Evening and welcome to the regular board meeting of the St. Peter School Board. It is Wednesday, May 21st, 2025. We are in the governor's room at the community center. Uh first thing we need to do is call the meeting to order. Let's start with the pledge of allegiance, please.
I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you.
Uh we need to consider and adopt the agenda which is before you in paper and also in the board book online. I'll make a motion to adopt the agenda. We have a motion and a second. Any agenda or excuse me any
discussion? Discussion. Discussion. All those in favor signify by saying I. I oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. The agenda is adopted. Kimberly, do we have any requests to speak? All
right. Next item up is to approve the consent agenda items um found starting on page three in your board book packet. Would entertain a motion to approve or to call out any individual items within the consent agenda.
I move we accept the consent agenda and Okay. Can I have a question? Yes. Towards the end of the agenda, we are
approving the hiring of Saints overtime staff. And I notice the ones that resigned were just from the Saints overtime staff and they were hiring high school Saints overtime
staff. So that's what I was wondering. Is there a difference or I think we're going to get an answer here. That's a great question, Mr. Cout. um we are hiring high school students to be aids, okay, in those rooms. They'll
always have an adult with them. And so this is allowing us to provide some real world job application for our students as well as um saving a little bit from having to hire so many adult staff members as well. But we will be seeking
out adults to be with each one of those students. Thank you. Mhm. Thank you. Uh, we do have a motion and a second. Good question, Mr. Cout. Any additional discussion points or questions?
I guess I would just want to in keeping with the kind of what we've done in the past too with um Keith Hansen having the 34 years as the head wrestling coach being a very remarkably long time to be a coach and just wanted to point that out. Um he's obviously touched a lot
of students in those 34 years for sure. So that's a long time. I didn't know Mr. Hansen had been here for 34 years. So thanks Dam. Really great hire. Great hire.
Other discussion discussion. Discussion. Discussion. Hearing none. We'll proceed to vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Consent agenda is approved. Thank you. Uh, next
thing up, we have a special guest. St. Peter High School student Ethan Harbittz is our student spotlight. Come on up. Welcome. Hi. Hi, Ethan. We're excited that we finally got Ethan on a free night. Yeah,
Mondays were bad, but I um so I'm I'm excited for you guys to meet Ethan Harbetts. He's just a ninth grader with us this year. Um, and but we've been hearing about him since you were about a seventh grader, I think, because we've got a very uh I'm going to call it an
elite committee at the high school, the WAC, the weather advisory committee. It's it's an unpaid, but very elite group. Um, so we had been hearing from his middle school teachers that um, we we were getting his updates and um, they
were always really impressed and I and also it's a fascinating interest and so a lot of us are actually I like subscribed almost to his weekly weather updates. When there's an impending storm or if there's a storm we get several
updates a day. Uh, and and I think it's I think it's very interesting um that you found that I know he's a stormchaser. I'm not sure how I feel about that. Um, so so that's I think what what you'll probably have the most questions
about, but other than that too, he's a he's an amazing um singer. He was in the honors choir. Um, he was a soloist at the spring concert last as an eighth grader. I'm I'm not sure what happened at the middle school concert, but anyway, we were really excited to to get
him up at the high school. Um, and and it's been really fun getting to know him over the year. Y I'll let you take it away with how you got into your interest in Sure. Yeah. So, u um I'm essentially interested in uh the study of
meteorology because it's an extremely complex science and the thing is we don't know a whole lot about it. um it's something we can't really control uh unlike a lot of other aspects of life. Um so I've been forecasting for the
upper Midwest and specifically South Central Minnesota for 7 years now since I was 8 years old. Um I've been on KYC in Mano uh several times to forecast the weather. Uh I do
stormchase uh when we do have inclement weather and I've seen several tornadoes which is pretty interesting. Um but currently I forecast for about 100 people in the city of St. Peter and about 300 people elsewhere across uh
Minnesota, the Dakotas, Wisconsin, and Iowa. I have shared several of your forecasts with the superintendent before there's a storm coming. Yeah, I'm interested to see do you look at the different models for forecasting? I do. Yeah, that's uh
that's one of the only things I use actually. Uh essentially these numerical weather models take into account previous meteorological events as well as you know current observations and stuff. uh along with a lot of algorithms and
analoges and stuff and it puts it into essentially a simulation of what the weather will be. This is what all meteorologists use to forecast. Every meteorologist will use these weather models. Um it's a free service
um to get these general weather models and that's what I use. Uh there are several aspects of these weather models that I use and uh there are about 30 in total and when you take um essentially the outputs from every single one of these models and take essentially the
average you get a pretty accurate forecast and that's what I do with mine. I could have probably used you the day that we started two hours late and nothing happened. Yeah, you knew it was going to be good. I
Yeah, I uh that day I remember uh the night before I had forecasted about 4 to 6 in of snow, but the gradient was so tight on the northern end and I saw uh there was just a slight shift south and usually when you see that in the weather models, it's probably going to continue.
Uh so I backed off on my snowfall forecasts. Yeah. You're like, "Dang it." How long do you take doing it? Uh, yeah. So, uh, time for school. Yeah. Yeah. Plenty. I've been able to maintain
excellent grades. Yes, it is. Um, so essentially I wake up, I look at the weather models for the first time before school in the morning, usually around 7 a.m. And occasionally I might do a forecast in the early morning, but
most of the time I'll do a forecast for the St. Peter area during the first half of school just for uh the general day, especially if there are any important weather events like I did one this morning because we're having mist and rain today. Um, I do one every Monday for the entire
week or rather the school week. Uh, but then I get home and I continue to look at the weather because, uh, weather changes very rapidly and without, uh, basically constant updates and monitoring the weather models, I can't
be sure what's going to happen. Ethan, how far out will you forecast? Yeah, it's a great question. Um, usually I forecast about a week out at the very very most. I forecast more general weather patterns
uh for an entire season. In fact, at the beginning of spring, I forecasted that it would be a slightly above average precipitation and slightly cooler spring, which has uh been planned out and, you know, followed through so far
with that forecast. Um, so that's about as far out as I can make a general forecast for a specific forecast about 48 hours. Okay. May I put you on the spot for long range? As an old farm kid, always interested in what the growing season is going to be like?
