of course. Let me let me because I don't want all of the All right. Go ahead. We'll call the June 9th, 2020 Triton School Board meeting to order. Please
rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge 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 recognition of visitors to open floor. Okay, moving on. Approve agenda. Second motion by Lloyd. Second by Brian. Um, any discussion?
Okay. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Cobra Pride. Um, soon as this is my last one, I just wanted to recognize Triton. I I think
that uh we have an amazing district and I'm very honored to have worked here and I think that um every year we get better and it's just a great organization and I um
want to recognize everybody that's part of this, the board, the the staff, the students. Um we we have a great system and it's uh it's worth recognizing. So that's my code of pride. Um number six, approve consent agenda.
Second motion by Jim, second by Rebecca. Any discussion? All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. New business 7.1 discuss approve insurance.
Pete's here to kind of share some information. And I know I think everybody knows that insurance is it's gone out and just continually changing. And what we found is there's really no single benefit. You're either going to have a lower
deductible or a lower premium and a lot higher deductible a little higher lower deductible higher premium. Um so I compared the the three companies that we pulled on this shoot. First one is who we're currently with which is EMC and
then we got a quote from neutral and church mutual and then I compared that to last year's this year's EMC versus last year is about $16 and higher. Um and then below
that is the work comp and work comp is up about 5200. So a total increase of about 21,640 if you stay with the my personal opinion is unless you're really going after a $5,000 all other
payroll deductible wouldn't be a great option. And what the all the parallel deductible we use is what most insurance companies especially in commercial setting which schools consider commercial insurance what they've done is they started breaking
out deductables. So they'll give you a separate wind tail deductible. So there's a wind tail loss you pay one amount and then we call the others all other we get a different amount. you look down, Liberty and Church Mutual both have a 1% point
deductible and that's comes with a minimum $100,000 but if they kick in a 1% option that goes out the value of the building. So the school itself right around 69 so you could be a $600,000
window deductible if you run those options. So if you look over on EMC where they have a $75,000 one that looks high, but when you actually do a math on a 1%, it's not that high. To offset that,
there's companies that have come out and they wanted to sell you a policy to buy down your deductible. So I did quote a couple of those. Um, if you wanted to take the EMC deductible down from 75,000 to essentially 10,000, that policy is about $5,300. Last year,
you guys chose not to do that. Um, and then you can see what the period if you chose to buy down the one% optional. It's about 60,000 bucks. I just put those in there so you could see them. I don't there's not a lot you can do with the buying down 1%.
Um, it would really be Oh, if you go back up to Liberty and Church Mutual, you can see there too, they also didn't offer cyber coverage pool, which EMC does. So, if you wanted to consider any of those options, we got to go out and find a standalone cyber coverage pool.
EMC is still when it comes to schools is still kind of the Cadillac option. It's they have a bunch of extra companies um offer offer more products than other carriers. They're just they're all around schools.
It would really be if you guys had a look for the place where you're at. great news, right? What we have seen some people do, I don't know if this is an option for you, is actually take out like a little line credit, cover their deductibles
that you use it for. Um, if you don't have the cash to pay for your deductible up front or say you did have to pay the 75,000 you can be paying it make your payments on it after the fact instead buys up
front actually in my opinion might be better because you don't utilize if you don't have a loss you're not going to make them often are there losses I mean it's a brick building I mean when you're
going to do much you on your window. So this policy also covers like the bus and all that. Um what you see more of your losses coming out as you go. Is there a lock up there or is it just rubber? My opinion stay
more experienced by the company. It sucks that it's gone up, but the the the flip side is when you start to look at a 1% wind hail, that could be 600,000 deductible. That that's it's going to be crippling.
Um, yeah, we could take out a line of credit to pay for it, but wow. And I think it's right now I think cyber coverage is important. I I just there are schools that are
getting hit and what is that like if they hack into the computer system or something and then they can hold your ransom. So it's it it it covers a number of things. I I have a lot of faith in our tech folks, you know, with Damon and the
things that he's done to help prevent that. But schools are targets unfortunately. Um, we have a lot of data. We have a lot of private data and that's
ultimately what people are after. So I think it's good to have that cyber coverage. Yeah. You don't want to go about that. So even if you have one of the two options standalone. Now Pete, can you remind me? I think we talked last year a little bit about if
we were to switch coverage, you know, that the feasibility of getting back in with EMC down the road. Did we discuss that that might be an issue too? MC was actually working down to stay on. So because of longevity
because of loss history because back um we got them to stay on. So there is building longevity and a relationship with the insurance coverage.
