all right thank you everyone for attending and thank every thanks thank everyone for watching we'll go ahead and move into agenda approval are there any changes to the agenda as presented no changes can I get a motion
to approve so moved so moveed by second second by Vala to approve the agenda as presented all in favor please say I I those opposed motion passes uh going moving to some future
events please check the district calendar and resource guide or the district website for a complete list of monthly events Tuesday June 25th 2024 school board work session at 6 PM wow that list is very short yeah moving on to consent agenda can I
get a motion so move by henon second second by mollen to approve the following items of the consent agenda minutes of the May 14 2024 Schoolboard regular meeting May 28 2024 school board work session bills
paid for April 2024 in the following amounts of a total of 3,7 $ 29,5 958 Personnel items and preschool
mou all in favor please say I I I those opposed motion passes and moving on to presentation special guests and recognition introduction of Lindsey Johnson 2024 2025 Park terce
principal welcome hi thank you that was very generous so I know I've met a few of you before and others of you I haven't met quite as much yet so I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself a little bit to you and thank you for this time so I'll kind of start at the beginning of my career in Spring Lake
Park I started back here in 2005 I was a a multi-age first grade and second grade teacher my first year and then in my six years I also taught kindergarten and first grade after that I spent some time coaching I was an instructional coach um at a couple of the elementary schools in our building and then more recently I've
moved to the teaching and learning team as a coordinator um in that time though I've worked across all the sites I spent a little bit more time at Park Terrace though I had two different stints there one time I was there for a short short amount of time I was cover covering a maternity leave and that's where my
roots started to kind of develop in my love for Park Terrace I was lucky enough to go back for another three years while I was still doing some districtwide work and that's where my roots like really went deep and my heart just like stayed there I came back to the district office
did some more district office work and then when this opportunity came up to moved to the principal position at Park Terrace I not only like was interested like I wanted it and it was the first time i' ever even considered I'm a principal position even though there was a couple opportunities here and there
but it just wasn't it was never the right thing but moving to park terce this time really was the right move because that's where my heart is so I will share a few things that are really important to me moving into the principal ship and one of them is focusing that all of our arrows are
pointed in the same direction I want to make sure that our core experience for all of our students whether it's around academics or social and emotional learning um that we're all getting the same exper a similar quality experience so that um we can really personalize the learning for students and another thing
that's really important to me is shared leadership with our staff um also one of our core values um but I really um have been able to experience as a staff member here in Spring Lake Park that um others really have motivated inspired me and I want to do the same for our
Educators at Park here and we really have some high quality staff there so I know we've got some up andc coming stars there as well so um personally I have two little kids at home um my husband and I have a six-year-old her name is Olivia and a three-year-old named Gavin and becoming a parent really has changed
my perspective on education um I'm able to see now every single child in our system is Somebody's Baby and we have to love and care for them just the way they would we would if they were our own to make sure that they have a high quality experience in our system so that's a little bit about me any
questions any questions excited to have you thank you yeah thank you thank you for sharing your passion I can tell by the reaction of the cabinet and some of the administrators that uh you were a great choice for principal at par terce and
yeah just by your passion and what you shared I'm I'm excited to see what happens at Park terce I'm very excited too I just want to I'm super excited Ely see on board there um it's fun when you see somebody that started here as a teacher and works their way
all the way from being an excellent amazing classroom teacher to doing a great job coaching and everything else so that then when I went over to park teron and said to the staff that L had the selected as the principal that they just burst out in Applause and cheering so it's uh really excited out and she's
done an amazing job in every um position she's had and I'm confident that she'll continue to do that in this Ro so glad to not don't it's not welcome just glad to have you st thank you I I was just here to say Lindsay we started in this District the
same year 2005 um and I've been lucky enough to kind of be when my kids been in the building when you've been a teacher and you always know that it's a great teacher when the teacher moves on to a leadership position which makes total sense but everybody's sad that they're losing this amaz not losing the teacher
but you know that they're not going to be in the classroom for a little bit so uh thank you for all your amazing years we're so happy to have you and I know that um I I've been hearing this staff talk about your name as a star for a long time so thanks for staying with us and we're excited to have you there I'd
like to say congratulations um coming from a Park Terrace kid I'm so happy to see you such a wonderful person take over the position of principal um you have a long line of people who came before you and let me tell you they're amazing and I can't wait to see you do even better work thank
[Laughter] you well thank you so much thank you and next uh Panther Foundation presentation of donation Miss Colleen Peterson well good evening board members
it's my privilege to invite Tanya Hartwell our 20242 chairperson for the Panther foundation and John selner of our other uh Panther Foundation board members to the podium this evening and we have a really big check and information to share with you this evening
so thank you Colleen I am so thrilled and honored to be here to represent the panther Foundation tonight and all the Fantastic work that this organization has been able to do in the community to not only support our students but the community as a whole tonight we are here
to present a check for over $88,000 which is super exciting and for me I think the thing that I am most proud of is just the variety of work that it represents it represents our ability to support you know kids as young as prek and Early Education to
kids all the way up through our high school program through the senior signs we were able to give out books at the tower Days parade this past week so that was super fun just to see their excitement for getting these things as they head into the summer um were're able to support will with Athletics and
activities initiative throughout the year which has been great we've been able to help our students go to various competitions throughout this year that they wouldn't have otherwise had the opportunity to do um what else um other things it's you know school doesn't stop
it seems like school doesn't stop you know Monday through Friday 9: to5 School seems to be going or the community seems to be going throughout the entire year nights weekends Etc so you know we we did $31,000 towards weekend pack programs um this last year which just amazing to see and also you know again it doesn't stop at you know just during
the school year we have also supported programs during the summer as well as after school as well and so I think keeping our kids in activities keeping them fed keeping them happy is a really great way to support them through this organization and all in total we're up to over $2.3 million that we've given in
support to this community and it's thanks to this community's generosity we certainly could not do this without everybody that supports the panther Foundation through our various events with our winter annual fundraising event our um golf event that's coming up here
in a few weeks so thank you so much to this fantastic Community too for continuing to support us so we can do this work to support the kids in our community so we have literally a big check Mr Easter would you come down and take a picture
please I thought you were standing right in the middle thank hey Tanya and John before you go I just want to say thank you to the the panther Foundation while I get a chance um T mentioned I think it was 2.3 million
over time and I think one of the things we're fortunate about is often it's and it's funding like whole events that we do but it's also sometimes those things where they just kind of they're the starter if they feed that Innovation that then takes off and a lot of the personalized learning a lot of things
we're doing with career path Pathways I think there's amazing work going on throughout our system and so many so much of it is because it was initially sparked um by resources provided by the panther foundation so that we're able to try those Innovations try those initial steps and you know that makes a huge uh
difference to be able to try things on the side and not being able to pull not having to pull resources from the day-to-day to do that and then we learn what works what doesn't we can take off so over the years so much that you've done appreciate it the other thing when we had the panther Foundation meeting I think John you said you're going to be running here from a practice or
something and I know Tanya's active with the Softball Association the other thing is all these people in the panther Foundation are so involved in the community in different ways you know when Ally was she was well I mean it's just it's amazing to to see what they do to contribute not just through the
panther Foundation but in all kinds of other ways in the community so thank you to your to you anybody who's watching that's interested in getting involved you can reach out to either them or cleen Peterson and uh because we'd love to get more people involved so thanks thank you yes I and I just I just wanted
to say well Jeff took most of what I was going to say but the one thing I did want to add is I remember when I first joined the board and I would meet with other board members or other people in the community who were not a part of the Spring Light Park School District Panther Foundation came up quite often
and the ripple effect that you've had throughout other communities by the work that you're doing here and we see the effects that it has on our students and teachers staff and and the district it's it started a wave of other communities
to start doing similar things so I I say you know be proud of yourselves you done an amazing job 2.3 million is nothing to to be shy about um we so appreciate the work and everything that you do um you
know filling in those little gaps that uh people don't realize need to be filled so thank you and yeah I'm bringing the district together yeah yeah so we just really appreciate you thank you and on the student side although you might not see it because a lot of students just don't understand the
impact you have but i' like to say thank you um because of you a lot of people that I know have been able to go to National competitions and just show how strong SL really is so thank you I go I go to the 9916 meetings which
is a collaboration of 13 districts and I just love to brag about how much was raised at the gayb because none of the other 12 districts can hold a candle to Panther Foundation thank you right I see somebody standing
waiting for their turn moving on to discussion reports and information items engage enthusiastic Learners align work of adults to continuously improve personaliz instruction and responsiveness to meet our students unique and varied needs
athletic and activities update winter and spring 2023 24 Mr will wackman thanks for having me the night of Celebration that's just great so park ter bik kids went to park TS so that's kind of so cool Lindsay's really fired
up to keep that school just you know going um she talked about arrows going the same direction that's how I feel about our district with one high school we're all rolling the same way whether it's a a food service or custodians and things we all do that so it's awesome that you can work work in a place like
