we'll now move into our regular agenda items we're going to approve our regular agenda for the evening moving our tentative agenda to a regular agenda and I'll entertain a motion so moved second moved by Melissa Curtis seconded by
Casey root all those in favor of approving the agenda please say I I any opposed please say no motion passes 60 we have no citizens comments for this evening moving into item five on our agenda our fiscal stability we have our
regular agenda items our approval of minutes from June the 17th our Personnel matters bills and a Chartwells agreement that's on the uh consent agenda and I'll entertain a motion for that uh just for those that are here that are not aware of consent agenda format we all receive
that information well in advance one to two weeks in advance have the opportunity to ask any questions um ahead of time on that it's all moved second moved by Melissa Curtis seconded by Casey root all those in
favor of approving the consent agenda as posted please say I I oppose please say no consent agenda items pass 60 moving into one of our collaborative connections we have a resolution for
acceptance of gifts we've been extremely fortunate over the last last year to have many partners in the community that are extremely generous and we were fortunate enough to have a little reception meet and greet for them in June it was quite well attended and starting off our July for uh
2425 in good fashion we have um $50,000 worth of in kind and cash donations just for this meeting which is astonishing when you think about it um so I'm going to have uh Eric Olen and Gavin give us some background on some of these
donations all right I'll start with uh The Peacemaker um donor and they brought $55,000 to our board and this is going to our monello Middle School um curriculum it was really fun to see Mr sherber um greet the um Peacemaker group
as they had a cribbage tournament this summer and he was able to accept uh um the donation at the cribbage tournament and um kicked off the whole tournament and my wife and I played in that and it was a fun we leading for a while but uh yeah we couldn't hold that uh all the
way through the end so it was a good a good good event so thank you Mr sherber for uh bringing uh your expertise and and bringing peacemakers to us anything you'd like to say Mr sherber on that one aome thank you and then next up um Derek
uh sylvestri from TV studio manager at St State University uh brought forward three broadcast uh desks valued at $45,000 um and so I'd like Gavin to talk a little bit about that since he was our contact person and made this all happen
thank you superintendent Olson boarder zbar and the school board uh this was actually a really unique opportunity for our district because uh my first four years of school I went to St Cloud State University and I gotten to really know Derek sylvestri who is the TV studio manager and has been working in that position
since about 2008 uh so he's been a mentor of mine as far as you know in the TV world and the video broadcasting world and so one day I was you looking potentially to do some improvements at the district level uh for our Productions I reached out to him one of the big things is having a just a proper quality anchor desk you know one that
you would see for example on like KSTP fox9 Etc I said reached out to Derek one day and said hey do you have any recommendations that's you know reasonably cost effective because they can get pretty spending I'll actually go over what a brand new desk would cost uh for something like this and then I got
to reply back and he says I have desks for you and you know a few years back I knew originally he got these from Fox Sports Studios uh before that they were previously donated by Fox uh before Bal Sports uh took over which unfortunately as all of you know they've gone bankrupt
within recent months unfortunately unfortunately but you know we won't go too much in depth on that one um so he was going to give these to stma uh as part of their AV program and for whatever reason things just didn't go as planned uh those desks were ready to go I from what I my understanding something
happened but I he said I have these desks I met with him uh just a week before last and I said you know what these would be really awesome these would be a great opportunity for our kids uh and for the whole District to have something like this from The Av level so going through uh the first desk
there's two of these sizes that the magic Studio here at the middle school which I've had the privilege of beginning to advise this last spring semester thank you to Mr sherber I actually had a chance to talk to him about this here at the beat before the meeting uh this is what those kiddos will get to use it has some uh improvements that need to be made before
the school year uh the front will eventually have a TV that will get to have some really fun displays that the kids will get to use their creative knowledge and skill uh to create some cool graphics for those displays as well this will be in the district studio uh this will be for more of the Bigger
Productions such as MHS zone or other you know Bigger Productions that we do uh will be in the main Studio actually just adjacent to the boardroom and really the use cases that we'll see for this uh the high school will also get a chance to Bigger Productions for Section games and also the student who wants to
use these as well they are more than happy to do so so it'll be for Student News activities coverage and then any other uh big special district Productions that we put on that will be able to bring a uh much more high level production that we have been able to you know as we continue to grow the AV
programs across the district so again big thank you and shout out to uh distri Derrick sylvestri of St CL State University and the university as a whole uh this is going to be a great opportunity for the kids moving forward as they get to use uh industry uh standard and really just professional
grade uh ge year as we move forward so thank you thank youav thank you Gavin one I I was fortunate enough to get a a personal tour uh to see these desks and one of the things that I thought was really wonderful for from our perspective is you know of course we always welcome things that are gently
used but sometimes things like Electronics you know they wear out or they're they become obsolete through the years but the design of these desks are such that we can swap out Electronics through the years and wires and things so they really won't um go out of style
so to speak or or be um superseded by better technology coming out they won't become obsolete which I just thought was amazing so yeah and actually a quick note too that I couple points I forgot to mention that you know the price side of it that you know this was gifted to us for free which is a super cool thing
brand new these can easily run to $25,000 a piece uh within the devaluation over the years that now they know range from around 15,000 and I actually talked to my mom because I know one of the things that we're going to Crystal Fisher uh who does actually lot of vinyl stuff through cricketing that
to do some new branding uh for it so I'm working with her on potentially trying to get something made for all three of the desks to have really customized brand branding for them so it'll be amazing well we look forward to seeing more and um an amazing thank you to the
audiovisual folks up at S Cloud State for being such a partner and a helper to our uh fledgling our audiovisual program that's growing by Leaps and Bounds absolutely thank you and of course a big shout out to David Phillip and his entire team too uh for helping really make this happen last week daveid Philip
helped out with this Tom Murray Thor lmy as well and then the rest of the day crew to help take a couple trips to get them here so big thank you to them as well all right thank you Gavin so we have a resolution for the acceptance of these gifts therefore be resolved by the Mell
School Board number 882 to gratefully accept the following donations Peacemaker Minnesota $5,000 her monell Middle School curriculum and the gift from Derek sylvestri from St CLA State University three broadcast desk valued at
45,000 to improve the quality of video live stream productions for the district second Mo resolution read by Jeff hegley seconded by Melissa Curtis all those in favor of the acceptance of these gifts please say I I I any opposed
please say no and the motion resolution for acceptance of gifts passes 60 moving on to number seven on our agenda teaching and learning we have with us the E this evening both of our Elementary School uh principals from
Little Mountain and Pinewood Elementary and then we're also going to hear from our middle school principales so Nicole CAU welcome to the podium she's going to give us a little mountain um goal update she's going to need help tell you some we'll get you fixed up
perfect thank you all right good evening school board members and superintendent olon I'm looking forward to giving you a brief update on our goals from this past school year uh so our instructional goal was to increase our spring benchmark scores by 3% so we had looked at our spring
