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that the year now right all together about sh is that right TR order plance to the flag of the United States of
America to stand One Nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all okay adoption of agenda moved by Roger do I have a second
second second I heard Lori first I think uh any discussion all right all in favor say I I any oppos motion
carries moving on to recognition care professional recognition we was January 20th through the 26th yeah a lot of recognition going on we on our district of course we do it on all campuses so Clark had two buildings
to deal with and John did his and and Mike did his as well um I got to a couple of the festivities very nice the teachers worked real hard to also uh recognize the the Paris so at Clarks Building we had a taco feast afterwards
I was able to have a taco very good group to recognize thank you before we move on the cookies are um for us or the board because I did have a patron reach out they were seeing in some communities around us some are
celebrating board appreciation month if you remember the association msba moved it to September and that's when we celebrated it many schools did um but in this first year of transition I think it's going to take a little while
because February is always the traditional time that it used to be so it gives us an opportunity to uh have a cookie and all also to again thank you all for all you do for our schools communities and students thank
you thank you that nice now maybe you didn't hear me you're in the corner I didn't hear you to sh okay presentation time we are some of us data coaches are coming back with our winter data to
share with you um and looking at the K3 this is in regards to our fast Bridge screening um so we screen three times a year using G Bridge each subtest in fall winter and spring look a little bit different um especially at the K1 levels
um obviously we're starting out learning letter sounds letter names and then building upon that so as later in the year winter and spring then it gets a little more rigorous um looking at decodable words and things like that so the data isn't really
comparing um the same subtest but it is a snapshot of the whole grades as we look into that um and just looking at the data and meeting with different grade levels um and other adsis teachers and title
teachers we analyze that we pick apart um the kiddos that are doing well the kiddos that we think need more support and how do we support those those kiddos um in both the highend and in the low end if you want to click next Maria um
this is kind of a lot to look at but if you kind of look here um kindergarten first grade second grade third grade and each grade level has a different um screener per se minus the K or I'm sorry the second and third grade so
kindergarten we look at uh letter sounds uh letter names can they look at a book and can they flip it from read from left to right can they tell me Beginning Sounds and then building upon that looking at decodable words and then moving into reading sentences and
fluencing such uh the first two bar graphs are fall data so we have 15% some high risk 95% are meeting Benchmark standards and then this is the winter
data so it declined but then again remember our tests get a little more rigorous as it goes on so keep that in mind first grade we have 87% meeing in the fall winter 69% once again remind reminder that you know
those tests they're reading passages now they're reading three passages to me um second grade this is reading fluency so they get a passage and they read or they need to read it um and see how many words accurate uh how fluent
they read in a minute so 80% in the fall 71% in the winter uh same with third grade 65 the fall and 60 in the winter this is a typical this is what it should
typically look like with the riger that happens throughout this school year you know you're building on those Foundation pieces um so we do see a decline almost every winter and then we kind of see it shoot back up in the springtime that's just kind of the nature of the game um
and then we also can tell hey they're learning they're doing what we asked them to do um which is fun to see um say one more thing about that but I forgot I have a question um sure sure um
remind me again what is the curriculum that we using because is K3 and four six are they the same reading curriculum so are we talking curriculum or are we talking um benchmarks because that's well it's I mean it's intertwined obviously the curriculum matches and it
supports the benchmarks but everything the curriculum is the standards from the state of Minnesota that we support and fast for is a screener a benchmark that we use to fly kiddos to see whether or not do they need extra intervention are they an average kiddo um what kind of
supports can we give them okay so okay so they're they're two different things okay two different things all right thanks and a screener we could only screen three times a year um we progress monitor every two weeks um to monitor their progress throughout um whether it
be an average kid high kiddo or kiddos that need that extra support moving along Mara this is a snapshot of our reading Services targeted at the K3 building uh absis
Services uh K3 uh myself and Mrs Clawson we uh support the reading services along with myio per uh just kind of a culmination of things as of now at the beginning of the school we started with
94 kiddos and currently serving 55 so that's awesome to see that we had 94 kiddos essentially you could say like we're tutoring them oneon-one two on one um and then it's a fluid program so we always want them you know they have six
weeks of intervention they're doing great we can move them on kind of give them that dose of you know intervention that they need and they can move on and then they can be mainstreamed mainstreamed into the classroom um so right now servicing 55 and title is 1
through 3D that come to actual the title classroom kindergarten they go into the classroom the title teachers do um and they started at 65 and currently servicing 45 so we're hitting a lot of kiddos Early Intervention which is
amazing and Vanessa can you add just a little bit um for people's knowledge on Addis um what its purpose is because obviously you're doing that yep so Adis is alternative Delivery Systems of intervention and what it is is to
support kiddos um that are kind of falling at that 20 percentile and below and we don't want them to end up in special ed of course some do but we want to keep them out um of special EDS so we intervene oneon-one and two on one and
we give them that support we meet five days a week 25 minutes a day um very rigorous individualized instructions for the kiddos that we're seeing at that moment so that's K through three we do that moving on to math we do not have
Adis math Adis only takes place in Reading uh so we just have titled math and this is a computer-based program again in fast Bridge which is a screener uh and they do it what's called a math for second and third grade so they just
get on their iPads and it moves them along through the program and it drops them on the chart however they do whether it's computation addition subtraction um you know math things and early math in first grade they meet with
a PA one onone and they go over um Counting for example 10 11 12 what comes next and they count on or skip counting things like that so it's an individualized screener at the first grade level so in the fall you can see
90% our meeting winter 90% in second 62 increased to 66 in the winter and 69 to 65 um from fall to winter in third
gradea does um Adis for math simply not exist or it exists and we just don't do it here yet that is correct yep so when I first joined the Adis program um seven years ago we just had reading and it we just had it fresh in the district for
three years so we just kind of getting our feet wet um yeah so we have had a discussion like is it something we move forward with so it does exist it does exist actually exists in Behavior math and reading um from the state but it's also a grant and application process do
you qualify those kind of things so y thank you yep absolutely and that's math Services title math started with 30 9 kiddos and currently serving 28 kiddos so again
we're hitting those bottom kind of 20 25% of kiddos trying to get them at that average Mark so they can succeed in the classroom that's all has there been discussion at all
about considering um absis M yeah we just had a discussion last week uh one of the things again as Vanessa said it's an application process sure so we did make the decision to um apply uh for an
additional PA what that will do is allow them to service between 10 to 15 more kids with that par in the reading um so we did expand our reading um part of Adis and again continue
discussions on the math piece part of the funding um it's a set amount in this pool for assis right now at the state level so when you apply you're going to get some reimbursement I think ours is about 50%
is what we figure um but it's limited those dollars that are available so as more and more folks add like we are a Pera or math or behavior um less is available because that is a set amount
in that funding pool right now that that was my next question is will the Advent of Adis ma impact the the reading and is that a tradeoff it's probably too premature to even have that discussion
but it's something that needs to be considered um it's Statewide so us adding math is is it it takes volume um it'll impact obviously right um it just depends on how many more tools are
adding math and utilizing add for those available funds but I definitely think you know you can't get more bang for your buck in terms of the remediation at 50% cost is there a feel for math Statewide I mean reading obviously has
been on the table for quite a while and we had great success with it but is math just kind of up and coming or has it right there with M the whole and behaviors I think ever since they rolled it out okay
never do that thank you um I'm the 46 data coach and today I'm going to share the fast bridge data for the fourth fifth and sixth grade focusing on the a reading and the a math and it's not a typo the a math and a reading stands for adaptive math and
reading test so if a student will get a question wrong it's going to the next question will be easier to get it right the next one will be a little bit harder so this is our a reading and as you can see on this Slide the scores are pretty consistent in
fourth grade there is a 4% dip so with about 100 students in fourth grade this would represent about four students however I want you to know that even though they might have went down into the next risk category um they're still
making progress because as Vanessa said the benchmarks get harder as you go out throughout the year um so on the next slide for example in the winter a for
The Benchmark a fourth grade is set in the 7th percentile at 522 so if a student scored a 500 in the fall but they gained 15 points they're still not going to be at the Benchmark for the winter so we like this slide because
it's showing that in the fall our averages we went up from 509 to 513 and fifth grade went from 516 to 519 um so we're showing growth in all three grades in Reading they're just not all at that Benchmark based on where
they started and then this is the math um as you can see on this slide 68% of students across all of our grades are performing above grade level benchmarks if we look a little closer at sixth grade there are only one that went down
but if you look in the fall they started at 82% above benchmarks which is awesome uh they went down a little bit but our goal is to get them ready for seventh grade so the rigger in sixth grade is a little higher than
usual then the last one that I have is just again showing even though we're not at the 70th percentile we're still showing growth in all three so just one question so this was a reading and AA is there other not in our
building we just do these three because it puts all of the skills together because they should already have their phonics and their fluency by the time they get to us so we're like for math they they're just putting it all together and showing us what they know and reading is more comprehension can
they compare and contrast so um some things that might contribute to these percentages uh students are making gains it might just take longer than one testing window so just because we didn't
meet the winter there we can still go up um the biggest thing with this for the teachers is like when I look at it for the building I'm like oh that doesn't really mean much but as a teacher I can see each grade or each student each percentile that they got and I know that
they're all making gains so that helps me feel better know that I'm doing my job K thank you okay I'll talk about seventh and eighth grade data um again we give you
some numbers of fall in terms of now we use Exel okay different than fast brid and the g three and the um 4 six um that's just a tool that we use a lot that we find more as oppos to doing something different given that still gives us some data gives you some real time data you see some growth but
something we're actually using in class I use a lot and a lot of lot so here's the reading slides and what I've got up here is in the blue is where we were in the fall and then again we're just trying to look for growth right now so I just um for this for these winter numbers I just kind of put what um groups went up by or if it was like a
again maybe a small decrease whatever it may be um again most of them are games again the first number in those is kind of like the grade level they working on but again you're averaging entire grade level so you've got a variety of of students there so just understand like oh should they all set well there's many
many students Incorporated um and so just understand that where we're at everybody's working towards growth across the board which is good seeing a growth of about 100 points is about a grade level growth which is great to see already winter so some very good numbers across the board
for and again these aren't necessarily things that this ISL is testing on but are these Minnesota standards necessarily not exactly put it a screen and the show some dat the things are moving in the right direction so there's the re slide and then the next one is the MTH SL and