Yeah. So, any idea what the summer will be as a as a estimate? Yeah. Uh, so for this summer, um, it's probably going to be above average temperatures for one. Uh we've seen that essentially every
summer uh now since um around 2010. Uh due to global warming, we we continue to see above average temperatures basically every month or almost every month uh consistently. Uh but for precipitation,
I'd say it's probably going to be drier than normal. That's what I would guess as we're in more of a neutral pattern there. There's uh El Nino and Lenino, which are the two main patterns. I'm sure you guys have heard of them. El Nino generally brings uh drier and
warmer weather, which is what we're anticipating. Uh we're anticipating, excuse me, the return of Leninia or the Leninia pattern by next winter, which could bring a more snowy and cold weather. Although we haven't
had much snow for the past two winters, so I don't know exactly how that's going to lay out. Fast, I could ask you questions for hours, but I think the rest of the group would want to move on. Thank you very much. Yeah. Um, I'm not sure how I got on your email list, but I did, and I find it very entertaining and
and very informative. Um, but I want to know who's your driver for your stormchasing. Yeah. So, uh, I I do not have my driver's license yet. So, uh, I'm hoping you have a licensed driver for that. Yeah. Uh, so
my parents him either him or my mother. uh take me stormchasing. Nice. And we basically uh photograph interesting weather phenomenon as well as provide updates because usually we're chasing in this area and people watch from this area. So
uh it's um as well a better way to spread information because people listen to warnings more when they know something is actually coming. You can say there's a threat of severe weather for the day and most people will
probably just brush it off because we have a lot of those in spring and summer. But if you get an actual picture of a storm headed towards one area, they'd more be more likely to uh follow through with taking shelter. Very interesting. Yeah. So, is this a
ideal career path? if it is like research uh media like where do you want to go with it? Yeah. So that's uh pretty interesting. There are quite a few different types of meteorologists that are or rather careers in meteorology
that are available. Um I was planning and might be still planning to join the National Weather Service as a forecast meteorologist. Um, the National Weather Service employees basically provide information to broadcast meteorologists on TV. They
issue warnings and watches. Um, they're the ones who will issue like blizzard warnings, tornado watches, uh, etc. Uh, but recently, as you guys probably know, hiring has become a bit more sporadic in the National Weather Service and other
uh, federal programs. So, uh, I might consider being more of a media meteorologist either on social media or broadcasting with a more private company. Could always uh try and get on the
twins. They have a staff of meteorologists to help them with Yeah. their games and that. Cool. Well, congratulations. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Hey, thanks for being here. Are we going to introduce Oh, yeah. Would you like to introduce
your dad? Oh, sure. Yeah. So, this is uh Joshua Harbett's uh he's my father. Yeah. Welcome. And Stormchaser. And Stormchaser. Stormchaser. Yes. And you should send the how to subscribe
to your stuff to the Oh, sure. Yeah. So, uh, um, if you guys have a notepad in front of you, my email is E H A R B I T Z at
symbol S T P E T E R S C H O ls.org. Cool. So, uh you can message me at that email and I will add you to my forecast list. Love it. Thank you. Thank you. And
just um uh I don't know how to describe it, but um I I do not forecast during the summer as it's mainly for school staff. That's that's most of my forecast. Your wack
committee apparently. Yeah. Yeah, that as well. Uh that's most of my forecast viewers, the school staff in St. Peter. Uh so, um there'll probably be a week where I'm still forecasting here and then I'll pick back up in September. Perfect.
Yeah. Yeah. Right. Awesome. Great. Thank you. Thanks for being here. Thank you so much for inviting me. Yeah, we still chase storms during the summer. Just uh I do chase storms during the summer. Awesome. You take individual requests
education. Can we do a ride along? Awesome. Something else. All right. Well, that was fascinating. Yes, absolutely. All right. We'll move into action items. First thing up is we need to consider
acceptance of gifts, donations, and grants. uh you there are uh two uh donations that uh have come forward uh this month and we'll recognize those. The first is a $32,372 donation that was received on
behalf of the estate of Frank Fredland and it's to be used to support the athletic programs at St. Peter High School. This is the final donation from the estate. As you may recall, Mr. Fredland was a longtime teacher and coach for the St. Peter District activities director Sheay Roar Cassie
continues to work on finding a way to make the incredibly generous donation to be part of something special that Mr. Fredland would be proud of. So, we're we're uh thankful for that donation from the Frank Fredland estate. The second is a donation of
$22,65165 that was made to the school district by the Natalia Lopez and Larry Larry Taylor Educational Scholarship Trust. This donation is to go towards the annual Lopez Taylor scholarship and is to be used for the benefit of students who are first generation
members of their family to attend a post-secondary institution or students who come from socioeconomically disadvantaged community. We're grateful for the continued support and assistance given to our St. Peter Public School students in looking to further their
education. So, I recommend your acceptance of the gifts and donations as presented. Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Just a thank you to the to both families for the incredibly generous gifts that
will directly impact students, which is great. Absolutely. Yeah. Discussion. Discussion. Discussion. We will proceed to vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Oppose.
same sign. Motion carries. Thank you again to our donors. Item two, consider approval of agreement with the city of St. Peter for the school resource officer program. So, you're being asked to approve a two-year agreement for the city of St. Peter to provide a school
resource officer to the school district. This agreement is very similar to agreements in the past. Uh we are thankful for our great working relationship we have with the city of St. Peter. the police department and in particular our school resource officer,
Officer Hughes. Uh the only difference from previous agreements is there is a clarification made in the agreement um that was added as to the SRO's access to student information or data. What that means basically is the only access that
the school resource officer has is if it's a part of a what's called a legitimate educational interest which would be in assistance to the principles of carrying out duties requested by the principles. Otherwise there isn't access to student data. So I recommend your approval of
the school resource officer agreement for the next two years. Questions? You want to make a motion first or Okay, we have a motion in a second. Discussion question. Yeah. Just curious article two.1
uh 2.2 talks about 62% of the of the time and that's I'm assuming just on a prora share 62% of so which say that again can give
me the specific page 24 bottom of page 24 2.2 the bottom of the page yeah 62% of their time and then but we also pay 70% of the cost of the program um so That essentially is the 36 weeks 90%
availability which equals 32.4 weeks. But the school resource officer is available really anytime there's a need and communicates with us regularly at all times of the day, night, weekends, etc. So if officer Hughes is not available, there are other
officers that are perfect. Thank you. I would add too that we've met the school board and city council met a few weeks ago, maybe a month ago now at this point. We heard from Chief Groko um that it's a m mutually beneficial relationship for both the the city and
the police department and St. Peter schools. So I would add too I think that that relationship built between the school resource officer and those um students is invaluable even after they graduate.
Dr. Olsen, is he uh on call to go to MVED? Yes. So, do we charge MVED anything? We are charging uh MVED starting next year.
That's part of our if you may remember that's a part of our budget adjustment plan. Any further discussion? is right personality for the whole I was just I was trying to think for the right way to say that too. I was going to say we definitely have the right person in the right seat in the right bus. I remember
somebody saying that one. There you go. I didn't say it in the right order but discussion discussion discussion hearing none. We'll proceed to vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. I oppose. Same sign.
