bring the um Triton High School school board meeting to order for March 24th 2025 please rise for this 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 Forum did not have any request okay there were no requests to speak moving on to number
four approve the agenda motion by Lloyd second by Jim all in favor I opposed motion carries uh Cobra Pride yeah um I just wanted
to highlight this young lady because not only was she the athlete of the week she was also recognized as the um girls wrestler of the Year by the post bulletin she was our first state champ and um just I mean
she's in seventh grade what an amazing accomplishment um so I just wanted to highlight Adriana Coons and uh talk to her mom and let her know that her name's is going to go on the board out in front and uh congratulated her on her amazing
accomplishment oh that's really cool right moving on approved con consent agenda so moved motion by Brian second by Jim that work okay all in favor
opposed motion carries moving on to new business 7.1 discuss approved resolution appointing Bond Trust Services Corporation is Fiscal Agent in connection with certain outstanding obligations you want to speak to that at
all Amy we're just basically changing vendors that handles our our dead service and who handled it previously Amy uh us make okay well and Baker sorry got yeah we're switching to service they're just yep been great
to work with yeah okay I'll make a motion to approve 7.1 second motion by Rebecca second by Dale this is a resolution so we'll do a roll call vote Brian yes Lloyd and Dale yes Jim yes Rebecca yes and Wendy
yes 7.2 discuss approved resolution authorizing the district to enter into a line of credit agreement with a financial institution and basically this is just entering in agreement so we have uh the ability to get a line of credit if we need money money to pay the
bills I'll move to approve second motion by Jim second by Lloyd again we'll do a roll call vote ran yes Lloyd uh Dale yes Jim yes Rebecca yes Wendy
yes 7.3 discuss approved resolution relating to the termination and non-renewal of the teaching contract of el Ellie heimr a probationary teacher who move second motion by Lloyd second by Brian roll call vote Brian yes Lloyd
I Dale yes Jim yes Rebecca yes and Wendy yes 7.4 discuss approved resolution relating to the termination and non-renewal of the teaching contract of Lisa chickis a probationary teacher second motion by Dale second by
Brian um motion by J I'm sorry I didn't know who over there said that motion by Jim second by Brian again roll call vote Brian yes Lloyd I uh Dale yes Jim yes
Rebecca yes and Wendy yes 7.5 discuss approved resolution relating to the termination and non-renewal of the teaching contract of Mor Morgan rers appr probationary teacher second motion by Dale second by
Rebecca to approve 7.5 Brian yes Lloyd I Dale yes Jim yes Rebecca yes and Wendy yes 7.6 discuss approved resolution relating to the termination and non-renewal of
the teaching contract of Katie n a probationary teacher second motion by Rebecca second by Lloyd Brian yes yes Lloyd Dale yes Jim yes Rebecca yes and Wendy
yes 7.7 discuss approved resolution relating to the termination and non-renewal of the teaching contract of Katie Fitzgerald a probationary teacher motion by Jim second second by Brian Brian yes Lloyd Dale yes Jim yes
Rebecca yes and Wendy yes 7.8 discuss approved resolution relating to the termination and non- renewal of the teaching contract of Jesse ma a probationary teacher move
oh that's what I thought uh motion by Dale second by Jim Brian yes Lloyd all Dale yes Jim yes Wendy yes and Rebecca yes did I get you did I say you on that
I only get one stake oh my gosh. n discuss approved resolution relating to the termination and non-renewal of the teaching contract of John hanker a probationary teacher
Su motion by Lloyd second by Jim Brian yes Lloyd Dale yes Jim yes Rebecca yes and Wendy yes 7.10 discuss approved resolution relating to the termination and non-renewal of the teaching contract of
Jill lutterman appr probationary teacher so move second motion by RCA second by Lloyd Brian yes Lloyd I Dale yes Jim yes Rebecca yes and Wendy yes 7.11 discuss
approved resolution relating to the termination and non-renewal of the teaching contract of Christine Deeds probationary teacher I'll move second motion by Jim second by Dale
Brian yes Lloyd B yes Jim yes Rebecca yes and Wendy yes 7.12 discuss approved resolution relating to the termination and non-renewal of the teaching contract of Olivia shasa a probationary teacher
so motion by Rebecca second P J Lloyd lyd Brian yes Dale yes Jim yes Rebecca yes and Wendy yes 713 discuss approved resolution relating to the termination and
non-renewal of the teaching contract of Caroline G Caroline AO a probationary teacher so second motion by Lloyd second by Jim Brian yes Lloyd all Dale yes Jim yes
Rebecca yes Wendy yes discuss discuss approved resolution relating to the termination and non-renewal of the teaching contract of Julie Fox a probationary teacher some
Move Motion by Rebecca second by Jim Brian yes Lloyd hi Dale yes Jim yes Rebecca yes and Wendy yes 7:15 discuss approved resolution proposing placement of Ken not a tenure
teacher on unrequested leave of absence could we speak on that one or I guess I'm not sure what that one is regarding unrequested leave is different when they're a tenur teacher if they're tenured you put them on unrequested
leave so if there was an open position they would be able to come back in that position if there was an opening okay versus a probationary teacher they're just they don't have tenured rights I'll move to
