this meeting is officially called to order please rise and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance 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 all board members in attendance tonight include director kellerer director Thompson director David Anderson chair Baker director Lind director Carly Anderson and the board is joined by superintendent Dr Doug vanz um and we
have members of the executive cabinet including Dr Emily McDonald and we do have some guests tonight too it looks like we have uh principal Shawn Murphy and we have Molly Dexter so thank you everyone for being here oh Taber you're not at the table Taber Aken is also here principal thank you um I just want to
make everyone aware that um if you know noticed on our website we did have a board member that was supposed to be dialing in tonight um they have some sick kids so that's not uh possible anymore so binley will not be joining us all right so we'll move on to uh good
news all right thank you uh so good news Lakeville North speech team shines bright at the National Tournament congratulations to our Lakeville North High School speech team on their success in the 2024 National speech and debate tournament which took place June 16 16
through the 21st in De Iowa the team earned a national school of excellence award placing them in the top 20 speech programs in the country in addition the following students competed in the semi-final or quarterfinals anakah guring uh Ella rachi Maisy Mo Meredith
Leo and Adeline Frost and congratulations to incoming ninth grader Alisa Godwin who play seventh in the country in the pros interpretation at the national middle school tournament so we had a lot of folks that obviously know how to talk around here so that's
very good congratulations to them centry Middle School's Rebecca Madison was selected as the assistant principal of the year if you haven't seen that congratulations to our Century Middle School assistant principal Rebecca Madison who is recently awarded the capital uh division assistant principal
of the Year by the Minnesota Association of Secondary School principles Madson was nominated by Middle School principal J Jason baky for her exceptional leadership dedication and commitment to the SU uccess of century students staff and school Community you can learn more about this award and read principal
bak's full letter of recommendation on our district website thank you for all that you do for Lakeville Area Schools students so congratulations to Becky high views Elementary principal Brett Lin was recognized at the 2024 n as the national outstanding assistant
principal in Nashville Tennessee congratulations to high views Elementary principal Brett Lin who is recently recognized at the 2024 National outstanding assistant principal at the National Association of Elementary principles United Conference in Nashville Tennessee Lin was selected for
this prestigious award last December while serving as the associate principal at prayview elementary this award is a testament to Lan's exceptional dedication and leadership in public education we're lucky to have principal lman serving our students and staff here in Lakeville area schools congratulations to
Brett Lakeville South Trap Team takes home first place at state so congratulations Lakeville South High School Trap Team for their first place finish at the class 8A Minnesota State High School clay target League championships in Alexandria Minnesota on June 17th the Cougars also took second
place in the 2024 State clay tournament State clay target tournament in Prior Lake on June 22nd finally all nine members went on to compete at the national tournament in Michigan July 10th through the 14th our Lakeville boys
uh North boys lacrosse team took second at State congratulations to Lakeville North boys lacrosse team for a great season the Panthers made it to the state championship on June 15th coming in second against bellony St Margaret's School Red Knights with a score of 10 to
18 also don't forget to join us for Ready Set achieve Ready Set achieve is the Back to School Readiness event and it's crazy we're already talking about back to school stuff uh that's designed to ensure every student is ready for a successful school year it includes School supplies immunizations books
snack packs and vision screenings all free of charge this year's event will take place August 20th from 12: to 4:00 p.m. at Lakeville North High School Commons to learn more about ready set achieve Andor how you can help support by donating supplies or by volunteering
go to isd194.org ready- set- aieve and that's our good news for this evening thank you very much that's a lot of good news I was just talking to uh director Lynn before saying Reagan got a silver medal
today so way to go Reagan Smith too all right so for board Communications tonight uh we have not had a participant for uh public comment or our stakeholder sessions yet this month so there's no update on that but if there are board members that have
updates from committees that they serve on or um any of the councils that now would be a great time go ahead this is not a committee that I serve on but just wanted to um thank um the Indian Community for the invitation to attend a
recent uh dance related event it was brought naum I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly um I attended along with a couple city council members and it was a beautiful uh display of traditional Indian dance so thank you awesome thanks
for sharing anybody else have something to share okay hearing that we'll just go ahead and move on to um our agenda tonight do we have um a motion to approve the agenda I'll make the motion so we have a motion by director
David Anderson but um director Thompson did you have a question yeah I do want to add two agenda topics to the agenda do do we do this after this or before well um what are the topics that you I do want to add High School counselor's fall 2024 as a topic and
then I do want to add HR audit board at sub as a topic high school counselors 2024 is that what you said yep and then what was the other one uh HR audit board subcommittee HR audit subcommittee um typically we talk
about the board committies at the working session would you rather have that as a working session topic uh you know what I'd like to just bring it up here and then we can discuss it at the next working session afterwards as well okay so to add these items to the agenda we
would need [Music] um we' need a motion and a second we have a motion on the table already so I didn't need to amend the motion correct I make a motion to amend the motion to add High School school counselor's fall
2024 and HR audit uh board subcommittee topics so we have a motion on the table to amend our original motion to add high school counselors 2024 and an HR audit board subcommittee to the agenda do we have a second for that motion I'll
second okay we have a second by director David Anderson do we have any discussion on those or questions okay hearing none we'll put it to a vote to add these items to the agenda tonight all in favor say I I I
all opposed no n so the um motion carries we have two NOS but then we add four yeses right I got you Carly yep yep okay all right so those items will be discussed
um under item six additions to the agenda later on for the meeting all right okay so now with our amended agenda um do I are there any items that board
members would like to remove from the consent agenda for further discussion director Thompson I like to pull letter B employment employment recommendations leave requests and resignations okay is that the only item yes okay does any other board member have an item that
they would like to discuss okay do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda minus Item B so moved of a motion by director Lind do I have second I'll second second by director David Anderson any further questions or
discussions okay all in favor say I I all all opposed motion carries all right so we will move on to the discussion item uh director Thompson what did you have to discuss about Item B I've got a few questions here and just for General awareness and transparency for myself
and the community uh I'm looking at page 8 in the agenda packet that we've got quite a few folks that uh have resigned uh there was a director of equity services that has been uh that that did resign wondering if I can get an update
on if there is a did that change the organizational structure and then what does that look like for next steps curious to know that Dr McDonald did you want to come forward and talk about that love too thank [Music] you good evening chair Baker members of
the board superintendent van zle um thank you so much for the question yes um first I I want to lead with um anytime uh we have experienced change in our district um we have really utilized that as an opportunity to take a look at
our current practices um and whether or not we need to continue doing what we're doing um or whether or not we need to make any changes so um I appreciate the question um we will have a backfill um as you know uh we have two positions
that are open um technically that will fall under teaching and learning and that was our director of mtss position our director of equity services position um as we looked at the needs of the organization and we looked at where we need to go um now and in the future um
we have combined those positions into one position called the directors of director of schools and continuous Improvement the purpose of this position is really to take all of the great work that we have done around equity and all of the learning and all of the growth
that we have done in the district and put that into an application and implementation phase whereby we're really looking at integrating that into our systems and our processes um to ensure that as we're moving forward um we are finding the best ways to ensure
that all of our students get what they need when they need it to be successful in our system um I just want to say that a as a we have done some incredible work over the past decade or 12 years in this District around um equity and Equitable
practices um and we're at a place now where we really feel like we can move this system by looking at things a little bit differently and we know that our mtss work the core of that is making sure that we are supporting all of our students to be successful and get them what they need so um so our backfill um
will be one position again for those two positions um and then some shifting within what what was those the two departments um we're shifting some responsibilities and expectations um around a little bit to make sure that the position is manageable um has clear
expectations and gets us where we need to go from an organizational standpoint so thank you for your question director Thompson just a quick followup on that does that mean that there might be some Financial savings just because you're reducing an existing role for another curious right now we're not looking at
any uh Financial savings because what we are looking at um realigning what would have been that second position um to support student services and special education so um there the det of that aren't um fully
flushed out yet um but we know we have significant needs on the student services side of the organization and so what we're looking to do is sort of shift some resources so it's it won't be an ad to the budget in any way um and it won't necessarily I don't expect any significant savings um based on what
we're trying to do organizationally can I ask a question director Dr Carly Anderson um yes so question about this um so when we think about kind of the director of equity Serv and all the Liaisons all those stay in place in terms of the school Liaisons
and like oh sorry go ahead you go okay yes we are um we are not changing any of those supports currently um we are making some shifts in terms of um supervision around that group which used
to be overseen by the director of equity Services um what we're really looking at doing is um our we've already met with with our principles and they're going to be they're going to support us um more in the area of uh liaison supervision and work Direction um we do have a a
steering committee that is being formed um we actually just met with the principles a couple of days ago um to talk about the plan and how we can help support them to have the resources in the building that they need um and then from the district standpoint our Equity coordinator that position remains and
that person would be the district overseer for lack of a better word um of our liais on core from a district standpoint so we'll still maintain that sort of vision of all moving together and forward as a team um but then we'll
have the principles um helping support the day-to-day operations and needs of their individual buildings so um so we have some work that's actively happening there led by um our Equity coordinator um and I think at the end of the day based on the conversations we had with
the principles just a few days ago um we have an opportunity should really improve what we're doing both for the Liaisons and their work with our kids and our families and for the principles in terms of what their needs are in the building so the big takeaway from that meeting though was we don't have enough Liaisons so you know we're gonna we're
going to try to maybe plan forward for how we can do a better job there in the future I had one more question go ahead sorry I was just wondering was that role covered under the AI funding yes and so what happens with so the portion of the
the portion of the job can still be covered by achievement integration and then we also have our mtss grant that covers also a portion so again there's no there really isn't any change financially in terms of how the position is funded we're not looking at accessing
