ready. >> Seeing that it's 6:30, we're going to call the meeting to order. So, please rise to say 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 all six board members are present along with Mr. Holce and there's a crowd in the
audience. Um, and Matt, will you give us a strategic plan? Um, >> I would love to. >> Okay. I've decided I'd read one of our core values with belonging. We create a welcoming environment where all are included, respected, valued, and
connected. We build strong relationships through collaboration and shared experiences. >> Thank you. That's perfect. Um, I'll take a motion to approve the agenda. >> Move to approve. >> Dakota, we second. Jill second it. Is there any discussion?
All those in favor of approving the agenda say I. >> I. >> All those opposed say no. >> The agenda is approved unanimously. Um, first is open form. Is there any open form? Okay. At the end of the meeting, there
will be another time for open form. If you want to address the board, you can fill out a card. Um, Mustang spirit recognition. Anybody have any Mustang spirit recognition? We do. Awesome. Can
we have Brenda, Emily, come on up? know where to stand in the morning. >> We got a crowd tonight. >> Yeah. >> Are you starting >> just uh really lucky to have these two um great teachers. uh one that we've been waiting for years for her to get
her degree and she got that and she joined us this August and one that we hired in a different position and through whatever process we got her into the perfect position for us and she has been doing a great job. They've been
doing a great job as a team and we see it every day and the growth that the department and their staff and the students in their department have made. >> So to piggy back off Randy, you know, Emily came to us with a lot of experience from subbing in the DCD
programs a lot. They both um are running our DCD programs at the elementary. Emily runs the primary DCD and Brenda's running the intermediate DCD. So Emily did a her student teaching experiences were exemplary and you're subbing within
the DCD programs. You learn so much and it it shines through every day. Brenda was hired this summer to be our SLD teacher at the elementary, but she came with the background of DCD and we had a late resignation in September for the
DCD program and her wheels started turning and Miss Barry's and mine and Randy started turning and we approached Brenda. We were going to give her 24 hours to think about it and I you thought about it within 15 minutes and
you're like this is where my heart is, Jennifer. And and there's no looking back. We are very fortunate to have these two running that program. We've had a lot of moving pieces um within that program for the last five years,
Randy. And now we got those two solid puzzle pieces put together. And these two ladies are rocking it in the DCD program. Their passions that we see every day, their love for kids, their collaboration together to make this so solid. Um, I'm missing some things. Your
work ethic is crazy good. And those kids are thriving and it's consistent. There's progress there. They change interventions when something doesn't working and they're rocking it and I'm so happy we have these two with us for
the duration until I retire. Right. >> So kudos kudos to these two. We're very happy to have them on our team. So congratulations. Are there any other Mustang spirit recognitions? >> Yeah, Jennifer.
>> So, Jennifer Fousey uh has been working on a project the school forest and the name of the former staff member >> Oh, Jim McCulla. >> Okay. You remember Jim McCulla >> had started that school forest out behind the elementary and last year
Jennifer called me and talked to me about getting rid of the buckthornne. So >> we did that. We had some funds left over for that and then this year you wanted or was it the spring or the fall you wanted to plant some seeds. >> Yeah.
>> And so we brainstorm and Jennifer went to the deer hunters association. They gave some funds. the Lions gave some funds. So, >> we've got it back in order and you're building new uh bleachers and and or seats and things of that sort.
>> Well, we're So, the outdoor classroom, we were able to get a new podium built by our welding shop down there. It's really really nice and the kids in the welding shop built it and painted it. And so, if you have time to go out there and see it, but when we So, we got that
taken care of. And I'm working with Marcia Moliner because she's kind of taken care of the school forest funds for years. And some of the seats in the um outdoor classroom, some of the spot, some of the wood needs to be replaced on
it. So, we'll do that. Um I have had kids coming out to the school forest with me to spread the seed by hand. One bag of seed is like 1,300 bucks. So, I'm very careful as these kids are throwing it out there to make sure we had enough
to go around. But, I'm super excited to see that seed come up next year. The University of Minnesota studied this seed mixture and it's supposed to help control buckthornne from coming back. And if you guys know buckthornne, it's invasive and I've done it in the first
20 acres of my woods and it's been a heck of a project and I'm tired and um but I felt like this would be great to bring back the school forest and the learning stations that McCulla put up and we can actually see these learning stations now that the buckthornne has
gone and a little trail that I didn't know existed went through there. So, when I was going through um with one fifth grade boy doing the seed this this fall, I came across a learning station that we couldn't see. I walked up to it cuz McCulla put them all out there and
lo and behold, this learning station was about buckthornne and that he was already trying to control it 25 years ago. So, it just the outdoors and the woods and having kids out there with me and teaching them about this process is
a big passion of mine and I just hope that they can take that with them throughout their adulthood and give back to the forests and and nature. So, it's it's going to be a good habitat for um our wildlife. Deer come in there. I've
seen bucks run out of there during, you know, the ruting season and and so it's been a really positive project. had a group of sixth grade girls helping me pick up the garbage after we got the seed planted. We're going to rake that trail in there. We were going to do it
this fall, but we might wait till the spring. And then Marsha, she has a class second semester that kind of focuses on these projects. So, she's going to work on making new learning stations out there with her class. So, those will be
um out there as well. But which is just a big thank you to the uh Minnesota Deer Hunter Snake River chapter. They they donated $2,000 for the seed. I think Randy and Dan went to the Lions Club and asked for 500 bucks. So that pretty much covered those two bags of seed that we
put out there. So stay tuned to see what it'll look like next spring. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that seed comes up because what are we going to do if it doesn't? But >> yeah, >> plan B. >> Plan B, right? >> Yeah. >> Thanks. >> Yeah. Thank you. THANKS.
>> Does anyone else have a Mustang spirit recognition? >> All right. Um, next we have the fiscal year 25 audit review by Janelle Bitson from Bergen KDB. You want to come up and present?
