she works at a I can't believe that's shock what a endorsement Brave that it is 6:30 and I will call the March regular meeting of the St St School Board to order thank you for all of our community members that are attending in
person as well as online we appreciate your interest in engagement in our school district the expectation of our community is that all participants and attendees themselves professionally and with respect for other members of our community the first item on the agenda is to the of the United States of
America the stand andice all motion by Emily second by Jen any discussion hearing none all those in favor signy by saying I for the shair I will again call for nominations I will do that with three
three times so anybody sorry we have two nominations already we have J Smith and Trish so any other nominations any other nominations any other nominations hearing
none um there was a comment made at the last meeting that has kind of bothered me since um just because it seems like it's ering that much more and the comment that was said by a board member was that
when I had asked a question about how a community group would have been notified at a meeting prior to it being posted by the district I am all for engagement of the community I always have been but this board member had made a
comment that they had reached out to you Trisha and had said that didn't come from you there was seven people that were given official notice if you will or
knew of the meeting I didn't hear a response from you and I'm just wondering is it was the public notified by you of that meeting prior to it being posted to the
district like Chelsea I guess that's why I didn't respond Chelsea had shared that and I on Friday night and we were then the implication would that it was District staff and I don't understand that would them
so there's just there is an erosion of trust that's all I have to say I don't at this point there's really okay we will all right um I got to address the obvious absence here at the table Scot
away from what I heard I have I don't know anything firstand but it's something profession that has kept him away from tonight um I haven't had a whole lot of time to think about this because I learned that about four minutes ago um
but speaking of trust at the board table um I don't think it's appropriate that a chair geted today just because one M Miss so I'm going toate everybody else any
else can you abstain from that vote uh I guess I don't know the technical answer to that so we need to take recess sorry forgot I I think that one would require no no
research from anything else so by Emily sorry second by Jen any discuss hearing none all those in favor by saying I say name motion carries and it is then we will go to recognition of
visitors in public forum which we don't have any tonight um and I will look for a motion for the cons agenda motion by Jen second by Emily all those in favor signify by saying hi
close carries we will move on to our reports we have our sa star report tonight and that princi all right good evening this is one of my oh wonderful come
along I don't know where to look this way that way no we just we're just addressing the board well wonderful okay you can sit you can sit if you like it do you want to sit I don't I'm we want to stay we're going to choose a stand this is just different um so one
of my favorite evenings of the year is when I get to recognize a star from my building and um this time is no exception our staff chose the absolute most perfect star um so I'm going to read two of the excerpts um and we had
multiple people nominate uh Kim hes but here's two of the excerpts and what people had to say about her so Kim is incredible um she is an invaluable asset to SMS she's Innovative and resourceful she consistently finds Creative Solutions to enhance learning through technology she's always willing to help
providing support to both staff and students with patience and expertise um as The Mastermind be our news show um she seamlessly Blends technical knowhow with a flare for engaging content she runs everything
smoothly and professionally um simply put she does it all and she does it exceptionally well so that's one comment um the next is she's so helpful with all things technology and curriculum her door is always open and she's happy to stop what she's working on to help
problem solve um always right on the spot um we can always depend on her she's creative and efficient organized another comment about all of her work with our news show which has been such a tremendous um asset to our school I don't know if any of you have had a chance to watch any of our our news
shows but while Kim does a great job with those students um she does all of this and and so much more um and for that reason and so for many many more reasons we're fortunate to have Kim H has with us at the middle school so until we have your official plaque made
I hope this will suffice congratulations Kim thank you so this evening District administration is U proud to present some of the great things that have happened during the winter season this year uh athletic or excuse me activities director Bruce Thompson is going to join
us here in a moment and bring in lots of kids and their parents um we are ready for you sounds good we got them coming in all right I think have you go all the way over follow me do
stand keep coming yep going that all right good evening uh my name is Bruce Thompson I'm the activities director at sartel high school and tonight as you can see we have have leaders from our winter sports and activities that are here T I think I count of 13 or 14 different sports or
activities that are here they are going to talk about their season give some highlights uh we thought it was impactful for you to hear from them so maybe start with Nolan um we're kind of speaking in like a unit of three here um we are uh
representing the one act uh we're all seniors uh our one act this year was the amazing n eight girl I'm Paisley I'm Stella I'm no um as some of you may have heard our one act had a very accomplished and productive season this year uh we had a
cast of 11 students and a crew of six all which worked really hard from November to February in order to get our show up and running and make it as successful and impactful as it was our show was based on a true story of the incredible life of Alexander Flynn Scott who raised over $1 million for Childhood
Cancer Research um by selling lemonade um her parents started a foundation in her name and and we tried to incorporate that into our um play and so we made the main focus of our performances and the entire process to be raising money for that Foundation um
and in order to keep a connection to the mission and the depth in our minds we held many lessons as a casting crew to cover more in-depth background and into her life more as for our accomplishments um one act is competition base uh this means that we bring our entire show to
