good evening and welcome to the meeting of the St Peter School Board uh special day special time it is Thursday February 20th at 5:00 pm in the St Peter Community Center Governor's room uh we will call the meeting to order first item up is the Pledge of Allegiance
I to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with libery and Justice uh Kimberly do we have any cons uh oh sorry we need to consider and
adopt the agenda first we move second motion and second any discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I I oppose same sign agenda is adopted Kimberly do you have any
requests to speak no all right next up is the approval of the consent agenda which is uh in the board book packet online and in front of you Mr Sheriff move second we have a motion and a
second any discussion about about the consent agenda or any items you would like to discuss discussion discussion discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I I oppose same sign consent agenda is
approved we have a student Spotlight Elsie's here come on up Elsie and Mr dhy Bo chair pots members of the board I'm very excited to introduce you to the north Spotlight student of the month I
was just talking with Elsie's family back here and kind of talking about the ranks of honors at North and we do we do a lot of giving of golden tickets to everybody and pulling tickets out of there and uh giving um Awards to individuals who get those pulled and
then we have super Saints which is another like small um elite club I call them they get their names along the hallway downstairs but then there's this top club which is the spotlight and there's two out of two like 450 students a year and so that's Elsie this month so
Elsie uh Elsie and I meeting and getting in uh and talking about this honor I said a lot of times we um we watch old board meetings and we we take a look at what that presentation looks like and we were getting ready for it and um and she she stops the first time I met she's
like Mr dhy this is this is going to be kind of a tight timeline our family is going to Florida here like right before this meeting and I believe they just got back like yesterday or the day before Sunday so we got it done though we got it done so I had some questions I had about 12 questions because I said these board members just want to get to know
you Elsie oh your mic yeah yeah there you go that's better sorry I was so busy helping get those set up early didn't notice that one but anyway um I I we sat down with about 12 questions and the first question on there I figured she'd want to talk about the trip that she
just got back from and she's like nope we're going to go with these she's like no I don't want to talk about that don't talk about that so let's start with the first one Elsie they all want to get to know you so first question um what sports do you enjoy playing Elsie and which one is your favorite and then do
you have any memorable events from those Sports I enjoy playing softball and basketball my favorite softball and my best memory from softball is this Year's fall ball season where my team won the state
championship and it was right here in St Peter that's right nobody comes to our home turf right all right who is your best friend at North Elementary and what makes your friendship special my best friend is Addie siter and we've been besties since
birth our mom were friends so that makes us friends too pre all right if you could have any superpower for a day what would it be and how would you use it I would choose invisibility because I would be the champion at hideand-seek and I'd play
and I'd play pranks on my sisters that is a must all right how about uh what's your favorite subject in school and why do you enjoy it so much my favorite subject is math especially the operations of multi-digit Division and
multiplication I actually have a long division problem that I would love for the you guys to try I will be I will give everyone a chance and there there are a couple reasons for this one you know she just wants to make
sure all the board members know what they're working on for strategies for number sense but then also to prove to Dr graph that in fourth grade they do do long division or a strategy he was questioning me on that the other day like do fourth graders actually do long
division I'm said absolutely we're going to prove it at the board meeting all right we'll let them work on those and then we're going to keep going okay next question um looking ahead Elsie what do you hope to achieve or experience before the school year ends I'm really looking forward to the
kindness Retreat okay so tell us more about that like what is the like what do you think the kindness Retreat is what what why is that just like going to be a highlight um cuz I'm I've heard a lot about it from my teacher and I'm really looking forward to it okay very good and
then then what are you going to miss um about North uh probably my teachers and who did you have I had Mr johnson/ Mr celier in second grade Mrs Mes in third grade and Mr hassy now in fourth grade very good and our last
question like if you could pick one secret dress up day for teachers at North what would you make them wear I'd have them all dress up as ballerinas because it would be funny and it would be even more hilarious if they would do Ballerina Dance mov mhm yep yep very
good all right and then Elsie you brought your family members can you introduce them to the school board so that's my mom Amy my Dad Corey my sister Fiona she's seven and my grandma Laura congratulations everybody
