Um, 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.
Thank everybody for attending tonight. Um, start off with the change uh changes to the agenda motion. Um, we've got one removal of 9 E1. Um,
just removing um, just removing this one uh this one item uh effective September 2026 for um moving for a step lane for a team of all from.
I'm just going to do it retroactive. Um, do I have have a motion for the change to the agenda? >> So moved. I'll second. Cut. All in favor? Aye. Opposed?
Okay, passed. Okay, now approval of the agenda. Uh do we have a a motion to approve the agenda? So moved. Thanks, Dan. Second. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye.
Opposed? Passed. Okay. Uh public input. We've got um Trevor, um you wanted to say something? Yep.
I'm here on public input, not as a staff member. I was not granted that agenda item. I'm here and not against the LOA or for the LOA. I have nothing to do with it. I'm here as Trevor Carrier, living at 805 East Lowell Street. I get to see some great people.
I [clears throat] have 5 minutes to speak. This speech is a little longer than 5 minutes. Was pre-approved by Minnesota Education to make sure that it didn't violate any meeting laws. I think some things had to be discussed after last month. >> [clears throat]
>> This won't be personal. Um, I won't discuss private meetings. I won't discuss private emails, private phone calls, private text messages. And I certainly won't throw stones at glass houses. I'll be professional and we'll have a nice discussion of my
input and my opinion after being here for 14 years and living here and sending my children here. I've tried to discuss things. I've tried to talk. Tried to do those things. I [snorts] looked at my shoes, is that what Jill told told tells me to do? Try to be try to have these, but you're getting
ignored. You can't have conversations. So, here I am. I'm here to address some things. Allegations made by a former school board member, someone I've trusted 14 years. And were read publicly at the March meeting
by another board member. At approximately 2:13 in the recording, it was stated, I quote, a movement to push our superintendent out appeared to have been initiated by some of the football coaches. Narratives, narratives, narratives.
Let this be very clear. Appeared is not fact. It is an opinion. And when an opinion is present in public setting as truth, it becomes extremely extremely dangerous.
It leads people down a path of misinformation. And I want to be clear that the statement is 100% false. I know we can't name names cuz we are on an agenda here, but we can all put who was a foot who was football staff. And I
think when you do that, it's a problem. And we want to move forward. And the school wants to move forward, but these things are allowed to happen and it was spoken and it was said. Was my resignation resignation from football read or was it just put on the
agenda? It was done maliciously. I I I don't like that. >> [clears throat] >> When actions of one individual inaccurately assigned to an entire group that is defined as prejudicial thinking. When one negative perception is defined
uh used to define a group, that's overgeneralization. There's no room for that in the school district, no here or Alaska or nowhere else. Finding educators, finding coaches, finding people who want to move into our communities from the outside looking in and continues to see the damage, some
things that should be a source of our pride, which is our district, our community, and most importantly, our children. But it comes afterthought as the fighting amongst adults continues to hinder the quality of life for these amazing amazing kids
that I get to see every single day from preschool to 12th grade. They have their own unique problems in life. Maybe they don't have a mom and dad at home and they come to school looking for relief. I see that every day as your Dena students. And it breaks my heart
how we can act. Knowingly, not because somebody said something negative in the spur of a moment, but a written statement that was read. Shouldn't be talking about cutting. Should be talking about promoting our school and offering more things.
At $75 $100 per kid is what Minnesota Googled was per kid. How many kids walk out the door? That pays for a teacher, doesn't it? I have a lot more to talk about, but I'm only at 5 minutes. I want to talk about honesty and transparency, which one of
the school members tried to talk about in November. Want to talk about why I was even here and when my problems even started in November, the day after actually. But I'm not going to go there. Hidden agendas, private meetings, retaliation, fear, and attorneys
constantly erodes trust. Erodes trust with me, with somebody who I cared about, I thought cared about me, and everybody else. Chain of command simple. It's not that when you have a gray area and allow people in to let people leave.
