e e e pleas to the of the United States of America and to the for it stands Nation approval of the agenda I have ation
I'll any questions not those in paper say I those name public comment see the consent agenda we need a motion for approval you say that John y okay second
second questions on that those in favor say I name okay then 6.0 was a communication report yes good evening um so in my report I showed um what I included was the spring 2024 book booklet results um
it was busy and was pretty successful um but you can kind of see all the things that we offered also in your packet was the um summer activity um pack packet for like Youth and then we also um included the adult prior um for Wolverine workout this summer we have 67
signed up for it already which is more than last year um Summer started last Friday we currently have 141 uh kids in our program um we have a staff of 21 which includes Cassandra Strummer and Amy clab as co-directors it takes a
small army to make that work because it's a lot of uh kids to um coordinate um in a end on July 16 um we decided to discontinue softball one of the reasons is that we can't find teams to play against there were no other teams in our
league offering softball anymore it just got to be more difficult and our numbers were such where we just felt we couldn't continue with that um bold no longer even Fields teams for the leag um but we're really trying to grow our tennis program because we figure that can be
something that we can add as an offering especially for the girls that maybe don't want to play ball um so we're seeing our numbers increase on that and then we're going to have night ball games again with Deb and Brian Grant coordinating that and that's June 18th
and the 25th and that's hugely popular um again we're offering shuttle buses um from Main and C city um night baseball um a lot of kids are doing that we have 87 players um we have 30 in third and fourth grade 29 and fifth and sixth grade and 28 and seventh and eighth
grade um in the packet was the volun that we have coaching which we have a great list of that um it'll be nice to have the two extra Fields next year because there's always a shortage of fields there a lot of coordinating and juggling between all the teams because the Southall program also has teams in
the evening um Raymond Rockets is going to do a youth baseball night on July 19th so I think that's a great offering they're kids are going to get free hot dogs and chips and stuff so it'll be fun um and as as you saw for the adults we're offering tenis sale volleyball and
a Twins game coming up in August um our youth scholarship fund has a high use in the summertime um because we do offer so many different things and it's kind it's nice to be able to offer that to families um we do get some private donations to that also I'd like to recognize Steph and Adam vogle for
donating some money towards the scholarship f um pickall lines they were painted last week on the ele double gym who we're excited by that don't have to crawl on the floor with tape anymore um so that'll be a welcome change along with lean she was there with me so um
for our Del basic education program um we're going to add daycare in the fall I've been working with mbad um who actually hires the teachers or pays for the teacher of it they don't necessarily hire daycare um Personnel for it so um
Greta jar um has been hired as the um daycare provider for that on site here um mbed will be paying for some of that but we also got a 2180 Foundation Grant to cover that expense so I think that will really remove some of the barriers of our adult Learners to come to it so
we're pretty excited by then on the community garden um is going the ever drive pass there um just a lot of great things happening there with um all the gardeners um we are um in the process of Bing security cameras and signage that it's under surveillance unfortunately we
have theft especially in the fall with watermelons and pumpkins um so I'm working with Noel on that um Auditorium we're moving to an online ticketing program through Bano events and we'll still be able to take cash and checks in person if people don't feel comfortable
doing it oning so we're working towards that um facility use in the spring was huge a lot of um different groups used either the auditorium or the cafeterias um couple things coming up um that'll be fun the wmer orchestra will
be here through um Prairie Fest and that's July 11th and I just lined up the Looney Lutheran to be here on October 5th so um I don't know how Looney the Lutheran are but I heard it's a pretty good show um so and um just wanted to mention the 2180 Foundation as you know
we had our fundraiser this spring um and we raised close to $25,000 which is amazing um a couple years back we were always happy if we made 10,000 so it's really grown in just the last four years so it's really I'm exciting to see those numbers um improve and then we gave
Grant of 10,500 to teachers and advisers for some of the programs very any other questions questions it's a question with the online ticket program for the auditorium is it something where you can like pick
your seats as well or is it just a you could have that feature as of right now we're just going to have open seating what happens with reserved sometimes you need five tickets but you can't find five seats together um so it gets to be a juggling act and then you might not Even build the auditorium because they
have a seat here and a seat here and um and it just gets to be kind of more complicated so I think as we get more involved in it and learn more about it it could always be added each event is you could set it up that way so maybe you know if you know for an event it
makes sense we probably would do that I know even for graduation we can use that system um to do tickets it wouldn't be reserved but my understanding is like a senior family gets like eight tickets so it can be used that way too so there's a
lot of possibilities that thanks and Jim will'll talk a little bit more about the V tickets to as it's atic thank you right thank you all right Jim your up well good evening you can say I have a long one tonight and plus
we have the resolution so get come I'm not going to read all these first ones you can one through four there look how uh the boys tennis softball um baseball and golf team ended up and I mentioned a few players that
went on Section second day there so you can kind of look individually I do want to acknowledge the track team that because it just turned out to be probably the most successful season for many years I can't remember how far back but I would say it's been 20 years since we probably had this much success as a team and for individuals the girls won
the Canon conference meet for the first time in many years couldn't it's the first time since we've been paired I know that much um we had roughly 24 athletes qualified for the section meet in lever eight of those in six different events made it to the state tournament
in St Michael hille this past weekend and the girls did finish in fourth place in the section meet and again a very very competitive section and this is where there's only two classes so we're competing against uh schools the size of a Morris and Monty and schools that are
actually in Le and that are quite a bit larger than we are um down below moving on state I'll just give you their places Brady highly made it in the shot put and took 14th Place the girls 3200 two miles Sam Hulen um uh
got 50 in place boys P Vault Jack Miller just as continued to uh improve and I tell you when I went in it just it takes your breath away when you see where these guys are at they move because With the Wind they moved it to an in inside facility and uh he was just doing
phenomenal and so close to the that last one but he ended up getting fourth place state so that up to that point that's the highest Place we've ever had since the pairing at 13 feet 6 in boys 400 there Javin is an RCW
student he took 13th girls triple jump this was pretty impressive it was Cory brist ley's first year of ever even competing in track and to take on a a triple jump which is so much technique and uh and it's too bad you know if you can really perfect steps
mean she probably had another 12 15 in and but she had a phenomenal season there 13 ft excuse me 13th Place and then the girls 4x400 Cory bristley brel Johnson Ella kenet and Annie Bourne they uh took third place in the 4x400 yes so
