i pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right we'll let the roll call
reflect that all members are present and uh I have just two board chair comments tonight so we uh we ended the March meeting with close session for superintendent evaluation so we had Mr lm Sanllo Miss Heagen superintendent Camp Herman and then directors Boyd
Hacket Holm Andre and myself um in that meeting and uh Christine presented on the two goals that uh we have her working on and uh and the board provided her mid-year feedback and both goals are right on track so we're excited to see
where where they end up um and then the second comment is uh again we have just over $15,000 in donations this month again so a big thank you to to all who continue to support our students so um
that's all I have uh does somebody want to move the agenda i'll move the motion all right director Holm thank you second that director Trout thank you uh any discussion
all in favor i I opposed all right motion carries uh appreciation recognition and presentations that's us chair Housestead members of the board Superintendent Dr baram Herman Caitlin Arnon activities director tonight we
have our Yes Club advisor and three of their members um and officers correct i'm here to give a little um preview of what they do and what Yes Club is all about um I believe there is a video and then we can have some questions afterwards
hello my name is May and I'm the chairman and I'm the president and I'm the road officer and this is our team 2025
real members meet on a monthly basis in these monthly meetings the officers will go over an agenda upcoming activities events and projects happening that month this meeting ranges from 30 to 45 minutes we often also have speakers who present information about the projects
and activities that we will be doing these meetings provide great opportunities for members to practice their active listening skills public speaking and communication skills along with having a little fun and learn something new another large pass project is the installation of four drinking
fountains in our school including a fountain and a bottle filler this project was made in order to reduce the number of bottles being thrown away each year and improve public knowledge on the amount of waste we produce by recycling oil we are saving hundreds
of native species from pollution and millions of gallons of water from contamination this is accomplished with the help of East Side Oil who takes the oil away to be recycled what project are
we from our school and we give them a presentation on plants read them a book and face with them and at the end of the day we give them a tree to take home and plant within their own community finally our last yearong project has been one of our biggest ongoing projects ever our
native prairie this project has been in action for three years and running but started way back in 2020 the project started as a simple idea by 2021 that idea became a dream and in 2022 that dream became a
reality our first steps started with tilling the land planting seeds and then building habitats including bird houses for our native species we then made signs in order to educate the public on the growing perry plants on social media we posted pictures of the prairie plans
to advertise to the community such a diverse project needs variety of contributions and effort in order to maintain the maximum success for our project we conducted several cleanups throughout the year to remove invasive plants from our prairie before they
seeded out these cleanups typically involve 18 dedicated students putting an hour and a half of work to remove these plants the total time put into these cleanups this year is around 40 hours in total cleanups are not the only steps
our club puts toward the prairie we also host lessons to teach younger generations the importance of prairies and how they can make a difference in their own communities during our lessons to educate over a 100 youthful minds we teach about parts of a flower and seed
as well as the students get to create their very own seed bombs after they create their seed bombs we take a triple tie to spread the seeds over the prairie the results are not seen until the upcoming year on the other hand we experience many struggles for our
prairies of germination unpredictable weather patterns dry soil relocation due to rain and restrictions on described in the spring all of these have been factors that have produced migation and slowed
our progress in order to face these challenges we brought in some wonderful innovative tips on how to help our praising station the first step we took for this we wrote out a proposal for the school board so in their February meeting they're able to approve it for
us and we could start working on our project the second step is we asked the janitors if we could be able to install the panels on the roof we talked to them they're willing and eager to put the panels on the roof the panel will be installed in the roof in the school and have wires run down inside the school
that will connect to the inverter and battery standards will also be capping out existing outlets in order to disallow the use of conventional power like coal and natural gas which will eventually help our environment the first step was to research the capabilities of our solar panel and learn from a community expert the expert
we brought in on March 21st was Heidi from Clean Energy Resource Team we talked about the benefits and location of our panels she showed us the awesome website called Mm Solar Apps this shows the amount of sun our panel will get for each month after we learned about the
benefits of our project and we will post them on Instagram and Facebook to educate the community about our project step four was to decide what solar kit we wanted to install our choice was a 200 W solar panel with a 600 W inverter a 40 amp controller and a
12V 100 amp hour battery all of which combined together to power our station the fifth step is to fund the project the solar kit costs around $500 plus the pay for janitors to install the panel the way we are funding
this project is working on a grant from Minnesota Power and we will also be asking the local fire department and Lions Club fund in order to ask these groups for funding we will also educate them on the benefits of the project the sixth step to be done is to
host an open shop on April 9th to build a box that will be installed beneath the existing shelf that will host the battery inverter and controller this shop will allow club members to get hands on and will make for a fast completion of the project last step will be to install it before the end of the
2025 school year we will also be installing a banner above the station to serve as a reminder and a beacon of renewable energy our club is very excited about this project and willing to do whatever it takes to see it through before the year is up some of the benefits of this project will to
provide 200 blocks of total solar capacity which allows the system to generate 8 to 1200 W hours per day depending on the weather and the season this 800 to 1200 W hours is enough to charge four to six laptops or 10 to 15
smartphones per day over the years this station could generate approximately 300 to 400 kilowatt hours and with an average electricity cost of 13 cents per kilowatt hour this would save our school
around4 to $50 annually and over 10 years that would be $45 million saved in electricity with no ongoing fuel cost if this station produces 400 kwatt hours annually it prevents roughly 617 pounds
of CO2 emissions each year over a decade that's nearly 3 tons of CO2 emissions avoided which is the equivalent of driving a car 7,000 m or planting 70 trees this station will serve as a hands-on and visible example of
renewable energy in action giving students daily practices while promoting interest in clean energy technology all of this contributes to our smart goal better you do this by the writing five
advocates and demonstrations lead that's us i'm the adviser we got Wyatt i'm the chairman me too the secretary i'm on their order yeah you have any questions or questions so the video that they made was for a
competition and we kind of tried our best to cut the video down a little bit from where it was at so good work what made you decide to as solar for the project oh yeah well um so earlier this year we went to a Wolf Wolf
Ridge uh lodge um up north on the shores of Superior um it was just our officer team and we decided on four different ideas that we wanted to um possibly pursue this year then we brought that back to our
club and we decided that the solar one is the one we wanted to What's been the thing that you have learned the most from uh from being in the club personally um I've learned um just quite a lot of
little bits of information about you know um how how well now with our solar project we've learned a lot about solar in the last couple couple months here and then um a little bit more about the prairie and um how that affects our ecosystem a little bit too um we also cuz on our prairie um we also added some
like birdhouses and stuff to kind of um keep the ecosystem and you know encourage other native animals to even live in the area as well learning about soil type and then certain types of plants and flowers that would flourish best in the type of soil
that we have up there as well as just like involving the community in all of this too when you guys do the work of writing the grant um what do you where do you go for resources for help with
that there's a lot of people in this building that can can help you so um you're going to laugh but chat GBT does a very good job i'm terrible myself with I know
what's in my brain but I can't get it out in the right words sometimes and so if you actually do a very good job of being able to put what's in here and put it into a format it actually does a very good job of helping you um take your thoughts and putting them together or those types of things i've actually