compete at different schools and competitions that are scored and um and placed by a panel of uh trained one act judges our first competition was subsections the schools that uh placed in the top three uh Advanced two sections which we took
first and advanced um and then this brought us to the section competition where we again placed first where the fir only the first place School moves on to the state level which we did so we performed at state which is a festival and not a competition we also had two
public performance uh for the community um where we had a huge audience like really big audience turnout oh um I was the student director for this show so a piece of what we wanted to do for like the story of our show was to do a fundraiser which we
thought would be like just an added piece to the whole purpose of the show is to raise awareness so adding that and um I had that idea to make it a really cool aspect of it so I talked to Alex stand foundation and got that ball roll got raor site set up for our show which
is really really cool our original goal that I set it at was $500 at the beginning of it and I was kind of nervous that we weren't going to make it at the beginning but at the end we raised a grand total of $3,556 um which was really really cool especially because we couldn't advertise
at competition because of judging biases and stuff like that so that was all Community Based and that was a really cool thing to see Community come together students um parents also I've never seen come to theer shows and we're donating and all that stuff that we just
fundra off of social media which is really really cool um yeah um we are grateful for the all of the community and involvement and support of the show and for our theater program uh we would also like to say a special thank you to Matt Chelsea and Dr avard for donating
to the fundraiser and for our principal kozler Bruce and Matt for coming to support us at State and keep an eye out for our spring musical susal which will be performed for the first second graders as well as three public performances on the 24th 25th and 26th of April and we hope to continue
receiving great support of our theater program at shs from the administration the board and the community for any future performances to come my name is Andrew hacker um I'm a senior I'm representing G today with Gavin um it was a pretty good last
season we had 62 kids across uh grade 6 through 12 um a lot of Junior hirers which is just really great to see and um a lot of turnout and turnover for when people are starting to leave so people wanting to join that is really awesome um we have great coaches and a good
relationship with Central Minnesota ski club so despite lack of snow we were able to make a lot of snow on the top of the hill and had pretty solid Loop um and yeah it was just really good season we had some good postseason stuff so I'm in uh terms of postseason both of
our boys and girls teams took third at conference and in that sections we sent uh six individual skiers to the state meet at Giants Ridge in which one of them took sixth place in total we are graduating five seniors and uh skiing has really brought
us all together I'm Max Lewis I'm captain of the boys basketball team um this season we had a lot of ups and downs but overall I'd say it went pretty well uh we doubled our wins from last year in Reg season which is obviously really
nice um some things we did this year we brought back Tommy beight which we haven't had for over 10 years um to honor um the passing of Tommy B um we had a cancer night uh we raised money
for cancer and then another thing is we brought or this year we had our 9 through 12s um all grades were more so together we R the same plays and all that stuff and had like team events together so we were able to go to a
Timberwolves game as a team which was really fun I thought um other highlights uh the culmination of our season we beat Morehead at home on a Friday um only two teams in our section had beat Morehead all year and they are
in the state tournament now so that was a pretty big win for us um unfortunately we were a little shorthanded at the end of the season in our playoff game we had four people out with sickness uh so we lost that
game um uh we lose seven seniors um going to miss those guys but on the bright side our JB team finished 22 and four this year which is one of the better records they've ever had and of course uh our JB
coach kski was recently named coach thear I'm a senior for representing girls basketball and I'm I'm um and we had a pretty great pretty good season we ended up finishing 17 and
11 which is a pretty good record considering the graduated three seniors all of them being posts so we had some new faces turn up this year um we had a really great turn up this year we had the most girls that we've had in the past 20 years we had 40 girls come out
was awesome to see a lot of freshman um with our record Being 1711 we ended up hosting a section game that we ended up winning so that was awesome and one of our goals that we set at the beginning of the year um we also had a lot of really fun events during the
season we went to Top Golf we played some Ultimate Football we did a bunch of Team dinners and stuff like that so pretty much covered our season Ming forward to next season we pretty much have a clean slate on
Varsity so it gives a lot of girls a chance to Showcase their abilities and we also coach little camps in the summer and throughout our season justy um so I'm Lily this is my third year on the speech team and my second
year is Captain this is Aubrey this is her first year on the speech team and she'll be taking over as Captain next season and so overall our season was pretty good uh we had a lot of new members who ended up doing very well a
lot of them final and just did really well overall with the needs that we attended and uh we have conference tomorrow in Brainard and then we have sections April 11th at Tech so we don't our season's not over yet yeah as Willie
said my name is Aubrey one of the biggest reasons I joined speech was to overcome my fear of public speaking which obviously worked on top of building my confidence and communication skills I also met a lot of new people not only from the speech team from our
school but also other schools in the area uh top of that I've had a very successful season winning and fining in most competitions and in meets that I didn't do that I receiv received different honorable mentions Lily also had a very successful season fining in
almost every single meet I'm ow I'm senior captain of theel hockey team and I think we had a pretty good season this year we won our fourth conference inow is pretty exciting for us we able to earn a home playoff game