that's the the way I understand from go Shackleford that's the highest Place we've ever had since the pairing took place um but congratulations to all of them see and then number six of I'll just let you look at we put a bunch of the team records obviously we'll have a
new one now with the pole vault that that shows uh some of the records that we set during the season and I didn't put that in here but many of these records were broke multiple times throughout the season want to congratulate the whole coaching staff especially coach Shackleford he was selected by the
coaches of section 3A as coach of the year of this year so that was quite an accomplishment for him as well but as any coach will say that's you can get things like that your athletes are performing and working hard too so I know he' give them credit for that number eight Benson School District
again applied for the Camden they uh this is a little different circumstance Ortonville if you remember applied to us three times and then the State High School leag got involv involved in the signed them uh Benson has chosen to leave the the West Central conference if
they choose to leave the West Central then the State High School league doesn't get involved because they had a conference they just chose not to be included with it um there's nothing against Benson we play them in a lot of different activities there's two I don't know if I want to say complications but
I can't think of uh things holding many of us back you'll see the vote failed 7 to five and according to our bylaws they would have had to have got nine votes to pass but one of the complications is having an an odd number when we have north
south classes then all of a sudden the South has six and we have seven up here another complication or problem is you know Tracy's one of the original camon conference schools and they and they haven't threatened this and they don't they say every time we
don't want to be the reason but there is a strong chance that they would leave the conference as well which so many of us have a a good competitive um relationship with them and a lot of different activities that we would hate to lose that also and then
we we've lost again another one of the original camon schools and that is really a big part of the reason RTR left us as well just because there were so many in norn schools travel was was pretty high distance um but before I move on is
there are there any questions about that and I do keep Josh in the loop on on that discussion uh so for next year I am recommending a change for some of our admission prices um I'd like to change the adult ticket from 6:00 to 7 but keep the student at 4
moving our adult season pass from 80 to 85 and the student season pass from 40 to 45 uh and I did do some research with the rest of the conference just to see what we're in line and you can see their link view is 8 and5 minota is 8 and4
cmcs cambi Dawson voyd lacka tmb and yme are seven and five so we'd be right in line with the majority of them at this time KMS Ortonville and RCW was still six and four but when I did this in early May doesn't mean there can't be other changes but if we'd make that
change I just wanted you to see that we'd still be right in L and still not be the highest um in the conference either someone did make a motion at our conference meeting that if we could all try to be the same and we basically said n that's pretty much up to our school
boards you know of what we want to do for our local schools they can our conference can make that decision based on like our north south and our championship games but the conference can't make the decision on what we want to do as individual schools number 10 um as Denise started
I'd like to begin offering online ticket options through vano it is getting to be much more common it's uh I noticed a difference this year at the state tournament compared even last year at track how last year there were people standing outside trying to figure out in their phones and seemed to be a pretty
good flow and that's one of the reasons I do know this is this is going to be coming I really believe to all schools at some point I that why don't we be proactive and and start our public with it with doing it now um mon videoo does it for most of their
events Wilmer I I think Wilmer actually requires it don't hold me to that but I don't even know if they offer a cash option there but um we don't want to do that at this point we want to give people that that option they can come up and if they want to buy their tickets ahead of time that's one thing that they'll get them through the door a
little bit you know some of these really busy activities when cmcs comes here to play we got a line 30 ft out the front door and two people trying to do that I mean and and that'll be one of the convenient things is if they buy their tickets ahead of time or even we can
have the I is it called Ur Q right outside they would be able to do it on a spot where they're in line and then they'll walk up and we'll just have an iPad or something there and they'll be able to just bypass the line and walk right in and uh scan and and I think it's going to speed up our lines and as
people catch on I just think we'll have more and more people using it and we'll promote it obviously not force it or expect it but we'll continue to promote it and we'll continue to have a cash box there some of the other reasons well a I just said they can buy it earlier get
through more quickly um it's going to help our record keeping we are pulling tickets anybody that's ever done that it's it's so chaotic it'll be a much easier job to try to be on I guess more correct on who are coming in and so on better organization
is finding the siging seats and that's something we have talked about for like musical where we put a lot of people in there and and things like that we have the ability to assign if we want to go that way we just don't know until we get it and start playing with it you know what we're going to do but this is a
definite option and as the nie sit down the road graduation that's something they may want to do too but I fig want let's get started we already work with vanco on our website so it's not a new program to us and you'll see down below some of the other schools use Gan it's
the same type of thing but we don't want to switch considering we're already working with vanco for some of our other um things in our s or in our school district better use of resources uh before Cathy and now Tim beasman they
spend lots and lots of time with cash boox I mean I can't tell you how many hours and hours a week this is going to really help if people do that where there's just going to be way less time spent on that so it's going to be better use of us and I think with the people
coming through and using it it's not going to be so difficult for our ticket takers um we always have to keep in mind how much money we have out there I mean there's times we have thousands and thousands of out that front dat that front gate and now we won't have that much so I think from a security
standpoint it's probably smarter as well and then right below that I put the camet schools there's only a couple at this point using using Gan a lot of the other schools I will tell you there's a couple of them I'm not going to mention they are in favor but at this point their superintendent have told them no
just because they kind of have the attitude and it's not wrong but they have the attitude if it's not broke by fix it and uh just I think there's a lot of positive things that we're going to move forward with this it's going to help us again before I move on are there any questions about that I have a couple
questions um are you still going to be offering the punch pass I would assume um that yeah good question I had something else on here with that we haven't talked too much about that but I don't want to take take away I don't want to take away the ability because that punch pass does
save them a little bit more also and then also the like if you buy a adult season pass can you get that on your phone too okay that's that was one of the things I missed here uh we have problems with that every year people lose them they walk through they uh oh yeah I have a season pass you know yet
