hello everyone I'm David law superintendent of minetonka public schools and I'm Sally Brown a director on the minetonka school board we're glad you're able to join us for our school board recognitions program it's important to take time to acknowledge and celebrate the outstanding
accomplishments of our students staff and community members We Begin most of our regular board meetings with recognitions to highlight the positive impact that so many different people make in our district tonight we are recognizing Boys Alpine Ski state
champions girls Alpine Ski State Runners up girls Nordic ski State Runners up boys Nordic ski state qualifiers varsity cheerleading State and National qualifiers junior varsity cheerleading
State qualifiers first Lego League State qualifiers First Tech Challenge state qualifiers and a class of deep Haven Elementary third graders who earn National recognition in NASA's plant the moon competition we will begin with the
boys and girls Alpine Ski teams the skipper boys team won the state championship earning the ninth first place finish in program history the skipper girls team were state runners up finishing second overall this year both the boys and girls teams are led by head
coach David Gartner along with the assistant coaches Steve methun Marley Benson and Duncan hurlbrink before we recognize each team by name let's hear more about the team's season hi my name is Dave Gartner head coach of minona
Alpine ski team I'm very proud of both boys and girls teams this season they both won the section five meet and at State the boys went on to win their third title in four years and the
girls finished a very respectable second so proud of you guys congratulations go Tonka congratulations to the following Boys Alpine state champions Oscar Anderson Max Barrett
Connor Cox Julian Fales John turot John wipson and Channing Scott congratulations to the following girls Alpine State Runners up
Amelia Beckman Charlotte kinzer Amelia sanfar Stella stinnet Safina Switz Lena witty Stella Barts and Mera warl the girlss Nordic ski teams qualified for
state competition this year where they play second overall two members of the boys Nordic ski team qualified for state and they finished in the top 12 as individuals the boys and girls Nordic teams are led by head coach Sean ker
along with the following assistant coaches and volunteer coaches Ed Atwood Eric pson Tim ree Olivia grman Lauren dah Leah malc Alex
Falconer Christian Dolan Andrew Frank let's hear more about the team season hi everyone this is Sean Kern I'm the head coach of boys and girls Nordic skiing at menaka high school and I just want to send a message congratulating all athletes who participated this season and especially those that were honoring
at the school board meeting it was a really pretty special season um so much success accomplished on many different fronts um really really amazing results and and great racing um but I think most importantly it was a great year of growth um in in terms of the team camaraderie and everyone was so
supportive of one another um and helping them to accomplish their goals and make it just a really tremendous season um seniors are going to be missed uh you had such a tremendous contribution to our team um and I'm looking forward to Great racing in the future as well thank you congratulations to the following
girls Nordic ski State Runners up Katherine Hackney Sylvie hooker ree Evelyn mik Evelyn also finished fourth overall Avery morasco Johnson Avery also
finished 11th individually Lucia ruhoff Khloe stanos Stella Swanson Sydney Whiteside and congratulations again to the boys Nordic ski State participants Peter
Hackney seventh place and Jack mik 12th Place minetonka cheerleading has a legacy of Excellence at the state and National level which they continued to build upon this year the team plays third at state in two categories varsity
game day tumbling and varsity tumbling at the UCA National High School cheerleading championships the team earned eighth place in small varsity game day Division 1 the junior varsity team also had a successful year they
qualified for state and earned fifth place in their division let's learn more about the season from the team hi Tonka here it's coach Marcy I just wanted to hop on here and congratulate both teams on a really successful season on behalf of the whole coaching staff we are so proud of the way you showed up this year
how you represented your community and how much fun you had as a team so we are all just very proud and what an honor it is to be recognized by the school board tonight so enjoy and congratulations again [Music] [Music]
[Applause] congratulations to the following varsity team members Natalia carvalo kayn Crossley Lily Davis Isa Deutsch autumn Drews palowski Riley
englestad Mila Lewis Valentina Longo Schumer Sophia Noah Ali pen Poole Madison ree Quinn schroer viven senescall Grace
serson Sienna styken and Cali Wilson the varsity team is coached by Andre Brewer Marcy Adams helgren and Dan Weber congratulations to the following JV team members Stella bomach Eva di Lily
Davis Layla Farney Belle Fox Hannah hatson K Hendrickson Kinley Hurst Karina Johnson mateline Johnson Addison
karosi Ariana cross Audrey Lisa sing zaka Liggins and Kate Oley the JV team is coached by Marcy Adams helgren Savannah Herbert and Ellie heidens first Lego league is an international program
that challenges students to grow their skills and teamwork and stem two teams from minona Community Education qualified for state competition this year team Boven and Team Chips and Bots let's learn more about the team's
accomplishments hi my name is Francis and I'm a sixth grader at mmw one of the most impactful things throughout f is a teamwork each of us had this small idea and then when we collaborated we got this big idea I'm most proud of our
building and how fun it was to make robots and attachments hi my name is Dean Bor and I am a fourth grader at excelsia elementary I participated in first Lego league on the chips and Bots team I had fun this season in working with my teammates and going to compet
itions I am really proud of how we worked really hard to make it to the state tournament and earned second place in both robot design and robot performance team build Hoven is coached by Allan janathan at State the team was finalist
for the Minnesota programming award congratulations to the following motanka student team members surj jant edly janathan Ames janathan and Asher
janathan Team Chips and Bots is coached by Wilbert go the team earned two awards at State including second place for the robot design award category and second place for the robot team performance score congratulations to the following
minetonka student team members Declan Bor Francis go and Eric Kemp one minetonka student team qualified for the First Tech Challenge state competition this winter First Tech Challenge is a international program where teams
collaborate to build and program a robot the robots compete in a 12x 12T field completing challenges designed to help students think critically and expand their knowledge of the Engineering Process this team-based Hands-On program
provides exciting learning opportunities Fosters teamwork and Leadership skills and promotes excitement in science and technology let's hear more about this opportunity hi my name is Alden go and I'm a freshman at M HS this year at FDC
we got to the state championships it was really fun and we did a lot of team building one of the most impactful things about FTC is that you can connect with a lot of professionals and learn what they do for a living if you're interested you should try out ftcs well congratulations to menaka students on
team terminal velocity for their success at State Alden Go Thomas grender bod Lon origal renin Ethan Rosner the team is coached by Wilbert go
our last recognition for this evening is for a third grade class at Deep Haven Elementary this fall teacher Heather totten's class participated in Nassau's plant the moon junr competition as part of the project students identified and tested what soil modifications are
needed to grow nutrient-rich sustainable food sources for astronauts they completed their research this fall at the competition's closing symposium award ceremony the experiment from Miss totten's class earned a best and show distinction out of 100 teams from across
the country they were one of only four to earn Best in Show in the elementary division let's hear more about the project I'm trying to see if we can grow lettuce cuz then we get to send it up to the astronauts and they get to plant it this soil is a simulant so they get to
think about and talk about how many hours of light are on Mars how how is this similar to or what we change to this dirt having the experience just to do it I think you can see their enthusiasm and uh they all had to apply for jobs there's a planter there's a
soil scientist they've said their hypothesis is that the indoor plants will grow at a better rate because they have more of a controlled environment our next uh recipient for our best and show awards for the elementary division will be uh Team
19178 Third Dimension uh way at Minnesota uh their project will uh will indoor or outdoor lighting conditions Prevail awesome um so I was really impressed with uh Third Dimension first
of all brought to the team for breathing um the outdoors Minnesota fall weather uh as as you guys saw there were um uncertain parts of science that can come up um and and your team experienced it all
um learning that the weather is is a variable that you can and and will not control um is is a very important part of the scientific process so um I'm I'm glad you guys did some real-time problem solving it sounds like you guys adjusted your method um after you figured out
some things might not have been working so uh great work there I'm glad you guys uh were able to learn so much congratulations team Third Dimension congratulations to our student scientists on this outstanding achievement Eleanor Cunningham Charlotte
Don denil goraz off Connor Gorman Benton henkins Jack kisskiss Bo kusk Olivia kupka Thatcher miles Odin
ooso Brin Shader Noah cely Piper Shepard Callie struck Tanner Thompson and ter V congratulations as well to third grade teacher Heather toen for her work to engage student learning in such a Hands-On way great work all that
concludes our recognition program for this evening thank you again for celebrating with us the school board meeting will begin shortly e e [Music] good evening I'll Now call the March
13th 2025 school board meeting to order let's stand and say the Pledge to the flag the pledge of to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible withy and
justice for all may I have a motion to adopt the agenda so moved uh Mike second second Megan uh any discussion questions additions all right all those in favor
please say I I any opposed we have an agenda next item up on the agenda is the school report from mmw superintendent law chair Leo howerin members of the board on a monthly basis our school
leaders come and present a summary of what's happening at their school frequently they include the student body or Representatives tonight we have from minona Middle School West principal pra Shaker and a small arm of students and
staff Miss shocker thank you so much superintendent law um cherro howerin members of the board members of the community I am so excited to be here tonight to share a little bit about what is going on at mmw this year um so before I start I just
want to talk a little bit about our theme for the Year this we believe belong aeve a come um just to share before we get into the fun stuff I have to share a little bit of the more you know the dry information but this year knowing that we were entering into some
potential a significant changes to the middle school program we really wanted to ground ourselves as a school in the research of really what is best for middle school so as a school we started to study this book it's a successful middle school it's a um collection of
all of the research about what is best for middle school that's published by the Association for middle level education and just to summarize a little bit because this research is the grounding of our commitment to our work it's really the foundation of all we do and the research would say that for
middle school middle school should be responsive to student needs to who students are and their fastly developing selves it should be challenging students should be stretching themselves to reach things that they didn't believe that they could it should be empowering
students are learning to be self- Advocates to know who they are to really stand up for what they believe um and it should be Equitable students should get what they need when they need it there is not a one-size fits-all approach for middle school students um and most importantly it should be engaging
students should be excited about what they're doing committed to their learning owning their learning and connected to the school so these attributes should be seen in our culture in our community it should be seen in our curriculum in our Assessments in our instruction and it should be seen in our
leadership in our organization and knowing this Cor foundation of the research for Middle School uh as a school we committed uh to work together for Student Success by following uh this plan um I'm going to talk a little bit about our vision just a little bit
really short about our vision our core values and our priorities and then we're going to get to the most important stuff which is our work in action and what it means for our students so we're going to share a little bit about that too um to start a little bit about our vision and our commitment to our community
