number 882. It is 6 PM on April 21st. Please note that we are missing board member Mark Branson this evening. And if you could all please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. And now we are needing approval of tonight's agenda. So moved.
Second. Moved by Melissa Curtis, seconded by Casey Root. All those in favor, please say I. I. All oppose, please say no. Motion passes. 5 0 account here. Right. We have no
citizen comments this morning this evening. On to agenda item number five, fiscal stability. Looking for approval of our consent agenda. So moved. Second. Moved by Melissa Curtis, seconded by Casey Root. All
those in favor, please say I. I. Opposed, please say no. Motion passes. 50. On to item number six, collaborative connections. I'm going to give the floor to Superintendent Eric Olsen on the
resolution of acceptance of gifts. All right. Good evening, everyone. Uh we have uh six uh donations that came forward from our amazing community. Uh, in this particular case, all of them are from um are for the fishing league. So,
UMC donated $1,000. Monaceel Chiropractic and Therapy, $520. Stripes and Stuff Auto Trim Incorporated, $250. Jeff Avidson Trucking, $500. Dan Olsen State Farm, $500. And H2 Outfitters for $500. All
going to our um third year of um our fishing team and the sponsorships that go towards that. uh relatively new activity. Therefore, be resolved by the Monell school board number 882 to gratefully accept the following donations. UMC
Incorporated, $1,000. Monaceel Chiropractic and Therapy, $520. Stripes and stuff Auto Trim Incorporated, $250. Jeff Arvinson Trucking, $500. Dan Olsen State Farm, $500. And H2 Outfitters, $500. All for
the fishing team sponsorship. Second move by Jeff Hegley, seconded by Casey Root. All those in favor, please say I. I. I. Please say no. Motion passes. 5-0. And I just want to say how fantastic it is that our community gives
back for um such cool things, specifically the fishing team. Um my son isn't down on Monaceel one, but when we lived in Anandale, he was part of the Anendale one and it was just he still remembers it and it was such a great experience and on the lake we live on that they come out a couple times a year
and fish too. So it's really cool to see all the kids out there fishing and um being out in nature. So thank you to our community members for supporting that. All right, now we'll move on to item number seven, teaching and learning. First up, help me welcome to
the podium our egg teacher from the high school, Jacob Wiltz. We're going to hear about his FFA overnight trip presentation. Hi everybody. Um, Jacob Wilts. I spoke here a while ago um with just an update on our program. And now I'm coming to
you with three trip requests. Two of these are in the summer, one of them's in the fall. So fig if I had to come for two, I I know about the third one. We'll get it out of the way. Uh so the first one we're asking for is what we call summer egg tours. And so the purpose of it is our FFA chapter is going to take a
a two-day one overnight trip. Um we pick somewhere in the state that's got different agriculture than what we would find right here in Monaceel. And so it's exposes the kids to new things, um new businesses, new practices of farming, as well as really just being a good chance
for the members to bond together during the summer. This it's a pretty common thing. A lot of other chapters do this. Um, more established chapters maybe expand beyond just the Minnesota borders, but for now we're going to keep it local. So, um, our our plan as far as
travel is one to two school vans, either two of the the smaller school vans or, uh, Mr. Revanig has been working on trying to get a 13 passenger van from Hoglands. Um, if we can do that and fit everybody all in one, we would do that. So, um, our destination for this year,
I'm going to skip ahead a little bit, um, is we're going to the Owatana Wasika area. So, Owatana's high school, they just built a new egg facility a year ago. Um, so we're going to hopefully go there, do almost like a mini exchange program, get to see their facilities, meet some of their members. Uh, we're
going to drop down to Austin, Minnesota then for the wonderful Spam Museum. Um, I personally have never been. I'm that's probably the thing I'm most excited about. Um, and then there's a couple of places in more of the Wasika area, which is where our hotel will be. Um, there's an ethanol plant, there's a farm
America, which is kind of an outdoor tour uh of egg history. We've got a canning facility, and then AURI, they do research on egg co-products. Um, so basically when we take the wheat or we take the sugar beats or we take the soybeans, um, the the stuff that's left,
finding a purpose for it. So, it's part research facility, part uh like manufacturing. Really cool there. So, um, as you can see with this, I we'd be leaving on one day, uh, June 16th, which is a Monday. Um, we're going to leave in the morning, we'll stay overnight, and we'll be back by Tuesday night. So,
nothing crazy long, pretty short and sweet. Um, as far as the information you guys may want to know, uh, I'll be the head chaperone. My wife is planning to come with as the female chaperone. Um, and then our alumni president who was with the last time I spoke, he will also be coming with. So, we'll have at
minimum three adults. um rooms kind of depends on what students are coming, but we'll have likely two male, two female rooms. Um and we're going to keep all the kids in the school vans. So, um cost, uh we are going to have the kids pay a little bit for this since
it's not really a contest. It's a fun event. Um but otherwise, our alumni will cover the rest. We've done uh these Pizza Ranch community impact nights. We've done two of them throughout the year. Um, and so stuff like that really that helps our alumni be able to sponsor this so the kids can experience it at
little to no cost. So questions on Do you want me to hold questions till the end and just talk about all three? Yeah. Okay, I can do that. Um, so then the next trip we're going to take, this one's going to be very vague because I won't know a whole lot until uh the end
of May. Um, we'd like to take our officers for the next year on an officer retreat. So um our officer currently we are accepting applications for members next year to be our chapter officers. We usually will have a six a president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, sentinel and reporter. Um the interviews
for that are not going to be until May and then they will be announced at our chapter banquet on May 19th. So unfortunately I don't really know a whole lot about this because I don't know what kids are going. I don't know what gender they are. Um and also usually we uh it's typical to let the officers have a say in planning where
they would like their retreat to be. So, um, my proposed location would be Duth, but they may surprise me and say, "No, we want to go here instead, and we'll try to make it work." So, um, that's really all I can kind of tell you about that. Um, a lot lot of it to be determined later on. This is also
something that many, uh, chapters do. They'll take their officers on a retreat. Kind of the whole purpose for it is to plan out the the upcoming year. Um, so we've got a a big PA or program of activities we have to submit to the state FFA association every year. I did it this year. Um I'm hoping that the
officers can help with it next year. We'll go over apparel. We'll go over our activities. We'll plan our meetings. Um what are the expectations as far as leadership for being an officer. So um it's kind of a mix of meetings and stuff like that. And then as you can see on there with our itinerary, we'll try to
do some touristy fun things just to help the kids bond together. This would again just be a two-day thing as well. So we'd leave in the morning, um stay overnight, come back at the end of day two. Um cost will be probably about $400, a little bit smaller because there should
only be six of them. Um our alumni will sponsor it completely. There will be no cost officers. Uh and then then the big one, this is coming up in the fall, so we'll kind of bring it there. That way if there's questions, we got times to plan ahead. Um the National FFA Convention is
at the end of October every year. Um and it's a really really big deal. um all 50 states plus a number of the US territories have FFA chapters that come there. Um they estimate that there's approximately 70,000 FFA members. Um and that's not counting all the advisers as
well that uh descend upon Indianapolis for a week. Um they call it the blue plague because everybody has to wear their blue official dress. So um you got 70,000 high school and early college kids all dressed um basically the in the exact same thing. But um the the hope
would be that we have a team competing. I'd love to come back here and say you guys have to let us go because one of our teams qualified by winning state. Um even if that doesn't happen, we would still like to go just for the experience. There's a number of workshops. Um you can see them on the pictures there. The the right hand picture that's they they have a giant
trade show. Um they they take the entire Indianapolis Convention Center just for that trade show and college show or college fair. And so it's a great opportunity for our kids to get to talk to colleges they may want to attend. um a chance to meet with some of the big businesses in the industry, make those