which uh really means a lot to us as well because you just don't get that all the time and yeah our season we had a lot of ups and downs early in the season we had a lot guys go down with injuries and we had a lot of young kids step up that really just helped us even when we
got healthy those young guys were able to fill goals that we didn't really think they would just gave us a lot of dep for our team so we were able to make a good run at then um Sean paulon I'm also a senior captain on the hockey team I think we
had a pretty fun season we had really tight n group of guys a lot of guys stepped up like all said and I think the most memorable thing from our season was we played a outdoor game in clo for clo a day which is a new thing this year set up really well everybody had a really fun day and I think that was probably
the highlight of our season and didn't end exactly the way we wanted to but we still accomplished a lot a lot of guys improved through years um hi I'm Olivia SCH and I'm f um we were two of four captains of the 2024
2025 stman Sabers girls hockey team this past season was our best season since 2019 ended fourth overall in our conference finishing above Rivals like rer Wilmer Detroit Lakes and lak some of our highlights of season include winning the
first annual Holiday Tournament here in SEL beating our cross rivals in s cloud beating Fergus Falls on the road for the first time since 2017 winning 2 to1 versus on our senior night and going one to1 over on trip we did successful youth
night with one of our highest attendance attendance records this was a great opportunity to engage with our with different activities games and decorations we also hosted a Sophie Squad night this year at Sock Rapids in memory of Sophie as she would be a senior this year as our CL this past
year we had a very young and close group of girls only graduating two seniors um next year we look forward to an even more successful season with 11 upcoming seniors we're looking to improve our team Dynamic and skills through our summer skaing program which will take place two times a week for two hours we
excited to get to work this offseason and put a competitive program this upcoming season I'm Jordan golden I'm a captain for wrestling individually we did pretty well we sent two people state which most since
2021 and our team did pretty good so we had a good youth night we had a lot more kids come out than normal so we're getting a lot of new kids in our youth programs which which is very good um we had a pretty good parents night at
home we won I think it was like 64-6 against champ Park so uh that was good and yeah we had pretty successful end the season as well yeah um Team SS went all right individually hi I'm C Weber and I'm a current Junior
captain for the C gymnastics team um I was aior Captain of this year overall I thought that we had a great season um we have a great team connection I thought this year just a nice um energetic atmosphere um to end the season our
junior varsity was third overall in the state which is a pretty big accomplishment um as well as our was able to secure second place at sections with a score of 1421 which is one of our higher scores of the season um we were
also less than a point away from making into state in our section so that's super exciting and we're excited to see um what the team can bring next year we were able to send four different athletes to State this year um who competed on a variety of different events um and Cy Weber was also able to
move up higher on our top 10 board to fourth place on this season we also had a lot of fun doing team blonding together some did with our team blonding and having aav this year the gynastics team had four CC
players of the Le and this year we also had one start by player of the leek which is Emma good this year the start gymnastics team got third at conference and we also had the privilege to host an exchange student on our team but also Advanced to State and
was very successful as well as really big impact on our team hi I'm I'm te I'm I'm a senior Captain I'm also representing the N team um this past season has been so much fun our
practices were blast and honestly it's not like we all just one big family we worked super hard and it show especially at our competitions but the best part was definitely the state tournament uh we learned many lessons throughout our season for example throughout our whole season we've been placed for our our
high kick dance in the state at state after we were ranked fourth instead of accepting defeat we used it to our advantage and Rose to the challenge we came out in finals stronger and more confident than ever we had our best season performance and we accomplished our go goals and took with third place
State title we made school history by getting third place and three triaa high kick making it to finals plus we play six in tripa jazz making finals uh we set some
big goals and I'm so proud of how we all came together and made them happen what an unforgettable season all right my name is Kevin bman I'm here representing DEA I'm senior at s High School uh de is basically a business Club there's so many events I
can't explain well but um we had a pretty good season we had 15 members uh qualified for state which was in February I believe um we have a couple of kids going to Internationals which will be at the end of April so we're not done yet uh a
couple of things that that were pretty cool um just in our community we did a boo basket uh fundraiser where we collected uh baskets bu with things like blankets and books that we uh uh collected them and then we gave them to the cancer center the C's Cancer Center
so I thought that was pretty cool and then another thing we did was um a million book giveaway we partnered that CHF so I think Across the Nation we gave away 1 million books so we gave them to kids from the Elementary School uh yeah so I think DEA is just great uh it's
helped me a lot with just learning business skills that I'll definitely use in the future as well as public speaking so pretty successful season um I'm I'm a junior uh and sophomore and we're here to talk
about the s or S Voice season um this year was kind of more of a building year we had a brand new head coach after our coach retired last year um we did really well we went 11 and three 11 and
two and um I feel like we really bonded our uh our new coaching staff did a really good job of pushing us and um helping us get better uh we had five seniors graduate this year and
very much uh we had AIO Lind on the foreign exchange program join our team this year that was a lot of fun uh I think he had a great experience with us uh we sent four
athletes to the state this year we think I think we played six that sections this year which considering we lost quite a few seniors uh years prior I think was really good for us and like I said it was most just a