any dollars at this time from the general fund because of the change of position um so I so based on my conversations with Bill we're good there based on the job description and the expectations it still meets the requirements director Lind do we have to modify the plan that we give to the
state where the expenses go do we have to do any work with that no essentially I mean from a from the plan standpoint the only thing that really changes is the title so and that's true of the mtss grant as well so the work is still the
same um to some to you know to pretty much the same degree um the intentions of the plan are still the same um there's only as you know you know there are three portions of the achievement and integration budget um and where we can spend our money and that the portion that there is a portion
allocated to that director's salary which will go for the portion of this position it's just a change in title thank you Dr V and really as Emily and I and and the executive team walk through this the issue for us is mtss and Equity
should not be other things to do they should be what we do on a daily basis and embedded in in what we do so by bringing it under the teaching and learning umbrella by having our administrators supervise those Liaisons that's where they're doing their work anyway those are the
types of things that we're trying to accomplish through this adjustment to be able to say these aren't things that need to work in isolated silos they need to be embedded and dovetailed with one another in what we do on a daily basis so they're not seen as separate items but they're all components
together director Thompson I I do have another question but I'll pause here if there's any other questions from the board regarding this one okay uh second question that I have is that I noticed that there were U uh two key executive
director positions that have been placed so again for uh those that may not may not have known uh Stephanie Cass was our communications director uh she has moved on uh and a big thank you for her for her work and her effort I notice that we have a new executive director of student
services Michelle humph and then uh our new communications director Grace Olen so congrats and and welcome to the team um I did notice here on the employment list that there is a interim special education director that was hired just
want to make sure that with Michelle Humphrey being the new person she doesn't start until August 5th was she involved in in in that process and and in that decision- making for that role Dr
vanel yes she was okay cool good to know uh question for SL on 15 on the enrollment SL on the uh in the recommendation pages I am seeing uh a a higher variance of special education
paraprofessionals being relocated from their current roles to new positions or different uh locations there's over like 20 of them can you just provide an update so that folks who may happen to be reading page 15 may ask questions absolutely I think what we need to
remember is when we're talking specifically about special education par professionals um those of Staff go with the students based on what the students needs are so depending on where where the students are where the programs are what the needs are how they're
identified in their their um IEPs um those supports are placed based on what the students identified needs are so you know often times we'll we'll see some movement um I do have to say that I'm very pleased to see all of the hires in
that area because as we know that has been a challenge and we have a little more work to do in that area um just over 20 staff in that area yet to hire but at the end of the day we want to make sure that we are meeting the requirements of the individual education
plan of each student and that directs where those staff go and with whom they work got okay any other questions on that okay no go ahead director Thompson and then the last question that I have is on page 22 changes in assignment for
Lassa staff I am seeing two individuals that have moved from dean of students to assistant principles uh just want to make sure that I understand do we no longer have Deans or how did APS get started yes so as we are as we have um
been able to restructure and we have principal Murphy here too if he would like to weigh in but um as we have um moved to restructure to be able to provide um counselors to our students for the first time and as long as I've been here which is a long time um the
roles of the Deans have shifted and so in the past they have been called they were called Deans and then they were called Deans slaps um and so we're moving to just the AP title because the focus of their work will really be around that assistant
principal um job description and our counselors then would help serve our supports for our students um in their academic planning and in other areas of need that they may have so in order to delineate those jobs and what they do um
to provide Clarity uh for not only for the staff but also for our families um those positions have dropped the dean part of their title and will be referred to um moving forward as assistant principles director Thompson so I'll
pause on my next question around if you can provide more clarity around the difference between the two so when we get to the levy question maybe we can discuss discuss it then around what what is an assistant principal uh how is that different from a counselor but we may want to discuss
it at the levy topic then I'm okay with that or if you want to do it now that's fine yeah let's have principal Murphy since we're on the topic he can respond to that yeah yeah thanks for having me chair Baker board Dr vanel um essentially the
major difference is uh Deans were doing the jobs of assistant principal and counselors in a traditional High School setting um and so now they're dropping some of the counselor duties uh primarily uh looking at scheduling so changing student schedules which is very
timec consuming um and then counseling students in career decisions College decisions postsecondary opportunities uh those are more in the counselor realm of expertise so they're giving up those duties um to focus more on instructional
leadership and um and more discipline behavior management positive behavior approaches Etc so those are the major differences um we do have a matrics that we can share with you um that you can see kind of the job duties and what was
prior to now that we're onboarding counselors what's been given up so that that's a good visual if you'd like to have that eventually as well yeah so um for Deans and counselors like counselors would only work during the school year and then Deans would have that extended
contract is that right y y okay absolutely Sean can I just ask you because we talked we did discuss all of this during our work session but instructional leadership can you just explain now that you're talking to our community as well what that entails
because that's a big part of their job yeah our teachers are are struggling uh for help um they they do professional learning communities every Wednesdays um our our Deans try to make it to everything but they're they're balancing um everything from student needs to
teacher needs um to behavioral issues and observations in observations teacher observations so they're really stretched thin in some of those areas uh each Dean would oversee um different academic areas they'd be assigned to um and they just weren't able to do everything um on
their plate and get to the needs and help teachers do what they need in their meetings Etc because they were so consumed if there was one student issue that take up half their morning that they didn't expect they might miss that PLC meeting and might not be able to
help um Foster some of those big conversations with kurriculum Etc that uh the traditional assistant principal would have so thank you y director Thompson so so we've got four Su uh they
were deans but now they're labeled as assistant principls in each High School yeah and then I believe we have two then assistant principls in each middle school because they were formerly Deans and then we have three current counselors starting this fall in each high school and then we have one
counselor in each middle school at the moment is my understanding is that correct okay okay okay and then just one more just to make sure I I understand this assistant principles will be would be assisting with behavioral support uh Behavior scenarios um uh
evaluations and assistant principaling throughout the day so just and then the counselors are be focused on academic advising career Readiness college readiness and and some additional support for staff or for for students if
where where ple a w okay so very clear delineation so if my son wanted to change his class schedule he would then go to one of the three counselors not to the dean but if he threw a french fry during lunch class he would be talking to a Dean I'm sorry an assistant
principal yeah okay yep absolutely you got it any other questions not saying it was a real example but that's your credit so thank you I think that's good do you have any further questions director Thompson uh I do have one more Yep is it it's still
related to the it is y so it' be the next page page 23 um I do just because I don't know the employment uh uh cycle uh and and I'm seeing that we've got 86 positions open and school starts like I don't know 35
days and so we've got four Elementary teachers open uh 11 licensed Specialists 22 special education roles that are still open and 31 staff support um when we have 1500 uh roughly 1300 full-time or staff
I'm just I want to be mindful that this is almost 5% of our Workforce not officially hired and and how do we have um alternative paths what are we doing just just a quick I was curious if 89 is considered super high yeah I mean I
certainly don't want to speak to uh for our executive director of administrative Services who has expertise um in this at a higher level than I do um what I can say is that um I can't speak specifically to whether or not that's
high what I do know is that every year um our hiring does go into late August that's pretty standard um things do change often times um you know you have positions that haven't been filled and or you have put people that maybe decide
to move in August and then you have an opening so there's a lot of reasons for those openings um I will say that the people that are doing the hiring so that's primarily if you're talking about building staff um our principes have been working tirelessly and they have
been working collaboratively to try to move through that interview process and make multiple selections and and making sure staff are placed in the appropriate spot for their skill set um and I know that that that does take a lot of their time um but they're moving as fast as
they can to try to get some things filled um we're having some good success as you saw in the area of special education um we had a little bit of a pause because we had some change over in staff um but now that we have some people in the right seats um we're
seeing um that accelerate a little bit too so you know obviously we're hoping to have all of our positions filled um but we'll continue to monitor that and you know support where we can to get as many of them done as we can director Thompson just the last
followup is that what happens if we don't get these roles filled like like what do we do is it a is a state requirement do is there because I know that substitution uh teachers on call is for substitute teachers just curious with 22 special education roles open and
is there a state requirement or where do we go to get them we don't have any state requirements around that um but certainly we would have to get creative um anytime we have a a teaching position open we want to put the most highly qualified teacher into that position um
we have uh done a variety of things specific to the special ed area and that might be um doing some combinations moving some um uh staff students and staff around to some degree to the degree that we can um I know that they
have done some um uh Contracting Services for particular things when needed that's not an ideal scenario um and then of course we have our teachers on call and our teachers can work a certain number of days um before we have we would have to basically put a new
person in there so we have used that as well um we try not to do that for any long period of time if we can but it certainly buys us a little more time if we're if we're looking for somebody so it's really dependent on the situation and the position um on how we would
respond to that um but we would respond in some way depending on what was needed thank you any further questions okay thank you is that everything for that item it is okay so uh do we have a motion to pass
employment recommendations leave requests and resignations some moved have a motion by director Lind do I have a second a second second by director kellerer any other questions okay hearing none will'll put it to a
vote all in favor say I I I all opposed motion carries all right next item on the agenda we don't have any reports tonight but we do have reports with recommended actions um it would be the resolution calling the addition of a levy to the
November ballot is that being presented by em Emily and I well going to start with me and then Emily and then I've got tabber and Sean here as well in case they need to chime in so think he's going to pull up the slides for us if
you remember last work session uh Peter Leatherman was here shared some information with you regarding a survey uh where that fell so we've got a couple of slides here in a second that will get up and I'll keep talking do you have the slides you can pull up back
there there we go here we go so as you take a look at this you can go ahead I don't have the clicker so you going to have to move it for me I guess from the back room or do I is a clicker here it's right oh Emily you've got it all right so as you took a look at the
as I was talking about Peter letherman was here conducted the survey some things that he tested they did test uh the max amount of an operating Levy which was $491 per pupil unit that generates 6.4 million roughly