found that very helpful so using technology in the world that we live in right now to help you is a good thing i know our students are using it right i would say teamwork that's one of the
things that each year um like they was talking about Wolf um Ridge that we went to um they were there for a weekend Friday night Saturday night we came back on Sunday and that was an officer retreat that Esco puts on and they also had a lot of educational they learned actually Brandon went with us as well
but they learned about lychans um we learned about our constellations um we actually they went fishing that was kind of fun but fishing with what you guys wouldn't think they went fishing with I don't even know what kind of worm that was there's like some
before yeah and it was literally just a pole and they had to chisel the hole through it was crazy but anyway but they caught and they put us on a spot where there wasn't any fish besides perching noise but but teamwork it was just fun to see the kids bonding together and and I think they really bonded well and had
a good time and that's what it's all about when you're working with kids giving them different opportunities to take them out of their comfort zones and learn and build relationships and help them to become better leaders that's that's what our wellbeers
that's it for presentations correct no okay um recognition of citizens for input purposes all right um so reports board committee reports uh finance get through this
month you guys meet in between the last meeting and this meeting oh I didn't think so okay so that's really quick then um and the same thing with policy uh Midstate we uh
we're about 85% done with the goals for uh for our executive director for the year um and uh really setting pushing the staff to uh with their tenure plans so that's that's been
very very informative for both them and us as to all the different things they have to think about for uh for finance so um I think we have some good goals that'll that'll help set us up to make all the districts uh see a lot more transparency in in what's going on and
be able to uh anticipate some things so that's really it from Midstate uh superintendent report um so I don't have a lot just that the legislature has gone into their holiday session so they're off right now for the next week
um right now the governor has put forward for us to have to keep the unemployment held harmless put some money onto that so it' be okay compensatory we reworked it so we'd stay pretty much full harmless in that area decreasing however transportation
um through special education transportation to 95% covered versus 100% covered the Senate gave a zero target and a reduction for the next bianium out um they also are proposing
to take away the inflationary um piece that we finally got in which we've been working for 20 years to get um they put in to remove that not for FY26 because they've already given that number but moving forward and then the House has been pretty good to us they haven't come
to agreement yet but they were ones wanting to add some dollars to education K12 education to help district so they haven't done any of the work yet as a group all three so um they're supposed to be done i think it's May 19th or something like that so it's very
possible that they'll go into a special session which I always said is not so special because they do about it earlier but um if they can't finish by May 19th they'll have to call a special session because they have to have a balanced budget figured out by June 30th so um I
don't have a lot of information we're very cautious one thing also the governor did was in his plan would be to reduce to change how literacy aid is given and we are one of the districts that would get penalized for it so I do
appreciate um other superintendent advocating as well to show them the cost differences on who the winners are and who the losers are um we would be a loser in that case so um as I learn more I'll just keep letting you know and just so you keep on your radar we have concerts coming up here soon at all
levels and if you can come to those please do they're quite talented children they're fun to watch so that's all I have unless you have questions oh I can add just one other update for Midstate too we're still working through their FY26 budget um we've gotten one it looked better than
what we had um figured it to be so we're circling back as superintendent groups with Lisa and Deian to talk through the a little bit more because I I think they're I don't think it's going to come in as well as what they were first showing on their initial budget and I don't want us
to be out on that bill again so we'll just keep working through that all right anything for Christine all right uh business manager report did I was I able to get on i am here can you
hear me we can thank you all right i am presenting the updated treasures report for fiscal year 2025 april budget update enrollment has remained steady uh
around 927 students we revised the budget to include 918 students so we will see uh the benefits of a few students over that budgeted number uh the enrollment history graph
shown there for reference and then we're looking at the general fund revenues for month end February 2025 overall on track as a percentage of the overall revised budget at about 56.8% uh similar to uh fiscal year
2023 state aids are on track as compared to the prior year federal is ahead of the prior year behind uh the fiscal year 2023 that has to do with our title funds and our draws
uh that I process monthly property taxes are on budget and local fees which includes fees that we collect for students participating in activities and athletics gate receipts
for those that attend activities and athletics and our interest revenue is ahead of budget uh with about 100 almost 100% of that uh budget line item
collected so it's likely that we will see an increase over what we had budgeted in those local fees at the end of the fiscal year expenditures in the general fund month end February 2025 overall on track
as a percentage of the budget at 57.8% 8% uh as compared to the prior years again on track within one to to 3% variance and I'll talk a little bit about specifics so the
salaries and wages are slightly under bud budget as we continue to track slightly under budget purchase services are on track with the budget this includes our property insurance that has been paid in full since July of the fiscal year ltfm
long-term facilities maintenance repairs and maintenance projects are all complete for this fiscal year and the Midstate Special Education Services and PSO costs continue um to be paid monthly supplies are on track capital is on track with
what was approved in the budget we purchased a bus we had planned technology purchases and curriculum purchases uh and the other categories also on track as it's a reclassification of chargebacks at the end of the fiscal
year i did want to well before I get into the next slide on just some general fund fiscal year 26 assumptions that I did prepare and share with the finance committee this last time we met any questions on current
month general fund revenues or expense all right so moving on uh Dr christine Workamp Herman did mention um some of the the nuances of the legislative session uh based on what we
know at this time uh we are uh Christine and I uh continue to work on the budget weekly for next year uh as we continue to glean more information whether from legislative session and or just year-to-ate
uh trends uh with the current budget but revenue overall is uh we do know that we're going to be receiving 2.74% uh which is an increase to the current state aid formula uh we have assumed that our compensatory
will remain held harmless we are assuming that we will receive some for some form of unemployment reimbursement uh and all other categories for next fiscal year are being budgeted at
flat for minimal changes overall expenditures uh we're doing we're assuming a 3% increase in all categories the next fiscal year will be a gap year for curriculum which can be a high dollar
amount expense given in any given year depending on the curriculum rotation but next year is a gap year and we are planning for minimal capital and LTFM projects next year given the unknowns of where
legislation will end up overall based on the work that Christine and I have done in partnership with our administrative team is that our unassigned fund balance projection for next fiscal year based on
what we know at this time um is about 16.6% which is an increase from what we're projecting this fiscal year's unoffended fund balance to be which is about 16% any questions on the monthly updates and
or the general fund revenue andor expenditure fiscal year 26 assumptions i have a question Heidi um you said that the they're going to increase the formula to 2.74% for revenue um what is the what's
the current oh gosh now you're going to cuss me $7,281 per pupil adjusted pupil unit is this fiscal year so 2.74% on that amount is uh
okay 274 * 7381 it's about $199 per adjusted pupil unit which results in about a $7,480 per pupil formula
thank you you're welcome anybody else all right thank you Heidi you're welcome i'm going to jump off and join another board meeting but I will be back for the close session
sounds good thank you uh principal report sure hosted members of the board superintendent camp Joel Swenson high school principal just a few quick things we started MCA testing today at the high school uh in middle school um we'll be
doing that for about the next four weeks uh our MCAs are embedded into the classroom so walking in the old days you had 60 kids sitting in long chairs in the gym for 3 four hours at a time and uh now they are scheduled right into the
classroom in the subject in which they are taking the test so by and large for most part of the day other than not a lot of announcements going on during the testing um you don't uh you don't even notice that they're going on the other
thing between now and uh between now and the next board meeting I will send out the invitations and instructions for graduation for board members um it will um I'll probably email it to you it will