benchmark scores in 2023 and then tried to increase them by 3% this past school year um so the reason we had picked that goal was 62% of our students um in the spring of 23 were proficient according
to our fastbridge a reading scores and of course we would like to continue to see that increase um and so from 23 to 24 unfortunately we did not meet that goal consistently across our school building we did have some grade levels that meet
or met that goal um fifth grade especially but we will continue to work towards that goal throughout this next year one thing I wanted to point out when looking at our fall scores of this past year to Spring of this past year we did make growth on the a rating overall
across the building and one of our grade levels even um achieved a 10% increase that was one thing I wanted to celebrate tonight um so we'll continue to work towards the full implementation of functional phonics and amplify as you know we have a lot of new curriculum
going on and um we'll continue to to grow our instructional coaching model the addition of our reading coaches I know you've heard but has been a really great asset to our buildings so we'll continue to work with them and increase that coaching opportunity for our staff we will continue to increase our
data-driven PLC practices we're going to continue um to improve on our mtss structure and this year our biggest Focus will be the tier 2 interventions that we'll use during our win time so we're going to really enhance that process and then we will continue to celebrate the small successes along Ong
the way we also had set a vision of the learn a learner goal um and so we were focusing on Integrity this year and we taught our students that Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one was watching um and the reason we chose that
this year was just we had seen an increase in unexpected student behaviors and students kind of not re taking responsibility for their actions and then struggling with transition times and so this year our goal was to make sure that students could Define
integrity and give examples of what it means take ownership of their actions and then do the right thing even when no one is watching um so we did determine that most students were able to do that of course we still see behaviors from now and then um but we did access our star
room which is where our genbi um is staffed and use that more consistently just to help support students and we saw a lot of positives through that this year looking forward to continuing oural Block in the morning and we're going to be implementing a
newal curriculum and continue to build strong character traits in our students we're also going to incorporate more student engagement during our morning announcements um and one thing I didn't put on here but I had thought I wanted to highlight we added a student council this year at Little Mountain and that was a really great way to have more
student voice and Role Models within our building and then we will continue to focus on the vision of learner attributes and that is the end very short and sweet but I know we're spending lots of time together during our work
session as well question I just have one quick question on the um increase in the unexpected student behaviors and students not taking responsibility it just says an increase is it something that is just something you noted this year or is it just a large increase I would say
overall just a general um we often say students are changing and then we need to learn how to change with them um so just a general increase I being newer to Little Mountain I know my behavior data from year one to year two that
wasn't a huge increase but something will continue to monitor um yeah I think just that General sense of more behaviors um okay I'd like to add to Casey's question um is that seem to be concentrated at
any particular grade level like do you see it more among your older elementary kids or your younger elementary kids I would say the behaviors just look different um the bigger kids sometimes are a little more um competitive or aggressive um during
recess time and things whereas the younger kids it's more just you know teaching them to be honest and again do that right thing when no one is looking so I would say not a specific grade level it looks a little bit different depending on the age of the kids thank you any other questions for principal
cryto that goal was wrong or was the approach typically when there's a curriculum implementation it's not very likely that we'll see growth right away that first year so um I think that's part of it that just with all of the changes that we were trying to implement
um we are hoping to see much more growth this next year now that we have those kind of practices and curriculum in place and we know a little bit more about the program anyone else for principal CAU thank you very much and I think next we're going to hear from Principal
Shelley Gilmore from The Pinewood Elementary School welcome Shelly sign of a great teacher she learns from the best and then she helps me out so I'm I'm ready to go s zebar board members superintendent
Olsen um community members yes it's great to see all of you here tonight I am pleased to be here tonight to um talk about the goals that um talk about our progress on our goals this year so our goal was modeled after the
district goal and is very similar to The Little Mountain goal where our goal was to have 70% of our students um be at Benchmark according to the two different assessments that we use early early reading for our first graders and then
the a reading for our second through fifth grade students and um our goal is to be at that 70% proficiency at the winter of 2026 we were hoping to be at um a 3% increase by this
spring um we did not meet our goal of 3% this spring and there's a few reasons for this one of them as um principal CAU talked about we did Implement two different curriculum resources and it takes a while um implementation science
says that it um it's really typical to see a dip as our instructional staff are learning how to use the new resour ources the other piece more notably is that it's really a CH a shift in how we teach reading so in the past there was a
lot of um work on um memorization of words um you may have remembered as kids or your own children um really working on flashcards and um going through the flashcards and spelling tests and making sure that you know you could spell everything correctly today what we're
working on is really looking at the let sounds and how those letter sounds form words and the reason this is so beneficial for kids is it helps students decode words that are really difficult
as they grow older so when they're in high school and they're reading you know in a social studies text and they're reading words that you don't see in your typical everyday vocabulary you're able to decode those words you know what it is and be able to make a better
connection so um so yes we didn't make our goal this year however it's just going to take a little time for our students to catch up to this different evidencebased type of teaching and it's really going
to benefit them in the long run I can't tell you how proud I am of our students this year and how proud I am of our staff this year um everyone had worked so hard and did their best um some of the things our students did as a
result of the focus on our goals is they were engaged in phonic instruction at their own levels they demonstrated understanding of why letters make certain sounds when paired together which make words that I just talked about um they demonstrate increased background knowledge which is also a big
um indicator in comprehension and fluency and um they became more fluent readers so our staff as a result of the focus on our goals our staff grew so much instructionally this year really
working on what the research says and implementing that research in their practice um they worked to meet the individual needs of their students and they never gave up I'll be honest um there we were not without tears this year it was hard and the reason why
there were tears is because our teachers care so much and when you see kids not make progress as has happened in the past um because you're teaching them how to memorize things that was really hard on their heart but they trusted the
process they trust in the research and um and they're excited about what they can do next year to make improvements um they continued to analyze data we've never used data to the degree um that we have this year which is good it helps to
drive instructional decision-making we had um Title One teachers pushing into classrooms we used um strategies that we're learning in professional development and I'm also very very thankful for our Reading Coach who's able to provide that one-on-one
coaching for our teachers so steps that we're going to take to achieve our literacy goals is to continue to use a flexible model for phonics instruction while also ensuring that students receive grade level instruction um students or teachers will
continue to receive professional development we'll continue to use our team time to be able to reflect on practice use our data determine what we need to do to make changes we're also going to continue to use what we're learning with the science of reading and