$85 dollars a month for a house that's $400,000 uh some other things that were tested uh as they were talking about what the community would support support for staff or staff for counseling tuning behavior intervention as well as special education Early Childhood programs that
was one of the main things if you remember he read as far as here are some of the things that they talk to the community about and the community seem to support that then from that what they learned is that 65% of respondents said they would support that request you can see uh over on the side kind of the
chart as far as strongly support support where that was in regard to uh this ask in the time before if you remember we did uh an ask earlier in the spring they wanted to see how that had played out in regards to negotiations some other things if there were some major changes
in that and you can see for the most part it remained very stable some of the things that we wanted to make sure people knew were the reasons for support you can see those items that are listed there uh in the chart some additional insights that he
mentioned for those that weren't able to be a part of it uh just the top top reasons people would support this Levy was to help attract and retain teachers and as Emily kind of talked about in the in the items that you were talking about uh from the consent agenda a majority of
things that we were are proposing are talking about our items that not only support our students but our staff supports when you're talking about counselors when you're talking about Behavior folks when you're talking about those particular areas those are things that many other districts have and are used to help support their staff some of
the top reasons why people maybe would oppose a levy of course inflation and cost of living uh are big items that are there however people started reporting that they're feeling a little bit less Financial pressure as those areas are lessening a little bit but we also know
from what Peter shared and and we talked about District residents still need some more clarity about District finances what exactly can you spend dollars on where do those dollars come from where can they go what are they going to be used for so that's part of the messaging that he said we needed to make sure people were aware
of so then through our conversation at the work session one of the things that we talked about there was three areas that we kind of had broken things down into uh and we're looking at going to the max but from that meeting a majority of people kind of gave the thumbs up to let's not necessarily ask for the max
but how could we reshape this in some way shape or form which gets to that kind of sweet spot of $12.50 a month on a $450,000 home which is $300 per pupil unit and as much as we want to be able to change some of the ballot language and be able to explain that we really
can't uh that's basically how those things have to be written by Statute but what could those funds be used for were the things that we were talking about at our last meeting and we had uh quite a healthy discussion about that uh so the items that are listed there again these
are not items that you want to put on the ballot but these are things that people need to know through the communication how they would help support our students how they would help support our staff so by adding an additional counselor at each High School you could use those dollars implementation of data inform model to support teachers and meeting academic
social emotional Behavior needs of students at the middle school level uh with that you would need two additional counselors in a social worker at the middle school adding a behavior interventionist at each Elementary School and at prek uh that was something that somebody asked and we want to make sure that people understand that's a
prek I know Emily has spent a lot of time over this year I know Molly sitting over there as well I think think that's one of the items that our folks talk about is how can we get some additional Behavior help and support for some of our youngest students uh so we wanted to make sure that was included then a couple items that are kind of addb backs
or restoring the digital media specialist positions to one full-time at each Elementary and one at each middle school and then restoring Elementary art and music Specialists to full-time positions at each elementary school so when you do all those things and add
them up I think the next slide shows it nope go back sorry that basically takes us to uh the max amount of that $300 per pupil unit uh and when I have that in front of me that that is roughly that $4 million
that was mentioned before so it says there on that first line $300 per pup unit R generates roughly $4 million that's taking the the secondary counselors social workers and supports the elementary folks and then those other staff that left off that other section that we had talked about at the
uh work session as well but so by doing that as we had chunked those things out those two areas would be able to be done and it would fit within this dollar amount that you said you wanted to be kind of The Sweet Spot but we did also want to remind you as we talked about in the next
slide uh we could go out a several more years but we wanted to remind you that there are some upcoming things uh that are going to be on the ballots at some point that you as a board get to decide about so by not doing something now which you could choose not to do there's still going to be other things that are
coming down the pike that either going to be piggybacked on or doubled up on you can see if we do something in November and we have to remind people operating levies can only happen in November you can't do them any other time of the year so if you were say hey we don't want to do an operating Levy now you're waiting for another year and
then remember when you do an election in November you're waiting from November until the following July to start collecting those dollars so it's almost another year uh then we have the board election possible Bond referendum in the spring to talk about Middle School space
and then reminder that we do have some renewals and some operating of capital levies and renewals for an operating Levy again next November so for some reason we didn't do a levy this November and you want to do something next November you already got a couple of renewals that are there on the ballot as
well so that's kind of a small concise snapshot of what we kind of talked about I know Dave and Kim you weren't able to be there but I think uh they s and I think bill sent you the information and said if you had questions to reach out to him I knew you got the information
but that's why I kind of condensed it down a little bit to give you some time to have some conversation so really what we're looking at is the $300 per pup unit $12.50 a month on a $450,000 home in those areas the counselors at the high school middle school social worker
at the middle school elementary behavior interventionist and then the restoring of those positions of the media Specialists and the art and music positions at the elementary schools now I would point that point out and I think we talked about this briefly that by
restoring some of these positions the full time there may be some additional time in their schedule that we're going to have to negotiate and try to figure out how to utilize that time because if you only have X number of classes for an art teacher to teach and she's got he or she has a period or two open you have
you can utilize those staff members within the build to do something else so that's how those positions would be filled so that's where we're looking at what you asked us to bring back to you from the work session was that dollar amount in those areas so that's what we provided uh to you if you have specific
questions I know tab's here can answer about Behavior folks Sean's here about the secondary uh counselors and and other supports that our staff and students would get in those areas as well and Molly's here from the early learning not that I'm going to put her on the spot but she's here as well I
don't want to forget her either so with that question that you have or Emily anything else you want to add that we that I didn't mention no I think you covered it I have a question um so it says that the early child has is getting
just the behavior interventionist and that's really all the support that early childhood is getting with this Levy um is there a need for like a a social worker at the Early Childhood level or do they have something like that already um Molly if you want to come on up to
respond to that what but I what I will say is that um Molly and I have um spent some time engaging the staff over a cleck in well we called it some visioning meetings um and really it was partly about what do we envision what's
our Dream for Early Childhood in Lakeville area schools and what do our kids need and then we kind of did a little bit of A needs assessment so like what what do you need um what's going well that sort of thing um one of the things that really Rose to the top aside
from the fence which we have taken care of um is the need to have an additional support person so that's how in our conversations around the levy um as we are looking to be a prek 12 system um we
thought having consistent supports prek and then through our elementary school would not only meet the needs of the priorities of the staff but also be a resource um that they haven't had access to in the past so I'll turn it over to Molly to answer your question thank you
thank you chair Baker and Bard and Dr vile um so yes we do currently have a family Outreach support specialist in the building that does help with reaching out to the community for for early learning um a social worker has also been in discussions in the past and
and this role currently supports that the um behavioral interventionist we currently have one that is shared between early childhood and Elementary we did for one year have that person in the the building for Early Childhood full-time and then with budget cuts we lost we did not see that um as a
full-time position so that would be recovering that as a full-time position at at kleck okay I appreciate that I I just think of like how unique that early childhood experience is and a lot of those community supports are just really important in those first few years so I was just curious if you had the um the
social worker at that level so thank you I appreciate that we are we are really grateful for the support and the recognition of how important early childhood is and it is very important to to see those things start at the Early Learning level so we can awesome early director Lind uh I don't have a
question but I think I might be able to answer a question the question might be why of the of of going out for an operating Levy and I remember back in I don't know a few months ago we had a Mee and confer and I asked the union people what was biggest challenge they had in
their schools and it was unanimous it was student self-regulation and we know that behavioral issues affect achievement big time and just today there's an article out that um that was published I I'm not
sure where I read it online but it's it's true it it was a study that was done it said that nearly a third of all adolescents in the United States received treatment for their mental health in 2023 a third
which is up quite a bit from 22 and 21 um the most common treatment it said was Outpatient Treatment uh that included school counselors and so it rang a bell it's we and I know we have the need and it's not just Lakeville
it's not Minnesota it's Nationwide right and and that's I think the main reason we're going out for this right now thank you Dr kellerer um so yeah Harry thank you for those comments um one of the part one
part of the survey is the support that this community it showed the support that this community has for the education and I know in the 28 or 29 years I've been on the board um our number one reason that people move to
Lakeville has been for the schools and um whether you have kids in school or not a strong school system is valuable because of if you've got kids in school obviously you want them to have a strong system but if you don't it's it is your
home values and we know we have people always talk about how their taxes keep going up but so does the value of their homes and their assets because of the strong schools um but the one thing I think is important to note is we're always going out to ask for additional dollars because that's what's required
by the state for us to be able to support the systems and the programs that our community is expecting but what we don't always see see is how some of these dollars you know just like our bond referend eventually come to an end
and fall off and so if you look at like you know over the last 30 years or even longer than that we try to keep the tax rate very um flat for our community so if you do see increases this typically
because your value is going up and we do know we have some bond referendums that will be falling off in I think Bill said 20 into 20242 school year or 20 2025 yep 2025 school year so um although
we are asking for dollars we do have dollars that do fall off on the back end when they are done yeah so I appreciate that and I think Dr ker you're right I mean we we have uh levies and just for clarity you have a levy you have an operating Levy
that fund how School operates and you have bonds which is for more capital projects and and and they come from a different pool of funding uh you know when we think about how much money that we're going to invest in our education system here I mean the community already pays 27% of the overall $28 million