have uh instructions seating chart time to show up uh that the whole the whole works and uh that should be sometime in the first week in May that I should be getting that out to you so any questions
thank you thank you sure awesome members of the board superintendent Dr worcap Tony Newman um since the last time um I was here giving an update we've started fourth quarter we started that off with a bang um senior Devid and Mr meyer got some
pretty neat haircuts and uh four of us teachers got pied in the face um that was fun uh very sticky but that was fun um but it was a great way to kind of kick off and start off our our fourth quarter and we're already well into that so here we are um midappril already we
are MCA testing we'll get into Faspers testing after that and um we're going strong so um we brought in an author Kevin Love Green last Thursday kids loved it he did the Lucky Loop series of books uh kids were able to order and get
them autographed um had kids come up to me afterwards and say "Can we still order books?" No sorry we we we can't anymore um but it was super engaging it was an hour um kids loved it so it was awesome way to kind of end that last week and then get us into this week for
testing um coming up here uh we have band concert May 5th it's on Monday um so first first half would be middle school and um sixth grade and seventh and eighth grade right away at 6:00 and then at 7:00 for that spring concert for
um fifth graders and the high school band and then our choir concert for our fourth and fifth graders will be on Thursday May 15th with a 1:30 and a 6 pm show so that is that a week of the next board meeting so any questions
thank you um athletic director reported members of the board super Dr camp um Kayla Hornson activities director uh spring sports are off and running as you can see that we got a little chilly game of baseball outside
um baseball's or softball is over in Payneesville um so I think by the end of this week all of our sports will have just about an opportunity to get to their events and have a competition i think girls golf was supposed to have a meet today their golf course wasn't ready for us to go so um that's exciting
um some other concerts just so everyone's aware um on April 27th it's a Sunday we have our jazz band performing um at 2 p.m um and then we have our band concert May 5th and then our choir
concert on May 14th um so those are um some of the highlights and our band and choir have done very well with their um solos and large group ensembles i think our choir solo participants go this
Wednesday so things are going and Jazz got 39 out of 40 yes 39 out of 40 on their rating so that's really Yeah it's really hard to get that close to a 40 so super excited for them any questions
thank you uh next is the consent agenda approval so the board is consenting to approve items listed below as presented one at a time or at one time uh at any point a director can pull off uh any item from the consent agenda for further discussion so on here we have uh
approval of the regular board meeting minutes from last month the senior class trip approval the claims accounts and financials the approval of the new hires and the approval of reservations and terminations and that is it on the consent agenda is there anything anybody
would like to pull all right would somebody like to move the consent so move dr hacket thank you second director thank you any discussion all in favor say I i opposed abstain all
right motion carries all right next is uh discussion and uh information action items so the first one is uh looking at a board chair vice chair or co-chair we want
to begin that conversation last time we talked about it was it just the $400 did you say yeah something about that about an hour and a half or maybe two hours to have a draw the resolution a
resolution we did that we just go with two co-chairs and then not have a vice chair I assume I'll move that I'll second that All right motion by director Hackett for co-chairs
yeah co-chairs with no no vice chair okay uh second by director Boyd i'd like to discuss it some so if we're going to have them draw it up we should look more than just this
current board like you know if in the future it happens there'd be co-chairs but if not then there'd be a chair vice chair situation just like I mean is that what everybody else would I mean that's what I would and instead of having to have co-chairs all the time I mean yeah
right they could go back you could go back it would just because it's a sixperson board it could happen again it wouldn't be a waste of time and money if if it would be helpful again but just so we don't strap a future board to having
to Can you imagine you got nobody else that wants to be a chair so you well somebody else has to run you know I just don't want to strap a future board to something that you know ju just so that it both possibilities are there that's
so one thing I will check on is diplomas have already been printed and so it's the chair clerk superintendent principal have to sign those so I would assume we can just have one person do half and the other do the other half but I'll just verify for sure just to make sure we
don't do something we're not supposed to run diplomas only if it really matter you could have both signatures and just book but you know I suppose if you approve it though we couldn't just leave it as is so I'll just double check with them I'm sure there technically we probably could
because it would go into effect with the approval of the resolution true so you could just sign them right now and then let's do that then I don't Ask another question for research and cost money we're sorry kids you go get a
good not make a mistake and it's not valid okay we can do that yeah that well that make law unintended consequences about the resolution
thing all right uh any other discussion so I have a motion in a second to uh have co-chairs versus a chair and a vice chair uh with a contingency that when they write it that we're able to go back and forth uh each board would be able to decide what that
is uh all in favor say I i i oppose all right motion carries so with that uh I will take nominations for uh co-chair point of order i think we
should ask since we don't have a resolution we should just ask for nominations for chair see if we get a tie or or not or do we wait till the resolution is on how
Oh that's probably true too yeah we'll approve the resolution once that's written and then then do it next month i think that's probably right yeah good call all right well we'll not do
that um but I'll put it in the notes for uh for agenda setting for that one uh so the next one is uh is there any other discussion on that you guys want to talk about okay um process for running open
gyms members of the board superintendent Dr herman Kaylin Arnen and Amy Ker um so a couple things around open gym and especially as it pertains to the Minnesota State High School League requirements um open gyms must be open to anyone um especially if they're on
Sundays because the state high school actually does not allow any Sunday events during their compet competition year which starts the 2nd of August and goes till the first week in June when the summer waiver starts so kids aren't
supposed to have contact with coaches especially on Sundays so if it is an open gym it has to be a noncoach running it um and these cannot be mandated um they cannot mandate athletes to attend these or have an effect on placement or playing time so they're completely
optional um and then the other side of it is coaches cannot provide any instruction during open gyms um exception during the summer waiver which typically runs from the first week of June until the first week of August um and again this is just state high school
league rule um especially say like I'm a basketball coach and it's in April i can't say hey we're going to get together as a team and practice that would actually be a um Minnesota state high school bylaw bylaw violation which we could get fined and other punishments
for it so there's some rules around the state high school so once somebody basically we follow the process for the district facility use um for anybody who was requesting to use space here at the um at the school all
of those go through community ed and follow board policy 902 which was just updated this year um we spent many many um meetings going over this policy and actually not so much the policy but the addendum um so if you want to click on
the addendum because that kind of guides the the work of this if you scroll down keep going all the way keep going right here so this is kind of the bread and butter of what um both Sher
and myself do so typically um Sherry Bishop is the youth sports coordinator so a lot of these go through her um but if you're in we have to determine when somebody is asking to use a facility where do they fit so class one um is that top priority with no charge um
those are all Royalton public school activities school related organizations and anything community education um so if they're what once they're they fit there then we need to have those activities under the direct supervision of a district employee and um we're able
to allow them to use that without any cost um but they must fill out like the facility use request or basically through ax there's a request that they fill out um if they don't fit into class one we go down to class two um this is
our second priority and so when I say priority it's like who bumps who if there was if there were two people who won at the same time um we possibly could charge for fees fees for equipment um and basically these are organized in district civic civic groups polit
political party meetings religious church youth groups open meetings of tax supported agencies non-religious school district nonprofit youth group meetings youth sports groups and charitable group meetings um they again must fill out a facility re use request through ax um