again I talked about it again I'll refer more because that's what I teach I know the most about um as you look at these again our curriculum basement Minnesota state stand again that's that's our Co stuff high level um here again fra like fractions for example we don't work a
lot of fractions in we have them in problems absolutely but we're not like hammering add any fractions today my you know so we're working on things that are again based towards the standard but they're Incorporated our problems but that's why you don't see a lot of fraction level growth we're not that's not our focus our focus is algebra so
you know we went up to host in algebra so that's that's a linear algebra class that's and seventh grade followes kind of similar curriculums things they do a lot of number and operation and algebra as well things you see close or even again marginally up or down have nothing
to I just have one question and this is a clar question the 611 like if I look at overall math level 611 what does that number mean so this is like on average student again not based on the Minnesota state standards based on whatl has for
General standards across a lot of different topics say that on average all these overall math level they're about a sixth grade level that's what it says you go by the first number the first numberb is like the grade kind of oh okay all right thanks and then if they get to 650 they're about halfway through
six grade level again avering many many students with strong abilities and not so strong you know so it's it's a wide and then we put these uh last two slides on here just as a reminder we actually presented this um a number of years back but it was just almost a good reminder that again when students are in school that's always the best thing for
them they're attending school they're here they're getting their education you if they're not always getting every assignment in or Bing every test this is um the spring results from this past you know last past spring MCAS it's theend of each student okay and this is um for grades four through eight every student
grade four through eight who took the MCA the doc on here right scatter PL for those don't know totally stuff this my stuff okay um so I'll try to explain it good I'll do my best okay so we scatter every student is up here for grad four gr the test they took but also ploted
against how many days they missed okay um again so a lot of students May don't miss a ton but as you miss more obviously it is we know it's reflective those students we see in class like they're missing out of material they're missing lessons missing okay and we do a scatter plot and make a trend line what you know it is going down because the
more days they miss um obviously it's not not as good for them academ as we know I'm just kind of summing up I've got a bunch of numbers here but if they miss a weak of school that we found on the NCA score that that was about two points off on the MCA per versus again students who were there it was five days
so um again no that's for reading and then we just did one for math as well and math is even more so a student misses a week of school usually down about 2.5 um because I think math is again more of a learn skill right so when you're there you're learn you're learning things like that so it's tougher to Lear that outside of school
so it's just a reminder that um when students are here that is the best for being in class being here so um and just we did just we don't have a slide for this but just a little bit of rough date on that too we threw this on there I been talk about preco versus past versus
now right um again we looked at some rough numbers about from 10 years ago anded data from the last couple years students are missing about four five more days than they used to miss for whatever reasons whether it's sickness whether whatever may be since Co but some 10 years ago students are gone a
little longer and we talk about scores are down Statewide for everyone that's just a reminder think students are for you know can be external reasons it can be ill reason but students are g a little more often so when we're having here um we are doing good things those are and those are just
strategies I add that slide you've seen those already those are from the fall things we are do work that Str ma whatever some our supports question
you and just just helping me to understand okay the PLC meetings to focus on student learning that's grade level is that right like like for um well at the 78 I me with the other math teacher so so I think other your
building more okay and you're just talking about how you're teaching Lon well looking at data what are you g to do for these kids that AR yeah thank you thank you moving on to public comment just a
reminder speakers must identify themselves each person has allow three minutes comment for input only and will not get a board response and public comment must be respectful in civil we have four individuals signed up that anybody
else wish to get signed up before the meeting started okay we will start with Katie Brown hi everyone my name is Katie Brown and I'm excited to be here very passionate about the fantastic job these teachers do each and every day I Now
understand why my kids do some of their iels and what they learn from it so thank you for sharing that um but I'd like to address the board this evening I've attended many meetings in person and I've watched them online and I first want to thank you thank you wholeheartedly for taking the time to be
on the school board I know you don't do it for the money I don't do you don't do it for the prestige but you do it because you truly care about our students and our schools so thank you for your dedication I want to address some reoccurring behaviors that I've witnessed and I feel could help us improve if it if it's aware awareness
that you bring SO meetings are recorded and in the past I've observed that during public comments I don't feel listened to when I've given comments and that's frustrating and we all know that eye contact is part of people feeling listen to so I will encourage you to give eye
contact to those that are giving public comments because I will tell my kids that is the first way to truly people know you are listening and you're listening to the words being said not just hearing them but truly absorbing and listening to what is being said this is the first step to making people feel
respected when they give public comment I also will say that conflict and debate and conversation are necessary and highly effective teams Truly Come Together to take these times to disagree but it also leads to fruitful conversations I witnessed that there are
times when some people just shut down or strike back instead of absorbing and taking time to take time to listen to what others are saying and even though you might disagree taking time to Value their opinion and there has to be a sense of trust among a team in order to
have a fruitful conversation as I've observed medians in conversations it feels like there's a lot of disagreement and that is okay we need to make sure that we are using them to really come together as a community and the school board is not a place for users them I'd like to address to to an an item on
tonight's agenda as someone who is here making a public comment I don't understand why we'd limit it to 30 minutes while everyone's time is valuable it is also the Public's time to speak emails are great but often feel like they're unread and if you limit it to 30 minutes that's 10 people how are
you going to make the decision of who those 10 are um I also want to say that you know adding last minute gened items as a mom as a professional and as someone that's staying home most the kids by myself um with a husband out of town I really have
to pick and choose when I can come to a meeting so when things are added to an agenda that doesn't feel good as part of the public because I maybe would have came to a meeting instead of watching it at home so please be respectful of everyone and allowing us to prepare to be part of these meetings by by not in
avoiding doing that finally I'd like to take the moment to recommend a book to the board it is Patrick lenion it's the five dysfunctions of a team this book provides valuable insights on how trust is built within a team and how it can help overcome challenges to achieve
greater cohesion and success thank you for your attention and understanding all right I I really do appreciate everything that you do thank you thank you I realize that wasn't very well I'm sorry um we have and
hi my name is Su tangan um I am a member of the community and I'm am a past board member I was on the bo so I know where you are at however we had a totally different board
at that time and the way we acted but I still want I still follow what's going on in the community was going on the school board even though my children have been graduated for 20 some years um tonight I'm concerned about the district advisory policy I believe the
district policy sent by the superintendent Eric sent in is close to what the msba would be recommending as I served on the policy committee for all 12 years I was on the board including during consolidation which was very difficult
we always had more than one member on the board and that and we usually use the msba policy as a base never did we use one written by one board member the committee is made up of more than one
person the policy Mrs Hart brought forward seems to micromanage as the past member I know that we are not to micromanage that is not the board's job I have chose to do the right thing I hope you choose to do the right thing
and vote for the policy the superintendent sent forward I feel that this is the right policy to go with and it does not make her a manage as you see in Mrs Hearts um it Mrs har say only the
thoughts of one person and one person's opinion and as not as a committee of more than one person it gives the board much control and micromanages if you follow her also maybe think about hiring a curriculum director tonight do the
right and vote for the superintendent policy and not miss its Hearts micro managing of our staff thank you for listening next up is John Curtis good evening my name is Pastor John Curtis I live in planie I have
three kids one kid is still in the district uh my pronouns are he him I'd like to begin by thanking uh the administration for their service and work that they do and for the school board for your work I know it's not easy um but it's appreciative and it's often thank thankless so I want to say thank you for the work that you do I also want
to um speak about the two different proposals to create a district advisory committee and I would encourage the school board uh to V vot for the one proposed by the district superintendent because there are several important differences between these two resolutions namely and how power and
influence delegate I believe that an advisory committee to be able to do that just advise the school board on um Court matters and so I think it's important to set it up in such a way that the advisory committee has its ability to
elect from within itself its leadership rather than the board appointed I think it's problematic when the school board appoints the leader of the people they're going advise them and I think the committe needs to be set up in a way to truly um represent the diverse views of our community and not just the school
board appointment I think that the advisory committee would better serve the committee the community and the school board that represented our truly diverse inclusive Comm because this is an advisory committee and not a governing board I also question um how
much responsibility has been given to it uh in this school board's proposal um it seems to me rather than charge the advisory committee with the list of responsibilities uh that are really Schoolboard responsibilities um to
enable them to to advise and it seems to me it would make more sense to hire a curriculum director because the the things that they're asking the committee to do are such high detail and high skilled that I think an advisory committee would struggle to to
support so I would encourage the scho um to take the proposal from the superintendent to form the advisor Comm and then to look in h District thank you John and David GES all right so excuse me my name is
David Gates uh I'm here also tonight to speak about the establishment of the district advisory committee I'm actually going to read my email that I sent to the board this weekend just in case mine might have went unread I didn't hear back from everybody want to make sure that I'm able to to put my words to you you can hear those so uh the two
proposals under consideration share a common goal but they differ significantly in their approach and details after thoroughly reviewing the statute I I find my interpretation aligns more closely with superintendent anor's proposal I believe that the spirit of the statute is created to
create a committee that advocates for all facets of our community ensuring that everyone has a voice we set standards review the testing the requirements and evaluate the outcome it's essential that we promote the structure that empowers every child to succeed no student should be disadvantaged on their socioeconomic
status race gender any other Factor the committee should serve as a true Community voice partnering with the board partnering with the board I want to say that twice partnering with the board to prepare our students for the world that they're about to into superintendent n's proposal ensures that group remains community
rather than board l in contrast member hard's proposal risk transforming that group into just an extension of the board and at the very least creating a perception of a handpicked assembly designed to advance a singular ideology the sful that this this committee reflects the diverse makeup of
our community in the truest sense and is intended by the statute I firmly believe that the board has significant other workor to do besides running yet another new Committee in that same statute stat sub division 2 talks about the unequivocal mandate for a strategic plan
for detailed growth and Benchmark ours is dated 20 the last Benchmark Associated to that is 2023 but what are the goals for 2025 what does success look like for our students far as staff what does 2025 and 2026 hold for the critical questions the
