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Part 1 (Video ID: ZPqBhl-Sgnc):
- 00:00:14: Meeting Call to Order and Agenda Approval
- 00:01:11: Upcoming Events and Approval of Consent Agenda
- 00:03:17: District Operational Plan: Advanced Curricular Reviews - Social Studies
- 00:11:18: Recommended K-12 Social Studies Resources and Next Steps
- 00:16:59: Summer Programming Overview: K-12 Summer School and Enrichment
- 00:21:42: Questions on Summer Programs and Community Ed Appreciation
- 00:24:11: Monthly Financial Report for February 2026
- 00:28:14: Superintendent Report: Student Achievements and Recognition
- 00:33:07: Superintendent Report: Graduation Rate and Cyber Attack
- 00:36:19: Superintendent Report: State Funding and Calendar Dates
- 00:37:11: Action Item: High School Tennis Court Resurfacing Bid
- 00:38:49: Tennis Court Resurfacing Questions, Staff Appreciation Week
- 00:41:46: Proposed Policy Modifications and Designation of Schoolboard Meetings
- 00:44:13: Acknowledgement of Gifts and Curricular Study Approval
- 00:46:11: Board Forum and Reports: Student Representatives
- 00:48:44: Board Member Reports: Flag Football, DECA Nationals, Lions
- 00:50:51: Board Member Reports: 916 Programs and Scholarship Update
- 00:54:15: Board Member Reports: Counselors and Meeting Adjournment


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call the meeting to order. Please join me for the pledge of >> allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands one nation with liberty and justice for all.

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>> Thank you for joining us this evening. Agenda approval. Uh we I know of one change to the agenda. for adding a action item an action item uh towards the end for approval of curricular study uh K12 social studies. Um any other

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changes to the agenda? Can I get a motion to approve the agenda with the following with the change that I just mentioned? >> So move by Colin, >> second by Vala to approve the agenda with the following changes. All in favor, please say I.

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>> Those opposed. Motion passes. Moving to some future events. Please check the district website for a complete list of monthly events. Tuesday, May 5th, 2026, schoolboard retreat at 11:30 a.m. Uh location to be determined. Tuesday, May

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12th, 2026, retirement reception 4 p.m. at Banquetss of Minnesota. Tuesday, May 19th, 2026, regular school board meeting at 7 p.m. with communications to the board and administration at 6:45. >> Is it the 12th?

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>> Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. >> Yeah, that's cross. Yeah, >> cross. >> Thank you. >> Yes. No, it's the 19th. Yes. >> That's okay.

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That's all right. Okay. >> Yes, we are. >> Yeah. Yes. Moving on to consent agenda. Can I get a motion? >> So, move by Schmidt, >> second by Scully to approve the

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following items of the consent agenda. Minutes of the February 24, 2026 work session, March 3rd, 2026 regular meeting, and March 24, 2026 work session. Bills paid for February 2026 in

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the following amounts of 4,76,977 and personnel items. All in favor, please say I. >> Those opposed. Motion passes. Uh moving to discussion reports and information items. Engaged and

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enthusiastic learners. Align work of adults to continuously improve personalized instruction and responsiveness to meet our students unique and varied needs. District operational plan project update advanced curricular reviews social studies. Dr. Hopron.

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>> Uh good evening. We just wanted to take some time to give you an update on some work we have been doing within the district operational plan advanced curricular reviews. Uh we had an opportunity to talk about this at length at the March work session um and had a great discussion on the process that we

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use when we do a curricular review uh and uh as well as the recommended resources. So we are here tonight to give you a shortened version of that. Uh just a little background the project has uh the project advanced curricular reviews has three areas of curricular

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work. You'll see them on your slide. Math, social studies, and multilingual programming. And uh tonight's update though is uh focused just primarily on social studies and again brings you along on the process that we used for that uh core resource review. I uh after

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this brief intro am going to sit down and I am going to turn over the presentation to a couple of my colleagues on our learning and innovation team. Jenny Zimmerman has uh served as a teacher on special assignment in learning and innovation for the past two years. She's really

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helped out the team and all the teachers with a couple of curricular reviews, social studies being one of them, and then also provides a lot of support for our teachers on uh design of learning and student engagement. Christy Cray is a learning and innovation coordinator for curriculum and learning design. Uh

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Christy taught social studies at the high school for a number of years, transitioned into an instructional coaching role at the high school, and then a couple of years ago came over to the district services center to join our learning and innovation team. So from there, I will leave it into their highly capable hands and be back up at the end

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of the presentation. >> Good evening. Our curricular review cycle has three phases, all of which are grounded in our 3D design thinking methods. Getting through these three phases often takes three school years. And our social studies review process

