recording we'll call the March I'm sorry February 10th meeting of the train School Board to order please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge 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 recognition of visitors open form I did not have any requests okay no say is on the way though okay um number four approve
agenda second motion by Jim second by Lloyd to approve the agenda any discussion all in favor opposed same sign motion carries po
PR yeah I just I know we talked about him a little bit last night but just wanted to recognize the BPA kiddos and Miss uh gens is actually here as well since we're going to prove their trip but um continues to be an outstanding program for our school that uh is uh
deserving of recognition I know when we walk around with when I was able to walk around with candidates and show them our Championship wall um that wall does volume for speaking about the the good things that are happening and I know there's a lot of BPA folks on there so I
just wanted to recognize that um number six approve consent agenda I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda motion by Rebecca second by Jim any discussion all in favor say
I opposed motion carries uh number seven new business uh 7.1 authorize students to attend BPA overnight trip to State leadership conference at Hyatt Regency in Minneapolis March 6 through 8th 2025 yes thank you for
recognizing there will be 32 of us who are going we had a couple additional students that qualified that uh declined their trip due to other prior commitments um I'm bringing along uh myself and then I'll have two other chaon here and kwor
in Casey O'Brien um that guy right there one of our students but yeah we're excited to go same same old same old right but it's not but it's not yeah I I
know it's I the hard I feel like I shared this with Logan and some of the other students like I'm on the state board for BPA so I'm able to see like how many members are across this like the Nate the state in different chapters and really when you look at us we have a
chapter of 34 members I think uh and we're competing against like I'm going to give an example y z up 278 students are in their chapter alone and the fact that we will go up to State and we will
beat them in numerous Events maybe I'm I should be on all the wood here but like we've done that in the past consistently against these bigger schools that have you know five times amount of kids that that we have is such a huge TCH
liit to our students and so it's awesome like we blow them on and you're great I'll move to approve s play one second Mo by Jim second by Rebecca any discussion
all in favor say I opposed motion carries thank you thank you good luck thank you not that you need it set our record last year for Nationals and this year is it's in Orlando Florida which was like on a
Disney property so let's just right excellent 7.2 resolution directing the administration to make recommendations for reductions in programs and positions and and reasons therefore a resolution yep and this is
just something we do every year so move a second motion by Lloyd second by Rebecca resolution requires a roll call vote Scott Lloyd hi Jim yes Rebecca yes and Wendy
yes 7.3 reauthorized safe learning plan last time have to do this oh now you need to knock on wood no uh you know now that that that funding has gone you know it'll be done we don't
we no long longer need to continually do this so um this was the last time in this um funding that we got so nothing's changed thankfully we do have a lot of people getting sick
but that's kind of normal do you need a motion on that okay I'll [Music] move motion by Jim is there a second to reauthorize okay second by Lloyd all in
favor to reauthorize the safe learning plan say I I I opposed motion carries 7.4 discuss approved Tron school calendar for 2025 2026 um really we've we've approved the
calendar at this point I guess all we're doing is approving the late starts late starts early outs early outs late sorry early outs versus late starts so the uh agreement was that we were going to go with the early
outs so then we will just add those to the calendar I some second motion by Rebecca second by Jim to approve the 2025 2026 school calendar with early outs on
those days any discussion all in favor to approve the school calendar for 2025 2026 please say I I opposed motion carries 7.5 discuss approved changing
the regular school board meeting from March 17th 2025 to March 10th 20 25 at 6:00 p.m. and it doesn't sound like the 10th is a good date to move it to so the other date that I would suggest would be the 24th which would be the
following Monday the Monday after rather than the Monday before I'll make a motion to move it to the 24th second motion by Rebecca second by Lloyd seconded by Lloyd to change the meeting from March 17th to March
24th any discussion all in favor opposed motion carries 7.6 enrollment update um well good news is we've only
lost one student since we've uh last done an update so that's good news um but yeah overall the the numbers have stayed pretty pretty consistent so that's a nice change cuz usually we've seen dips throughout the
year so to only lose one student in a reporting cycle is good any questions okay 7.7 student council report hi everybody you get me today
going to make it today that's okay um there's big things going on in student council right now uh or snow week is going on right now from um the 10th today to the 14th uh we recognize at this time of year kids have very little to look
forward to the you just started but yeah you're so um far away from the school ending so we wanted the kids to have something to look up for or something fun to do during the week uh we student council work really hard to make this snow week kind of better than previous
