good bring the um October 21st 2024 Triton school board meeting to order please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge of allegiance 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 recognition of visitors open Forum I did not have any request all right um number four approve agenda so
moves second motion by Dwayne second by Brian all in favor oppose motion carries number five Cobra Pride yeah we had our first uh profile of the graduate meeting last thir not
last the the Friday before mea so I would just like to recognize all of those students we had Jack Hansen in kindergarten Jeff Tibbits and first grade Harrison Hoffman second grade Erie fate in third grade will Dow fourth
grade Josie Bo champ in fifth grade um Garrison Becker sixth grade Samantha Wilson in seventh grade Aubrey Sanson in eighth grade uh Genevie starkson in ninth grade Maya oampo in 10th grade um Skyla rollad in 11th grade and Gage
Adams in 12th grade and it's uh I just want to make comment it's pretty cool to see is the number of staff that we have attending that on a regular basis I think we had over 40 staff there um that morning so
uh it's just a neat it's a neat tradition that we've started and I'm glad that uh we're doing it and it's neat to see those kids recognize for doing good things number six approved consent agenda move
second motion by Jim second by Dale all in favor I opposed motion carries new business 7.1 discuss approved proposed certified staff seniority list for 2024
2025 and this is just the proposed so we would again well we will again and um approve the final one this is just this gives the staff 30 days to look it over and make sure they agree with it if there is no changes then we would just approve it at the next board meeting but
that's basically your uh seniority list or certified I'll make a motion to approve 7.1 second motion by Rebecca second by Jim
who approved 7.1 um any discussion okay all in favor opposed motion carries to approve the proposed certified staff sority list 7.2
discuss approve proposed classified staff seniority list for 2024 2025 and again I have that list as well and this would be the proposed
move second motion by Lloyd second by Brian to approve the proposed class classified staff senority list any discussion all in favor opposed
7.2 um is approved um 7.3 discuss approve the read act mou yeah um so we've been meeting about that in and it over and we're in agreement on that basically the way it's written is the the funding that we get
will go to the teachers that are being trained um there will be some leftover so we did create a list um and anyone that is on that list then either they're on it this year and then there's 10 more that would be on it next year the other
thing that kind of came up and I I will talk about this um later uh would be a calendar adjustment we have one month that we don't have a district work day or a day that gives staff time to work and we
looked at a number of different things we also have December but I said you know realistically December we do have an early out so staff does have extra time um but they don't have that in April so my thought was just to add a
day off to the calendar that would be the Tuesday after Easter that would give them that extra time because this is it is taking them more time and I know that there are a number of people that are not real thrilled with three-hour lats
but I also think that doing it the way we're doing it this year we will only have to do it one year I don't believe we will need to do it next year because the 10 people that will need to do it next year we can come up with some different ideas um to provide them time
within the the regular workday so um I I I think the react uhou is a good uh good example of us working together move second motion by Jim second by
Dwayne to approve 7.3 any discussion okay those in favor of 7.3 say oppose same sign motion carries 7.4 discuss approved application for Cooperative sponsorship Dodge County
wildcast hockey um Cory couldn't be here tonight but I just want to he gave me some notes on it basically what's happening is the boys program heyfield wants to leave since Hayfield wants to leave we have to vote to again approve the sponsorship
without Hayfield which doesn't really change anything for us I would still like to see the grow back in the the poop but we're not there yet but at least this works for our
boys is there hope of that it it they tell me yes but I think ultimately what it's going to come down to is when the Minnesota State High School league comes out with their numbers again do they
have room to fit Us in without getting bumped up a class if if they can fit Us in they will if they can't they won't but we were within two last time which I thought was you know there could be some sort of exemption there was not
so can't play year One play reclassification doeses happen this spring this spring so we'll know more this spring make motion appr 7.4 a second motion by Dale second by
Rebecca to approve 7.4 any discussion all in favor I opposed motion carries 7.5 discuss approv policy updates um the only policy that I'm asking you to approve tonight is 721
that's one that's mandatory that was the one that Amy I sent out in the last update um but we've got this pretty well um I'm going to share this with you this has all of the policies listed the way the way it was before is
um this is a great document and it saves a lot of time because every one of those blue numbers on the left is linked to the actual policy so it's very easy to go in and click on and look at it the problem was when you went in to click on it it brought up the policy but it was
