we have a lot of program managers that cover different areas that I will get into um but the great thing about us is we are we try to make your life easier or your school leaders lives easier um I always tell the school leaders if there's something that you don't have time to do or you can't stand do it give
it to us and we'll work on it so just really here to our our number one thing is to support the uh some of the educational Serv we have a lot of different Partnerships this is just a handful of them um we can get par educator is highly qualified so we've got resources
to be able to do that on the College college prep work um one of the most recent things that we do that we're pretty proud of is a school crisis response team so we coordinate that for our region and what we do is we we will mobilize resources whenever school's in crisis so God forbid like let's say
there's a student suicide in our region on one of our schools we will take some of that burden off of the school that's experiencing that trauma and we will gather resources from other schools and try to support that school that's why of the many things that we do a school crisis but um we also work on redefining
ready Empower you I won't take the time to read all this to you and then we do a lot of work with the regional stem excellence and this we call STEM forward pm has always been very active with the stem work in the region but we do this we try to help
train teachers we give them educational opportunities try to find resource for kids um there's some funding available so schools can apply for Grants through the stem Network um um one of the things we're really excited about is is something new this year is we're doing solar suitcases where we bring these
solar suitcases into the schools the schools actually build solar electricity and they ship those over to third world countries that don't have electricity you'd be shocked at how many people that are in this world that do not have access to electricity so it's a great experience for students and we're doing some good on top of that that's Sol run
through the stem program at the southeast service Coop you can see through the stem forward these are all the part Partners you can see PM is on there we've got some corporate sponsors as well second uh postsecondary uh partners that we work with a program called future forward a
program called future forward it's a free online app that kids can put on their phones and it's a way for them to get connected with businesses they have I forget the number of businesses that are on that app but it's really to try to get kids connected to career opportunities so a kid wants to work for
IBM when they graduate or how do I get to do that there's resources on there there got to try to get those kids connected um many years ago when I was a superintendent it seemed like there was a lot of pressure to get kids to go to postsecondary or to fouryear schools and that tone has really changed Through The
Years there's a lot of opportunities now where kids can go to two-year schools and there's even companies that will hire Kid read out of high school for some welding careers they'll do the training and kids can come up and make some really decent money away from that we get a lot of Home calls from them say what you guys doing but it's a really great resource
for the for the students and businesses in the region uh some of the student programs you can see on on your sheet in your folder PM's been very active in this through like knowledgeable spelling me things like that um something new this year we started as math Masters um I know pm has
sent kids to the young authors Young Artists in middle school program um this is one of my favorite programs because we get kids in our building and those are always really fun days for me you kind of miss that when you're not in the public school so um we provide a lot of opportunities for students through the
student program facility management this is another area that we do um every single School District in our region Now is working with IA which provides health and safety Services um so like for asbest removal lead and water all the testing um things
like that Anie R does a great job with that through IA we also have other resources so um we have a partnership with with isg and they do a lot of facility planning if you're thinking about going out for a referendum they can help with some of those things um from start to
finish um it's just a some discounted pricing that we offer we also recognize some schools have relationships with other people and that's perfectly fine we just try to find solutions that at a discounted price that we think will make sense for you um Todd rap does a lot of work in our region he's one that if you ever do go up for a referendum or decide
to try to redo one um he works in our region to try to help put that Community communication out there um I think he's worked with about a half dozen districts in our region and he's every single District that he's worked with this past the referendum so he's a great resource very very affordable as
about um Cooperative purchasing PMS are very involved in this as well so this is a Statewide program that we are involved with it's run out of Lakes Country in the western part of the state and the nice thing about this is we do all of the biding for you so you can literally it's almost just like going on Amazon
you can go on the Cooperative purchasing your office staff here's aware of this and they can purchase just about anything through the Cooperative purchasing um even Vehicles you don't have to go out try to get bids or things like that everything's done for you you can go on there and pick and choose what you need and we try to get the best
prices and discounted prices for for our members um one of the other big areas that we do is the Minnesota Healthcare Consortium um we haven't really been involved at PM with the health insurance piece um we've looked at that in the past and it just hasn't made sense for
either party to to work with the co-op in that we do some of the um administrative things like um helping facilitate like your hsas fsas Bas things like that so we are doing a little bit of work there with Pete neon and so we do have a pool in the
region and I know I think every time you go up for bid you have contact with the cop I think we're getting closer and closer to having it make sense but we do have a small a small group pool and a large group pool we are finding that we're becoming extremely competitive throughout the state now we used to kind of rate things within our region and now
we've gotone much more Statewide so you know in a small school district if you have one staff member that unfortunately has cancer or really really high claims that can blow your rates through the water and now when you're in a Statewide pool that really has helped us stabilize some of those rates so we are we are
trying to become lar more competitive with that and smarter um we're working with holes Murphy out of the Twin Cities that's been a great partner we also switched from Blue Cross Blue Shield to Medica a couple few years ago and they've been a great partner one of the nice things about medicas they provide all the insurance at The Mao clinic for
all the Mao Clinic employees and um it used to be we kind of steered people away from Mayo because it was so expensive and now we're actually encouraging our people in our insurance to go to Mayo because we have some discounted pricing and we have some deal so hopefully someday we'll get PDM back in the pool and we can work