that um Panther Foundation they kind of mention stuff they're a go-to we need to get math kids to Harvard to compete okay we can help you they they always are willing to help right Panther mentors our women's our women's women's coaches that go to the women's coaches Symposium at the University of Minnesota awesome
thing they help us fund that so they are such a willing partner right it's just great to have them along with Community Ed you know and that they've kind of Taken over for us you know as of last week U with the camps and things like that but we have to partner with them and our coaches do for that um I always feel like it's a celebration when I'm
here um partly because Marilyn says that and I she's always happy to see me I think the picture that you see is pretty fitting right there that's a goal celebration I happen to know that that person he lives in my house so was kind of a perfect picture after he scored a
goal so I saw that I go celebration there's a goal celebration so that's my son Teddy who went to park JIS and things like that so uh and my son Ben also went there um and we were lucky that was a great experience for our kids um I guess it's kind of you know old hat
I come here and I say we have 30 Sports we have 50 clubs which we still do we dropped and then we got back to 50 clubs we have 85% uh of participation of our student body and it was cool to he at Dr Buche at the at you a lot of you were there at the graduation and he asked kids to
stand up for athletics and then he ass ask to kids to stand up they in a club and not everybody stood up and that's we want everybody standing up he doesn't need to keep going on we wanted those first two to say we're all up good
all right done we can move on right um so we're not there yet um but that's what we're trying for so hopefully someday that will happen um but eventually everybody got up and that's what's so cool about our school district so but uh we want to do our part to help that um
and like I said we've offered new things I talked about our boys volleyball that's going to State tomorrow they play in state you know we've just embraced boys volleyball um it's unbelievable we have 55 kids not one of them played another Spring sport and now wow what a
great deal we had 55 more kids doing something in our schools so it's just been a great great year with that um things like pickle ball Club finally somebody came in we'd like to do a pickle ball club I'm like finally I've been waiting for this one so that's going to go it was about 10 kids this
year I got a feeling that's gonna uh that's going to go huge next year um interesting thing about that is the hardest part is to find gym space because all of our sports are using it um so but we found a way we C we got uh you know there's a limited time like he we can get in there for an hour and
things like that and then Mr Buck uh one of their High School teachers is the advisor so he walks on there and I'm like are you sure you're you know what you're getting into because this could become huge and he's like well we'll give it a shot and it was great so they actually had got letters and things like that they came up with a we have an interest based Club letter they came up
with a criteria attendance and things like that so they're they're rolling now they want to paint the tennis courts I said hold off on that a little bit you know but so that's what that's what we're dealing we have a Cuisine club I'm walking through the school at 4:00 I'm like what does that smell it smells
really good they're cooking after your school so I mean there's another adult you know staying after school with kids because they're interested in it they're not even getting paid for that they just do it because it's good but that's another example of the great people we have that are going the same way uh when
we have that um I always talk about our purpose I mean there's a perfect picture right there that's Sarah hail those are our two uh throwers that made State uh last weekend um and they just grabbed her and took picture so I go obviously we're connecting them with the caring
adult I think right there but coach hail was the section uh Coach of the Year too she didn't even know that till somebody like hey you're the section coach I didn't even know that but that's not what she's in it for she's in it for that for the relationships there so we always we want to create a positive
experience we want to connect our students with a with a caring adult then we want to teach life lessons um there was a tweet that was sent by that came to me and many other people from a parent and he said thank you Panther football
Panther baseball Panther Athletics and panther Boys Hockey you you mentored my son I won't say his name to be a leader on the field in the ice but also in the classroom my boy he has another boy too might who graduated have been lucky to play three sports with three great head coaches and assistant coaches there's
adults making something happen here's adults this is Zach Johnson I don't know if you can see this I just somebody put this on my desk today when I was gone Zach Johnson's playing in the UFL that's kind of the other tier down now he was all UFL so we're hoping he's now an NFL
team well he reached out coach Stewart and he's going to do a free clinic at our uh at our school so that's giving back that's you know that's what our football program is saw you give back uh in fact eight of our coaches are former
grads that give back um so we have a lot of those we have a good gentleman by the name of John Kirk he approached me it was a 2005 grad when I first started coaching golf he graduated college he called me and said I just want to get back and I coach he's been an assistant
coach volunteer never has been paid a dollar for seven years or eight years in our golf program I think he gets a shirt maybe from the booster club but but he's driving from St Louis Park because he wants to give back and I just are you sure he's like yeah I just want to give back so that's the mark of what if we're
doing a good job there's success 20 years down the road you know those type of things when I walked in the football field there's Zach oile you know one of the best football players we ever have he's coaching our B Squad this year you know like okay you better listen to him cuz he's like the best we one of the best we've ever had so it's just awesome
he was so excited to be around our kids um and you know he's not getting paid the ton he just wants to be there so there's your mark of if we're doing a good job 20 years down the road we have a ton of people like that we have a lot of teachers that have come back into our system the O lingers are a great example they're at every event they're helping
us out they're coaching Sports so those are you know I love to see people come back you know if they weren't coming back that'd be a huge problem but they want to come back so uh I think we're doing a good job with that and I'm just proud that they do that they want to be a part of something um I wanted to talk
about academics um because I do call us co-curricular I've said this every time I'm here I believe we're co-curricular things that you learn on the fields and the ice and the and in the in the gyms that you take that on to life right and I mean it was just a a maybe a banner
year for this and I just like wow that's a theme that I haven't really talked about our dance team they go to state every year but they also are on the board every year there's a picture there Spring Lake Park and then you know they're a team a solid team GPA and then we have individuals that are on there and then
you have Brock and and Andrew who are outstanding basketball players they're going to play basketball in college right they're also academic all state so you can be good and be good at a academics as well so those things do go hand in hand that's what I say if you're
involved you're going to do better in school your attendance is going to be better you know your a you know you're going to be around kids that that are are going doing the right thing so those are the things that I'm pushing when I'm telling our story out there um our our softball
3.96 GPA our coaches like I had to send 10 names in it was like sorry you know like 3.8 that didn't make it you know it was like wow I mean what a great thing and and our booster club stepped up and bought plaques for the girls those are the more important plaques you know some
people think the state championship are those are because that's going to benefit them in life so and then our athletes I talked about them the last time I we here I was here they went to oair they win the oair event you know you don't get a trophy there you get
college credits so you they give college credits out so I talked to Mr Hils the other day and he said Sam kretchmar he said what are you doing this summer Sam he go I'm taking the online classro well CLA he's like you are he goes yeah I won the credits I might as well get some college credits so how cool is that for
a for a prize you know some people give a t-shirt I'm like wow you got thousands of dollars so that's what they're doing that's what Mr Hilson am man depressing are doing they're they're helping us do those things uh we had a great year obviously our dance team every year
State they do a great job um with that uh Alpine Ski and Nordic ski we're we're doing great on snow now and it's just awesome we're in a co-op with with uh Centennial in that that's been a great thing for seven of our kids that's
growing right where our in our Nordic ski I mean you can see in that picture what is so cool about that is we're a co-op and we're taking centennials kids so we're helping each other because they don't offer that but we're connecting kids with a a great kind adult and things like that and what's so cool is
Mr Miller said you know we had 12 All Conference kids so we're getting it done there right but he said you know will we we voted for captains and there's a kid from every school in our Co-op so how how that you know you have to get votes from other kids and they're coming together that's a sign of a good program
you know uh and they're then they're highly successful and then our girls hockey team is they got conference didn't end up how they wanted but they're they they just seem to be rolling and uh I expect them to keep you know have a shot at state every year um so those are things are we had
Mila was just a fun to watch and I mean if you look at that picture there is no snow on the ground at Nordic they had to like make snow I mean I was I didn't even wear boots I was kind of on the dead grass and and then Spring sport
started we got 12 Ines so it kind it was a little I was like oh this is going to be the greatest spring ever we're not going to have to worry about that then we had uh Clayton Clayton uh he's he's all state in wrestling which we haven't had that one of those for a while and then our dance three dancers uh Lily Molly and Michaela and then Brock
obviously had a great year basketball year he was the leading scorer in 4A basketball and that means something because in our conference like every night is a top 10 team so we were we had a winning record where the six se seed in our section that's how tough it is
right so coach major we beat Park Center who was rated number one during the year unfort you know unfortunately section seven is a little bit north of us not as good Rapids won that we beat them by 25 during the year so it's it's where we're at tough but we're striving to get
there and and uh those things 21 All Conference I mean 20 we're we're talking 20s now it used to be 10 and things like that so we're we're doing great with that uh track first time ever section five uh Champions beat mountains view
mountainview's got a great track program we beat them uh this year it was awesome they're just so excited to to run around they took a Victory lap by the way after that picture so they ran around the whole track at Forest Lake there wasn't any fans on the other side so I kind you come back this way so uh but they did
boys volleyball was conference Champs they're State entrance it's just fun to watch it's it's just exciting that that sport our gym is filled that side of the gym is filled and they're just doing a heck of a job and they had 22 seniors on the program
um that was awesome I'm like okay senior day pictures I'm taking like three pictures to get every kid's in there so um that might not you know now they're kind of Varsity Sport next year we might not be able to keep as many seniors but they tried to find a way and they're to try to find another way they're actually trying to think of like a senior league
