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 so for the roll call uh Maria
is not here tonight she is ill um and the board chair comments I just have one so uh looking at the donations again tonight uh between uh a whole bunch of them there's just under $30,000 worth of donations so that is awesome so just a
big thank you since we have to read it off as a as a resolution and kind of formal uh a big thank you to all those individuals and the organizations that uh are donating to help our help our students uh so with that I will take an
approval of the agenda i'll make a motion all right any discussion all in favor say I i i opposed all right motion carries appreciation recognition and presentations we have a
bunch of them here hoped members of the board Superintendent Dr wamp Herman Caitlyn Arnen activities director um we have a couple of recognizations for our winter seasons uh first up um I want to recognize our wrestlers that qualified and competed at the state meet um we had
Brady Orizac Jake Leonard and Brandon Mug i was like I know I saw them um Brand the other two were not able to make it um but Brandon was able to end up placing fifth at the state meet which is a good feat brady
do you just want to do pictures at the end um the other group that I want to recognize is our 2024 and a two through 2025 girls basketball team um they had a record setting season they went 14-0 in our conference and then they were 26
and0 in regular season and they finished it as a 28-1 season which is a record season um plus they set many individual stat records as well um and then as far as the coaching staff our assistant Bill Balman was assistant section coach of
the year and Brad Balman was the CMC girls basketball coach of the year so um a lot of recognization for their hard work and and successful season there you go um so we have Madison Malbury Hayy
Walbeck Dari Rowski Emily Blanc um uh Elise Shane Adam Shainrock and Chloe Rey who are the ones that are here so congratulations i know there's others that were on the team so congratulations
your time right or there more well we have more oh sorry let's do the students of the month first sorry members of the board superintendent Dr wampamp Herman uh Joel Swenson high
school principal um I am recognizing the students of the month uh these students are nominated and voted upon by staff for positive contributions to our school that could be academic extracurricular
uh volunteer character um all of those characteristics uh are put into play with uh the students of the month and so uh we will be recognizing our winter
students of the month uh and that is Abby Collis December student of the month Wyatt Garretts the January student of the month and Kaden Vanerden who was the February student of the
month congratulations every week I go through all right and Kaden could not be here this evening um the other award and I can give it to Jeffrey Shainrock award this to Jeffrey
Shainrock is the Royalton Lions Club uh sponsored our uh fifth and sixth grade fishing trip here this uh winter um the first day we were planning it uh we were planning it in it was
midfebruary and the first day we planned it it looked like it was going to be about 18 degrees with about a 20 mph wind and we decided to cancel which was a wonderful move because it ended up being like 9° with a 20 mph wind and uh
it was just not it just imagine 120 fifth and sixth graders on the ice with a 10 below windchill um the next week when we scheduled it we ended up with like 35 40
degrees on the lake where they were uh up on Fish Trap Lake and they we had a record I think the sixth graders I think they caught 67 fish that day we've had years where we went out and caught one fish for 60ome some people um so that
they got a chance to fish we had some students go out and help uh the Lions Club the Rice uh sportsman's club was also a big help to the uh fishing trip and so on behalf of the school I'd like to present Jeff Shainrock as a member of
the Lions uh a uh thank you from the school for their leadership and putting this event on and Jeff was out there jeff was the faculty rep for the uh day with the sixth graders so he he got to see it in
action so um now we can do pictures oh that's the best though yeah actually we do all of them separate you can pull them all together we need board members
we'll do just push them over i know i feel we're just going to move to the front got everybody on open a major restaurant okay students of the month thanks for coming mr sh
okay i also know lots of great recognition that's awesome um recognition of citizens for input purposes all right we'll go to uh the board committee report does anybody want to talk about the finance committee
um I can i guess we didn't have a ton on the finance committee just went over budget and then um we were up some students let me see where my uh 927 for March and I believe Heidi said that was 7 through 12th where we had the biggest increase yeah and students
that's a good number to go up um uh so for policy uh there's really nothing significant there we looked at a few of them and everything that's changing that we're approving tonight is statutes and references so uh no change
to actual policy um and then Midstate uh we're doing a lot of work at Midstate uh we're almost finished with the directory bill um we uh we've had some big changes to how we are built and working that out the superintendents have done a really
good job putting that together and working that out and then uh our next meeting is going to be setting goals for for next year we really haven't done that in about three years so um pretty excited to to get that get that going so
that that's really it um for committee is there any other committee reports all right superintendent report so I just I don't have a lot just uh it was school social worker week this past month at during the month as well as school transportation so we appreciate all of our staff that do the hard work
of supporting students as well as transporting our kids um our drivers are really top-notch as well as our social workers um we did have our strategic planning committee meeting and I was really excited because we had new um
members come new community members come and be a part of that meeting we actually had nine people there that would not be considered just there because of staff they might be staff but they were there representing more of a community lens potentially so that was
exciting um we have sent the survey as you all have received um regarding what our current priorities are as well as action steps and what potential edits might be possible so that closes on Monday so if you know people that haven't taken it please tell them to do
so i think so far we've had about 53 responses so it would be nice to bump that up a little bit um but that closes on Monday and then um Mr shainron out there will help make sure we crunch our numbers correctly statistically so
because they're weighted so I want to make sure we do the math right and then that'll come back to the committee meeting at the end of April and look through these ideas and we'll actually get some things on paper hopefully we'll get that result uh get that finished up in April to bring back to the board if not we may have to schedule one more
strategic planning committee meeting before we can bring um an edited version of the strategic plan uh to the to the school board so that's exciting work and um just another quick update the legislative session is well uh going going on its way um we are really hoping
that we do know that we'll get a 2.74% increase on the formula that's set nba came out came out with that this is different this bianium because in the past they would set it for two years you know what you were getting year one and year two based on session they won't do that this year because as of last
session the funding formula is actually tied to inflation so there's a floor of 2% so your minimum you would ever get is 2% and there's a maximum of 3% so they will not tell you what that number is going to be until that next year so the
