Hey, good morning. It's 7:00 in the secondary school media center. We'll call the meeting to order and we'll start with 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 all. >> Roll call. Vincent here. Alrich >> here, >> Sour >> here. >> Since that is not what it is, Porter >> here, and Gross >> here. >> All right. Um, we don't have any public
comment this morning. Um, are there any additions or corrections to our agenda? Since it was sent out the additions or the resignation of Taylor Lampy and we we changed there was some discussion items that we had given
through the reports. I put that down um like 6.3 in device policy. So, okay. Anything else? Additions, corrections. Then I would look for a motion to adopt our agenda.
>> So move. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion carries. All right, that brings us to consent agenda. We have the following personnel items. um the resignation of Jenny Roat,
district office secretary, and Taylor Lampy uh middle school English. And we also have two hires this morning that are with us. Um Tammy Olsen for the secondary uh secretary and Jenny Gerky,
Mars coordinator. Yeah, I typically like to invite my new hires in introduce themselves. So, if you want to come up closer here and just give you a little spiel, I'll let you go first. Um Tammy, if you want to come up here so they can see you and hear you, just sit by Chad and Jenny come up if you want to. Um I
just like to introduce those. Obviously familiar faces, but I'm excited to have them in the office with us. Um it was tough to lose some people, but we're very fortunate to have a lot of great applicants and we got two great people join us. So Tammy, >> my name is Tammy Olsen. My husband Kyle
and I um are connected with WCA because we have had about six kids come through and we have six more to go. Um, and I'm looking forward to becoming more of a contributor and less of a taker as far as this school goes. It's been really
good to our kids. So, really excited for chance to work with everyone. >> Sounds good. Thanks, >> Tammy. Jenny, >> I'm Jenny Gerkie and I've been doing daycare for 23 years and just looking forward to a different change this this coming year and looking forward to being
at the school with everybody. All right, >> sounds good. Thank you. >> We're glad you're here. Welcome. >> Welcome. >> You are free to go. The means aren't too fun to sit through. >> Thanks, ladies. Appreciate it. Thanks for coming in. >> All right. With that, I would look for a
motion to adopt or for the consent agenda. So, is there a second? Second. >> All in favor say I. I. I motion carries and >> I just moved the consent above the report so they could get out of here obviously. So hope that was okay.
>> Yep. Tanya is not here. >> So we'll move into What are you going to touch on either one of those reports? >> I'll touch on Nates cuz I know Tanya will be here. >> Okay. >> So you got Mr. Woods report. Um very busy. He's been a lot of stuff. John Johnson's Renaissance stuff's been busy.
Um it seemed to be a good thing. Staff seem to have bought into that. Um he's looking at a Rachel's challenge. It's like a mental health thing. Um I also know with Carrie Craft, she's got some things. So I'm going to have those two meet to make sure we're not doubling up on different things. Um but they both
seem to be good projects. Um the device policy, um I want that to be a separate discussion item with the whole board. So we'll talk about that. Um some trustbased observations. Um Nate and Tanya have had some fantastic conversation on observations of how to
improve those a little bit and streamline stuff. So, uh, and Tanya will talk about that in in her report. Um, they had a lot of good stuff going on that um, JMC Google Classroom stuff. Um, I'll hit on that in my report a little bit. We had a, uh, I met with the secretaries
on Monday. We want to try to clean up JMC a little bit. Um, staff and scheduling preparations. Um, everything we're almost finalized with our staff. I know we had another resignation the other day. Um, other than that, we are ready to go from his end on the school
year. Any questions on that? It looks like Tanya has some slides. >> Tanya is on the slide. I I could not print it off correctly. So, Tanya's got a Google slides. It's on the It's on the whiteboard.
>> I apologize. My dog jumped on me. Spilled my coffee all over me, too. That's we just call that Wednesday here. You know, your report is on the screen, T. >> All right. Um, do you want me to stand or >> No, you're just fine.
>> All right. So, what we're looking at here is me doing a lot of learning and it's been um going really well. I think uh staff have been in they are getting their classrooms ready at the elementary level. Um
they they love their spaces and getting those ready for kiddos. Melissa Anderson at North and Kathleen Moore have been tutoring in the building and um the kids are fun to see coming in.
They're happy to be working with um those teachers and continuing their learning. One of the things that uh we had talked about at one of our first meetings was a an
older evaluation tool that had been used. And so Danielson has a newer model um for evaluation. And so it's still has the four domains. They're the same as
they were. they just have a little clearer and um maybe more um inclusive, you know, language and things like that. Um but I came up with just a a spreadsheet that will make it
easier rather than going from paper to a another document or writing notes and then transcribing them. Um so this just provides space. Um if you scroll down you can just click on
where you see the the level of proficiency. Um because we don't observe everything every time. There's is a not observed uh portion there. Distinguish proficient basic and unsatisfactory room just to type in
evidence as we go. and then um it'll print out and just be a very easy snapshot of of what we saw that day. I'm very impressed. That was one of the things that I think principles struggle the most is find time to do evaluations
and they're obviously very important. So that was one of the tasks we talked about is making those more efficient so they don't take as long and our should make us more efficient and have hopefully better quality evaluations K12. So, it's good.