congratulations all right do you think we've given them enough time to use their long division strategy you want me to collect them and may actually we'll let the board chair just say like collectively what what the right answer
was 19833 you went with the decimal she's pulling out the key that she created I got 198 3 three three three three three I stopped I don't so I stopped after the second Dr pots did you
put the line above the three now I Sor I went over snuck over to LC right before and I said I I came up with an answer too now did you did you go with the remainder answer did you go with the decimal she's like I did both so she was great all right now is the time the
board members can ask you some questions Elsie all right so you answered asked a lot but what is your favorite season I like fall fall I like that is my favorite season as well all right I'm guessing you're a reader mhm what's your
favorite book Harry Potter oh which oh I like the fourth and the sixth good job good job you're such a well-rounded I like the math connection even though I'm a social studies that was great congratulations
nice job very nicely done thanks Elie thank you ask and good job Mom and Dad yeah all right we're moving to the action items the first item up item of business up is consider acceptance of
gifts donations and grants after uh donation in the amount of $5,000 was received from Bill and Deb Dixon the donation will help to cover the costs of the spring choir trip to Puerto Rico for several students as well as pay for travel to music festivals and events
High School is incredibly thankful for the Dixon support of the choir program and I recommend you accepting the donation as presented I Mo have a motion and a second any discussion thank you yeah incredibly
Prett cool and the Dixons are musicians so they're supporting that that music background that they've got I'd like to point out it does come out of my inheritance it's fine it's for a good cost wellth well worth well then thank
you wait so do you want us to approve or no have here to serve the board okay y right sounds like he has to excuse himself yeah might want to recuse yourself so we do have a motion in a second any further discussion hearing none we'll proceed to
vote all those in favor signify by saying I I oppose same sign thank you so much to the Dixon family uh next up consider policies with legislative requirements for approval with one reading Dr Olsson so all of
these policies were reviewed um by the policy committee at our last meeting actually policy 515 was reviewed twice it was tabled the first time because there was a request for uh information about um how we meet the policy requirements as far as directory
information and privacy of information and we shared that practice we on an annual basis information is sent to parents uh about directory information and the opportunity to uh review uh student Personnel data for their student
uh so it's really about a a note for directory information and then aligning the language with msba policy um policy 522 is kind of interesting you remember that we passed a new policy 522
in November based on changes to the title 99 rules and regulations on January 8th the title 9 rules and regulations were rescinded so that means that the policy no longer is in effect
so what this recommendation does is it removes and resins the policy that you adopted in November and replaces it with your previous policy with just a couple of modifications uh to meet more recent msba language
policy 601 removes world's best Workforce and replaces it with Comprehensive achievement and Civic Readiness and for Bill's sake we also add kacker um policy 602 organization of school calendar and school day that just updates the note to align with revised
Minnesota law uh it really specifies the hours that the various levels of students have to have to meet state requirements policy 603 curriculum development removes again world's best Workforce replaces it with Comprehensive achievement and Civic
Readiness policy 604 instructional curriculum that adds the pending changes to the health standards that clarifies sections for compliance with msba model language the health standards will be adopted I believe in in the policy of 2026 I
believe uh and then policy 66.2 selection of Library materials that adds new language regarding School libraries and one thing that we did do with that model policy is we uh added uh
uh some sections on just clarifying how those uh library media materials are reviewed so uh members of the policy committee other pieces that I might have missed no I think we went through them rather thoroughly including the recension and
the replacement and all of that so yeah we got it and so per policy and msba recommendation policies with legislative changes uh can be approved with a single reading and the recommendation on policy uh 522 title line uh was also
recommended by msba because of the change uh in the law to be able to move that with a single reading so I would recommend you can either determine all policies at once or all together however you determine I would move that we accept all of these policies as stated in the
previous statement by Dr Olson second have a motion in the second further discussion or questions so if there is so if a student or a teacher is teaching on a book and there is like a formal like complaint about that
book and it's getting reviewed like does that book does it does the teaching continue to go during the review so or does it get pulled like right away yeah so there are two different two different pieces so there's a there's a