years um we have activities planned throughout the week three activities Monday Wednesday and Friday we have dress up days all five days also Tuesday to Friday we have treats and snacks for everyone in the school during lunch and then we recognize that some seniors
leave for senior release or work work experience so we're making sure those seniors are involved by giving some to the office ladies so they have something too um today we had 3v3 basketball for our activity so kind of involving winter
sports um or dress up day was white out today tomorrow is flannel PJ twin and red and pink for Valentine's Day Friday uh and then we try to make different activities so only like not only focusing on the athletes but also creative and artistic people and people
that are not really fans of going um in front of a big crowd so we planning on our activities um also we name our second teacher of a quarter Miss tisher so uh
math um is going up is winning right now mran was a math teacher too so we have great math staff um yeah uh also we recognize our counselor Mrs ronals um she does so much for us every time if you're having a tough
time you can just go to her office and she'll take care of you so we want to take care of her during her during um councelor National um happy National School counsel week um also we started this new thing in our Instagram student council has an
Instagram and it's actually very popular kids not really when they're at home they're not going to check schoolo they're going to check their Instagram and their phones um so we are utilizing that a lot this year uh we started this new section in our Instagram Cobra pride
and we give shout outs to you know cobras the Cobra kids um recently Kiana Molina broke two records for the basketball girls program so we recognized our Pierce Peters sh broke good record um braxon c
um had a very um sportmanship moment in his um game against uh s so we make sure to recognize him uh we so I think that's important to recognize and give them a shout out when
they're doing good things um yeah also we have um we recognize our tripa award winners Cory L and G Lundy and our Exel Award winners um Diego iara Castillo and
Abigail wus in this um part of our Instagram yeah that's what student C is up to nice thank you very cool thank you thank You 7.8 Zed report okay the traveling art show will
be coming here March 14th to the 21st I believe um in the past last year they had a ceremony for M all the artists and stuff it's usually out
here and they have started up U The Zed academic Triathlon um actually they've had two meets one was in January at Blooming Prairie last week there was one at Byron Middle School and there's one the 21st
at Casten and then March 7th is a championship meet at Byron I haven't yeah I don't have any results but anyway they're they said they were
going to continue the program and they there yep um otherwise we just did the routine uh chairs yeah really we didn't have much other
than uh officers and pretty much everything's the same ex our vice chair is well from Stewartville the Clerk Treasures Melissa from luming and Kathy hges are chair CL the same chair as last year
yeah he's been chair for quite a while I did get some reports from um Patrick that I'm going to share just some child count reports updated ones yeah maybe have I didn't really see much but
um well we'll have a meeting it'll be not this week next week there's any questions right good 7.9 ad report hello everybody
hi had an eventful couple weeks here with a lot of awesome awesome things that have been uh going on I'd like to start with just an update on the soccer programs um the girls soccer program um most importantly I've been in contact
with Cass and manille on the possibility of a Cooperative agreement however they've been very hesitant and uh slow to make any traction or any Headway with that um I am starting to kind of get down to our last opportunities or our
last uh last efforts to see what we can do to make sure that we can offer that program for our girls when we have nine returning players it's hard to play a game when we need 11 and on top of that when we don't have any close cooperative
um Cooperative sponsors with it it makes it difficult for us to put the girls in a position where they can still be at school and not put them in a in a in a bad position to make them Mis practice on a frequent basis so um putting a lot of effort into that to try to see where
that can go but uh just want to give everybody a heads up that it does not look like we are going to have a co-op with the girls um that would mirror the the co-op that we have with the boys and when we co-oped with Hayfield and Kenyon how many kids did we get from those two
schools y so we I I believe we had uh in my to my knowledge the number that we've had from Hayfield has been incredibly low maybe one total over the the four years since I've been here and I think the highest that we had from Kenyon at any point in time was two was two
players so even with that the uh we don't have any returning um returning players from either Kenyon nor Hayfield that would be interested be interested in that Co-op at this point in time so so it's not a not a great uh bit of news
but it's something that we need to be that we need to be on top of so that we can have everybody on the same page when decisions need to be made ultimately so I'll make sure to keep everybody in the loop going forward um the good news is that I think that's the only bit
of somewhat negative news that I have to share tonight um the dance team completed their uh completed their season this last Friday they danced in Lake City and ended up taking 11th at the uh at the section meet and so that's those was an awesome job they improved