The motion carries. The agreement with the city for the school resource officer program has been approved. Thank you. Next up, consider approval of agreement with the city of St. Peter for the school cultural liaison program. So, this is something that you
also discussed at your joint city council uh schoolboard meeting. Uh this would be the first time there's been an official agreement with the city of St. Peter where this is the other direction. They're providing some resources to us
uh to access our uh cultural liaison uh in particular with work that our liaison do with families and youth in getting registered for youth activities, swimming lessons, navigating the city transit
system, etc. Uh so u I would recommend your approval of this agreement. I'd also recommend that you review uh the um financial condition of the agreement at the end of the first year which you're eligible to do. There is
one slight change in the agreement and it has to do with uh the 6.7 in in this particular agreement you have it's to the to the city to the St. Peter Police Department. Attent
attention chief of police. That would be to this instead of that it would be to the city administrator Todd Crafty. Um, in terms of the amount per year, I mean, was that just we were just kind of grabbing at something to start out with
or Exactly. Okay. And that's again why I think it's good to review it and say, so how did it go? How much time did we actually spend? Okay. You know, we didn't have any real concrete data to to share. Fair enough. I would entertain a motion to
approve. Second. Motion in a second. Further discussion. Discussion. Discussion. Discussion. Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. We've approved the
agreement with the city of St. Peter for the school cultural liaison program. Next up, consider approval of hiring the middle school principal. Dr. Graph, members of the board, uh we wrapped up our SPMS principal search on
May 6th. The search included two rounds of interviews. Uh had an incredible pool of candidates. uh humbling to see the highquality candidates that want to come to St. Peter. Um pleased to recommend Jessica Butell for the position. Jesse
rose to the top of that pool uh because of her proven leadership at the middle level, her knowledge and passion for middle level education and just her overall demeanor uh will be a great fit for the middle school. If I can give you just a brief review of her background. Uh so
she comes to us with 14 years of experience in middle school or public education. Her experiences uh range from both the general education or the traditional setting to the ALC. She's been a pair professional special
education teacher dean of students and most recently the assistant principal at Dakota Meadows Middle School in the Mano area public school district. Uh she has a bachelor's degree in PE and health from Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. She's from
out east. Uh she has a master's in experiential education from MSU Mano. Her certificate in LD and EBD from MSU Mano and her ed specialist degree from educ or in educational leadership from MSU Mano. Uh we're very excited about
the opportunity to work with Jesse. Uh so strongly recommend her for hire. Thank you, Dr. would entertain a motion. Mr. Chair, I will move the approval of the hiring of Jessica Betel. Am I pronouncing that properly? As middle school principal.
I'll second. We have a motion in a second. Any discussion? I do have one question if I may. Dr. Graph, could you explain to me and it's outlined to some extent in the materials, but the peak program, could you expand on that just a bit? Yeah. So my understanding of the
peak program was kind of the bridge between general education and special education. So an experiential education projectbased program designed for at risk students to keep them out of special education.
Okay. Thank you. And and she designed that and ran that for man public schools. Impressive. Any further discussion? Excited to bring her over from Mano.
Yeah. Discussion. Discussion. Discussion. Hearing none. We'll proceed to vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Welcome Mrs. Butel. Thank
you. Awesome. It's a superintendent who just made his first hire. Uh, next up, consider approval of candidates for graduation. Yes, you have a list of of tentative graduates uh
who pending their being able to meet all of the graduation requirements set forth by the state of Minnesota and by St. Peter Public Schools will be graduating next Friday evening at 8:00 PM. Note that it is tentative. There's still
we're still hitting the end of a grading period. So, there's there's always a chance that they won't all be there on Friday. We connected with the class officers to transfer the activity account. Great. Oh, have we or did did
we have we? Yes. Okay. I move to approve candidates for graduation this year. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Excited to be there next Friday night. Great. Hopefully you can all be there.
Yeah, next Friday. Discussion. Discussion. Discussion. Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. We've approved the candidates for graduation. Thank you. Thank you. As a footnote, um
meeting at 7:30 in the conference room next to the high school office. Uh if you cannot make it, please let Kimberly know. Awesome. Thank you. Thanks. Item number six on the agenda, consider resolution appointing Ken Roso as a
trustee for the MSDLAF plus fund. The MSDLAF is the Minnesota School District Liquid Asset Fund. And Ken, it has a portfolio of what's the the amount of money that typically flows through the fund. It's somewhat seasonal, but that's
much of that's tied to construction season because a lot of the funds are are utilized, invested, and then drawn as construction process proceeds. But it ranges from about 2.2 billion to about 2.8 billion. It's with a B with a B. Yeah. So, it's it's a big deal. And uh
the MSBA has uh asked that you formally uh support Ken's appointment as a voting trustee of the fund. A resolution for approving the trustee appointment is included in your packet and I would recommend your approval of the
resolution. And as a reminder again, it is a resolution. Mr. Chair, I move the resolution. I'll second. We have a motion in a second. I was just going to volunteer to step out of the room. Oh, so you're good. I think we're okay. Once Yeah.
Okay. Thank you. Yeah, we got past that. Yeah, you're okay. Got a motion in a second. Any further discussion? Thank you for your willingness to serve. Yes, my pleasure. Thank you. Any further discussion? Discussion.
Discussion. Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. This is a resolution so we'll need to go around the table. Miss Rosbach, Mr. Rosel, I will abstain. Miss Dwey, I I Mr. C. Mr. Dixon, hi. Miss Martens, I
The eyes have it. Thank you very much. I I've been to one meeting and and greatly enjoyed it. Great. I certainly have things to learn, but looking forward to it. Thank you for representing. Yes, thank you. Be a great representative on that. Yeah, thank you. Appreci Appreciate the opportunity. Uh item number seven, consider approval
of a memorandum of understanding between community and family education and the department of recreation and leisure services. Miss Skinner. Hi. Thank you for allowing me to share some of the information with you. We have a really strong partnership with the wreck
and leisure services department and this memorandum of understanding really addresses the services that each one of us will provide so that we can maximize our resources without duplicating programs. And our organizations are
really committed to eliminating barriers to participation, supporting academic achievement, providing positive recreational and social opportunities, and then also encouraging leadership among our younger learners. One of the ways that we do this with the recreation
department is by providing funds for their exploration recreation program. This program operates in local parks and it is free. Um it is a great program. Last summer, there were over 800 children that participated. And our funds helped defay
some of the staffing activities and supply costs that they have. Our funding also helps support the volunteer in the park program, which you may know as the VIP program. Um, this fosters leadership skills and um it is offered to children
who are ages 10 and up. And last summer we had 54 students that participated in this valuable program. Additionally, we provide funding that helps offset costs for afterchool enrichment for youth. Um, this is to help reduce some of the costs
of participant fees directly for those students to things like early release day activities, flag football, traveling volleyball, and babysitter training. And during the school year, we had 535 students that participated in those
activities. It's really great to be able to work so closely with another organization that has the same guiding principles that we do. Um, as you look at our memorandum of understanding, I wanted to assure you that the services offered by each
organization are consistent and our funding levels have not changed from previous years. This is a working document that John Stzman and I use on a regular basis um to help us with making program decisions and um I'm really
fortunate to work with him and his staff. They are um they they really understand and we have a lot of the same feelings about let's just create opportunities for kids and how can we do that? How can we work together to make
those things happen? Um, I think we have a great relationship with that department and it really makes value for our community when two organizations work so well together. Do you have any questions regarding the
memorandum? How can a number get arrived at why we pay them? It's really This goes back a long time, doesn't it? It goes back to Nancy Penn. Yes. Yeah. and and what we were really doing is trying to maximize our
resources. We were both getting funding and sometimes we were duplicating the kinds of programming that we were having. So, we worked into this agreement to clarify which agency entity did what and in some cases because
recreation was being done more by the city than our youth development funds, correct? Were used to support those activities. Okay. Okay. But we were paying for that before and they were doing that. So we were like duplicating. We were trying to get more streamlined
and efficient in between both the city and and community education. And when I look at the amount of money that we spend, if I needed to duplicate those same programs, I could not do it for that amount of money and reach that many students. It's a good bang for our buck, Tammy. It
is very much so. Okay. Mhm. Well, that was a great question. Yeah. So, I'll move to approve the memorandum of understanding. We have a motion in a second. Any further
discussion? Discussion. Discussion. Discussion. Proceed to vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you, Tammy. Next up, consider declaration of
obsolete and outdated equipment. Again, this is something that comes to you on a somewhat regular basis when there's a need to uh declare equipment or uh computers or other kinds of things outdated or obsolete. In this particular
case, this comes from technology director Gus Sorbo and it really is looking at technology equipment. Uh so we'd look for a formal motion to declare the items listed as outdated or obsolete and as noted from uh Mr. Sorbo's
memorandum uh to you the if identified as uh declaring obsolete or outdated. The equipment would be properly sold, recycled or disposed of. And by properly sold that would be at an auction. So we can't just go out and sell it to somebody who wanted to buy it. we'd have
to put it out for u a number anybody who was interested to put in a bid for it or a quote for it. So I would recommend you uh your approval of declaring the list of equipment is presented as obsoleted andor outdated people ask where like is there like a
public auction site? Do you know there there's a Seth you can probably help help us out here. We we've used a an online auction site to Yeah. Like Kins. Yeah. Is it Kin? Okay. So, you can bid on an individual one,
you don't have to buy. It depends on how they put it together. Yeah. And and realistically, as as you probably are aware, if we had to just dispose of without selling some of these, there's a fairly significant cost to that.