approve second motion by Jim second by Dale Brian yes Lloyd Dale yes Jim yes Rebecca yes and Wendy yes 716 discuss approved 2024 2025
revised budget so I'm just gonna go kind of go through a summary of the revisions that I made for the budget for the year um I know if you're familiar with this PowerPoint haven't changed much so um starting with enrollment so we did the original budget
we started with 884 um and based on kind of and that was you know based on our projections back in June this is where we're at now we're at 866 so we did have to um revise our state a amounts based on our qu current enrollment is right now we started the
year at 886 yeah so it just the way the year funds um next one y but so just starting on the revenue side um kind of the summaries what's going on here so not a lot of adjustments um from the original
budget other than obviously the state aid piece because of enrollment um we did get 2% from last year um we um did have a small decrease in our operating Capital funding um we did have a decent increase in our special
education funding which kind of Offset you know the enrollment decline so which is that was helpful I mean helpful in a way not helpful in another way which I'll get to on the other slide um and then we also did have some new mandates this year for the react um some additional summer unemployment and then
some par training that required you do so you know and then so we discussed before um our cares funding is was gone this year um so from last year that's a decrease of about 230,000 um but overall our Revenue actually did go up a little bit just
based on those state aid numbers of about 57,000 so that that was helpful so expense changes from the original budget that we created last June um um or expenses have gone up about 426,000
big chunk of that is again like I mentioned earlier special education um you know it's kind of kind of a guess what our needs are going to be and when we got to the fall our needs were higher and I mean just you it's based on the kids that come in um and so we had the
need to hire some more Paris that was not in the original budget um so that constitutes a big portion of the increase um and then the additional piece was a new mandate um from the MD for Pais um special education Pars in
order to receive special education funding for those pars they have to be highly qualified so it's based on their education their experience or additional testing and training that they do um and so once they reach that high highly qualified then they're eligible for
additional compensation as well um um so contracted Services were down about 60,000 overall um but we did again see some increases with those services with special education in certain areas
so that's kind of our it's kind of where expenses are the what happened there and the revenue that was set aside by the legislature to cover unemployment won't cover this year it's
it'll be gone it won't cover half of it and I don't know that the state is going to be able to they're talking about cutting education at this point so just something to be aware of so just looking at the overview on
just the general fund so this is kind of where we're at right now um we are looking at a fund balance overall um at the end of the year about 332,000 which is a net change of about 466 66,000 deficit our original adopted
budget excuse me was we were forecasting a deficit of about 45,000 so obviously this is this is a jump from that but based on those changes that we need to meet me meet for special education um so just on the nign piece we started the year a with up F balance
of about 3.87% we projecting right now to end the year about 1.03% just sign um so all of our you can see below that all of our Reserve funding categories obviously we're going to look at maximizing those funds first before
we touch the UN assign um but at the same time Ian we funing but those are is going down a little bit and kind those are being depleted as well so ltfm and operating Capital still are Ping On okay um and we'll keep those for
projects that we that are needed um we use operating capital for curriculum as well so that's important that we kind of maintain that um yeah and all the other pieces below that essentially are used for for student programs so those are our
essential needs um down at the bottom actually I'll jump to medical assistance so that's another category that we're trying to utilize Max maximize that as well because we can can use that for um higher need special education students
so we're kind of focusing on that one too to help out and the four down at the bottom the library Aid support personnel and those two Reda ones those are two those are all new mandates um Library Aid and student support Personnel started last year um the react is new
this year um so we'll see yeah we'll see what legisl does with with all of those going forward the governor proposed to cut that 40,000 too that's in his proposed budget to cut that as well yeah the library piece is
in his proposal to cut um special education is in there as well else yeah those are the big ones those are the big ones yeah next yeah yeah and then this last slide just kind
of touches on all the other funds um food service has a very nice fund balance it's kind I do to um Co and then and then now fre meals for all St it's really helped our fund balance unfortunately we can only use it
for very specific Food Service items at this point um so kind of kind of just delegated to the kitchen only they have expanded to the lunchroom a little bit but very limited so yeah kind of got to have our hands side