and I'm like all right how are we going to figure that out but some how we do um because we that's what we want to do and then our boys golf team um it's just just uh awesome I can't put it other way um so you watch those kids play um the
Birdwell brothers and and Austin rollof they're just continuing our our our tradition of Excellence there um we had multiple uh adapted bowlers make the state tournament which is like one of the best events if you ever can go to a event I say our music festival and
adapted bowling state are just so fun because everybody is pulling the same way they're all cheering for everybody you know it's a great one of those great field good days uh and Alex Simpson was all state so um it was awesome he didn't want to go up and get his medals so we had to go get him up there but it was
awesome when it when it did but and we're going to have I mean we I I had to get this in early we had nine eight or nine all state track athletes the other um the two golfers at least maybe three golfers I mean so we broke records in
track and they're like we broke another record you got to get a new record board that's money well spent you know so know that you know so when you're when you have a goal and that's how you break it you see how excited they get and not only them it's as soon as that time goes the let go record it's the other kids
that are really pulling for them because you push each other and that's a sign of good teams when you're pushing each other to be the best you can be with that um 29 All Conference athletes in the spring so I that's got to be as many as we've ever had so we're going to run
out of all conference slips so the conference is going to be giving us some All Conference slip so it's just exciting and those things and and other things I like to highlight our our our clubs our curling team sent two teams EST State and Luth what a great experience for those kids you know and
we partner with fory Arena we have a cur we have a curling rank in our school district that's pretty cool so we should have a curling team right you know along with t hockey in our school district I mean so we have a lot of ice in our school district that's a good thing um oec I I went and you know who would want
to go to a competition where o goes to I mean you go there they they're here again you know all the trophies and I said that to bill um I said Bill nobody wants to go when you're there and he's like no they all do but you know another elenne Matthews elenne Matthews came
back to teach there's another example of somebody coming back in there um Bill Bill does a great job and it's not just you know this is a club but he teaches a class and then he's out in our community you go to youth events and there's our oec kids getting their hours it's so
cool to see that um Bill Bill shared a uh text he got because he teaches a CPR class in our community and he said um he got this from a gentleman I don't even know his name said just thought i' let you know that after the training my wife daughter and I got three weeks ago I
went into cardiac arrest and my daughter who lives upstairs came down did the CPR that saved my life pretty cool you know so you're like wow like Bill you going to share that he's like whatever you know but that's you know that that's the humble nature that he is you know I mean
we're changing lives we Chang lives I say now we're saving lives I mean it's awesome how cool is that that I mean this guy wrote that so he took a class that we offered that one of our staff members thought and his life will save that's pretty dang powerful you know so
um wanted to share that with you cuz he wouldn't probably you know but um Signing Day 20 we have 25 kids going out of college so it's just we're we're ramping up with that so and they're us they go into the world that's they're they're representing our brand and who
who we are so it's fun to have those dates um I talked about four earlier and there was our winter and our spring um our Fine Arts uh Sydney L cester she won a a spotlight award uh from the municipal State High School league is they um unfortunately she
couldn't go to the showing of that because she had prom that night which that's kind of cool kids do a lot of things and uh but there's her picture when when they sent that that so uh cool kind of art the the uh there it is her the lamp the BL polka dot and so what a
cool thing for her um she's not even I don't think she's doing art she's going to take some art class in college because I asked her you going to do that in college she said no I'm going to still take some classes but probably move on to something else and I'm like good good for you you have that skill with you and we had uh Sophia she was in
the State uh Speech ter in poetry so that's another thing that you know people don't see this on the weekend we're hosting it next year our speech sectional so it's kind of a cool thing so um that'll be something new that we that I haven't done yet and so we always kind of say yes when people ask and
that's what that's what we do our our obviously our theater is awesome um and I mean what there's nothing I mean how about that I mean I walked into Beauty and the Beast and there was 11 little girls in yellow
dresses I mean how cool is that you know like wow they want to be you I mean so what a cool thing you know what a connection to the community here they came and they wanted to dress up to be like Belle it was awesome and these guys are good it's funny because um I've been here long enough 25 years now but I've
been here long enough that we did Beauty and the Beast years ago if you remember and it was funny to see the differences you know I mean it's the same story but how how differently they portrayed it so it was really really cool for that uh our triaa award um this is uh Minnesota
State High School league gives us out its Athletics academics and the art so you got to participate in all you know some something like Athletics and then a band choir theater and then you have to have a really really good GPA and those uh Isaiah fry and Bella such where that
in Bell was to All State and two uh track events she's actually going to play two Sports in college I go that's not enough you know college sports is a big you know pretty big know I'm playing two basketball and track and then our atheno war winner Brianna newp she's playing two sports in college as well um
so uh basketball and softball so uh and just a great just a great example of a of a a great kid not just a phenomenal athlete but what just a phenomenal person so she stopped by her last day of school to say bye so that was pretty
cool oh you stop by to say goodbye so that was awesome so I said you can come back though that's you know but maybe not with with her playing all the sports but she'll be back at some point she's got sisters in there and then I just wanted to talk about our adapted Sports we do Co up with Centennial for a lot
but we also have a bowling program and these are just awesome that we can that that Minnesota is a leader in this by the way no Minnesota the Minnesota State High School league started adapted Sports sponsoring that before any other state and what a cool thing to do with that we have a great partnership and then we we get them bowling with with
Doug uh po off and Nikki Smith so and they go and it's just awesome to see them how excited they are and those type of things so that's what I got from you I hope I wasn't too long but when you celebrate it's good to celebrate for a
long time right so um that's pretty cool so I guess I'll leave it this way a lot of a lot of districts and superintendent and Leadership say you know we want to do what's best for kids well that's easy to say but then you got back it up and we do so credit to you guys for doing that
we I always say if there if it's good for kids we'll figure out a way to figure out a way to find a person or money to get it done so I really appreciate that so makes my job way better so don't have to say no as much
so thank you so much for it was it's been a great year so any questions comments um while what a recap and so you know like talk about a lot of things and that was only 2third of the year not not the
fall where there was all the other good stuff that happened but I just wanted to say you know I go my kids are still in high school I go to a lot of activities between their various activities and I see you everywhere so wow all of this is good I just
appreciate your leadership and your commitment across all sorts of activities the ones my kids are at the ones everybody else's are at and so see you um being a major uh major leader to just the engagement that we have with uh
the programs at large so thank you thank you other comments yeah I want to make a comment um I'm a strong believer in the things that are wonderful there's always the leader that makes them wonderful so like the panther Foundation I sorry I
couldn't talk when they were here because I would probably be emotional it's because it's phenomenal but and where all of this stuff is directly because of you obviously there's other people you have but I'm so proud to sit here and listen to this and I wish I
could show this I hope there's lots of people watching because this is amazing so thank you and I agree with Kelly you know we're always looking is Will here I'm sure he's here watching so must I'm proud
so as I always I think I always say when you're here a love this twice year it's my highlight love when you're here and B as a parent I mean my kids played sports but my kids uh I do love it but my kids were also in a lot of things that weren't you know Athletics
and so I as I always say I really appreciate how much support you have for all the activities as well all the clubs and because the truth is that's how a lot of kids get involved in our in our high school and I love that that there's a place for everybody because that's grown and grown and grown and it means
so much to those kids and as you have all heard times my kid was one of those kids who's like I want to start a new club and you know this the school really Embraces that so thank you for all of your work with that on behalf of the class of 2024 thank you Mr wackman uh
the work you've done have inspired a lot of us to go forward with our careers and yeah you know it's because of you that kids like me are able to continue to do the activities they love wow I know isn't he the greatest seriously I love it no well thank you so
much for all that you bring too I've had a lot of kids come through and a lot of kids that have experienced Athletics and under your leadership there as well and I you are at all the things it is kind of crazy and I really do enjoy giving you a hard time at all the events likewise so thank you so thank you for
being so approachable for to me and also to all of the students as well but thank you and thank you for stepping into this role when you did it was kind of a funny time so thank you for that and come back anytime it's fun to have
[Laughter] you um I just wanted to kind of go off uh what Melody said because will is in a position that doesn't often get to hear the uh thank use that you just shared um
it's a position that often gets to the calls of about playing time and this and that the other thing right which just kind of comes with the job but one of the things I do want to say is that one of the things we talk about in our vision we want to be a world class Learning Community Choice right we want people to choose to be here know that they don't have to go somewhere else to
have great opportunities that's not just academically I think the the window to our system really comes through Athletics and activities and one of the things is I do think that we often take for granted he said 25 years he's been here is really easy to take Grant take for granted people have been in a system
for a long time and I think Will has Will's had opportunities to go other places folks sitting out here have had those kind of opportunities because we have great people in our system and um I think we're just fortunate to have will being here and leading here and fortunate to have all of them doing that
but just thanks for the work you do and the difference you make thanks one more thing if you could just stay until Howe graduates I would appreciate and Addie yeah perks of the job get to go to games what a great what a great and I get a tan I
guess are just kidding thank you so much thank you will I I honestly I I don't think I can top what everybody else has said they've taken all of my all of my talking points and thunder um but as I usually say when you present is wow I