connections, talk to other FFA members. I know for me personally, the past two times I've gone. Um it's cool just to find an adviser. Uh last time we went, I had a nice long conversation with the an adviser from Northwestern Louisiana, they do agriculture completely different
uh down there than how we do it up in Minnesota. Um and just getting to learn like, hey, what do you teach? When do you teach it? How do you teach it? What are the cool things you do? Um what are things your chapter does? So just that exposure um is really the big thing of what we would like with it. So um
because it is a a pretty big trip, my plan would be for this year at least to only offer to what would be next year's seniors and then this current year's seniors or this year's juniors and seniors. Um based on the numbers that I have, I'm guessing that it would be
approximately 12 members worth. Um and then I I did just throw that on there because this is a a really big undertaking. I have done this twice before. Um, like I'm not going into this blind. I I kind of have a a feel for how things could go with that. So, um, just to kind of show you the the
pictures, the magnitude of this. Um, if we got any football fans in here, Lucas Oil Stadium where the Indianapolis Colts play, that's where they hold the session. So, they put a stage, you put 40 to 50,000 FFA members in there. Um, that that's pretty cool. And then the the bottom two are just the of the trade
show with that. So, um, again, you got they estimate 70,000 FFA members from all over the country, come there for a week. Um, plan would be to take two school vans. The big challenge is getting into parking garages as well as because everything is so centralized,
getting a a bus there. Uh, I would feel really bad asking a bus driver to bring us there. Um, and it's an absolute mess. It's a lot easier. There's a lot of parking garages all connected by the skyway. So, you can get into a parking garage that's a couple blocks away from where all the chaos is and you can just take the skyway or just walk on the
streets to get to where everything is. Um, and so that's why I I would prefer to take the vans. If we can get a second driver, we could take two eight passenger vans. If not, then I'd have to uh beg for Gary to give me the 13 passenger van. May limit what we are
able to do with that. So, um she another challenge with the national convention is that I can't just go and book the hotels because there are 70,000 people from across the country all trying to get a spot there. Um the National FFA Association books all the hotels in Indianapolis and in like a 20 mile
radius. Um and then they allocate it to the states. And so like I will have to request to the Minnesota FFA director, hey, I would like six hotels. I can give him a list. Hey, here are the ones I'd like to be at. Um, and eventually he'll say, "Here's the number of hotel rooms you have. Here's the hotel you're at.
Take it or leave it." So, um, in my personal experience, the times I'd gone with my old school, we stayed more out in the suburbs, about 10 miles away. Much nicer, a little bit cheaper. Um, and it's really easy to just drive 10 minutes into Indianapolis. So, um, I would be the head chaperon. I would
likely bring my wife with again as the female chaperon and then one to two alumni members as well just um because it is quite a big undertaking. Um some graduated students uh so the current year seniors they're off at college some
of them may choose to fly into into Indianapolis and then join us instead of coming to Monaceel and riding the van. That's also common place for many schools to do that. They'll they'll take whatever current kids they have and then whatever recent alums just meet them in Indianapolis. But once you're in
Indianapolis, we would move as a a whole herd or a whole group. So, um the itinerary that it kind of would plan out uh basically two full days of driving and then two days at the actual convention getting to see everything that you have there. There's also a lot of and Indianapolis is a pretty cool
city to tour. There's a lot of things near the downtown part that you can just walk to and um if you need a break from all of the FFA thing. So um cost is going to be pretty high. Um our alumni will donate part of that cost. Um one one of our big components of the FFA is
we don't want kids to have to pay a full amount or pay for everything. We'd rather they work and help with fundraisers. Um fundraisers go to our alumni and then our alumni will help sponsor it. Since it is, excuse me, a 4-day trip um with a lot of driving and in some nicer hotels, um planning on
charging kids $100 who are not competing to help with the cost. Um if they are competing, then I don't think that would be appropriate to also ask them to pay money for that. So, um some of the fundraisers we've got planned coming up, we've got two in Culver's, excuse me, coming up here in
May. Um and then Good Day Car Wash also wanted to partner with us. And then we'll have our big corn drive in the fall uh shortly before we go. So um plan I've kind of floated interest to kids, but the plan would be sometime either end of this year in the summer say, "Hey, are you actually interested?" Um
and then we can talk about giving the $100 and and confirming it. So um questions on the trips before I go into the the last two slides. Oh, I like what you're doing. That's good. positive.
So, you're asking for three separate trips. Yes. There's a lot of things up in the air. That seems like the you have one here on your request in June. You have some dates lined out. Your other request is a TBD likely in June. And
so would we want to break this up into I know there's three different action items, but I think it would be good to get some more information before we approve all three because the fall is quite a ways away. So I think it'd be good to know your end date on when you
need to know by because in your presentation it's good, really good. um you have you know maybe two maybe three we don't really know and as a board we need to make a decision on what we see and what's in front of us so I think from a planning side it'd be my
recommendation for the first one and the other two as we know more to come back and that could be in May as you learn more I I like what you're doing don't take it the wrong way I just from the board side we need to approve and make sure all our ducks in a row with what we're approving so that's just my comment on it I don't know if the rest of the board wants to correct me if I'm
wrong but the purpose of approval right now so he can actually start planning these other ones and some of them until he knows his officers. So he kind of gave the lay down right May is when he finds that out but then that's one of the trips. So he doesn't really know the landscape of you know is there going to
be three females is there going to be four males the room layout and stuff. So those are just some nuances that he'll have to just figure out once that time comes. But in general the trip laid out that we would be approving is on this request. Well, I I understand that, but
in someone's pay 50 or pay 100 and then summer TBD. So, that's that's just where I want to make sure it's clear as to Are you concerned about if if it would acrew any costs for the district? Well, that that's one, but the other one is the transportation. It's a little bit up in
the air. Are we getting two vans? Are we getting three vans? So, what I'm saying is is I think we just need to know more about how many students are going to be at the fall one on there and the how that's all going to work because that's going to dictate what the cost is that he needs to incur the school needs to incur. So, I'm I'm all I'm I'm all in
support of of doing it, but I think from the board side when we approve it, we just need to have some more information. That's all. When do you have to have approvals on each one of these by in order for you to do what you need to do? So the the purpose of putting all three of these together um well it was kind of exactly what you said chairman Stephen
uh because you guys your meetings are on Monday. A lot of FFA events are on Monday. So when I had originally reached out to Devony and said hey when could I get on the schedule? Uh she sent me and I was like well I can't do any of those until June. Um and so I just want to get in front and bring things to you. I'd be
more than happy to um with the the officer retreat and this national convention provide updates. Um if if that can be done via email, that would probably be preferred just in case I can't be here. Um but I wanted to to stand in front of you guys and present here's what I know so far. Um am I on
the right track or if you have major questions, I could answer them. Uh as far as the question or your comment about the cost to the district, there should be no cost to the district for any of these. it will either be the students will pay or our FFA alumni will pay. Um we I don't think Mr. Revenig
would appreciate if I also handed him a bill for any of these. So, um now if one of our teams qualifies for state, that'd be the only thing he and I would probably have to talk about because to my knowledge, that's not some like our football team or our basketball team can't qualify for beyond the state
tournament. Um and so that might be something that we have to sit down and see, hey, what we could do. Um, we'll I'll know more from that uh eight days from now when we know the results from our state convention. Okay. And then I don't I don't know if he would have to come back and present on the second two.
