okay 6 Mee order we begin with communication items all right so uh we will start off with our Elementary School principal uh Cassie can you come on up and let us know what's been happening uh within the
element good evening um it looks like there's a lot it's two pages uh front and back a lot of them recognizing students and so I'm not going to read through all of the students names but I do encourage you to take some time and and read through and and see uh the
students that were called out um later on but just starting off with the end of the year highlights um certainly may is is a filled month um with special learning opportunities different projects uh presentations field trips
and our last day of school assembly it seems like that was a while ago now um it's been a couple weeks already but much of these opportunities were made possible by our successful fundraiser and I just want to make sure that we call that out um which we hold in the
fall each year uh provides our students those special opportunities um in addition um I was able to meet with all certified staff in one-on-one meetings uh for an end of the year checkout it's just an opportunity for us to meet oneon-one uh time for reflection and see
how the year went and I always ask them what is one word to describe the school year and you can see uh those words that are in the Apple there um a repeated word throughout was fun and fast um
those were often said by most of the staff but you can see some of the other words that were used to describe the school year uh peace healing great roller coaster excitement busy planned changing excellent and like I said fun
and fast um we two of the common as I mentioned um student recognition the names down below uh the Bulldog Spotlight the May recipients there are listed uh for students who are mindful respectful and connected throughout the month of May we have our
million word readers we had many kids reach one million words and we had a small handful reach two million throughout the school year um so nice job to our readers um and certainly promoting summer reading over the next couple of months before we come back
together again um I want to give a shout out to our fifth grade school patrol um this was led by scgs Tara sand and Adra Laura um for facilitating our fifth grade school patrol um it is such an important job that our students do helping students on the sidewalks and
crossing streets safely um from school grounds to off school grounds and so want to recognize the students that um got to school early and stayed late to make sure that everybody got to where they needed to go each and every day uh fifth grade math Masters is something
that we participate in and we had two Painesville teams attend um math Masters in Alexandria so their names are lifted and um our teams did a very great job and they actually placed um in different competitions and we had an individual
also um who placed in a fact drill round uh so great job to work as grid Math Master participants uh this year we also had the fifth grade music program combined with a fifth grade graduation um as a sendoff as they come to the secondary
building um in the fall so that was a nice program we had our um Advanced musicians sing some songs at the beginning of the program followed by everybody doing their part um of the the regular music program as well and we did
uh take some time to honor fifth grade students with their diploma and had a nice little video of their um pictures when they were younger to their school picture now as fifth graders summer updates our custodial staff is busy uh
you even walk into this building and you can tell that they are busy over here as well um a huge shout out for their work it's a lot of a lot of work moving classrooms in and out doing the floors and attending to all the things that need to be done um over the summer uh
kitchen staff are busy providing breakfast and lunch again with our uh summer meal program um and so I did include that flyer there for people to see um as I'm working in the office I see kids coming in for breakfast and coming in for lunch uh certainly pause
is a big part of our um our audience during that lunchtime in breakfast too so I encourage families to take advantage of the summer meal program um also summer updates myself I've been busy uh working with uh Janelle on the
federal and state reporting um all of those items that are due and I'll share one later on um tonight um a little bit more in depth and in closing um as we wrap up for June I would just like to say a sincere thank you again uh for giving me the opportunity to serve as Painesville
area Elementary School principal I am beyond grateful for the time Grace and support I have received from students families and staff during my second year here as a bulldog um I would also like to say a thank you to Mr orline for his mentorship and wish him all the best in
his next steps in his educational leadership Journey um thank you David for your mentorship um and thank you for all of your years of service here at Painesville lastly I look forward to welcoming our Bulldogs staff and students back for another great year uh
for 2425 and there's our meet re flyer so people can get that on their calendar um it's those two nights again and remind that uh Tuesday September 3rd Elementary is not in session that is when we have
our our meet and greet time uh whereas the secondary is in session just for families to take note of that again questions or anything all right um and with that we will invite up uh David or for his final
secondary school principal update and uh wow what a day yeah I think I've been to uh around 150 board meetings the last 13 years
so um so just looking back on a few things um in in may we had our fifth grade uh orientation with so the fifth graders come over for most of the day uh our sad
students uh took over that again this year and just did a wonderful job organizing it with um with the elementary and the high school uh Middle School staff um we had our a Middle School upate uh fun in the Sunday for
high school students and um and then going into graduation I thought the graduation ceremony was excellent um there are so many people that help put that on and I think um I think it's a
great venue for for future ceremonies they really fix the any the glitches we had with the live stream and and things like that and um just a thank you to Jen and cassander in the office they really um they do about 90% of the the work in
getting that ready and um you I you know anytime we Kenny and I wanted to do something I always had to say we gotta wait for Jen she makes the decisions on where things go and how they do things so um thank you to Ken and the custodial
staff and Christen Community Ed um Miss Bullard and uh Schoolboard for helping out with um uh seating people and handing out programs and uh Jeremy Schmidt who um helps with the sound and
live stream he's been doing that I think this is probably the fourth year that he's helped us with that um the we we set up seating and we we had a few people standing but um we had H 441
views on the live stream as of today so um just proud of all of that uh Dollars for Scholars um this was a record year for Dollars for Scholars we've had some um we added a number of of new
scholarships and um you know the hope is to get as many students to apply for those scholarships we graduated uh 82 students we have 52 students receive um at least one scholarship they handed out 99
scholarships uh for a total of uh $61,900 in scholarships this year so um new records and um and they just do a they do a wonderful wonderful job with that um just future just transitioning
uh with Mr rasmason we've been working pretty closely together um doing some things with scheduling and and um just talking through things and and uh he's got some great ideas and it'll be great to have a a new set of eyes on on this
building and so I look forward to uh seeing what he does questions for me service Da app all right um Mr Henderson was not able to be here this evening and so I've got his update for us um so it was
another funfilled spring oh let me uh pass that real quick so everybody can see me um another funfilled spring with plenty of rain um it's been nice to catch breath for a few days um thankfully able to get enough Open dates
and and contest officials to get games and meets in and rescheduled um thanks to those who make it possible um and and really the communication with families has just been it's really critical and it makes things just go so much better so thank you for that communication he
congratulates Winston Carlson who is golfing um in the state golf tournament uh today and tomorrow in Jordan um also congratulations to the girls 4x100 meter relay team who also made it to the state track and field tournament they finished fth overall and those team members were
Danny Beerman Brook and Frank Finley anenson and Khloe gold um congratulations to the staff as well um moving into summer working on details for the fall schedule cross country uh volleyball and football schedules for grades 7 12 are all set um and that's a
good feeling um sometimes you got some late scrambles and pulling those details together so it's nice to have those all set um the schedules will be posted at the beginning of July when the online schedu or changes from 20 um 23 24 to 2425 um he'll be working with YF to
create some spreadsheets to track events and um and workers to make those things happen there's a couple of summer projects to work on as well um participation numbers continue to be good in sports and activities uh some schools in our conference are down to
two or one Varsity level for certain Sports um there are some schools with larger enrollment than um Paynesville high school and they have two levels for high school we have three levels for many high school sports and two levels from most Junior High um we're fortunate to have teachers and coaches who work
hard and encourage our student athletes to continue participating I'm going to just add a sidebar commentary um it really is fun to see when we meet with our activities and the activities directors and the superintendents um it we do have a really robust program
that's fun to see and it's fun to hear that we've got um some growing activities so that's really cool a big thank you to those who helped make our activities happen there's a lot that goes into making it possible for our young people to participate in a variety of activities um but we're thankful to
have the opportunities that we do in a community that strongly supports them all so go bu lovs um again I think uh um something I'll just add on Rick's behalf is you know it is um the volunteers
