[Music] Yeah, that's okay. We're going to call the meeting to order. So, please rise for 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. Okay, please take note that five board members are present. Jill Cook is absent
and she's excused. Um, also Dan Doce is excused for um the celebration of his mom's life um for today. So our condolences are with Dan and his family.
Um I'll take a motion to approve the meeting agenda. So moved. The first is there a second? Second. Can second it. Um all those in favor say I. I. All those opposed say no. Okay, it's
unanimous that the meeting agenda is approved. Um, first up is open forum. Is there any cards? Anybody else wants to speak? They have to fill out a card for the open form later in the meeting. Um, next up
is Mustang Spirit Recognition. Jennifer. Well, we have another group of our fabulous volunteers here. Come on up. And we have some great posters made for
all of you that we want you to hold them from the learners that you impact their hands that they traced and cut out and put on a poster for you. Grandma
Jean, come on. Right here. I can't be the only ones. This is Nicole, Grandma Jean, and Grandma Joyce. She's been with us for how many
years, Joyce, have you been a part of this district? I worked for the school for 28 years in the high school office, but then I've volunteered since then. Yeah, it's been wonderful. It's been wonderful. Grandpa Fred, what?
I think they tired him out today, didn't they? You have any candy in your pocket? Yeah. And I think you have an extra one right here. Grandpa Fred poster from third grade or the board meeting. I don't
know, Kelly, you're here from the third grade. Do you want to show ahead of you? maybe hang it up in some place special in the house and read it. Yeah. All I know is if I give him a job, he's done within like 5 minutes.
I'm like, this would get me three days if I would imagine. Yeah. Talk about work ethic, right? But but really, we appreciate Did I miss anybody? Okay. But we really appreciate you guys taking time out of your busy lives to come in
and enhance learning for our youngest learners. You're impacting them every time you are with them. You're making connections. You make them feel special and they soar and it impacts them for a
lifetime because of their reading and math and just seeing you every day. I mean, I wish I would have had that when I was was their age. I mean, that would have been something special. And I hope these young learners see you on the street or at Coburns or somewhere and
they're saying, "Hey, Grandma Joyce, Grandma Jean, Miss Nicole, Grandpa Fred." Do you do you get that in the community? I came in the door and there's two girls sitting. Exactly. Yeah. You're celebrities in our school. So, it's
got enough rolls. That helps. Buy them by buy them by the fall. And they'll work harder for you, won't they? Oh, they do. They'll do anything for me. Yeah. But if you ever need like Jolly Ranchers, I have a slew of Jolly Ranchers I could put in your pockets
when you come in to volunteer and that'll help out. But but Randy and I just want to thank you because when we walk around the hallways and and see you working with the kids, they I mean they perform for you. And maybe you should just come and hang out in my office. So
when I have discipline in there, I won't have any issues at all. Yeah. I've only had to go to her office once. One time, friend. Just once. We got through that, didn't we? Yeah, we got through it. Yeah. Yeah. But but truly, thank you for your time that you put in
into those kids and and that's a lifelong impact that that you have and I know the teachers truly appreciate it. We have a few teachers here that are here tonight because of our volunteers and and they help out huge for you in
the classroom, don't they? I mean, it's it's Yes. Do you want to say anything? Well, third grade does a time capsule at the end of the year. And you know, favorite parts of third grade, Grandpa Fred. And I've been with Jenny. Jenny since day one.
That's it. That's seven years. Yes. Years. Yeah. She was She was one of the first ones that said, "I I'll take them." And you're working with Jenny. Yep. Jean, who are you working with, Jenny?
Jenny. Well, there we go. Well, thank you so much for helping out because we're doing fast testing right now and it it really shows just even if it's 15 minutes a week, it helps those skills build. So,
thank you for everything that you do and come back to us next year, okay? We want you. None of these kids said a word about this today. They were pretty secretive, weren't they? Somebody else was giving away Tootsie Rolls.
All right. And then we have a Mustang bell for you. And then I think there were a few other volunteers on our list too that didn't make it tonight. I think it was Lesie McCullum, Beth Oslin. Let me check my list. Did I miss
somebody? Call your wife, and Julie Dolby. Julie was a retired teacher as well, just like Beth was. So, thank you. We appreciate it. [Music] All right. Uh we Mr. Baky and I would
like to recognize Mr. Shane Kudson, our technology director. Unfortunately, he is sick and at home right now, so we're going to talk about him behind his back. Um maybe he's watching us. Hi, Shane. Uh, three things I appreciate about Mr. Kudson. One, Shane is a team player. He
always put students in our district first. Sometimes there were decisions that had to be made and he didn't always agree with them, but Shane is a team player. So, that's what he did. The second thing I appreciate appreciate about Shane is he put in the time. He wasn't afraid to work hard. You think
about all the special projects that a new building like this had. Uh we had deadlines to meet and Shane, if you're listening, uh I saw you here burning the midnight oil and I really appreciate that. Uh the third thing I appreciate about Shane is he has a great sense of
humor. We work with people that we spend more time with than our own families and it's fun to spend time with people that are fun and Shane was a fun person. So whoever replaces Mr. Kudson has huge shoes to fill. I know you had something you want to say to Yeah, I mean in order
to honor Mr. canes and in a meeting I was late because that's very frequent in our world but uh Shane would hold me very accountable and he would hold us very accountable and I appreciate that and his role is unique because he's the tech guy make sure the internet works kind of guy but he did so much more um
Mr. else said he burned the midnight oil. He would meet every meeting with me at 6:00 in the morning to have a conversation just yesterday to make sure that teachers had the resources they needed, that students had the resources they needed. He's very passionate about computer sciences. He knows that that's
the commerce of the world and he wants that to grow at more schools. Um, he's very community-minded. He wants to make sure that teachers can teach so that students can learn. And he is always always always thinking bigger than himself. And that's the thing that I appre appreciate about Shane Kudson is
he's always helping and doing more for others than I really think he did for himself. Very selfless gentleman. So we're going to miss you Shane. Um we love you and yeah, big shoes to fill. May we be excused? Yes. Yeah, you can
vote anytime. track. Yeah. Enjoy it. All right. Um so on behalf of Superintendent Voce and uh and myself as well, um the final Mustang spirit award that we wanted to recognize is for our election judges. Um so uh Patty Cruz,
Nancy Hines, Carol Dolberg, Jamie Vogue, uh Carol Dutton, Jim Toliffson. So, these are six individuals from our community that had absolutely uh no requirement to show up and step up and be part of the election. I think anybody who's interested in election should consider becoming a judge at some point.
