Good evening and welcome to the meeting of the St. Peter School Board. It is Wednesday, October 15, 2025. We are in the governor's room at the St. Peter Community Center. Uh we will call the meeting to order. First item up is the pledge of allegiance. Please join me.
>> I pledge allegiance 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 need to consider and adopt
the agenda which is in front of us in paper and also on the board book online. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? >> All in favor signify by saying I. I oppose. Same sign. >> Motion carries. The agenda is adopted.
Kimberly, any requests to speak on the agenda? >> Next up, we need to approve the consent agenda, uh, which is also in the board book packet starting on page three. >> Mr. approval consent agenda as presented.
>> I'll second. >> We have a motion and a second. Any discussion on the consent agenda? Discussion. Discussion. Discussion. Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. I.
>> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. A consent agenda is approved. It's time for our student spotlight. Helena is here with us. Mr. Dohy chair pots, member of the board. Members
of the board, it's my privilege tonight to kick off our student spotlights for the school year. Definitely the most exciting part about these school school board meetings. No offense for everybody. It's I know it's business, but >> we agree. >> I know you agree with that. So, it's my privilege tonight to introduce Helena
Turin. She's been selected as our spotlight student uh for the month of October. She's a fourth grader in Mr. Hassing's classroom. Helena was selected um not only because of her academic excellence, leadership, but also kindness, creativity, positive influence
on her peers. Um she was also elected and nominated uh the president of our student council for this school year as fourth grade. So that role reflects how highly her classmates, her student council members think of her. So uh just to help to get all of you get to know her a little bit better, we got a little
short interview right here. So here we go. So Helena, thanks for being here tonight and your family. Thank you so much. Uh, how you feeling tonight? >> I'm feeling really excited. Maybe a little nervous, but mostly excited. >> Mostly excited. Absolutely. So great to
hear. Let's start with something fun. So last spring um you were in the North uh fall play. The play was called Reluctant Dragon. Can you tell the board a little bit about that experience? >> Sure. I was the narrator. It was so much fun because I got to tell
the story and introduce all the characters. I like being on stage saying my lines and working with my friends. >> Very good. And you did a wonderful job at that performance, by the way. Now, outside of school, I know I hear that you're very busy with activities. So, what kind of things do you like to do
after school and on the weekends? >> I do competitive cheer and gymnastics. I like to play soccer and pickle ball. I like all of them because I get to move around and work hard and be a part of a team. All right, that that's great teamwork. Um, I know when you're not
practicing or performing, how do you like to spend your other free time? >> I like swimming, traveling to Florida, playing outside with my brother, and hiking and biking and walking. I have two dogs named Stella and Coco. I really love playing with them.
>> Very good. And I could you I have a dog that's two years old. I could help some I could use some help training it. So, if you got any experience, she she does she pulls my arm off when we go for the walks. All right. So, now Helena, as a student council president, what's something that you hope to accomplish or
help lead during the school year? >> I want to make our school even kinder and come up with fun ways for students to help others like service projects or spirit days that make people smile. >> All right, that is perfect. And that helps our school be another reason to be
a great place to learn and grow. Okay. So, now at North, our fourth graders are working hard this year with morphology, which is it's a higher level kind of of uh phonics. So, basically learning how root words, prefixes, suffixes help us understand what the meaning of the word
is inside the sentence so we can understand the sentence and the paragraph and the story. So, I think Helena, it would be a good little practice here if you did some testing of the school board as far as like how morphology works and things like that.
So we prepared we we identified a word that we can kind of throw your direction and you guys can break it down and and maybe figure out its meaning. Okay. So you have a word, right? >> Yes. Okay. Board members, here's your challenge word. Photosynthesis.
>> That's right. That that is a great word. Photosynthesis. All right. So now give them a little background >> right there. >> It comes from two Greek roots. What are Greek roots?
What are the Greek roots? >> And synthesis. >> Synthesize. >> I agree. I would agree with that. >> Two points. >> That's like a half a point, right? >> So, so if you combine them, what do you
think it means? And I know Dr. Graph up there, he's got some science background. He likes this question a lot. >> Good work. >> Okay. Photo mean light.
>> And synthesis would be to make. >> So it makes something new with the light. >> They're they're thinking something with light. Putting something together with light. Think they're pretty close. >> Yeah. >> Putting it right. It means putting
together with light. >> Like how plants use sunlight to make their own food. >> Do we should we give them a passing grade? >> Yeah. >> Okay. They did it. Good work. That was teamwork. Collaboration. Now Helena, we just devised one more
question, right? Like at North we like to um uh in sometimes in the lunchroom like if somebody has a birthday people saying happy birthday like I Helena we found out somebody has a birthday today so we can throw another question their way. Can they figure out which person around this table has a birthday today?
