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good evening it is Thursday June 20th 2024 at 6m we are at the district service center in Cottage Grove Minnesota we would like to acknowledge that the land on which We Gather is the land of the mawakan Dakota people mawakan means dwellers of the Spirit Lake the first item on our agenda is
roll call Dana here here here here simy pnck here Katie here 2.0 Pledge of Allegiance please
stand Al to the FL of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation God indivisible withy and justice for all 3.0 is the approval of our agenda
can I get a motion to approve an amended agenda adding 7.6 agreement with p and custodians Teamsters Lo local 320 7.7 is agreement with PA professionals and 7.8 is agreement with the bus mechanics so
moved second moved by simy seconded by Melinda any comments okay all those in favor I any opposed motion passes okay 4.0 is comments to the board at this time individuals may speak to
the school board on any item relating to South Washington County Schools the board will not respond to or discuss your comments character abuse or specific complaints identifying staff students or task force members will not be permitted the superintendant may be asked to prepare a response to your
concern the comments to the board period will be held open for up to 30 minutes in total each speaker is permitted to speak for up to 3 minutes in total at the 3 minute Mark the microphone will be turned off and we will move to the next item on the agenda we do have one person
signed up and that is T e okay thank you okay 5.0 is consent items I'll consent items are considered routine and non-controversial by the school board and will be approved by a single motion there will be no separate
discussion of these items prior to this meeting board members have had the opportunity to review each of these items and may request that an item be moved to the action items for individual consideration that did not happen this evening so can I get a motion to approve so moved second moved by Simi seconded
by Ryan all those in favor I any opposed motion motion passes okay on to 6.0 and this is our information items we have one item on
the agenda tonight and that is 6.1 activities update for the 2023 2024 um school year and that will be introduced by Christine Schaefer assistant superintendent good evening Schoolboard chair Schwarz Schoolboard members and superintendant neelson tonight we'd like
to share some highlights from the 2324 school year related to the many activities and Athletics available to our students in our school district the activities directors from our three high schools are here tonight to share information from each of our Comprehensive High Schools along with a few students joining us as well at this
time I'd like to welcome Sarah patuk from EAS Ridge High School jod llin Lucker from Woodbury High School and Phil kemel from Park High School wonderful thank you um it is an honor and a privilege to be able to be here tonight
to share a summary um of some of the highlights that we experienced this year at uh eidge high school and all three high schools want to start quickly though with our purpose we continue to uh stay dedicated to our why and why we lead our
departments uh through our Inside Out initiative and at eich high school the activities department is to provide multiple opportunities for students that help develop character community and a sense of belonging and then my individual purpose is I choose to lead students to be people of empathy who
serve others while developing skills as a student teammate and a person of character um before we get to speech and debate I would like to at this time call up coach quenel we have some of our baseball players here
tonight we are currently in the final phases of this and our players have ADV champion last year uh they were state champions and the championship game was after our presentation of the school board so we didn't get to recognize them last year
so um oh state champs they were state champs last year in 2023 and then they're um going to defend their title it was supposed to be tomorrow and now has been even postponed till Saturday well actually was supposed to be Monday then tomorrow and now we're we're
playing Saturday so coach qu is one of our assistant coaches that will call up the boys so the boys can come up and be recognized thank you uh I'll call you guys up here uh Bennett Skinner he's a sophomore infielder outfielder Alex mazetti Third
Base Luke Skinner Short Stop Kaden Nelson pitcher Aiden kachel Catcher And infielder and Luke ryy pitcher and outfielder thank you [Applause]
another fun fact is my first year as the Adia at Eastridge that spring of 19 they were state champions as well so this will be they're going for their third title in six years which is completely crazy which is we are so proud of you guys best of luck we will be there
cheering for you go Raptors uh one other Spotlight that EAS has tonight is our speech and debate our speech and debate program has such a long history of just excellence and outstanding accomplishments tonight we have one of our assistant coaches Megan
Roser please come on up and then we have two students Kenneth Chen graduated last year he was also one of our math Wizards and then Caroline Zang come up and they'll just share a little bit about speech and debate all right good evening everybody
um I am Megan Roser one of these assistant coaches from this past year but I'm also the incoming head coach for the next season um so thank you for inviting us and allowing us to speak about this wonderful activity that we do um so to begin both of our teams were established in 2010 within a year of
easd itself being constructed and we um as coaches we're fortunate enough that we have a lot of overlap actually within other activities so a lot of our debate students do participate in speech and a lot of our theater kids participate in speech as well because we kind of have the unique makeup of both public address
and acting categories that we offer within the activity um but to start off so the debate team uh the debate team is coached by Katie scholes tamy trout McIntyre and Clark McIntyre this impressive 58 member team is focused on improving the researching writing and
speaking skills of all members while in a competitive setting this past season the team attended 10 local tournaments and throughout the fall and early winter this season alone we had six students qualify for the Tournament of Champions six qualified for our Minnesota state tournament and 14 are currently
competing at the national speech and debate Association Nationals in De Moine Iowa and then for our speech team since we have that unique makeup and we have all of that overlap we actually have different seasons as well so a lot of the debate students will start in the summer go through to the fall speech
will start in the winter and go through till the spring so that's how we're able to have so much interaction between those three activities kind of together um so our speech team was founded by Katie and Alex Carlson and our team is dedicating to helping students find their voice through advocacy through
their passion dedication and commitment these students show that even beyond our practices they consistently have success this past year uh we sent two students to our Minnesota state tournament and have consistently sent students since 2012 and we've had dozens of national
qualifiers have appeared in multiple National final rounds and currently have two of our students competing at the national speech and debate Association National Tournament in De Moine Iowa with our debate students which is where some of our coaches currently are um and now while I could talk for hours about this activity and everything that these
students do I'm actually going to turn it over to the students themselves so first we're gonna have Kenneth speak and then we'll have Caroline afterwards good evening my name is Kenneth I participated in speech and debate at Eastridge for four years before graduating in 2023 I've always been a really talkative
person without speech and debate I could not have honed that into a refined set of communication skills debate taught me to analyze critically argue logically and think on my feet it broadened my perspective of the world exposing me to multiple complex social issues from multiple angles speech brought me
awareness to my Pace my tone my volume my breath as persuasive tools and more importantly it builts up a confidence in my voice that I didn't have before I recently finished my first year of college and I can say that speech and debate experience has absolutely helped
me in that transition whether that's evaluating academic papers contributing in class discussions or even just engaging with diverse viewpoints on campus and most importantly to me staying connected to a community of speech and debate alumni who appreciate this activity as much as I do and for
all that and more is why I think that speech and debate is one of the best things I ever [Applause] did hi my name is Carol Lang Zang and I'm a current Rising senior and Senior captain at Eastridge High School I joined this Mee to debate team in 8th
grade during the pandemic and since then the biggest thing that this activity has taught me is the difference between being a speaker and a communicator to be a good speaker I had to be confident and knowledgeable but to be a good communicator I had to be considerate adaptable and open-minded I had to
consider all sides to a story before vocalizing it and be open and be open to being challenged in this way speech and debate has taught me more than just public speaking taught me how to Be an Effective leader and empathetic teammate and give me a very valuable knowledge of worldly issues that I use on a daily
basis I've learned so much about politics and social discourse I've gained a supportive Community where we understand that even individual victories are a culmination of our Collective passion and teamwork I've watched those around me become incredible leaders and Advocates thanks to the empathy that speech and debate has instilled within all of us and that
to me is the greatest thing that I have gotten from speech and debate thank [Applause] you thank you so much as we share some information now with highlights and information about