um our promise to the mmw community is that we will at mmw create and Foster a safe Community where all students feel a sense of belonging and can discover their strengths and interests and reach their Highest Potential and I just want
to share a little bit um one of the things we did that kind of really just illustrates this commitment is every year twice a year we have something called the full sale Awards which you maybe have heard about before it's where teachers have the opportunity un to uh recognize students who do things Beyond
just academics maybe they are a leader in the classroom maybe they have an incredible sense of humor maybe they're persistent and really work through mistakes and challenges and we want to put those students in the spotlight um so this year we recognized around 40 students uh it was in February that we
did this it's one of the highlights I think for a lot of Staff it's one of my highlights and I just want to share a note that was shared with us by staff that really I think encapsuled this commitment to our community so this letter and I'll leave out all the personal information was
written to us it says we wanted to shoot off a quick email to thank you very much for taking the time and efforts in recognizing our daughter at yesterday's full sale award ceremony the recognition of students qualities and attributes outside the strict academic parameters
is so important and we are grateful that you took the time to recognize all these wonderful students yesterday both my wife and I mentioned how much this cereem ceremony filled our cups with some much needed positivity and we just wanted to say how much we appreciated
this event so thank you not only for recognizing our student but for all these students this was a special event and we very much appreciate the efforts to make it happen I think this speaks to really the incredible work that our teachers are doing with our students um
it takes a special person to teach in Middle School it really does and we have an incredible staff that is so committed to this work um so it speaks to the teachers it speaks to the students um and it really kind of validates the work that we're
doing uh our core values this year are belonging empathy Joy courage and integrity and just to kind of summarize these we share our values with our students uh what it means for us what it means for students what it looks like when we're living into our values um
obviously belonging is is a Bedrock of our of our values that all students should feel connected to our school all students should feel safe comfortable and included in everything that we do um empathy that students should understand what other people are going through that theirs is not the only experience and
that we can disagree and still get along uh Joy is a core value that we need to have fun with what we're doing we have we feel Joy when we're doing when we're working hard and we're playing hard it's satisfaction from a job while done that's Joy um and in middle school so
important is courage to learn from mistakes to own your mistakes to stand up for what you believe in to take risks that's how we grow um courage is so important and lastly Integrity which is uh doing the right thing when no one's watching Integrity is making the right
choice and representing all of us well so those are our core values um our priorities this year so we are a school with high academic expectations and very high levels of support we believe that all students can meet uh the standards
and the learning targets and part of that work is really grounded in our plc's so our plc's are our teacher teams that get together to analyze student work to help all students get the support they need to reach high levels of academic expectations we're also prioritizing
Clarity and expectations so it is a mider schooler's job to figure out where that bound boundary is and just keep pushing against it um one of our jobs as a school is to be very clear about what those boundaries are um and consistent
in how we uh enforce expectations and share that accountability we're relationship centered meaning uh really we can't do anything if we don't have relationships with our students there is no learning that takes place without relationship and we really pride ourselves on having strong positive
relationships with our students and then last we're prioritizing literacy this year um increasing student literacy reading proficiency joy for reading um we're doing many things uh to work on that and tonight we're going to highlight um one specific project so I'm
going to bring up our social studies teacher Demi Berg who's going to share a little bit about our uh readathon initiative hello thank you for having me today uh my name is Demi Berg I am a sixth grade social stud studies and social studies Humanity teacher as well
as the department chair and guys I'm in my my bookish era um I am a huge reader and I truly believe in reading for joy and so I planned a readathon um one of my language arts colleagues shared that
February is I love to read month so what better time to celebrate and so our theme was reading for Joy because so many students feel that reading is a chore or a task to kind of be dreaded and many of us know that it is not that
it is a joy to experience new places uh different times different adventures and so this readathon consisted of quite a bit in a in a single week but one of my reasons for wanting to get this going
was first of all I'm not a language arts teacher and I want kids to hear hey you should read from all their teachers disciplinary literacy is a huge Focus um at our school and I know districtwide uh
and it ties in heavily with the school board goals of excellence and well-being connection and belonging excellent in student learning and support as well as excellence in leadership and organizational support because we are
kind of leading by example and so the readathon um promoted literacy in a fun way got the community engaged and really promoted read for joy we had a few elements one was reading at least 10 minutes every day in the four core
classes we also had I had reached out to a charitable organization the uh free book buggy which is a Minnesota based um charity that drives around into different communities and brings a
refurbished 26 Bus full of books to different community events different schools and they are based out of Burnsville High School and so we worked with Debbie Beck the founder to collect donations of books and money and even
I've heard a couple people are now volunteering with them and just really helps us be able to impact our direct Community uh yeah and then we also did dress up days had a book swap and are doing a raffle with results coming
tomorrow so this uh blue googly eyed creature is our very own mmws uh little Free Library which was funded by a PTO Grant and the students voted and the official name is the bookie
monster so that will be going up once the ground is thawed and ready um and it'll be in front of the building for curb appeal but visibility accessibility during the summer kids and fall kids have sports and families come
and there's easy access to books um for our dress up days Monday was get comfy get cozy get reading and then Tuesday bring your favorite characters to life so in the middle we've got a student who was dressed as a Fairy Godmother from one of
her novels um then words on a shirt day was pretty popular and uh hats off to reading you could either wear a hat and be participating or not wear a hat and be participating and then
Friday was reading takes you places so very exciting our book swap was in the media center and we took the books that had been donated laid them out and students brought their own books that they could swap with each other or the previously
donated books any books not swapped were then put back in the donation pile uh we had a pretty pretty good turnout for our first year kids were very excited I had one student going I I know I want both of these look good I but I only brought
one book to swap so one tried to swap a media center library book but you know it was it was really exciting because students were connecting with each other and saying oh you like that book I love that series I read that you know so
very exciting as a school we read in 5 days 315,000 and two full Library carts of books which equaled out to 637 give or take books and there was joy
as the week went on I heard kids leaving the room you won't believe what just happened in this book like they were very excited to connect with their friends about books they quit going do we have to and they were like okay can we read a little longer Miss Berg and I
was like maybe if you finish your work so the impact on school culture was immense in that kids were talking about books they were asking each other they were trying new books finding books that sparked joy in them and
and language arts isn't the only subject dealing with literacy so I think it was cool for them to see a social studies teacher encouraging them to read they also really love the idea of a raffle and earning tickets so any any
way to gamify things is goes well we will be hosting our second annual readathon next year and there's already improvements in the works to make it bigger better and more impact ful on our community thank you all right I also said that we were
going to uh go into more detail about our efforts of inclusion belonging and community so I'm so excited that we have um three teachers with us tonight we have Kristen Spain uh Mary schaer and Riley Woodruff as well as our assistant principal uh Farhan Mahmud and a whole
bunch of students who are going to introduce themselves so I'm going to bring them up next something thank you so much for having us I'm Mary Schaefer I'm a f teacher here we have our students here we have Grant and Carson and Grant is going to start off with kind of introducing a little bit about it and then actually I
have some other here's some Holton and Carson are here they're also some buddies and then we have Finn and Donnie as well so and Elina and violet so I'm GNA turn this over to Grant and he's going to start off talking about kind of
the unified program and what it is uh yeah this year uh mmw has introduced some unified stuff so we have unified advisories which is a mix of uh students without disabilities in advisory and with disabilities and advis in advisory
which is pretty awesome and next year we're going to have unified pees which is basically the same thing but uh just as PE so students can like help and just uh take their friendships to the next level and then Best Buddies is an after
school program but unified is different from that because it takes place during school so many more students can uh participate with that and then Special Olympics has funded our F uh field trips this year so during school we uh
students with a one-on-one buddy and best buddies so like Colton and Carson or Finn and Donnie and there's a lot more and we go and go on field trips like we watch the Unified State Bowling Tournament or uh basketball tournament
and then we're going to watch the or then we're going to go bowl uh pretty soon and then we have a soccer tournament that we're going to play in and then there's one more which is uh uh it was our track and field event at
Yetta now we're gonna bring up Finn um the best buddies in the unified program's goals are to create an inclusive environment uh where students with and without disabilities can participate together in activities and uh our key goals include uh promoting
inclusion developing physical social and emotional skills uh encouraging social interaction building leadership skills and improve and improving health and wellness of our students all right so we're going to ask them a couple questions and so Donnie
and and Carson and Elina can you guys come up here all right so we're going to ask what have you enjoyed so let's start with alinaa first what have you enjoyed I joined up um having fun with Donnie
Carson and violet at best buies and stuff like that and D how about you out friends you like to yes do you like to hang out with your
friends yeah you like fun activities all right and then we're gonna turn over fin Finn what have you learned oh yeah sorry while he's pulling that up I'm just G to show we for unified advisory we play for a lot so that's kind of a picture of our
advisories getting together and playing um middle school can be a strange time for students um I'm sure you all remember um um but by being in best buddies I've learned to not just think about myself in my day but to think about others I've
learned about the difficulties some of my peers have to face and it shows me how far a friendship can go this program has blessed me with friendships that mean a lot a lot to me and I'm thankful for this group that I get to be a part of mmmw uh inclusion is really important to me
because it can mean a lot of things so I think the definition is important itself because everyone belongs and everyone should have a place where they can feel welcomed and have a sense of belonging and I also think it's important because nobody should be separated by their
differences and I think uh like these unified and best buddies can pull two like everyone together and I think all these can build friendships inclusion is just we're not leaving anyone out even though they may be different from
yourself then we just have some pictures kind of our of our unified advisory classes of here and here's one um again of our unified advisory and then we're going to like we said we went to the Target Center so