Let's see if they know they're they're they're looking at Dr. Graph has a birthday today. So they got that right as well. So they passed I think they passed our test. >> Did you sing them happy birthday? Yeah, >> I think they were going to close the
meeting session in order to be >> good idea though. >> That was a wonderful idea. >> Love the kindness. All right. All right. So, very good. So, Helena, um, you have a couple family members behind you. If you could introduce those two for us. >> That's my mom and that's my mom's
friend. >> All right. Very good. So, thank you. Thank you so much, Helena, uh, for representing North Elementary. You did a great job tonight. Uh, thanks for the family for bringing them in. A special honor and I really um enjoyed having you here tonight and representing North.
Thank you. So, board members, if you have any questions for Helena, she she could take those now. >> If I may, you're a very accomplished, competent young lady for a fourth grader. It's very impressive. So, what do you see yourself doing in a perfect
world when you're 35 years old? >> 3. That's old. 35. So, >> in my case, I said I wanted to be in fifth grade when I was 35. >> What I want to do? >> Yeah. Like, what would you want to do? >> Um, well, I kind of want to be a hair stylist
or um uh I want to have 16 kids. >> Okay. >> And they'll go to St. Peter schools. >> Bring them to school. This these people
like deer stuff like that. Yeah. I need to >> All right. Any other questions? You have a great future. >> I have a question. You kind of slipped in there. I think I heard you like traveling to Florida. So, like, can I get in on this or like like what's going on?
>> Um, so usually every year our family drives and goes to Florida or sometimes we do Disneyland and Florida and I don't know, I just really like the beach and stuff and I think it's really fun and pretty. >> Sounds like a great tradition. Nice.
>> All right. Again, congratulations, Helena. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. For being the spotlight student. >> Thank you. >> It's all down here from here. >> Yeah, it was. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Thanks.
>> That was the best part of the meeting. All right, back to business. >> All right, we'll move on to action items. The first is to consider acceptance of gifts, donations, and grants. >> Dr. Graph. >> All right, we have two donations to
report this evening. Uh the first is a $4,680.7 reimbursement from the booster club. Uh and the next one is a donation from the Good Neighbor Diversity Council uh for the amount of $850 and that was used toward the Indigenous People's Day Walk
that was on Sunday, October 12th. >> I move that we accept the generous donations. >> Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? >> Discussion. Discussion. Discussion.
>> Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. I >> I oppose same sign. >> Motion carries. Thank you to our generous donors. Uh next up, consider approval of compulsory attendance report. Page 18 of
your packets, Dr. Graph. >> Yeah. So, the compulsory attendance report is an annual report um that we present to the school board and it shows where our students are going uh the students who are either homeschooled or going to a parochial school. We report
this to MDE as well. Um so tonight we will just review the report uh answer any questions that you might have uh and then ask for an official approval so that we can sub submit this report to MD. So the first document I want to share or talk about is the graph.
You'll see that trend line over the years. Um you'll notice in 2019 2020 the COVID years there was a 46% increase of students out of the district um to our homeschool or prochial schools and you can see how that number has declined um
over the years. Uh and we saw a 17% or we've seen a 17% drop from that peak of 188 students in 2020. So it's trending in the right direction uh for us.
And then if you flip the page, this page gives you the specifics of where our students are going. So the top row is homeschool students. Then John Ireland, Emanuel Lutheran and Mano, Minnesota Valley Lutheran, Lyola Catholic, St. Peter Lutheran, Trinity
Lutheran, and then the bottom row is our tenure totals. So this year we have 156 students uh who are either homeschooled or in a parochial school. 55.7% of them are in the elementary at the
elementary levels uh and 44.3% are at the secondary level. And the big increase there um or or the biggest number there uh is really our home school. uh we've seen an uptick in that uh through co and it continues to
be one of the highest or the highest of >> course we always like to see the numbers stay in the district but it's good that people have choices I think we offer really good opportunity here but >> it's nice that people have choices too so >> for sure it really shows the the
opportunities that our families have in the area we have some great schools >> do we have a sense on homeschool is that you know it's the number is it was 30 it's 39 is that 39 families is that 12
families like do we have a sense of that >> yeah I don't I mean those are represent individual students you know at the ages um I mean that's something we can easily look up we just keep those on file >> yeah I'm just curious if it's you know families with multiple children
>> most of the time yep it's it's pretty I mean obviously if they only have one student it would be one student but most of the time it's multiple multiple. >> Yeah. Okay. >> And so the homeschooled kids are they required to take the testing that we
take or not? they are required to take a standardized assessment. Um most of them uh the letter the information that I send out in the fall of every year offers uh them to come in to take the MCAs um if that matches the grade that
they're at. Otherwise, most of them um can get um a standardized assessment from the University of Minnesota that's that's low or free of cost and they keep those on file on their own. That that is a requirement to have a yearly standardized achievement test,
>> but we don't see the results of that. >> Nope. It's all the family's responsibility to keep their records on file. >> Yep. >> It' be interesting to compare >> how they compare. >> Yeah. Really the only time that we um
will need to do like a file review is if a student is homeschooled and then they choose to take courses at the high school or completely stop homeschooling and come to the high school and then they have to look and see what courses they've taken at home and try to compare that to the courses that we offer or
require. That's really the only time as a school district we see their cumulative files for homeschool. They're responsible for providing services. >> Yeah. >> Student support service like once uh students hit the ages of uh seventh
grade, 7th through 12. So they have access to counseling, social work, health care services. Yep. >> And that's in the letter too. Notifies them. Yep. >> So do we not have any kids going to charter schools? Not that uh not that we're aware of.