budget so that's $57 million now while the state allows us to tax up to a certain threshold I believe it's like $3,000 per pupil we have roughly $6.5 million of taxing Authority at at at the district level now that does not mean we
have to spend all 6.5 million unused that's unused right that's 6.5 million that's unused let me refraid the 6.5 million that the district would tax the community to fund additional operating opportunity could tax other opportunity
things and so I just want to be mindful that we're really thoughtful around what we bring to the community but also with 6.5 million available that we could tax uh where does that go and how do we make sure that we have the best uh impact for all students the most Roi for the things
that we put out uh for the community to to vote on um I am aware that behavioral issues has is a huge component at the elementary level Middle School level and so forth uh we are from what I read LA from what I heard last week the elementary behavioral resources is
estimated about about a million dollars so about $994,000 for uh eight resources uh they have to be licensed let me rephrase that that is a request to have a licensed behavioral specialist uh and between benefits and their compensation
that they could potentially fall under which is uh the EML contract we're allocating roughly $142,000 per person for a behavioral specialist and so if they are in an elementary building that has 5 to 600 students we've got one person that
manages let me rephrase that that one person to provide guidance and behavioral intervention for the the students that may that might need that uh and for of the five to 600 students in an elementary building um so I've sent this email a while La
yesterday or a couple days ago uh Mr Domin shared his point of view of having behavioral specialists that are considered license uh and and that is why the the estimate of of a million dollars is warranted for eight eight eight individuals uh again for them to
manage the 600 plus elementary students uh candidly I don't know if that seems realistic but that that's how it's uh how it's presented um is this the only path we have are there other school districts that have a different model leveraging maybe a leaf Union staff
resource that might have that um I'm just wondering can there be two individuals uh that we could leverage within each Elementary building that can provide the same if not similar um end results because you know if a person gets sick then they're not there then we
don't have a behavioral specialist I'm just wondering are there Alternatives or what are the pros and cons that we need to have a behavioral specialist in this category versus another that's my unknown Dr Vel couple of things and I'll ask tabber to maybe step forward a little bit so he can speak to it too now
I guess I would say this you're not relying on just the behavior interventionist the behavior interventionist is also teaching skills and giving supports to our teaching staff so the teachers are also learning skills to be able to support students on a daily basis as well so it doesn't just fall the Taber and it doesn't just fall
to the behavior interventionist within the school it's the whole family of the school that does that so this person is providing support plus and tab you can speak to this on a daily basis with 5 to 700 students in the building not all 5
to 700 students are disregulated so you have some frequent flyers you have some folks that are maybe on the edge that need some help and support so it's also being proactive instead of reactive to situations with how Behavior interventionists can interact and so maybe if you want to touch a base on
that a little bit and if you don't agree with me you say yeah I don't agree with that and share your experience cuz your your boots on the ground in the in the building with your staff as well thank you for the opportunity uh I do agree with you and specifically uh the components that you talked about Dr
venile are are integral and with a behavior interventionist another way to think about that title would be a behavior specialist because our classroom teachers specifically our classroom management especially at the elementary level they have great expertise in classroom management math
instruction and reading instruction this particular individual in a behavior specialist role really has that focus and that on those uh Behavior needs that aren't very common that might Spike up it might be something that's oh we haven't seen that before how are we
going to respond to that this individual would be able to help take that lead and do that and so then they're they're working in that proactive uh or in that reactive uh situation there but also the proactive in that they realize that uh that specific need they're able to do
some education on that specific need with staff so that everyone can better respond to the needs as they see them uh come up but also do proactive pieces with students and and uh specifically we've had great success in our district and our buildings with PBIS positive
behavior interventions and supports that would be a spot where that individual could be a a specific point person for that work um and then that's really that proactive teaching of what we ECT and what we want to see and that individual has that U skill set and is able to
refine that and really own that program whereas right now that's part of somebody else's U job and then I would just reinforce what Dr vanza said as well that it's part of the team so for example if the um principal's not there the building doesn't stop working the building continues to work if the
principal's at a meeting or out sick or whatever it might be uh that continues to work and that would be the same as with the behavior specialist to behavior intervention that they're part of the team um and specifically at the elementary level when we talk about classroom teachers these are individuals with very broad
shoulders because they're carrying an immense amount of responsibility and support for each one of their students and so then there's other individuals like the principal like the learning specialist the behavior interventionist that are providing support um as it's needed in very specific and unique
areas director Lind I think key to what you said it's really important important you're proactive rather than being reactive and that's where the success will be thank you director Carly Anderson I just want to provide um some reinforcement for
what has been uh discussed so far you know I was um just thinking about what uh director Lynn brought up a little while ago about the article there's been a lot of Articles coming out about mental health with kids um and what's going on right now in our generation and I feel like there's these two camps
where there's a lot of emphasis on social media and phones and things like that which I know we're going to talk about phones in our schools and policy coming up but also you know can kids tolerate the same amount of distress or there different stressors and how do we teach them how to regulate emotions and
so um one I think these behavioral interventionists are great ideas just because I do think they probably have a higher level of expertise than someone who you know if you got two people who are at a lower level of knowledge around these things um and also I was just
looking into just what some other Twin City area schools are doing with this and one thing I'll share is I just looked at Yetta and they have four AP so granted their school is twice the size their high school but they have four APS
and four Deans which is funny that we're talking about the differences there but and then they have 12 counselors so you know that's we're shooting for four per high school so that would make a total of eight um so we're getting there but to me when we are talking about the just
lack of counselors in our schools and how those teams um can really help to when they get on teams for groups of students at the high schools how that just helps promote success and so one thing I think is really important as
we're communicating about this obviously we know the communication is really huge but how does addressing all this indirectly affect achievement like you brought up which I think is what people don't exactly always make that connection so thank
you Dr kellerer yep so I'm gonna jump on your bandwagon because that's where I was going to go ultimately when we talk about the need here it's the mental health support it's the support for our teachers it's to reduce the behavioral
um interruptions and stuff but um tabber I don't know if you can speak to what that would mean but ultimately the goal here is to improve the learning environment and um student achievement whether it's Elementary
Middle School or high school what this Levy is intended to do is to Target our strategic plan of increased student achievement so um do you have comments or are your from your perspective what
all of this would do for student achievement and a an improved learning environment well I think you know the answer to that question yes I do director killer I have plenty of input on that um specific I'll talk about the behavior interventionist piece
specifically um one of the key components that we know are relationships and that having those relationships uh I got to be here a little bit before the meeting and chat with several of you and we have those relationships we got to uh just chat and have us uh you know some small talk some
conversation and it was from my perspective enjoyable that's positive relationship the behavior interventionist helps facilitate that and and specifically by uh bringing that in a question that might be asked is well what if my child doesn't have a
specific you know um Behavior need that's unusual and they tend to do well in class they don't need a lot of redirection or things like that that's fantastic there are students that do and that that's a part of that dynamic in the classroom this particular role is
adding support for that classroom teacher at the elementary level to be able to continue to do that lesson and know that they've got a little bit of backup maybe or a little bit of extra support somebody who specializes in that specific need at that time um a way that
we talk about it in the building often is comparing Behavior needs with academic needs because that's that's what we consistently work on Behavior needs are part of are part of that work they're part of that environment they're not an outlier they're different uh than
a than a maybe a reading disability uh but they're in the same camp and that that's what we're working on is is supporting that individual child which is then of course part of our school community and our overall community at large so I believe that those pieces go
in I would uh expand it a little bit um since you gave me the opportunity and just add to the art and music pieces that that also helps facilitate that culture um right now our stem specialists at the elementary level are full-time in each site so a a
significant portion of their day is teaching um classes they're specialist and at the elementary level that means they're teaching the the entire uh class of students so for example a second grade class of students while that classroom teacher has their prep time as it's allocated through the EML contract
and uh the stem specialist spends most of their day in that teaching environment however they also have time to integrate that and do some specific um pieces to supplement like we've seen some uh Partnerships with qa1 as a district they've been able to go a
little bit more than the the time in the specific structure allows and I would Envision that with art and we had done this with music in the past where we had music uh Specialists music teachers and they had a little more time in their day so that when they were outside of the
specialist specifically they spent a lot of time doing concert preparation and meeting with students so they could do some extra practice and get some extra time together and I would see that being similar with our um art is they're just building those connections maybe it's that student who just thrives in art and
this is the place for them they get that extra time to to do some of those pieces and again it just builds that strong School Community thank you sir you're welcome so just a quick question because I I want to give like the full background of
this because obviously you have PBIS already built in this is something that you're working on so this is just like another piece of the puzzle for the behavior work that you have been completing as a District so can you kind of speak to um what what kind of model
you're working with um that that there are interventions that these that the behavior interventionists would be doing it wouldn't just be like adding a staff member and then we have to build from the ground up like you've already built the ship right around the behaviors because I know you've done some work with clay cook um conscious discipline
I'm trying to think of all the different things in my head that I know the district's done like I know I'm just saying like it's not just like adding a staff member and that we have to add all the other programs with it like you've done the pre-work for it now we just need this last piece of the puzzle and is that kind of how I'm understanding
that correctly that's that would be I would agree with that understanding that the a number of the components that you're describing are there they're functioning they might be being led by a different individual for example the principal the counselor the learning specialist in in
many cases and I specifically of course think of easto we have uh teachers classroom teachers or Specialists that are leading some of that work um as part of their assignment and they volunteered to to do that sometime taking away or being out of the classroom for professional development but they're
championing that particular piece like a PBIS in this case where I would see the behavior interventionist coming in is now they're the champion for that um and so there's a little bit of a shift but there really isn't um I don't see uh that we would need to recreate or or