their scores from what they had uh typically posted throughout the season so it's not always about what place we have but about improving improving our quality as we go on so they have a lot to be proud of there um the next was the Hall of Fame induction ceremony we had that this last uh this last Saturday you
can see some of the inductees the 2010 football team was in was inducted um as as well as a few other individuals so they had a they had an awesome time and it was a great ceremony with a bunch of people that showed up I think in the four years that I've been here this is the best showing that we've had for attendees to the to the ceremony so it
was fun to kind of have a a little bit of a packed house when we when we were in there um on top of that the onea play they took uh the number one they won the subsection and then ended up taking fifth in the section and so when you
look at uh a program that has been strong here Tren over a long period of time it was awesome to see us get back to that section me and be able to take those those next steps so the play silence on Barber Street was shown to the shown to students today uh during the three-hour late start and it was it
was fun to see all of the work that they put in there because it was it's a great show in a you know 30 minute period that they that they get to kind of take you on a big on a big ride uh next as uh ROM mentioned we we did recognize the Triple A and the Excel winners so uh Diego
Abigail Corey and Gigi are all great students that represent different portions of our our school and and our great representatives of that um on top of that Adriana Coons is the section one and two uh Champion for the girls uh for the girls tournament that took place
this last Saturday um you talk about uh about dominance in like I don't know if there's another word to talk about what Adriana did I mean she had in four matches two on Friday and two on Saturday she had two pins and two technical Falls which is when you're
winning by more than 15 points at any time during the match they they stop the match and she did that to I believe the number four ranked girl in the state and the number one ranked girl in the state so obviously Adriana G of put her put her name in there of what uh of what to
do so she will move on to the girl State wrestling tournament so she'll wrestle uh hopefully three matches on March 1st at the XL Energy Center and uh she's got Big Dreams and it's gonna be fun to watch her so she'll probably be our first state champion it'll be it'll be
great so coach Evan's really excited they put in Adriana's put on in a lot of work to this point but it's it's fun to see the whole program Happ be taking steps forward with it too so kudos to her it's it was definitely a lot of fun to watch uh lastly our basketball teams
they have been on a hot streak if you haven't heard I don't know if anybody was there at the game on Friday but um I just have like pictures of our student section from Friday it's the the one on the top left there it was packed like the whole gym was packed on Friday it was sweet I'm just gonna throw that out
there the number of people that we had on the on from both sides of the team from the number of Hayfield supporters that we had and trient supporters it was it was awesome it was an awesome atmosphere um the girls we got to talk about Friday a little bit the girls set a School record with the uh in the
number of points in in a single game they posted 91 points and it's a little bit sweeter when we did that against Hayfield as well just going to put that out there so definitely lot of fun to to see them have that success um and on top of that our our boys and girls programs
are both the East Division Champions so our girls basketball team will play either jwp or New Richland uh on Saturday here at 2 pm and our boys will play jwp at jwp next Saturday day the
22nd uh for the boys for the boys Conference Championship so it's fun when that they have earned this uh earned this extra game game to play for the conference title and uh I hope to put out a great experience for our uh for our student section and our fans come
come Saturday we're working with student council uh the student council is purchasing nachos for all of the student fans that'll be in attendance so we're trying to draw some out so it's a big big donation and help from them to kind of Set It Off and make sure that we get
as many people packing that side of the stands as possible to get the atmosphere where we need to be so I'm excited about the next couple weeks think it's going to be a lot of fun and hope everyone else is too any questions email out the dates and times
of those basketball games yep definitely there should be an email coming out uh I believe on Thursday this week when I'm GNA kind of recap everything just and send it out to the community too because we'll have uh two home games when we get to section playoffs as well for both the
boys and the girls should uh earn a home playoff so that'll be definitely something that we want to make sure we put a put a stamp on to show our show our pride in that thank you 710 principal reports we can speak together we didn't
staff me together a great one they had a and I'll just tell you they had a great staff meeting this morning sometimes you know like like just like Rina said that you know you getting the this time of year things get kind of hard but um I just
sat in on it it was it was a very positive uh message and it was very uplifting and it it's appreciate what you do would you like me to talk to this one I'm sure will so School counseling week so you can see their pictured as our
elementary counselor um K KN Diane Meer at the middle school and Christy RNs at the high school so having worked side by side with counselors for many years I know I know what a job they have and the many hats that they need to wear and just so grateful uh for all of them so