only year we know is at 26 or this next year this school year um 2.74% and um we are still working at hoping that they will hold the compensatory funding uh have a hold of harmless on that
because if that changes we are likely to lose revenue if they were to just use the direct searchs in order to guide your compensatory revenue funding stream so we're working on that we have a pretty good hope we're pretty hopeful they'll do that hold harmless until they can figure out another method to
calculate it and then um also hoping that they continue funding the unemployment the summerterm unemployment insurance costs um feeling pretty good governor has it in his budget hoping that stays if it does it's likely only going to be for a year or two and they'll still have to keep these
conversations going so other than that there's likely uh no other new monies likely um based on what we're facing because we're looking at a deficit in the outbreing so I'm sure you all read in the news so I can take any questions
if you have any but that's what I have i have a couple is there going to be another reminder for people on that survey yeah I can we've sent them out in the newsletters of principles and they'll do it again Friday i can do it when we get that the first time
everybody's like "Well that's like a week and a half now so I'm not going to do it yet." You know could you do a just a school call yep i certainly do great idea that's all I got
anybody else all right uh business manager good evening Chair Hoffstead members of the board Dr christine Warham Kerman i'm Heidi Hagen the business manager uh and just to preface my um update tonight we
have since had two finance committee meetings because we had um adjusted this board meeting um out to this date and so tonight's presentation I'm updating on the month end of January 2025 um it's a
two-month look back uh for each of these um monthly updates and so um enrollment in February was 924 as you heard uh board member um home mention
that now March is 927 so we're um slowly uh seeing small increases month over month since the month of December uh we budgeted in the revision that was approved 918 uh ADMs and so uh
when MDE finalizes this year's enrollment which will be sometime in October um our ADM should uh finalize at higher than that 918 uh considering we've had some increases uh we continue to track it
monthly a historical enrollment is just a a we can go next to the next one um a look at the last 10 years and uh enrollment kindergarten through 12th grade we do have early childhood there on the far left it's not included in the
totals in that far right column general fund revenues again month end January 2025 on track uh overall as the budget shows as a percentage 48.1% uh and comparable to both the previous
fiscal years expenditures month in January again are showing on track as uh this is the revised budget at 49.9% and then the next page it goes um into the different categories so
salaries and wages for a month end January were on track with the budget as were benefits purchase services too on track as a percentage of the overall budget uh property insurance LTFM repairs mid-state special education
services and PSO uh are large budgeted expenses in that category supplies on track capital again on track as we uh made and finalized purchases that were approved in the budget and the
other categories on track with the budget um it shows uh skewed in that this category u includes a reclassification of chargebacks at year end when we're working through our audit so that category looks a little
different when you're looking at it in comparison to other years any questions and honey I did say that two 2.74 right i want to make sure I said the right number
that's about the only thing we know at this time with legislation which actually it's kind of nice we generally don't know questions thanks uh principal reported members of the board
superintendent Dr wear Camp uh I just have one um item to uh report on tonight uh we've been working um with our crisis management plan
[Music] um we used to use an app called Crisis Go and uh it had the crisis management things uploaded into the app um very difficult for you have subs in
the building who don't have access to it [Music] um if you don't have your phone you don't have it if you were out of the room and you didn't have grab your phone and something happened you don't have access to it so we decided to move on from crisis go and decided that we were
going to do an emergency backpack project um the emergency backpacks would contain couple times a year that teachers and staff would update class list emergency procedures it would have first aid kit um we're working on
getting a like a vest that would identify you as staff or emergency responders who could be on site at any given time um and we were looking to do 125
backpacks across the district in all the classrooms uh offices lunchroom and uh we had put together a costing of that project to be around $2,000 the fire department and the Royalton American
Legion graciously donated $3,500 to us for this project which leaves us some room for uh we had not included the vests in the project when I presented to the firemen last week it was actually their idea about the emergency vest i thought "Oh that's
really actually a really good idea." Um and so uh they I just wanted to report on that and thank the legion uh the the legion and the fire department on uh their contribution to this project that will we will be able to this spring uh
order and outfit the packs the plan would be for our student council and Minnesota honor society to help us put them together and deliver them out to all the places that we uh uh plan to have them so it is a little orange
backpack it is they all look exactly the same i'm hoping it's it's not an item that anyone's going to really be excited about taking for their own personal use um it's just big enough to have the
stuff that we want in it and uh they will all look the same um in the winter months you might throw a sweatshirt in the backpack if you know you're going to be outside and you have you know that kind of deal is what we're looking for hung in a spot in the
classroom where you grab it and go and it's got your stuff in it and uh so we will be working on that project this spring but I wanted to update the board on that any questions how often is our class list going to get
updated every semester okay put that in the handbook then we'll put it in the crisis management plan for sure yeah just just so that it doesn't get lost from idea to
implementation it's the one updated portion of it that they will have to take care of and there'll be a waterproof binder in there that they put their class list into all right uh next is consent agenda approval so um
on the consent agenda anybody can pull anything off of this uh if they would like to what we're looking at tonight is approval of the regular board meeting minutes uh the claims accounts and financials approval of the new hires and approval of the resignations and terminations is there anything anybody
would like to pull all right i will take a motion to approve the consent agenda mr chair I'd like to move the consent agenda all right thank you director i'll second it second Director Boyd any
discussion all in favor say I i opposed all right motion carries all right uh discussion information and action items uh do we still want to look at 10A with Marie being gone or do we want to wait for two
weeks until the next one i motion to table until the whole board is you want to talk about it what do we know about the co yeah I guess I'm fine it's only two weeks away
but maybe we should just table it i don't know what do you think i don't It's just discussion yeah right did you talk to me attorney yeah so that it's like an hour couple hours whatever
