like to call the November 13th Triton school board meeting to order please rise 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 Forum there were no requests um number four approve agenda
some moov second motion by Dwayne second by Brian all in favor oppose motion carries CER Pride yeah I just wanted to and I know the principles are going to talk about this a little bit later too but just did
want to recognize ter Bradford um and you guys can EXP B on that when we get to that how about that we'll share it um number six approve consent agenda yes so move second motion by Rebecca second by Dale all in
favor oppose motion carries new business um discuss approve resolution canvasing returns of votes of school district general election no move and it is a resolution motion by
Lloyd second by Jim we'll do a roll call vote Brian yes DNE yes Lloyd Dale yes Jim yes Rebecca yes and Wendy yes 7.2 discuss approved resolution authorizing issuance of certificates of
election and directing school district clerk to perform other election related duties second motion by Dwayne second by Brian again it's a resolution so we'll do a roll call Brian yes Dwayne yes Lloyd hi
Dale yes Jim yes Rebecca yes and Wendy yes 7.3 discuss approve overnight stay for students to attend the FFA State Convention December 9th through 10th 2024 in St Cloud I'm surprised Mr
yeah usually they do um M absolutely um we did have a conversation about this uh this morning he was unable to attend the meeting tonight and it sounds like it's a it's a one-year change for the State Convention from what I understand uh so
there's two opportunities this school year that's why it's different from the one in the spring they've normally done was my understanding so I told him I bring that forward tonight so there won't be one in the spring that's just this one I this school year was my understanding do
we know how many students would be attending I do not okay I'll make a motion to approve 7.3 second sorry guys let me turn this off maybe um motion by Rebecca second by
Dale all in favor to approve 7.3 I opposed same sign motion carries 7.4 discuss approved resolution of governing boards supporting form a application to Minnesota State High
School league Foundation yeah go ahead so this is an annual thing from the Minnesota State High School league Foundation where there are uh basically two um two grants that they'll they'll approve the first is based off of the
number of students that we have on free introducing launch the second one uh it comes with uh an approval for uh funds for um the item that you would write that you write the grant for so in the past
uh like our speaker that we brought in um at the beginning of last year was covered by by the foundation grants this year we're uh going to continue on with some of their with their programming as well with other that we'll utilize within our uh utilize within our
athletic and activity programs so that would be form a and Form B I apologize I forget which is which but basically it's those two those two items so thank you I'll move to
approve second motion by Jim second by Lloyd to approve form a it's a resolution so we'll do a roll call vote Brian yes DNE yes Lloyd I Dale yes Jim
yes Rebecca yes and Wendy yes um moving on to 7.5 discuss approved resolution of school board governing board supporting Form B application to the Minnesota State High School league Foundation second motion by Jim second by Brian again it's will be a roll call
vote Brian yes um Dwayne yes Lloyd I Dale yes Jim yes Rebecca yes and Wendy yes 7.6 discuss approved 2024 2025 snow removal quote yeah we had three different ones
but uh there was one that that was definitely going to be better so um Roar Enterprises was the quote that we're looking to accept is that we did our snow removal last year as well okay
no not we had snow to remove it was a different company last year okay um but they do have a couple pieces of equipment that are um unique and I think we'll be helpful and remember we only call them if we need them a lot of times
we can take care of it ourselves but if we get a big snowfall where we have a lot of snow um the bigger equipment comes in handy motion 7.6 second motion by Dale second by Rebecca to approve 7.6 all in
favor opposed motion carries 7.7 appoint principal Shane Van Beek as Lea representative and this basically gives him the authority to write the title Grant every
year which he's been doing and doing a great job Mr Vani so moved second motion by Dwayne second by Dale to approve 7.7 all in favor opposed MO
carries 7.8 discuss approved calendar adjustment um so we talked about this in our study session this would basically just be adding a day off for um staff and students and that would be the 22nd
of April um the day after so it would be a Tuesday which is uh the day after kind of the Easter break so it just basically extends that break a day it does give the uh the staff time to to do the we've kind of found Time Each once each month
for them to do the additional work that they're going to need to do with the read act um April was the only date or the only month that we couldn't find a date so that was the that we agreed that we would add one day off um and that
would give them time to do that so the date would be April 22 second motion by Jim second by Rebecca to approve 7.8 any discussion all in favor say I opposed
motion carries 7.9 enrollment update um not what I want to talk about but uh we're down 25 students from the beginning of the year um and it's really it's kind of spread out all over
um it's it's crazy how much people move and it's not it's not like oh we're going to leave your school and go to another school it's just it's generally people that are moving so hopefully we get some that move into the district
too which which no I'm just talk not L okay the the the good news I guess is that the E uh the 850 that we're at is still seven above what we budgeted for because Amy budgeted for
