ahead and uh call the meeting to order looks like everyone is here um let's uh stand and say 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 okay there's a couple of changes to the agenda looks like um uh we added um okay we added a bullet point to the
recognition of good things happening and uh we added uh recommendation of hiring an elementary special ed teacher um is there anything else anyone okay if not would someone
make a motion to approve uh those additions thanks Dan is there a second second thanks Angie all those in favor say I i opposed motion carried all right now we
just need to have a motion to approve the agenda i'll make a motion thanks Kyle is there a second i'll second thanks Nicole all those in favor say I i opposed motion
carry was there any type of public input this month okay thank you all right uh recognition and good things happening national Volunteer Week is April 20th through 26th thank you to
everyone who generously contributes to volunteering at Leroy Ostrander you are greatly appreciated thank you to L forever committee fundraising effort earlier this month it was a great success does anybody know how much was raised
we have a meeting on Thursday and I'll get the report back okay i'm just curious seemed like it went well as far as I know nice to have it set again yes it was it was fun um at the Minnesota Football Coaches
Association meeting Trevor Carrier won subdistrict east District Coach of the Year and Section One Nine Player Coach of the Year and uh Coach Carrier was also named second vice president of the Minnesota Football Coaches Association
so congratulations Dan okay is there anything else that we're missing on those types of thing anybody else can't be recognized that we kind of want to mention something we might do it during our report but it kind of is great things happening with a
student okay so maybe whatever you want us to do Dave we'll do it let's do it now let's do it okay aaron you first all right well today um Representative Mueller and Davids came down and presented Camden Hunger Halt with a
house resolution um honoring Camden Hungal gender school on being named Mr football for 2024 um and they came down and presented them and they have invited him I can pass this around instead of here eating at you guys um and they've invited him to come
up to be recognized on the floor at the state capital so when is it do you know when that's going to be no they just they just came down they presented that to him and then she said I need to be in contact with her and that took some
pictures and awesome it's exciting cam had his Man Ko sweatshirt on so perfect yes it was awesome you guys congratulations to Cam you bet all right very good thank you
um moving on to our reports how about this report from the student representative uh spring sports are busy with games the juniors took the ACT April 10th the FFA chapter banquet was April 6th state FFA convention is April
28th and 29th the 2526 registration is due April 17th leadership trip is April 23rd college fair at the Twins game is April 24th prom is April 26 and grand march is at 7 pm
sounds like April's kind of busy i know thank you um no staff report tonight excellent okay uh principal report Aaron okay um should have a a sheet in front of you um
first one PLC goals i always leave those up there that's kind of what we focus on when we meet um the data diving of the test scores how to improve our teaching our RCD practices continues and our marzano teaching evaluation process so I just leave that on there because that's kind of what we focus on um this year um
2526 registration and schedules have already been out i had the parent Zoom meeting last Thursday um we've meet with students and registration will be due their forms are due Thursday actually this Thursday this Easter week already
so this Thursday and then I'll be working on master schedules um the end of the month and hopefully have everything out beginning of May that's kind of my goal so everybody knows what kids know what they have before they go home for the summer and teachers know their schedule before they go for the summer so that's how that works college
partnerships i last month or two months ago I had a list of maybe I don't know maybe 10 or so we just got a new connection with Upper Iowa um I've not had any student teachers or anything with them so we made the connection and we do have a student teacher coming here in the fall now so I now have connection
with Upper Iowa so hopefully that will lead to more student teachers um in the future for that so we're excited there readact uh completed phase one we are waiting on phase two and we also are waiting on curriculum and what direction
we should be going with our curriculum in the in that world so we'll keep you posted custodial updates uh working Tim and I are working on putting together maintenance plans and cycles um want to get those done before June 1st so we
have everything in one um area and really working on anywhere from yearly to 6 months to monthly to weekly to daily um just really get a better grasp and control of what we need to make sure we're we're working on in the custodial
world uh math curriculum we are gathering samples and researching other curriculum we're hopefully to be ordering um in 2026 uh master schedule as I said is in progress um that'll be finished after registration is is done
