public comment Mr ster I don't believe we had any SE no okay we have a call tonight all the members are here we stand for the pledge I aliance 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 all I sign motion passes moving on right Communications
common accommodations uh Mr or Mrs carrier the first one to present good evening I'm Jenny carrier and I'm the Community Education director here at cast man schools and tonight is kind of an exciting night we get to celebrate one of our littlest comets
who's finished an amazing challenge of a thou reading a thousand books before kindergarten this young lady um has worked very hard been curious and developed a love for stories which has helped her grow and learn even more in school by reading so many books she's
taken a big step towards learning and growing in Her Imagination and her literacy skills we are very proud of of her and her hard work and the support of her parents and we celebrate the special achievement with her family teachers and the whole school Community since starting the program in
collaboration with the Casten public library in 2014 183 students have signed up for this program and only 52 have actually reached this goal congratulations to Lily and Tim for reading and exploring the wonderful
world of books congratulations [Applause] here she comes hi Lillian how are you today good okay did you practice your questions you
ready okay how old are you I'm four four years old and you read all those books with your parents that's pretty good who is your preschool teacher this year this is ke ke this is Kei she's a good one and your last big question is what is
your favorite story to read the pickle book pickle book oh my goodness that sounds like a good one well congratulations I have a certificate for you a book and a special coin here you go
[Applause] good [Applause] good evening board and Community my name is Trent Lango I'm very proud to be the high school principal at Casten Manville
and it's my distinct honor tonight to present the January students of the month these students are chosen by teach teachers uh they award these students based on those that are responsible for themselves and others they are positive
role models they offer help to other students in need and they progress academically one student per month per grade level that's not many kids out of 700 so this is a select few and we're glad they are all here tonight please come down one at a time and get your
comet coin and congratulations ninth grader Mason Holmes [Applause] 10th grade Owen Abbott 11th grade omra
[Applause] Andress and I'm going to read the senior Spotlight for our senior AMD gusa and then she can come down km High School senior student of the month for January is AMD gusa daughter of Samantha fricky
of Castle outside of school Amy stays busy playing uh hanging out with friends reading hiking and drawing she works two jobs making coffee at dun North and hosting tables at the smok and silver back what motivates her is wanting a
better life for herself her pets and her family after graduation AMD is planning on going to college and studying uh to become a funeral director or mortician and in 10 years she hopes to have her own place be happy and have some more
pets congratulations AMD gusa good [Applause] all right good evening I'm Brock tryan activities director at cast Manville and I've got several Awards to give as well starting out with the Minnesota State
High School league award for seniors in the state of Minnesota it's called the AAA which stands for uh excellence in the Arts activities in um Athletics and academics and so these three A's are you
know the the candidates that we that we get um are involved in several different things in our school and outside of our school and it's always a really tough selection process for us to to narrow it down to two people one male and one female and this year's seniors are
Brooks Irish and Delaney a come on [Applause] down one more note that I'll say here in just a second I'll give uh just a little more about the
award um each of the regions in the state of Minnesota there's eight regions in double A and eight regions in single a all get together and I'm on our region uh onea committee and Delan a will also be selected to be the female in our
region daa that's selected to move on to the next level so that's Lakeville South Lakeville North Hastings uh uh 16 different South schools and so out of our region she will be the female representative so let's give her hand how about we do the Excel bring
them down and do one big one together with the Excel so you guys hang for a second all right all right the next State High School league award that we give out is called the Excel award and this one's to a female and a male Junior um this award is similar but a little
bit different than the Excel where it not only focuses on the things that they do in inside of the school with uh the grade point average and the activities that they're involved with but also how involved they are in the community um again this is always a very difficult
decision to make as the applications come in but uh the the community uh community service and what they do to give back to their Community is one of the deciding factors and so the male and female Excel awards for juniors for Cass
and Manville are Peter Christensen and REE hayatt [Applause] right f [Applause]
all right um the next award is going to go to a Dodge County Wildcat hockey player and I'm gonna bring uh assistant coach Nick Davidson down so come on down he's going to help me say a few more words but uh I don't want to say too