um work together as a team um with Collective efficacy to make sure that we're all doing the right thing and supporting each other through these challenging changes uh we're going to continue to strengthen our mtss process so make sure that our core instruction is strong and make sure that our
students that have extra academic needs needs and social and emotional needs get the Intensive intervention that they need we also had our vision of a learner goal of integrity and our students were able to Define integrity they were strong enough
to do what they know is right um students help each other demonstrate what it means to be a person of Integrity I had um a few students in my office this year and you know working out some problems that they had and I can't tell you how proud I was when I
hear a student say this person wasn't a person of Integrity thank you for using your words but then we're able to use those words and talk about what that really means and how they can make a a positive change our staff um worked on choosing purpose over perfection in their work
showing students that it's okay to make mistakes um it's important to work hard U we had a wraparound approach to social emotional learning where we had um all of our um instructional staff working with students not just their home room
teacher um we utilized our second step curriculum and we used Integrity throughout our day so steps that we will continue to use to meet our vision of a learner goal is we will also we also have our dedicated seal Block in the
morning we'll continue to implement oural curriculum our school social workers are putting together some schoolwide lessons so it's not just classroom but classroom it's um schoolwide and then we will celebrate students that are demonstrating um
vision of a learner tributes I want to thank each and every one of you for your support of pinewood um again I am so proud of the work that our staff has done um it's just an incredible group of people and I'm blessed to be the principal at
Pinewood any questions yeah I have a question so the 3% goal isn't met and one of the one of the items mentioned was you know it's something new and the staff grew instructionally uh so as everyone grew and learn more more about the process
and how to become better uh would it be fair to assume that then next year the G the goal would be more than 3% so we're not losing out a whole year that's certainly that's certainly Our Hope um I I in my mind um I really believe that
we can do that I don't know about a six% but I I definitely would say you know we're hoping for more than three but that yeah that'd be great yes I have a question um tagging off of principal CAU can you speak to um
behaviors uh do you feel that they're pretty stable do you think they've increased decreased over the last year in your building I think behaviors are are pretty stable um we are finding we find that there are more behaviors in in our first and second
grade students that we haven't seen that um in the past so what we're finding is that we really need to concentrate on you know Integrity is a great piece there is concentrate on teaching what those expected behaviors are so we have
kids that you know just have a difficult time um understanding and applying and it's great to have um our behavior intervention person we do a lot with intervention matching so we determine what the need is is and um find an intervention to meet that need um Emily
Mitchell our um District behavior analyst is phenomenal she's done a great job in in helping us and we have um we're putting some more proactive things in place for um for our first grade team as our new first graders come over based
on what she has um seen working with principal green and um first grade teachers and students and is there um like a parental educ ation component that you're incorporating to that as well to connect school and home for some of our youngest Learners there is not
yet but that's something that we've been thinking about with our family engagement is talking about um that how we know how important that home to school connection is and it's also important that parents
um they do a phenomenal job of parenting at home but when their child is at school it can be something that's a little bit different and so um meeting with parents and talking about um this is how you can support your child with behaviors that they're doing well in at home and how they can
apply that to a larger group setting thank you I have a quick question Elementary schoolwise do you use the same system like the Middle School uses the track behaviors to help you guys come with an educated plan then yes yes
absolutely I think one thing that i' just like to say is a a a similar question has been asked couple times about um next year um what will our increase be and I think um that one's a very important question but another important caution for us to begin to monitor which we're going to be doing as
part of our admin Retreat is really looking at some longitudal data too um because what I really hope is that our Middle School our high school principls and teachers and and support staff are really seeing you know the fruits of what the elementary is doing um because
that unification from prek which uh we're even making sure that we have some prek um initiatives that align with um K through five um some of those longitudal pieces of data are going to be that's what you're really hoping for because it's not just uh let's teach you the
test let's let's let's figure it out and let's move uh one year and then all of a sudden scramble and hopes that in hopes that you move it again we believe that strongly that the work that we're doing the systems of support that we're doing is going to launch it totally um equate
to um data that's going to um our our principes and teachers and staff are going to see and feel so I think we're doing a better job than we ever have in this District tracking regularly not just once a year with with kind of an overview we're really drilling down
into the data and you know weekly monthly you know we get a briefing probably every two to three months about um progress being made and that is definitely a priority of the board is academic Improvement and implementation of the read act and all that um as directed by the state so I I really feel
like we're on top of it and this was a learning year we we got a lot of our staff trained up this year and so we're hoping to to see those improvements this year thank you at home but during the school
day concern exactly that means and how we can help them that's a great question and I'm not in everyone's home keep this in mind um I have raised some pretty two pretty great kids but
um I think it's when parents are teaching lessons to their children um oftentimes they're they're talking about you everyone wants their kids to be well behaved um people of integrity
um doing the right thing um when they're outside of the home and and those things are just said but it's another step to um to really put it into practice you know there can be some things with you know with role playing there can be some
things with um you know having those conversations around the dinner table you know when you hear about something that happened you know what would you do if so um it's it's on a larger scale and I think every principal would say that that
we've heard that you know my child would never do that well they just did and kids are learning kids are learning kids are growing um you know the word discipline means to teach and and that's where the lens that we're going through is is just continually teaching and
having that partnership with home you think that the board can help with that know a problem yeah that's why so much time on yeah be working right right absolutely thank you thank you and now
we'd like to welcome our Middle School principal and assistant principal Jeff sherber and Rachel sanquist welcome and we're going to hear some goal updates on the Middle School school board chair uh dbar superintendent school um want to thank
you for the opportunity to share our goal looks like in nonlinear fashion minute we're going to finish up our goals with the Middle School um share some we got four bulleted points here uh we'll talk about the instructional
outcome goals we looked at last year and our data uh R share a bit about that uh there some other data points we want to share there's some other data points that we will want to share with you uh that we think are important as well uh got our vision of our learner update
and then we've got a graphic that'll show a bit about some of those next steps that we have um so our instructional goal this year we looked at you'll hear some of the same language that the other principles had used we use some of our fast bridge data in math
and reading uh we chose our spring to Spring scores because typically the spring is high tide for kids when they're taking this we they could test it three times throughout the year and we chose 2% it's consistent with the other the districtwide goals that we had set and uh Rachel will share a little