could be a challenge to material that's in your library that's what this policy references but then there's another policy that would um have a challenge to an instructional curriculum or material like a book used in the classroom so in
those cases the the book is put on hold while the review process occurs so it's really how it's being used so if the teacher is using it for a lesson then it's instructional material and this is for Library yes okay essentially they
the practice is the same in both okay but doesn't the parent or guardian or whoever's offering the challenge to the book being used in the classroom have the option to
opt out and have a substitute yes there's the there's the option or opportunity to opt out with a a different curriculum but it has to um meet right the state standards and the and the St Peter standards in order for that to occur right that's correct but
there's right that's also part of that process correct yeah and in either case there's a form in the policy manual and so on to fill out and a process for an appeal yes to be to be pursued all right I'm putting the cover back on the can of
worms okay sealed huh Mr CH U just a a question I know we talked about this to some extent but policy 603 is that simply a nomenclature
change relative to the name for greater clarification and meaningfulness or what actually motivated the the name change I think it was just the replacement of world's best Workforce en title because the world's best Workforce was eliminated by legislation
and replaced with C CAC just curious what the rationale was legislative uh there was a legislative action I think the I I think the rationale was there's another addition to the requirements in the new
Civic uh cacr and and it has to do with being prepared for Life Readiness so there was to some extent aot logical reason to do it um yes you're giving a lot of people
credit for it's harmless I just just curious why yeah okay thank you that's just the difference between Workforce and Readiness yes right other discussion discussion discussion
discussion hearing we'll proceed to vote all those in favor signify by saying I I oppose same time motion carries and we have adopted those policies uh item three consider change order authorization Dr Olson so is it in in
your addendum you you can read it I mean change orders are um things that alter the cost of contract due to unforeseen circumstances as as Seth can attests in our middle school project that's upcoming now there will be multiple Chang orders I mean a lot of change
orders and in order to allow the work to go on in a in a relatively uh efficient manner most districts then authorize the superintendent to sign off on change orders up to $50,000 those of you who are on the board the last time that was also the
practice anything over $50,000 needs to come back to the board for approval uh so in in order to keep our work moving on that project and and it's starting really fast uh on June 2nd um we would recommend that you authorize a superintendent to approve change orders
of up to $50,000 for the Middle School construction project I'll make a motion before that I'll second motion and a second any discussion yeah I'm just wondering um when we just talked about policies do
we not have a policy that governs change orders or limits in amounts that the soup can approve or they off the top I'd have to go back and look but there there are some things that you allow the superintendent to um you know
enter into as long as they're part of the approved and adopted budget right but in this case this is different because there are increases in costs that wouldn't be part of the approved or adopted budget you always have that contingen yeah you got the contingency there but yeah I mean I would just
suggest possibly when the policy committee has nothing to do they could look and see see if they could add that to so you mean to add it to to provide leeway no matter what or to include a policy that says specific to construction projects because change
orders are specific you're talking more a policy about what you have approval right the superintendent has approval to if we already have that if we would just add a provision about change orders or something so you wouldn't have to do
this every day we look at it yeah yeah yeah I'm very comfortable to change we're kept up to date about any changes anyway this just allows things to move smoother so sounds
good any other discussion discussion discussion discussion hearing none we'll proceed to vote all those in favor signify by saying I I I I oppose same sign motion carries thank
you uh now moving on to some of our information items the first up is the annual report on mileage and meal reimbursement rates so just as it says that the uh superintendent on an annual basis reports on uh changes to mileage and reimbursement based on either the
IRS uh as far as the mileage reimbursement and that moves from 67 cents in 2024 to 70 cents per mile in 2025 um and then the US general Services Administration identifies um meal costs
for breakfast lunch and dinner um across various places in the United States but in in specific to Minnesota um there's breakfast lunch and dinner in Minnesota in general then there's a different breakfast lunch and dinner breakdown as you can see for theth for Minneapolis St
Paul and for Rochester So based on past practice this is how we're moving forward with mileage and uh meal reimbursement rates and just an informational item that we present on a annual basis to the board to keep you apprised of where we're at with