People who should have been tenured and left to another school district. Awesome teacher, but maybe there's some issues on that. We let them walk out the door. Block and a half away. Because of certain agendas. I could go on and on and on. I know I
only got like 3 minutes or 2 minutes left, but most importantly, I'm here to speak on behalf of an individual who I respect more than anything. And I've screwed up many times. And I can't talk about his name, but it
was run through the mud and I can't believe he stood there. But I want to speak on his character of this board member. Talk is cheap. All I've asked ever is to show up for me and my family and this guy's done it through and through.
If he wasn't here, I wouldn't be either. I have no problem telling you he's one of my best friends. And if you are uncomfortable with that fact, I'm not going to water it down. He's my brother. Do we agree on everything? We don't. And that's why the bond exists.
His honesty is built not on convenience because of anything else, but love for this school and these kids and other people and I won't let them down. Little by little we lose things. Friends, our health, pieces of ourselves, and sometimes we get to the
point where what's the point? Everybody in here has been in that. What's the point? Why be on the board? Why teach here? Why leave? Why stay? Loyalty, transparency, and honesty are traits you never have to worry about this man. Mistakes are made, that's life, nobody's
perfect. I'll tell you this, it's the fight. In any fight, it's the guy who's willing to die, who's willing to go that inch. Speech I talk about in the movie. And if I'm going to have any fight or he's going to have any fight, it's because he's willing to die for that
inch and for this school district. He's made mistakes. But a private conversation on a phone should never been read at a school board meeting regardless of what it was about. I'm not doing that to anybody else in here. Life's about the 6 inches in front of your face and instead of putting
everybody down, can we build them up? 7 years old things happened, still same. At last, I just want to read one thing. Someday, because the character this guy has, and if he ever leaves LeRoy, that's a problem. We can't behind closed doors
bashing him. Someday, somebody's going to tell his son, "Man, you're just like your dad." And I hope and I pray every day in that moment that his son stops and he smiles and says, "Thank you."
I'm sorry I let you down, sir. I know before. I want to let you know that I love you. I appreciate everybody here, but the focus needs to be about our school district and how LeRoy-Ostrander moves forward, whether it's me or not. But discussions behind closed doors that
people can hear are not helping people or not even saying hi walking down the hallway. What are we doing? And I can't say names. I've tried to repair that relationship myself. And if I [snorts] can do it, I think everybody can do it. But it's got to be both ways to walk
that street. I just wanted you to know that since he took a lot of heat in the last one, that I was going to stand next to him and I have nobody else behind me. So, if that I'm walked out or I'm disciplined, that's fine. I did it because of my love for Kyle Strand. And I will stand next to him
the rest of my life. I appreciate you allowing me to speak. I appreciate all of you, even the jobs that are tough. But the focus should be broader education and what we can provide to these kids. Cuz if you saw them every day, you'd want that to them, too.
So, any fighting, any issues, talk about it or stop. I appreciate you all. I appreciate the city council members that are here, plus the mayor. And Joe Salter, who was amazing, too. That's all I got to say. I got to grill
burgers. Much love. Thank you, Mr. Walter. Thanks, Al. Thanks, Angie. We are here as individuals, not as council members, as mayor. >> [cough] >> Thank you. [clears throat] Um um recognition and good things
happening. National Volunteer Week is April 19th through the 25th. Um So, thank you to everyone who generously contributes and volunteers to the LeRoy-Ostrander School District. And
I also want to along these lines, I I want to throw a big huge thank you out to LO Forever. Um last weekend, we had a fundraiser to help support the
foundation. And I can't tell you what an amazing event that was. I appreciate everybody who had a hand in setting this up.
Walking the streets, trying to get donations. Um putting flyers up, anything there is. Uh set set up, decorating. It was It was amazing. I also want to thank community members and business owners
who helped donate. Um without LO Forever and without those donations, we can't do the things we do here. Um I also want to thank the parents of the students and staff. [clears throat] We We had
staff members working. We had staff members attending, donating. Um it's just a great event. So, thank you to everybody. Okay. Um reports. Student representative. Katrina's taking notes. Okay.