we have different ticker takers every single week and the public just automatically assumes if they walk by and say I got a season pass I know there's people that one spouse buys them and the other one doesn't then they share it um one of the things about this is they could buy a season pass through
this van Co and then they're going to get an individual ticket for every single McCrae vent throughout the year so it's going to get rid of that now it's lost someone picks it up there's no we can never TR there's a number there's no pictures associated with it or
anything it's going to I just think it's going to help us even a little bit financially because they lose passes and someone else is coming in with it and they're coming in did you look up I have a pass saying okay go ahead we know you're Bing you know and then probably have two people using the same pass so this way they'll just get a they'll just
get one ticket for every single event on their phone and and be able to go through with that so there'll be no more hard guards that but again I'm not against I I'm not against keeping the punch cards we just kind of got to figure out if we're going to do exactly the same and we'll just
avoid the vancou for that part and co question about the the seating for the auditorium through that vanco would you be able to do like first 10 rows are reservable and then General ad Mission would they be able to split something up like that I would
have to ask that question I'm not sure if they have the ability to do one event and have two options on that but I'll write that question down and ask I think I think they do they're a pretty big group that you could probably reserve a car a spot to park and a seat and time
you want to use the restroom I would guess you all those seats out so that' be my guess is more of the pro on this I'll check on that also too I think it should go down on record with that vano too is that let's say it is an auditorium use um and you need an ADA SE
seat those are also labeled that way so I mean you could do it based on on needs of your your your clientele too um which you know would be very helpful for like a graduation because when you give them a paper ticket you don't know what their needs are until they walk through the door um so being able to just say these
are my needs are very helpful so I appreciate Denise's and Jim's effort in that homework so so would it be like where they could actually select their seat or are you just going to is it a seat just assigned but it's reserved well what my understanding is so like you go on the system or whatever and you
buy like four tickets you'll get something on your phone that says you buy four tickets with their names and so forth but um that's for open seating for reserved you would then if it's reserved we set it up that way you would go on there and just like you probably have seen like Chan Hass and some of those
others where they have where you can click you click on the seat that you want yeah yeah so that would be the reserve your seats on an airplane you know and we don't know if we're going to do it yet if it's if we're not full there's probably not that much of reing for but
AC we've never had an event where well except maybe for graduation whether it's been like the music or whatever there's been plenty of seating or we haven't ran into that um but yet I know some people would prefer to have Reserve because they want to be in a certain spot because their
child is maybe on that side of the stage more you know so we understand that too I think we'll learn a lot this first year as far as what really works and what the public wants I think it's important to kind of see what that looks like if we get start getting public requests for more of that I think that's
the direction we can look into more um I I just think for you know St simple this year we just kind of haveing I'll answer that question if we could do some first rows for that same event I just I think some people will like have to get there
an hour and a half early to save a seat and if they can reserve it that might alleviate some of that would have a huge rush the door yeah it's it's a nice convenience to know where you're going to be sitting I think with that you'd have to have a maybe one or two ushers to make sure
you're not taking spots that aren't supposed to be you know kind of like you show them where you're supposed to be and then you know kind like The Barn [Music] Theater Mrs tenson we'll that and and if you're curious at home or you know
outside of this time if you just go into a browser and just type in vano you know near us or whatever you can find schools in the area um Benson is one that that does it there's there's others that are smaller and video you can see what what their platform looks like and then there's a button on there too you can
look at even their past examples so you can see what their school calendar look like and they got really nice things documented in there that you know let's say if it is an outdoor activity we did have a football game in which we did get rained out on a Friday and then we had to come back on a Saturday and play it
well that might work for some but that now maybe some of that population can't attend there's ways for Jim and tenise to go in there and actually do the um give them their money back through the through the program you know or if it's something that there is no this is a
onetime thing that it's doc in there that you know if you purchase this ticket that and you can't make it that's just on but yeah look through that look at vano and some neighboring schools see what they have and with that one of the recommendations where if they just choose not to come we can't be going in
constantly and doing $ refunds it's they're going to to eat that but it did say that all of a sudden we have an event rained out that there's a way to go in crit not something they can't control right and if they just choose not to come you know we boy we're going to get work we start getting well that's
what the Barn Theater does if you don't show up that's on you you just donated to The Barn Theater I do think it's important though to keep the cash option you know that's not that's not an option we're not even considering that offer yeah so what sort of fee is there
on top of this and will the person who buys the ticket have to P that Fe or does the school need that right now in activities I just thought we need it 1% 3% of the ticket um it's 50 cents per ticket and then I think it's 4%
4% similar to what we have for launch or other charges so it cost like 80 cents on an adult ticket okay and we are raising the price I'd like to just throw this out as a thought um kind of along tickets and
whatnot but I don't know right now just because of the the school meals are free for families but I think there could be a lot of families who have student athletes that might struggle to have to get the whole family to one of the events I don't think other schools have ever done this but again can we be a
leader by at least considering it where if you've got a student athlete you're going to get your ticket for half price or something like that so that we can really encourage families the whole family to be able to come because N9 times out of 10 are going to go to the away games as well as the home games but if there's something we can do to
alleviate some of the financial stress for families at home games is there a way we give it to grandparents for free um what is it 50 or 60 anybody older 65 65 so just wondering if that's something that we could visit about or think about
or maybe consider well that's that's kind of why we do that punch card because if they truly buy the punch card and and we'll accept them next year so they don't expire but if they buy a punch card it's not for one kid it can be for anybody in the family and that turns out to be $2.50 so that's you know you have four
kids you get them in the night for 10 bucks total not everybody might have that $45 to for 20 yeah well another another option to consider with that is is more free nights or you know a homecoming free
with a button or a mccre shirt or yeah I don't know and we've been doing that every we've also had businesses sponsor yeah kids we're giving them quite a few options through the year with with I know Noble insurance has paid nights for