many things because coach will he'll go into it a little bit more detail but uh this award goes to a record-breaking performance in career by Brett lexon and uh like I said coach will talk a little bit more about him but he he's
broken the school or I should say schools because it's a coop with s all others record for points in a career and the record was broken at 178 Point 176 points and he's already moved well beyond that just to put that in
perspective um you get points for assists and goals and we play about 26 games for sure in a full season regular season and then you know one to two in playoffs depending on how far or how far you go and so 176 means
you're getting assists and goals not only in every game but several in every game and so um if you haven't gotten a chance to see this young man perform on the ice he's electric he's not very big but he is fun to watch and so I'll let
uh coach Davidson uh say a few words as Brett comes down come on down so yeah so um I've had the opportunity to know Brett since he was in Youth Hockey and had him you know kind of come up through his career and the the pleasure of coaching him over
the last three years um at the high school level and one of the big things that you know every every year that's gone by we've talked about is Brett had a phenomenal season you know we're happy with the performance and then he comes back the next year and kind of blows that out of the water and this year
hasn't been anything different um I think you know we've had our adversity this year um but every every s day um Brett shows up at the rink um I don't know how he does it but he's always got a smile on his face um through the the rigors of practice um some of the not so
fun things he's always just happy to be there um he's always there to you know pick other kids up and so I can't say enough good things about um the character that Brett has not only on the ice um but everything he does off the ice as well um so like Brock said that
you know he broke the record of 176 points um which isn't small Feats and he's also um cracked the 100 assist Mark so he's always been a playmaker and this year kind of rounded that off with a a big time goal scorer for us as well um So currently sitting at 109 assists and
76 goals um throughout his career so 185 points total we have 11 games left so we're uh looking to to break the 200 Mark here um before the end of the season which is something that very few High School hockey players um in the state of Minnesota get the opportunity
to do so um just a just a phenomenal human being phenomenal player [Applause] [Applause] all right thank you uh we've got three
more and they all have to do with the girls basketball program so I'm going to start because I'm going to have Coach talk about the second two Awards because he'll have a little bit more to say but I'll talk a little bit about them too because I've gotten the chance to watch them grow up and play since second third
grade um so it's been it's been really fun and rewarding for myself as well to to see them just Thrive and move Beyond and and re surpass these accomplishments through this this last season um first
coach Ryan Haroldson he surpassed the mark of 350 victories um that is a tremendous feat especially in the world of uh High School sports and coaching tenur these days um you know you see a
lot of ups and downs and if you ever get a chance to ask Ryan about how it all started it's a pretty cool story uh what was it 20012 yep 2001 23 23 20023 season yeah yeah um he didn't start out as the
varsity coach that year in the beginning of the year but it ended up being the varsity coach through several odd circumstances that I won't get into but you'll have to ask him sometime um but U I'm GNA have him come down but uh just a tremendous accomplishment like I said
there's ups there's Downs there's adversity um 350 victories means a lot of years and a lot of uh you know a lot of girls that he's um led into you know whatever they're doing for their jobs in in their adult lives now so um
congratulations coach [Applause] Harold I'm glad you didn't talk about all the gray hairs that come with it too um yeah I've been fortunate to have
coached a lot of great athletes um worked with you know very hardworking coaching staff uh supportive parents supportive um admin and uh over 23 years so it's that's a long time I said a lot of gray hairs that come with it um support a
family which uh yeah a late nights and early mornings and making it work so thank you um and I think I was thinking about this over the years it's probably have realized it's not about the awards and the wins and losses um it ends up being more about the relationships that
have been built um the memories the process the habits that I formed um so for all that I guess grateful two of those athletes that I've worked with um just reached since the new year um the Thousand point so McKenzie and Keegan
come on down all right I'm going to talk about McKenzie first Mckenzie was the first one um to reach the 1,000 Point um Club um she was the ninth girls basketball player in school history to do it um she went over a th000 against Byron on
January 2nd um right now she's sitting at 1,190 career points and is actually recently moved into seventh um place all time passing Abby Manon in myus so you're in seventh place um she's averaging about 22 points a