bit about how we did in those areas yeah so here is just a little chart uh about our scores by grade level so you'll know does oh the laser works okay um so you'll notice that the each grade level is on the left there and then reading is that first section and
math is the second one um and the circled numbers are the positive percentage points um that each grade level Grew From spring of last year to Spring to this year um and if we look at the next slide it's just that whole school snapshot um the net growth that
we made in both um fast read a reading and a math um you'll know I know that uh you'll have the question about the seventh grade um didn't grow in that a reading group and Jeff's going to talk a little bit about that in just a minute here um but overall we had really
dedicated staff to um Implement reading strategies across curricular areas and we'll talk a little bit about that in a second and our math department works very hard to continually put kids in the right classes and push them appropriately to see those increases so
we're proud to to see growth in so many of the different grade level areas uh a couple other data points we just wanted to share with you along with the academic goal that we set just because I feel like there's a couple of groups of people in our building that deserve a little celebrating
um science is often a an area that doesn't collect a lot of the reading or the math data uh but they willingly accept the reading strategies that we Implement with the science of reading curriculum Lindsey rhman has presented to our entire staff they've embraced
those they've gone so far as to create their own pre- and post test monthly that they give to students based on units so that the idea is over that longitudinal time they're tracking student progress from 6th to 7th to 8th grade with all those standards by the
time they get to that eighth grade MCA they have a really solid foundational knowledge and are reviewing um the content that will be assessed in the spring of their eighth grade year and so last year we only had a 24% proficient rate proficiency rate um in our eighth
grades and this year with that implementation of just one year of that pre and post test they jumped almost 12% um and so I just wanted to shout out our science cohort members and the work that they're doing of a really um passionate group of
Educators willing to put that work in and create literally create their own data so that they can track students progress and I just wanted to share that with the board because they deserve that recognition um oh yeah Jeff's going to talk about the attendance here so uh Cindy had challenged every building last
fall to put attendant goool together uh you know as we came out of the pandemic where attendance was not a priority uh it was a bit of a challenge uh we were asked to uh graph and chart and put objectives together and a strategy so we
can have 90% of the students in school 90% of the time um with the help of Cindy and with Jason borgstrom help we gathered that data we had strategies to include publishing it in our newsletter our teachers were very uh well-versed on
what encouraging kids in the value of being in class and on time we struggled a bit we didn't we started out at 88% you could see we finished the year I was pretty proud to say in may we got over 90% And that's a pretty exciting piece I
I kid uh Eric Olson from time to time that there's a time in the spring when the hockey tournaments are going on and uh the kids are leaving early and I anticipated there'd be a little dip in there um but nope that wasn't the case
uh so I want to applaud our school counselor Nicole degrave she work closely with Wright County to establish some accountability measures for those students that struggled and I want to applaud our teachers as well who made it a priority in the classroom to get kids in there and to make lessons relevant so
they would show up so this was a big piece that we're pretty proud of and that challenge was accepted this we put this slide in here and I hopefully you guys got a chance to take a look at it for the purpose of just sharing we just talked about one set of
data uh today uh there's a there's a ton of data out there at the middle school level and you could see in the upper middle or Upper Elementary classes as well um lot of data points a lot of Assessments going on if you're an eighth grader you get assessed across the board
in MCAS and in an a reading and a maath and many other different areas we could have a slide and a goal for every one of those bullets up there the challenge we have right now is to prioritize what it is that we're going to measure and and
what we're going to focus on so I just wanted to share that as just a graphic to say that you know it's a it's a busy time at the middle school we got a ton of data and is it indeed a challenge to provide the time for staff to pour through that data use that data to drive instruction that's one of our biggest
challenges that we have at the middle school I'm just going to touch on our vision of a learner update as well we had chosen back in the fall to select um being effective communicators um and really promoting communication and collaboration with purpose and
intent in a variety of modes to include writing listening and speaking skills and that's both academically and behaviorally um and so we did a lot of reading PD with Lindsay rman a lot of reading strategies um shout out also to
our reading interventionist um Kristen zik andjoy Housman worked really closely with um targeted group of students on their academic oops academic goals um in order to effectively read write speak and listen uh Joy hman would come into
our office regularly to celebrate how kids are growing in her classes so that was just a fun little tidbit um we also if you remember back in I think it was last summer Amy herfindal did some really hard work on um presenting to you
guys why we needed to have some teaching tolerance instruction as well and how we taught kids how to communicate kindly and with intention and without having to bring in any derogatory or negative comments and so this next slide is on um that incident
data so if you look in that middle column um Amy had pulled this data last fall for you that we had 51 recorded incidents of obscene derogatory comments or actions towards students in an office managed minors column was we would categorize them um that's where the
office takes it in processes with the students works with families lets them know what's going on and then the expectation is that we retach repair and move forward um and then we ended at the 26 Majors where it was either repeated really obscene where we had to take
action um Beyond just a a typical um consequence and so that was last year's data and you'll notice that the office manag miners this year didn't necessarily go down a whole lot but our Majors meaning if it was a first to a second ATT uh offense I guess that
decreased pretty soon significantly by over half and so our teachers did a really good job of doing that teaching tolerance um those three lessons the intent versus impact being a upstander versus bystander and I'm blanking on the third one but it'll come to me once I
walk out the door tonight um we also have our seven mindsets curriculum that the students engaged in our staff were obviously diligent in teaching all of that to our students and they also asked for skills on how to deescalate students when they were getting
escalated when they were getting upset when there were things that might have caused them to react in a poor manner where then they were also putting themselves in trouble as well as how to communicate with parents on how they um would tell a parent or a family hey we had something come up in class today and
I want to work with you on this and so those were some of the things that we saw based on our vision of a learner goal and being an effective Communicator um and then again that back to that academic piece lindsy rhman was a huge core component um another thing I forgot
to mention with our science department they use claim evidence reasoning Where They are promoting students say okay you know go through your scientific method or your process of what's Happening Here how do you know and then reason with the group around you and they're teaching
that explicitly to be able to effectively communicate and understand what what it is that they're learning so there are a lot of different observables that you might have seen throughout the year related to effective communication but these are some of the highlights that we're just really proud of our
students and staff really engaging in and asking for um so I'm just really really proud of them I just want to share a little bit too if you heard what Rachel mentioned that staff are coming to us asking for some help how to communicate with
parents so we had a seminar on that they came and asked about some help with deescalation and that's a healthy Rapport that we we have with staff at their comfort level coming to do so um this graphic I know it's a busy one and I hopefully you got a chance to kind of look it over it just I'll just just a
couple key points it's illustrates our the next steps that we'd like to tape take and you're a lot of it's consistent with what the elementary and the High School principles had shared as well um on this graph you'll see the teachers are all on one of seven cohorts uh there's teacher leaders they're listed
