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Hey, let me be the Good evening. It is Thursday, June 25th, 2026 at 6 p.m. We are at the District Service Center in Cottage Grove, Minnesota. We would like to acknowledge that the land on which we are gathered is the land of the Minwakan Dakota

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people. Minowakington means dweller of the Spirit Lake. Our first item on the agenda is our roll call. Dana >> Elizabeth Bachmanberg >> here. >> Luis Hines >> here. >> Ryan Clark >> here. >> Melinda Dos >> here. >> Smi Patnneak >> here. >> Katie Schwarz is absent. Sharon Vanlier

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>> here. Next 2.0 is our pledge allegiance. >> I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and

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justice for all. 3.0 is the approval of our agenda. Can I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Moved by Simei, seconded by Melinda. Any comments? All those in favor? >> I.

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>> All oppose. Motion carried. 4.0 is comments to the board. Dana, do we have any comments evening? We'll move along. 5.0 is uh consent items. All consent items are considered routine and non-controversial by the school board

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and will be approved by a single motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items prior to the meeting. Board members have had the opportunity to review each of these items and may request that any of the items be moved

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from the action items to for individual consideration. Since there are none, we will move on. Or did I have >> Oh, >> may I have a motion, please? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Okay, y'all slow it down. Who moved? Sm.

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>> All right. >> Louise. >> Louise. Okay. I know I got a right to step down. Okay. All those in favor? >> I >> oppose. Motion carried. >> I got to get used to doing this again. All righty. 6.0 is information items.

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6.1 is activities and athletics highlights introduced by none other than Christine Schaefer, a super superintendent. Good evening, school board vice chair Van Leer, school board members, and superintendent Nielsen. Tonight, we're excited to share our annual highlights

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from the 2526 school year, showcasing a wide range of activities and athletics to from offers to students across our district. We're fortunate to have two high school activities director with us tonight. Sarah Paladichuk from Eastridge, Phil Kimmel from Park. Phil also has an intern with us, Lander

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Hicks. Where's Lander? He's getting some interns tonight. So, this is good practice for him. And also Sarah Sornson Wangner, principal from Woodbury High School, who is here for Jodie Leland Leer, who has moved on from us. So, each of them will provide a brief pre presentation highlighting the

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accomplishments, participation, and memorable moments from their p respective school communities. So who will start? >> Good evening. Thank you. We have uh some students here to uh be acknowledged for our spring season. So

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each season if we have any individuals or teams that place in the top three in the state, we love to get them in front of um our community and celebrate their success. So for Eastridge tonight, we have our boys lacrosse team who finished third in the state a couple weekends

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ago, maybe two weekends ago, our was an exciting tournament quarterfinal. We won in overtime against Edina. We fell to Stillwater in the semis and then we beat Wisetta in the third place game 15 to8. So the boys did great. Um it was a fun season. I'd like to introduce our head

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coach Aaron Peterson who will introduce the boys then too. >> Thanks Sarah. um head coach Aaron Peterson. And uh I'm just so incredibly proud of the season that the boys had um here this year. So uh to my left here we have Ryan Chanley, our starting goalie.

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He is a rising senior. He'll be a senior next year coming back. Next we have Bradley Johnson who also as a senior won Mr. Lacrosse for the state of Minnesota which goes to the best senior in the state. So we're incredibly proud of him.

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After that, we have Will Middlecamp, who is also a rising senior coming back, our starting faceoff guy, and Aiden Huo, who will be attending Illinois Wesley next year to play Division 2 lacrosse. So, incredibly proud of them. Um, incredibly proud of the season. I think our success

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really boiled down to three things. Um, the first and probably the most obvious would just be the incredibly talented roster we had. Um, from the seniors and juniors all the way down to the sophomores and freshman. Um it was really just incredible to see, you know, everybody contribute to that roster. Um

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second would be our team culture. Um which was really just fostering togetherness and family, but also the buyin the kids had from the beginning of the season to just trust the process throughout the season I think was just incredibly important. And then uh last but certainly not least, the support we

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had surrounding us. Special shout out to um Sarah and Steph who made my life really easy. Um could give me anything I needed. and then also um an incredible booster club we had behind us. So um it's amazing what you can do when you have that support behind you. So thank

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you and uh go Raptors. >> Aaron does such an awesome job leading our program and um if you didn't get an opportunity to see a game, they were so fun to watch. You guys were amazing. Such a great year. And we have some young talent coming back. uh Ryan, our goalie, and then one of our ninth

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graders, uh Paxton Baron, was on the all tournament team. So, still have some young talent coming back. One of our seniors is not here. One of our senior captains, um he is in the Air Force Academy. So, Kaden Baron wasn't able to make it tonight. He's already left for Air Force. So, congratulations you guys.

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Thank you. Hello. Come on up, Parker. Um, we were excited to have a second place finish out of our 4x8 relay in track. And I just want, you know, I'm the principal standing in for

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the activities director. So, I'm like, how many times around the track? 800. Two times around the track. I just wanted I mean I do know that in my core but I want to make sure I don't make a mistake. So that's each uh athlete

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running two times around the track just for I mean that's a lot that's a long way. So they're all they're all also are you all also cross country runners? Yeah. >> Yeah. Um and so our relay of Keo Angle Engel Parker Petraki who's here with us Owen Ryder and Brendan Fehee um placed

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second at the state track meet and Parker's going to talk to us a little bit about his experience. Um, I'm Parker Pocheski. I was the second leg. Um, and I was fortunate enough to take second at the state tournament. Um, senior year was always going to I knew it was going to be a fun

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one. Uh, I had a lot of stuff planned out for third try. Taking second was just the cherry on top. Um, it really I think defined my high school running career. Not that it was taking second, but I got to do it with my best friends and get an extra week of my senior

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season and senior year. Uh, next year I am running at W River Falls and majoring in elementary education. >> So, if you guys are looking to hiring in four years, please. Uh, that'd be sweet. Thank you guys.

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>> Parker, can I ask your time? What was your time in your relay? >> Uh, I split 159, so tied a PR in season best. >> Okay. And what about your overall relay team? What was the time there? >> Uh, we broke our school record in 753. >> So, just calculate that. It's less than

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a minute per lap. >> Yeah. >> Wow. >> It's a dead sprint. >> Yeah. >> Congratulations. >> It's a short two minutes, but a long two laps. >> It's the last corner that gets you, right? >> Oh my gosh. It is just It's brutal.