building um I'm P I'm representing MTH leag overall our season was all right uh as as far as regions went we had the top three places um with three individuals from our team we qualified for the state
tournament which was held last week on Monday I believe and play e in the AAA Division and in our region we had uh the winner of the
daa Thea State qualifier and Patrick's bar is pretty high because they did all right but they won districts they won regions and they went to State they had a pretty good year a little better than all right um hello and happy St Patrick's Day my name is
Michael humdan and uh I'm one of captains of our knowledgeable team on a senior uh this year our knowledgeable uh program has had amazing success our new members have uh done a great job with um our JV teams getting top three in many of the competitions we go to in placing
fourth at JV finals now turning to our varsity teams uh is also been great as we've had mostly first place or top three finishes at all the meets um and we managed to at subsections we had uh two teams play in the top six so that
means uh they move on to section or sorry regions um and then at regions we managed to get a team uh to win first and so that means that team will head to State uh April 10th 11th uh overall I think it's been a great year um another
a huge thank you to our coach uh Mr King as he's really helped our program along and yeah hi I'm Robert um I'm the 10th grader and I'm the captain for the mock trial team um this was the first year that we were competitive before it was
just a club but this year we were in activity so it was a rebuilding year for us with starting out the uh year I was the only member of the team so we had to rebuild from the ground up but at we got
seven students um three three freshman three sophomore and one senior on the team so and we were able to be pretty competitive we won one of our meets which was good and it was a really good
rebuilding year for to build a p for other more years to come and a kudos to Robert because we wouldn't have had a mock trial team we tried really hard but that was to Robert to get seven other students interested and they're all freshman and sophomore so we're excited for the future we have some really amazing kids as you know in
our district at the high school and so we appreciate all of your support thank you all of you great job [Applause] J
[Music] okay I think it's we are going to move on to our chair if you want to take a seat it's all good it's all good hello again so it's a the same group from last year um so my name is Lyn rickens I'm the
chair of the committee I'm Charlie herd I'm the vice chair I'm roario Garcia and I'm the secretary so every year we have to report to the Minnesota Department of Education if the sartel St Stevens school district is concurrent with um
the napac association so uh last year I'm I'm trying to think who was all the same here with them last year okay uh so last year we were not concurrent um and this year we are
voting that we are concurrent so because there's been a lot of changes that happened um and so I'm just going to read through what uh just can give a little summary here um letter of concurrence uh napac Native American indigenous parent advisory committee is
pleased to announce that we have voted for a letter of concurrence for the 20242 Academic Year this year we have seen significant improvements in communication and collaboration within the district in June 20124 the sartel school
district hired Steph kasanova who's not with us today um as the parttime American Indian education coordinator he has been a tremendous and I do mean tremendous this okay asset making meaningful progress in supporting
students parents and students who work with Steven have shared positive feedback expressing they feel supported and valued and it's really nice because at our meetings that we do have the parents and they'll bring their uh Sons or daughters and we get to actually meet
them hear from them and so it's really nice because this is a huge change for us okay because usually our meetings were just us and that was it so now we're getting them coming and sharing and it's really really nice um so again we can't say enough that with the
support of having a cultural liaison more parents of our indigenous students have been attending the napac meetings compared to previous years which their voice is especially helpful to the napac committee as they communicate their concerns concerns and needs about what
supports their children may need we are especially grateful for Dr Michael rard superintendent of of sartel St Stevens ISD 748 he has attended our monthly meetings actively listens to our
concerns and works closely with Steven kasanova to provide guidance and direction his ongoing support is truly appreciated I just got to say you got a winner here please don't let him leave upcoming events that we are doing
is uh napac will be honoring the Native American students that are graduating this year at the sartel high school on May 17th um and also napac will be hosting the second annual summer gathering on June 7th at the sartel community
center as we move forward napac remains committed to fostering a supportive and inclusive educational environment for American Indian students we look forward to continuing our collaboration with the district and building on this progress in the coming
year any questions for us improvements which is good much so yeah yes um and Michael gets to endure all our meetings and he gives a really great feedback and helps us in all ways and the difference I think from last year
when we did we had the non-c concurrence to the concurrence this year is that we we now have Michael and we also have Stephen so and with it's like having the golden key now we can actually make progress and help the kids and it's amazing to hear from you know the
students about how they appreciate and they just love Steven and they feel like they have a safe Zone they have somebody they can go to now where before they didn't have anybody you know and kind of just felt kind of left out so I know we're getting a lot of appreciation from the parents and the students so and
that's our goal so we want to help these guys succeed and and do better so so thank you you remind where st's office uh Steven is in all five schools is trying to in many places can be
servicing students across all time thank you thank you to our SCH studes report hello unfortunately benett could not make it tonight but I'm very excited as always to be sharing what is going on within the district um starting at Oak
Bridge students have loved the warmer temperatures and time outside once again um the kindergarteners have been learning about greater than and less than in math and they are also studying colonial times and advancing their reading skills by learning to read tricky words the kindergarten students