Easter idge activities in athletics as you can see our part participation numbers uh went up a little bit this year um increasing a little bit more with our males and females uh one of the great highlights is our three sport athletes 36 total 26 males 10 females uh
another important uh piece that we have we have over 91 clubs and the link there if you click it it goes through on our activities web page we have them all alphabet uh alphabetized on that page which just goes to show you that our kids are involved they have that sense
of belonging I I would say weekly kids were coming up asking to start a new club here's my adviser this is what I want to do this is how it's going to impact the school it has been uh such a a great tool for kids to to get involved student council that's a picture there
um our student council wanted to be a little bit more than just planning events so they reached out and did some community service we have had over 160 kids participate in a Feed My Starving CH uh children event during the school day one
day Fall highlights uh volleyball SEC Champs I think this might have been our fifth or sixth year in a row that we were SEC champs for that Hadley Berger uh Player of the Year finalist football had a a a little rocky start but finished super strong made it to the
state tournament uh Tanner zoski was one of our Player of the Year finalists cross country our distance our distance Runners at Eastridge are just outstanding so we had three uh male athletes that participated Nate Brandon and Ryan and then Lydia represented our
females at the state tournament she was also our section champion in the the cross country and then boy soccer was conference Champs girls soccer we had a first team finalist in L Wildman girls
tennis it's been a while but they they were our section Champs and they uh participated in the state tournament as well uh that's a fun venue they get to do that out at the U ofm uh at the tennis facility out there and then our swim and dive both our girls and boys teams are just Dynamite lots of lots of
talent you can see there in the list of students that participated uh at the state tournament and then in the fall we have What's called the national letter of intent that's students that are participating in a division one or a division two School
uh to compete uh at the college level and we had 10 students sign we are always um academics first and we had gold standard our girl swim and dive girls tennis and boys uh and girls cross
country was uh academic gold standard winter sports girls basketball were section Runners up behind White Bear Lake boy swim and dive again a strong field there of participant uh participants Neil Abraham son is one of the top swimmers in the nation in his
age group uh he made it to the podium in gymnastics they were section and fifth in the state I don't know if I can can I open a link on here do do we know will it play if I open that link here can I try it yeah so
Laney schwellenbach uh a sophomore play second in the uneven bars and uh this is her routine oh [Music]
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sophomore GYN she took second on bars can I go back no uh second on bars fourth on floor and eighth all around uh at our winner all um State Tournament Wrestling fun to see um Jackson Meyer
participated in the state tournament and then Danica fuing play sixth in the women's uh state tournament for wrestling football has their own National letter event we had two students Kenny an an and Charlie burn
who will be uh playing football in college and then our gold standards uh for academics we we had boy swim and dive in gymnastics spring highlights this past spring and track and field Lydia ran the mile the 1600 at the state tournament
and then Nate Schultz in the two mile which is the 3200 placed fifth at the state meet and then seventh in the mile in the 1600 Nick Gart is a 10th grader he's our PO vter he made it uh he P vaulted a little over 13 ft which was great and
then our 4x4 Bo relay there uh qualified by a time they placed third in the section but their time was a state qualifying time which made uh the tournament golf this is the second year they were our conf our state or section Champions and participated in the State
girls golf tournament day one we had nice weather they uh they did fairly well they played six overall the second day some rain some delays but they got the tournament in so congratulations to those ladies that participated on our golf team baseball as we recognized our
boys earlier they were SEC Champs the conference Champs co-champs and then will be participating in the state championship on Saturday Luke Skinner and Max arich All Team all first team Metro and then boys volleyball which
will be now an official Minnesota State High School league sports we this is our second year with our club team they were section Runners up to North St Paul this year to advance to that state tournament and then the spring which is so exciting is our um all students whether you're division one division two division three
we do a spring celebration for those students because often times in the fall kids haven't decided yet on where they're going to go so we recognized 15 student athletes that will be performing at the Collegiate level from our Minnesota state sponsored High School league sports to this year we also had a trap shooter as we did last year that
will be um trap shooting in college as well and then our academic standards uh that I had were girls golf boys tennis and softball our Thunderbolt adaptive program continues to be so competitive and strong uh they Advanced at the state
tournament in soccer and softball um this past year um the pitcher with or the catcher Payton what made the all tournament team for softball what we like to do for our state tournament teams is do a state send off so in the morning uh we
gathered together usually in the gym but we had AP testing going going on so we were at the um the mini stage and we do we did a send off and it's nice that jod and Phil bring their students over to us as well so we can get the whole team there and uh give them uh the band plays
A school song we cheer them on they get introduced and we do a proper send off for them also they're just like any of our other sports they have Banquets at the end of the season so this spring they did a fancy banquet at River Oaks to celebrate the end of the season
for them our Fine Arts our fine arts program continues to shine uh if you had the pleasure to see The Wizard of Oz this fall it was absolutely amazing lots of Spotlight Awards they received for that um but to me it just I'm always in such
awe that the high school students performing at that high level it's just amazing the the musical was super engaging um the the set design and the costumes were phenomenal our one act was Little Women and our spring play was Peter and the star catcher
um this winter our symphony orchestra was selected to perform at the mmea so that's like the state tournament for music um it was at the Minneapolis Convention Center and uh Mr smokovich and I uh attended that it was outstanding again just the talent level
is incredible and we have multiple um music students that are at high levels that are recognized throughout at the state as well our award winners for this year are EXC is our Junior Awards and that is for leadership and they're also engaged in
uh Minnesota State High School league activity so Ann Ben Benjamin who was on our girls golf team and our girls tennis team so she went to two state tournaments this year along with she is one of our top choir students so she's all state All Region choir and then Luke
ryy who's here is our uh representative for our males in the XL and Luke is our kicker in football and and um a phenomenal phenomenal baseball player and he will be attending Alabama to play baseball and kick uh mallerie Payne was our
outstanding female athlete mallerie will be attending San Diego State University on the swim team and um Environmental Studies and then we had Min and Neil as our triaa and Min is uh attending the
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia upen and um she is going to be part of the forensic team and Orchestra and then Neil is attending Kenyan University where he will um major in chemistry and
be on their swim team as well and then some favorite highlights uh this year was our first year that we did a full partnership with Teddy's heart I'm not sure if you're familiar with the teddy har Foundation but Teddy Dao uh a former South Washington County
student passed uh playing pickup basketball of heart failure and in partnering with them uh for both football and basketball uh the community raised enough money that we have an AED that is now permanently mounted in our stadium for that and then along with
that both football and basketball players went through full CPR training and um to learn how to respond to a situation like that uh the bottom picture with all the students there that student engagement piece I felt like our student engagement this year was at
probably the highest level I've seen since I've been there um kids packing the perch the stadium um just having fun at school events and our student in the middle will is our favorite ball boy he is one of our high functioning um
autistic students in our program non-verbal and since he has been in eighth grade he has been our our ball boy for football so at the beginning of the football games we bring him down on the field he's with his dad uh we have a meeting with the officials and the officials work very closely with him and he fully participates on the sideline as
our ball boy um the next picture on the top with uh it's a former student his name is Cody Newton he's a park graduate we were lucky enough to work with uh Cody he is a sports psychologist he graduated from the University of Green Bay and he did four sessions with our
student leadership our Captain's Council on anxiety handling stress visualization um it was just a a really great uh program to have and have an opportunity for our kidss to engage in and then on the bottom picture in the pool um our
unified Club has grown enormously and that's a club where our gened students and our special needs students work together and our gened students plan events activities um and this is event that they had them come to the pool and