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>> But you do it for your teammates. So, All right, we'll start our presentation. Um, we'll review each of our seasons at a glance uh for the school year. And reflecting as I was starting to put in our fall event dates, going back and

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looking at I think we had almost 300 home events this past school year between um athletics, activities, music, theater, all the different. So, a lot goes on in a year. So to narrow it down and pick those couple special pieces in

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each season uh is sometimes challenging to do. The purpose at Eastridge High School for our uh activities department, the mission of Eastridge High School, school activities department is to provide multiple opportunities to our students that help develop character,

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community, and a sense of belonging. And I choose to lead students to be people of empathy who serve others while developing skills as a student, teammate, and person of character. This is a reflection of our student engagement. Um, and it's was nice to see

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a little bit of a jump from 2425 to 2526. Um, with that, uh, we still continue to to work on balancing those numbers and getting um, our female athletes to participate in our activities as we offer actually more female uh,

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opportunities in athletics than we do males. Um but there's just been a little bit of um a struggle in some of the areas to fill all of our teams, but we're getting there. Our three sport athletes, we've had 21 male and 12 female that um participate in all three

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seasons. And then a couple new clubs. We have a couple more, but um we have a strong Business Professionals of America club at our school and hadn't had DECA. So kids wanted to explore a little bit of that this year and they did some research behind it and started that. girls flag football was a blast. The

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girls had so much fun with that. We did start a fishing team. They uh had a couple winter activities or competitions and then they just started their summer season as well. And then a club by one of our juniors that will be a senior who is really active at school. um started Just Serve, a Just Serve Club, which is

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getting out in the community and serving the greater community, whether it's at the food shelf or um just any way they can help um better uh the area. Fall highlights, our girls swim and dive

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team continues to be a powerhouse. Uh Logan Hoverman uh repeated two years in a row as state champ in her events. Last year, she broke state records. this year. She just um finished a little bit behind those but still uh reaching first place.

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And then as you can see on the screen that all of our returning swimmers that um placed at state are underassmen that will be coming back this next year. Cross country. Aaron Royer is also coming back. She's an underassman. Brandon Payne who has been just um uh a

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staple for our running programs whether it's cross country or track and field is graduating this year. girls volleyball section three champs and participated in the state tournament. Also, we had um 15 students in our fall

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college collegiate celebration signing and overall between our fall and our spring, we had five division one athletes, 15 division 2 athletes and nine division three athletes for that. Um and then also u

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our academic winners as far as that gold standard girls swim and dive, boys tennis, girls lacrosse, and um volleyball. Boys and girls lacrosse. Winter highlights. We had two students participate in our wrestling state tournament. Uh one in our in the girls

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tournament, one in the boys tournament. Jackson Fuller and Danica Fueline uh represented Easter State. Our girls program is growing. We had six female our female wrestlers this year, which was great to see. Um, our gymnastics team continues to lead a legacy there

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where they uh were conference champs and section champs. Um, and then also our senior, our graduating senior Delaney Schwillbach was Miss Gymnast Minnesota. So, it's it's crazy to know that we have two athletes in our school that were selected as the top athlete in the state

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of Minnesota in their sport. So that was exciting. And also, uh, Laney finished second on vault, second on bars, third on floor, and second all around. A little trouble on that beam this year. If she would have just one little less wobble, she would have been uh the state

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champion. Highlights for boys and girls uh basketball as well. Um, our girls basketball team made it to state for the first time in school history. We were section champs. Um, also SEC champs. This is our second year in a row being uh conference champs. Vienna Murray, our

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senior, um 2,000 points and she was a Miss basketball finalist. She wasn't selected as the one, but she made it to the finals. And then um she will be attending Oklahoma and playing basketball at Oklahoma this year. And then Cedric Tolmes, I feel like he's been around forever because he started

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playing, I think maybe in seventh grade with us. Um he was also a finalist for Mr. Basketball in that final grouping. 2,000 points and he will be attending the University of Minnesota and playing basketball for them. Um, our boys swim women dive team, we had several swimmers

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that made it to state, but they were the section three uh 2A champs and uh, coach uh, Jay Gillard was coach of the year and he just does a dynamite with our program. He does coach both girls and boys for that. Uh, academic gold standard for boys swim dive and our

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gymnastics team. Spring highlights. Um, girls golf. This is the fifth year that they have been SEC conference champs and they were class 33 3A champs. They placed fourth at state. That's the highest finish in school history. Aaliyah Cleven, who is

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our senior who was also our Athena winner this year. She uh was the section champion and she's finished highest out of all of our individuals at state for that. Interesting day of golf. First day they competed very strong. It's it's hard that second day. It was really hot,

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too. Storms rolled in. So, they had a delay on their back nine and it that kind of they were kind of struggling in the first nine. So, then they they got the weather delay, came back out and had a nice strong finish. So, that was fun to see. Boys volleyball. This is only second year as a Minnesota State High

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School League sport. And our section, we are the section three champs and participated in the state tournament. We ended up getting the eighth seed. So, we had to play that number one seed, East View, who was undefeated all year. and they were just a dynamite team. But it's just fun to see the growth with that um

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with our boys volleyball program as well. Uh we have a picture here of our doubles section three champions Adrien George and um Audi Gupta. They were so fun to watch. It's interesting the strategy behind that because during the

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season um Adrienne has always played doubles but Audi was our number one singles but due to the fact we are in a tough section um Egan has two u tennis players that are t in the nation knowing you're not going to probably get past that. So they put those two together for

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doubles and um it was a sweet match. They gave St. Thomas Academy a run for their money and they won. So it was really fun to see. And again, our section um three champs in boys lacrosse finished third in state. Bradley Johnson was the Mr. Lacrosse Minnesota finalist.

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And then Ryan Shanley, our goalie, and Paxton, our young ninth grader, were all tournament team. Uh gold academic honors, uh girls golf and boys tennis. We decided just to do Thunderbolts as one uh separate slide to recognize them

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again for their outstanding work that uh that our coach does and our program does to offer these opport the opportunity for our special ed adaptive students. Soccer in the fall was a a fun fun game. It's hosted at White Beer Lake High

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School. We made it to the championship and we ended up losing to the defending champs from the year before. uh state adaptive floor hockey. They had an early game that first day which uh they I think they were still kind of sleeping there. So they they lost that first one but then just charged through in one

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consolation on the back end and in softball they um participating in state. So again we continue to see great great things happening with our program and just special memories for our kids and our families

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speech and debates. Um it's just such an honor to have such strong programs. Um every year we are sending several students to to the state in national competitions. I just got a um email from

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our debate coach saying that our kids were in a massive national tournament and placed in like the top 25 in the whole country. And it's it's so fun to see. Uh this this year we had Sahiti who was a section champion and then

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participated in the state tournament but then Yashis and Jason they were state champs in um their public forum debate which is really outstanding. Um again I had communication just yesterday from the Minnesota State High School League asking for their head shot because they

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want to update the record books so that they'll forever be in the Minnesota State High School record books representing Eastridge as state champions. And then that's a picture of our six students that participated in state. Our team as a whole took second place in the the section tournament for