coaches the refs the umpires it it takes everybody um and the parents that we have have been really supportive of our programs and so it's just a thank you to a successful school year so and with that I will move on to our
Community Education director Chris come on up and tell us what's happening in community ed evening summer is my busiest time so we are in our second week of Summer W and most of our classes are full we really
uh have had great um uh registrations this year people are taking that you know our swimming lessons are always popular Rec Rec Sports and camps we're on our second week of that and uh those were uh well attended um our baseball
and softball teams are now getting in gear and starting to play their games and and traveling and so we're working through the bumps and bruises and some of the things around trying to get that um uh going um we have our that great
theater um Camp I have 19 kids signed up so I'm looking forward to that Allison Wonderland Production and that's going to be in July 15th through the whatever that Friday is it starts on the the week of July 15th
um our summer P program we have 119 contracts we're averaging about 73 kids a day um and student staff or we're just finishing up and filling out the rest of our staff needs so it'll be really nice
to have um a full staff for this program and um Everybody stepped up a little bit and put in some extra hours so that we can make sure we have enough staff for the kids that are there and there uh the kids and staff are settling in that new our new uh format
on how we're um doing our summer camp so um on our first field trip we went to the went to the historical society and did a because it was the theme was Hometown week so we went over there and they played all kinds of games and I had
to drive that day for uh for the van and I was talking with two oh I don't know they had to five was talking to what's your favorite game oh I love Anie Annie over who made up that game and I'm like really
really we just thought that was fun so they had to play all kinds of cool a lot of them knew you know that that that existed over there so it was good for quite a few kids to see that besides them the Historical Society get promoted their um they have some hisory history camps coming up our kids are taking
those so it was good good partnership um early childhood and for preschool so uh we I to will be completing reports and getting you know closing the books for last school year and then getting things
ready for the next school year so we're getting enrollment form scholarship applications you know trying to answer parents questions and um you know getting them ready for the school year um we're talking about facility scheduling you over the summer we get to
talk about a lot of things that we maybe get a chance to know um pay attention to and see if we can improve one of the things under in facility scheduling as we're you know looking to we're looking at utilizing our um Leo program to uh
open the online reservation system because I think that will um alleviate some of our problems of either double booking or missing or you know not getting the information on the on the district calendar so that'll be something we'll be talking about so
there's more to come on that um it will be a space that um community members individuals but also even School staff when they're trying to get a space like they want the pack for something you know like it might be for a class it
might be for um a a student organization event that they will funnel them through that reservation system um so we'll be looking at that this summer The Pack and fitness center where we've got some projects as well we're
going to pretty much go through every storage room and clean them and gut them out and Purge things that we don't need um some things that we're hearing from Members is they're missing the uh they want to know when open gym is and our and our Leo system does not have a good
calendar for letting people know about open gym so we're going to need to look at a new tool whether that's a Google Calendar or a some sort of weekly updated um uh format that people could look at and see when they can play Pickleball or
basketball or whatever that is um we are uh pulling together to review those current policies procedures and try to get things we're finding inconsistency so just put something together and then be consistent and
launch in the fall just say this is how we're doing things and train staff to um to in to um enforce the policies consistently what we're kind of going
for I also am putting our um uh my facility schedular on data mining I want to know I want to know exactly how many members we have and what what are their categories and how many are free and how many are you know like I want to know
all of that data um and along with that maybe how much it's being used so that that is some things when we want to make program decisions whether that's on um membership fees or um purchasing equipment or whatever that is I want to
know how many how many people do we really have coming through this building um and then we are hoping to get into the back cardio room and Gutt it all out clean it really good paint it and maybe resurface the floor so
that's hopeing by September we have something like that and have it kind of spruce that one room up back there um what's next one of the things that we decided is we for this next school year instead of four Publications for our catalog we're going to drop back
to three we'll have a fall which will come out around August 1 that will cover August September October November December we'll have one that'll come out for winter that will cover December January February March and April and then we'll have one that come out at the
beginning of April that'll be our spring summer probably a bigger Edition because we'll have quite a few things and that will cover April May June July and August it'll save us some dollars but I do think it will also be sufficient to
promote the programs and promote the things that we have um going on on community and I won't feel like I'm doing a catalog all year get a little break every so and then summer I didn't put it on here but the
concerts are coming up they'll be in July starting July 11th um we added two more weeks so it goes through August 15th and so we're getting those all squared away and ready to roll for those
concerts um and can I just take you back on that real quickly and invite board members that uh um Chris mentioned that might be a good platform for us to have a place um as we are looking forward to the tech Levy um that we can uh whether
it's a an administrator or Chris or myself or just to kind of Welcome everybody and say hey we're over here for 20 minutes if you want to come over I mean we don't want to hover into the space and make it all awkward and weird but we want to be accept accessible um and make sure that people have an
opportunity and it's a place where people are going and um so that's something that we could think about and um Chris brought that up as a possibility for the concert in the park series um and uh so we'll have to think about what back can look like and and how we can have a presence there so um
might be a good a good opportunity to be accessible to answer questions all right thank you thanks all right and finally for tonight our administrative updates and what we got
for buildings and grounds I know you're kind of sitting and twiddling the thumbs and not doing for sure right I was gonna start it by saying wow but I'm like yeah that's probably a little bit non effective
enough so uh on a good note heat exchanger process putting that new heat exchanger in went really well we did not get to run it a lot but we did get to run it some and it looks like it's fine no leaks no nothing so that went really well um another good note is a little
bit of luck goes a long way when you're dealing with uh the sewer system at boy locker room or boy bathroom down by the district office I got a little locky and pulled a big piece of shrapnel out of there so hopefully that's all good
around a garden there and uh there and as you guys probably all seen the hallways are plump full of stuff and uh summer clean the we dewaxing process in the high school here is not going as good as it did last year with the tiles
being older they're popping they've been popped actually we move moved some stuff out you let's look at the floor and the tiles are off the floor already just like oh wow so it's little bit more work than I had anticipated but it's coming along and we should be waxing we got Anderson room done now that'll get the
wax put on hopefully this week yet and so orline moving out we're getting a his C room right away as long as it's empty so get the new guy in there right soul
um I don't know if you seen the outlet I think it look really nice I think we should do that a couple more here that was actually a bigger process than I anticipated as well made kind of a dust room one
day I didn't know he was going to start like that happen so um yeah I thought that turned out really well works good he told me anyway so don't plug your computer into it had a ban running in it so um and uh
on our list from the teachers for the summer break we get quite a list at the end of the year we get a lot of emails and stuff and that's actually going pretty well and you know meeting with Cassie and them and some things they'd like to see done and I got to meet with Chris yet that's coming up this week get to see what we want to try to accomplish
together and get it all worked into the schedule and done so yeah it's been busy uh I'm enjoying it it's all right it's good so better be busy than slow so a couple other projects I would like to really get back on obviously the
tennis courts get them looking get the black dirt in there get the gravel out the black dirt in drill the holes get the fence up it's really weedy in that second one bu some cracks in there and make it look respectable and of course the tennis uh
track as well so and uh with all that like Rick had said with the rescheduling games because of rain well the rain makes the grass grow too it's a little struggle keeping up but we're getting there now so boys are working out really
well on that side so and then I do also with this whole deal going on with the floors I called up the 3M rep for the concrete I've been talking to them here and there but they're actually going to come out and show me a little demonstration near Thursday I believe of sealing concrete taking the tile off and