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followed that pattern. For social studies, the cycle started with researching evidence-based practices as well as our own current practices. We facilitated a design team for this part of the process last year, which resulted in the development of our K12 social

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studies framework. In addition, um we worked by gathering parent input through out regular family engagement events um by asking our parents what types of learning experiences their they wanted their students to experience here in

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Lake Park. Over the summer, we began to move into the second phase of what we call intended curriculum, which has three components. What it is we want our students to know and be able to do, the balanced assessment approach that will provide

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evidence of what our students know and are able to do, and the core resources that support the learning and the teaching. We worked with our social studies teachers to revise our social studies competencies and learning progressions and from there we moved into the core

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resource review process. We also then guar gathered parent input this year and that was focused on what skills our parents thought were most important for their children to be successful beyond high school as we wanted to ensure that our resources

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provided opportunities for students to practice and gain those skills. As the core resource review process finishes and materials arrive, we then purposefully design professional learning. We want to make sure that each of our social studies teachers has a

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deep understanding of the social studies framework that was developed last year and also make sure that our teachers can easily navigate the core resources. We want our teachers to ensure that they have um support through the design of

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their units so that as they start trimester 1, they're in a really strong position to support our students and their learning. So, our core resource review design teams met in January for two days and Christy and I were able to co-f facilitate those teams. We split the

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larger team into an elementary group and a secondary group. So our K5 design team had 12 teachers consisting of two teachers from each grade level. And we ensured there were teachers from all five of the buildings. So Woodcrest, Westwood, Park Terrace, Centerview, and

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North Point. And then our 712 design team also had 12 teachers. Here we made sure that we had teachers from each of the social studies disciplines as well as from Westwood and the high school. The first step we took was to scout a wide variety of potential core

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resources. We consulted with the National Council for the Social Studies and talked with our neighboring districts as a part of this process. We also connected with our teachers to see if there was anything we needed to look at when it came to core resources as

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they have some background in this and they might have something to share with us that we wanted to take a look at. Next, we took that longer list of resources that we gathered through the scouting process and narrowed it down a bit. We did an initial review of the resources to look for a really strong

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alignment to our K12 social studies framework as well as our social studies competencies. We also looked at the availability of the resource in Spanish as that is a primary consideration at grades K8 where social studies is taught

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in Spanish. And finally, we looked at how the core resource was available, print or digital. Following that initial vetting, we brought the team in over two days to do a deep review of the narrowed resources.

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Three different core resources for K5 and five different core resources for 712. The reason we have more potential resources at the secondary level is because all of the various disciplines of social studies. This is common at the

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secondary level and similar to what we did for science a couple of years ago. We facilitated the design teams through this deeper review using a rubric that we have developed in Spring Lake Park that is grounded in our core theories of action and which incorporated our parent

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input that we had gathered. First, we asked the design teams to look for alignment to our core instructional strategies within our social studies framework. This includes supporting an environment where dialogue among students is the

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norm. where inquiry is a strong focus and where students are asked to apply their learning as engaged citizens, meaning outside of the four walls of the classroom. The teachers also looked for hands-on learning supports for multilingual

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learners as well as student voice and choice and how they can show their learning. These look fors aligned with what we heard from our parents as we gathered input over the past two years. Our parents identified the importance of

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realworld application so students could apply their learning in meaningful ways and learn how to take meaningful action. They also emphasized the importance of critical thinking and communication. After the teams finished the deep

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reviews, we worked with the teachers to synthesize the results from there and developed the recommendations which we are bringing to you today. This also included getting estimates of core resource costs. We also brought the recommended

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resources around to each of our schools, giving all teachers of social studies the opportunity to look at the recommended resources and weigh in on what they needed for professional learning in order to transition to the new resource in the 2627 school year.

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So here are the recommended resources and as we mentioned before we reviewed a number of different resources because we have a variety of disciplines within social studies. These include geography, US history, world history, government,

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economics, civics, sociology and psychology. So we really needed to take a deep look at each resource within each discipline and not make an assumption that the same company would be the best resource within each of these disciplines. So the team recommended

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SAVIS as our core resource for our K5 social studies core resource and our secondary social studies core resource for American studies, US history, world history, economics, government and civics. The K5 resource will be in print

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and the 712 core resource will be digital. The team found that the SAVIS resources are centered in an inquiry approach to learning. This is tightly aligned to our social studies framework. The SAV resources also intentionally support literacy and language

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development. So, as an example, at the elementary level, resources include readers that align to typical highinterest topics for our elementary students. And at the secondary level, the resources support literacy and language development through the strategies that students use as they

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look at primary sources and historical documents. SAVIS also offers opportunities for interdisciplinary learning between subject areas as well as cross-discipline learning between each of the disciplines of social studies. This is all aligned to our four core

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components of innovative and personalized learning, all of which boosts student engagement. The team recommended McGra Hill as our core resource for our geography courses, which are currently offered at grades eight and nine. This resource takes a

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projectbased approach, which ends in an action plan that can be shared with others both within classrooms and outside of schools. This approach really supports our career and life competencies, including collaboration and civic awareness.