uh CNA program update we still do have a CNA program um we were running it out of the Mayo Clinic building um they city sold that um so we needed to find a place for the beds um because the I actually got the beds from Mayo um so we
are working with Riverland right now because that's Emily Braum our nurse left we went there so she's still going to be teaching the course it's still going to be run through Riverland it's still worth college credit now but like we did find a building in Adams that
Riverland is going to occupy or use so we are moving the program over to Adams it's still our stuff and our thing but still run the same just different location because we just didn't have a place um for the eight really eight beds that takes up a lot of space so if you're anything different we still have the program it's
still ours it's just not in Leroy it is in Adams um same people teaching it um they did change the program a little bit in the past the students had to go even on classroom days now they've changed it so classroom days they can zoom so they
only have to go over to the program for lab days so that'll be less travel for kids as well um usually it's done by they start a little bit in August um it's based on hours and they're usually done by MEA um if things go well last
year we actually had a waiting list um so we we had to take seniors obviously got first choice at that so if we continue with the um interest they might try to run a second program in the spring um so I'll keep you posted on
that so if you hear anything different we still have the program unfortunately it's just not in town but it is still our our stuff and working the same way um ACT test we always offer we do that for 11th grade we've completed that here at school mca testing we are in progress
um they'll do MCA testing and really that's what we have going on right now i mean questions so busy yeah it's busy any questions for Eron um the CNA
program when do you do it during school hours or is it after school or So that's a great question so what we do is called zero hour so it starts 7 or 7:30 depending on what time the instructor decides so students usually go it's usually first or zero hour in first
period um we try to have students back to their schools by start of second period okay um in the past we've done um couple longer days in August before school starts like maybe four four hour days or six hour days to knock off some
of the hours so they can shorten some of those regular days up so they can get back to school sooner um but really it's it's we try our goal is to get kids back to their home districts by start of what is that 9:00 9:00ish we try to get it
back so thanks yep any other questions for Aaron always thanks Aaron you got Jen superintendent report that's Well I have a lot of kind of really great things to share initially with all of you um as
all of you are aware our state fire marshal came in this week and he actually wants to give us a gold star our staff did amazing our custodial staff our pair professional staff food service administrative staff teaching
staff did an outstanding job of prepping the building and readying it for for us or for him I'm sorry we had maybe 16 items that are um they're not dings by any means they're just in question or he helped us with how to save money in our
budget kind of thing so we talked about it at building and grounds but again huge shout out to the staff they did outstanding outstanding so pretty proud of them for that if anytime you want to see the report as you can see it's not very long come on to my office and I'll share it with you it's not very exciting
though uh another great thing I am going to apply for a grant through Mau County uh what it is is we get people in who are experts at mapping buildings for safety uh so they are going to come in I
hope I get the grant um but I'll apply for it and they'll come in and they are going to have this enormous map for us of all our exits all our windows safe zones unsafe zones things like that so if I of course get that grant I will
surely let you know but I'm hoping for it anyway so I just want you to know I'm trying to get it um but in the same vein I've reached out to um the sher Mara County Sheriff's Office in regards to some signage that we are going to be
posting in our parking lots for specifically our students but also our adults to basically put your cell phone down um and click your seat belt before you leave the parking lot just to continue on that safety journey with our kids here we we feel like we should have
a hand in that so we're going to continue to do that work with Maro County on that uh continuing to do some outreach with our community this will be the fourth or fifth year that we are in partnership with the Iron Horse Marathon
that comes through right or through Riceville and of course Leroy and they reached out to me a few years back to see if they could use our facilities here as a break and I you know I asked John Stockdale and Aaron and Tim Bllye
if we could start partnering with this cause and sure enough they reached out again and we said yes so you'll be seeing here in the summer and both and Aaron Tim John we show up and help them any way we can um any questions they have too so kind of a good outreach for
us anyway um I need to again express as we did in our agenda a huge thank you to every person that helped with that L forever banquet as uh Kyle Cernin said earlier it was a great success and a lot of fun