He would just have to send us information. Just approve the first one and then when specifics come in, email them to us. We already have your presentation. Yeah, we we can add it to the agenda on there. I just want to make sure we don't approve something and then things change, you have to come back and do it later. I'm just I'm trying to support
you. Yeah, that's all. Mhm. I think this is um you know until we go through a a cycle, a year cycle, I think we're used to approving things that are very definitive and so it might feel a little new. But I do think this is going to be
a trend of not knowing this because of just the timing of FFA. So I think once we get through kind of like how you guys are have come with a problem solving um approach to this, it'll just feel more comfortable next year because we'll have seen been through the cycle. Yeah. I just don't want to approve someone at the board level and have it change and
then have it be different the board approved which I know that's not really your intention. Don't worry. No, nothing take I you guys have never had to worry about a weekl long student trip to Indianapolis for this before. So I want to I want to be here and tell you guys I got no problem with um following up in
the future with concrete details once once I know them. So that sounds great. And we're good with if he's not able to attend a present that correct? Yeah. He would just provide the information. It would get added to the agenda and we would we would just vote at that time when you when you know more information.
Perfect. So do that. Sounds good. Yeah. So, but the first one I think we would be able to Yeah. Y I I was just going to ask the same thing about um are we able to just go ahead with an approval and then just simply ask for updates in case there's any big changes because it sounds like the only
real cost to us is the cost of the the trans of using the vans. Mhm. So, I don't see any reason not to approve them. Well, here's what we'll do. We're going to vote for approval of the trip request
one for the summer, right? And then what we'll do is we'll put these other ones on the agenda when it pops up even though we know that you probably won't be coming and you can just send myself or Superintendent Olsen your little blurb update and then we can make sure that's taken care of. Absolutely. That
works for me. Any other questions? All right. So, we are looking for approval of trip request one for the summer. You have a couple more slides. I do have two more. Just kidding. Um, thank you. I'm always the problem.
Uh, so just coming forth to you guys. Um, actually, Mr. son, thank you for what you had said of kind of the a lot of new things here and um I will be pushing the envelope a lot with hey the these are things that we've haven't as a school district had to worry about before but now that we have this FFA and
agriculture program that um it would be nice to have and so one of these um just coming forth with a policy change request and not something that I'm I'm expecting you to vote on tonight but um I don't know exactly the way that we'd go about changing this um but in the
future this this would be really nice to create an unpaid employee position at the high school as an FFA assistant and adviser to allow some of our alumni um and our our alumni are not necessarily um former FFA members. It's actually alumni and supporters. So, it's parents,
it's community stakeholders, some of them are alum from other schools that have since moved to the Monosel area. But, um to allow one or two of our alumnal employees so they can drive students to school vans and FFA events. um kind of the rationale behind it. Most
other schools have a paid position for this. There are very few other schools that just have one singular FFA adviser and that's it. Um then for instance, at my old school, we actually we paid an alumni uh it was a mom and uh she was paid from the activities department an
advisor salary or an assistant advisor salary simply so that she could go on overnight trips. So um I' like to point out that I'm asking for unpaid. They just need somebody that the school of board approves or the school district approves to be able to drive the vans.
Um kind of the the rationale behind this there there's a lot of points with it. Cost of busing is uh very prohibitive. Many of our events are either a full day or multiple days. Um Mr. Rebnig was very kind and said because it was our state convention and our state tournament, he'd cover the busing for that. um
otherwise when he and I were talking about it, I it was going to be close to $1,500 um just for the first day of our state convention. So really taking a bus is almost out of the question for us at any point. Um if I'm unable to get a second van driver, then we've got times
where I'd have to be able to limit how many kids we can take, which I really don't want to do. Um, and it's also it's really tough to get a a school employee to first of all get van certified and um if they don't have a a pressing need, don't see the need for it. Um, and then
also to ask them to take a day off of school to chaperone. Most teachers don't like being gone. We'd rather be in the classroom. um benefit for the the school district would be uh say there would be a little bit of savings as far as some of our contests if we've got maybe a
small contingent going and I'm not needed to be present necessarily um that we could have this alumni member take the van and take the students to the contest thus saving you guys the cost of a sub for me. Um, that's what most other districts do with this position is they kind of divide and conquer. If they have
only one egg teacher, try to keep the teacher in the classroom a little bit more. So, um, again, I don't I don't know how to go about changing this, but um, if if I could get it so that I could have a FFA alumni to also be able to drive our van, that would uh make my
life a lot easier and allow me to probably open more doors to kids than what I'm currently able to. So, with that, I'll I'll be quiet. My initial thoughts on that is this is something that we can bring back to policy and have a discussion on um and
then we can get back to you on what the plan will be after we meet with some of the admin team and talk through that thoughts. That works for me. So, policyy's the first understand first Monday of the of the month. So, we'll have a discussion at our what
month is April? 12 of May May discuss. Yep. I just figured while I had you guys all captive here, I' I'd get my money's worth. Good for you. I I appreciate that. Any other questions? No. Okay, then we are going to vote for approval on trip request
number one. So moved. Second. Moved by Melissa Curtis, seconded by Casey Root. All those in favor, please say I. I. Oppose, please say no. Motion passes 50. Thank you. And Mr. Wilts, as you're walking away, I just got to give you a
shout out for um he we are partnering together on our next Monty on the Move. Um Mary Monty on the Moves are one time a month. Um we get together in the community and do something um very fun. And in this case, uh uh Mr. Wilz uh is
uh helping lead the charge uh 2000 Hills farm. and uh we're going to bring kids to a farm and and um from out there his FFA adviserss will be there uh leading some of the way. It's a busy day. We have prom also that day. So, but it's fun to get out into the community and
and um I really appreciate you me asking you to see if you had any ideas and you like just taking the ball and and leading something pretty cool for kids. So, thank you. I look forward to that day. I'm going to be helping in the barn the day before clean clean some stuff up. So said that appropriately. So pretty
excited. Good job. Thank you. All right. Item B is help me welcome up because these are actions. Do we have to do I have to do we have to scratch them
or do we have to those action table? I think it is. Um we can just table and we can carry them forward. um at a do we have to vote to table upcoming meeting? Um you could just say the first vote. I'll just make a motion. I'll make motion to table trip
request two and second. All right. Moved to table the trip request two and three by Jeff Hegley, seconded by Casey Root. All those in favor, please say I. I. Opposed, please say no. I was going to ask a question. What
about the um personnel request? Do we want to also table that? No, it was already done. It's a part of our agenda agenda earlier. Okay, so we're going to go one more time. Um moved by Jeff Hegley on tableabling
the trip requests two and three. Seconded by Casey Root. All those in favor, please say I. I. I. Opposed, please say no. Motion passes 5. Thank you, Casey. All right. Next item on the agenda. Please help me welcome up
director of student services Sarah Welk who's going to go over what the vote of concurrence for the American Indian grant. Thank you. Good evening board members, Superintendent Olsen. Uh my name is Sarah Welk and I'm the director of student services. The American Indian
Education Program is administered by the Minnesota Department of Education and provides per pupil funding to districts, charter, and tribal schools that report an American Indian count of 20 or more through the MARS, which is Minnesota
automated reporting student system. 20 American Indian students generate a base award of $40,000 and each American Indian student beyond that generates an additional $500. So the Minnesota statute section
124D.78 requires Minnesota districts, charters, and tribal schools with 10 or more American Indian students to have an American Indian parent advisory committee, which is an APAC committee. And to be in compliance with this requirement, we are required to submit
an annual compliance document to MDE each year, also known as the vote of concurrence or non-concurrence. Apac committee met and discussed whether or not they concur with the meeting uh with meeting the educational needs of American Indians.