it was kind of referred to yeah that's what it was like $300 to $400 probably something like that so we're good with that tableling it and we'll take it on April sure i'd rather have everybody here that
opportunity i agree y push it along this far right that's true um so 10B is a senior total portfolio doesn't pay chairman Hubstead members of the
board Superintendent Dr wampamp um I'm back up here again you're here a lot from me tonight I guess um wanted to do a quick presentation of uh the senior portfolio uh things that we are doing here at
RHS um we have developed the idea of putting together a senior portfolio uh that portfolio would include um items that are used in schoolings which I'll be demonstrating for you here in a few minutes um but it is a chance
to show what is what what are our graduates going out with what are the things that they've been exposed to what are their future plans what are they planning to what is the career outlooks for them um and so school links is a program that has a lot
of this stuff in it which we are required to do um career exploration and career outlook across the country across our state um you can go into the school links program and it allows you to to look all that stuff up fafsa and college
information on any school uh in the country um it helps develop a resume based on the if you put in experiences jobs industry certifications um the program will actually help you
build a resume um that you can and it it actually is a really you know you're thinking it's like oh it just prints out a list of things that they do you know it actually formats the resume pretty well um for students where it would be it would be a
useful tool for them as they go on in our royal hours we have been encouraging our kids to update their uh update their experience trackers with any volunteerism uh jobs things that they've been
involved in um with the senior portfolio then they present we schedule a time in May with uh admin uh superintendent principles uh uh counselors and we break them up into
groups and we each take about a third of the kids and we meet with them for about it's about a 10-minute deal and it really is not meant to be like we're going to grill you before you graduate one last time it is really more of a chance for us
to find out what your future plans are uh find out what are some things that you did in high school that you thought were valuable what are some ways that we as a school can improve to meet the needs of future learners in our district
um a major one for us is we really want to find out what their plan is for after high school and so and to celebrate with them a little bit but it's a chance for us to you know just have that kind of a personal chance to celebrate their journey as they as they finish up high
school so we will do those in May and uh excited about that the requirement for the senior portfolio the goal for this in the future is that this is a naturally occurring event item um throughout high school they will have
these different experiences that they contribute into school links and that portfolio is basically built from their experiences that are happening throughout the course of their high school career uh they do a resume and cover letter in their English class we have
college application week in October and November where students are applying if students have applied for school they they include a college application into it uh our core values they pick a core value and write a short paragraph about how they exhibited exhibited that core
value in high school and how they plan to exhibit that uh core value as they move forward into their adult life uh college post-secary plan uh whether that be workforce military apprenticeship you name it whatever you are planning to do
after high school we want you to include that in it um career cluster inventory is something that is completed in school links and then through that the presentation the presentation of the senior
activities is just showcasing the activities that you did in school links show us how you navigated in the program um and so if you want for a few seconds here I'll in a few seconds I'll show you the uh I will show you school links and what
it looks like um for 2026 and beyond the portfolio be required for all seniors um we're looking at requiring 40 hours of volunteer time throughout high school 10 hours per year we had students that
have hundreds of hours based on church affiliation school events um it does not have to be exclusive to this so if you are you might get to count a volunteer thing for three different activities as
you go throughout high school it might count for NHS or it might count for uh confirmation from church whatever you can double up on those things um the portfolio like I said meant to be a naturally occurring accumulation of
experience and artifacts so um excited about it it uh we do not have our seniors attend studentled conferences uh for the most part they are in the middle of making and carrying out those decisions
uh in the spring of their senior year and so the portfolio presentations that they work on are the replacement basically for that time and effort and so uh really excited about it uh there's schools that around our area that are
looking at that when I talked about the senior portfolio I had other schools that were interested in what we were doing with it um and so I'm pretty excited that we're we have right now this year we have 51 of the 66 seniors are doing
the senior portfolio presentations in May and so uh questions before I go to school links I have a question what are we doing for access to this after graduation they will have the students have access
to they will have access to their school links materials after graduation yeah because otherwise they should like put on run it off and print it yeah put it on a drive or something yes they will have access because when they're going through the process you know this spring you know some of them are like well you
know I'm just doing it and then you know if I be like gee if I had a resume I could just print up it'd be really nice you know yes yes they will have access okay i had one question um as you you
were talking about student led conferences I was just thinking would it be possible or even feasible to for the 9th through 11th graders to talk about what they updated as part of this portfolio as part of their student led
conference the student led conference and the student led conference in the future should be making use of school links okay like that is that that that is the conversation piece this is where I want the center of our career exploration college exploration career
anything workforce military anything is centered in here i have been looking for we had Navian we did ramp up we have done MCIS i was looking for one that had the features that school links has for years
and uh I am really excited about this especially with the ability to upload your own documents to the system that is a great feature of it so if you take a look at the screen this is just an example of
um uh of the uh school links program this is a demo i'm Wanda Carver i'm an 11th grade high school student and it showed this is just in the career in the career areas for Minnesota it shows um job openings um every time you do
something there are career cluster quizzes you're going to have lots of kids when you ask them what do you want to do after high school they're like I don't know i don't know and they say it exactly like that i don't know and I I we try to get them is that you don't have to have the answer right now but we
want you to start narrowing it down um you might know that I have 10 things that I might want to do after high school and I'm hoping as you go throughout your high school career throughout your senior year that you're able to narrow if you narrow that
to five things that's success that's a successful move for you you're getting closer to making that decision um and so this tool is meant to help students make that decision it takes that so like
