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Part 1 (Video ID: Q4IV-nDZJyc):
- 00:00:03: Meeting Call to Order, Agenda and Consent Approval
- 00:01:42: Zephr Learning Showcase Presentation and Community Comments
- 00:06:14: Recognition and Farewell to Student Representative, Matt Sudinski
- 00:14:29: Student Representative Report: Activities and Announcements
- 00:19:49: Superintendent Report: Awards, News, and Upcoming Events
- 00:24:00: Board Member Calendar and AMSD Meeting Updates
- 00:24:58: Preliminary Budget Presentation and Finance Advisory Feedback
- 00:29:36: First Reading: Policy Changes Due to Legislation
- 00:30:51: Proposed Middle School and High School Schedule Changes
- 00:43:57: Approval of 2027-2028 Academic Calendar: Early vs. Regular Start
- 00:52:38: Approval of Annual Policies, Committee Reports and Adjournment


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I call to order the meeting of the Mameidi public schools school board meeting on Monday, May 11th, 2026. The time is 7 o'clock. I will do the pledge of allegiance. Roll call of attendance complete.

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Do >> I have a motion to approve the agenda? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> I now need a motion for the approval of the consent agenda. Second.

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All >> in favor? Oppos? Now we'll discuss the recent presentations and recognition. We tonight had the Zephr learning showcase in this room for a half hour before this

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meeting. Does anyone have any comments related to what you saw during that during that window? Excuse me. >> Flash by in the community ed program, but it never catches my eye because I

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don't have a preschooler, but I didn't know we had a nature preschool going on at Mameai, which is for a job for the last 26 years is teach outside. Um, and so I would have talked to her all night, but we're gonna do she's gonna come to my school next week and spend the day with us next Wednesday and then I'm

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gonna spend next Tuesday with them and see how each other's running a great thing for the kids in town because our waiting list is dozens and dozens long. So I'm glad there's another option now.

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>> So I obviously are all impressive. Um, I thought it was really fun how many people were here tonight. I love it whenever our community can see what's happening in each building. Um, I think one that stood out to me was the middle school that uh competition

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that um is called Project Citizen and it I just was so happy they got to go. It was to the federal court and they presented and were asked questions and they competed and it was just really impressive. I think similar to what we would see our

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high school kids doing, but these were middle schoolers and I just was really impressed. >> Um, yeah. So, I just like to comment on um, you know, as we tie back the programming to our strategic plan. I think it's really impressive to see what

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we're doing at the elementary schools um specifically with a couple of the programs around wit and wisdom and how that's being put into action in the uh first and third or first and second grade levels. Um you know, we as a a board um really made a commitment to a

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rigorous curriculum and I think it's pretty impressive that we're setting a foundation of that young of age that's going to carry them all the way through graduation here in 15 years. I just I'm always impressed because

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it just seems like these days when I was really impressive exposed level. mention she think was happening at high school That's what continues to similar thought to that. I spent a

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little bit of time talking with the O Anderson group that has the incentives on trying to read 20 books for the back half of this semester. And it was amazing how many students achieved 5, 10, 15 or 20. And the incentives that

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they got, whether it was a sticker or wristband or if they read 20 books, they got a t-shirt. Um, and the the PTO just so generously funded that they're actually going to roll it out for the entire year next year. uh took me back to when I was a kid when we used to have reading goals and if you achieved them

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you could get a personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut that >> but that was a that was a big incentive for me as a kid to try to read a bunch of books and I know that they sort of tricked me into reading but I know I've benefited from that so I think those incentive plans the way to make it um

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fun uh have some rewards uh pays off to get kids excited about reading. Okay. Um, now we'll hear from our student representative. >> We're not gonna hear from him. We're gonna talk about >> it. Do it's our opportunity to talk

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about Matt Sudinski. So, I am going to move over there. Tonight is Matt's final meeting with us and um we want to recognize him for his contributions and thank him for being with us, you know, coming once a month

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to sit here in the evening and talk board business. Um I I'm glad you signed up for it and I'm glad you signed up for it for next year. And I also know there are times when you might be thinking, what am I doing here? You know, and we understand that. But I'm excited to