develop new programming it's programming we have up and running we simply are going to be able to take it to a higher level because of that level of ownership that the behavior interventionist will bring thanks director Thompson can you I'm not in an
Elementary classroom so I don't know when when we say behavioral interventionalists behavioral specialists need to get engaged and so C can you give me a few examples of like how disruptive is that uh do all the kids have to leave the classroom or and
and and what is the percentage of our students that might need this are we looking at like less than 10 are we looking at 15 or or uh but but with their their actions might drastically impact the the entire day of a classroom I'm just trying to understand the level of impact the level of severity of this
of this I I I get it but I'm just looking to learn more of what happens in the classroom and how does that impact the other students if there's a few examples that you might be able to share uh I the the range is going to be
you know from a zero to 60 kind of a piece yes there are opportunities when the uh classroom teacher has to take the M the class accept one student out and is looking for support from an individual for example um we had some of our buildings had assistant principals
that individual or a principal might be coming in the counselor might be coming in uh somebody else to support a specific student who's having who's disregulated and needs some some intense support um and that student might be able to leave as well and that could be
another option um but the there it's very difficult to to pin it down to a percentage I would also say as a former assessment coordinator I don't have that number so I'm not going to try to get you one because I just don't know it so I don't want to pick some number out of
the air and say it but it's there it's it's a constant part of uh just the the classroom and it's a result of bringing a large group of people together and working to meet the needs of those people um in this case their elementary students um and the so there's that I
guess there's that range of um needs and then back to the relationship that's where I see this behavior interventionist building those relationships and so that we can start to learn for this part you know for a particular student and I of course in my head have several in mind that I can
visualize and I could I'm not going to of course but I can tell you their names and um I know who they are and over time we learned those needs better and what worked well for them and what didn't work well we were able to support them support the teacher support other students in the classroom um in meeting
those specific very individualized needs and I see that behavior interventionist as someone that would facilitate that and again they would take that role that's something that for example I've done and that they're going to specialize and be able to focus on that and have those connections that's not
going to be their entire day their entire day isn't going to be waiting for to have to be disregulated and then go they're going to be in classrooms they're going to be in the cafeteria um the two areas that we know at the elementary level that can be um challenging because there's less direct
supervision as the cafeteria and the playground that's an area where this person could be they could be helping to organize activities they can be in classrooms delivering lessons and supporting classroom teachers they can simply be visible in the building and helping to build make those connections so one of the pieces that we
consistently work on is having those relationship ship so that when you get to interact with someone it the there's already the familiarity and you're not having to introduce yourself for example and say hi I'm Mr R and I'm the principal and they're like I've never seen you before no they have seen me
before they know who I am there's that connection and so then that moves the problem solving or uh the challenge forward a little bit faster think if it's okay well I have the microphone one of the questions that was brought up as well was uh discussion
around the level for example is it a a par professional through the our Leaf group is an uh teacher or an interventionist which would be through EML uh another one that we haven't talked about would be as an an admin administrator isn't an assistant
principal in that role as well um and I I believe that the behavior interventionist uh teacher someone through the contract is that is the appropriate level for that um part of that person's role is going to be homeschool communication contacting a
family and talking about something that might be happened our pair of professionals don't do that um so then that would that um process would fall to the principal possibly the classroom teacher um but the behavior interventionist is able to own that the behavior interventionist is also a
teacher so when they're working with teachers they can teach their colleagues and they are also in a spot where they are able to say lead a whole group lesson with a group of uh students with a class of third graders for example a par professional that's not their role they would work to support a classroom
teacher or somebody else in doing that but they're not going to be able to specifically host that lesson because that's outside of their capacity as a pair of professional I was just going to say that when you brought up assessment it made me think about how much assessment
goes into um prior to any Academic Year where you're getting information about the kids that are coming into the classrooms and then the teachers get all this information and part of that is to make sure there's balanced classrooms with regard to multiple different things right so the assessment part of that is
very important to make sure there's balanced classrooms in terms of needs and then you just have kind of eyes on what's going on right I appreciate the process direct Thompson I've got additional questions on other topics but I'll pause here if there's any more on this but I do
appreciate all the information that you've shared it was helpful thank you can I just reiterate one um that principal Akin said that I think is really important um I think when we hear the term behavior interventionist we immediately go to extreme
behaviors high levels of dis regulation a small portion of the students in our system but what I want to just reiterate um is that this person not only deals with those situations but also works in
our PBIS system which is around POS positive behavior which is engaging all kids in in positive behaviors it's building those relationships and it's working side by side along teachers to support them and most importantly I don't want to forget that when we have
somebody that has the capability and the skill to be able to do this high level um of work at a high level number one they can help slow um or stop some of the disregulation by teaching skills um
they have opportunities to engage sometimes with if there's a peer-to-peer interaction that is not extreme um that kids need to kind of work through alongside of a counselor because they're part of the team and they allow the principal then to be the Principal our
elementary principles don't have the supports that some of our other buildings have and so anytime anything occurs in the building they are generally the first person running to take care of that issue which means they
have less time to support teachers they have less time in classrooms they have less time to be able to work through the vision um and mission of the district and that strategic work so having a team of people with expertise that they can rely on gives us more benefit than just
helping a student on an individual day that may become highly disregulated so I just don't want to lose sight of that um because I just think that there's a place we go when we hear the term Behavior specialist so that's it you have a question oh not on this
topic but okay go ahead all right so my next question is around the high school counselors and so I know we talked about it briefly earlier uh just to recap these are individuals that are on the EML contract they are going to be
providing academic advising got career Readiness college readiness uh and can I make an assumption that they will be meeting with every high school student twice a year almost like a financial advisor to say how's it going where are you going what are you doing next I just
want to we're good there yeah you're on the right track exactly and um I I've tried to explain this to some people and for me it comes back to I was at the DMV the other day trying to get my license renewed and there's 20 people in line
and there's one worker and I'm sitting there waiting all my thoughts start going through my head and I'm like God there was two workers half the time I'm waiting here and Etc well our students uh have spoken loud and clear that when I first started in the district over 20
years ago I think our case loads for the Deans were at about 240 and Judy probably remembers that um they've grown to close to we'll use Easy Math because we're both high schools are creeping on 2,000 students and we're growing we know that which is a good problem to have um
but our Deans now have gone from case holds around 250 20 years ago to 500 students for simple math roughly okay well that's a lot to manage for one person and counselors now will take some
of that burden and meet with students uh and give them the services they need like you said on a more frequent basis uh my daughter's going to be a senior at Lakeville South this year and her friends will often come to me as the principal to for schedule issues well
why are they doing that they're doing that cuz because they can't get in to see their Dean because the lion is out the door and everybody that's been in either high school has seen that um that the line is through the door especially in the fall and that semester change and it can be frustrating for parents so the
levy will help alleviate some of that and a lot of it's just being good stewards of our money so where do we get our must bank for our buck and how do we make a system so people aren't waiting in line um people can get the services they need and um and that's what we're aiming to do
and so hopefully yeah a counselor can meet with with students more on a more frequent basis because they're not getting pulled from maybe a a severe behavior that happened or investigation on social media that we all love um which the Deans have to do um they can keep their appointments and meet with
these students on a more frequent basis and give them the needs they need not only the counseling um day-to-day life but also most importantly just plan for the future so yes that's what we want Dr venzo I think the other
component Sean you can correct me if I'm wrong is it also helps our staff because our staff now have another person to be able to go to because students are going to the staff members and saying can you help me with this can you help me with that and and they're excellent at teaching in the classroom but they don't have some of the expertise that a
counselor is going to have so there's another resource to them that takes something off of their plate as well so there's multiple layers to this to Carly's Point earlier when she was talking about the numbers of resources that some other schools have we don't have that that's been one of the things
in in my time here is to try to figure out how do we get some more resources into our buildings to be able to support our staff and our students and as I mentioned at the work session when you go and talk to our high school students they're frustrated but they're they're not irritated they're not mad they they
understand why it is the way it is they're just like can you get us some additional help can you get my teacher some additional help because when I talk to them they're like well I have the same issue I can't get in to see this person or I don't have the time to be able because I'm doing these other things so I think there's multiple layers to this with the counseling
situation department at the high school that helps our students academically and supports them in a lot of ways but it also helps our staff by helping them have some other supports and resources to help kids and that's what they all want to do yeah yeah and Carly's analogy was really good with wetta and we've
done those uh studies um with all the South Metro schools in Lakeville is by far the leanest um with our Counseling Service Administration support if you will uh having four people for that many students um you go to any other high school around us and look at the numbers
of how many counselors and APS they have and it's at least triple and and so just trying to get service to students we know the needs are changing um and it's become a frustration point we're at that Tipping Point where we're growing as a community that something's got to give
and um that's where we're at so director Thompson so I do appreciate you sharing that I I think one of the things that we always need we need to think about is like what are our students missing that we are either not doing it or asking an unlicensed or unqualified person to bridge the gap and so if our
students are not getting academic advising if they're not getting college readiness career Readiness either being a trade starting a business be a realtor I don't know whatever may be they're not having those conversations and this would give them a pathway that post High School Choose Your Own Adventure and
there are more things there are different paths that you can take um so I appreciate that uh but I do want to clarify when you say the word counselor MH uh what we've talked about is what that is and there may be some folks in the community that might say a counselor is that a is that a therapist do I do I