there for a little bit but see um then add um just the general portion they're kind of building their fund balance back up which is great um early childhood and School Readiness this year at least are looking at a little bit of deficit but that's you know it's kind of a good
thing because we've been bringing in more students So eventually that'll kind of turn around if that continues um build up more revenue and then ad all basic get is is doing great um that service is kind of an In-N-Out um our funding comes in just
spased on what we're going to owe that year um for a debt piece of and then scholarship fund to is just kind of what we got for Scholarships in a certain year so kind of kind of a wash bur down I know was it's a lot we've it's on our minds a lot a lot of
thinking planning so for what it's worth I have gotten some really good feedback on the articles that I've written explaining why this is the way it is the unfunded mandates are they're killing us they're killing
everybody any questions hard to believe when we had an $18 billion Surplus thank you I think so on do we have um a motion to approve the revised 2024 2025 budget
I'll second motion by Rebecca second by Jim all in favor I I opposed motion carries 717 discuss approved students to attend an overnight trip for the FFA State Convention April 28th through 29th
2025 Mr ller and uh Miss Fitzgerald are at the region Awards tonight so Corey was going to give you kind of the update yeah I've got a good rundown from Mr ller and Miss Fitzgerald uh so our FF today students are planning to attend
the State Convention from Sunday April 27th to Tuesday April 29th on the U ofm campus um they'd be staying in a Best Western hotel that's close to close to campus there um Mr ller Miss Fitzgerald will both uh be in
attendance um and students uh participating will be uh participating in the best informed greenhand team uh the choir delegates and then just the proficiency finalists that we have uh with both Emma cerber and Brady stab
that have been highlighted for their applications so they're asking for your approval and hope that uh everything will go well second motion by Lloyd second by Rebecca any comments questions all in
favor opposed motion carries thank you Mr Black 718 approve students to attend an overnight trip to attend the BPA National Convention in Orlando FL Orlando Florida May 6 through 11th 2025 hi yes so we have 13 students now
that have qualified then we have a couple other uh family members that are coming with we'll be taking two separate groups one is going by plane one is going by train and there will also be automobiles but U yeah we have some um that will be
taking the train and some that will be taking the plane as we split our group but yeah we have a we have a record breaking here um with our attendees so that's very excited we are um in
Champions champ Champions Gate Omni it's a new facility um it's not the Main Hotel that the competition will be at but they shuttle uh back and forth It's on a Disney property um
so move second motion by Jim second pip Brian any questions comments all in favor of 79 718 excuse me please say I opposed motion carries congratulations
on another grade thank you there's our good news um 719 discuss policy updates yeah so I will start with some of the uh they they've sent out a couple of mid legislative session updates so I'll
focus on those um I don't know if you want me to start with another section or we've kind of been working through the five hundreds but the one thing is once you start getting into the because we've done up through 400 I think once
you get to the 500 this starts getting really big so um I'll maybe just chunk that out and uh put those in there for review that sound good def okay def um 720 uh student council report
Corey yep all right so a while back in February we had we provided some nachos for uh the girls CRA Conference Championship and uh the boys first playoff game something we've never done before so uh uh probably something we're
going to keep doing um then we had snow week went pretty well um and then our adviser Christy Faber uh was citizen of the Year this year so thank her for everything that she does we love her so and then uh uh yesterday actually we
had our pancake breakfast um and we were able to raise uh $1,500 for uh a Comm a family in our community um I think in the past we've done um other fund Raiders for like Rel through life but I think uh doing a more
local um fund reising for a local cause is uh I think a little bit more uh really really for life is a good cause but I think this is H something we're going to do in the future just I think because so people know where their money's going to and stuff like that so
yeah everything went really well any questions for Cory anything coming up for the end of the school year um yeah so I think we're we haven't done this ever before but I think we're it's in the works we haven't really talked about it too much yet but we want to try
to do like an outdoor movie of some sort um parking lot or whatever may be so something something we're talking about but uh thanks yeah thank you thank you 721 Zed
report okay um we had our meeting last Thursday we had a pretty good turnout of parents teachers and little kids but uh had had to do with the budget uh we
structuring the alc I handed out a little information on it um the alc has generally been running at a deficit partially because they well their their numbers just just don't fund the whole program
and they've been okay with that because they have a fund balance but it's getting to the point um it's getting too much so they had to do something and the the what they came up with was um
combining uh the leadership with the the principle of the A aocc and the transition to success and the son and um and future yeah future C anyway and