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honor Matt for his contribution as our student school board member. So Matt's been an active member of our school community and I've seen him running cross country and track. I know he's playing lacrosse now as well. He's a member of the student leadership

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council, Zephr Press and of course as we all know president of the bird nerds. Um so Matt has pursued a rigorous course load and was a recent honore at the celebration of excellence for his academic achievement and as I understand it he plans to pursu pursue a trade

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apprenticeship in the near future. Um, Matt has also been a a very active member of our s of the superintendent student cabinet and through that he's focused on increasing opportunities for student perspectives to be included at

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the board table as evidenced by him invite he invited uh students to help him present. You may recall and it wasn't just that he invited students he was connected enough with the student body to know just who to ask. And so that stands out about Matt as well. I

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have appreciated his advocacy for creating a school culture that supports students who are new to the district, but I and you maybe haven't gotten a chance to see this, but I this is what I see as his superpower. And I hope people have told you this before because it really stands out to me. Um I have

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witnessed on multiple occasions uh your listening, your ability to just listen, affirm what people are saying and then pull together multiple perspectives and provide insight that is well beyond your ears. And it it is really remarkable to

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see you in action in our student um in the student cabinet because you've done it for peers, but you've done it for adults, too. Um, there have been times when the and I can recall a specific time when the students were letting adults know what they wanted changed and

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uh, an adult feeling kind of like, "Oh, that's a lot." And Matt just kind of came in, smoothed it all over, acknowledged the adult and what that adult had been doing. You might be remembering this and acknowledging the work of that adult and how appreciative he was of that. and then also helping

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them hear what he what the students wanted to change. So that truly stands out to me as something that um is not typical of a high school student. So thank you for that. Matt has been a positive force as both at the board and

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at the high school. He was also an ambassador during levy information sessions in the community and with his peers. He did such a remarkable job as the board representative that applications for the position increased by 300% this year. Right. So, thank you,

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Matt, and congratulations on your successful high school career. We know your brilliance, kindness, and thoughtfulness will serve you well in your future. Is there anything else the board wants to say to recognize Matt?

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Um, it's exactly what I wrote down. It stands out to me as well. Your communication skills are tremendous. Those are going to serve you very, very well into the future. So, best of luck and very much enjoy working with.

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>> I just want to add it has been a pleasure to have you aboard. I love hearing from students after they've graduated. So, please stay in touch. We'd like to know what you're up to. I it's all all been said you're you've got a bright future. I think whatever

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you choose to do it's you people will be very lucky to um cross path with you. Thank you for being with us. >> My mom >> Yeah. But thank you. Thank you for being on the board with us. It's it is just a

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highlight to have someone from a high school be with us and I and I know you're busy and I know that uh our meetings can sometimes be long and boring. So, um really appreciate it. >> One last comment, Matt, or maybe not

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last, but one additional comment. Not that you need to continue to pump your tires in front of your mom, but um it's been great getting the perspective of the different buildings. The building did a good job of like finding out what's happening in each

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school and kind of coming in. We don't always get visibility into what that was great. And then I know they mentioned it, but the communication skills, charismatic thoughtful tend to deliver things with a smile.

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It's just a nice conversation. Thank you. >> One more comment as well. Uh Matt, one of the things that you know you did a great job is if you leave a position and the expectations are higher for the person who takes your spot. And so I think you really did a great job of that. Um >> no pressure.

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>> No pressure. >> You'll do it your own way. It's okay. >> So to have to be able to have an influence on that role and to be communicate with a group like this in the manner you do, I think is is commendable. So thank you for your service. in recognition of your service. Oh, sorry. >> Oh, just everyone said it. Thank you.

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You came so well prepared and ready to talk. And in recognition of your service, we have this bell for you. And we're going to take a picture together as well. So, come on over. We have the flags for you. And now we will get our update from our

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student representative. from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Wildwood Elementary with food trucks and an ice cream truck. Um, for me as a child, these vehicle fairs and field days were some of my favorite memories. So, if you do have young ones, make sure and you can make it, make sure

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also came to Wildwood Elementary uh last week to share about fitness. Nordy presented about exercise and eating healthy. After the presentation, all the kids took part in a fitness run and got high fives from firefighters and hockey players. If you saw photos from the ENS, it looked like a pretty fun day.