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speech. Performing arts, our um musical in the fall was Matilda and then um Pride and Prejudice was one act and then Clue was our major spring play. And

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this year, I don't know what was so different, but the set design and the costume design this year was so incredible for for th those two major plays, the the musical and clue just I mean, if you just look at the colors of Scarlet's dress, it just it's they are

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so gifted in in that set design, our tech, everything um behind that as we've seen um them just do outstanding performances. And when you look at the spotlight awards, we've received many awards in that category as well. One of our seniors, uh, Luca Walls, who's a

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graduating senior this year, he received multiple honors through, um, throughout the spotlight, um, different categories that they are, and he's just been such a spark in our program that he's going to be greatly missed because he's just such a leader and can do anything. So, he was

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Mr. He was Mrs. U Crunch Bowl, is that how you in Matilda? and he just rocked it. It was just amazing. Our um onfield uh marching band performance this year was also fun and colorful and lively. And then that other the other picture on

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the screen is our winter music performance. Um for our fine arts, one other highlight is Safuya So who um is a senior also this year. She is the first Eastridge student to score a perfect score on her AP art portfolio, which

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again is just incredible. Some student honors, we have our XL junior leaders here, uh Lily Pole and Nate Hegman. Uh Lily is a leader on our girls hockey team, plays tennis, um is

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an incredible student. She's got a 4.5 in um engages in the community. She's a youth volunteer coach. Nate um he's our student that started Just Serve and he was also part of our student leadership group that went to the Minnesota State High School Leadership Conference and he

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loved it so much I encouraged him to apply for the SALT the student leadership organization that's run by the Minnesota State High School. Again, he was selected so he will represent Eastridge on that committee next year at the Minnesota State High School level. And then our trip AA award winners. So

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we have Izzy Hansen and then Albert Ho. And Izzy uh was one of our captains on our swim and dive team along uh along with our trap team she's part of and then one of our leaders in band. And Izzy will be heading to Iowa State and

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um majoring in agricultural engineering while participating in inter mural sports. And then Albert will be heading to Northwestern University and u majoring in engineering. Aaliyah Cleven was our Athena Award

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winner uh four years on uh volleyball. She was our libero and got to experience state tournament. She two years ago we placed third and then this year um again this is their fourth state tournament for golf. She was a section section champion um and the team placed fourth.

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So looking forward to continue watching Aaliyah play golf at St. Olaf and she will be on the premed track. Uh favorite moments this year. Um we were selected to be part of Hockey Day Minnesota down in Hastings and played Hastings. Uh they did a beautiful job

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with the setup. It's at the United Heroes League outdoors in Hastings. Um and it was a cold day but it was also fun. I wanted to highlight our school dances. The numbers there represent the amount of students that participated and came to the dances. The picture is of

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our homecoming dance. So for homecoming we had 1,242 students that participated. Uh winter formal was 622 and prom we had 825. So I they're a lot of work but they're so fun and the kids love it. So it's it's always fun to see that. Our student leadership opportunities that we

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do at the the Suburban East and then this is at the um Minnesota State High School League leadership conference. And there's Nate holding up the sign and he'll be part of that leadership group next year along with our other student athlete leaders. And then we're highlighting um Bradley and um Laney for

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their Mr. and Mrs. award winners for that. And the last thing that that is coach um Sardini and this past I think earlier in the summer just in the spring here they had a coaches clinic and he was honored with the Bush the Butch Nash

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award which is the highest honor an assistant coach can have. Um he has been coaching for 37 years. He is a math teacher in the building. And um I want to end tonight just with a a special shout out to our coaches and a thank you. Um, I am deeply grateful for the

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dedication our coaches put into our programs, the countless unseen hours they devote to planning, mentoring, supporting athletes, and creating opportunities for students to grow and succeed. Their willingness to give their time, energy, and heart is what makes our high school program so successful

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and meaningful. So, thank you to all of our coaches out there that do all these wonderful things with our program. Thank you. Any questions? Awesome. And Phil Kimmel from Park.

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>> Excellent. Thank you, Sarah. Uh, thank you again for the time tonight. We know it gets to be a little bit long for a school board meeting, but we really appreciate the opportunity to come and just share some of these highlights that we've had throughout the entire school year. Um, again, Sarah talked about this. Uh, we're education based athletics. We're not club sports. We're

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not AAOU. We're not college and national, you know, with all the money going on. So we really try to be purpose-based where like why do kids play sports? Why do coaches coach and really have that be the core of everything that we do. So you can see up there from a from a department standpoint mission of our activities

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department to create learning opportunities for students to develop character become well-rounded citizens and achieve excellence in their school activities and community. And we talk about that in our coaching staff meetings just to make that the focus of what we do. Individually for me I lead with integrity, commitment and compassion to provide growth

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opportunities for to caring adults. those coaches that and directors and and adviserss that Sarah talked about um so that kids can have a positive experience and learn lifelong skills and again we're educationally based activities and that's the important focus of everything that we're doing. So we'll dive into our

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highlights um as Christine introduced uh Lander Hicks is administrative intern in our building. He's done a lot of different work uh with our entire admin team. He's done a lot of site managing for our athletic events uh for me. I think he's working credit recovery in the summer. Um, and as we just try to

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come up with a variety of great opportunities to help him on his administrative journey, um, he was a huge part in our athletic awards ceremony and working with that. And of course, I said it's not very often that administrator gets to present to the school board. So, here's your opportunity, Lander. There we go.

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>> Good evening, board. Um, we're talking about our Minnesota High School athlete numbers. Our numbers slightly increased from 24 to 25 a little bit with our numbers but the main thing we want to highlight is 61% of our males and 55% of our females participated in at least one

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Minnesota state he have league Minnesota state high school league activity. We have more than 60 clubs and organizations. Our new clubs were baking empowerment hosa reading and our tri music honor societies.