are also eagerly preparing for their spring music concerts and preschoolers are learning about transportation and becoming more proficient with letter naming and identifying numbers both teaching teams are actively planning Springfield trips and they are working on coordinating our big truck family
night for May 8th at Pine Meadow they recently hosted their annual family night bingo which had the school's gym and cafeteria filled with families which resulted in a total of 217 pizzas being eaten as well as so many fun prizes being won in hilarious Bingo jokes um
also at Pine meow PTO provided funding for first and second graders to attend Bill Briggs the science of magic performance at the Paramount Theater where students learned how the science of reflection can make their homework disappear and how science is used to make it snow from their hands over at
River last week they as well as Oakridge and Pine Meadow had kid site screaming sponsored by the local Lions Club this scream produces images of a child's eye to check for eye disorders like nearsightedness stigmatism misaligned eyes cataracts and lazy eye it doesn't
involve eye drops or physical contact and can screen students who wear glasses or contacts the screening is about 85 to 90% effective in detecting issues that could affect vision and while a diagnosis is not given parents will receive a referral referral letter if additional screening is needed
additionally riverv viiew kicked off its March book Madness this month with eight bcks competing in a tournament staff members recorded videos of themselves reading the books which were showing students who then voted on which books would move to the next round by the end of last week I believe the Riverview
March book Madness winner had been announced but unfortunately I do not know what B that was over at the middle school as they close out quarter three they are very proud of the hard work displayed inside and outside of the classroom by their students their UniFi unified Club held their very first
meeting which involved over a hundred students in the work of inclusion and acceptance um this wouldn't have been able to happen without the hard work of all staff and students in which the school is very grateful for the new positive experience the middle school also recently held both an ensembles night on March 13th and an activity
night for seventh graders on March 14th which were both amazing events that were made possible by everyone who helped with that process SMS has also enforced a PBIS tardy incentive program which will hopefully encourage students to be in the class on time and lastly a yearly
highlight at SMS is the March Madness staff versus student basketball game that will take place on March 21st they are looking forward to this Lively event and it will be a fun transition into break lastly over at the high school they held another schoolwide send off in which we sent four individuals from our
boys's swim te the state um spring Sports and activities started strong with their practices and rehearsals including softball baseball lacrosse boys tennis and spring musical suico the student council also just held its second blood drive for the year in which they collect collected 68 units of blood
saving around 204 lives and are and they are very grateful to everyone who took the time to come in and donate the National Honor Society and student council also have been busy preparing for their annual FunFest which will be held on April 12th this year where they
will be donating their profits to this year's charity the United Way the high schoolers are getting excited as the end of the quarter approaches and spring break arrives and when we come back from spring break we have the NHS inauguration banquet where many applicants and re applicants have an exciting evening to look forward to this
is all I have for this much month's update which is kind of lot but are there any questions I can help answer for you guys I'll add marook Madness at riew has not finished yet the second round of voting is tomorrow oh perfect thank you for than you
for okay then we have our super oh good evening board members uh I have a few that I'll add on to Chelsea's uh excuse me I'm so um I just want to applaud and that was maybe one of the best 20 minutes of my life as I watch our
student athletes and our participants in activities come in and be able to celebrate um it's it's it's truly an amazing thing to know that those kids are out there not only doing all the things that we're celebrating this evening but also being students and being successful here in
start uh middle school music performances I don't know if Emily had highlighted that but I I do want to comment that I I stopped last week after a busy week it made it to one of the Ensemble performances where I heard a horn section that just mesmerized me during their Jaz I could have stayed all
was just wonderful um legislative visits we have legislative visits last week where Chelsea and Matt joined me going down to the capital representing for msba and Massa uh we'll be going down tomorrow again I believe Matt's coming with me on
behalf of SF we do have an update I've spoken to the board a little bit about this for open gym uh we are exploring and I would say we're actively exploring and down number of steps in having Sunday open G
available for our community uh more information will follow but I applaud the work of both our Community Education Department and sell High School administration to look at opportunities so that we can have some availability of our gym space for our community to be
able Care 11 robotics feature I'm not sure if everyone did see that but uh there was a Care 11 newscast where they highlighted our robotics team in Partnership withon company and show showcasing the Innovative work that happens here in SEL
St Steven School District but also highlighting the fact that niron could have chosen many many different communities across the United States and they chose sartel St Steven because of the incredible educational opportunities that we do provide and highlighted our robotics program as being one of the
main focuses of a real variable for them why they chose us um what a wonderful accolay for our kids and for our programming uh lastly an update for the board and the community uh we did work on the districtwide survey and those questions during our last work session
meeting uh right now we are tatively planning for April 28th through May 2nd uh to be the time we'll be providing an opportunity for all stakeholders in SEL area to be completing that Community absolutely April 28th through
May 2nd should be the last week and that's all I have for this evening all right good evening everyone um not a lot to report on this week but I'll just touch on a couple of