This vote is formally reflected on the annual repliance uh I'm sorry, annual compliance report. So, I'm here today to represent the APAC committee and their vote of concurrence to the school board. So, thank you. Welcome. I will bring up the document later and have you guys
sign that as well. So, thank you. Thank you. Um for those of you who don't know, it's just an annual thing like um um Sarah was just explaining to everyone that gets done. That's a grant and the vote doesn't actually happen here at the school board. The vote
happens with the APAC committee. So, thank you. All right. Now, we're moving on to our annual review of our community education. So, we've got a list of people that are going to be coming up here. So, first it'll be director of community education Jeremiah Mack.
Jeremiah, do you want me to bring everybody else up or are you going to bring them up one at a time? Well, they can all come up because then they can all talk. Okay. Then also help me walk up. Marketing. I know they're really excited. Yeah. Marketing enrichment coordinator Stephanie Jude. Fine Arts Coordinator Ryan Synindell, Recreation
Coordinary Coordinator Jill Kadrowski, adult basic education manager Julia O'Neal, childc care coordinator Andrea Greenwald, and early learning coordinator Jen Johnson. Welcome. All right. Well, thank you board. Uh we're
here to talk about updates for this past year on community education. Uh our overall program goals for us. Uh we are the part of the school district that serves all community members. So we're trying to make our schools accessible, maximize our facility use program with community
partners and get people into our schools to participate outside of the school day in the summertimes is our main goal. Uh as we said, we have six main program areas representing everyone up here on the stage and they'll kind of talk about all their different program
areas. So we got Jen first to talk about early learning. Um so for this first slide I just wanted to emphasize about our early childhood family education program. Um so in the past year we have had over 600
registered participants in classes and special events. Um and we offered a new class this year at our East View site. So, it has um a nature-based component.
And so, we um received some donations from um some local businesses and um community members. Um it was just very very um small, but it's mainly just just
um equipment and things that we needed for our backyard space. We um put this in the back of East View. And so you can see there we have like a mud kitchen and we have um just an just different um we
had I couldn't show everything because it would have taken too many things, but those are just a couple highlights there. The kids on balance beam and um um stump stools um just you know experience that. Um and then other
special events that we have had this year been big wheels. We've had two parent night out activities. Um we've had our EEC prom, a family fun and we will be hosting a family fun event at
Bertram and then in the summer last year we did um ECF in the park at various parks around the community. in the next slide. Um this is all about our um for so first we have school readiness here
and I'm happy to say that we were voted um the best preschool for Bonosello area. Um so we're very humbled and um really appreciate the support that we get from the community. Um so this year we have served over 250 students just at
East View and 24 out nature-based. Um so far this year for early childhood screening we have um had over 220 children that have been screened between the ages of 3 to five. And then I just wanted to highlight that we also work
along with Rally to Read and um the committee that I am on within Rally to Read, we have delivered to um 39 um daycare providers. We delivered books and activities for them to do. And
then we are hosting a childcare provider training and appreciation event here at the end of April. And pretty soon we will be launching the imagination library. Um and so we are looking forward to that where we can serve
students ages zero to five that they can receive a book each month in the Next up is Andrea. Hello. Good evening. Thank you for having us here tonight. Um I just wanted
to share some data with you tonight. Um I kind of realized as I was putting this um slideshow together that this is um our biggest school year so far since the start of our program in 20 um September
of 2018. So we are currently serving 320 students. We employ 56 staff members with varying schedules. So it looks like a lot of people. Um but everybody kind of has their different availability um that we work with. We have served an
additional 40 students this school year as compared to last year and 56 as compared to the year prior. Um or 86, sorry. Um, I don't have uh full data yet for summer, but I do have 285 students
registered and accepted so far for our summer program. Um, we're serving 30 more additional at this point, and we have about 20 on the wait list so far for this summer. So, my job right now is lots of hiring and reference checks and
trainings and um, and it it's a busy time of year for me right now. So, my goal is always to get as many students um in as we can and support our community as best as we can. Um next, oh, actually, go back one second. Sorry.
One of my site leads is on each of these pictures and I just wanted to showcase the amazing work that they do because they work we're open 6 to 6 Monday through Friday at one school and before and after at the other. And they just are really amazing and um I very much appreciate all of their hard work. So, I
wanted to kind of showcase them in those pictures. Um, we had our annual license um lensure visit in February and that was successful. It's always a bit nerve-wracking when she comes out and check, excuse me, and checks all of our
um our training data and medications and um background checks. And so, that was a successful visit. Um, my staff have completed their annual trainings as required by the state um, in March and I've got that all uploaded through our
state system. So again, I can focus on hiring for summer. And um, I also wanted to showcase tonight um, I send a um, a survey out to families in the middle of the year, at the end of the year, and then during the summer as well, just so
we can, you know, make sure we're aware of how are they feeling? do they like our program? Do they need something more from us? Are they having any issues with any staff? And I just am so thankful for all of them and and the um information
they give during these um surveys because it's always really uplifting and really nice for my staff to see. So I don't necess Do you want me to read the quotes or are we good? I think they they was a very good uh survey. So thank you
for your time tonight. All right, Stephanie. Hello. I am Stephanie Jude. I am the enrichment marketing coordinator. Um, so I also not just planning the enrichment classes, but I do uh marketing for all
of our programs here. Um, I've done some work for Eric and the rest of the district, too, just with my graphic design background. Um this school year um this last school year we had 28 youth enrichment courses um offered and we had
586 participants. Um our adult enrichment had 187 classes offered with 360 participants. Uh summer registration opened on the 14th and the cataloges came out Saturday before that and registration's going really really well.
