well that clock's a couple minutes slow so it is 6 o' so let's go ahead and um start the meeting huh go order Pledge of Allegiance
please I pledge allegiance to the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation go indivisible with liy and justice for all all right roll call we got everybody
here tonight um are there any changes to the agenda I don't see any on what you handed out Jen so anybody else have
anything okay um if not can we approve the agenda I'll make a motion to approve thanks Dan is there a second I'll second it that was uh okay thank you Nicole um all those in
favor say I I opposed motion carried all right no public input tonight okay recognition and good things happening Fe February is I love to read month this is an entire month dedicated
to promoting a love of reading and being read too we want to take a moment to remind everyone to continue to engage in literacy activities at home and at school um reports so Dan is not here
with our smck report so let's move on we'll just skip over him and when he gets here we'll we'll go back to that um student representative uh we started the second semester girls basketball is in playoffs boys basketball are in the last week of
their season it's FFA week this week in the pancake breakfast is tomorrow spring Sports signup sheets are posted NHS applications were due February 10th one act to play competed the spelling be was held and Carter Emerson advaned to the next
round okay thank you what time's the pancake breakfast I think 7 n 7 all right very good um no one from staff here tonight so uh principal report Aon
all right um some of the things I I handed out or hand out sheet and a lot of those things are more for the new um board members just kind of some of the things that I have going on or things I thought maybe some important things you guys would want to know um when we do
our PLC meetings with the teachers um kind of our goals for the year have been data diving looking at MCA scores Axl scores and how to use our data to improve our teaching um rcd we practice as responsibility centered discipline I'll talk about that a little bit and then
Marzano a couple years ago I changed our format of our teacher valuation Marzano because it was more in-depth and I thought was more beneficial um and gave teachers better feedback on to improve their teaching so that's kind of what our goals have been when I meet with the teachers um 25 26
registration and schedules um I us start doing that stuff in March and April um we do a registration night we do it for Zoom so parents can um jump on there and I go for the 9th 10th 11th and 12th graders
um and then we try to get all those schedules and not everybody in place here in the spring so there's no surprise to going into next year so um so next one is National model school for responsibility responsibility Center discipline so a few years ago we were the first Minnesota school district um
to receive that uh award um and our student service center has been a big part of that what the responsibility Center discipline is we have Larry Thompson come um I'll try to bring him probably beginning of next school year I'll probably bring him just so you guys can meet him and kind of talk about what that is all about but really it's about
relationship building um and how we handle any discipline issues or teachers how they handle the kids in their class and really how that the big picture then you know if we have less discipline and kids stay in the classroom hopefully then we have better um attendance which lead to
better grades just an overall better climate so um I can give more information on that if anybody's interested um some of the college Partnerships we've had over the years where we try to get student teachers which is becoming more difficult every year um other programming if they have anything available rctc Riverland
Concordia St Paul Augsburg WIA State South Dakota State W Falls Grand Canyon um I'm in the process trying to build a relationship with Vista and Northern Iowa I've reached out for Partnerships there as well uh the Marzano process for
evaluations it's a um three-year rotation I my elementary middle school and high school that's for the tenure teachers if they're non tenured I have to do the three years in a row in order for them to become tenured um all but all teachers even if they're not on the rotation every year
the teachers do a growth goal and then I have checkpoints throughout the year two different checkpoints and then they meet with me and we talk about their goal um and the checkpoints and how it's going so so I stay involved with all the teachers even though if they're not on the rotation for that year um Leadership
Academy is something we said a couple years ago um it's kind of still in infancy um but I brought in a professional speaker on leadership Todd duault to meet with the students um really trying to build leadership um out
from the student capacity um right now you you become part of the academy if you're a captain you're an N safe officer if you're on NHS or in the student council I'm in the high school so that's kind of the leadership academy that I've developed and working on improving and and growing
react is something we working on this year we did complete our phase one which is the K5 teachers um and now we're waiting on phase two with more information to come on that and this is something new custodial updates I met
with Tim blly and kind of when we when the pool got switched over to a a new manager and we started talking about maintenance plans and maintenance Cycles we we kind of have some and we kind of don't we kind of have some written down we kind of don't um so we're our goal is
by June 1st is I'm going to assist Tim and putting all of our maintenance plans and cycles that he has um all together and if we don't have any put them together um anywhere from things that are once a year to every 6 months to
once a month down to the Daily um duties of the custodians so hopefully that will be a three- ring binder um in the district office by June 1st so then when we have new people come in and out um those things are already in place um
it's just a little bit more organizational piece on that so those are just some updates for the one of the newer members um if you ever questions let me know stop in see me if you want more information on anything we do especially like the rcd um stop in
any questions any questions okay all right we move on Dan are you ready to go yeah we kind of skipped over you and and uh we'll come back sounds good so uh Dan armag I'm the
executive director at smack uh who's my new board members here so all right I'm going to go with the easy one Dan all right thank and then just so in there's uh just information about U
smack has a new board member so on there we have our PowerPoint of the kind of the history of smck in there our strategic plan is also in there from for 22 through 27 our joint Powers agreement that we put together when we started the
co-op is also in there the newest update on that and then a smack brocher that explains kind of programs and stuff that we do at smack just because we have so many new people here I just give a brief update as as quick as I can smack is a
southern Minnesota education Consortium we have seven member districts that we work together to provide services to Unique Learners so when you look at a smaller school with populations of 300 to 500 it's hard to provide that Continuum of services to meet the needs
of all of our kids but combined in our seven districts we got about 3,000 kiddos and we're able to to provide those specialized services so we look at specifically level three level four programming so those are specialized programs with specialized teachers so