it was a lot of fun i spent more money than I needed to but maybe not enough for some people right there but it was so much fun so huge thank you to all those people that put that on they did a great job um and there's some more good news the
Lever Strander Public School has a faceelift um it's been freshly painted uh the the deck has been powerwashed new testing monitors hoses drains spa jet motors you name it we are really
tackling that pool area and tonight and our building and grounds folks can talk about it tonight too but we're doing everything we can to really revamp it and get it where it needs to be so you'll hear more about that too uh let's see here i've been sending
out um quite a few emails related to kind of the fiscal happenings at the State Department and how it will relate to Leroy Ostrander and I can't stress enough it will hit us whether it's this year or in upcoming years if they continue down this track
um so we are trying to be as fiscally responsible as I can as we can um so today's email basically shared with the staff too that we know what's coming from St paul we all also know what we're doing and we can control that um but
it's being responsible with the dollar it's looking at our credits it's looking at teacher duties it's looking at attrition if a teacher leaves do we need to fill that position that's not cutting that's called attrition where you just remove that position um so that's kind
of what we're working on um I'm not predicting cuts at this point because I think we've slowly done that throughout the years to make us fiscally stable but things can change by the end of May by their exit so I'll continue to keep you posted weekly june will be a
huge meeting for all of you especially you new folks you three in front of me when we present the budget to you and where we have had some attrition or we have maybe said "Hey we're not going to use that substitute teacher anymore she's too expensive or whatever." Maybe that's of course not the case we can't
find some but that's an example um but we'll share in great detail of why you should support the budget we're going to present to you um but it's based off the information that I get from MSBA MASA weekly i sit in on a superintendent
webinar and that's a good hour or two and that's with all the state superintendent um and so we get a lot of information i take a lot of notes and then send off an email um you know with cut and paste of some things and some of it's my own narratives too but I'll
continue to do that and uh make sure you guys are well informed before June before June but just know people are are nervous about this as they should be you know all of us are nervous about jobs or um you know their husband or wives jobs
whatever this day and age it's scary stuff out there right now and um our first and for first and foremost priority is making sure we keep jobs if we don't have teachers teaching kids aren't learning and we understand that if we don't have aids or pair of professionals custodians and
non-certified staff here kids aren't learning we understand that um so we're good at looking at programs we're good at um looking at outside resources to help us whatever it is to make sure we support the human resource here um
that's a priority I've always had i'm going to stick with it unless I'm told by all of you otherwise so um but you'll hear more from me on that for sure um final thing is the uh Mau County and
Filillmore emergency mitigation meeting i should have talked about this earlier i'll continue to attend those um and I think that's maybe why a grant was offered to me that I could apply for just because sometimes I feel like I'm the only school person attending um but
they're pretty good they're long um but they have done a really really fantastic job of just wanting our communities to be safe in every single angle you can think of i'm so impressed with them um so a huge shout out to them as well
um we also for the board to know graduation is coming up so you'll be getting a formal invite from me some of you will have duties at the school board meeting such as you Mr dave well definitely um
and so that'll be coming your way as well that'll be a separate email so just be prepared for that and we hope you can all attend uh another great job i should have said this earlier too i have to shout it out to Chris Hansen we put her
in a role that she was a little scared of and I'm going to tell you that woman has flourished i am so proud of her we have had we had the Minnesota Department of Health come down to do their food and beverage establishment inspection the report came back with
flying colors yet again this is like two or three years in a row now can't say enough good things she's she's kicking button there and so I'm so proud of her she didn't want me to share that with you but I'm told her she can't tell me what to do so there we go so yes when
you see her please please pat her on the back she did great um let's see i think that's about it we're getting all our emergency drills in um as Aaron said we're starting to talk about curriculum so all next year um we'll be studying
practicing new curriculums will this math curriculum work better for our kids and teachers or will this one we'll have multiple examples to choose from so that's pretty fun that's kind of our one of our most favorite things we get to do as administrators is curriculum stuff so