here's a picture of us at the Target Center another one if you would like to we're going to be we're going to be participating in the watert mayor unified soccer so if anyone wants to come watch us and then unified uh track and field meet so come cheer us [Applause]
on all right so obviously there's a lot going on at mmw um some of the things that are on a horizon for for quarter three just a you know day in the life of mmw we're wrapping up quarter three here we have two more weeks um next week is
inclusion week at mmw so we have a theme day every day it's going to be a fabulous week um pastel paloa is our second annual 8ighth grade dance that's Friday a huge deal um we're also preparing for standardized attestment
assessments which take place uh after spring break and kind of most importantly is we have a new and updated program model and schedule at mmw so we're really prioritizing the planning and implementing uh implementation of those changes so a lot happening at
mmw um and lastly I just kind of want to share with with this thought there's so much that happens in a school year sometimes you kind of forget um and actually David La reminded me of this the last time we met that way back in October we raised a ridiculous amount of
money for um tackle cancer and we told the students hey if we raise this much amount we'll have a overnight in the courtyard the staff will have an overnight in the courtyard and lo and behold the students raised all that money so we had an overnight in the courtyard um which we forced fan to come
too so so it consisted of you know we all slept in tents we had three live meets set up with students to share with the community David law read our community a nighttime story which was Unforgettable but I think one of the I just want to end with this little story
because it it kind of just means so much to me it is such a funny little thing we were together sitting by the fire and we noticed this drone coming uncomfortably close uh over the courtyard and we noticed that it had something attached to it and lo and behold it dropped and
landed in the courtyard and in my mind I'm thinking what would a middle schooler be dropping in a courtyard and I was a little nervous but we we found it and realized it was a pack it was a package of a Cool Ranch Doritos and this student had figured out
how to use his drone to carry it over our Courtyard I just want to read this note um because it kind of just really illustrates the best parts of mmw in middle school he said dear teachers thank you for all you do I'm dropping
two more things please don't get me in trouble the last item is Gummy Crushers that might come down faster so look out but really I just think this couldn't happen without the incredibly caring teachers we have it couldn't happen
without the incredibly Innovative and intelligent students that figured out how to do this and it couldn't happen without the support of our school board and our community that lets us do these crazy things so I just want to thank you all I want to thank all of our students and teachers that here were shared tonight um and if you have any
additional questions we can answer any questions as well thank you so much [Applause] thanks for that great report uh board members any questions or
comments I'll just say it was a wonderful report I really appreciated the everything from the high expectations for student achievement to inclusivity and uh especially hearing about the drones that was fantastic thank you so much thank you
okay next item on the agenda we've reached the time for Community comments do we have anyone here wishing to address the board Community comments is an opportunity for the public to address the school board on an item included in this agenda in accordance with the guidelines and we don't have anyone here
wishing to address the board so we will move on to uh the next time of the agenda which is our literacy update superintendent law chair Leo howerin members of the board it's hard to follow such an amazing student
presentation um we don't have any drones to drop Cool Ranch Doritos or anything but again missed opportunity missed opportunity great uh this board agenda has you know things are happening in minetonka and tonight there are big items and updates
the first of them related to board goals and you know really improving academic Excellence across the district is our literacy update associate superintendent Dr Amy Leo and uh literacy coordinator Alysa Rutherford will be here with this report good evening superintendent law
Mr chair members of the board thank you for the opportunity to be here although I have to agree pretty tough act to follow but we'll do our best so we're excited to provide you with an update on our district literacy efforts and our
progress toward implementation of our updated literacy plan I need to move this over so this goal really is centered in excellence in student learning and support and ensuring that robust
instructional core is really carried out throughout our buildings the district goal is about implementation of the updated literacy plan and this centers on providing training for all of our teachers it's
evaluating our literacy materials ensuring that students are screwed scened that we're monitoring students growth to determine if the interventions and the extensions that we're using are having the intended impact and what adjustments we might need to make and
then identifying and addressing gaps and achievement especially those that are predictable so our district literacy work is also being Guided by the Minnesota read act goal that was set forth uh for all school districts as a
part of the 2023 legislative session the read act replaced the read well by third grade that was formerly part of the world's best Workforce uh legislation and this new goal is really centered on every student every year
reading at grade level beginning in kindergarten and that we're making sure that our multilingual Learners and our students receiving special education are also achieving their individual reading goals and heading toward meeting
grade level in the area of reading uh districts are all required as a part of this legislation to provide evidence-based reading instruction no later than the 2627 school
year this is an overview of the key components of the reac and you've seen these previously the redac continues though to be a work in progress both at the state level as well as in our district uh last year during the
legislative session it was revised we lovingly had called that react 2.0 um and we anticipate that there'll be further updates during the 2025 legislative session curious if it'll be
2.5 3.0 not sure how significant yet we've had many efforts during the current school year to really Advance our literacy work we launched our local literacy plan uh we've worked with our K5 teachers on an updated instructional
model we've continued to refine our assessment practices and really focused on data literacy we've provided extensive professional learning uh We've continued our English language
arts curriculum review and we've further Advanced the framework uh that we put in place with mtss we'll be going into more depth on these items throughout this report the district local literacy plan
follows the Min soda Department of Education templates and includes all of these components I'm going to turn it over to Alyssa and let her highlight the work we've been doing with professional learning um I so the react requires
specific professional learning for all well for teachers oh there's Arrow okay awesome it's my first time up here um and so they kind of goes in two phases because there's two different deadlines um based on teachers roles so phase one
is Educators in grades K through three and grades K through 12 if they are reading intervention or special education Educators um and then phase two is grades 4 through 12 um the approved platforms for phase two will be
identified in October by mde and the deadline for that phase is I think 2027 um we partnered with core learning for a 5-day reading Academy for to meet these requirements and we actually had an expand group um of teachers so our
phase one included grades four through five um our elt our multilingual Learners in K5 as well as um Advanced learning teachers so they have all kind of completed these five days of learning are and are now in process of demonstrating their Mastery of the
content um we'll talk more about that later so um um so these are kind of the topics that were covered each each of the days this school year days one and days day one and day two of the five day series was last school year and um those
covered phonological awareness pheic awareness phonics and then August was our day three where multi- syllabic word reading spelling and fluency uh were the topics and November was date four vocabulary and syntax at the word level
so meaning how does a word fit within a sentence like parts of speech and things like that and how can we make that more clear for students then in January uh was the final day where it's a little Capstone of comprehension which is kind of the outcome we want all kids to have with reading skills U and how to make
that a little more explicit as well thinking about syntax at more the sentence or passage level um where kids can tackle then that um complex text and of course the strategies that you can use as a teacher to enhance those
comprehension processes um as well as comprehension products so all these sessions included curriculum connections applications to practice components um what I love the most about the core learning series is the teaching reading source book text
that comes with it for teachers it has model lessons and explicit um evidence-based practices so that they can use that to then Implement and it's curriculum agnostic so it goes with any resource that they might have teachers are completing assessments
this spring to demonstrate Mastery of content as required by mde and um that includes submission of artifacts of their um application in the classroom and reflection short answer questions as well as multiple choice questions that
kind of cover the content or the knowledge of the literacy and language skills that they learned throughout the series um let's see here in addition to the core professional learning days which was the bulk of our well I guess like the whole of K5 teachers that phase
one group right um there's been other professional learning opportunities um embedded throughout our system trying to support that mtss framework strengthening plc's tier one instructional approaches and student engagement that's systemwide and then there were some sessions that were
offered during teaching and learning academy as well where teachers could go even deeper with some of their literacy learning one was uh how to maximize the use of the decodable readers that the foundation uh so graciously donated we'll talk about that again later um we
also partnered with a um expert in Mandarin Chinese to bring some science of reading research to our Chinese immersion teachers both our elementary and our secondary and so she led some sessions that were um and actually like
a large percentage of our teachers of Chinese immersion opted to attend that session even though it was during teaching and learning academy prior to the school year starting and then then we had um some offerings of tier one literacy extensions led by our lovely director of advanced learning and her
team Diane runquist and then um we launched a literacy instructional model at the start of the school year and throughout the school year at different screening times have led data response planning meetings Dr Ria and I partnered to um do that and analyze the screening
data look at instructional responses we'll talk more about that later too um and of course our mtss process guide is in that full implementation uh year and we are you know working to get teachers uh to understand that process as
well uh let's see here instructional routines and strategies in supportive literacy and student engagement for our secondary teachers uh has been highlighted as well and then um I attended some Middle School staff meetings to just do a little blurb about
disciplinary literacy and how to use some of the instructional practices that have been embedded throughout our professional learning the last couple years um just a little reminder of like hey read write discuss let's do it every day in every class here are some ways you can do that and engage
students um let's see here so plans for next year continuing to support that mtss framework tier one instruction and student engagement our PLC work um new implementation of District Ela curriculum which obviously comes with
some training around the resource but that's going to be paired with how do we also include our core learning strategies and our literacy instructional model to support that implementation and um continued Implement implementation of evidence-based approaches for literacy
intervention in grades K through 12 uh we are also really excited about the guidance coming from mde and Carrie about intervention models for grades K through 12 that's coming by November of this um Coming school year then
disciplinary literacy you know regardless of who is identified but for phase two with the redact training we want to make sure that all of our teachers in 6 12 have some level of support with how to best support kids with literacy so we won't hear about
that phase two option until October but we're going to keep in mind based on what is who's identified for that group it kind of es and flows they're like first they're like people who are in charge of ela or they're like oh anybody who's reading instruction but we we know that everyone kind of supports reading