Um just because it is one of those things where you learn a lot about the things that go into an election. Um there's a lot of process, there's a lot of rules, there's a lot of things that you need to know um to help make sure whether it's your first time voting or your 20th time voting that every voter
gets a chance to cast their vote for their candidate. So all six of these individuals really stepped up. They really helped us. They put on a really great election. Uh made sure that we had a really great day. Um things went very smoothly. They they're very skilled and and even as an added bonus a lot of
times election judges they they work together because they work in a single precinct. All six of these judges came from different precincts because it's recommended to you know get a pool of different when we do a combined polling place like this. So for a lot of them it was their first time working together as well and they came together as a team
and just really did a wonderful job. So um we're super thankful for them. Um I didn't reach out to them until today. So unfortunately they weren't able to be here tonight, but uh just wanted an opportunity to really, you know, thank them for the work that they did. Um and and just use this as a plug to encourage
anybody else in the community that's interested in elections to please consider reaching out to your township or the county to, you know, try that for yourself and see what goes into that. So thank you to all of them. Is there anybody Great. Um, seeing none, um, Reed
Gunderson, could you come up and give us a presentation about Yes. And Kelly came as well. So, uh, we'll try and be quick because I, in respect to your time, uh, have a short slideshow just to recap some of the things that we had going on.
Last year, we left off with, um, a few projects. Oh, let me remind. So, CAP is the comprehensive arts uh planning program that we have here at MORA. Um we're able to collaborate with uh the school and the community and the kids and offer uh some great art art
opportunities. Um we meet Thursdays uh the second Thursday of the month in the high school art room after school. Um that's usually when we meet, but um our committee right now consists of the two of us. So, we often do some phone phone meetings too because no one else is
there. Um so basically our statement is to bring art opportunities and experiences to our students, the families and the residents of Morin in uh many different ways. Um so we've sponsored a number of
things. Um activity fees for art club members, after school classes, um uh kids wanting to join the play but don't have the money to uh pay for the activity fees there and other productions. Uh we've wrapped up a
couple of exciting things last year. We we were in the process last year when we gave the presentation of uh we were kind of partway through these. So do you want to speak on this one? Yep. We worked with the um an artist from Compass to get this started since she was working
on the high school mural and one of the elementary murals and um then I took over from there. Uh spent a lot of time on it, but we're very very happy with it. It's a really nice welcome to the school. Uh in very inclusive with a lot
of I don't know there's like 15 20 different hellos on there. We unfortunately the um mural that she was working on in third grade ended up being a fire hazard and we couldn't put it on the wall um and then it was stored improperly and so then it was damaged.
Anyway, so the goal is to take those skills and the the same age kids and maybe put it directly to the wall, something in the future directly to the wall. So, and then uh with the high school, we were working on a mural that
was to be installed downtown and we were successful in doing so. We um with the help of uh Stegman Construction and um CAP and the um the artist inservice artist that was here were able to
install the mural downtown and it's been uh it's been quite a hit. We've heard a lot of good feedback. So, it's really exciting for the kids to be a part of something that's bigger than, you know, just within the school walls. Um, and then in the summer we uh we got
a got some money from the elementary school and with CAP we were able to make a uh sensory walk happen. Um, this was a really big hit. We didn't I wasn't sure if it'd make it through the summer and the fall and the winter and the spring now, but it's looking really really good
and I know the elementary hope is to add some more things out there. We just haven't gotten to it. But it was a big big project. I think the hottest days of the summer, we were out there painting, bending over and doing what we had to do. But it turned out really, really nice. The kids really enjoy it. And it's a whole astronomy walk, so they have the
the uh planets on there in order, and there's some aliens, and it's it's rather big, large, so it's fun. Uh we also got to sponsor another play for um the third, was it third and fourth grade? Third, fourth grade. Um so
if we go to the next slide um we sponsored uh as well as the performers uh activity fees we also allowed the third and fourth graders to see the show during the school day. Um and they were
able to uh enjoy it and get a preview before it uh was in production that fall. It was very cool. Um, we also run a couple after art after schools. Um, Kristen Mace joined us this
year and um was able to do a sewing class and a uh keychain, a polymer clay keychain class. And the kids got to spend uh two sessions with the sewing and one session with the clay keychains. And they got to uh make something and
take it home and uh be proud of their art. and it was a great opportunity for a little bit of extracurriculars. These classes are exceptionally well um uh attended and usually we have to turn kids down. So if any of you have any
hidden talents and you would like to host an after school class, you do get paid um $25 an hour or make up might be $35 an hour and it will fill up and the kids will love you. So let us know. Yeah, we're open to all ideas that are
related to the arts. Uh and then lastly, um finishing out this spring, we've had the opportunity to give some scholarships out. Um and this year we had a lot of great applicants. Um if we go to the next slide. So um Rick
McGovern uh gives or sorry Chuck McGovern gives uh uh money to um memorialize his wife and we uh use that for the junior high play that we said and then we also use it for the scholarships. We opened up the
scholarship this year to include um two-year or tech tech school as well. We didn't get any applicants for that, but you know, those are the arts as well. Yeah. And we had uh we had about 10 different applicants and it was we had great essays. Um lots of students going
into the arts. It was hard to decide. Um but we did give two out and last night they were celebrated at senior night. Um the first was to Legend Nelson who's going to school for uh textiles and fashion. and uh he wrote a great essay
that um was very uh committed to the arts and we thought that was appropriate. Um the second was Iris Eaton who is going into uh film and media and wants to uh attend uh art school after attending technical
college and and she had a great essay as well. we are like the the active committee, but we do have members at large. So, we do contact them and have them help pick anonymously as well as us um the scholarship recipients. So, it
isn't just us, it's other people reading it, making sure we balance each other out and we just could not come to a decision. So, we had to offer two. Yeah. So, yeah, we're um looking forward to next year. Uh again, if anyone's
interested in joining us, we'd love to have your ideas, see your collaborations, uh we're open to um ideas and new members. Send anybody our way. And with that, we ask for more money. Um the money that we get from the the
district helps with things that like classes and supplies and things like that as um but the money that is donated those go all into scholarships. So we're ask the last few years we've gotten $800. So we're asking for that again
unless you want to go up to a thou nice around thousand we'll take it. Um and that's it. excited for more. Oh, we have a huge project. We didn't even put it on here. We have a huge project in our heads. There's a couple