843 so it's still above that which that's positive so the people that it must be moving back into these houses must I take it not have kids a lot of times because I mean there's not a lot of
houses for sale no and that's the thing when houses do go up for sale a lot of times they're not even on the market I mean they don't even get to the market before they're already sold have you noticed people moving out of or say into the district that want to
keep their kids in their previous District have you noticed more of that or no I don't think I would say that no I mean I would would guess it would go both ways yeah so people moving out of the district if they're close enough might want to keep kids here also
but and on principles anything you want to that pretty accurate you have had some students leave this year to explore Alternatives at the alc this year so we had more of that and we had more um students than
the previous few years leave to do online school I'd say in the past month um that definitely it doesn't account for the complete no 25 no those definitely are in there too but have seen have seen more of that than we have
the past few years student conso update student Cil update I did not get a student counil report today okay [Music] um 7-Eleven Zed report I guess I don't have a report
either no the both both the meetings were canceled this week we're going to wait to have those um rescheduled um our meeting was to be next week and it's
postponed all right a report all right so we got a couple fall season recognitions that we uh we need to do um so uh we get just heard from coach Jeremy himley of the girl soccer team that three of our players uh were
um or made the uh all area team so Alysa kutson made the second team Olivia Weber was an honorable mention and then Camila Medina was honorable mention as well so if you look at kind of the status of our girls soccer team over the last few years it's it's awesome to see growth
and and recognition from our um from our area schools that we have girls who are who are high level players right and so I just wanted to make sure that we can uh show them that uh we see that they're they're doing great things um the second thing is just our football team being
section two daa Champions uh if anybody was in Jamesville uh on that Friday night that they won the section champ chionship it was uh a slow start but a strong finish is how coach nessip likes to say it and I just we really need to recognize uh the guys that are in the
lower right hand corner there our football coaching staff um for just all of the hard work that they that they put in um I think that of all of our programs the program that is built into building the foundation of their program the most of committing to building
skills for students for them to have in the classroom in the community and on the competition field that our football program is right at the top of the list to the commitment to that and I think that the success that they have on the field is a direct uh direct correlation of the work that they put in off of it
in the classroom talking about how to be how to be good good people um so if you go to the next slide for me um so this is a picture that I took from our sideline after the um after the the boys lost to chadfield in the state
quarterfinals and I this is is about 30 seconds after it's horrible picture all right but it's not about the picture it's about what the experience that I had standing where I was so at this point in time I observed something that was a little odd typically after a football season is done you can see some
tears you can see some guys who are sad but this picture to me showed a group of about 35 young men who were incredibly proud of each other and Incredibly proud of themselves and um I Heard Brody money kaisen tell all
uh younger football players that they needed to keep their chins up that they needed to be incredibly proud of the work that they put in and the Improvement that they showed and for that to come from an 18-year-old young man is uh it's special right and you can see you can see the the growth that they're having there and and the smiles
that they had as they migrated kind of over the corner to see their parents that they're proud of the work that they put in they're proud of of the results that happened and I think that that was just that was a cool full circle moment for me to have at that point in time that we're doing the right things right if we commit to those things that that that we're going to see the successes
and I think that uh you know all of those guys right there are looking to build on what they what they experien last last Thursday and I can't wait to see how it how it unfolds with it as well so just cool moments sorry the picture couldn't be better right but wanted to wanted to encapsulate that a little bit too we've got one more slide
um just a couple things to to round it out like we talked about the mshsl foundation grants um the fall play is running this week so we had the matinas today today the Productions are Thursday Friday and Saturday starting at 700 p.m. uh it's a
it's a great little show just kind of a spoof on the on the Harry Potter series if anybody has read those books um winter sports uh started at the beginning of this week with girls basketball um basically everybody else starts or girls basketball and dance dance started a couple weeks ago sorry
but everybody starts in in its entirety uh next Monday and then we've got the MHS induction coming up next Tuesday so things are kind of starting to pick up here again after we kind of had a little downtime between Seasons but we're excited and ready to go as the girls basketball team plays their first game
next Friday in New Richland so it's it's coming any questions thanks everybody thank you 713 principal reports uh want to start off and recognize Tera Bradford and addition to the Cobra Pride