want to go back to high school because I remember maybe a at most a dozen clubs when I was in high school and they were mostly chess Glee Club that's that's a group of men who sing
um you know things like that and to watch the list and and I mean you could probably go to another screen of just the amount of clubs that we offer at the school so and I and I
I'll wrap up with this I appreciate your passion for still identifying those who are sitting down in graduation and saying hey we need to reach them we're we're not at that point yet so I appreciate that thanks thank you thanks
well good summer right continuing on with engaged enthusiastic Learners we have a summer programming overview Miss Colleen Peterson okay Colleen you got some big shoes to fill there I want to know how I drew the Short Straw of going after will
because the energy she start the energy level that will brings is just uh Second To None that's for sure so I was trying to figure out if I should go do jumping jacks in the but what I have to share tonight is very
exciting as well are we good to go all right so uh school May the school year may have officially ended last year but I can tell you that as of the first day of summer our buildings are hopping with students and staff and it's my privilege
tonight to share a little snapshot of what's happening so uh Summer School uh all we have 300 students that started summer programming at at the high school today and we have 458 k through eight students that start on Monday at several
of our elementary schools uh in the district so we're getting getting excited for that we have child care programs this year uh we have 240 students that are enjoying Child Care uh through our programs both at the discovery days and
our learning Ventures the theme this year is Explore Minnesota so it was actually really exciting to see what that means they will be looking at Wildlife Northwoods Heritage and history Sports famous motans I might even learn a thing or two if I had over there this
summer uh so look forward to that I did stop by today we're using a different space at the high school we're actually using the um Second Story of the bee wing and we using some pod spaces and it was amazing it was very cool to see how they are using those spaces uh this year
and I know today they were at the pool so that's always a fun opportunity they get to go to the pool twice a week and so being at the high school we may have a lot of people say why the high school for a a you know grade 1 through eight Child Care Program and actually the high school offers us so much flexibility and
opportunity both from the uh facilities but then the students can participate in camps and not have to worry about Transportation so lot of lot of cool things happening there I'm very excited about that in addition to that uh we have uh
50 enrichment programs that we have this year it's about the same as last year so we're excited about that 31 of them are athletic camps and Clinics with a thousand over a thousand students registered for that so part part of our camps and Clinics Program help build the programs that Will was just talking
about and our coaches that give so much time during the summer to make sure that our athletes are ready to go in the fall I I'm thankful for their support and also for the opportunities they provide for our students in addition to that we have uh 26 enrichment and Spark camps we've been growing that every year and
so we're excited for those folks that don't need full-time child care but they're they're looking for something to keep the boredom the summer boredom Blues out of summer for their kids we have something a little bit for everyone this year I'm I'm most proud of the future uh Panther Allstar Camp led by
our high school captains so we have a group of students that's leading that Holy they have 75 kids and a wait list for that program and so I'm excited to see how that that will turn out this summer but it's free and it uh the captains decided this was an opportunity
for our kids to try something new and uh do it without without penalty if they don't love it um but they get to try it what what age are the kids in registered in that boy that's a great question I believe it's uh it's probably grades one
through eight I'm thinking um I'd have to go back and check but but they definitely were targeting it might be upper elementary through middle school students but they're definitely Target targeting students to try the program so I know we have dance uh floor hockey
basketball football and Tennis so for sure and I think they're doing a little track so and then finally I wanted to make sure that uh that our community members and that you all saw some of our family fun activities that we have this summer so a summer bird walk at Rice
Creek uh a build build a bird feeder and I know the build the bird feeder program we actually have five families registered so far for that and then uh family adventure to the wildlife Science Center we have six families registered for that so we're really excited about offering some parent child activities
and uh so I'm proud of the community ad team that's been leading that work as well in addition we have a summer walking Club so our walking Club if you don't know we have on Saturday mornings through most of fall and winter throughout they walk through the high school there's a nice track and uh our
team now is expanding that to our Stadium track during the summer so Friday mornings we will will invite our community out there and and enjoy walking around the track with them so excited and then finally our free summer meal program gosh I don't know how many
years we've been doing this quite a while but in cooperation with the USDA we're able to provide free summer meals for students uh ages 1 through 18 no questions asked uh the the site that offers the the greatest number of days and opportunities is our High School
site because we have so much programming happening at the high school another benefit to kind of consolidating some of our programs to the high school but the public can enjoy breakfast between 8:30 and 9 and then lunch 11:30 to 12:30 pretty much all summer long uh with the addition of a couple dates that are
closed but you can see all that information on our website and then uh the while we have summer programming at our elementary schools and at Westwood during those programs we also have public uh lunch and breakfast times there as well so we like to open up
those opportunities as much as possible so we're we're looking forward to a very full summer I I'm afraid that it's going to be over in the blink of blink of an eye but I am appreciative of our staff and uh the families that look to Spring Lake Park schools for opportunities and
enrichment opportunities for their kids during the summer any questions wonderful thanks thank you everybody yeah appreciate all your work around that takes a lot all right moving on to effective operations uh improve our effective
management of human financial and physical resources monthly financial report for April 2024 Miss Amy Schultz good evening board and I am sure that chair henen Vice chair meant that the budget was one of her most looked
forward to presentations every month it is mine yes it ranks right up there I told Cen it's hard to follow will it's always hard when there's a bunch of kids here too then you get up and talk numbers so
with that appreciate each month we come back and we do a quick monthly recap and so this month we are covering the month of April uh so with that the same three reports we show each month this is the cash receipts and dispersements as well as the beginning and ending balance um
on the receipt side this is we don't receive any taxes in the month of April so the large portion that we get it's a month then that the state kicks in higher from the metering schedule so over $8 million in state AIDS um the rest of it is our um internal service funds which are the premiums we pay from
the general fund to there and then just our regular programming and food service and Community Ed um finishing with a cash balance of just over 63 million on the statement of revenues this report shows our cash receipts for
the month of April year to date our budget as it was last approved um where that stands as a percentage of that budget and where that compares to the previous two years so on the revenue side we're a little bit lower than we were last year a little closer to where we were two years ago uh last year we
had a lot of Co receipts coming in right at the beginning of the year um especially within our food service program so with that you can see those are a little farther ahead last year than they are this year or even in some of those the year before that so on the
revenue side now with a lot of those GRS mostly done and we're on a draw schedule for those last couple um as a percentage we've just slowed down a little bit and on the expense side this report is set up the same way and really this one is right in line with where we have
been the previous few years so there's not a lot um to say on the expense side April each year tends to be a little bit slower as um spring break invoices that come in after that tend to get paid in April so with only three weeks in equals
a smaller mod bu dispersements so with that are there any questions thank you thanks Amy and moving to fiscal year 25 proposed budget Miss Amy Schultz
before you leave she was try to sneak away yeah she's GNA try to leave me with this one no Dr said wanted to do the presentation I was going to yeah no so what we'll do kind of presentation the first part of the presentation they was going to walk through of the revisions for fiscal year
24 for the current school year um we cover those the work session then we'll kind of walk through the just a overview which you're well aware of as a school board but really for Community who may be watching the process that we go through to um develop the budget then she'll hit on the some of the various
sources and and so on and finally give you a summary of what the budget is that you'll approve so with that they are all yours mults all right so with that tonight we are presenting as Dr honberg mentioned both budget revisions for the 2023 24 school year as well as the original
budget for the 20242 school year um so with the starting with the budget revisions for the current year um so with this the school board and actually for both of these both years that we're presenting the school board's been along for this for several months
has had several Pres ation on this so if it feels like tonight goes a little bit fast um and doesn't dig into a lot of detail it is something that the board is well aware of and we've spent a lot of time on the past uh several months so under our school calendar uh the 202 324
budget was approved last June we did do one revision during the school year and we are bringing one more back this year sometimes we do that sometimes we don't um a couple of the things that really have happened since January which is and we cut off the other one just kind of made it worth
bringing these back again it's just a few items but the dollar amounts are substantial enough that it made it worth another revision um the revisions tonight are only in the general fund all of our other funds are remaining the same as the previous revision so on the revenue
side uh the big increases that we saw which is what um you'll see in the next graph we are increasing revenues in this budget revision um a lot of that is due to interest earnings interest rates did not drop as expected and they've continued to stay high so we are seeing
substantial interest earnings compared to what we had expected at both the beginning of the year and even during our revisions um earlier this year some additional Federal grant awards that we were able to spend some money in and therefore increase the revenue for those
as well as special education Revenue so those were the big increases um on kind of our ongoing money and then one time adjustments also making for um final awards for 2022 23 it seems really late
to be doing that but it is April before the state finishes and closes out the previous school year special ed so that amount um did go up as well about $400,000 from what we Clos the year at so that adjustment is included um as
well as as increase in onetime federal grants some of those covid related Ones Still um as well as a one-time technology rebate and so you'll see this as an increase in expenses right below this as well uh we had a lease for technology devices um
from see student devices that was going to be paid over several years by paying that all off during the current school year which is why our expenditures are also going up we qualified for a rebate um and so with that we were able to pay off those funds which is about