that's uh what we do uh all of our member District's host a program is run by smack in their building the only uh programs that we have off site is our next step 18 to 22 year old programs and then we run a level four program uh for
um students uh on the intersection of I90 and 56 and then we have an ALC so those are what we do we also work on lowend providers so one District's not able to get a contract for like a School site we would hold that contract and we would
all use them but so like School sites def part of hearing Audiology Vision teaches speech OT PT things like that that we can't do on our own we do together so that's other one another thing that we do is a lot of the due process when it comes to special ed we
oversee that for all districts and then we do uh staff development around that side of things and then uh curriculum so we uh research and do the curriculum that we use in our different programs and buildings for special meets but have you guys have any questions about that
or want to meet with me and discuss it my business cards in there my number and contact information and if you want to come by and take a tour of the site take a look at that I'm able to do that which which districts are part of it uh when you look at it uh we're alen coner Glend
lemons Grand medal Kingsland Leroy ly and Southland and then smack makes up uh its own district with that so that's how we're set up so uh annually I come and visit with you guys to give a update on our uh
audit and and share that but I don't have to do that anymore because I have an expert that does a lot better job of that so I'm going to let John Mark kind of go through our audit after that's done if you guys have any questions about the audit or anything about spec I'll be able to answer those and then um
I can uh I gave you my report uh for that so if there's anything on the report that you want to ask me about uh probably maybe just do something brief update on the limb lab and share that with them okay all right John Mark do you guys all have a copy of this power
I'll hand that out as you go [Applause] I'll start on page two this is just saying that our Auditors gave us some clean opinion they didn't find anything material that would see our financials you know our financials materially
represent what's happening at and we also had a federal audit we passed that too um moving on to the next slide this is a new graph that are Auditors decided to put in this shows the number of students reported by smack to the state of Minnesota so you can see
in 2017 we served 51 students those are ones we recorded to the to the state of Minnesota to mde and then all the way up to 175 that's our level three level four ALC and some of our halfday programs the ones that are in the other half day and
a smack program so that does not include our eel and part of our 18 to 22 programs that's just the level 3es ALC and level four so you can see it has shot off pretty significantly uh the need for a programs has significantly gone up over the last
couple of years especially post pandemic and most of our programs are currently full and that number is actually even higher this year so uh moving on to the next slide you can see our revenues have kind of followed that same pattern they've been pretty significantly going
up um things to note in our revenues is it's based on prior year expenditures so 24 revenue is based on prior year 23 uh expenses for State special ed um the alc Revenue there was a 4.15% increase on
the gened formula but as of 2025 it's actually only going to be a 89% increase so that's a pretty substantial you know not increase are holding steady um moving to the next one you can see the general fund activities
we spent about you know pretty much what we had for Revenue we knew going into the year we were trying to do that we spent uh a lot on our addition we didn't go out for bonds for that we spent our fund balance on it um and we paid for a 1.7 1.8 million addition to our
building um moving on to the next one you can see our fund balance is kind of the same as last year there are some changes in the assigns the nons spendables the big thing in our nons spendables is our insurance has gone up pretty significantly so that that's why
the nonspendable went up a little bit um and are restricted on the next one you can see um we spent down that big ALC bar we spent down quite a bit of that on our ALC Edition um and we're currently saving ALC money and then M Revenue
money for our next phase of our addition which will hopefully be in 2028 U moving on to the next one you can see this their building construction fund we issued debt in 2019 we spent most of it in 1920 then our Auditors thought the the
project was done it wasn't so then we had to revers some stuff and then we finally finished up the project in 2024 and that was with the alc Edition and we had originally cut some classrooms from the project thinking we were over budget we weren't so then we had to add back those classrooms and that's what we did
with her addition um and you can see on the next slide our fund balance the first year that we didn't spend all the proceeds from the debt and then the next year we spent a good chunk of it and then finally we closed it out in 2024
um moving on to the next slide this is our debt there uh we issued it in 2019 for the original building project and you can see what we've had outstanding at the end of each of the last few years it's going down um moving on to the next
one you can see our future debt requirements in August 1st of 2026 we are going to make an exess principal payment on it because our debt becomes callable we've been setting aside if a non-member district say Austin takes a spot in our level four program we charge
them an access fee based on a percentage of our debt so they're paying actually more than one of our member districts would pay for that spot so then we take the money that we have from those access fees we've been setting them aside waiting for our debt to become callable
currently we have about 360,000 set aside for an access principal payment which will be August 1st of 2026 we're currently meeting with our lender making sure one we don't have to pay any penalties if we pay anything early two we can actually do it and and
then we're running through all the hypotheticals of increments of 5,000 seeing what would happen for the rest of the debt because the debt as is Will mature on August 1st 2034 so we're trying to move that date F
uh further forward and based on some of the hypotheticals that could go as early as August 1st 2032 or 2030 depending on how aggressively we pay towards that principal payment in 2026 um moving on to the next one
this is net pension liability not sure if you guys know but TR and P are underfunded the present value of their assets is less than their liabilities so at the end of the year the state divides that up and says how much of it belongs to each district based on how much their
payroll is sm's payroll has actually been getting bigger so our piece of that uh liability is actually gotten bigger um as of now this it's more of just a nominal thing it goes back to the city of Detroit filing bankruptcy that now we
have to disclose on our financials uh moving on to the next one um you can see our uh revenues exceeded our expenditures by about 15,000 we are trying to keep it as close to zero and if not going a little over because we wanted to spend down fund balance on
that ELC project we didn't want to go back to you guys to ask for money we wanted to do it on our own and we did do it on our own and the project is complete um our on assign fund balance is about 15% um and you can see the changes in our