>> Yeah, I was just gonna um good evening just introduce Janelle uh Bitson here. Um, just one thing I just wanted to point out real quick before we get started on this is that you'll notice that in our board packet. It's a little bit different this year. You'll see PDF links to our financial statements and their st preliminary. Um, you know,
there's uh there's a little bit of a delay that came in with getting uh just some language in um partially due to the federal government shutdown. There's some there's some updates that need to be done to that. Um so there will be printed copies for the board members. uh that part just wasn't prepared here
tonight just and that's why I stay preliminary at this point and I'm sure Miss Bitson you can um probably speak to that a little bit better than I did. But uh that's all I really wanted to mention. So I'll just turn it right over to you. Thank you. >> Thank you for the time to present with
you tonight. I do have the results of your fiscal 25 audit. Um so the first thing that I'll cover as part of the um the audit is the reports that we issue. The first one being the independent auditor's report. Um, we did issue an
unmodified opinion. This is what's considered a clean opinion or the best that we can offer you. It states that your financial statements present fairly in all material respects. Um, and then this report also goes on to talk about
the the financial statements being management's responsibility. So that's where you're relying on your team to pull together all the information that goes within the statements as well as the internal control surrounding financial reporting. And then our responsibility is to
express that opinion and we are um to obtain a reasonable assurance that your statements are free from m material misstatement. Reasonable is a high level of assurance but it's not absolute assurance. You know, oftentimes people think that the auditors were here,
everything's perfect. We are not looking at every transaction that flowed through your books. So, um, keep that in mind that there are still opportunities or possibilities that something happened because we are not looking at every transaction. We are, um, but reasonable
certain that your financial statements are um, materially correct. Um the next report we issue is our report in accordance with government auditing standards. These standards require us to look at the internal controls over financial reporting as
well as compliance with various laws, regulations, contracts and grants. Um when it comes to internal controls, we had one finding and that relates to lack of segregation of accounting duties. Um simply due to the the limited staff that
you have within the the business office. Ideally, you'd have um four or more people that completely segregate all the the steps of a transaction, and it's just not cost effective for your district to um have that many people
within the business office. Um and when it comes to the compliance side of things, we had no findings to report to you tonight. And then the uniform guidance um is the next report we issue and this relates to the federal funding um that you receive.
And this is the report that's causing the delay that Eric had mentioned. Um the fiscal um compliance supplement for 2025 has not been issued yet by the federal government. So we cannot finalize our audit until the federal
government issues that compliance supplement. So, um, we did test the child nutrition cluster, um, based on the the draft document that's out there and we are projecting that we'll give an unmodified opinion on that report. Um,
all of the compliance requirements that we reviewed were in order. Um, but we do have to wait for that um, final supplement to come out before we can finalize that report. So this is happening with all of our districts that have single audits. So nothing specific
to your district. And then the last report we issued is our report on Minnesota legal compliance. The state auditor's office gives us a list of state statutes to test compliance with each year. Um and we had one finding and relating to
untimely payments. Um, so you just want to make sure that if invoices are coming in different offices within the district sometimes that they're getting into the the business office timely so that those payments can be made timely.
And then following that, we've got some charts and graphs that show some financial trends. Um the first table here is just the general education aid formula allowance kind of showing where that number has been for the last 10 years and where it is in the current
fiscal year. Um shows the the limited increases that you are getting each year and oftentimes as you know especially the last few years you're um costs are increasing at a much higher rate than what the the revenue is that you're
getting from the state. Um the next table shows your student numbers. We like to include these in our presentations as such a large component of your revenues are based on your student enrollment. Um so this table shows your resident ADM numbers for the
last five years. Um for fiscal 25 you did see an increase of about 9.36. Um this is the highest resident ADM number that you've had in the five years presented. you're up about 68.6 since
2021, the first year presented here. And then the next slide is the graph of those same numbers kind of showing the breakout of um the grade levels of those students. And then those ADM numbers are converted to pupil unit numbers with the waiting
factor shown there. Um and that's this is what your aids are paid based on. So those secondary students, you do receive more aid for those students than some of the younger kids. Um so the pupil unit numbers are in that table the on the
bottom of the slide there. And and for 2025 you did see an increase of about 11.7. um you saw an increase in the resident pupil unit number coinciding with the increase in the ADMs but you also did see an increase in the residents leaving
the district and an increase in the non-residents coming in um and then when you look at the um residents going elsewhere and the non-residents coming in um you are losing um students through the open
enrollment program and that's kind of been consistent in the the five years presented there. The next slide is the general fund sources of revenue. In total, revenues decreased about $325,000
or 1.3% for fiscal 25. The largest factor in that was that other line item and specifically the federal COVID dollars. um you had received some allocations of funds um that were one-time monies and and they had to be
used up by a certain time frame as well. So, you didn't have those dollars to spend again in 2025. Um and then partially offsetting those decreases, you did have an increase in the the state revenues um with an
increase in the general education formula allowance and then an increase in special education needs. Um this graph again is the general fund sources of revenue. That blue portion of the bar is the state sources. About 82%
of your total revenues are coming from state sources. So again, just the significant impact that state funding has on your district. The next table is the general fund expenditures. Um for fiscal 25 you saw an increase of
about $192,000 or 0.8% um salaries and benefits the largest component of that increase kind of across all of the programs. Um special education was one of the larger increases just with changing in the the
needs of your students and the positions within that program. And then you did see some overall decreases in capital outlay. Um again, some of the monies that you spent, the CO dollars that you had previously spent were for equipment
and technology things um and you didn't have some of those same things again in the current year. The pie chart on the next slide shows just the allocation of your expenditures by program. Um when looking at the
educational programs, the instructional programs, the regular vocational and special education, um that makes up about 69% of your total expenditures. So going directly to the classroom are those dollars. The next slide here is budget to actual
results for the year. Um, so the final amended budget called for an increase in fund balance of about $198,000. The actual was an increase of $419,000. Your revenues were about $784,000
over budget. Um, part of that relates to conservative budgeting. Um, some of those other local revenues are items that are hard to budget for. It includes things like interest, income, student activities, some of those things that you really don't have control over. Um,
you also budgeted conservatively for some of the student enrollment numbers. So, that did cause part of the difference on the the state sources line item. And then the federal um line item was over budget due to um using some of the federal funds for tuition billing
and that wasn't initially part of the budget. On the expenditure side, you were about $38,000 over budget. Um, so very close to where you had anticipated those would come out.