spaces here in the high school grounds that are kind of open and we think it'd be really kind of fun to have like a Mustang sculpture garden where all the high school areas contribute some kind of sculpture in some kind of way. So, it's in the back burner, but it would be super cool and in our minds it's very
cool. Yeah. Thank you guys for your time. Thank you. Darcy with a presentation about the Will you let us know? Yeah. Twisty rolls and cash. This is a tough tough act to
follow. All right. Uh I am here. here. Thank you for having me um to present on graduation rates. Those were released uh statewide about two weeks ago. So, we will take a quick look at how the state was trending slightly upward and how we are trending locally slightly upward as
well. If you take a look at the date, um it does say spring 2024 and then it also says today's date May 2025. Um because the graduation rates represent last year's cohort. So, we are talking about
the 2024 grads. So, that seems a little confusing, but it just got released two weeks ago. So, it does trend a year behind. Um, oftentimes when we get the graduation rates, um, sometimes it feels a little doom and gloom, like they
graduated or they didn't graduate. And there's sometimes a a negative connotation there. I kind of wanted to address and maybe um remove a little bit of that stigma of like, okay, if they didn't graduate, what's what's the cause or what how are we reacting? What is the
the why behind it a little bit? When we get graduation rates, it comes out in four different categories. So, you'll see graduated, that's highlighted a little bit darker. That's what gets calculated into our graduation rates. The other three, continuing, dropped
out, and unknowns are not calculated in the graduation rate. Right? I kind of want to take a look at just those four categories really briefly to to explain a little bit more about them. Um the graduation the graduated rate is very
simple. Um it takes the number of kids in a four-year cohort. So when they join their ninth grade year that is that they assume that most kids will get done in four years of a graduation rate. We do calculate a fiveyear, six year and sevenyear weight as well across the
state. Um, and we will get to that a little bit as well. But to calculate the graduation rate, it's it's truly is the number of kids in that cohort and the number of kids divided by that. So numerator divided by the denominator, that's your rate. Pretty simple. Um,
continuing though, lots of times I get a question on like, well, what's that status mean? Um, not all kids graduate in four years. All right? Some kids do need a little bit longer. They might need five years. They might need six years. They might need seven years to graduate. Um, is that negative? Not
necessarily. These could be kids that um sometimes fall in an IEP category. So, they need some special education. They might be our super senior category. They might have specialized individual um IEP goals that they are reaching. And so,
the 5year, six year, and sevenyear rates um are very applicable to them because it's very realistic for them to graduate. Maybe they need a little bit longer. The dropped out rates that sometimes also seems like a little bit doom and gloom like they dropped out
till you really start to think about the why behind it. And man, if you go if you have a chance to meet with those ALC ladies, boy, do they have an outreach program. They know everything about those kids that are in their ALC program. And a good chance if they
dropped out, it's not because it was content, right? It's not that they didn't like their English assignment or their social studies assignment. There's some big big heavy factors that these teenagers are dealing with. Highly mobile, homeless and highly mobile is a big huge factor. Free and reduced lunch
rates. Maybe they're the only people that are at home taking care of they have to have a job. They're taking care of younger siblings. They have a job that they're making rent. they have a job that they're doing the groceries. Some of those factors are really categorizing in that dropout rate. And
sometimes I think it's a doom and gloom that people don't necessarily stop to really reflect on why did that kid drop out, right? Um and boy, those ALC ladies, if you ever have a chance to talk with them, you should because they can they can really tell you a lot about those kids down there. Um the last
category, unknown. Okay. Well, what does what does that include? All right. Sometimes it could be doom and gloom. Maybe they are incarcerated. We didn't know about it, but maybe it's not alum. Maybe they moved out of state and we just didn't know about it. Right? Once they move outside of Minnesota, we're not tracking them things. Um maybe there
was something an illness of their own. Maybe they were um institutionalized. maybe they had their own medical issues and they didn't notify the school because they were their only person that there's a lot of categories that also go into that unknown that sometimes people
um have a stigma about those graduation rates until you really stop to reflect on it a little bit. All right. Um I'll breeze through some of this. The cohort I briefly mentioned um it's a federal requirement. So, we we track our kids well once they're in freshman year and that's
their cohort till their 12th grade. Um, I briefly discussed this already. Your numerator versus your denominator. It's how many kids graduated out of that cohort that calculates the four-year graduation rates. Um, the Department of
Ed mostly discusses the four-year graduation rates because that's our biggest population. But the 5year, six year, and seven-year rates are also public information as well. Um, I said it's very simple until it doesn't get to be very simple. So,
yes, we do have a population that moves in and out as does any district. And so, I said it's easy to calculate it until it's not easy to calculate it. And so, sometimes um when kids are moving in and out, where does that graduation rate
reflect? is that if I get a kid in in April and I haven't really had an opportunity to impact their education as much as I would those other months, typically that grad rate will report back to where they've spent the majority
of their education period for that year um or where they were last enrolled. Sometimes there is special like special um situations. So if they dropped out or if it was less than a half a year, then it goes back to where
they've spent the majority of the time. So we we kind of depend on the Department of Ed to really tell us where these students were. And then finally, the ALC. Um sometimes we've had a lot of questions on like, well, did just because they
didn't walk across the stage in June, did that calculate in summer school, did that calculate into their rate? Um, and I kind of had to dig for this because I wasn't getting a great answer for it. And yes, they do. And this is partially why it takes a year behind schedule to
collect all that data. So by September 15th is when we we wrap in not only the kids that walked across the stage in June, but any kids that picked up their degree across the summer as well. And that ends up as their cohort. So let's dig into the data. Um,
this is our district, right? And so our district involves two schools. Involves our high school and involves our ALC center. So those are our two schools that feed into our graduation rates. Um please know that this is our uptick. So we are super excited about this. We always trend in the 80s, but we were at
93.55 graduation rate for our district last year. Across the state, you may have heard some rumblings on the news like great, we are up across the state as well. And they are they are up by 1%. So that's great. You can see on the side
it's I mean it's really small print but it's usually it was 83.8 83.3 83.6 83.3. They did that up to 84.2. So they are very proud across the state as well that they've had an increase in their graduation
rate. If I break our district apart, I have our fouryear for the high school. We typically trend um in the the upper 80s and lower 90s. And this is a really nice score. We have 94.78. Our ALC center um we are also on an uptick on this one.