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The recommendation also includes some smaller one-off resources that support some of our social studies elective courses within the areas of sociology and psychology. For example, both Open Stacks and BFW really focus on looking at the learning

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through the lens of a sociologist or a psychologist. again capturing that connection between what the students are learning and those potential future career paths. Finally, since grade six Minnesota state standards are specific to Minnesota history, there is really

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only one viable core resource called Northern Lights. We have used this resource since 2014 and plan to continue to use it. Uh the resource is undergoing an update right now and the new addition won't be ready until later summer. So,

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after talking to our sixth grade teachers, we've decided to hold on bringing the new addition into our system until the 2728 school year. >> Well, they make that all seem real simple. Um, and we didn't do the math,

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but I'm guessing it's hundreds upon hundreds of hours that have gone into this process, both by these two as co-designers and co-f facilitators, as well as um all of our teacher teams that have been in all last year and then this year as well. So, I just have a lot of appreciation not only for Christy and

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Jenny, but all the teachers who have been involved in this process so far. Uh, as we look at next steps, the first one is happening right now. Um we wanted to make sure the schoolboard and community uh everyone was aware of the process we used and also was aware of the resources that the uh the

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recommendations that the team made for the resources. Um from there we will move to ordering the core resources. We need to align that to both staffing. So we order the correct number of teacher resources. We also need to align it to student enrollment. So we order the correct amount of student resources. Uh

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we'll continue to design and facilitate professional learning for our teachers both on the social studies framework as well as the new core resources to make sure teachers can navigate those smoothly as they start the year. And then as always, we will support our teachers with curriculum mapping and

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unit design. That will some of that will happen this summer. It will certainly scale all the way into next year as well to make sure everyone's ready as each trimester rolls up. That's what we have. >> Thank you. Any uh any questions? We did

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cover this in our last work session quite a bit actually. >> Yeah, no questions. But I really do appreciate the rigor that you follow for all of the pro for all of the um subject matter and also the inclusiveness of how

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many teachers you involve and the parents that you involve um in order to make the final decision. So, thank you. >> And then we'll take action. That's the uh additional action item our agenda.

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>> Okay. >> I just Yeah, I just want to add um Kelly said what I was going to say. So that makes it uh very but I do want to add that just to Christy and Jenny, thanks for the leadership that you provide. I mean you really take people through that process and I know you really care about

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deeply engaging uh the teachers and others throughout the process and that's not always an easy thing to do. So thank you so much for all all that you do. Thank you. Moving to engage and enthusiastic learners. Align work of adults to

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continuously improve personalized instruction and responsiveness to meet our students unique and varied needs. Summer programming overview. Miss Sarah Frans. >> Hello everyone. My name is Sarah Frans. I am the youth and family enrichment program coordinator for the community

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education department. Normally our community director, Colleen Peterson, would be here. Unfortunately, is out of town at a conference. So, I'm here to represent our team. Um, I know everyone is anxious about spring and summer finally arriving in Minnesota. We got a

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little taste of the warmth again today. But in community ed, we have been thinking about summer since middle of January. Um, so I'm excited to share a little glimpse into what is to come today. Starting with our K8 summer school program. So, this um is a program

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for students by invitation. Those invitations have already gone out to our students for the summer counts program. Um this they are invited if they have not yet met their academic progress goals during the school year as a chance

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to catch up on that. We will have two locations for this program this summer. The first location is at Park Terrace Elementary and that will be for our elementary students who attend North Point, Center View, and Park Terrace, those K4 grades. And then our second

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location will be at Westwood. And this is for the 58 Westwood students and also the Woodrest Spanish immersion students. This is a four-week program that takes place in the month of July. It's four

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days a week. Um, and a great opportunity for them to get caught up. Then we also have our high school credit recovery program. Um, last year this served over 300 students at the high school, which is pretty amazing. And this will start

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again right away on June 8th this summer. Um, and students and those families can expect to hear more from the high school staff about this program and attending come miday. We will also be continuing our learning ventures and discovery days child care

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programs throughout the summer. Um during the school year those happen before and after school during the summer. This is a full day program. Um and that registration is already open and filling up quickly. That opened on March 1st. Every summer they pick a