have the non the nonprofit if they are a nonprofit have that 501c3 status um proof of that and then they must employ a district facility supervisor and other staff so there might be depending on what it might be there might be somebody who has to run the um speaker system
that kind of thing um and so we have to determine who who's all needed at that and what they're what they're wanting to use um for this they must provide a million-doll um certificate of liability insurance um and have the school listed
as that with that aggregate piece and then the third priority um goes to all other groups and all the same things apply as group two um in order to figure out if they're in district or not the definition from the board given to us was the that 30% of the participants
must currently be enrolled in Royalton public schools and that's how we could determine what's in district and what moves to third priority any questions i have a couple so I have just been approached by
a couple parents who I guess um just have a concern like they're authorized supervisors like a few of our activities or coaches and um I guess maybe they aren't running it
as like an open gym but if they say they want to go in with their child and a few friends you know in the district um and they have access to the school because of being a coach like why they
can't do that as an employee we don't get to you I mean everything all employees go through the the district use policy so everything goes under this so if an employee wants to use space um all of them go through the same the same
process so um if FFA wants to use the kitchen or the the cafeterium or any of those things they're all going through either Caitlyn or myself between activities and the and community ed okay so I think there was a few concerns
i mean I think the biggest thing sorry to interrupt but is not to overlap i mean I mean they can check the calendar but sometimes like not all like sports practices and stuff like that get put on there on like my stuff so they may think
oh this should be open and then all a sudden they show up and then somebody who truly is supposed to have that and we requested it that's where it's I mean it's more to know who's truly coming into the our space would be my understand like why we wanted i mean if
it's a coach coming in and working with outside kids I mean there's also some stay high school league things that have to be watched in that as well even if it's their own child i mean it depends on the situation but again like I
mean again it would be better to go through to have a request put in just so we know we can sticky wickets and this is a newish type rendition of this policy and so there may be things that are happening that we
don't know of and um but this is what we you know we ask everyone and if we find out somebody's you know coming in and we know about it we try to have a conversation and just say "Hey here's what you need to do you need to go through this process." And um we tried in community ed to find a yes we've had a couple different groups that come in
and say "I want to do open gym for volleyball." Well as soon as you say open gym for volleyball or open gym for basketball it's no longer open gym so how can we get to a yes how can we help you um so oftentimes basketball came to us girls basketball and they wanted to
do a um I don't know what it was like a some tr some training with a a trainer and um and they said "Well we don't have the insurance policy." And we said "Well why don't we run a community ed class then?" So we'll run it through community ed we'll charge a little bit of money to
cover the costs of community ed the cost of um the registration system and um all those things and they were happy as larks that they could run it through there and you know so we try to meet them in the middle with how do we get to a yes for what they're looking
for but yet still follow the policy so the is the problem with the gyms the fact that there's a roof and a wall for the high school league because it's an outdoor court it doesn't matter right as soon as it's enclosed then all of a
sudden the insurance and everything else is I mean I guess the state far as the state high school league there are certain rules that coaches have to abide by the coaches but I mean as far as unsupervised or supervised is as soon as
because the kids can go and play on the field not a ball field right and that's where it gets tricky is because I mean unless we're going to gate off everything and I know and so that's where it being inside it gets a I mean there's a little bit more potential for
things getting damaged um even if it's completely accidental so if we don't know that somebody's using it and then something gets broken then we have to figure out what how did that happen and things like that um again outdoor it's it's a little different and you know and
that's and I think more of it's because it's inside and it's a probably a higher demand space and because we live in Minnesota and it's winter for a lot longer than we want to nine months a year yeah that's why we like summer right i know of other
districts that if you weren't a school truly sponsored event and you wanted to use their like baseball softball fields you did actually have to pay a rental fee so there are other districts that do because they lock everything up so
yeah I can I can say uh because we had it for about nine months I think in policy it was a long time we talked about it for forever and ever one of the things that we wanted to do as we talked about this was you know the definition of open gym is that it's open to
everybody and that everybody can um come and do anything at the gym um and that that wasn't happening between a lot of different places like a coach would say "Hey I'm going to open the gym up and we we'll do open gym for this." um but only
their players or whoever got to know about it you know and the other part like what you were talking about earlier was uh a coach bringing their kid in to do it they still only have access because they're a coach so that really they're only they're they can only be a
coach and not a parent at that point bringing their kid in to do it so we wanted to make sure that we our policy said let's not do that because we don't want to look even like we have something like that going on and that was that was kind of the driving force between setting setting those things up and
making sure that all of them went through um a rock and and through the community the activities so do we have a process with open gym now do we have something set up if there's gym time available is there a way to open it up and advertise that and
say hey every Sunday we have open gym and it's advertised from this time to this time okay okay and I don't know I don't know how long I mean I'm not sure what Sherry's got going on for how long that will go like during the summer i don't think we will have it but it has been ever since Sherry's gosh since we
finished this policy i don't remember when that was but then we started with open gym just having it every Sunday and having supervisors through through us that and that that was the biggest part is if community ed does it then it's totally easy we can put it out on Facebook and all the other places that
people see it and then then we can get more more people to do it and hopefully more people to come in and say I'll run it so any other questions for All right thank you ladies um and PSO discussion house of the board
superintendent Dr wear Camp Herman Joel Swinson high school principal um the PSO presentation that I did a couple weeks ago nothing has really changed on it i wanted to update the board on um we are looking at um a youth
apprentice ship program here at the high school um an apprenticeship program would open some avenues of opportunity for students who are seniors who are looking at a certain career field that they would
have opportunities throughout the day to go out and work and gain experience in that career field while gaining gaining credit through uh the youth apprenticeship program uh youth apprenticeship program is run under the workbased learning lensure um
and it provides like you have to have 450 to 900 hours of um opportunity to work throughout the year um there is training requirements like um if you receive certain certifications
throughout a training uh throughout your apprenticeship there's some requirements for that um and we we provide that opportunity then for for students to have um a chance to do that so we are working
through the process now of of of developing that and and creating that opportunity looking uh working with I've been on the Minnesota Department of Education um getting the training agreements and all of those types of documents uh ready
to go and our hope is that we can have our first apprentice ship opportunities for next fall otherwise everything else with the PSO um that I described LA two weeks ago
is is nothing has changed with that um there continues to be advocacy and uh conversations happening with our PSO partners um and the schools that are accessing
those accessing those uh PSO courses around the state so would would that apprentice ship um as you're talking about the lensures and things like that would that be a school responsibility to pay for that like we pay for uh PSO like we pay for that
class for that even whatever whatever they get out of it no it wouldn't the cost to us would just simply be we already have a workbased learning program um which is designed more for maybe shorter term
job opportunities work opportunities um the apprenticeship would be a little more intensive a little more longer term for the student but it would be run very similar and underneath the umbrella of work-based learning we'd basically just create
another avenue for a different group of students so so when you say 450 hours at a minimum that yearong or is that just 450 to 900 or longer yeah so if it's a semester apprenticeship I believe it's
450 if it's a year long it has to be 900 hours or longer it's like two hours a day the minimum and so we would be working it out to for a senior uh to be able to possibly have like up to a half a day of opportunity where they