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The Meslo Zephers on Force is in the ENOS. Uh for kindergarten through sixth graders, the registration is open and it closes on May 15th. So that's later this week. It's a free afternoon for kids to learn some golf fundamentals, play some games, and get some mentorship from high

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schoolers. And it's taught. Last week at um across the district, especially at the high school, there was teacher appreciation week. Uh students and parents were given the opportunity to write digital thank you messages online and then also there were messages

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that you could in person uh note cards during lunch and those would be delivered to the teachers. It was nice to appreciate the teacher. Also, last week and this week at the high school, there's College Board AP exams throughout the day. So, lots of stress kids, but lots of relief once

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those are done. Those will take three to four hours per test. And some kids have multiple, and that determines whether you get credit for your course that you've been working on. the Mona High School STEM Expo is coming up on May 21st from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. There's different groups from the

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engineering department and they show off what they've been working on all year long. And one of the projects that I know quite a few students have been um proud about and have been talking a lot about is fuel efficient vehicle. So they built it from the ground up. They welded the frame and everything. So

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you can make it out to that May 21st from 5 to 7. So, um, some high school students that were recognized recently. Uh, Evan Marty, Colin Taylor, and Elia McCormack all won awards at the White Bear Center for the Arts at the Vision and Verse exhibition. Their artwork

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along with many other high schoolers will be on display still until May 15th. It's in the Ford Family Gallery. And then my final remark is Will Donovan is here. He'll be next year's school board rep. Um, I wanted to one thing and

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we can go into depth about this but um I know he'll do a good job because and this is what he ran on at student uh the SLC elections. He talked about this and I think that's what connected with students as they showed that his initiative and his interest um by

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hearing from classmates throughout the high school about what classes they wanted to see and he heard time and time again the kids wanted AP biology, they wanted AP government, they wanted these opportunities and and Will really took the initiative and um they he went to teachers, students and district

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officials. He would meet before and after school and he really talked with them and he got to the nitty-gritty of how it works and And thank you for all your >> Matt. Could you back up one second? Would you give me the details again on that vehicle they built?

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>> Not just the when and where. >> When and where STEM expo made from 10 >> where? >> Yes. Sorry. In the engineering. >> Thank you.

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I know you have been asked this many times and will repeat it often, but can you tell us what your plans are for? Um, my plans are I don't know. My plans are um I'm looking into a trade apprenticeship. I'm looking for a

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program where I can learn to or be paid to learn. So, so something maybe electrical. So, a big I love and mowing. I for a lot of neighbors and family. I'm still lucky. I need to hash up

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it figured out. I told my mom I told my mom um by my graduation party a couple months ago, I said by my graduation party I will be able to tell you what I know I'm going to do. I will figure it out by then. And that she scheduled it before the school year was

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even open. So May 30th is my So not a whole lot of time. >> Okay. Um we'll move on to the superintendent report. And of course there's overlap with that

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things around the district some awards and noteworthy news and upcoming event. Um so the latest issue of the globe uh was recently mailed and so watch your mailboxes for the latest issue. In this uh you'll learn a little bit about about

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our portrait of a graduate and also highlights the psychology field experience course. >> Yeah. Sorry this isn't Thank you. You may have heard of this already. I know we've talked about it quite a bit around the district that the community education registration system is

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changing and this is an upgrade and it's supposed to make everything easier, but it does have a different look. So, uh, take take note that there will be something new to be able to register for community education. Guess just go forward for me since it's

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not working. Okay. You may have also read this in the White Bear Press. We did get a chance to talk a little bit about our our AI event and and uh how it ties to the portrait of the graduate as well.

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Our Athena award winner for 2026 is Carlo Burgerer. You probably if you watched that uh soccer game, she was our goalie and she played out of her mind and I don't know I think there was disated shoulder involved as well. So, it's no surprise that Harlo um is the

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Athena Award winner, including girls soccer. She was also a um a picker for our football team and also girls shot. Congratulations to Harlo. This is the one where I heard overlapping with Matt

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our recently our student artist at the White Bear Center for the Arts. This is a great exhibition. I don't know. May 15th that they'll still be up. So, please go and check out our student artwork at the White Bear Center for the