we took time to recognize them this is fun because we put the presentations together like a week a week before the meeting and remembering what order the slides are in it's it's a little bit of a fun surprise for us here um it was also PA professional Appreciation Week in the
state of Minnesota um I don't remember the exact dates I want to say end of January uh you know obviously between our meetings we had here um a couple things with our pair of professionals one they're absolutely fantastic they are the backbone of what we do here at Triton school is to make sure every
every student here has access to an appropriate education um the second thing I've learned they don't like to be in pictures we we tried to find find some time to gather and take their photo and promote it on social media and it was do I have to but the thing I really
appreciate about it is this student needs me right now I don't have time to come and take a picture and I think that speaks volumes to the high quality individuals that we have on our prayer professional team so kudos to them and thank them for their fantastic work at
Triton you want me to summarize Shane piece quick I can do that I'll talk about the elementary school I didn't know if he spoke with you or not no he didn't okay um it's I love to read month um so obviously that is impactful for all of
us prek through 12 here at Triton uh some big things to recognize that at at the elementary school it's always a uh a prominent event it's well attended but the roles and reading on the 19th of February that's a busy one I know have a number of folks promoting that here uh
the react training uh you probably have heard a lot about that at the state um it's been a big push for uh professional development for us for this year uh currently in phase one of that so everybody in the elementary school and
then the secondary folks that are interventionist and special educators are making tremendous progress on that so as you can tell they're they're almost done which which is what we what we did today during our late start time um the reason and I'll tie that into the
calendar uh the reason why it's a change for next year is uh the vast majority of our staff now will be completed with the Reda training and uh so our elementary folks are done what they have said to do with the secondary folks is uh wait for
a year so we have a little bit of a gap if if we have some new staff that come on that need to receive the training we'll have to find a way to get that so okay middle school stuff not sure why in my mind I always think of February as like kind of the low before the
craziness of spring um starts but it's super busy we got all kinds of stuff going on in February so I listed just a few of the things there um High School is doing snow week at the middle school we decided to do um national uh randomx
of kindness week so we're celebrating that this week and then using some of the same dress days of snow week just to kind of tie into the high school so Mrs Meer and I have plan lots of different activities throughout the week um relating to kindness so that's kind of a fun thing that we're doing uh band and
choir we have a concert tomorrow night for the middle school and then also Mr wwwi and Miss Deets are putting together uh trips for our Middle School band in choir to different festivals this month so that's something that the students are looking forward to and another kind
of fun unique thing for them um ski trip for seventh grade is taking place Wednesday this week um 48 students are very excited to go ski and we are watching the weather closely to see um uh how that's going to turn out but I
think we'll be able to get the trip in and we'll just dress very warm so looking forward to the ski trip um dodgeball tournament uh Miss nessi is working with our parent team group to put together I think this will be our third annual uh dodgeball tournament for
the Middle School so lots of hype going on right now as students are uh getting their teams together for that you are welcome to join us have you like to do that um and then of course um mca's uh
looking with staff to find dates that work best to do those tests um in the middle school and um just have you a very productive testing environment so finding out when those will all occur and how we're going to implement them this year so that's been a
main conversation that we're having at the middle school team meetings just because it's on the top of the page I don't think we've said anything about it uh Lloyd and I we chatted about it at the beginning before the meeting started just a reminder for board profile of a graduate program this
Friday at 7:30 in the morning if you would like to join us you're you're always invited to those um it's time well spent and the time to kind of slow down and step back and appreciate the good things going on at Triton so if if you're available you're always invited to those uh the big things here um
transition to semester 2 it's been it's been a few weeks now um feel like we we're to the point with our grading uh whenever you finish a semester students have 10 school days if they receive an incomplete what what they're gone for a
particular reason to to finalize that so we're finished with that now I feel like we could take semester one and put a bow on it and move on to to semester two but it's been a a really really smooth change so a special thanks to our students and staff uh for measure that happens you might think well the school
year has started uh the first day of semester 2 kind of feels like the second first day of the school year with a lot you know a lot of change Etc the schedules are different the teacher assignments are different and our staff continue to do do a great job in managing all of that um we've talked