>> So uh >> that would be a different report, correct? Yeah, that's a that is a different report. So we have a number of students who attend Minnesota new country school >> which is a a charter. >> Oh, sorry. >> That would be an open enrollment public school.
>> Y so that's why that's not reflected on this report. >> Yeah. This just only unacredited home schools. Um, so this report uh allows us to report to MDE that our students are all enrolled somewhere. It's an accounting system to make sure that we
are tracking that students are attending school >> and that's like you said that's a separate report when we take a look at open enrollments in and out. Yeah. >> So those schools are reporting those students. entertain a motion. I move to approve
>> the compulsory attendance report as presented. >> Motion in a second. Any further discussion? >> Nice to see the trim. >> Absolutely. >> Discussion, discussion, discussion.
>> Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> Oppose. Same signs. >> Motion carries. Thank you. >> Next up, consider approval of custodial master agreement. Dr. Graph. >> So, the negotiations team has reached a tenative agreement with our custodial
unit. Um, some highlights or a summary of some of the changes to the or updates to the agreement. Uh, there's a 3.5 increase in salary uh in year one and a two-point increase uh in year two. $1 year one and $1.50 50cent increase in
the buildings and grounds pay, an increase in the district insurance cap, changes to the way that the certified pool operator stipen will work, and then lastly, changes to the way that uniform procurement will occur.
HR committee, anything to add you want to discuss? >> What's the CPO statement? It's the pool >> certified >> pool operator >> operator. So gets paid a little extra
for the time when he's because he has to have special expertise. >> Gotcha. >> So in the new agreement that stipend will occur across the board. The old agreement we tried to calculate the number of hours that he was doing that
job. >> Got it. So, we lowered the stipen amount, but just made it like Dr. Craft said, across the board because it's not like he does it the
same time every day and comes and goes. >> A huge benefit to us to have that certification and a requirement um so that we can make sure that that pool is safe and and maintained at all times. I'll move the acceptance. >> I'll second.
>> Motion in a second. Any further discussion? Discussion. Discussion. Discussion. Hearing none, proceed to vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Thank you.
>> Uh, item four, consider approval of the 2025 2026 superintendent goals. Dr. Graph. >> All right. Uh so yearly the board approves superintendent goals. Uh these are the goals that the superintendent sets uh to drive their work throughout the school year. Uh we had the
opportunity to talk about these goals in depth at our study session. Um but I will review them and answer any questions that you might have and ultimately ask for a recommendation uh for approval. So superintendent goals uh
are really separated into two categories. Uh a lot of this work was done as the admin administrative team. Um we have set forth the following commitments uh for the school year both the superintendent and the administrative team. Uh we will strive to ensure ensure a safe and welcoming
learning community. Strive to ensure student success, a culture of continuous improvement, staff development and support, organizational effectiveness and sustainability. And then the initiatives or the strategies, the things that uh will be on my list of of to-dos.
Ensure that the men the middle project is on time and within budget, strengthen community partnerships, ensure fiscal and organizational management, and improve student outcomes. And then on the following page, um, kind of in table format,
you'll see how those goals have been broken down into the key performance indicators, the things that you all should see if I'm successful in those goals. And lastly, the critical actions, the things that I will do uh to ensure that each of those initiatives is
successful. Once again, we we did uh dissect this quite a bit at the study session, but happy to answer any questions or have further discussion if you if you choose. >> Thank you for the work that you put into these. I think they're uh appropriate
given, you know, the current state of our district and the things that we need to be focused on. And so I appreciate the thoughtfulness and the thoroughess uh in in in you know showing us the the KPIs the the critical actions like I think that's super helpful as we as we
will monitor progress with you. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. I really like being able to look and see like real things can measure with that you know without it being this >> you know you have to have that overarching goal but I really like how you laid it out. So, Charlie, we really
did hire the right guy, didn't we? >> Turns out >> we're not just saying that because it's your birthday. >> And then I will uh I hope to at committee meetings and at further future study sessions report on our progress so
that you'll be up to speed the whole way through the year. >> It's a lot of work. >> There's a lot here. My >> pleasure. The uh the fund balance reserve be wonderful to increase that.
>> Yep. >> Well, you know, if it gets down to the end of the year and we're a little short, he can always kick in a little. >> Yeah. >> So, we really see >> Is that Is that in here?
Well, that is something. >> All right, I would entertain a motion. >> I move the approval of the superintendent bills. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Discussion discussion
discussion. >> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Thank you, Dr. Graph. Next up, consider approval of the 202526 district strategic plan.