Um starting off strong, spring sports have been competing this last month. And our FFA chapter has just recently gotten back from state convention. And one of our members, Audrey Maine, received second individual in the state for the best informed green hand competition.
And our chapter FFA banquet will be held on May 3rd. And the small group music contest was held here at LO on April 13th. The NHS students volunteered at the scholarship breakfast on April 12th. Prom is this Saturday, April 25th, with
grand march at 7:00 in the big gym. And it will be held at the Isle of Dreams with post prom following both with post prom um to follow at the school. Lots of field trips have been taking place, including sixth grade to the capital and eighth grade to Eagle Bluff.
And juniors will take their ACTs on April 28th. Fourth quarter mid-quarter is May 1st. The SWEAT career fair for sophomores and juniors is on May 6th. Senior boards are scheduled for May 12th and 13th. And the
seniors' last day is Friday, May 15th. The senior awards and baccalaureate baccalaureate is um May 17th. And senior trip is scheduled for May 18th and May 18th through the 20th in Wisconsin Dells. Graduation is on May 22nd and the last
day of school is on May 28th. That's Oh, and also this will be Katrina's last meeting, so that she can have a couple words. Thank you >> [laughter] >> for letting me come on and be your student representative. Well, thank you for Yes, thank you for the years you've
been on this. Okay. School board committee meetings. Um do we have any any updates on committees? Um principal's report. Yep. Uh I don't have a handout for you guys this month just because um a lot of things just working on. Uh
we're finishing up MCA testing. I'm working on schedules for next year. I'm working on staffing for next year. Um I need to get registration out first part of May. There will be another We do registration night over Zoom. Um for the high school parents to jump on.
Uh so, a lot of that stuff trying to get everything ready before kids leave at the end of May. Everything hopefully will be done by that time. Um and in my How long I've been here, 18 or 19 years, this is the first time we had a tornado actual
that wasn't a drill. Uh a tornado. So, our staff and our students did a wonderful job um of that. Hopefully, our communication got out like it needed to the community. Um that was kind of one of the things we It was weird. We were talking about it in the morning. Next thing we know, we
we had it and Nikki and Lianne were down here on the bottom floor on their phones trying to do some of the communicating. So, we hopefully it all got out and then I followed up with a um email to everybody at the end. So, um everything went The kids were great. Staff was great. So, um pretty pleased with
We practice those things. Um we practice plenty of drills, fire drills. Um hopefully next year we'll get an ALICE drill in or we do Usually every other year we do a ALICE drill at all community. So, a lot of stuff going on right now for this month. I'll have more hopefully things
um in stone at the May board meeting. So, any questions? Um No. Thank you for the response to the tornado. That I've heard some good good things about that. So, thank you. Yeah. Um superintendent's report. All right.
Um I'll probably uh copy some of the things Mr. Hungerholt and Katrina have sent to you since she's gone. So, uh first of all, you're getting a lot of emails from me about the congressional sessions. Um as we're moving and heading into kind of the last month of the legislative
session, as you can tell, the emails are starting to heat up with a lot more data for you, a little bit more specific stuff. So, look for those in the next couple weeks especially because the end of May is when the session ends. So, um but a lot of that that comes out goes
into your budget and other things such as policy and things like that. Both [clears throat] Angie and Jess know about policy and what you see in these emails is often what you'll see in your policy committees, too. So, keep looking for those things. Uh recently um the business manager, Mr. Hungerholt,
and I met with the heads of kind of the heads of our main departments. We met with activities, uh buildings and grounds, food service. Chris is here. She was part of that, did a nice job. Uh and transportation. And we met with them about half hour, 45 minutes to start
talking about more specifics with our budget. And we talked about, you know, kind of previous budget performances, budget allocations and strategies, what we're going to do coming into next year, uh revenue forecasting forecasting, risk management that we need to look at,
things like that. So, we're going to try or I'm really promoting the district to really try to do that every year with those main department heads. Um cuz I think it's really That's where a lot of the gen you know, that general ed funding goes to. So, but excellent meetings with them. They did a really nice job.