just seal the concrete and see if we can get that in our budget and figure something out with the floors because try to eliminate some of that work that's something that Ken and I have been talking about over the last year um as more schools are transitioning to sealing the concrete and and it's a over
the course of time you have less um you have less cost in your staff refinish and to um replace the the seal and the waxing and and it's a it's a more modern look on your ti your floors versus the old
cracked tiles and so it's a it's a process though and so nice to hear and there's a couple ways to go about it one's really expensive and one's not as expensive and I I don't want to kind of if it's not going to stand up I don't know when to go the deeper way but I do
think it is I think that's what other schools are using and they're good luck with it so that's what I think they're going to come out and show me but I'm thinking they're going to show me both ways and we'll beat figure out what we want to do so any other questions so so is that process removing the tiles and
then grinding it so you polish the concrete y it's both ways yeah no matter which way you go you got to grind the concrete so it's messy yeah it's dirty Dusty it's messy then you seal it so it's not permeable right y it's kind of like down
in the in the pack area yeah so actually I had a guy in just from a company that does it and he's we don't know what's on that floor down there it's nice and shiny but it has got a few stains in it so we were actually trying to pull a few of the stains up I did move a rug I gota
go and look to see how it looks after it dried and stuff but I wondered about that because I've seen some of the like you say staining it looks like it's a foot traffic and I'm thinking maybe the salt from the winter time I don't know what it's what's causing it so looks like
maybe some spills too yeah there's possible so so outdoor pickle ball courts I've been asked about that fun yeah so that would be along so if we
get the tennis up and running there would be four of them you know we could put four on there sounds good thingk so all right thank you much okay all right uh so I'm going to
um the 2425 draft budget that's attachment number two I also have embedded in the presentation so I'm going to just uh show the presentation and then um I will uh click on it um so that you can see what we're
talking about all right okay so um in regards to budget development so if you in order to see the actual attachment you can just click on the link that says budget development and there you'll see the second attachment which this is the document
that you'll see um which is our it's got the breakdown of our funds um it's got It's the format that we've seen over the course of years when we revise the budget we set the budget but I think more importantly is for us to um kind of walk through the presentation so that
you can see um so that you can see all of the considerations that kind of come into the budget so this is just a a snapshot um that's enlarged a little bit so you can see the the beginning um where our fund balance is what our revenues and expected uh revenues and
exp expenses are predicted to be and then where our projected ending ending fund balance is so a lot lot of things go into the uh budget assumptions um most importantly and kind of I guess the the standard where do we start is that
the budget includes a 2% increase on the funding formula which brings the per pupil funding from 7,138 to 7,281 um so the biggest impact for us this year and we've been talking about this over um previous years but we are
did graduate a large class and we have a smaller class coming in so the gened revenue is calculated on $88.99 for adms your average daily membership um which is kind of like how much how many student numbers you count on right last year's budget was built on 911 so that
definitely is a change we've also built the revenue on a slight increase to our title funding and uh we are planning on continuing uh to receive some cross subsidy Aid and we're going to talk about each of those in a little bit um our expenditures um we do know
that this budget includes actual cost for employment contracts as all of you know we've spent we just went through a pretty exhaustive um negotiations series and everything is set and ready to roll so that's in next year's budget there will be very little variation um unless
there would be somebody who was not um hired and we didn't know their actual cost okay uh we did include our 12% increase on health insurance premiums uh We've also had um a substantial increase on our workers comp and property
Insurance um those both I've had extensive conversation with our agents about our agent about um options and possibilities the one piece for our property insurance is um I am recommending instead of doing a full Year's renewal that we uh do them month
to month and continue to look at options and explore some additional opportunities um our our workers comp uh increase uh for us there we've had a couple of large claims over the last year and so as an administrative team one of the things that we have to look
at is how can we do some education on prevention just really make sure that we um have a a sound sound procedures in place to make sure that we've um we're we're taking care of things and and avoiding as many claims as possible um so the way that that workers comp works
is that we'll have um we things ride on our policy for approximately three years and then they fall off and then uh so we're we're going to be looking at some increased cost for a while um but all of those things unfortunately um what I'm hearing and I've I've done my my
research with additional besides just our agent I've reached out to a number of colleagues to find out what's happening across the state and unfortunately I'm I'm seeing that we're um we're in a a very similar boat to other other areas as well um so just as
a reminder when you look at our budget um our budget is 77% salaries and 23% of other expenses so again we are a we are a Personnel um heavy uh organization and that's because what we do is we teach kids so that's that's why that's why it
is what it is the other piece I wanted to just show you from an expenditure perspective is that there will be some there is likely going to be some social work variation so our social workers have historically been employees of the West Central education District um but they are 100% assigned to our school
district okay um if you think about a year and a half ago uh when with some Esser money uh we were able to hire um our elementary school social worker and then the legislature enacted um the
program support Personnel Aid so that p position was able to stay on um and that has worked really well as a direct hire so the social worker that we had at our secondary building um is moving to a different School District within the West Central education District so it
gives us an opportunity to look at doing a direct hire instead of a contracted hire so it's cost neutral for the district so there is no expenditure variation except you would see it in so like if you come and look at the look at
the bills or when you look at kind of the way bills are distributed instead of being a purchase service to West Central education District it would be part of our Personnel budget okay but it is a cost neutral and it could actually over the course of time um draw some
additional Revenue to us because when we get to our legislative updates that's one of the things that I'll show you is that there are some changes to um how we can um do some thirdparty billing and a social worker um Can generate some Revenue which is new this year so that's
built in as well um if for some reason we weren't able to hire a direct hire we'd still be able to contract with West Central Ed and they would do the hire for us but I think we're going to be in a good position um the other piece that uh from some
original budget assumptions is we have um from a food service um the Food Service fund uh those we are planning on breakfast and lunch for every student again and that is reimbursed um Federal rates are set by the department of Ed and US Department of Agriculture and we
haven't received those yet so that's what's going to set our our second um our second entree and our adult meals and all of those types of things and almost haven't come in yet um we do continue to offer the second chance breakfast with a cath only and um
we do also have extra entes available after the first meal is eaten that's something we changed over um the last year and I would say that that's gone well at the secondary to have um students PR eat their first um their their meal first and if they're still hungry come back up and and get into
second second um second entree this budget also includes Capital funds so you'll see it's got our subscriptions and licenses our long-term facility is in there um one of the things that I did want to call out is that you know last year in the legislature um in the
legislative um I guess mandates we were required to provide menal products in the lock Zone across the district um and so the way that that has been paid for is by an additional $2 per pupil into our Capital funds um I'm going to speak
a little bit to that um about one of the clarifications in the legislative update um but that money is there as well well and we do continue to track um our our Softball Field track and Tennis Court maintenance and the restoration and upkeep um what we are working on so with
our softball field we've got a couple of individuals who are coming and giving us bids for um different parts of the process and trying to pull those together um you know again last spring there was uh some substantial receding and some leveling of the field um but
we're we're hoping to again keep those those on tracks so there is money set aside so we're able to do those projects um and that's been a really important priority to make sure that those um those remain in the in the fund Bal or in the um designated funds we also have um ongoing whoop
sorry ongoing Building Maintenance um what we're finding for our Roofing needs um it's not quite as simple to just contract the company and say hey come on out and do our do our roof uh we want to make sure that we're done that it's done um with the correct engineering that we've also got the right
the right bid process in place and making sure although we can use the competitive um the competitive uh um okay um C what is it called um the state of Minnesota has a has a process where they vet out the vendors and
they're at the highest they're the lowest bids and you can use approved vendors off of that there's a term for it and it's it's escaping me at the moment we can do that but we still have to make sure that we've got all the right pieces in place and that's where we're just really kind of slowing down to make sure we got our eyes cross our