together on that um add part of the hul Nicole LEL strumsky does some Wellness work in the region um I won't get in all the details there but she does a lot of support um just trying to keep your staff healthy and provide opportunity for
staff cre Media Solutions this is something new we started a couple of years ago we have a marketing person Katie Hendrickson that works for our members and she can do videos she can do um support you on social media whatever it may be um but the thing that I'm most proud of with this is that we we can
offer discounted pricing if you have ever gone to a private industry for marketing Services you know that it can be very very expensive this is much more affordable we've had school districts reach out to try to promote um trying to get kids to come to their districts so um we provided videos and things like that to to try to you know increase
enrollment in districts and there's just a wide variety of things that we can do in the marketing area so we're pretty proud of that we're also doing some things Statewide as well from selfast service coopertive local government services this is the other area that doesn't really apply to you we partner with cell
Central service Cooperative out of Mano um Mike humble is a former city administrator so we work closely with him so when I do get requests I don't have the strong background in local government so I'll reach out to Mike and say hey with this and we've got those people working out in schools right now supporting those
different so um they're busy it's it's something relatively new but um they're doing some really good things in school and and again trying to simplify things for the schools because your staff are really really busy so we are here to support them the network project momentum this is a a
$2.7 million grant that we received a couple of years ago this runs for about five years and what this is this supports um ESL work throughout the region English as a second language um we just got approved recently by pby so now we can take any teacher with a
teacher license and we're able to add on the ESL license through a series of courses that we have staff that have created all through this grant um so and then that's and those are very very it's one of the really hard to find areas um for schools to find a licensed teacher in that area now we are able to provide
that license our ultimate goal is to be able to um take an individual and have them actually get that as an initial license but we're always off from that it's going to require some other funding but um we we're a state leader in this in the project momentum doing the ESL work throughout the state um we've also branched out to other states we're
working in Michigan Hawaii we're kind of all over the country right now doing some of this work so I'm pretty excited about this one we also if you've never been to soueast service Cooperative if you have been there you're familiar with the Wood Lake meeting Center this is a state-of-the-art facility with st ofr
technology Where We Rent Out office space We Rent Out um meeting space um it's just a beautiful clean area Alicia Breton does the runs of meeting Center great customer service and it's an area where our members can rent that at a 40% discount so it's very very affordable we
have schools that'll just bring a leadership team that just want to get off site and have a quiet room to work without all the interruptions and we see that in the summertime as well so um this a space where School superintendents meet there all the time sometimes principles come in for different things but um it's a space
that we have that we rent out and then last thing I would just refer you to is we we do have the website s.co www.ssc Coop which has all the information so um all of our contact information is in there the website's been currently redesigned and again my
business card is in your folders if you ever have questions or um just want some more information about anything you're always welcome to get a hold of me and if I don't know it I'll definitely steer you in the right direction so um but we like I said our primary function is to support you as a school dist any
questions from you all Steve is the pickle ball cord something we can moving on we'll go into reps we'll start with yeah we just finished up our Benchmark testing this
last week so that is our fast Bridge testing which you hear a lot about we'll be reporting about that data in February um the data coaches come but things are looking good like I said um had lots of six esses little kids you know they might not getting aware the the grade
level success that they're expecting but man like I said we had some jump from five to 51 that's huge huge stuff huge numbers so I mean we celebrate those just as much as we do getting the exceeds on an MCA at some point so um we got Bulldog Academy coming up we're
doing that in another was another week or so um we're doing two sessions only this year so that is's a reading one this this time end of March or beginning March I should say will be um the other one for Math and that will just lead us right into our third grade MCAS and
stuff like that um the highwa Valley mental health I know Mike had worked with them earlier this fall and and they presented at the high school uh when we had our kind of tragedy they were um Mike helped set them up so had a couple counselors come in and my conversation
with them they're going to kind of uh create a key3 presentation for us they weren't quite ready for staff meeting tomorrow but but uh they're going to come in February so we're going to do that and like I said then I have to reach out yet to the Minnesota Autism Center but we got a nice contact there
to get us some information working with our ASD kids which any information like that is helpful it's not a um I don't know not as widely known thing in colleges yet I don't think or something like that they're coming in kind of fresh so so it's good information for
all of us so question for you um with your Bulldog Academy are there openings for volunteers for that or is that all covered uh it's normally covered by teachers and we and we hire high school kids oh okay but if you want to volunteer we're happy to
help um The High Valley mental health center presentation that is that on how to handle students who are ging you know it I'll probably refer to um Mr W on that one but it's it's a little bit of everything it's like recognizing signs of grief recognizing
and students or teachers you know we do a lot of that kind of stuff so yeah it's I think it's going to be I don't think they're gon to get too in depth in the weeds because we're ours is going to only be a half hour so that's just the the quick and dirty of it so they'll probably give us you know some resources kind of you know our presentation
tonight to us just kind of the big General bird ey overview thank you uh Mr yep several quick things um math Wizards at the elementary started Kate lundigan doing it for the fifth grade Jullian irons for the sixth grade
Kate also um I think this is like 307 years this program I think it did start at El M way back when but Kate now has she overseed all 12 schools there six in the north six in the South we did have a meet last Thursday at PM with six schools sixth grade did get the first