The next table here is your revenues per ADM served. Um, for fiscal 25, the general fund number did decrease with an overall decrease in your your revenues. Um, for 2024 and prior, there are also
statewide averages that are provided there. Um, historically you've been below the statewide average and when I looked at the breakout of the the different types of revenue coming in, property taxes is by far the largest variance. So what you're collecting for
property taxes is is much lower than what um the average district is. And then the next slide shows expenditures per student or ADM served. 2025 numbers increase with an increase
in the expenditures. And then again um looking at your district compared to the statewide average. Historically the general fund has been below that state average. And that's a factor of you're bringing in less revenues so you've got
less dollars to spend. And this graphs here actually add together all of the funds. Um it is a little misleading or not misleading but different or unique in especially 22 and 23 your expenditures
in total are significantly above the state average. Um keep in mind those are the years that you had construction going on. So that that inflates your expenditure numbers quite considerably. um 2024
um kind of back to normal and even 2025 your numbers have dropped a little bit more. So you'll probably be below average in total again. Um this next table here summarizes general fund operations for the last five years.
So for 2025, your revenues did exceed expenditures by about $73,000. you did have some other financing sources um sale of capital assets. You did have a capital lease issuance and some insurance recovery. So in total
your fund balance increased $419,000. And then the bottom part of the table there breaks out the components of your fund balance. So you do have a fair amount of dollars that are restricted. These are statemandated restrictions that those dollars can only be used for
those specific purposes. Um you've also got some assigned dollars um that were assigned at the the district level here. So overall your unassigned fan balance is about 15% of your annual budget and that's right in
line with the district has a policy that their minimum be at 15%. Um the food service fund, you did see an increase in um revenues and expenditures this year. Um expenditures increased at a little bit higher rate. So they did
exceed revenues at the end of the year. Your fund balance decreased about $89,000. Um but still you have a fairly healthy fund balance um from what the state determines to be a healthy fund balance. And then the last table is the community
service fund. Um you did see increases in both revenues and expenditures in this fund as well just with increased participation in programs. Um revenues did exceed expenditures um by about $60,000. So you did see an increase in
in this fund balance as well. And then this fund also has specific fund balance restrictions and those are noted on the bottom of the table there as well. So that's what I have for you tonight.
Um certainly open to any questions if any of you have any app Eric for his work. I know some of the other um individuals in the office got picked on a little bit too, but I think he beared the brunt of it. So, we do
appreciate um the time and effort that all of your staff put into getting things for the >> Thank you. >> Okay. Now we have Nick Baky and Randy Qual and Deputy Schultz to give us um
to review more school emergency and crisis. >> Um thanks for having us here tonight. Deputy Scholes is here. Principal Falls is here. We have a slideshow um to kind of keep us organized. This is years and years and years and lots of partnerships
that we're just trying to package into a five or 10 minute thing real quickly. You've got some manila folders that is more of the indepth stuff that we use to create the more simplistic in the- moment things that we have all over our district. We'll be happy to answer any questions and if anyone out on online
land wants information or has questions, reach out to me, Nick Bakymorschools.org, and I'd be more than happy to talk about um what we're going to talk about tonight. But tonight's about school safety. Uh, I appreciate Superintendent Boce sent me a KSTP video that really
hits home with what we're going to talk about tonight with the actual resources that we have been using for years. Um, we're just watch the first minute or so. Feel free to go and look on online if you want to, but Kelly, if you want to hit that, I'd appreciate it.
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schools. Voters recently approved millions of dollars for safety and security upgrades in schools across the state. But investigative reporter Kirsten Swanson found a program that's becoming the leading model for how schools respond to critical incidents. And it doesn't cost a thing. We all
remember these images. Parents running toward Annunciation Church in Minneapolis after a mass shooting that killed two children and wounded dozens more. For 4 months now, before this even happened, we've been digging into how schools are keeping your kids safe. I
sent questions to the top 25 school districts in the Twin Cities metro, asking what changes to safety and security they made after the pandemic. The responses we got ran the gamut from building renovations to upgrades and security camera systems, even the
installation of bulletproof barricades in classrooms like that one in Lakeville. I also kept seeing this phrase come up over and over again in the responses, the standard response protocol from the I Love You guys Foundation. That protocol is based on
five actions. Hold, secure, lock down, evacuate, and shelter. We recognized a void >> sorry >> void in crisis response and recovery and it was really all about communication.