board must address are to set those priorities then partner with this group to make sure that our teachers have the tools and the room to work with in the profession that they've given their lives to to educate our children empowering those professionals um to
really own in their craft and create a learning environment that's positive and promotes growth for all our students and I think a district advisory committee and having Community participation is obvious by this group there's plenty of folks in this community that want their voice heard and they don't want to
cherry pick app principal reports we'll start with Mr R yeah I'll keep it short and sweet we got letters training coming up next week um a half day of reading and then next Friday is a full day of synchronous um sickness training also to
wrap up unit three I believe that one is right or what maybe maybe unit two unit three sorry uh Bulldog Academy we had last week this week we got two more days went very well we had good attendance we have another this was focused on reading
of another one on math that will be at the end of March uh and then nobl dorf just to um nobl dorf electric uh they must have a grant of some sort I think they reached out to a few of us they know the older kids they give away some tools and things like that for our our
uh kids they came in and read a book uh to all of our kinderg guards and then um gave them all the book so they all get to leave with a hard covered book about the trades so really cool kind of fun things and then of course I included my hungry dogs there Courtney Sho card and Sandy Webster two great Pairs and just
two of the many that we have so they're awesome awesome people I will let you read that they do a wonderful job right to Mr several things they bring up each year in February but darling gilu in the four8 um social
worker at the 46 element every February we do the random acts of kindness um it's many many many activities and you just as we say you can't talk about that enough it's just a great message for our students number two there again as I always bring up we got all sorts of things going on a little bit about our
math math Wizards fifth and sixth grade had their second meet last week at dorota fifth grade team first place sixth grade team first place Mr kada does the junior high there's a team that's in first place the entire three conference a lot of strong um upper mathkids at planville Jam um always year
after year number three officer Mel you know years ago with officer Joe brusi we did the Dare program over and over and over great program since Mr melbs he got trained it's it's a it's very similar it's a shorter version it's six weeks um but he's starting that at the end of February we do that every year with all
sixth grade students it's the same type of thing you can see there it's again alcohol chemicals right social media being a good person so again a strong program for our sixth grade snow week um pretty mellow 46 to get to dress up they love doing it the 78 we do that also Mr
dies Friday organizes some activities in the gym last hour the day so for us snow week is rather simple the 48 um I do want to say on that number five um West Martin I did WR West Martin and Heidi hauling they they have volunteered year
after year after year um they do this what they call science engineer week they do with our sixth grade for a full day and they do it with the seventh grade another day so again um they have volunteered a lot of time at our four six and seven eight bildings more close to last thing again Mrs vagley just
another thing she's busy doing good things again um I won't read all that but basically again with the eighth grade students as you can see it's those portable solar suitcases U being sent to East Africa cool stuff um and the last thing
with the data thing you know we've been talking a lot this is you know this is new this year we used to always just come in October so again October February June which is a good thing but we're still you know listen all that to we're still like you know fiddling you know what's what's good data to share
what's useful for us um this react is influencing us a lot to already having discussions about next year what more can you do for those kids so it's it's a it's a good thing but it's a work in process thank you Mr
W as uh Mr ol said said uh snow week is this week we've got dress up days a few other things um not necessarily associated with snow week but we had a onea play performance today that could go to um I'll get back to that in a minute um we have a dance uh and pep
Fest on Friday dance on Saturday so we're looking forward to that um next week on Monday the 10th we have the career in college fair along with um next year's registration uh last number I heard was
40 different people are going to be in our gym employers colleges uh military things like that um it's it's a Well attended event and the kids are also obviously registering for classes getting signed off on electives and things like that uh we have spring
Sports signup on the 12th um and then our next student leadership character Academy is February 24th all those things are coming up I included uh the MCA schedule here I had that in the high school Updates this month I'll send that out um more in in
JMC as well we're going to use the same format we did last year which worked really well if you remember previously we did those tests just within the school day within a period Sometimes some kids it took them Monday they're sick Tuesday they come back Wednesday they try and finish it whatever it gets
broken apart um we just dedicate two hours in the morning two days in April uh most all the kids get it finish in that time they can just focus on the test um teachers can just focus on on U being the the Proctor of the test it's
just a lot it works a lot better uh overall and let's see I had a quick update about the student privileges that we just started that's still early so we're continuing to gather data but overall it's going well um in our registration booklet and
courses that potentially will be offered next year uh depending on how many kids decide to join um one of them I didn't totally add the name there it's not just college that would be kind of a weird course to take um college food product
development is a new course we're adding um three years ago I think we added college food science this would be the next course in that line so you got to take college food science then you can take fall College uh food product
development and that would be concurrent through Riverland and then we're also going to offer medical terminology as a as a class for next year EX ly what it sounds like uh we're looking at a couple of different things here
possibly in the future if this continues and kids are interested in it they could we could go the articulated credit route which basically means we make agreements with certain colleges and they could articulate that credit if they go to
that college the other thing that we'll do next year if this uh if this class works out is um the kids could test out of this class like if they went to rctc they could just pay the fee to take the test and if they pass it they would get
that credit um we have a lot of people in the medical field in our community we've got a lot of kids that that want to go into that field so I think this is a good just kind of uh prep course for that um I also included some data on our
first semester grades this is just the grade so there's a whole lot more that goes into Student Success and and what they're Lear learning and so forth but we do have to give them a grade at the end and as you can see there was a lot of progress um if we look back at the last two years versus this year in terms
of uh kids earning credit and earning credit getting a b uh and so forth so those numbers I'm really proud of my teachers my students all of that um and I added a few things that you know I think went into that one of them going
back to the seventh and eth grade are attendance has improved we worked on that a lot this year we're at about a 2% increase in attendance I think that in and of itself played a big part in in this Improvement in the grades um going
back to one act play they made the state uh competition state tournament that'll be on Thursday at 3:15 um so good luck to them they they do a really really good job I think that program is maybe seven years old and
this is the second time they've made the state uh tournament and so great job to all those kids and Dave neelon I'd also like to say uh this is School counseling week um what we do to help our counselors you
know is give them a whole bunch of work and make sure this is registration season so appreciate that uh trishan and Emily do a really good job and one of the things they do this week especially is kind of make sure and promote the
differences uh between you know we have social workers that work with their kids and counselors and then school counselors and the big difference there is school counselors our high school counselors the big component of their job is different um they work with kids
on social skills and and conflict resolution and things like that but they also have a big piece in planning for it next year of high school planning for what's next after high school so that's a big piece of what they do that's a little different than the other um the
other roles so thank you moving on to student member report Macy R yeah so this past month um our student council has stayed fairly busy um we've just kind of really been
focused on snow week which as Mr Walton mentioned earlier it's taking place this week currently um as this is really kind of our last major event for the school year as a student council um so this past month we've stayed busy planning
everything um involved with snow week including dress up days and some prizes for those um our coronation ceremony um the Super Bowl tailgate activity that we'll be having on Friday and our snow we dance along the snow week apparel um
with all of this to organize we've kind of just really been focused on um coming up with ways to get a majority of the student body involved with our snow week festivities and in order to just allow it to be a fun week for everybody um
besides snow week we haven't really been busy planning much else as this is really been our biggest priority the past month but overall just looking forward to um finishing the school year off and a positive note and thank you all for your support we'll be moving into maintenance
report T Trevor is not here so no comments or anything so we'll move on we go to community ad report which is also attached comments on that do monthly
budget report my monthly report is also attached um don't have a lot to focus on there I can take any questions if there are any um we are at this point are focused on wrapping up this year we also
however are looking forward to next year and um at budgeting and what information we have this early which is nothing so um and it doesn't sound real positive as we've uh listened to now I've listened to the last two legislative meetings
from M and I just don't seem to be moving very quickly so uh from what I heard today and you can correct me ER because it's going to be the middle of March before we really know anything so um that makes it a little tough but I did hand out a couple reports or a
report to you um one it's the same report but from two different years and uh I didn't include this on the webs it is on the MBE website so I didn't attach it with the board agenda but it can be found on the MBE website this information is all public information um
and uh this is one report that compensatory Revenue has gotten a lot of attention in the last few weeks um and different districts are affected differently by it but if you look at ours um uh the top page is our 2024 25
our current year budget and then as we look ahead to 2526 with all things staying the same um we're looking at a $160,000 drop and that is based off I Circle two numbers on there that's our enrollment drop from October of
2023 to October of 2024 went from 1465 down 14 for um so there's not a lot that changes with that formula specifically with enrollment but I know there's been talk of I maybe you can comment on that Eric if you have any
other information with compensatory there's been talks of that whole harmless hold harmless won't do us any good as far as enrollment drop but it I mean there there could be other opportunities I don't know if you have any other information the other thing that the state's doing with this is they
made the a switch um to using direct certified numbers for free and reduce so you can certainly apply we have those forms on our website Mara we try to get as many people but there there's also
direct certification based on uh pretty much the same a lot of the same factors so not only is our enrollment going down but based on whatever that direct Certification Number would be that could either favor us or be unfavorable
um the governor is um coming with his own thoughts on this so the numbers that Dan is sharing is based on if nothing were to change in this legislative session we're we're short of
$150 $160,000 out of the gate um depending on what happens with the session I think it's always important especially patrons um I was at a a for in Canon Falls with
some of the legislator and they do care to hear from patrons I think we underestimate the impact that an email might have or a phone call so I would encourage um everybody to to be supportive um and vocal um in reaching
out to our elected officials because uh it is going to be a very interest if it ever starts um it'll be a very interesting session um for a lot of schools not just us yeah so this is just information at this point but we just wanted to make
you guys aware since this is a this is a report that is out there um there's not a lot of reports out for 25 26 yet but this is one of them um and our finance committee does meet in lch so we'll you know we'll come with similar to this or any other areas we think we we won't be
able to set a budget in March by any means but at least we might have some talking points for next year's budget superintendent report I just wanted to add one thing on one act play and and U as Mr Walton said it was awesome to be able to see it um
they they opened it up during Flex so students could choose to be there and uh there was a huge crowd so a lot of kids were interested and um they were there because they wanted to be there and it was awesome performance um it's based on Three Vets from um edor