then you had to make sure that that was the same policy that was on the web page so when you update it there's another step but we've got it now so that actual document is linked to the website so once it's updated it's updated on the
website as well so I've been working on getting all of the ones that we have updated so anything that says revised that you see the 2024 those are all updated so I'll share this with you and then you can actually see the policies but then when I'm when
I shared with you like when I did this the the last group that we did you have all the red lines so you can compare those to what's changed but then once it's changed you'll see the date that it was changed on here and then you know that it's been updated so then when we
go to like okay CU if we want to tackle the next group like the 400s per se then you'll know that those are the ones that we're going to be looking at and if there's any changes but a lot of them we've already done so I I feel good about where we're at msba recommends
that you do a third a year um but we're we're doing good in that regard I think over the last couple years we've gotten a lot of updates taken care of so but that way you'll have this this will be in the the um our shared folder
so if you want to look at the policies they'll all be on this document so I'm going to put this document in the shared folder make sense okay so tonight I'm just asking to approve that 721 that I have just
um Shar [Music] 7.6 student council report yeah well you want to stand up in front of I have to no you don't have to you do you do have to introduce yourself though and this year's
president president and homecoming queen yeah [Music] welcome thank you um well for busiest year of the of the year is officially done with homecoming uh we started our week with corination and we start a new
um um tradition of um celebrating trans birthday on the first Monday of homecoming week so we gave um everyone a treat during lunch he Puffs were this year uh Tuesday we had activities and Thursday we had activities during the school day uh we
had a parade Friday and um through all the week we had dress updat we try to make them um affordable and easy for everyone to participate um during the football game we did or halftime um Inflatable Race that kids love so we're going to keep do
that throughout the um the um playoff games starting Saturday I believe right yes uh our dance was very nice and we had a lot of uh participation it might be a record from last year we had almost 200 students
going to our dance ni so it was very impressive to see everyone there uh we had no problems during the dance and everyone seemed like they were having a fun time today we had our service day which we we adopted a highway in West conquer we had only the seniors going
this year because we had a uh our full council is 47 people this year so we decided that we don't need 47 people to go clean a highway so we only took or 17 seniors this year and there's a picture of us we neon green over there and and
it is probably a record for the number of students in student council yes yeah very exciting we have like good we I've been here a long time yeah that's I mean seriously I did student council advisor way way way way way back
and 47 is a lot awesome I have kids asking me every day if they want to join student council wow yeah after homecoming it was like the Monday after homecoming everyone was wanting to be in student council so yeah that was that's super exciting to see people want to be involved in the school what's next for
us is our food drive which will be trick and Canyon this year as um years before that will be during the Halloween day we flyer soon this week probably Thursday or Friday so every the families in our commun are
ready for us on Halloween night uh we have our set um conference November 8th so we are playing through a 10 and we have our boys football we're hoping they go to state so we want to do something for them
too to celebrate their and shipment shipments any questions for thank you great job great job thank you thank you 7.7 Zed
report pass that on to I F I F them for line good thing she did otherwise they wouldn't had a yeah they wouldn't yeah there was four even with nobody told me they were going to be shorts anyway and there you also get
Lloyd penss I got lloy Lloyd pens there too that were Patrick said I bet you know where these came from and um they Patrick gave me a tour I hadn't seen the news dead building it was really it was very
impressive and everyone there was very friendly and welcoming to me um uh for the report there was um they said there was four future students who are transitioning back to their home districts and one is fully back to their home
District um they also said that the State academic Triathlon has been dissolved because one of the persons who headed up is moving out of state so the member districts from Zed are going to create an academic Triathlon for our
students just from our area because they don't want that to go away and then also we voted um I had to vote at the meeting we voted to uh discontinue the
solar panel contract with solar connections and um it was recommended to us and the reasons I put down the reasons that they said that they were recommending it was um The Links of time that it had been a couple years and we
would have had to fill out new paperwork um because there was a lot of turnover staff at solar connections and so there wasn't good communication um the money could be used for other pressing matters and it would take 15 years to
see a profit I think they said and then um oh even though they said it doesn't damage your roof there was concerns that you know with the new roof it what if it did damage the new roof so um and it doesn't mean you can't