restricted fund balances with the big one being that ALC one we spent a big chunk of money um for that addition uh some things to note is we have no Levy Authority if something happens if we need a building project we have to go through all through you guys so we try
to keep a healthy fund balance for the wh ifs you know if our our weal finally goes out which we've had issues with we have some money set aside for building projects like that um we are also looking to expand our facilities because
there's such a high demand for our programs our programs are almost always full and you know our ALC we added 3,000 square ft to it well it was full the day open so now we have we're serving more students but we still need more space in our ALC um and we're also looking at
expanding programming to uh we added an e program was it two years ago um and we're looking at other programs that would help as San was saying the small districts that can't afford to do you know the different things on their own like e the school sites and those for
things so we're we're looking for those things that you guys have trouble doing but you need to do because statute or students require or have those needs so we're always looking to expand our programming um and part of that expansion is we've been um buying
vehicles for our Fleet to help with transportation to take some of the overload uh from you guys and and we're constantly looking adding drivers and vans and Roads to help you guys out especially with the level three and level four students any questions uh for John Mark
for myself about any your addition that you just completed was that mostly this classroom space that that's all it was so we added a food uh science uh lab and then we added a u a shop and then we
added um another lab uh station that we're using as a resource room our shop was uh being ran in our uh Greenhouse for the last couple years so it was uh the first time we actually were able to shop together and run it that way uh
those were classrooms that were included in the original plan but just based on uh the funding that we had they had to be cut out so we may do with using our uh common space as classroom space until we could add the
the the Specialties so your next Edition that you're talking about in 28 what are you planning for that for that you can't add any more classroom space on until we add on a storm shelter so basically what we have to do is add a storm shelter so a storm shelter in this
case is going to be in the form of a gym and uh and uh class uh not classrooms but office space attached to that so then once we get that we can add on to the alc side or we can add on to our level four side all depending on where the funding comes in we're limited on
what we can add based on the funding so like uh the alc funding side of it has to be used on the alc where our special ed dollars can't be used for that and the special ed dollars can be used for the level four side but not vice versa
so basically what we do is we keep track of where we are we're never going to get a big project again so we save up hit this side bring the students in saves up money so that the next time around we can hit this side of the building and kind of plan back and forth until we get
the end product of what we want so there's there's a final design but it's just piecing that out until we get what we need D what percent of the student do you think is not part of smck District uh that's hard to say because what I
what I will say is most of the students that we had were part of smack districts even though they may not be smack residents so for instance you have a high population that open and roll into like ly or open and
roll into Southland and once they attend there now they access smck programming such of our level three level four and ALC now for an ALC uh so because you have to be a member to access those level three level
four programs or uh we can do a tuition agreement with districts and we like doing those tuition agreements so like uh if I have a student from oana or Wasa Austin wherever and they want to come to our program we do a tuition agreement that's between us and the school
district and they have to pay us to have the student there plus we add that access fee so when we look at paying down that debt payment and 26 uh all of that money that comes in for Access fee is earmark to pay down that debt so reducing the
cost for all of us so we like having uh students come in through those tuition agreements um now ALC statute is different ALC has to be open to everyone I can't pick and choose I can't say just uh smack programs or smack districts
it's anyone so if I have a student that's a resident of Austin that doesn't go to enroll into ly or doesn't enroll into uh Southland and they come to us we still need to take them uh that's that statute we have to do that what we do is we have a waiting list and we get
preference to our members but U we do have that but I would say by far the the majority of our students are all students that were attending a smck district before being referred over they don't typically come straight from so do
you still do a tuition agreement with Austin in that case no in that case what happens is um the student open en rolls to our district and then at the end of the year we have to bill them for the services so like uh and it's a pain we're trying to work with legislation to
get that changed but I have to send a bill to each one of our member districts for the revenue that is smex revenue that flows to Leroy that I have to send a bill to Leroy to get that wtom sent to us and that's hard enough just with our
members but now I have to send it to Hayfield to Austin to Elbert Lee and all of these other districts that aren't members and have to explain the law how the funding works and it's a pain but we do it uh like I said I'm working with legislation to try to get that changed
so the funding flows directly to us it would say save a lot of time and effort but it's not quite here yet but that's how the the funding works on that side so um the tuition bill is is a better one for us because we're made whole uh
with that and we get our cost covered when you look at a just an open enrollment we just get the same uh funding that you guys get and we have to make do and make it work uh the same as you guys do so a lot of different funding options there how many how many outside students do you have that are
are ready you know that are coming in from the outside districts uh I'm not sure or percentage I would say less than 10% what you say probably about 10% what we did as soon as we built the programs uh one of the first programs
that we ever built was here in Leroy uh with the autism program and the thing was is it doesn't matter if we have three students or four Once you build the program and you do a good job people are going to come and that's the same with the alc so we have been able to
stay full and basically once we start to see numbers go down then we can add more uh students but it's all a balance of the number of Staff the space you have so like U John Mark said a lot of times before one of those building projects
and we're saving up we'll have additional students so that we can save up that Revenue so that we can put that in the bank so that we can add that space when did we start this consor so I would have started around
2003 is and I would say basically am I right yeah uh it was well my the closer prob 2008 is when we started meeting independent District was yeah so so I would have started right around
2003 and then we we had what was a fiscal host Arrangement so when I started it was a fiscal host where it was uh Leroy Grand medal uh southin and ly were the four districts and basically