Allan pole um so there were books or stories that I read back in 10th grade English so I I could follow the the story pretty good um but there is a public um even though they're done and they go to state on Thursday um they're
going to have uh public shows in Elgen on Saturday I believe at 1 and three but we'll have that on our web website but I would encourage you um it's kind of hard to see the one play because they go you know three or four different places and they're not here um if you're not doing
something on Sunday remember it's a one act so it's about 30 40 uh Saturday sorry uh 30 40 minutes it's not very long at all um but it is very impressive so encourage you to check that
out um Clark are we sat on the date there are Saturdays Saturday Saturday Saturday Junior Sunday Saturday I just looked it might say 2 and seven but I'm not sure it's time we'll get it on the website it was is
Saturday slide Sunday and I'll jump down to that um so if you've been to the website lately and you're not happy I'm the person to blame so um when I first looked at our website it it um maybe add or whatever but it overwhelmed me um
there was so much on that first page that I didn't know where to go or what to do you go now and it's the exact opposite we did not take anything off of our website so I related to like when I go home tonight I throw my keys my
wallet and these glasses on a counter in my kitchen everything else has a place my wife's taught me train me very well my shoes go somewhere my coat goes somewhere all my laundry goes somewhere where it isn't all sitting on that counter just those keys glasses and in
wallet phone they're the only thing that makes it so we've parked everything so you might when you go to the website have to think okay where would you put the board agenda oh District information it'll be there um we did bring back quick links the only quick Link in there
right now is the lunch menus because it really doesn't have a home very open to any thoughts feel free to email me or Mara um I I'll use an example Megan in the uh activities office told me we got
to have that athletic calendar on our tab even though it's parked somewhere else um we we got it there because we have to work with the person on this um but it was there quickly it's not going into the quick links right now because I think you can just go to activities and
it's the first one you can pick but please share any thoughts you have on it um the end will be in the middle right now they're going to come with a banner that has scrolling pictures um it is not
the dream um website by any means I cleaned it up but the thing that we found with this is we use Ed Midwest for our tech services we Outsource that um this is a service that's provided to us for free it didn't cost us a single it's
just part of they have a person on staff and this person will continue to work with us um throughout the rest of the year summer next year um so um check it out and like I said if you do have some thoughts please feel free to share
them um I wanted to also thank the board um you know six of the our seven board members were able to go to partner all of the msba conference that's their biggest conference um I always walk away from that conference with some ideas
inspiration I know I still have some dialogue going on with a few members on some of the things we attended together or they attended but um that speaks volumes to you guys as a board continuing to want to learn and also that networking that's a big piece of
being up there is you get to meet other board members hear their stories um sometimes get you know some nuggets you can bring back here to to use but the conversation itself um is is has a value so thank
you just bringing up as an information piece tonight it will hope probably be on our agenda I would say um next month if not for sure the following month it has to go through a process but HED is
reloca so we know we own the mall and we're going to uh repurpose that mall into parts of the mall um into a learning environment that's going to be our new HED campus um as part of that
shift they've got um they no longer leased the Kellog building um so there's a building in Kell so there's a pay lab that's in that building that temporarily is not going to have a home um Mike
started a conversation um with the teacher um of the pays lab early on I think it was even this summer right away this fall it kind of just died and then it came back to life uh I would say about a month ago so Nick mti's for uh
classroom uh which we still house him in is actually the perfect space for this PA laap it already has water um it's a very good siiz classroom it's ideal so
HED is um pursuing with us um leasing that space so the first step in this was to just have everybody check it out U make sure it is going to work for them um it does
um we feel it's a good fit here too we're one of the largest maybe the largest um School in the HED Consortium we have a lot we have many students I don't know how many we have this year uh but we're one of the the the most used
um of the page lab we consistently send two three four five kids a year so having it here saves us um having to transport those students we'll still have to transport to Winona we have other services down there special needs
and the alc but with the pay lab it's a it's a very unique program so those students don't go down for the day they go down for the lab they're done say in you know an hour and a half they have to come back so we're doing a midday shuttle also that's glass time for those
students not class time so they're losing you know the opportunity to take other classes if it was here so the next step in this process will be um H fed's board to formally approve it and then we'll bring it back to you guys as our
board to formally approve it but I I honestly see it as a as a you know a win-win for everybody um and I was mainly interested is this just a bandaid are we doing this just for next year um but in our conversations with um HED
they currently have a South uh paay lab in calonia and they would like to keep us as a permanent um North so basically if doota um feels it's better to come here because they don't have um a shuttle
going down for other services to Winona to the main campus they could utilize it so we would be open not only to our students but to anybody in HED that has a student that feels this is a a better site logistically to bring them so
there's that potential as well all of the um employees are HED so the current structure would just be brought over here um we're not increasing if anything uh we will have a savings on this because of the leasing and the losing of
that middle uh Transportation Fe so much more to come on this but I just wanted to make you aware of it in case you hear it because we're starting to have discussions Trevor is going to be uh working with some folks they do have a a stove and some other items that we would
have to Retro a little bit in that room to do all at the cost of hfet um but um I just wanted you aware of the fact that we're getting pretty serious with it um Jan touched on the budget process and
I just want to mention in appreciation of Jan so um we I attended a a presentation and um one of the presenters is Lori Boltz who used to be
the Chief Financial Officer is what her title was at oana um I've attended many of her presentations she knows a lot um but she's brand new to Baker Tilly so we were meeting them about other things
Baker Tilly related and um just asked her would she be interested in possibly working with us on the budget end um and luckily she was very interested this is something she loves to do um so for a
very nominal fee um we will be working with Baker Tilly with our budgeting process this year and really the big change will be um instead of just doing one budget I almost think of it like your calendars we're going to be doing
three budgets for you so we're going to do the one that's really going to give you the most information because we can be as factual as possible with next year's budget and then we're going to give you two more years and the piece that we're going to build in there um
that have heard it a lot of conversation about but we haven't really done anything with it is would we ever do an operating level uh uh leing and if so what would that amount be and why so that's going to be built into this so
you're going to see along the way and I don't know I'm interested to see um where that would fall I don't think it's that far out there especially like Jan said when you have a slightly declining enrollment on top of losing some funding
right out of the gate that that changes things in a hurry so I'm excited and I'm thankful Jan as 26 years yep um something like that I can tell I've told you this many times I have no where he's working with Jan and putting together a
budget it's going to be A+ um this is going beyond that and Jan's willingness and and um excited to also work with Lori she said if I can pick up anything from her um that's going to be great too so I'm excited to to do this project
together and uh looking forward to it um just wanted to touch on Ice um there's been a lot in the news with Trump Administration taking over and um already maybe some people being deported U I think it's important to realize that
impacts our community too on a much smaller scale but we feel we've got um you know maybe 25 families in our school district that that that's a concern for them okay um so what we done at the
district level so far is identify that group we have had um through our ESL program um Communications just letting them know we don't collect that kind of information we're here to educate that's what we do we want the kids in our
school to educate beyond that um you know we don't um get involved if they were to come to our door um we are setting up protocols that we would follow um most importantly make making sure parents if at all or relatives are
involved in the process um of of a student um possibly being removed and then going deeper what happens worst case scenario especially in John's building um you know if we have a K3 kid or even K probably Seven eth Grade uh
what if you're displaced you're here they didn't take you but they took Mom or Dad what are we going to do um as a school district with a student that instantly becomes homeless what are the resources available who do we contact so
we continue um to have ongoing discussions with not only our local police department but all of um Social Services to be able to put a plan together so that we have the protocol
when and if needed I think that's very important and then just a reminder um next next week we fire up the the superintendent interviews and I want to remind everyone we are not um going to be able to live stream those at all so
if you're interested those are um for public attendance and I've been through that process and walking in and and seeing a crowd like this would tell me as a superintendent that's applied to that District this District cares about school I I like a crowd when you're
interviewing it doesn't change I I think if you're I would encourage you to show up because um it does send a message to those applicants that hey we care here in in plain viville so Eric those are in the media center next week those are in
the Elementary media center yeah but tomorrow night is tomorrow night public that's going to be boring for you because you these guys are we have eight applicants and I have no idea who their names are these folks are the only ones that know and they can't use them so
they're going to be referring to them as a b CDE e f um and pronouns will be they and them or them you know um so if you try to follow tomorrow night they're going to try to figure out who we're interviewing that's going to be rough on
you um but once we interview once they pick the people um that we're interviewing those will be names and then obviously the interviews will be um slotted with times and names so but yes tomorrow night here
thank you virtual within and that's it I come back oh did I touch on enrollment you had asked about okay and I did have a slide but I forgot to slide it in there but uh enrollment currently is 1390 so we're down five students
districtwide but I believe Clark picked up three today that are not that's not in my number so we're really one 19 19 3 if you want it hot off the press um two two students down overall perfect okay thank you are we
still can I ask one question are we still monitoring why these kids are leaving or what we're losing I don't know if you'll do it long term but my kudos to our secretaries they've been awesome so what I have is I call it my inout sheet so students that are in
coming into our district in why and students that are leaving our district in wi so yep they're doing a great job still monitoring it I do plan on uh I don't know what's uh possibly next month I I really would do the following month to give you a better picture and really
remember that's only one year um and I can go back historically and and tell you numbers but I can't tell you reasons necessarily so that that'll be blended into um what I want to share with you
guys media reports s Co nothing to add in addition to the that there stff development committee I I have some things out does have some questions okay policy committee the only thing I
have to share for policy committee is that our meeting next meeting will be Thursday February 27th at 6m in the board I we didn't have it decided in time to put in the meeting and so what was the date again um Thursday February
27 okay and moving to board bites is [Applause] attached uh consent agenda move to approve the consent agenda first second by Roger any discussion on the
agenda all good all in favor say I any say motion carries moving on to governance we are on policies under review
discussion um so we decided at our last policy meeting because of the winter break and just my lack of getting things updated quick enough with that um we left the um 200s on first reading so you
have a whole another month to to look at these we didn't really lose a lot though because we also if you scroll down yeah we added the 300s there's very very few if any changes in those anyways so the
one U we did add was 524 because I did have a patron reach out to me on this as well we already have a cell phone policy so you guys actually updated it last um spring before Darren left and that's the most