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Arts. We had a number of students uh win awards. Um, state history day as there are a few of us here that love history day and we had 15 students that advanced to state this year and they are listed there. History Day is part of our ninth grade

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history course and um students compete in a lot of different ways whether it's an exhibition, a documentary um performance as well and so we have 15 students who competed at the state history. Congratulations

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in this slide. So some of you may know that um our director of communications assembles these slides and for me. And so when I got this these slides and I'm always asked to look through them and and edit, this was missing. So I made my

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own slide. I'll have you know right here. So our director of communications um this week won a national school social media award for our Instagram page. So, um, congratulations to director Soyert for her hard work and,

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uh, for being recognized for our Instagram page. Some upcoming events, you've heard about the vehicle fair and um, you one, we have a number of events on here, but I also enjoy the bike rodeo that is coming

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up um, on May 30th as well. Um, and of course we have a lot of end of the year events including our graduation. So I'm looking forward. I think that's all I have. Move on to number 10, discussion information items. First item of

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business is the board member calendar of events. Typically the question is is there anything anyone wants to call out this I'll just point out I'm I'll just point out the MSBA coffee

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conversation that is when session will be will be over so we'll have a good idea. Um final that's the noon one first one of the month is at 8 second one of the month is at noon

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and then at the AMSD meeting we will also get a So that's on Thursday, May 21st at 7:38. Okay, we'll move on to Tim Ericson on the preliminary budget for next year. >> Well, good evening to everybody. Um, not

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much has changed since you saw this uh in March, but there's been a small improvement. And then, of course, we're waiting for that uh final legislative session on Monday, and hopefully we're going to know know a little bit more after that. So, I'm just going to go

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over a few of the line items. Uh, so if you look at revenue over or under expenditures, that's gone up slightly. So, slightly meaning about $27,000 over the last budget. So, it's 154,911.

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Uh, that's that we have revenues over our expenditures. So, that's good. Still have a surplus budget. uh when I look at unassigned fund balance that has uh gone up about 173,000 as we're looking at our restricted and

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reserved reserves and how those transfer back and forth between the unassigned fund balance. So that translates into a percentage unassigned of 9 and a half%. So, we're certainly within uh that minimum 8% of board policy. And so, that

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gives us a little bit of breathing room as we as we go through the budget process. And uh so that is really in summary uh the changes that we've got at this point. Um so the next the ne one of the next things we'll do so coming up at at

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the June 8th board meeting we'll get some feedback deliver some feedback from the finance advisory committee which is meeting on May 19th so next Tuesday and then we'll uh we'll go through those different legislative changes. Hopefully

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we'll have some district by district runs so we know how exactly how it's going to be impacting our district. And uh that is about it. >> And at that time you'll go through by fund and a little more detail than what we're looking at. >> Correct. Yeah. We Yeah, we'll have Yeah.

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So when we do these normally our big focus is on the general fund, uh but then we have all the restricted funds. So we have food service, community service, uh debt service, and construction. So you'll see all of them. Okay. Could you walk us through if I'm

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gonna skip ahead to my board report? Same questions. If the permanent school fund goes on the November vote and it passes, when will that new 4.5% kick in? What school year budget?

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>> Oh boy, that's a great question. Um I I can tell I know we're looking at roughly a doubling. The last number I saw uh for specific district runs is roughly a doubling of that amount. That would go

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from roughly 2 225 to 450. Uh I I guess I'd have to look that up. I'm not sure exactly what fiscal year that's going to take effect. If it passed in November, is it unrealistic to think that would be our

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school budget for 20 28? You'll dig into that? >> Yeah, I can. Yeah, I can take a look. >> That's a great question. >> Incredible. >> Thank you. All right, be back. Thank you,

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All right, we'll move on to the first reading of the policies. These are policies that were brought to the um policy committee. They are all changes um in in this slate. These are

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all changes that um are legislative changes. And um so what you see here um in this first reading are are simply action. Um below in the action items

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that are coming up on later. Um the difference between these are those are approval of annual policies. We have to approve certain policies every year. those ones that are um and we can do it in one action if there are no changes. So the ones that are below in the action

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items are ones that have no changes but need to be annually approved. Um and so that's why they're there in the action with no reading. top ones are all um there for first reading and as you remember we have three

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the policy committee had any um policies in particular they wanted if I recall with these they were all pretty straightforward um in their words many questions even as we went through But if as you read them over, we do have

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two more readings and so you have opportunities to bring forth some some questions or um recommendations for changes. >> Move on to the proposed middle school and high school first day of school schedule.