they did a pool event with them so again it just shows the inclusiveness that we have at school and that all are welcome and all can participate in in anything and all that we have thank you it's been a great year I can't believe it's already done and
we're already in the full swing of planning for next year any questions or do we just hand it over to Phil oh question okay I did it's totally random so no it's actually for the children so how long have you guys been playing baseball or like how old were you when
you started years old okay and then how long did have you all been playing like together as a as a group of Home can hear you oh we've probably all been together
like three years oh that's it well for well for uh High School sports like yeah and then a bunch of us we all played youth together at different ages Okay so we've been playing since we were probably six or seven and then us three
play together for our whole life and he's he's the youngest one here he's only a sophomore he's the baby of the so as a you just finished your sophomore year or you're about to be a sophomore um I just finished my sophomore year I'll be a junior next year okay okay uh
no that's my question for you and then my question for the speech and debate kids or what were your categories um so through the state of Minnesota we actually have 13 different categories um so they have some of them are Minnesota only and some of them are National so there's um creative
expression dramatic interpretation discussion Duo interpretation extemporaneous reading extemporaneous speaking informative speaking humorous interpretation original oratory poetry reading Pros reading program oral interpretation and storytelling to name all of them in one breath for you
all so we kind of have a unique mix of both acting and public address for the students and which categories were you too involved in yeah for debate I started out in PF but then I switched to Congress and did that for the last three years and then speech I did extemp speaking and a little bit of oratory oh
okay um I was all over I started out in Congressional debate I did public forum and then in speech I started in informative I went to oratory and now I do extemp brainia speaking oh great and impromptu to thanks that was that was just I'm just
curious thank you and good luck next up Phil Kimo from Park High School good luck boys he good luck guys good evening we appreciate the time tonight you know when we uh spoke with Miss schaer we said it's really hard to condense an entire year of activities
down to as as much as we can but we try but we really do appreciate the the time tonight um there again you see um Sarah talked about just everything we do in education based activities is really purpose-driven and you know as as a department what our purpose is and then
individually what our purpose is you can see those there I'll just share mine with you I lead with Integrity commitment and compassion to provide growth opportunities to caring adults so that students can have a positive experience and learn lifelong skills and educationally based activities and each of our coaches and directors have their
own individual purpose statement that we kind of use as our kind of our Northstar of where we want to be uh participation numbers again you see those there a slight increase um you know the bottom line is we want to do anything we can to get kids involved um Athletics
activities Fine Arts obviously we have great music programs and then the clubs and activities are the ones that kind of e and flow based on Student Activity some of the newer clubs that we added this year an acting and film club an animation and arts Club um our Badminton Club was probably one of the more
popular um clubs that we've added you know it is a State High School League sport um just for females in the spring but we've just had a group of kids that are really interested that started playing this year uh Muslim Student Association and our nature explorers were a couple of the new ones some Fall
highlights we'll start with our boy soccer team um boy soccer was the section Champions um kind of a little bit of an underdog again I tried to I know it's very hard to see articles from the newspaper but kind of a little bit of a Cinderella Story I think we were three seed in sections and came through
with a couple upsets and won the section ended up uh finishing in fourth place in state and of course we had some some District members at that game game of the third place game Park versus Woodbury so how neat is that you know two teams from the same uh District uh
one of the two of the top four teams in the entire state so it was a tough game a lot of friends in that game between both the coaching staff and the players but you know a very fun competition and and having us Place fourth in state was tremendous Sarah talked about the Thunderbolts just a tremendous program
and you know the thing I probably say every time I'm here is whether they're winning by 10 or losing by 10 those kids have the absolute biggest smile on their faces every time they compete it's just really neat to to watch we rotate them each each season so we each take a turn
at each of our high schools um I got softball in the spring so I got a chance to see them a little bit more up close and person but just what a g great group um Sarah talked about the academic Awards again you get a gold award if your team GPA is uh above a 3.75 you get
a silver award if it's 3.5 to 3.75 you see those teams there we had um uh in footb they play in districts instead of a conference Skyler Morgan a receiver sometimes running back was the offensive player of the year in our district uh Noah hop from our soccer team got all state honorable mention we had two
student athletes sign their National letter of intent in the fall our fall player was death by chocolate they did a phenomenal job and then uh another person I absolutely have to mention is Miss Nancy Martinson Nancy Martinson if you've ever been to an athletic contest
at Park High School chances are very very likely that she sold you a ticket um nany's been selling tickets for 30 years at Park High School so obviously well before my time I was lucky enough to kind of inherit her uh she was an English teacher at Park she turned into a substitute teacher after retirement and through all those years she
continued selling tickets so I tried asking her how much tickets cost when she started selling 30 years ago she didn't quite remember but I had to been it had to been a lot cheaper than it was today but anyways we recognized her at a football game uh after she retired from her 30 years of selling tickets and uh
again all three of us High schools we have people like that in our buildings and in our departments that you kind of think what would we do without them and Nancy's one of those people and we'll definitely miss her winter highlights our wrestling team was the section runner up um Hastings is in our section
and Hastings is typically one of the better teams in the state they won State not this year but the year before that and we always have to battle against them and I think every year we get closer and closer but uh we finished in second place to them again you see the academic team Awards there um girls
hockey speaking of academics again we talk about the emphasis with with you know being student athletes and obviously you have to take care of the things in the classroom first um uh different sports do it differently but in girls hockey their coaches association recognize section champions for academics and then they take all
those section Champions and they compare it to each other and we end up being the state champions for academics in doublea class double eight for girls hockey so um great accomplishment there uh in gymnastics we had one state meet participant Ashley Davis in the vault in wrestling you'll see the the wrestlers that that we had competing at State
Landon Brooks Kyler jupol Zack Carr gunar Mullen D Dylan Richardson and Sam lanow and gunar took fourth place in his weight class which earns him all state honors so tremendous accomplishment for him Ali flat is our girls gymnastics coach and she was received the uh gymnastics coach of the year for her
section and then we had five more students um signing National letter of intents in the wintertime including Taran blazy who was our one division one football um for University of St Thomas St Thomas doesn't NE or or officially give athletic scholarships but those
kids still sign nlis spring um Sarah mentioned boys volleyball for Park High School it was our very first year having a club team and again we've worked very closely with the district as the high school league will be adding them next spring to be an officially sanctioned High School league sports but um it was our very first year having a club team
and you can it it was it was a great experience you could guess there was a lot of high you know sometimes there was a you could tell a difference between teams that were in their very first year of ever playing Club Ball versus some of the teams who've been playing for three or four years but but it was a great experience I know um all the
underclassmen we have on that team are looking forward to coming back next year and competing at as part of the high school league our girls lacrosse team won the conference as co-champions they did that for the second year in a row our softball team was section runner up uh you know baseball and softball are unique it's it's a double elimination
tournament which means you have to leave lose twice before you're out of it and we ended up playing Rosemont we had to beat them twice in the section Championship we beat them the first game and then they kind of flip the script and beat us in the second game but great run for them we talked about the Thunderbolts and them participating in state our academic team awards are there
um our boys golf again were the section Champs in academics um academic All State Adam Freeman and Jake young both in boys golf we had one athlete competing at the trk and field State uh meet and that was Dom Jenkins in the 400 um he ran a great race in the prelims I
think he missed the finals by one spot the top nine go to finals he ended up in 10th place after the prelims but but um I mean they're all hard races the two mile is a really really hard race but that 400 you know they call it a 400 meter dash it's a Sprint it is an allout Sprint for one lap that might I think