teeth and have everything done appropriately so are still on there um um we had our fire inspector here uh not too long ago uh we are expecting a few issues with some of our fire doors so those are things that will be replaced
with these funds as well um and then our debt service payments our boundary payments are going according to schedule um some variabilities and increases uh we're looking at um our fourth grade so we had a lot of conversation about our fourth kindergarten teacher and whether that
stays in kindergarten or goes up to first grade again we um currently have that fourth section moving to first grade because we're watching those kindergarten numbers um but it does seem to be the best use to make sure that we
we stay um we stay on par to to support those kindergarten of first graders with the most distributed class sizes so uh we're keeping an eye on that we also also are watching the unemployment cost so as of right now we've had 17
employees apply for unemployment um we are expecting a higher number than we had last year uh purely because um people are more aware this year than they were last year um and we've really uh worked to try to understand what that implication for us is we do expect that
it will be in reimburse this year again um but our expectation is for next year that we are going to have to likely um assume those most costs uh the state has looked at a couple of different ways they don't have a a allocation to pick up those costs
again but they're trying to they're looking at different ways to um handle whether that could be an application to a levy um my push back on that is to say continue to fund it you know it's um so those are things that we're just
tracking and trying to to keep our eyes on um uh we are maintaining increased sub costs um there is an expanded use of sick leave uh with our earned safe and sick time and so um because of that we are we are maintaining increased sub
cost so that we we aren't caught off guard there as mentioned all contracts are settled so there should be very little variation there we are also looking at maintaining budget allocations for curriculum Cycles um I'm Cassie's going to talk more about that a
little bit later I think just a in a highlight to where our curriculum needs are um and then we have designated funding to the restricted fund for the ongoing building needs so um some other things that are built in again we've got the multi-year
planning for the athletic fields um and and again that's um I know that that we've been talking about that and I do want to reassure our community um and board members this is not falling off to the Wayside we are making sure that it's
done correctly and that we're we're doing it um in compliance you know there's a number of steps that we want to make sure that that we have in place we're also taking a look after the last negotiation session to make sure that all of our job classifications we remain
in alignment you know when you are an organization like our size well actually all employers within the state of Minnesota you have to have compliance with your pay equity and and your job distributions and um over the last couple of negotiation Cycles we've had
some big swings we want to make sure that we're still in alignment and um keeping track that everything is is progressing the way that it should be um um we continue to analyze the PA system the announcement system at the at the secondary and our
sound fields at the elementary um those are again that was one of the the hopes with our um PEC Levy is that we would be able to um budget for that over the course of a couple years and make it happen um and so we're we're keeping an eye on that we also watching our
preschool enrollment if you remember we added a halftime uh a halftime preschool teacher um that we were able to find actually that'll be on the next um on the business meeting at the end of June um but we're watching those preschool numbers and and when preschool is
growing you know that that means that our Elementary programs are going to grow so we're we're keeping an eye on that and hopeful uh hopeful that we can continue to have expanded conversation about growth okay um and we are actively working on
the renewal of the tech Levy um so it expires in 2024 and so what that means is that if it doesn't pass the district will no longer receive Revenue beginning in taxes payable 25 so it's something that we certainly are keeping on the radar and and looking at what that would
mean from an implication perspective okay um with that are there any questions about the draft budget or the the anything that you would like further inform before it's presented to you at the end of the
month and if if you think of something between now and then send me a message and I can certainly add it to the June agenda as well you were looking into your uh Insurance do you uh you know I know you got to compare apples to apples
but I guess I do that with my farm MH and homeowners uh you just kind of got to shop around a little bit but I know in general a lot of places are 25 to 30% higher but how
long have we been with the individual we've been with I guess how many years has it been um with the that agency um I want to say and I'm gonna look through I think you two may have been on the board I think um I know Bruce was Prior uh I
think there we were with different agency at the early part of Bob ht's term and then Midway through that term um went over to from one local to another local um so is that sound about right so you know
it's not indefinitely it hasn't been an indefinite amount of time um I did ask for some um comparisons there the one piece with insurance um and it so you're you're going to know this when you work with an agent there are
certain carriers that they can have and can't have and and that are in certain areas um and uh I did in exploring with some of my colleagues I did ask for um information about some from some other
providers Liberty Mutual is who we currently have and that's Who provided our bid um and I've asked a couple of different um I guess inquiries with other providers and other um not the right word the insurance carrier carrier thank
you um and and so there's there's pros and cons some won't give us an estimate and some you know because we we've been with them before and we've had some other you know so there's a there's a variety of of um factors that come into
that consideration well and unfortunately you don't know sometimes what you have for coverage until you have a claim hopefully you don't have a claim you and you know uh what you want to say a get into a preferred group status as
far as not have multiple claims but and that's with a lot of insurance companies unfortunately you pay the premium and until there's an actual claim read the plan print you don't know what you have for coverage until you get a point unfortunately so with our um with our
workers comp we did buyback credits for a number of years because we we had some low rates so we were able to or we were given credits and buyback we were given credits because of our um of of our claim rate um with our property and liability we haven't had large claims um
a part of what I understand from uh from the Liberty Mutual not and this is um so I'm going to sound really really uneducated because there's a lot of terms that are very specific to the
insurance um the percentages of areas of the state and the country of what gets rated based on claims and all of those things Minesota and if we all watch the news and pay attention Minnesota has had a a number of
natural dis like we've had lots of storms lots of wind damage hail many of those things which has impacted our area and so um i' I've vetted that out with a couple of my colleagues and their um
insurance providers um I do feel like we are getting a competitive rate I do think we can ask and that's part of why I'm recommending to do a month to month so we can continue to look and see what we have for options but and I'm not opposed to doing that I just I do think
we have to be prepared that um when you have a different company come in it is a it's a substantial um load to get all of the the ages of the buildings the roofs the come in and you know so there there's a lot of a lot that goes into
that um to make sure that it would be worth it kind of looking into playing with the deductibles too a little bit as far as to maybe have some cost savings but I guess I I don't know how far you know we can stick our neck out as far as
to eat it deductible you know so there are some um there's some opportunities where you can buy you can buy down your your deductible um and I've I'm waiting to hear on that cost um but I haven't heard the final numbers on what that
cost is yet good question thank you yeah this is nothing unusual we had our Alden Park G meting last night that's what we talked about increase in insurance and the fact that there's less and less people willing to insure bigger yeah companies all
right great um so that doesn't require any action um um would you like me to move on to the literacy okay uh so I'm going to invite Cass on up um to share um our literacy plan so as she's coming up I'll just kind of give a little bit
of History um so as we talk as we've talked a lot about the read act um this is one of the mandates and requirements that came out of the the read act um and it does replace the read well by third grade and the read well by third grade was incorporated ated into the the
world's best Workforce um a number of years ago and now the literacy is kind of pulled back out and so we have a the literacy plan um and so Cassie I'm going to turn it over to you and I'll pull up the plan and let you just kind of direct me where you would like me to have um
have them look perfect um so I decid I went back and forth do I give this overview off of the plan template or do I Jazz it up and make a presentation and go that route I did go with the template because I want you to see how mde has
laid that out for us and you're going to see how it's all connected whereas I felt if I did a presentation I might miss how they're connected um so bear with me it's a lot of text um I plan to summarize um but to go along with
Janelle's overview this was passed in May 2023 so it is very recent um since then there have been many updates and uh Janelle and I and Educators all over the state have been
attending um legislative update seminars to get the latest and greatest what's happening with the react what does this change mean and how does that impact us and so there's constant communication around this and I'm anticipating this will continue to evolve um and so this