this thank you clarification so if you're in Bloomington that is that I mean is Minneapolis St Paul just specific to the borders of those or
question Bill you're asking that is a good question I I don't I don't know the answer to that I I I would read this to say you're in Minneapolis and St Paul but I could check that out yeah that's a good question we'd have to get
the US general Services Administration is Blain to North I mean Rens I don't know well that's you know you talk about the seven County Metropol are whether it would expand to that or a great question Shak I'll look I'll look
that up yes I would just like to acknowledge that this is not unique to us as outlined here it is on IRS we're in alignment with that thank you anything else with
that good okay uh next up review of policy manual revisions first reading so so uh you have in in front of you a policy 804 guess you want to come up uh on information
security uh as we get more and more into all kinds of different worlds of Technology not the least of which is artificial intelligence we need to make sure that we are on top of information security and protection and privacy of student and individual records so Gus
can I just give us a background as to why this policy is coming before them tonight yeah thank you uh in April of 2023 we did a uh security assessment of our Network and I've been working on those technical controls to eliminate those
vulnerabilities but one area I hadn't had any movement in yet was administrative controls and so I asked Dr olssen and we work that's one of my professional goals this year is to further our Improvement in the area of administrative
controls and the first question they asked ask in administrative controls is do you have a policy a formalized policy that guides making decisions on information security and we do not and and uh I know msba does not have I've
learned in in this process now that msba does not have a policy on information security because there's not a legislative mandate for it there are State statutes that mandate uh student data privacy but there isn't uh statute that
you have to have a policy on it I guess is what I've learned so I sought out uh council with sou Central service cop and uh we kind of did some research with them and they're recommending this policy which is a copy of uh Minonk
several metro schools are adopting this information security policy that basically empowers a superintendent to authorize someone to make decisions on student data privacy probably but and that it is a priority
and that we do take it very serious and we already we are already doing those things it just puts it into a policy I guess as a result of this this helps us in the in the down the path of getting that risk assessment gold star standard sort of
and it'll probably help cyber security Insurance you know and different things like that so again first reading and Gus is here if you have any technical questions about any parts of the policy thank you for working
yeah any questions or comments I like that this is proactive we're not waiting for someone to tell us we have to do it we've got something in place okay thank you sir all right you
thank you guys appreciate it thank you next up presentation of mba's leadership development certificates Char oh you're getting calls about it already is the media is calling uh we have a certificate here
from msba presented to Tracy Stewie um presented upon completion of msba Schoolboard Workshop series phase one through four congratulations good work on yeah thank you for doing that [Applause]
um and as we we presented Mr cout with one last month and now Tracy uh the msba provides valuable training that helps us be more effective board members and so we appreciate the time that you invested in doing that thank you so yeah next up napac annual compliance
update welcome hello so as these guys are just getting seated this this is on an annual basis napac um has a duty to pass a resolution of concurrence or non-c concurrence and they're here to report on their their
findings so we you guys go ahead good evening um my name is charmain this is guyenne she is um chair for Nea and like like Olsson Mr Olson said that we do this annually um we're a bit early this
year but um we were just pleased to announce that napac on January 10th has voted concurrence for St Peter school districts um how we voted on this is we go back our on our application that we submitted to the American Indian Edge it
coincides with the um decision if we're concurrent or non-concurrent and what that does is we go over five I think was five or six Five Focus areas and we at that meeting we went what has been done what needs to
be done and new thought process for next year um would you like to go me to talk about them are yeah okay so the five areas of focus are um support postsecondary preparation for
pupils um and we assess that through um um that the Native American students will participate in career exploration events um freshman and sophomores this year showed no interest in doing this
but we had 80% um participation from Seniors so that was good um we are paying for ACT fees for three Juniors they took two College field trips and two driver's education um our second Focus is
academic achievements of of our American Indian um students and that our main focus was attendance rate and this year our findings as of January 2025 our attendance rate is at 919 90 91.1% and as just for Native American
