still finding pieces you know to for different shs and things like that so should be exciting very fun to watch thank
you anything else we'll ask one more time before we Mo on okay uh Adam thank you for coming um if you would like to leave you're certainly welcome to leave um I don't think we'll have a lot more but
um continue on here we have um consent agenda do we have a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented you m Richards and second thank you Patrick any discussion over the consent agenda
it um and just as a notice that four of our five smallest grades are K through three and so it's something as we're talking about Fin brought up earlier certain that enrollment trend is certainly
something the board and the future board members are need to have a careful thank you for that um and I hate to put Bob on the spot but when we talk about enrollment for the new board members um
they can you talk a little bit about um how that enrollment numbers work as High School versus Elementary and how those are counted and how that affects the budget as you go forward sure so each um 7 through 12 grade
student instead of counting as one they actually count as 1.2 so when we figure out our funding um those secondary students they actually count a little bit more so as we
graduate these larger classes and bring into smaller at the elementary level it's actually kind of a double whammy when you're looking at funding for the future years then because again those higher um
class sizes they they do count as that 1.2 so the funding is actually going to be dropping a little bit faster than um I think the general public actually realizes I don't know if that's what you
exactly but thank you for articulating that did that that make sense everybody understand okay so and that's why M Richard brought that up because that the class size are getting smaller in the elementary down there but the larger class size are going to be are graduating and that's affecting even
more so making those right sizing decisions you know becomes something that becomes critical for Mr in and Mr H to make those then admin team to make those decisions so just as you come on so thank you for bringing that up
Mr anything else um consent agenda hearing none all those in favor of approval of the consent agenda State I iove same sign the motion carries on the action items we have no no old business new business we have
5.2.1 um approve the Foster Care Transportation agreement um anything we should talk to before that about that agreement do we have a motion to approve that
Daniel I'm sorry yes this this is an um an annual agreement that we um that we approve as a board so um do we have a motion approve that so thank you Andre the second second thank you K any discussion on
that hearing none all those in favor of approval of the Foster Care Transportation agreement say I I oppose same sign the motion carries 5.2.2 approve the resolution regarding uh status of Minot uh of school board members
do you want to talk that um speaking with our legal counsel most school districts do this and it's just a way to make separation between board members and the plal of the district so we haven't my understand is we haven't had this resolution on our board for a while
or ever so there was a recommendation that we put this on on the agenda and approve the resolution as written that was a recommendation by our legal council yes and uh the resolution written by our legal CC thank you Mr in do we have a motion um
to approve that resolution regarding the status of thank you Brandon thank you for the second Kate uh any discussion on that I just had a couple questions now as far as I think before I think I brought this up like six years ago when I was first
elected about uh why we we considered employees and I think something came up about taxes and protection from data to do with that what information because if we if we do do this like I was looking into Washington South Washington school district county school district and
basically what they're saying is if we do pass this it will uh we won't have as many protections under the law as far as data privacy that what data does the school district have on us as employees from status before do you have our
social security numbers what do you have I bet she does on the background checks but that would be confidential because we're employees or we're not just because it is confidential information okay and then also to would we because right now we get W2 is
correct as an employees what would we see what would we see going forward then I don't think that that would change I if if we pay you your you continue to get that would be a 1099
probably you Su no because it goes through pay any other questions okay it just uh now this will be part of the policy it goes under a policy under the uh the legal status of the SCH board
that's part of the policy I'm just I don't like it seems like we're kind of running this through without going to the policy committee and we do have time before the end of the year if we want to do it before the end of the year we have a we have a uh meeting set up for two like two weeks for less than
two weeks as far as the policy committee and then there we do have a a regular board score meeting before the end of the year so it would make me feel better postpone it at least the the policy committee has had a chance to look at it kind of follow the normal
procedures to proceed with that we have we have a motion and a second on the table so we would have to in order to table this we would need to vote on it I don't think I don't think we can I think at
this point we have to vote on this and then if it got V down then it could be brought up at another at another meeting was that concerned so so I would just say my understanding is that in practice we are um we already
behaving this way this is this policy is or this is to um establish the policy that already supports practice with a still policy right
yeah just I guess my understanding like we wouldn't we wouldn't do this with like any other decision like especially if it's a as a finance decision or something like that you think we go through the committee at least I mean I support it I mean but I just would rather as far as you know transparency and stuff that we do just stick with the
normal channels any any other thoughts else I think it makes sense but I also think it's not urgent so that makes you more comfortable I'm okay with that any other thoughts so we have a motion in a
second so we will have to r on this what would be the um the thoughts about um the intent with bringing it back to the policy or having policy go through this just is there something that you
see there um or that you think might you know there might be value to bring that back Mark well just just the questions about I mean just the questions about what what are we why it was initially we were considered employees was it for protection was it for taxes I I just
like know more history on it before I feel comfortable voting yes on it I don't to my understanding we've never been considered employees we've just um this is to clarify that in policy the
practice is that we aren't employees of the district that's my understanding that's from yeah when we had that conversation legal council that's exactly what it was is that school board members aren't considered employees but this is just a formality of making sure
that that is a policy that's in place well like looking into some other schools that have done this I think if we I'd rather see if we're going to do this let's rewrite the policy like South Washington County District did where they actually put in there it talks
about the government practices that we voided those protections December 2nd next Monday yeah we can do it atal I don't I if we waiting next we as well it feel more
confident anyone have concern with that I I don't okay so we have a motion and a second we're going to take this vote all in Let make sure I get this right so
all in favor of approval of the resolution regarding the status of school board members State I oppose same sign I okay the motion fears fails we will um bring this to
policy and look to bring this back on the next special school board meeting and then also I know we don't have a polic currently do you want to assign one temporarily or would You' like to step in yeah I um I will take that um I sat
in the public input for policy so I will I will take that so if you please add me to that meeting I will do that thank you everyone I just wanted to make one comment after policy um review that if there are any changes can we again R by legal
council whatever decision is made and how we'll have to run by legal cing and make sure it's accurate perfect yep okay um with that we're on to 5.2.3 approve of the resolution of the construction Tech house uh for the sale
of $56,000 um anything that we discuss on that okay um do we have a motion to approve the resolution for the sale of construction Tech I make that motion thank you Brandon a second one second
thank you Patrick any discussion on that so for in case people don't know that is the house that's worked on by our students here um and so the district goes out and purchases lots and they'll
purchase two or three or roughly um at a time and then each year the construction Tech um will collaborate with a local uh Builder here and gives our students uh an opportunity to do Hands-On work in
the construction Tech house and then um uh the district ends up selling that house and um looks to try to break even in the kids given experience um doing that that trade in the trades so anybody
else have feedback on that I'm put some of that so okay okay so we have a motion in a second all those in favor of approval the resolution uh for the sale of the construction Tech House State I I oppose
same sign motion carries and with that we're on the informational items the next special school board meeting is December 2nd 6m here in the community Forum room we have a regular school board meeting the final one of the Year December 16th here in the community Forum room with that we have a motion
for adjournment I'll motion thank you okay and second do you have something you were going to did you ask about the Personnel oh um we're thinking Personnel doesn't need to meet because there's nothing on the agenda next for next
week was that Monday yeah Monday meeting yeah and and so on that on that second just so that everybody where we if we move forward that resolution we will not have anything ready to that it'll take Market at least two or three days in which to get it back to the board so
that won't be ready for the seconds we'll have to figure out what's on the agenda for that day and we'll keep people posted on that thank you sounds good thank you for catching that guys um okay so we have one motion for have a second I'll make that second
all those in favor stay by done the silence a thank you everyone thank you thank you guys come