items we've been working on uh first of all the um year-to dat uh budget is posted through February of 2025 and we're basically tracking on as usual for the general fund and um a little bit ahead of budget in the community service
fund so far both on the revenue and expenditure side so that's just kind of the result of uh more more programming going on all the way around um including our early childhood programs so um no surprises there we are on track to present a revised budget for the current
fiscal year at the uh April meeting hoping for approval on that um and then um so kind of plugging away on that process also kind of concurrently working on the preliminary budget for next year obviously a lot to um on the
revenue side of that a lot to be determined um yet in terms of what where legislation lands um certainly following those things somewhat closely but also waiting till things get tractioned before we get uh too caught up on what's what's going to be there and what's not
um we also had as far as our project goes a little bit of an update on the funding side of that um we had a bond ratings call with Moody's last week last Wednesday um where they basically go
through a lot of our big picture data throughout the district um they look through our financial history um they do you know about an hour long um meeting online where that's kind of a Q&A um talk about you know forecast as far as
what our enrollment Trends look like what the what the um kind of demographic Trends look like jobs outlook economic factors all those within the district um they will report to us what our rating is um believe it's Wednesday I've got a
call scheduled for that where they'll report on it they anticipate that it will stay the same which is an A1 rating through Moody um they're um yeah they I didn't I didn't get any indication that um that was going to be going down at
all some of the some of the um some of the things that we feel like we're really are challenging for us here are challenging for a lot of districts right now and sometimes on a much larger scale one thing they were really
impressed with was that we retain 95% of our resident students um some districts are more open enrollment gainers or losers either way but of our resident students um historically are we retain uh 95% of those so that was one good
thing going for us um that they looked at that even though and they and they're seeing a lot of districts in the closer to double digigit declining enrollment so that we were in the 0 to 2% range wasn't um overly concerning for them at this point um they are looking at you
know budget adjustment processes and wanting to make sure that we are um staying above our fund balance policy that's thing they something they talked about a lot and what we're strategies for that coming up um so we talked about kind of the budget adjustment process we went through last year and some of the
things we're talking about for this year as well so um not expecting any surprises there but it was kind of one of those exercises that's kind of good to go through once in a while to get some back and forth from a a totally outside party kind of looking at um outside of Minnesota Finance alog
together um kind of looking at big picture so we are on track to get those bonds priced next week which which basically they go to to Market and um uh with the biders and come back with a recommendation on how that sale is going
to proceed um we those bonds wouldn't close and we won't receive the proceeds until after the April meeting so um we would have to sign a preliminary agreement but it would it um next week once uh the pricing is known the market
pricing is known and that would lock for a 30-day period um and then that pending board approval in in April so expect to see that on the agenda for April as well any questions all right thanks
youte reports all right very quick update um I think I mentioned this our last meeting or our last work session two but um this Wednesday is our next Sterns board meeting um and at the end of our meeting we're getting an update from Adventure
our real estate consultants for helping us with our faciliity search um I think I've already mentioned at least last I heard which is now a couple weeks ago at least there were two options looking neither as they stand right now would be big enough to house Everything Under One
Roof probably just students at the start and then keep the main office on Second Street here in surel spend for quite some time work on that later but um we also and I'm not sure if they're going to utilize it but depending on what happens Wednesday we did save a date for
a special meeting over our spring break that Wednesday of our spring break where could call special if needed to move forward if there's something that Doug Boer tells us
that's time sens I will have a lot more information on Wednesday which means I will have a lot more information either you want to put on the April work session agenda or April regular meeting while we were at our meeting uh just happened there was a mini camp for boys
volleyball going on at the middle school at that time um there was 16 boys that had signed up for it so that's kind of G traction and trying to feel whether or not this is going to be a program sustain long term but they had a lot of interest and that was positive so that's
good um I think Emily had mentioned there was a lot to talk about the fun fest um coming up at the start Middle School on April 12th it's a Saturday from 9 to 1M it's an engagement opportunity for SEL St St youth
organizations it's hosted by SEL high school student council and the high school Honor Society um and the will a table to Share info and uh host a game with prizes that kids can
win so that's April 12 9 to1 9 through 12 grade girls play football is starting in April um we were able to provide this opportunity because we received a grant grant funding from at first I think Jen said the Vikings but overall I think the
NFL say thekings um there is now an angel fund option available on the community ed website page where uh people can donate any amount of money to go into the angel fund which is used to help families that are interested in any of the programs or
classes but there's a financial barrier that may be keeping them from signing their kids up with their family up for any of these things so it is a visible button that anybody can choose to donate any doll and that can just help families get more involved that may have a financial stop right
now um talked a little bit about the co-oping of preschool rack with stock Rapids during the school year it'll be on Saturday mornings and the goal is to start this in the fall coming fall um Monday evenings there will be during
the spring summer we will have pal police activity leag um athletic activities for boys and girls ages 5 to 15 I think is the range on that uh be Monday nights um and then lastly the hope is to have