instructions so we're still not sure who that really means and once we find out we'll decide what else we want to add and do with people who aren't in the official phase to with the react required training last but not least of course our lovely pair of professionals
uh will have an opportunity of eight hours of redact training this is going to be um implemented through our regional literacy networks which is a group that has been developed from the react that supports each region of the state with implementation and so
um that eight hours of training will be in two two our modules and there's also a possibility for one of our some of people from minat tanka to be able to get that training to then deliver that training for our parents so we're excited about that happening next school year as well and now assessment with
a so as we advance our literacy work uh our use of data has been an important component when we talk about data literacy uh we're talking about making sure that everybody has a shared understanding of the purpose for each of
the assessments how to best use that data to make decisions about your instructional response how to access the data and finally how to use that data to respond in instruction um the goal by each level
really in K8 is purpose and use of Benchmark and screening data in 612 it's focusing more on understanding the purpose and use of the early warning system and then at the system level it's really about monitoring Benchmark and
screening data with our multi-tiered system of support district and building teams so as we look at the screening that we're using using in our district as you know fastbridge was already a part of our district assessment plan
prior to the read act however as a result of the read act we have made some shifts in uh how we're implementing screening particularly in first grade we're doing the early reading screening three times a year and then we start
those curriculum based measures in the winter previously we focused more on the curriculum based measures this gives us a more a holistic view of each of our students uh in the area of reading and literacy additionally um for students
who are not at the Benchmark this year we've started some what they call gated screening but it's an additional screener for our second and third graders when they're not yet uhu meeting The Benchmark and that allows us to get some additional information which we
follow up with diagnostic assessing so we can make sure that we're meeting those individual needs needs we're also now screening all of our fifth graders three times a year um and that's really in response to our mtss framework as we monitor students progress and make sure
students are growing at uh the rate expected regardless of if they're already at or above grade level um so that's been a shift that will also be really positive as kids transition to the Middle School um we'll continue to screen our
immersions students uh in the language that they're being instructed or that target language we also are expecting further guidance ironically April 1 uh from the mde for screening for grades 4
through 12 um and we expect that that'll also give some guidance as it relates to diagnostic assessments for those students not yet at grade level and then finally we continue to support our teachers in that analysis of their student data and using that so it can be
an effective tool to help us be more successful with all of our students so it's essential to have a high quality tier one instruction because that way we have uh ensure more kids read at grade level with that initial instruction right then we
reserve our highly skilled and knowledgeable intervention teachers for our students who need the most intensive support um and so these are all the components of tier one that we've been working in with this com this current school year our plc's our professional
learning uh and our work to use data to inform our instruction and this is um so although we have not yet implemented new resources in that tier one for ELA uh teachers are already implementing some of these evidence-based interventions
extensions or approaches based on that professional learning and this is actually a a a visual of a systemwide tab in the PLC log that all teachers have access to I like to call it a little toolbox it kind of reminds me of those Home Depot drawers and um each
little drawer that you pull out or link that you click on leads to a set of tools and we keep adding to that toolbx um for teachers so that they can um have the tools that they need to differentiate both extensions and interventions and guidance around
General tier one instructional moves for engagement and literacy so this is a a K12 resource uh not just an elementary resource so you within that tool is um within that tool box I should say is a Proto a couple different data analysis
protocols one of them is this screening to intervention tool which is actually embedded in the fastbridge program and so teachers can use this to determine what might be a recommended intervention or response so this is an example of like first grade teacher applying that
screening to intervention to determine a need for students and those are some of the materials that they used we'll continue to use this screening to intervention tool moving forward and refine some of those practices next school year when we continue to have some data response planning meetings
with teachers uh for our grades uh two through five and our first grade um immersion we are using the 4box sort protocol which is um was recommended by Carrie as an
analysis tool for figuring out kids skills based on their oral reading fluency data so if a student is accurate and at reading at the expected rate they likely fall into either group one maybe they need some comprehension support or
maybe the grade level instruction is going to meet their needs and they don't need necessarily something additional if a student is accurate with their reading but they're reading very slowly they likely need fluency instruction and if they're inaccurate and slow they
probably have some decoding needs or unfinished phonics learning a lot of our first graders actually end up there because of course first grade is when you're still learning some of that code um and then group four is if you're inaccurate but High rate one of our Chinese immersion Stu uh teachers called
this fake fluency because they're reading fast but not accurate so that is a group where you're like okay we have to figure out what's going on are they reading quickly and they're masking a decoding need or are they just not really monitoring their comprehension So
based on which what the kids data says then you kind of think what Diagnostics might I need for example in group three if if it shows they might have a decoding need a teacher would want to look and see what is the unfinished phonic learning that I might need to um help them catch up with and so we have a
tool from our core training called the assessing reading multiple measures that has a phonics Diagnostic and so teacher ERS use that diagnostic to figure out the starting point of instruction for reteaching of any unfinished phonics learning in group
three for example so and with that decoding group it's really great to have these decodable readers for using to help uh address those unfinished phonic skills and um if you haven't heard yet
that our foundation uh provided a $100,000 Grant to purchase some of these readers for our classrooms it was a total of 35292 books and will hopefully impact kids for years to come because they are
obviously reusable year to year um we were able to purchase with an additional contribution from the district for all all grades of K through two um whereas with the $100,000 it might have only covered K and one and so that was really nice to have our second grade teachers
have access to some decodable texts that are at second grade level as well um both Spanish and English classrooms um have access to these resources since Chinese is you know not a alphabetic language decodables aren't necessarily the most appropriate resource we are
currently in Chinese language arts immersion review and so we're going to be considering what resources would be best for them for teaching that particular language um also this year we tried out a reading core uh tutor in Excel ser in
minta to see how that partnership might work um if you haven't heard of reading core it is uh program through americore or ampact and they um hire volunteers which kind of sounds counterintuitive volunteers that then they get like a
stipend or benefits and we benefit from having them work with students in our schools and so it's evidence-based high dosage tutoring program and it's very targeted with the skills for students pheic awareness phonics INF fluency and
um all of the students who have been participating at minowa and Excel here have made substantial and sometimes accelerated progress so it's been a great which we expected because reading Corp has 30 years of um of you know whatever history of doing
that doing just that of having kids make progress um and so we um the principles were asked you know would you like to expand this pilot and so we've put in applications for for reading core tutors at each elementary site um and so we're hoping that they get approved and if
they get approved we'll move forward with expanding this pilot into the buildings so um curriculum review is this still me no this is you now so as I mentioned at the beginning our English language arts curriculum
review is underway and often when we hear you know curriculum people think of a resource ource and in our district when we say District curriculum we're not talking about those purchased resources we're
really talking about the curriculum and the way resources and practices and standards and instructional approaches are put together by our teachers to best serve our students incorporating all of these
elements because we know that really these are all very important elements but the key to effective District curriculum is that consistent implementation of those evidence-based instructional practices and how our
teachers um bring forward those standards using a variety of resources think that's you and of course I think we've talked about this one before that there's a broader context to this this particular Ela curriculum review um because of the
react thinking about our screening and how that fits into our um plan for instruction with those data response planning meetings and then also there was a review of resources by Carri and mde um and that has been influencing our
decision- Mak as a curriculum review team um there's no longer any specific funding for Approved resources although you can we can use literacy incentive Aid to purchase that although we're using that aid for other things too so it's always kind of a how do you do this
right curricular resources must be aligned with evidence-based practices however right so that uh review by Carrie and mde has been um something that has been informing our review and we've been looking at highly aligned resources and also exploring additional
options that haven't been reviewed yet um or and then using that carry and mde rubric to really help us look for those evidence-based practices and those red flags that we want to avoid um in a resource Etc um Carrie and mde do not have plans
to review grades 6 through 12 tier one resources so we're not expecting any specifics for grades 6 through 12 except for intervention resources for tier two and tier three instruction th that is going to probably come out in November
um but of course through this process are we want to select resources that will support our teachers in best implementing evidence-based literacy and we have a commitment to that structured literacy approach as well as designing a curriculum that has that systematic and
explicit sequential pieces throughout right we don't want to you know have different directions going in different grade levels right there will be a comprehensive report of the ELA review and recommendations that will be shared later this spring so you can hear more
later so next next steps as we think about moving forward um obviously literacy is in the Forefront we've committed to that and we continue that work uh we know that there may be some changes and updates that our literacy
plan um will need later this spring so we'll continue to revise that both as we learn more and as new requirements uh come we'll continue with the professional learning and as Alyssa mentioned really it'll be now implementing all the learning we've done
with core into new curriculum in K5 advancing the learning at the secondary with our teachers of reading and supporting that in disciplinary literacy um the new Ela curriculum will be implemented
K12 uh with a focus on effective tier one strategies that have been the focus at all levels uh will deepen implementation of the mtss framework really looking at the deepening the uh
work we've done already at the elementary level but then as we have more tools and more resources really being able to advance that work in grades 4 through 12 and finally uh the ongoing identification of those
resources for tier two and tier three um we have some really great resources in place but we're also excited about what we expect to see uh in the coming months so with that we'd be happy to answer any
questions thank you both very much any questions camar thank you for being so agile with all of the standards that seem to kind of change quickly so we appreciate that just a quick question about the par training is that online or is that going