both I know we have you know who's ever involved with these Elementary activities they they get let in free and and they're coming a lot between the little you know cheerleaders and the football players of the games and every level of basketball every single night
they come to participate they get in free yeah and I think when you think about the parents so they're paying for the shoes they're paying for all the other equipment that some SCH put the gas running student athletes back and forth for practices so if that's something that if you guys would talk
about see if there might be possibilities or something better than the 250 yeah I will tell you that you know a concern of mine what I've shared with people individually but when we have that there are so many kids there that
have no parents there it is a Babysitting Service like you've never like you can't imagine they are there's so many kids running all over this all over the school I go down and one night this year
I found 25 I don't know 20 25 kids having a pickup basketball game in the elementary gym and that's closed off um that's one of the problems with it is when we start having that they come come out the down right no we can't lock that off a fire escape that whole area is
open well maybe then it's something they have to be mother par yeah you can still have the and I have considered maybe getting those younger elementary kids out of that student section because it is they don't watch the game at all they run wild we have
kids fall every once I I kind find them climbing underneath the bleachers and and they're the ones I mean I would I don't think I'm exaggerating there's kns there's elementary kids that run out to the hall I would say 30 to 40 times and I don't think they would do that amount of dat with them well I remember when my
kids were young there was always a principal standing by the do and you sit down and tell it's half we'll sit down I mean yeah well maybe with the thano thing too you know like for Community ad there's a scholarship fund for
participation I mean maybe there's something where there could be a pool for you know if there's a coupon code or something that a parent could put in and use that I don't know if they have haven't seen that but maybe that would allow for a more digital way to use a kind of a scholarship fund
or something like that very good idea I don't think yeah we'll we'll try to look at more options again I just think if we're going to support our student athletes starts at home himself okay any other questions for
Jim we get to watch the video okay I'm going to we'll skip the um why we play video with the I figured you were all here last year so we could do that every other year but I am going to I'll go through the PowerPoint with you briefly and then we'll watch the other video
with the with Eric merens from the state high school leag then then we'll be done mitches is longer than my report here okay this is just one of the things we're expected to every year before we
vote on the to be a member of the State High School league league again and do the um resolution while we play We Are An Education based co-curricular program extension of the classroom this is something that a lot of people aren't aware of we sometimes
will have to get after kids for breaking some rules or maybe they do something in school and they don't understand why we're getting after them in their activity and and we have to explain that to parents that this is an extension of the classroom the classroom comes first during the day but we still have the same code of conduct and everything all
of the expectations when they're still represented our school want to emphasize grow growth and Improvement reward effort not just winning we'll talk about that a little bit more give permission to fail focus on the process more than the outcome and on the student first athlete second and
this is really difficult with Club programs because Club programs are win at all cost let's put the best athletes together and if you're not one of the best ones you're going to be sitting on the sidelines and we really don't care about and that's maybe a little extreme but I mean that that's kind of the club mentality and that's not the mentality
of the State High School league or at least a State High School League school that's not supposed to be our mentality again we are not a Jo clubs or travel teams and it's not that they're bad this just gives them another opportunity to Excel and we still want
our activities in our high schools and Junior highs to be able to allow kids to not be a star and still you know be able to participate and be part of a team goals versus purpose goal of our Athletic program is to win games that is
the goal of every coach hopefully the goal of of every single um athlete that's on those teams we prepare plan and play to win but that is not our purpose the purpose of our Athletic program is teaching and learning human growth and development connecting
students to caring adults we want to try to make you know these these student athletes better people let them grow up in society and and be proud of what they did because you know how often are they looking back and thinking hey remember that one year when we beat RTR twice
that that usually doesn't happen but some of the relationships relationships they built and uh other things that they learned maybe about just their work ethic there's people that have been high school athletes and then in they 40 they choose to you know become a marathon runner and yet they never ran you know
cross country or track in school but the dedication and disciplines and stuff they learned High School league sports um has contributed to that when they choose to do that later in life less than 1% will have a career in professional sports less than 3% of high
school athletes will play Beyond high school at any level that's very low that's including you know junior college and so on and that's again A lot of times you look at the athletes and how much time they're putting in and that's really good it's nice to have that
Dedication that discipline but when they get done with this they're they're usually done I I said this last year but what a horrible way to put that but have a terminal experience and and again that just that just means when they get out of high school they're done with that you know most kids are never playing
football again I'm sure most of us would like to until that first hit you know and and even you know I've seen people they're still they can do pickup basketball and then they bow their k at least 10 when they're 40 you know these things uh it's going to end for us usually in high school value of
Education based Athletics um I won't read each one of them again less likely to use drugs tobacco or suffer from health issues that's not saying that none of them do I I do get that that thrown at me sometimes oh I know athletes do that too I'm I'm never
saying they're not and just so statistically they're less likely to better attendance rates and we push that hard in our school that they have to be here all day unless they have doctor appointments or funeral or or there's special um exception to the rule that they're expected to be in school
all day in order to practice or participate higher graduation rate higher SAT and ACT scores um greater post postsecondary opportunities phys yeah we wear them outs they sleep better at night I sometimes question about the healthier
diet but all my years of wrestling hasn't seemed to work out that way for me so I'm not sure my purpose to lead and encourage students in the mcra school district to participate in activities that interest them promote the understanding that although Excellence is very important being a good teammate having High character
being reliable dedicated and selfless are more important life lessons that activities can teach definition of success and again this varies in the community and it does vary with coaches and that's why one of the reasons I show this at our coaches meeting they they need to you know often
times coaches were very successful athletes at the high school level and then maybe in in college level so their attitude might be more of that club mentality they have to be reminded of what our goal really is