come schedule their classes in the morning for what they need for graduation and then be able to to run the apprenticeship in the afternoons so then do they have to have their credits
in order to do this or or try to fit a credit into a Yeah they're going to have to make sure that they're typically in your senior year if you've done what you need to be doing you have English 12 and civics are the two remaining grad
requirements left now some students might have to take an econ class or personal finance or maybe they didn't get in one of their art class their fine arts credits or um maybe they have a remaining FID credit to take they just have to make sure that they're
accounting for that and doesn't mean that it disqualifies them it just means that they would have to make sure that if they're with us for two periods they're going to have or four periods you know 1 two five and six so
they can access the internship or the apprenticeship in the second half of the day that they have to make sure that they're taking care of those grad requirements in this our scheduled classes so this youth apprenticeship program um
these kids currently that we have here can't access anything like this under the workbased learning they can't leave to go to a job or they can do we have work-based learning where they have that opportunity but that is they that starts
at like it's one period a day and uh there's some different requirements with um the with the advisor visiting on the jobs visits site visits and things like this the apprenticeship is a little more open
um we will rely closer on the industry partner to work with us to create that experience for the kid for the student any other questions that looks pretty cool
i think it's a great idea i do agree how how is it administered like so you're going to rely on an industry partner is there any rigor that's I mean yeah I mean they have they have some documentation they have to maintain
documentation um they have to maintain like a work slips and things like that for us throughout the requirement there's some reporting just on like um I'm not exactly sure why that would
would be important but like the students are looking for like what is you know if they started at a certain rate is there opportunities for advancement and is there um you know those types of things but they have to document their certifications and training i think
there's 120 hours of training throughout the internship that they're supposed to collect um but it really is and then the goal would be long term is that every time we develop an industry partner that five
years later access for somebody else right that the that they're kind of blazing a pathway so it's going to be kind of a pilot the first year as I am looking for and I have a few ideas of some industry partners where I can sit down with them and say what works and what doesn't work with this thing what
do I need to fix how do I need to communicate that fix with the people who are coming next yeah because you're going to have some guinea pigs up first right yes yes it will definitely be a um it will definitely be a pilot project
but I I believe that we will make it work and I think we'll make it to be a good opportunity for our students and other schools do something similar right yep this is a approved program it's called the youth apprenticeship program through the Minnesota Department of Ed it's the same as what our
workbased learning is now this is just another wing of that program we should talk about diesel mechanic and it I have some I have some openings there i have a feeling there's going to be
some opportunities for openings through these opport through through this program oh that's great all right thank you uh student discipline discussion that's me
um would like to uh give some information on high school discipline with some questions that came up regarding high school discipline um this is a chart um of high school discipline from a from September 1st
through April 1st um the super tall building on the left is cell phones um this is just grades 9 through 12 the other tall buildings that you see over on the far right side are unexcused
absences parties skipping detention which students who get detention and have jobs sometimes don't show up for the detention and then they get the next consequence which is a half day of inschool suspension uh skipping class
um yeah skipping classes so a lot of attendance related so this is just a chart i could run this i present this to PBIS as we go throughout the year to check out trends um if you want to go to the next slide this is middle school it
looks different do not be the 241 cell phone violations created made some of the other buildings look smaller but uh at the middle school cell phones are still our number one but instead of 241 I believe the number is 50 on that chart
um unexcused absences are the second most uh behavior language um you get some more of those disruptive behaviors at the middle school level what qualifies as an excuse to absence um
skipping um not coming to school and not having anyone present a note or a call to us and we get a surprisingly amount of those i thankfully I have parents who they'll call in and it's like he they overslept and they're unexcused and you
know mark them unexcused i'm not excusing their absence um and we have some that just never make contact with us when they're gone they're they're not making contact so that goes down as an unexcused absence um some of the middle school discipline
that you see there a little more disruptive in nature which is not totally uncommon for middle school kids we're teaching them how to grow into adults um if you want to go to the next
slide so um as of April 1st there were 704 total incidents at the high school of which 338 were given lunch detention detention
in school suspension or out of school suspension that is that equals 48% of all discipline incidents were given one of those top those are the top tier discipline responses that we have in the
arsenal um when you take out the cell of the 704 incidents 241 are cell phone violations and 51 were notifications for things like we use the discipline letter and
you for broken Chromebooks it gets counted in the data but we when David has a Chromebook that comes in and we send notification home we just type it into that way we can track them over time to see uh when students are having uh Chromebook issues
um plagiarism cheating which is not a detention or that kind of level event is um is documented in in the discipline tracker um computer use violations if they're using the internet or doing
something they shouldn't be um in school property misuse which is most of the time the the discipline code we use for gaming when students are playing games in class when they shouldn't be on their computer uh surfing the net those types
of things when you take out the 241 cell phone violations and the 51 notifications 82% of the remaining infractions are given one of the top tier discipline incidents or discipline
responses listed above so four out of five discipline incidences are hitting getting hit with lunch detention detention in school or out of school suspension um I think that's high higher than it should be
um and so we need to take a look at that when you look at the number of incidents the things that we see 10 out of the 704 incidents this is just 9 through 12 1.4% was bullying harassment chemical use or fighting
um we had 1.4% 4% for those if you take out uh the attendance and cell phone violations account for 59% of all high school discipline and if you take attendance cell phone and then those computer things the gaming stuff
was 66.6% of all discipline incidents fall into those three categories if you go to the next one middle school 440 434 incidents um 55% of the 55% were given lunch
detention detention ISS or OSS there were 50 cell phone violations 84 notifications for academic or computer related issues gaming at the middle school is a bigger deal than it is at the high school um Minecraft is a
popular thing with middle schoolers um when you take out the 50 and the 84 80.3% of the remaining infractions are given a lunch detention detention in school or out of school suspension a
little bit higher percentage at the middle school with the bullying harassment chemical use and fighting um they're either not as good at hiding it um they are more outfront with it more expressive in their behavior um 10.1% of
those uh 10.1% of the remaining discipline incidents that we have of all incidents at the middle school are fall into one of those four categories at the high school 73 out of
294 students have a discipline referral that is not a cell phone violation um 24.8% of all high school students we had 57 students who had 0 to five referrals six to 10 referrals equal
nine students and 10 plus referrals for discipline between September the beginning of school and April 1st was seven students at the middle school 55 out of 20 students have a discipline referral that's not a cell phone violation which
equals 26.4% um 0 to 5 equal 43 you can see the vast majority of those students are in between zero and five referrals 6 to 10 referrals was the same at 9 and 10 plus
referrals was at four a majority of the 10 plus referrals at the high school or chronic attendance issues um students who have missed who are truent to have missed 10 15 20 days of school
um is the vast majority of ones at the high school at the middle school it is a little more mixed um this chart is the major minor chart that we follow for discipline incidents
um the minors are things that are mostly classroom based intervention with teachers paras you name it office staff counselors social workers whoever happens to be with the students at the time uh the pathway that
they are supposed to follow then for the minor is the fir you can see the first offense second offense third offense on the left hand side um one of the areas that we're going to work on and continue to try to get better at is um making contact with