go into a contract at a later time but maybe with this group it wasn't a good idea one of the um members said maybe um uh something to look at would maybe be like a solar garden like to with KM schools but you know there's other
options they could do but at this time it wasn't so everyone voted to dissolve that that was it thank you um 7.8 ad report um yeah I'll just kind of review
this for Cory too like we've talked a lot about homecoming and and uh really it was it I'll be honest it was probably one of the most fun fun homecomings I've been a part of I think that the level of student engagement this year was amazing
and that's not the case every year but I do thank student council for all the effort that they put in to make that a very inclusive event that uh the students really enjoyed and I think you know having the volleyball game um the parade
was earlier than it normally would be but it rolled right into the the the volleyball game and we just there was a lot of uh lot of enthusiasm the the um activity Fair outside well attended uh
it was just it was a great week and um to not get any complaints is a plus and that's not always the case so uh pretty awesome to have that I I think it's uh a credit to
our students for being uh good students and and knowing how to have appropriate funds so a lot kudos to our students um section time we have girls volleyball on uh Thursday at Medford and cross country
is on on Thursday as well at Northern Hills Golf Course and then football is on Saturday and I believe that's 2:00 and then we have the play coming up on the November 14th through
16th any questions on the ad report and volleyball is hosting for the first time since 2011 first time we've posted a playoff here nice thank you 7.9 principal
reports yeah good us instead of my behaving back there Trisha is keeping you on mind that's probably a good idea good evening everybody you go ahead and uh click on there Mr slick oh Mrs Johnson
goad yes um I'll just didto what you said about homecoming it was awesome week at the middle school I was a little nervous because all that energy and excitement can sometimes lead to poor decisions and choices but they did such a great job so we had great
participation in all of the dress up days we had a few special Home Room activities going on it was a ton of fun so great day we had our Unity day um last week on um Wednesday and so during Home Room uh students discussed bullying
prevention and specifically talked about what they can do to try to stand up and stop bullying when they see it happen every student had a paper chain link and they wrote a statement on there um committing to what they're going to do and then we all stepped out into the hallway and connected all of the links
so we'll uh hang up the chain in our library for the rest of the school year as a visual reminder um and then this week we're sending in 22 students to the young authors Young artist Workshop which we did last year for the first time and it
was a huge success kids loved it um so our language arts teachers selected students from each grade and then Mrs himley is going to take them um to that Workshop this week so they're excited for that I had a couple updates uh we talked
about the Reda with the mlu today was our second live training for redac um staff's doing a fantastic job there's asynchronous work that they have to do in between each of the live sessions and then we have the two-hour live session on these three-hour late starts our next one will be on November 4th which is a
teacher work day so it's not a three-hour late start but that's what Mr schlickman was kind of talking about we've got either a work day or a three-hour late start every single month from here to the end of it we're through two modules uh there's eight total modules at the end of this first wave we'll have about 50 of our staff trained
through the University of Minnesota with K all I wanted you to mark your um calendars we will have our Veterans Day program on November 11th um Whitney is helping out uh has reached out to the legion in our area and getting the
invites out to all of our staff and uh relatives of our students and lastly I also wanted to mention homecoming week uh we had a lot of fun days in elementary school as well one that I'd like to highlight is that we had a class color War so kindergarten War red first
grade was yellow blue about 98% of our students participated on that day the winning two grades and I want to say it was third grade Mrs um and kindergarten they tied and was like 99.3% of all the students were dressed in that color so it was a really cool
thing especially at lunch when you walked in like team yellow was over there team blue is over here so it was a good day Mr lman Well everybody's talked about homecoming a lot already but uh I wanted just to say a few words uh
fantastic week it uh it's a nervous week for me but it's but it's also very very fun I think uh you talking about the work that student council had done absolutely fantastic and I know it's a lot for sure um when we revision the
homecoming process a few years back we talked about what can we do uh to engage our Triton communities and give students an opportunity to be involved in an activity every night of the week um not to distract them or occupy them but
we know if we don't have planned activities and structure for them they will find activities to do so that was one of the main goals um so our students our staff our community just did a tremendous job so I want to thank our students I want to thank our staff uh