Second. It's a motion by Jim and a second by Lloyd to continue coverage with EMC. Any further discussion? All in favor? I opposed. Please. Not pushing either way.
Do not do it. You did not do it. Honestly, the cost savings almost equals exactly what that deductible would be anyway, right? The yearly premium deductible
down from 75,000. Okay. And that's the yearly cost for it. Yep. Okay. Gotcha. And then you can talk about it. Okay. Okay. Based on your comfort level.
area. Over the last five years, has there been any we have benefited from that having down? Yeah. So, the MC4s Thank you. You don't have to make a decision on top of
that, direct We will do it again. Um 7.2 discuss approve FFA officer overnight retreat to Harvest Farm Campground in Cresco, Iowa, July 29th through 31st, 2025. would just be their yearly officer
retreat. That's where they've gone the last couple years. That's worked out well. Second. Motion by Lloyd, second by Dale. Any discussion? All in favor of 7.2.
Opposed. Motion carries. 7.3 discuss approved preliminary budget for 2025 2026. Miss Lake. just go over major points for the budget. Um, so right now we've got uh
budget at 9.7 amendments. Kindergarten is actually up quite a bit this year. We're looking at 70, you know, conservative over 70 65. Um, we are going to
kind of really keep a close eye on this month by month. Um, so between this and the fact that legislature has not figured out everything yet, um, it wouldn't be surprising. We might be coming to a revised budget in the fall instead of January for three. So it's
just kind of the way things are unfortunately, right? So, but actually, you know, this is a good thing. Um, we being up. Um, so looking at the revenue side as far as general fund, so we know we're getting 2.74% in the new state aid
formula. Um so overall state it's up u 600 almost just under 646,000 um obviously based on enrollment increase. Um we are getting an increase in basic skills and the most learning aid which is great because um looking at my other districts they're all actually
getting pretty significant increases. So that's huge. That's really great. Um and then we all are also getting a small bump in students for personal aid. Probably not a lot but it's um 44,000 or so. Um, at this point we're not getting any
extra funding for Redact. Um, they are sounds like the library a funding that we got for ban this past. They're not going to read that one. Um, we haven't got a clear line yet on what will be
funded for the summer 20th after the current funding runs out. I think we get they're doing another bump this summer to cover things. But without that bump, it wouldn't cover it this year. Yeah. So, we're hoping this summer will be covered, but see
um we are getting um you know, so we were using our latest lease study aid um to pay for a portion of what was left in the middle school um project and that's done. So, now we can use all of our lease to pay for this side building instead of taking some of it out of our
general fun which is great. Um, and then we actually decent bump in our operating long-term facilities funding. So that helps as well and build those back up with it. The middle school is paid for. It is paid for some.
Just a question about support personnel aid. What what's the scope of that in terms of like what would that cover? So the first two years um of the banium they each district got 40,000 and it's very specific. It can cover a licensed school school social worker or licensed
school nurse, things like that. So, it has to be specific for those conditions. I think the the idea was to bring those kind of people into the districts that needed them basically. Yeah. So, narrow it to those Yes. those two type
positions y um yeah, very very specific. But yeah, so what's happening this next week is that um any districts I think are going to go over like six or 700, they're going to get bought four people. So like if you're under that, you're
still going to get 40,000. If you're over that, you're going to get an additional 40 people amount. So they're a little for that. Obviously, it doesn't cover everything, but it helps for sure. Um just a little update on the expense side of the operating fund. Um so
overall we are still looking at increase in expenses of about just around 14,000. Um salary and benefits are down 227. So that includes um the plan reductions. Um we are we do have to budget for an
additional 35,000 to cover the new uh paid family medical leave act that will go into effect in January. So basically um we have to cover it'll be um 78% of salaries. So at this point you know
district is responsible for covering half of that. That's what that is. And staff will actually see a reduction in their paycheck too. Well, they probably don't know about that yet, but they'll figure it out. There's that. Um, the one, this is TR,
that was one that came last week. I just found out about that was fun. Um, so this year TR district portion is 8.75%. We told that next year was going to be 9 and a half%. Um, but with pension bill
that just got passed, they raised that. So, they actually raised it to 9.8%. percentage. That's a great example of an unfunded mandate. So, what's the net difference between expenses from last year to this year?