what we did was we shared a director me uh with that setup and then what we ended up doing was uh we were spending back then over $110 an hour for a school sitech to come in and do our testing so at that point we started Hiring Our Own
employees instead of Contracting out so we started um uh getting the pts OTS the school sites we started send people back to school for those contracts and we started basically each district would share uh host a program like Southland I
know them with the OTS and PTs because we still have some on that contract but they hosted those you guys here at Leroy hosted all our school psychologist contracts so that's how we we started and then that's how we started after
that then we started adding the U actual program so each Pro each district would host a program so it would have been around that 2008 is is when we started moving in with actually becoming a co-op
and then we ended up becoming an official Co-op where we had to have our own board and stuff like that once we built the building because in order to have the building you're using taxpayer money so you had to have a public board so then we changed again so we
definitely involved as uh as as time has gone on to meet our needs here any other questions thank you uh oh quick one Li lab uh for the update so just updates uh one of the cool things we talked about
is our 18 to 22 year old program and um right now we have one set up in Alden and we have one set up in Grand medal uh what we have done is we partnered up with the limb lab out of Rochester if you're down Main Street there you can
see the limb lab there they uh make uh prosthetics for people that have lost a limb somewhere there anyways what has happened is their business has just um went up a ton because of um insurance has changed where uh people with
pre-diabetic conditions are eligible for insoles and U orthotic shoes and stuff like that and their business went from you know a little bit to just skyrocketing so they're looking at unique ways in order to meet the demand and the workload for that so what we're
doing is we're able to uh take over some of our and run a business business in our location making orthotics for uh for the limb lab so we uh put the stuff together we make the molds we pressure
them then we send it back to the orthopedic U doctor to look at and do the fine tuning but we get to do all those easy uh early stages and the hope is is that by doing this we're training our kids into a job a career they're getting that work experience but more
importantly what we're hoping is is then during the summer summer we can continue to run with our students and what we would do is my PA has now become job coaches and now our kids can actually run that business and get paid by the
limb lab uh as as employees the hope is that some of them will have employment outside of a school that way and actually maybe be able to use our facility still as adults to to do that so it's a really cool thing it's a trial
period so they can give us you know two we notice and it's done and we can do the same uh but so far it's been wonderful so I'm hoping now that we got it up and running I'll probably see if I can get the paper in or TV so that we can is this a partnership because the
one of the co-founders is a Alum of a SM yes uh so one of the co-founders man I I need to write down his name Brandon Samson from Brandon Samson from you know I do okay Brandon Samson from L uh is the one that runs it and founded this
company and yes so you so out of all the schools that were trying to get this they only picked two and I absolutely believe his ties to our small schools and small districts were one of the reasons that we were selected for this opportunity and it's a big one so it's
it's going well those composite molds yeah ni yep yep so yeah we're we're learning we're learning it as we go but yeah so they purchased all the equipment we need like the vacuum sealer the ovens and and that side of
things that translates not only for limbs but for all sorts of all sorts of car parts anything so yeah that's a great great program all right that's all I have for that thank you okay where were we super
Jen oh got a report for us it's hard to go after these guys though I know I was already with them today and here I am tonight with them goodness thanks you guys for doing they set the bar high they usually do they're my go-to guys so yes as a matter of fact I worked with
John Martin in another school district so yes he's one of my favorites for sure uh I just have a couple things for you tonight um as uh Kendall was say saying earlier FFA week is coming up actually it's this week's starting this week uh
so there's a lot of activities going on and pancake breakfast is tomorrow morning I try to go there every year and it's outstanding so if you want an opportunity not only to support the students in the program but you get a great meal show up it's pretty awesome it's in our our egg
classroom uh licensing and postings we are going to be posting you know those positions that are not highly qualified uh we just have two positions so um we'll be doing that one's for English one's for science um we've been doing that you know the whole time that
they've been getting their license we legally have to so you'll see those postings coming out for our teachers uh Aon and I are working um shamelessly on getting our adult lunch accounts at zero balances so um we've noticed over the
past couple years there's been a little slack with some of our staff and so we now have a process um to help our staff making sure they support our our kitchen uh the way they're supposed to do it so doing that uh regularly Mr hunger Holt
and I address our staff members related to safety items um within our building and most recently Mr carrier and Mr hungerholt have went around the building and named all the classrooms and numbered them and so we really take our
school safety very seriously as a matter of fact today I emailed Aon about some safety stuff that we're going to be talking about tomorrow um and so I'll be uh emailing all of you on some of my thoughts on that too but we do want to make sure that continues to be a priority for not only us as
Administration but our staff and of course our students too so we're on top of that uh tonight you're going to be uh looking at our first draft of our 2025 26 Calendar uh so take a peek at that it's already run through uh members of
our smck districts they've taken a peek at all and we've taken a peek of theirs as well the other member school districts we've also sent it off to the entire staff to see if there's any feedback on that um so far it's looking good but if you guys have any questions the final approval won't be till next
month we want to give you guys a couple months to look at it before we do anything um I'm at that point of the year I always look at job descriptions of all our staff members so starting next week always the last week of February uh each unit whether it's the
teaching unit PA professional unit custodial unit they'll look at their job descriptions and if there's any sign ific changes that would occur it comes to the board and we walk through it and compare it to the former job description sometimes it's legislatively driven
sometimes it's just internally driven but if there are significant changes I'll bring those forward to you uh let's see as Mr hungerholt mentioned before he is on it starting just a couple months ago he's been doing uh teacher evaluations and he does such a good job we use the Marzano model if
you have you know any questions about that or like training in it just a brief overview please let us know uh we love talking about that we feel that's one of the most important jobs we have as school district principals and superintendents is to uh supervise and