to be in person the eight hours I don't really know okay um that's fair but so the regional literacy networks and I think it was developed by Carrie but I'm not positive you don't even know that um but it might be a blend I'm guessing it's a blend okay that's what we're
hearing initially is that we're anticipating that it will be uh Blended but because they're giving the Train the trainer option if we have the opportunity we'd prefer to be in person just like we were with the teachers we know that learning is social and will
create a better experience yeah thank you Sally thank thank you for your report I heard a term tonight that was new to me can you tell me more about disciplinary literacy yeah so David law loves this
one too because then when he thinks discipline as a former you know administrator he thinks of you know students with behavior issues or whatever um but yeah so disciplines are those content areas and disciplinary literacy is different from like content area literacy because it's specifically
about how you read in science or how you read in social studies there are some reading strategies that kind of apply across content areas right being able to summarize being able to um use text features but the text features in science are very different from the text
features in math and so that's the disciplinary literacy thank you Megan um I also have a comment and a question and yes sometimes the literacy and science is not even actually letters it's like other things but anyway um a
comment was that I really appreciate I'm sure it felt like trudging through mud at times because the parameters were not always really clear but I really appreciate that we haven't done the minimum so we're ahead of the timeline we didn't wait for the guidance we kind
of forged through any way to get it into the classrooms and the same thing with kind of expanding from just the required teachers to doing more of the elementary teachers um because I think the end goal is to get this to as many kids and the
sooner we do so the sooner we can start to see the impact of that so I really appreciate that even though the parameters weren't necessarily clear and we didn't have the approved resources that we didn't just pause and wait because I think it really will help our
students um the question that I had was around um I kind of lost it uh had a note here and I lost it in my comments
um I'll come back to it if I think of it okay I had a question while you're searching your memory banks Megan um first of all that's a lot and I just appreciate all the work you're you're both doing and all the teams that the district are doing to sort of roll this out I think um Megan's point is well
taken that we've been trying to get ahead of this before the react was even a thing and we're sort of working through both board goals and uh District approach and the react all at once so we appreciate that um I also just he that a
lot of professional learning for the district I'm wondering as as you've gone through the stages you're in so far how's it been received by the the buildings the teachers the administrators who have been going through it that was my question so thank
you go ahead and I can add on yeah I'll start and then Amy can add on but um I mean just having done the data response planning meetings in buildings the small grade levels Dr Ria and I having conversations with teachers about how to implement some of their learning there's
just been a lot of they're like teachers are like oo it's a lot this is a lot but it's good right and so making those connections between what they've learned in the professional learning sessions with core and their data and their students and then trying it out in the classroom they are super excited and
they can't wait to see what's next for next school year I would say also throughout the training we heard repeatedly that teachers were so happy to be with their cohort or their grade level department area across the district they don't have a lot of
those opportunities um and they were appreciative to have you know consistent presenters to the extent possible that it was all in person um and that we've been providing supports along the way
it's been very positive there's been a little bit of stress about demonstrating that learning now and again working to really support teachers and they being highly successful it's typical you know minona teachers have very high expectations all the way around
especially for themselves and they've done a really great job of really tackling this making sure that they've mastered the learning and now demonstrating it so really pleased with that as well as I think it's pretty
unique we had all of our administrators who support um E5 as well as uh special ed 612 fully participate in all five days of the training with the teachers and
that's really um an important piece because it allows us to support that implementation at a whole new level when they've been in the learning so thank you and thanks for supporting supporting our teachers that way appreciate it anyone
else thank you very much thank you next item on the agenda is uh approval of 2025 26 Calendar change for professional learning superintendent law Mr chair members of the board at our
most recent study session associate superintendent Dr Leo shared a preview of the calendar for the upcoming year as a rem reminder that uh this calendar was approved a year ago by the board with late starts and early releases tonight
you'll get an update on how we're recommending that changed you heard it last month and this is the time for the board the board to approve it thank you superintendent law Mr chair members of the board uh as you'll remember beginning with the 2324 school
year we implemented or piloted full days of professional learning for the first time that was extended to this current school year and as we look to our coming school year we again have identified extensive professional learning
priorities these were identified based on um teacher and principal feedback as well as looking at our board goals and any legislative requirements um to accomplish this we
are proposing that we permanently eliminate late starts and early releases from our professional learning calendar uh we surveyed stakeholders and overwhelmingly this is not the most effective or popular way for teachers uh
to learn nor is it best for families um we also would like to permanently incorporate those full days into our school year calendar so rather than coming to you each year at this time we'd like them to be proactively put into the approved calendar we would like
to consider design ating up to three days for professional learning annually and that decision can be made based on what we see coming on the horizon right now three days has been the right level of um time or the level of support for
our teachers to meet our goals but there may be a time that we think two days is the right number um so we would like to keep that somewhat flexible and then for next year based on the list that I just shared with you you uh we would like to
ask for those three days in working with our various stakeholder groups we gathered feedback about dates that were most conducive to professional learning um and we consider you know frontloading them in the school year so that we can
take the greatest advantage of them as well as considering what's familyfriendly and still teacher friendly so trying to balance all of the needs of the various stakeholder groups so we're requesting that we that you approve uh August
25th and because that's before the start of the school year you'd actually go to June of 2026 and move the last day of school backwards there um then November 6th which is paired with a transition day at the end of the first quarter and
finally January 5th which is the day that our teachers um would return from winter break and extend the winter break one additional day for families so we ask that you approve the
updated calendar to provide these days and to reflect these changes thank you very much um any questions first of all from the the board right may I have a motion to adopt
the recommended calendar changes as proposed in the report so second Chris may I have a second second C all right any discussion Meg um I just wanted to mention one thing that I don't know if it was that teaching and learning or one
of the meetings that we were in um was that teachers really appreciated that January day right after winter break because it was kind of a chance to regroup and get ready for um students to come back the following day so I just wanted to kind of highlight that that
was really well supported and teachers felt like it was a a good way to restart the second semester or not second semester but just the post winter break transition yeah we did consistently he
that that was a nice way for them to get you know their head back into school and back you know be prepared for their students um it very well supported and one of our best attended days least absences
so Dan uh yeah thank you for this I mean I think we've seen how important professional development is in you know adopting evidence-based instruction and changing as we learn what works and what doesn't um I've also just going through
the list of our priorities going forward I've I've heard a lot from families uh excited about the opportunities just surrounding professional learning and social emotional learning and culturally responsive practices and they're they're very curious like how how we're adopting
those new courses how we're going to implement them how soliciting feedback and everything like that so I hope um we can hear a lot more about that going forward how we're making those choices and and bringing feedback into that process yep absolutely and that's obviously Guided by a combination of our
board goals State legislation as we look uh at how we're embedding culturally responsive practices into the teacher evaluation process as well as how we're being responsive to our students and their needs both through being culturally responsive as well well as
responding to Social and emotional needs of our students so there'll be much more to come and we'll be continuing gather feedback and input from our teachers from our administrators and while we always have that frame of what that work
will look like just like we want our teachers to be responsive we have a road map but we're filling it in and responding to what teachers tell us as they move through those learning days and as needs either AR rise or we need
more time or to shift a little so more to come yeah I look forward to sharing more about it thank you any other questions or comments all right we've got a motion in a second all those in favor please say I I any opposed motion
carries all right next item on our agenda is the approval of policy superintendent law Mr chair members of the board tonight I'll be Ian for executive director of HR and legal councel Angie flowers uh I want to start by thanking
Scott gcer security coordinator and Dr Jackie Getty executive director of communications for doing a lot of work on these policies the first policy I'm going to recommend is 803 the changes you see here are housekeeping changes aligned to our current language with our current practices our security
coordinator has made several recommendations which are now in place we begin with changing the title plan to planning because it's not a static process you will not we have updated the word procedures throughout as well in addition we added inclement weather for reunification since those are matters
that fall under the policy which we have prepared there's also changes about where the procedures can be found and they were redlined in your packet and discussed at the study session due to security and privacy we don't publish all the details we want separate procedure forms tonight uh we're asking
that you approve policy 803 as presented all right may I have a motion to approve policy 803 second Dan a second second Sally any discussion again for the benefit of the public we did go over this at our most recent study session um and I think
these are all uh well explained by the materials uh all those in favor please say I I any opposed the motion carries superintendent law the next policy policy 806 is emergency planning similar
similar to policy 803 there's a fair amount of language cleanup beginning with the title we also added the word emergency of the policy is titled crisis and emergency P planning or crisis and Emergency Management we also changeed some language under the purpose to show the
policy does not show step-by-step procedures the general general information section shows more language updates and that staff will be trained on procedures annually with a real emphasis on building leadership teams being a key piece of of this work along with working with special education leaders to determine what be must be
done to keep children with disabilities safe in our schools we updated language to show lockdown hold secure definitions of th in definitions of those terms a hold is a situation that doesn't arise to the level of a lockdown but students and staff stay in place such as a
medical emergency secure is an external threat and where the schoolers are locked and a lock down is a significant threat that has been is in inside the building these are terms recommended by experts and that we have already begun using in our community and there we've
also shared this in a communication in November we deleted redundant language for subjects previously addressed working with the special ed Department the revision is also reflecting the expectation that everyone knows their role and there will be ongoing training there are updates about con contacts how