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Our fall highlights as um Sarah mentioned the Thunderbolts they came in second place at state. We have our academic team awards. We have our boys and girls cross country. Our girls soccer our girls tennis did place gold and gold in that academic GPA level is

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3.7 or higher. And our boys silver soccer team plays silver which is between 35 and 37 GPA. And then our academic all state, we had 14 student athletes that competed all state. We had Henry Joah. He was our cross country

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state participant. We had Ruby Igel. She was our girls dive state participant. Then our all state, we had Terry Espinosa Gary Bry. Yes. And then he was our boys also our boys second team. And then we had Gabby Fleti. She was on

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soccer second team as well. We also placed maroon district special teams player of the year Matthew Kamini for football. And then we for our fall college ceremony, we had 13 college athletes committed. For our winter highlights, the Thunderbolts again place state and floor

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hockey. And for our academic awards, our boys and girls Nordic skiing, girls basketball, girls hockey, gymnastics and wrestling also placed with the gold academic standard. Our academic all state, we had five student athletes. For boys diving, we had Ethan Schilling

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placed 25th overall for the state meet. In gymnastics, we have Ashley Davis allaround in gymnastics. Michael Bowman on floor and vote for gymnastics. For wrestling, we had three state participants. Nolan Block, Landon Brooks, and Zack Carr, I'm sorry, we had

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four. And Jesse Wright. All state, Zack Carr placed third at state. Ashley Davis placed seventh place at state on the beam for gymnastics. our finalist for the 2005 NFL Latino Youth Honors Award. This was an amazing thing as we started

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flag football just last year. Elena, she was submitted by the Vikings and she won and she won so much that she was honored to go to the Super Bowl this year and she went and represented us as uh one of the final participants in the Midwest region to go to the Super Bowl. So, she

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was able to go and watch the game for free with her family. And then we also have our college football cere I mean our college commitment ceremony. We had eight student athletes commit during the winter. And then we had our section assistant coach of the year Jared Fatada was our gymnastics coach and Dale

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Thompson was our volunteer for Nordic ski. And for our spring highlights again the Thunderbolts placed six in state for softball. We also had a great one with our softball team. Again, this is one of the first times that we was actually

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very competitive in softball and our section champions. And then we went up to fourth place in state in Mano. And then our girls lacrosse, we were section runnerups. Our girls flag football team continued to increase that. Their first year they went to the state tournament and did well and they did again this

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year and they went to the semi-finals for the tournament. Our academic team awards was boys tennis, boys volleyball and girls lacrosse. also placed gold academically. Our academic all state, we had seven student athletes. Track and field, our state meet participant was

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Henry Joah for the six for the 1600 meters and he placed the school record in that. Paong Kong, she did for discus and O'Neal Otisu for the high jump. All state was again Elena Adamz and Ava

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Youngquist for softball. And we also had our senior all-star game was Elena and Abel also played in that game as well. Elena also set the state record for home runs in a season for 17 for softball. And of course, Coach Young was our section coach of the year for softball

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for our amazing season that we had in softball. And then our 28th annual academic awards ceremony, we had RJ Alaw. He came in and he was the class of 2012 that came and spoke to our athletes at our athletic awards and he gave an astounding speech of how he persevered

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and how he just adapted and did so much for track that he used that to propel himself in life. That was a great minute a great memory that he put on to our student athletes. And then for our fine arts, we had a fall play of Walk of Two

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Moons. We had a great performance of Pete the Cat and the Big Bad Trial. We had a one act play, a monster call that went to the section finals. Our SEC music festival was hosted will be hosted by us next year. So there was going to be a a lot of noises to be going on in

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park next year. And then for our musical, Joseph came up with a numerous Henipin Theater Spotlight Awards for their magical performance that they put on in the spring. >> This one.

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>> All right. Our award winners for Excel was Allison Divine and Ben Pollson. Our AAA award winners was Kina Cretch and Lex Hildenbunk. I have a good story about Hex that puts him right into that AAA. It was we was at a basketball game

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and the pledge of allegiance wasn't working so well and it wasn't coming out. So Lex was in his warm-ups in the basketball game and he just came out in his warm-ups and just sung the national anthem for us and then went back in line for the starting lineups for the game. So that is just the character of how Lex

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is. And then we have our honor students with Cara Brenamman and Eli Fchout. Our Athena award winner this year was Ashley Davis. Our Apollo award winner was Zack Carr. And we had three sport letter winners, 26 total, all being 12 seniors.

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I got this one. >> Yes, sir. >> Sounds good. >> These are one of my favorite moments, so I I feel like a little possessive to share those. Sarah Sarah talked about this. Our girls hockey team got a chance to participate in hockey hockey day Minnesota. Our boys played out there earlier in the week, but that Saturday

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is their big day. The tele the games are televised. Uh our girls had the first game versus Hastings. And I'm just going to say, maybe I shouldn't say this. Um, I'm not sure if the temperature was legal by Minnesota State High School League standards, but whatever thermometer they were using, they made

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it legal. It was freezing and and they did they did a great job. They had heaters on the bench. Honestly, our players were not cold. The spectators in the stands were cold. Our spec our players were not. But what a phenomenal experience just to get out there and play there, play on TV, play at the

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outdoor rink. It it was an absolutely great moment. Um, we had absolutely great super fans this year. when we talk about school spirit and always trying to promote school spirit and our super fans are just a small part of that. Uh we had great leaders this year and helped promote that school spirit throughout the entire year. Um one of the things

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that we always um try to stress with our programs is community service and giving back and like our our student athletes and kids and activities are given a lot and we want them to give back to the community a little bit. So it's encouraged for every single program. They all do many different things. Just the one that I wanted to highlight. I

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think a couple things that are really special is number one is when we it happens a lot when we team up with another high school in our in our district either Park in Woodbury or Park in East Ridge. And you know, everyone thinks, "Oh, they're big rivals, right?" But these two teams get together for a great cause. So, our hockey game with

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Woodbury this year um was kind of a a promotional game for Sophie Squad. And Sophie Squad is a local group that focuses on um student athletes mental health. And just to see the work that both teams did. It wasn't just Park High School. It was Park and Woodbury and them teening together. Um I think the

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colors Sophie squad's colors are teal and uh light blue and they all had like you know those incorporated on their on their uniforms and everything and just raise money for this great program. So anytime our programs can come together and with a quote unquote rival and do something positive in the community is really neat to see. So that's the the

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official puck drop from that game and and a lot of our groups do um some type of community service. Sarah mentioned these, but I also wanted to mention as well too, just the leadership opport opportunities that we provide for our kids. Um, we we expect a lot of our leaders in our activities and you know,

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sometimes the question comes up like, well, what training did they get to help them be even better leaders? So, we we try to provide as much as possible. Our conference does a great job. We bring our captains from each of our sports in the fall, winter, and spring. And then, like Sarah mentioned, the high school league also does a great job of providing a a student leadership one.