is the plan for 24 25 as we look into the new school year um with the read act there are different Focus areas before I get into the plan itself and those Focus areas are around curricular resources dyslexia family and
Community engagement professional development screening and if you remember um when we did a presentation on Fast Bridge screening data a couple of times um so that's what that screening refers back to interventions and then there's a whole section about
this specific plan so that's what we're going to talk about tonight is the actual plan and how all of those other Focus areas go into this plan um the read well by third grade really honed in on K through three with some expansion
of the higher grades this local literacy plan there's still some conversation about where is the focus but you're going to see that it does go a 12 and so we're going to talk about some things um that you know really systematically what
are we doing across the board versus just at the elementary level um right now the plan is focusing at the elementary level and that's from MD's guidance um and we have more information coming out on what that looks like for
fourth grade and up um you'll be able to see that we did include some information for fourth grade and up because those were some things that we've already been doing um so I included that or we included that into the plan already um so just again note that this is kind of
the first go at this plan um we are a little bit unsure of how this plan will be used at the state level um but we will uh receive that information I'm sure as as more updates come our Direction so we're going to jump in um
so really the the goal of the react and the local literacy plan is to support every child reading at or above grade level every year beginning in kindergarten and to support multilingual Learners and students receiving special
education services in achieving their individualized reading goals in order to meet grade level proficiency so that's the why we want kids reading at grade level at or above um so when we get down to the
district literacy goal our goal here at Paynesville is to ensure all students achieve grade level reading proficiency by the end of of third grade that's that goal right now where I said it's focused on the elementary piece so how do we get there what are the things that we're
going to do and have in place so we can achieve that um that first piece is implementing fastbridge as our Universal screener uh later on we'll talk about how mde has approved screeners fast Bridge was one of them um so thankfully
we were already um utilizing that that Tool uh next is implementing personal learning plans and so this is coming from the read act um any student who is not reading at grade level we will be responsible for providing a personal
learning plan to notify and involve parents um that their child is not reading at grade level and providing families with um at home literacy development support and opportunities uh
so what can families do to help support their child at home in the area of reading so that's that second piece that we will work on um we will continue our use of evidencebased interventions uh you heard a lot about
mtss this year and some last year we'll continue with our intervention model and how do we meet the needs of students um really looking at what is our what's been our practice at the elementary and how do we scale that up to Middle School into High School students um who are not
reading at grade level um certainly professional development um continuing our training with letters um as we onboard new staff um making sure that they have the opportunity to receive that training um in the science of
reading and then our last area that we'll focus in on as I mentioned is that MTS that multi-tiered system of support making sure that those systems are K12 and not just at the elementary level and so what do we need to do as a system to make that happen for all of our
students um the next portion is looking at the universal and dyslexia screening those are the three tools that mde has approved and as I mentioned fast bridge is one of them and that is what we've been using um for a few years now so
we'll continue to use that um looking at dyslexia and we'll dive a little bit deeper later on um but dyslexia screening um is included in fastbridge however there's more information coming out on that and what subtests are required in order to identify
characteristics of Dyslexia and what do we do as Educators um to educate our families and how do we uh support our readers who might uh display characteristics of Dyslexia we are not diagnosing dyslexia but we can identify
the characteristics okay um and so in there we call out the fast Bridge subt what is required um from from this local literacy plan already there's been an update um that we are
screening fall winter and spring initially it was fall and spring uh since then they've called out all three um uh testing windows so we'll continue that practice that is our current practice right now um the next page
three uh we call out what screeners are we giving um how often and um which subtest students are getting then we look at grades 4 through 12 and this was the area that was not required for this
local literacy plan but this is already our practice so we were able to identify um what we're currently doing uh for grades four through um 10th grade utilizing fastbridge then the next portion of local literacy plan is looking at parent
notification and owvment and so how do we communicate with families when they have a child that is not reading at grade level and so MD is providing some guidance and some templates around what that looks like and they're calling it a personal learning plan so your child is
not reading at grade level here's what we're going to do in response to the data that we have um and so that will be shared with families again some of this we are already doing we do this at parent teacher conference time we talk
about um here's the target here's where your child is at here are the things that we have in place here at school here are some additional activities or um opportunities you could do at home with your child as a reader um report cards uh that shows progress towards
literacy standards that is shared with families um families receiving fastbridge Universal screening reports uh three times a year uh so we will uh kind of tweak that practice and make sure that all three screening periods fall winter and spring that's getting
into fam's hands um Elementary Middle School secondary um we're going to create the personal learning plan so that way um when a parent receives it it's recognizable um and that it's not changing grade to grade um but there are
some common common themes on that personalized learning plan uh so when families receive that then looking at our mtss um that parent notification piece um right now our mtss team provides quarterly reports uh to
students that they are are serving um but this will be expanded because our mtss folks um don't necessarily work with all students not meeting The Benchmark um there's our mtss kiddos and then there's some kiddos here and then
our kiddos that are meeting the Target and above and so looking at all students not meeting um that reading benchmark okay um and then I included some examples of at home literacy
strategies um that we will share out with with parents and making sure that they are age and developmentally appropriate um and things that families are able to do um that don't have a lot of uh pre-planning or prep work it's
they're driving in the car and um you know they're they're rhyming or they're calling out familiar words um you know repeated strategies and things like that so those are the types of strategies that we will provide to families um looking at that next piece
um around dyslexia there was some language in the read well uh by third grade around dyslexia and some of that carried over uh to the read act however mde is um has not quite determined that exact criteria
um for determining the characteristics of Dyslexia so that's kind of what school districts are waiting on is what does that look like because we want to make sure that we have the correct information before we put numbers up stating eona students have
characteristics of Dyslexia right we want to be accurate in that um so we can communicate that effectively to families um so you'll see the as there and then in the chart um right now you we have an aster um with that note
because we didn't want to put numbers there not knowing for certain what that criteria looked like okay uh but you can see the number of students we um screened in the fall how many students met the met or exceeded the Benchmark in
the fall and then that same data in the spring how many were screened and how many were at or above and we were able to provide that data kindergarten through 10th grade so that's the piece around dyslexia um more to come on that as we get more
information from mde the next piece um this is where I get excited uh looking at core reading instruction what do we give access to all of our students in core reading what does that look like and so um there's an
asct there during 2324 um hanesville area elementary school in implemented Journeys Edition 2012 um and during the last school year we conducted research of evidence-based Literacy curricula for implementation of
the starting school year so our um reading team committee our Ela committee uh spent the school year and years past um looking at a new reading curriculum a comprehensive reading curriculum that
covered all of the areas of literacy and mde has spent um a lot of time and and resources doing kind of the similar thing and so mde has approved comprehensive programs
um not plural has approved a comprehensive program um where they have vetted and have gone through their rubric and scoring system and intense process um and stated that this El education
comprehensive program has met our criteria um and so we've spent some time looking at what mde approved um and we looked at others where it um was approved in certain areas but not all
and so therefore mde didn't give the stamp of approval for those uh curricular resources so we went with what we felt was the next best right and so using MD's scoring rubric we were able to identify these are the areas
that this curriculum is strong in these are the areas that we're going to have to um hone in on and provide extra support and make sure that we are intentional about we know what low in this area so how do we meet those needs in that area um and so after much uh