>> Similarly, um just as I have goals, our administrative team has goals and we put those together in the form of a strategic plan. We also dissected the strategic plan at our study session. Um but I would like to review that and once again uh entertain any discussion,
answer any questions and ultimately request a formal approval uh to guide the the administrative team throughout the school year. Um so same commitments uh follow the administrative team and the initiatives or strategies that we will implement this year. Number one,
implement the standards response protocol. Um we've presented quite a bit on that. It's our protocol to respond to emergency or crisis situations. We will improve our delivery of multi-tered systems of support. That's how we respond to student data. That's
how we meet every student's need. Number three, implement newly adopted curriculum improvement plan. We talked quite a bit last school year about adopting a new curriculum improvement plan, moving it from a two-year process to a three-year process. Uh we believe it is much more effective and efficient
or will be more effective and efficient in learning about the new standards and implementing those new standards. Number four is implementing our culture responsive pedigogy. Once again, last year we developed a teacher a new teacher rubric that included components of culture responsive pedigogy. This year is our year to make sure that we're
implementing. And number five, implement phase one of the artificial intelligence pilot. Phase one includes uh teachers, a group of teachers who will be researching ways that artificial intelligence can impact instruction and make teacher lives more effective and
efficient. And then from there, phase two and phase three, uh, we'll move into ways to implement with students and essentially get to policy at some point. And then once again, if you flip the page, you'll see how each of those strategies are broken down in the same
exact format as the superintendent goals. We have our key performance indicators, which are the things that you would expect to see should we be successful, and our critical actions. Those are the our our commitments, the things that we will do are our adult actions to make sure that these things uh are these initiatives are carried
out. And then you'll see at the very bottom um there are placeholders for action plans. Uh these are links within our internal documents uh that spell out in a timeline monthtomonth the actions that we'll take as an administrative team to ensure that we're on the right track to meeting these these
initiatives. Any questions? I I appreciate the uniformity between your goals and these uh uh strategic plan goals makes it easy to follow. >> And as you saw at the steady session, each building has then created their own
building strategic plan uh to really drive the work throughout the school year. >> All the arrows pointing in the same direction. >> That's the goal. with it. Everyone did for this to align everything to work together. It's
wonderful. >> I know to those watching it feels like we're all just patting ourselves on the back, but it really it really is nice. And I know that's a not the right word, but when we're all just kind of everything's pointing in the same direction because sometimes we do set we have to have all these different goals
for all these different things and sometimes you do just kind of focus on one thing and then the next thing you're doing something completely different. And I think I don't know if it was last year or the year before or I don't know but all a sudden it was like somebody not me was like let's just stop this and
you know we just kind of slowly got to this process and it it really does feel a lot easier for me as a board person at least to be able to understand better our main thing. So I appreciate that >> that's really what the the intent of those commitments are is each building
might hit those commitments slightly different. You know the needs of a kindergartner are different than the needs of an eighth grader. Um, but we can always trace it back to those commitments. And that's the alignment piece is we're all working toward the same goals and pointing those arrows in the same direction >> and even if it doesn't fall on the list,
we're still doing it if it needs to be done for the person that's going to say that. >> Yeah. These are just our our >> these are big goals, >> super focused areas areas. >> And the amount of work that it took for the administrative team to put these things all together in that >> nice tidy package is appreciated.
Entertain a motion >> accept. We approve the 2025 2026 district strategic plan as presented. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion discussion discussion discussion
all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. Oppose. Same sign. >> Motion carries. Thank you Dr. Graph and team. Item number six, approval of change in December meeting start time. >> So as mentioned last school board
meeting, um our December meeting, we are requesting a change in time. Uh the truth and taxation presentation will be given at that board meeting and statutory requirement is that that meeting starts six o'clock or later. Um, so logistically we feel it just makes
the most sense to move that meeting back to six o'clock. Uh, and then start that meeting with the truth and taxation presentation. That way any community member that is here specifically for that would be able to hear that um provide their their feedback and then
not have to sit through the rest of the meeting if they didn't want to. We certainly encourage them to, but look how much fun we're having. So, we request that we move that we officially move that meeting um to six o'clock on December 17th. >> I move that we approve the changing of
the start time for the December 17th many uh meeting from 5:00 p.m. to 6 p.m. uh to accommodate the truth and taxation requirements of the state. >> Second motion and a second. Any discussion? >> All those in favor signify by saying I.