>> Uh, curriculum resources have have been arriving and I've been uh verifying the orders and sorting through trying to get those ready to get into classrooms. Um, summer school started yesterday in
both elementary buildings. Kayn Olrich is doing um north and uh Carrie Ben is doing south. 14 students and nine students. Um there
is some aid that comes back from Freshwater Education District um to help cover some of that. However, if the district does end up um assuming some of that financial burden, it will be
minimal and it will be powerful for those kiddos who need that extra support just prior to starting the school year. Um some upcoming things that I have going on. Uh Nate and I are going to um
Morris tomorrow for the special ed co-op meeting. Uh I get to be part of the Renaissance planning. Um we'll have an elementary leadership retreat on the 11th. Um and then I think I maybe spoke
about this but I'm not sure everybody has heard. Uh the Minnesota Principal Academy is professional development for principles across the state. Uh my cohort is in Mano. I will be out of the buildings. Um it's usually about 2 days
a month. Um but the I think the benefit that comes back in terms of my development as a principal is definitely worth that time. So, um, and then I've never been CPI trained
because at the high school level we the kids were just too big. So, this will be my first time with CPI. I've done some other training in the past, but um, this particular brand will be new to me. Uh as you might know, math standards have
uh this is the year of implementation and so there's some training with Lakes Country that a a group of teachers I believe K12 um I don't know if it's all of them or but it's in the range will have some training. Um and then we start
with teachers and that's coming really fast. So it's exciting. Um, I have appreciated getting to know people kind of one or two at a time and getting to chat and and learn about them and kind of what their educational philosophies
are. So, um, it's been a good intro into the district this past month. >> Principal Academy was great. I sent a principal through there few years ago. Um, I talked to Tanya to when when she's gone at those for those two months, I'll try to be in the other building that Luke's not in. So I'm still admin in
those buildings at that time. So it should be good. Thank you. Look to any questions comments. All right. Thank you. >> Is that I thought still kind of
what's the word I'm looking for? We're very similar to our school. So that's why I tried to keep some continuity with our community so we could still use some of the components that we used in the past. So the Arbiter platform has been launched. Um we use Arbiter game. So the
app I think most people have seen the app now. Um that will show only games. It will not show the facility use piece. That is a whole other app to see that one. So the Arbiter game app the the uh platform for that will have games
dismissal times locations. Um you may see some redundancy from from life when we use Menowaska or when we play Menowaska because it is an entering piece. If I enter something for them and they enter it, you may see duplication. So you know as we work our way through
this platform just just tell people if they reach out to you just hey uh give me a call and I can help them walk through the Arbiter game piece. Um we switched over to Arbiter registration. In the past, all of our student athletes and parents would register via paper
pencil with Mindy in the office. Paper pencil is gone now. It is purely an online registration model. And to be honest, it's gone very smooth so far. I I've got a couple emails of, hey, could I get a copy of my child's physical?
Hey, where do I get or where do I make this payment at? But it's been very good. I've been been impressed. There was a lot of data entry to get there. Um, but it's been good. Um, we're also using a platform on Arbiter called Arbiter Pay. Um, this is a system where
we can pay all of our game workers and all of our officials that night or that morning. You could you could equate it to like a Venmo account. So once everybody shows up, I can go in on my system, hit pay, and it's in their account. So it's it's a payment from Arbiter. It is not a payment from the
school. We put money in the Arbiter account, and then they pay. They do all the tax information, all everything on that end. So, um, that is a project. Now, as I start to line up fall game workers, I I have to So, say, for example, Chad's going to work, he has to
create his account. I can't do that for him. He has to put his bank information in there. If he wants to get paid, if he doesn't do that, he doesn't get paid. I hate to say it that way, but that's that's the reality. So, >> does Chad officiate junior high volleyball and stuff? >> No, but Tanya does. So, this should be
good. So, That was a good good good segue there. Good job. Um, we we will continue to use Huddle. Um, there is a link uh on Arbiter game that takes you right to the Huddle main page different than the R school where
it would take you to that specific game. Arbiter will take you to the Huddle page and then you will have to find the game on Huddle. So, we we continue to use that platform. Uh we will continue to use GoFan as well uh for cashless
tickets. I'm currently working with them. Uh in the past we had that 10 pass punch card we could buy in the office. I I know there's a way we can create that on Goofan. So I'm working with them to get that implemented on Goofan as well.