we communicate in events of emergency and deleted language for which we already have procedures we're asking for approval of this policy all right may I have a motion to approve policy 806 so moved Megan may I have a second second Mike any questions
or discussion again we've covered this all at our most recent study session and it's pretty well covered in the materials and by superintendent Law's report um uh we have motion a second uh all those in favor please say I I I any
opposed the motion carries uh the next item on the agenda is facilities task force Next Step superintendent law Mr chair beginning almost exactly a year ago our facility's task force was formed
and met frequently leading up to community recommendations that the board would consider for potential Community ask as we've been to the board multiple times in the last few months The Next Step will be presented by executive DOR ctor of finance and operations Paul
brois and that is to take these recommendations and make sure that the Minnesota Department of Education reviews them and comments as appropriate so that you are able to make a decision later this year if and when you would bring this to the community for a vote
tonight Mr bis will run through the plan the background and next steps Mr bis thank you superintendent law uh Mr chair members of the board I'm actually going to add a few other details about a little bit of the history behind this because of uh there might be some people who are just really kind of tuning in
for the first time with everything that's going on uh and uh so just a few brief comments but need to start off with this our our excellence and how we live lead and learn these posters and and this this slogan this motto is all
over the district but it's not just a slogan it's not just a motto it's it's a touchstone it's a uh a a landing pth it's a guide for people to align things to it's um it's it's uh our it's States
values a States principles and it's a it's like Polaris our atad denor the uh uh something to line up to and guide us so about a year ago as superintendent law indicated the um Admirals of the fleet decided to uh that we needed to
look at some sail in some Waters that we hadn't sailed in for almost 30 years so uh the Admirals of the fleet set the core and the fleet turned and headed toward the Northstar so um item four from fiscal year 24 and our
Schoolboard goals uh had in terms of excellence and Leadership and organizational support utilizing space strategically to accommodate all the district's growing Innovative programming including long-term facility planning for the programming needs of the district in all academic and
co-curricular programs you formed the facility's task force or or asked it to have that formed directed it to have it formed and uh so in February and March uh it was formed then 15 meetings were held between April and December an aggressive schedule but uh
it's important work we got staff input from administrator uh administrators then their presentations of all the school sites staff surveys Community surveys trying to get as much input as we can from as many voices as we can at the end of that process the facilities task force presented presented a rank
prioritized list of the facilities projects to consider um uh for the school board to consider that was in December of 2025 and uh the options were reviewed over the next several months taking into account enhancing and supporting student instruction um leaving capacity for a
future operating referendum uh be with in terms of working with the voters and being respectful to the taxpayers of the district because uh they have to have to pay for the things that help us to to uh instruct house house instruction for our students so the task force priorities uh
list is is is here and the items in green italic are the ones that are uh were after discussion were being Rec or you gave us the authorization move ahead with putting together the review and comment to the Department of Education review and comment is a necessary step
uh for all school districts to go through if they might run a bond referendum going through review and comment does not commit us to actually running a bond referendum but it sets the stage to give you the option to do so if you decide it's the the time is
right uh these are the items that um are total up actually um about $85 million very significant sum of money uh the estimated cost is about 82.9 million uh for facilities and then uh 2.2 m02 million for an epic security
system these projects would consist or consist of 80,500 square F feet of new construction and 32,500 ft of heavy renovation these are all pieces of data that are in the review and comment uh again in identifying uh these projects we also looked at where the
prior Investments and Facilities were made from 2008 through 2024 at all the district K12 school buildings and you can see that we uh we we added in in increased facility capacity at all at various buildings and
spend dollars on various uh uh facil ities uh based on on what the facility capacity was at the time and what we needed as as a district grw and as we had an additional enrollment and so there was a couple several facilities the middle schools and uh DAV Elementary
School that have had a little bit less than uh the other schools so there's a lot of focus on that uh we also spent a significant amount of money at the high school naturally it's our largest facility and uh we had to do some significant uh expenditures over the
last almost two decades in that regard uh and um you know fairly U uh uniform for most of the schools but again we uh at Deep Haven and East and West Middle School we actually had capacity that had been built by prior prior administrations prior Community uh
referendums that was actually significant up to that point in time but now they're needing a little bit of help at the same time we spent a lot of money on long-term facility maintenance and we spent pretty much uniform dollars based on the size of the building across the board at our elementary schools and
at our middle schools and at our high schools with the middle schools having more because they're larger than the elementary schools and the high school which is our our aircraft carrier um of getting the most because it's it's almost uh almost 40% of our square
footage so the proposals again just from a high level and you you as a Schoolboard have seen these down to the detail level multiple times um and if people watched the stream last week there's some more detail behind this but in the interest of being uh concise the
uh uh at Middle School East we just have the the main areas we're going to look at and at the other schools so there's two two key areas of additions uh in addition at the uh of a gymnasium and performance venue on the northeast corner and four science classrooms on
the uh uh western side as well as a separated bus uh loop that will add uh basically will separate buses out of the auto queue and hopefully improve traffic flow but also provide by relocating it there we we'll BAS gain over 100 additional parking spots for events uh
in the evenings and on weekends uh this is a overview of where those would take place we also will be doing some internal modifications uh to to the buildings to add uh some some additional use usage
and ability to support uh collaborative instruction at at East Middle School likewise at at West Middle School is uh similar similar but uh in almost like identical but in different locations because of the school site the unique nature of it we again would be looking
at doing a uh a gymnasium and a uh performance venue the uh as as another note the gymnasium at both East and West Middle School would be replacing the fourth gym station which is actually in the storage closet for the double gyms uh uh so it's very very crowded when we
have 25 to 30 students in there so uh that would allow us to have a regularized venue performance venue and actually each of the performance venues would have 750 seating bleachers that would be extended across the gymnasium uh to view plays in in music uh music
performances and again the same thing with science labs we would be adding four additional science labs giving eight purpose actually eight purpose built and two that have been converted over the years for 10 science labs to support science instruction so that's kind of an aerial
of how that would look U there's the kind of a few pictures of the performance venue looking down from above and 750 uh uh person seating which is actually about 50 larger than the auditorium at each at the at minona high
school we would also be doing some work to kind of open up and add collaborative spaces at the media centers of both middle schools and uh that would entail uh kind of opening up some walls but putting in divider walls uh that are clear glass and adding windows to the outside so so for the first time uh that
whole area would have some natural light into it but it would allow for large collaborative uh instruction uh and and then project instruction very similar but different to what we're doing uh uh what we do at the loft or at the Vantage momentum building and uh um but would
also then could all be opened up for very large group instructions or large group activities by encompassing uh that whole area on the east side of each media center and then the existing Media Center so just a couple of views of that at Deep Haven Elementary School it's the
only uh elementary school that has not had an additional gymnasium and the it was a high priority of the facility task force so we would add add a gymnasium to the south end of the building uh it will take a little bit of doing to relocate the additional the playground we would
actually create a a retaining wall very similar to what you might see at at iner Anderson Stadium or in the front of minona high school and that would create a plateau that we could move the playground out to and then construct the gymnasium on this very tight site but
construct it right up at the front of the site so that uh the community and other people could also use it uh in the evenings and on weekends for community activities and and be very close to parking there's not a lot of choices on this site because the lower level is
almost all infilled Wetland and uh basically very diffic well almost impossible to build on uh at at Clear Springs Elementary School and at most of the Elementary the remaining elementary schools the the big need was additional small group spaces and we also across the district we're
adding some staff restrooms so six in the courtyard at at Clear Springs Elementary School uh at exceler elementary school we would be adding additional small group spaces uh for um uh for you know for for various size
groups but uh on the on the The W east endend of the the central Wing uh at Groveland Elementary School we would be adding a small group room and a and a second music room it's one of the buildings that only has one Music Room uh so we'd be adding a music room
and small group rooms this looks a little different because to add the small group rooms we actually have to take an existing classroom and subdivider so we move that out and then put the small group rooms into the interior of the building at minowa elementary school their Media Center they're with over 900 students their
Media Center is actually the smallest one of all six of our elementary schools at a little over 2,000 ft and most of the other elementary schools have they all well they all have actually have 3400 to 4,000 square ft so we'd look at adding a media center onto the addition
onto the north side with an addition to the north side of the building uh and that actually is the footprint of the media center at Groveland Elementary School we would add some add six additional uh small group rooms and restrooms into a courtyard and then we would have uh um either small group or
large group some flexible space UT uh by basically just repurposing the existing Media Center it could remain as a large open space or it could be subdivided further to more small group rooms and then at cits Elementary School uh we would be looking at adding uh six small
group rooms and a couple of um staff restrooms at minona High School uh the big need that was the number one priority of principal Ericson and the staff was to basically reconfigure the counseling area to uh provide better
access for students to meet with counselors and psychologists and um and have uh more more individualized spaces in there so that they can have service more more students we really have have uh that that area was actually designed
and and renovated in 2008 when there was about 2700 students in the building and now there's almost 3600 and so we need to we look at capturing some space and and expanding a little bit and reconfiguring it to provide additional space um for counseling
services and we would also uh look at again same reason with the number of students we have adding onto the cafeteria on the south end of the cafeteria so uh there's projects uh that are available for future considerations needs develops the ones that weren't
highlighted in green but are on the list they were identified as being important important enough to make the list uh but they can fund the nucleus for a long range facility plan and there's various uh methods of funding Alternatives going coming forward um there could always be
a future building Bond referendum after an operating referendum Revenue increase has been secured uh We've in the past we've used a lot of lease Levy and operating Capital lease purchase mechanisms and uh that those are uh actually coming becoming available again as we retire some bonds and as interest