77.78. That's a nice high for them. If you take a look, there is a lot of fluctuation in the ALC center. No, no lie about that. We can take a look at that. Um, I would say that our biggest reason for it is the population. So, if
you remember back to the numerator versus the denominator, they may only have a denominator of 10 kids in that senior class. They may only have a denominator of 20 kids versus if I go back to the high school, they're looking at 100 to 120 kids. So, I think the the
fluctuation really matters depending upon the number of kids. And when we have a smaller cohort, then that really affects your numbers quite a bit. Currently, um, we were an identified school based on graduation rates from the ALC center. That is a
three-year cycle. So, we it should be coming to an end and we will be notified in August if we are on that notification cycle again or not. Um this is for any school and or the feeder school that that feeds them their students. And so
if you averaged below 67% and if you take a look at our ALC if I back up um 2019 2021 that averaged below 67% so we were on an identified list. If we take a look, we're probably gonna like I kind of did it by hand a little bit. We'd be
at like 65%, but I have to wait until August to let the the Department of Ed tell me if if all my students reported to me or if they reported to other schools as well. Um, so we will know if we were on an identified list. Now, we weren't on the identified
list for the high school. However, an ALC center typically doesn't have students start a cohort from 9th grade on to 12th grade. And so, the Department of Ed did get ad wise to that and um is very aware that if a school is their
feeder school, right, if I'm getting a lot of students from a particular school, that school is also responsible for those graduation rates. And typically, even though we have students from around our area um districts coming to our summer schools and our evening
schools as well, um the majority of our students are coming from the high schools. That is why we were both schools were on the identified list and we'll find out in August. Now, if I take a look at this one, this one is um something I shared with the
ALC ladies and went and talked to them this week and we loved taking a look at this because I don't know that we've spent a lot of time on five years, six year, and sevenyear rates. And if a student doesn't graduate in four years, are we making that improvement? Are we
seeing them out five years, six years, and seven years? And so I I piece this together. And if you take a look um diagonally at things, right? So 2020 4-year rate 86.7. If you look diagonally into the
next pink 5-year, that is that same cohort, but now they are at 89.6. Right? So we did have some kids that needed an extra year to graduate from that cohort. Keep going diagonally down to the sixth year in that pink box. Now we have 90.3,
right? So we still have students that are still working hard at getting their diploma. We still have staff being very diligent with working with them as well. If you keep looking pink again, sevenyear 91%. Right? They don't MDE doesn't track it beyond that. So I'll
just keep that in mind for you. Um and I did this as a district level. I didn't split it ALC versus high school because then the count would be too small to report on that one. But if you take a look at that uh 2021 then four year if you go to the blue categories 8 86.7
again 5year was 87.7 uh six year was 90 sevenyear 90.8 eight. We have kids that are still progressing and they may have taken five, six, seven years, but they're still graduating. They're getting to that point. Um, but they didn't give up and their staff didn't give up on them as well. So, I'm
pretty proud of that. 22 though, if you take a look at the yellows, 84.3, 5 year, 86.7. Now, six year, I don't think I graduated a tenth of a kid, 86.8, but I think they rounded up on the report, so I'll take that as a
win still. uh 20 20 23 85.6 and if you look at the white 90.2. So we had more kids graduate whether it's the summer or um evening school and right now then 2024 and I'll keep building this chart out. We're at that
93.5. Um it just kind of goes to show though that uh students are are they may need extra time and uh I appreciate that they're putting in the work and I appreciate that our staff are putting in the work. Um it it's a combination of high school, it's a combination of special education, it's a combination of
ALC centers working together to get those kids um what they need. So just because a kid doesn't walk across that stage in four years, if you ever get the chance to be invited to a smaller scale graduation party either from the sped department or the ALC department, I' I'd
encourage you to go because man, they've all worked pretty hard at that. Well, comment question with these numbers of after the fiveyear that population is lower, right? Correct. Yes. So those numbers are actually you're talking nine out of 10 are
walking out and not 90 out of 100 cuz it's a smaller population group in that 5year plus. Yep. So they're they're gaining ground with less students. Yep. With more success. And they also they kind of tacked it on to if I had a 100 out of 120 kids then if I had three more
kids graduate then they also said all right now I've got 103 out of that 110 now I have 105 kids and so they tack it on that way as well. So, we get it both ways actually. Get the data and the data is um if you ever have a chance to talk with Michael Derer from
the Department of Ed, he's phenomenal with stats. Um but everything is public. So, it's on the Minnesota report card, you can look at our school, you can look at the ALC, you can look at the high school, you can look at surrounding schools as well. Let me know if you have any
questions. Thank you guys. Thank you. Next up is Eric with an election update and the final election update. So pretty excited about that. Um thank you for opportunity to kind of just provide an
update on the elections. Just a verbal one here. Um you'll obviously be uh reviewing and considering the resolution to canvas the results tonight. So election day was May 13th. We've been uh doing the early voting for the 46 days prior to um which is part of what's
required by election process. So through all of that uh we received a total of 72 absentee voters. We received a two a total of 210 election day voters for a total turnout of 282. Um, within the MOA public schools of the
eligible registered voter pool, there's 7,277 registered voters. Um, that's not counting people who would have registered on election day as well. So, um, all things told, little under 4% worth of a turnout. Um, and then when we
looked at the results, um, so we have, uh, Matt Heggerness with, uh, 59.93% of the vote. um followed by Kimberly Hodson 18.44, Teen Acres 15.96, and then uh Brett Parson 4.61 and
Marcy Jensen 1.06. And that was the um by percentage uh breakdown, and that's with both the absentees and the election day votes counted. So, um, this board, uh, will have the opportunity, like I said, to approve or consider and approve
the, uh, resolution to canvas the results, which flips that from being an unofficial result as reported on on election night in the couple of days following to make it the actual official results effective tonight. Um, which then kind of kicks off all the post-election activity. Um, if anyone on
the board is interested during the canvasing process, certainly we can always bring in the all the stuff. I mean, we've got a box worth of all the materials and we're required to hold that by data retention. So, um you know, that stuff is all available. Um the the goal for this evening then would just be
for the board to be confident that those are the true and fair results so that they uh so that you can approve the resolution and formally uh uh recognize Matt Hagger as having uh succeeded in the election. So, pending any questions? That's all I have for an election
update. see any questions. So, um how about the revised budget presentation? Revised 25 budget. Yes, that's me again. Um all right. So, final revised budget here uh
for 2425. So, once again, rearview mirror, we're looking at, you know, 11ish months of the school year now having been completed. Um so, this is really kind of a year in review slash kind of an audit requirement on top of that. And so we'll kind of go through this little presentation will look a lot like the revised budget presentation we