here works sometimes it doesn't work sometimes sometimes they have to reain themselves back in defining success change the question you know if you notice not at the top there's nothing here that says did you win and that is so funny I believe that
as parents cuz I used to do it myself if I wasn't able to go and my kids would get home from whatever event I know darn well I said did you win or loosen you know that was the first thing I asked but did you do your best did you help others succeed what did you learn did you have fun that one you know I think
we need to start emphasizing more we shouldn't have kids with pulsers and having hair pull come out of their head and so on and some kids go through that stress how did you help make it fun did you improve how will you get better tomorrow did you conduct yourself well were you a great teammate how did you
handle winning or if they lost same thing how' you handle losing so I'm not going to show this video this year save that six minutes da I saw that communication plan we still um this is still this has been
board approved um over the years by you guys for our our activities our activities handbook excuse me when there are problems and and I I really emphasize this with people because I hear this in the last seven years I can't tell you how often parents oh they're scared to go talk to the coach
that might be we are I'm scared to go talk to Mr Austin sometimes so it's uh but that is that's not bad for us many of us be scared to go talk to our boss that is a good um thing for them to experience they have to go talk to
someone else um I've also heard quite a few times oh we don't want the coach to hold up against I do not believe that for a minute and if we had coaches that that would do that I would have them coaching Force um coaches like kids coaches might get mad at parents and
coaches might be frustrated with something the athletes done but I I think it's really important that we emphasize that they need to continue to do this our coaches are not going to punish them if the kid comes respectfully and ask questions second one if if that doesn't get resolved
athlete and parent talk to the coach and this is number three parents like to bypass the first two they want to call me immediately and I'll usually listen and and then if I have to I'll meet I'll meet with them and the coach but I I really emphasize they have to follow
this chain of command you cannot just bypass because you don't want that uncomfortable conversation and often times they're probably going to hear things they're probably going to hear truths that their child hasn't told them that's something we always have to remember there going to be part of the story there's often times things things
going to be left out out um third one athlete parent coach an ad talks to the superintendent and then the last one parents can come andess the Schoolboard we've never had that that I recall since I've been here um the only thing I I
really want to request of you guys too is it gets real easy for them to contact you as board members I really when they do that and then you come to a board meeting and you bring up this problem that I've never heard of um it's really difficult for me because I'm not going
to have an answer it's really important that you guys push this when they call you you need to say go back to the activity's handbook first thing is has your child talk to the coach and but because if you allow them to do that they're going to continue to come back you and then you also have that reputation and more parents will
continue to do it eventually it may still come to you but I still think we need to follow this chain of command so we have consistency so I'd appreciate it if you guys would continue to do that and that's it so we'll show this last video and then we'll let Mitch go
unless you have any questions about the PowerPoint hi I'm Eric Marts executive director here at the Minnesota State High School league and thank you so much for taking time to watch this video Minnesota State High School league is a dynamic Partnership of one of 600 schools reaching all communities and
corners of the state our mission is to provide educational opport unities in Fine Arts and Athletics for all students the 2023 24 school year was a great one for the league as we look ahead to the upcoming school year there are some exciting things that we are working on
real is operating as ath grade organization but now league is considering bringing all ninth grade participants and contests under the governance of the leag that would make us a 9th through 12th grade organization this would allow all 9th grade participants valuable insurance coverage
in need event of injury or a concussion weling night in its way the environmental change and one that is overwhelmingly supported by Our member schools a change like this will require action from Member schools so look for more information coming from the lead in
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you to the kind of programming our students deserve the league and its schools are focused on recruiting retaining and supporting our coaches officials and administrators as an education based activities director there's nobody more important than the
coach or an advisor for our students whether it's in the Fine Arts or Athletics because we know that each child is one Spirit adult away from changing their path of their life if you look atad or listen to a successful person talk about how they got there
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member schools commit to Common principles and expectations we all experience the benefits benefits that come from a shared responsibility to provide safe respectful and inclusive activities for all of our students to do our best for student athletes and
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involved in your school and in your community is so important it not only positively benefits your mental health but helps you improve as a person helps you grow helps you make connections with other people [Music] help me for the future because these
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communities together we have a bright future ahead on behalf of the Minnesota State High School I thank everyone in all of our member schools for your continued active support because it's about more than membership it's about partnership thank you
all right good evening everybody um J I just got to say real quick that if your report was a flight they definitely would been serving a meal so mine will not be as long as Mr trulock but it will be a shade longer than Mr weatley
is um so for starters with hiring um we did end up hiring um elementary and middle school counselor and that was Drew Anderson um so very excited to have her back here she did a lot for us this past year um as she was finishing up her
degree and getting her license so I'm excited to have her here and I think she's going to do a great job with the kids being she has those relationships already built with them so that'll should be a easy seamless transition to to have her back U reading curriculum um I know I did say we did
choose open court um so that has been ordered they let us know or that it would take a while to get here but I believe they're taking a while was like 3 to four weeks and I think the last time we ordered a curriculum it took more like three years or so months
because we were still getting some of it in November December so um all of it should be here um in plenty of time um not just for the school year to get rolling but for the teachers to get their hands on it and have an opportunity to start to look through that um and they do we will have some
in-person trainings uh prior to the start of the school year for that as well and that that's included in what we we purchase so that'll be nice to to have them come in with that um the schedule for the upcoming school year and I say complete for both that rosters
and scheduled tentatively um complete obviously there's always going to be u a slight tweak or change or addition to things um I would say some schedule highlights obviously we have um one less
section of kindergarten this coming year um so let is provided it's it's crazy even just what uh that what kind of flexibility that provides when putting a schedule together um so big things are that I can think of here we added 10 to 15 minutes