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theme to base all of their activities around. So this year's theme is adventure quest. And you can see here on the slides that each week has its own specific theme. So, a few that I am excited to see what they're going to get into is superhero training camp. I think

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that'll be a big hit and the time travelers as well. So, that is weeks and weeks of all day fun. We will also continue our youth enrichment programs. So, as the youth and family enrichment program coordinator during the school year, I

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primarily work on the after school programs. Um, does not end when the school year ends. So, this summer we're looking to again offer lots of sports camps and clinics for all of our age groups. Last year, we had over a

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thousand students participate. Um, and lots of camps, sports camps, we have um visual and performing arts, life skills, hobbies, STEM classes, something for everybody. And we will also be continuing the free

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summer meals in partnership with the nutrition services department. So this is a free breakfast and lunch offering for all children ages 1 to 18 years old. Um from June to August all summer this

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will take place at the high school where families can come and get those meals. And then for those four weeks in July, we will also be having a lunch program at Park Terrace and Westwood Intermediate and Middle School for those summer learning school programs.

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Um, and more information on those times and what is available for families will come to the website in June. And then to round out the summer in August, we will be hosting Kim K kinder camp again on the mornings of August

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18th, 19th, and 20th. And this is a great opportunity for those incoming kindergarten students to get a feel for what it's like to be in a school building, get familiar with that routine so it's not so scary and overwhelming come the first day of school. So, a

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chance for them to practice um what those routines are and get a tour of their building. So that is a very broad overview of what is to come over the next few months. Do you have any questions for me? Yes. >> How impactful is that high school credit

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recovery program for the big increase in graduation rates? >> It makes a significant difference. So um like to get kids back on track. like percentage wise. >> I mean, I I don't know that we could isolate to that one um because there's

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multiple interventions that we have in place for kids. So, but it's it's pretty significant. Um you know, in particular, a lot of the kids who transfer into our system and they come in and they're already behind credits. So, one additional way where they're able to catch up. Um so, it it's a really strong

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program. >> I was say I was shocked. I mean, 300 is That's a lot of kids. >> Yeah. >> So, great. >> Yeah. >> Just I guess similar to what Kelly said before, we just are very appreciative. We have we know well, we don't really

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know, but we can imagine how much hard work goes into all of the planning for all of this and keeping everybody busy and helping kids meet their goals. And just thank you for all of your hard work. We really appreciate it. >> Yeah. Thank you. I am new to the community ed team this year. I just

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started up on the third day of school back in September. So, it's been fun to see as the year progresses, all of the different programs, community events, how everything fits together, all these different pieces that contribute to the broad picture and goals of the whole

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district has been really fun to see. And that doesn't stop in the summer. So, we're excited to get started. >> Thank you. >> I'll add it's never easy that first time you get to to this group of people and stand there and look up at everybody. So, you did a great job. >> Thank you.

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>> So, now it'll just get easier. >> Yes. Well, wonderful. Thank you very much. >> Nice job, Sarah. >> You said what I was going to say. >> All I can say is, Colleen, watch out. >> I know. Okay. Moving to effective operations. Improve our effective management of human financial and

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physical resources. Monthly financial report for February 2026. Miss Amy Schultz. >> Good evening board. Tonight we will go through as we do at each meeting our monthly financial report. It's a set of three cash basis reports that we review each month um to keep the board updated

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where we stand. The first of these is our treasures report. This is a cash basis receipts and dispersements and we're doing the month of February. Um as you can see we're starting and ending the month at just over $61 million. uh most of that in the general fund. Um on

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the receipt side, over $7 million of those receipts come from state aid this month. February is a month we do not receive any taxes. So it tends to be a higher month for state aids. And while that makes up most of it, the rest of it comes from some of its other state

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sources. Um in addition to just regular state aids, we also receive the money for our meals program as well as grants such as our pathways which fund some of our preschool programs, things like that. Those are all state funds. So really when all of those are put together, the amount that came from the

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state is about 8 and a half million for the month of February. The rest of that is made up of just miscellaneous. It could be um sports registrations, interest, revenue, some other areas. On the dispersement side, this is really I would say very average month for

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February. There are no large things that happen in February or um it's not a low month either. That's kind of where we would expect most months to land. For the statement of revenues, this report shows the revenues for the month of February. Year to date, the budget,

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which currently reflects now the budget adjustments that the board approved in February. So that column has been changed to reflect the revised budget. And then it compares where we are in February to where we were in February the past two years. So with that, you

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can see on the general fund as well as food service We are really right in line with where we have been the past few years. Uh once those adjustments were made, we did not do a budget adjustment for community ed. Um during the times we were getting these ready for our other funds, Colleen