parents before the problem becomes too big of a problem and uh that starts in in the classroom and having teachers reach out and make a contact home with parents i have over the years have always had parents
that are thankful for get us getting to them before something becomes too big of an issue um so they can have a chance to fix it so they can have a chance to address it um it is a successful uh way of managing the consequences
before they have to get over to the major side major side is usually things that are going to come directly to the office usually going to result in a discipline notice going home something that is usually Caitlyn and I are
dealing with um uh those abuse of language I'll use language because language is something that high school kids have a tendency to display walking down the hall and they're talking to their group of friends and
they let one fly to each other is one of those where we're trying to correct that behavior on the spot say "Hey come on we don't talk like that in school." Now you use that language at the direction of I'm going to say speak
to Lucas and tell him where I think he should go that is a whole different deal that ends up being a major they're in the office with us most of the time they're going home um and so those are the the differences between the minors and the majors um and
so most of the time almost all the time the majors are coming almost directly to us so our goal overtime is to make sure we want to support teachers we want to support cooks cooks have done a tremendous job
with PBIS this year of building relationships with kids um they have really really a few years ago we had some interesting relationships between kitchen staff and the kids and
that has through their adoption of PBIS and and really celebrating the kids and building relationships with them it's one of the strongest relationships in the building um I love seeing our kids if you if you
counted the number of kids that say thank you when the lunch ladies give them their tray um the Lions Club did vision testing here a few days ago a few weeks ago and yesterday at the Lions Club meeting i did not put them up to this i didn't even notice it i was running the computer for the computer
for the vision testing the Lions Club made the uh report that it was amazing to see how many of our kids said thank you for having their vision tested um so we have really good kids in
Royalton that doesn't mean that we don't have kids that struggle and that need help um we continue to work with them we continue to try to build better decision making in them we are looking at a character strong program in middle
school um character strong is kind of a seal is kind of a dangerous word today but it's it is a character building um program that you go through with kids in different avenues of growing up and so
we are looking at implementing that uh into uh the middle school at for next year uh we have done whole training catalyst this year catalyst is a nonverbal classroom management program
um that teachers can use the strategies to bring their classes back on task minimize distraction get kids back in the learning zone um and so we have not only
we did a large group training in November but we also have the coaches our coach coming into the building and providing individual coaching for teachers in their classrooms to help them further develop and refine the catalyst strategies
um the catalyst training at teacher uh teacher input was one of the most valuable trainings that they've had in school um so we're constantly looking for ways to do this better i'm the first one to admit there's probably times where a kid
deserves something and it should have went that way and Caitlyn and I have discussed those and um we are always trying to do the best for the kid the school um and make sure that we
uh number one don't quit on kids and number two that we continue to uh try to address the behavior and then get them back on track and try to to write the ship i am excited by the fact that there countless examples of
students who really struggled in middle school who find their footing as they get into early high school and upper high school and they would have been the kids in the 10 plus category and by the time they get to high school maybe they have one or two they're not going to be perfect
but they have one or two maybe three uh uh discipline notices uh for the year And um I think we have a very good success rate with that one of the things I think we do maybe need some to work on is maybe middle school is a turbulent time
for kids and finding a way to help teachers help kids navigate through those challenges um I wish I had all the answers for it i I also wished I had I was a kid i I got
a detention in 10th grade from Mr pl i got done with the math test and I yelled something i yelled something like "Your brain wasn't on and I yelled something other kids were taking the test." He made me stay after class i had to clean his
overheads um I was embarrassed it's the only detention I ever got in high school um maybe not the only one I deserved but it was the only one that I got um but it was enough of a deterrent for me that I'm I'm not doing
again um the students who are in that right thinking brain and I don't mean right and left I mean right thinking they are in the rational state of mind process those consequences and those inputs and
they make the necessary adjustments uh students who are in fight flight or freeze aren't necessarily responding to punishment the same way as us as I did or as another student who's in that right frame of mind
um they don't process that discipline the same way um and so we're trying to always find ways to to to deal with the discipline and try to get kids back on track minimize the amount of time
they're out of class um try to you know reason with them on and sometimes it works and sometimes sometimes it doesn't and so but uh we continue to try to work with all those students as often as we can we
spend you're looking at we've had,00 disciplines which is right on pace for what we usually end the we usually end the year somewhere between 13 and400 discipline incidents for the year um we are doing the best we can to make
sure that we address it and if there are area I'm I'm open to I'm open to finding ways to uh to open new avenues to do to do things better connect kids up with resources find things that uh that work to keep
kids on track and making positive progress in school is there another slide oh thank you you know how many of the kids that are in your 10 plus category are involved in like after school activities or not is
that something not very many i would love to get them involved in something yeah I I kind of thought maybe that that would track that way but I was Well when they get involved with the activity they have to be here to be involved with the activity and
almost of the of the what was it seven kids at the high school who are above 10 I'm going to say five of them are um attendance related chronic attendance so if they build a connection to a program I don't
care it could be a class it could be a teacher could be building a fish house and shop class it could be FFA it could be the the BPA or the choir is a great one um the plays anything that we can do that
builds that connection for them to come to school and to not have such a negative outlook on what school is about is a positive gain for us it might not fix the issue but it is it moves the needle in the right direction so this data is this all referrals or is
this you may get a referral and then it's like well maybe that's not what it is and that goes away or is this every single every single thing that gets put into the system thing that a teacher put yes so about 90 when a teacher puts in a referral to
us it comes to us we process them probably two or three times a week um when a teacher puts in a recommendation we're estimating that between 95 and 98% of the time we're following the recommendation of the teacher with what they want once in a while we have to
upgrade if I say to you what you said what I said I said to you and you recommend that I get a lunch detention for that there's sometimes we upgrade it no that's got to be that's more there's more of a consequence than that the time
we downgrade it once in a while people will say I I want this kid to have a week of lunch detention next week i mean we don't do lunch detentions in that big blocks because we already have students scheduled in for things that would be more of a if you need it to be a different consequence just make it a
detention level event than than than scheduling out 4 days of lunch detention that becomes just a scheduling nightmare but 95 to 98% of the time and I would say it's closer to the top end of that if a teacher provides a recommendation
to us for a discipline consequence we are following it i'm not in the classroom caitlyn's not in the classroom we're depending on the teach they experience what it was and provide that data to us and and we follow them so well they have their chance to provide
grace too they have their chance if they thought that would be an avenue yes the other thing in the data with the 82% is there's a lot of times where the teacher says "I just want this documented and want a notice sent home or I gave the kid no further action needed i talked to
the kid i just want it documented." That's included in the 18% that's not covered by the top tier discipline notices so so that works sometimes sometimes yeah i mean when you have when you see the percentage of kids who are
not repeat offenders Yeah and I I think we have a pretty good success rate and like I said I wish I I spent more time with the you know I spend a lot of time with the kids who were having trouble but we have so many kids walking around our building that show up every day work hard they're
pleasant they're kind they're good to their friends um I have always felt in 26 years I've always felt very fortunate uh by the student clientele i receive reports all the time from restaurants from places where our kids go "God you those