Um, uh, increased booking cost. Yeah. So even I would think goes up so that um and then uh I just estimated about
10% increase for special educations non directed services. So that's essentially that cost. Um I'm assuming you know ALC is dependent on student enrollment but that cost will probably it kind of has financial. So
um so just look at the actual numbers for the general fund. Um so here at the top is our overall totals um revenue of 13.7 million expenses are 13.1 um so we're looking at a net change um
from July to the end of June of about $543,000 increase. So this is going in the right direction is kind of what we plan to do or hope to do. Um and so looking at just the unassigned which is our big one. We want to kind of have have that reserve in there as much as possible. Um looking
came this year at about 74% fund balance. Um but with um the adjustments we're able to make and with the revenue that we know of um up that balance to just so we're looking at that change of
for just a the increase from the last slide of 100 plus is that just distributed it across some of these areas or it dropped in a operating or general fund or Yep. It's yeah it's across all of these areas. So this is yeah just the total
not increase of for 245. Um so what we do is we want to maximize um all of these funds as much as we can all of our reserve accounts that are pretty specific. We can use them for um
but what we'd like to do is maximize instant learning and development gift talented basic skills save schools u medical assistance we've been using that more um it's very specific for um hiring special education students who have
medical needs so we can use that a little bit more for those kind of things um student personnel that we talked about literacy incentiv So that actually is not new. It's been part of a formula forever, but they decided they made it
restrictive. They used to do the amount of sign and now it's more specific. And that's one of the things most of the education groups are trying to push is for more freedom and how we allocate the money from these funds because when they give you money on this, they can only be
spent on this. You know, a great example is uh it's not on every next slide. It's on Yeah. Go ahead. Go to the next one. Well, any questions on this one? First of all, um I was going to find out really quick. So, like I mentioned earlier that we're getting additional long-term facility
and operating capital. So, we're actually, you know, we kind of spent those down over the past few years and now we're able to kind of start building them up. So, we've got that that funding on hand for second month. That's important. Hopefully, the people in the field
that's the goal. So, yeah. what we're talking about as far as what we can responsible for. So service um starting to real um NBE is fairly very restrictive on
those funds and precoid um they would look at like three months of operating expenses. If your fund balance was over three months of operating expenses, you would get a letter and they would want to know what's your funds that went down. Um, so during
everything that was going on and that's going back into next January, but they did have it at least to six months, I think, because they know we're all about it. Now that everybody's getting reimbursed for lunches, everybody's balance is going up. And now they're, you know, one of the things they've
talked about is being less restrictive on what you because you can use it to buy lunch tables now, believe it or not. Yeah. But it it it would be nice to be able to take some of that and allocate it somewhere else, you know, if there was some some flexibility to do that. But
again, that's one of the things that's very frustrating with the way the state funds schools is it's allocated and it's has to be used for certain things. Um, and food service is a great one because most schools are seeing Yeah.
Everybody's got a good fund balance right now on their food service because all of the lunches are being reimbursed. You know, a few years ago, we were talking about, you know, how do we pay off the the how do we reimburse ourselves for the for the students that
are eating lunch and then having a debt because now we get automatically reimbursed for those, but now we have a positive fund balance and again we're not able to use it for what we want. Yeah. I mean it's some specific like so
for instance this year we put in a dishwasher in the kitchen and it requires some plumbing too. This will cover the dishwasher but not so it's just it's very frustrating. It's in the kitchen but so yeah that's one we're hoping
maybe but we'll see. This is more of a past practice question but historically how have we made decisions about where surpluses or where that sort of goes? Is that um like that's what I'm getting at is we don't have the ability to do that.
Like that surplus in food service stays in food service. We don't we cannot move it to a different area and it can only be used for certain things. And that's what I was saying. They they they've become more flexible where they now allow us to buy lunch tables. But we you
know we were talking to Amy about it would be nice to have a sound system in the lunchroom because we have a speaker that we bring in there to use. can't use it for that. Even though it's in the lunchroom and we would use it for lunch, you can't use it for that. So, it's it's very restricted.