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Pearson was very busy doing outreach with our families and our community. So it was a time where we felt her priorities were elsewhere and we will be meeting on that to potentially bring one to the board later this year. On the debt side, you can see we are quite a bit ahead of where we have been the

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previous two years and we brought this up each month. This relates to the bond refunding we did this fall and because of that very large dollar amount of that refunding it's just making that look a little bit off. So at the end of the year they should all look very close to

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100%. On the expense side um same report but for our expenses and with that you can see again with the general fund uh we are really again right in line with where we have been the past few years. things might be a little bit off when you look at specific line items such as

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capital or supplies. Um supplies happen earlier in the year, later in the year, but really what this is is departments and schools have the ability to budget within those areas. We tend to look at it a little more bottom line. So sometimes where they thought they would spend money, it ends up on a different

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line. So those might look different each month, but in total they are paying attention to what they are spending. Um on the operations side, the service and community ed. We are just a little bit where we've been behind in the last few years with that and we've brought this

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up at each meeting as well. In the past few years, we were still receiving CO dollars and so with that um where budgets were a little bit more limo and and cash was coming in those were inflating those in prior years. And then on the debt side when it comes to expenses we have essentially paid

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everything in February that we expect to pay for the year and that as you can see with the previous two years is very typical. So with that that is the month of February if there are any questions. >> Any questions?

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>> Thank you. Moving to superintendent report. >> All right. information come up here. So, there's all kinds of great things to share. It's kind of stuff that I these kinds of things that I wish the media

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would have up because it's all kinds of great things that our kids are doing. So, first we had some of our first graders uh learning to listen to music um and just work on music literacy. So, a lot of fun to see what they're doing. And um there's a lot of collaboration

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happening among our FIAD classes. You can see here these first four and through fourth graders got to uh um know their kindergarten friends in a short time and get to work with kids across the see what's happening. Mrs. Woodrest, our Spanish immersion

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students are becoming scientists. So first grade students in particular go into some hands-on learning. read that. So again, yeah, it's a lot of fun. Our Westwood Native American Culture

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Group explored the Ojiway and Dakota values. And as they did that, they put these into action and created some appreciation cards for elder residents at assisted living nursing home in Welch, Minnesota. So, some of our So, this is for our

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fourth graders, the opportunity, the big day of getting over to visit Westwood um intermediate middle school. So, you can see what's ahead at fifth grade. It's always a big day. And this is kind of cool. Two of our SLP destination imagination teams placed in

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their categories state and qualified for finals, global finals. And then a couple of our lighthouse students, Lillian Ivy, placed first in the Zoom STEM challenge. Notice there were 1600 projects submitted for the

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contest. So pretty impressive. You can see they used the design process. So you hear about the design process process and how we use curriculum. They used it as students in play. We could have them do that. Yeah. Then our how to make almost anything class,

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the uh kids made a giant hockey stick for our Spring Lake Park Youth Hockey Association. And of course, OEC once again having the opportunity at the state EMS competition um to show all they know and they placed you can see did really really well.

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Second place, third place and then number of most impressive teams. Number one, >> the pelvis Presley's. >> Yeah, they're creative.

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>> Okay. And then in a classroom that is a healthc care setting, you can see our students at the high school to practice taking vitals, assisting with mobility, etc. They also can begin to understand what it means to care for someone who can't fully care for themselves. Um, and this is for our students who are pursu

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pursuing certification um as nursing assistants, which is obviously a need in that area throughout our communities. So, we have a number of kids working as nursing assistants while they're still in high school. Our students competed at the HOSA state

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two um 2026 competition. We had 10 students who qualified for the international competition in Indianapolis this summer. So, And then this uh if you the recent um if you look at spring parkschools.org and our recent um why am I drawing? Thank

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you. SLP experience I was drawing a blank uh pair of professionals were featured there. They're so important to the work that we're doing in the district. So in uh all different kinds of ways. So you can learn more about the work that they do in that article. Erica and her did a wonderful job with that.