place team fifth grade got second as you can see there it's our second year we used to make cuts which is not fun it's our second year of allowing all students Sixth and fifth grade and at the very end of the uh season February 20th we host again just PM students appearance
at night so that was a good addition that's our second year of that Junior highs I bring up every single month we have all sorts of activities continuing for kids bowling Club started Art Club is tonight book club started letters training same as Mr Wright we're busy um halfway done through the first year it
is a lot of work I spent a lot of time with the the staff but it is going smoothly it's off a good start um number four there the high school one act play the one thing I just bringing up we promote those programs as much as we can when the junior high does their play in the fall we have the fourth fifth and
sixth grade kids come and watch Junior ey kids are performing don't want to have their peers watch they want the younger kids so now the onea play I have all the 7 peers watch at actually January 22nd and then again this spring when the high school does their play we have the junior high again so we really
try to have kids watch those things promot it and as I've said many times for the El you know the stage at the 78 Junior High you know it's amazing what can be accomplished with that facility and a lot of people put some work in that lastly and probably most
importantly I'm not going to read it all but Denine beg I did nominate her and you can see down there she is a stem outstanding educator award um there was I believe 12 nominees this year she is one of three um I will be going with her on February 12th to the workshop in
Rochester I will introduce her she'll have a short speech but she's one of three winners and again um you can look herself but 31 years in education all the different science committees you know she's done things with student Science Club 24 years lab robotics knowledgeable but the one thing and I um
and I've said this to other people I've worked with a lot of fabulous Educators I've been I seriously I've been very fortunate that's the truth but when it comes to Denine what separates her she is so passionate about science I mean when she teaches science I mean it is
from the heart she loves her science I've never seen an ed more passionate about her subject matter again so she's outstanding looking forward to that in February be a fun night thank you Mr um I maybe would just make a
quick note about the Hawa Valley uh group so previously zumbro Valley uh mental health serviced our area ha a Valley's taken that over and really um
they worked with a couple families in our community earlier in the year and I was talking with them and I we were the people that were working with us and our families what they can provide for the community it's really it's not a school service specifically it's a
community service or resource so um let's see I just wanted to give a quick update we started this character Academy with some of our student leaders this year it's a three session um Academy uh the second one was in November it
focused on presence being present in the moment being present with your you know thoughts and how that can help you as a leader and as a person it was very well received I add a little bit of the feedback 98% of the kids um said they would recommend participating to others
so I think that's a really good uh really good feedback um and the feedback I've gotten from students has been really positive that was a part of it so we have this fully funded for this year I'm working right now on getting funding for so that
we can continue this next year and maybe uh get more people a few more of our student leaders involved um so I'm looking at possible donations I'm also looking at maybe some grants things like that so we'll continue to keep this as a part of what we do uh at least I would
like it to that way um I included information about the students uh privileges there one quick kind of check on that uh the code of conduct um box should have been checked for the 12th grade
that's something we include there um as an a requirement for keeping your uh 12th grade pass what we would like to add is the 11th and 10th grade passes um and you know this will be something new
we want to be able to work with it and kind of adjust as we go uh we could get into this and think it's you know not manageable resource-wise um we could get into this and think we can expand it or the ways we can expand it I'm not exactly sure but I'd like to uh start
with what I presented and then see see where it goes I think this looks like an amazing program and great incentive for our students um are you asking for school board approval tonight
for um I I guess I don't know I I'd like to get I'd like to get this going for second semester which starts next week um if you feel like it means approval then I'd ask for approval then I think I think it sounds good I
would this be something that we would just have to adjust in the handbook would this have to be added as a thing I would like to not add very much in the handbook because I want to be able to like if we get six weeks into this and it's not manag ible by the
staff um I'd like to be able to adjust so I don't want to put too many specifics in um I just cover yeah I no I think I think we should be okay I mean we could we could add something
uh I don't know I don't think we would run into a problem problems with that I mean we're adding something so it's not like we're um taking anything away that's the handbook maybe so Eric is this something that
needs approval by the board um I don't think so otherwise we could have put it on the agenda but I think Mike wants to make sure that you're informed that he isn't doing something and then someone says well hey that's not so he's just gonna they're going to give it a trial
and if it works then it would come to you um this may when he updates the handbook and and be reflective of how they're actually running if it doesn't work he's going to end it and move on so okay good luck
I yeah yeah exactly very much all right um and we do um and we do great with our resources but we things that that make it more difficult is sharing teachers between
the buildings um sharing um facilities you know we have a kind of a pretty amazing uh way we Shuffle around all the areas here between the elementary school and the high school um it works and then our
Partnerships we're we're continuing to add more Partnerships we have the welding we have a CDL partnership we have uh two kids doing the firefighter program outside of the building we've got a last two years we've had a couple kids do uh get at least part of their
Union certification done so that's like not through us but we're partnering with other organizations to get that done those are all great things they make scheduling all that more complicated so a big shout out to my counseling department for taking care of all that I
included some links uh to their website and uh the registration book not many changes to that stuff but they'll be updated before obviously February 10th um I added a little update on the attendance uh really not much of a
change since last uh month and then a few kind of cool things that are happening right now I got to see the one act play last week um for whatever reason NSL requires that an administrator signs off that they're
being safe and they are uh so that's a good thing uh it was really good kids do amazing stuff and that's that's no different to one act play um our choir students are if they're not back yet they're coming back from the Dorian Festival uh this week our band students