for our data I can't show it to you because there's names student names in it but um when our students take the career cluster quiz it shows us where our students are picking and where their career interests are so that most job openings in Minnesota there's a thing on
our dashboard when I open it says you had 252 students take the career cluster inventory um 175 of them are interested in construction fields 60 of them are interested in health care
and that any time that they do that and they can take that multiple times a year multiple times throughout high school and we will have that updated data as to where our students um are interested in uh with career fields so gives us the
opportunity then to uh if we maybe bring in speakers or bring in career opportunities or look for job fairs that have those types of uh careers in mind then we can arrange those types of experiences for our kids
[Music] uh do you want to go to go to colleges yeah go to the colleges on the left side and just look for like a school search or first list one of
them so it's very interactive here's you know the Minnesota colleges you can go on there and it will show you where it is how much it costs to go there what is the majors and the programs that they have like I said in Minnesota it's listed as 76 schools it is not Minnesota specific
um for the purposes of this demo they filtered in Minnesota only but if you want to look at Harvard I mean you can do that um all of those uh opportunities are there so it's a quick spot where if you're looking for something uh contact
numbers who how application procedures all of those things uh are available through um through this through some of your career and career interests it will show you the colleges that have the programs
that you're looking for um and so if you're trying to narrow down and where you're going to go to school for some for for a major if you're going to be a nursing major it will narrow down the college list to the schools that have nursing programs and so it's
a a really nice feature of the program um up on the top right see where Wanda Carver is up on top on the orange on the right then one next to it there's a what does that say credential yeah the
view the credential folder um so this is the area where they can put in credentials um I had students who have credentials in there they have their um through our life skills lab they have received
their I say it wrong every time serve safe i always say safe serve but serve safe uh their serve safe credential so they actually take a picture of that credential and it uploads it into the place for them so if they did go work at a restaurant or do something down the
road they could go back in here and they have that credential that they could present to an employer um first aid CPR um any of those types of credentials that you might need for uh um a career
or position that you're pursuing if you go to the one next to it that one right there um that is Wanda Carver has some truency issues it looks like but um that that is an uploaded i I'm not
exactly sure what that is i did not upload that um I do have a document called truency uploaded though um but uh that is the spot where you can upload your resume your cover letter and it will just list the documents right there so if you log into the system you can go
right to the document you can update it you can resave it re-upload it um she's honest she Yeah she's very honest i would not put that in my credential um that I'd recommend against that um so
that I am not an expert in this we are learning it as we go we're building the plane as we're flying it um so every time that we have a meeting with the people from school links the in source who are the career pathway consultants that
we're working with they are helping us through this now every month in our students have a task every month that shows up so they have a task assigned for March they have a task assigned for April it might be complete this career cluster unit take this personality
profile and it builds that and saves it for them but um each month when they log in then it shows their to-do list basically and here's the things that they've completed here's the things that uh they haven't the average and and our
parents also have access to this uh they can go in with a parent portal i'm happy to report that in region five the average school uh where parents getting parents signed up for schoolings was 10
to 12% uh we're at 25 or 26% here with our parents sign up and we've been trying to push that pretty hard um to get our parents uh signed up so they can go into school links and and see the progress and things that they're
that their students are doing maybe it facilitates a conversation they can hey what did you what did you learn about FAFSA or what did you learn about this school that you were looking at they can go in and they can they they have a resource that they can facilitate a conversation with mom and dad any questions about the portfolio or
school links this was a strategic priority uh strate in the strategic plan was to have a senior exit portfolio and a capstone project for seniors and this is uh access to the whole school links or just
the information postgraduation they should have access to their their account and materials in school person that goes on to more schooling they could continue to build on it my understanding is that we will have access to that as they two years out if you you want to use it as a resource
that it would still be there for you yeah like to update resume information yeah you know whenever Yeah well one of the questions and when they come back from the summer should be you know did anybody get any certifications over the summer because
you know some kids going to think like well I got my forklift certification that's nothing right but that'd be great and we have encouraged that and we we actually go in and approve them so we go in and approve their certifications and their volunteerism which has been really
fun um cuz you found out they're more doing more than what you do well three things you can't get paid you can't get a grade for it and um like my kids have never volunteered to rake leaves for me that's
a chore that you're doing for me now if you go to Heidi's house and rake leaves you can use that as volunteerism but not for me you can't and so we have had lots of I have 600 600 hours
of volunteering in my mom's daycare no that's not um uh but we are when we do that we let them know like okay you got to give me or or it's real vague and so we give them some more
information um you know like hey can you tell me more about this volunteer thing that you did and we're not like trying like this is got you like a concrete box of volunteer we're pretty open with it but we just don't want to get paid we don't want to get a grade and we don't want it to be uh chores So
um we go through probably once every couple weeks and we are going through and approving those and so that it banks their minutes they don't have to do that that it when you submit it you put the number of hours that you did it i worked at the fish fry for four hours doing
meat raffle or whatever when you do that and it gets approved it automatically banks it for you so I can go in and get a report of where student volunteer hours are um which is nice because if we have students that are short as they're approaching graduation we can try to
find some volunteer opportunities for them you know help out a help out at a basketball game that's easy enough to do you know help out come to a wrestling match and and be the be the uh the chauffeur for the officials or you know that kind of
deal or run clock that kind of stuff so any other questions excited about it i think it's a great thing for our kids um and it's finally a tool that I am excited about
the fact of uh it's going to answer a lot of the questions that we had think we're good thanks Phil uh PSU okay i haven't talked this much for I don't know since July um