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So, I have this on. You heard from the middle school and high school principles at our last study session. They brought forward the idea of having the first day of school be uh orientation for sixth grade and 9th grade. You might recall

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that they talked about the challenges of making sure all students can attend because um we do have students who are who are on vacation during before school starts. We have students who have conflicts either due to work or or

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sports um before school starts also. And so their recommendation they talked about other districts that do this as well. There were quite a few that they listed. I don't have those in front of me, but you can pull them up if you want. And their recommendation was to

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have the first day of school be the orientation for sixth grade and nth grade. It also frees up students in um older grades to be able to support whether it's link crew or web and and

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for the teachers to be more present and able to help because they won't be working on setting up their classrooms or development that happens in the first week of school. So that is what they um brought forward and so I have it back here for another discussion and if you'd

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like to act on it you can or not but um I wasn't sure where everyone if we had had enough discussion so just to be clear this is something we already do we just do it the week before classes start. So the ask is not if we

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do link and group the ask is are we going to do it during school days right and so um I shared with you we've talked about the number of school days and the instructional hours before we had so if you recall a couple years ago we had

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this conversation when we changed the length of the school day and the number of days in session does that ring a bell to everybody the 10 minutes um and so during that time we looked at um compliance with statute around hours and

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days of school um we would still be in compliance with all of that and um you can see by grade level in what I shared with you this weekend um and I can pull it out again um that's um by grade level at the high school it's a little

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different so for example the uh juniors uh have an ACT day and That's a day in school for them. But 9th, 10th, and 12th grade have so 11th graders right now have more or n

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So there's there's a different number of days and hours by grade level at the secondary, but we would be in I like it. It's my gut response to that. I think it's hard to ask kids to go to school for the day the week before

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school starts due to some of the reasons Barb said and also the transportation because this would be a busing day. Correct. >> Um so people couldn't go be because of that. I'm guessing that is a handful of

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people that just can't get to school in the summer. Um, I know my sixth grader's struggling this year. Maybe this would have been a nice day for him. Um, I I like it versus summer. >> Uh, two things. One, I don't know if I'm

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prepared to take action on this tonight, so I would appreciate some additional time. Um, second comment, and I don't I don't have my mind made up one way or the other, but I do get a lot of feedback on the elementary delayed start, and a lot of families get frustrated with that, or at least I hear

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from a lot of families that are frustrated. Probably um so I I guess I would just like to get some more feedback from the community around this. That's why I asked for a little bit of time to give some more

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information. >> I spent a little time asking some of the questions around the proposal and it was generally pretty pretty it was either neutral or positive. I thought the presentation at our last meeting was pretty thorough and compelling. I thought they put forth pretty good argument and I didn't

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realize how common their request what they're proposing is so common amongst so many That was a good >> Yeah, I know. presentation included >> I don't I don't probably not at that

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point. No, >> I would just ask that. >> Thanks. >> We can add that presentation to this packet as well, right? Yeah, we'll do that. timeline to make this decision so that

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they can implement it and communicate it correctly. >> Um well I um I I guess it just if we want to do it this fall, parents would probably want to know about it sooner rather than later. um they are older so it's

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less urgent probably than if they were younger but it could also be something that you look at I just wanted to comment on something Ryan pointed out that we do have late starts with our

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elementary not late starts but you know the two days they they start And that was a discussion for a long long time. Um I will say once you do this, there's no going back. So I know

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that those testing days that they do for the first two days, other districts do that still before school starts. And you know, we chose to do this years ago and and but there's no going back once you do it. So, I just want to make sure people keep that in mind, too, when

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we're looking at we are here to ensure our students are getting enough time in their classes and that sort of thing. It's just one more factor. I just point that out. And I again, I'm not saying I'm one way or the other fully. I just it's, you know, it's

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the other side of the argument. I think we need to >> Why is it difficult to go back to the previous I guess you could. It would be a lot of you get a lot of push back. I think the elementary I I I would agree with um

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the elementary assessment days because it is really a one-on-one opportunity for students and teachers um that we would have a difficult time replicating if we did work.