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And that picture is up there in the top of that screen there doing that. Um, one of the other highlights Sarah Sarah mentioned dances. Another one of my highlights, um, we have our Wolfpack buddies group, um, which is the the the the merging of our of our regular ed kids with some of our special ed kids

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and just creating social opportunities for them. And we literally had a student, Camille Brooks, who planned when we did our our winter dance, planned a secondary dance um for kids with with special needs. And so they could be in both. So they could be in the regular dance, which our kids like

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coming to, but sometimes it's just too much for them, the noise and the and the lights and everything. So she had a secondary space for them. And they had their own snacks and their own decorations. And it was so neat to see, especially because it was so student driven. Like Camila and her group from Wolfpack Buddies planned pretty much 99%

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of that entire thing, and it was phenomenal. Um, we uh Lander mentioned uh a couple state tournaments at the end of the year. Um, I wish the softball state tournament wasn't in Mano. I put a lot of miles on because, you know, it's a busy time of the year. So, they're

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playing in Mano in the morning and we've got athletic awards that night or we've got section lacrosse that night, whatever. So, lots of trips back and forth. But, um, just to see the experience of our girls of winning a section championship. They played uh they played Stillwater. We there was three schools from our conference in the

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state softball tournament. We played softball the first game and won. We played Forest Lake in the second game who was the number one seed and lost. but great experience for our girls. Um, and the same thing with girls flag football. The other thing I just have to mention, um, those who know me pretty well know I'm from Wisconsin. I'm a

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Packers fan, but I like giving the Vikings credit where credit is due. And the Minnesota Vikings do a phenomenal job supporting girls flag football. So, when we went out to the state tournament that morning, Justin Jefferson came out and spent some time with the girls. And not just like, I have to be here. I'm

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not really enthused, whatever. Like, he was into it. like he was all in just getting to know the girls, talking with the girls, and then the Vikings coach came out later on the day and did pictures with each of the teams. So, shout out to our flag football team and shout out to the Vikings for doing a great job of supporting that that new activity. And then that is it for us.

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Um, we can do questions now or sometimes questions at the end, but I will turn it over to Sarah filling in for Jod >> and Woodbury. Okay, I'm going to do my best. You know when you have a presentation that you didn't put together or the

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pictures you didn't pick out or anything and then you do the presentation. So, but here is a cute picture and Jod is in it. So, you can look at it and um at the end I'm going to say a thank you to Jodie, but she is a allin activities

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director and you can see it with her big smile and the smile on the kids' faces. Um, and I I feel a little guilty because I feel like Woodbury High School's having a disservice because she's not here to talk about the students. And I was very happy I went last because Christine said, "We'll just listen to

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Sarah and Phil and then you can just say similar things to what they say." And um yeah, I'm I'm sorry. Woodbury High School, here I go. Um, you have already heard from Phil and Sarah about the our purpose and why we play. Um the

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difference for Woodbury High School is our coaches have developed I lead to develop competitive and inclusive leaders who learn successful teamwork and life skills through activities. Um that is the only difference that's specific to Woodbury High School. Our participation numbers for 25 26 eaked up

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a teeny bit by 44 students. Um our girls numbers increased. Um about 50% of our males and 41% of our females participate in one or more sports or did this year. Um, and that did not include fine arts or clubs. That was athletics only. Um, I

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don't have anecdotal information as the other two schools did, but we also have a number of very active clubs. You may or may not know, but all three of our high schools form clubs based on student interest. So, we all have a process where students can come forward to the

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activities director and the rule is they need like three friends and an adviser. Um, and it's vetted through administration. So, our clubs are fluid. We have some that we have that are very consistent, but I love the stories that the other two shared that we have

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students who have new interests and new groups. And so, they kind of form and dissolve and form and dissolve as student interests kind of wax and wayne. And I love that about that opportunity for students to be able to dive in and and lead in different areas and not only

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um join clubs that are already existing. Um, some fall highlights. Um, our swim and dive team was also very successful um, at the state level. Um, we had Addison Forsy participate at the state level. You might recognize the name on

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the 200 free relay. Um, Evelyn, Eleanor, Addison, and Iris placed 12th um, in the 200 free relay. And then our diver Nina Falner placed ninth in cross country. Brendan Fehee, he was one that was on that second place track relay. Um, he

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placed 37th at state. He was the SEC champion. Um and our four uh AAA who placed second place. Our football team um was section conference co-ch champions. Um we have a min a mountain biking team. That's another new thing

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that um you may or may not be aware, but we have a um similar to our ultimate frisbee team. There are kind of are not state high school league teams, but they're club club club sports. and uh Ryan Oaks participated and was a state

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championship in mountain biking. All state this year were were Kendall Warwa in volleyball. Um Magana in boys soccer. Olivia Halanin in girls soccer. She was also a Miss soccer finalist. Sam Madison girls Soccers and Clara Fedunok

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sorry Clara in girls soccer. And then which I am proud of is the academic awards um and our girls swim and dive girls soccer and girls tennis. all achieved the gold academic standard. What is that, Lander? >> 375

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>> as a team average for their GPA and silver >> is 35. >> Look at that football. Super excited about that. Um, we also were honored Andy Hill was um named uh football coach of the year for our east

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district and our four triple AAA Jenny Boils and girls soccer was named coach of the year um for soccer as an assistant coach. Um coach Malakei is our girls soccer coach and he also reached 450 career victories this year um throughout his career and he is coming

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back so we still have more wins to come. In the winter, our boys swim and dive team, as uh Sarah would say, was a powerhouse. They were three years in a row SEC champions and section champions

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um true team section champions and placed sixth at state. Um our 200 medley relay had Grant, Ethan, Roy, and Andrew. They placed 13th. Our 200 free relay was Finn, Ethan, Alex, and Andrew. They placed 12th. 400 free relay. Grant,

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Colton, Alex, and Finn, 15th at state. And then Aiden swam the 200 IM and the 500 freestyle. Grant swam the 200 free and the 100 back. 100 breast was Ethan and Andrew. 50 free. Andrew and Finn tied.

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You know when you watch the Olympics and you're like, how is it even possible that they tie? Tied for 13th. And then Finn was 14th in the 100 free. In gymnastics, our state participants, um, Maren was 18th in the beam and 14th in

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the floor and Sam Treader placed 25th in the vault. So fun winter. Um, Mitchell folks, he placed fifth at state in wrestling and then Denko uh,

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participated and again, what other place do you say your weight? But in wrestling, he participated in the 160 pound weight class. I I just think that's so interesting. Okay. Uh the

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Woodbury and Eastridge bowling team were state champions. And in boys alpine skiing, we had EJ and Finn. They advanced to state. And uh science Olympiad attended state for the fourth time in a row. All state, Mitchell Folks

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and wrestling. Mattie Boon, Alyssa Pilaski in girls hockey and Finn O'Reilly in alpine skiing. Our academic teams were girls basketball, wrestling, uh, and Power Nordic is our Park Woodbury Eastridge combined team and

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Silver where the boys swim and dive team. Big milestones coach Kent gets our boys basketball coach. He reached 150 career wins. And then in basketball, Harper Vosan achieved a 100 points in girls basketball. And then we had three

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students achieve a 100 points in girls hockey. Haley Gronkey, Alexa Burko, and Maddie Boon. This spring, you heard a little bit already from Parker. We had very successful track season for our boys track. Um we had a second place finish

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for our 4x8 relay. That is two times around the track for each of them. Um the 400 meter, uh Isaiah placed fourth. The 800, Brandon Fehee placed fifth. The 4x two relay, um Julie knows the twins,

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Brendan and Liam Schmidtz. They are the her weather advisors. Um >> I think we call them the no school weather advisor. >> We got Yeah. One of my my favorite things I did this year was um these boys

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made a video that I said I would text to Julie when they were advocating to have a snow day. So they did a little skit in the cafeteria. It was great. You should ask her about it. Um so the 4x2 relay >> more than just athletes.