PSO this is a topic of concern there's there's some really good things about PSO it gives opportunities for students to gain college where they might not otherwise have an opportunity to get a head start
um right now the best way I can describe it is we are in the wild west of the PSO development in the state of Minnesota and it is all in favor of un
unrestricted uncontrolled access to PSO there's very little we can do to control it um in the old days you used to have entrance and things and you might have two or three kids that go to PSO at St cloud State and they went on campus and
you had 10 12 kids that maybe took a PSO class in school online after co I believe the colleges saw a way that they could supplement their shrinking on
campus enrollments and and arranged and took some of those requirements off of PSO um so we are trying to do a few things to control our own um our own responses and protocols with PSO
um in the past students who had nine who registered for nine college credits could get a open period um we are eliminating the open period we restricted the open period this past year to um they had to take their open period
during royal hour um next year we are just eliminating that they would still have royal hour and have that opportunity this I don't know what open period means that they would be not our students so
they can they can have they'll have an open period during the day so if they have first period they don't have to come until um till they till second period right um students who have really the only difference is if you take 12 PSO credits
you're considered full-time and you if you have your grad requirements covered you don't have to take classes with us you're a full-time college student um you could take if you wanted to you supplementary schedule yeah I really wanted to take small i'm a full-time PSO student but I wanted to take that small
engines course or I wanted to take band or I wanted to take a fed class uh weightlifting class they can do that they can always access our courses but at 12 courses they're considered full-time and they would have if they had their grad requirements covered
through their PSO courses do not have to take a course with us and so they'd have they say "Oh well I have opens." They don't have opens what they have is online college courses um so the no open periods really is only basically taking one more
class in taking one more PSO class you have you you are in command of building your schedule the way that you wanted to um withdraws we had students who were taking a class like fitness walking
um and they would take the class with the intention of using it to get an open period i'm going to make sure that I have x amount of credits so I get an open period throughout the day so I don't have to come to school till 10:00 they take fitness walking with no
intention of ever participating in the class get to a certain point in the semester withdraw from the class we pay for the class there's there was zero consequence in the system for them um we are looking
at for a student who withdraws from a course after the allowed drop date from the college will receive a failing high school grade on their high school transcript uh this will make sure that students are when you're taking college classes and
registering for college classes that you're doing so with the right intention in mind you are doing it because you are using that class for something beyond high school and not a chance to get an open period um can we do that
we can do that and other schools are doing this um because of some of that zero consequence you don't if you go to college and you're paying for it right and you
withdraw from the course you've paid for the course and to the idea that a W is not a good the W is not a good thing on a college transcript it's not and I don't want them to have that lesson that if you just don't like it
you just bail and take a W um there is some there is some consequence for that and so we are looking at just to reiterate that's only after the 15 days they still have the right to withdraw from a class that first 15 days with no consequence and then monetarily we're
not correct right this would be two months down the road you decide that I'm just not going to do that i just I didn't I I took the class to get the open period and I'm not I really didn't have any intention of doing it now you're going to have um you're going to have to really make a decision
about what you're registering for um the future we're working with other schools in region five um especially some of the schools to the north of us uh Pine River Pillager Peekquat Lakes um Piers is getting involved piers is getting
involved with it um working in schools with region 5 regarding working our PSO contracts or CIS contracts with other options around the state of Minnesota there are some other types of programs that have
different rules in place for it we can't really force that but we can uh hopefully my goal would be to have enough pressure where they make some positive changes that are more friendly to high schools with regards to
PSO like I said it's not a bad thing but right now it it needs some boundaries on it um these advocacy groups are testifying in front of the legislature um and have in the last few months uh principles have been testifying to the legislature
about the current state of PSO we are currently reworking contracts with some of the colleges we work with with CIS and PSO offerings stating our concerns like here's what it's doing to us here's what it's doing to the school budgets
um where we used to have entrance exams you had to have a certain score on the ACUPPLACER test to take a CIS course is no longer there and so some of those guard rails of protecting um students who might not be ready to
take PSO courses um have been totally removed in the past few years so uh we would love to see some of those things come back and so that's the changes that we're looking at making for PSO and
2526 questions so on the Joel on the where you said that they'll receive a failing grade like just a failing I mean do you have to have that in a category or just a failing grade in what class per se yes
it would be listed in it would be listed as the course that they withdrew from okay okay yeah yeah it wouldn't be we wouldn't just throw one in the English department to the walls English right yeah and that would not be on their college
transcript that would just be on their high school transcript just for us their high school their college transcript they're going to take the W or take whatever they're affect yeah so it just be on their high school transcript okay i have another question yeah
they're slowly coming um so like the 12 the full-time PSCO they don't have to be in school at all right if they're taking a full PSO load as long as they are as long as their PSO courses are meeting their grad requirements for us so yep
okay yep so the nine college credits because I don't understand how this open or how this works that's why I wanted an explanation so right now they get like an open period and that's during their royal hour right so if they
take nine credits and they have to be in royal hour now is that something they can work on in royal hour or what okay so that's just like basically they just Yes they would be here with us it really doesn't it basically makes our kids not
have to attend royal hour that they would now have to attend royal hour right they can't sleep in yes well they could they can still sleep in they can still arrange their college schedule to have their classes right away in the morning because they might have a they might have 12 college credits and they
stack them all on their a day okay now that's getting deep right you could take all your classes on one day and the next year the next day you're out okay okay and there's a billion different ways that they do it especially now with some of the asynchronous options that are out there
um there's the really the sky is the limit and they can be as creative as they want i I most of the time would have considered that you would want to maybe go like a two and two or a three in one schedule for college kids which