I >> oppose. same sign. >> Motion carries. Update your calendar. >> Item seven, consider policies for approval with a second reading. Dr. Graph, >> we have two policies coming back to the board uh for final approval. Those
policies are policy 516 and policy 621. Policy 516 is our student medication and teleaalth policy. Um if you remember um we have made some changes to the exceptions section of that policy. Essentially we've made it a little bit
more stringent. We want to know um any medication prescription or not. We want to know that it's in the building. We want that to all flow through the nurse. Um and then policy 621 is the readact policy. We presented that for a second time simply to give people time to read
it. Uh it is substantially different than our original policy and that is all legislative changes. The readact has gotten beefier than original. Um so now that policy is beefier. Janna, our literacy lead has reviewed
that policy and she is comfortable and confident that we are able to meet the requirements of the readout. >> Policy committee if you have anything to add. I haven't received any additional feedback since the first review. >> Like to make a motion to approve the
policies 516 and 621. >> Second. >> Motion in a second. >> Discussion. >> Just a clarification. The uh the read act were on schedule and on time to uh Okay. completing phase one
>> training this school year and new to that we will be training our par professionals and that will be occurring during early release times. >> Okay, good. They have phase two figured out. >> Phase two, uh, the last I have heard and I unfortunately Janet was not able to be
with us, but they were going to alter the curriculum because phase two is secondary. So, they're going to alter that curriculum to be a little more aligned with uh, secondary okay >> teachers. So, I'm not sure where we're at with that yet, but we have another
year before we'll start that. >> Okay. I'm looking at the principles over here like accurate right >> any other discussion >> on either of these policies discussion
discussion discussion hearing none we'll proceed to vote all those in favor signify by saying I >> oppose same sign >> motion carries policy 516 and 621 have been approved thank Thank you. Next up, consider policies for approval
with a single reading. We've got a bunch of them. Dr. Graph, >> at our October meeting, the policy committee um would like to bring forward a number of policies with a single reading or for approval with a single reading. And these policies have either
no changes or just minor changes. And the reason they're coming before you is they're a part of our regular three-year cycle. So, we just want to make sure that every three years we're re reviewing every single policy. Um, so if you're okay with it, board chair, I'll just go through each of those, talk
about >> uh any changes that we might want to make or not. Uh, and then ask for >> approval. So, policy 502 is search of student lockers, desks, personal possessions, and students person. This governs how we do searches within
schools. Uh, and no change is recommended. Policy 504, student dress and appearance. Once again, no change is recommended to that policy. 505 is distribution of non-school sponsored materials on school premises by students
and employees. There are some changes that we recommend, but they are very minor. MSBA's model policy, their definitions, for some reason are just in a different order. So, we recommend making our policy look
just like MSBA's. That way if MSBA does any updates, we're not sifting through ours to figure out where things are. It's just a lot easier when those red lines come out if it matches. 508, extended school year for certain students with individual education
programs. No change is recommended. 605 alternative programs. No change is recommended. 606 textbooks and instructional materials. There is one legal reference and we recommend making that change to
match MSBA's policy. Our policy um has separated the reconsideration of textbooks and other instructional materials and we would recommend that we keep that separated. It's a separate
policy. Um so we recommend keeping that policy 601 is that separate policy. We recommend no change. 611 is homeschooling. There are uh legal reference changes. We recommend making those changes. And then
policy 16 or 618, assessment of student achievement. Once again, no recommended changes. >> So when it's all said and done, it's just things that we have to change. >> Okay. >> Or Yeah. And a lot of them are like
statutes. Yeah. >> Language, things like that. >> But no substitute changes. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> The only other thing was the switching the order. >> Yeah. Of things to match up with MSBA. So that's easier to find should they make a change? >> And it's not really changing the policy.
It's just changing, you know, not at all. >> So we haven't had any problems with any of these policies, right? As far as enforcing them with the students and so on. thinking more along lines with the dress
code and things like that. >> Our policy is is much more relaxed than MSBA's model policy. Uh and we like it that way. Um we we haven't had an issue uh in talking with the principles. We haven't really had an issue of enforcing
our policy. Uh students largely dress appropriately uh within community standards. Uh and when they're not, there's high compliance to to correct it. And usually that would be, at least for my experience as a middle school principal, uh that's usually they wear a shirt that maybe references alcohol or
something and it's a quick turn it inside out or hey, here's a shirt that says SPMS on it. >> Isn't it nice? >> Like yes, >> it is nice. >> Yeah. And that's why we we recommended no change because ours is working well.
I move that we um approve all nine of these uh policies with the single reading. >> Second. Any further discussion? >> Discussion. Discussion. Discussion.
Hearing none. We'll proceed to vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries and all nine of those policies have been approved in single reading. Moving on toformational items, fundraising plans by site.
Mr. Doy, Mrs. Engelinger, welcome. >> An exciting one, isn't it? >> This is exciting. I'll start uh I'll start with South Elementary the best I can. Many of them are pretty similar to the ones that we have at North. So, looks like they do this classic book fair. um yearbook, food sales for parent
council events, South Readathon, Boxtops, and then a coin challenge. Um for example, Scholastic Bookf Fair, same thing with North. Any funds that go above and beyond book sales gets rolled back into purchasing of books for the media center or for classroom libraries.