Isn't there somewhere in legislation where you got to give some computers to the prisoners or something like that? It was It used to go the other way, but we'd get from the state hospital, but I thought, but I had
to give them and then they would fix them or something. I don't not aware of that, but okay. I'll make a motion to accept the list of obsolete equipment. Old stuff. Old stuff to sell at an auction or designate
the obsolete equipment. I'll second. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Discussion. Discussion. Discussion. Hearing none. We'll proceed to vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppos. Same sign. Motion
carries. Thank you. Next up, consider policy with minor changes or clarifications for approval with one reading. As you're aware, your uh policy review protocol allows for one reading uh for policies that have minor changes,
clarifications, or legislative legislative changes. In this particular case, the policy review committee reviewed policy 409 employee publications and structural materials inventions and creations. Uh there were some clarifications and grammatical
corrections. Uh you can see that the change was um the immediately disclose and then assigned to the district as opposed to on the demand of the district. Uh and policy review committee members were uh involved with those changes. So, anybody wants to add
anything to that? But pretty straight up. We did a good review for quite a while. And I think there was a period put in there too, wasn't there? Yeah, that was that was the big the big that
was thorough job on this one. So, I'd recommend you adopt policy 409 as amended. We are an educational institution, so should be correct. Yeah, it is nice to be able to do that. So therefore, I will move
the the uh clarif the policy 409 acceptance. We have a second motion in a second. Any further discussion? Historically, have there been employees that have developed inventions or things that have been patented?
I'm not aware of that. I don't know if the administrative team members are aware of anybody who's actually patented something that they would have done in school time. I think it's more of a in case. The answer then is not yet. Not yet. Okay. Yeah. It's a little more
along the lines of instructional materials, curriculum. There are websites though, aren't there, where they do curriculum sharing, teachers do that, right? So it's not necessarily for
any profit. They just and you go and rob each others. Well, but then but also part of that policy direction for for us and the importance of the policy in another way is if there is curriculum material that's created as a part of the curriculum development process or by an
individual teacher, it remains with the school district. um so that we don't have a new teacher coming in and they're like, "What? Where's our curriculum?" And so that's part of the policy direction as well. All right, we do have a motion and a
second. Any further discussion? Discussion. Discussion. Discussion. Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Post. Same sign. Motion carries. Policy 409 has been
updated and approved. Uh item number 10, consider change order authorization. So Seth and I are going to tag team on this one. Just just as a bit of background, uh you authorized uh earlier this year uh that the superintendent can assign ass sign
change orders that are $50,000 or less. Change orders that are in excess of $50,000 need to come back to the board for approval. Uh we got ourselves in a an unusual situation really just yesterday morning where there are some things that need to move very quickly to
have our construction project stay on target, but we didn't have final numbers yet. So Seth, I'll let you talk about those. Yes. One of the things that came up, you can see in the background, is a change order from APX to complete the
upgrades on the district office that were not originally in the uh original plans for men the middle. So, a rough estimate on that one, you're looking at 85 to 100,000. What we're looking at for a timeline though is June 2nd, they're
going to start construction and that is slated to be in there also. That's one of the reasons we're asking for the okay. Uh the other one is uh state plan review which is something that just came up. Their change order is
anticipated between 60 and $75,000 range. This one needs to happen prior before June 2nd in order to get all the permits issued and get the project move and keep it on time. So, we didn't have the the specific
change order amounts, but we were seeking sort of pre-authorization to move forward with those in order for the construction project to start the way they want it to start on June 2nd. And they're going to hit the ground running on June 2nd. Yep. For sure. So, go you
go ahead. Are you confident these will fall in that range? Yeah. Based on what we have? Yeah, based on what we have. It's not going to be significantly more than that. It may could be a thousand, couple of thousand more or less. This does all fall within our existing budget. So, it's not an addition to the
project budget. Correct. It's just exceeds the original amount of 50,000. Yep. So, is the state plan review like going down to the city and getting a permit when you want to do something to your house? Might be more complicated than that. That's a piece of cake.
What would you say, Seth, that you guys have talked about that maybe multiple multiple things that come through in the on the plan review that we'd have we had to change or modify or adjust? Yeah. Some things it's just as simple as just a diameter of a pipe. You know, they're
just they're that thorough, which is understandable on the prints. They'll go through I think this is the third third or fourth round that the prints have been submitted. It takes a little while to go. Then they have to go through it and any questions that they come up with
comes back, they have to be answered again, gets submitted and it just kind of becomes a back and forth on it. And I think the final approval just occurred like yesterday or the day on Monday. Monday, I believe. Uh, one example you might want to talk about are the the
ladders on the roofs. Oh my good. Yeah. Yep. So, forever since the school was built, the middle school, they've never had safety ladders on any of the levels. And so, one of the reviewers,
state reviewers came back and said, "Well, in order to approve it now, we have to put we want safety ladders put on there, which was we didn't know about." And what we found out is sometimes it comes down to interpretation. one one person will interpret it one
way, another person will have a different one. We just happen to get one that requires the ladders. We did go give a little bit of push back and we got the amount of ladders reduced by 10, which is a significant cost.