Hoping that should be online here soon. I have entered everything on Goofan. I just haven't opened up tickets yet for everybody. Um, I do need to work with the admin team to figure out a solution how we're going to do football. Um, because here we have the card readers
inside. We can create some lines and we can get people in and out. It' be a little harder when we're out at the end of the road and and what that's going to look like. So, we have to come up with a solution there to to make it so people aren't waiting and waiting and waiting. So,
um I I mentioned bound uh earlier. Um there there's going to be some pieces with knowing it's only a few of us on Arbiter. So as people say, "Where's the link? How do I find this game?" I I I just simply won't be able to answer them because it's not a platform I'm going to be on. So there's got to be some
bumpiness uh for away games and different things like that. But I think as we get into the school year, our fans and our communities will will figure that part out. So, uh, any questions on some of the technology pieces and the resources that we're using, uh, or that we've been implementing so far this
summer? >> Is there a way to put bound on our websites? People like if we go play Ashby, how do we >> There there could be. I guess I haven't explored that yet. U, but that that's probably a good idea to direct people there as well. >> Yeah. Just to make it accessible for
fans to go away. Okay. >> Uh, I just came from a series of meetings this weekend. Tonight I as I was telling Nathan as I got here I have multiple meetings today and tomorrow. Uh tonight we have our all coaches meeting uh starting at at 5:00. Um we have
supper catered in with uh Miller Spoons is going to cater supper for the coaches at 5:00 and then we have our meeting at 5:30. Uh following that we have our all sport player and parent meeting at 7:30. Practices start, believe it or not, we're into August. Practices start
August 17th. It's a super late start, but that's just how the calendar falls this year. Uh, junior high football starts a week later. They start on the 24th. As I mentioned earlier, I came back from a meeting. We had State High School board of directors retreat at Rutgers up in Deerwood Sunday through
Tuesday. Um, very good meeting. Lots of things going on in the league. You maybe saw some releases yesterday involving ticket prices and basketball state tournaments and different things. Um, kind of exciting for me. I was assigned to be the chairman of the
eligibility committee and as well as the executive committee. So, it's going to lead to some more meetings. Um, but it's going to be a great learning and professional opportunity for me. Uh, it's going to involve me getting a lot of hate mail, so that should be kind of fun, too. So, um, yeah,
>> we have a big show. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Can we get a filter for that, Kevin? We have one. >> Can Can I just direct it to board chair, too? Go ahead. No. >> Um, as I say every meeting, we always need game workers. Um, you know, that that's just a a piece as as we continue
to um offer uh activities for our students. We just need people to help. Some upcoming events that I have on my calendar, we have our West Central Conference meeting coming up on August 19th. I believe that is in Monavidio. We have our fall state high school
league ad meeting uh Monday, September 14th. that at Upper Pond. Um, school picture week is the week of September 21 and homecoming week is the week of September 28th. So, lots of things going on. Uh, any questions, comments, concerns from the
board? >> Where are we where are we on the C team basketball stuff? >> Um, Eric and I have a meeting tomorrow morning. >> Yep. >> We've talked a few times. I talked to the coach. Um, our goal is to maybe open up registration a little bit sooner than
we have in the past, see what numbers are like. Um, and then bring a bring a, you know, it's not there was not a board decision last time discussion obviously, but we'll probably try to bring a decision to you guys midepptember um to an idea of what the plan is. So,
>> good question. We'll get that back to >> There is some information I'm going to share tonight uh some clarity on nth grade governance that I received this weekend. I'm going to share that with the coaches as well. and that may uh may bring some insight to that decision as well. So,
>> all right. Any other questions? >> I'm I'm hoping my future reports aren't this long, by the way. So, >> I was going to say I can't wait to see what happens when we actually have kids doing something. >> All right. >> Thank you, everyone. >> That brings us to uh Mr. Ryan. He was
not able to be with us. You have his report in the packet. Uh any questions we can bring back to him? >> No. T been working with Luke quite a bit. Had a good discussion with Luke and uh it's been good. We had a good retreat a couple weeks ago and just a very
insightful young man and excited to have him in the district still. It's good. >> And he's been very willing to um you know, if he's like, "Oh, I I did that last year. I'll I'll take lead on that." He's So that's been great. Um,
and I'm gonna stop thinking of him as a kid, but he's he's a good kid. He's he's a good educator. So, um, I'm excited to work with him. >> All right, Mr. M.
Uh, for technology, uh, first thing I wanted to bring up is our rate for category one has gone through. So that is the most important one that covers uh 70% of our cost for internet connection and data transportation between the two
elementaryaries. The data transportation piece is the fiber optic cable that we lease from. So it's 21 miles of fiber that we lease. That's the b biggest expense. So it's very very valuable to us that that is um
approved and in place. The way that we do that is Runesstone actually applies for the reimbursement. So when they bill us monthly, they're just billing us the 30% cost. So that just simplifies everything on our end. Um, category 2 is
currently in review. They sent me some questions mostly on our student uh enrollment pieces, which is just recalculating what our category 2 fund is. um that should go through pretty soon.
It's for a firewall. Um our current firewall is four years old. We have one year left on it as far as licensing. However, as things change with technology, firewalls are extremely important. This new firewall has a ton
of advanced features that will enhance our security as a school district. And ultimately that's our best uh value moving forward is to make sure that we are secure and safe and not losing any opportunities for um downtime. So
>> the $15,000 is that firewall is good for a couple years like is that like four year lease two or three payment three. >> Okay. >> Yep. So, the nice thing is about that one is it's the company that we were with before. Soon as we got the 5-year um the 5year
licensing, they got bought out the next year and the company that bought them shelf the product. So, we've kind of been pulled along by them. They've honored the licensing, but they haven't made a lot of advancements. the
uh company we're moving to is one of the largest in the world. So there I have no concerns with them sheltering our product um devices. The only not uh annual um
uh changes that we normally make as far as our device rotation is Mr. KF's lab and industrial technology room. the computers that they had just weren't keeping up with the needs of their technology. I think that's a great investment for us because it's teaching
a ton of those skills that kids are going to need, a lot of 21st century skills, uh, design, um, those things. And then we are also getting him a replacement 3D printer that has a lot more features and functionality than
what we've had in the past. currently he last year he was using the two elementary printer printers which are about as basic as you possibly get and just didn't really meet the needs of what the class was. So I think this is a good investment and I think he's going to do a lot with it and kids will get a
ton out of it. Um as far as all other devices got everything ready to go. So if school were to start today while it would be chaos everything will be ready. So she is an absolute rockstar.