rates drop and we can restructure some bonds we'll have some some ability there there's some self-generating funding at Community Education identical to what we did uh back in 2018 we got some approval from the legislature to take some uh some surplus
funds out of the out of the fund balance and of Community Education and plowed back into an addition and one of the one of the uh projects is identified was an addition for more Early Childhood uh education rooms so there's there's the opportunity to do that again so these
are are ways that that items on the uh on the list can continue to be uh achieved you know over time or as part of again another bond issue in the future or more likely utilizing some of these things that are are taken out of existing revenue streams uh so if
project their thing is if projected bids and actual construction costs on the core projects coming under budget uh under estimate uh we could also then select some of these others to actually utilize the full proceeds of the $85 million that would be that are proposed
for this potential bond issue the uh impact uh on the community uh basically for a uh the median home price it would be $4.99 uh for the average home price mean home price of $500,000 average home
price of a little over $772,000 would be $841 the impact of this would actually on the levy be uh uh we're we're blending it in with existing General obligation debt and so the impact of the levy would be a net increase of ,8
49,000 which would be about a 2.64% increase in that portion of the levy um for from voter you know if it was approved by the voters so Minnesota statutes require that if we're considering facilities projects over 2 million we submit a lot of data for review and comment and
that's what's in front of you and part of that is that the school board approves the review and comment submission so you're saying yes it's ready to go this is a list I'm not going to read every single one but this is a list of of what of many of
the things that are included there's actually more than this but I put the the key ones on here uh but the uh we actually have a detailed description of the project of course and the cost but there is a statement that the school board has approved the review and comment which we'll be doing tonight hopefully and we we throw in a potential
ballot doesn't mean that we're going to run a referendum but if we run a referendum the uh the likely ballot question is included in this we have to talk about about the geographic area and the population our list of our existing facilities square footage and costs uh
for each portion of the projects um and then any other information related to compliance with statutes and building CO codes uh also we consulted with all of our neighboring uh municipalities related to hey we're considering these projects do you see any issues uh we
didn't have any issues raised uh or objections raised to them or concerns so those are all all um you know good and of course the city and Watershed District also have another detail cut if we would end up moving forward with any of these because we have to submit all
the plans for super detailed uh review by them and they couldn't make any further modifications but the basic consultation is like Yep looks good no issues from our standpoint so that's a positive so with all that uh we've taken
all that data and compiled it into about a 76 77 page report that you have uh that was in your packet uh and administration is recommending that the school board approve the review and common document and authorize Administration to file the review and common document with the Minnesota
Department of Education for the review and comment so just to kind of summarize excellence and how we live it would have a modest tax increase if we move ahead with this that's respectful to the tax payers of the district and the projects will provide better service to students
in many ways uh excellence in how we lead leaving capacity for a future operating referendum leaving you know very strategic leaving capacity for future building Bond issues if needed these are all strategic Improvement in facilities designed to enhance the way we deliver instruction
today uh excellence in how we learn providing that optimal environment for student learning uh better than what we're you know we're very creative and we make do with what we have and so we've made done do with uh meeting in the hallways and using storage closets uh but also be able to have
purpose-built signs Labs at the middle schools which our current science labs are are serviceable they're usable but a purpose built science lab would help to enhance the program in terms of how instruction is delivered and any purpose built spaces facilitate learning by providing optimal learning conditions
that's one of the things I'm most proud about uh in in our district in terms of you know with our facilities we don't we don't try to make them be ostentatious but they need to be in good condition they need to be be stately because and they should look important because what happens in the building
is important and it really does set the tone from the minute that uh somebody drives past the schools or or you know drops a student off at the you know at the curb to hop into school it's like the kids come to school and they know that these facilities are in good shape they're designed for the you know for good instruction they like their schools
and it just lets it kind of sets a tone that hey there's important stuff going on here so it helps him get ready for school so with that um again we'd like to request that you um consider approving the review and comment for submission to the Department of Education thank
you thank you Mr bourjois um let's start us off with a motion may I have a motion to make the recommended motion here on presenting the review and comment document so moved Chris you have a second second Mike
discussion Mike uh thank you um I actually have uh a comment and then a question first comment um we actually had a student Forum uh that many of us participated in a couple days ago and the what you had said about the
facilities looking good um and creating sort of Pride and inspiring the students uh we can actually we actually heard that directly from the students mouth that having nice having nice facilities really helps them get inspired to learn
and to get to school every day and to and to utilize those facilities so um I wanted to back that up with some some data that we had received uh my question is since you are uh one of the ways that you so expertly reduce costs
for the district is by having an aggressive bid seeking schedule for many of the projects that we do with this uh whatever we end up finally deciding for for a dollar amount um asking
voters if you are able to to pull some of your magic again and reduce a lot of these costs by you know we've seen probably I would I would guess an average is probably 20% but as as much as 50% reduction in cost based on that
early bidding schedule that you do um what what is what can be done with that money that we have left over would does that need to be used for specific items or can we put that immediately to some of those projects that we're kind of putting on the shelf for now um the
general obligation bonds uh the question is actually saying shall we issue $85 million of General obligation bonds for the uh for the acquisition and betterment of District facilities acquisition meaning construction not necessarily buying we're not going to buy bu although technically you could do
that because it's kind of a general term so we have to spend it in the manner that we that we have uh indicated to the public that the money is for so in in the situation where uh let's say we bid
everything out and instead of $85 million it came in at $82 million and we had $3 million left over by Statute you can do one of two things you could use that to say um hey we can do the next project on the list you know and another acquisition EMB
betterment of facility um if you don't do that the the uh regulations require that if you don't utilize the money on that you can take the money and use it to make a bond payment you know so that you know in essence you reduce the levy so those are those are the two choices
um so typically most districts will do something additional with the money to make a long-term investment with it you know 100-year investment like we did next door with the advantage momentum building but doesn't mean you have to so those are the choices thank you
Cam so to clarify the district has not run a building Bond referendum in nearly 30 years is that correct yes um so so when we're talking about budget
shortfalls and this is a different kind of a different scenario right with the building Bond referendum yes um the one thing about school Finance which is different than our own personal finances or public or or or companies uh
if they're going to build a factory uh that money comes out of the same dollars that the revenue that they get in to pay the employees and to basically come up with new products uh at in in our own personal lives the money that we get goes to pay for hey I'd like to buy a
bike or um I got to pay the electric bill or I'd like to buy a house right in in education in government uh and and it's done this way for a reason there's a lot of different things that money is allocated for and it's supposed to be
spent for specific things such as Community Education must be spent on Community Education not the general fund fun um but a building Bond referendum money if you say hey we would like authority to build use this money to build buildings you have to build buildings
with it you can't use it to then pay salaries and benefits of instructional staff or maintenance staff uh so we have not run a uh a building Bond referendum since April 23rd of 1996 so it's been basically just just
shy of 30 years although I was thinking about it and they probably started talking about it about 30 years ago because they talked probably started talking about it in 1995 so it's been a long time since we sailed in these wat so to speak um and uh if if we would run a billing Bond referendum and it was
approved we would have to spend those dollars on what we told the public we were going to spend those dollars on right thank you anyone else Dan Megan um I was just going to comment at the study session one of the questions was around operating costs and
so i s we've done a lot of work just in the two weeks since the study session so I appreciated um seeing that in there so that we just have a more clear picture of the overall project in scope so thank you for that yes yes and and that is requirement of the review and common we have to put those operating costs in
there and they do that because they want to make sure school districts don't all a sudden you know hey we're going to open up this new building and all a sudden it's like oh my God we got to pay for a principal on this you know Etc so it's it's very wise a wise thing that the legislature did to put that in there just to make sure they remind School
District districts to cover everything Dan uh mainly just want to say thank you to you and Carrie Lindberg and everyone who served on the facilities task force and worked for over a year to to put this in front of us and get ready to put
it in front of the folks at the state I think it's a uh a fantastic presentation that helps us you know thread the needle of of doing everything we can to improve our district and respecting our taxpayers and making sure that preserve
some Levy capacity for an operating referendum down the road so thank you very much yeah I think that's important Point um you know you made the point about how you can only uh spend the the referendum dollars on the things that they've been
approved for and can spend the building uh money on buildings for example and I think it's important for the community remember that the opposite is also true we're in a world that we haven't been in for a while in minona where we have been cutting uh in order to to rightsize our budget
in ways we haven't had to in in the past um and unfortunately this is not going to be a method to solve that problem this is a method to address some longstanding facilities problems that we haven't been able to uh take care of through facilities maintenance uh bonds
this is a a lift that we have to do from time to time and it's uh it's it's come up its time and we want to keep ourselves on track David just one part for the community this is less than half of the original
identified ask and and need for our system uh Paul and uh through Community surveys and board input has come up with a package that will lead us forward instructionally and meet the needs 100% needs of our system but it
certainly um it came down from almost 190 million to 140 million to 85 million so there's there's a respect of the tax base and that we should take what we absolutely need at this point in time so thanks Paul for
that yeah and I I want to Second the the comments about what a robust process this has been you know we had a very broad cross-section of our community who was involved in the facilities task force um with uh leadership by Carrie Lindberg and Mr Bourgeois here to make
sure that they they kept on on task but uh we really did hear from from uh every section of our community and every building in the district as to what the real needs were and uh I appreciate that we have done what we can to reduce the tax the potential tax impact reduce the