recent and still the most recent from um msba so really it's a change title it used to be called internet uh acceptable use and now it's called internet technology and cell phone acceptable use and if you review the policy what we
have decided to do as a district and many others around us are doing similar um we address this in our handbooks so our cell phone policy is different at the high school than it is at the for six or 78 or Elementary John has not had
any issues with this so didn't have it in his handbook he will now add it in his handbook just so that it's addressed so Mara can you go to 2035 I down to three procedures yeah I just want to bring to
the board's attention that we changed this back or we Chang it a little bit it was before this it was if a Schoolboard member requests an item you put on the agenda that item be added to the agenda
um I just for clarification for me on this wasn't this wasn't this section for public or was this for board it it members yeah the the top part there the person I
think I think we changed we we changed it back to persons because anybody can request something to be add right so that was a change yeah you have the whole month to
look at all thing with patrons um and I know we're not supposed to comment um on public comment but we've already made that um decision to not limit your time as far as available so but yes these are still in format
just to be able to share and remember even though the policy committee has three board members on it that um do the bulk of the work any um bu on the board can give us
information on these so what we had before I read that to just something for the board to think about and for me the CH does that fall under the B
yeah and that was taken off what we had what we had added was if a school member request put on the agenda that it will be add is what we had added last year so then this is the model policy
this is the new this is the I don't know if that's model wordage or if that's our wordage I don't remember it follows the model and the reason behind that is that follows our code of
ethics and allows us to work with and through the superintendent by allowing a board member to just unilaterally put anything on the agenda um just usurps any Authority by the board chair or the
the superintendent oh that's is that's not how I that's not how it was intended this one that's not how it was tended and I can see where you see it that way if a board member requests an item being put on the agenda that item will be added and that was any board
member can go to the chair in the super and say you know what we we would like this on on the agenda oh and you can still do exactly what what what was happening in the past was we we were asking for things on and then they were not getting put on and we didn't have
valid I mean we were just getting put off put off put off and so that was our solution to try to right to fix that because at the end of the day this is a board meeting this isn't an admin meeting right it's run by the board so if there's issues that school board
members need to talk about this is where we do it we can't do it anywhere else we have to talk about it at a board level however you have Gatekeepers for a reason because sometimes there are things that you as an individual member
may not know that the superintendent or the chairman know that deem it inappropriate to bring to a public setting again and so this is a Schoolboard meeting and I get what you're saying but I can tell you from
past practice that we are elected officials we have the right to speak at these meetings we have the right to bring up topics that need to be talked about this is the only place we can do it and when you're told
Time After Time After Time no I don't believe that that's right all we're saying is and we've gone to to the board chair in the past and they say hey we're really busy can we push it off to the next month absolutely right but when
all of a sudden now Years Gone by so then our option is to our only option is to go behind everybody's back we're adults and we can all work together and we can figure out we can figure out a solution and what I had said the last time is our code of ethics says that we
will not circumvent or work around the superintendent and by just coming to a board meeting to get something on the agenda that come that is circumventing them that's going around them and we're adult we should be able to sit down and work it out that's not what we're talking about but that is by putting
that in there to say you can ask and assuming that it will automatically put it on there disregards what the board chair and the superintendent will do they are The Gatekeepers for a reason
and you may not like when they tell you no and I personally just as a new board member had that and I wasn't happy but it's you know sometimes you just have to accept that or accept that now is not
the time because you don't always know when it's appropriate but I would suggest Bron when there are issues like that that you sit down and you say okay you know because it sounds to me like you weren't given a fair shape if there was something that you felt strongly
about if they didn't explain to you why well you deserved that much at least rather than no and if it was inappropriate you should have been told that so your point is well taken but none of us should have the authority to
usurp what they're doing and that's to Monica's point we're adults we should be able to to sit down and discuss that and we're on the same team and if I were sitting in the public I'd want to know I want to see that our superintendent our board can work together and as a student
member I'd want to watch adults that work together and not try to you know circumvent by using policy we're all on the same team and we can work together we can figure this out I know we all want what's best for our students I know that everyone here wants
that um and I just I think we just need to be able to work together I would just add you know administratively yes you know the agenda but again it's it's a bigger picture it's it's really driven by many factors
and Jason you bring up the pass um Jason's your new board chair you owe it to him if there's something that I won't put on the agenda um and and you talk to Jason and he won't again that's to that point of yeah it just isn't something we
feel um should be on the agenda so then one board member can basically silence the rest of the board they have all the power the way I understood it with all the research that I've been doing is the role of the board
chair is to run the meeting help set the agenda right upet the agenda right so that means that's and that's all we're saying is we've had this from multiple administrations and I think I can't I'm
not supposed to go to Every board member and do board business behind the you can make that phone call to me though too yeah absolutely we haven't had that so all right I'm more than happy to p phone calls I've been on the phone a lot lately
so um that's all we were saying that that's going to be an open Avenue that you guys anyone of you can pursue and and come to me and if if there's questions explain why or you know and
let's move forward you know and that that's one way we can do it I think most importantly though if something is requested and there's a denial you need to convey why to each
individual M absolutely instead of saying yeah will try and then it not being there you convey well we've discussed it and these are the reasons why we're not going to have it on the board agenda we're happy
to talk about any time but this is why we're not going to do in public absolutely I want I want to discuss one more just for the board 213 uh section three appointment of
committees see and my and as we talked about at the policy meeting the other night I'm not there for that um the school of chair shall appoint the members of each standing committee and designate the chair thereof it shall be done in
consultation with the board members and what I was trying to convey that night was we do it diff a little bit differently in the sense that you lead the board discussion and I was just trying to convey how we do it in policy
so other people coming behind can go oh okay you leave the discussion we talk about it it was kind of a mutual agreement thing and then if there's a if there's four people that want to be on a committee and they're adamant and one
and there's only room for three my personal opinion is that the board then votes on that not the chair making that decision and that's how what we talked about at policy meeting and when we did the resolutions we remember
we always took those all that change decision this would fit if we change this to the board versus the chair then that would fit with the resolutions for a committee we to to stay on the same page as the other
committees right and I took the opposing view to that because when we sat at the msba conference it's um far more common to have the board chair actually do the appointments they do not do that however
in isolation it is done in consultation um similar to what we have done but it prevents um territorialism if you will it allows um a board chair to make a decision to make sure that we
have the best people in the best places it allows the board chair to you know help keep a rotation of people but not throw the baby out with the bath water because you do want to have consistency uh some repeat people on the same
committees um so that you do make maintain experience um but it prevents stagnation and that's also one of the most important roles of a board chairman is
to have that Authority and that was one of the biggest takeaways at that particular committee meeting and I've since had a number of uh conversations with um the duth school board they are a much larger School District than we are
but I've had a number of discussions with them and excuse me they use a little bit different process um where they ask people which committees they'd like to be on as well as what their qualifications are so it's not just a
matter of well I want to be on this one because I want to be on this one but they consider the bigger picture and rather than just individual desires where you know putting your best people in the best locations um but that said
if Jason were to appoint me to something that I really didn't care for it wouldn't be one of those things worry you're absolutely going to have to do this there is room for discussion but that's the the responsibility Falls to
that chairman and I think that we it was pretty obvious that through all the other committees that we went with this M yeah know that it would be more of a board decision as
well I guess I'd like to see that change well we have a policy meeting on the 27th and this is a first reading so you can discuss it further later okay anything else on policies under all right moving on to Spring
volunteer coach is for it's an action item looking for a mve by Roger second second by Monica discussion no discuss discussion take a vote all in favor say I I
oppose motion carries school resource officer contract the city of plan view this is a annual approval there's just a few changes in the contract because some of the language for SRO at the state level
change so the city has updated that for us uh just a reminder uh we pay for the days that the SRO is with our students that that's our agreement with the city so there's going to be an increased cost
just based on the contract you know increase I just have some questions for that so probably a few of them so the the term of the contract okay so it started September 1st
2024 and so why are we getting it now when it was done June 30th where are we getting what now this I would have thought it would have been brought before us earlier than now that this
routine I'm not gonna speak on behalf of the city of plane but I know in Lake City we we were usually a little behind to so yeah probably should had it sooner where are you seeing the date because I'm seeing
January January 1 2025 um oh I think I went to a past for a past contract okay but technically as far as what we're paying for Jordan started on when
school started so so so then I have another question on that so there's no costs in here that I saw so how do you how do we budget for that I don't I I'm just I don't know what the
processes well we use all of our safe School dollars so that's one po of money but that does not cover all the costs associated with this so then we take out of our general fund to make up the difference idea how close you can get to that um I
would say you probably 30 30,000 short so then how that works is the city just tells us what we're paying correct they invoice us and they would
have a they would have a contract with with their staff the city have a contract with their staff and they go through that just like we go through negotiations as well okay and then this is a continuous contract but we're gonna We would approve it every then that okay
yes it still come the board for all right thank you okay um any other discussion on this matter Roger moved to approve second Monica second now we have discussion any other
discussion we had questions before but any discussion now okay let's we'll go for a vote here all in favor say I opposed say nay motion carries HED paper L procedure
informational um this was just brought up at one of our HED sup meetings there was the expectation that this was shared not for action but just more information at the board level um what this is is a transition
towards pretty much uh eliminating paper when it comes to our special ed files so they currently use a program called sped forms that's all electronic but we also still have the paper World um well with
paper light we're making that transition so that as Clark students um make their way to Mike's building they will only be in the virtual world um and it's a it's a very good practice because right now
we haven't been doing that and there's a lot of purging that needs to be done um they get to the end of mics and they've got a file about this thick and um 80% 90% of that doesn't even need to be something that we're storing somewhere
so good thing but just information St development information good evening my name is Tony McGee I currently serve as the chair of the District staff development commit during the January 13 2025 school board
meeting it was inaccurately stated that the staff District staff development committee did not have a staff development plan for the 20242 by school year that statement went on to say that the staff development committee is in violation of District policy and Minnesota statute I here tonight to