went through in February. Um in our budget cycle we're on the very right hand column now. We're just doing our final updates. So we we have a good idea of how many students that we serve throughout the year. We're looking at how did we do against our budgets. We're making our tweaks. And
then we're also looking at some of the things like our uh our um finance codes and restricted funds and all that good stuff as we kind of ramp up for the audit. Um, so this little chart that's really hard to read is actually the attachment
if you go down in your board packet uh down to where the actual approval is. Uh, there's a link in there and that's this chart on the right hand side that just summarizes all of the budget. Um, so same as what we've done in other budgets as well. Um, really just kind of wanted to highlight some of the high
points on the left there. Um, district does remain in a in a financially strong position. Uh, meeting our fund balance policy. we're navigating some of those um pressures that are putting thing, you know, putting pressure on our budget. You know, things like inflation that we've talked a lot about. Um tariffs, I
don't have any great data as to whether or not that actually impacted us, but I'm certain that it did in certain ways, even if they're second or third order effects. Um and then just a really uh shout out to our staff because our staff did a really great job this year once
again of of knowing the budget, living within the budget. I'm sure if we pulled most of the staff, there are things that there were decisions that had to be made as far as, you know, what are we going to apply our budget to, but you know, just being very cognizant and very careful and cautious that, you know, we are good stewards of taxpayer dollars
and that we are living within the budgets that are approved by the board. Um, kind of on the other side of it a little bit, I think every district in Minnesota uh is kind of having the same conversation right now that um the costs are outpacing the funding and that's
been a conversation we've had year and year again for probably decades now. Um so I think what you're starting to see is a lot of districts that are having to look at making reductions to positions. Um, we've we've made some adjustments in that regard. Not necessarily reducing
staff that are actively on the on the payroll, but rather by taking positions that were filled and just not reposting them when the the the individual uh resigns or retires or otherwise moves on. Um, is kind of a an effort to uh
pull back on some of that spending while also not necessarily impacting the people in those roles. Now from a building perspective, from administration and the staff that has to cover those gaps, those are very real positions that um certainly are being felt in all uh both the both the schools
and the district office as well. Um so you know we are having to try to work with um you know making those those reductions because we need to be proactive so that we don't run into a situation I I've heard uh when we were down at the capital testifying that um
or ready to testify I should say um we we heard from Fridley public schools that we're cutting 25 positions. So, we're trying to avoid putting ourselves in that position where we have to make substantial cuts by just trying to peel back a little bit of that spending and just be proactive in in making those
reductions so that we don't run into that. Um, the other piece I'll just kind of mention in there right now is that we don't have a final budget from the legislative session there. Obviously, a lot of the caucusing is happening behind closed doors. The public doesn't necessarily get to know how those
conversations are going. Um I would imagine that when those budgets come out and get presented um there's a lot of flat andor negative budget targets. So um we're just kind of preparing for some of what we've been hearing. Um things like uh unemployment insurance for
hourly workers whether that program continues in its entirety or if the district's required to pick up the bill for it. And that's you know in in very real dollars for us that's a4 million dollar question that's being discussed right now. Um, so there's a lot of that stuff that's going on right now at the
capital that's going to impact us maybe not in this coming school year, but really two school years from now. So when we're talking fiscal year 2027, the 2627 school year, that's where we're really going to start seeing a lot of the stuff settle in for us. And so we're
trying to be proactive and um preparing ourselves as best we can. Looking at the general fund, um our 80 on count, you know, we had a we had a small decline here, about seven students, uh compared to where we ended up last year. Now, obviously, it's not a
final number. Um our MARS coordinator makes submissions throughout the year. That was just based off of her most recent submission. So, there will be more before Mars closes and we get our final funding, but just based on where we are. We're uh just a few students behind where we were last year. Um and then just kind of on the the bottom
right hand corner list there are just some of the areas. These don't impact the overall spending and the budget that we have in front of you here this evening. But just know that once the budget uh gets at final approval, we're going to be tweaking it kind of behind the scenes to make sure those restricted funds are getting spent down. And really
what that is is the state is, you know, requires us to spend money in certain areas and so we need to more or less prove our receipts. So if they give us money for safe schools, we need to prove that we're investing in safe schools. So, a lot of that kind of stuff is still going to be happening behind the scenes, but like I said, it's not going to
impact the overall spending level. Transportation fund. Um, we bring this up. It's it's actually part of the general fund, but we report it separately. When it goes to the state, it bundles together and becomes part of the general fund. That's what crosswalking is. Uh, but we keep tabs on this especially because we, you know,
keep an eye on what's known as the uh transportation cross subsidy. And what that is is the state gives us money to fund our transportation operations, but it's not enough. So, we have to utilize our general funds to help, you know, maintain our buses, you know, pay our drivers, maintain all the things that go
in fuel and everything that goes into keeping our buses on the road. Um, you know, we have to pull from our general fund to make that happen. And that's kind of the difference between the gray and blue bar right there. When we look at the capital projects fund, similar story. Um, you know, it's it's money that is comes from
operating capital, long-term facilities maintenance. That stuff also gets lumped in with general fund. Um, we as a district um are very deliberate about staying within the budgets that the state gives us though. So, if the state allocates a certain amount of money for operating capital, we build our capital
plan around that money that they allocate. Um, we do that with LTFM as well. Obviously, with the new building, it's been a little bit different. Um, but we do try to manage those funds. So then that way um whatever money we are being allocated for that effort um the
dollars are matching there. Uh one other piece I'll just mention in here bottom right hand corner um you know when we look at the final number there's you know we were showing a little bit of a surplus here as far as having I think it was 198,000 that we show as being the bottom line you know general fund um
revenues over expenditures. Just note in there that some of that has to do with sometime revenue sources that came in. We did sell property and received a check for $131,000 which obviously is a big part of that. We also are um nearing the end of turf field donations which amounted to
71,000. Next up is more education foundation. Won't spend a lot of time on this. This is a grant program that we received through the more education foundation. It's more of a tracking mechanism to make sure that when we uh when the foundation awards a grant whether it's a microrant or a pony grant
or otherwise that um you know we we we make that expense or we we we make that um purchase on behalf of them and then we turn around and we ask for reimbursement from the education foundation. So we just want to make sure that we're completing that loop and that's kind of why this fund exists.