So, how many did we end up with was reduced by 10? I want to say 12 to 15. Oh my goodness. There's a lot of different levels in that school. different areas, different sides. It's a lot of letters.
It's interesting because when we did the science wing edition, we had to bring the whole building up to code. I thought so. I would have thought they would have had to fix that then. I can't
believe that's changed since then. No. Again, this is the kind of the downside is it's open to interpretation for whichever reviewer you get. But the good news is we have the state plan approval. There you go. It has move
forward and it's cheap. Yeah. Yep. So that does that help like with insurance and stuff too? I mean as far it is. Yep. That's going to help significantly. They're going to be, you know, it's going to be on there for
safety purposes. You can look at when guys now go up and down the roofs. That is an approved safety apparatus to go up and down. So, it should should have somewhat of a cost savings on the insurance hopefully.
You kind of guy. All right. would entertain a motion. Also move. I'll second. Motion and a second. Any further discussion or questions? Um I we have the existing $50,000
approval um in place. This came back to the board. Is this still a good Is that the right threshold? Well, that's a good question because um when I look back at the high school
construction project, there was a a three tier process as opposed to a two-tier. So, we're in a two-tier now. 50,000 and less superintendent can approve the change order. Over 50,000 the board approves. In that particular plan, if it was between 50 and 100,000,
you the superintendent could approve it with schoolboard chair blessing or approval. I mean, that might be a helpful thing to consider, but I think our IC folks have said there are
typically very few change orders that are in excess of 50,000. Correct. This is just two of them that came up that are have to be done in a timely manner. You know, it would be have to be done before the next school board meeting. I mean, I'm I'm I'm glad that we are
made aware and we're in the loop. That's the positive thing. I also don't want to unnecessarily gum up the pace of things. Slow down. So, you know, I just Yeah, I'm with you.
we're so early into the process and to already have these come up. I don't know if we could bring back at your uh June meeting that that three- tier approach if you'd like to consider it. I mean, I don't want to make things I
don't want to make things more complicated. I want to make things easier. So, however you think that is. Yeah. Make it easier. Okay, let's do that. Okay, that will make things a lot easier. [Music]
So, we do have a motion and a second. Good question. Any other discussion? Discussion discussion discussion. Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose.
same time. Motion carries. Thank you. You're welcome. All right, moving on toformational items. Number one, first reading of revisions to the policy manual. Got a couple. Yeah, the the policy review
committee looked at uh these two policies. Policy 412.1 expense reimbursement for clothing uh and is recommending a change to add uh or personal property damage. So, one of the things that we've run into a
number of times this year and probably in the past as well is there are uh staff members who have had personal property damaged and there isn't any policy that covers a reimbursement for that. Um, and so we would recommend moving forward with adding that personal
property damage clause. Um, and again, this is a first reading, so any questions you might have. Um, the field trip policy is designed to try to make things more consistent in terms of the approval process. There were two
different levels of of approval, but both for the same kind of trip. So the idea being uh that the teacher advisor, principal and superintendent would make be in the
approval side of things and that you would receive a report on all field trips um from the superintendent or superintendent's design at least by annually. Before it was annually. So again, this is a first reading. Um,
policy review committee members, anything you want to add to either of those? We're happy to take feedback as you review if you have questions or thoughts. I noticed in the field trip one there was a change under the definition of an
extended trip. It used to say something about overnight and you've crossed out the overnight and replaced it with out of state or out of country. We still have trips within the state
where there are overnight stays. Um, it's a good question, Bill. And the the rationale behind that was there are any number of the kinds of trips that are sort of regular trips that occur overnight. Wrestling team goes to the state tournament or two wrestlers go to
the state tournament. That's an overnight trip. So, it didn't seem like that would require that extensive approval process. Uh the Spanish uh group takes kids to the Concordia language villages. Those are overnight
trips. They're I think the what the what word I'd be looking for is sort of normal course of business. It's not an unusual trip. Um the one that we might need to think about, we I was talking with Mrs. Engeldinger about this earlier. Uh we have outofstate trips,
but we do have our choir members that go to the Dorian Festival in Luther College. So that it seems like that's similar to the Concordia Language Village. So we may need to think about some way to have language that defines that more clearly because that would be
the kind of thing that there's approval given by the principal, but it's a regular course of activity. You might want to have something in there about like if it's a annual Sure.
activity or something like that. Yeah. Teams all the time. It is an annual activity. Well, well, that's that's good. Well, I'll bet there isn't a year that goes by that we don't have at least an individual.
Yeah. Whether they always have to be overnight, I don't know. So then I I do have another question on on personal property damage. Yeah. Are you talking about personal property that's on the school
grounds or are you talking vandalism that may occur? Well, we weren't really talking about vandalism that may occur, but it it could be beyond the school grounds. It could be you could be on um you could
have your your personal computer with you for some reason on a on a field trip and something happens to it. We had an incident where there was a car damage, but that was in a one of our school parking lots. So things like that is what we're trying to get at then to
cover. But I don't think that our intent would be that we would have reimbursement for something that occurs outside of the course of the employees regular course of duties. The general statement of
policy says that the um for loss of damage of personal items resulting from direct personal contact with students in the performance of regular duties during assigned working hours. So it's that's covered. I just think back when I first started
teaching I know where you're going for sure. I think the examples We don't want to talk about that. No. No. The examples we talked about were phones. Phones. A phone sitting on a desk that gets picked up and smashed or Yeah. I like how you just talked right over the top of him
because I didn't even hear what he said. But that's okay. All right. Well, the policy committee will happily take your feedback and thoughts before our next meeting in a couple of weeks. Miss Prefki is here to talk about summer programming 2025.
We're gonna kind of do a team approach. A whole bunch of people are here. All right. So, lots going on school year, lots going on in the summer. We continue our work here. So, I'm going to talk about preK um 8. Then Annette's going to talk about high school and Tammy's going to talk about community in
that works for everyone. All right. So, K8, first off, we have our targeted services program that will be held at North Elementary this year for students in grades K8 who are invited to the program. And that's a summer school type program funded through our targeted
services um funding. It's our Stars Academy program. So that will run July 7th through July 31st, four days a week, Monday through Thursday, four hours a day. And so we're in the process of recruiting those students right now. And we're excited to have um see what our
numbers are going to be. Last year we had a really successful um recruitment. Had lots of kids there. They the transportation is provided within the city of St. Peter and Casota for those students. Then we have our ESY programs and those
are our special education summer schools. So we'll have our prek ECSE program which will actually be housed at South this year because of the construction and that will be two weeks in June and one week in July. So we're again getting everything set up um here
in May for those that program. And then our K8 ESY program will um be with targeted services at North this year. So, North, we've said before, we kind of teased Mr. Dhy, it's going to be the hub. It is going to actually be the hub.