John Michael Keys started the I love you. >> All right. So, that gentleman that just spoke is actually the father of a student who was killed in a school violence incident in Colorado. And he
took his tragedy and turned it into actionable items for upwards of 60,000 different school districts and organizations throughout the world because he knew that there was a divide. And the divide was first responder reactions and planning and schools. We
were not on the same page. So when you see the SRP or the standard response protocol, what I learned as a first responder, schools are not really willing, able, or had thought about joining the first responder paramilitary
responses. This organization softened that. They have traveled the country, if not the world, educating people and years ago, we went and learned about this. So, this video, I believe, is a week or two old. We're years into this already. Um, we've
adopted this. We've met this gentleman. We worked with this gentleman while we were building our school. We showed him the glass high school. And he said, "That's amazing." I thought he was going to say, "What are you doing?" because he knew that it focuses on relationships and prevention and that his guide and
information was all about if something happens, but prevention is key. So, if we go to Can I? >> Oh, thanks. >> We've never done this before. So, um so when we go back to our strategic directions, we focus very much on number
four, building a safe, welcoming, and respectful school community. We do an amazing job on that. Um, but we wanted to really focus on this safety. Um, and I want everyone to know that more schools is it's very safe. It's amazing. It's not because I say so or Randy or
Dan says so. We've had people like Randy Johnson who's in charge of the school safety center through the Minnesota Homeland Security Emergency Management walk our halls multiple times in the old building, in the new building. Your vibe is amazing. You know your kids. Your
kids are there's a culture that is so different than most schools we go to. like it's high fives and awesomeness and they've actually asked our school to come and speak to other schools about what we've done to build that culture. So this is not us saying this. This is
FBI and SWAT and law enforcement and directors coming in saying you got something amazing going on at more schools and it's not buildings, it's people. Um so relationships is awesome. We also have a philosophy prior planning prevents poor performance. That's why we
adopted the I love you guys. It's better. It helps our school district. It helps our kids, our teachers. And a huge shout out to our staff because they're doing more and more things than ever before because we didn't know we were supposed to. And now that we do, we're
doing better. And even just a week or two ago, we we spent time doing some safety training and it was awesome. And then this really comes from you. Number three. You want to talk about that real quick? >> Yeah. in any situation that is a crisis or that you are your own first
responder. Um you take the information that you have and what we tell everybody within this building, staff, students, um any visitors is you are your own first responder. Um do what feels best to you in that moment. That might be evacuating the building. It might be
locking down. It might be laying on the floor. Whatever you think is the best, that's what you should do. >> Yeah. Um, my mom said they used to do the Cold War duck and cover and she knew that didn't feel right, but that's what they were told to do. So, we've gotten away from the we're going to tell you
what to do. We're going to teach you what to do and then you do the best you can. And living proof is some students many years ago encountered an unsafe situation at the St. Cloud Mall where there was a shooting and stabbing. They were right there. They knew run. They got away from there. They came back to
tell their story. It was traumatic, but they remembered Mr. He said, "We got to do what's best for us." And they took off running into the parking lot and kept on rocking and that was awesome. Um, key partners obviously I love you guys. Huge shout out to the King County Sheriff's Office. Randy, you want to
talk a little bit about the Homeland Security Conference we went to? >> Yeah, we went there two years ago at the deck in Duth. um shared the day with 400 other educators, principles, administration, and uh school resource
officers and other agencies and learned the story of I love you guys. Um we we had lots of thoughts as we were sitting through there going, who is that? Is was he the person that was involved in this incident in Colorado? And as Mr. Baky
talked about, the keynote was the John Keith. >> Yeah. Um, and he lived through that tragedy and that was a wakeup call for all of us that were present at that training. Um, and it was just a great time to collaborate with other agencies, collaborate amongst ourselves as a team
to talk about what uh would be the best fit for Moa schools. At that time, we had Alice, which was a very good program as well, but uh we just felt like this was the direction that we needed to go at that time and uh we've kind of done that with both buildings. >> Yeah. Dan, you want to talk about the
violence project in the Sandy Hook Promise a little bit? >> Yeah. So, the violence project is a study that is being done by two individuals at the Hamlin University. Um they have compiled a bunch of data for mass shootings, which they count as five
victims or more, not including um the active shooter. Um they've compiled a bunch of data. Um, and what they have found is that there are similarities between all of them, but not all of the people that have those similarities are
mass shooters. Um, the one thing that really came out of it is all it takes is one connection within that school building or any building to stop it. So, that was their main philosophy. Um, a building is not going to stop a mass
shooting. the the environment is and that's why more is awesome. >> Um the sand of promise very much on the same kind of vein. It is just a compile of how do we prevent this moving forward? How do we try and stop this? >> Yeah. Violence project. It's using data
that we don't want to know know about, but they're putting it right into our face that we have to address. And when you track it backwards, it comes back to relationships. And then the Sandy Hook Promise, um, it came out of families who lost kids in Sandy Hook and said,
"Here's what we live through. Here's where the school and others went so wrong. We don't want anyone else to feel what we felt if something bad were to happen." So they also kind of work with that love you guys and come up with that standard response protocol. Um,
do you want to talk that's you want to talk a little about that story real quick, Randy? >> Yeah. So, as we were collaborating at the deck in Duth, um our keynote had a lot of conversations and and he lived through that tragedy in in Colorado and
and made it his life's passion to share with other school districts across the the nation on the best responses to these um tragedies and these situations. And again, a very powerful um uh speech
overall, but then when he shared the moment he shared that that exact story was there wasn't a dry eye, I think in the deck. Uh so he's a dad. He's there. He the he literally witnessed his daughter being bought out of the building knowing that she was gone. He's not a first responder. I think he's like
a tech guy, an internet guy, startup guy. And he said, "I don't know what to do. I need to meet people, work with people, and help schools because of his daughter >> and because of that skill set that he did have as technology >> that Oh, yeah. His techy skills are
awesome to connect. Um, in your folder, just want to touch base real quick. You've got the standard response protocols. It's called the SRP, the K12. It's like 40ome pages. We don't post that. We don't expect people to know and understand that. That's our job. Um, same thing with that standard
reunification method. Um, that is heavy reading. It's the playbook for us so that we could get to that laminated sheet in your folder. Five easy things that we can mora eyes based on the
standard response protocols and I love you guys foundation to do in a fast stressful environment if need be. But we have found out we use it quite a bit more for some pretty basic things. If you're on online land, this is the logos you're looking for and I love you guys.