send my kid to talk about their issues or I just want to make sure we understand the scope of what a counselor is and what it is not so that we're on the same page yeah and that those rules have to be defined I think Letterman you know when he gave us our advice to explain what are we asking for I think
we have to be very clear on what a counselor is and they service all students and so it's really important my daughter's taking some PSO classes for example this year um counselors go to trainings well you can only go to so many trainings a year as a as a Dean as
an AP you go to Roger who's our lobbyist for the state for all the discipline updates that the new legislation has well it'd be nice to get to the U ofm to see what's happening with PSO offerings and counselors from all schools go to those and when I was a dean and I was a
dean for 10 years uh I went to those trainings and I was the only administrator in there they're all counselors from other high schools sitting in those trains with me and they're looking at me like what are you doing here and I'm like well I'm doing the job of two people and and and that's important to note because for the
community well how does this benefit me uh just like the DMV me waiting in L it's an extra person to service you and for every Avenue that you're doing in life and after high school they're going to help guide you in in those situations and it's important that we have people
with expertise to do that and so we don't have just one person trying to cover it all can I add one thing yep yeah um thank you for the question I I appreciate it I think um to Sea's point one of the things that we have to remember is um by hiring licensed school
counselors they have a broad base of expertise but the purpose is to to actually have a person or people in the system whose primary role is meeting and working with students to meet their needs to ensure that all the students in
the high school are getting what they need in this area to be successful maybe again that is more of sort of like there not a I don't want to use the term therapist but maybe it's an opportunity to help with some conflict resolution or maybe they've experienced a trauma of
some sort and they need someone to talk to in addition to that they're the person they go they're like their person I'm going to go they're going to help me they're going to help me in whatever way that I need to be helped and not unlike what I was saying with the elementary what that does then is it allows our APS
to be more adult facing they will deal with behavior which is part of an assistant principal role um but they have opportunities alongside the principal then to really be able to understand and support the teachers in the way that they need to be supported on the day-to-day basis and be in the
classrooms and um and help them in that way so um so to have more of an adult facing position um and then more of a student facing position really allows for that flexibility and that access that the kids just don't have right
[Music] now director Thompson so I don't have any questions on the high school topic but I'll pause here if there's other board members that have questions on this yeah thanks thanks okay so uh so we've got we've
talked we didn't talk about the art media digital but I think in general there might be some consensus that we like the art digital stuff here uh high school counselor sounds like there might be General alignment there and Elementary
behavioral resources may be General alignment there um I do want to talk about the middle school because the middle school is an additional I think like 1. million $1.5 million worth of um additional tax revenue and so this is the implementation of data informed
model so that's the bar model I believe that's roughly $280,000 the addition of two addition uh two additional counselors which each middle school already has one counselor already and so I just you know we just talked about the definition of a c a
counselor about academic advising career read career Readiness college readiness I I I don't know very many sixth seventh graders are going to have those conversations and so I just want to like understand the value of two additional counselors in in Middle School uh we've
got one social worker uh is is the ask and then we already have two assistant principls and one counselor already in each middle school so I'm just looking to better understand adding two additional counselors and the need to add one additional social worker at the middle school level for an additional
$1.5 million in in taxes to go first sure um first of all um I when I student taught I student taught in the middle school I spent my career at the high school but I student
taught in the middle school and even though it was you know a dinosaur ago in time um Middle School is such a beautiful and excit terin's laughing beautiful and
exciting time where kids are really figuring out who they are who they want to be what they want what they're thinking about for the future what their passion about and then you combine that sort of
self-development with sort of the physical aspects of what's going on and when you're in middle school and puberty and all those things what you have is you have students that really need some adult guidance some adult Role Models
they need someone to talk to they need someone they can trust um and as they get through the middle school towards the seventh e8th grade are getting up in the middle school years um you would maybe be surprised at how
many kids are thinking about high school they're thinking about wow I really have a passion for stem and what are my opportunities to do that um right now they don't really get a lot of guidance in that area because we have the same
situation in the middle level that we have at the high school in terms of access um to our Deans um and our are our APS and our principles and they are very very busy um when we talked with the high school students actually this came up um we had a number of our um our
high school focus groups were all all grades a variety of grades and certainly the ninth grade and 10th grade students said you know I had to talk to my brother's friend because they were in XYZ and I was interested in that and I
couldn't you know get in to talk to somebody about that and so um they by 8th grade they want access to information and support um and help them talk through their planning and also help them like talk through if things
are going on um in their lives someone that they can kind of lean on and I would say we've brought this up before but specifically in middle school it's really hard to have one person that is potentially your disciplinarian and then ALS oo supposed
to be your support person they just the combination of the two doesn't work in terms of building those relationships and setting those expectations for kids so um so I would say to answer the question we're really looking to develop a systemic model in our secondary um
where students have access to more supports that than they do right now um by separating those positions and then providing those additional people per grade level um to be able to do that so first we'll take director David Anderson and then director
kellerer so it seems like the counselor role can you move into the mic so it seems like Council role at the middle school it will be a little bit different than the council role obviously at the high school and as the kids get older it'll become more like the high school like you said in eth grade so for
clarification for the community yeah absolutely um I think that's a great um great Point David really what what we want to do is again having the benefit of a licensed counselor that has a broad base of skills in a in a wide variety of areas and has that high level of
expertise what we want to do is we want to look at this the needs in the system I think director Thompson just made a comment about that what are the needs in the system and then what do we need to provide in order to meet those needs so they might vary slightly it's not like
we're going to say you have to do exactly what you're doing in the high school that wouldn't make sense but what is it as we are doing our needs assessment do we need and what are then how how do the the experts in the building prioritize those things to be able to make sure that they're
happening so the other thing that I think is necessary to point out with the middle school is the fact that you probably counselors would also probably be supporting a lot of parents and
family decisions as well um only because a lot of the parents need help when it comes to time to register for high school and help them to transition and and so forth so um to director
Anderson's point the counselor operates differently under the same guise with Career Development and or advancement and all that kind of stuff but it's a lot of parent support too at that level just helping the children transition from middle school to high
school that that's a good point because there's a lot of kids that should not be taking online classes in nth grade director Carly Anderson so just to go back to the DMV example that Sean brought up earlier are we seen that same pressure at the middle school level
right now with this we have the school counselor so is that same pressure there for we absolutely are and you know our although the the there's a lot of the work that's parallel um but there are different again needs at the middle
school than there are at the high school and but the pressure um of trying to do two jobs is is real um and we've known that for a while and we haven't been able to figure out exactly how to meet those needs but
I think um having this type of a system would be really beneficial not only for the kids and the families um uh but also uh for our staff and and for our uh principes and our APS as well Dr vanile I think one of the things to to
take into account is we're not trying to pigeon hole a position it's more like a bowling alley what going to have some bumpers on it to keep the council hey here's kind of the lane that you're in today you may be going down the right side you may be going down the left side tomorrow you may be trying to pick up a
split well I'm not a bowler but whatever that analogy stuff is you know to me it's not necessarily trying to fit a person into a a lock step spot it's giving them the freedom with their Prof professional lure and experience to meet the needs of our kids and help support
our staff and and that's what we're looking for we've heard from several administrators that are talking about the the lack of resources and support that our students and our kids have and we're not Reinventing the wheel you know these are proven strategies that have
taken place in multiple schools across the state and across the country with these helps and supports and as Emily and I have mentioned multiple times our kid our kids are asking for they don't know exactly what to call it but they're asking for the help and support our staff is asking for the help and support
I think we're remissed if we don't take a look at it granted we're just not trying to fly by the seat of our pants but we are taking a look at things that actually have value worth and meaning and we've seen it play out in many other schools not only across the state of
Minnesota but other places as well uh and and our educational experts are saying they need help and support to be able to do it so that's that's why we're presenting some of these things to you uh in in the fashion that we are would that we had all the money in the world there'd be a whole lot more behind this but we have to be able to build some of
these things in in cooperation with one another that's why the Middle School needs to build up to the high school the high school needs to have their help and support Elementary needs to have their helps and support So to try to be able to to fix our system as Emily kind of said we're trying to take a look at all
levels we could say hey we're just going to do high school but we know we've got issues at elementary we know we've got issues at middle school so we're trying to take these dollars and be as efficient as effective as we can be across the system director Thompson did you have another question question yeah uh so so thank you for your for the
additional information you know we've got two assistant principles already in each middle school and and just from a numbers point of view we've got roughly 800 or 900 kids in each Middle School ballpark will round up and we'll be 900 on the conservative side and so you've
got two assistant principles 900 students in each middle school so they're managing 450 uh comparing that to the high school model you've got four assistant principls roughly 500 kids in each grade so they're managing roughly the same I can make a case that probably sixth
graders and seventh graders are more challenging than than ninth graders I I don't know uh but but you've got two assistant principles already there you've got one counselor already there and and if you've got roughly 900 in each Middle School I'm assuming 300 eth
graders 300 sth graders so if you have one counselor that kind of provides that career academic Readiness for those eighth graders they're managing roughly 800 folks I mean it's 300 folks is where I'm I'm trying to just do the math where like do we need a counselor for
300 uh one counselor for 300 students whereas for the high school we've got one counselor for 500 students and then at the elementary level we've got one counselor already there for 500 students so when we've got 300 in each grade level at the middle school level I'm
just like I I think I'm more aligned by having a uh you know two deans or two assistant principles two counselors uh before we jump to three and three uh we have not seen it uh you know play out at the high school level we're about to move them all to four assistant