students Focus overall I think um the school district is at 90 90.1 as a whole District as a 10 District I think that before we move on I want to give sh credit for that because I think that the native groups that she does with the students is
really affecting that she gives attendance um what are they called prizes um like incent this year for the Native American students where I'm giving incentives um like culturally incentives for Native American students which makes them not
miss a day of school and it is it improves their attendance tremendously this year so and if you're in school chance of doing better academically are improved a lot right yeah y yep and I think that um the native groups are helping the students feel more welcome
and um just like they're able to be who they who they are and express themselves yes okay and now that we've talked about Native groups uh our focus our area of focus is three is making curriculum relevant to the needs of interest of um and interest and cultural cultural
heritage of American Indian peoples are we guessed that our measurement was going to be 60% and um how this was measured I did a survey I had kids do a survey of one particular question it says do you feel
that your culture and Heritage are represented in the school and curriculum not all students brought like answered the questions like only 12 did and 58.3% said sometimes 16.7% said yes and
25% of the student said no but in that area we're in progress and we're going to make another this was this survey was given to them in September and I'm going to give them another one in probably April or May and hopefully the numbers have
change the focus area four was provide positive reinforcement of the self-image of American Indian pupils um we determined that we the district is making progress on this um and 60% of students see themselves get
to their full potential um napac concurred that we are making progress The Joy days and Native groups are certainly helping with this and our last Focus areas is develop Intercultural awareness among P's parents and staff um our two two main
priorities is is the MAA MIAA conference that's held every year this year is going to be in Shaka and we encourage our parents and um napac go and this year we are sending four of our napac members to go and then two additional teachers so all together it's going to
be six representing St Peter and that's going to take place in March um and then our second one we wanted to really try to hit our numbers is our increase of our members um 8 to 10 members right now
we are sitting at 9: and i' or right now we're just trying to recruit more kids to come in the district so that is where we sit in that area so all of those um like in this is in progress and we're hoping by the end of the year that we
get more parents involved and yeah we did when we had this conversation we did also talk about how at some of our meetings and in additional meetings that we have we do cultural teachings and we do see increased attendance with um
students and parents at the those meetings in particular so with that with all five areas we we St Peter school district is in concurrence in those areas that's great yeah that's awesome thank you so you said you had nine
parents or nine households that are in your naac yeah that are active members yeah that come to every meetings and voice their opinions and concerns which I know it doesn't may not seem like a lot but I mean getting nine parents to do anything is is I mean so that's kudos
to you guys to be able to you know stay connected with those families and to be able to get them to come to the meeting so that's awesome well thank you for your work we we know how important it is for students to need to feel welcome and affirmed in their in their educational setting so you're doing a lot to make
that happen so we appreciate it very much thank you very much all right time for some reports building principles are you going in waves tonight two waves it's the warmup act
here well good good evening every um from Early Childhood just to let you know we had our School Readiness open house last week on Thursday that's an opportunity for folks to come to our building take a look at our Center register for preschool in the fall if
they're interested or to just gather more information we and we had a great turnout so that was that was fantastic we have moved to all online registrations now so um the tech department has helped us with that we're refining the process this is third year every year gets a little bit um more
user friendly so we we are getting our applications in I do want to remind folks who might be watching that we do have a School Readiness program our goal is to have every child ready for kindergarten to have that experience prior to kindergarten we have sliding fee scales and scholarships available so
we want to make sure that kids are coming to preschool and have that experience and that that's affordable for families um so thank you all for continuing to support School Readiness and then just a little note about our conferences we are on the move for our spring conferences in March and early
chatton yeah all right thank you February has been busy at South Elementary we had our readathon earlier this month we raised over $4,000 for our star Pride team and that buys the star Pride t-shirts for all of the students to wear and it also um supports the star
Pride activities that we do like the rad zooo and things like that throughout the school year the students did a really nice job and thanks to families and communities for supporting that event um kindergarten registration is open for the class of 2038 and they are rolling