So, yes. And then along with that is the read and feed. So, super excited. I know I've shared this at previous board meetings, but the read and feed is back after two years of not being eligible. The North site once again is eligible and will be for five years. So, once
you're eligible, we can plan on it for five years. So, we're excited about that. It will run June, excuse me, June 4th through August 15th, Monday through Friday. Breakfast and lunch will be served free to students, children ages 1 to 18. So, we spread the word yesterday.
We got the word out um through email to all the staff and we'll have that posted on social media and those types of things. Adults can purchase meals. So, if an adult came with their child, breakfast is 310 for adults and um lunch is 550 or we always say, you know,
you're welcome to bring a sack lunch if you want to eat with your kids and so on. We'll have reading materials there, games, those types of things. It'll be a supervised setting during that that short period of time. So, we're very excited about that. We are partnering again with the city of St. Peter in
transit and we'll have 11 identified um pickup and drop off locations so that kids can get a ride to read and feed and a ride back home again. And so that's that cost is covered by the program as well. Again,
read and feed it's reimburseable and so it's uh and Megan you correct me if I'm wrong. Um but you know there's no impact on the on the 01 we're a self-sustaining program. So right Megan, there you go. So, that's what I wanted to see was that thumbs up. All right. So, then I'll pass
it on to Annette. Yeah. Uh, the high school credit recovery summer program starts on June 9th and goes through every day, every weekday through the 27th uh other than the 19th of June. Um, we have we we are able to run three
sessions a day um of different from different content areas. So, if a student is is needing to pick up a a credit in a couple of of areas, they're able to do that. Um, so thank you to those teachers. We've we have English, math, science, and social studies this
summer. Very exciting. And if you've had a chance to see our summer brochure, you know, we have a lot of activities to keep kids busy all summer. Just wanted to highlight a few of those things. Our summer saints overtime program will operate from June
9th through August 15th housed at North Elementary and we are full so we have some students on a waiting list. Also, the Spark Mobile Art program will resume. It will be meeting in local neighborhoods. It's a free program with art activities for children in preschool
age all the way up through middle school. Art teacher Kelly Nihammer is hosting an Artastic Adventures in June. She'll have three different sections. There will be a section for kindergarten and first grade, one for second and
fourth grade stu second through fourth grade students, and then finishing up for students grades 5 through 8. Um, kids in grades 2 through 8 can learn about robotics in a program called Eureka Engineering. And they can also
compete in drone racing through a different program. Um, we have Drama Kids, which is replacing the now um, outof business Prairie Fire Theater that we had for so many years. Drama Kids is providing a fun theater experience for
students ages 7 to 14. This year's play is called The Claw, and it's based on the arcade game, if you remember, with the claw where you can grab the toys. So, the theme is um what happens to stuffed animals when an outof order claw
suddenly starts working again. So, I think it'll be a really fun play. Kids can also pursue some arts and crafts programs and they can learn to cook. We have one of our cooking programs is hosted by our fax teacher. It's called Future Foodies where kids will be there
all day long. In the morning, they will make a snack. They'll make lunch for themselves and then they'll also prepare a dish that they can bring home that evening to contribute to the meal with their families. Additionally, in July,
um, incoming sixth and seventh graders can get a a jump start on band lessons with Dave Haw. Um, and like I said, there's a lot of other things listed in our brochure. We have classes at South, at the high school, and also at North.
So, we're just trying to fit in wherever there's space and they'll eat at the reading table. That's correct. That's saints over time. Correct. So, you know, it's interesting sometimes that I've heard the comment, well, schools are closed down over the
summer. I don't think so. A lot of things, a lot of positive things going on. [Music] Sure. the uh like you say the brochure is just a a treasure trove of fun activities and to be 11 years old again.
But um anyway and somewhere in materials I think it probably had to do with the the joint agreement between wreck and leisure and community ed there was uh short statement that said if for some reason the community office would be relocated there could be some as I read it there could be some challenges in
continuing to do a joint brochure. Mhm. Uh the joint brochure I find very valuable. It's really nice to have one one document. Could you expand on that just a bit? That would be a problem. Sure. Um in this past year, we as a district were looking at um some budget things
and one of the things that was discussed was the possibility of moving community out of this building. um for right now we're able to stay, but if that were to happen, there might be some things that are hard for us to do in combination
with the recreation department. And so it was looked at, let's put this clause in here to allow us some leeway to make decisions based upon our locations. And it certainly does no harm to have the clause there. Hopefully, we can continue to do the joint ventures. Thank you. The
agreement for the lease space at um here at the community center for a community education program is up I think in September or October somewhere in there. I think you're right. It would come back as a two-year lease agreement. There there have been no discussions
this year about moving. We're thrilled to be in the building. Thank you. [Music] Thank you all. Appreciate it. Move on to the reports. Building
principles. Stay right there, please. All right. with early childhood this time of the year. A lot of field trips, a lot of outdoor play when the weather is nice. Just getting kids out for those types of experiences. We always have our caterpillars that um life cycle and that
butterfly release which is a big deal every year. It's just so fascinating and kids love that especially if someone lands on them. They're it's pretty special. Um what I did want to report specifically on is our vehicle fair. We held our vehicle fair the second week in
March or March. My goodness, this is a five o'clock meeting and I'm still tired um in May. Better than the slips I've had lately. Yes, agreed. Um this is the second year we've held it in our early childhood parking lot and it has been a true success. So exciting. We were able
to to empty that parking lot by the end of the school day, have our vehicles aligned on the outside and the inside of that. Folks come in, they park down below, they can use the playground, they can sit on the hill, we sell pizza, they can have a picnic. Um, we sell things at very reasonable cost so families can eat
for a dollar a slice of pizza. So that's pretty affordable for folks. Super excited. We gave out almost 250 um cars to to little Matchbox cars or Hot Wheels um this year. That's been our highest number yet. So we were at 246.