one of the hardest races there is and and D just the junior so I know he's looking to get back there next year um also something very unique this year the National High School strength and conditioning Association sponsors um recognition throughout the year and if you meet certain standards you get
All-American recognition or All-American honors from their Association and we had the first female student athlete ever in park history receive that Alexis Novak Alexis is also a softball player for us and and again it's certain standards that you have to meet but you know the
how hard she works throughout the school year in the weight room um is why she got that award so that was a pretty neat recognition and then we did our 26th annual athletic award ceremony this year where we recognize a lot of our seniors especially and our guest speaker this year was Tucker nne Tucker nney pitches
for the University of Minnesota OTA uh goer his baseball team he's a junior there and again luckily our athletic ceremony worked around his goer season ending before his summer season began and he he got a chance to speak with us um Fine Arts we can't forget about them
some tremendous things happening in our Fine Arts um our one act play uh the play they did this year was called the yellow Bol they won their section so they were section Champions and then I know many know this but then at the state level it's a competition through sections and then when you get to State
they no longer make it a competition because everyone is so good and so they call they they host a festival and then the best shows at that Festival get uh rewarded and named as starred performances so our one act play uh did receive a starred performance uh at the one act or at the yeah at the state
Festival which which was a great honor um speech uh we we hosted the section meet this year at Park High School it's always a large undertaking with so many uh Speech schools coming into our school and we had one state participant this year and we hadn't had a state parti has been in a while and so Brody Owens and
creative expression competed in the state tournament and did a great job and then our musical was the prom the musical edition of the prom um and again similar to what Sarah mentioned I know it's very very hard to read on the screen uh because we had to make it so small but uh you know the henin theater
trust recognizes you know High School groups for the great work they did and receiv received many many um spotline education awards from that trust and and um uh again similar to what Sarah said NE to see the talent that we have have uh in all three of our schools at the high school level is pretty incredible
um some Award winners our Excel award again like s like Sarah mentioned excels for excellence in Community Education and Leadership we have Holland and Sam I'm going to hold off on them for a second and we'll get back to them our AAA Award winners seniors who excel in um the academics the Arts and Athletics
so well-rounded you know this is really considered um one of the top awards that the high school league offers because these are these are completely our consumate student athletes and Susie embu and Joey runan were our seniors that were nominated for that um our honor athletes the words we give out for the students who are you know obviously
excelling in the in athletics but also really really good students uh Tor STA and Noah halp our theer award winner this year for the outstanding female athlete was AA reckinger our Apollo Award winner for outstanding male male was Taran blazy um we recognize three sport letter winners so not just being
in the sports for three years but lettering all three seasons sorry all three seasons and we had to total of 27 uh three sport letter winners 10 of which were seniors so again that commitment we know the commitment within a season is is a lot and for kids to do a three seasons in a row I think is
incredible now I would like to recognize two of our students so what happens with these High School league Awards is each School nominates a winner from their school and those are the ones where we get a chance to recognize we always recognize them throughout the district and then what we do as as activities directors as we send those winners onto
the state level and they they join a state level competition so each year the um Minnesota State High School league selects 40 overall State winners and again I just think how neat it is that this year Park High School had two out of those 40 state level award winners uh
we got to go to an award ceremony during the girls basketball state tournament and recognize these two so I'm going to invite Holland and Sam up and I know you would much rather hear from them than hear from me so I'm going to have them introduce themselves and specifically again when we talk about Excel Community
Education and Leadership and talk about some of the leadership roles they have in our schools and they're both really really involved in the community with volunteering and Sam get to go first hi I am Sam paulon I'm the male uh Minnesota state level Excel award recipient so in Park High School I'm a
three sport Varsity letter winner as well as a three sport Varsity Captain for track and field cross country and Nordic schi in school I'm involved in uh various clubs uh including link crew leaders of the pack and then I'm an officer for NHS and Key Club I'm also a
viola and bass player for the chamber and concert Orchestra at Park High School outside of school I'm involved in many different things I work two jobs outside of school as well as uh being involved in many different Community Services uh most notably of which was Special Olympics which I was introduced
to by my cross country head coach Brad narvon um Special Olympics uh gave me a chance to work with uh student athletes who had uh special needs or were handicapped in some way and I got to kind of really develop my leadership skills there and kind of understand what
it meant to be a leader and a figure to these kids and throughout the season of Special Olympics I got to be a player on the team as well as a coach and lead them throughout workouts practice and then uh take them to the state meet and section meet where we uh all play together flag football and it was just a
great opportunity to develop my leadership skills and not only develop mine but develop their leadership skills in the sport and outside of the sport and the Special Olympics volunteering opportunity really made me develop not only as a leader but as a person in my
community and throughout Park High School hi um I'm Holland Thompson I was the female Award winner um at Park I'm involved in two sports I'm the girls cross country captain this year and then I'm also involved in our lacrosse program and then I also do Club outside which is where I'm going after this
actually um and then I'm also involved in as many clubs as I can be in at Park pretty much um I part of pack of friends link crew um uh I have leadership position leadership roles sorry and uh Breakfast Club which
is a faith group and then FCA which started this year at Park um and then NHS student council Key Club I don't know like pretty much any club um and then outside of school I love like volunteering uh my two main ones I like to do is through my church and then also
with Shriners so with my church I teach sorry I teach a Sunday school class um second graders on Sundays and then I've also helped with like VBS and like FCA Sports Camp um and then I help with Shriners which is Shriners H hospital
for childrens which helps with like people with physical disabilities which I went to like the camps and I still go to some of the camps so I get to help with the younger kids camps so yeah there's yeah thank you to both and again how neat it was the picture on the right the picture
from the the uh recognition ceremony that the high school league does and um you know they kind of summed it up at Park High School these are some of the many kids we have that do everything like they're involved in all areas but I just think how neat it was just you know the the special connection they have to
some of the volunteer um opportunities they do Sam with Special Olympics Holland as a child went to shriner camps and now is going back as a counselor at Shriner Camp I just think that's really neat so uh congratulations to both of them um the last time we had a state Award winner for Excel was
2014 and actually we had two winners that year also so it's been about 10 years since we've had state level winners and to have two again is is I thought was was was really amazing my favorite moments um absolutely have to talk about our boys soccer state run Holland's going to lacrosse practice
right now so she felt very badly about coming the way she dressed but but she's going right to lacrosse practice um seeing her play lacrosse with one one arm is absolutely amazing she does amazing things um our boy soccer state run and again we had a lot of our
district administrators uh at this game at at US Bank Stadium we sent 12 buses filled with Park High School students to the game so if you do the math that's 600 of our students I'd say we had about another 100 students that drove there so we sent 700 of our student body to uh US
Bank Stadium for the SEC or for the um the semi finals of the state tournament um you see the picture there just just to see the excitement on the field off the field that was absolutely amazing um another thing that we participated in this year um was a State High School league program called together we make a
difference where you bring leaders and some of your some of your leaders from your school both in activities as well as kind of like our super fans and we have participated in a in a regional um conference as well as a state level conference and um the high school league has this program called salt student
athlete leadership ship team and they they run these programs to provide more leadership opportunities for our kids so participating in that uh was very fun I talked about our state excl award ceremony which was just amazing um you know Sarah mentioned about our super fans a couple pictures of our super fans