in green there and they've been working hard this past year to establish expectation in their cohort groups and establish roles and responsibilities and it's not easy leading your colleagues in these departments but they they've taken place
um every department has some things that they will and have been working on and are committed to a non-negotiables those are in blue everybody works on that instructional framework but help to put together an effective design that includes feedback assessment closure
grad relase responsibility we Prov provided opportunities for teaching staff to have discussions on what's going well what's not going well at a department level led by staff um the science of reading I think we heard a little bit from Shelly a little bit
about the importance of teachers being well versed on what we know now that's very different than how teachers were trained in the past about the science of reading I believe Jamie one of the questions you had for tonight's session was what is some very impactful thing
number one thing we can do to impact reading I will tell you that having these reading strategies uh practiced and the knowledge of how students learn how to read across the board with every staff member so students and recognize it in every class that they go in is
incredibly important so those leaders on the top of that page whether you're in Math Science Social or language arts are reading teachers and they their job is to look at the data in yellow and to see what they can do to help contribute to those scores that we have have and what
they can do uh I don't think Rachel gave herself enough credit here she's in with those science teachers talking about and they being part of and celebrating those scores that group is a true model for what that what we' like to they did pour
over data on a regular basis they talked about lessons and what they can do they did it regularly and most of the work wasn't done during the meetings it was done in between the meetings the discussions during prep times and the disc discussions after school what that
looks like it's a true model or what we can do if we're given the time and opportunities to do so um lots of D data as I had mentioned up there that you can look over uh that CBM is curriculum based data that the other departments will be using uh some departments are
going to be very busy they have uh some curriculum reviews to take place uh both math and reading will be doing that as well um lastly uh well there's two other bullets there the trimester discussion we've been asked to look at transitioning our schedule to a
trimester it it's not very conducive to our Middle School schedule right now will be challenging it's uh not something we asked for uh but we're going to take a look at that it's going to imp impact those discussions that Casey mson be leading at that level as well along with all those other pieces
and then just the couple things those bullets on the bottom I think it's important to know uh the scores that you saw uh in specific to reading we're going to change how we do things in the sixth grade level we're going to add a
class um we're going to double down on that science of reading and part of the components of that is using a nonfiction uh material that the students are familiar with we're going to partner with the science department and those uh the language arts department and the
science department will be adding a class in sixth grade so those kids will be working with all the key components of reading the phonetics breaking down vocabulary um how they attack uh big words and things like that on doing so
at a sixth grade level Kristen zik and Ryan net are taking the lead working with that group it's very exciting to work and they'll be partnering with the science department to do so I'm gonna let Rachel share a little bit last about that bottom corner the Mani slide so we
um our counseling staff came up with a way to really uh introduce and integrate our new sixth graders into our Middle School model our Middle School lifestyle so to speak and so they came up with what we're calling mon slide which is an invitation that went out to all this in this year's incoming sixth graders to
come in in the beginning of August for a day with a bunch of our student leaders who signed up and were trained to lead these groups of students through what it's going to be like to be in the middle school and so they're doing Locker combo practice they're going to go through the lunch line with the
kitchen we partnered with them they're going to go on tours um I think it's a scavenger hunt based tour so they'll have the leaders that go through with them um and they're just going to have an opportunity to really get to know what the Middle School looks like talk about our star expectations right off
the bat and then the other two things listed there we're aligning our curriculum with the elementaries for our character strong so that that language will be consistent um all the way through 8th grade which I think will again longitudinally we'll see really good results with that cuz it will be
consistently built upon from year to year and then one thing that I again am proud of our staff on is the use of educ climber and I have the slide Amy herelle put the the slide together and I forgot it I'll send it to you if you want to see it but just the amount of use
increase from our staff members our teaching staff from last year to this year in entering the data of behaviors and how we want to manage how they manage their behaviors within their classroom really incre increased um by a lot and so much so that we had teachers
coming to us in the spring to say we're we're doing the input of the data how is it that we're managing it and so they came back and tasked us with you know we're we're measuring it we're measuring it do we how how can we manage this better what can we do differently so
it's it's it's a catalyst for conversation to start our next year off so that we can be on the Forefront of okay how are we going to view this data how are we going to use it in an effective way to help our students be successful um constituents of our school
community and so I'm really looking forward to the fact that they are invested in using Edge of climber across the board our eighth grade group specifically really stepped it up um in terms of measuring all of that data for us and so we've got work to siphon through it and then a way at that how
we're going to manage it um ideally in the fall As We join school again share one of the reasons why that eighth grade group stepped up mid year Rachel and Amy were using some of the data that the sixth and the seventh grade teachers
were inputting she was using it to show how that's going to drive how our our instruction is and how we're going to monitor behaviors e8th grade teachers stepped up and saw how that's being used and then they were truly on board they bought in they could see that we were using the data and that's a tribute to
Amy and Rachel and the hard work they put in to sell ing that and training staff on how to input data and now use it uh this last slide here is just a specific to the current realities that we have in front of us uh we got 19 fewer minutes at the middle school um we
could complain about that uh but we we focusing on is that's we do have more PD time in the morning and that's very specific and we're going to be more intentional with the valuable minutes that we do have uh it's very important that's part of those discussions that'll
go on in that cohort model where we're going to discuss how we're using those 55 minutes and it may look different because of that time restriction as well got a few less resources and a few less staff we're going to have to be more intentional with our curriculum and with
uh the the courses that we use we're going have to be more intentional with uh how we spend our time uh with the less staff I'll just share with you the Middle School uh I don't know how you guys survived Junior High middle school
but probably don't Circle that time as your most favorite time in your career or your educational experience we need our best people uh We've often said you got to be a little weird if you're going to stick into the middle school for an extended period of time speak for
yourself yes um however we're pretty proud of the group we have we're very proud of the group we have they've embraced that age group they're proud to be part of that group and they are on board in this for the Long Haul uh and so so that being said uh that's a big
benefit we have as the staff in front of us and and their their chosen profession and now we'll take questions I just have a comment that I want to share I want to commend you and the other principles that are in the room all all of the principles that are
here about a year ago we sat down as a board with superintendent Olsen and did gold goal setting over several episodes drilling down on what do we want to marry up within the district in terms of
you know slogans as opposed to evidence-based stuff we can see our kids come into school are they learning are academic numbers going up I know he has driven all of you very hard on that this year and it was very obvious to me from