correct that misrepresentation of this committee's work as committee chair I took the statement very seriously and immediately reviewed the minutes of our committee meetings The District staff development committee did approve the 2024 2025 staff development plan at our September
meeting this is documented in our meeting minutes the development discussion of and approval of the plan includes the two school board members who serve on the staff development committee the minutes of each staff staff each District staff development
committee meeting are included in the agenda for the following school board meeting each month the annual staff development plan is always included in the minutes of our committee meetings as link School Board received the annual staff development plan at the October
14th 2021 The District staff development committee discussed this issue at our January 16th 2025 meeting we agreed that we had voted to accept the 2024 2025 staff plan at the September meeting this committee has some members that have
been part of the staff development committee for more than a decade all agreed that how the annual plan was submitted this year is the same has been done for as long as they've been part of the distri St committee it seems clear that there was
a breakdown of communication between the District staff development committee and the Schoolboard from my perspective that causes me to reflect on how we can ensure better communication in the future one thing that was revealed in exploring this issue was a change in the timing of when the committee provides
the board with the annual staff development plan historically the plan was delivered to the board at the end of the school year however this got disrupted due to to Co in 2020 and the committee continued delivering the annual plan to the board after us attended through meeting since that time
the District staff development committee will deliver the 2025 2026 staff development plan to the board no later than the June 25th board meeting and will continue that practice moving forward I would like to add that with the exception of the committee chair the
teachers on this committee voluntarily meet outside of their normal contract a day to do this important work I can assure you that every member of the committee Works to conscientiously and thoughtfully provide meaningful staff development opportunities for our staff while satisfying all statutory
requirements I am proud of the work this committee has done and I'm honored to work with these excellent I thank you for the opportunity to speak Tony I just got comment
question I I I know I was aware that there's a staff development plan so I don't know how that got because I know there is a plan unless there was something in my maybe I worded it wrong but I'm aware of that my concern at this
point is it's been brought to our attention that we that we're not following for policy CL 25 okay which is that development and so I realized there's a lot in the plan in the
policy two things that are very important to me as a board member um that I would think I can't speak for everyone else but um it says the advisory staff development committee will develop the staff development plan which is done which will be reviewed and
subject to approval by the school board twice a year that is one of my concerns that that I would like us to see now maybe there's a past practice okay but I think moving forward we remain aware of this I think it's
important that we follow policy um the other part of it is upon approval of the budget by the school board kimy will be responsible for monitoring its use of funds um and make progress to the objective goals
and then they're going to require quarterly reports to to the board those are the two things moving forward that I would like to see happen at the board level
because staff development has $330,000 of taxpayer money that we are responsible for ultimately and that just I just don't think that's um good for us as board over just to
give oversight so that we can know what's going on I'm not saying that anything is going on but just for us as as a board to be more to hold people more accountable to do better as our for ourselves and I think that was kind of
answered last month by Eric I believe right and you talked about moving forward with that more well is that is that where is that where you're coming from yeah what I'm not understanding is we know it's we know we're not doing it so why
aren't we why aren't we getting that done now why are we waiting till June that's a lot what's going to change in the work that we're doing so the budget is one thing I'm working on with um and the budget is part of this the plan yeah it's always there but I mean even um
ongoing a very um painless way for us to be able to keep the board informed about the budget okay but as far as um the plan that's already been approved by the committee yeah and in
the that the board's had available since September October oober but it's never been an action item the board doesn't approve anything through looking at the minut what's going to change in the work that we're doing with the plan if I were to bring it we were to bring it to the
board to approve at this point it's just a formality to get us correct into like okay let's well we're going to get into it way better because we're totally redoing the way this spring before I leave in June you will have the
plan approved for next year so instead of working on or worrying about this year we're already doing the work that's in this year's plan we're working on um correcting aligning as much as we can with the policy moving forward that's awesome Y and that takes time energy and
effort not just by me but I mean Tony and Jan aligning everything okay all right thank you thank you ton other questions thank solar projects update all right I
think a bad meeting to park this but um when I came on board there was a lot going on with the solar and um I had never worked in solar and I was overwhelmed a little bit um so I thought you know what I'm doing all this work to
figure it out myself I might as well share it we have two new board members um I don't know how many on the board feel comfortable knowing what's going on with our solar so I worked with ideal energies that's the company we' partnered with and they did a fabulous
job uh putting together this presentation with you so these just a list of schools that they work with around Minnesota besides us couple local folks there so kind of hard to see that
Mara I'll stand up or get a little closer there's some verbage in here that's a little hard for everyone to understand but um so it's SFS if you scroll back up that's uh solar for schools that's a program very important to recognize the Minnesota Department of
Commerce um they're the ones that flip the bill for that number right down below so on the 46 building 102,000 prek 102,000 um the junior high these last two projects 81,000 and some change 83,000
at the high school um that total the 368 thank you Minnesota Department of Commerce um that is paid up front so they that basically we we pay it and then get reimbursed to the grant that witness test that's actually when they
went online so that's when these projects that's the first day they started creating energy for us so you can see 1216 with the junior high and 1216 with the high school um the wattage there you can see
a little difference in the numbers so the first two projects were done um you know went online in 23 at 59.2 kilow DC the 59.5 two that's because that number changed a little
that's as large of a project is we can do um because of the the company that controls our power people's Co-op so we can't go any larger even if we wanted to and then it's got uh the breakdown
not going to go over that a whole lot but if you really get into it you can look at this keep scrolling Mar up um this is what impacts us as far as as cost okay so if you look at that 20
years agreement um these are the costs that we pay to Ideal energy as part of this agreement and then you can kind of see it on a on a monthly basis the breakdown there so later I'm going to tell you
what our savings are when we look at that savings number that is um the net so that this is built into the cost of having these um projects very
question yep the 25541 is that what we pay total each year or is that total for the 20 years that's total for the 20 years and the life of these is 40 years
our current agreement just runs to um 20 years and in year 21 but before that you're going to have to figure out if you want to roll the dice and not have any support for 21 through 40 or whether you want to reup with ideal for them to take
care of the system here's your longterm um so when we talked about Julie you wanted to know savings so right now these are forecasted savings okay so this year um we hope to save eight
$9,000 okay what they have to do now and um it'll be a little different because the 46 and prek have been running a little longer they actually have to do a um there's a word for it it's called a savings and production analysis so
they'll be sending us a report that tells us how close to um $99,000 were we in savings so basically for the life of this this is after we take the
255,000 that we're paying ideal energy over the the life of it um we're making 700 or saving $77,000 and some change so good program this talks about the
environmental impact which again is a piece of this another piece of this is um the educational piece um Clark's brought it up a few times that you know our science program at the uh 7 eight
buildings doing a great job with it um Mike is working with our science teachers at the high school as well um there's a piece for the elementary so we're trying to to do as much of the educating as we can with that it's a good piece so there's not only the
financial savings but the um educational piece and the environment piece that kind of pulls it all together and why the state um offers these types of programs these are just pictures and a couple of things to keep in mind um these are not
attached to our roofs so these are actually what they call um self basted so there's some blocks to kind of hold down the pieces that um um hold that level these on our roof a lot of science behind it's not just slapping them on
these um pieces of metal and off they go there's a lot of engineering that went into designing these to Max them um but they are not physically attached to our roof Julie you had a question about insurance there's no
additional cost in insurance we have a I want to say a $60 million umbrella for all of our buildings so if these were to first of all the monies that we're paying to Ideal take care of the panels themselves so they're under warranty for
a while when that warranty goes out um I think it's 12 years um all of the equipment associated with this is covered through ideal so if one of those panels goes defective in year 13 that's
on ideal we don't have any cost Associated for the 20 years with this project however they don't cover um the nature so if we get a wind storm and they the blocks weren't big enough and they all blow off the roof that's on our
insurance ins and and the problem with our insurance is even though it doesn't cost us any more because it's under our umbrella um the insurance world has changed drastically we have a 75,000 $75,000 deductible um for Hail and wind
to our buildings so we we we'd rather a panel burn out than um a hail storm and then maintenance there's really no maintenance with these other than if uh we ever go back to having a lot of snow in the winter um our
maintenance folks might have to C clear these off but Trevor's aware of that and and we have a working agreement that you know Dasher would would do that on our behalf there's the high school keep roll okay and then I just want to remind
folks on our website and it's under District um the district tab District information tab um we actually have um you know live if you want to go on there tomorrow and see what we're generating for electricity um you know you can see
that live and the big thing I I just wondered you know these technology keeps advancing I I asked the idea what's you know why when we're paying you what's the biggest thing that's going to happen and it's the inverters that take it
from DC that's what the sun's giving us to making it the AC that's what's going to burn out um the panels themselves they keep getting better and better um but you will have some of those um burnout but the biggest thing is your
inverters and and again that cost is covered through what we're so basically this is going to run for 20 years saving us money and not having any expense to US unless we get um Mother Nature does
something on one of these uh setups then we're in trouble because our deductible is 75,000 I think that's the last slide yeah if you want to get in touch with ideal energies there's their number any questions
thank you all right now we need to set the meeting date for board self evaluation all right and I I'm working with Gail Gilman not Amy another colleague from msba she is remember
we're also on their uh penciled in for strategic planning next year date to yet to be determined because they have a huge waiting list and they're very busy not only doing suit search but um a lot of strategic planning so she
had two dates in March that would work for her and of course trying to find them um but I did go with w dayss and she can either do March
12th this would be at 6:m it's about a 2hour meeting so if we could start earlier she would be open to that I told her doesn't always work for us to go early but um keep in mind you know we're looking at two hours um March 12th or March
26th if we stuck with Wednesdays those are the two that the only two she has available I'm good with either date so I'm good with either dat Ron when's your h meeting because your H the same as
my both of them yeah I would rather do the 12 me too cuz I think SSC would be that SSC would be that 20 what was it 2 yeah 12 would get better 12 would be better is this is this a retreat or this
is just we just GNA get together and chat about no this is a retreat so what you have right now is everyone um Lori and Jason I gave them a month and then they did the self evaluation so you got a one pager and you should at least look
at that and reflect um see what you think of it now you're going to get a um before this meeting you're going to get the full report it's I don't know 20 30 pages um and it's going to give you a lot more information so basically what