is what they would recommend but but they don't have to they don't have to yep and so once they're at 12 if they've had their their all they have is their college classes so on these college classes that they can
take I mean are they limited to what classes they can take or is that opened up that they can take anything now okay they can take anything unless there's a prere yes unless some people get one or whatever right
but they would have to they just have to make sure in their um with their courses they have to make sure if you're taking like a civics you're not going to take our civics course as a senior you
have to make sure that your civics courses match what we need for the state high school standards we help them with that right yes and we actually have a pre-approved list of courses at each of the colleges that they can take but those course offerings are always
changing too so I probably have 10 to 20 times a year students bringing me a syllabus from a college course saying will this have worked for our civics class and then I go through and look at it and I mean there's a the the the width or the breadth of what they can
take in college sometimes it's like this isn't this isn't going to fit you know and it doesn't it does it matches about half of what you're doing an ethics course is not a civics course you know what I mean but it sounds kind of like it and has some of the words and
some of the buzzwords with it so we have to make those determinations um that's about the only limitation uh that they have in terms of the things that they want to take okay and I just have one more question
um do you feel like I mean I I understand where we're coming from budgetary I get that um but I also like the opportunity for kids to take the PSO classes um do you feel like
this will detour students from taking it or you think the kids who are really going to want to take I mean it may detour some kids or not because they just don't really care if they have a we're looking at the registration for next fall it was because we're done with juniors and seniors already it's very
much the same as what it was this spring okay okay it then and that this is not meant to this is not meant to deter it's more meant to just tie up some loose ends that we had on our end that well I'm really not wasting time I
mean in general you know I mean I everybody's time and that's what I'm saying I mean I get that side of it I don't want to detour like you said the opportunity for some of these kids who may not have that no our registration patterns look very much the same for next Okay
almost exactly the same to be honest with you okay i mean I get it because I see some of the classes and I'm like "Yeah." Okay yeah and we have again have reported that some kids will choose the PSO class over the college and schools class that
we teach here on site because it's easier um so that's being communicated to the legislature and to the colleges and to the colleges and the the college courses we offer here in school those all transfer just like a PS it's just
like it's just our teacher it's just listed as CIS as a teacher in school face to face versus online CIS would be great the more you can get it but it's it requires your staff to have 18 in field credits past their m in their
masters that's a newer thing too because they wanted they want the kids to be going to their school so one of the conversations we're having is trying to find some more ways where we could share among the schools CIS courses right so maybe Pillager has a class as college schools can our kids get access
to that class and then if we have a science can kids get access to that you know how could that look in our future we're talking through some of that and we're looking at it like a consortial model kind of thing and is there a way to do that solar i'm assuming like budgetary it would cost but in a sense
it would save in the long run if you had that save and then you know you could still potentially like they're here with us so if they ask us for help on a college and schools class that's very different than asking us to help with a PSO class that we have nothing to do
with you know so and we want them here because it really does help the culture of the building to have those older kids here on site they they're good leaders so any other questions on PSO i'm guessing this is not the last
time we'll hear about this conversation as I I believe there will be continued movement over the course of the next few years on this is going to evolve over time for sure so I just want to present quickly around might as well stand up there
Joel but I just want to bring this to the board's attention so you know we've been talking about summer schools relatively new for us it was first started in elementary in 2021 so those are some of the attendance that you'll see in 21 22 23 24 as you can see once
we've got the further we get away from COVID the decreased attendance we have and you can see in the summer we invited 72 students 33 registered but really our average attendance is 27 so I'm I'm giving you this data because I think it's important for you to see this the
next slide will show what happens at the high school middle school they did not have it in 20 we started it for the first time in 2022 that's been very consistent attendance well I can tell you I was a little surprised at the consistency with the middle school i know why the high school is going to be
good because they're getting those credits and so they they want those credits because they want to graduate on time so you that makes sense to me i was just a little bit surprised by the middle school but that's great you know good attendance so as I told you we used esser money for this uh these these
summer sessions and that money has gone but last year we were able to get targeted services money and when you we got that money you actually get it this year so what we the summer school was in June of 2024 they take that data and they give
you the money in 2025 so right now you go to the next slide we have um $22,000 in this account that we can use for the summer school that we'll offer this June but the total cost of summer school is
$27,360 and what we're taking what we're looking at is transportation that is not covered by targeted services it doesn't have enough revenue generated to offset that expense and it doesn't offset lunch so we get free breakfast and free lunch
for students but there has to be supervision that time does not get covered and some of the um coordination time that we pay for the high school credit piece because there's a lot more coordination around tracking credits and making sure all that happens that too is
not fully covered so in this case we would have we if we were to do this summer school this June like we have these last several years we would have an added general fund expense of $5,360 it would be this fiscal year because we're offering the programming
in June we do know that we are projecting to have our revenues exceed expenses so it would be covered it's not like coming out of a fund balance it would cover this but I'm bringing this to the board to determine do you want to continue doing this and pay this added
cost i I do say I do not recommend not offering transportation because I feel like if we don't offer transportation then we might not why have Summers Elementary because those are the kids using that middle school too high school no very few high school kids use the transportation but the elementary and
middle school students do so I'm bringing this to all of you to see if you're good with trying it again and maybe we even look at Well we'll try attendance of course but if that continues to decrease maybe we don't do summer school at the elementary in the future we just I don't know we