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>> Yeah. Oh yeah. Um the 4x2 relay. So Brennan and Liam Isaiah Nolan they play sixth our 4x1 relay. Um that's like a quarter of the track. That's a that's the one where you see all of the baton miss handoffs. Um

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so Jonathan, Anthony, Liam, and Nolan, they placed 18th at state. And then the 100 meter, Nolan placed 18th. And the 4x4, Liam, Isaiah, Brennan, and Brendan were 12th. In baseball, this was our

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fourth team in school history to achieve 21 wins in a season. That's a a substantial accomplishment. And our coach of baseball, Kevin McDermott, he was selected as a keynote speaker for the National Baseball Conference, and that was a pretty u substantial honor to

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to be able to speak to all of his uh colleagues there. Our girls track and field um was also very successful. Alexa Fehee um placed 17th in the 800 meter. Um, we have the

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4x1 relay. Breella, Maren, Joselyn, and Yasmin. 4x two, Jocelyn Harper, Briella, and Yasmin. That's all all the same girls. Nope, Marin's different. Placed 15th um at section, and they were the section champions. Uh 4x4, Joselyn Harper, Alexa, and Yasmin placed 10th

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and were section champions. Long jump, Marin, Marin Emory. Triple jump, Marin Emory. Um high jump and why not. In golfer, in golf, we had two state qualifiers. Maddie and Kaylee. Um, and

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we were all state in the boys 4x2, 4x8, Isaiah Mcnite, Brendan Fehee, and Martin Emory were all selected as all state in track. Academically, baseball, boys tennis, and girls golf all achieved the gold academic um threshold.

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Uh, good to note or important to note, Trey Sales, who was a graduate of Woodbury High School, was named the assistant track boys track coach of the year. and Jason Warwa who coaches our lacros boys lacrosse achieved a 100 career wins

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in fine arts. Our musical this fall this past fall was Mean Girls and that was a hoot. They achieved nine Henipin Arts Spotlight Awards. Our one I play was Green River. Um and they were section champs and made it to state. And um

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if you want to cry, I recommend that you watch the one act Green River. Um and then you watch boys cry. That will make you cry. Okay. Our spring play was our town. Uh Phil already talked about

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the SEC music festival coming to park next year that rotates um among our 10 SEC schools and many of you attend that. I know some of you were there. um district marching band and our percussion ensemble. Um in speech we

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Lucas Dong was a section champion in ex extemporaneous and Kora and Henry were um participated at the state level in duo interpretation. And there's some pictures I mean these two at the bottom are from the SEC music festival. I strongly encourage you to

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attend that concert to see our district students shine in the fine arts. Our college commitments, we had 12 athletes commit to college in the fall. In the spring, we had 14. And then the numbers listed below are I mean, and you

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can see those division one, two, three, and then the different sports that were represented. Again, I I would encourage you, those are amazing events to attend and hear from the coaches and the athletes who are um

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moving on to the next level and choosing to participate at the collegiate level. Um really proud of these athletes, our award winners, we had Andy Ortloff. She was the state recipient for the AAA award. Um and each school puts forward

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um a nominee and she received it at the state level and Cohen Rogers was our our male selection for Woodbury High School. Our Excel Award winners were Riley Gower and Andrew Gayler and our Athena Award winner was Bela Hitch. Um I know I keep

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saying you should go. That is a that's an awesome powerful event and I don't know just do we just keep increasing the number of schools that are represented was held at the St. Paul River Center. Um, and each school is able to honor their most outstanding female athlete.

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And these girls are really amazing and doing great things. Okay. Favorite moments and thank you. But this is not me because I'm not leaving. So even though it says for the past six years I've um this was written

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by Jodie and if Jod were here uh I would like to highlight a impact that she has made on Woodbury High School. In the middle picture is a a group of students in our lecture hall and that is her leadership council and um Jod truly

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lives into developing students and developing leaders. So she has a leadership council that exists consists of all of the captains of all of the sports also all of the leaders of all of the clubs of all of the fine arts um

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speech debate everything and monthly they meet and talk about different leadership topics. Um and her work with our leadership council has greatly influenced our school climate and culture. Um she teaches them how to be upstanders. She teaches them how to be leaders in their classroom, on the

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field, in the pool, um on the stage, but how they can contribute to a positive school culture in their work as their their tendrils are um spread among the school. We always say when we have something going on on social media that

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we're trying to shut down, you know, sometimes there'll be these sites that bubble up, we send it to Jodie and she sends it to the leadership council and you can watch the numbers of kids that are following it go. You can you it's like live action seeing

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the influence that these student leaders have in our community and it is powerful. So, I want to thank Jodie for the past six years as activities director at Woodbury High School. Um, she will be greatly missed and our new activities director, Chad Sexhau, begins

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at Woodbury High School on Monday. So, you will be seeing him probably next year to do this presentation. Um, but thanks so much for your time and um, are there questions? Do I get to sit down now? >> You can. Well, unless I'll wrap it up and then you can still ask questions

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though. So, I like to say obviously you've seen so much of the amazing accomplishments on the screen and all the great things you've heard about. None of that happens with a without a lot of support and Sarah mentioned at all three schools the great coaches, advisers, and directors that we have. Obviously, these great leaders are are

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helping this happen. But also, as activities directors, we have tons of support. Um, and that helps us tremendously. We have tons of support in our building. Our admin teams at all three schools are great to work with and support the activities so well. And then we have great support within the district as well too. We work really

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closely with Christine. Tyrone has kind of joined our group now. Um and just the support that we get from both of them is incredible. Obviously Julie as well too. Um even Chris and and Sean back there helping us. We need money to do all these things right. So we're going to Chris and like Chris, can we do this?

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Can we do that? And just from the communication standpoint, too. So we get tremendous support. And um just the fact that we're allowed to take however much time we took here tonight to present these things. We get support from the school board as well too. So we appreciate it because none of those accomplishments could happen on that screen that you just saw without tons of

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support within our district and Swash County Schools really supports his activities and we appreciate that very much. So that's that. Um I just want to say a quick thank you to Jod. I would not be surprised if she's not watching us tonight on on YouTube. Maybe not, but I wouldn't be shocked. She probably is. So um the three ads we work very very

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closely together. And again, kids always talk about rivalries or whatever, but we can't really survive without each other. and the three of us work very closely together and have enjoyed working with Jod and she'll be missed and we look forward to working with Chad. So, we appreciate everything. We'll open up if you have any questions.