evaluate our staff and so we we surely like talking about it so please swing in anytime with that uh let's see Congressional session updates I've been sending you regular emails on that you surely don't have to read them right now we're just in
mid-February but do look at the calendar by March and April is when things start heating up and we'll know more information about what laws will be coming our way and also as these guides mentioned earlier too the monies what are we going to get and not get um
monthly I sit in on superintendent um webinars just to make sure I get a grasp of really what's happening up in St Paul and right now not a lot a lot of talking a lot of finger pointing you know all that fun stuff as we typically get um but I will
continue to keep you posted on things that I think are relative to the school district I take some things out of course in the email I get um that I think are relevant for us uh I did submit our thank you to Aaron for helping me with the um civil rights data
review so every year school districts have to submit an extremely intense and lengthy do you guys have to do it too you're kind of like oh my God and it takes days to do it it's awful actually and they
go after everything everything if you're not doing something right you will know about it there's red dots everywhere and flags and emails and it's crazy but it has been submitted and approved we're good to go um so we're pretty happy about that um big plug to the Lo schools
forever fundraiser that's coming up please help me here Saturday April 5th I believe yes Saturday April 5th at the Leroy Community Center it's a silent auction dinner and then the live auction start so that is a great opportunity um
to not only of course support this great effort but support our kids here at the school so um if you can go and and donate that would be great it's much appreciated uh let's see I think I only have one more thing oh I am part of the
Filmore County and Mau County Emergency Management piece um I believe you guys are as well where you have to go to a couple meetings they're virtual meetings um they're only about two hours in length but we do a couple of them a year and um that's just to make sure we're
all on the same page we knew who to contact they know who to contact um where our points are in terms of safety needs things like that any kind of mitigation needed and they've been really really interesting and they're doing a really really nice job Dave
you're my secondary contact for that meeting also just so you know we're just going to keep putting you on committee um but anyway so it's Aaron and I and Dave right now but if anybody else wants to do please let me know um but yeah I'll give you more information once
that's finally wrapped up um they're going to give us a pretty significant brief overview and I'll be able to share that out with all of you too so and that's it for me tonight okay thank you any questions for Jen on anything are you guys just sticking around for questions I was get waiting for a from
jenda leave oh get out of here I'm sorry I I got so excited about my report no you have to stay we would take care thanks you guys all right thank you Jen all right moving on to the consent
agenda um we need to approve the January 8th reorganizational meeting minutes are there any questions on those or any corrections okay uh Treasures reports um any questions on any of that
kind of stuff stuff anyone uh fundraisers we have ice cream fundraiser at the home basketball games for the Washington DC trip and cooking decorating kit fundraiser for Washington DC I think they should come and practice
up here at the board meeting I'll let him know yeah we should approve it right yeah that's the only way you approve it yeah that's I let Emily know that uh Personnel items uh
the non-certified negotiating committee recommends the approval of the msea contract that was a long just jump in on that one just really quick in front of you is one sheet of paper um I did email you the the contract um for tonight
there are two changes um well first let me let me back up just a hair today the union did vote and it did pass um so our timing is impeccable um it was a lengthy process process and I am going to say this when you have a regional
representative who is quality you can get a contract ratified within hours we had a new Regional contact um who showed up for mediation and a huge thank you to Angie and Jess of course for being there and
showing their support and guidance as we resolv this but um he did come in afterwards and um thanked me and said this is one of the one very nice looking contract and he was very impressed so um
that was really nice to to hear so yes oh I'm sorry and the paper in front of you I'm sorry the paper in front of you uh Greg and I talked uh Jess and Andrew are part of these lots of emails back and forth um first of all the formatting thank you Dylan for helping of this
contract was horrendous and he did a nice job of helping us uh but we decided to clean it up a little bit so article two recognition of exclusive representation clean that up a little bit to make it a little shorter um and then the holidays this one's my fault I neglected to put
in Christmas Eve day um for the uh secretaries whose work year extends beyond the school term but but is less than 12 months um I did put it in the earlier sentence but I neglected the second so he caught that for me so so this one paragraph replaces like the
three or whatever paragraphs you had in there that were all highlighted in yellow uh no it's the first paragraph very first one of the very first ones so it's right it's right here right here it's like the first page
basically okay yeah we know we kept that extremely lengthy one that is the new legislation and Greg did not know if we should make any changes on that um he said you know what let's just put it in there for now and then we're all safe anyway
so yeah it was exciting reading was Jessica you were blown away I'm sure okay any questions for Jess on that one all right uh moving on the the certified negotiating committee
recommends the approval of uh uh administrative contracts for Aaron Sharon and Jen and uh are there any questions on that we got all those in our thing too
um we need to approve or accept the resignation of uh Kate lore as the community ed director which is too bad yes um recommendation of the school district to approve the hiring of Candace Hansen as Cardinal kids
employ um what else here and uh um approve the hiring of Craig Knight as the golf coach for a golf Cooperative one other thing accept uh approve the immediate termination of
Melinda Winkles as per professional okay any questions on any any of that on the consent agenda if there are none is there a motion to approve the consent agenda so move thank you Angie is there second I
second thanks Jess um any other discussion or questions hearing none all those in favor say I I opposed motion carried all right all right policy review uh second
reading on policies 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 anything from the policy committee regarding those any new
information any changes okay if not is there a motion to approve the second reading of those forementioned policies make a motion to approve the second reading of 518 519 520 521 22 23
24 25 267 28 2 all right thanks Dave um is there a second second okay thanks K all those in favor say I I opposed motion carried all right uh first
reading of policies 530 531 532 533 534 and 535 anything we need to be filled in on on those policies only 5:32 um as I mentioned to our policy
committee anything having to do with IEPs special education special education funding students whatever it may be I tend to send it off to Dan first to say Hey you know I know msba is sending this test but I still need kind of your stamp of approval or some guidance on this um