We have about um 1,135 summer registrations already to date. So, it's been a really good start to the summer. Um our youth enrichment um courses, there's 90 of them offered for this summer. We partner with Big
Lake on some of our STEM classes and art classes in just the summer months. Um, Becker reached out to us recently and to Big Lake and they want to partner um next summer on some of our some of those classes as well. So, we will do that in the future. Um, it really helps to
partner with Big Lake and Becker since we're so close um to uh meet our minimum requirements for our classes to run. So, um that's a good partnership for us. Um we share the locations of our classes right now with Big Lake and Monaceel in
the summer. Um and then Becker next summer will join in. Um for adult enrichment, um we have 44 classes offered this summer and those are both inerson and online classes. They they do really well. Um as far as trips and
tours, I run all of those. I plan all of our trips and tours for um not just us, but we partner with STMA, Big Lake, Maple Lake, Anendale, and now Becker wants to join us as well. So Becker is going to join us this summer on our trips. Um I take care of all the
planning for our trips and then I send it out to these other districts so that they can just offer it. Um but I do kind of all the back work on it and then I just bill them out for all the participants. Um and we have two pickup locations for our trips and one is
Monaceel at East View and the other one is at um in St. Michael through STMA. So, the other cities when participants when they register, they just come and get on our buses or the one bus and then we hit those two spots. Um, some of the pictures on the bottom are just a couple
enrichment classes. Um, there's one from the recent event that we did, Jeremiah and Andrea and Julie and I. We were at the um multicultural event which was really really cool. That was a really fun event to be at. Um we gave out lots of prizes,
got to meet a lot of people. Um and then um the other two pictures are that's my mom and I on one of our trips and we did go to the Spam Museum which was fantastic. It was really really fun. And another one just another picture of a group of people that I took on a a boat
cruise in the summer. So yeah, that's about it. All right, Jill. I'm Jill Katowski. I'm the activities and recreation coordinator. Uh this school year we had 158 youth recreation
courses offered with 2,265 participants. Uh 1,243 unique users. This school year we had 16 adult recreation courses with 284 participants and 151 unique users. Youth recreation
has set up 78 courses offered for this summer and adult recreation has five offered this summer. I highlighted some of the new course offerings for the summer. Uh as you can see the first one is a basketball camp. We have high school players who are being the coaches for the camp which should be a
highlight. And then track and field and cross country also has high school athletes coming to be the coaches as well. Monaceel Community Band and pickle ball lessons is being taught by our band instructor here at the middle school. Uh we have pickle ball ladder league which is a hit throughout the year. So we're
expanding it to Sunday nights in the summer on our new high school tennis courts that have pickle ball lines now. Uh one of our outstanding basketball players is running a youth basketball camp. And then we have another company coming in Skyhawks running a multiports camp, cheerleading camp, soccer camp,
and a track and field camp. On the next slide we have girls flag football which is the first year here in Monaceel. It is 100% sponsored by the Minnesota Vikings. Uh our coaches are this year are Josh Larson and Dan Hoker. Uh the schedule it
is on Sunday nights and practices are on Wednesdays. So we're encouraging girls who can also play in spring sports to play flag football for the first year. And then lastly, we have facility rentals. around 9,000 facility use hours
for non-school related events, over $220,000 for rental fees, and 97 different facility users. Recently, we have come across a lot of staff or outside users are wanting to do use our facilities for birthday parties, too, which is kind of exciting with the pool
or just different gyms or classrooms, which is a fun time as well. And just one thing on Jill's like, you think about the adults, that might only be like one volleyball team. So there could be there's a lot more people that participate. They just register once for a like a team event. Same with like some
of the new sports stuff. Might be a team. So there's still even more kids signed up. Oh, get this one. Oh, okay. So we are making a few changes. Obviously, we had Brendan for
13 years and Jill's here for this coming this year. as we go through a change of longtime staff, we kind of decided uh just from feedback and we're trying to make some internal changes to better make our customer service experience better for our online facility users. So we are
switching our process of everybody having to call us or email us in the office to we are switching to an online reservation system which our system can do. So facility users starting now they already can do it you know been started working on training is they'll be able to go online and make an
online request to use our facilities. We'll kind of pull up the website. So we've updated all of our facility rental policies on our district website. So new users who want to use our facilities you know they would create an account through our community account
uh then go online to make a reservation through that. We won't walk you through that tonight. Uh but then if you keep going down, Gavin, it has all of our you just click on there, it'll take a over to our LEO site to make a request to see what is available. Um we've also made some changes where all of our internal
users will make their own reservation requests instead of calling us in the office. The high building administrative assistants can make their own requests. The activities department will put all their events in the system versus waiting for us to get back to them. They can go make their requests directly. Uh
we've got to ask that they get all their requests in by June 15th for next year that they have. So then all of our non-school users can get their requests in starting on a scheduled timeline. So that way we get all of our school stuff in, then we can book around all the
school events, you know, the best we can. Obviously, we know things come up, but we want to try to be more proactive, get all our school stuff in first. As you can kind of see, nothing says it's what it is the event. Some events I do have turned on like it's election night so people just know why we you can't have an event or it's a holiday or the
pool's closed for for construction so that's why you can't rent the pool but if it's just an event just says booked and it's not available because we don't want random people just saying hey what's going on you know in today's society Kevin you want to go back to the district site and at the bottom of the page uh
we've updated all our facility policies of just kind of what the expectations for all renters are using the different spaces at the pool. So that way it's kind of clear, nope, this is what this is what your expectation are. These are where our facility rates are and obviously as we change facility rates going into next year, we'll update all
those to match as we come along. So just and then we put some building maps and we still have to add some photos in for we haven't added our outside photo space or you know just if we have want pictures of certain facilities. So this map would be like of uh the middle school in the red boxes
are the rooms that the public can just go and rent. Obviously all the rooms are available for rent for internal users but we don't make them all open to the public to space. This is where most of our people use are the gyms, the pools, the auditoriums. So all right Gavin go back
to the slideshow. Uh we've also been working on I started last week training all of our youth sports associations of the new process and the timeline. So they're going to start doing that and we'll do that and as we work with all new returning users, they will now go through and put it
online themselves versus one of us spending a lot of staff time entering and creating their accounts and managing it for them. Uh but then we still have to approve them. They just don't get what they want. They everything still has to be approved by the community yet. Uh then we've been working as an office trying to create a pay matrix for
consistency for all of our community ed classes that we offer that a school employee would teach for us. So that middle school sports, a club, you're teaching, you know, pickle ball, whatever that may be. There's going to be a set there's a set fee structure of based on your participation numbers, how
much you're going to get paid and how long based on the length of the course. So, it's going to be pretty and then obviously we still have outside vendors that will still offer programming and then we set the final price but they determine what that price is that they're going to charge us to offer that program.