Speaking of monies, you guys probably heard that Smith Schafer and Associates have now been There's been an acquis- acquisition, I believe it's called, through Cohn Reznick. They will be your new auditors next year. More information will come to you on that. Nothing to
worry about. Um but they will be sending the contract soon and I'll get it out to you guys so you're aware. But don't be alarmed with anything like that. So, um also, this is kind of good. Um with our new nurse, Mary, she has done a really really nice job of checking our
AED machines. Um that's an annual thing we have to do. And so, she basically is making sure that all the Narcan is in there and that it's not expired and it's ready to go. So, if you see a bill coming, that's what that's for. It's not
an oddity, it just happens. Um also, we are going to sit down with our librarian to talk about your membership agreement with SELCO, it's called. It's Southeast Library Systems, where basically we share books with
other libraries around the area. And so, um Angie will be looking at that here in May and June and we'll let you know more about that, too. But that just came our way last week. Uh couple other things, as I mentioned, the high school graduation ceremony is right around the corner, May 22nd at
7:00. This is your very formal invite to attend. It's a very exciting time. Remember, next month you will be approving the graduates at your official board meeting. So, please all attend if you can. Um also, that May 22nd that morning is a senior breakfast, which is
always a really nice thing to be a part of. Uh don't forget to in 26 27, you will have partners in education contracts. Um basically with higher ed institutions start with credit recovery or additional college credits, things like that. That
is all starting to happen through Aaron and my desk right now and so they'll all be coming to you, too, or you'll be seeing those things. Um he and shared some things with me for community education. As of right now, actually, as of about a week and a half ago, 42 participants
have signed up for soccer already. That is a lot, so that's pretty cool. Uh the Touch-a-Truck event will be held again this year on May 6th. We've done that in quite a few years now. That's run through ECFE. Also through um ECFE, I have a huge shout-out to them. What a
great job with that school-age carnival they had. Um if you can find pictures, it's pretty cool. They did a really nice job and that was held on March 30th. Speaking of trucks, um I sent this out to all of you and also the um district,
the truck driving program. It's a 2026 high school tour that's coming Tuesday, May 12th here. Um it's mainly for our high school students to really get to know about the trucking industry, so um but you did get an email on that, but if you want the flyer, too, let me know.
Quick. Thank you. Okay. Um the consent agenda. Um first uh we got the approval of the March 17th regular meeting minutes and also the approval of the April 6th special meeting minutes. Um treasurer's report.
Do we have any questions on treasurer's report? Uh fundraisers recommendations [snorts] and approval of prom post-prom um at Pizza Ranch and Sweets Tip Night
in April. Um donation approval of the donation of $1,000 to the LO school district on behalf of Daryl Gose. And we thank thank the family for that.
Um personnel recommendation [snorts] to approve the step lane change of MA to MA plus 15 for Tina Offerdahl. Um recommendation to accept the resignation
of Breanna Gose, uh special education teacher, effective June 30th. Recommendation to accept the retirement of Tim Bly, lead custodian, effective May 31st. Recommendation to approve the retirement
of Jill Salto, title teacher, effective June 30th. Recommendation to approve the hiring of Isabelle Eide. Eide. Thank you.
And uh the recommendation to approve the retirement of Kathy Dudley, effective June 30th. Um do we have So Okay, thank you, Angie. I'll second. Thanks, Stan.
All in favor? I have it. Opposed? Okay, passed. Okay, number 10, discussion action item. Um district policy review. Um [snorts] the policy meeting
review was was canceled with a lack of a quorum. Um B was the approval of the 2026 senior class trip to the Wisconsin Dells, May 18th through the 20th.