so it's in his hands right now um so it's fine for first reading but just know if there's changes I'll let you know for second reading I have to confess didn't need this but the immunization requirements are they any different than what we've had in the past no there was no red lining I know
there's people since the co thing are kind of we still support a lot that right we support those who want to be Im Just we talked about this okay that have students who are immunized and those that don't want to they just basically
give us a form that students are not immunized due to whatever reason okay or maybe yep but Co is not um not a mandatory just like no but just since then and the requirement for that shot some cases okay yep actually we talked at
length about that one didn't we on Tuesday yeah good yeah we knew you'd be asking okay um any other questions if there are none is there a motion to approve the first reading of those policies I'll make that
motion approve 5:30 to 535 okay thank you Dan is there a second I'll thanks Dave all those in favor say I I opposed motion Carri all right uh
donations we like these accept the monetary donation from the Leroy Community Foundation for the safety patrol for a Valley Fair trip um would someone like to make a motion to accept that donation and so
thank them and for their generosity the Leroy Community Foundation for the Valley Fair trip for our safety control members okay thank you Kyle is there second second thanks Angie all those in favor say I I opposed motion carries we
can't be opposed on this kind of stuff all right um and we'd like to accept a donation of of two large tumbling mats for fed Department from Northgate Health Club someone like to make a motion uh
accepting that donation and thanking him for that motion thank you Dan is there a second no second Nicole thank you um all those in favor say I I opposed motion
carried thank those people for their generosity um discussion and approval of the first reading draft of the 2526 School District calendar can you tell us about that Jen
well um as I mentioned earlier we do like to kind of get the pulse from other school districts so every year the superintendents we all share each other's draft calendar um so that would be with our smck districts who Dan
mentioned earlier today uh so we share with each other just to make sure we're relatively on the same calendar because we have shared programming with staff so we don't want to leave those students out um and the teachers you know we are all for one one for all kind of thing um
and then we also like to get feedback from our staff so the entire School District sees the first draft of these calendars um and we do ask for as many as much feedback as we can get for example when our parent teacher conferences when would you like
Christmas break does this fit for you uh when is a good time for or oh I don't know graduation whatever it may be we do ask those hard questions um and then come down to this and and again we bring it to you twice uh because and we also
will bring it to the staff again saying hey this was approved we still want to make sure you look at this one last time and please don't get me wrong we have just like we did this year um changed the calendar for example we will have a music event coming up in March and we
have to change our calendar so it's it's understood by the state department also that things like that happen uh but we do like to have a general look for our parents nice and early uh so that's what you're approving tonight the first draft so you will see it again um if there are
changes I will let you know uh but it's highly unlikely it's rare it happens on the second reading but I might you never know was there any major major changes from last year this year no no is 182 the required teacher day or you
yeah there's 172 student days and 10 St how many schools in our district do the like a true spring break and so have you noticed like I would say in the past 5 to seven years it's kind of started going away where the breaks are more
related to a longer Christmas or I'm sorry winter break yeah um and so the days are taken from that spring yeah so so holiday religious holidays such as the Easter time break isn't as recognized as much so I would say in the
last five years our smaller schools still kind of revolve around that we try to we try to and you know what if you really are here and looking at the students those those breaks are important you can tell in their learning and their behaviors and frankly our
staff need it too they really do um so these are strategic it's kind of nice nice those holidays are are highly recognized nationally and internationally um but they are boy strategic when it comes to learning and well and frankly
behaviors you know they need that little break even that October mea um it's really important for teachers to get get to their professional development days up there up in the cities during mea um but kids are pretty squirrly at that time it's nice to get them home for a
[Music] while okay great question though Dan any other questions great question any other questions but yeah take a look at this I mean as parents you guys want to see this nice and early and um how does it fit into your family that's that's why
we we are usually the first district to come forward to our board um because we care about you know what our our families and our community think so so then they have an opportunity to see it before anybody else too okay any other questions about the
calendar otherwise we need a motion to approve the first reading of the calendar so move thanks Angie is there a second second thanks Kyle all those in favor say I I opposed motion
carried all right then we need to uh approve a resolution directing the administration to make recommendations regarding the reduction and or discontinuance of programs and positions and reasons thereof post school year school year 5
26 so this is a a annual managerial thing that we do just gives our our superintendent and principal the uh options that they need to do whatever they got to do whe
doesn't necessarily Cuts right and if cuts are you will know yeah you will know likely you'll know March in April right y y and those cuts would have to be approved too and you have to approve those too that's right and keep in mind too and you guys know this um the times
Aon and I have worked together the last thing we look at is HR we do look at things such as you know um are we teaching to the standards are then maybe we'd have to look at HR you know are we not are we teaching beyond that um
things like that so and keep in mind there's so much to it when you're looking at budget cuts or increases you look at for example if we're talking HR um because that's what most people are worried about with this particular resolution so I'll kind of stick with that our teachers in particular you know
if they're not happy in a position we're going to move them we'll do everything we can to move them to make them happy um we will make sure we follow the seniority list we watch licensing uh we make sure they have experience in a certain discipline so they can be supported all of that
happens but it is we are very very careful when it comes to HR because we're already very minimal right now uh when it comes to HR we have some fat here and there we can maybe cut um as it relates to maybe are we teaching to the standards you know why are we teaching a
class that has nothing to do with a graduation requirement from the state level or High School level you know why would we do that that doesn't make sense um but this also gives us an opportunity to say hey you know what we have too many bus routes we don't I'm just saying