That doesn't include babies. that doesn't include parents and and um grandparents etc. So we had a huge crowd. It was a beautiful night. We did have to reschedu so it was our rain date. Um but it was a beautiful night and truly a success. Really want to thank our community partners who provide
those vehicles for that fair, you know, and we'll we'll post on social media all of them. I don't want to name some and forget some. Um but just really appreciative and kids and adults alike just enjoy that so much. This year was the first time we've had a little mishap, a little fender bender in the
parking lot um between two emergency vehicles, but but they were all ready. That's right. And and you know, one was the ambulance, one was this the city police car, so the insuranceances should be talking quite smoothly. Um but that
was that was more of a excitement for the adults than it was for the kids. But but anyway, it was truly delightful night. Um and we hope to continue those in the future as well. So really a successful successful vehicle fair. All right. Very good. Well, greetings from
North Elementary. That was a busy night by the way. We had incoming second grade open house that evening and many parents are like, "We need to get to the vehicle fair." So out the door they went or they had to check out the action with the emergency fender benders. Uh well, North
had uh we had our spring concert last week. Um and thank you Mrs. Zingleder for allowing us to go up to the the pack. It's very nice. Uh we we we did fill the place. I think I roughly estimated about 1,700 audience members in the course of
about an hour and a half through there. So that's that's phenomenal. That's a lot of people coming to visit, but it's also some problematic with parking and people flowing in and out. And there there's certainly I mean everybody lo when once the students are up there performing like it's all good. Uh but
it's just getting in and out and the logistics of that. So we're still, you know, we we love being up there and having a cozy place to sit and reflecting on years past when we had four concert at North, you know, like a morning, afternoon, morning, afternoon, and it was 90 degrees that week that the
north gym would have been 115 degrees and it would have been pretty miserable. So really appreciate uh being able to perform up there. Uh this this week, next week, a lot of learning on the fly, on the run. And we have second graders going to the pickle barn this week and
teams experiencing like a life skill at the pickle barn. So that's super fun. Fourth grade is going to farm America tomorrow and I think the weather's supposed to be good. Third grade already went to the science museum. So kind of um I I think our bridges math curriculum poses this well. It's like May is a
different kind of learning. It's like exploring, creating, developing. That's kind of what field trips are that way. Thank you. Uh field day next week. uh staff challenge, student challenge, a lot of parents volunteering, dunk tank. Um but I do want to bring attention. Um
we're having a 9:00 dedication on field day to our MJ hammock forest. Um which is in the courtyard there at North. I don't know if you if you've driven by it lately, you've probably seen a bunch of 6x6 posts in the woods kind of in the courtyard. And um hammocks have been out
there. Nick, our media parah has been um working with student council get those up every morning and then classes go out there. But um all those hammocks were donated. Um and it goes to Mark John Mark John Brackie who passed away last year as one of our third graders. Um his family moved to Mississippi last year
and they're all coming up for the dedication. Yeah, they're very excited. Um and then the M the other MJ is Mr. Johnson. So our second grade teacher, Mr. Johnson, passed away a couple years ago unexpectedly. Um and so some of his family members might be there as well. So we're gonna have all the kids out
there. There's some students that were in MJ's home room who are speaking about MJ and his family is going to share some things and yeah, nice little placard. So, we're excited about that. And then we'll we'll do the field day thing. Um and then sun or Wednesday next week will be our fourth grade sendoff. We'll get
them ready to send them on to fifth grade at the middle school. So, we do kind of a nice picture slideshow and memory, give some awards and stuff on Wednesday. So, that's North. Thank you, Mr. Dorton. Uh we're hopping and boopping at the middle school. Uh last week, May 13th, we hosted our
incoming fourth grade orientation. Uh students learned a little bit about the middle school expectations, went over schedules, uh and then they took a self-guided tour. And the way that typically works, it's refreshing for parents because the fourth grade teachers prior to that come and tour the
building with Miss Dozy. I think a lot of new first-time parents are a little nervous and then once they see their child leading them through this tour, they're like, "Oh, okay. This will be okay." Uh, so a really productive night. Uh, we traditionally host a second, more
immersive orientation called Jump Start second week of August. We'll be unable to do that this year um due to the construction. So instead, our fifth grade teachers are going to incorporate those activities into the first two days of school. Um, so they'll still get that experience just a little bit later.
Uh this Friday, our fifth graders will go to the Minnesota Zoo. It's an annual trip that's kind of the capstone to an interdisiplinary unit between ELA and science. Uh where students are learning about adaptations and habitats, doing research, writing papers. Um and then uh
if I may just provide a quick update on the men the middle and our end of the year calendar at middle school in EC. Uh so a reminder that our last day of school is May 28th. That allows May 29th to be our teacher work day. uh for the middle school pair of professionals are
still contracted to work that day, so they'll start the packing process on uh the 29th. The 30th then becomes teacher packing day. Reminder, our teachers are responsible for packing all of the materials in our phase one classrooms
and then a con a moving crew will then take those boxes and furniture to various spaces throughout the building. So, Seth has been a huge help uh coordinating that those efforts. Um, some stuff will be moved, you know, for the summer to different locations in the
building. Other things will need to be moved from our building to north for summer programs. So, a lot of coordination there. Um, so thank you to everybody who's who's a part of that. Uh, and then um lastly uh you may have noticed the hill uh adjacent to the pool
is all muddy right now. uh they are starting to dig into that hill um to prepare to put footings in for a very large chiller that will chill the building. Uh and then I said lastly, but this is actually the last the last thing I want to share. So I apologize for
that. Um you know, the end of the year for me anyway is just this constant like checklist. You know, last teacher evaluation, last Monday, all these things just as you're preparing to make sure that you've got everything checked off your list. Uh, and this year has
been a little bit more. Oh my gosh, it's the last. Um, last Monday was the last Monday that I will ever supervise a fifth grade lunch. And I never thought I'd be sad about that. Um, but it like hit me and I was like, "Oh my gosh, you
know, this is this is real." So, um, bittersweet, you know, very sad to to leave the middle school kind of, um, but super excited for the next step. So, thank you all for trusting me with the next step. cafeteria is a great job. I know. I'll
be there every day. I love that place. I'm sure they won't mind. You'll have time. We've heard you say that over and over. You're not busy. Yep. We're always invited. Um I just want to highlight our
girls track team won the Minnesota Class DoubleA True Team State Championship um last weekend, which was a huge accomplishment. So, we're looking forward to seeing how they perform um in the next couple weeks, too. I haven't heard how tennis did yet today, but our
tennis team is playing today and tomorrow for singles and doubles. Um I can report on that next time. Hopefully, we will have a lot moving on to state. Uh we had our senior awards night on or afternoon on Sunday and I just want to
point out that uh the not including any of the miscellaneous scholarships um which which are you which are rather large our dollars for scholars group um kids got up to there there was just over $70,000 given away by that organization.