Um, but this is uh part of the MOA school's emergency protocols. And then we have another one called the crisis. It's on the same paper. It is plastered in all of our classrooms. It's all over the building. It's for the Wellia Center, for the gym. It's for
activities. for everybody to quickly know what to do if you hear something over the intercom or if you don't know what to do in that exact moment. Randy, any examples of what you would use a hold secure shelter for at the elementary? >> So, a hold most often is a medical
emergency that's probably happening in the hallways. A hold um is you can go about your business in the classroom. You just stay away from the hallways. Sometimes we'll share the location that needs to be avoided. Um, teachers can teach, students can learn. U, we just
limit anyone that's going into the hallway. Sometimes we can, uh, track people to the restrooms if, uh, if they're away from the situation. Secure is secure the perimeter is kind of how we think of it. U,, we have different staff throughout, uh, the
elementary and at the high school. um elementary I can speak for is um that are uh they're assigned to make sure that all the exterior doors are monitored, make sure they're closed, make sure they're latched, and make sure any students that are outside come
inside. I haven't had to deal with that a lot here in Mora, but before I came to Mora and the school I was at, there was a fugitive on the loose and we had a secure where they didn't know where that person was, but they thought they might be near the school. So we secured, we locked all the doors. We didn't have
outside recess that day. We went about our business in the building. So a hold is go about your business in the classroom. A secure is go about your business in the building. And then shelter uh traditional storm um uh
drills or tornado drills. Same thing at the high school. Typically it's a slip trip fall. It's more or less to have some privacy and not have embarrassment because we're bringing the wheelchair down. um secure. I heard other northern Minnesota and western states there's a bear on property like Colorado people
>> we have had at Trail View before it was more elementary we did not have outside recess one day. >> It's a really good idea to bring the kids in from recess that's secured in the building. Um I'm going to let Deputy Schulz talk about crisis and the two things that we do in terms of crisis
protocols. >> Yeah. So crisis protocols is generally where first responders, law enforcement are going to be needed. um they evacuate. It's really good for the high school. There's not a whole lot of places to lock down, per se. There are a few the
single style bathrooms, you can fit about 30 kids in there. Um >> there are still room there. >> Jumped ahead a few slides. That's okay. Um and then lock down more traditionally going to be kind of over in the
elementary school. It's the good age range. Lock a door. Statistically, a locked door works 100% of the time. There's never been a reported incident of um somebody meaning to do somebody harm within a locked classroom actually getting in. Um so locked doors are very
effective right there. You know, breaks everything down for students and the adults. >> Yeah. Randy, would you say that's your go-to with your building and your your kids age? I think in our traditional classrooms the lockdown is there but uh the nice thing in our traditional building we do need to know both of
them. So we practice to go to our rally points because sometimes they're not in the classroom they might be in gym they might be at at lunch they might be in transition. So they do uh we have the five drills that we practice and two are lockdowns and two are evacuations to
rally points and then one two are um offsite evacuation. >> Kudos to Randy. He does such a good job of evacuating with the littles. I recorded it and showed it to our high school staff and they're like, "Oh, that's what Yes. They're they're so cute. They go out, they go to their spot, and they wait." I'm like, "That's
what we need high school." And they high school's gotten awesome since. Um, building the new high school was scary because when the word came out, it's going to be glass. Like, how are you going to be safe? Um, everyone that we worked with said it's it's relationships, it's culture, it's
prevention. But when I showed the people the pictures of the new high school at that conference, they're like, "That's awesome. Just get out." Oh, okay. So, we just get out and we're really good at it. Just so you know, we can get this building completely empty in under three
minutes. That's a fantastic thing. The old building we're pushing six or seven. Um, I'm going let you talk about this because this is not a super awesome topic to talk about if you're an educator. >> Yeah. Um hopefully this never happens,
but you know there is a always a small chance that violence, physical force intended to hurt, damage or kill um does happen within these walls. And that's why we practice these things a lot. I'll always preach that's why we have choir practice. That's why we have all of
these practices that we do um throughout the school year. Why is why is the school staff not working on all of these drills? We do an amazing amazing job here within this school district working on these. Um we also do what if Wednesdays. So every Wednesday we send
out an email to challenge staff to think about school safety and what if this were to happen? What can we do? How can you react? Um just in case something like this unfortunately does happen. >> Yeah, this is a tough thing. Like I know that it happens in other places but Dan
and all of our partners did a good job. You need to prepare for if it happens here. like statistically it's not but you better be ready because that's your responsibility and that took a while for me to understand many years ago but once it clicked um it made more passion to
want to do better and find things like I love you guys because at the end of the day we all have kids in our buildings like why would we not do that that's probably not going to happen but it could and I don't want to have a staff or students or a community unprepared because I didn't accept the fact it
could happen. Um, this is more about just the lockdowns and our crisis procedures. There's a few little things that we talk about. We talked to G. There's nowhere to lock down at our high school. We can fit an entire classroom in the bathroom that's got a locked door and that's all the boys. We have the
girls, but we could have fit all the girls in there, too. And it was just fine. Um, and again, evacuation, it's getting out of the building. And it dawned on me, oh, when we go outside for a fire drill, that's a controlled evacuation. We also tell kids if balance is happening just go run run.
Um the biggest thing that we learned from the Sandy Hook Promise and from I love you guys is it is our responsibility to take care of the kids. There is nobody coming to help us do attendance, get them back with
their families if something bad was to happen. In my mind, even as a first responder, ah the police will show up and take care of everything. Nope. So, we have been focusing on accountability at the high school. How do we take attendance? Where's every single staff? Where's every single kid? I know Ry's doing the same thing, too. But if we
have to reunify, meaning what you saw at that annunciation, if you watch that whole clip, is you have to now get those kids after a traumatic thing back to their families, not just someone that might know your kid, check licenses, run it against your database, make sure that some uncle from somewhere is doing a
good deed, but I don't know you. I can't give you the kid. That's a horrible lengthy process that we got to do during a traumatic time. So that's where the um the reunification process of I love you guys goes way beyond the Alice stuff.