in yes it does sound crazy we had to do the math a couple times to make sure that was right um but we have our open house coming up so much like the the School Readiness open house it's an opportunities for families to come in for students to come in see the school look at the classrooms meet some of the
teachers play around in the imagination stations we'll have an obstacle course set up in the gym so for any family in the St Peter area that has a kindergarten age student um even if they're not sure that next year is the year they'll register maybe they have a summer birthday and they're not sure
like we certainly encourage everyone to come and just check it out it's the uh safari theme so very fun night for everyone and that is Tuesday March 4th from 5:30 to 7: and it's that openhouse format so people can come and go as they as their schedule allows so we hope to
see lots of folks there um also in February was our South music program hosted at the high school and so huge thank you to Robin Woods for putting that together we had packed theater for the kindergarten show and a packed theater again for the first grade show
the kids put on a spectacular uh performance uh so thanks to Robin and then also for all of the teachers that volunteered their time to be there and help um so that everything went smoothly Tuesday of this week was a professional development day so all of
our teachers at South and North and ashaa were engaged in their react training we have a few teachers that aren't doing react so they were doing some much needed PLC work and also doing some curriculum review tasks related to social studies and our Ela curriculum
review um and then last but not least Stars Academy is starting um K4 in March and this is for some students that just could use a little more um intervention so it's an opportunity um invitations were sent and we've gotten a great
response from families so um that will be after school in March and April and just a reminder the Academy is part of our targeted Services Program and that is self- sustaining so we are paid we are reimbursed for any attendance in thatr very good well greetings from
North Elementary and it must be yeah transition planning time because we were just about incoming second graders like that whole process um so we're just starting the planning for that for May so here we go uh it's been very busy currently at north um yes or yesterday
we had the first uh evening of spring play Tri it's going to be the velvetine rabbit um about 100 students are interested this is second third and fourth grade so they were doing triy outs yeah it's just it's amazing like almost 1/4th of the population of at north um is a lot of interest in
Performing Arts so it's very cool um and then that is going to be performed at North on April 30th so stay tuned North and South students yeah oh yeah that's right we're having South students come over for the first time so that's uh play director Mr lenhoff in second grade
and he kind of recruits his whole family to do that and gets a lot of Grant um dollars to support that as well uh also we're just finishing up as of tonight 16 hours of spring conferences doesn't feel like spring out but um right after we do building updates I'm going to scoot out
to the finishing of the conferences um at north um and we always want to thank um families for partnering I mean we get such high participation rates I mean easily into the 90% participation at North all the time so thank you for partnering um for your child's education
Community also uh kindness Retreat is coming up next week for only fourth graders uh that's on the 27th and thank you National Honor Society students we get a lot of I probably over 30 20 to to 30 students that come from the high school that help out with that so thank that crew Young Writers conference is
coming up next week on March 4th a lot of students in third and fourth grade participate in that and on the sixth of of March we have arts and academic night and so come check out the spelling be we have um quite the compet in there and then of course interest Fair science
fair book fair any type of fair you want to dream up um we will have it going on at North Elementary School thank you it's been a busy couple our month uh for the middle school too um we'll start with uh our
joy day that we hosted at spms on the 24th of January um so if you remember we talked about that last meeting as an upcoming event um we accommodated that Joy Day by running a modified schedule for our eighth graders our eighth graders went through three sessions that were led by guests on Native culture and
then we ended the day with all of our students attending a really really awesome assembly that included native dance Native drum singing and then our St Peter students put up our TP while all of that was going on uh and just
watching our students just like it was amazing and everybody was kind of doing this to a drum so uh huge thank you to everybody who put that on especially John Warren and charme Claw um all I can say is the was awesome uh just had really good feedback from
students and staff and it's definitely something you want to continue to build on at SPM uh next just want to talk about our theater Department uh they are working their tales off preparing for our upcoming play uh public performances will be on March 7th and eth and that play is Puffs which is like a spin-off
of Harry Potter the the house that nobody wanted to be a part of I guess should be should be funny uh and then also want to mention History Day so our seventh grade history projects uh students presented those on February 7th