to every reading block just because looking at the new read curriculum and what um the time kind of requires for that so we want to make sure that teachers don't have to rush through that um we added five minutes to our
special time so instead of 25 minutes we were able to go up to 30 minutes for music and F and and steam was at 50 minutes but that's going to be at an hour for second through fifth grade and and first grade in kinderg we had a half
hour each for that um the steam will be every third week again something that we tried this last year because we didn't want to lose out on academics um was to shorten up lunch shorten up recess um and kind of we
tried to do a hybrid and combine the two um that did not work out the way I hoped it would um on both ends some of the students who were coming in last maybe felt a little bit rush trying to get their lunch done and on the flip side then U luckily we had a kind winter um
but any of the times that know there was a little bit more whether it be a long slightly longer biger lunch that kids had to get through or getting their s gear on um it was a shorter recess um so what we did do is I put
them in two separate blocks for the upcoming school year just because before it was 40 minutes and it was supposed to be you know kind of a clear line at 20 and 20 um but that's hard when it's all together um so lunch students will have 25 minutes instead of the 20 minutes um
for that this year and recess depending on some of the um the grade level needs um esses will be 25 to 30 minutes long um so I'm excited just to have a more clear concise and a little bit longer time
frames for each of those um so just know that if one grade level is five minutes less it is because of the needs that they need like what what was requested for their scheduling purposes um and with the schedule I did get input from classroom teachers and then U for some
of the larger parts we talked with our sped teachers with our title staff with our with so I'm start for our multilingual areas um just to make sure that everything was was covered and everyone had some input and say with that clom rosters are also complete as
of right now obviously you know we're going to get a few students will leave us over the summer a few students will join us and it just kind of depends on you know are we having three new students join us in second grade are they all boys are they C because you know that might require a little bit of
changes as well and that's why we doit wait until August to to to send those letters out just because we don't want to have to make a change because it's um I'm putting myself in a my first grade shoes and I think that would be catastrophic to know that I was supposed
to get this person for my teacher and all of a sudden getting a new letter knowing this was switching even though they're both good options but just having that so try to avoid that as well um and I do want to throw in here that we
accept um any parent requests for teachers um but I do want to make sure that it's noted that we cannot always accommodate those requests we do our best to make that happen but sometimes it just doesn't work out um so we do it when we can make it work but sometimes
it just it can't happen literacy plan we have that finished and um submitted for the 2425 school year um there were some significant changes in that due to requirements for the read act so we were
able to uh remove a few of the items that were no longer necessary um and then adding in some of the requirements from the read act so I was able to have the assistance of some of the folks here at school to help with that and then I also um ran and past Jen SCH who has
been working with us from the co-op um so she was able to help finaly that as well so big shout out to to her for assisting with that um entry summer enrichment program that is starting up tomorrow and that will be 3 weeks for
three days in June and then the same setup um three weeks three days each week in July following the Fourth of July weekend um if you can call it a weekend Thursday U but we don't want to interfere with that um so we have seven
staff members who are are heading that they are ready to roll they are excited to to come in and assist with that we have as a now we have 44 students who are registered for that so I think it's a good good number um and we do have preschool this year and this is the
first year that we're offering so I should say preschoolers going into kindergarten um have the opportunity to attend that so we're excited to give them the opportunity to come in as well um and I just want to say just a thank you to to all the staff this year um for
all of the the time they did it it was a I was think depending on how you look at it um it was an exceptionally fast year um thinking about from the beginning of the school year to right now and it just flew by but then if you start looking at different sections of homecoming U that
seems like forever ago January with our slight um pipe leaking um that seems like two years ago to me uh so just everything that you jam into one school year so even though it goes by fast um there's a lot that get jammed in there
and I just want to thank all of our um not not just teachers but all of our staff everything that they've done this year um to help make it a successful year number two here in this building um and and going above and beyond when it came to some of the shifting around not
to bring that up again but just it was it was a lot for for our teachers and staff to assist with all of that so I just want to thank them for going above and beyond with that and um again just finishing up with Carpeting and in the middle of that right now I'm back
100% so um I appreciate everything that they did um for that and as a secondary thank you um personally I just want to say that this being my last board meeting um I just want to thank just all the staff Community um parents and
students that I've been able to get it interact with over the last 11 years it's been a fantastic experience and I would trade that for anything so I thank everybody for that unless there's any questions good luck
thank so quick question though about the um class rosters if they're coming out in August and the parent has the opportunity to request to change what time in office first part last part we usually we've been we've been shooting for the first week okay and and I would
say that typically uh the time to make your request was about 2 three weeks ago because once we do start to get things set it becomes more and more difficult to do that if you were to say in April
May um could we maybe have this teacher it's a lot easier to kind of plan ahead for that then now when we have um sped case loads or in certain classes um multilingual students are within their certain classes and their schedules are
getting straight no because you really lose a lot of the flexibility when it comes to that thing um and then you kind of look at well to make this work I Mark wants to be in this classroom well to make that work now I'm going to have to flip John to the kids classroom is that
a fair tradeoff or is that fair to John for that fit too so there's just a lot to look at with that so again not saying that it can't be done but just knowing that um if if we're not able to meet a request and you get your letter and realize that this isn't the teacher that
we were hoping for it wasn't because we just didn't want to it was because that there was reasons that didn't allow for us to to have that so were parents notified that they could do it earlier or no no and to me it's
not a I know some districts they don't even accept requests um but to me I feel like if we are able to accommodate someone's request I have no problem doing that so it's kind of a if someone shoots me a
message or the teacher says hey this parent asked if they can have this teacher next year I'm like okay I have just a document that I keep it all in and if we can make it work great um but just knowing that that's not always the case okay any other
questions if not all right um who's next was not here but we can see his report here in our packet and we some graduation dis supp us code UPC being an
on there okay Josh sure good evening to all um today we I share with you that we are very active in the hiring season um so are many other Public Schools across the state um just so you know too and so the