Uh oh. Security. We got uh added um security cameras throughout the district to all three buildings. We're trying to cover as much space as possible. North is probably our hardest just because of the size and spread out of it. But we have security cameras as in as many
places as we possibly can that are high risk or high need. The biggest thing for security cameras is number one for student safety and protection. Number two is our liability and asset protection. Um, also with the changes we made last year
with our doors at North and South moving them over to key cards, that's a huge advantage to us. So now when staff leave or if keys get lost, we can simply just shut off the key cards instead of having to worry about physical keys floating around. So that continues to be a huge
bonus for us. Has CRG reached out at all? >> Yes, I have some stuff. >> Okay. >> With them. Um, we have our finalized maps of the buildings. Um, that is one
of the pieces I'm going to work on kind of throughout the fall of getting that integrated. One of the biggest pieces is we need to figure out as far as working with local law enforcement, first responders, how we want to integrate it.
um because there's different systems they work with and integrate nicely into. Um the one I've looked at right now is a kind of a third party that we aren't currently using. However, it fits in with um Active 911 and a whole bunch
of different uh dispatch software programs. >> Sure. >> So CRG is a school mapping program that is state basically statewide at this point. Um and it's for response to school area mapping. >> It's a crisis response group.
>> There is uh there is some integration where potentially down the line they could access camera and so our location of our camera and whatnot. So if there's an issue in the gym hallway, they can go look at this map and they can see there's a camera on this end, there's a
camera on that end, they can access that from outside to see what's in those quarters or whatever. Grand County Dispatch does currently have access full access to our cameras. >> Sure. >> So, it'll just be something that is now fed to the Yeah. So, anyway, it'll be a
a good thing. So, >> um Douglas for Kensington or >> we do not have that set up. They haven't reached out and asked. Um that's something we absolutely can do though >> because they would respond in
>> I know there's kind of a mutual aid agreement with Kensington being so close and the ties. So I know in the past there's been a strong response from Grant County to there. So my anticipation is there would be some sort
of a conglomeration. So question. >> All right. Anything else or any questions for Kevin? That brings us to buildings and grounds. >> Good morning. Good morning. Um, you guys got my report there. Things are going
well. Summer is is clicking along in the cleaning projects and stuff. Uh, work is taking place. Uh, boilers, we had some talk about that. I finally got some word back last week on that one at North for
that flame sensor. Um tried four more companies. Only one of them got back to me. Um 10 grand uh 10,600 bucks was from one company. the other
company G&R Controls that we had that 17,000 from um they came down to 122. You had talked about being a little bit cheaper and with what you do. Um I found out a little bit more that Yeah. the
they call it the truck, the box that clips in is 3,200 bucks, but it's just like a computer. You can buy a basic computer for 3,200 bucks and this thing has five cards in it. So the cards you
purchase to run everything is where your money starts going up. So they explained it to me um just like buying a basic computer and then you start buying your hard drives and you start buying your RAM and your all that stuff that goes in there.
Depending on the quality you get and what you have to run is where your money comes up. So, that's where we're sitting at with that one that I just I just found that out Monday, I think it was that that came through. Um, as far as our boiler checks, uh, usually
we have them done by now. The state has to come in and look at everything. I have them all peeled open, just waiting. Um, somehow we got missed in the shuffle, so now it's September 4th is what we're scheduled to be seeing for the boilers. Um they called me in April
and wanted to come the first part of May and we were actually still using them. I said that can't happen. Um the lady goes why not? And I said well I'm in North Central Minnesota. And she goes oh well she's in Texas.
>> So it didn't make any sense. So now I called I got a phone call I called Tuesday. Yeah. Yesterday and yesterday afternoon I got a call from the guy that does this area. He's doing the Minneapolis school system right now. So, he's estimated that he'll be here September 14th. And I said, I don't want
to push it any further. I said, if you get somebody or something, I said, I want somebody up here. Um cuz I want to make sure that they pass. And if there I mean, I'm sure they will, but who knows? We've got another new inspector. This is a new guy. So, just like with the fire marshals and all that, when you get a
new inspector, they all look at something different. Um, so hopefully we'll get that all back together. And I that's just summer went well. We're getting a lot of outside stuff now done that hasn't been done for a couple years.
Just some grounds things and um aspects like that just because of staffing. And it went really well to go to North have everybody clean there and then come here and take and whip everything out. So um big thing left is the gym at North, but we've got to wait
till after Fleck Fest for that. Um, if they don't use it, it's okay, but I don't want to do the floor just in case it has to get used for the community meal. >> Sports meeting supposed to be. >> So, um, there's some other stuff going
on, but I think >> Mr. Cap's going to talk about that a little later. We'll touch on that. >> Yeah. And part of his thing when they were, um, just doing a walk through with Chad and administration. We have a lot of unique classroom setups and microwaves and refrigerators and it's
not just the most sanitary thing. And um our health and safety people at Lakes Country have talked about we had to kind of clean that stuff up a little bit. So we're going to try to put together a plan to phase some of that stuff out. Um just a lot of stuff in classrooms that >> probably don't have to necessarily be there. I know it's a comfortable setup, but um we got to be cognizant of our
energy use and that kind of stuff too. So put together a plan for that. You guys got any other questions? Anything else I can enlighten you on? >> All right. Thanks, Chad. >> Yep. Brings us to Mr. Cap.