did the southeast Minnesota band director uh honor band this week as well um knowledge bowl last week there were 28 teams and we had three teams and we took first fourth and fifth so very good for
them and then Steve Henri the naae uh he was the teacher he got the teacher Mentor award for region uh 8 uh basically that means he was recognized for being a great resource and help to
teachers in our region so well deserved for that thank you Mr thank you yep student member report from Mr file sticker hello everyone my name is Don fcker I'm the vice president of the high school student council and I'll be filling in for AC tonight thank you for having me
the PM student council out a productive and fun holiday season the week before Christmas break was holiday week on each day of holiday week was a dress up day for students to participate in couple of these days included moving to community
report that is also attached monthly budget report also attached also attached um yeah my report's attached and uh there's not a lot to focus on out of the ordinary on the the report this month
we're we're um tracking where I would expect to be for this time of year with our budget we're working um on calendar year end at this point we got reports that are due by the end of January um so we work with both fisal and calendar years calendar years we get all the
1099s um sales tax reports and some debt reports um that so I can take any questions if there are any on this report I don't have a lot to focus on this time um we're pretty status quo couple of additional expenditures that
you will have seen this month High okay okay um it so having said that our Treasures report that is not we're not going to be able to get that out by then we need to wait for the bank statement to come and there's a process to it so
we'll bring two reports to you um the following month for approval it's um it's just not feasible especially since that falls over a weekend that and that the bank statements W even be available until that Monday and that's just St that's just not going to be enough time
so um just heads up that uh that's that report will come for January and February will come to you at the Fe or that March Bo meeting if if there's any concerns with that let me know um but I just want to make sure you guys are thank you J go on to superintendent
report uh just a little followup with Steve um Jan went to a meeting with me at Southeast Co-op and it involved something that that um was presented at the Masa conference and a couple of suits in our area started talking about
it and um we reached out to Steve and said you know could you broker a meeting with this individual and he did that so not only all the stuff that he went through but that's a great example of our connection with Southeast Coop when
there's even new stuff that uh is a potential for Southeast to help us on they do that and I don't know if that'll end up being something that we end up doing or not but the fact that Steve and Southeast Co-op pulled it together um we
held the meeting there free of cost um was just excellent and just another example of of that partnership so and piggy back because they were going through some of the finances stuff that we also had some questions on um good
overview um I would like to present it next month um I mentioning it now because I did ask them um their ideal energy I think those folks work all over the country so for someone it's not like somebody can come from Rochester and present they really
don't do that um but they said they would share the materials they provided with the zoom that they did with Jan and I and I I'm going to take a crack at it to give we have two new board members uh it's very interesting um and what Clark
was talking about the need she's very involved um she was the first one to actually get it on my radar because she was doing some curriculum and um getting trained in it and then needed some followup and I'm like well I don't even know how that works so um there's a
curriculum piece there's also a piece um like uh how they're um actually working goes on our website we're working on posting on that so you can go on and see how many kilowatts we're producing today and um so I just think it's a good time for us to take a closer look at that so
I'll I'll bring that back um for information on the board agenda next month and I'll try to keep it brief they did a good job um with us so I don't know how good I'll do um search soup search update couple of thoughts I had
on that um we did a very good job um trying to inform people when we needed the survey and I've mentioned this before and I'm guilty of it all the time we ask folks for their opinion we get the information and then we never tell them anything else um so I I'd like to
do an update out to the community reminding them when our um interviews are those are coming up and those are open to the public I'd also like to share some of those and I have permission from Amy there was the final report on the survey there was the one
pager that aligns uh with the survey um Thoughts with the board thoughts um so keep keep it brief but share basically um some of the stuff that has been shared with us so I plan on doing a mailing one area I need a clarification
on and I can reach out to Jason but um you know we we but I do want to make sure that we connect I was talking to Jason a little bit um you know strategizing there's so many opportunities uh and what we want to do is well Roger really wants to go to this
um maybe my second choice is what I would go to so that sometimes it's good to double up or triple up if it's really a topic you're going to be able to follow through otherwise you're just kind of mining for those thoughts and the more we can attend the better so we'll we'll get a strategy but I'm I'm
excited those those two uh t-notes are outstanding I mean to have them both in the same year is impressive um I'm messing around with the website so this is a bigger pitcher item um when we get into strateg
planning and all that as far as what we can do how we would do it with the website but from day one on in our district the website has drove me crazy I have never seen so many quick links on one page in my life and they're so
special we double them up they're down below again well I meet monthly with our Tech folks in last month two months ago Lauren kefir who's our main person um he mentioned that
Midwest does um website work for free as part of our contract didn't know that so reached out to them um we're working with their web page designer they work uh remotely they will never be here um
actually won't even give us a phone number it's all email um but they're starting to clean it up so if somebody calls you or the even the principals um where did this go what did that do I'm sorry but we're basically going to a lot
of this stuff needs to get back into its tabs and and so it might get a new banner and a little bit of a different look but the biggest thing I'm we're doing is just basically cleaning it up um your number one thing is your
calendar um school calendar um events calendars and that's by the hits so Lauren can tell me um who who gets traffic traffic to the website traffic to specific areas so she has all that
information and is using it and Mara is kind of I would say our closest to a gatekeeper um so Marsha and I have agreed to just allow this person to do their thing and we'll guide them a little bit but then get it done um and