And like she said, like you know, the health inspector came in and said we have to add a sink in a serving area. Well, it would seem logical that you could use the food service money for that, but you can't. And is that also true with the last
slide? So, if state all that state funding, it's earmarked. There's no ability to Thank you. I mean you can like they do have an option to use it for like district staffing but you have to do like a whole
time study and you have to provide all this data and documentation. So they make it very cumbersome and you just you know like it's not cost anyway but we do have a nice hopefully we can do some good things at least in the kitchen and think we have some discussions about maybe supplies and
table that we're meeting on Thursday. Yeah. Sorry. Um Okay. So, moving on to ed. Um so, it's it's moving along. Okay. General ed, you know, fun balance. They're doing a lot of good programs. So, it's moving
along. Um early childhood and preschool, school readiness, um you know, numbers are up this this past year and they're looking to go that way. So it's something we're going to keep an eye on because they they are at this point kind of, you know, going the negative route. So we may need to, you know, depending
on if that continues to some adjustments possibly, but hopefully not obviously we want to keep all those kiddos here. So we'll do what we can keep those funds going. Um, adult basic ed has nice fun balance as well, but it's kind of similar to food service where it's very
very restrictive. Um, it's actually a co-op program that's run by Otana. Um, our fund is kind of helpful to do that. So, we're pretty interested in those fun as well. Uh, debt terrorist is kind of an in and out. It's just we get levy money and
state aid money depending on what our principal interest is carry a little balance just in case something comes up but that's obviously restrictive as well. And then the scholarship funds too as well. It's just it's not just for that purpose.
scholarship for for that. Yeah. That that that's called summer food service program. And the the the the the thing that's tricky with that is we would have to hire kitchen staff in
order to be able to do that. And I'm going to be honest, our kitchen staff isn't interested in working in the summer school like sports can be involved in a bag. Oh, is there something you can do
to use that money? No. No. But we do we do have community groups that help support the backpack program and that, but that's not funded with the food service. just trying to figure out
and and I was in the same boat. Amy printed off a sheet for Luke and I and it was like, wow. Yeah, that's it. I mean, we were trying to be creative and it's Yeah.
But I think that in all honesty, I think what will happen, I mean, and that's kind of the way things go is when enough schools have the same thing happening to them, eventually the the groups that represent us, MA,
MSBA, MASA, those people start going to our legislators and say, "Hey, we're all in this boat. Let's address this." It might take five years, but that's kind of how it works. I mean, it's the same with funding. I mean,
we've been talking about funding for years, and to have Well, we only had it for two years. That, you know, increase based on inflation, they already did away with it, but we at least got it for two years. Yeah, I do think it will help after
everybody has their cycle this year with their new budgets. I think it's everybody's going to be seeing things on. Yeah. There will be that push will be starting when you start seeing over 20 schools in SOD. I think that the the legislature they're going to have to
wake up and do something different. Um when that many schools are in so there's a problem with the funding for Minnesota schools. Yeah, question. Maybe my lack of question is, do you
anticipate are we at risk um of any of the this funding that we've already received? Yeah, I mean it's I mean it's not guaranteed. It's not okay. I don't like depending on when they
very usually don't like everything. Um yeah I think yeah I mean there's our options I answer but I think the best way would
you add that Yeah. Yeah. We have a motion to approve the preliminary budget for 2025 2026. Second. Motion by Rebecca, second by. Any further discussion?
All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Discuss approve school board work session June 25th at 4:00 p.m. 4 to 7. Mr.
Schedule is 4 to 9. But there's also another events going on tonight. Yes. So I've heard. So we're going to try and end early so we can attend the other event as well. Gotcha. It's not up to
mid. Um but hope to be out of there before the 9:00 time. It's scheduled from 4 to 9. We hope to be out of there time to go to the retirement. Don't leave early.
Motion by Lloyd, second by Jill. Yes. Okay. Any further discussion? All in favor? 7.4. Opposed. Same sign. Motion carries. 7.5 Approve MSBA association dues and
policy services renewal dues for 2025 2026. You know how much and remember we do get the policy services in addition to the um 5270
And that does include the policy services in that place. And I recommend sticking with it with as many policy changes are that that that having access to those I feel is very well worth it.
Motion by Jim, second by Rebecca to approve 7.5. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. 7.6 enrollment update.