Uh my report, I met with the district secretaries on Monday. We met for an hour, hour and a half, and they met longer than that. Just good discussion of just open agenda. I just wanted to know if I just gave them scenarios. if a student comes in, who does this, who does that, and um it's really filled me in. Um we got a great group there with
also Tammy joining them. Um the one thing we talked about is the online the registration process of kids coming in is kind of been a headache of who gets what what paperwork. Um so there Heather Westby this week is working this week cuz she's at Madora next week. Um she's tasked herself with putting together an
online registration system. So all preK through 12 kids who register every year online. It's a easy process. Um no paperwork. Um, so it'll be obviously a little change for us, but um, it's when we went through it, we walked through it together as a team on Monday and they were very impressed how easy it was. So
it's all through JMC and it's pretty easy. Um, so they're going to work on that, which will they want to go, they thought it'd be best to go back um, go out with the back to school meeting with the with the students. So people will know how to do both step by step how to do that back to school stuff. Uh, work
on a workshop schedule with our administrative team. Um, got a lot of fun stuff planned on Monday and Friday mornings. I'm excited about that. Some good stuff happening. Um part of Friday morning, um we have a guest speaker coming and I thought it'd be a snalle treat for the staff. So we have coffee
33 truck is coming at 7 from 7 to 8:30 on Friday morning and Kensington Bank has agreed to sponsor that event and pay for that for an appreciation of our staff. So that'll be kind of a nice fun way to end workshops. Um the we have another two o'clock
meeting today for the bond, but there is our final copy of the brochure which will be printed off I believe next week. Get ready to put out there, but Carl Henderson did a great job. A lot of different drafts, but um came out looking pretty good. So other than that,
good start. A lot of stuff going on. The staff's been very helpful and um enjoy meeting a lot of people. All right, any questions for Mr. Kemp? Then we will move to new business. Uh we just have the first reading of the
following policies. Uh 602, organization of school calendar and school day. Uh policy 423, employee student relationships and policy 424, license status. Any major updates on those? No,
I put the stars where I looked at on the red line from MSBA when there was updates. Um, as I think most schools do, you guys follow MSBA's policies and if they make guidance changes, typically you look at those and adopt those as is. So, nothing major. Um, obviously you're
starting school this year uh before Labor Day, which is a change. Usually able to wasn't a penalty. Um, so that's the calendar school day one. Um, otherwise knowing the rest are all pretty pretty straightforward.
All right. Any questions or comments on those? So, you done you done bring those forth to the next meeting for the second meeting? You guys do. Okay. >> And then if there's no questions, comments there, then we'll move into our discussion items. Uh discussion item
number one is the north parking lot. Uh this kind of came up. I guess I was walking with Chad last week. Uh they're not building blocks too, which I learned about those boilers and it makes sense since those things are aging, but I think there's still life left in them. So hopefully we can fix those at that 10 to 12,000 bucks.
But um just, you know, I'm all for keeping the buildings up in the parking lots, but I think right now with where we're at in this process, um I'd rather not spend the 58,000 bucks on them doing the whole north parking lot. Um I did talk to the buildings and grounds committee about just for this for this
fall. Um just doing still some work. There's three to four areas that are in dire need. Um, and Chad did talk to Ferguson. >> Yeah, I did I did call and talk to Ferguson. Um, he got back to me and said that they do do they will come do
patchwork. Um, so I Monday um did our couple areas back here and went to North and measured out those areas and I sent that off to him. um he wanted sizes. >> So, I I took some pictures and sent that
off to him and he I'm waiting for him to get back to me on on what it would be for them to uh repair some of those areas. The only area that I didn't really measure up and I kind of left it as a question to him is when you turn into that back parking lot on the down
at the bottom when you turn into that back parking lot to the east there, that corner. I mean, you can kind of see even in the picture, it's really busted out and broken. >> Um, so I just I put that in there and made a comment that that this is a
corner. Um, I don't know how how we would repair that or if that's something they would do or if it's something on our aspect that maybe we just try and get some gravel in there and get it packed in. Um, I've been talking to somebody else about when we like do some
graveling back here and some graveling at south about doing the chloride after you get it graveled. That really helps kind of bind it and set it together. Um, I don't know how big a patch is or whatever, but if we possibly do that when they come in, maybe we get gravel
in there ourselves and just have a shoot that quick to try and see if that'll firm that corner up. We don't have a lot of traffic that goes around there because normally when our trucks come to unload, it's full of cars and they park in the
middle and park in the sides. You all know that. So, they can't actually pull a semi in and around to unload at the kitchen or even to unload at our loading dock. So, any of the semis that come in actually back in off of the street right up along the left side of that parking
lot. So the breakout is is more or less just water running off and and taking care of that. >> Well, and that's our snow. That's where >> some of it. Yeah, they push some of it into that corner and up along that side. >> That's one of the worst parts there.