the spring summer community at catalog in mailboxes first week of April give or take and registration will go live shortly after so we're trying to give people time to receive the catalog review the classes and then a few days later registration will go live so
people are prepared ready to sign out looking for those the only things I would add is that they are trying to kind of gy we are they're currently and actively trying to get some open lanes for open swim so looking to make that happen um
Staffing for the summer months is looking pretty optimistic um maybe meeting a couple people but mostly a lot of kids are coming back returning to their jobs um their their lifeguards are really strong they offered a new
incentive it was just last year where you could actually get your certification money back if you worked a full summer which is a $200 expense so that pretty cool otherwise em a great J um finance and
[Music] person yeah so I can give an update because to MBA they at the capital that was last Monday a week ago today um and then we have tomorrow through S the
visits to the capital which we saw one representative last Monday we're visiting with nine tomorrow so um this is a they're two totally different programs they're both very worthwhile but um last week with msba it starts out as more of a training session
like a legislative update but given by actual legislators I think there were four or five people that hadly split between Democrat Republican all house members no Senators um and they really gave an overview of not just what are
the hot button issues in education but where they kind of stand and where they kind of see things going um and then we did um sit down for a Committee hearing over at the Senate building on it's actually a pretty interesting topic um
there's a bill to get rid of using the MCAS as our standardized test at the high school level and replace it with the or the SAT um the rationale being MCA participation is just really
dropping kids are opting out all over and every District almost um so you're not really getting accurate snapshot of where your district is that's and that's really the only way to use the MCA data it's not necessarily for each individual kid to be analyzed it's to analyze your
system so um even though act and sat are voluntary tests they have higher participation rates already um so seems to make a lot of sense obviously it's just at the committee phase or anything discussion at the legislative bodies at
least not as of last week I thought that was interesting and good to see the process there a lot of testifiers who were superintendent students teachers um even folks in the testing business so interesting to hear their
perspectives um then we did have our sit down meeting with our for SEL timis um was very generous with his time talk to us as long as we wanted to so we sat down for i' 20 minutes at least if not more um and talked about some of the
issues which I can touch on a couple of them here but um wanted to mention that then tomorrow I said we have nine Representatives obviously our district doesn't have nine Representatives at the state level so what saf does is they pair us up with three or four other
District Representatives and we all go as a group and visit each other's representative so we will see both of our reps we have Senator how representative alisco and then there's four other senators and three other house members um and members of both
parties um so that'll be I think and that's all we do tomorrow who just visit with them after Da so I think that'll be much more beneficial as far asot lobbying goes to the district but it was good that
msba happened before this one now we're a lot more to speed what's going on down there um I can update just because it's so early in the legislative process I'll just give kind of the really general overviews of what's going on in
education and what's being looked at um local or I'm sorry the one you may have seen um in the news I think I saw a start Tri article in last week about it is Revenue um which is the one that traditionally has been based on the pre
reduced lunch application data that we get which now with the new lunch program um they're only basing it on direct info that they gather it's not based on application data and that's really it's hit our district I mean we're looking to lose
$125,000 roughly next year if nothing changes but there's districts out there that are losing Millions it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense that districts are get just because the way they're Counting kids is different it's not that there's all kinds of changes happening in this
one year as far as the student population that would cause this so um there are bills being looked at to either go back to the old system or make a lot fairer and more similar to what we've seen in the past for revenue on that in that category um local option
Revenue um which is what we Levy our taxpayers that not kept up with inflation so they're looking to raise the cap on that I don't know the right numbers in front me but right now 7 724
724 per people unit they want it to go up to 9 something 974 yeah so who knows if that'll go but that's kind of what's Mak look at so far um there are requests for increases to the specialized cross subsidy which is the gap between what
federal government requires for special ed programming and what's funded and that was increased two years ago we funding for that but looking to further close the gap um need more funding for obviously we talked about this unemployment
insurance um is not fully funded through the next year so there are at least bills to fully funded through that year there's other bills that would look at delaying um the program fing indefinitely but that's a
very unlikely um ltfm and operating Capital Revenue also are not keeping up with inflation so have those index and caps raised be helpful that's another topic being discussed um
specific to saf the one they're really pushing and obviously that's the whole reason we're part of that group is property tax Equalization so we've already discussed that with representative oesco last Monday we'll talk about that stop tomorrow um I don't need to go into
any further detail expl times here um I mentioned that ACT SAT replacing MCA another policy non Financial policy change there is a bill relevant timing um where we could change or that they
would change the notice requirements for school board members attendance at board meetings as we all know right now if between 3 days before your meeting and the day of the meeting somebody becomes ill or has to be absent and could only appear
remotely it's not allowed because that remote location hasn't been given the 3day notice there is a bill that says in that Gap up till the time of meeting you can change from being an Inon attend to remote so I thought that was quite