game right now and his really upter game um over the course of the last four years so um I would say that she's able to score at all three levels which uh which isn't always true uh meaning she can get to the rim and and shoot a mid-range jump shot and some deep threes
out there um Keegan was next um she just passed hers on January 18th again St Paul coma Park um you uh if any of you were here is an 81 to 78 overtime Thriller um which is pretty crazy um in
itself but she has uh 13th career points and uh sitting in 10th overall and averaging about 17 points per game um both of them are fouryear Varsity Le winners and coached them out for for that many years and uh both our Agy old
conference kids um I just recently put them up for the All State um nominees and we'll see what happens from there but huge pieces to our 11 win season so far so again congratulations [Applause]
window everybody take one step this way [Music] [Applause] they know a drill moving along 3.2 looks like the representes AR here evening right down to
33 appr consider the approval of resolution or acceptance of gifts and grants School District thank you yes all right I Kate Ryan introduce the following resolution to accept and move
for its adoption whereas the October and November great Start Grants from the state of Minnesota were awarded to PK child care and PB child care for a total of $3,489 and 8,288 respectively whereas the following
grants were awarded to kmce continuing education grant from Sak totaling $5,000 School Readiness Grant from the Minnesota Prairie County Alliance totaling $3,500 Wellness Grant from Southeast
service Cooperative totaling $3,800 whereas People's Energy Cooperative has generously offered to donate $500 to kmce child care for purposeful play equipment whereas the following have generous offer to donate
to km drama Lewis and Vera P $760 for a roll top desk set piece Carl and Sylvia rolls $1,162 for microphone rental whereas Michael Solen has generously offered to
donate $400 to kmhs kmms and km art departments whereas the following have generously offered to donate to kmms bands uh Britney Henman $400 for a trombone an anonymous donor $500 for a trombone Cody
ricey $550 for a trumpet and trumpet gate bag Zachary Peterson $940 for a drum set with symbols and Hardware Thrones and percussion accessories Chad and Serena standard $200 for a trumpet K
Nelson $350 for a flute whereas the following have generously to donate to km robotics team mccar Financial Group $500 LC Trucking LLC $500 and Kyle Howell
$1,000 whereas the following have generously offered to donate to the school resource dog project K liance Club $920 cast an American Legion $500 whereas Aon Richards and Signa through a donation match program have
generously offered to donate $973 to km schools whereas Scott Christensen and IBM through a donation m match program has generously offered to donate $115 to KES Library whereas KES PTA has generously
offered to donate $1,825 to ks for a fourth grade field trip to hormell Nature Center and Minnesota History Center whereas the following have generously offered to donate to the com Pantry km Lions Club
$500 Presbyterian women $350 do we have a second to approve that I'll second than all those in favor approval stay I all those same sign motion carries moving along the board reports
looks like the only that is I could jump in real quick um for landed facility not last Friday uh by myself JJ and Jenny along with u the gentleman that would be going out for
bids for the community ed and because of the time Framing and the biding process um we have decided to put that on hold and take that out and late August September of next year just because the timing of it and how it would impact extended school year and all that
wouldn't work out right now and probably the bdet would come in because of the tight time frame in which we want that project completed um would raise would be higher cause than what it would be if to win out the following year so hopefully we can be put on the schedule very early next summer for the 20 summer
of 26 so the community ad growth is going to be put on hold for this year thank you ker are you ready yeah I'm ready um Zed has met twice um I was able to go to the December 19th meeting and
then Elizabeth was able to fill in for the January 23rd meeting um on the 19th they went through the audit they had a clean Report with no compliance issues um and then just some Personnel Staffing positions were approved um and
then Elizabeth if you want to take it you can update the board on um the January meeting okay um at the January meeting they talked about um the members who had gone to the msba conference they talked about things that they had
learned at that um and they assigned the chair and treasur and clerk thank you mov on 35 superintendent Communications thank you uh good evening um I had the opportunity to attend uh the Minnesota School Board Association
with conference a couple weeks ago um and it provided a lot of valuable insights and learning opportunities um I was able to attend breakout sessions on topics such as communication planning the school board impact on student achievement of employees addressing
Staffing shortages legislative advocacy and preparing for the 2025 legislative session additionally I attended sessions on navigating the educational landscape and fostering collaborative success across the school district also I just like to point out that there were two
inspiring keynote speakers uh the opening speaker and ending speaker both did a great job I thought last week was par par professional appreciation week I want to take a moment to express my gratitude to our par Professionals for their hard work and dedication not only