That's the part that all the people are complaining about is driving in and out of that place. >> Well, it's on the left side. It's actually on the left side. When you go out, there's a big It's a big cutout right there. You know, the snow actually goes right above that arrow to the left. They try and push a lot of it down along
the building in there is where they've been doing the last couple years. But >> Chad, you said you did not take a picture of that part or measure it. >> I took a picture of it and I I sent it to him. >> Oh, you did? So, he has He should be able to fix it. >> Yeah.
>> That would be a part of That's me. That's the biggest concern. >> We definitely got to get some tar in there. Yeah, the gravel >> I feel like the gravel will >> it'll just pull out of there >> because you're kind of taking a corner there and it tends to spin a little bit. It'll be a hole >> and they cut some more out to make it
nice and even, but like that's Yeah. And that are they still on the dock to have it done before August 24th? Is that in their timeline? >> Well, I I I put in there that I'd like to have it done before school starts, which is September 1st. >> They're supposed to happen today. I
think the roads >> are they close down. >> They're hoping to be there today. >> Are they in down for a week or so yet or no? >> It'll be in a week. Will >> they do both? Lift this. >> No, they'll only do one this year. Then
will be next year. >> Good. >> Well, Chad and I will give him a call this afternoon or after this just to confirm. They might have other crews, you know, but >> they're hauling, so it >> that saves them a lot of money. They're already got guys coming this way, right? So,
>> yeah. >> And that's why I was hoping when I came in this morning that I'd have an email or an answer back from him for the meeting today, but I didn't have one yet. So, >> are they getting stuff from the aspect? >> You know, I don't I don't know. I asked Joey that question where they were hauling from and I didn't hear from
them. So, I'm I'm thinking that might be I think that's only >> but >> Oh, for the interstate probably. >> No, I wouldn't. >> It can't be too far away. I wouldn't think >> tanks they have there. >> Yeah. No, just I mean obviously I want to try to save the money we can now if it's you know if the bond doesn't pass
we can look at addressing it again. Um can't keep pushing it down the road, but and there's only one bid that we got for this. I think anything over 10,000 bucks probably should get a couple more bids just to um be fair with our tax dollars. So I think now we'll just patch it and
uh get it as best we can for the school year and go from there. So just want to give you update on that. Questions, other comments. Okay. Uh school board retreat August 19th right after the morning meeting. >> Yeah, if that works out. I just want to
try to get an hour together just discuss just continue to give me information about the school district and things and goals and plans and um discuss some bond things. Um Carl Henderson and Whitth might come to that um just to keep everybody in the same loop and where we're at. I think they have met with you
guys all as a whole board for a while. So um you guys are extremely busy so it's hard to try to find a time in the evening. I just thought you guys are going to be here that morning. Um I know Darren said he might not be able to make it that way. So, it's up to you guys if you want to still meet with six or you want to try
to find a different time. I just want to try to nail down a date. >> Thoughts? >> I'm okay as long as Darren is all right with it. >> Yeah, I guess that would be my question too is all right. a deal. We can always we can still do it.
>> Or is there I mean is there another time where everybody but me you know like is there another time where we could do a second? >> There were two times I said I couldn't come that but have opened up so I could come evening 19th 20th. I don't know if I was the only one that couldn't come
then. >> Um >> well you were available the 19th evening. >> Yep. And I think that you're and you weren't. >> But now I am. >> No, you are. Okay. I didn't look at it. >> Well, I thought this was settled. So, I
should have called you. I'm sorry. >> That's fine. Nope. Let's look at Kayla's. Well, it work good for me because I put a 7:45 in the evening on my calendar. So, uh I will
Kayla is good on the 19th. So, 19th evening. It's up to you guys. Do you want to move the actual meeting that at 7 o'clock as well or keep the morning meeting? >> Just keep it. So the morning meeting and night or you want to move the shoulder. >> Should we just can what time meeting and
evening that day? >> What time are you available? >> Um any probably anytime after about 3 3:30. >> So I mean if we did a 5:30 meeting that evening and then just did our retreat after that instead of coming in at 7:00 and coming back at 7:00. >> That's good cuz you wouldn't make the
morning meeting either. >> Make the morning meeting. >> Okay. So let's should we look at doing a 5:30 evening meeting on Perfect. Does that work for everybody? >> Everybody here. >> Okay. So then we'll just have to post that one that we're going to change that
date for the evening. So then just to be clear, we'll have a 5:30 p.m. board meeting with a retreat to follow. All right. This is just a sidebar about my
calendar. I I don't know if they're going to get there, but I really liked when the schoolboard meetings was one sheet, you know, and you could look when you're trying to do a calendars and now you got to scroll through. I don't know if they have them mono through every month. Remember, you could just see schoolboard meeting day. It was one
sheet. >> I don't look at the calendar. Yeah, it was on camera. >> It It's just um >> or maybe they just have an You know what? Maybe we just make an internal document for ourselves, too. That would be fine. They don't need to have a >> Are you talking about cycle clair or a different calendar somewhere else?