I know that's really hard to see, but you know, overall again down from where we were at at the beginning of the year to where we were at at the end of the year. And when you compare the end of the year this year to the end of the year last year, it it's down. Um
it it's a frustrating pattern. But the good news, like I said, the good news is the the the early childhood. Um for the first time, we're going to have an incoming kindergarten class that will be bigger than our graduating class. So that is a first and that is a good
thing overall. any questions? And there's not a I know Shane has started tracking whenever someone leaves too. And it there's a variety of reasons. It's not you know a lot of a
lot of kids move a lot more and uh Yeah. 7.8 zed report also. Oh, sorry. 7.7 discuss policy updates. Um, once the session finishes, um, I thought they were going to wrap it
up today, but I haven't heard anything yet that they were done. So I know they were they were in session today. Um but we have to wait for the session to be over to get the translation of what we
need to do with policies. So um it's a like I said it's a process. We'll patiently wait to figure out what the uh new legislative updates mean as far as
policy changes because it's not funny. They get to 7 a.m. special to get to get it done. I'm not sure what happened.
It's been a weird n 7.8 zed report and I didn't know that much though. just there is some stuff going around. We do have the summer academy here this
summer and they started today. That's why we have all the graduates. 7.9 AD reports. Perfect. So, uh, we ended a great year. Uh, baseball and softball finished up their seasons. Uh, it was fun to watch
the postseason run for our baseball team. just it was fun to get past that first round for the first time in a while as the first round is single elimination then you kind of get into the double elimination tournament. So for our baseball team to then go and extend their season by an additional
four games that's a it's a big deal. Um additionally for them to be a a 10- win team is kind of another feather with feather in their cap for for a good season for them to you know be very proud of it. On top of that, we're incredibly young, so I think it'll be fun to see how they what they how they
do. Um, Coach Kissford's done a great job with them. Just really proud of just that culture that they're building within the program and and it's enjoyable for to go out to the baseball uh field and watch the kids smile and have a good time. That's always a always a plus. Uh, Trap is off to Alexandria.
Uh, it's always fun to hear the kids talk about that as it's one one of those, you know, defining trips of why they why they do trap. just that that fun camaraderie event that they that they have as well. Um state track, we have five state uh track and field
qualifiers. Uh Olivia, Avery, Brady, Craig, and Pierce. They're doing a they left today, so we had the send off today with a couple fire trucks in front of them as they headed up to St. Michael. And uh it'll be fun to see how they how they compete. I think uh coach Swanson
said this was the most the the largest number of qualifiers that we've ever sent to the state track meet and it was the first time that we sent two uh two two people in the same event as both uh Brady Stab and Craig Kudson are
competing in discus on on Wednesday. So it'll be be a lot of fun. So, the prelims are tomorrow and then the finals uh for everybody if they qualify will be on will be on Wednesday. So, a lot of lot of fun. We're finally able to set
the homecoming date. Believe it or not, that darn football schedule is finally finally set. So, we're set for Friday, September 19th as we take on Chaffy, right? So, will be a good one. Um on top of that, I just want to say thank you to everybody. Uh this has been an awesome
experience for me. uh be being the activities director here was one of the one of the highlights I've had professionally and working with everybody here. I've learned a ton. I've grown a lot. I've made a lot of mistakes and the best part about it is that everybody here has been here to support
me and pick me up and I really appreciate everybody for that. Um, that being said, I can't think of a better person to be able to uh kind of toss the keys to and have him run with it as uh he as Brandon is a great uh great person
number one, but he's also very uh very good at developing relationships with everybody in uh all aspects of our of our school district here. So, Brandon, come on up. Still, hi. Yeah, I was just leaning on Shane uh
Luke to call you as well. give the advice, give me some uh some things to learn on. So to come into a situation like we had at Triton, we probably felt the same way when you came in, but just that support was really been something that's uh that's been impressive. Oh yeah. So can't wait to get going and like I said, Cory's given me a lot of
help over these last couple months and time of process and uh putting it all kind together. We met today for three hours, so it's been really good. So thank you. Any questions? 7.10. It's been a busy month around the
elementary, middle, and high school. Um, leading into a summer, we're going to stay busy. This summer, we got a few things. Of course, we have our staffing on boarding. Um, and I know my daughters always ask like, "Dad, why do you have to go to work in the summer? What do you do? There's no kids there." Believe it