And that's why we chose to go that direction years ago because cops own the crime, not the kids. Fire owns the flame, not the kids. School owns the kids. It's our job to get them back home to their families if something terrible were to happen.
They packaged it. They teach it. They have a giant packet. We can moraize it. We have morized it. We've got that. Our staff are aware of it. We've got all the resources ready to go. If you watch the video on the I love you guys, we are prepared for that.
Um, I know Randy had a goal uh this year to besides the accountability, besides all the LW guys, besides the education, on top of that, he had a little project to make our school even more safer down in the Wellia area. >> Yeah. Just encouraging or just making sure that the doors are always locked.
We limited some of our um open doors in the morning and in the afternoon on those timers and then we added that extra um security door by the Well Center got that video camera up and running. So that's in place now. Yeah. Uh fantastic that that is up and running
right now. At the high school, we really focused on that 100% accountability. Um we wanted to replicate what Randy and Jennifer were doing at the elementary. We weren't doing good enough. We are now I think really close to there. And then um stop the prop was something that Dan
brought to us. One day he went for a walk and said, "Look at all the doors that are just open. That can't happen." And uh I think it took about a week or two and we got her pretty good. We're still working on it, but it went from quite a few to just one or two and we're proud of that as well. Um, we've taken a
lot of time. Do you have any questions before we leave? >> Okay. >> Anything that we can do to help that you you know, >> I mean, things take time, but I think right now
if we wanted to practice over and over and over again, that's not realistic. Um, what I need you to do if people have questions, please refer them to us. This is about kids. This is about scary stuff. It's happened in Minnesota. So,
if anyone has questions, please just come talk to us. Give them our number. Tell them to email us. Um, assure them that we're doing the best we can, that we've got a team that's very detailed in that. We'd love to sit down and talk with them and walk them around and show
them like that is if you can see it in action and how good it is and feel the vibe in the elementary and the high school. I think that reassures a lot of people. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. If anyone's got questions, reach out to me. >> Thank you guys.
Now we have um Kerry Stell and Charlie Whitwood um with the community ed update. >> Uh we we going to talk about four things real quick. I'm going to let Carrie start with the other child. You want to say >> doesn't matter.
>> Okay. Thank you. Uh my name is Carrie Cell and I um have had the privilege of being the early childhood coordinator here for MOR school since 2011. And so um I am part of the community as team and so tonight I'm just going to tell you a little bit about um all the fun
things that happen in the elementary school at door A4. So we always like to say early childhood is where the adventure begins. We service families and children um birth through age five and each week we have over right around 200 kids and families that come through
our doors. Um we I am part of a wonderful team of teachers and early intervention staff that helps to provide a variety of services activities for children but also for their families. And so we're just going to I'm just going to quickly go through some of the
things that we provide. Um the first one is early childhood family education. So, it's also known as ECF and that is a state funed program through the state of Minnesota and um I'm very excited because the last couple years our program has seen some great growth. When
I first started we um were offering three different classes to families um and now we are offering five and they are completely full with a waiting list. So, people really seem to want to be involved early in their children's education. They love the fact that early
childhood is a part of the schools. they get to bring their kids into the schools that their kids are going to be going into. Um, and they are excited to um, learn and grow with their kids. So, we currently have 35 families um, that we see each and every week and 54 kids that
come to those programs. So, we're doing um, a lot of fun things there. Um, the other program that we house down there is our uh, preschool program. So, we've had that for very many years here at MORA. We have a three-year-old program and a four-year-old preschool program.
Uh we run um three-year-old programs two days a week. They come for five hours a week. So it's two and a half hours two days a week. And our current enrollment is 30. We have room for a couple more kids, but basically 30 is a full full group of three-year-olds. Um and they
are um doing a great job of really getting a nice first introduction to school and playing with friends and um you know just separating from their families. So that's our threes. And then we also have four-year-old programming. Um we offer a little bit more variety
for four-year-olds. We have uh half day programming. It's three half days. We have three full day programming and two-day full day. So we try to offer a variety of things that will work into family schedules. Families are very busy in our in our area and so we try to offer different programming that will
work for their schedule, for daycare schedule, and for um some of their needs. So, um, currently in our program, we have 68, um, uh, four-year-olds and we probably have room for one or two more, but again, basically, we are completely full
in the four-year-old program. So, um, just a little bit about our funding. So, the the community preschool that we run is um, funded by several different streams of funding. Um, the one that I have up right now is called the pathway
funding. And we Mora schools for the last several years has been getting $63,247 to help provide preschool for to families that um uh may not otherwise be able to afford it or have high some high
needs. Um, so it's to help bridge the gap so that they all kids can have an opportunity to come to preschool. Um and so that's one of our big funding streams that we are very lucky to have. Uh preschool is also funded by parent fees and then also school readiness which I
spoke just a moment about is um also a program through the state that again helps um gives to school districts to help bridge that gap for for the cost of prek. And the last piece that um I work with is the early childhood screening. And
screening again is a state program that all children need to go through before they go into kindergarten. So kids either need to go through early childhood screening or parents can sign off saying that they um declined the the screening. So each year we have about
100 kids that comes through early childhood screening. Um we have six different screenings throughout the year. We have one that is during the day, we have one in the summer, and then we have four that are in the evenings throughout the school year. Um, and so again, it just gives us a little
snapshot of the kids. We go through hearing, vision, development, and then, um, health summary to see if there's any red flags or support that we can provide the kids before they get into kindergarten. Uh, because we know the the strong link to success when there is
um, an early intervention that is needed. And so we are there to help and support families um, make sure that kids are ready for kindergarten. So that is one big portion to community ed. Um there's kind of four four four large pieces. Early childhood being one
of them. Um after school and before care um for our kids um which we call Mustang care. So just a quick snapshot of what it is where we hold it. Um currently we have 19 kids registered before school and 46 after school. They all all show
up every single day. So, it's just kind of try to staff it with what we can for the day. We don't normally have 46 kids every single day after school, but we usually have 35 to 40ish in there. So, um
drivers that is another large portion to community ed. Um, some of the processes have changed, but every last year we ran and enrolled 126 kids through the classroom portion of driver's ed. And then down below for
behind the wheel, we were able to get 92 students through behind the wheel. We service two cars. We have about five instructors, I think. Five. Yep. Five instructors right now. Um, most of which work here at school. So, we don't always get through everyone in a timely fashion
um because it's not our only job, right? Our teachers are teaching during the day and whatever else. They might have services in uh Max or up in Isisle that that's their full-time job, so they might be able to get to them quicker than we can. Um and that's always an option, but we provide a pretty good
option for kids that are taking it in the classroom. um or in the fall class got done I believe and then in the spring of the year we try to offer a couple after school besides the every quarter of all four quarters having it.