Yearbook, it's just kind of cents on the dollar that kind of go into a Saints fund in each building. Parent council would control um any funds that they get. Uh, Readathon usually goes into t-shirts and things like that for Star Pride at South Boxtops like playground
equipment and things like that. Coin challenge they give to charable uh giving just in the in the area. And then um at North we do the same thing. Boxtops for playground equipment. Club's Choice which we have going on right now. That just happens the month of October.
That just goes for ongoing fund for um improving playground equipment for more accessibility uh features. That's what we've been working on the last couple years. Um, Scholastic Bookf Fair, like I mentioned, same thing. Books to buy for classroom libraries. Um, yearbooks, just
go into our Saints fund. Um, custom inc that's new this year. It's a little bit different. So, it's clothing sales. It's similar to what South has with their uh Saints clothing sales. So, some of the money can come back for North T-shirts. And then student council has a couple items. Sticker machine, you know, that's
a favorite. Yep. And then school store uh which they have the student council runs that and then that's for like Colleena talked about just updates and opportunities for kids at North Coin challenge. Do you know? >> Looks looks like both. They have coin
challenge under the parent council which then they would manage that. any funds from that? And it looks like >> maybe just the staff do the coin challenge just for charitable giving, maybe food shelf. >> I'm guessing we'd have to confirm that with Miss Zakora.
>> I clearly did not get the memo from my other friends about putting this into a table. >> I'll do better. >> I'll do better next year. Even even Miss Boutell did and she's like sucker. >> Yeah, she probably she she probably started it
>> or keep it to one page, >> right? Um the middle schools I everything but the the last one, the one and done is has been done other years. Um and I'm sorry I can't really speak to that one.
I know she's planning a an event. I believe like one one fundraiser for the whole year for everything. >> One and done. >> I think it's pretty self-explanatory. But >> if I'm wrong, she'll correct me. That's
for sure. Um, as for the high school two-pager here, um, everything on here, everything there are a few new ones this year that I, um, that I actually need approved. The one that I that I have a question
about is for our Lions Club friends. Um, you'll notice the choir wants to do poinsetta sales. U, a parent brought this forward and I know that it Oh. fair. >> I know that the Lions Club uses that as
a um fundraiser. So, if I don't know if you want to take that back to the club and ask if it's okay. Um >> sales. >> It would be. >> It sure would be actually decisions.
>> Mattress sales before >> um they did last year >> and it's just some like online thing. I don't I don't quite know how it works, but they get a certain percentage if you people order their mattresses through
their link. >> So, where is all this money for choir going? Is this >> So, the choir the choir fundraisers go into their the choir activities account. Um, and mostly for they do fundraisers
for their big trips. Mostly for fundraisers for their big trips. Sometimes um at like at the pops concert for example, it has also gone toward um oh if they bring in they bring in a lot of
additional musicians or have those extras that the school typically doesn't cover um that will also go toward that. But I think we've adjusted it that the school is going to be able to >> manage the concert. There's a select
group of kids that are selected to go to like the Dorian festival or something. Is the school covering that? >> The school covers the school covers the kids entry fees for things like honors choir, Dorian, that kind of stuff.
>> Okay. So then the these fundraisers aren't used to pay those things. >> No. >> Okay. >> No. I just want to make sure that like the things that are fundraised as a group are being used as a group and not for a select group of people.
>> Yep, that's correct. >> Okay. >> And those those things are expensive. You the fact that we and we've got a lot of kids who audition and attend. Um, but
it also it's it's such great a great experience for the kids as well as great PR for us. Um, they really represent us well at those things. >> Yeah. Uh, and we are now, as you know, this year going to um have to we're
going to charge a fee for the um entry to things like pops concert and I think winter concert as an additional funding source that would go into the general fund for to help pay for some of those additional things.
So the as far as the poinsettas go, I know I'm surrounded by a lot of Lions Clubbers. >> Just for information, we do cards, too. >> Oh, I wonder who did that first. >> Yeah, but but so do a lot of places,
churches, etc. Just a a quick question. >> Oh, sorry. I was I also don't want to forget second page. Um, actually that's new too because Vid the our um art club, this will be the first year that the art club is actually going on a um on a trip. So this is their first time doing
doing any fundraising. >> I knew somebody would ask. We we approved this last spring and it's either Chicago or Washington DC. >> Okay. >> I can't remember which. Yeah.
>> Yeah, they really are. Um, and and a lot of the, you know, like our our FFA kids and our art club kids are a lot of them are a different group entirely than those who might go to on a world language trip or on the choir trip. So,
>> Washington DC. Okay. April 10th through the 12th. >> Thank you. I'm glad I narrowed it down to one of the >> That is the art club. Yeah, >> great opportunity. Just a clarification if I may. U the uh the money that's
raised by an individual student selling fruit or pizza or whatever for trips that goes into their individual account. Correct. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Y >> So that's a good incentive for two things. One, they learn how to make some contacts, maybe do some selling skill development, and then also obviously the
trip. >> Yeah, definitely. And if families aren't interested in doing additional sales, um, they don't have to. >> I remember my own daughter who was going
on a trip. I found had to find out that fruit sales were going on when the fruit was delivered and she hadn't even asked me. So that's a I would have appreciated her going door to door selling fruit.