>> Uh well when you go to the district well as the calendar was somewhere on the schoolboard I don't know we can talk about that later. >> Was it under the school board? >> Uh but then you go to calendar >> meeting calendar. >> Yeah. So then you kind of got to go to the next month or the next month. I
don't know if they're all on >> Oh, you're saying just to have it >> a doc labeled out August, September, October. >> I guess I'm just lazy, right? You know, just look at that. You know, >> see, you look ahead, Claire. I have to go just day to day here. So, >> what have I got next? 10 minutes.
>> What have I got next? >> Yeah. I don't know if she has, >> but I still can't get that. One's at seven. >> Okay, got it. >> Thank you. Maybe on that one.
>> All right. Anything else there? We made that change and then we're going to talk device policy. >> Claire, are you on the two o'clock call today? >> I cannot come. >> I'm just going to remind myself quick to tell Carl Anderson it's at night now that morning cuz they would have come the 19th which is fine. I got driving
somebody to Minneapolis. >> I you know I might be able to be on my phone just tell them I'll try and do that. >> Well, it's fine. We'll see. Um yes. So Mr. Where does um when we first met end of June, he had said he was working on device policy. Um I'm I'm in favor of
some kind of policy. Majority of schools have something in place. Um my previous district, we had one that was actually more strict than this and it actually came with very little um kickback. Uh very successful. Um teachers absolutely love it. Teachers
are having a tough time with kids nowadays the way it is and this is one less thing they have to please. Um, what I've told everybody I've talked to about this, people have asked about it. We have to hold them accountable. And that goes from myself to the custodians, the cooks, if we see a phone, we have to take it away. We can't try to be friends
and be that person unless you have phones. We all have to follow the policy uh what's in place. So, the policy that Mr. Wood has put together, I think got feedback from the leadership team. I believe he sent it out to um families investing questions and it's help FAQ, but basically the phones are away from
bell to bell. So when they come to school in the morning, phones are away till the school day is over. Um it I was on a conference call with superintendents across the region last Wednesday. Almost every school has one and every superintendent on the call said it has dramatically improved
academics and attendance and kids conversating and and that kind of stuff. So uh it's only been um viewed positively by schools who have done it so far. Can I ask a quick question? And um I read this before, but then you made me
maybe maybe I missed something. So if uh cook or any person see that they're ask for the phone, >> they they should. Yep. That's the expectation. >> And and I like that. I just think that there might be some occasions when
the strategy used to talk with the child about why they need to turn the phone could could go sideways >> with some staff. And I I don't know if there should be some flexibility there that if maybe somebody's not comfortable doing that, they ask get for
administrative help. I've just seen that where it doesn't always go well and the situation gets bigger than a bread box. >> Yeah, we can. >> I don't Do you want to talk about that at all? you were secondary. >> For the most part, kids are like, "Oh,
have it, you know, they just they pick it up, they whatever." Um, in mine, we just had uh holders in the classroom. This will be different as I understand it. Um, so they they did have access to it
sometimes, but if they forgot it in their pocket, you know, sometimes teachers or other staff members want to get into a >> a bumpy exchange. >> Bumpy. Yeah, there we go. Um and and so
kids will fight back, but my response was always if they're not actively on it, but it's in their pocket, let's say it's just in their hoodie pocket or something, and they're not on it, you don't see them on it, don't fight that battle because the kid
who is they're being respectful, but maybe they did just throw in their pocket and walk out. It's going to take time and there's going to need to be some reminders and then you're going to have to lay the law down, but um you know, don't get into
the power struggle with the kid who you know is going to fight back >> or maybe give them a toolbox. If if a child doesn't you know, okay, my bad, whatever, then then >> then you stop that exchange and you move
to plan B. I am 180% in favor of self. No question about that. I just worry a little bit about, you know, not everybody has the same background when we were working with a student that might unexpectedly be, you know, not inclined to acquies.
>> No, that's why I said my biggest regret with this policy is we didn't do it three, four years ago because it's just a game changer of um one less thing teachers have to please and people. Um but yeah, we'll maybe talk about some kind of process where if you're not comfortable approaching somebody um you need to email this person or that
person, we'll take care of it. >> Yeah. or if if you if you sense that it's oo this isn't going to go well, maybe back off and and then so that it can get handled without it getting ugly. >> And to your point, Claire, it's going to
take some education on our part to our staff, >> right? >> To maybe, for lack of better terms, pick your vows. Do do you really want to engage in this one >> or how do you approach, >> right? >> You know, what's your tone of voice? What's your posture? How close are you to the student? you know, teach teach some of those skills
>> or as my wife would tell me, it's not how I or it's not what I say, it's how I say it. So, you know, >> and like I we went round, we did this three, four years ago, it's just a correct path or should we teach kids be more responsive with the phone. It's we've tried everything. We've tried so many different ways and it's just
these kids are so entrenched to their phones, we just, you know, all my soups I've worked with, that's what we just have had to go through a pretty hard fast policy. um it's it's a challenge but um you will notice a difference in attendance and grades and behaviors.
>> So I guess I just want to say one last thing cuz I do think teachers have to take everybody has to do it. The cook everyone but the actual taking of the phone may need some skill development on the staff or may need a different staff
member to take care of it but everybody has to do it. you can't just always call office, you know, everybody has to be a part of that plan. So I'm very supportive of I just that's the one piece I want to make sure that >> and I mean having done this I don't know
a lot of times the first the first conversation with the kid asked me are you aware of our new policy in just a calm voice >> and not accuse me you know yeah not give it to me just are you aware of the new policy um you know okay here's what it
is if you don't know please put your phone away um or next time. I I will take it, you know, because I I sit in meetings and glaze over. So do kids.