should just keep tracking the data but can you go back to the numbers for elementary yeah I wish if that number keeps to drop if it keeps dropping we really have to take a hard look at it because I wish Tony was here so we could talk about summer school because I
think last time we talked about he said it was good you know and the students seem to like it oh yeah but you can see the co thing if you could tell parents wanted their kids in school with each other the social aspect you could just see and now you know parents get busy
and so go ahead when we like for the summer school like is this mainly kids who are struggling with school it's we look at their scores on like fast bridges
session so that we invite children that because you have in order to get charter services dollars like they can't be like proficient in everything and you can use it as long as they're not proficient in reading math and if there's some
behaviors so you can do the behavior just because of the socialization that you'll get but that is what we look at and that's throughout I mean elementary and high school's all around credit recovery so those kids are only recovering credits do you know the number that were invited
those other years like from him i'd have to look ask him i don't and I you know Tony wasn't in that role in 21 22 so I don't know but we could I can ask him to look and the dollars is that per student
again that actually attends right so right now we're giving $22,000 for the targeted services dollar that's how much we it generated so we take that student attendance y yeah so how many hours there per student it's like $5.34 cents or some whatever and it's very low that
number has not changed in years so my point is if we drop summer school at the elementary we would lose those dollars as well you just don't get any additional revenues right but Right correct and so we'd have still have that pot there that would like say we just
did middle school we would use it maybe then we wouldn't have an extended cost because right for the following year because transportation could be cheaper because you don't have I mean it might be it might not be all that right the first year will look good then after
that like oh we don't have that extra money you know what I mean right I wonder if we talked to staff that dealt with kids that went to summer school if you know does it save
them 15 minutes a day that they're getting to you know you know one or two kids even though the numbers are low one person can affect a classroom and if that happens because you didn't
get the extra time then you got 29 other kids that are suffering because we didn't do that yeah very well you know the benefits that it's just something that that numbers can't show you you know we only have four years of data right so and who knows this year might
be better we you know maybe last year was a good year i don't know but I do I do want the board to determine that we want to move forward with this expenditure so we're all on the same you want to vote tonight or I I
would Yeah I like that just because we move on and get more because we got to invite some students yeah it's good okay yeah it does so I would like to make a motion that we keep summer school the same forward i'll second that
motion by director Boyd second by director packet any other discussion all in favor say I i i opposed all right motion carries good lord by proxy I guess
or use the the proposed Royaltton district calendar for next school year it is very very similar um to this calendar this year uh one of the major differences that you would see
is instead of having the Christmas break start at the front end you know we came back for two days in that first week in January you would actually come back for a couple days right before Christmas um instead and that extend that because
of the first being on Thursday and Friday um it made sense that way but the calendar otherwise looks very very similar to uh the calendar that we had this year um
the opportunities for breaks in the in that February and March um getting students out of the building getting families a chance if they want to arrange a vacation that that's happening a lot more than it did even 10 years ago um I I have never signed as many
vacation packets as I have in the past year as I have before and so arranging these mini breaks and they the pe people are taking advantage of um of taking advantage of those mini
breaks so their kids aren't missing a full week or um or they're taking a shorter break in there but uh the calendar looks very much the same we've kept the early outs going with that readact so we'll be on year two of the readact and then that
will be done they'll have all as long as we don't have any change in staff and how this um they will all be completed with that redact training for the elementary and then we'll figure we'll learn more as this date comes through with what we're supposed to do with the middle school high school for training it will not be as intense like what we
have right now and that early seems to be working really well this year yeah I have I've had good much feedback from parents all I know for us it works fine but I don't know I've not had feedback from I think because there's like
they're out there and advertised I think it's easier for parents to like we're not hey next week we're going to do an early out on you and you're going to have to I think the fact that we had pretty good communication about it right away from the start people were in tune to those things coming up each
There's a there's a lot of community feedback that I get that not only are they dealing with the early now that it's easy for elementary school parents but they're excited with with the what's going on in the classroom so you know
it's nice to have that conversation that 26 years in this business the Reed Act is easily the most significant professional development that has occurred on a buildingwide level a statewide level there's nothing that even compares to
what is required from the Redact i I I think it's a good thing and so those that time spent on those days to keep staff up to date on it and give them a chance to collaborate and incorporate this into their classroom the way it's meant to be done is an advantage for us
any questions on the calendar somebody want to make a motion to approve the calendar have a motion to approve the calendar director Andrews thank you i'll second thank you any other discussion
all in favor say I i oppos all right carries great so um director home had asked to um discuss this so I want to bring some data around the open enrollment piece for preschool
and local pay i know you had this in the packet to review so I don't know if you want to ask questions about this or how we want to i guess my um question on bringing it up is I have been contacted by some parents
and um teachers in the younger prek and K and just with the struggles they were having with some behaviors so I guess um this helped clarify i mean I was wondering like how many of our preschoolers are open enrolled how many of them are behavior
um and I understand you know everyone deserves an education but if it's taking away from our educators and what they're doing that's hard and that's the frustration I felt from the um people I visited with um and then I wanted to know like because we offer the three and
fouryear-old you know how many of those students stay with us or how many come for that time and then leave so I mean this was a nice spreadsheet to get to clarify all of that I guess yes and I I'm glad you brought something upside what's not
clarified here is when we say special education that does not all mean behavior it just means all special ed so yeah okay good because that data we didn't provide and I don't know I don't I don't know who would publicly because I don't want to ever can't identify
students but just it's just like that gap of who's taking a lot of the Yep resourcing time so it's nice to see that you know the large large percent of students that stay with us up going to kindergarten