So all of these things on here for individual kids then >> um not necessarily uh like a good example would be the the theater department.
That's for additional equipment. That would be anything over and above what um above what the school would regularly cover. Um big shows like the musical are crazy expensive. So that's not for
individuals. Oh, tea with Ariel is new, too. We don't do tea with Ariel every year. >> That's cute. I know. Isn't that cute? >> I mean, I I support it. I I don't mean to ask so many questions, but this is something that I hear a lot about is
that there's a lot of fundraising. Yeah. That happens at the high school. >> I know. Look at there's a >> And then I get the occasional like >> why can't we do a fundraiser for >> shooting shirts? You know what I mean? And then and then where do where does where does the
fundraising stop then? And so that's what I'm trying to yeah understand here a little bit >> is you know is the English department going to do a fundraiser for like some you know what I mean? So that's where I was trying to like figure out if it was for like individual events
for individual kids or >> Yes. Mo every I would say everything on here except the theater department. Um >> prom actually I believe goes into their
individual accounts as well. Um, don't quote me on that one, but it it's out of their junior. >> Yeah, junior fees. Um, and yeah, other than that, they all are
their individual individual accounts for trips and things. >> One more question if I may. >> The the FFA with their produce and plant sales, I've seen their plant sales of course. Is any of the produce utilized for the food service? Yes, it is. Um,
mostly tomatoes and greens >> that are grown throughout the winter. >> No prime rib or >> No. No. >> Kind of glad we don't have those in the building. >> They do. Yeah. Yeah. They do a great job.
>> Is it possible to get a list? Like I mean we'll obviously approve this tonight, but to get a list to be a little more specific about instead of just broadly like if it is for an individual trip or like what that's actually going for. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> Yep. That's easy.
>> I'll stay here. >> Oh, stay right there. >> Reports are next and building principles are up first. Did you pretend to leave so you could do that dramatically? Yeah. >> Oh, they want me back.
>> Yeah, >> my notes. That's what I was getting. >> All right, I'll start. I don't have any from South, but uh Yep. I got my four five talking points here. So, um greetings from North Elementary, everybody. Uh Ride, Roll, and Walk last
week was was another big hit. So, D for uh Officer Hughes, he kind of take he just completely takes the lead on that thing and just calls local people down at the at the PD and the county and get everybody out handing out all the
stickers and reflective material and spoke things that you put on your bike and checking helmets and so it's great. I really appreciate our SRO for doing that. like completely taken the lead on that and he's really kind of grown that into a event that the kids ask about and
again it's my favorite part is I just get stationed at First Lutheran and the all the buses park there and like drop the kids off and they get off like this is not north and then they we have to walk and then they sprint the whole way. They just go so everybody's walking. So it's great. So thanks uh Officer Hughes
for that. Also, Kindness Crew, uh, they're going to start getting into classrooms, visiting classrooms this next week. Um, working on, um, Character Strong has great studentled lessons. That's curriculum written for students to present about every theme. So, our third and fourth grade kindness crew
members are all signed up to go into every second, third, and fourth grade classroom. And again, like when when kids when peers get in front of their their classmates and you know the younger students, like they just like totally target in on what those kids are saying. So much power in that. So I
really love the kindness crew doing that and taking that initiative. Science and nature camp coming up at Gustavis next week. 40 plus students we're taking up there. Yeah. And it's usually 40 to 50 students at North just third and fourth grade plus middle school goes up there as well. So we have good representation.