research and collaboration um we have uh decided to go with Benchmark Advance the addition of 2022 so they're most recent um which they've done um a very comprehensive alignment with letters with the science
of reading and so as you know our staff um the majority have been trained in letters and so we were able to do that crosswalk to make sure that that comprehensive program matches our professional development right and I I strongly believe we have experts um
amongst our staff um that can really look at Benchmark advance and notice okay this is what I know about letters this is what I know about Benchmark Advance this is how we're going to meet those needs in Benchmark Advance where they came up short um so we'll be able to do that and um have that professional
development throughout the year so with that being said um next year will be our first year using Benchmark advance and making that purchase um is a big a big to-do and so very thankful that we were able to as a district allocate funds to
support that um that purchase and really have that comprehensive streamlined approach um where our readers are going to be given um high quality literature um at the elementary level and then you know you might be asking what about the
secondary what does that look like so then we can have those conversations and I was able to meet with secondary Ela this year and have similar conversations what are the needs what are our current um resources that we're using what does that look like and so we're having those conversations
at the same time mde is right as I mentioned that they're coming out with guidance around secondary and we're having those conversations as well is what we're currently doing meeting the needs of our students if so if not right um so you'll see that's listed there um
we were also asked to indicate how much time um is spent on the instructional delivery model um whole group small group and then power half hour that is our mtss time for all students receive additional support in Reading whether
that's remedial or at level or extension of grade level okay so then that next I'm on page nine sorry um think you go back see they can't they can't opt out
of this this isn't like MCAS where they I don't know why they're required to do this right so this is the are you talking about families and parents or both yeah I mean I don't know why a parent wouldn't want their kid to do it and so
this is the this is the um tool that we will use to teach Minnesota academic okay reading standards okay so all kids get this it's kind of a requirement yeah Yep this is what guides our instruction
y um the core Ela like I mentioned for grades 6 through 12 um right now much of our resources are teacher um Cur curated am I saying that right which um they're utilizing resources to create their
scope and sequence of of their their reading classes aligned to um Minnesota State Standards uh comprehensively we've got the block schedule that's how many minutes are allocated um working with Mr rason as well as Mr orline and what that
looks like um moving forward so we'll have those same conversations as we did at the elementary level with the secondary again this was 6 through 12 was not required to report on but I thought it was important for us to see our current reality and what we're
currently doing in order to make those next steps doing okay yet yep I don't know how much time I'm um database decision making for literacy interventions and so how are we
responding to students when they're not meeting grade level um reading expectations what are we doing there well Hinesville has done a fantastic job setting up an mtss framework meeting the needs of all of our students um and so
we will continue our mtss framework um and expanding that into the secondary how do we just explain real quickly what the mo what mtss stands for yes multi-tiered systems of support so you can think of your remedial your
reteaching your on level and your extending and so um in the past um a lot of focus was on the remedial side right and and some of this language is focused on the remedial but we really want to focus on all
students even those that are meeting the Target and above we want all students to be growing right and so that's really the mtss focus um whereas before there was other um language that really focused on the remediate side so we're expanding it um is that
y um so with Paynesville mtss also is MD's mtss Minnesota mtss framework and so we have done a lot of work um in aligning our painel practices to the Minnesota mtss and so that's been
exciting uh to see and work collabor collaboratively with Minnesota um on that work and so we're looking at component number one our infrastructure um how do we scale this up to um the secondary what does that look like what
are some things that we're going to need in place and then how do we use data to make our decisions around who gets interventions and how do we decide what the intervention is deem it was effective and exit students once they've
met that Benchmark okay um the next page 10 and 11 that's all of our our data resources that we rely on as Educators to make informed decisions about student programming that's an exhaustive list currently these are things that we are
using Elementary up to secondary um so I thought that was important to put in there um continuing on with Benchmark Advance we'll be um looking at you know what does that look like for implementation working closely with
Benchmark Advance um uh representatives and guiding us through the implementation process um as I mentioned literacy teams at the secondary will'll be continuing conversations around um identifying
evidence-based literacy curriculums and practices um and then this is when we get to um really the foundation of ntss and what is our process for identifying students who need interventions who aren't meeting grade level expectations
in the area of reading and so here's a a flowchart um students either meet The Benchmark or the Target or they don't and so what this flowchart does is it identifies what do we do when students don't meet that Benchmark um and so we
use the fastbridge data to guide that and it's a lot of if this then this scenario with the flowchart um I'm not going to walk through every piece of it but once we identify it's kind of like checking your oil right you check the
oil you check the level okay but then what your oil light comes on do you ignore it or do you go get a diagnostic test on it right what what's happening what's going on so then we give a diagnostic assessment let's get down to the root cause of why the student is not
meeting grade level Target and so we have assessments um that are administered to students that really give us that drill down uh so we can get down to uh this specific skill then we implement the intervention and um our
goal is to exit the intervention because it was effective and successful and so there's a a kindergarten and first grade uh flowchart that we use different data than we do for grades two through eight um which more so looks at the fluency
piece okay but the flowcharts are very similar um and I want to make sure I give credit where credit is due our mtss team developed the flowcharts um it was middle of May and we were in an mtss meeting and I said
you know what I need a visual I need a flowchart where we can see all the moving pieces and this is what they came up with um in a matter of time so I want to give them a shout out for their hard work with that so that's our intervention
framework um looking at professional development plan again going back to the the letters training for our staff and continuing that work um we've spent the last three years uh training staff in letters the science of reading and and making sure that we have that
evidence-based foundation and so we'll be starting a new cohort myself included um I've gone through the administrative uh training but um going through the actual training that our certified staff have gone through um so we'll start that
new C for um later on this this fall um again we're waiting for some guidance from mde and language around that um and mde is recommending that we do that in phases phase one and phase two and so letters stands for language Essentials
for teachers of reading and spelling and there's some more reading you can do about um what is letters for educators and what are their takeaways after going through the training you're interested in that um mde is asking us to call out in
phase one they're saying these are the people that must received letters training um let me back up mde approved three um training modules if you will and letters is one of them um there's two
others that districts can choose from uh we are going to continue with letters um so they in phase one they're they're saying how many of your staff are in these categories how many of your Educators have completed the training
already how many are in progress and how many Educators still need the training in Phase One and so um we sorted through and sifted through our staff um and you can see that we're we're sitting very nicely with the number of um Educators
that have completed the training already and so like I said we'll be starting that new cohort of um that next that next wave of training um and mde recognized es um that this is going to
take some time and letters is one of the um more intense um takes longer time to complete and so they are giving us an extension um if if districts choose letters so that's the phase one I think I quickly
added 13 Educators who still need training that will um kind of scoop up this fall looking at phase two then you can see um who are the other Educators that will receive training in phase two and
there's more guidance coming around phase two and when that should be started and and completed okay then lastly yes the last page um of the local literacy plan what is our
action planning for continuous Improvement um as you know we are a district committed to continu its Improvement as an ongoing effort to enhance teaching practices student learning outcomes systematic processes in the overall performance of the school
district and so we will continue to refine evidence-based literacy instruction and practices um during next school year by doing the following we'll provide letters training we'll conduct intervention uh Fidelity checks making sure that they're effective in meeting
the needs of our students um we will implement the evidence-based comprehensive literacy program uh Benchmark advance uh kindergarten through grade five we'll continue to have those same conversations at the secondary level and then we will expand our mtss um