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So, there's a number of other great stories that people could check out. Again, they just do a great job with this and I hope people take the time to to check it out. Then, this was good news. Came up a little bit earlier when Sam asked about the graduation rate. We had the highest graduation rate we've had in over 10

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years. Um, and again, it's a four-year grad. If you go to the five year graduate of those kids from the class of 2025, we're going to be much higher than that. So, kids are doing really, really well. and we had a significant jump, much higher than what we saw across the rest of the state. That was statistically significant. We'll spend

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more time in an upcoming meeting walking you through that, but it was fun news to be able to share. Um the legislative session ends in May. There's two legislative commissions um set to make recommendations. I don't know that they will. We will see. So um their progress

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is kind of interesting. It's kind of start and stop and yeah. So I don't know how far they'll really get um and I don't know if there'll be anything the um AMSD last week that there were a couple of legislators there and as they shared in this session they really don't have to

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do anything and they may not do anything for with the budget relation. So we will see although we do know is that we did receive in when it comes to compensatory aid um our current unless they make changes with that we will see a reduction in our compensatory aid so for

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next year so we'll have more on that in upcoming meetings. It's roughly a million dollars right now, I would say. Can't remember off the top of my head, but a little bit less than a million dollars. So,

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so, uh, calendar May 25th, no school for students or staff. Commencement on May 29th. And June 5th, we'll be wrapping up school. Little is the High School of Musical uh coming up soon, April 25th, 30th, May 2nd, and May 3rd. They always

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do a wonderful job. Encourage people to get out there and check that out. And then again, Community Ed does a great job bringing in uh various acts for Live 165 and we have the Suits coming in on May 11th, and I'm sure they're great because all of their shows have been

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great for live. And then I just want to take a moment um this evening, we're not live streaming this. People will be watching this later. Um, but uh we haven't had school the last couple days because of an attack outside attack on our technology systems. And I just want to

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commend our technology staff. We have not been in school yesterday or today. We will have students back tomorrow. um the consultants we're working with and the cyber security experts said um it's rare to see schools only miss two days of school in incidents like this and

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they really give the large credit of that is due to the work that our tech team um here on site has been doing. So I just want to commend the work of them and recognize that and we're just super excited to have kids back in school tomorrow. So get back to a sense of normaly tomorrow with kids back in

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session. That I don't know if there's any questions, but that's all I have. >> Thank you. >> Do we get any dollars from the state for preventing cyber attacks or preparing for cyber attacks? Is that something that is completely up to the district to

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do? >> Yeah. There's no um specific dollars given for that. That's just something that we do that's built into our budget. So, >> and every district has to do that. >> Correct. Other

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other questions for Joe? >> Well, I think it's commendable that we have done enough on this cyber that we aren't in a terrible position because certainly reflects favorably on previous work

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because I am familiar with a district that had not done any work and it was horrendous and took a really long time to resolve. So, >> well, there's still more work to be done and so there's going to be some bumps along the way, you know, but we're just

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glad to have the kids back tomorrow. >> Absolutely. Thank you. Moving to action items. Award bids for Can I get a motion for awarding bids for the Spring Lake Park High School tennis court resurfacing?

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So moved by Hennon, second by to approve the bid for the Spring Lake Park School's tennis court resurfacing at Spring Lake Park High School as presented in this meeting. Amy, would you like to share more? Thank you.

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>> This one is probably a little more self-explanatory than most of them that you get. Um, but we did go out for bids to resurface the high school tennis courts. Um, the letter that was written by architects and engineers that's included with bureau board information. You can see on that that the project

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started quite a bit higher and the project came down in the end. Um because of some issues we've had in that area before with our tennis courts, they were expecting a lot more earthwork with the project, but in the end they determined that wasn't going to be necessary. So the project actually dropped by about $370,000

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>> from what we initially expected. So that's good news. Um so with this bids were opened a couple weeks ago and there were five biders. Recommendation is to award it to the low bidder which was park construction. So

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>> there any other questions? >> Any questions? >> I think the one question that I'll probably get from a couple of friends is the resurfacing will it include pickle ball? >> The striping will not include pickle ball. >> Okay.

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I thought I >> not on our competitive high school. >> Yeah. To to clarify, we cannot have pickle ball on our competitive course for high school things. So, >> I thought I'd just ask because I know there's people in the community who are going to ask >> if these were community based courts, I

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would 100% support that. But yes, because they are competitive high school sport, we are that as a tennis court. >> Thank you. So, >> and if people ask with what we're doing, the um intent is that those will be ready for tennis in the fall. So,

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>> thank you. So, those of my friends who are watching, no pickle ball striping. So, >> I'm you know, hey, I'm had to ask. All right. Any any further discussion? All in favor, please say I.