Um so so that's an impressive amount thanks to that to that group and the fundraising that they do. uh an update on our Minnesota transfer curriculum kids. We we were placing bets on on how many kids we thought would sign up for this first cohort coming through. Uh and
so it was anywhere between five, I'm not going to say who was thinking there might only be five kids who would be interested in this cohort and like 20. We had over 30 kids sign up um and commit to that Minnesota transfer curriculum who are nth graders going
into 10th grade. So you'll you'll not be surprised that uh Ethan Harbetts is one of them. I think he'll be able to handle it, but there are a lot of great students like him who um hopefully will will complete that program. Um and gradu
with graduation coming up, I just wanted to highlight our graduation rate from last year was 94.32 and that is um that's just over 10% higher than the state than the state rate. So, we're very proud of that. Uh, that takes a a lot of of work, not just
on getting kids through classes and credit recovery, but on attendance, um, mental health, and, um, we've really we've really started focusing on those in in recent years. Um, especially since co. So, we're proud to get that back up there in the 90s. It always feels weird
to not say hundred, like to be proud of anything less than 100 when it comes to the graduation rate, but um, but that's a we're very proud of it. Uh, and then congratulations to the districts. We had distinguished award honores, Nick Rosa and Dr. Olsen were honored at last
week's um staff recognition banquet. So, I know several of you were there and congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Dr. Olsson, uh, two things. the first at your at your spot there is a
flyer from the Minnesota School Boards Association that just has information about upcoming events in July, August, and September. So, take a look at that. And obviously, if you're interested in any of those things, uh you can work with Kimberly to get registered and
we'll go from there. Uh I also want to mention, well, Seth and I again will kind of tag team on this. We're um slated to start like June 2nd again on our MVED update project. Uh and you
can talk about specifics, but I'm just going to share one thing. Seth has put out quotes and etc. And we actually came in we were projecting a cost of $347,000 and we came in at a cost of $315,000. So we're pleased with that. So
Seth, why don't you talk about what's going to happen and how it's going to happen? Yeah. So, starting June 2nd, it might take a little bit for the actual construction to start. We're going We started last year with some they're called FRP panels that are created so
they cannot be destroyed for the most part. Uh it was decided by the district and MVED to finish off the rest of the hallways and classrooms in that and that should alleviate a lot of the repairs out there. So, that's one of
them. We're going to be doing a refresh, repainting the whole thing because it is kind of dingy. It's old and we want to bring it up to a more pleasant color so it doesn't feel like a prison in there. And then the third part, the third part
is we're going to be doing redoing all the floors. Going to be going to a luxury vinyl planking or tile versus VCT. And we're going to a flowex type carpet in all the rooms. So, it's going to get a pretty major facelift this
spring or this summer actually already. Yep. So, when all the students come back, hopefully the they're going to come back and it's going to feel a lot different in there and it should be a lot happier in there is what the goal is
to be. Anybody have any questions? Great. Thanks. Y Oh, I'm good. Board members around the table. Um had the opportunity to go to the band concert and the choir concert
at the high school. So impressed by the talent in our students and um excellent. and uh and got a chance to go to the Roland for Landon um the other day which I appreciated being able to go
to. Um just very briefly, it's uh the time of year when as everybody knows there's millions of things going on. Just listening to the trans all the things that are are transpiring, it's uh it's really impressive. Also somewhat fatiguing. Uh I try to get to as many
things as I can, but I ran out of days at seven per week. So it uh but again it's it's just innumerable the number of activities for for the students and and for uh parents and whatever. So anyway, my compliments to the staff for assembly and all that and and hang in there
another couple weeks and then you get a half hour break and you start for the summer. Too much. I'm just super excited for graduation. I think it's my favorite thing to do on the school board for sure. Um, also kind of watching a little bit and curious how it will affect us
here at St. Peter with the the pension kind of changing for the teachers and them being able to potentially retire a little bit earlier with not quite as big of a penalty, I guess, is the best way to describe it. And curious if that will shift some teachers to maybe retiring a
little bit earlier and, you know, it's always a little bit cheaper to have a new teacher versus somebody that's been here for a while. So, we had a discussion with our big cell superintendents about that today and just for everybody's record, it's the TRA pension reform moves back to a rule
of 90 uh age 60 and 30 years of experience is that so it's sort of a modification to the previous rule of 90 and there's a it's not a full retirement but it's less of a penalty than in the past. So I think the thinking is there's very real possibility that it could open
up the door to uh some retirements. Not quite as good as it was before. We have to add for the tier 2 teachers just to be clear, but it is definitely in a step in the right direction.
So I'm good. Mr. Are we going to do committee reports too yet? So I don't have to talk about those yet. Um I guess Annette stole some of my thunder there with the girls track team.
True team. And uh I would like to thank Kimberly and all her helpers if she had any for the program last Wednesday. It was very good.
Yeah. Congratulate those that retired and the those that got their 25-y year certificate. As far as the legislature goes, your guess is as good as mine. Mhm. About the only thing I would say with any certainty. So, this will be
wrong, but uh there's talk that they want to be done by Friday, but I don't think there's any way that that's going to happen. So, hopefully by June 1st. So,
uh I can provide an update to the tennis group. Uh we had several participants singles and doubles configurations and I believe we have one doubles group that is continuing on to play out Thursday and I think everyone else was
eliminated today and uh if they get through Thursday then they would go to state. So that's that's kind of where we're at. exciting. Um, just that we had our third NAPAC graduation ceremony. Um, and that was
that went over very well and it was well covered in the highlights. So, all right. Um, any additional committee updates from any of our committees that didn't have a chance to share stuff during the meeting? Well, I'm assuming
that everyone's reading the minutes. So um the business committee we are mainly focusing on the budget at this time and and the things that are happening. So, um, but it's it's been very
informative being on that committee because they're not talking just about the fiscal year budget, but also five-year capital improvements and um shifting funds. Dr.
calls it his big bucket plan where he takes uh line items and moves them around within categories and put a little more pressure I think on the uh building
principles to make sure that they're managing their funds because they're getting line items and have to account to those along the Okay. And as far as the uh
um future, he's identified some potential uh future options he calls levers that's available to the committee and the to recommend to the board as far as
adjustments going into fiscal year 28 and reaching their goals. So if you're interested in that stuff, feel free to contact Dr. [Laughter]
Olsen. As far as the HR committee, uh Dr. Olsen informed me today that uh the meetings with the individual contract individuals are continuing and going well. I'd like to thank Megan for
her work on um helping us meet the goals that we set in our closed meeting as far as what we're going to try to accomplish in those areas. So, she did a lot of work to
illustrate what's there so forth. Along with that, we're trying to um make sure that the language and all those individual agreements is consistent. So trying to get everyone
same retirement qualifications, same retirement benefits, etc. So hopefully June meeting will have them all for you to approve. Great. You will
have 19 agreements on June 18th. Yeah. One thing Bill to that one of the the changes uh that Dr. Olsson and Megan implemented was a budget capital budget by building. So things are established in advance. What kind of dollar amounts
are available to work with? So if there's requests, it's not extraneous for what's already been allocated or been budgeted. So it makes it more probably a little bit more streamlined and also easier to follow. From the education committee,
we have the minutes, but I'm just looking to see like what we could share. And that was that we couldn't talk about MCA tests because Dr. Olsen told us they were embargoed. So that was pretty brief conversation and he told us that we
don't have a lot of options or we're exploring further options for the Brockben location and Dr. Graph shared with us his continued work on the culturally responsive rubric. He's busy with that and the Ashawa Learning
Academy. we are exploring staffing issues out there. I feel kind of bad because it's like those are all like really important things that deserve more than just a bullet point. So, it's like hard to even bring it up like that, but I guess just for the public to kind of know what we're talking about. And we we would
report that we've uh Jenna Sakura has had some success in in uh interviewing and and recommending will be recommending candidates uh for approval as teachers at the Ash. Awesome. So we were concerned about that. We feel good
about some quality candidates who have applied. Oh, that's good news. Policy committee, you've seen our work. Yeah. Every meeting. Yeah. All right.
All right. We've got upcoming meetings. uh business committee policy review and education committee um in the first or June 11th and 12th and then the regular schoolboard meeting back here uh on Wednesday, June 18th.
I'll make a motion to adjourn. Second. Motion in a second. All those in favor? I I Meeting is adjourned. Thanks everyone. Thank you. part of it.