the traon community uh the parade has grown every year uh this year we had over 35 units in the parade so excited about that um I was hoping Mr Black would be here tonight but wanted to thank him he does a lot of extra work during that week our our Council as well
for the great work um Miss Deets and our band um we ask a lot of our band during that homecoming week they Maring a parade and then and then they have games and all sorts of things going on and our cheer squad and and teams there um our cheer squad continues to grow um I wish
I could tell you the number I want to say 30ish mid-30s perhaps and and I have friends in other communities and schools and they go up and they're like what are you doing to get this many out your cheer squad um but it's students engag in an activity and and to have something
to belong to and that piece is extremely important so those individuals put forth a lot of work so once again the events throughout the course of the week they're important uh we provide opportunities for our staff to connect with students in a little bit of a different way which is you know a lot of
times when you have a change in schedule in other events it can seem like a lot in a school but those connections will will help us going forward um the middle picture there I think we've talked about the parade the Powderpuff game um has
looked a variety of ways throughout the years sometimes it's been a little bit rough uh sometimes I believe a year ago we had an emergency response call uh we continue to adjust and modify rules and this year absolutely fantastic except
for the officiating um I was officiating and I I may have missed one or two but the students they did a fantastic job so it was exciting time you can go ahead on to the next one just a a couple few reminders we talked
about the service day uh peace ready in the student council report so um going back I don't know if we'd had an 80 degree day for service day in the past I remember some with snow flurries and rain and stuff like that um College knowledge month the month of October we
have a variety of things going on for that um it's free for students to apply to schools in the month of October in Minnesota so we're offering time through our counseling office and Christie to get that done uh the unity day piece
that was PRK through 12 so we extended that throughout district and conferences or almost to the point of midterm uh November the 4th is a work day a midterm day and then our conferences are shortly after that I'm not sure the dat
so those those are approaching believe it or not do you guys have anything else any questions thank you thank you all very much thank you 12th and 14th actually extend 12
Tuesday and Thursday 12 and [Music] 14 7.10 superintendent report um looking at that November 6th it's a Wednesday forgive me for saying the fifth the number of times but it's
actually the sixth the fifth is the election day it's the day after the election would be a a good day for a study session if that still works for everybody um want to review some test scores want to review some things with the budget looking at the we're going to
need to make some cuts um talk with Luke about that and just want everybody on the same page with the amount and all of those kinds of things um you know talk about timing for uh hiring for the high
school principal and and just some of those kind of details that we can work through and I also have it on here but I want to talk about a calendar adjustment I mentioned that with the react I I think that adding that one day off would be appropriate um
to to give people some of that extra time to work on that and and like I said three-hour late starts it it is it it is an adjustment and it is a change and it's hard for people to change so I get it um and when people
ask why you know this really isn't something we had a choice on it's something we had to do um we needed to find time for our staff to be able to do that during their day um it it's just it's it's not fair to ask them to do that on their own time that's I mean
they need the time to do the professional development and they're doing a great job with it so uh thankful for the staff that we have that are um working through that and making themselves better because ultimately they're going to be uh better Educators
for our students so grateful that we have a great staff that's willing to do that and then lastly just yeah service day again today um I don't how many years we've been doing that but well according to the review it's nine the game with the students it's nine years
so it's just it's a neat day when you see kids out helping in the community um it's it's just yeah they do a great job with it and you look at a lot of the things that they were able to get done today um you
know I looked at the one tree that was out front and I mean that that would be a pretty long project if it was just our custodians but they literally had that done in over about an hour so it's like when you got a lot of hands on one project get it gets things done real
quick so Kudos again to our students and staff for another successful service day any questions for me and you said that was the the Tuesday after Easter so that's yeah that's the April 22nd yeah and we can look at that at the study
session I told the staff that I would rather look at that with you at the study session first before we went ahead and then my goal would be to have that um on the November agenda for approval but that way we can kind of look at the calendar and go through it um at the
study session any other questions um any other just um Corn Drive is tomorrow any didn't know and that here it says the state PR is February
22nd break anything else not I'll take a motion for adjournment mov second motion by Dwayne second by Brian all in
favor eating a jint