our goal is with this is um a lot of the things that we're talking about um as far as board functioning and what we're doing and how we're doing it um she's going to pull that out based on our our data um and you can already see it in the one pages so it's going to be even
more interesting to and then we're going to walk away from this with um goals goals to address as a board self evil self improvement and so we are set for March
12th at 6: pm and that's an open meeting as well that is are we okay with 6 PM you started early I could we could do some FL lunch or dinner for you and I can make most things work I'm just
off that's that's the only night I could make it earlier Mondays and tues they can but the potential is there for earlier for me okay sty sty Stacey it is six it is and Gail's virtual so they do all this that's just
part of this program not just because of where we're at it's the only way they do it so doesn't matter six it is okay good for a March 6m yep all right old business looking
for a motion to bring back the resolu back the table okay I move to bring from the table the superintendent's resolution for the district advisory committee so that we can
discuss only that motion because you cannot discuss two resolutions one at a time it would be one at a time so I move to bring the first I Lori to bring back by
superintendent second by Monica any discussion um we're just bringing we're just talking about his we're just talking about his just to bring it back on the table bring to the table discussion to bring it back to
bring it back to table done okay all in favor say I I say n cares so we are on the district advisory committee resolution super I did go back and add a few things
to these because someone shared with me you know all right um there is a lot of good in it but maybe you just need to make sure that you you you collect those pieces I guess of like curriculum I want to point out this committee can certainly work on curriculum
the big difference of my vision of this committee for our district is and I think the comment I remember when we were discussing it someone said well you could have a 100 people show up what are you going to do I would love it um this
is a committee pretty much for the People by the people so in time I feel even in my limited time left here I still could get this committee up and running and doing um a lot of good work
one thing uh we got to review our uh world's best Workforce goals as part of the the the right way of doing it um that process also includes what are you doing for goals for next year so that whole thing can be in there um what the
board is doing with the self EV Val is actually part of strategic planning pieces of what you're doing fold into that this is a group that um you could utilize with strategic planning um someone mentioned tonight you know what
what are the community's ideas of what what we should be doing um that'd be great to to hear so scroll down Monica so I added a little bit of the specifics but there's a there's a line in my
initial um so the purpose of the DC is to promote active participation in All Phases of planning for the enhancement of instruction curriculum and programming across the
district so that is what everything and anything and I do not want anyone to apply I want anyone who wants to show up to be a part of this process and my goal
I'm excited because I I think I shared with you we had a district advisory committee in Lake City unfortunately um most people just were too busy to be active and participate um this community we have a
lot of folks that are are willing to be active and participate so it excites me to to think of the possibilities of of aak in in our communities so I get that I completely understand
that my it's so specifically laid out in the district State Statute our policy what the role is I'm not saying that this group can't do more but I think we really need to make
sure that we're following our policy and statute on this and the majority of this is curriculum driven run by the community and Julie and I is the district Adis Trey committee there's been this misnomer and all this nonsense
going on how we're going to run it not true it says in statute we're supposed to set it up establish it right set it up so how we do that we're only an advisory committee we all we do is report to the board these are our ideas
right same with you given ideas then it's literally up to the board to decide how are we going to get community members to do it my fear is if you have anybody show up in any night then nothing's really G to get done
right you get an argument about right so I think we really need to look close at the the statute to make sure we're following the law because two-thirds of this committee has to be public members if you can get it you can't control so that's your business so we
shouldn't try well you think you're going to get more by having people apply you want everyone to app app to be a part of your committee not necessarily we we haven't even been given opportunity to explain how we so my hope
would be yes um the two-thirds would be there because there is no I'm not the gatekeeper they just have to show up and and back to your point whether it be productive or not it it really matters first of all you you have to um set the
agenda in a way that can make it more productive and you also have to realize you have to build capacity you can't expect a committee to just be formed and and be able to do exactly what you you want it to do because information in
education is a part of the committee process right yeah agree no disagreement there ex but this is no different than staff development staff development is run by staff right and they're supposed to bring they're an advisory committee
advise this the board right yeah this this is no different except it's community and so what however we set it up when we can talk about it as a group we weren't following our policy so we felt it was our time to step forward and
say we need to get working on this these are our ideas because we were put on the district advisory committee we're not saying how it has to run we're just bringing our advisory role and then the board can talk about it and decide how
they want to do it whether it be if you don't have people that are willing to put the time in over time nothing will get done right and it lists in the Pol in the statute and our policy they have to bring reports to the board they have to
do so if you it's no different than staff ad advisory though or staff development they're going to find people that are willing to put in the time right this is no different CommunityWide I mean no I'm just saying this is our this is what we read out of
that thing and us being on there we're not running any of it our role is to set it up and let the community decide how they want to form their committee but in order to do that we have to figure out how to get it started I think I have you
listed no confusing me with going so can we focus on the resolution that's up right now can I interject can you scroll up for me just I want to make sure um yeah this is so because of your your um organizational
meeting we've already set so I honored that you can see you have um school board members appointed by the board um chair I guess we can you know you self appointed whatever but so I I do have that listed as a a piece of this
you're there and I have all the curriculum covered because all of that stuff in in as specified in that's pretty much every policy or um statute or wherever else we want to go in terms
of what you could possibly want to to do curriculum Wise It's just back to my and that's out of the original Ron policy the purpose of the deck is to
promote active participation in All Phases All Phases you heard our our folks tonight presenting our curriculum in all of our cores is State mandated and has been for 20 some
years we know what we have to teach now how we teach it is the beauty of the teacher right but what we're teaching that's been that's given to us and has been for years so curriculum and I don't know when the last time msba
whoever would update this I think in its day curriculum was a huge piece it's it's it's more important now um to look at the broader picture in terms
of a district advisory committee because the states picked up the Lion Share of the curriculum plus that didn't exist but I do have like I said two board members listed I've got everything and anything that could possibly be
considered for curriculum I'm just adding that additional piece and I'm not requiring um any sort of application process to be a part of it in this resolution follows basically
correct and the statute actually I think so Mr chairman can I interject I'd like to add on here that whenever you put a board member on a
committee there is an implied understanding that a board member will take control or lead whether that is your intent or not but there is is that understanding so having but
having a board member as a representative is not necessarily a bad thing they're eyes and ears and can address questions or concerns that can come up from the general public so I support having a board member as a
representative on there but they should not be the ones to direct or um influence how the committee Works furthermore when it comes to this type of committee we
are paying a chief executive officer a superintendent Buu bucks to do his job and this resolution puts him in a position to do that job and to work with
the public to determine who will be the chairman and who is going to work on the various roles as opposed to picking out Roger I want you to do this Julie I want you to do this whatever it that's for the
committee we are governments we are looking over that we should not have any kind of say in that he is the executive officer and that's where he needs to be Mara would you please pull up that slide
that I sent you then this goes back to um where we talked about establishing Ry from the January meeting where I asked you about establishing I listened to Monica and she said we established you
set something in stone and you had said no we need to do more than that and I said I don't think so well I I'm new to this board so I struggle and when I have two colleagues that I respect and I can't decide I called Morrow and for
those of you who do not know who he is he is the Minnesota School Board Association legal advice and I explained to him I have two colleagues I do not know which which way to look on this both have very strong viewpoints about
what established means he said when it comes down to a definition we use blacks Law Dictionary so I got a copy of Black's Law Dictionary from the library and establish means to settle something
firmly fix it permanently or make it certain it can also mean to Institute something such as a law or a resolution whatever it does not put us in a position to act upon that our the
resolution up at hand puts in place the committee it spells out the membership because that is what the statute and the MSP a policy required but it takes it no further other than it does I guess spell out
some of the duties because those are specified in the statute and in msba but it does not assign people against them that should be the the role of the CEO and individuals who have the interest in
the committee so it puts it back in the control of the committee members and puts the trust and faith in our superintendent that is what we hired him to do and I would like to give him the opportunity
to do that as board members like I said we are governance we need to sit back and let our community do their job everybody has a voice to be heard and they should be able to hear it without
be or being able to voice it without being told well you're on the committee so I want to hear your voice you're not on the committee so I don't want to hear yours everybody should have that opportunity and that's that's where I'm coming from no and I get that but you're
you're making an awful lot of assumptions that we're going to appoint and we're going to do and we're gonna well I we're not going to talk about that resolution no but I'm just saying you're making assumptions right our role is to estab that's always always said we read it we're supposed to establish it
whether we direct somebody to do it whether we do it as a board every board committee can be done two ways right everything can be done at the board table or we form committees every committee is an advisory function right
whether it's Transportation whether it's staff development whether it's Insurance all of that still reports to the board and L I look at establish in this context as if I'm going to start a
business I'm not going to just name it and decide this is what I'm GNA do and then go over here to Roger and say here make that happen like I'm gonna still have a plan and that's fine we have to have a starting point a starting point a
starting point we are we helping students here is this conversation helping students I don't know are law our job was done when we established it we have a chief executive officer that needs to be allowed to do his job let I would
give you guys the opportunity to establish it that's what you're you're talking about Rob right right and but and we have a we have a way of that we see it working but that's but I can't talk
about it because okay so then looking for a motion on this to move forward I move to adopt the superintendent resolution I got it's really
disappointing that you two and you being our CFO leader can't get together and bring one resolution to this board one that we can all agree
on and pass it into one discuss question I think this is a waste of time to look at two of them and I'm I'm of the opinion that until you bring one I think we can table the
vote and you bring one yeah I will beting on either one of them right now there's a motion on the floor there is a motion so there's a motion is to accept this resolution is there a second I'll second it so first by Lori second
by Monica discussion on this on the motion I just want to address Rogers last comment then in my time here you will not have a district advisory committee because this perspective and this
perspective it doesn't work and I don't even see common ground because I already tried to do the common ground with adding all of that verbage to assure you curricul will definitely be a piece of this but my vision or the district