to start off but I think all of you know who Tera braford is many years um she was a kindergarten teacher that was my first year down in elementary school and that around that point of time she wanted to she told me she was ready for a change and since then she's moved into our library um and sometimes after
teaching for a while you might look at someone that thinks that they're going to do a change to maybe get an easier job well I think that Mrs Bradford has displayed that she didn't do it to be an easier job she wanted to make a larger impact on our school um she works with all of our students K through five um she's done a fabulous job and she's
really taken the lead on our stem our science technology engineering arts and math in the uh elementary school she's the lead of our project lead the way which is a bunch of Project based learning that started in the library now we're doing some of it in kindergarten she'll keep on moving it up with the as
they they go from kindergarten to first grade and so forth in addition this past year Tera Bradford received a grant for $2,500 through Horseman to help supplement some of the equipment that's used for our steam activities and on top of that $2,500 she also secured another
,000 in the form of a grant so just since the start of September she's got $3,500 for our school district to make sure that she has all the supplies in the library walking past the library on a daily basis you can see engagement from the kids and when kidss are engaged
there's never any behaviors you can walk into the library whether it's kindergarteners or fifth graders and you'll see 18 to 24 kids involved in learning and I I've actually walked Mr schlick in there a couple times you just see kids around the library building
stuff coding working on robots working on different puzzles it's a it's a great thing to see it's it's Unique too because a lot of times when you have the superintendent and principal walk into a room usually everybody stops and like looks at you I don't even think they
noticed we were there no because they're into they just kept going I wanted to highlight a few other things that uh Mrs Bradford has done for our elementary school and our school district um just last night we had parent teacher conferences um she began in book drive and just last night she she gained over about 200 books that are going to be
usable not only for our library but to be able send home with some families as well of course she runs a book fair every year for us and last year she started an event called books and donuts where parents came in with their elementary kids in the the lunchroom and had opportunity to have a donut from T
her and read some books at the lunch tables and there was over a hundred parents in our our lunchroom for that activity so very welld deserved I could go on and on about Mrs Bradford she's not only a teacher she's a leader in the elementary school and very uh I I can't do enough to honor Mrs Bradford and the
work she's doing for our students here at trade public schools would you like me to talk about parent teacher conferences yeah um spread out a little bit obviously we'd like to be more consistent between the schedules within the buildings but obviously with uh the fall play and a
couple of things going on this week it was challenging to go with with the 12th of November there so we're split up a little bit um so far between the Elementary and Middle School attendance has been has been great and really just an opportunity to connect with families and have those important conversations
it's a It's A Conversation Piece we continue to have as a staff what's the best use of our time on those conference nights but uh recently we've seen from our parents that the connection piece is important and have an opportunity to work together is extremely important so
um it's continued to go along I want to highlight one more thing on our parent teacher conferences last night Mrs Meyer along with Mr Anderson and Mrs not um we have a cobra closet which is needs for stud students that
may not have um either some toiletry items or in last night's case it was winter jackets um snow pants and boots hats and mittens um Adam I know you're here how many jackets do you think we gave away last night you know over 12 different
families were able to receive a jacket or two and these are brand new uh coats a majority of them were donated to us by the wshes so thank you to Dan and Sue Welsh for that donation there um but over 12 families instead of worrying about where they're going to get a
jacket and snow pants where able just pull out brand new ones from Iraq um and that was great they also handed out some other information for um counseling at the middle school and things of that nature uh this past Monday was a Veterans Day we had our annual
Elementary Veterans Day program um the high school choir did a fabulous job singing the National Anthem our fourth and fifth graders sing America the beautiful we had some fifth grade readers um we had a handful of veterans that were recognized not only individually but then they they get
recognized with their different branches as our our high school band did a great job playing music and playing the I don't know if the correct term is theme song but the the song for each of the branches then everyone stands up and is recognized we got a lot of positive feedback from the veterans that were in
attendance um we did a lot of work there Whitney hessie kind of took the lead she mails out all the invitations to our veterans in our communities including the BFW post for all three communities um we'll try to expand upon it a little bit next year we've had some talks with
Mr ludman and Mrs Johnson about including some middle and high school readers or perhaps solists for music but it was a nice program and it was uh it was great to see the veterans that we had in our building on that day after the program they went down to the lunchroom for uh coffee and juice and