it's just neat to see again in all areas kids support or or students supporting their classmates is you know not every student it's not their number one thing to want to be the main person participating on stage or on the field those kinds of things but to see them supporting their teammates is or their
classmates is always a neat thing and then the other thing I just want to touch on is you know I always I like being on Twitter and I use my hashtag Wolfpack gives back but the community service you know just talking about individually some of the things that they're doing but a lot of the community service that our team's doing and again I'll just mention a couple of those
quick ones one of them was Teddy's heart and we were lucky enough that U the Dole family and and East Ridge kind of brought us into that obviously there's a family there family that lives in Cottage Grove that a lot of our cage Grove families know and so we use those games between part and East Ridge as a lot of our big fundraisers the first
football game of the year at TCO Stadium then when we did basketball games at both places those were the games that the Doles chose to use as their Teddy's heart nights and just being able to be included in that um was was very special and again helping other causes um you know uh our girls basketball program
does a tremendous job uh raising money coaches versus cancer and they always try to find um you know families within our community that need help and again I know it's a tiny picture and you can't it but this year they actually gave back to two families from Park High School one of them is a staff member who was
who was dealing with with cancer and they wanted to help her financially a little bit with some of the money that they raised and then another family was actually uh one of our students and one of our teachers um the students father the teacher's spouse passed away during the school year um and just trying to help that family with the financial
constraints of the of of his battle with cancer and just seeing them give back but not just giving back but giving back directly within our community and the last one which we haven't done ever that was really neat the bottom right corner our boys hockey team did a First Responders night where they recognized the First Responders of anyone who was
first responder from the two hockey teams that were playing that night and to have the city of cge Grove bring the squad car and the fire car right onto the ice with the lights was very very cool so you know we talk about it a lot but but you know it's it's wonderful participating but anything we can do to
give back the community we try to stretch that any way we can so it was a tremendous year um we appreciate all the support to make all these wonderful things happen and I will turn it over to jod to get to woodbury's accomplishments actually Phil hey
Phil Phil I did have one question so for the Excel W that Sam got and he went to State like how does that what is the yeah Sam you can walk up there if you want um what is the process by which you get to be you get you get to be from Park High School's honory to being one
of the state for top 40 in the state for sure so and again it's probably similar but might be a little different with each each of the schools but for us we have coaches nominate or staff members so we have coaches or staff members nominate kids we have them fill out a brief nomination form not the very very lengthy one and then we have um our our
group of coaches that get together to pick our uh School Award winners so we pick a male we pick a female then there's more of an extensive High School league application that they have to fill out including a letter of recommendation and essays that they write as well too and then like I said each of the three schools then we're
able to send one application to the high school league so one male and one female from our school from each of the schools and then that goes on to a state level and then the high school league has a has a committee of Administrators ads coaches directors that they select the overall State winners so once we have
our our school nominees winners we just send those on in their applications to the state and the state picks the again and obviously in in um for Excel they pick the 40 uh Statewide winners does it matter by like section or by region of the state or is it just they everyone
goes in one big pot uh you know for the AAA award when they that that is a regional level so then your region picks an overall male and a female um I believe there is some Regional representation if we look closely at that tiny little picture that I had but it's not an exact like there's two from
region 3aa there's two from region 4aa that is more of they try to get Regional representation but it's not like an automatic you know salmon H where the Region 3 winner and now they're going on to the state level which is the case for like when they pick the overall AAA Award winner AAA is school then your
region picks a male and a female and then those region ones go on this is more of just I think try to get trying to get representation from around the state does that make sense thank you sorry well good evening everyone uh it's fun to be third uh this is my fourth
year at Woodbury High School and so now I feel like it's uh um we've gone through one class while I've been here and it's uh it's been a great time um with that I just share that as we've had an opportunity to talk about um our fall winter and spring and Fine Art items uh
what our coaches and our advisers and directors do is really to try and live out our mission and and what we accomplish and that's really providing uh being positive role models great positive experiences for our kids and teaching them fundamentals uh and skills and strategy while that all takes place we know that high school sports is
sandwiched between a billion dollar youth industry and a billion dollar College industry and educ based Athletics really compliments um our coaches who um work in with high school kids to also have fun and while many of our some of our kids will go on to play
college most won't and we have amazing adults to help us uh and lead and guide our our student athletes um and those who are involved with uh Fine Arts as well as clubs I lead to develop competitive and inclusive leaders who learn successful teamwork and life skills through
activities I um will share that this year our numbers are down by a few in in males and up by a few in females um overall we have about 51% of our males participate in State High School league uh Sports and 45% of our females um this
year our our numbers that our three sport athletes this is actually higher for us than the past three years I've been here we have 10 males and uh five females on average it's anywhere from two to 3% of our student body will participate in um three sports during
their senior year so so not real high at all um just do the large amount of commitment that it requires I'm going to start off with some favorite moments um to begin with because I'm going to bookend my presentation with positives um the first is just Kent getl those of
you who may or may not know him he's one of our beloved teachers in our school district um at our school with he's a park grad he's our boy basketball coach and a social studies teacher uh with him being a social studies teacher um
two years ago he was diagnosed with skin cancer and um it was really hard uh he had uh chemotherapy and um mapy during the course of the school year and I just want to say thank you to park and Eastridge for the amount of community
support and dedication that they um both schools gave him when we played them uh Phil spoke about how the girls basketball team reaches out and supports uh families uh in year one uh they brought him and his family in and and recognized him um the last two years
East Ridge has uh supported by having t-shirts and then uh pink shirts the first year and this year everybody wore the kg shirts and so just a really neat way to support kg and a great teacher and educator and coach in our building um other really fun moments um we have
our Leadership Council this year we did something uh new we called it the pass it on panel and we had a fabulous group of seniors this year um I can't say enough good things about them they are so fabulous that in 10 years I will probably hope hopefully still remember their names and when you're in education
you can't always say that you remember their names long after they're gone um but with the pass it on panel uh we brought them in may they brought on all the new leaders for the upcoming year and they gave their recommendations and advice of what to do and how to lead um we had speakers in over the course of
the year and we talked about different items our Focus this year was team culture and our Focus next year will be on grit and perseverance um so just an great opportunity to help with our our school and and develop our team cultures team culture um our boys swim team and I
say swim team because uh we had no divers uh this year was uh nothing but remarkable in the previous year they won zero conference meets um this past year they were SEC Champions they were section Champions and they were true team section Champions um and it's hard
to say that one person can change an entire team but we did have an indivisual by the name of Gunner Severson who um swam with us as a freshman came back out as a senior brought some of his Swim Club friends with him and um did remarkable things this year and really bolstered the whole
uh School swimming culture for the boys in in such a positive way um I have some pictures of one of our Affinity groups our black student union group and I get to uh work with all of these Affinity groups and the events that they plan and it's just a real positive experience uh getting to know students um as they
really highlight um many of the things that are important to them uh our girls hockey team has uh had its fair share of roller coaster up and downs they've had five coaches in seven years um this past year they had a 20 plus win season and then they haven't ever had that in
school history and just to see the success and the um the Positive Vibes that have gone through their program this year and the struggles that they've overcome was was real positive and then I've got a fun soccer ball because this was our second year going to state in