see what we think if if we want to change something we can't so just keep trying to keep you informed but yes there's going to be a some some some changes to the website but strictly in appearance everything that's in there is going to stay they would love to see us
Mike's a good example he's he's rolled over to Google um docs as for his and it work eval but I'm working with staff development probably eval but I'm
working with staff development probably much more closer right now at this point where we're adding the process with the principles in developing a curriculum cycle and the the thing to remember here is it is very easy it's like um setting
up a exercise program your New Year's resolution right you can Google it and you can get it it is so there's nothing to to do in a cycle the key is getting a cycle that will actually work it'll the key is to that fitness program actually
doing one that you you're going to follow through and it works for you so there's a lot of little pieces that we're going into one example right now met with Tony McGee this afternoon I want to fold into how we're doing our
teacher evals as part of that curriculum cycle I'll use Clark for an example in all three of them Mike last year had 27 10year teachers he had the evaluate because of our current cycle he's got two this year one one
Clark's got how many a bunch a bunch and then I bet next year you're going to be in that less so that doesn't it it can work and it they've done it um it's just there's a much better way to do it so that gets folded into the cycle the
other thing is on our end right now we're in a great position as a district because we were aware of it and talking about it um when we get the purchase for the new reading curriculum great however what are you going to do when you're doing math what are you going to
do when you're doing science um this includes planning for all of that okay along with teachers are always looking at um their curriculum maybe not as much as Ben um but they all do that it's it's
survival they have to um to be able to do what they do but we do have some specific things along the way that we're going to need out of them also I've been through do many purchases as a superintendent as a principal as a
teacher we have to have a point person when you're buying curriculum especially K12 Clark can't just do his little piece Mike do his and then um John do his without putting it all together without coming up with that final cost without
having someone who's going to make sure everything everything got delivered um so that's all the pieces we're working on but I think to be honest with you and in working with the principles this is something when I'm gone it's there if
your new superintendent has more background or goes you know what I I want to move some pieces here that's great but I can tell you as a superintendent I would rather come into a district and have something to start with than to start at Ground Zero we're
just losing time we'll be in a good position um shortly with that cycle and one of the things we we talked about back and forth the reality is we're starting it next year right so we're going to start with that language um and
then we'll add from there so once you go through one year you're just doing that piece of the cycle and then the next year we add another group and you're moving the next that first group down to the next step these guys will be able to manage that trying to dump everybody
into a cycle at one time that would I I just don't think it's it's sustainable for these guys it's too much to do from the unknown we'll build it as we go and I'll get into that a little bit more um next month when I present it hopefully I
again I want the staff development um to take a look at it much more closer because we've changed it since the first time they looked at it so that's about all I have I hope back up to the superintendent search Mara did
you um or do you still have the list from when I think it was Darren how we had the the groups the the teachers and whoever else doing the eals Because that's we need at some point to decide which groups of people were going to be
represented I figured that's probably the easiest place to start did and um are we going to be able to review that soon because we may want to add additional groups or change groups I don't know I don't know I just don't
remember how many different groups were represented at that point in time but okay there just can't think of what groups were yeah I just remember the you know one of the teacher ones but I I
have no idea as long as you don't reply all so what we will do Mara we'll put that together we'll send it out to all of you and then like I said make sure you correspond individually with your thoughts but I think we can get that in
um order rather quickly and I need the community piece for my mailing that I'd like to do this week thank you Eric committee reports Southeast service
C minute sir catch nothing to add okay staff development committee I would like to just make a on being on policy just so that the board is aware and talked to Eric about it um we haven't been following policy our
policy or state statute so I think this is something we to address and I want you guys to all be aware that we haven't been doing that so we do need to find a solution and I think quicker than later in the piece that Ron's talking
about um and I talked to Ron about this and I've had conversations with with Tony McGee when I first came on board I reviewed a ton of stuff and when I got to the staff development area I could not find our staff development plan
um we kind of have one but we don't and and um in my discussions with Tony he's fully aware and we will work together on a staff development plan that the board would approve so what that includes is and timing on this works out really well
because you you normally would get that for next year um at the end of this year so before we go on the summer break whether that be May or June that's the time for that so Tony knows I mean we will we are already currently working on
the plan for next year the biggest piece with the um board it's it's an overview of everything we're doing but it also has that budget component so we break down rough costs um that sort of stuff so um it is in
place for next year however that doesn't um eliminate the fact that we don't have anything for this year and Ron was wondering could we at least rough out something to put in place for this year I will talk to Tony on that I just want
the board to realize it isn't going to be exactly um what you will get next year but I think something Ron is probably better than nothing and the reporting piece you said that you this this goes up to the state right and you said that this is something also that we
could at least look at um yeah at the end of the year you have to do a staff development report I think that's still in place right yeah um so yes it isn't anything the board could approve but um good practice would be here's here it is for
you guys so this year when we do that report being able to share that information with the board just as an FYI for information is good there isn't any board approval on that report but yes sharing
it okay policy um we went through 200s and we've got a discussion on that under governance so I'll just talk about to with board bites is attached moving on to the consent