Royaltton kids they can come back anytime." And it doesn't matter whether it's a sports team uh a a club um a field trips uh grade levelwide field trips to places that we always have had positive comments about our kids they're
they're polite and uh and that's a I I take a lot of pride in that how about the egregious incidents like the illegal stuff so vaping cyber security stuff like that is that being moved on to the next step so if we have
a vaping issue in the school which is illegal right they can't do that if they're underage if you have the vaping stuff in the school it's illegal is that going on to the authorities so the next level so they can come in and take care of the We are situation we are working with um Royaltton Police Department has
just put in through planning and zoning and yeah I'll talk can I jump we had a great meeting today Jason so Royalton city of Royaltton is finally going to put through a ticketing situation so if a child a minor is um
caught with a vape they would get a ticket and pay an $80 fine the county attorney is still not charging those out so um but it doesn't mean we can't send them to the county attorney that's not on us to not send them you know what I mean if it's illegal or if it's not
right the authorities have to take care of it you know if we know that the county attorney is not doing anything about it that doesn't mean that you don't charge the person with it right there's plenty of county attorneys that aren't doing anything but you still have to take care of the situation you still
have to bring the authorities up here doesn't if it's illegal it's illegal period and we've called Jason and talking to him my understanding he hasn't been up here at all this year i guess I'll talk to Jason call up here
if I see vaping at five vandalism at five some of these other things that really are illegal we should be up here we're definitely calling him on vapes now because they can take it up and that's what we but it should have been prior as well which we have called them
and I mean and from talking to him and sorry I didn't interject but he said the biggest thing is when they wrote the vaping into law they didn't really have a consequence for it and so that's where a lot of the county attorneys aren't because there's so it's like yep they
get it but there's no consequence for breaking the law so it's not like if you get a speeding ticket you know you're probably going to get a fine when they wrote that law they didn't actually add the consequence and that's also why a lot of the county attorney aren't satisfied but we have called
um for several different reasons yeah i would love I I I am very happy about that movement in that direction because it does provide the it provides the teeth and the hammer behind making that behavior stop and did say to the c
because it is in statute that you cannot smoke on school property whoever you are adulting i remember in my prior district I was driving in the parking lot construction worker was there and smoked in and I both jumped out of the car my husband and grand like back it up and be all right if you're not but um he brought
that up to them saying it's in statute showed him the statute um or told him whatever and so he said that's against the law you know so there is a law there that's different even from but he hasn't the county attorney didn't say anything at that point that I know of
and then as far as like progression for discipline if we've got students that are it's egregious right they've 15 20 different incidents or more or whatever it is what are we doing to stop that we don't want to leave any one child behind i understand that but if
we're taking a child that's got multiple incidents for bad things either vaping or fighting or whatever it is vandalism and we keep putting that child back in with the kids because we don't leave that one child behind we're leaving a whole class of 26
behind because this guy could be taking away a lot of time from these teachers that deal with the situation and I know there's some teachers that don't feel like they have the backing from administration because they bring these situations to administration and administration says "Well there's
nothing we can do." We called the parents the parents don't care there's nothing we can we can't prove that this student did this and now the teacher's like "I saw that student do that and now you're telling me that we can't prove it." when I'm telling you right now it did happen what are we doing with that
we can't be putting these kids back in these rooms with the other 26 or 25 kids or whatever it is because we don't want to leave one behind because when we do that we're leaving 26 kids behind and that's a problem so what are we doing in those situations that's my issue the egregious
situations what are we doing to fix it well we have very few egregious situations we have disruptive situations um you have to be very careful about excluding kids from the educational setting
um like expulsion is not on the table as an option for us for disruptive behavior it is not um it is not an option we contacted the attorneys for the principal association he was like
don't even think about it it's a10 to$15,000 expense for um expulsion um not that we're not that you're not that you're saying expulsion you're not saying that but right um it can be done um it needs to be done if we've got students here that were
expelled from other schools and we just let them run wild yeah i would that's a problem i would challenge I would challenge the input and the feedback that that uh we have students that are
Um the chronically egregious are very very few and far between and we are doing our best with them but they they are not a very large population of students at all right but you still have
to deal with them even if it's small you still have to deal with them you know what I mean and they I can they I can assure you they are being dealt with that might not we are very careful to make sure that we protect the school district and
protect ourselves from making sure that we don't make wrong decisions and get get ourselves in trouble by um uh you know not providing due process to the students in the event of of those
incidents but I think that's where our discipline flowchart when we bring it back up needs to be fixed i've looked at other schools and I mean you look at soccer
Rapids you can expel a kid if this is out there and everybody knows it it's there it can be done and it should be done and our little flowchart there is not nearly good enough because if you advertise what
soccer Rapids has you can expel a shot so to be scared about getting rid of somebody because you don't know what's going to happen i've talked about this before we shouldn't be scared because we don't know what's going to happen if you have a disciplined action
like this you know what's going to happen the students know the teachers know the parents know and with that you can't do it so I would agree with you with that it's not going to happen so I think as a board we need to look at a
true discipline action plan for the school district not that in my opinion you're right I'd be I'd be afraid to expel somebody looking at that so that's where I stand i don't
know where the rest of the board stands but something needs to be done when you have parents and teachers reaching out to board members saying there's a problem with discipline something needs to be done if anybody wants to see Sock Rapids
I'll email it out for the whole district if they want to see it but something needs to be done i sit in the seat for the teachers for the community members and parents and when I've got multiple teachers multiple parents coming to me and saying that there's problems with it that's
where I draw the line so And um I think with like Lucas said um as a board to sit down I think in the
heat of the moment too for like a teacher or Joel or Caitlyn you know to like decide is that a minor offense today i'm really ticked off so it's a major offense today you know I think some clarification maybe
and I don't know like you know how many parents do you hear count to three nowadays like just like three offenses i don't care what you know whether it's minor or major to
me an offense is an offense you know the rules at school these are the rules after three you know maybe just talk you know as a board deciding like so it was out there so parents are aware i mean we all know we have lots of parents who
don't care but yeah you're taking away from so many of the other kids when you're dealing with these kids over and over i agree it's probably something that we have to talk about yeah i I don't know that that's
necessarily board work to do that but I think you know kind of framing the policy saying that this is the limit that we're ready to go and then they can they can make it to go within that I think would make sense maybe that Well
we have policy 506 that's heavily legislated yep so we have to follow so we have to the parent has to have an opportunity to fight back on the you know it's you read the policy but it's big but we do have to follow
that and like Ryan said maybe something that's just outlined so then we could whether we put it in the handbook or put it you know I mean I understand we don't discipline like Joel and Caitlyn do but you know something that they could even
go cuz I'm sure you get stuck in an instance that it's hard you know to always make those decisions where as if it was just like this is our policy and this is what we do you know you always have kids like
you said that you know they maybe don't have support at home but time after time after time and the teachers are frustrated with it everyone's frustrated with it that time too what you're talking about Lucas is more so just not stopping there is here's the
next thing that we're going to do and here's the next thing that we're Exactly yep okay for each offense yep right i mean if you want to look at Soccer Rapids they've got a great one st cloud also has one i don't have St cloud on my computer right now but St and cloud has