$544,000 and get a $531,000 rebate so it turned out to be a great deal um something that our technology director Steve hon really pays attention to and he's always bringing those forward um and we also had expenditures
decrease in the current year and those were due to a lot of the projects we've been talking about for the past year many of those are really starting in June this year and going into July and August or we be done this following school year so we've pushed a lot of those back into next
year so with that you can see the graph on this all funds other than the general fund are staying the same from our current budget to the revised proposal um so again you can see those an increase in the general fund revenues as
well as a decrease then on the expense side which does bring our total budget up to about 111 million in revenue and 108 million in expense for all funds so with that those are the budget revisions that the board will be asked
to approve later on tonight I can't remember slides I'm handing over to all right um so with the with our um one of the things we always talk about is how we really want to make sure that we are aligning the dollars that we have
as well as our human um Capital into our strategic Direction with that focus on the future you've heard it a few times tonight we want to make sure all of our arrows are going in the same direction so with that um we're always making sure that we're aligning our human capital as
well as our financial capital in that direction so so that is something that you'll see through this as well as the forms that we've used each year with our guiding change um several of those then we will continue to see as we move that forward and allocate our dollars where
we see the greatest benefit so as we develop our budget for this coming school year this is one I said we've been talking about it a long time as early as last spring we do take a long-term view of our budget so each year we're presenting a fiveyear
forecast um so last spring really we focused on that a little bit um July through December is when we enter all of our tax levy data to the Department of Education and we approve the prop um property taxes in December and then
really from last June through this may um continual revisions of The Guiding change document where we review assumptions and again keep reviewing how those impact our long-term projection model so at the may work session the board did see the proposed budget so
tonight then is recommending that for approval and then with that really there were not allowed any changes from what the board saw in May budget Planning and Development so again we just mentioned the guiding change document so what we'll be doing is covering I know this is not these
aren't easy um sheets to see off on this side this will be all online for those who wish to see it um but really we're going to walk through this document over the next several slides so this is our guiding change it really is again that kind of map that we use in order to um
kind of come up with our budget assumptions and what our desired results are and we'll be covering those on our next slides so for influences and assumptions on this one um this is that that left column of the worksheet that's a little hard to see on there but really um it's
that the assumptions that we're making as we build that school um school budget um so it is developed with kind of a systemwide view of everything that we have going on kind of our ongoing revenues and expenses but also those
District operational plans and onetime capital projects that we talk about often with the school board as well one thing we wanted to highlight usually we would we only talk about one legislative session when we bring this forward i' love last year's on there as well because that was a significant impact
both for last year and into this year um where items were brought in last year but then there was also an increase into this year there are also some of those items where mandates are hitting this year and continue to carry forward and have an impact on how we work um so with that last year there were increases to
the general education form allowance um special education English Learners um special aded um so with that that was kind of last year but we did see increases again of the current year and then during the current Year's legislative session there were not a lot
of dollars that flowed through the big one was funding for the read act which is then again another mandate so we are receiving money for that during this upcoming school year that can be spent next year and into the following year as well so on our Revenue assumptions with
this our enrollment increase we are actually most years we've seen an increase we saw a steady increas in over 10 to 12 years we really sort of plateaued at that we're planning the same enrollment that we had for last school year um on the general education
formula increase it's $143 additional per student that we have in our system so that was 2% on the formula allowance we always want to remind people that is not 2% on our revenue and that is 2% on 50% of our
fund one Revenue so it's really about a 1% increase in our Revenue so when people talk about how funding hasn't kept pace with inflation that's what they're referring to um on the compensatory Aid increase with that we will continue to use our compensatory funding there is some
flexibility built into that or a portion can be used to kind of still meet our um media students and so with that we do that we take a little bit from the total allocation and we use it districtwide really redistributed back into our sites for support um but with that um much of
it in this school that it is aren't um then again other increases this kind of repeats a little bit what we just talked about on the last page and then continuation of our other revenue streams so we talk about Federal title grants carrying forward at their
current amounts qm addess and achievement and integration also at their current amounts and then other grants on miscellanous incomes also so the an example of that would be our federal special ed we also get about $1.2 million in that one so that's
another one that is carrying forward at current levels so on the expense side inflation is applied to um a combination it's about half of our purchase service expenses as well as any areas that are tied to student enrollment with enrollment being flat there's not
inflation built into stuff like supplies there are for a few other areas um purchase Services if we have to hire um speech pathologists or something like that we increase those as well as trans a which you'll see a couple lines down as well staff costs are built in based
on either settled contracts or assumptions that we work with um in the school board in the past on how we would estimate those moving forward um ongoing maintenance of our facilities we do use our long-term facilities maintenance Revenue in order to fund those as well
as an allocation out of the general fund that we've been doing for several years just to make sure we stay on top of our facilities class sizes maintaining are highly competitive class sizes again into the future year um cross subsidy and special education and and this is
one of those that while we are very grateful for the increases that we saw from the legislator session we do still have an existing cross Subs of about $3 million so it does continue to be out there as a cross sub city where our
yes yeah so just where the cost of providing the necessary services for special education um the amount that we are reimbursed is not cover that full amount um medical premiums those were determined earlier this spring so increases to that as well um and then
there are were increases increased allocations to student support positions itself as well so with our desired results um we would we talk about this all the time and always grateful for the board's support we always want to make
sure we have a structurally balanced budget and when we say that we me ongoing revenues will exceed our ongoing expenses onetime money we may spend above that but it would be coming out of fund balance and very planned in purposeful ways
so so one of the things we really try to do that we've talked to you about throughout the year it's on going throughout the years is align our resources to our strategic um directions for the future and our district operational plan with really that focus on improving student learning ultimately you know I think a lot of systems they
just work on balancing a budget we're really looking at the work we need to get done to enhance the engagement for our kids improve the learning of our students so that's uh what we really um work towards and using those resources strategically um to invest in change and learning and as we look to this coming
year um there's a lot of uh opportunities to do that so first off this the district operational plan is something that again as we work on throughout the year you as a board have had a chance to see this this is the one page document this will be available
online highlight the um 13 or so projects that we're going to have that we're working on the coming year uh and but one of the things I always want to point out and take this opportunity to say is while we have an annual District operational plan we don't plan with a one-year view we always have a multi
your view looking into the future um and looking at what are those emerging influences what's happening out there and how do we position towards that and the district operational plan really captures what we're doing what our focus is in the next year to position oursel to the work where we want be moving
forward so um that's something we do one of our primary focuses which you guys get the chance to hear about all the time is our Innovative and personalized learning and how do we really design engaging student work and learning experiences for each of our students we shared recently with you at a retreat a
document that really demonstrates the focus ongoing Focus over 15 years with this the advancements that we've been able to make thanks to um the work that hope and her team and others have been a part of it's been amazing to see the work they're doing and we're really
excited about kind of taking that next step because um we're really at that point that we largely have these four components in place now there's still work to do we're haven't arrived but it's fun after all these years to see these things largely in place um one of the things people will say like so
what's really when you talk about engaging student work what does that mean well a organization that we partner with a lot in doing this they kind of the thought leaders in this area is the Schley Center out of Louisville and I like this uh I'll let you read the quote but I think the primary thing is when
they talk about engaging students is how do you make the work so compelling that the students volunteer their time and attention so that they will persist through difficulty um again we haven't arrived at making that happen each and every day in each and every course but how do we really create the conditions
that we can improve in that area so that's really what we're investing in in this next year so that example of when we develop this budget what we're really looking at is how to invest these resources to improve the work we're doing so there's two projects within that District operational plan that are
really all about um engagement and improving student learning they both fall underneath that umbrella but one will really focus on uh E6 literacy so Early Education through grade six literacy next year in the implementation of the read Act is required by the state
um we made some adjustments in the calendar we informed families about that last week our staff and we're still working on exactly I mean a ton of work going on by a lot of people putting that planning in place for next year and there's having to work with the Department of Education to get their
approvals in how we do that as well but it's about 50 to 60 um hours of just reading learning for our or E6 staff it's a lot of learning that we'll be doing with them in the next year with that we're also then with our grade 7 12 staff is really focusing on how how do
we deepen that design of engaging learning so they they've identified competencies now for each course what we want kids to accomplish in those courses now how do we design the work that really gets at the students motives their interests and meets those unique needs that they have and so we're really