or not, we do have a lot of stuff to do. Um, scheduling. I know I was working with uh Mrs. Reynolds today about some shared staff scheduling. So, we'll get our schedules for all preK through 12 going in the next week or so, finalized by the first day of school. We will send
out some newsletters over the summer. I know Mr. Ludman has them planned out on the calendar already. I think our first one will go in July, maybe July 6th or something like that. So, fourth or fifth? Seventh. Seventh. July 7th. The beginning part of July
two before fall sports start kind of learn. So, if we target that first week, July and the first week of August and then spot, you know, we'll have some spotted reminders as we approach our open house and workshop days as well. And in the the coming months at the
board meetings, we'll bring forward handbooks to get approved. Uh targeted services at the elementary school will have four weeks of targeted services starting next week. Um that's four days a week or two weeks in June and then two weeks in July. Our district achievement
team um is represented from K through 12th grade. They'll be meeting here in June. Big part of what the district achievement team does is plan our professional development for next year. Um those are the teachers saying this is what we want to work on during our PLC time. Zed credit recovery. Mr. Lud, you
want to take that one? Yeah, obviously that's a a program that we are a part of here at being a part of Zed. So students that um are in a credit deficient place right now. They have opportunities to go over there. I believe it's three or four
weeks. Um we utilize the program. Um, the good news is fewer of our students need credit recovery because uh I think we're doing a pretty good job of making sure and and the students are doing a pretty good job too of making sure they passed their courses. But uh that program started today, believe it or
not, we had a few students go over there for that. Um district literacy plan was a report that was due you uh you may remember as read well by third grade. Um that has changed to district literacy plan. Um it's due on June 15th. I'm happy to announce that we are wrapped up
and that'll be submitted sometime tomorrow. So, I'll be a big check mark going into the summer. And also, new administrative team anxiously await um and excited to uh join forces with Tanisha. She's moving in to the area
right now moved in. Um her first day would be July 1 and um I'm guessing we'll be seeing her at the next board meeting and we're I know Mrs. Johnson and myself are eagerly awaiting getting to know her better. Every interaction that we've had with her so far has been extremely positive. Um I think that
she's going to be a great addition to our team and uh with we're looking forward to the new new administrative one. Mr. I slide actually one one piece I wanted to add Mr. Schlinton he talked
about a little bit about uh the policy of the MSBA and the changes there. We kind of we're in a position where obviously we have to update the handbooks based upon policy. Okay. So um the law could come through
and MSDA interprets them. We interpret them for the handbooks and then we approve. So, it's uh that'll be a big plan in the summer with Philadelphia. All right. Very fun one. This is the slide I assume I was going to start talking to you. This is stuff I really
um get excited about. Um last time at the board meeting, I was telling you about some of the concerts that we're going to have um that I combined with or we combined with some parent engagement stuff. Um those were awesome Thursdays. If any of you are here in the building, we we did 1:30 concert. Concert would
take a little bit. Then at 2:00 we started a a parent engagement. A couple pictures over here. Um this one down here is our third grade zoo. And then up here we had a market day. We also had a wax museum in a similar fashion. So we
had a great percentage of our parents show up on those Thursdays, not only for the concert portion, but then they got to stick around for about 45 minutes to see what the project is. We got positive feedback from the parents. I was nervous because we're switching from evening concerts to daytime concerts, but after
we we did them, it was a lot of positive feedback. Um, I did sleep on the roof one day last month on the uh it was a Thursday of the track meet. Um, so I got up there after track meet. I know there's been some questions if I actually stayed up there all night. Um,
I did. did rain. But the problem is I I I live so close to school that I walked home at about six o'clock and some of the elementary students saw me. So it didn't actually because of the family right um saw me
throwing my pool at 6 a.m. So I I didn't I'm here to tell the board that I was up there and then um thank you to the team again for sponsoring. I I swear I actually I was getting text from my wife and from Whitney about 11
o'clock and I said I'm not going to lie to 400 students. So I I stayed out there. We didn't leave the ring. Yeah. The the area sanity data was a blast for all of our um students. Thank you to team again for sponsoring that. So none of our students have to fill out a
pocket for that. I think I have one more slide. Um we did stat checkouts. And this is something I picked up uh working with Mr. Schlton and Mr. Lutherman. And uh part of the check out I asked the staff please rank your overall experience at
Triton Elementary this year. And the responses that I had and five is the highest and you know one would be the lowest. We did have one number two but that wasn't because of school that was outside of uh school functions. Number we had two individuals that ranked it a three and both of them it was more on