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>> Those opposed? Motion passes. And I get a motion uh for staff appreciation week. So moved by Forsber, second by Mcclullen to adopt the following resolution. Whereas the education of youth is essential to the future of our

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community, state, c, county, and world or sorry country and world. Sorry, didn't read that correctly. And whereas educators fill many roles as listeners, explorers, role models, motivators, and mentors. And whereas the outstanding

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staff of Spring Lake Park Schools demonstrate their commitment daily and their use of and use their diverse talents to personalize learning and help each student develop and achieve their dreams in preparation for life beyond high school. And whereas educators

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continuously adapt to numerous external challenges which caring with while caring for each student and creating meaningful learning opportunities as they also manage the realities of their own lives. And whereas educators

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continue to influence us long after our school days are only memories. So therefore, be it resolved, the school board of Spring Lake Park Schools extends its thanks and appreciation to all staff for making this a worldclass learning community of choice and hereby

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declares May 4th through the 8th of 26 as staff appreciation week in Springley Park schools. >> Any discussion? >> Just um I just want to second that. I mean we we appreciate our staff so much and we look forward to getting into the

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schools and seeing as many of our staff members as we can. >> Absolutely. >> Yeah, I second that. This is one of my favorite weeks >> to uh go out and see staff and and just show them our appreciation for what they

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do. >> All right, sir. Would you please call? >> Yes. Miss Forsber? >> Miss Kelly? Yes. Miss Mlullen? >> Yes. >> Mr. Bala? >> Yes. >> Miss Schmidt? >> Yes. >> Miss Hennon? >> Yes. >> Mr. Easter? >> Yes. >> The resolution passes on a 70 vote.

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>> Thank you. Moving to adopt adopt proposed policy modifications. Can I get a motion? >> Some moved. >> So moved by Skully. >> Second by Hennon to approve the adoption of the following policies with proposed modifications.

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Schoolboard policy 208 states, "If a policy is modified with minor changes that do not affect the substance of the policy or because of a legal change over which the school board has no control, the modified policy may be approved at one meeting at the discretion of the

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school board. And then we have listed, I believe, about 12 different policies that are included in this motion. Any discussion? No discussion. Okay. All in favor, please say I. >> I.

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>> Those opposed. Motion passes. Moving to designation of school board meetings for the 2026 2027 school year. Can I get a motion? So moved by Schmidt, second by Vala.

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or the only >> I'm glad it's all programmed in already. >> Okay. to designate the second Tuesday of the month for the regular schoolboard meeting 7 p.m. with communication to to

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the board and administration starting at 6:45 p.m. and the fourth Tuesday of the month for school board work sessions 5:00 p.m. for the 2026 2027 school year unless otherwise noted at the district services center and there's the address

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of our location and also is listed all the dates for the 2026 2027 calendar year. Any discussion? No discussion. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Those opposed. Motion passes.

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Moving to acknowledgement of the gifts. Can I get a motion? >> Second. second by Maryland or by Forsber to approve the following resolution. >> Whereas schoolboard policy 706 establishes guidelines for the

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acceptance of gifts to the district. And whereas Minnesota statute 465.03 states that a school board may accept a gift of real or personal property by the adoption of a resolution approved by twothirds of its members. Therefore, be it resolved that the school board of Spring Lake Park Schools accepts with

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appreciation the gifts as shown. >> Any discussion? >> Thank you to the community for their generous gifts. >> Looks like there's a large number of them and we always do say thank you. Thank you. Makes a lot of difference.

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>> Absolutely. Any more discussion? Clerk, would you please call roll? >> Yes. Miss Schmidt? >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Miss Hen, >> yes. >> Miss Kelly, yes. Miss McClen, >> yes. >> Miss Forsber, >> yes.

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>> And Mr. Eastern, >> yes. >> Resolution passes on a 70 vote. >> Thank you. And the additional action item. Can I get a motion uh to approve the

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curricular study K12 social studies? >> So moved. >> So moved by Vala, >> second by McCullen >> to approve the curricular study for K12 social studies as presented at the school board regular meeting on April 14th, 2026. I ask for discussion. We already we had

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a presentation. Any further discussion? >> All in favor, please say I. I. >> Those opposed? Motion passes. Moving on to board forum and reports. We'll

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start with our student representatives. >> Hi. So, um, first off, our spring sports have really ramped up since we last were together, whether it's lacrosse, golf, tennis, track, all the other ones I'm missing. We have so many great athletes.

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So, as the weather's getting warmer, maybe go watch some some of our athletes compete. Um, traditionally senior year it's kind of starting to feel real like it's it's it's almost here and next time we'll be together it'll be like two

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weeks left so I don't know like as it's come to a close I kind of like am thinking about all the different groups of people that are coming together to make it happen like I know there's two different groups of students at least who are organizing like all of our

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senior events like senior sunset um And then also a group of students running our decision page on the Instagram. And then you have groups of like parents and community members for the senior all night party. And then of course just like grad tickets and organizing grad

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speakers. There's so much that goes into it. And yeah, I'm really excited. >> All right. So for my fellow juniors, the ACT, as we all know, has been postponed. So a lot of people are happy about that. has been moved to next Tuesday, April 21st.