that as an example if we would look we have too many why are we picking up only three kids on this route when we should be picking up 33 kids so that gives gives me an opportunity to say hey guys we got to cut a route we would never in this particular situation I'm just
giving you examples um you know let's say again this is odd timing for school districts boards and administration because we're working on our budget not knowing what the state department is doing uh we have a general sense we're not going to get anything that's usually
how we operate um so we're operating always with yet Cuts in mind like where can we cut here where can we cut here um but we've gotten funding in you know grants I've written or the $9,000 a year that we get for the energy um folks you
know so we know that's all in there too um so I don't want to at all instill fear with this and I think it does every once in a while with people um but it's more it gives us an opportunity to really look deeper like wait a minute here there's things that maybe we need to do better with and it also helps us
like wait a minute why are we doing something so archaic and spending so much money on something we don't need to do um you know maybe the law has changed or whatever it is so yeah anyway yeah but I can talk about this forever and I
won't um because budget season is here and but you are going to hear about it more and more for me you're also going to get plenty of emails with thoughts and um what we can cut or move or not you know um but it but it does come down to and I want I can't emphasize this enough if somebody wants a change you
know within our departments we'll we'll accommodate we want to make sure they're supported and happy um you know so we'll do that we want to keep our you know unless they're not fulfilling their obligations so yeah does everyone
understand I mean it's just a standard operative procedure yeah you're not passing a resolution to cut right down no not at all absolutely not it's just authorizing her to look at that stuff basically so
okay um is there a motion then to adopt the resolution uh directing the administration to make recommendations regarding the reduction and discontinuance of programs positions Etc so move okay thanks Angie is there a
second I second just thank you um any questions before we vote any discussion if not all those in favor say I roll call I think oh sorry Angie go ahead yes yes yes yes yes yes
okay thank you motion Carri okay let's see where are we here now oh the uh life dental and disability insurance with the with principal that that means A's going to insur us such exciting stuff again huge shout
out to the committee members who are part of making some of these decisions happen um the district and our our people who take this are actually getting a good deal again so we're saving money here so there we go no Cuts
right there um anyway if you look at our so right here if we look at life um contract a lot of our contracts have life that the district picks up so that wasn't a vote by our committee we and Sharon determined oh my gosh we're still
we're getting a better deal if we go with principal which is the same group that we're going through for our insurance our health insurance um so when you package of course you get better deals right so um so we made that determination that's why it's in front
of you for recommendation in terms of dental and disability insurance those are chosen you know by the individual if they want it or not so for example I take Dental from a different company than you guys offer I don't get it here
I go through afflac you guys will have principal so um it just better fit for my family um so the district does not contribute at all to dental but when we package this guess what not only does it help the district in the long run with
the other stuff we have it's helping our people who want to use our dto program and and sign up for that similarly speaking to our disability insurance as well so so yes we we don't again the
district all of you myself we do not contribute to dental they can choose our staff members can choose to take it but that's on their own dime nobody in our district gets dental insurance for free here they have to provide it but we're giving them a better
deal and it's nice too managerial wise especially for Sharon and I when we're working on all all these insurances are going to come up at the same renewal all the time time with the same company with the same people and again bundling it gives us a lot of leeway to negotiate as
well when you have all of it together boy it's easy to say wait a minute we're going through Unico for all of these things don't you think we should get a better deal you know we've been with you four years why don't you take 10% off or whatever you know it's better
negotiating tool for us too if we do that okay any questions so do you off the top of your head know how much we're saving going with from school compared to what I will I'll email it and then I'll bring
it back to the board so it's public um it's upstairs I do have that number Sor but I'll email it to everybody but I'll bring back next month too um so then the public hears at question great question any other questions and I think it's in the board docks I sent you as
well but I'll I'll still bring it do you have an engine what are we looking for the percentage that we're savings 14 1500 mon yep per month $1,420 not
bad same coverage m okay any other questions just want to make sure everyone understands if there are no questions is there a motion to approve uh life dental and disability insurance with the
principal make a motion to okay thanks Dave is there a second I second Dan thank you Dan um any questions or discussion before we vote hearing none all those call that I'm sorry
sorry thank you guys appreciate that roll call we'll start with Nicole yes yep yes yes yes yes okay motion Carri thanks for reminding me of that
guys um all right so some discussion and potential approval of a middle school high school robotics team so again piggy backing off what Dan was talking about we want to always look at programs to
give kids right our our main job here is to serve the students of the school district and the students that come into our school district so we've been talking about this I'd say on and off for probably one or two years and finally it's sticking because we have a
really solid person who wants to do it so our special education teacher Ian Thom Thompson Thompson Thomasson um is willing to take on this role as essentially the advisor of the program
um when he was growing up and also teaching in his prior School District he was that adviser and a member of a robotics club and so he has a lot of contacts out there um he is just Allin and has been kind of going through it
you know without approval right now because we just want to make sure let's see our our kids wanting to be involved do we have enough interest can you get curriculum you know can you get us involved with other school districts and have competitions you know we had a lot
of questions Aon and I did and he has blown us out of the water in terms of what he can do and what he expects is going to happen um but for him to be identified as a true Student Activity uh just like FFA student council the
leadership team we have to make sure the board approves it as such um you've seen in my emails in recent years um gadsby that's one of the financial institutions make sure the board has a general sense and knowledge of Student Activity
funding and so if he were to ever get funds or fund raise for his group you guys have to recognize him that he can um that's what that's all about and so yeah so I would just like to say he's doing a great job I highly recommend