um that's coming our way as well and that will be built into the next year's budget not next year but the following um but we'll keep you updated on what we're deciding on that kind of stuff too um also just want to say I know there's a lot of new stuff coming out especially for the new board members um
especially during budget season but really anytime this is all new for you this whole year is going to be new for you um as some of my emails have stated to you if you have any questions don't hesitate to reach out if there are school issues we deal with them as a school we don't have to answer to
anybody except the school that's who we answer to and I want to be really clear on that um especially when it comes to programs um we have all the answers if people have questions if we don't we will find the answers for people um but
we run the show we're not run by the the city we're not run by the county we are locally controlled by us and I just want to be clear on that um but please reach out with questions please tell our community just this week we've actually
last two weeks we've enjoyed we've had people come in and ask questions that we have never seen before it's been really great so yeah so really promote that that we don't live in an ivory ivory tower here we want people to come in they may not like our answers but
they'll get answers i promise you that so truth and I'll get the truth unfortunately right okay so thank you thank you any questions for Jen
okay thank you all right we'll move on to the consent agenda uh we need to approve the March meeting minutes is there any corrections or questions on those okay treasures
reports any questions or comments about the treasures reports okay uh looks like more fundraisers this month personnel a lot of personnel this month um administration is recommending the
hiring of uh Logan Drees as a lifeguard at the pool we're still on yep still on it uh number two we need to recommend uh the recommendation to approve the resignation of Melody Lunning as our
high school language arts teacher end of the school year um recommendation from the activities office to approve the hiring of the following fall coaches and adviserss uh head coach Trevor Carrier
uh head JV coach Nick Sweeney head junior high coach Ryan Evans uh junior high assistant coach Josh Sbert uh volunteer coach Aaron Hungerhol so all those are the same as they were last year
um all their salaries are based on the uh the contract the EA contract that we are just starting to negotiate for the next couple years and cheerleading uh co-head coaches Stacy Jacobson and Chris Hansen and the one act play
advisor Don Homequist um lot of consent agenda tonight um also recommendation from the activities office to approve the hiring of uh uh following spring 2025 volunteer
assistant go golf coaches uh Dave Tangren and Grant Lunning uh recommendation to approve the hiring of Ian Tom Thomasson as a community ed director for the upcoming year
uh recommendation to approve the hiring of Nikki Bergen as assistant activities director for the upcoming year um recommendation to approve the hiring of Leanne Drees as the community ed
coordinator for the upcoming school year and then the addition to the agenda recommendation to approve the hiring of Brianna Klaus as the elementary special ed teacher for the upcoming school year 2526 all right are there any
questions on any of that in the consent agenda anything at all or did I miss anything i don't think I did so if there's no questions would someone like to make a motion to approve the
consent agenda so move thanks Andy is there a second thanks Dan uh any questions or cons uh discussion okay if not all those in favor say I i uh
opposed motion carried all right moving on to uh the discussion and action items policy approvals so the policy committee was busy again this month um we have the
first reading of policy 601 school district curriculum and instruction goals 602 organization of school calendar and school day 603 curriculum development
604 Instructional Curriculum 605 Alternative Programs 606 Textbooks and Instructional Materials 606.5 Library Materials and 607 Organization of Grade
Levels is there any anything to add from the uh policy committee before the vote on the first reading these are all ones that we had looked at and had that was
nothing nothing on the first reading of those okay would someone that can make a motion to approve the first reading of those aforementioned uh policies
i'll make a motion to approve the first readings of analysis okay is there a second thanks D is there a second thanks Jess any other any questions or
discussion hearing none all those in favor say I i opposed motion carried dave can I just jump in quick yep as you begin to look and and approve our second readings please make
note that again we are our Congress is still in session and so some legislative items may come our way which include policy um so even if you approve second readings tonight they may come to us and say wait a minute you have to turn
around and do something different with your policies and they may be our second readings we don't know so we talked about that at our last meeting too that things are changing pretty rapidly right now in St paul and even with the feds um but we'll be on it the best we can um