they had tough classrooms some large behaviors in there. But I I wanted to share with the school board that the vast majority of the staff rank it a four or five. You all know teachers to get a five from a teacher. They there's always room for improvement, right? So four is basically like a five in my head
and five means you they they really had a great year. So um I think the overall culture that's a sign that's it is going well. Like Mr. Switch was talking about the organization and all that type of stuff. We've got a lot of great things and I do believe that next year will be even better than this year. um
benchmarking and data meetings. Um with that local literacy lead um local literacy report, we've had good growth in our benchmarking and all of our data meetings are showing that our kids are growing. We have trained have made a positive impact. I have one staff that I
need to hire over the summer. It's a SLD specifically on disabilities special education to do when the consent agenda person um retired. So that's what we're we played from there. And once again, I want to shout out sodiums of
transportation. Students were out of the building for about 20 minutes last Wednesday when um David, Joe, Travis were already down there starting to get stuff out of classrooms and going because they had to have some rooms cleaned up for CO starting today. And then the transportation throughout the
year, um I ride a lot of buses both in the morning and after school. And that's a really tough job for the buff feathers. That's a really important job. They've got a lot of kids like Dan and you know particularly the men are pretty calm because it's early and they're
still sleepy. But after school bus drivers um I know where the budgets at but they do deserve a race. That's a tough job. So that's all I have. So the teacher checkouts that um Shane was
talking about at the middle school teachers did the same thing. They rated one through five. Um did that as well and our average score was 4.3. So I was very very pleased with that. It was a was a good year. Most of the
comments on those feature checkout forms is with uh the great staff to work with. So that uh camaraderie is there. So it looks like yeah the environment where you have people you can support. Um the picture you see there is the
eighth grade class on their last day of middle school. Just want to give a shout out to the eighth grade. They did a great job during the recognition ceremony and um it was fun to take the little history trip down memory lane with Mr. Shift of all the years that we've been doing
this. Um it's a great ceremony. It's I'm a little biased because it's very important to me and I've been a part of it for a long time, but it was nice to hear so much positive feedback from other parents and community that were present that day. So, I got multiple
emails and inerson um fakes from different people about it. So, it was a great event. Um, sixth grade took a trip to the state capital in Fort Stelling and they had a great time. The sixth grade team uh went along with them. Um, all went well.
Apparently, there was some air quality issues. They didn't get to be outside as much as they would have liked to have, but other than that, it was great. Um, but I just buckets out. the office. He won. We got the opportunity to do the
ice. So, this is my office. Mr. Lutterman couldn't. He just couldn't. He was too busy. Yeah. But that was that was super fun. We did that and student um
provided by group. So, very appreciative of that. So it was a great last week of school at the middle school from high school. Um first started on behalf of the administrative feel without
32 years of service. I I've thought about a variety of things to say and I apologize for that every time you have a meeting this last month trying to recognize the other
in some way I I most importantly uh you know thinking back hopefully you still have Mrs. Um when you help each other for sure um but the person that the kids
in mind with decision making and really a difference maker bring that to the student staff or community it's it's been interesting having conversations especially with folks that have been tied to this community for a while um saying hey you know Mr. Swifty. He
helped me through this and and and going back 32 years and you hear stories on every generation that Thank you very much. Um class of 2025, congratulations. Not congratulations to
the graduates, but to your extent the graduation, it's it's hard to believe. It seems like a long time ago already, but just over a week or so. um with graduation. It was the second year that we did graduation on a Friday night. Um
all things considered with graduation, you know, there are things that you step into as a principal you're worried about. Um with uh obviously parents and students and the technology are the microphones going going to work by the students when they read their speeches,
are they going to be able to speak in a way where everybody can hear? Um there's been a little bit of a tradition of trying to sneak confetti poppers in at graduation and this year's group they did all that. Uh but but they did a great job. They waited until the very
end and it was synchronized. It it was at the end and uh it wasn't uh in previous years we see type of confetti. It was it was nice and easy to clean up this year. So they did a they did a wonderful job and they've got a great group to work with. The testing is a few