that you do approve this um if things go south they go south it doesn't hurt anything we're trying we want to try new things for our kids at least every year try something new um and we feel this is a really good opportunity Aon do you want to add anything no I think that's
we've never really had an official one um we've we've tried over the years and kind of been after school when when we had it and now we have somebody that can kind of take it in full force and take it he'll wait at our office in the morning we usually try to debrief in the at
about 7 7:30 he is right at our waiting to talk to us hey I have this idea or hey I want to run this by before I do it and so he's well he's all in and if he's all in I'm going to be all in so it's it's impressive he's fun so it cons is it considered like extracurricular or
more like um I don't think this first year will necessarily be part of the Minnesota State High School league it's more just kind of getting on the ground getting it going more of a club yes but it can because they do recognize it at the State High School level cuz s is probably recognized I
gu we have Engineers that volunteer the Byron one that okay so his contacts are over in Byron yes so I think he grew up in graduated from there or something but yes he's been in contact with the Byron people they've got a great okay good
good they oh awesome good okay good and we'll keep you put once it's kind of going this spring I'll have them come and report to you guys too if you know if there's enough data report otherwise definitely expect it next year um the funding for it where where do that covering from is
it from the district itself we're not going to fund anything right now it's more fundraising whatever he chooses to do whether it's maybe post prom if he can be involved in that or cookie sales whatever it may be I think it would be a good one to approach the foundation for I'm going to tell him that that would be
a good one great idea at least some starter cash they get money MH good one I will I'll tell them okay very good would someone like to make a motion to approve the development development of the middle
school high school robotics team I'll make that motion thank you Dan our second second thanks Kyle all those in favor say I opposed motion carrying awesome
all right are there any uh Schoolboard committee reports this time I've got uh a bunch from the msba um a lot of good stuff on there this month um we have they've got um officers
workshops going on they they did have the virtual this last month but all throughout the month of March they they have they have dates for training for officers registration deadline is 10 days before
the event so if any officers want to go on and look at uh look at opportunities for that suggest that um also March 10th is msba maasa joint day at the
capital um yeah I might go to that wants to go I might be going um there's also um Kendall um there's scholarship opportunities for senior uh for senior board members so I
know next year it's something to look out for and then there's also strategic planning fiveyear plans for board development and operational efficiencies and then executive orders
and legislation um guidance on federal funding federal laws and immigration issues Lots going on right now you're getting bombarded too Dave when I need to vent about something
I'll give you a call did you have St legislation they're talking about yeah vent to Dave I said Dave's up it's FL okay Dave is there anything else there still is not phase one and phase
to posted I looked yesterday yeah I've been keeping an eye on it too um as far as uh building and grounds we were originally supposed to have a meeting today before this meeting um so we're going to postpone that till
sometime next week soon we're hoping yes yeah so we'll get do something with that door at the pool yes that's I did send an email off to uh Kristen our pool manager and Tim our custodian just
yesterday after we discussed and um offered them an opportunity to be at the building in grounds but also if they could give me a list of all the updates and timelines of when things are happening for example the motor was um ordered on
December 18th it takes 8 to 10 weeks to get here so it should be here any moment if you add that together um so things like that um we want to make sure we bring to our committee with with the pool too um I did get a few complaints about them
having a party you know they when they sell a party for like an afternoon it goes from like usually 1:00 to 5:00 and it's only $75 to shut down the entire pool and there's some people that might have families over the weekend that
still like go in you know for an hour or two and uh and they can't because of a party and I I can understand having a party I mean you know and that but can it be limited to just two hours for $75 I mean that's a heck of a deal for 75
bucks I think she's there's first there's a structure there's a fee structure change that's already happen okay good secondly I think there are some new things happening where she is keeping it open cuz those were old issues that kept being brought forward and I know Christ's addressed those already sounds good
thanks m um anything else any other committee reports or scholarship pancake practice is coming up in March okay start that it's always good to have
pancakes lot of them coming up okay um looks like the district calendar is March 11th is the policy committee meeting the 18th will be our next school board meeting at 6 p.m.
uh the 28th is Staff Development so no school um April 18th through 21st would be the Spring Break um May 23rd graduation that spelling
is Aon Dar it my b um May 26th is Memorial Day May 30th is the last day of school it's kind of funny we're talking about the last day of school have we ever taken a group picture before we're supposed to but
tonight tonight people it was in my notes it was tonight's theight I need one group picture of you right but you want to switch right oh yes so for those of you who don't know my my son is a hot
shot out in California and his fire season starts in April and so I won't see him until potentially August August or September and I'm wondering if we could change the March meeting because I will not be here for the currently scheduled March meeting I'm going to go
see him okay otherwise I won't be seeing him because I'm not jumping into any fires to go see him so what what is uh your schedule then March 11th is perfectly fine um it's a week before if that's fine with
you I don't want to rush you um it's it's totally I mean the 25th also works for me too it's just that Tuesday it's not good the current board
meeting fine with me March 11th okay with everyone yeah we swi we should be fine with that in terms of financials too we'll get a better grasp with things okay all right um and we again we'll
post it as we always do three days ahead of time if not more actually I usually do five days so we are definitely legal okay thanks you guys I appreciate it l March 11th is there good huh bring us back something good
okay so when did Fire season end oh yeah right good question right no he wasn't called to La so that was good but uh they just got a big rain didn't they so Fire season must have ended yeah yeah some federal he's Federal some
federal workers were called in there though because it was just so enormous they had to but he he was not so is there anything else anybody's got if not is there a motion to uh
adjourn and set our next meeting for March 11th at 6: p.m. so go ahead Nicole thank you is there a second second Dave thank you all those in favor say I opposed motion Carri
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