during this special week but F the entire school year their contributions are vital to our Student Success across the board Thursday of this week marks the end of the first semester at Cass and mville schools Friday will be a teacher workday with no students and attendance
as staff prepare for finishing up the first semester grading and and prepare for the second semester on Wednesday afternoon from 3:30 to 6:30 um the admin team along with some of our certified staff will continue our strategic planning work
with Teamworks this session was rescheduled from last Tuesday due to the cold weather this session will focus on the classroom theory of action which means if we do this then our students will accomplish or should accomplish this we will also dive deeper into the
defining the desired daily EXP experiences for students staff and families as part of our ongoing efforts to enhance our District's goals and last but not least um Friday of this week is a legislative breakfast at Canon Falls
um if anybody would want to go car is it okay if they just check with you um it's from 7:30 to 11:30 at Canon Falls High School um but they're they don't have a lot of legislators signed up for right now there's four um so they're not sure if they're going to have it but if
you're interested in attending um I won't be able to attend I'll be a funeral that afternoon but um for those that have attended in the past I said it's a great time to have conversation with legislators about the impact on education and that's all I have to evening um as far as staff shortages I'm
assuming it's still like a it's a Statewide issue or even nationalwide issue conversation on that as far as what staff shortes yeah you know it's a piece of they're trying to do alternative programs you get people involved
colleges are reaching out school districts I had two reach out to me this week about um people that aren't certified staff members right now what can we do to interest them if they might be an associate would they be interested in being a a certified staff member and
kind of how can we shorten up what that might look like for them to finish up their degree um and really the the toughest thing is going to be more than anything else is um when I was pH in with the superintendent from St Paul I mean obviously their situation a little bit different but they're fighting for the S pays become the biggest issue you
know they might make more money if they go to manaton or here they might make more money if they go to Rochester if they go to oon or where so unfortunately we're all fighting for the same individuals and our goal is to hopefully make teaching and work in education attractive again get it back to what it
was let's just say 20 years or 25 years ago when there were 500 applicants for one Elementary position and making sure that people understand the impact that they can have on uh the lives of students that's really the biggest piece right
there and correct me if I'm wrong I believe at one of your schools in Iowa um did you have some kind of program where it was kind of the you worked with some of the local colleges and kind of so high school students can be more interested in getting into
teaching yeah so in in many school turn that on in in many school districts in Iowa if you want there's a lot of PSO options and kids can work on getting their degree quicker and then they can get that pipeline to become a certified staff much quicker and there's a lot of
colleges that depending upon what your degree is even two if you already have your degree that they'll take away some of the requirements that you have to do so instead of maybe finishing up in a fouryear degree it might only take you 18 months or 12 months and you can be
paid as a student teacher to get people excuse me in the classroom thank you moving on 3.6 adership report did anybody have any comments or questions I just wanted to say
congratulations to Mr new role that he's playing forward to see he has already jumped in with two if you know Michael he's not holding back but um he already has been doing a lot
of math coaching for us um just with his math and so but he has the literacy chops to take on the literacy coaching and we believe good teaching is good teaching so he's already in the classrooms getting stuff going he is uh he was assigned a mentor he was
mentoring one of our brand new teachers this year but now with this role he'll be able to work with all of our newbies so we're super excited and Maddie Reyes is amazing I talked to him today and he's like oh my gosh he's like she is flying she's ready to go so super exciting for a brand new teacher who
student taught with him wi that department yeah although sad for his class right they're bum I bet I like the feedback regarding the fast Bridge yeah program excited to see
what happens grow goal grow goals yeah yeah and that will be yeah they got started to get their first ones big full picture of every the last couple days so he and Jessica have been pulled up and looking at data and they're ready to roll
EXC um oh sorry Ashley and Lindsay congratulations on the outstanding St educator of the year um Nomine I wanted to know if you guys wanted to talk a little bit about that um and then Ashley um and Lindsay the
as well for computer science sure um yeah we are excited to be nominated that was a nice honor um thank you to Jake for doing that um to recognize the district I think um where there's a celebration on the 12th that