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two days of professional learning or preparation. >> But I will say too, we used to have like evening opportunities for students and maybe we still do, but that's all in the contracts too. So, you know, I I just

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point out like now they've got these two days and that I don't think I think there's still those evenings just went away, >> right? But so did the trade. you would work that into the calendar as well. In the evening ones, it was just

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everybody, >> but again, sorry, I just have to point out other districts do still do that testing. >> Um, yes. And I think there there's just like you've mentioned, there's contractor. I just want to offer that there's

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um I came from a district that did it before school started but they actually did Jackie and Justin go to their the teachers of sixth and nth grade and ask

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would you like this? And the teachers said yes or no, and it was overwhelmingly a yes. So, they're moving it forward. Or is this a principal thing and then say teachers, this is what we're doing? >> Um, it's I can say that it's something they've discussed before, but I do not

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know of them going to teachers and taking a poll or anything like that. It's been more discussion over the years, but I I I mean, I don't I wouldn't I guess

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teachers find this idea beneficial or they wouldn't have even brought it to us. >> I I don't think it is something that people would be upset about. >> And I not I'm sorry to put you on the spot here, Matt. Are you ready? I'm

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gonna ask you a question. >> So the proposal is um that principal Han and Principal Collins came forward and said, "Were you on link crew or you know of link crew and what they do?" >> I know. >> So right now Lincoln Webb, they do an

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orientation for new students before school starts and they uh principal Han and Principal Collins came and said, "Well, what if we took the first day of school and made that an orientation day?" So all sixth and ninth graders would come to school and that would be a school day for them but everybody else

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would not be a school day unless they were helping as link leader. Any do you have your two cents on that? back when I was freshman year. But if you are summer

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mentality for students, it's easier for it to be associated with the school year. And I know it'll come back again. Um well, I'll talk to Chair Regan about when we bring it back again. Um

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but it sounds like you want to be able to think about a little bit longer, ask a few people. Um so the next meeting where we'd have um action the next regular meeting until the end of June. Um but if you wanted to so that would

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probably be where you would be talking June again. >> Would it be possible? Do we have a study session before then? >> Could we bring it up then? You could we could definitely bring it up then as a study session. If you want to vote, we would we would want to make it a special

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meeting. >> Oh, that's what I'm saying. Maybe make it a special meeting. >> Make it a special meeting >> just because then I'd be okay. All right. Thank you. >> Move on to our action items. First of

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the night is the approval of the 2728 academic calendar. >> Okay. And so we had a discussion about this one too. And the calendar committee put forward um so the if we back up legislatively we are able to start our school year early for one more year if

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we'd like. So we're starting early for 2627. We are able to do it in 2728. Um and so the question is and that's what the calendar committee recommended. calendar committee recommended an early start for all the reasons we talked

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about before in terms of um being having more time before all the spring testing comes up. Um also as uh some teachers would tell you once AP tests are done um there's maybe less investment in paying

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attention in school. Is that fair? Okay. So um for that reason also just um being able to start earlier was what the calendar committee recommended. So that is what we started with and that was how we started our discussion. You asked me to go back and find out more about our

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um construction projects that are going to be happening in the summer of 2027. So, the summer of 2027, we have the middle school entrance. We have the high school uh wait room, the learning commons or innovation space that we've

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talked about. We have um the um fine arts, the band room in particular, we have the handprint hallway. We have a very large construction um a lot of construction happening in 2027. And I did talk to our construction

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manager and his recommendation was if we can have the extra time. Um it of course would benefit these projects. Um he can't predict that far in advance how you know they they

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put a bid on this saying that yes we can get these this work done during the summer with 12 weeks but they um also know um are recommending that um if we can start uh Labor Day that would benefit the

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construction. So what we have is um a calendar where we start early for all the academic reasons we discussed and a calendar that we start right after um Labor Day to give an extra week for construction. And so at this point and

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the calendar committee has seen both calendars when we had the discussion initially but they um recommended the That's where we are. And so I'm looking for direction. I make a motion to start after Labor

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Day. >> There a second. So the proposal on the table is for the not the early start but the what would you call >> regular start >> regular start >> I just want to point out then that means the following year you'll have a short

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summer >> no we'd have a we'd have >> 11 weeks >> 12 week summer >> because you'd start because then Labor Day is back in 2028. Labor Day is back to being September 4. So you've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,

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eight, nine, 10, 11. >> Oh, at 12 weeks. Okay. >> It is 12 weeks. >> We were going to have 13 weeks at some point because of >> Well, so if you don't, then that's the summer you would have 13 weeks. >> Some point we have 13 weeks. Yeah.