So, all right. Oh, I got that now. Back to me. All right. Next, Julia. Hello. My name is Julia O'Neal and I have been um West AB manager since June uh January 2nd. So pretty new but
I'm not new to the ABA world or community ed. Um few years ago I cross paths with Jamaa as my um um mentor and and here I am. So and then last um fall
I've also subbed for um a social worker position in at EU so at East View. So it's been an honor to um serving Monaceel School again. Um so West AB is the name of our consortium. Each school
district has to belong to one of the 39 um AB consortia. So we have 17 school district that we partner with with Monaceel being our fiscal host. So um we've been very grateful with your partnership and your support um since
1996. And we are serving serving four county jails, three local businesses where we offer English classes to these places where um the workers would come during their break or before after their shift and they they attend English
classes and they get paid for by the the employee and employers and our teacher come out and support them that way. And then we have um career force center. We have a um a center there with a teacher
who is supporting with um AB, GED or any career prep or college prep. And we are also um has an we have an official GED testing site at East View. And for our student, they must be 17 years and older
or not enroll in K12. Um and they need basic skills. And we are also part of the workforce opportunity and innovative innovation act. So we again we partner with Minnesota state college system and career forces agency to help student
prepare for college and career. And this is important to us. We have two calendar years. It's kind of confusing from May 1st to 30th. Um we don't get funding per students like K12. We get funding state and federal funding per contact hours
that we generated like the hours we serve our students. So we they the state MDE look at our hours collected from May 1st to third uh April 30th which is the the end of the month here to determine our next year funding and then our
second calendar year is July 1st and June 30th and that's when we submit our data performance data for state and federal federal for accountability and so this year is a big year for us because every five years we have to submit um something called fiveyear nar
narrative basically basically a huge grant um process where we have to asking you just give the state all the details and all how we operate as an organization to ask for
reauthorization of our consortium and so once I'm completing that I will um share with you the website that um we have to submit it through so you kind of know the in and out of how we operate every day so in short my job is kind of like a
principal but all my teachers are in the different seven school sites and four county jail. So yeah I oversee everything being a coach sometime and sometime being a just to listen. So we have 27 teaching staff who are licensed
um in the state of Minnesota and most of them are either retired teachers or having uh uh have a full-time job during the day and then they just love our um students so much that they just come back and year after year and teach and then um a lot of them saying oh gosh I
wish I knew about AB before you know when so I can switch over sooner. So, so we are very grateful for them. Um, again, um the data I'm showing you is not complete because we don't um we have all the final data at the end of the
month. So, up to date we have 7 uh 1,723 students so far up three students from last year, 34% female, 68% male, 75.4% of students between age ages 19
and 44. So again, this is a really common range for people like trying to get up their skills and the digital skill or basic skill to get back to the workforce or entering the workforce or improve on them are moving up. Um 39%
self-report that they are lowinccome. Um students are from 62 different countries across consortium. They speak 40 34 primary languages. The top five are English, Spanish, Somali, French and Russian. So the biggest request for us
is ESL classes. Um and we um and majority of our classes are ESL, but we still have a very strong GED and AB program as well. Um we have served up to date 42 students from Monaceel schools ident identified
themselves in the district um border of um district um 882 117 from Wright County. Uh something that the state of Minnesota has piloted the last three years is that through um different consortia we offering the
statewide online courses focusing on job certification such as in the fall this year we offered CDL class B uh personal care assistant and then spring right now going on ongoing right now is
paraprofessional certification Microsoft um office certification and T test prep which is um a lot of student need for entering nursing program. So um one thing that we really try to do is to create a local connection. So student
would in the community would sign up with us um as a west AB um student and then the teacher will um give them um a test to make sure that they are qu they are independent enough to um be successful in those online courses and
then they can be a local support um if they need it. Um, a big event coming up for us is the West AB orna night where we um honor recent GED graduate um just
across the area whoever came through our door and our own GED graduates from West AB and that and awarding um some achievement awards to all of our students across the consortium and that's happening in Buffalo community at building. So, if you have time that
Tuesday night at 7, stop on by. It's a very neat event um that I've been part of um 3 years. It just really fun and just really touching to have these student, you know, just have the second chance. Like I never got to watch, you
know, um during high school because whatever reason they didn't finish high school, now they got their GED. And it just they just it's a very good uh it's really fun event to to witness. Um and then new summer courses. Um pretty exciting for us. We want to pilot
a GED Express week uh where students are in the community. Um if they in need of getting their GED done, we just offering one week from 8 to noon. Just come in and study with us. study in the morning, test in the afternoon and then by four
by hopefully by the fourth day they are done with their four subjects and ready to walk um by June 10. Um so another thing we want to pilot to kind of bring out the barriers for students um with especially the biggest barrier of our
students are transportation. So, we're gonna offer um online AB GED courses and advanced ESL course online to to help those students. Um and I just put out
goal our mission of AB in Minnesota. So, thank you. And just we had a student last week that something was wrong in the office, but she had finally got her GED and she was so excited and screaming something was
wrong. So, it was crazy to watch just the excitement of an adult learner when they complete their diploma because whatever barrier they had for high school to get done. Next up, Ryan. Good evening everyone. Ryan Sidel, fine arts coordinator. Uh, one of my
larger goals this year was to branch us out not only outside of the local school community, but really all across the Midwest and to establish a foothold in the Minneapolis theater scene, which is one of the largest in the country. Um, I'm happy to report that, uh, this
school year we were able to bring in six new large full weekend events, uh, which played in part to generate over $114,000 to the district, which which put us up a little over $35,000 from last year. Um, all of our clients who
have booked with us this year are already on the books for 2026. um they are thrilled with the customer service that they are receiving in the district. So I think that this will be a a steady source of income that we will
be able to rely upon and also we are um we're becoming a very hot commodity here in the area and either when these large companies are coming in and and want to book in the Minneapolis area they they are either choosing Monaceel
or they are getting told unfortunately we are already full for that week and I think we only have one or two free weekends already on the books for 2026. So, we are filling up relatively fast. Um, this summer we are partnering with Monty Axe. They are the local community
theater program and we are going to do our first ever uh all age casting program here which will combine adult and high school students here to be on stage and act together. Uh, so we're very excited about that. um we employed uh a number of new high school students
into our um into our theater mentorship program. So it's students who are looking to sort of find a career after high school within the fine arts and we take them through this program and we show them all the ins and outs of how to
make productions come to life. Um, I have submitted a number of grants uh to the American Theater Wing to look to continue to upgrade our our auditoriums um in order to continue to to provide the best service uh for everyone that
comes in and uses it. And then uh just down below we have all of our upcoming theater productions for the remainder of the spring and into the summer. This weekend we have our middle school musical here. Uh the following weekend
after that we are bringing in some folks from the Kaleidoscope Charter School to do Matilda the musical also here um at the middle school. And then uh looking towards the summer, we have uh we have uh tied to the tracks which is
going to be a K through eight uh melodrama musical that will take place here at the middle school. And then we will be rolling into our community theater program again which is combining students and adults on stage. We'll be doing a Shakespeare classic McBTH for that. And then rolling into August we
will have our storybook theater which was a huge hit last year and they'll be doing Rapunzel. So, lots of fun stuff on the horizon. Um, and I think all the students are very excited to be participating in it. So, pending any questions. That is all I have. Thanks.