we have 30 projects that qualified for Regions which is in uh MSU on March 3rd uh and that's 49 students who we compete in that last year we sent ad on to State and we're hoping for even more this year so really positive growth in that that
uh project uh and then want to just mention PD day uh PD day um earlier this week the Middle School spent their day uh with three sessions in the morning the first session was culturally responsive teaching uh some of the work that John Warren is carrying on uh and
also tied to the new rubric that we'll be adopting next school year for our teacher development program uh then we talked about PBIS just some highlights of of the program and how we feel it's really effective at the middle school we're starting to see some really positive momentum um one of those pieces
or a piece of that is our assemblies um we're finding a lot of success with bringing everybody together at least quarterly to just celebrate the great work that's going on and then uh we talked about learning progressions so we're doing a lot of work with grading and assessment and hopefully we see some some positive movement through that and
then our afternoon was was PLC work so I want to thank the board uh for providing us with time for professional development uh it's hugely beneficial for us and hopefully we'll see some huge growth because uh I'd like to highlight our high school Spanish Department uh uh
Vero Castillo Clark took um I believe all of her Spanish 2 and Spanish four kids excuse me three and four kids uh and the Spanish four kids uh presented to different groups to who get a passport and then they walk around and
give a presentation um on their animal uh and I didn't have the opportunity to join them but she invited me to her class when they were doing their presentations in rehearsal and they were amazing I I'm blown away every time I
observe one of her courses um it's fun to get in there at the beginning of the year and then at the end of the year and um these the young people in that Spanish four class were sounded fluent to me anyway um very impressive so um
that that trip they've done regularly but it's really it's taken a few years to build that back now after Co um sorry uh but but if if the other schools were as impressive as our students I'm sure
it was a great day for everybody it's not just me hearing that right okay okay Courtney Shoemaker is is one of our two facts teachers and she recently received a $4,000 Grant um a
future ready CTE Grant uh it's it's it's a fairly complicated um application process but she is in the first year of teaching at baking and pastries class uh and so when we outfitted that Culinary Kitchen we didn't we weren't planning we
didn't know what classes we were going to be offering truth be told um so she was able she's able to purchase kitchen a mixers and attachments for those and um and quein arts as well so thank you to her for writing that Grant um and and
really helping to build that program and again I point out every time that kitchen was well placed when we designed that building because it's directly across from the administrative offices so I was pleased with the baking and pastry class as well um we have
conferences this coming Thursday night next next week on the 27th um and we are hosting a parent meeting for parents of ninth graders about our Minnesota transfer curriculum um currently an invitation is being sent
to those students who are in the top 10% of their class it's a it is a very rigorous curriculum that starts already their 10th grade year um but if others are interested in hearing about it and um would like to come next Thursday
night at 5:30 please do thank you great article in the Free Press on the Minnesota transfer curriculum that was great that was great thanks to Emmy rer she was a great interview all right Dr Olsson two things the the first one uh we want to to start getting
the word out and we want to keep getting it out over the next several months um the Middle School building is going to be uh under almost total construction this summer starting on June 2nd so the district office needs to move the Early
Childhood office and early childhood programs need to move the middle school office needs to move uh and all of our summer school programs need to move so the prelim Min AR plans right now is that the district office will be moving out to the high school with our business office the superintendent's office um
and the Early Childhood office and staff will be moving to North all of our summer school K8 programs will be at North if the our early childhood special education program will be at South and our
registar uh our office for incoming new students and families will be officed at North so it's going to be quite a move it's going to occur right at the end of the school year and the moving company and Seth busy working on this is going to come in and over a weekend and
overnight and everything else move the entire uh entire building so you'll find the district office meeting spot changing in June uh to uh the high school superintendent's office um second thing remember March
3rd just a reminder that meeting uh will be study session will be at mved uh and there'll be three things on the agenda a tour of the mved building and a discussion of mved U building needs both short-term and long-term secondly there'll be a presentation on