we'll be presenting um in Rochester to share a little bit more about our programming um kind of in connection with that we did the MD Grant the $15,000 is we we are looking at buying um robots for each grade level and then
doing planning for integrating units of computer science into either literacy or math or things that are already going on in the classroom so we had a meeting with several elementary teachers in Courtney and Jessica um last week and we're kind of building a plan based on
what we saw when we took our field trip last spring down to oage Iowa and saw how they integrate computer science and coding into each different grade level that's kind of like development appropriate but also tied in with what they're already doing so it doesn't feel like a big extra thing um so we have a
couple teachers that are now signing up to do that work in June so um we'll be purchasing bot soon and then planning that programming um we're excited about it I think as you know probably a little bit that we've talked about before that computer science standards are in
development at the state level it's going to take a few years but that's coming and so we're we're getting ahead of it and building and I think it's a great opportunity for kids so and I'm grateful for linday because this is her area of expertise I so I'm
lean on her a lot because I don't know what we're doing I just like to build programming but she's the expert in this field so it's a good team effort well congratulations to both of you I read Jake's sub mission is very detailed and very impressive and then um background
on the computer science piece that I actually learned last year isnes as a state is last in the nation for computer science um offerings and especially at smaller schools it's not something that's offered and we are a school that offers that so um I'm very proud of that
and I'm proud that that's continuing to grow because of your guys work so thank you I I just want to make a comment the word on the street is that our CNA program is really taken on so Ashley can you give us give us reward MERS sure so that was a grant that we applied
for last school year and we did receive the funding to build um a CNA or health science lab at the high school using a classroom that we already have so it's just buying the supplies and getting that all set up um but registration
numbers came in and at M Sterling I know know the exact number of students if you want to share I will share that it is a strong number that we will be able to confidently Adder the section we were hoping to add and grow from there as the
years go on so we won't be scratching and trying to get kids to to make it float we are in a strong position to run it just all you can ask for Mr Ling some more for you um I noticed that you pointed out American
School counselor's week in the beginning of February this upcoming week yes um which is impressive one of the things that was talked about at the msba annual conference was um 95% of principles reported mental Wellness or mental
health um interfering with learning and so it's so important to highlight um the amazing work that these counselors do for our students and if you wanted to add anything that would be great yeah it is it's vital work on the wellness front
and the original role of school counselors was career Readiness and so balancing that work is the challenge um Mr in knows this if if ever given a wish list to add um School counseling is an
area where I think all schools would certainly look to do that um anytime you can make case loads smaller and services higher that's great yeah but we're very fortunate here to have two skilled
professionals in your board mentions about adding a new resource to bridge what what does that mean or what does that look like new resources to um just some programming for academic
intervention U utilizing a web based program and our teachers in math doing a lot of their own module development for reteaching content to catch J on any gaps they have prior to the MC or programing based I just wanted to comment because I
know um I have two students who are getting ready to register for classes or maybe they already have but a lot of conversation about what can they take at the high school and two things really stood out one all of the things that my eth grader has been able to take at the middle school has been amazing and it
has really helped her to realize what her interests are going forward into high school and two the number of um college classes that my um next year Junior will be blew my mind um we had a
lot of discussions about PSO and if that was going to be a good fit for our family and after getting all of those courses and talking with um uh her counselor we realized that we didn't need to do that we she could get everything she wanted and more right here in this building so thank you guys for all your hard work in developing
that oh I got one more thing Mr LaRon how was the um I I read a little bit on both pieces um let's see here for a director of staff and student support systems and in the middle school but um it looks like that professional
development day was really useful and reading some details about it useful for students to understand too it was a lot of correcting and and kind of highlights how much more our teachers do um past curriculum but more in shaping behavior and building
character was that well received it seems like a fantastic yeah Sarah really I thought she did an excellent job of just navigating that um you know as we work with students like you said mental health um you know the our students come with a wide array of experiences and how