Um do we have a motion to approve? So moved. Thanks, Tyler. Second, Angie. All in favor? I have Opposed? Okay, passed. Tyler will be happy about that.
Okay, approval of the tax abatement application for Jeremy Holdman at the Rivers Edge addition, lot 11, block one. Um this is normally just uh a formality.
Yeah, yeah. Okay, um do we have a motion? I'll make the motion. Thank you, Dan. Second. Second. Thank you, Cole. All in favor? I have
Opposed? Passed. Okay, discussion of the approval of the resignation of school board member Dave Lemming. Uh for for this um to discuss a little bit um with
an absent, we do have to replace. Um and we'll be um normally like this, we do a community outreach. Um In the past, we just asked, like put out for letters of interest.
>> Right. So they would just I mean, that's not what we have to do, but that's what we've kind of done in the past. >> Mhm. And then I think it would be to fill this year. >> Yes. And [snorts] then it would be election. Right. Yep. Yep. Um just
anybody So if we do get letter interests, like are we voting on? Yep, that is yep. Yeah, yep. We could we could do uh you know, I I I I if we get multiple, we could do a question answer a question
questionnaire, you know, asking uh asking questions to the candidates. >> have a formal like questions like prepared that they have to pre-answer rather than just a letter of interest. We could have some questions and say if you are interested complete this form and fill it out. I mean, that we can
really do whatever we want. So Um we have a >> [cough] >> we have a motion. So moved. Okay, thank you, Chance. Uh second. So we're just approving the the resignation. Yes, and then we decide
Okay, yep, second. Thank you, Angie. All in favor? I have Opposed? Okay, passed. Now, um we have dis discussion and approval of school board
committee openings. So um we have a certified negotiation spot. Um the MSHSL needs to be filled as well as building and grounds and um the world's best workforce.
Um so we'll Um are there any committees Is there anyone that would like to be on the certified negotiation? >> [cough and clears throat] >> I would. Yeah. Okay, thank you, Jeff.
Um how about MSHLS? I'd take that one if Kyle. Yep. Uh building and grounds. I'll I'll take that one. Okay, okay. Thank you. And then world's best workforce. I guess I'll take that one.
>> Yep. Okay. Okay. Um do we have a motion a motion for it? So moved. Okay, thank you, Chance. Second. I'll second. Thanks, Stan. All in favor? I have it.
Opposed? Okay, passed. And now um discussion and approval of the school board committee uh planning and hiring of the superintendent position. Um normally in the past, we've just had the certified
negotiating committee uh do this. Um we could do that if we would like to do another just make another committee, we could also we could go that route and just depends on what direction we want to go. Um
but we we should make some some actions moving forward >> What's the timeline? I haven't seen anything. >> Well, we we right now I have three current candidates. Um Right, but I mean, I like what's the timeline? I haven't I haven't seen
anything that says this is what it's like what our next steps are. Like I know >> Right. And Right. And that would be I would think that'd be part of the planning committee, the the planning of that. I'd be interested in being
part of that committee. Form a new committee then, I guess, is I mean, I'm not opposed. Yeah, I I think I think so. Okay. Um but that just means I mean, I have interest in being on that committee as well. Okay.
Okay. So, um Do we want to make a motion to start a planning hi uh a committee to plan the hiring process for the superintendent position um
with Kyle, Jess, and um myself. You want to make a motion to for this? I'll move. Okay. Thank you, Nicole. Second.
I'll second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay. Okay. Um district calendar, um I think Kendall hit all those points for
us. Uh we don't now have the board meeting on there. So, the May 19th would be the Tuesday. Tuesday. Okay. May 19th is >> Was there Was there some
problem with that or it just slipped, not getting on there? Is that what we're planning on? Okay. Is it the 30th? Yeah. So, the 30th. Yeah. It's fine. Okay. Uh the next board board meeting will be
May 19th. Um do we have a motion to adjourn? So moved. Second? I second. Thank you. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed?
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