they're calling that the director of alternative SLS special education programs and part of it does come up with um because ALC is coming up to 40%
special needs students now too so anyway um the principle was yeah Amy Rice is g to oversee that whole program for all three programs anyway and
then they they're also pad ases came back part time but they're basically they're reducing their cabinet from 5: to 3 he was helping out yeah for some yeah um and that's where they kind of came up with that 425,000 in
savings and they're struggling too with you know the state making changes to their funding and so um and then um they're looking at what's coming up is they're looking at a new insurance
carrier potentially uh they're they have Medica right now and they're 19% increase looking at and so they're looking at Blue crust Blue Shield which they have had in the past couple three years ago or so three
four years ago anyway um they're looking at a 5% increase they haven't worked out all the details there yet um then they're looking at potentially raising well it's probably going to happen The Cooperative Aid
right now each district pays $66.50 per pupil and they want to raise that to 750 it helps pay the electrical the the non basically the nonsp special ed the
utilities U some of the stuff that doesn't get bail back to districts and special that stuff um they well Z or I mean Craig could probably um they're starting a
Consortium yeah they're going to start a a title three Consortium so they can actually get funding because nobody nobody as an individual District can get it by themselves so they're going to do it but that would allow us to be able to get some Revenue back because if we combine all six districts together we
would be able to get something back and it sound like they're even considering taking on some other districts to get more more and then the upcoming dates aocc graduation is Wednesday the
28th uh Futures and Sun awards are June 2nd oh the graduation is at 4:00 uh the Futures and Sun Awards is Monday June 2nd at 10:00 a.m. activity day is here it's righton
Friday um May 9th at 10:00 uh the extended school year programming is at Casten and Stewartville and that's um from June 10th to the 30th and ALC summer school is June
10th the same June 10th to the 30th and then the Zed science fair is April 3rd at Cass and they are having a Summer Academy also but they didn't it sounds like that's going to be shortly after
school's over he he didn't put it on the list and so he wasn't didn't remember when it was they're still doing it I guess any question oh I got a
question so this letter here from K uh she makes uh some good points about I guess funding and whatnot but I mean we Face funding
deficits here did she have something an alterior plan besides getting rid of the principle that she says may well and remember this letter was written to The Zed
board um regarding what Zed was doing and um we're a part of said and in talking with their director he just felt that it would be more detrimental to cut the Staffing at this
point than re rearranging the administration and I mean she makes good points but I mean we have a I mean everybody's facing everybody's cutting I mean nobody wants to but we all have to and it's it it comes down
to well we did have some discussion later in the meeting about you know is it going to really affect the students that much because there still is going to be the principle there it's just part of it
is it's the person they've had they know and they do know the other person but they're used to and especially in special ed changes so the I guess like cig said they felt better keeping
the staff together because if they let a staff go then it's out of line there they got yeah we all have there's only one one teacher teaching a subject yeah and yeah they like I said my I mean it's it's we
had I mean it's tough here but I mean obviously like I mean those kids I I know of two schools in our area that are not cutting two and that's out of about 30 so for a record year which they claimed after the
last legislative session record year of funding it was a record year of spending it was not a record year of funding it's like I I told somebody it's like if I told you I was going to give you a new car but you have to pay 40,000 for
it well it's not really giving me a new car put that in your letter too I mean well Z's trying to realize that they depend on the six districts that are part of them and if they're all having trouble I mean they can't they got to be
careful too on they operate I don't think I would agree with things other hour student when we're cutting so much like this words is it going to come from well at one time it was quite a bit
higher but it's that's the only way they have of raising money I guess is to come ups but it's for the utility yeah it's well we don't have a way of raising money because we're we rely on the state
federal government and local taxpayers and they rely on us but well it's to be did you discuss it at all at your yeah it it isn't a done deal yet no but but
yeah and Patrick's very aware of all of us being in the situation we're in and he said it's probably not an ideal time to ask and we all all agreed that no it's probably not a really good time to ask but I don't
know he did talk about not doing it this next fiscal but maybe down the road and not doing it right away but he just said overall that the the the amount they haven't they charged hasn't changed in 15 years and I it's like I get it but
I also get that we have a budget that is pretty tight as well but for us it would be less than $1,000 right yeah it's per student that is using the program I thought it was overall is it's like a