Same thing with extracurriculars. Extracurricular is the kind of the sum of all of our extracurricular activities. So whether it's, you know, capable connections, it's student council, it's all of the things that are our robotics, all the things that our students are doing um when they're raising money for their programs, it goes into these accounts. They get
reported as general fund, but we keep them separate because we want to make sure that the money that the students raise goes back into the programs that they're raising up for. Nutrition, there's a little bit of a drawback. Okay. The one thing I'll just mention on here is that we did need to um replace a dishwashing unit at the
elementary school. So, that's budgeted to still happen before June 30th. So, depending on when that actual unit gets installed, we might see a slight profit this year. We might see a slight loss this year. It really just has to do with that dishwasher. Um, other than that, the nutrition uh, school lunch is
pending any changes from the legislature continues to operate pretty smoothly since the legislature stepped in and started doing the free lunches for all. Uh, community education u largely feebased program. Obviously, all the kind of different areas of uh, uh,
community education programming that they offer from youth to adults to all of that. Uh, really the fund needs to just remain solvent. they do get some taxpayer subsidy out of it. Uh but a lot of their revenue is brought on by the fees that they charge and they've obviously done a great job managing
that. So once again, um you know, a slight operating at a slight surplus there, but every year they look at the fees they charge in each of their programs to make sure that a it's competitive, you know, preschool is competitive with other preschools, you know, um and then b to make sure that
the the money that they're the fees that they're charging are covering the costs of their programs. Construction fund is largely wounded down. I think we saw the last probably about four or five months ago is the last time we've seen a true construction bill. Um the the board will
have some decisions to make and it'll likely be discussed in work sessions to be had. Um but there is some construction funds left over. Um there's also the land sale money that is, you know, for the the land that we've sold and the land that is still for sale. Um the rebates that we've gotten, all this stuff is just kind of hanging out there
right now. So um the board will have a conversation at some point to decide, you know, what are the best uses for the remaining construction funds? Are there projects here that we can take on? I know we've talked about moving transportation. There's other things like that. So, um that's still kind of
waiting, but for now, we're just managing a construction fund and it basically sits there collecting interest. Um the one piece of the construction fund I will say though is that uh we've met our arbitrage requirements, the IRS requirements. Um this really just is interest earnings. That's just earning more interest right
now. Debt, excuse me, debt service fund really money in money out. That's how we pay our, you know, big bonds um that we've taken out on not only this but the Trail View expansion and some of the other uh bonding projects that goes into a separate fund. The funds then pay the
debt service uh pays the the mortgage, if you will. Custodial fund um was historically part of the civic center. Uh no longer really gets used for that purpose. Every now and then we see an expense come through that civic center related, but it's it's far and few between. Um really
what I'm going to be working with our auditors is to see if maybe this could become a new home for our scholarship program and if it can't then maybe just sunsetting the custodial fund altogether. Uh lastly we've got our internal service fund. We always budget this one to balance. That's our um our
self-funded dental insurance program that we have here. So fees come in um via uh you know the through payroll and then we obviously pay our claims and all that. And so Delta uh Delta Dental and our insurance brokers help us make sure
that we manage rates and coverages and services so that that stays solvent. So beyond that, um we're that's what the budget looks like here right now. Like I said, the summary sheet is and where the decision or where the action item is actually at. Um but
really the next steps here is obviously the revised budget here this evening. Uh next month we'll be starting to look into the crystal ball for next year. Um, and then I will begin my summer work by balancing everything out and get getting us ready for audit. So, with that, if there are any questions,
see questions. Thanks, Eric. Thank you. Okay, we're moving on to the consent agenda. Does anybody see anything they want to remove from the consent agenda? Okay, I'll take a motion to move the
consent agenda. Scott, make a motion. Is there a second? Second. Um, Matt seconded it. Um, all those in favor of approving the consent agenda say I. I. All those opposed say no. It's unanimously approved.
Um, we have a budget calendar on here for our review. And then, um, Number 12, items on which board for discussion or action is requested. Um, we received donations um
for and so we have a resolution accepting these gifts and donations. Um, the donations we received are from Denise AOK um for the adult promise donation. It's $1,950 and that is designated for the
community ed program expenses. Oslin Lumber is $50 donation for prom, our prom. Moore Dental Center is has donated $200 for the high school prom. East Central Veterinarians has donated $50 for the high school prom. Ace Hardware
has donated $50 for the high school prom. Um, Moore Chevrolet dealership donated $100 towards the high school prom. Um, Jacqueline Boxroot donated $500 for the Mark Boxroot scholarship and Neighborhood National Bank donated
$1,000 towards the Imagination Library. So, thank you very much to all those donors. Um, I'll take a motion to approve um these donations. So, moved. Um, Dakota first, Scott seconded it. Um,
seeing that this is a resolution, we need to take a roll call vote. Um, so I'll vote yes. Have you voted? I I Ken is I Scott I is I. So it's
unanimous that the resolution passes. Um, next up is considering the approval of the fiscal year 25 revised budget. Is there a motion? Um, Scott made the first motion. Is
there a second? Second second. Is there any discussion? Okay. Um, all those in favor of approving the fiscal year 25 revised budget as presented say I. I. All those
opposed say no. It's unanimously approved. Next, consider approval of a resolution for canvasing abstract and returns of votes of school district school board special election May 13, 2025. Um, is there is there a motion regarding
this? So, moved. Ken made the first motion. Um, Scott seconded it. Um, seeing that this is a resolution, we're going to do a roll call vote. Um, Dakota I is I. Ken I. Ken is I. Um, Scott I.
Scott is I. Amy is I. Matt I'll abstain. Matt is abstaining. So, it's um four votes for approving and or passing the resolution and one abstaining. Congratulations, M. Thank you.
Um next is considering considering approval to allocate $800 to support the CAP programming for students at more schools. Is there so moved? Um Matt, it's second. A second. All those in favor, I'd like to Oh, you want to
discuss it? Discuss about Okay. Uh increasing to a thousand. It's been 800 for literally as long as I can recall and just with the good they do on the limited amount that we do. I just wanted to put that out there to see if there would be interest from the rest. I don't
think 200 will blow our budgets at all. Yeah. You got to look at him. Look at the money guy. He's looking down. I got to reate the whole thing now. Again, it's it's literally the first time I remember, you know, Kelly asking,
you know, about that. So, I just wanted to not to derail. Certainly, 800 is my vote, too. But if there would be others who would be I'll change my motion to up to 2,000. Amending your motion.
I'll second the second motion. All right. Um, thank you. Is there any more discussion on it? I guess that's inflation. Okay. So, we vote on the amended motion first and do we vote on the other one at
all or just the amended? We'll just So, all those in favor of um approving the $1,000 to support CAT programming say I. I. Um, anybody opposed? say no. Okay. So, it's
unanimous. We're going to give them $1,000. That's a great idea. Um Okay. Next. Yeah. So, we do need to let them know. Um the second reading of the policies. Um
hopefully you all had time to read those. Um and then there's board reports. So, does anybody is there any board member reports? I don't have anything to share either. Um, is the student board Isabelle?