intervention time uh to grades 6 through 8 and continue to collect and analyze student performance data in order to meet the needs of our students so there's this piece this is found on our school website in addition
to this paper plan um we need to submit a digital um survey that will go to mte with the same information so this can be found and that was that's due June 15 June 15 y so I will click submit
tomorrow I wanted to present it here um first and submit tomorrow questions on there's a couple of things that I'll just um add to first of all thank you the the amount of work that has gone into um this this plan
and just understanding the react I know between you and the ELA team the mtss um Core Group there's just been so much work that's got into that so thank you that's that's really good work um and and as we get into the legislative
updates you're going to hear that some of the things as of for instance The Benchmark Advance you know it's an evidence-based reading curriculum and um what we've had up to this point would not it it's not based on the science of reading
and so we were in a position where we had to do something and so I was really grateful that you had um your team ready and the team was they were anxious and they were hungry and they were just um really ready to dig in and do that work so um I'm excited to see where that goes
and and there will be some some funding that we'll be able to access and and utilize for some of this training and um so there are we're going to talk a little bit more about this but thank you for your hard work on that it's this was a LIF and I think your team did a nice
job question but all on the overview I just have a comment I I like that there's a flow chart that's put in this and I know people may look at it think well that's really busy but just just me kind of scanning it real quick is very
comprehensive because it explains where you're at where you're going so you can see that whole thing that's absolutely fabulous thank you I noticed a lot is said about dyslexia are there other stumbling blocks that could possibly be caught in
this program also um Define stumbling blocks or just other learning disabilities or yeah so we use this data for multiple reasons right and multiple purposes and sometimes um of
not sometimes oftentimes this data is used when we say a student is not meeting Benchmark and we do the diagnostic to the drill down right sometimes it might lead us to um a different referral process it might uh lead us to additional supports uh for a
student um sometimes a specific learning disability might be the path that we end up taking right um for for a student um sometimes it's just that extra scoop and that's all that kid needed um so lots of different paths that we take using using
this but um to have the accessibility to this data and really understand it is is imperative to the work that we do um so we are going to continue using fast bridge and and building our understanding of what does the data tell us um because we can be data rich and
have all the data at our fingertips but what is it actually telling us and then how do we respond to it thank you thank you thank you all right all right so um I promise I'm not going
to go through every every 50 every uh 55 slides I will not do that um but I will I am gonna call out just a few things um and I think what I'm going to do so really Pages 1 through 10 um when they walk through the
legislative session are really about language updates they're about corrections to statute they're about um pieces that were missed in one statute but they were corrected in other places so a lot of there there's a lot of language changes but really there's two
Focus areas that we're going to talk just kind of about the implications one is the education policy bill and the other is the education finance bill so um as you kind of I guess scroll forward um one of the pages that I'm going to
just stop on on page uh is on page 11 so again one through 10 are a lot of up dates is kind of the forecast the B like where the process of how they got from where they started to where they got where they ended um so we're going to
just kind of dig in on on page 11 um so on page 11 one of the things that I wanted to um really call out that's going to impact and and it's going to be a change for us is um this
year we will have so we we will have six hours of required training prepare professional last year we had eight and actually um next year we will have eight as well but two of them are um intended to meet a very specific purp purpose so our pair
professionals do have professional development training in work uh back to school Workshop week I'm actually pretty excited about the opportunity they have with the West Central education District this fall um West Central Ed is going to be doing um kind of a an intensive par
day where they get to go and they get to have a variety of training opportunities and it's they can pick and choose what it is that they um they attend and they will have breakout sessions and so it will be really applicable to all the pair of Professionals in whichever kind
of Niche that they serve okay um the biggest change for us is that this year um we are required to um provide um an a separate a separated out 2hour differential of
um of training opportunities for our pair professionals who are not yet highly qualified so where that's coming from is that the Minnesota Department of Education um provided guidance that they said well this really was no nothing new
um but your pair of professionals have to be highly qualified which means they have to have an equivalent of a two-year a uh 60 credits um for an associate degree 60 semester credits um or P have a passing grade on a passing
score on a um a designated assessment which would be the PA Pro or the PA educator so really what the intent of that is is to make sure that all of our pair professionals have the academic skills to support our students with learning disabilities and in the
academic classes um that has been um it's been a um a requirement forever um through Federal legislation but I I don't believe that the Minnesota Department of Ed ever had a tracking or
a mechanism or a emphasis to say well yes that's our requirement as well so that is now here and what the legislature did is they set aside two hours so that we an equivalent of two hours of pay so that we have the
opportunity to provide testing materials and um the tests for pair of professionals who were hired in 232 for that have not yet met the highly qualified status okay so that's really an opportunity for us to make sure that we um we can get our pair
professionals um certified um and qualified okay I hesitate to say certified um because it's it's not really a certification yet and I say yet because one of the things that's in the
legislative update as well is that um M MBE is having a conversation with pby the professional education educator licensing board about the qualifications that are required for pair professionals so um so this just gives us some some
Revenue to help pay for the assessment or the testing options for our pair professionals okay um the next uh next one that I'm going to have you um move forward to is on page
15 uh page 15 is on the facilities page but really has to do with referendums and bonds and and the fact is is that they changed the um the review and comment period so that it's 45 days um at least 40 48 days and not more than 60
70 days it used to be 60 I put that in there because as board members you might remember or be familiar with oh election stuff there's timelines so it's something that was addressed in this last session okay um we're also going to scroll down
to page 19 uh page 19 is um the uh districts and Charters must adopt the school's cell phone policy I talked a little bit about this last month but um I'm still waiting
to hear from um from the School Board Association and legal council whether or not our um internet acceptable use policy which is 524 which outlin cell phone use um and our student handbook which really does prohibit um student
cell phone use if those will be adequate or if we need to have a a board designated policy so more to come on that but I I do think that there's a lot of um conversation about the detriment of cell phones for our students in in school um so I I'm I'm not surprised to
see that that coming uh coming out of the legislation um on page 22 one of the things that uh we will have to have some conversation around at the board level is um just having a board approved language access plan we do have some
students and their families who are primarily Spanish speakers um so we need to be really cognizant of what is our communication and how does that look so um there is a requirement to develop some a board approved language access plan and when I hear more about what
that looks like that'll be coming as well um looking at page 24 um there is a renaming of the world's best Workforce we were really hoping that that might just go away uh not going away they're just changing the
name so it is now going to be changed uh and it was changed in statute to the comprehensive achievement and Civic Readiness Plan um the structure of the plan my understanding has not yet changed um but that is going to prompt a
whole bunch of policy review from our policy committee because the world best Workforce is referenced in a whole host of policies so more to come on that but um I think really what it is is it's about um kind of I guess I would guess in the
future it's going to change to um our academic achievement and and we do know that there's a Civics requirement that is part of our high school curriculum I have a hunch that in the future those are going to come to a little bit more um conversation but for right now we have the name change
okay um I also wanted to um speak a little bit to um the read app so if you take a look at starting on page um 30 you're going to see conversation about the read app okay um again the amount of
um the amount of conversation that got has gone into the signs of reading um I can't say enough um how prepared and how ahead of the game our district was and I um I think it's just been um a a gift
that um the the lifting the heavy lifting of the letters work I mean it was a lot of work for our our staff and they're in a much better place than so many of our colleagues and so I'm just really grateful that that we are in the position we are um so with that there's
kind of two pieces I I wanted to call out to you on there's two different funding sources um uh slide 31 one and slide 32 have two different per pupil dollar amounts so one of them is 3602 times your students service so for us