do we navigate those and ensure that we're we're meeting students where their act but also making sure that we're you know providing a welcoming um environment for all and so I thought she did a very nice job and our conversations later is um with my staff was how do we continue to support kids to the best of our
ability thank you and thank you um to Ashley too for putting in the interrupt question educate and Echo I think it's so important in creating a safe environment um because not only calling out how students could their language but for other students to see that being
called out uh helps them feel safe and um accommodated for so what a great yeah it was a neat tool I think that was new learning for a lot of us so to have that framework to use she gave us a little pocket guide too that has that in there
um I the feedback from staff on her survey was that that was the best tool they received that day so that was great learning great feedback yeah that's awesome thank you admin team you'd like to keep that beend some time with your
families well see you guys good TR on to the agenda all those in favor for approval to the consented agend I all those same sign motion carries on to discussion items
discussing update superintendent search and interview timeline so I don't you all got the email but there has some confusion on some of the dates of availability I would like to take responsibility for that and it was an oversight on my part on K's availability
and I apologize for missing it thank you Carly yeah I think the da question was refresh mind the 24th 26th and 27th so that last um week of March I'm actually completely out of
town and am was able to send some different options only there's the four that she sent and that Saturday option does not work for myself um
1921 first option is that is this with her availability yeah that's also with her availability um she mentioned too well I asked um because I was able to get the 28th
opened but that is very close to the second round that's the Friday before the Monday um and that she is available for that as well so with being that close together would that anybody see an issue with that she is available I think it's
whatever if if we can all make it um it's just the 20 28 a short turn around but it does work for the 28 we have to start unfortunately I can't do that I'm
started to February I do think it's important to have all of us present am I only 19 19 21st sure we have three student Representatives that
favors if that works for it's far enough out I can probably get the best option just so that gives us plenty of time in case there up prer two days rather than
one yeah I'll tell her right now thank you thank you Patrick moving on to action items1 second reading to approve the propos revisions and updates to the following policies 202 School Board
officers 212 School Board member development 406 public and private personal data 51 School weapon policy 51.1 C exra clear rules and regulations 620 credit for learning 721 Uniform
Grand guidance policy regarding federal revenue sources I think you have some questions I don't know they got answer on the on okay satisfi and then second is that a second is that a second excuse me
second vote on the 6.1.2 vote on both of them um SE separate votes yes okay I have a motion to approve 6.1.1 thank you a second a second than all those in favor v
i all those in favor same sign motion carries 6.12 second reading to approve propos proposal to delete policy 104.1 km character
education have a motion to approve that thanks Patrick second second thank you Aon all those in favor say I oppose same sign motion carries can I um can we do discussion
sorry no it's okay will you just explain um this was it just outdated yeah actually this um Ashley Kaplan and I met with several times and we um were talking about it there's no action in it um and it's
it really doesn't dictate what we do or how we do things because there's no um action like that so yes it's very outdated also with that they are working really hard to figure out what is going to be best for our school and how we are
going to be providing um some of that character education and what that looks like so each building is kind of going through and putting all of their pieces together and you know we' had some new initiations and things like that and then they'll bring it back as a comprehensive one and then we'll be able
to come up with a new policy at that point in time if we desire to have a new policy but I do think that this is a good thing and after many meetings um what we have is just words thank you um we on the new business uh 6.2.1
approval approved 2025 School Board sub committees I have a motion to approve that thanks k a second thank you Patrick all those in favor say I I those oppos same sign
motion carries informational items 7.1 special school board meeting at 6m Monday February 3rd 202 here in the for room and 722 meeting at 530 Monday February
24th 2025 high school for just a reminder I will not be present at February 3's meeting I will not be at thatting there's currently nothing pressing on the agenda the only thing that would be if you were to have it is
um aon's uh strength finder teachback which obviously can be anytime it doesn't have to be a meeting just for that so if you you want to cancel just let me know right motion to
Second all those in favor of Journey St I I all opposed same sign Thank you very everyone make too big a out of