So um well the process for the blue and white cards has changed. So if you had kids go through previously you got a little blue card or white card when you finish your behind the wheel or your your classroom test. All that is automated now and it's all online. So if you have kids that are
going through still um you won't see those come home with you. It's all via email and we're putting stuff right in the state database when we enter it. So and then the last piece is all the classes and other opportunities that we provide. I just made a quick list that I could um and then I wanted to highlight
a couple of the new ones. We brought uh youth tackle football back this year. Uh Mr. Paul helped bring that back as I felt pretty confident in being a former head football coach and a dad and a principal that we had someone good at the helm doing that for the first time coming back. Um I see Beth and Carl are
here. They're going to tackle some uh junior high robotics. Um it sounds like so um trying to get some of our seventh and eighth graders a little more interesting in some of the soft skills and just a little bit of coding and building. Trying to get some building blocks towards when they're in high school. um they're probably a little
over their head and it's um when they're in the high school space. So um to try to pull them out and get some other things there. Um one of the big ones for class and opportunities is walking track. So we have about 550 plus members and renewals
started in November. So that's what already began to be busy to renew for next year. Uh there's people in and out of the office all of the time. Um, couple other new ones is yoga is new this year. Band re reboot finished up. That was a huge success. Saw a lot of people coming and going during
volleyball games that were having a great time. Um, either learning how to play their instrument again or I even had one of them that said, "I've never played." And so, um, and then, uh, learning to cook Indian cuisine kind of started the end
of last year and we've continued it on this year. So, um, those are kind of big the big four when it comes to, um, community ed. Do you guys have any questions? >> All right. >> Thank you very much.
>> Thank you. >> Thanks. >> That brings us to the consent agenda. Um, are there any items that you request to remove from agenda? Okay, seeing none, I'll take a motion to approve the consent agenda.
>> So move to make the first. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Matt seconded it. Um, all those in favor of approving the consent agenda say I. >> I. >> All those opposed say no. The consent agenda is unanimously approved.
Um, next is the budget calendar review. It's listed there for you to review. Um I'm guessing you've already done that. I have. Um next items on which board discussion or action is requested.
Um first we had some donations. Um there was $473.93 donated by PDI Foods for PBIS. Then there was $500 donated by the MOA PTO for the fourth grade field trip. There
was $500 donated by the Mor more Alliance Club for the school forest outdoor classroom that we talked about earlier. Um there was $1,100 um donated by the Mor Lion Club Lions Club for imagination library. Also, they
donated $500 for robotics. And then the OIB Lions Club donated $1,000 for robotics. Um, I'll take a a motion. Well, thank you first off for all those donations and
for um remembering the school. We appreciate it very much. Um, it's very helpful. So, I'll take a motion for approve. >> Move to approve the resolution accepting gifts and donations. >> Thank you, Scott. Is there a second?
>> Second. >> Second by Matt. Seeing that this is a resolution, it should be a roll call vote. So um Ken >> I >> Ken is I uh Jill >> I Jill is I Dakota >> uh I will abstain since I am a more
alliance member just for no conflict of interest and transparency sake. >> Okay thank you. Uh Scott >> Scott is I Matt >> I Matt is I and Amy as I so it's uh five
voting for it and to put it abstaining. So the resolution is accepted. Next is considering approval for the 2527 agreement for girls and swimming diving cooperative between MOA and OB
schools. Is there a motion regarding approving this? >> So second >> Matt is the first and Scott second it. Is there any discussion? All right. Um, seeing none, I'll um, let's vote on it, I guess. All those in
favor of the agreement of approving the agreement say I. I. >> All those opposed say no. >> Okay. It is, um, approved unanimously. Um, next is the 2628 uh, superintendent contract. Um,
I I'll take a motion regarding it. that we approved the contract that the um committee had negotiated with Dan this past Monday. >> Yes. >> Um so Scott is the first. Is there a second?
>> Second to put is a second. Um is let's have some discussion. Is that all right? >> Yes. >> Um so we met on um earlier this week on Monday to discuss negotiating his contract. Um you may have noticed that
um there wasn't a link in the agenda um originally. It's because we met on Monday after the agenda was put out. We didn't have a contract at that point yet to display there. Um and then eventually I believe the link is there now. Is am I
correct? >> Okay. So um yeah. Is there anything anybody wants to add? >> Yeah. any questions of those of us that were on the committee by the other three? I think it was pretty straightforward. It's always good to
just, you know, get together and came to agreement. So, >> yeah. All right. So, um, >> I just had one comment. With the the strategic plan and the building being done and goals being set, I'm hoping we're moving forward in the right
direction and where we're going and hopefully then everything will progress and and keep moving forward with the community. >> Yeah. So, all those in favor of approving this contract say I. >> I.