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>> Questions? >> All right. I don't This isn't really a question, but I do want to say how um a lot of us attend plays and concerts and go to games and um I think just being able to watch the students blossom in

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all of their unique ways. I can also confirm from Jod's leadership council that if you don't show up because you want to sleep in, your mom will get an email telling telling you or you get an email CCing your mom like, "By the way,

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>> your kid wasn't there. >> You're not why aren't you here? This is your responsibility." So, um there's a lot of accountability there as well. And I um just really appreciate all of the work all three well two of you, well three of you I guess and Jod um do to

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help our students shine in all of their unique ways. And I um both as a mom and as a school board member. I couldn't be more grateful for the last however many years I've had children in South Washington County schools. >> Any other questions? >> Any more questions?

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>> Well, first of all, Sarah Jody is gonna be proud girl. You you did all right. Okay. But um all jokes aside, I want to thank for on behalf of the board, I want to thank you for your leadership and and the support that you have given to our students to become great athletes, and

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we appreciate all that you do. I know this is hard. Kids are hard, but K, we love them anyway. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thanks for the time tonight. We'll move on to 7.0 which is our action items. Tonight is 7.1

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proposed policy changes that will be presented by our superintendent Julie Nielsen. >> After that presentation, it makes policy seem a little bit dry, but I have a lot of questions about these kids' times as they're talking about it. Um, having been a track athlete. Um this evening I

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am asking for approval on um four policies that fall into the 400 series which are human resources area as well as three policies in the 700 area and the three this evening happen to be around transportation. Um the policy committee made up of board members

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reviewed those policies at our last board meeting on June 11th. We also had a discussion and had any questions answered, any revisions made. Um so this evening they are being brought to you for approval. Uh so vice chair uh vanlier I am asking for approval of the

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seven policies in your board packets this evening. >> Can I get a motion to approve proposed policy changes? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion by who? >> And seconded by >> give it to Ryan >> Tide. Give it to Ryan.

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>> Okay. >> It's like swimming. >> Any comments? Seeing none. Those all in favor. All >> Any opposed? Motion has been carried. Next we have 7.2 and that is our guiding change

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document and that will be presented this evening by our superintendent. >> Thank you. Uh this evening I am bringing forward uh the finalized uh guiding change document for budget adjustments as the board is aware as well as our staff um and community are beginning to

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be aware uh around the status of the district budget um after it was presented a couple of weeks ago as well. uh just where we're at with the budget. And as a reminder um for those at home, those in the audience, our school board, a guiding change document really acts as the guard rails as we begin our work

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around budget adjustments. What we're talking about is approximately $13 million worth of adjustments. Um what I'd like to note in terms of revisions from uh the last meeting is bullet point one in our current reality, just some

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clarification around the dollars. Um what was added to that sentence is uh the amount that was listed. This is only the base allocation and does not include other state dollars or local levy dollars. Uh there was some question because we do get more dollars per pupil

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but that was just the state dollars. So that was column one a revision made. Um also in column one and we discussed this at the workshop meeting. um what is worded as a current reality due to the size of the anticipated adjustment we will not be able to solve it by only

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seeking additional levy dollars from our taxpayers and I think the board was really very clear about we know that we can't levy our way out of this budget adjustment it's something that we have to work together um and make those adjustments and then finally um as we

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got closer to the end the third bullet point from the end um I think still getting used to parentheses around numbers knowing that they're negative when you can't use necessarily red font or how they show up. So that third bullet point point from the end um uh our end of the year 2026 deficit would

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be 1.5 uh as was presented by Chris on the 11th our deficit at the fiscal year end of 27 would be 8 million and then with no further adjustments made um it would be 27 by the close of the 28th school year.

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So those were listed the same way, but just to note that that would be considered deficit spending with no adjustments. And then also um just a last second catch I'm going to say Chris called down and said okay the last or second to the last bullet point um while

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um the enrollment process occurred this year. The second bullet point from the end will read the enrollment count has been impacted by the loss of students to charter private and school choice or choice schools at the secondary level for FY26.

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It is really the impact will be FY27. It didn't occur for this year rather next year. So just note that that has been changed by Dana um and will be posted that way. In the center column, if you recall, um, one of the bullet points that was removed was, uh, because

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this is a $13 million reduction plan, we did not need in unacceptable means, um, it will be unacceptable to propose a plan that places the district in statutory operating debt. Right now, we're not close to statutory operating debt, even with the deficit spending.

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So, that one was removed. And then also just uh to note that while column one listed 2,000 open seats, column 2 now also has 2,000 open seats across our elementary schools. And I believe that those were the only adjustments from the previous time we viewed the document. So

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this evening I am asking for approval of our district budget adjustment guiding change document so we can continue to move forward with our project planning um around making these adjustments. >> Thank you. Can I get a motion to approve the guiding

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Moved by >> moved by Melinda. Second >> second. >> Elizabeth. >> Any comments? Okay. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carried. Next is

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7.3. The 2026 27 preliminary budget is that is presented by director of business services. >> Good evening, school board members, vice chair Van Lair, and superintendent

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Nielsen. I did have to modify that quick before I got up here. Um the purpose of the report again tonight is um as we know, Minnesota school districts are required to have a revenue and expenditure budget approved by June 30th of the preceding fiscal year. The finance department prepared the 2627

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budget for schoolboard approval and that was presented at last workshop meeting on June 11th. The community education fund budget was presented in May this year on May 7th at the workshop meeting and the food service budget was presented at the workshop meeting on April 9th. So at this point I would um

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just note that there were no changes to either general fund or school nutrition fund budget since those presentations. I would highlight there was some changes to community education. And again, that was pretty early to present um yet as we're still working through numbers and legislative um and negotiations. And so they've been updated to reflect um

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particularly fee revenue and then u salaries and benefits as a result of negotiations this spring. So at this point, administration recommends approval of the 2627 preliminary budget. >> Can I get a motion to approve the 2627 preliminary budget? >> So moved.

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>> Second. >> Moved by Ryan, seconded by >> Louise. Got wait till I take a call second. >> Any comments? >> None. >> I know. >> Oh god, >> it's crazy.

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>> I know. All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion's carried. >> Next, we move on to 7.4. That is Northeast Metro. >> Chair, Vice Chair Schwarz, we need to take a roll call vote. >> We need to take a roll call now. Okay.