All right. Pull up all the things that we've done. So, number one, we had elections for our new student or not student, oh my goodness, for our new um school board uh member. U Maya Peterson and Abby
Donahghue are also the new co-presidents for our student council. So lots of elections happening. Um we are so excited for all of our new and returning student council members as well. The only people who we haven't had voting for is our incoming seventh graders. So
right now they're still sixth graders because we will have those um elections and the entire process to get on our voting. next year around homecoming time is usually when we start sending all that information out to the current sixth graders. Um, other things on our
calendar is the talent show which was on Tuesday. It was originally going to be last Friday, but then a couple of sports kind of got in the way and then a couple of other acts dropped out at the last minute. So, we had to take the weekend to take a breath, kind of recoup, but
Tuesday was the day. It went really, really well. Um, Dawson Smart was our winner. He did a beautiful rendition of Unchained Melody on the piano. I love watching him play. It's like so it's always just so like perfect and timed. It was so good. Um, we had a bunch of
other acts as well. One was very impromptu and it was very fun. Um we had one of our teachers playing the drum set to um enter Sandman and um one of our student judges went and gave the microphone to another just student in
the crowd and like this kid I can't describe him as anything less than a metal head but in like a good way like he has the long hair like the jean vest with all the patches perfect metal head. So then the student came up and it was just like headbang whipping his hair and he ended up singing me at the end. Like
it was the perfect impromptu act. Um but overall Dawson won. His was also beautiful. Next we are preparing to help with the sixth grade move up day on the last day of school. Um it's always been a lot of fun to see them all come in scared and get the big high school and
get a little lost. It's all good. Um right now we're also doing senior splashing. Other schools call it senior assassin, but we do splash in. Um, basically what we do is that you buy a water gun. It can be any like any water gun you want. Um, and in anywhere except
for the safe zones, you can go and pretend to like assassinate your peers, but with a water gun. The winner, I am told, is given a $200 prize, but it was completely free entry. There was a different one that was just more studentrun that wasn't through any
school affiliated um organization. That one you're paying into. This was completely free. Um there's already been a few really funny videos that have gone out. It's it's been super super fun so far. Um and then technically my last two
things aren't student council, but they're still fun student events like prom, which was May 10th. We went over to Pinstripes in Edina and it was so much fun. We danced the night away and we bowled and botchi walled for a little while at the end. Um and overall just a
very very fun night and also tomorrow is the senior's last day. Lots of emotions running through the class. Some of us are really excited to like get out and go to the next adventure. Some of them are like starting to get very nostalgic and like this has been a really big part
of our lives. Actually, it's been most of our lives for the last four years. More than four years, most of us have been in Morrison since preschool. So, we've spent a lot of time in this vicinity. Um, and starting to bring up a lot of different emotions in the class, but it's going to be a good day.
Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you for your report. Um, is Chip next? Well, good evening. Um, transportation. Gail is working on summer um, school the schedule. Um,
we're a couple drivers shy. I think a lot of drivers just had a long year. Um, and but we I'm pretty confident we'll be able to talk a few in to do the summer school routes. But, um, we've had a few drivers out with illnesses and some family emergencies lately. Um and but
we've been able to um fill in with our sub drivers. So I feel a lot better than maybe two years ago or a year ago um with with our staff um able to step up and and help us out. Um our sub drivers have been awesome um to all the way from
bands to uh excuse me, the Gulf Shuttle, all that stuff. It's uh been been a hodgepodge of drivers lately, but we're going to get through it. Um I'm sure Baky and Mr. Nelson will be helping tomorrow as well, but we'll be handing out um KA tickets to to the
drivers that leave their our parking lots tomorrow um through the SRO and sheriff's department. Um the uh coupons, I don't remember what they are for, but they were donated from um Domino's this year. Um and I think we've done this quite a few years in a row. Um but we're
going to help out with all the exits we have. And um if teen drivers are driving respectfully and have their seat belts on, we're going to stop them and get their window down and annoy. So that'll be kind of fun. Um buildings and grounds, we're really just getting focused in on getting our
summer stuff lined up. Um uh Curt's been working on our fire uh life safety and fire suppression proposals. We have a such a hodgepodge of panels and and systems with all three buildings um that we just there's not really a one-stop
shop um for companies that do everything um with the different fire panels and stuff. So, we we get a bunch of quotes or just picking away and having one company do this because the other company can't and kind of getting the the the cheapest price of of all these inspections done. So, that's um in the
process and will be done soon. And then again, like we like I said, um we have a meeting tomorrow with uh with R.J. um going over the summer project for the elementary school with all the um the units that we're going to be lifting up on the roof and replacing the
the um original 96 uh condensing units will be replaced. So, um but that's kind of a big deal because it's cranes and timing and weather and everything else. So, hopefully u we get it dialed in a little bit. How many of those units do you have to replace? I forgot. Chip. Um,
so we're doing the four, five, and 600. There's three there. Um, we have one special ed area in the middle of the building. So, there's four. Um, and then we still have the 20 ton. Maybe it's a 40 ton. I got to look. Um, on the ground
from the old high school that we're going to try to see if we can't it's too big for the the the court five, the old the original gym. Um, but we're trying to think because the new gym, that unit's not working really well. We're
trying to see if R.J. can we can use that to do both gyms. Um, and and so we but that's kind of in the works. We don't know, but we still have that unit. Um, the Dykin unit we got we put on the auditorium, I don't know, seven, eight
years ago. So, so yeah, we're we're looking at four units this summer for sure. And then and then everything should be good for a while down there then. Yes, correct. Um we do have a problem with one of the Addison units um on the new addition of the elementary
one um stage isn't working. So we have to look at that. Um well we have been looking at it but um I don't think that would be a total replacement. It might be a compressor. It might be I know it's it's flat. It's needs fre on um but there's only so much they can do with that as well. So, um, but we're going to
that's part of the the eye is looking at that unit to make sure it's one stage is running iffy, the other stage is dead to the water. So, auto warranty. So, we're just going to have to figure that out quick. But, that just kind of came up with this hot spell. Okay. Um, and then
like June 4th, the last day of with the teacher um teacher day, we have 20 tons of um rubber mulch for the playground being delivered. I mean, it's just like bang. It's no no rest. So, uh we're going to be uh pretty busy this summer. Probably the busiest summer that I've
experienced with the projects. So, all right. Any questions? Is that it? Just 20 tons. Just 20 tons. Yeah. A lot. Yeah. Thank you. Yep. There. Nick. All right. Uh I think we each got a
couple things. So, first off, Isabelle mentioned move up day. We're excited for that. That's the last day of school. That's when our sixth graders come up. And the goal of that is to reduce anxiety. Sometimes it's scary coming up to the big the big kid building. Um so
student council gives them a tour and they even have a chance to do some Q&A with our students. So that will help um them before summer. And then the second thing I want to mention, if you've heard us talk about attendance and just beat that drum this year at the bottom of my
report, I put some of the reasons. There's a Minnesota student survey that had some results shared and um they use the term chronically absent. So, think of it as being gone 10% of the time. It says three or more days in the last 30.