agenda um the January 6th board meeting minutes are in complete so they'll email us and updated version tomorrow
sometime this week remove those so remove the January 6th board meeting minutes looking for a motion on the consent agenda we do approve the consent agenda
as first do we have a second second I would like to table this and then when meet at our next policy meeting we just kind of go through them again and make sure all our changes you want them bring them back I'm just running behind so they're still under review for
another month you don't second read and and do for approval until the February meeting it's going to be a little early but I will try to do my due diligence to get at these as quickly as I can juggling too many things so we'll have
them on next meeting second reading will be um these will hopefully if if if you don't like where we're at or think we had enough time you can then change it but these will be on the February agenda for a second reading then that's
approval this is not all you're doing is there's still this there to look at but to your point they should have the changes I just haven't had a chance to get in there and do them no that's I got that file so then so then just for the
next policy meeting I thought we were finishing the we got to finish the 200s because now like 213 there's a lot to do with them okay so we're in pretty good shape even with all those changes can I ask a
question yes so the policies that are in the first reading so I just want to make sure that it would be appropriate would it be appropriate since it's first reading to comment on one at this point in time or yes and ultimately um even though we
have people of reps assigned the board as a whole can you can you can email me tomorrow and say hey at the meeting would you please um consider this or that all of you so policy is all of you guys these guys just take the burden a
little further with the monthly meeting so and that policy is a lot of work so I appreciate all the work that they do on that because that is a lot of work I just had a comment on policy 2035 five um and I know I think this trying
to remember came before the board there was a recommended change about allowing a a school board member to add something to the agenda and I just you know I thought about this after our last meeting I don't think there was any ill intention
um but if we really want as a school district to get the best superintendent not a below average superintendent but a really good superintend we have to be good partners and as a board we're going to
be so much more impactful with unity than with asserting our control or our power and so I would like to revisit that language that allows a board member to come without working with the board
chair and the superintendent to add something to the agenda and I'm not discrediting and thinking that that it was um a nefarious act it's just that we're partners and we have like I said I just believe we can do so much if we're
unified but if we're trying to exert our power over superintendent we're not going to get the best superintendent we're going to get below average or average and I want to see us get an excellent superintendent so I'd like us to think about either clarifying
language a language that shows superintendent we want to partner with you we want to support you and we're willing to have a discussion I think every board member should have the opportunity to add something to an agenda but in a fashion that's working with the board chair and the
superintendent as partners because if you think about your relationship with your spouse that's a partnership and if you had a disagreement about how you were disciplining your children how would you feel if your spouse circumvented you because they wanted
their discipline method following you wouldn't feel supported you wouldn't feel like that's a true partnership and so I just really would like us just to think about either clarifying language or language that shows we want to be true partners with our
next so if we could just think about that um that was my only comment and and for background on that Monica um I had asked for curriculum to be put on the agenda like three different times in my
first year on the board and it just I kept getting put on well Julie I know and you know I I don't think there was any ill intent on your part at all I just really am thinking about really want to get the best superintendent and I truly believe that Unity gets us
farther than asserting our our Authority so that's just the message I wanted to so if we could just think about that that was policy 20 3.5y committee that done any other discussion we'll move on to the finance
committee resolution couple things so I apologize Mara did um update these um on our agenda for our organizational meeting but we still um needed a few like I said we didn't even have the DAC at that time
so all you're doing right now was just doing that formal approval um if you want to do them individually that's fine um but I think I pointed out um the Dak um we did dissolve a couple of committees but everything that's on here
as far as committees these are board standing committees and what I mean by that is we control these committees so I do the agenda um somebody does the minutes maybe me um hosting all of that
um others where we have the Reps um we don't we don't do that so these are only board standing committees I I would prefer to go through them one at a time okay and then I do have the updated
list that was put up from Mara as well for be up there oh yeah that right so like if we go if we're look talking about Finance committee um Finance we decided that
Monica and and I will be on that and I didn't change a word and finance so I know that the resolution in 2023 did not have any on it and the resolution in 2024 did and I don't remember what the reasoning was for that
we added feure so the question is if there's teachers added to the finance they well on our resolution that are up to teachers and we didn't have that 23 so I was wondering what I don't remember that I believe back
with we we changed a lot of our membership to I think up to three staff members and commun MERS for each we did that a few yes y I think I we
did see when I don't think we do invite them to come we'd be happy to take some on the committee anybody say that they would like to but that's always yes so then Jan on on we have community members on finance yes yeah we
got four really good ones and so then what is our process for for having people get on you know what I mean like yeah like as a community member how you get on thatf you just like what's our
process I think a little different than maybe somebody who if you've been here longer but my take would be um these community members have been on this committee for quite a while so how
they were put on there but I would say like the Dak I'm envisioning the uh the district advisory committee anybody could show up at that first meeting um you you you don't need any there's no gatekeeper um and I think here you still
as a community member could be a part of our um finance committee I I don't know if you're going to necessarily have the input that those longstanding folks have because we have someone from each of the banks um we have CPA CA we have CPA we
have really we have people with really strong financial expertise um so they were hand selected um and they they're really strong and really good and they they attend all the yeah they're excellent so then as as board committees