potential hit in our bonding capacity uh I think you've done a lot of great work and we're really grateful for all for all of it well I just want to say because mean it's not just me but the other thing is is everybody who works here is really inspired to make sure that every kid who comes in the door is
is going to be served to the best of our abilities and that we do whatever we can to make sure each one of them can rise to the best of their abilities so it's it's really easy to be passionate about doing that and everybody in this district is passionate about doing that so thank you know it's thank it's nice
of you to say thank you to me but there's a lot of other people that were have been involved agreed any further discussion we have a motion in a second all those in favor please say I I any
opposed the motion carries thank you next item on our agenda is approval of Self Insurance Fund premium rates and thirdparty administrator for fiscal year 26 superintendent law Mr chair members of the board on an annual basis we actually have a committee of people that
reviews the current rate of our insurance and uh matches that with the cost and then makes adjustments as needed for the future tonight uh Mr bis is going to summarize that process and make recommendations for the board to approve the rate setting for the next
school Year's insurance cost Mr bis thank you superintendent law uh Mr chair members of the board uh we are asking you to approve some Inc uh changes in our rates for uh Self insurance and then also required by law to go out for third-party administrator Services uh
for the The Entity that processes our claims every other year so there's a a com combination resolution at the end of this just for the the sake of the record uh we've been self-insured as a school district self-insured means that we have our own plan with our own plan design
and our own coverage levels as opposed to going out and buying on the open market and just taking whatever they have and uh uh we've been self-insured since July 1st of 2001 uh so we've actually had 23 years of self-insurance and during that time our premium increases we've had a few a few rough
years three rough years out of the 23 but the average even with some rough years in there has been 4.10% when if we were buying on the open market we would probably be having rates of seven and8 and 9% increases almost every year so it's been very beneficial
to the district it takes a little bit of extra elbow grease and participation from all the bargaining units to serve on the Self Insurance committee and we collectively get together and try to decide you and figure out what's the right thing to do and and coverages we have a very robust uh coverage and uh
that's actually very beneficial to employees particularly last year when we had a really tough year because we had a a group of people who are going through some really serious things but thankfully they had really good coverage uh to be able to help them uh a year ago we did have 19.8% increases one of the
three years that we had a really a double digit uh increase and and a lot of it was related to just the unfortunate incidents of cancer claims so again thankfully we had a really good good plan uh but this year uh things have kind of settled back down to kind
of a more normal level and so uh We've have our our actu has recommended to us that we need a 5.25% increase in our uh um our health insurance rates the health insurance rates are in I'm not going to read through each one of them but the rates
are in in the board agenda item but we're asking you to approve a 5.25% increase in health insurance rates to break even just asn't uh FYI the the medical Trend the national trend for increases in health insurance rates and
costs is 8.64% so we're back to beating the trend this year again as we've done for you know 20 out of the prior 23 years uh and then um so we're 3.31% below the national trend for our Dental Trend we are also are uh uh also
self-insured for dental insurance and uh the uh the national trend is running at 4.5% but C actuaries have calculated that we need an increase of just 3.28% to continue Break Even operations which is 1.22% below the national Trend uh the
self-insurance advisory committee met on February 18th to approve uh to review these options and approve and they voted 11 to zero to recommend to the school board um School Board who you operate as Trustees of the Self Insurance Fund uh that we increase medical premiums by
5.25% in Dental premiums by 3.28% so now shifting to the third party administrator aspect of it we don't process our own claims we hire somebody with expertise to do them uh and there are four entities in Minnesota that provide thirdparty administrator
services so it's a relatively exclusive club we send proposals uh requests for proposals uh for those services to all four of them Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota Health Partners Medica and United Healthcare uh proposals were received from Blue Cross Blue Shield and from
Health Partners which is our current third party administrator medot healthcard care they acknowledg receiving the proposal but they declined to submit uh so uh the district Self Insurance Consultant C has analyzed these for us and uh just as a FYI this
current year the fixed cost related to this uh being charged refy 25 by Health Partners are 9558 53 uh Health Partners actually propos an increase particularly in the stop-loss portion of it but their first year administrative costs at their
proposal we're going to jump from 955 853 to 1, 653,000 and there the second year of the 2-year uh was 1,89 9,000 for twoyear totals of 3.55 3 million uh Blue Cross Blue Shield actually submitted uh
something a little more in line uh their first year administrative costs uh were were are proposed at 1, 38,000 and second year 1,133 th000 so they have a very extensive network uh so nobody will lose lose coverages but their 2-year
totals were 2171 million so they were basically 39% lower than Health Partners uh so uh also Blue Cross Blue Shield is one of the things we looked at was they said are you willing to pass through the prescription rebates because it's kind of interesting uh you get charged for
for pharmacy but then there's all these rebates that come through and usually the health healthc care provider keeps them but Blue Cross Blue Shield has agreed to pass those through to us so uh actually we're estimating that at 600 $ 4,348 and it could be more than that so
that's that's going to be an advantage uh to the the Self Insurance Fund going forward the self- insurance advisor committee also voted 110 to recommend that um that the Schoolboard trustees would uh approve Blue Cross Blue Shield to be the contracted thirdparty
administrator for 20 FY 26 and FY 27 thank you may we have a motion to approve the fiscal year 2026 health and dental insurance premiums as presented and approv Blue Cross Blue Shield as the Self Insurance Fund thirdparty administrator for fiscal year 2026 and
fiscal year 2027 so moved Sally May I have a second second Megan questions or discussion Dan uh first it's great that the rate increases are staying at a reasonable
level that's fantastic um the Third third party administrator I've just just sort of curious it's great to know that nobody's going to lose coverage with their perverted providers or anything like that how long have we been with Health Partners and what's sort of the Practical impact on employees of
switching over to a new third party administrator uh we've had health partners for um I believe it's seven years now they've you know uh they've won the RFP or earned the RF request for proposal sever three times in a row um
the the the the big big thing is quite frankly is that they both have pretty extensive networks although Blue Cross Blue Shield has an even more extensive network than Health Partners but um all of our employees like if somebody goes to a a um uh you know North uh North
Memorial or uh one of the other providers they'll still be able to go so basically the biggest change is going to be that everybody's getting new cards but but uh they'll have different numbers of call for the health line there's also nurse lines and things like that so we'll have to excuse me school
everybody up on on uh those types of things uh but uh it's it's not uh a major difference and the claims are processed the same way all the deductibles are the you know I mean so it's our plan so it's it's actually relatively minimal and the only reason I
mentioned that is because um there may be people out there if they buy if they're on fully insured and their company decides or their school District decides to go like with a low bidder uh in in an instance or something like that they may lose coverages and it's like oh
you can't go to um uh you know your local doctor anymore or you know so so it's important to the reason I mentioned it's important that there's nobody's going to lose any coverages there's we've got everything it's it's our coverage and um in fact if if for some
reason they said hey we don't have that in there the the one nice thing about being self-insured is um we can say well we're still going to cover that in network and you have to make sure you do that um and in fact um one of the
incredibly advantageous things about this Self insurance is um we've been and I function as a plan administrator so I can like rule when people have a dispute and we've had instances over the years thankfully not many of them where there have been people who have had really
serious illnesses and they probably might not make it and they wanted to try some unique or experimental process and I could give the green light to do that and and we've saved we literally have saved some people's lives by being able to do that so this self-insurance plan is literally save people's lives so um
I'm just saying that it's like try to hang on to it as long as we can um but again we have a it the main reason to just mention that is because or people might have a spouse who's self they're insured at somebody else and they lose coverage my daughters are elsewhere you know living different places and they
have private insurance and their their coverage bounces up and down and they have to go to this clinic and then they go to that clinic we don't have any of that we've got it all covered and people it's really just a blue card helpline those types of things are going to change there's so really minimal stuff but people will be able to keep keep their
doctors thank you Megan I have a follow-up question you kind of answered it but um I'm assuming but you can correct if I'm wrong the uh deductibles and co-pays and coverages are not changing with this
approval right they're going to be the same as the pr prior Year yes we did not increase any deductibles or Co pays thank you okay any other questions okay we have a motion in a second all those in favor please say I I
any opposed motion carries thank you may I have a motion to approve the consent agenda so move Chris have a second second Dan all those in favor please say I I I any
opposed motion carries uh board reports camar as usual uh I have from MCE there's a new explorers program manager and she will be focusing on
professional development for the programs uh there are some updated requirements for The Summer's Explorer contracts families are now required to commit to nine out of 10 weeks and this was to create a more consistent schedule and to help with Staffing so I think
those are two really positive updates to their programming uh the public schools Foundation Dream Makers was a huge success and they would like to give a shout out to superintendent law for being uh an MC with the the mostest they
said and they would like to have him back if they can so that was a lot of fun their annual teacher funding Grant recommendations are coming at the next board meeting so I will be there as well and let's see oh and also another positive they voted to work with our
Communications Department to help us sponsor the celebration of Excellence for the next three years so that is going that is a very important part of our District's success honoring teachers and staff and community members and we are very grateful for their support for
the next three years as well so we wanted to give them a big Shout out as well so those are my reports yeah thank you any other board reports Sally so definitely want to give a shout out that on Saturday the community
action for student education or case committee is hosting a town hall with our local state legislators um so far at least four of them have confirmed and that's going to be 11:00 a.m. at the vanm mo building in in the foundation forum and there is space for more
community members would love to see that space filled up because this is a great opportunity thank you indeed any other board reports superintendent's report going to piggyback on board member Brown's report just to say that
we've got you know well over 70 community members that we sent an update every Friday and they Advocate on our behalf at the legislature and almost every week I get a bounce back from one of those people that they heard from A legislature and what we have seen this
year are multiple bills that have been written with hearings coming that will benefit minaka financially so I want to give a shout out to all those case committee members who have stuck with us and are advocating on our behalf along with the event on Friday and we're going to have a day at the capital on the 24th
we have our community rallying with us to support our schools and I just want to say thanks to those people all right announcements all right motion to adjourn Chris we have a second second Mike all those in favor please say I I I
any opposed we are adjourned