All right. Just a couple other highlights. Um, aquatics. Um, we for the summary now, we're offering 276 swimming lessons sections. So, starting June 9th once this pool is hopefully ready to go. Dave
said construction pending that we should be ready to go for June 9th. Uh we during the school year, our pool is very busy, so we pretty much only offer swimming lessons on Saturdays for private lessons, but then we do pool and pizza parties on Friday evenings for elementary kids. We tried a couple middle school ones, they didn't go. Uh
then obviously we can still sprinkle in some parties if other people want private rentals. And Caitlyn Hegley and Kate Hansen are our new co-acquatics coordinators who manage the aquatics program. So, they'll be on site making sure swimming lessons run during the summertime, which as you can see, there
is a lot of them from between 11:00 am and 7 pm every day. Um, also this is our seventh year of NWTA. Jeannie and Leanne will be back later in the fall to talk about NDPA, but currently we have over 400 different students signed up to attend classes
June July 16th to July 3rd, and we have 51 different sections of classes running this summer. So, we only this we only canceled seven. That's the least we've ever canled. So, and students can still register up until about a week before class begins.
So, last any questions for anyone? Good. Good job, everyone. I have a question for Andrea Greenwald. Don't worry. Um on on the program, is your biggest limitation just personnel?
Hiring a personnel or is it space? Yeah. Yeah. So space has space I will say hasn't we haven't gotten there yet. I'm a little bit worried about summer at Little Mountain because we have right now 150 on average a day and there's a
cleaning schedule. And so I'm working really hard with the head custodian and the principal and we meet and and we talk about it. Um, but I know that you guys are very supportive and I know they want to be supportive, but they also
have their goals and they have things they have to get done. So they might clean one wing and then put us in a different wing. um you know when you're open 12 hours a day, you have to give a variety of activities and you can't just shove 30 kids into four classrooms.
That's not how it works. So um they have been really helpful. But um yeah, so far space it's I'm it's a worry of course, but it hasn't been an issue. It's mostly staff. And so this summer as I hire, I'm
limiting the amount of days off they can have because I feel like in the past, it's our summer and it's Minnesota and I'm pretty flexible. And one thing I'm trying to do this summer is limiting eight days off, no more. Because it they'll come in and say, "I want 40
hours a week." And it's like, "Great, we can give you that." And then when they need four weeks off throughout the summer, it's really hard to cover an eight day sh, you know, an eight hour shift. So yeah, I'm getting a little bit I I can't be as flexible as I have in the past due to our larger numbers. So
sorry for the long answer. Oh, that's that's fine. I just I just wanted to make sure. But if you're running any roadblocks, how do we how do we help? That's all. I appreciate that. That's the point of the question. Yeah. Yep. When I've ever seen Andrea have a roadblock. I mean, one one of my um
coolest things I've seen you do this year was to partner with the career pathways program at the high school and um you know, having that be um part of their wraparound class and and education and learning and and and work um with in
the child care system is absolutely fantastic. So, I hope that they feel they gain necessary skills in their future. But we we I was able to hire 15 student workers this year through the youth service partnership um with Miss
Chido and Mr. Olsen and that really helped um to be able to serve even more students. So yeah, that was good. And I'll just keep rolling just real quick here before everybody else jumps in. But um I just want to say how proud I am of all you guys. I have had the opportunity
to work weekly with you since February and uh in order to um take on some challenges that maybe we're experiencing in the district and what I've seen in those meetings and the fun that we've had. It truly is one of my blessings. Um and I I couldn't be more proud of each
and every one of you. That meeting um on Wednesday has become my favorite part um of my week. So, thank you so much. You guys are doing great things for the community and that's a lot of people don't understand. You say it uh kind of weirdly, but it's uh community education
is from womb to doom and it's really providing the whole community and every development stage of of life an opportunity to um thrive and be part of the community and that's what you guys are doing. Yeah, I know. I specifically like to see the community impact and the numbers
that each of you brought. I love the fact that we're increasing our technology and accessibility. So, I'm curious like when you brought everything online and you just said the pool's renting out more now for birthday. I'm wondering if that's tied where it's just easier for the community to start
booking or words getting out that that's a fun do for a birthday party. I think we had a couple that started asking and then they then I get questions like, "Oh, can I do that?" Yeah. So, it's the hardest part is just fitting them into when we around other things. But the online stuff actually turned on on th
Wednesday or Thursday was the first day it turned on. I knew. Okay. Well, it's exciting to see the creativity and the growth and the performance arts that were already booked out for next year. That's exciting to hear that that program's growing and we've got some good things and the impact, the numbers
that you all shared was incredible to see the impact that you're doing. So, thank you for your hard work. I think it's great. I have uh one more question on the girls flag football. It's 100% sponsored by the Vikings and I may have missed it. How is it just year to year or a couple years? What's the
timeline on the sponsorship? Um, well, Jill wrote a grant. The Vikings are giving us $15,000 to do this program and then you get to keep it as long as you spend the money on flight football from year to year until you're done. So, what is our expense going to be this year?
Sponsor year one 50% 25%. So, so it's a three years. So, 100 and then 50 and then I think the Vikings long-term goal is to get it become a state high school league sport. Yeah. I mean, it makes sense. So, okay. Yeah. So, the students only had to pay a minimal fee to participate this year. So, then we'll
see how much we have left over to keep keeping the cost down to get the girls participating because we're paying for the busing, the coaches, all their gear, whatever they have. So, it's about at a minimum they'll plan as a three-year program at least and try to grow it from
there. Okay. What do we have like 24 girls signed up? So, Oh, that's good. I know my daughter has some friends that participate and they're really excited about if she wasn't already in another sport, she would have been all in. So, they were doing a good job recruiting
friends. They were all talking about it. So, yeah, cuz Saturday Sunday's their first game. So, any other I've I've won for Julia O'Neal. Sorry, you guys are standing up there a long time, but it's worth it.
So, on the one of the slides, you talked about this uh GED Express um June 2nd through 5 at East View Education Center. So, part of the AB program, I know we facilitate the funding here through Monaceel back to the other schools, but when events happen here, is do we
receive any additional dollars through that program for events that happen on site at our location? Unfortunately, no. Um the f and Jamaiah can help me too. Um the fis the reason we doing it here just because career force center is more
localized then I can just have the students come there for their initial assessment and then I will then before June 2nd is it June 2nd to June June 5th and so then the student we know for sure
the student be able to to meet the certain um cut scores and then that's when we then like okay we invite them back okay So June 2nd, this is this is your schedule. This is what the event day look like. And then for student that
don't meet the cut scores, they become um still become West AB student. We can refer um the local classes to whatever location they are in. But yeah, we don't it it's just another effort of us increasing our contact hours for next
year funding. Okay. So we really pushing for additional contact hours. Yeah. And part of be the fiscal o we do have you know we do divvy up our every school gets a little bit reimbursement a small chunk of what the total reimbursement is of based on the census numbers so we do
have most of the teachers are monosel employees a few are non monosel employees paid by buffalo or delano I mean oro so most of that money does stay here to pay for Julia's time or part of my time to be the fiscal agent and then we so we do get a benefit but you know
50% of our funding is we get more students that come through hours, we get, you know, $8 to $10 of contact hours. That just helps our funding for the following school year that we can keep providing services that because it's a revenue neutral program. Go ahead.