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Um, you know, we h we really had a really robust discussion when we made the decision to start prior to Labor Day in 2026. Um, and I appreciate everybody's

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comments and perspectives. We now have the added issue regarding construction. Um, however, Personally, I'm going to stick with my decision that I made to go with the early start for 2026 based on the same

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considerations that we had in the discussion last time. Um, plus the calendar committee, this is something that they've studied a lot more than I have. And so, I would go with the recommendation of the calendar committee. And again, I understand everyone's concerns about Labor Day,

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but um, again, This is only happening in 26 and 27 as far as where they fall. Okay. So, that's where I >> Yeah. Well, I think you make a good point. I feel like we just had this

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discussion like three meetings ago. Um, do you recall when we made the final decision? I know it was later than probably any of us wanted to, but when did we make the decision? I think it was in October or November and um typically this is when we make

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the decision. So I was trying to go back to what we usually do. >> Yeah. And so I guess my thought is that this is obviously a unique situation for a handful of different reasons. >> Um I personally don't like the precedent of starting school earlier than Labor

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Day. Kind of why I made the vote that I did in October. Um and I'd like to see this play out a little bit um personally. So, I'd like to um we're going to vote now that's fine, but if we can push it out until September, October

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again to see how construction is progressing and what the feedback from the community is around the early start, that will give me more confidence in making decision. >> We've done it before. So we could do it again. Yeah. So t we did Yeah. So this is for >> in October.

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>> Yeah. We did it in October last time and um it I will say it was late. So if we could do it in September >> that would be problematic. I imagine >> was for Leslie who got all the phone calls from people who wanted to know. So she would request that it would be

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earlier. So um if we could do it if you do I understand the idea of waiting and seeing what happens with construction and how the early start um effects, you know, what you what the feedback is once families have actually experienced it. So, you would get both

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of those things. Um and I would I would ask it be no later than September. I'm sure on behalf of Leslie asking that it be no later. >> Any more discussion? >> I amend my motion to table discussion

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until September. >> So we have the regular start date item. >> Okay. >> Does anyone have a motion? >> I think I think at this point if you

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just vote I think we could just >> I was stretching earlier. >> Okay. So it's been tabled to September then. Okay, we can move on to the unless someone has a motion for approval of the early start.

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There's no motions for that and we can move on. Um, let's move on to the approval of the annual policies. Do I have a motion? Motion second. >> Any discussion?

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Okay, seeing hearing none. Um, all in favor >> I >> posted the annual policies passes. >> Okay. School board committee reports. >> AMSD director Donna.

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>> AMSD was I believe um and there's two presentations. was on um the state trust fund or the trust fund um whole motion that's before legislature

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right now a good presentation on the impact and I think your question was answered in there but I don't remember the answer when it would impact Um and second presentation I don't know that

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>> well we had legislators um who came and and just answered questions and spoke a little bit about how things were going. >> Yeah. >> So um

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yeah that was that the first presentation was really really good. So and I sent those around so everyone Um, update. >> Mate did not have a meeting since last. >> Director Peterson for the Minnesota

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School Boards Association legislative leazison. >> The permanent school fund is still bipartisan. So, it's not dead anywhere yet. Um, you can still email anyone and tell them you're in favor of it. And

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then MSBA did testify last week against the state group health insurance and I have a lot of numbers I won't read to you but it is very expensive and we'll think um however

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without a trifecta the government it's um not going to go anywhere this year but if the DFL regains the trifecta they'll have some steam next year. Dr. Stout, Northeast Metro 916. >> So, there was a meeting last Wednesday

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and unfortunately I was not did not attend, but I will get everyone the notice. >> Any other items or reports? All right, I'll make a motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I opposed.

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>> Meeting is adjourned at 7:56.