$10,000 yeah I don't know that he's got that finalized well yeah he's throwing it out there to see what he tested the waters with the the question any questions on the Zed report 22 ad
report good evening everybody uh I've got an opportunity to highlight a bunch of students today and I'm pretty excited about it so uh the musical is uh this Thursday Friday and Saturday
uh Cory little doll is playing a huge role in it so it's an awesome awesome time to go check him out um runs at 7 pm uh Thursday through Saturday from what I've seen is it's it's a can't miss show so you gotta got to make sure you get out there and do uh do your due
diligence by seeing all the hard work that uh Miss wetherspoon and the the casting crew have put have put in um spring Sports have Al are also often running um from track to baseball softball trap gets going here in a little bit but it's it's fun to see
everybody be outside um we're hosting hopefully hosting fingers crossed a softball game tomorrow which is crazy to be playing a home softball game in March on top of that we have a home track meet scheduled for Thursday so pretty uh pretty exciting times for us to be able
to pull it off and knock on wood it looks like the weather is going to cooperate for us so it'll be be a lot of fun next slide here so uh I too wanted to be able to congratulate not only Adriana but our wrestling program in in
its entirety um as Mr slicking um pointed out earlier Adriano is the 2025 state champion she's a 2025 Post Bulletin girls wrestler of the year um and she wrestled all three of her matches at the state tournament in 3
minutes and 35 seconds so when each match is scheduled to be three 2minute periods so six minutes and she was on mat for like less than half what a typical match would be um you know I really think that there's one word that describes it and it's just dominant I
mean to a generational level like I I don't know if there is really words or or anything like this that's happened before um especially in in the state of girls wrestling with our wrestling program here at TR um what I think is
also crazy is you know we've pointed out she's only in seventh grade but on top of that she's only 12 years old so she could be in sixth grade so that's just flat out amazing right um pretty crazy I the last thing that I want to make sure that we point
out just about our wrestling program is just the picture on the right I think just speaks volumes to the connection that uh David and Adriana have um that was a pretty cool moment to see to see in person um but Adriana is is incredibly strong mentally and has been
mentored not only by her father but by coach Evan and the entire wrestling staff um I wanted to make sure that I could write a couple quotes or share a couple quotes with you guys um and so this is this is straight from Adriana she says um T she was asked about if
she'd ever seen the state tournament before and how she'd been there a couple times but she said she says I was I was watching it I was watching it all and I was dreaming of winning a state championship every single night my coaches kept telling me if you don't believe in yourself you don't dream
about it it's not going to happen talk about putting something into the mind of of a student and making them believe right on top of that uh when all the pressure is on her she's able to have this quote after um after winning a state championship she said I just
wanted to go out there and have fun I knew my family my friends were proud of me anyway no matter what the outcome of the match so when we start talking about transformational coaching like that's what it is right that's what the that's what the point is and so I just
really wanted to to show that it you know her quotes embody the commitment to transformational coaching and building of a culture in which student athletes can pursue goals without fear of Retribution and Coach Evan has done an awesome job of that um wrestling is a
sport that has some negative connotations with uh the amount of work and the dedication that you have to have in order to be successful at the sport but if you go into that wrestling room kids are having fun and I can tell you from experience that's not an experience
that I would say the typical wrestling program would have and so just looking at the numbers I'm uh just really excited about the position that our wrestling program is in and I think we have the right guy leading us and uh you know when Adriana says that next thing she needs to do is win five more of them
you know she's she's not wrong but I think that she's in a darn good place to be able to do it too right so pretty pretty awesome uh we can hit the next slide and then we we talk about dominance right when we talk about a historic performance and so uh Miss
gin's and the Tron BPA program is sending 13 but we qualified 14 we had 14 qualifiers then we had a 15th person who was a fin list who nobody above her it took so then she
bumped in but of those 15 to won national trips in multiple events so technically it's technically it's 13 students but 15 but 15 had two doubles right yes so State I
mean once again we have state champions in six competitions um with uh a total of 10 students being Hest being an individual state champion or h a state champion team had 15 total top 10 finishes 14 National trip winners which
I think we just clarified but just wanted to congratulate Miss in the entire vpa program it's pretty cool when you can see Triton competing against the the largest districts in the entire met entire metro and we're sending just as many students as as they are to to