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Elizabeth Bachman Neckberg. >> Yes. >> Louise Hines. >> Yes. >> Ryan Clark. >> This is for the previous >> Yes. For the >> preliminary budget. >> I think budget is a budget is not a roll call. Sorry. Yes. I >> We're not there yet. I'm like I'm

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looking at the Yeah, preliminary budget was good. >> It's okay, girl. >> You all right? >> She tries to keep us in line. So >> I'm glad I asked. I was like, wait a minute. What? >> All right. Now we'll move on to where are we? 7.4 Northeast Metro 916

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uh fiscal year 28 long-term physical maintenance program budget and that is presented by Miss Blackburn, director of business. >> No, long time long time no see. Um again, I always think that this one gets a little bit early, but we always have

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to approve our long-term facility maintenance plan um kind of a year ahead of when we'll actually be doing it. So FY28 is not a typo, although I did have a 27 typo when I first sent it to Dana. So thanks for catching that. Um the school board at um Northeast Metro 916

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Intermediate School District has approved a long-term facility maintenance program budget of $600,000 $600,500. I don't know why that was hard to say. For fiscal year 2028, member districts pay proportionate share determined by

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utilizing a blended rate based on net tax capacity and a ratio of ADM utilization by the district. So again, as the largest participating member, we um do appreciate that because we know our um tax base is a little different than some of the other member districts. So it's kind of a combined enrollment

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and um tax base in that allocation. South Washington County Schools proportionate share of that LTFM um proposed budget is $116,87 which will be levied for property taxes payable in 2027. The attached resolution

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approves Northeast Metro's 916 LT >> move motion by Ryan. >> Second it second >> by any comments >> I do have a question.

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Um my and I'm so sorry I forgot to send this in ahead of time, but for the longevity increase, what is the um >> is this for every employee? So if you've been here one year, you get an extra seven cents. If you've been per hour, you know, since you've been here 10 years, 70 cents. What is the longest

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tenure maintenance? Do you happen to know that off the top of your head? >> Oh, I could email that to you. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> I was just I just realized when I was looking at this just now, I forgot to ask it earlier, so I apologize for not. >> That's okay. Okay, we can get that to >> you ahead of time. Thank you. >> Yes, you're welcome. >> Any other questions?

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>> Okay, all those in favor >> I oppose. Seeing none, motion passes. Next is 7.10 and that is the tenative agreement with district office support specialist presented this evening by our director of human resources and operations, Abby

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Baker. Negotiations toward a new collective bargaining agreement between Southwestern County Schools and the district office support specialists have resulted in a tenative agreement effective July 1, 2026 through June 30th, 2028. Members of the bargaining unit approved the tenative agreement on

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June 8th, 2026. The economic costing of the tenative agreement includes the following. As of July 1, 2026, a 3.25% increase. As of July 1, 2027, a 3% increase. and then an additional $55426

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to step six, making the delta between steps all equal. For health insurance, as of January 1, 2027, a 15% increase to the district contribution for high deductible medical plans and as of January 1st, 2028, a 15% increase to the

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district contribution for high deductible medical plans. Also for dental insurance effective July 1, 2027, um a district contribution of $12028 toward the family dental plan. Administration recommends approval of this contract.

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Can I get a motion to approve the tenative agreement with the office support specialist? Can I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Motion by Louise. Second. >> Second. >> Second by Smi. Any comments? All those in favor.

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>> Any opposed? Motion carries. See that? >> Thank you. >> All right. Next, we have 8.0. And that is our wonderful. >> I feel like we should have a couple more. Sharon was just getting on a roll. Just really getting that pattern down.

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>> It's hard when you don't do it all the time. Um, just a couple of quick updates. Um, uh, unlike thinking about snow, we are thinking about stormy weather. And it's always interesting with the National Weather Service, some people may not realize, but even throughout the summer, we get updates. And so I get the decision packets on

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weather. And so right now it's showing that next week extreme heat, 109 degrees, um, heat index. So, um, we just prepare in a little bit different way, not cancelling school, but we do have a lot of summer programs going on. So, just thinking about what's going to happen there. Um, but as always, we

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continue to watch the weather. Um, there are some severe storms forecasted and right now it's a number of days out yet. So, they're watching that. But as we think about things happening in the school district, our kids club, our child care opening at 6:30 in the morning until 6:00 in the evening is up and running. Um we have um students

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attending at Woodbury L along with Woodbury Middle for the middle school portion, Valley Crossing, News Frontier, and Armstrong. Um in addition to that, uh we have had schoolie days. And so schoolie days, I kind of compare it to my days doing park and wreck where I would go for a couple hours and be at a

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park. Our schoolie bus shows up from 5 to 6:30 Monday through Thursday. Mondays they pull into Pullman. Tuesdays Newport, Wednesday Royal Oaks and Royal Oaks and Thursday Armstrong from 5 to 6:30. Students come and are engaged in different activities from painting rocks

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to making butterflies. Um in addition there are vendors there. So they had Dodge Nature Center, they had the 3M Wizards. So just a variety of opportunities. And then of course there's the ever fun playing on the playground, running around with the soccer ball, eating ice cream, pizza, and it really is a wonderful event. We

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have community sponsors that help take care of the meal every evening. So various church groups and community organizations that um feed the 80 to 100 to sometimes 150 that 150 people that come. So a nice opportunity for anybody watching um if you want a night out with

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your uh child to play with other kids Monday through Thursday. Um, and that runs through August. And then, um, last, uh, the parades, those are up and running. We did the Strawberry Fest parade, and every time I do a parade, I always think about Sharon because she wouldn't be the strongest walker in a

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parade that's, um, more than two miles and it's really, really hot. Um, and while it wasn't super hot, uh, it was still warm enough this past weekend. And I don't know how we can't get it right as a school district because we purchase our own candy. We don't use school district dollars for candy. We thought

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we had so much extra candy and we just simply did not have enough again. So, what I found myself saying as we went down the parade route is Hi is right be Hi is right behind us and they have a lot of candy. It's hard when you can't pass out candy. Um, but we really had a

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good time. There were probably 20 to 25 leaders. All of our system leaders, so over a hundred of our system leaders are uh required and asked to participate in one of the parades throughout the summer. So just to balance out and just show up and have fun with the kids. So just wanted to highlight that we will be

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featured in um St. Paul Park as well as Newport and then to wrap up the summer in Woodbury days and those dates are all out to board members as well. That's all I have. Thank you. >> Thank you. 9.0 I'm on a roll now y'all. 9.0 is future meeting dates and that is

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July 16th, 2026 board meeting will be held here at 65 district service center and again August 6 will be our next meeting at school board workshop meeting and that will be here at the district service center at 6 p.m. and 10.0

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With that we are adjourned. Y'all got to open Heat. Heat. Blue. Hey. Hey. I think Hey. Hey. Hey.