advisory committee is completely different than the the version and I'm not willing to just even though my time's limited here I'm not going there I'm not going to um bring to you a district advisory committee resolution
that I can't wholeheartedly support and and work with I'm not even listed as a M on that other um resolution that we're not looking we're not at that point okay but I'm just telling you in my time if you don't vote for this one I just see
it I don't know what you're going to do because Common Ground isn't going to be common ground you need to decide how do you want to work with the public in our district are we going to have two board members um running it and overseeing it and applications or are we going to just
start it and trust that even in my limited time here I will we will have a a committee and it'll do good work I've already told you world world's best workfor Force um strategic planning I'd love to get them together and see what
they think of the new soup we hired um I've got tons of ideas that we can start to build capacity with this group and I feel um we we will get a lot of um knowledge and and opportunities to
that to learn things outside of public comment is there enough additions to this I mean you said you added to it yeah old paragraph on curriculum is there enough addition to this to make it transparent enough for you guys to well
I'm okay with any of it as long as we actually it actually follows the policy right we're at all I've gotten email after email after email of how honorous this is and how much work work it's going to be and then we're going to add
a bunch of extra stuff I think that's all I'm saying right I got it I got it from you it's not all of the extra stuff the extra stuff is added only if the the community decides correct they want to add it if they don't feel it's worthy they're not
going to add it all I'm saying is we haven't done it right we've been trying to do this for two years now and we still haven't got it done so and then I think resolution too you know when when you're looking at that we are going to bring in
the community ER explains it that hey are we going to have a 100 and that would be great right if we don't get the two3 it's still built in that this committee can still survive and can move forward because you can guarantee that you know two board members the
superintendent um support staff students they're going to be at that table for sure and and and the and the community should be as well but they might not have that same Avenue of wanting to be there every single
time what I had learned from uh I think it's Hastings board what they do for their strategic planning in any time they want Community input their board establishes a community collaborative
committee and they say all right this is our topic we're going to do strategic planning everybody come to whatever the location is okay they might have 50 people they might have 150 people whoever in the community wants to come then they sit they give the direction
okay tonight everybody we want to learn from you we want to hear from you what are your three to five goals that that you want from your school district as a strategic P okay then they sit at roundtables and they discuss it amongst
themselves they take notes gather then the board gathers feedback that's how they utilize that's how they do that is that separate them from the district advisory so because that those come and go a colle because she she explained to me she said
when we need one the collective whatever collaborative committee will we'll get one we'll establish one and when we're done with it sove it or we but that is more
CommunityWide could that be a byproduct that of the district advisory committee and something that we don't delay delay for the sake of time that discussion tonight I I find no difficulty with it it's just that kind of that's part of
ours that that is our the other yeah I don't have to create a new committee to deal with I can deal with strategic planning tomorrow if you approve this I can deal with the soup search tomorrow if you approve this I can do anything and everything we we can
do anything and everything with this group is there enough in the Resolute does it follow statute well as long as we follow statute I'm okay does it follow statute well enough to satisfy you guys have to read it yourself because I'm getting to
we the way I read it and way others read it are mik is my concern is for ours it's very curriculum focused and what I'm hearing from our community members for the past two years they want to see curriculum
not saying that there's anything wrong with they want wrong with it but taxpayers P for the curriculum they want to see curriculum and not everybody but there's an opportunity for them to do that and my concern is that this will the curriculum piece will just be put
over here like so but if you are the two members on this committee you can be the driving force to make sure that we're not supposed to be to right you can address
that a question show up because they're welcome to this and you're on a board that has the authority to hire a curriculum director absolutely that was so we have the motion the first and the
second let's continue on and we're going to take a vote on this Roger are you ready this if this follows statute if this does and it's open to all
public right and I think too there's the opportunity to readdress right doesn't go the way it's suppos if we're not following statute then I think we just need to readdress it I'd be more AP
if you're satisfied as board members that it's statute based and follow statute you're still on it and have that we move forward and get
something started well our fear we just we really need to focus on two3 public right absolutely judging by the right but if you I know but I'm just saying if you open it up to everybody every teacher has the opportunity to come
right absolutely and they should so the two requ but some of these staff members are commune members and I understand you the double up thing I get it but from the standpoint of community they have
children educa like their ucation St develop I agree I agree so it says parents on there so I'm a parent I absolutely you're a parent not I mean you get what I'm saying it's I like I I
understand the double up part of it and I do I'd like to see something get rolling you know it could be whatever but diving into something you wanting enough Community involvement to get two3
all the time I think we're going to struggle with that too judging by our stakeholder survey that we had from the superintendent we had 900 something families and only 130 of them decided to take part so then I I you know yes we have a
lot of people in this room this is small I mean we had this many people here but that's not the uh the intent of the PO the intent of the statute and policy is to be Community Driven not staff driven yep and I think that that
that's in here here you have to start somewhere and if you start putting Bridal on right off the bat that I think that's it limits people you you have to start you have to see who's going to come I guess
we owe it to our we owe it to our students I mean let's trust one another we all I but the the frustration for why is that funny that's not funny no I'm not laughing I'm saying the frustration for me is that we don't have the
opportunity to explain what our vision because our resolution is second so we can't talk about it and I can understand where people in the community read through this and go oh my
word this is a bunch of control issues but can't we we can't come to an agreement for the for the good of our students and for our community to say we can work together we can trust one another I mean the differences sound very small very small I mean the the
purpose of this committee you know putting this advisory committee together is to help our students and provide the best education we can we can all get on the same page and stop nitpicking over these little things where it's to me the
is there let's get this going we have community members that want to be involved let's let's get it going I just don't see any I don't see any reason not to move forward with with this yeah I'm okay with if 100 people want to show up
H people show up you know so I think we need to so I have can I just ask a question sure so so as I view this I I'm thinking we're doing the react so we're looking at reading curriculum correct so
the teachers choose their curriculum right and I don't know if they've chosen that yet the reading committee will choose yeah yeah okay so then in my to my line of thinking then they get they choose their one or
two they bring that to the district advisory committee so then 100 people can come and just look through it and that's how I see it look through it just to get a feel for it whatever
then and then that's what we're doing then you talking under this if this committee was established yeah so the the how that when we're yeah when we purchase before we would purchase um our
new reading that'll be our next big curriculum purchase yes um first of all that reading um whatever the teachers Julie have decided is going to work my job as the uh superintendent
will make sure that it checks the box that's the state's making us hump uh jump through right and I'm going to purchase that curriculum however I want public input on um what do you think of this curriculum I don't want their approval I
want their thoughts and make sure we didn't miss something correct but they're not going to no we didn't say approve it or go well she was saying Page by page but they would they would look at it another set of eyes many eyes
to say and some of them are connected and might know um you know this about something or that about something as it relates to that curriculum but the number one folks that are picking the curriculum are our teachers right they're the ones that are going to have
to implement it right and use it right and have been trained in letters right this is just getting community and it's ultimately got to align with State Standards that's part of the check in the box and when it comes to reading and
the read act that all got amped up um so as far as this curriculum purchase it will be so aligned to the uh not only the standards but the uh thoughts behind the read act and how we're supposed to
teach reading not just what we teach but now we're starting to get into the how when it comes to the the reading so very very dial but yes definitely will utilize this group to um have an opportunity to look at it and I would do
it before we purchased again just that opportunity did we miss something and what are your thoughts and then the opportunity to explain to them well the reason we're doing this is because of this or that and I'd want all my teachers there to be able to help
educate everyone on this is why we're we're spending 200,000 on this I'm just using that number might be less or moreti gives the community the opportunity follow State Statute and
gives the community the opportunity to look at what we're teaching yeah and not asking them for approval but gives them the opportunity to do it and bring any
concerns to set committee I would yeah hey I don't like that book then they don't have to come to public comment at the board we try to educate in in much more detail at that level
your point Roger there's something exactly and then I don't think you want I don't think you want to delegated down to an ex amount of people if you have something our just
our concern was just to get people that are willing yes consisten consistency is great um but I understand that we all have Ron it's kind of like the Katie Brown said tonight we'll set the agenda out
and you're you're going to have some inconsistency because this is something I'm passionate about and this isn't but I think we'll have enough remember and I took it right out of Statute I think um whenever because you can't statute or
policy two-thirds of the public to come to a meeting you can just ask so whenever possible parents and other community residents must comprise at least 2/3 of the committee members this will be this is one of our
standing five days okay are we good so it's just going to beet at least three times a year okay and as needed that's a very important piece y we could me twice a month Perfect all right motion on the
table and a second the vote all in favor say I say n Lori hi Monica yes Jason yes Roger yes Julie no sty y Ron
yes car with that um we will be going into board comment as we have a standing resolution pass I have a couple of things um and just I just want to share two things that I took away from the
msba sign so to a round table discussion on the msba Schoolboard handbook template um I think this would be a great tool for our board I've talked with other districts who have implemented this and it has helped them to all have the same information one place uh I would be interested in
working on this if there is board support or board interest for that if not then way we go uh the other I I also attended a round table discussion Ron and I did um that was learning how to create a IC Communications plan was
informative to learn how one school district did this and I'm going to keep that brochure for when we work on a strategic plan because they had it very nicely laid out good for me my board comment is from msba
conference as well I had signed up to do a couple of the conferences and I got talking with a fellow board chair so we were not wasted but used a whole hour and a half talking and I was able to bounce some great ideas off and as he
was more experienced in being board member so I took that more as a better training opportunity to attend the actual confence so worked well for me any other toward comment I plan to go to Long play on Thursday
so we shall awesome my thoughts you live in ch uous times and um my thoughts are with our migrant students and um who knows what's
going to happen but I I just think that we need to be there to support our students and should um something untour happen just know that we can be there to support them and should they be the
child that find themselves homeless especially the littles um that they know we are a safe community and um we can do whatever we can to support them and be safe at least when they are in our care
during the day I think this community pulls together with something like that happen so I would hope so I think we'll be okay are we good on board comment motion toour many