They're not hanging on our every word when we go through the policy with them. So they might need that second round of, "Hey, did did you know that we have new policy?" Maybe they were gone. Maybe they stepped out to the bathroom at that time. Whatever it is, but you can't always just make the assumption that
they do know. Well, I would assume September enforcement looks a little different than May enforcement. Absolutely. Right. I mean, we're going to start out, we're not going to just go guns ablazing in September. Obviously, we're going to, >> as you said, hey, we have new policy.
Let's put that away versus it's mine, you know, by maybe fossiling starts like that in September, but everybody else is going to weed their way into this. >> And I was and I was very cognizant of my staff, too. We have to be good role models. We can't be on our phones all the time either. we have to do the same
thing and I mean I had the address of several sports staff on the phones and we'll I'll do the same thing if we have to you know I shouldn't have to but we need to be good role models so a couple schools did send back some data um this one school they had 240 referrals 240
discipline referrals in 2425 cell phone policy they had 182 felt there was six 26% less referrals because of less issues the cell phone so a lot of them had some different data education stuff that was discipline one So that was a just a thing to share. So
>> So how does the staff like so like coaches for instance or remind the Remind app you know people are using the remind app. So now does so does all the staff now and coaches everybody now they're not going to be using apps to
communicate with their players during the daytime or because that's happened in the past they send out remind hey remember to bring this to the to the bus or or whatever it is, but they've communicated through apps. And
>> how are they going to communicate now for the for that purpose? Is is that going to be addressed? Like I mean, they should be able to make announcements, I would think. So, >> or how about like outside entities for our kids that are doing the college courses and stuff like
that? Is there any apps that they're going to have to be using that they can't access on their device? Yeah, we didn't have a product. We did announcements um during we did announcements during passing time so people knew if there was um a schedule change and that kind of stuff. Um one
thing we had a little hiccup on was kids who had jobs. Um so we we had to make a couple accommodations for certain kids let let them go check their phone because they needed to know if they got called in or whatever. So we'll have to, you know, bet through all those. Um we felt it was better to start strong and then pull a few things back to get
people as opposed to open in weekly. So open a little weaker. Um but yeah, definitely some things that we need to talk through. Um no, we'll try to have a more hard set this is how we're going to do. This is our process um to you guys on August 19th for you to include the
device policy. Um so if you have any questions between now and then um we like to put the questions because it helps us bet through scenarios. So please email Nate or Tanya or JRE. um just >> I just don't want to see people get treated differently and all a sudden that people are saying, "Oh, the
athletes get to have their phones or to look at or whatever." >> I'm glad you said what you said because actually I I have my meeting called up in front of me today and I I added that right in our app section. It's >> do not send out Remind messages during school days. Kids won't will not be on
their cell phones. So good good point on that Darren. So, I'll add that right on my agenda. >> Mhm. >> And and really those messages really shouldn't go out unless there's a a drastic change anyway that day. Unless there bus time, but we can announce that. >> So, no, that's a very good point. Thank
you. >> No, and I People hate the comment, but we survived without phones when we were kids, you know? I mean, so they we'll we'll get through it. Little hiccups. Um, but yeah, we actually we're not going to go there yet, but we took out one to ones a couple years ago. I just
checked out devices. It's amazing that people are talking together in the hallway. They weren't on their Chromebooks during lunch or recess or, you know, passing time and um but yeah, no, it's a it's a good thing. I'm glad that uh we're taking a step towards it. It's better for the kids to not be on
the phone so much. you you guys probably get it, but you see if we the first time we did it, we had all the we actually locked up 6th through 9th grade phones, you know, next to our principal's office and all day long beep beep beep beep and getting the amount of notifications. If
you can imagine a kid sitting in the classroom getting those and they're buzzing in their pocket, they're not paying attention. So, they're waiting to see who texted me, you know. So, yeah, any feedback between now and the 19th would be appreciated. And um >> I like your comment about being good
role models cuz I think that's I mean I've heard that >> in the past. >> Yep. >> Well, more at the high school level than at the elementary level, but just that if you're going to take those away from the students in a sense and
you got to be good role models, can't be on their own sitting room while they're doing their homework or whatnot. Can can I just ask do we are the kids are there padlocks now for lockers you know because >> they can choose a lock if they want if they don't want to lock down locker they
don't >> so it's it's student choice now >> yeah I was just thinking you know I'm going to get my phone stolen well we can find it's >> people need to be responsible not steal people's phones and that'll be >> they have an option to lock their locker locker
>> that's what I'm saying you know if you choose not to lock up your phone. You choose to maybe not have stolen like, hey, I got no cameras in a locker room. It's illegal, so I can't go look to see. >> Good discussion. Thank you. >> Yeah. Any other comments? Will we get a
copy um cap of the um Anderson Carl mailing ahead of time? >> Uh the brochure. >> Yep. >> You'll have it in the next 10 minutes. Okay,
>> other questions then I would look for a motion to adjurnn. So move. All >> in favor say I. I. >> Motion carries.