that are established by the board but is my understanding that we're supposed to approve everyone that's on the committee kind of I mean we don't we haven't had a teacher attend yet but I don't think it needs to be the three same teachers I guess I would take any teacher that
we're just saying up to three teachers say so like right now whoever's on our finance can I would it's my understanding that as a board school board our role is to approve so we get the list of everyone on finance and then
we approve them as that is our fin I remember seeing that somewhere but we we were Transportation facilities committee meaning or what but you know we I don't really know that we've ever on any
voting processes or anything like that it's typically just been information profession where we have here and kind of give you know even this group's advis all committees are advising right not making I mean if we have
a you want to call it a rather fluid membership far as what staff members want are able to show up or community members I mean as long as our board members are always there or represented and superintendent or advisers are always
there could have an Inu membership as far as staff members doesn't really like I said I think was I a month two months in before I even realized you had the I'm not used to a district even having a resolution
um it's not I've been in two different districts and the board established committees um but then that went from there you know superintendent took over whoever and kept it moving but to even have this I think is is great it's much more
detailed if you want to get even finer detail list out to the community members that you know I think we're able to do that guess something changes teachers attend I mean like Kevin said there per se on the committee they haven't said they wanted to do that but we had
certainly have had staff members come anybody yeah Ian and they you know yeah but then if I lose a banker and a new Banker on do I have to bring the resolution back to the board to get approval to I mean can I just like I said whatever the board wants I just
think you're at a better stage than most um with your resolution and some we don't know we don't know a Community member um I've had some folks reach out I'm sure you have too um after that first meeting I'll have a better idea of who actually
wants to participate and just because you want to participate does that mean I necessarily have to be at every meeting I guess I don't Envision that like the finance finances really our proposed budget our revised budget
is it twice audit AUD quarterly quarterly so in very specific what they're doing some of these other committees just aren't as as neat as and tidy as as that particular so is that something that you
could bring to the board for just review on Who Wants to be on the committies then is that what you're kind of saying no I'm saying like here if you're not comfortable with me just us listing community members if you want the names of those folks that are on the finance I
can do that in some of these I'm fine with it but just realize remember you know if you do these annually but if somebody goes off during the year you need to bring the resolution back because that's why we change some of the other policies to go
by position versus me superintendent only not air ker exactly I would use that same logic with something here I appreciate you know that what Julie's wanting the the specificity but you can go too far with
that and create more work for yourself no I'm not saying change resolutions I say keep the resolutions so that you look at it and go okay these you on it but just a separate okay this is the list of all the people on this people are you looking for just a review
of them who those MERS people know who they are know who they are sure I I have oh I follow you now so not resolution not on the resolution adding on to this of what we know yeah that's easy that's all I'm looking for okay kind of
like pieces of paper I got here is one committee groups that I was at and it showed a list of everybody that was there and who's typically there or not pres Bott so look looking for a motion for
the finance committee resol Roger first second Monica second any discussion all in favor say I I opposed yeah motion passed moving on to the
mshsl committee resolution we have Stacy as our representative oh I'm sorry I'm on the wrong so we just need to put get rid of
the put up to you want three School members up to three School members need to be yeah that make sense Mar y the three and we have so we have Stacy Ron and Julie is that correct yeah currently
currently yes okay looking for a motion for just one more thing I just curious you know when we have current coaches and they're on the committee and what happens when we're evaluating them at the time is that I mean obviously they can come to
any meeting anyway right is this an issue no we just would flip initially we're doing fall we won't we wouldn't have you as one of the Just Gotta use the AIS and or right because I think the initial reasons to have coaches on was to help us set up the eval process and
set up the and you had mentioned that you think that that's all square and good to go and so I just curious if we even needed a coach on there when even though they still have the ability to come to meting Ober everything yeah I think as
long as you're going to continue it for the rest of the year I would maintain our our structure I think their input might be just as valuable as anybody else's motion to accept the resolution Roger
first sty a second any discussion all in favor say I I oppos I'm opposed I've just been consistent that I don't believe we need this I I will support the decision you know to keep it I just want to I oppose having this motion
passed roll oh roll call yes run Springer yes Lori yes Monica no Jason yes Roger yep Julie yes Stacy yes all right
Insurance resolution we have Monica and Roger open for uh motion I move to approve can me just have one more thing just curious it says appointed by the board chair we were wondering if that those
could be removed from the resolution we've never that's not how that's not our process not the process that we've been buing because it's on multiple because none of the other resolutions stay appointed by the board chair so you want to stay consistent
with everything as far as on the committee and right just remove looks more like a board decision than the chair just remove the words appointed by the board chair need resend if we want to change so I make a
motion to amend the the motion that the removal of pointed by the board a second everybody vote on whether to add
that do we had a first to amend it Y A second we have a discussion on it first second so what will the new reading be two school board members you're just as opposed okay I'm
just trying to follow you're removing this line and just leaving that one so it's basically basically two two school board members would volunteer trying to stay consistent on I just didn't know if it was by when
he showed me up makes sense I see it so so any other discussion okay all in favor of the amended motion say I I any opposed meet and confir
resolution looks like Roger Bor and Monica be the same just remove appointment by the board chair move to approve with that Amendment we got a first appr second Roger
Monica any discussion all in favor say I I opposed motion passes Personnel negotiations committee