going to use those eight to nine days we have throughout the year to really provide the professional learning for staff but then also give them the time to design that learning collaboratively so we're looking forward to being able to do that but that really brings all of that work together so we wanted to share that because it's just an example of we
have our standard work that we do each and every year but then we always have those things in the district operational plan that are the Investments that we're putting place right and this those are two examples of how we're utilizing the resources in our budget to do that and so we're kind of excited about the opportunities that has for us so with
that I'm going to hand it back to Amy and she can walk through the actual all those numbers that you get to approve to me all right so um we'll see kind of what the percentage is on how our Levy Compares with our state AIDS as a percentage of our Revenue but with that we always like to point out that we um
and the board's well aware we are one of the lowest school districts as far as the amount of um operating Levy that we ask for our voters to approve and so with that we really haven't increased our ly to District taxpayers in 20 years
um so with that we talk about two different types of levies there's our operating ly um that generates $1.3 million a year so it's not a significant portion of our Revenue um but that the operating one itself is used for any general purpose within the school
district on top of that in 20 and 11 voters did approve a capital projects Levy and that is something that we use for primarily technology um both the devices themselves as well as the staff that helps keep them working uh with
that that one generates $1.8 million a year and again primarily staff and devices are paid through that one the long-term facilities maintenance we talked about that a little bit um that's also something that the board is going to be as to appr T is our Spring
Lake Park long-term facilities plan uh we approved the 9116 one last month so tonight is the plan that is specific to our school district um and with that that is something that money is set aside years ago it was a combination of multiple sources it was um operating
Capital um deferred maintenance health and safety they've combined all of those and call it long-term facilities maintenance um so with that that pays for roofs parking lots carpet pain um air handling a lot of that kind of deferred maintenance when you think of keeping your buildings
running um so with that that's something again that we get about $2 and a half million dollars a year from that does not quite cover our ongoing expenses so we have been making sure that our buildings stay as nice as they are by contributing some other of the general fund as
well so on the enrollment we've talked about that we are remaining flat from last year so when you can see this graph I realize on the screen the numbers themselves not very easy to make out but we are remaining exactly flat from last year which is just a slight decrease of
about 25 from the three years prior to that where it also stayed very stable um for about 12 years prior to that it was about a 100 students per year of an increase so that was something that when we had done a demographic study back in 2012 we knew the time was coming where
we were going to hit that plateau and eventually decrease and so this graph really does show where we hit that plateau and we've kind of been holding there so we've talked with the board about what that might look like over the next few years right now we are predicting flat for next year and that is the assumption that was used in
developing the budget so a quick graph that shows our general fund Revenue um so when we say general fund we are so we're not including Food Service community service or any of those with you that you can see our state AIDS are 79% of our total
revenue so when we talked about our general Ed formula increase of 2% that's a portion of that so with that you can see where it would make up as significant of an amount of our budget um on the federal Side Federal has
actually decreased by 2% going into next year interest has gone up by 2% so those kind of swapped and that's a lot of that Federal are the co grants so as those going into this next year will be gone
really spent and over um but that we are predicting a much higher interest again next year as rates have continued to stay high other um other categories have remained the same as the original budget from last
year on the expense side most have stayed relatively same we talk about the large dollars that we have here compensation has gone up 2% supplies and other have each gone down one so with that we are a human
resource heavy environment when you think of what we do so it's not unusual to see that compensation being that highest percentage for us um purchase compensation is something this is an area we've tried to break ourselves out so we can compare to other districts who maybe own their own busing and hire
drivers so we've broken it out a little bit to say if we did something like that we would also be adding about another 4% to our compensation so with that the final numbers so what the board will be asked to approve later on tonight are the top categories the
three areas below are just a breakout of our general fund as we look at those a little bit differently from sort of our general operations capital and long term you can see that number carries to the top so those are the amounts that you would be asked to approve for both revenue and expenditures revenue of just
over 128 million and expenditures of just over 127 million and so with that I should mention again this is a little higher than what's been done in the past much of that in Debt Service as we have about 16 million do for both revenue and expense for that
bond refunding that we are doing in July which then takes both that full amount of the debt payoff and it comes the revenue that will come in to do that and again that is something that will save in future years our taxpayers money on our principal and interest
payments so with that are there any question questions uh yeah just one question and this also can answer a question for the general public could you just quickly outline the read Act and the impact it has on the district I could I am actually gonna defer to Dr for that one because he's
gonna be far more of an expert on it than I will I can speak to the finan I can explain the financing side of it much more than yeah I don't know that there's a quicker brief but in a nutshell what they've uh the legislature passed What's called the read act and it's basically to provide um all of our
elementary teachers and some secondary teachers who teach reading um professional learning in the science of teaching reading the good news is as a system this is something that we implemented a number of years ago already we are still required to take people through one of how many options
three options that the state requires school districts to choose from so um we'll be doing that phase one of this is first year so we'll have all of our E6 teachers going through that this year and then the next year we'll have our 712 teachers who are required to do that
go through that um professional learning the next year so the nice thing is it will be a combination for our elementary teachers to do some of it um asynchronous online like pre-work before some of our professional learning days and then the laston followup because the state does require them to document that they've learned this and then during
those days they'll get the learning from staff here and then they'll also have an opportunity in time to together about how to implement that learning we wanted to do more than just have them sit at a computer and learn individually we wanted them to be able to learn together and then be able to plan together so
anything I missed oh yeah that's getting beyond the nutshell part yeah there's some new assessments and other things that we do need to implement again some things that we were implementing but now we have to choose from some options that the state has quite a bit yeah
yeah good question are questions this is a good recap of what we've already covered in our work sessions and other meetings Retreats and a and a it's a night of thank you but as always a
thank you to you and your staff because $128 million budget is it's a lot to keep track of and you guys you an amazing job of it so thank you for your D we not a small Organization no no we're not thank you thank
youy moving on to superintendent's report as the superintendent report is being pulled up on the screen I just want to say I think we saw all was things that kids get to be involved with that um will was here earlier talked about clean talked about the summer opportunities and I think the team again my team that's sitting out there they
just do a great job and Amy does a nice job an amazing job with the budget of being able to look at how can we use those resources um where's the flexibility in using those resources so we can get done what we need to get done for kids and uh you heard well kind of reference that as a system we we're always looking at what we can do for
kids so I appreciate um the leadership and and work she does in that area so here we go superintendance report it's just kind of a fun report tonight lots of pictures of kids so it's starting right away with from our track and field
event oh I should turn it this on there we go all right so we had our fourth fourth grade track and field day kind of that brighter passage for Spring Lake Park schools it's a chance where you bring all these four elementary schools together and they that's kind of have that opportunity to be together
before they come to Westwood in fifth grade so see that's a park terorist group right there but what's kind of cool here in the pictures you'll notice the different colors um like in the upper right three different schools all arm in arm even though they're separate
Elementary Schools they're get a chance to meet one another before they're coming back together over at West it's kind of more picks just leave that up there for a second so get a chance to lots of cheering going
on I don't know but I love that one in the lower Lev um congrats to Sam my one of my highlights my favorite days of the year is when our transitions program trans graduation it's always uh it's fun Tony and I get the honor of shaking hands and
handing a diploma this year there were two s who graduated so was pretty fun you see in the upper left the all the people in attendance what's really cool that's happened over the years is that it's pretty much all of the staff who work here at the district Services
Center who are there in attendance for the graduation and that's not something that always used to happen 15 20 years ago well partly just because they weren't in in that same building our old District officer that was in the parking lot at the high school did not have the room to have the kids there so it's just fun to see and there's some great
relationships that those kids have with the staff working here and it's always good for like folks like working in the business office or HR it's a reminder they see kids every day as they come around and remind us why they're doing that work class of
2024 I haven't talked last time about getting a sign and they think this is just so cool I know at the panther Foundation meeting recently one of the panther Foundation members talked about how cool it is to see because you realize how many kids there are in our system when you drive
when she drive through her neighborhood in Blaine and these signs would be all over so it's kind of from decision day so all the different uh schools kids are going to was not on May 1st this year it was delayed I can't
remember the actual day we had it but with the uh FAFSA challenges across the country this year a lot of the schools delayed their decision day so high school delayed their decision day for kids the one on the lower right is the
best school up there say that um this is again one of my favorite things that uh Eric and her team do and see Evan there but they could put these senior spotlights people who are watching online any of the board members I encourage you to go online and read
the stories about these kids it's just it's pretty cool and our graduation which we just had a week ago today so man Evan you are a star to so again it's always I tell so many like
you have to come to graduation because it's the culminating experience this is what we do is to get the kids around across the age and be ready to take that next step it's always so fun to see you it was fun as she just you know Smiles withing across the stage was pretty and it's definitely it's one of