and then stay through um the rest of our metriculation or through the grades the one thing that's not on the spreadsheet but I don't know how you even do it but like so when we take somebody and they're the oldest in the
family if they manage to stay then it's it has a multiplication effect if there's more than one kid in the family so it's just there's no way of tracking that data you just there's always that chance right and it's hard when you classify
like open enrollment too i guess you know my and obviously in these young young are you know ages we don't know but we had the discussion today like are they coming from somewhere where they're already having behavior you know and then we're
getting years old well and that's the problem that is the challenge is when they come to us in preschool that we have no data because there is no data yet and we learn that data and then we put in interventions in place to to work with the child and here's what we've seen too sometimes you have children
that will come in and get special education services at 3 four five six and by the time they're seven they're no longer getting those because we got them early and so the key is definitely definitely identification early that's why we always say screen by three
because the sooner we know the better we can get some interventions in place so it does make for sometimes some chaotic times during because you're still learning you don't know what we have yet whereas when they're with us and they get to first grade well we already have this IEP we know exactly what they need
we you know so it's it's why it is not easy to be a preschool or kindergarten teacher right professional it is not easy work so you look at 2122 there's 65 total preschoolers and 75 to 92
what are we are we adding teachers or do we add a teacher okay add a pair along with that teacher i know not just the behavioral things but if you go from maybe 20 preschoolers to 30 preschoolers it make a big difference too you know
what I mean so effectively doubling yeah so to make sure we're covering Yeah the teachers and the growers too yeah and really you know like we've had the discussion before too you know that all kids are getting the attention they need at those young ages you know not just
the kids that are needing the extra help right you know cuz some kids might need social skills you know they're not really that was just my concern any other questions great
this probably isn't a bad spreadsheet to see once a year i agree okay I like it it's good information you know sure probably not a bad one to share it says grand total of preschoolers 92
what's our graduating class is it 60 is that four years old so okay so just four years we're at 65 if we can move Well here's what happens true we do get kindergarteners that come
to us that have not gone through our preschool right for sure we do what is it 78 78 what was the big class that graduated a couple years ago this this group of seniors was the biggest class that went through at one time there 93 or two but
look some momentum all right uh next is uh donations right okay all right uh does somebody want to introduce the resolution for the acceptance of gifts to the Royal School
District it's all moved director Hacket thank you all right um so we have Clinton Copicus has generously donated $4,000 to the Royalton School District to be used towards the band program the St cloud Optimus Club has generously donated
$1,000 to the Royalton School District to be used for the robotics program royalty Lions Club has generously donated $2,000 to the Royalton School District for the Spain trip initiative Foundation has generously donated $1,000 to the Royalton School District for the
care closet bolis Fireman's Relief Fund has generously donated $1,000 to the Royalton School District to be used for the Deep Portage field trip bernick has generously donated 12 cases of Gatorade and 15 cases of water to the Royalton School District to be used for the track
team royalty Youth Travel Baseball has generously donated $18,745 to the Royaltton STU School District to be used to purchase scoreboards for the JV baseball and JV softball fields and the Royalton American Legion has generously donated
$500 to the Royaltton School District to be used for evacuation backpacks um therefore be it resolved by the Royal School Board to greatly gratefully accept the gifts uh does somebody want a second
i'll second director Holm thank you all right and uh clerk can we do the role director Boy i director Hackett i director Holm hi director Andrews i chair Hoffstead i all right and no one
voted against all right yeah yeah that's huge thank you that is awesome you know we just made all the pizzas for the youth travel baseball a couple weekends ago i'm like what do they do with all this money that's a lot of money and literally I got the email
on here and I open some of that pizza money right that's crazy you know those pizzas are We made 5,500 pizza this year it was down a little bit last year we did 6,000 oh my goodness
but and it's about 50% profit for pizza are they still selling so they pre-ell and so we're not unless you have there's people that buy we have customers that buy 75 i didn't know either i was all right
next year I want to be on the list at least one pizza all the time no one sold anything no one came to me so I really nobody either so there's people that cut off customer because you
my whole back end of my truck is full to deliver them that day right who has enough freezer space for them right so and then some kids drop out of travel baseball oh we need to give you our customers we got other players customers that don't play anymore it's like a
welloiled machine if you anybody wants to go and help out and see how it works it is a really well it starts at 7:00 a.m and I'm going to guess they probably 8 p.m to get
people make their own pizzas right yeah we've always gone it's fun you go hang out and whatever it's always fun it's three hours or as long as you want to stay a fun day nice awesome all
right so policy reading um we have first policy reading for 413 516 621 704 and 721 um so those are in our packets here and then the second policy reading um that we'll be looking at again for 522
and 423 and uh or sorry 522 and then uh we are going to do a second and final policy um approval for 423 the student employee student relationships somebody
want to make a motion for that i'll make a motion director Holm thank you i'll second any discussion on that one all in favor say I i opposed
all right motion carries and uh the third policy reading so 207 is public hearings somebody want to move that one i'll make a motion all right andrew thank you second Boyd thank you any discussion on that
one all in favor say I i i opposed all right motion carries uh upcoming meeting schedule so April 14th is the next board meeting in about two weeks which is good cuz everybody got a
break from here i'm pretty sure for this month so that was good um plenty of vacations taken um and then uh are we still good with finance and policy on the 23rd
yep okay and uh and then April 30th is a strategic planning so anybody that uh that can come to that please do because uh that was a great session this last time it was great it's really nice when people I knew the more that come it just
makes the conversation robust we get great ideas you know great ideas yeah because we you know as school people we do our very best but it's easy to get tunnel vision and you're so into it that you can't see the forest from the trees so to have outside people come in and
say "Have you ever thought of this?" No thanks for you know these are great ideas so please spread the word for us all right anything else for the upcoming meeting schedules all
right um so we will um close the meeting then for superintendent midyear evaluation um so does somebody want to make the motion to close the regular meeting at 7:23 p.m so
Director Hackett thank you i'll second director Home thank you uh all in favor say I i opposed all right motion carries close this one