Schools don't have to do that. I mean families can just sign up individually but we like to have a coordinator which is Mrs. Lenhof our media parah or yeah our media pair up program parah so she's helping to lead that crew and get the chaperones all lined up and head up to
Gustavis Passion Projects they're back again I know you were asking about those Mrs. Engelled November 6, celebration of the work um of first quarter. So teachers are getting all their activities. Students sign up and they get hopefully they get their first or second choice. Um and it's uh just from
if you want to see some great excitement, it's 1:30 to 2:30 on November 2nd. Just join us or you can lead a project on your own. We have some high school students coming in to lead some. >> Excellent. >> Yeah. So good work up there. Thanks for sharing your talent. >> I'll see you in a little bit. See if
please please excuse them please. And then um this is hard to believe but I already started the process of planning for parent teacher conferences. So building wide this year we're doing student le conferences and it's a standardized format that a pilot group of teachers worked on last year. So it's it's actually like a three about a three
to four page document second third and fourth graders will be completing. they need to start working on that now. Uh because it takes a while and it's, you know, there's strengths, areas they want to improve on, breaking down subjects and then they're also tracking like how they're doing um from the end of first
grade to the end of fourth grade like on things like a math and a reading general like those screeners that we do in the fall, winter, and spring. And they plot it on a timeline and there's a line on there where the typical student is at the beginning of second through through fourth grade. So they can kind of see
how they're doing and how they're growing. So much great research that says like if you show kids like what they're working toward with a goal and they convey a reflection of that, it just helps them to increase their productivity and focus. So we're doing that building wide starting um here in
November. That's it from North. >> Excellent. >> Yep. >> It's getting a little nervous. We have a football game to get to. >> That was concise. >> I can't help it. >> Yeah. I'm excited about supervising him. >> Yes, of course we are. Um it it's going
to be a really busy uh next few weeks in our co-curricular activities. We've got girls tennis going to state for as a team for I believe the first time since 99. So that's really exciting. Um
congratulations to coach Rothenberger and those girls. and for individuals. Um there are five going and they got three out of the four possible seats um for individuals. So that'll be an exciting week next week for them. After tonight,
we're going to be six and one in football, which is a really it's been that's been a really fun season. Um I said it, so it's going to happen, right? Uh girls cross country team is outstanding. Uh they took first place in
the Big South and Kira Frederick was was number one. Um I believe there were four in the top 10. So uh that's an impressive group of kids, too. Uh our choir uh was selected to perform at the
Minnesota Music Educators Convention. Uh not until February, but that's a big honor um to be asked to sing at that. We, as you know, our numbers in choir are are high. And so we, this is the first
year that we've had um like an honors choir uh that kids had to audition for. They're calling themselves the Florida Lee Singers. Um so it's that group that will be there. Uh and in other choir news, Miss Bergstrom uh has been selected to be the seventh and eighth
grade girls honor choir director this year. And um that's not until spring sometime I believe. But also a really really big honor. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> I don't think you changed the football
team. >> I think we are six and one. >> We are. Yeah. >> Oh, we are six. After tonight, I won't say it. >> After tonight, we won't be six and one anymore. >> Yeah. Let's go with that. Yeah.
>> Uh Dr. Graph. >> Yeah. Just a couple of updates here. A reminder that there are no there's no school Thursday and Friday for MEA break. Um and then uh you you know that I've been partaking in the great start cohort which is through the
superintendent association kind of a a first year superintendent cohort. Uh the next one of those is November 19th. I've been uh kind of connecting with that cohort and and really excited. And so, thank you once again for allowing me to do that. Uh, and then the last thing I want to talk about is the Native American parent advisory council, uh,
their Native American walk that happened on Sunday. Awesome event. Weather wasn't perfect, uh, but a great turnout. Had, uh, some drummers there, some dancers, uh, and amazing food. So, thank you for those who were able to make it. Uh, thank you to the Native American parent
advisory uh, committee. Outstanding work. Couldn't be more proud of those guys. um just thinking about our first meeting where you know a number of years ago where we sat there and looked at each other like what is this team supposed to do all the way to now where they're just running the show and just doing amazing things. So once again
thank you for that. That's all I got. Board members around the table Rosie >> um we had an embed board meeting last night. Um, just a couple updates. Um, you know, we had met and we put some improvements out there and I walked in
last night and the building looks completely different. Totally positive vibe and they had reported that kids behaviors have just improved significantly. >> Um, the best story I heard was that one of the elementary kids came back and was like, whoa, this is my school. So, that
was very nice to hear. Um and then they had reported on their numbers which um they have 10 elementary kids and 22 secondary kids. Um which I'd asked then like well what's our limits, right? And so they have two elementary rooms and
they can get eight in a room. So they're kind of well they're out there and then they have three teachers right now. So they're sitting at kind of that bubble where they would maybe have to add that fourth classroom, but they do have room for it, but as we know. So anyways, but
that's what's happening out there. They have a new principal and um yeah, it's all going very well out there, I would say. I don't know. John can >> be very positive, but great staff and and what a great start to the school year. >> Yeah. So just had to report good news out there.
>> Yeah. Awesome. >> That's great, Mr. C. Yeah, I would just like to thank the board for your efforts on Monday night. It was very helpful for me as far as preparing. We have meetings now
scheduled for office support paras and the teachers teachers will be this coming Monday. So things are going well. keep our fingers crossed that the cooks
will have a agreement to approve in November. >> Nothing for me, Miss Martins. >> All right. Uh any committees that didn't have their work talked about already
this evening with various uh business items? Any other updates? We have a handful of meetings coming up. Uh but please note the separate addendum to the is the accurate dates and times
for the upcoming meetings. Um several negotiations meetings, HR committee, business committee, education committee, policy committee, the whole we're all working between now and the next uh board meeting. So, um, but the
next full board meeting will be Wednesday, November 19th at 5:00 p.m. right here. >> One thing I did I was going to mention is part of the business committee, the audit has started. >> Yes. >> And the auditors are in the building. >> You might not want to go to the district
office for the next couple of days because they grab you and sit you down in front of the auditors for a quiz. We do not. >> All right. >> I'll make a motion to >> motion in a second. All in favor? I
>> Meeting is adjourned. Okay. Run.