the things I love about Spring Lake Park High School that you know people when I talked earlier tonight about being the world class learning community of choice when we talk about it's like I don't expect people living in Illinois or London England to make the choice to come to Spring Lake Park schools but
it's within that sphere of the world of all these choices that they can come here but one of the things that I think is the coolest is these kids um they're actually getting to go to school with the world you know I think our student body really represents the world it's a diverse Place kids get the opportunity
to learn um with all kinds of other kids that's only going to position them better as they move on into college career and life then this was the audible ah from the crowd when Matthew B the principal shared that each of the graduates in their um diploma which one of the
student speakers that talked about getting the empty diploma book earlier and the surprise of the graduates they weren't empty each one of them had a message from a fourth grade student who had written them a message write these kind of messages Evan I don't know if you want to share what your message was
um yeah mine came from a kid named Gavin and he wished me the best he say he's really proud of me and he hopes that when he's my age he will be playing soccer so shout out to Gavin I hope you're playing soccer too that sounds like fun so I don't know that was a really uh
unique touch idea that Megan johy are um one of our high school associate principles and the she so very cool touch and then that tradition of getting to throw the hats and then getting those kids across stage takes a lot of adults um to do
that over the years and so this year we had a chance that eight different retiring staff members at our event and um I know I talked with one of our principles who has a wife who retired from uh another District this year and he very much appreciates our retirement celebration he said have to going to
that one very long time he said he spent with lots and lots of speakers and I think it's I love how ours has been done over the years just provides a nice touch for people just come in and connect and have that personal touch with people a lot of people I know really well here so kind of each of these years and I'm knowing some of
these people and becoming the old guy around here so kind of seeing all these people leave so and then last week again fun night the uh um Tower days prayed we had a ton of volunteers there um passing out books and all you running around the
uh trade route so trying to keep up with the driver so yeah so but it's always fun to see our community it's a chance to get out there and see our community lower right Queen had lots of
fun left her daughter Alison passing so and then the staff lining up and waving goodbye to the kids as they drive away in the buses last day so here you
go was it knew kind ask a question was it new this year that the kids went to the elementary schools or had they done that in the past because I hadn't seen that before I've seen it in other districts I like it because I think it gives the elementary kids something to see like oh
I want to do this you know it's such a big deal when you're a little kid too to see these graduates I don't know I like it that it was good along with a little just drew more attention to yes you want to complete your education yes
so just just the one image on there the the kiddo giv his teacher a hug the last day of school I never would have done that when I was in grade school was like no seea I'm out of here so that just right there speaks volumes as to how much
education has changed especially here at Springlake Park you know kids they want to be with their friends they want to they want to stay at school that's you know become a big important part of their lives so Mission accomplishing on that one well we're continuing to accomplish that mission not mission
accomplish we're continuing that great work all right moving on to action items uh can I a motion to approve uh 2024 2025 proposed budget so we move by hennon second by
Skelly to approve the proposed 2024 2025 budget as presented any well we had a presentation um any other discussion all in favor please say I I those opposed motion
passes uh can I get a motion for the approval of the fiscal school year 26 application for long-term facility maintenance Revenue so moved so moved by valella second by forsberg to approve that the fiscal year 26 application for
long-term facilities maintenance Revenue be submitted to the Minnesota Department of Education and we covered part of that also in the presentation so any further discussion all in favor please say I I I
was opposed that motion passes moving on to approval of 2024 2025 annual qm memorandum of understanding can I get a motion so so move by Skelly or Not Sorry Sorry SMI
yeah second by Skelly second by Skelly to approve the Q comp memorandum of understanding and we have hope you get one more uh report tonight so this is a required report that we need to do each year so with that I'll just Let Go cover it sure yeah this is
something we do annually so it's a review for many of you but um the Minnesota Department of Education requires districts that participate in what they call Quality compensation or what we abbreviate to qm provide an annual report um of course we also hit this in August at our world's best
Workforce annual report to the board and in the written report I provide to the Department of Education every December um there are four components components to Quality compensation or qm these have remained the same since 2005 and since
we became a qm district in 2010 I believe uh that includes teacher leader positions which you see listed there on the slide uh job embedded professional development which occurs through what we call Professional learning communities or you might often hear us abbreviate
that as plcs uh a third component is that of teacher evaluation so uh we uh take a focus on teacher learning and evaluation because we ultimately want our teachers to be successful in their learning and their growth and development and then
finally performance pay is uh the fourth component so each spring we do a little bit of a program evaluation around amp and here are some of the highlights or insights from our evaluation this year we've spoke uh spoken with you
throughout the year that we brought a new um platform into the system specific specific to teacher learning and that is prera and our initial implementation was a huge success um and a lot of thanks to the HR team and Lindsay Johnson who you
heard earlier um who took a lot of leadership in that um this past year there were 4,436 observations and pieces of feedback given to our teachers throughout the system from that lens of support feedback consistently includes
uh two aspects uh keep doing things that um are observed that are high leverage and are going well and then some next action and a next action to consider along with that there were um just about 1,750 um conferences that happened that
doesn't include the the real time authentic debrief of the observation but these are more like let's talk about what what we're working on as a system how that applies to you um how are we how are we doing along the way with with that and then wrapping up with end ofe
conferences we have weekly professional learning communities that happen they always focus on examining student data and designing responses to where students are at in their learning this year our um weekly professional learning communities took a big focus on calibrating student work against those
competency rubrics that we've been working on so that was really great work that happened in our PLC is uh also uh we regularly had extended professional learning communities so it's a little bit extra time of like a double dose of that PLC that really um gave people the
opportunity to focus on the design of student work and learning experiences and you heard from Jeff already we'll have more time um dedicated to that next year as we do those projects that Jeff already referenced um and then I just wanted to acknowledge something that we hear is the support that we give our
teacher leaders so all of those above bullets were around our teacher supports but we have a lot of teacher leaders formal and informal in the system that lead a lot of our our work and so we also have um processes and uh learning in place to support them in their
continued growth and development and then finally that last component we round regularly with our teachers um checking in with them what's going well is there anything you might need who would you like to acknowledge or recognize amongst your colleagues and then lastly anything else you think it's
important for us to know and that regular rounding really helps us um determine focused for Focus for professional learning and we we also use that as we look at District operational plan projects in the upcoming year um some next actions is uh that we
will uh obviously continue our teacher leader role uh positions we'll continue to support them um that also involves working with our schools on their school Improvement and Innovation plans um high quality design of professional learning and using what we call those dashboard
metrics to inform the work they're doing dayto day uh under the job embedded professional learning we will continue our work in professional learning communities and uh continue a focus for a second year on calibrating that student student work against those competency rubrics and
learning progressions under teacher learning and a Val we want we had a great initial role out of proera there's more we can do with that so we want to just expand that use as we continue to um scale that throughout the system and then um want
we always want to continue our focusing when we work with teachers on things like modeling the co-design of student work and learning experiences and use of video and like uh peers observing peers in other classrooms as part of that coaching process and then finally we continue with the um performance pay in
the areas of individual teachers professional learning communities and buildings set against schools that are developed and I'm going to turn it over to Tony because part of that includes the memo of understanding yes yes Hope provided a great summary of of our Q comp work here in the district but in
order for us to participate in the state's Q comp program the board has to enter into an agreement with the teachers union each year um and so that's the action item that that uh is before you right now it's largely an
unchanged memorandum of understanding from previous years we've updated the dates but there aren't any substantive changes to it um I can share with you that this has been ratified by SLP the vote was 207 U yeses and one NOS one
no uh this is the second year in a row that we've had one no but the turnout was uh over 50% so that was actually pretty good so you can tell our teachers are are very very supportive of this additional compensation that's linked to Performance and that wraps up our Q comp
anual report discussion before approve all in favor please say I I I those opposed motion passes um moving to put that okay U moving to resolution relating to termination of non-renewal
of probationary teacher teaching contracts can I get a motion so moved by Skully keep saying Skelly Schmid second by forsberg to approve the following resolution now therefore be it resolved
by the school board of Independent School District 16 that pursuant to ms1 122 A40 the teaching contracts of the following probationary teachers and Independent School District 16 are hereby terminated at the close of the 2023 2024 school year be a further
resolve that written notice shall be sent to the following teachers regarding termination of pay and fringe benefits as provided by law we will go into roll call CL can you call the RO
yes yes yes yes yes the resolution is adopted on a 70 vote thank you and moving to approval of the
resolution certifying the population estimate for the 2024 payable 2025 Levy of Independent School District 16 can I get a motion move by henon second second by bellaa to approve the following resolution where Spring Lake Park
schools has experienced an increase in population from the 2022 Minnesota state demogra Dem demographers well 2022 District population report of 35,6 62 to the current of
36379 as determined by the 2023 Minnesota state demographers report therefore be it resolved by the school board of Spring Lake Park schools that the census figures of 36379 be certified to the state demographer for approval of use in the