students now. They've done a great job with the class of 2021. Thank you. Just wanted to hear the data and see how you're doing. We talked about credit recovery a little bit. I know there's a
lot going on up here. So I'll just start and I I think the best way to break it down is going to have 2024 2025. So if you look at that obviously we have two semesters and we have four grades. So these are the number of students that
failed a class in that grade and the second one in parenthesis are the total classes failed in that grade. Okay, that make sense? So if you look at it for um ninth grade obviously um two students and two classes and then
four for the totals of five and six for the whole year. So So if you look at that um there's some view um you see there everybody graduated so we're okay that was an area um that we were able to
be okay with. So if you look at the total for 2024, we need to remember our student enrollment is down a little bit. Okay, but to have 17 total students and 20 for the year, you can go
back and look at others. Okay, so a year ago we had 33 and 52 which was you go back another year we had 38 students and 56. You go back and have 59 and 114. students
by year obviously are going to point exactly why I would like to think the combination of a number of things we're doing instructionally but most importantly making sure our students are connected and belonging in our environment is
making a difference um attendance for the year obviously we want to see us here as frequently as possible and something we want to continue to improve but the 2024 25 2.88%. Now that number is misleading a little
bit because on the Minnesota school report card and the data that you see there is different that's overall attendance by percentage the Minnesota Department of Education I calculated are the percentage of students attending 90%
or more. Yeah. So it's a little bit different. So when you look at the school report card it's not a direct average. want to update board. Are there any questions here? I don't know. I think that might be
Thank you very much. Um, mentioning this earlier, yes, special session. I don't know that what's hoped to do. Um it'll be interesting to see where that all turns out. Late has been working on
the survey. You like to update them at all on the survey? Yeah. Um talked to a couple folks on the board about it. For starters, school perceptions and Amy and working working through this been extremely extremely impressed with the
work that they do. Um survey so um has been finalized and sent to printer today. Um, in terms of timeline, want to get information out to our families within the next week preparing them for this. So, they'll receive they're going
to receive an email. It'll be on social media and the papers as well. So, the DCI and the Trenton Friends will give information in there. So, people are prepared. Um, school employees, if they're living inside of the district, they will receive an email uh plus a
mailing. Our parents will also receive an email plus a mailing. Um um if you are a community person, uh you will just receive the mailing. So um once you receive it, you'll have options. You can either do it electronically. You can scan the QR code or if you have an
email, you can do it that way. I believe the system of doing that is similar to when we did it in 2019. So ju just wanted to reiterate for the board. um we don't have to make any formal decisions based upon the data
that we received it it's information so we can plan to move forward any questions about school protections and okay and lastly just I just want to say thank
you um I've feel blessed to have been here for my whole career this is uh Yeah, I I don't want to get all cheated, but um cuz that's not me, but it it's hard to believe that
32 years have gone this fast. Um I've known a lot of you for a long time. I had a actually had a group of uh my neighbor kids who were, you know, they wanted to come over and use the pool. And I was talking to them and I I said,
you know, you don't understand. I knew most of your parents. And I did. I mean, like, I knew your parents before you were born. I've known them longer than you'd realize, and you know, I' I've had relationships with people for 32 years
here. Um, it it it's not like um you guys are new to me. It's like, you know, I I tell you know, the one it's like I remember when his mom was bringing him to preschool in in West Cog. It's like, yeah, it's I've known you your whole
lives and I just I I'm thankful to have been able to work with so many amazing people. I mean, yes, we've gone through rough times. I can remember a time when there was a board meeting in the gym that was pretty brutal.
And Lloyd, you were on the board at that time. It was uh that was an interesting time. And uh but you know, it seems like every year things have gotten better and and I feel really good about where our district is at and it is our district
and and it's a collective work of a lot of people and uh I I just thank you for um supporting me through my career here because it's been a great one and I'm thankful to have worked here. That's all
I got. Okay. Um, other I want to start out by saying thank you to you. We appreciate your volatility. You will be missed by me.
Thank you. Anything else? Otherwise, I would take a motion for adjournment. Motion by Jim, second by Dale to adjourn. Um, schoolboard works work session is going to be June 25th at 4:00
and the next schoolboard meeting on July 21st at 6 o'clock. Meeting a journ.