boys um soccer uh as Phil said we did play them in the third place game and uh what a great way to celebrate the school and the community by bringing them together in such a positive way our Fall highlights um I'm gonna just go sort of by some of the pictures
uh in the top left we have unso Lee who's um an amazing speech and debate uh participant scored 36 on his act and just someone that um you know will be leading uh a company and doing great things and if it's not a company he'll be leading in our government somewhere
and um really proud of him and the different items that he was able to achieve uh he's at Nationals right now with speech and debates and participated in um debate and speech through the State High School league um in the lower left counter we had 10 students signed nlis participating in division one or
division two this year and that was the largest number that we've had for uh the fall signing period and also indicating part of the reason why we had a lot of success this year uh overall we had 16 student athletes signing D1 or D2 over over the school year um next is Gabby uh
she's a two-time state champion this past year she got running a runner up in diving and um despite getting runner up in diving she knew that that's where she would fall based upon the scores she still had a PR um and best score record
um this past year and so um as she leaves and moves on uh we have other divers that will fill her spot but they have big shoes to fill and she's certainly a decorated student athlete for us over the past few years our girls cross country team uh Advanced to the state uh for the second year in a row
section Champs and uh what was really fun to see them this year in their second year the first year they were excited to get there the the second year they were ready to compete and um finished better than they had in the past and were excited with uh with where where they landed um and as I mentioned
our boys soccer team their first quarter round game at Farmington was in the pouring rain the entire um Tire game so an interesting um weather night for our winter highlights um I mentioned already our boy swim and dive but gunar
Severson he was fourth uh in the free Rel and a third in our 500 free um Lacy Thomas was the first gymnast as an all-around to make the state in the past 11 years um with that
um we have Alex Brun who's a two-time state champion in wrestling uh he's going on to University of Oklahoma uh he was Mr Wrestling he was All-American uh extremely unassuming you wouldn't me necessarily guess other than his wrestling ear that he was a wrestler um
and extremely humble I've asked him to be here the past two years um but he's always at Nationals uh for for his offseason so he's unable to be with us in Alpine we had uh Bennett lavander and Andrew senson placed eth and 14th respectively uh boys hockey I will just
share coach BM will come up and talk with us a little bit later but he was honored for his 10,000th um game coached uh this past year our Science Olympiad uh state meet qualifiers uh and Dr uh Sonata always has has been bringing them
to State for the past four years that I've been at Woodburry our spring highlights uh boy uh girls softball and girls lacrosse both finished as a runner up in the section um one of my pictures is hopefully going to show a little better
but it's a little pixelized in there and I don't it wasn't like that earlier on in the presentation but our boys section cheack and field qualifiers were in the 4x8 the 4x1 the 4X two 100 meter dash discus triple jump and long jump Liam fral who's in the upper left corner on
the right hand side he finished fourth in the triple jump Quinton C Butler finished 10th um and uh the team the 4X 100 team was was all state in girls section track and field we advanced in the 4 by8 the 4X two the 4x1 the 1600
and the 800 um and with that our 4X 100 meter um team was State uh golf Waverly Yang is a three-time state participant she uh received um second in sections and this year our girls golf program
went from 15 cont uh participants to 40 so it was a a huge increase in numbers our girls and boys track and field teams our girls team was 104 registered student athletes and our boys was 115 so really really high numbers um conversely
our boys volleyball team we won one match the entire season um and so definitely a new sport I received zero complaints from anybody as a result of their brand new experience and um it really fun to see them develop and I had a number of kids at the end um
just really thank thankful for the opportunity that they had a chance to play we had 22 Springs signing division 3 um and that's a really a testament to the success of of our teams and the kids that are going on to play and participate our Fine Arts um our musical
this year was Foot Loose it was definitely a toet tapping sing along and uh fun to see them participate in our one act play received third at sections um it was called I never saw another butterfly and about the Holocaust and our spring play was Marian uh Marion and
the true tale of Robin Hood we had one Spotlight Award winner both Phil uh Park and Woodbury uh do share a number of our Fine Arts um directors we share a speech and one act uh play director and we both and we share a musical director together and so they've they've been successful
in what they've been doing um each year we have an orchestra Carnival in which um we have a theme of Disney Disney songs and then there's a large Carnival where kids come in and they play and they get to learn about Orchestra and the instruments and it's a it's a great opportunity for our Littles uh and then
last we have um our 2024 speech uh state qualifiers uh Ean zai and Kate weslake both placed fourth at State um Kate in extemp and Yan in inform informative speaking they are at Nationals this week and so
um in our award winners our AAA Award winners were CLA leinhardt and Uno Lee our Excel Award winners were Amal Bethy and PAs and pamala and Gabby modder um was easily hands down our Awards uh theena Award winner and I'm not going to elaborate on those definitions because
we already have that so congratulations to those Award winners um next up if I could have Coach Bolan please come up um coach Bolan uh is a social studies teacher first and foremost at Woodberry High School uh he's also our boy hockey
coach and a baseball coach Come a Little Closer um and just I can't say enough good things about him um as uh somebody who's been in different schools in our conference uh two other conference schools it's a name his name is somebody
who is a very respected individual um he's been coaching and teaching for 41 years and next year will be his 42nd year and so I cannot comment on the amount of um amazing students that he has been able to impact and the different things that he's tried and
been able to um to move forward with I'm going to go to my script here right now so I don't speak too too long because there's a lot of really great things that I could say um Wes reached uh the significant coaching Milestone on December 19th this year having coached 10,000 Varsity gains in recognizing
coach Bolan I also want to recognize his wife Patty who's not able to be here tonight um um Patty's a media clerk at Armstrong Elementary and I want to recognize both of them because as we know coaching is a major lifestyle and the sacrifices that Wes has to uh coach
and teach are also sacrifices that are seen at home where there was probably times where he was not able to be there and um you need to have a supportive uh partner in EN able to make that that work for 41 years um so his career started at H high school for three years
then he went to fondel for 18 years and he's been at wood High School um since 2007 a critical year because the school I was at was supposed to go to the state tournament but Wes's team beat us out that year um in his first year um so
with that um Wes is a beloved teacher someone who's always recognized as part of the honors staff um someone who's been selected as a faculty speaker at graduation and multiple times um and those individuals are teachers who are recognized having special relationships
sh with with students um they make positive impacts uh one way that you can take a look at how impactful coaches have been is how many times have they been invited to weddings or been a part of their weddings and I know Wes has has continued to be a part of his student athletes lives well after they've left
uh and been a part of his team I would like to thank Wes and Patty for the amount of uh time and dedication and all the positive things that you do in our school and our community Wes is also somebody that I bounce ideas off of and and get suggestions for about how we
should look to do things within our department um so Wes I'd like for you to take a moment to say a few things thank you uh thank you Jody um I tell you uh 41 years of uh teaching and coaching I don't think I'll be as articulate and confident as uh young Kenneth
was at the beginning here this evening but uh um uh it it is a you know it's it's an honored to be recognized uh uh in front of you on behalf of Woodbury High School and our activities program and uh I appreciate uh the support that
uh uh the school board gives uh activities activities are extremely important part of our schools and uh you know I'm I'm blessed to to be a part of that I think if you were to uh look at each of our our teachers at school uh at every uh every one of our high schools
for sure each teacher has has a little a little niche uh that's goes above and beyond what their uh academic area is mine just happens to be hockey and then I do 10th grade baseball with coach quinnville in the uh uh in the spring we
meet together a couple times a year as well and and have uh have fun times as well but uh uh the activities are are really important I'm I'm blessed to be a part of this and uh uh you know I've been doing this for 41 years and and uh
first and foremost you do need that that spouse who's going to be supportive of you and uh allow you to do uh what your passion is and then also uh you need to you need to have someone take a chance on you you know uh I was hired at uh at the age of 22 as a head coach and a
social studies teacher in howlock Minnesota and and uh just a wonderful uh wonderful experience uh you know 22 years old I got to be a head coach a teacher uh then we moved to Wisconsin folac Wisconsin a school very much like