2024 payable 2025 Revenue calculations any discussion all right per can you call the rooll Mr valo yes M Kelly yes M Smith yes m m yes
M forsberg yes M hon yes Mr Easter yes that resolution is adopted on a 70 vote thank you we have uh we need to add a motion uh it missed um our agenda and is for the
approval of the 2023 2024 budget revision can I get a motion so moved so moved by bellaa second second by at that time to approve uh the fiscal year 2024
budget revisions as presented and we just had a presentation on that all in favor please say I I I those opposed right that motion passes and moving on to acknowledgement of gifts can I get a
motion so moved so moved by Scully second second by McCullen to adopt the following resolution whereas Schoolboard policy 706 establishes guidelines for the acceptance of gifts to the district and
whereas Minnesota statute 4653 states that a school board me that a school board May accept a gift of real or personal property by the adoption of a resolution approved by two3 of its members therefore be resolved that the school board of Spring Lake Park schools
accepts with appreciation the gifts to the district any discussion yes thank you always welcomed and appreciated and then we have the 88
8,000 88,000 80,000 from Panther Foundation yeah yeah so yes very generous very generous Community very much
appreciated clerk can you call roll Miss Hannon yes spurg yes McLoud yes M BR yes Miss Kelly yes Mr yes and Mr eer yes that resolution also
is adopted on a 70 vote thank you moving to board forum and reports we'll start on this site it's been super busy seriously I my thing was I I just
went through a bunch of grad parties the last couple weekends it was just I mean if you just drive through the N roads I mean they were're so blessed with the great weather the last couple weekends I mean the weather has been awesome it's like you can't go down a road and
anywhere on the weekend and there's cars everywhere there all the parties so um having completed my first graduation ceremony very very fun to be a part of um and I had a couple
compliments from parents for and and I didn't noce this has probably been in place for a while but uh for live streaming it for people that couldn't make it in person and or physically not able to get out and B I was amazed on graduation night it
was fantastic it was wonderful I'm very happy to be a part of it the only thing that I'm going to change next year is I'm not going to sit right behind the podium where my face is on there at all times the amount of text I got of my face on
the screen was alarmy and thankfully melody was like don't forget you're going to be on camera at all time so I was like making sure I wasn't like fting or anything it was your initiation you guys had my husband said did they do that on
purpose I'm like they did not it just was how it worked out I have to confess I was going to sit there but I went through that last year because you're sitting there is like okay I can't rub my nose because someone Pi that the wrong way if I look a certain way somebody's going to
interpret that differently it was fantas awesome yeah congratulations on your first uh graduation ation yeah how about this side one comment on
graduation too I thought it went really well doing the diplomas from both sides and the way that they handled that I thought it was really smooth and quick and and I think the location too with um was decent and that in that way but it went well but I I think had it been sunny out it wouldn't have been a
parking lot problem at all people would have stayed later and taken more photos and yeah it was that was the only little hiccup but I I loved it I thought it was great I always love seeing these kids cross the stage and whooping it up with them and so I'm grateful for you too
well I got a long one don't worry I I too always think graduation is one of the highlights of the year and so most happy to participate in that um from 916 they have an intermediate
teacher residency apprenticeship Collective lot of words wow it is a program that leads persons going from an associate degree to a Balor degree while they are still employed and it's a
programmed through all of the intermediate districts and a lot of funding with that but a real opportunity and there are seven people involved in it for the coming year also some talk about cucm which they
handled quite a bit differently they said they completed 22 of 26 benchmarks and I have talked with the superintendent that there will not be quite that many next year that seems to be an awfully lot to bite
off and we approved the superintendent's contract so she will uh be at 9916 for the next three years and um aside from the other activities that most of you have been at
that was my that's what I have to report today I was just gonna since Marilyn mentioned the teacher Residency program 916 has I think they're working with metro state if I remember right um maybe the one other system doing that we've had our own kind of apprentice program that we've been doing um in our system
but we've got a longstanding partnership I like too VOA about this with um University of St Thomas which has been great I think it's was it 28 teachers 18 I think they said we have 28 graduates from St Thomas who are teaching in our elementary school so they basically
spend their entire senior year the first semester of their year they spend with a cooperating teacher here two or three days a week and then they're in class the other two and then they student teach the entire spring semester so we get to know them really well they get to know us really well it's been a great partnership because of that St Thomas
approached us about being part of an apprenticeship program that that they've been um that they've received a grant through the Department of Labor and they've approached two districts one St Paul because they're within St Paul and then us so we'll be uh next year is a
planning year and then we' be implemented in the5 26 year so it's kind of a nice honor to to be asked by St Thomas to be a part of that and they've been and we've had a we have a lot of excellent Educators because of that partnership and at least some of them kids which is
super fun this one is quite specific because it will result in licensure for the autism spectrum and for EBD right there's is there's is specifically towards the uh moreal sitting for
programs for special ed and for teachers to work in that area ours will be more will be um for General Ed teachers so then I was just wondering if you want Erica she's the only member of the te that didn't get to present tonight oh that's true
yeah [Music] sure all right Evan we saved you for last I mean what dedication you graduated last Tuesday and you are here today yeah awesome just a few things to go over um on May 15th we had our
academic award ceremony for seniors in which we AED over $80,000 worth of scholarships out seniors so thank you to the P foundation and all other donors um and then also a couple weeks ago we had the eighth grade visit where many eighth graders got to be guided by current Panther mentors into a glimpse of high
school life and then student council welcome their new officers including president Allison Peterson vice president Mia samoy and public relations secretary Mia minarski who you will all be meeting coming this fall and then of course um the class of 2024 graduated
and while some of us will be freshmen others will be entering career trainings and some will just be going to the workforce I wish all of us the best of luck and I would just like to highlight a few things that were said previously um when we talk about you know people retired I just like to say a
l reti stay in the community as you saw L hungry she just donated um for the FCCLA fund and also she reached out to a lot of us FCCLA kids and sent out cards so I was really sweet of her um and then also I'd like to highlight what Tony said about hugging teacher let me tell
you that it doesn't stop at elementary um you should have been there on June 3rd when Kelsey Cassie she's a 10th grade English teacher even the hugs and tears that were in that room um just for the impact that some of these teachers have it's amazing and i' just like to say thank you to Spring Lake Park um the
past 13 years have been amazing if you would have went to me for 12 years ago even and told me you're going to be the president of student council sitting on the school board just making an impact I would thought you were crazy would have told you leave I I don't know what kind of Fortune you're telling but I just like to say I'm so grateful and no
matter where I go I will be just grateful where I came from and I'll remember each and every single one of you for welcoming me and just being so appreciative of my presence and I thank all of you oh thank you thank you yes yes we any any comments from anyone
on the on the board about Evan or in general about Evan I love Evan this has been a total treat and I've gotten to see you a few times outside of school at different events and stuff too and you're the same everywhere you go and I just love how
you bring your questions and energy and curiosity and it's a you're going be a tough act to follow done I appreciated your participation because we've had other student members who are very nice to be here but haven't
really participated on our disc disc and so it was very nice to have a student voice in those discussions yeah I appreciate you your engagement and your energy and you're just wonderful you've added so much to this and it's my first time
being up here a few times now and you like you just fit right in so I wish you all the best and talk about making us Panther proud so go out and do really good things back [Music] I've had a chance you've been on
superintendent advisory last couple years I had a chance to get to know you there too and it's uh they'll do great things but uh come back drop in sometime when you're home we're having a meeting and you know you can be entertained and you don't have to say anything you just be entertained at the meeting I'll come
with more questions don't worry yeah appreciate it so you can submit them online when you're watching on YouTube we'll get somebody Monitor and answer yeah exactly what he doesn't have a beard anymore Evan it has been an absolute
treat having you on on the board and I I will say also Harper and W um we can't forget about them they're not here this evening but um the the three student reps this year um engaging active you're you're listening and
learning um so I enjoyed that and appreciated that um but I really enjoyed the energy and passion you bring and and just seeing how you interact here and seeing how you interact outside of school even at graduation seeing you you were smiling I would be smiling too
because it's graduation but but just your your um affectation your character and just your your all around energy is just amazing amazing and I and I would say that about WEN also because I saw her at
graduation came across the platform and yeah she was just super exciting and I I really appreciate I'm gonna miss you guys this this year so um real quick um do you want to share with everyone what your plans are or what your next next yeah um I'll be attending the University
of Winnipeg I'll be studying history on the pre-law track um and then after that maybe you might stay in Canada maybe might not not but law school is definitely in the question so I'll be looking at doing a lot of Judge work lawyer work whatever I fall into or
he'll be a school board member so all right some of us have dumo yeah there we go and some of us haven't well Evan before you go we wanted the board want to give a gift to you um all the places you go signed by
each one of us because this is just a start of your journey it's a journey so we want to just encourage you with this gift from us and again say thank you and we just appreciate you and uh appreciate what you've given to the board this year don't forget it
yeah question just watch ER did you want to get a picture okay come on did you dress for a picture everybody people didn't dress for it I didn't want to make them look
bad all right just one thing before we adjourn yes ma'am the registration is open for msba summer seminar the 1 of August um it's about Student Success so hope some of you will consider that
thank you for the REM reminder yeah all right anything else all right we will move on to adjournment can I get a motion move by hennon second second by Schmidt to adjourn the meeting
at 8:55 wow all in favor please say I I I those opposed all right motion is approved meeting is adjourned thank you everyone I know