interesting I don't have inform even gets out of committee but particularly relevant I don't know if any other Hot Topics or bills that were discussed so if that cap if those caps increase is that an increase to our
property taxes is that how that would potentially work or yeah and I think between Matt and I we could talk about it but I'm G invite want yeah if the you have the do couple thing if if the
um local optional Revenue were to get approved and I think it was $250 more per student is that what it was yeah that'd be about a million dollars of Revenue um at the current level it's mostly property tax
and not a very high amount equalized and state aid I can't remember up top of my head how much that is I might have put it in the notes here right but that's for the L yeah that one is 81% property tax right now um so that's where Matt's talking about with the equalization
trying to get the formulas up so that the property tax the yeah the tax capacity per student would go up if they rais those then there's uh higher probability of getting more state aid to to set some of the local property tax impact of that the answer is going yes
and yes but the hope is by increasing Equalization age which hasn't gone up in oh it's been maybe 15 years maybe more that we would take and offset some of those expenditure or the get getting more Revenue coming from the state I don't believe the equalization
formula doesn't have inflation correct keep up with inflation so one of the asks is that yes update the numbers in the equalization formula but then also index them to inflation so that they keep up over time and not the past 20 15
to 20 years which we've really fallen off how much State we've gotten so Joe has done a nice job of sitting down with us and kind of going over some of these numbers and making sure when we go down we're speaking specifically about stel State Steven because I think the representatives often times need big numbers and when we
can bring in and drill it down to be how it impacts our that's going to be you were in the commit hearing for the MCA potential what was the like as far as people that testified people that
spoke was there uh a feeling was inor of replacement or we saw a half dozen people testify and not one of them wanted to keep Dam it was yeah I think I described already of people
that yeah it's very much but I will say of all the legislators that were up at the Committee hearing table none of them got speak in the time I was in the room so we were just hearing from testifiers I did not see any reaction one way or the other from anybody in the
legisl okay and then for anybody that attended as far as the unemployment insurance fully funding longming whatever was there know in on the list of things that being
brought up because Financial impa yeah I don't believe there's a hearing on this I think they would have called on us yeah um so we talked to representative L he's very knowledgeable on the topic of school Finance but he's
not on the committee for any sort of education related Finance um I'm particularly going to be interested one of the folks who presented to msba in our morning session is a representative house rep from Jordan and Jordan happens to be one of the schools in our group
tomorrow um so we're going to sit down with him and he is on the committee incredbly knowled I think he explained in his introduction he in the school systems public school systems he has been a custodian a par professional a teacher and now a principal and he's a
coach too and a coach yep so somebody who I mean this is his Forte so um those type of questions where everything is at I'm hoping we really dig into it somebody like him so we're the topic came up with representative we didn't
talk about where the bills were at they it was certainly a topic raised in the session legis our group and we spoke specifically about it with representative Risco it's such a significant expenditure for us that
we'll have to keep up on for years to uh we didn't have a meeting but we did um Matt and I received written intent from our teachers union that they are going to negotiate which I thought that forward to Mike and CHR and Joe this
morning we will be looking forward to working with them our next me ispr busy as always and they actually have some really great activities coming up but I will plug here uh in addition to all the regular
programming April 26th there is a puzzle contest which I believe is at the community C um those this isn't the only group running these in town I guess these are just exploding in popularity which sounds so
registration registration is uh deadline April 10th for that and they I think it's only the second or third year they've done this and it's to the point they're coordinating with gam James game m puzzled through that company I think
some door prizes and yeah winning prizes coup weeks ago okay um and yes it is they also support that and yeah oh and yeah I should say this is even though it's senior
connection this is an all ages event so um another all ages event and I think there's one each in Jun August and we have the date for June but June 10th at the community center they do what's called they call it tunes and trucks so it's live music food trucks um and at
least for the June date June 10th um also a car show run by the S hisorical Society so started that I know they did it last year maybe even sum I don't know yeah
by juss okay Miller Auto Plaza has donated to C High School $2500 for the sa robotics Community Theater supporters donated to S Middle School
$635 for the purpose of the sixth grade spring play Sabers All Sport booster club donated to sel High School a donation of $1,460 for the purpose of girl soccer sa
All Sport booster club donated to sel High School $53 Lane K ky ky sorry um donated to ISD 748 um musical instruments valued at
$2,890 uh to the purpose of the music department Jean HW Foundation donated to sel High School $2,750 um for the purpose of La Robotics and Central canvas Manufacturing
Incorporated uh donated to the SEL high school materials and labor value of $4,100 for the purpose of the golf project so thank you for all of those donations without any further discussion
all those in favor signify by saying hi allos say and I will look for a motion to resend policy 66.1 6062 606 63
66.2 and 66.4 and 66.5 J by Emily any discuss just to confirm this these were the ones reped yes 66 that we passed yes say motion
carries under discussion we have our second reading of policy 501 s I'm just looking at the 66.3 request for reevaluation Resources is6 by second by chse any discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying
hi sorry question by Chelsea second by Emily any discussion hearing none all those in favor signi by saying I yes sorry our next is actually