public is aware we publish all of our our educational positions teachers support staff and ation on on post called Ed post and that originally started with st CL State University St CL State University was one of the very first teacher schools or teacher colleges in the state of Minnesota so
that is that's where we've started um Ed post updates have changed this year they now have to be updated every seven days so it's on the administrator in each building to make sure that those Ed posts are updated every seven days if they have not been filled um for some tier one and some for some tier 2
licenses you have to prove that it's been onlo those posting boards for 15 days or six or in some cases 60 days um Administration currently is responsible for putting all the numbers because each every time you repost it's a new set of
numbers um so therefore if it's if it is going to be 15 days it's three different posting numbers we we would have to give to to pby um pby has also um opened up their own um job board I guess for Minnesota and it's now a requirement for
Minnesota public public schools to to also publish on their website too so you can use Ed post you can do it on social media you can do in your local newspapers but you must now do it through pby as well um Public Schools will be required to use Minnesota school
board jobs for in tier one or on field permission posting as early as July 1st of 2024 and I mentioned that we're in we're in the middle of the hiring season and so is everybody else um when I wrote these notes late last week there were 6,722 educational Rel jobs that were
posted on that site so there I think there was over 75 pages of different postings that that were on that so lot of lot of demand within the educational realm Mitchell made the comment that they'll carpet right now the replacement
has begun in the second third fourth and fifth grade rooms and uh we are using for to ceiling and wmer and that's who originally had the contract when the school was built and the carpet was put in reminder for why we're installing the carpeting because there was standing water on it avoided our warranty and so
that is why it needs to be replaced it was clean it was free from any you know germs or mold um this this winter but it did void our warranty so we are replacing that that carpeting as we can I believe all the carpeting that it's going to be used for summer school has already been taken care of so those kids
have already those teachers already moved back into their classroom so they have that available um Administration will continue to update the student handbooks and the staff handbooks just so that expectations are very clear as we come back to school as Jud mentioned in his his report some of the changes in
up not not changes but updates and expectations with just dress code and then also too with the discipline Matrix was a was was a help um for the administration you know last year it did it did give a level of consistency you know to things um still the
Administration has has you know they can make the decision whether it's appropriate or not or what their what the decision is going to be but that Matrix Matrix was very very helpful um a gentleman by the name Matt Captain has become the new aaso high school principal and uh he is going to be doing some intern hours this summer with me
because he is pursuing to get his superintendent licensure so if you see that name or or hear that name or see him in the building um I'll introduce you to him U Mr West westrock Mr West Brock with as our technology director he and I have been collaborating quite a b
quite a bit this spring about a mentor and or mentee program and the possibility of adding some different layers especially with self reflection during the year um and which people look at you know how has their growth been in the first quarter what what do I still need in regards to to to support so that
it's it's meeting the you know we want to meet the needs of the kids but we need to meet the needs of our staff too and uh Jesse has a very good job within that program um Mr Kent has been in communication as he mentioned with the MD redak Personnel also Jennifer Schwan
from s w swwc and also letters Representatives uh to be able to get the material we already have Elementary staff that took material home for for the summer to begin their their education um in that way and uh he also did been working on the praise local
literacy page or local literacy plan and that we do need to post on our web page that's public of what our what our plan is with that um Dennis laer he's the Benson superintendent he'll be Mitch's superintendent this next year um he has been my my mentor this last uh school
year and uh not only has he been a great person but just a great resource and um extremely help it's been extremely helpful just his his guidance this year he always been one phone call or one text you know away um whenever we're at meetings seatt seeks me I just to pick
my brain um and it's been very good uh I was honored to be able to speak of 2024 McCrae graduation uh tremendous support of our graduates that evening we had 50 graduates walk across the stage and for every graduate that was smiling and proud of their accomplishments there was 8 to 10 people in in the the audience
smiling just for them too uh what what a great accomplishment and what a great evening uh that was uh my June homework um I have to dig into what was the impact now of the 2024 legislative session currently um earn safe and sick time still you know has some Asters next
to it and then also to the read act um they've made some changes to that to they've given Public School some extensions um but just to kind of give you an idea of just ours if you're a kindergart through fifth grade teacher and you're responsible for teaching
reading which is just about 100% of those people um those Folks at McCrae this next year will put in 34 hours within the school day uh whether it's during a PD day or a Monday where there's not school and an additional probably 34 hours outside of the school
to get their education done that's a lot to ask um and there's also this compensation that that goes along with that so um the legisl is here in that from many schools not just rural school districts like ourselves but others too because it it is a lot um and that's
just one year and that's a two-year program um with with letters um now is the time summer 2024 is verification of school and School District information for the fiscal year ahead um there is a
abbreviation and acronym to MD called Edam and that's the educational identity and assessment management security system and often Kim brings to my attention okay remember Josh you're the Iowa it doesn't mean I'm a Hawkeye okay but it means I'm the identified official with authority that I've got to go in
and check this box that yep Kim has done this yep our super Administration has done this Yep this report has been made um so it's it's a series of checks and balances um that is that happens throughout the year I'm working currently with a with a woman by the
name of Lisa Gregor from Southwest West Central right now there's an MBE Mentor Grant that specifically is to help brand new special education students or special education teachers to give them some support it's needed for our general population of mainstream teachers but it
is for our sted teachers too um project updates if you look to the north of the building the the update is dirt um it's every day there's more sand and more gravel that has moved in there um but there are some things that you can begin to see too um if you look out there and
you look to the uh East you you can see two goal posts that have been put up that is where the practice football field would be that's a grass field if you keep coming this direction you will see curve that has begun to be uh put in for the parking lot um that is going to be added into that area you keep coming
to the West you are going to see concrete that's been put down for where the home bleachers are going to be and there's some footings for where the away bleachers are and then also two two uprights two I beams for where the scoreboard will be keep going to the