that's going to be 899 students so that first allocation of money is going to be 35,9 for us this is the money that is set aside to compensate teachers for the training and the professional development you will see that there is
um that that uh leas districts are required to enter into a memorandum of understanding after Consulting with teachers on allocating funds we have not yet done this uh we are waiting for guidance and I know that um msba Masa
um uh so the Schoolboard Association uh the superintendent Association and I think there's um I might be the there might be a couple others are working H in hand inand with Education Minnesota to develop a
template memorandum of under of understanding that then we as um a district so it'll be our negotiating committee I would assume and myself along with our teacher negotiators will sit down and and develop the memorandum
of understanding of how this funding is applied now I I'm not even going to speculate on what that looks like yet because um I haven't seen any guidance as far as what the considerations are I do know that it will be a pretty robust
memorandum because it'll spell out lots of situations and scenarios on how to compensate moving forward the other pot of money is um uh it's it's um this is the money the $35 million in curriculum funding so um if
you think back to last year one of the reasons why we put a portion of funding aside for curriculum was because there was another portion of of Revenue that was going to be set aside to use for curriculum but it had to be for the
designated mde approved curriculum we were waiting for mde to come through this process and they they um they contracted with Carrie which is a an organization out of the University of Minnesota that that uh worked through
this vetting process and that's where they came up with one one curriculum um as Kathy mentioned their team did a lot lot of of evaluation of would that work for us would we be able to afford it
would we would it align with the the um work that's happened thus far a whole bunch of variables kind of came to to look at that there was a whole there was a lot of push back um about the fact that this curriculum this money could only have
been used for one curriculum and there are a lot of districts that were in our boat where they've gone through the process and they had just p purchased other curriculums that really are evidence-based and there are some areas of vulnerability but they can they can
support through a host of other uh resources and so the legislature um heard that and they heard that um they needed to put some flexibility into that Revenue so this $35 million has been reallocated by $ 39.94 times the number
of students served so that's 35,9 uh 35 96 for us so now that doesn't mean that we can use it for that curriculum but we can use it because it the curriculum that we're purchasing
isn't on the list yet now they're they're re-evaluating however we can use it for other things that we've been using literacy money for so that we can free up some funds right so we'll be able to do some reallocation of literacy Aid U which will be really
helpful so um those are two pieces of shifts in legislation that I thought were really helpful through the read act okay um I'm also G to um scroll down to page 37 um and this is really exciting um I
feel a little bit bad for our our student teachers that have completed student teaching um but there is a pilot program um to compensate student teachers um as you guys are well aware
our student teachers aren't paid they're um they're paying tuition uh to come and work for free you know it's really a tough it's a tough sell and especially as you look at uh bringing in um somebody that might have a second do
teaching as a second career you really can't give up your your income and come back and a student teach so I'm excited to see what this looks like and how this comes about but um there's 6 million $6.5 million um teacher preparation
programs are are are part of the pilot so it's looking to be approximately $688 per student teacher then it's not it's not a full reimbursement but there's some money right so we'll see um
we'll keep an eye on that to see um how that it how that expands but um more to come on that but it was an exciting uh that's an exciting P pilot program uh the other piece that I was excited to see in the legislation is some
clarification that we can um access tier one and tier 2 lure for special education um last year there was a challenge um from oep which is our federal governance of um um of special
education that said if you're issuing a a tier one or a tier two special education license they're not qualified to teach special education students uh the state of Minnesota pushed back um and they said then we'll have nobody teaching our
students with disabilities we we can do this we can provide support for them we can we can give them the necessary professional development and we can support them through mentorship and there was a lot of there's a um a a a
there's pipelines of programs to develop our special education teachers and so gratefully um we were able to continue with tier one and tier two with these two Provisions you have to have high quality professional development in
place with intensive supervision um and then a tier one license is limited to three years which is I in my opinion that's reasonable so um I know there's a lot um it seems as though in a um in a
non-budget year um there shouldn't be quite so many things but there certainly a lot of things so any questions on any of those legislative updates I know this is really good and exciting reading and help yourself at that time you'll be out
no time any questions on that all right so then the final thing for me this evening um to share with you is our our Q comp plan um so typically um I I haven't made this is very very similar
to what was presented last year um but I do have some um green changes that I I wanted to highlight for you um based on the conversation with the Q comp leadership team um so professional projects you'll see are optional but
that was a green um and really the reason that was green is because this year um the uh the qm leadership team did not extend the professional project Ops and out to staff um there was a lot of conversation and you'll see in this
bottom um the bottom green there's a lot of conversation about how the uh steering team um and leadership team has evolved over the course of years and um there was just not there we there was an understanding that there needs to be
some clarity around rules and responsibilities and what that looks like um the the whole intention of the the Q comp program is to kind of develop some leadership capacity and um so you'll see in the green this is uh an up
that um that I received about where um where the qm leadership team would like to go and some of the the work that they have committed to doing over the summer so just so that so Bo board members are aware um the leadership team it consists of of teachers in both buildings um both
principles and myself and really the the conversation um you know the the administration um sits and we listen and we provide input and feedback but it's really not our plan to develop um and so um I know the team is is doing a lot of
um having a lot of conversation and and I'm excited to see where that goes for next year but really there's not a lot of substantive changes from last year to this year um but I do want to call out that there is a um a just a conversation about looking at the the growth
percentage of our of our for our targets for our staff and um any changes just so that we're we're clear when the Q comp plan is changed um if it's if there are substantial or structural changes those are um changes that need to be presented
to the unit as a whole so uh it's a lot of work and it's a lot of um a lot of time communication and collaboration and so more to come on that but um that's just kind of our our general um Q comp
update that is required um also by uh June 15th so I would expect next year that there will probably be a presentation by the Q count team so okay and with that I'll just turn it back to you okay was over at the near
the end here we've got time anyone have any comments requests for any kind of specific information or questions this is your opportunity as board members so is there anyone no not I I do just want to pass
on real quick I had a chance to talk with and uh Jasmine for West Central District at over documents over house very exciting together I know it's going to
do a lot for uh the West Central Ed District uh as far as the mandated ofing education for those folks that fall within the 18 22 uh years of
age um but they're also are going to need from the community sighting and and I'm hoping people in the community are listening to this of support from them as far as it being here and uh what we can provide for the US Central Ed
District so I did ask to gender uh it's that that big wish list and get out to the community this be possibly El stuff like that for the house so but yeah very exciting I'm I'm looking forward to the uh Schoolboard meeting
with them uh in July we get to walk through that and see our school here building our facilities better I support that and then just a update they have a name for the program oh the sale program
um soon as I wrote it down I realized I have the acronym but I don't remember top of my head but you'll see a sign the sign will change um the uh the church has given them permission to um update the signage to say sale and so um it'll
be coming up and and and I think that's a good thing uh that that they're allowing that because when I talk about uone house everything switches over to other Method Church owns that and so what's this you know or well we won't give anything because the method should
should be supp well this is something completely different so I think this will help out as far as really putting out there that there is a uh uh a district that is is you know supports for school districts within our area to
help these children out so I have the name what it stands for so Sale s a l is um skills for adulthood and independent living oh good um one of the things that I think is pretty cool about that is that um the students help to pick the
names of programs oh that's very good and and if uh you looked in the newspaper as far as the graduates from this year uh that uh um kind a uh portion that that additional portion that was put in there
there are there were students that said that they were going to this program that have graduated this year which is going to be great so y he anyone else have share not then I will all this
me J okay