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>> Yeah. So, one more week of studying. So, I appreciate that. I just I personally >> Yeah. Thank Thank you. Thank you. I just want to get it over with to be completely honest. Yeah. Um and then along with that, we also have AP testing coming up next month. So, everyone's just kind of studying for that as well.

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And lastly, we have prom tickets are on sale. I believe prom is May 9th. So, >> yeah. Everyone's getting their dresses and whatnot. You know, I'm getting my suit. No date though. >> Not yet. >> Not yet.

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>> You got jump out. >> Brother, why did I say that? >> All right. Those who are going to watch this, you heard help him out. >> You asked for it kind of >> help matchmakers the new club. matchmaker. I am not.

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>> All right. Thank you for the updates. Appreciate it. >> Board members, that said, >> yeah, super fast. Uh, I'm looking forward to the first flag, girls flag football scrimmage on Sunday. Um, should be fun. And let's hope not snowing, you

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know, weather. There's snow this weekend. >> Yes, >> I know. I know. I'm over it. Sorry. Didn't mean to bring the room down. Uh and then another group going to nationals this month is DECA and so a group is heading down there to Atlanta

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to the conference. >> Did for uh women's flag football did I read an article correctly that there were 140 teams in Minnesota? >> Yeah. >> Was I did I read that correctly? >> Yeah. I I don't know the exact number but Minnesota was one of the first

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adopters to flag football. So, we kind of are ahead of the game and of the game in um in participation and um the kids just went to media day on Saturday to have promotions. So, like if you go to

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the US Bank um uh arena, you will see like the commercials and stuff like that to try and promote it and they, you know, NFL is really backing and trying to promote participation. So, pretty cool. Um, just a fun personal anecdote. Last

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Monday I got in my car to go to both a Panther Foundation meeting and a PTO meeting. And earlier that day, I got my oil changed and they didn't put the bolt in tight enough and now my car was dead. So instead, I went over to the side of Highway 10 and waited and missed both

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those meetings. So sorry to those organizations. I'll be back at the next one. >> This I'm sorry. >> Enough about that. >> Really? >> Um,

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from 916, a pilot program. I wish I could give you the pronunciation. I can't. I was there. Um, UK ERU. It is a pilot including reduction in

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restrictive procedures, enhanced staff safety and confidence and effective deescalation and reduction and uh seems the pilot seems to be going well and will be implemented in other places as

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well. I was at the park terrace PTA meeting and it is no I was at the PTO meeting because they I believe they're the last elementary to go from PTAs to PTO's

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and so that process is completed and they are planning their carnival. Um I noticed the signs are out for the Lions Pancake Breakfast on Sunday. So if you can attend that, please support the Lions because they certainly support us.

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and follow the uh legislative goings on or not going on as the case may be on AMSD and MSBA. Uh interesting year as the superintendent said that they really don't have to do anything. However,

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that's not entirely true because this special ed situation, if they don't come up with something in this blue ribbon commission, 250 million will be reduced from the cross subsidy which is going to

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have a huge impact. >> Well, the governor has proposed adding another 50,000 to that, but I don't know whether that would be automatic or not, but it would be the 250 million from the blue ribbon

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commission. So hopefully that doesn't happen because that's not a good thing for any that's okay. U Melody and I attended the uh SLP Lion Scholarship Foundation. Uh so we just got an update on the funds

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and just the stability of the foundation and we're happy to announce that uh we'll be awarding over 20 scholarships for the academic awards night. So we're super excited about that. >> One quick thing on that too. I thought

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it was really awesome, too, that it's it's awarded to not just your fouryear students, but also your trades kids and two-year, which I think is really important because all of these kids are working hard and that it's not all all the awards aren't going to be just

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because of your grades. It's going to be based on your essay or you wrote up. And um a big team of people is deciding that at the high school, people that know the also just grade the essays. So, it's kind of cool.

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>> Yeah. And I think uh I think Troy shared that uh this is this year was the largest number of applicants for the scholarships over 140. >> So, yeah. >> So, we're excited about that.

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>> And I'll say that's a credit to like the counselors at the high school because they were sending out like constant communication to submit your applications. Kudos to them. Yeah. >> Awesome. >> I am really proud of the counselors for

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that. I mean, that is a huge deal. They work really hard at a lot of things we don't see. And so, I mean, we do a lot of praising of people, but I think that's one of those that kind of goes under the radar sometimes and I do think they work very hard and really have impact on a lot of students. So, I am really grateful for the strong teams

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that we have. Anything else from our board members? All right. Move to adjournment. Can I get a motion? So move by Forsber. >> Second by Hennon to adjourn the meeting at 7:55.

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All in favor, please say I. >> Those opposed. Meeting is adjourned. Thanks everyone.