Woodburry Eastridge and Park uh uh there where we raised our daughters and uh moved uh here to Woodbury in in 2004 actually and uh uh cron had won the state championship beat us in a section final the year before 2006 short
correction there that's okay but 2007 we did uh make uh make the state tournament for the first time uh in our school's history and uh that was a obviously a a great moment and uh you know the moments that that you have that you remember
that have those kinds of successes they always there's always a you know a player an athlete that kind of comes to mind that uh that helps bring that along for you and uh you know we we had a young man named David Eddie who scored the game-winning goal against uh against
cting that time to put us in the state tournament and then uh uh you know we were able to make the state tournament again the next year and uh um you know we had a lot of success a lot of fun and uh and even since then you know um you
know coach Kimmel uh uh Mr Kimmel I should say Mr Kimmel who had been a part of the hiring staff uh for me in 2004 when I think he were athletic director for the entire district is that correct he's been here a long time one athletic
director for the entire District okay you can take that note all right uh and uh uh so he was part of that staff he helped give me the opportunity to be here and uh I appreciate that I appreciate the support that administrators have had uh uh for me and
for uh our athletic uh coaches uh jod does a wonderful job at Woodbury High School now and I know that uh Phil and Sarah do great jobs at their school as well but uh we're really I'm really blessed to be a part of this this whole process that's education and uh when you
look at all of the kids who were listed that jod listed up there I had almost all of them in AP World History in 10th Grade and uh uh I know Julie you've been to my class and uh uh welcome any of you to come come to my class and visit
sometime if you want a little heads up might be okay but if not just stop in and we'll be all right you know but uh uh it's uh like I said it's an honor to be here an honor to be recognized and uh I'm I'm really blessed with what I'm able to do and feel very fortunate uh uh
to have education as as my career and uh um 41 years I know I'm got 42 let's go to 4 three let's see what happens all right so thank you very much uh Sarah Phil and I would like to say congratulations to Dan Pine and
thank you for all of your support and Care over over the time period so appreciate having the opportunity to talk today all right any questions for them before they go I had oh this will be a shock I have one more question um and I don't know so we had to watch the
Minnesota State High School League video to vote on it this evening and in there they said they're going from a 10 to 12 organization to a 9 to2 organization does that have any practical impact on us at all okay that's that was my question that was
it it changes some things but it's not not like we already have all those programs within our school already okay the short we could give you the long answer but the short is no really won't change how we're doing things okay perfect thank you that BR
another question though men insurance no so so technically unless they participate on a b Squad JV or Varsity level team which is under the high school league umbrella if a ninth grader participated on those then they fall underneath the the high school League's catastrophic insurance if a
n9th grader participates just on a regular ninth grade team then they would not qualify underne that insurance so one of the reasons why they are doing this is it would bring those students underneath their catastrophic injury insurance and then the middle school
students are still on on their own unless they're on thej remember we bring up eight gr okay perfect thank you right and before they go I just want to thank jod Sarah and Phil for their dedication to our programs you can see them just about 7
days a week morning noon and night at all kinds of events and in any school so I want to give them a round of applause as well for all of their heart all right now I just need Phil to St up here for one more minute before I go we'd like to congratulate Phil on being awarded the
inside out leadership award this award has been given to athletic directors who successfully complete the professional learning series to develop their capacity to intentionally lead a purpose-based sports program where students are connected to transformational coaches and a culture
of growth growth and development the Inside Out initiative is a national program that empowers and equips School communities to implement purpose-based Sports and trains athletic directors to be transformational leaders creating a sense of community for student athletes congratulations Phil on
your work on this training series and what you do to create a positive experience for students at Park and this is quite a a trophy it's very heavy and I think they mailed it to Julie they did did they mail it you so congratulations thank
you okay all right thank you thank you all okay we are moving on to 7.0 action item 7.1 is our Minnesota State High School League membership presented by Christine schaer
all right good evening I'm here tonight to seek approval for renewing the membership for South Washington County school district and the Minnesota State High School league we are currently and have been members of the Minnesota State High School league and each year the league requires that the school board authorizes membership for the following
year in your packet you will see the resolution that is confirming that the school board delegates the following three items delegates the control supervision and regulation of League sponsored athletic and finance activities to the Minnesota State High School league delegates the school board
to adopt the Minnesota state High School league Constitution bylaws rules and regulations and delegates that the administration and responsibility for supervising registered activities is assigned to our official School Representatives also I'd like to confirm
that each of you has viewed the why wepl video that will send to you electronically and review the code of conduct so first can I get a confirmation that each of you have viewed the video and reviewed the code of conduct yep yes yes yes yes right lastly
I'd like to seek approval for the membership for the 2425 school year with South Washington County schools and the Minnesota State High School league can I get a motion to approve so moved second motioned by Simmy seconded
by Eric this is a resolution Dana Ryan Clark yes Eric Tesmer yes pet Driscoll yes Melinda dolles yes simy petak yes Katie Schwarz yes okay motion passes thank you thank you
okay we'll move on to 7.2 and that is our long-term facilities finance and operations uh good evening chair Schwarz members of the school board superintendent neelson uh tonight I'm here to talk about the long-term facility maintenance plan and one one that needs to be
approved and sent on to the state I just want to mention a couple things before I do that I want to acknowledge actually um the Great job I feel that Chris Blackburn entertained it on the budget this year um it was kind of
their her maiden voyage for pres pres presenting the budget and I thought she did a great job and then I see Sharon on here today I was going to tell a little story but I could I could tell you the story real quick um so my wife is up north in up North Wisconsin helping out
some friends turn a house into a vbo and so checked in last night and she said um she was kind of excited she said you know and they're up in northern Wisconsin she said that we saw a bear on the way to Walmart
this morning and I said um that's pretty cool how'd you know I was going to Walmart she hunt up on [Music] me uh longterm facility maintenance plan
is uh revenue is generated through a combination of Levy and Aid longterm facility means revenue is used to repair and replace existing structures and lands may not be used for new construction you'll see that as we work on our $200 million Bond projects that
we're doing a combination in some of the schools of ltfm and bonding it allows us to do more work than um was approved through the bonds the revenue is generated with the combination of bonding Aid and pical Levy the Department of Education
requires school boards to annually approve a 10-year ltfm plan an update to the board was presented at the last meeting concerning long-term cility maintenance projects this summer I have included uh this Summer's projects in your packet and next Summer's projects
and those are subject to change as we do a new plan every 10 years um and I've also attached the plan that needs to be approved by the school board and the revenue application which also needs to be approved by the school board um we we have attached to the uh packet
of the resolution um approving the plan and instructing us to send it on to the state um it's due by July 31st uh this year we are trying to get it done early just to um to help out the maintenance
department as uh their key um accounting person will be retiring this year also um so we recommend approval of the plan and by doing so um approving the resolution so yeah asking for a motion
to too quick there can I get a motion to approve so moved second motion by Melinda seconded by simy any comments questions okay this is a resolution Dana Eric tesner yes Patroll yes Melinda
dolls yes Simi pet yes Ryan Clark yes Katie Schwarz yes thank you thank you Dan okay 7.3 proposed policy changes and that will be presented by Julie Nelson super donet good evening and thank you
um this evening I am bringing back um six policies that were reviewed um at the may9th workshop meeting they include policy 213 Schoolboard committees which included an updated list of committees and titles 604 instructional curriculum updated to reflect changes in statute
901 Community Education and 90 two there were no proposed changes 906 Community notification of predatory offenders updated to reflect changes in statute and finally 9007 rewards um updated the name of and the reference statute and so