Orlando here in a couple weeks um and I think that once again it's about the experience that students have in that program they're not participating in BPA because they get to go take a a cool trip to to Orlando right it's about the culture that Miss gens is able to create
in the position that she's being able to put them in in order to be successful and so just that level of care and attentiveness is what brings those students in and it's it's awesome to see to see the lunch meetings in here because there's a ton of students in here and they're working hard and talking about about all things BPA so
that's a a big shout out to you Miss gens keep that keep that up so now one last slide for us here then the last one is just a record setting girls basketball season um coach Hammond and our girls basketball team set the single season School record for wins they had a
final record of 24 wins and five losses on top of that they set the single game School record for points with a 91 to 68 victory over Hayfield on February 7th um that day was a pretty
dang proud day uh for I think our entire Community number one it was awes it's awesome to set the school record it's even better to be to do it over Hayfield right so that just is a makes you smile um on top of that there's new nous individual records and Milestones uh but
what I can also tell you once again is we have a head coach in a position that is leading student athletes in a way that makes them want to want to be there and feel supported uh with it the relationships of uh that coach Hammond has been able to build with all of the
girls on our on our girls basketball team shows when they get into the late game situations they believe in each other they work hard and they work harder for her uh because she's built those relationships up and so it's cool when you can see all three of our
programs that we've highlighted tonight and we come back and we tie it together bit with what like what makes it go or what is the what's the one common piece between all of them and it's the the person that is leading each and every one of those groups is good at building relationships with
students and we have three we have more than three but those three do do that at a very very high level so any questions thanks than thank you 723 principals reports evening evening earlier Mr
Jensen uh Jim asked for some good news I've got some good news uh as of right now we have 55 registered kindergartens for next year with 7 21 kids uh confirmed yes so we just have someone that we have to get registered so already before April uh I can remind you that this year's kindergart class of a
total of 47 we already have 55 into the system with 71 families that have said yes my kindergarten is coming to trade so there's a little good news start off thank you principal's report go ahead hopefully we have some more good
news for youall here tonight um if you if you look at the the pictures there there's been a lot going on it seems like this time of the school year uh the weather turns nice uh the students are outside for school activities and then the school year just continues to go
quickly but we've had a lot of great things going on the BPA group um I know it's been talked about a lot tonight but I think from the administration lens uh one thing that we really appreciate our students that are invested in our school
and invested in Student Activities and to see those students continue to work hard hard to have a goal and to achieve it um it's pretty cool to see especially in our building here so obviously a number of individuals have put forth a
ton of effort but to Rebecca the adviser um our students for just doing a fine job of continuing to push and doing a great job for Triton and for the BPA program so thank you very much uh one piece I wanted to call out and mention here I think one of the best things we
do here at Triton we continue to improve this is connecting the elementary school our youngest cobras with the students in this portion of the building here um it's good for the elementary students it also is really good for our older students it provides them an opportunity
to be a mentor um and and to support those students so they gain skills as well so a couple of things we've had going on um our nature studies course course here Excuse Me Miss horch they had some nature buddies I believe Mr van was at third grade third grade third
grade uh so they work with them even though it looks really warm outside in that picture that is you might not know that is a winter survival shelter there even though it's really warm out um the next piece is stars um that is done in uh collaboration with Dodge County
Public Health and I believe the acronym stands for students teaching about refusal strategies so once again Mrs horch her exercise physiology class they went into is it fourth grade um so proud of that uh the next piece is read Across
America you can see some students there so obviously um promoting that but having our cobras connect with the cobras in the elementary school was a fantastic experience Y and I wanted to highlight one on the bottom here the bridges we've had this program it's for our second graders that's the Department
of Transportation comes in they run a program called bridge in a bag um so all of our second graders got to work hands on and um you can kind of see they they make these Bridges and the second graders actually crawl across it they learn about different architecture across Star State I can point out too
that that that poster that says this one right here yeah we know who that is no yeah that's [Music] Adrian I have a few uh Middle School pictures on there on that lower left hand side that top one is Miss uh zasa