the three presentations we've had that we are connecting those dots in a way that we maybe haven't done as good a job on in the past um we're not at our goals yet but I think we're headed in the right direction and I I thank you for all of your hard work and extra work
this is not business as usual just the way we did it last year or the year before and so it's new to everybody and um we're we're striving really hard to put together the best program we can to improve the academic performance of our kids which has slipped Nationwide
Statewide we all know it and we're confronting it head-on in our district and doing everything that we can to turn it around so I just want to thank you for your hard work in that area and for the detailed objective information that you brought us all of the principles thank
you I want to thank you for the the data too it was fun to see from last year to this year um question to clear up the science MCA scores that's on here the the increase from 24.5 to 36.6 is that
in regards specifically to reading and them implementing some of the reading curriculum into their teaching or good question sorry do you want to take that one well I'll just share that the science uh assessments are based on there's engineering standards in there there's science standards there's life
science earth science uh physical science questions in there and that's what it's measuring they take it in eth grade however it measures course material that they've covered in sixth and seventh grade as well so I think you know r in the room with those science
teachers and uh prepping the students to pull some of that knowledge that they got from a sixth grade or a seventh grade app uh class and applying it is what they work very hard to do so it it's it's partnered with the the reading
and the math but what's measured is their Competency Based on the their the standards in science and engineering and I think one thing I'll add to is that they learned after this year I think I think the model for this past year was sixth grade really focused on claim
seventh grade did claim evidence and then eighth grade did claim evidence reasoning and they said at their year- end meeting like I think that we need to start claim evidence reasoning all the way in sixth grade just at a scaffolded level so that the sixth graders pick it up and it's the same language same expectation all the way through um which
really allows them to critically think and analyze whatever those standards are put the assessment is being put in front of them so that they can critically think about it because I think that kids just want to click and go and they it's promoting that critical thinking piece
of it I think that's my assumption good thank you I'm excited to hear about the Moni slide program yeah I think that's going to be really helpful the getting in there and trying out the locker combo and the tour of the school that's like one of the main things I
hear from parents is the anxiety of them switching to the school so really like that idea I want to oh sorry go ahead oh yeah oh and then I was just going to say and the Imp imp menting of the sixth grade course focusing on literacy um it's great I want to say we have over 60
kids signed up for V slide right now that was as of a couple weeks ago when Nicole was in planning for it and um if you want to come and check it out I think it's August 7th from 9:00 to noon so you guys are invited than there's uh last year's seventh graders this year
eight we're excited for that group at eighth graders too that's a a unique experience for them to go down to that sixth grade end and provide that leadership I think it might have been Cindy fashing I don't know if it was her that um said this but I heard a phrase
within the last year that said every teacher is now a reading teacher and that was kind of an aha moment we used to think about reading is something that children learned K through three you know you learn to read and then grade four and up you read to learn and I
think um maybe some of the good things that have come out of the react and some of that is that um we didn't used to focus on reading in 6 through 12 and hearing that that is now a focus I'm I'm encouraged as well so thanks for
bringing that up Melissa but thanks for your presentation yeah I just wanted to say good job and I want a second Kathy's initial comment on the elementary school and everyone else involved in the process it's a large program it was it's nice to see the data sorry you want me
to repeat everything you can um well I will I I have to second C these initial comments on the elementary school and middle school and all the work that's been done um it's it's a large program there's a lot of lot of moving parts to it it's nice to see uh the data that you
guys are putting together because we can go back and you know use that as a time stamp to see where we were where we're going um and then also this year realignment um get everyone on everyone on board going the same direction I think is it's going to pay us dividends here in the next couple years and the
the main benefit is how the students are going to progress out there so just want to say good job on everything thank you Casey I just wanted to bring up uh two uh points of connection and one is unification that you guys have both touched on um and then the other one is
uh Eminem and so um unification is huge so like when you think about a district and we've heard the word Collective advocacy but it's the belief in every employee every student every family that if we all do our jobs and we do them very well what we say what we do our
actions and everything is in that Collective piece and we're all trying to get the most gains and growth for every child and that's a huge responsibility but it's one very very few teams can ever get to and only a few of the um of
the best whether it's sports or whether it's organizations or um schools reach that Pinnacle and it's because sometimes we're not able to really look at that constant goal of who are we serving what are we serving and it's excited to see so many people
here tonight I'm excited to see the connections of like if we have a a science cohort doing well we know that we can take videos of that that cohort and what they're doing because we're taking some instructional videos now you'll see um Gavin and Alice and Cowell
doing some of that but it's those types of sharing and those types of um unification of systems um because you might have a system that you think is working well until you see something else that um might uh get your brain going in a way that uh can help you as a
as a staff member even um improve further so I'm really excited about that unification you guys did an awesome job I would have had this anything I just it's it's everybody it's everybody and then that last one Eminem 19 years I was the first time that I ever heard that word Eminem and just for the board and
for anybody who ever has any question um the elementaries use the word seal but the middle school has been using Eminem for 19 plus years because it's just what um the Chicago Cubs do um when they when
you get uh employed at the with Chicago Cubs you get the Cubs way um you know manual and you do things in in a in a way to teach you about um you know the behavior in the locker room and and how it what it means to be a Chicago Cub and
that's really what we're trying to do is we're trying to teach every child um a unified system and soon now we have a unified curriculum um which we didn't have we were using two curriculum and our Middle School is saying come on Elementary we need that down there because we're seeing students be different and we need longer to work
with them to see improvements so um I know sometimes words get kind of stolen um from media but they've been around for 19 plus years where the Eminem has been doing amazing things to help kids through a difficult time of their life so that they can get to their academics
and that's all we're doing um as a system so just thank you so Eminem and unification just to bring that together to show how it's happening all the way through the system now and our strategic I mean I feel like we're connected better across the district maybe than we
ever have been it's not just lip service it's not just phrases on a page um so again thank you very much for all of the work and coming in July to give us an update um I think we're in a healthy place um districtwide and we're hopeful
that we'll make some progress this year that we can be proud of next year so thank you so moving on to item number eight Innovation and Leadership we have an exciting announcement um that superintendent Olson is going to discuss with us all right so uh 19 years ago
speaking of 19 years ago I got to meet uh Somebody by the name of uh Sarah Welk um Sarah wel was a building social worker at that time and what I learned about Sarah wel is that that uh she is one of the most authentic if not the most authentic person I've ever met in
my life and you know a um a sign of a great leader is a great leader is somebody who is when they're when they're walking down the hallway or when they're giving a presentation um or when they um conclude um a task and they look behind them that there's people still