Anyone else? No. No. Thank you, Jeremiah, and team for coming, giving us our annual update. You're doing good things. We're excited to see what next year brings. All right, on to item agenda item number eight, safe and healthy culture. We will
bring up director of human resources Rob Danaker to go over second reading of policies. Evening, chair seen, members of the board, Superintendent Olsen. All right. Um, so we have a number of uh policies for second read this evening
and I'll go through them and I'll pause for any questions that the board might have after each. Uh, starting with uh 527 student use and uh parking of motor vehicles, patrols, inspections and searches. Um this the purpose of this policy is to provide guidelines for use
and parking of motor vehicles by students and in school district locations to maintain order and discipline in the schools and to protect the safe health, safety and welfare of of um students and school personnel. No major changes on this one.
This one's brought forward from our review cycle. Uh next up is 533 wellness. Uh the purpose of this policy is to set forth methods that promote student wellness, prevent and reduce childhood obesity, and assure that school meals and other food and beverages sold and otherwise made available on the school
campus during the school day are consistent and applicable. Um minimum meet consistent and uh with applicable minimum lo local, state, and federal standards. Um and so this is um again coming forward from our policy
review cycles. No major changes to 533 as well. All right. Next up is 534 uh school meals uh policy. The purpose of this policy is to ensure that students receive healthy and nutritious meals through the school district's nutrition program and that school district
employees, families, and students have a shared understanding and of expectations regarding meal charges. Um there were a couple of um uh changes to this one just uh updating um nutrition department practice our nutrition services
department practice with uh the policy. So the first is under uh payment of meals. Um and so just modifying uh that um alakart or second meal purchases are to be prepaid before meal service begins. And then also um uh a similar
change on page two of the policy regarding uh negative balances. Any questions on 534? Okay, moving forward. Uh this is 535. Uh service animals in schools. The purpose of this policy is to establish parameters for the use of service
animals by students, employees, and visitors within school buildings and on school grounds. Uh there was one minor clarification that came forward uh from recommended by MSBA and uh it just um two sections on
uh page two of the policy regarding unfair discriminatory practices. Um again that would that are captured adequately within ADA but MSBA is just recommending we capture those two um sentiments within the policy itself. Okay. Moving forward, uh policy
536, Turning Point ALP early graduation. Um the purpose of this policy is to set forth requirements for early graduation from Turning Point ALP. Uh there no changes to this one. This one is simply brought forward by our review procedure. Okay. Moving on to 537,
extreme weather and emergency school closing. The purpose of this policy is to clarify the procedures that will be used in the event that schools must be closed for inclement weather and uh or excuse me any other emergency. Um so there's minor changes here and really just
um uh recommended changes from our policy committee to update some of the language uh regarding other electronic options may also be used for the notification and the decision to close school during the school day will be at the sole discretion of the superintendent. Just cleaning up some words there in 537.
All right, moving forward. 550. Uh, this is simply called bomb threat. Uh, the purpose of this policy is to outline the procedure that will be followed by administration, staff, and students in the event of a bomb threat at a school district building. Um, in minor change here, uh, the general term
administration was changed to the more familiar superintendent or designate. All right, moving on. Uh 551, this is early admission. Uh the purpose of this policy applies to parents who desire to enroll their child in kindergarten prior to legal entrance age of 5 years on or
before September 1st of the calendar year that school uh of the calendar year that school starts. And so we just made some minor changes in this one just to clean up some words including uh in the sentence I just read uh clarifying uh September 1st of the calendar year that
the school starts in and then also um amending a reference to district 882 uh to read within district boundaries. Any questions on 551? Okay. All right. 552 homeless student enrollment dispute resolution procedures. The purpose of this policy
is to asssure the continuation of educational placement of a student in a homeless situation during a dispute. Um and so no major changes uh within this policy. Some language cleanup um articulation that the district's homeless liaison for instance
is the director of student services. Um again striking through districts person and referencing superintendent or designate for instance. Any questions on 552? Okay. 553. Student with uh food allergies, special dietary needs. The
purpose of this policy is as follows. Monosell School District is dedicated to fostering the health, nutrition, and well-being of students with food allergies by providing education and a supportive community. Um some minor changes within this policy really bring uh up to speed some of the nomenclature we've been using within the district.
The major one here is just the the change from food service department to nutrition services department. and also an update of the turnaround time uh that the department can um can expect to be addressing special t dietary needs. The turnaround previously was 24 hours.
That's a pretty quick turnaround and frankly probably not reasonable and we amended that to five business days. Any questions on 553? Um 560 restraint and seclusion. The purpose of this policy is to asssure a safe school environment for students. Um
there the major change in this one was the uh policy itself was lacking legal references um regarding restraint and seclusion. So those were uh uh added to the the draft policy for 560. Any questions on
those? Okay. Uh 601 school district curriculum and instructional goals. The purpose of this policy is to establish broad curriculum parameters for the school district that encompass the Minnesota academic standards and federal law that are aligned with comprehensive achievement and civic readiness. And that itself is the major change to this
policy. Uh the state of Minnesota used to use uh what they called the world's best workforce and that was modified uh last year in last year's legislative session to comprehensive achievement and civic readiness. So updating references throughout and um striking old definitions of work uh world's best
workforce and replacing for instance with definitions of uh comprehensive achievement and city civic readiness. Any questions on 601. Okay. And finally 602 the organization of school calendar school day. Uh the purpose of this policy is to provide for a timely determination of
the school calendar and school day. No major changes to this policy. Um, and so just coming through our review cycle of work again. And that's all I have for you, Chair Steven. This is these are all up for action tonight. And so looking for a motion.
I just wanted to reiterate these this is the second reading. So we've seen this the first time or we've seen this already at the first reading and these already going through policy uh months ago as well. So this isn't the board's first time looking at these policies. All right. This is an action item.
So moved. Moved by Casey Root, seconded by Jeff Hegley. All those in favor, please say I. I. I. Opposed, please say no. Motion passes. 5. And like Casey had mentioned, we see these multiple times. every
single board member, not just the policy committee, gets the opportunity to review, see, ask questions, and update anything that needs to be updated. So, thank you. You all right, and that brings us to item number nine, adjournment of our meeting here on
Monday, April 21st at 7:19 p.m. Our next school board meeting will take place on Monday, May 5th, 2025 at 5:00 PM. Have a good evening.