about snow week a little bit just u a shout out to student council has done a they they continue to do a fantastic job promoting the good things going on at TR it's been fun to partner with you all so thank you very much um being that we have made the semester transition um in
my time at Triton this is the best results we've had at the semester um in terms of credits earned and failed courses uh we had the fewest we have had in terms of failures during my time here at Triton so that piece continues to
improve um kind of hard to pinpoint exact ly one thing in terms of why that is I think it's a variety of things that we've done but really um having a group of Professionals in the building that dig in and do the hard work with kids and for kids so been pleased with that
and also students that work hard and families that are engaged so it's not because of one thing I I think it's everybody coming together and doing the best work they can but really proud of our students and staff at the end of the first semester the EMT class you can see
it's it's cut off on the bottom there but that's what that is um that's the EMT class we have officially started uh so that's started um start of semester two so um a gentleman from Dodge Center ambulance is in here two days per
week and then the other days for Hands-On skills and then the other days the students are working online on a module program on that so I'm it's been a nice change for us and we have 13 or 14 students that are engaged in that course right now
any questions thank you very much 7-Eleven superintendent report um had the legislative breakfast Jim you want to update on that sure
uh last Friday yeah yeah January 31st um Mr slicking and I went up to Canon Fall's high school and they had legislative breakfast we had what were there two senators and
four legislators at one point or five four and a half we had four and then one five and then one had to leave yeah um yeah that was the senator that left so oh yeah yeah and then I do have one
coming in in a couple weeks yeah anyway they went through uh gave presentation on Farm to school um which was put on by education Specialists from Minnesota
Department of Agriculture Department of Education and uh Department Of Agricultural green Corps um they gave a kind of a lengthy
presentation on that program but it's pretty successful up in Canon Hall um in fact our breakfast that we had was was uh from part of that program so a lot of locally sourced Foods right
so uh then they went through the introduction of the legislators um and of course they like to talk so that took a little while and then went
through um we had superintendent of Northfield school and superintendent of otana school that went through history of school funding and where the gaps are and uh and presentation on special
education and the lack of funding for that and ESO uh school choice uh were put on by uh souin Public School Superintendent and Filmore Central Public School
Superintendent um and how that is hurting schools and we had a break and went through unfunded mandates and that was put on by Triton Public School Superintendent Stewartville and calonia
superintendent so uh all in all the legislators and Senators listened very well and took a lot of notes I watched a lot of them taking pictures of the slides that were up on the screen so uh
hopefully they're going to remember that one and uh very interesting fact as far as I concerned um political or not political
uh we had nothing but Republican um legislators and Senators there and the Democratic senators and legislators are were saying at the time
that they were out meeting with their constituents and yet they weren't there so um anything else I do think we're fortunate to have the concurrent courses that we have and it eliminates a lot of the PSO headaches
yes that schools have because what they're running into is kids will sign up for a class in the school change their mind drop the school class take the PSO class and now the school is stuck with a Class A small class size
that they can't afford to run all right and then when the school says we don't allow you to change courses the kids then say that's fine we'll just homeschool oh it's it's it's really hurting schools the way they have things
set up and the way they they have a lot of freedoms for the kids which I get but it's very detrimental to the school districts the way it's the way it's happening um and colleges don't follow any deadlines so they just take students
whenever they can get them so it it creates a bigger problem for a lot of other schools but like I said thankfully here we do have a number of our kids that are just staying here and doing the concurrent courses and that does help eliminate a lot of those issues it's been a big Improvement here
over the years from what it happen yeah um next thing I had on there was Aid anticipation C certificate um basically we've done this in the past Amy wants to do that just to borrow some money to make sure we cash flow
everything and basically it's just getting aid to cover for when the aid actually comes because the aid doesn't come before you need it comes after you need it so you got to borrow some money um and then lastly the budget forecast
um interestingly they've uh postponed that until early March normally we would find that out about now but that's been put off so I don't know I don't I don't imagine that means it's going to be a lot
better I had to guess um but we'll see and that's all I had any questions sorry about being late no worries what gets in the way once in a while
[Music] late 712 any other just throw there March 10th is uh msba day at the capital I believe yeah whether anybody's going or
not anything else if not I would take a motion to adjourn second motion by Jim second by Dale all in favor post all right and our next meeting will be on Monday March