with them there are always people with Sarah wel because she is just an amazing leader she's an amazing person and I've just loved watching her growth but um but it started with that authentic piece um as she's moved um from the Middle
School building level social work uh she um has spent um the last five years at the district office serving a community group um the community group was a bounceback uh liaison and District school social worker and that position um grew and morphed over the years uh
while the funding decreased over the years so it started as a position almost fully funded to be able to do Outreach um but then connect that Outreach so that we weren't waiting um until uh a person um ended up in the community and needed help um we were starting early
intervention early and so it was a um I I went and made a pitch to Center Care um is how it first started get started and then we ran in um a competitive interview process and um that's when she first got hired into that role that role has morphed and it's just been unique as
I've watched it um with um other cabinet people we see that we have a um you know um a person from a certified group sitting at the table making executive or building and both district and building level uh decisions and support and um
across the district and it just started to make sense to look at a um position that was more districtwide because that's what the person was doing and so um the board in true board fashion wanted us to run a competitive process and which is I think always um going to
get you uh further in the long run and once again um Sarah wel came through a competitive process where um we did at that time just post it internally because we had several candidates that were um interested and through that process uh Sarah wel has now been hired
as our district um uh our district student service director and I'd like to bring her up to tell a little bit about herself but I couldn't miss the opportunity to share uh my feelings about her as the most of authentic person that I know and uh the true sign of a leader um and that means that uh
when you look behind you there's still people excitedly following welcome oh yeah oh there we go thank you you really should have been clapping for everybody else that did presentations it was a little awkward that we didn't clap for you guys so
actually we should be clapping for all the prin looking like a social worker yeah yes it's I know um yeah I I appreciate that I look forward um to this position um I thank
you guys for this opportunity to be the first ever director of student services um for monol schools as Erica has shared I've been in the district for 23 years and I've actually made a career in this District starting new positions so as
Eric shared I start I first started at the middle school um on a grant and under Dr Johnson and you know we worked together and we created that position and it morphed as and with uh Jeff
sherber and his leadership we were able to continue that position under a lot of scrutiny lot of referendum type of positioning and with their backing was able to keep that position in place um not because it was me but it was what was best for students and for our
community and our schools and I was able to remain there for 18 years and so as Eric had shared um having the opportunity to do the district Social Work position to be the bounceback liaison and create that position and work with the community and with the
hospital um was an incredible experience and really pushed me personally and professionally um and again that position morphs into the director of student services and again it's not because of me it's because of what position does
what it means for students and staff for our district and our community so I look forward uh for the opportunity to continue to collaborate with the administrative team as you know um we have an incredible team that has done a heavy lift um in the last few years and
has done a tremendous job as you saw tonight um and our staff our ESS our pairs our custodians everybody we do an incredible job you guys on our backing um we do a great job together um and I look forward to working with every one
of you to help develop and shape this position our District staff and administration um our team has done a tremendous amount of work to keep moving our students and District in the right direction as you saw tonight and we'll continue to see because that's just who
they are I will continue to learn from other professionals and other districts um to grow opportunities with our within our district and how I can support all staff students and families I thank you again for this opportunity and I look forward to serving this District in this
new role so thank you thank you [Applause] Sarah one of the things our board is very proud of is that we um when we need to restructure a position or look at a position we take a really deep dive into
is this absolutely essential and is it frivolous is it extraneous and if you were to compare our organizational chart to other school districts they may have a lot of assistance to assistance to assistance um and it might be a little
bit difficult to figure out where everybody fits on the chart but we don't do that here we we have people that are willing and able to wear many different hats and so one of the things that we've done with this new um director of student services position is we have a
lot of mandates that come down from the state and the federal government as to programs that we have to administer and now we have a home for a lot of that um a readily identifiable professional that's going to coordinate a lot of that so I think this is a really important
position for our district um it's not in any way um just frivolously creating a new position or anything like that so I just wanted to add some comments and welcome Sarah because I I think she's already doing an enormous amount of the
job um before and she has an even bigger um job position description on her table now so um I was a bit surprised when I saw how detailed the new position description is so um so welcome Sarah and get to work
so so moving on now to um Tina Burkholder from uh the Director of Business Services is going to give us a summertime update on the cash flow update I feel like we should clap for Tina I'm fine he probably gets the less the least
claps of anybody numbers are fun right it's not just reading it's numbers um so annually I like to give a cash flow projection update sometimes I can get to this in May or June uh this year I'm bringing this to you in July this
exercise um you look at the next year and a half of your cash flow coming in or out and recently with um the majority of our Aid comes from the state um 80% of our budget is state aid um and with
them being more stable in their budgeting we get 90% of our Aid during the year and they hold 10% after the year is over they want to make sure everybody's student accounting is accurate there's no errors there's no over reporting Under reporting you get
what you get based on the kids that you have and so they want to make sure the reporting is clean so that's why they hold that last 10% until everything's final so because that we've been able to be at that 90 10% um cash flow from the state
we've been very stable um when it was down to I think it was 65% during the year and 35% after the fact that was a really low point for school districts and we had to borrow um shortterm to make sure we could make sure uh direct deposits weren't bouncing or anything
like that that we had money to pay our bills and keep the lights on um so with this um I had a chart that just kind of summarizes the ins and outs making a couple assumptions on what percents would change in our expenses and
revenues coming in um schools tend to see a large influx of cash coming in October and November May and June from the property tax from the counties we're getting our property tax money uh so we do see a lot of money coming in at that
point and then the state in turn knows that and doesn't give us as much of our 90% in those months they spread it out in the other months um but for us our low point is the end of January to the beginning of March um so try to be
mindful of that I have a spreadsheet that every day um keeping track of the money coming in and out you know what are the the bills going out on Friday what's the payroll totals on the 15th and 30th what's the state aid coming in on the 15th and 30th um and try to
invest as much as I can um through throughout the year to that excess balance to earn some interest Revenue to help the budget um so for the next year and a half we have positive cash flow and you're only supposed to look at your funds that are General nature so our
general fund food service and our community ed fund you're not supposed to take into account The Debt Service fund the property tax money coming in should only be set aside for the bond payments that go out um and when you do get um
looked at from like um Bond agencies when they're looking at your financial statements if you do have a negative cash in your kind of General funds or food service and community service but you have a big incre uh positive balance in your debt service funds then they