districtwide efforts to increase student achievement uh and then third we'll uh present the draft of our preliminary three-year budget adjustment plan so you'll get a shot at that uh with the goal of bringing that back at the April
board meeting I think that's April 21st for final consideration so it'll go through a number of different uh opportunities for input along the way questions so are you um taking the or is the new superintendent well you for the
first month um taking um the principal's office out there since that's the most we're taking the conference room next to the principal secretary's office which is a very nice room by the way take the summer
off so they put him on the loading dock yeah so you're just going to share that little Fishbowl there no there's a it's a big it's a big uh conference room that's right next to that and and it's got a a conference table so or committee meetings and so forth will be able to be
held there nice yeah it'll work well perfect yep that's it for me okay uh board members around the table Stewie since everyone else over there is I know everybody else left no um the big thing
that I had was just about mved but we're going to be talking about mved so I just think our new superintendent that comes on needs to be well um brought up to date on that so we can keep our eye on it but I think the transition will be handled well so we'll be good awesome that's all I got awesome um just a quick
update on the superintendent search um we had a productive meeting on Tuesday night uh reminder that msba is coordinating our SE helping us with the coordination of our search uh Amy Jordan was here uh productive kind of long meeting but we got a lot done um which
was good um the application is closed and we today were given access to begin reviewing applications so the board will begin doing that our next meeting is on March 7th for the next step in the process um and then interviews kind of
happen really quickly after that we have the 11th and 13th designated as first round and then March 20th designated uh as the second and final round so uh we move pretty quickly now um yeah in the next month we'll know a lot more about the the future
superintendent so that's great uh we did get uh really good response rate on our the survey that we sent to the community for input uh 250 responses which is great from all sections of the community which is wonderful um and that's going to be really helpful as we think about
uh who we want in the in the position moving forward we can release the number of applicants right we can let the public know how many people we can say the number the number so we had 17 applicants uh which
is really good which msba said TI it's tied for the lead this year I think this for the number of applicants that we got so yes 17 which is great that's all from me Mr yeah I went to a
negotiations seminar when was that with do Olen two weeks yeah and it was productive interesting um with Law changes and so forth I think we're going
to have to do some work on our contract language for our various uh bargaining units and go from there um obviously it's difficult with the
legislature getting off to a late start and everything to have an idea of what we're going to have available to negotiate with as far as dollars so
um that'll be a long process so soon as we get that superintendent over will zip right into negotiations so moment that's correct um I'm just looking forward to
meeting it at mved in March um but nothing nothing else thank you I just want the the napac group works very very hard on their reports and they are really making some some good decisions and the district is supporting
them um and then also the history date was good to see faces um and judges and people coming through it was awesome for those kids are we uh we oh committee updates are there any committees that didn't get an opportunity to share any updates
during the actual meeting that would like to give an update now I always feel like the education Committee just kind of has the updates as they need to during study sessions and whatnot I don't think it's anything I could just kind of like blur out here at the end that would
be probably the biggest thing uh addressing student achievement we'll be discussing that at mved next in March y so it' be best to just get it there yeah I'd say pretty much the same thing business committee budget is you know I
think uh hopefully the board feels more comfortable with the budget processes uh We've tried to be very transparent and the quarterly updates for the entire board I think will help as we approach
with our budget for the upcoming year and as far as the HR committee goes it's an ongoing process and you'll get plenty of updates down the road policy anything policy committee
you get the you get the actions every meeting um and Bill do you want to talk about the legislative committee ad haer well just the um biggest thing with that ad hoc
legislative committee is the day of the capital will be March 10th and we have what three people going plus yourself yeah it's a busy yeah it's a busy so my wife will wonder if I'm
living at home all right thank you everybody uh we have the upcoming meetings of the board uh listed in here that includes all of the superintendent search meetings in addition to the regular committee meetings so it is March is a busy month a very busy month and then we'll be back
here Monday March 17th back to our Monday meetings uh uh in the governor's room on at 6:30 p.m. would entertain a motion to adjourn make a motion tojn second Motion in a second all those in
favor I meeting is adjurned thanks everybody thank you [Applause]