>> I. All those opposed say no. No. >> No. >> Okay. So, it's two and four, correct? >> Okay. So, the contract is approved. >> All right. Um, next up is uh single
reading policies. There are a bunch listed here. Um, the first one's policy 306. The last one is policy 722. Um all those well first of let's take a motion for of these single reading
policies. >> I'll make a motion that we approve um the single reading policies in 306 through 722 inclusive. >> Thank you. Scott made the motion. Is there a second? >> Second. Jill second it. Um is there any
discussion? >> They're just single reading policies. So all those Yeah. It was it was just a lot of it was just simple cleanup uh language was statutory changes. So they actually it was surprising some of them
were simplified instead of >> drawn out. So it was a welcome change. >> Yes. >> Yeah. So um all those in favor of approving these policies that are listed say I. >> I. >> All those opposed say no.
>> Okay. They're unanimously approved. Next is the first reading and approval of the animals in school buildings and on school grounds policy. Um you'll notice that this isn't the first time that a policy on this topic has been brought forth as a first reading, but this is
the first reading of this particular version of it. Um so I'll take a motion on that. So move >> Jill is the first. Is there a second? second. >> Put a second in it. Um, is there any
discussion on this policy? >> Okay. Um, all those in favor of approving this policy say I. >> I. >> I. All those opposed say no. >> No. >> Okay. So, there's one opposing it. So, the policy is approved.
Um, next is the board reports. Um, the student board report actually Um so we have we kind of quiet down at this point but we have still had a couple things to do. So our last meeting we talked about formal. Um, we are
brainstorming like some dress up ideas that we do the week before formal and then we um plan to send out a voting form so the kids can vote on what they want to dress up as. Um, the past like last dress up day we had a lot of people
dress up. So, it's always fun to see people come in um wearing something that is different than what they usually wear. Um, then we had our babysitting night and that went really well. We had over 50 kids and we entertained them
with movies and crafts and games in the gym. Um, we recently had our blood drive and it went really well. We our goal is 51 donations in the fall and we got 59. So that's good. I think we have to get I
think our goal is 100 by the end of the year total. Um, >> and uh we had good health throughout the day. Um, and then coming up we have our holiday drive. So, it's runs December 1st through 10th and students can bring
money to contribute to their grade level. Um, we're planning rewards for class um the classes with most donations and then also we're thinking about um if they get a certain amount of money just getting a basic reward. But we usually
get a pretty good amount of money on our holiday drive. Um, and it's nice to see the students caring about other people in the holiday drive. Um, that's all we have in December and then formal is January 20
24th. >> Good. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Um, next is board member meeting reports. Does anybody have any reports to share? >> Yep. Ken and I met with the district meeting and confer group. Uh this is the first time they had met in probably what
six years. >> So it was a really good first kickoff meeting. A lot of good discussion. Really good to open that up again. So yeah. >> Awesome. Anybody else have any to share?
>> Um I want to share that uh the Rum River building in Malaca, they started building it this week. Um, so I have some pictures that's I mean it looks like they're just excavating, flattening and laying out gravel and things like that currently, but just wanted to share
that. >> Um, next is activities and community ed. Um, there's a report there for us to look through. Um, and then transportation and buildings and grounds is there as well.
And then there's principles updates. Is there something you want to highlight from it or share? >> Yeah, thank you. Um, you obviously have the report in front of you. I just wanted to say that we tried a new style of conferences uh in our district and the feedback from the high school has
been extremely positive. Um, I thought uh we did some data tracking and we took some responses from staff. Um, the numbers were very good and the responses from staff were extremely positive. And then lastly on that border report, I just wanted to highlight our students that went to state bowling. There's some
pictures there. We did the state walkthrough. I think it was one of the loudest walkthroughs we've ever did. I could actually hear it through the walls as I was doing the announcement. It was hard to do that. Um, and you can see the pictures. Those kids are so dang excited. Their families are so proud and we're so proud of them. They literally
bring smiles to our staff and students on a daily basis. And that was one of the funnest walkthroughs we've ever done. So, congratulations to the state bowlers. >> Awesome. >> Do you guys want to share anything or >> uh I just want to highlight the conferences. We had 94% attend on on
Monday, which is in line with what we've had other years. 1% down from last year and 2% up from the year before that. So, our new uh conference format seemed to work well and I've only had positives from our elementary staff and um haven't
heard much from parents, but I'll keep my ear to the ground to listen to see if there was any concerns about that. I think scheduling went really well. >> That's really good attendance. >> Yeah. Any questions about our board? >> Thank you. >> Thank you.
>> We have something. >> Sure. Yeah, for sure. Um well the district office uh we've been working on a couple things. Open enrollment health insurance. Um Eric Paula and I have worked with our uh Gallagher rep. Um
pretty fortunate with um where we're at with health insurance increases uh not being as high as some of the others that I've heard uh from around other districts. The other big thing was Minnesota paid leave. Uh we've been
watching webinars uh looking at the website um planning some internal documents. We've done our notifications. Um Eric, Paula, myself have been really working on that the past two months to
try to get kind of our policy and procedures for that ready. So we feel we're in a good spot and we've got a ways to go and it starts in January. Um, so I think all employers are and employees are trying to figure that out.
So I feel like we're in a good spot with that. >> Thanks. >> Um, there's upcoming dates to remember listed on here. Um, there's a lot of band concerts um and choir concerts and
programs listed on there. Of course, we have winter break that's coming up. It's a little bit longer than what we had in the past. um >> fall production >> fall production which is going on right now. So there's one right now at that started at 7:30 tomorrow again at 7:30
and then at 2:00 on Saturday and it's uh radium girls uh I don't have much correspondence other than MSBA information here and then other board business. Is there any other board business that anybody wants
to discuss? Great. Any open forum? No open form. So I'll take a motion for adjournment. >> So move to a second. >> Second. >> Not second. All those in favor of
adjourning say I. All those opposed say yes. It's 7:40 and we are journing.