know you're kind of borrowing from yourself and you can get um a negative outlook in your bond rating for that so trying to make sure that we're not borrowing from ourselves from our debt service side and just keeping things um all positive
so happy report we won't have to borrow for the next year and a half but again it's just always something that I look at every year and try to um monitor as the year progresses any questions it's not um an action item it's just a report any
questions for Tina it looks good is a comment I think it's uh uh hard to overstate how good Tina is at what she does yeah we're really lucky to have her Services she's topnotch even the folks that do the
audits say so all right right thank you Tina and next we have some good news uh Mr Rob Daner Director of Human Resources is going to give us some good news chair zth members of the board superintendent olssen happy to share
with you that uh we bring forward a recommendation to approve the 20232 custodial and maintenance Master agreement um and so the um board agenda tonight contain a copy of the red line as well as a copy of the summary that
I'll go through with the board here um and so I'm not sure if we have the summary up but um can you bring the summary up Gavin Thank You Gavin Perfect all right so um background information tenative agreement was
reached regarding the 20232 ma uh Master agreement with monel um sorry about that it says Food Services should say custodial and maintenance employees local 284 on Wednesday June 12 20124 this agreement was ratified by the monol custodian maintenance employees on uh
Wednesday July 10th uh so just last week and is recommended that the Board of Education approve this agreement uh what follows are the um the itial Financial changes in each of the two years of the agreement in year one which was actually last year
2324 uh there was a 3.75 increase on all cells and so uh individuals who worked last year who are still employed or retired in good standing will see a retroactive payment on that 3.75 on all CS in terms of health health insurance
uh there was a 0% uh last year and then uh appendix C uh we created a longevity step of 5 years that was added uh to the agreement and for those uh increments of longevity that were previously there
they saw five uh Cent increase per hour at each of those increments for year two which uh started uh July 1 of 24 and extends through June 30th of 25 there'll be a 4.0 Improvement on all CS health insurance will go up 16% in terms of the
district contribution to family coverage and then there's a $975 month uh contrib District contrib contribution towards single coverage um again on longevity increase of 5 cents at uh per hour at each increment and then retire health benefit uh the retire
health benefit that existed in the custodial contract closed as of June 30th 24 and we established a new retire HRA health benefit effect of July 1st 24 similar to um what we had done with the food service staff as well in terms of
language items in this uh contract um uh like all of our yearround employees we added a 12th uh paid holiday which is juneth mandated by state law um and we also clarified in the custodial contract the New Year's eveeve holiday rate of pay uh we do have a New Year's Eve
annual event that takes place at one of our uh building sites we want to make sure that that was codified in the uh the language of the contract in terms of job posting We clarified uh that newer vacant positions will be posted on the district website and Via District email basically bringing that job posting
process really into the 21st century and how we approach that we also clarify that the district May inform the union of positions it does not intend to fill prior to expedite posting process there is a posting expedited posting process within the custodial contract uh basically it's a bumping meeting and uh
just clarify that um the district May uh there be there might be circumstances where the district doesn't intend to refill a certain position so if somebody would bump out of that uh we would um uh we would end that uh that position and and the union agreed that they would end
the bumping meeting at that point in terms of language Cleanup in general uh we adjusted the years of course throughout the contract we clarified the chain of command in the contract to read superintendent or design throughout we um brought up to date some gender references throughout the contract we
also replaced the term night lead with lead throughout and that because we recently added a position in the custodial unit of grounds lead and so it was no longer just a night lead as a possible lead uh position so um lead is now the term for that um and then
finally we replace salary with wage throughout the contract um also since these are positions are paid at an hourly rate um in terms of leadership stien we did have a leadership stien language piece in this contract we clarified uh that language and really brought it in line with other um
contracts that we have um in other areas of the district in this case specifically the principal's contract has very similar language that we based this off of um one major change in terms of language we added the ability to uh hire part-time temporary and or and or seasonal assignments what that means is
that the um we can uh create positions uh and staff those positions that are part-time temporary and seasonal for no less than 14 hours a week and no more than 30 hours per week and so we have some uh some specific needs throughout the district that that will hopefully
will be able to leverage uh for uh everyone's benefit uh that language uh in terms of pay differential uh we clarify that there's the second site requirements for head custodial pay differential specifically that there's HVAC and boiler responsibilties at the second site in order to qualify for that um in terms of probation dismissal and
layoffs we deleted language that was contradictory to board policy um so always being mindful that board policy supersedes uh contracts um we requested um uh the request for pay payroll deduction authorization remittance was
clarified uh along the lines of updated State Statute from 2023 and then in terms of retroactive pay we we put language in the contract that um clarifies that retroactive pay following settlement of a master agreement is dispersed to current employees and those
who retired in good standing prior to that successor agreement being ratified um in terms of vacation payout we did have uh a request from the union to uh provide an opportunity for head or lead custodians to be reimbursed for some unused vacation time um of course we
always want our employees to use all of their vacation time but those uh scenarios which they might not be able to we did agreed to um uh to a sell back of up to five vacation days once every two years for those positions uh we modified vacation payout from a cash
transaction to an HRA deposit that's uh really of no consequence to the district but it's beneficial to the employee and so we want to make sure that we created that opportunity um and then also the last thing is we adjusted the work week and the custodial contract the work week had previously been established from Monday through Sunday and we brought
this contract in alignment with others across the district to uh the Norm of Sunday through Saturday and all told uh the total package value over the two years of the agreement is 9.19 based on the msba um model and I'm happy to take any questions that the board might
have any questions from both from the board and board members this is an action item I move to approve the custodial agreement as presented second moved by Melissa Curtis seconded
by Mark Branson all those in favor of approving the custodial and maintenance agreement as presented please say I I I any opposed please say no motion passes 60 please make sure you've cleaned up
the cooks versus custodians language and you're not done with me yet I'm up here for the next agenda item as well Cher You bar so we have first reading of policies and we have policy 6113 um going to be presented this evening actually not
presented this evening it continues to linger on our first reading of practices it as it has for the last couple of meetings uh we are currently uh we had brought it Forward um back in um May or June as a first read uh we need to make some modifications uh because it does
pertain to high school graduation requirements and uh we'll be bringing that back to the board in August for finalization prior to the the school year the onset of the school year that should probably be the the 19th correct because board policy will meet on the
5ifth policy will be end on the fth and so we could um we'll work through it with policy but we are at first read we want to give the rest of the board time to review the finalized language as well we'll get it done before the school year starts so any questions on policy 613 for Rob
Daner okay thank you any other announcements or comments from the board before we adjourn finding our agenda complete at the evening we are adjourned at 7:20 and we will reconvene at 7:30 for
our work session thank you everyone e