and we'll try to get everybody caught up as quickly as we can too so those will come back to us and we Yeah sometime there might even even be ones that we read at second reading and there might only be like a paragraph change we probably would only have a second reading of it and be done um because
they want it done like that potentially and but I'll let you know i'll let you know if it's an immediate or whatever so okay sounds good okay um All right so now we're on the second reading of
policy 530 immunization requirements 531 the pledge of allegiance 532 use of peace and crisis teams 533 Wellness 534 school meals policy and 535 service
animals in the schools is there any questions or concerns about any of those policies okay sounds good any anything anybody anything you have to add policy
committee nothing's changed since last meeting okay if there are no questions or discussion uh is there a motion to approve the second reading of those policies I just mentioned
make a motion to approve the second reading on 530 through 535 okay thank you Kyle is there a second i'll second that thanks Nicole any questions or discussion before we vote hearing none all those in favor say I i
opposed motion carried okay um no donations um so we'll move on to approval of the hiring of the following fall coaches for school year 20 256 yeah
we'll fix that in a minute sorry okay these guys are some special guys worried you were on the agenda that need special special attention right okay so the these would be I blame Darren
these would be football coaches uh head assistant coach Kyle Stern and volunteer coach Super Dave Farley all right any questions otherwise their motion to approve those two guys
is separate because we each have to ah all right so first we'll vote on the head assistant coach Kyle Stern is there a motion to approve Kyle so move thanks Angie second thanks Dave dan this is
Dave you're Dan all right um any discussion hearing none all those in favor say I i closed there's one obstain okay thank you Darl all right volunteer coach Dave
Faringer a motion to approve thanks Dan is there a second thanks Jess any questions or discussion hearing none all those in favor say I i those
opposed abstains all right thank you motion carried all right approval of the 2025 senior class trip to the Wisconsin Dells all right who gets to he who gets
to be the chef for that nick no tip no i think it's Nick Fury isn't it yeah tip doesn't go yeah she doesn't know she sets it up okay sounds like fun you volunteering Dave no
thank you i'll let them know i'll let you we went to We went to the uh Yozar after the day kyle did you still go there wow watched us we had Barbie and Marlin
Y okay i don't even remember those who so cool all right all right is there a motion to approve the 2025 senior class trip to Wisconsin so move thanks Kyle is there a second second thanks Angie all those in
favor say I i opposed motion carried all right um the upcoming district calendar is April 18th through 21st would be the spring break there's no
school may 2nd is midquarter may 23rd is graduation may 26th is Memorial Day so there's no school may 30th the end of fourth quarter and June 2nd is the last
day for or that staff development and last day for school so all right anything else should we go on that when's the senior's last day in there the seventh 17th yeah yeah it's
the Friday before that the Yeah so be prepared and that's technically uh they're out in the morning they check in with me they're out in the morning okay oh one thing we I probably forgot
is uh are there any committee reports i have a couple um we just met today uh our first meeting with the teachers negotiation so we just set up some ground rules and some we scheduled a few
meeting dates that's really all we did so so that's uh we'll be getting into that um our next meeting is in about a month or so so um and the other one was we had a building and grounds committee meeting
uh today which was attended very well so I was happy to see that um Jen mentioned the pool already so there's a lot of uh things happening there um there was some stuff that's probably been neglected over the last few years and now we're
paying for it so that's the problem there but it is what it is and we have to deal with it now um other than that we talked about some other ideas as far as uh um bringing in a a group to uh maybe
just take a look at our mechanical systems and train our people into into how to u you know check on those and maintain that kind of stuff that's yet to be researched but we talked about
that kind of stuff um anything else that we The pool was kind of our main priority pool was the main thing but a lot of other things we maybe wanted to get done on the back burner for now and the pool
might have eaten up a lot of our building and grounds budget for this coming year so um anything else anybody have any other committee reports or anything we have scholarship meeting coming up
selection okay and then we'll present at graduation that's always fun our kids are very fortunate i think I when I I had a little both I met with the
seniors 3 weeks ago or so i think I'd say on average we give out between 75 and 100,000 every year yeah that's cool how many schools our size can I don't think even big schools probably do that no that's
cool so that's something that we are very proud of here so is there anything else if not it's time for a motion to adjourn so move thanks Dan is there a second to that second thanks Dave all
those in favor say I opposed motion carried we're adjourned sticks