West and you will see the polls for the softball and baseball back stops so that's what that's what you would see if you went out there um today but in terms of like what's going to take place between now and like the end of this week June the 14th it's a lot of soil
Corrections um turf field substance ongoing um they they have torn down probably half the bleachers in mayard and I noticed that today they brought over on a flatbed flatbed truck the um handicap ramp um so that that that is
over here right now and they'll begin to assemble that as soon as the rest of the pieces have arrived um and I want to thank you Mr Ken for your giving to McCrae um for giving of your time and energy and uh we we're sad to see you go but uh Ben Benson is very fortunate to
have you so thank you for all you do all right any questions for Josh just a comment with that extra room that we're not using for for the kindergarten class might that be a consideration if we need extra space for SP it certainly could and I had not had
that conversation with with um Mr tent on which of those rooms will be used for but yes uh there's also to consideration of there are two rooms that were used um one primarily for stud lab and one for drivers's head that also could be
explored to use as as classroom space whether it's for special education or other classrooms that are maybe growing a little bit thank you good to have that flexibility okay [Music] [Music]
6.2 6.3 board discussion I just wanted to bring up U carel and I had a chance to then graduation last Friday and for me I thought it was fantastic like to be part of kind of a really big day for these kids was really really cool and you know
we're watching them and they're watching the video and like some eyes were getting a little glisteny and kind of teary and it was really neat to be part of and I think um I'm sure for a lot of teachers and staff like it can be you know kind of a job kind of a grind but
like to be part of that achievement for those kids was really really cool and I think is a um just a really neat thing to experience in a way to show all the good things that are happening in this District so I I enjoyed it a
ton the ceremony was nicely done a screen had that particular graduate's picture up there and some information while they walked across the stage so kudos to everyone involved with that that's all I
have thank you both for attending okay now we've got 7.0 business items I need a motion to approve the fiscal year 2025 original budget motion second questions or discussion on that is this the final one kid no no
this is the we have to have a budget okay uh know other questions those in favor say I I those okay 7.2 is a motion to approve the Minnesota State High School leag League membership resolution I'll make that right second
I'll second that okay is this one we're going to have to read here you have it there did you point [Music] it yeah read the bo don't read the box top top okay uh resolve that the
governing board or entity of McCrae High School located in the state of Minnesota delegates control supervision and regulation of inter Scholastic activities and Athletics referred to Minnesota statute section 128 c.1 to the Minnesota high school league
and so hereby certifies to the state Commissioner of Education as provided for by Minnesota statutes further resolve that the school listed is authorized by this the governing board of said School District or school to renew its membership in the Minnesota State High School league and to participate in the approved inter Scholastic activities and Athletics
sponsored by said league and its various subdivisions further resolve that this governing board entity hereby adopts the Constitution bylaws policies rules and regulations of said League that all amendments there to as the same as are published in the latest edition of the League's official handbook on file at
the office of the school district or school or as appears on the League's website as a minimum standards governing participation in said League sponsored activities in athletics further the administration and responsibility for determining student eligibility and for the supervision of such activities in athletics are
assigned to the official Representatives identified by the governing board or entity um signing this resolution for membership affirms that this governing board has reviewed all required membership materials provided by the league which defines the purpose of the
value of Education based activity in athletic programs and defines each member school's responsibility should I keep going or anything think that's one question of the cost yes stay the same they don't know yet oh CU I thought
you in there then it looks like it's going to go down but so there's a preliminary cost that has come out and then they adjust it and look at what they did last year so I can't give you the exact amount I I'll look and see if I can find
the email told a little bit about that right any other comments about that uh not those oh I got to do roll call De yes Mark yes John y yes and I'm yes not so that is
passina okay 7.3 I need a motion to approve the 2425 literacy plan I'll make that motion no question on that those in favor say
I I I po okay 7.4 I noticed we have the M inv there I don't see that on the agenda can we just we'll make it 7.5 here
okay on this yeah not this last one it's it's the proceedings didn't match up to Thea couple things that what I did yeah this yeah just different between two
shades that's a separate that's separate School let's finish this one here this um L here that was motion by second by John um we we did vot on that
okay so let's go down to we'll call M M 7.4 okay and this is membership again in here yeah okay I need a motion membership second okay any discussion on
that not those in favor say I I those oppos me okay and the last one be 7.5 need a motion to approve the right and vote resolution can I ask before we have a motion what were the changes I know you
were going to call I didn't know any changes or yep uh was we added the line uh if not enough people filed for for open position and one of the open positions needed to be filled by a
writing candidate then all writing votes will be counted and so I talked to Michelle May about this and shared with her some of our concerns and things like that like how would somebody know to request that
their right and Bs account if they don't know they were written in and she said well usually that somebody is running WR in um campaign to do that but she said so then if you're afraid of that pick the
second option which is what we had picked anyway um where they would only be counted so what happens when when people have the ballot there's an oval by each of the file candidates and there's an
oval by the wrin so when you run that ballot through the counter it will tally a right in vote was on the ballot and if all the right-in votes end up being more than somebody
who was running it who had filed then they would go back and count all the right in ballots but the right in total has to be exceed yeah equal or more than a file okay to go back and she also said we do
we do not have to do a resol resolution we can just leave it and force them to count every single right in ballot if we want for a year or two or whatever once we do a resolution then it stays in place until we undo it um we talk through like all the
little scenarios we had talked about and to pretty much you know this should cover it but it's up to you guys I want to wait a year and just see what happens because we do have a school board election this year
you just described where if you meet that threshold then of course do the work and figure out who it was but I waste everybody's time you don't need it yeah and that's the whole point of it I just think about transparency in the election process
that if somebody's going to write somebody's name in granted Minnie Mouse Mickey Mouse show up but if somebody else's name does show up I think it's well I'm going we still going to ask for a motion we can take a vote and we can have some more
discussion too but um youting a motion to approve the right in resolution I'll make that motion okay John second I'll second now any other discussion on that not then I'll do the
um no a no um I'll yes John yes yes I'll be a yes so that's pass okay um there's a list of our future meetings that in 9.0
meeting I'll make that how about that second those in favor say I we are