with her eighth grade science class one of them anyway and I just wanted to put that on there because it's always a great accomplishment when a teacher can make learning fun and the eighth graders had a blast um learning about the concept of force while having to drop an egg from the second story of the um wood
shop room and make sure that it survives the fall so that was a great experience for them and uh certainly a lot of fun and then the bottom two pictures you can see in one of them there's a bunch of students in our library signing a pledge so that's a drug-free um pledge um which
happened after we had a speaker come in the steered Straight program came in and gave a presentation to middle schoolers and the present uh Michael dó I think it was um did a fantastic job captivated the Middle School audience which is
saying a lot when you get 200 students into the pack there um he's an accomplished filmmaker and author but prior to that had a difficult childhood which led to drug use abuse gang affiliation and 12 years in prison so we had a great message about prevention uh
specifically talking about babing which I think uh hits home uh for middle school and older students as well so it was a great presentation also had one in the high school and then we had um a staff presentation after school that day too um so great assembly and then the
other picture there you'll see some of our Middle School staff dodgeball players so I mentioned last time the dodgeball tournament and we had a ton of staff that stayed after school to participate in this and it was just a great event um big shout out to Mrs
nessi who really uh was a motivating actor into getting so many staff and students to participate in that so uh and thanks to our team our parent team as well that put that on so the staff won the final picture on the bottom
right last week we had it scheduled for Thursday but we saw the weather was coming so we moved it up to Tuesday before the wet weather but we took our kindergarteners out to the Sugar Shack um Billy C's uh place it's a longstanding tradition they go out there they learn a little bit about sap and
Maple syrup and all that fun stuff that the kids were excited to get out there and see that um this this past week if you were in the building you saw it was uh Triton's week to host the Zed traveling art show I believe we've talked about this at meetings before look at this we
even have an attendee who made the board Mr Mason congratulations so um we had a number of students who had artwork displayed in uh the entryway here so a nice tradition um to obviously pay respect to the artists not only here at
Triton the work that they do but through across that so a great collaborative experience we had there so congratulations to our students that were in The Zed traveling art show previously this month we had a large number of students uh participate
in the section solo and Ensemble competition um these individuals it's it's not an easy thing to do to perform in a small group or perform in front of a judge um but they did a tremendous job so on this page here you can see the individuals in our Bandon choir that
earn superiors and then the next slide Mr schlicking we have the ones that uh uh received an excellent so um there's a lot of them it was hard for me to get all the pictures on there because we did a great job but congratulations to our Bandon choir students and our directors
Mr wspoon and Miss Deets for a job well done looking ahead in the elementary school oh we did have our conferences we had 93% of all of our families of the 355 uh students that we have K through five we had about 328 conferences over
the two days on Monday and Thursday a couple weeks ago I mentioned the bridge and the bag and the Sugar Shack uh pictures coming up we have our roller skate unit I wanted to shout out um we had got a very generous donation from Sue and Dan Walsh again um so no students will be paying any money for
that roller skating it's about $10 a kid um for the two weeks they'll do that during our their physical education time um a little bit longer we'll do 50 minutes every other day instead of 25 minutes every day just so that once they get the skates on they have some time to skate around our team group also donated
$1,000 towards the roller skating unit MCAS are on the horizon um those will take place in April we start off with reading the 8th and 9th and we have math on the 16th and 17th and our fifth graders will do the science the last week of April and tomorrow kicks off our
booster th fundraiser um we'll do that for a week if we hit our goal of $155,000 that will put towards improvements in the media center with Mrs Bradford I will sleep on the roof of the school so want to if I just want to add no slime year not if but
when the Slime was slime was cold for slim picture a tent sleeping bag hot cocoa I'm not real fond of pites but it's pretty flat up there so we'll be okay all right and at middle school we
had our conferences as well we had close to 70 families that came to conferences and that really is a a very high turnout for us in the middle school and I think um part of that was we had some stations set up for sixth grade parents um if they had questions about Eagle Bluff and
then eighth grade parents had an a high school meeting that night so having those two events on that same night I think helped a lot of them um get to our conferences and we had our book fair too which was a good success as well so great night of conferences talked about the DodgeBall tourney already um coming
up Eco Bluff is this week uh Wednesday Thursday Friday I'm glad it wasn't last Wednesday uh for Eco Bluff so the weather looks great uh 56 57 for Wednesday Thursday and 74 for Friday so should be a great experience for them