this evening uh for those six policies I am asking for approval can I get a motion to approve so Move Motion by Pat second seconded by Sim any comments questions okay seeing none all those in favor I any opposed
motion passes thank you Julie uh 7.4 is budget 2024 2025 presented by Chris Blackburn Director of Business Services good evening chair Schwarz
members of the school board and superintendent neelen tonight um I'll start out too actually by thanking Nan pen for his many years of service I do have one more board meeting so not being sure that I'll be presenting then but um he's been a wonderful mentor um friend and just a lot of guidance and
laughs and I'm not even going to try to keep up with the jokes uh however hopefully I can do it with a smile and we'll just keep plugging away as well so tonight we're seeking approval of the uh our 20 2425 preliminary budget Minnesota school districts are required to have a
revenue and expenditure budget approved by June 30th of the preceding fiscal year the finance department has prepared the 2425 budget for school board approval I'd like to thank my team as well for the amount of work that they put into preparing the budget um as well
as Dan who always tells me he beats me on Revenue um the 2425 general fund was presented to the school board on June 6 2024 in detail the school nutrition fund and Community Education fund budgets were presented to the school board on April 25th and May 23rd respectively so
at this time Administration recommends approval of the 2425 preliminary budget and would ask for a motion to approve can I get a motion so moved second comments or questions okay seeing none all those in favor I any opposed motion passes and
now 7.5 closure of internal service fund resolution and that is also presented by Chris Blackburn Director of Business Ser so some night I want to come with a little scroll and be like well just let me take up five minutes of your time um good evening again so tonight we're asking for approval of a resolution to
close our internal service fund and Des designate the transferred funds which will be transferred to general fund as committed fund balance so the background I did present this at last um the workshop meeting on June 6 the governmental Accounting Standards Board statement 54 establish criteria for an
internal service fund and established classifications for fund balances and so I went into some detail about that um the internal service fund which we use to account for the activity of certain retirement benefit obligations no longer meets the definition of an internal service under gby statement number 54
therefore needs to be closed by the end of this current fiscal year the attached resolution closes the internal service fund transfers the remaining fund balance to the general fund and commits the transferred fund balance for that use so Administration recommends the approval of the resolution as attached
and would look for a motion for such can I get a motion to approve this resolution so moved oh second okay seconded by Simi Pat motion by Pat any comments um I did have one question so if we um eventually move our health
insurance to being a self-insured model will we that's when we would bring back an internal service fund correct that would be a very appropriate use of an internal service fund would be that because we'd be funding that as well as Distributing that out to the servicing departments okay and then the other um
and just to confirm so because this is coming into the general fund as a committed balance it does not have an impact on our um on our fund balance it doesn't on the unassigned the unassign okay y That's it any other comments or
questions okay seeing none this is also a resolution so Dana can you call the role again uh Eric tesner yes Pat Driscoll yes Melinda do yes Simi pet yes Ryan Clark yes Katie Schwarz yes thank you very
much okay now we are on to 7.6 and that's our agreement with maintenance and custodians Teamsters Local 320 and that will be presented by Abby Baker Director of Human Resources good evening chair Schwarz members of the school board and
superintendent neelsen it's negotiations season we have three contracts to approve tonight the first one is 7.6 the tenative agreement with maintenance and custodians negotiations toward a new collective bargaining agreement between South Washington County schools and the maintenance custodian Union have
resulted in a tenative agre agreement to be effective July 1 2024 um through June 30th 2026 members of the association approved the tenative agreement on June 14th 2024 the economic costing of the tenative agreement includes the
following year one is a 5% increase year two is a 5% increase for health insurance beginning January 1 2025 it's a 10% increase of District contribution to the high deductible plans and then on January 1 2026 it's an 8% increase of
District contribution to high deductible plans some other notable contract items include a dental insurance increase from 3575 to 4296 for single coverage um and from 3850 um to 75 for a family
part-time and seasonal employees increase the pay from 1713 per hour to $20 per hour addition of juneth to the paid holiday schedule an addition of Martin Luther King J day to the holiday pay schedule for those working the
Saturday and Sunday before the holiday um we recommend approval of the contract a motion to approve so moved second Eric any comments or questions okay seeing none all those in
favor I any opposed motion passes now we will do 7.7 and that is agre agement with par professionals all right so 7.3 is the attentive agreement with par professionals with Teamsters Local 320
um this is also for the contract beginning July 1 2024 through June 30th 2026 and members of the association approved the tenative agreement on June 14th 2024 um the economic casting of the tenative agreement includes an aggregate
of 8.81% increase over 2 years um with a change in class and steps so on this contract we removed longevity pay from the contract and um built it into a salary grid so some of our groups are moving to that model um for health
insurance as of January 1 2025 it's a 10% increase of the district contribution to the high deductible plans and then on January 1st 2026 it's an 8% increase of the district contribution to the high deductible plans um other notable items include a TSA District contribution match increase
of $500 um an addition of dental insurance coverage to the district contribution New Year's Day added to the paid holiday schedule and then juneth added for the holiday schedule um for PA professionals who are currently actively working in
our summer programs who would have been scheduled um for that time period we recommend approval of this contract and I get a motion to approve so moved second motion by Eric second by simy any
comments or questions no seeing none all those in favor I hi hi opposed motion passes we will move on to our last contract 7.8 and that is agreement with the bus mechanics Local 70 yes 7.8 is
bus mechanic bus mechanics Local 70 um again this contract begins on July 1st 2024 and ends on June 30th 2026 and members of this um bargaining unit approved the tenative agreement on June June 13th
2024 um wages for the bus mechanic will go up from currently 3368 $237 per hour in year 1 and 3848 in year 2 for the head mechanic it'll be 470 in year 1 and
4233 in year 2 for health insurance as of January 1 2025 it'll be a 10% increase of the district contribution to the high deductible plans and then as of January 1 2026 an 8% increase of the district contribution to the high
deductible plans so the only change in this contract was wages and benefits there were no other changes we recommend approval of this contract and Pat can I get a second second seconded by simy any comments I
do I had one question so um for the bus mechanic and the head so does for the bus mechanic and all employees make the same wage regardless of their how many years they've been in the district correct thanks yep any other questions okay all those in favor I any
opposed motion passes thank you thank you we'll move on to 8.0 and that is our superintendent report thank you I get get asked often you know do we have the summer off and I think sometimes people forget that uh we're still running a very large organization here whether
it's hiring uh whether it's our summer programming um but throughout the summer we have kids club actively going on we have credit recovery we have we have targeted Services we have our extended school year for our special education students so there really is a lot happening um in addition we have some of
our sites and locations that are closed down or parts of them are closed down but we are actually busy preparing um it really is not that many days until our students return um I know people say three months well we're already done with one of the months and so you know as we hit July 4th um we have uh July
and then once August hits we're right back in that school mode um just a couple cple of things uh yesterday I attended the Hall of Fame banquet for Park High School and uh having been in the district 32 years it was really fun because I did start my time at Park High
School and Katie and I were referencing some of the coaches and people who were there and I felt like it was a little bit of a Time Warp I had an age but everyone else had um but it was just really great to connect with former teachers um and employees throughout the district it was uh the Parky hall of
fame um where they also give out scholarships so two of our students from Park High School were recognized and received a $1,500 um scholarship so that was really a great event and then finally if the rain holds off uh uh South Washington County Schools will be
in the Strawberry Fest Parade on Saturday um right now just so people know National Weather Service is predicting by the time it's done anywhere from 3 to 5 Ines of rain so I'm worried about our baseball team just a little bit but thank
you thank you Julie um 9.0 is our future meeting dates that is July 18th 2024 is our Schoolboard business meeting here at the district service center at 6 PM reminder we only have one uh meeting in the month of July
and then August 8th 2024 is our Schoolboard Workshop meeting and that's also here at the district service center at 6 pm and with that we are at 10.0 and we are adjourned [Music] he
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