one as well each offense if this happens this is the consequence first time second time third time boom that's it yeah we talked to Jason today he's being going to be very willing to come we call about vape he said to St cloud they just take the vape away they're not doing
anything about vapes in St cloud so at least Royaltton will have we have to i mean that that's the health of the children i mean if people don't understand what vapes are doing to your lungs go online and you can see what these vapes are doing to these kids lungs oh it's unreal they think it's
safe oh it's okay it's just water vapor it's not it is not so something needs to be done at a higher level like through legislation through something these county attorneys have to be on board they do
and I think when we talk about discipline the uh parameter of success is different in the different audiences that are taking a look at what discipline means i feel like the administration here um thinks that our
discipline is fairly successful i think teachers have a different perception because they're in the front lines and I think parents also carry a different perception because I also have had a lot of parents in the past talk to me about frustrations with the disciplinary process here
so originally prior we tried to take an offensive stance on that and bring in some positive change with the pro the proposition of a you know the um the whatever the police officer or
the whatever was called yeah the school resource officer but that was not successful so now we are in the defensive position of having to change course if this isn't working well and inputs coming from various places to
a board level then I think that that's the proof in the pudding that something's not working here with our disciplinary process so it needs refinement or it needs to be looked at in depth and given a a quality
inspection um because it wouldn't be coming to the board if it if it was successful in everyone's eyes if you remember correctly SRO was voted down for this school year i want to get it back on the agenda to talk about bring people in we'll go through
the whole thing again for next year because I do think to have a person in here it would be huge it would the kids a lot of those egregious things would go away we would have another role model in the district
it's a partnership between the city and the school and it's not stepped on anybody's toes they're here to help and if we use the program the way it should be used the way it's used at multiple districts across the state I think it can only benefit the
kids we went through this last year and we said we don't need it because we don't know what it's going to do we turned it down because we didn't know well now we know it's what we're doing still isn't working
so I'm 100% transparent that's the direction I would like to go to get that back on the agenda and I know we've got the support from St cloud to come up and talk to us again and we can bring other people in
from other areas if we want we've got a police chief in town that set up an SRO program in Foley and did a great job with it i'll be willing to help out again so I only see positives with it
but I need you need support from everybody to make it work and it's never going to be a detriment to the kids and if we're here for the kids that's what we're here to do and
it's not going to hurt them anything else for Joel all right thank you i have agenda thank
you um and uh world strip robotics team you want to send members of the board to dependent Dr campson again um we had a middle school robotics team uh earn a bid to go to Worlds um we had
a team go last year um great experience for them um this other team would like to go um because it's worlds and we don't necessarily have a comparable to other activities um we kind of initially said after last year that the district would be willing to cover more every
other year type thing just to keep in line with our other activities um so on there from talking to their advisor today I believe one family is planning on flying um the adviser would need to drive a van down with their robotic
materials and his son would go with him and then another um participant would ride with and then um another parent would actually be going to have another driver um just to make sure they can get back on the especially on the way back so they wouldn't have to stop um so the
breakdown of the cost of it is up there most of it is coming from their student activity account um they've also done a really good job of getting donations and just having a good use of funds through their different activities um with running concessions and stuff like that
um so the recommendation would be for the school would provide a van um pay for the fuel to get down and back and then the cost of five days of meals for four people at about $50 per day
and they've already brought in some donations and stuff to offset like most of their stuff I believe with their donations is pretty much offset so I think that what the board would want to consider you in the event we have a robotics most other groups don't
have an worlds you know you have a state you might you know that's about it so FA would be close by that'd be the closest one or sorry or FFA but normally it's not every year the other side is that
robotics also has a national event as well so they have a national and a world and a state you know they have more levels so it's fine but just so you know if you are you comfortable with appro if they were to go every single year and this were to become an annual thing would you be okay with that knowing that
other groups don't if we were to approve it and it comes to us aboard next year is that a past practice no you'd still approve it it's an expense so you'd
still approve it every single year you don't have to look at it again yep for sure so is that like what we normally like somewhat cover for other like go to the state so typically for
state um it's whatever transportation get down there if it is overnight we have covered hotels um and then we give them a pdeium or the Williams which is the that $50 is what we give our state participants
i think that's what we did last year was all that plus the rooms i think we did the rooms so we're not doing right and just because of it you know again being a little bit more expensive um for the rooms than what you know what we cuz it's multiple days you know you know our
longest state that we typically have would be wrestling and then that's only three Wednesday Thursday Friday three at the most nights maybe four if they end up staying Saturday night so
that's kind of where it being a little bit longer of a stay and there's potential having to get lodging on the way down which hopefully with having a second driver we can potentially avoid that but we don't want people driving
when they're super tired sorry i'll I'll make a motion to uh approve that district recommendation of providing the van the fuel and the and the predium i'll second that any other discussion
just just as a point of discussion they use a school event for their other competitions they I drove them to the state competition because just once but otherwise most of their competitions are
on Saturdays so parents strive themselves an advisor advisor coach that that would bring it more into the realm of the other sports and any other
discussion all in favor say I i oppos all right motion carries all right uh donations by resolution would somebody like to move the resolution is that me sorry
director Trout introduce the following resolution so um Royaltton Fireman's Gambling Fund has generously donated $2,500 to the Royalton School District to be used towards uh crisis go bags doug and Gene Lagott have generously
donated $500 to the Royalton School District to be used towards the robotics team registration supplies tournament fees and or travel expenses royaltton Fire Relief has generously donated $3,000 to the Royalton School District to be used towards the robotic team registration supplies tournament fees
and or travel expenses the Royalton American Legion has generously donated $1,000 to the Royal School District to be used towards robotics team registration supplies tournament fees andor travel expenses metronic has generously donated $2,500 to the Royalton School District to be
used towards the band program subway and Rice has generously donated $50 to the Royalton School District to be used towards the robotics program cyber Grants on behalf of the Charities Aid Foundation of America has generously donated $100 to the Royalton School District to be used towards unspecified
district needs and the Bolis Fireman's Relief Association has generous gen generously donated $2,500 to be used towards a robotics team and the Royalton Legion has generously donated $3,000 to the Royalton School District to be used towards the Royalton Honor
Society so be resolved by the school board to greatly accept these gifts um does somebody want to second that motion i'll second director Andrews thank you all right and upon a roll call vote could you director Trout hi director Holm hi director
Hackett hi director Andre I director Boyd hi director House hi all right and no one voted against um so the resolution was approved on today
uh upcoming meeting schedule so we are going to have a finance committee and policy committee meeting this month which will be good um so uh that's on the 23rd at noon and 2 p.m respectively and then strategic
planning uh meeting is April 30th and then back to our regular board meeting on May 12th um anything else soon as we adjourn we're going to take our picture before we forget and then uh then we'll take about 10 minutes
uh to go into a close session so what time are we thinking post session i got text all right so uh would somebody like to make a motion to close the open meeting to discuss negotiation strategies as
Minnesota statute 13.33 at 7:45 p.m that was director Hackett and Director um any discussion all in favor say I i i opposed all right motion carries sir