they're very excited uh to get going and then MCAS we have our reading on April 15th and 16th math is the 24th and 25th and then science for just 8th grade is the 28th and 29 so we're gearing up and
setting our plans for that all right I know uh we've talked about parent teacher conferences we had ours on the same night as well um attendance in this portion of the building was down a little bit um I hope to continue to find ways to engage our
families to make sure that we can have those important conversations at conferences I know in visiting with some of our staff that said yes I was busy and others they it sounded like it was a quieter night for them so uh we continue to find ways to make meaningful use of
our conference time a midterm hard to believe uh to the uh the midterm time for semester 2 so the last day before midterm is Friday and then our have a time to work on midterm grades on Monday so um we're we're moving quickly here on
April the 8th uh if you've been on the board for a while and you remember from previous years that's a busy day um we we're doing a number of things on that day um really a lot of it is important but really the main thing is the act day um so our Juniors take the act or the
ASVAB uh they have a choice with that um our freshmen go on a college tour so they get to see a couple of a couple of places there our sophomores take the prea and something I really appreciate about this day we make sure
that all of our seniors leave with the certification so they have a a time to receive that the CPR certification uh because it does require so many staff to facilitate the these many assessments um that's the school day on that day um just a reminder for folks on on on the
board um when students are finished with their tests on that day they are excused they do have an option to stay for transportation or if they have some work that they need to do um we'll have some students stay for that but the vast majority of students uh come in and do
the testing and then they leave after that um and then when they're doing the CPR they just report for that unless they have outstanding work or things that they need to do uh we'll make sure that they have an opportunity to do that uh
prom is April 12 um it's early right we're usually the week after that but uh the Easter weekend is the week after that so um moved it up a week it's coming quickly um so I just want to thank chrisy Faber she's the adviser
there she's done a great job also we've had a committee uh that's worked extremely hard to Pro to to make sure that we can provide an awesome prom experience for our students um so excited for that it'll be here before you know it um the next one April 14th
uh 3-hour lats uh I know we've had discussion on those in here and each three-hour late we've tried to do some different things um this time um on April 14th uh Miss Meyer is there because she helps lead the process for our
MCAS up here we are doing MCAS on that day so um the students obviously it's three hours late the school day starts at 11:00 we'll have an advisory time we'll go and eat uh so we're going to switch the time with the middle school so we'll eat first and then they have the rest of
the day to finish up their MCAS on that day on April the 14th so lots of stuff going on but it's been good thank you any questions thank you thank
you 724 superintendence report um yeah just to update you on a couple things uh boiler inspection is taking place tomorrow um the small the good news the small boiler is down but we're still using the big boilers but we do need to
get that fixed um so that repair is in progress uh another thing I learned today you know how when you have your window replaced on your vehicle and the original doesn't sometimes have that little logo on it the they the state has changed it so any tempered glass has to
have that logo on it to be legal so any of the bus windows and Dave said we have about six of them they all have to be replaced in order to be legal um guess what there's a there's a a shortage of right now in the state of
Minnesota and the price went up on yeah so um he's not able to get those but he did talk with the state and they said they're really not going to enforce it until next year so but we do have to address that um the other thing is the HVAC scheduling um
when we did our upgrade with the HVAC um site logic has been kind of keeping track of the monitoring it for for you know part of the agreement was to monitor it for three years there's a couple of fans that they they feel are out of
adjustment um so if we have let's say like in the summer we have uh daycare in a certain area and they adjust the temperature to keep it cooler um Dave's pretty sure that's what it is
but in order to make sure he's getting site logic uh Rona heat and vent and Dave all on the same call so they're going to schedule that so they can make sure that we're all on the same page and make sure that there's everything is doing what it's supposed to do um feel
like it is but they flagged a couple of uh the fans um um Moody's call uh Amy and I have a call with Moody's on Wednesday so that's basically just a um rating call because of the
uh uh money that we're looking to possibly borrow yeah they're rating basically affects maybe interest rates we might get or we tomorrow no we're doing that on Wednesday and then lastly the uh
business expo is on Saturday so any of you that would like to join me your more than welcome any questions for me thank you 725 other there's no other I would take a
motion for adjournment someone second motion by Rebecca second by Dale all in favor I opposed meeting adjourned