donuts and stuff like that so was a great day I just wanted to mention our youth Frontiers Retreat I feel very fortunate that each of our building levels gets to experience one of these uh Retreat days we do kindness retreat in fourth grade
the courage Retreat is in eth grade and then 10th grade respect Retreat and we've even had some staff Retreats too over the years um Rec I was thinking like how many of these Retreats have I been to and I think it's close to about 20 of them and they've all been amazing
and I'm not just saying that like the day is a very powerful impactful day for our students um youth Frontiers does a fantastic job just creating this high energy environment and connecting with our students and then being able to give some powerful messages but not only them
too it's our own Triton students the older students act as Leaders during that day so they partner with youth Frontiers to help them but then they facilitate small group conversations with the students that are at the retreat and that too is just powerful to
see those connections being made so again just it's it's a wonderful experience we have the courage Retreat coming up on December 6 if you've never been to one uh feel free to stop by the Faith Church and just check it out you could walk in and just stay for as long
as you wanted so it's great experiences for our students so thank you for supporting me I know Mr Black had talked about the fall but just uh a shout out to the cast and crew dir directors for the great work they've been doing uh with the fall
playes the culmination of hard work that's been going on for weeks and I'm excited for the show this week upcoming calendar items looks like I'm doing that one guys um obviously we talked about parent teacher we don't practice much before we come in here I'm
sorry about that we'll we'll rehearse our script better next time the conferences are a big one approaching uh the summit there the steam one you see that November 12th obviously that's taking place already um our junior class had an opportunity to attend a Hands-On
career in college fair this week so an excellent opportunity for our junior class um National Community Education day is this week so obviously we have a number of individuals that are involved in Community Education here and thankful and grateful for the great work that they do to make sure and acknowledge
those individuals once again we've seen it before hard to believe it but uh we have the fall play but the part that's hard to believe is uh Thanksgiving time is approaching so we have a few days off school this school year seems to be flying by real quick um want to talk about the Guth R please yeah it's just
been a tradition in the middle school that the seventh grade um does a ski trip and then they get a theater experience so they're going to be going to the GU three on December 4th to see it Christmas Carol so very excited excited for that and Mrs Rosy who is
here she organizes that event so thank you Mrs and we have our next profile of a graduate program approaching on December the 13th at 7:30 in the morning if you want to mark that in your calendars we'd love to love to have you there for that crossing guard update I believe
this is year two or three since we've had a crossing guard I can't remember exactly um in previous years we've addressed it a number of ways obviously we believe there is a need there the intersection is busy we have a number of individuals that walk to school um so as
an administrative team in previous years we've shared the duty this year we have some some other employees out there that are um at the crossing guard but uh we usually take a break for the winter uh we haven't seen the students that walk as much during that time so wanted board
to have a heads up that uh will stop this month here and we'll make sure and communicate that with our families as well but didn't want you to be surprised by seeing that so want you to have a heads up any questions from the board thank you for what you do thank
you thank [Music] you superintendent report Mr lurman you want to come back up here sure um the the the first thing Luke wanted to chat a little bit about dates for um a
retreat he talk to Le today I believe yeah those of you that uh have been on the board you probably remember the process when when Mr schlick things start in the role had a conversation with Lee today his availability um the two options actually
have a number of options but uh on my calendar and going through it would be Wednesday the 25th of June or the Thursday after Wednesday or Thursday of that week U so it be from 4: to 900 p.m.
am being that he's been here before he thought we could do it in one one time so I'm not sure if folks have a preference if you want me to send an email out and you let me know if you have a preference or either um for
either date what can you say the dates that the 25th of June or the 26th of June okay Wednesday or Thursday my preference should be Wednesday but I can make Thursday work so okay is there
anybody that feels strongly one way or another or do you want me to send a message out so you can reflect that on your calendars or check your calendar if not I'll go with Wednesday Wednesday the 25th all right more information to come thank you thank you Mr um January 29th I kind of pegged
that is next study session date um trying work on getting um a person from aers uh to join us to share some uh kind of some Financial stuff um I haven't solidified that date but I just wanted
to put that on your radar um we've got another meeting or two before that so um I won't set that in stone yet but that's kind of what I'm shooting for it's a Wednesday and it's kind of between the two board meetings and then yeah Z
um uh looking at a reschedule date for our meeting there um yeah that's all I had any other not I'll take a motion for
adjournment so second motion by Dwayne second by Dale all in favor post of course not um next school board meeting is Monday December 16th thank you