same thing Stacy Roger Jason and Monica as an alternate who to approve with the same Amendment we have a first by Monica and the second by Stacey to take out the appointed by board chair any
discussion all in favor say I I I opposed motion carries policy committee resolution looks like Lori Julian
Ron I'll approve with the same Amendment Stacy for a first to take the appointment second by Monica any discussion all in favor say I I oppos motion
carries District advisory committee resolution and that looks like Julian Ron yeah I have a um a resolution that I would like for members to um that is different than this one we know
that I um um I think that this resolution is not specific enough for what we want to what what what we're envisioning this to be and according to
our the policies that we can for 603 and 616 and then how they would and then um and then we would use the world's best Workforce whatever that there's a district advisory committee application and that we would use that as
membership just ER could you see this beforehand um a version of it it's jul in my vision of this are on both ends of the spectrum so as I view the deck um for our district I
view it as an opportunity for us to be more more transparent to our community for those that want to be involved and curriculum is listed as one of many things I think this group could could assist us with also for the opportunity
to get that um feedback um public comment is nice but um it doesn't allow that dialogue it doesn't allow us to get into um moving that in a different direction or using it in some way I do
follow up sometimes and I'm sure you guys do too with people that make public comment but um I see this group as a universal group to help us in so many ways that we would consider utilizing
the public well beyond um curriculum I think almost everything on here um and I did list curriculum I just don't want to specifically tell you exactly what this group's going to do with curriculum because other than
be allowed the opportunity to work with us um to hear what we're doing and get their input um on that as far as them trying to change um our curriculum my belief
is teachers and and administration the school that's our job to do curriculum should we be open to people's comments and concerns but input sure I think it's very very clear in statute the role the district advisor lay it right out and
I've taken that blurp that I have on there um Ron meets meets statute and I think it also says that the school board is to approve is to create this you're supposed to establish it you will with this resolution but I think though we
need to look closer at the true role of the district advisory committee in statute and policy I would recommend you table it I don't think it's appropriate to um and again take that way we can take a closer
look at this like I said we're gonna have to disagree agree to disagree Ron your vision and Julie's vision is completely the opposite of what I see this um committee um but like I said that's for you guys to decide ultimately
as a board you're going to um be in charge of this committee I I would be a part of getting it started so I would ask that we table this one um I will Julie you can send us your thoughts on
the resolution um this is this is the new res I want to put it on the agenda allow everyone the opportunity to take a look at it did you get a copy of this beforehand did board chair did you get a copy of this before the meeting yes you did I gave you one you
know did you send us one send one to us I I move to table just until we have the opportunity to take a look we got it can come back and like I said on this one um it will come back under old business and
it'll have superintendent's recommendation for district advisory of resolution and member Harts uh resolution for and you guys can make a decision then and I second we have a first second to table
any other discussion all in favor say I I oppos motion table queres moving on to transportation and facility comman resolution we
have Stacy Ron and Roger list we do approve with I'll second first by Stacey and second by Monica to approve minus the appointed by the board chair any other discussion for any
discussion all in favor say I opposed motion carries Wellness committee we have Lori I move to approve with the same
Amendment second first by Monica second by Stacy to move for the amended any discussion all in favor say I I opposed motion carries
Mr I would like to see us add the staff development resolution back just so it's on our radar because we had it before and I I think to me I think it's a good idea just to have it got to approve an anyway
that we're having we have I would like us to have that res yeah and I realized that as a board it's not a board run committee but I still like to have the resolution before
us would be the difference is it is not a standing committee so we could change it to an advisory yeah it is an advisory with what we do all of these are advisory committees with what we're doing with
committees we don't run that which are not our standing committees you have reps and that's where we like put the Reps because we don't I don't do the agenda I I'm not required to do the minutes I don't post anything to do with
everything that we're doing as standing committees we're responsible either I'm doing that or someone on the uh board is doing that or Marsha is doing that I we have no autonomy with the staff development committee other than we have
chosen to put reps on that committee so even if you do the resolution to make it a standing committee I'm still not doing the agenda I still don't I'm I go just like the two reps go unlike a lot of committees I do
have a vote there but their autonomy is is different than other committees too they are actually voting on things that that are going to take place in our school so you're basically saying the ones that we have resolutions for you as a superintendent or the
district runs those meetings so the ones that we don't we don't run the me we don't call the meeting we don't run it we don't we're just part of it don't doesn't look res well right it could have one but reality
it's not going to be one of that's all I'm saying I'm just I'm trying to clean up the fact of here standing committees and H those that aren't are we're we have our reps on them and that's what we decided at the organizational meeting
after I clarified that was yes we're still keeping tabs on them probably more than any District I've ever heard of because we have board reps as part of the meeting so like I shared at the organizational meeting that's not common practice so I I'm I disagree with Julie
we're keeping tabs on him our reps are there yeah I'm there so I I don't feel the need to and even if you do make it a standing committee I'm not doing the agenda I don't do the minutes I don't do anything like we do
on our other standing committees we'll move on to resolution directing the administration to make recommendations for reduction in programs and conditions and reasons therefore this is just an annual notice and again we always Dan and I was
working on the budget you're always looking you know in principles right sizing all that this is is required move to approve the resoltion move by Stacey second second by Monica any discussion all in favor say
I opposed motion carries we don't have any old business so we'll be looking for a full session so by rer second by
all in favor at this time we'll ask uh the audience to step out so we can have our whole session thank you