Um those students have a completely different school experience than students that are here regularly. And I I won't read them all, but you know, lower grades, um lower self-esteem, they don't feel as connected, more mental health
challenges, substance abuse, discipline. Those are all reasons why we are beating that drum that parents need to get their kids here. Um we are looking at in the middle levels, uh Mr. Cole and I making a change to our onetoone, uh Chromebook
delivery model. Um, the best example someone said is just because a kid's in middle school or junior high, you don't give them keys to the car and say good luck. You do that in a senior high, you let them practice and they go through that age appropriate development. Um, most of our ECMAC schools have already made a change. Most of the states in
Minnesota or excuse me, most of the schools in Minnesota are looking at making a middle level one-on-one device change, which is still having access to technology at school but not sending it home. Uh, Mr. Paul and I met with the sixth grade teacher team last week and they're going to keep them at Mora
Elementary next year. They've got charging stations. It'll stay in their uh home rooms. Every day they have access to it. It's theirs for the day. It just doesn't go home. There'll be some exceptions. If a student's been ill, they can check something out through the teacher and get caught back up. But overall, um damages, uh some
discipline type stuff, just not age appropriate to be going home. We're getting that data. That's throughout the whole state. And so we're going to do what we think is best and start progressing up with sixth grade and then go into seventh and eighth. Uh right now one of the things that are holding us
back would just be the funds to the charging stations of having them all stay in the building but we think we can budget and do that appropriately. Not next year at the high school but the year after in seventh and roll it into eighth grade. So uh that's the plan that we're working on and we think that's what's best for kids. they're just not
age appropriate at that time to handle taking it home, being responsible. Um, and the things that they could access there and that just seems to be best practice that's happening again through ECM and and everyone in the state. Uh, prom is fantastic things that I love about our students. They had all the fun
things they could do, but the best thing was they just hung out and visited. They danced, they talked, they sat. No pressure. They are a great group of kids. almost 250 of them and they all seem like they were best friends. There's no drama. It's just we're going
to miss you. We're saying our goodbyes. This is a great night. It was a fantastic prom. And then lastly, um I I believe you've been invited, but tomorrow is our salute to seniors who are listening in the military in the boardroom. Um you're welcome to be here. We'll be doing a ceremonial swearing in
ceremony and recognizing our seven seniors who have committed to enlisting to the US military. So, what time is it? I believe we're going to start about 1:15 1:30 and uh I can't remember who's doing the ceremonial swing and that might be Al Grahamstead again. So yeah,
it's really good. It's just a small recognition. We invite the Legion. We invite family to come in. We say a little bit about each student. Um it's just a really powerful thing for students who are willing to serve our country. So yeah, thank you. Thank you. Well, our board report is pretty
self-explanatory, but we are wrapping up fast testing, which I think the kids are more than happy about as we had MCA's first and then we did a tugof-war for MCA completion and hard work with that. The students had a blast. I wish I could
have been there. Mr. Quall kept me in the office to do discipline while he had fun with the tugof-war and the big inflatable suit. So maybe I'm going to vice verse that next year on him as you should. He doesn't know that yet. Yeah. Secret safety class. Thank you. Field
trips are going and that's a lot of fun. It's kind of nice to have an extra grade out then discipline is a little more offset during the month of May here. So it gives me a little breather, but field trips are going really well. Um, I have
summer school pretty much planned for the second and third week of August. So, that's ready. Um, staffing is set for next year. Mr. Paul put that on the board report as well. Hopefully, you looked at that. But other than that,
we're keeping the lid on the elementary school and we're almost there. Any questions? No, but I have a comment. Okay. Okay. And I didn't have all the names for a recognition award, but the student showcase. Oh, I forgot to I forgot to say that it was the most
organized chaos I've ever seen. Yes. And thank you to everybody who volunteered and helped. I didn't I saw smiles on everybody's faces. Although it was like trying to get out of the old Metrodome leaving a Vikings game, but it was awesome. So, it was crazy. That was
Thank you to everyone that helped out. Yeah, that it was crazy the night. Um, we want to thank Farm Bure Bureau for their donations with ice cream sundaes. They started right at 4:30 and kept serving right up to the till the end.
Um, I think they served 875 bowls of ice cream. So, the estimate number of people in the building was about 1,600 people. So, that's a lot of people in that school. Um, lots of volunteers, lots of
organization. Miss Mace is a big part of that, our art teacher. So, hats off to her because if you walked around the school that night, I mean, you saw the displays of student work and the the best student work. And it it just was
kind of really awesome to see. Um 4 was there with a petting zoo in the back door and we had fake tattoos going on and talent show going on and arts and crafts and I mean it just it was wild.
Like Kenny said, it was wild. I sometimes walked up to second floor just to take a breather and get some fresh air. That's where you were hiding. Yeah. But it was a great night for the community to come in. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. cuz it was I had been to them before been to quite a few before
and it was like Randy was on there doing the last call. It was like Yeah, it's time to go. There were still hundreds of people there. There were it was it was great. Yeah, staff were worn out after that. Lots of popcorn pop, too. I don't think the custodians like that part of it to clean it up, but yeah, everybody
pitched in and did a great job. So, all right. Great. There's also the superintendence report and also activities and community ed report for us to read um there. And then upcoming dates to remember um
they're listed here for everybody to look through. Um and then correspondence, there wasn't much, just MSBA. And then is there any other board business? I just had one one thing to talk about. Um, I was contacted by some
Ovie school board members and they they would like to get together and they said there's a little bit of a hiccup with our policy 905 on the verbiage of it. And what they would like to do is kind
of What's policy? It's the advertising and communication. Okay. So like on our school website. Okay. and we had a conversation and it was a good one. um that like my son did community ed did the firearm safety over there but I
found out through other resources and we talked a little bit about it and since we co-op with Ogav for sports we co-op with Pine City for hockey and we have our co-op for Rum River which that was one question of you guys to maybe review
the policy on what we can advertise for as a group if we could be if we could put in you our co-ops we could advertise because there's a lot of programs through community ed that are available there and we have them if we could share them on our websites you know what I
mean but the policy from from what I read it kind of limit it doesn't say anything that we can advertise so I was just bringing up to see if that's a useful thing I think it'd be a great thing because even if we could get all of Rum River in I mean there's
activities in Malaca Princeton like community head that anyone one can go to and it might there might be some interest by people in MOA and there's also interest in MOA that other people might be if we could share amongst that co-op if that's something you'd want to
talk about at the Rum River and if the policy committee could maybe make some tweaks to that where we could do that it's just just a thought thanks Kelly already said yeah we can follow up there so next time we'll take a look at the
next meeting we've got a number of questions from um other school districts as well as uh kind of like community based organizations, NARA, that sort of thing that ask us to post on our website and our current policy has not has been to not um just based off of that policy
905. But again, that that's certainly something we can look at and then yeah, it's a tweak to say, okay, this one's okay, we can open it up that much, but not these other ones. That's always a balance because yeah, I certainly can't recall right off the top of my head. I know you but
Yeah. And I just thought with Amy being in Rum River with the meetings if she'd see if other districts were interested in that because I know Malaca has a a swimming lesson program in the summer and they have a a younger care for younger kids. They have care at the school like our Mustang care is during
they have it during the the summer. So it people in our community and other communities they can cross and get the benefit of all of it. So that was it. Thanks. Um, is there anything else? Okay. Um, next is open forum.
There weren't any other cards, correct? Or any great then we're up for adjournment. Is there a motion for adjournment? So moved. The first and Ken second it. So all those in favor say I. I. All those
opposed say no. Great. So, we're adjourned at uh 7:4.