principles and now we're adding four more resources for four counselors um it might make sense for us to be prudent and just wait a year or two see how that model materializes and then come back and see if additional assistant principles and a third counselor might
be warranted uh but that's just just thinking out loud looking at the numbers and and where we're at we've only have let me rephrase that we've got a $6.4 million total tax Authority available and so what we spend we want to be mindful that it impacts the most amount
of students that we can has the greatest impact in academic and and and uh success and so and we haven't even talked about other things like we've got salary calibration for All District employees we just went through a union negotiation
and we have yet to talk about what that might might look like as a levy two option or so um my crazy idea of adding a classroom assistant in every single Elementary classroom so that it gets to the root cause before they go into middle school so that we get them a
success uh in in academics um funding for the new Middle School is $2.5 million uh potentially when that gets up and running and and then teacher mentorship that's one area that I think I don't know if we can allocate or spend so while those things that I've just shared are not part of this proposal
I I just want to be mindful that $4 million is making taxpayers spend 2.85% of the overall budget for our district and so I don't know those are just a few thoughts I'll pause here and were you going to share what Molly Shar yeah just
a quick um well two things um I think that we all acknowledge that we have um infinite needs in our system um because we are Ro goal is to help you know tiny
humans sometimes not so tiny humans um get them out into the world in the best way that we can um to be the best people that they can be and to be able to follow their dreams um so infinite needs and we have extremely finite resources
so part of the conversations um and that that Doug and I have and our other executive team and our our leadership team and even our teachers union it's it's just always trying to figure out how do we get one step closer to where
we need to best support our students um where are our needs where can we plug in what can we um what can we afford to do based on um where we are from a budget standpoint at any given time um and then what do we need to advocate for through our referendum process or for other
processes so so we're constantly trying to figure out how we can maximize imiz um not only the dollars we have but maximize the experience for our students and I will say Sean said it this area
that we're talking about today we are extremely behind our kids don't have access to what most if not all um students have in the metro area related to counselors and Behavior Support so so
I say that because that is one of the reasons why this plan materialized is through those conversations and trying to figure out you know what which Apple are we going to pick off the tree today and what problem are we going to try to solve and
we know that right now this is an area in which we are not only under resource significantly but also an area where our students we seeing students needs increase um especially since Co that said I also just want to make a point of
clarification at the middle school we have two assistant principles we have no counselors the additional two counselors would even out to what we have at the high school so they would pair up like we would have at the high school and then the additional person would be the social worker so the third person is the
social worker position not the counselor position so I don't know Doug if you want to add anything no I I I think that we just wanted to clarify that and I think from from the vantage point that we're in as as Emily said this is this is the
conversation we've been having on how do we provide supports to our students how do we provide support to our staff we were working with a finite set of dollars and and again I guess I would say this the educational experts are who
we've talked to and those are the folks in the classrooms those are the administrators that stood in front of you those are the students that are experiencing what they experience in our schools on a daily basis so this isn't Doug saying hey this is something we need to do or Emily saying this is something we need to do this is coming
from the people that are are in it every day in the building saying they need some additional helps and supports and and I guess I would just say this waiting is not going to be a good answer in my opinion because waiting you're going to be asking for another
levy on top of other levies that you either have to renew the things that we're proposing the things that we're talking about are not untested they are not uh we're not saying hey do something that is on the bleeding edge of something we're not even on The Cutting Edge we're
we're behind we're we're working with a dull blade you know when when you're talking about the number of supports that other districts have that's what we hear from our staff I can I other than yeah I understand salaries are what they are but they take a look at what other helps and supports can they get in other
places and we are lagging behind in a majority of them and so that this we've got to start someplace you got to tip the first Domino for the second Domino to fall director Keller so um just I think we it has to be mentioned that if
we're trying to mirror the Middle School to the high school and look at it on a numbers basis um it's not going to work um I think we are woefully under staffed in
these areas in the high school and that doesn't mean we should then all o be woefully underst staffed at the middle school if we can do something for the Middle School to help us and they have been um really kind of put on the back
burner for many years when it comes to the staff um I think that we should I this is an investment that's well worth it and um it is a proven model uh we've talked about we Zetta and the other school districts that they've all looked
at and studied across the South Metro that has this in place um so it is a proven model and the sooner we can put it into play here for our students and our families the one thing that this district has always done very well is
taking a look at positions and figuring out how to tweak and change them to be more effective for us and to also be more efficient for us and so um the sooner we can invest in that we can start our own processes of Improvement
and um continue to modify our programs and our budgets as need fit for down the road and I do know we have a limited amount of resources and uh we do need to share that with our community but I think um
after our discussion that we had um at our work session you know it was pretty clear that these are resources we need to invest in now and not go to the cap so we are being thoughtful of not going to the cap but
we're also being very thoughtful of the fact that um we need to be able to support our students and our family and work toward our strategic goal of academic improvements and and continuous Improvement and I think this is that next step so before we take more questions or
comments um I just want to be mindful of of the time that that we've taken on this discussion and I kind of feel like we're discussing the same points that we've already discussed like we're we're kind of getting there and I I feel like everybody feels and and understands that
these supports are necessary that our our schools need this this is something that we definitely need um but I also understand uh director Thompson's point that um we you know we do want to pay our staff more and that's that's something that the board has has been
concerned about for a while and not just teachers but cooks and janitors and grounds workers and Paris um we we want to make sure everyone you know gets a bump and pay but there's only so much we can do at one time and this is one step in the right direction um if you looked at the earlier slides that we had on
there um we do have uh Bond referendums coming up and and other levies coming up as well so I mean those are things that we can continue to address in the future but right now we are completely behind when it comes to these types of supports and um the students the ones that are
paying the price and the teachers are trying to hold up a ship that's sinking so um I I don't know if we need any more discussion on this I I I'm just curious if if um the board is ready to um ask
for uh a a motion to approve director Thompson just just one more clarity I apologize so we do not have counselors in Middle Schools today or or plan to have counselors in Middle Schools this coming November or this fall correct okay and so the two
additionals to have pair up the two Assistant principes two uh counselors and then add a social worker on top of that okay correct and then one last clar clarification uh this is stuff that we've already talked to EML leadership this is what they aligned with as as
well so we're good in partnership with them and they don't need anything else like this is what they recommended we' met with them several different times there's more things on the list but several of those things don't don't necessarily align with being able to
meet the needs of multiple layers or some things that are a little bit more specific special education is one of those areas uh that they that they talked about as well the the challenge with some of those things class size for example or the amount of dollars that it takes to be able to do that knowing that
this was something that these were also areas that they agree to I can't tell you that they're going to say these are their number one top priorities but anything that's supporting staff support ing students and Falls within the realm of of the EML contract they're their
members in their Association rather than administrative are a much more positive step in that direction with them director Thompson yeah so one of the things that I keep hearing that has been a um a a high value item for for
teachers is a a mentorship program and so do we have a mentorship program is it in development um how much would it cost that you might need to have it fully functional and ready to rock and roll what does it even look like Dr McDonald's already been working on that and has it built into the budget we're
just waiting for the budget to be approved from the state and it'll be taken care of we haven't had a robust mentoring program that something EML has talked to us about and I've shared with them we're working on it uh it's about $175,000 uh and and Emily and her team
have worked on putting that in place so that's why that's not a part of this so so so if that gets approved it's something that we'll have funding for for I want to say forever but for for a duration we have a two-phase plan um the funding that we're
talking about utilizing on the onset is through um our title 2 program which there is a provision that allows for us to be able to utilize those dollars for a mentor program if we don't have one um we have a robust onboarding um for our
new teachers um but we don't have the on the B the supports are only provided through the building and not at the district level so our two-phase plan um is really about building over the course of two years um to have a more robust support for all of our new teachers um
not only in their first year but in their first three years and then delineating between those that are brand new teachers straight out of school and those that um maybe have experience and are coming to us after 5 or 10 years um so where we are with that is um the as
Dr Z said our plan has has been submitted on June 30 it has to be approved by the state um if they approve it um then we'll be in a place to communicate um around it but um we haven't communicated around it because we're waiting for that approval to
happen um before we take our next step Dr Van and then I'm good director Carly Anderson I just simply I know we're we've been here and we're talking about this I simply want to make the point that last year when we had our Levy it was not a unanimous vote
for question two it did not pass um and when uh Peter was here he talked about the importance of unanimous vote so if there are any lingering questions that might help I just I want to make sure not to rush where people don't vote in
favor because they don't have all the information that they need I I agree with that but I think we're trying to add on proposals to and and I I just want to keep it on the topic on the proposals that are actually on the table that we discussed
during the work session correct not additionals do you have any questions related to the ones that are on the table already no but no I I don't but you know we're about to spend $4 million of taxpayer money times that by 10 years
is $40 million $40 million and so uh it's it's not something that we should rush into we just started discussing about this last week um I brought teacher mentorship program up because if it doesn't succeed if it doesn't get approved then we don't have
one so couple of things number one when you take a look at at the dollars that you're asking about in regard to this you're asking the community to either vote to approve it or not approve it you as a board are not making that decision you're asking the community to say these
are the things that we're communicating to you that we believe our staff and our students need so you're giving the power to the people to be able to say do you want to do it you as a board are not doing that the second component to that in in regard to the mentoring aspect of that with any of these if you try to put
them in place and we don't get the money as part of Levy you're not going to have them we're trying to figure out ways like with this with the mentoring program to be able to build it that we can do it with without the mentoring dollars the or without the levy dollars to be able to do it these bigger ticket
items we have to have the levy dollars to be able to do it and you're just providing the opportunity for the people to be able to vote on if they want that for our students in our school district does that make sense yeah I agree but I mean we as a border is kind of a stage gate one and things that get
reviewed before it goes to the community and so like Carly said we should be aligned with what we want bring forward uh I do hear teacher mentoring is a big component and to help offset uh any unfavorable decisions this would help at least provide another pathway if
if that is uh something that's a value need for the for the district but the mentorship program is most likely going to get approved by the state through the budget well I wouldn't want to say either way it's always a little dicey with the state of Minnesota here's what I'll say
the reality is that I I have had krie and I have had many conversations about this our exact team and their exact team have had a lot of conversations about it um our commitment remains that we want this for our staff this is not something that we're like you know we don't agree
with it we don't want it we want it what we're trying to do right now is creatively figure out within the budgets that we have specifically our restricted dollar budgets like title if we can reallocate which means again something goes away but re reallocate our dollars
to meet the the needs of the organization to the best of our ability so here's what I will say David if it doesn't get approved then we're back at the drawing board we're not we're not people that just you know
wave our hands and give up we're going to go back and we're going to try to figure out if we can when we can how we do it what does that look like so um so we we are committed to this um we're in a place where we might be able to take some action around it but regardless we
want this for our new teachers for sure it's I mean it's required by Statute so chair Baker I think it should also be recognized that uh Minnesota Schoolboard Association this is in their platform as
well for lobbying at the state level for mentoring programs for our Public Schools so that is something that's being lobbied for director money for a a mentor program money funding
M you know for any organization that you work at UH a career sucession plan a career growth growth plan mentorship program is a key foundation and and that we don't have one as active and as solid as as we may like to um I I would be open to adding that as part of the
proposal to make it at 4.2 versus 4 that way you've got um the community as uh to to make that choice as well so because here's the deal if it doesn't get approved then we don't have one the fact that we're not helping educate 800 of our staff seems not appropriate so so
just one um clarification um right now the mentoring of new staff is handled at the building which means we don't necessarily have consistency across the
system so it's not like they are just 100% left to their own devices um a lot of times we have teams their team takes them under their wing their content partner at the secondary takes them under their wing they they some buildings have some supports that they
have sort of funded through their own means at the building level um so there are things happening it's just that what we need is we need a consistent system across the district that guarantees um the type of experience that we want for
for our new teachers so um so if that is not if the if the title application is not the mechanism to do that um then as I said we we have to continue the conversation about how how do we make
this happen and in what what way and what's our timeline and is it going to happen right away it's hard to say but certainly um certainly we we would love to see this come to fruition and if that means that when we go to our next
budgeting cycle that we have to look at um what what we do to be able to support that then that's part of the conversation but um but yes we'll hope we're fingers crossed um we'll hope that we get a positive outcome and we can start our two-year
process are we good or do we have more questions okay um does someone make a motion so I will make a motion to um call for the resolution or call for the addition of a levy to the November ballot as
presented okay so we have a motion on the table from director kellerer do we have a second I'll second second by director Lind any further discussion or questions on that motion okay hearing none we'll put it to
a vote roll sure go ahead David Anderson every time yeser yes yes yes
[Music] yes yes all right motion passes so the next item we have some additions to the agenda tonight there were two additions one would be high school counc for 2024 and the other one
is an HR audit board sub subcommittee so we'll start with first one high school counselors for 2024 uh director Thompson can you tell us more about that item and why you wish to add it to the agenda tonight yes uh there are three counselors starting this fall uh I believe that to set them up to be
successful they should have four so I would like to make a motion to add uh allocate $300,000 from our general fund so that the high schools all have four starting this fall oh uh do we have any discussion on this
item director Carly Anderson I think when you one thing that uh you asked earlier was whether that hiring would be possible does that seem like a reasonable thing to hire if we were to approve that I visited with our high school administrators and I visited with Bill
hren as well the the issue becomes those dollars of course are not built into the budget so they would become coming out of your reserve fund and if if we don't get additional dollars then it's going to continue to come out of that Reserve Fund in your fruition or make reduction
someplace else one of the things that I visited with Sean and Kim about was waiting until October 1st on our count date and if our count date is up high enough and we have the additional dollars to be able to do that they could look at getting that fourth counselor uh
probably at semester which is probably an easier time to be able to have some folks coming out uh in doing that is that an accurate Sean would you agree with that good with that yeah uh yeah come on up and so I I don't disagree with what you're saying we also want to
be able to fiscally be able to support it because if we're not able to do it and you're pulling money out of reserve on an ongoing basis that creates a downward cycle that's why we were taking a look at October 1 count if the count was high enough we had enough dollars we could come back to y'all and say we've
got some additional dollars coming because our student growth was high enough and we could take a look at adding that position Sean yeah and um for this year it's a transition year um we are um working with the counselors because we didn't want to just throw
them out into this very high case load uh and drowned uh we have six new people starting this job and we want them to be successful and we want them to have a good experience and we want our students to have a good experience and so our our Deans are going to be doing a lot of double duty and at both north and south
and helping them especially with our seniors cuz our seniors have had their Deans for 3 years and they don't all a sudden want to start from scratch and have a counselor so we're trying to phase it in and so phasing in these three counselors to focus more on n9th 10th and 11th grade and having our Deans
see through their seniors is is a big piece to this but yeah thank you for that motion I I I don't think I answered Carly's question we couldn't tell you for sure that we'd be able to have somebody to be able to cuz counselors are not just laying around on a on a
street corner to be able to to pick them up so we've been fortunate enough that we found some quality folks as as we able to do that but we can't guarantee that if that were to be the case we we should sure try but we're just also not going to put a warm body in there uh we're going to find the right
people director Thompson so I apologize are you saying that we could not find someone by then before school start no I'm not saying that they could they could try but I can't guarantee it just like any other positions we're winding down in that time of the year where people are kind of locking their positions in staying where they are we
started earlier in the year to be able to find the counselors that we have and I don't know that there was a a big pool after that of people wanting to come forward but I know Sean and Kim did the interview and for that there there's always a chance it just takes one well it would be two uh that you'd have to
find to be able to do that well let's do the compromise at the semester then well so thank you for that the um uh but if we're anticipating 200 additional uh students is that what what what Bill's waiting for to see if the resources would be there to based off of his
budget he built in roughly 200 new students so if it goes above that and it creates some additional dollars he's much more comfortable saying hey we can we can stretch this a little bit maybe it's 150,000 that we have to come up with instead of 300,000 or something of that so I don't know the exact numbers
of that but I know that in my conversation with him that's what his he doesn't want to start the downward slide of spending dollars out of the general fund yeah that we don't I understand that I think uh my interpretation would be it would be a a one-time uh allocation uh for an extra $250 or $300
allocation 300,000 allocation for for this year and to set the stage that we're we're set up and then next year if um uh if we see it successful in its optimal State uh and we want to continue it on then when we get to the budget discussion in next June July we can
decide if how we maintain the $300,000 for that if the levy passes if we need to do some a budget allocation changes uh I just want to make sure that if we're going to do this uh let's make sure that we've got the right optimal model seted up correctly I get that we
may not be able to find someone we can wait until October November but by the time we bring someone on board it might take a little bit longer I don't know yeah my recommendation is a onetime uh funding to give you the option to go see if you can find one and let the
community choose in November if they want to add that forth I guess I guess I would say there's no guarantee that it's just onetime funding because you don't have a revenue Source coming in offet you're going to have to make a reduction someplace else reduction the so to be so it has to be yeah so it either comes out of your general fund balance into
fruition or you have to have a revenue or a reduction to offset it so just to say a one-time expenditure I don't is not 100% accurate because it's it depends on where those dollars would come from if if we didn't have new Revenue to offset it either we'd have to find it in somebody's budget or we'd
have to have an increase in the budget someplace else y to be able to offset it thanks yep so are you making a motion my motion I already did okay is there a second to that
motion no I think it's a good compromise to I'll I'll I'll I'll make the modification if we wait until like [Music] November what so you want to modify the
original motion to be that we another modify we don't need to make a motion though we can just wait and have the discussion then to see what it looks like once the student count comes in and discuss it at that point I will withdraw my motion okay all right that's a good point awesome okay
moving on to the next item on the agenda which is is the HR audit board sub subcommittee that was added by director Thompson can yeah I do want to see if we can add it to the next board meeting uh you know obviously with some changes upcoming uh like the board to have it on
the agenda for a working session topic around having an HR audit board subcommittee uh as we uh navigate this uh upcoming school year uh just want to make sure that the board has um participation awareness
oversight as uh key roles are placed within the district as we move forward and so I just want to make sure that uh is that something that we can add to the agenda Topic at the next working session clarification is you want to add this to a work session yes why do we have to do
what he I mean we we just call her up and add her to a work session I I didn't offer that when he asked I want to make sure that it's added to the work session for us yeah so okay yep okay I've got it added to the next work session thanks all right so that concludes our
additions to the agenda so we'll move on to superintendent report uh just very quickly our course our summer activities are still taking place winding down in some of our areas hard to believe we're into August uh I did want to highlight again Ready Set achieve if you're
interested in being involved in that that is a great opportunity to be involved with a lot of our families and our students uh and so if you want to be involved in that activity please make sure you're able to uh be aware of that other than than that uh we've been here for a while that's my biggest thing just
to be able to highlight for youall to be able if if you want to be involved let us know we'll get you in contact with the people that can get you involved in that activity all right sounds great that's a wonderful event to volunteer for and um it's nice way connect yes you can donate as well you can donate items
as well I think they have a list on the website of things that you can donate or cash Ready Set achieve all right do I have a motion to adjourn the meeting so Moe I'll second we have a motion by
director Carly Anderson and a second by director David Anderson any discussion or questions okay hearing none we'll put it to a vote all in favor say I I I all opposed motion carries this meeting is adjourned thank you for joining us this evening good night