##VIDEO ID:GUuihV7k65M## okay we'll call the meeting to order as is our custom would everyone please stand remove your head here and flag we say theedge IED Ali to the flag of the United States of America and to the repblic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all you have anything for the agenda I don't have any okay I'm going to add toward the beginning uh we'll call it 3A right behind public input and we'll just uh call it an introduction of the facility and operations Personnel our new guy even you have to stand up eventually eventually call you right now okay we are all present and accounted for uh with that addition I would like a an approval of the agenda a motion I'll make a motion to approve the agenda show I'll second and Joe in on the second any other discussion all in favor the approval of the agenda say I I opposed is carried schedule presenters we're starting out with stev Truss who's going to uh make a presentation on the 2024 assessment would you like to oh yes open it up um or not so this is our assessment presentation for the fall it's a a little bit late but uh we are getting into it now and uh Stephen is our assessment coordinator for the district as part of his duties and so he's here to talk about not only MCA data but some other data as well with him next all right um the three quick things before I Le into the actual you know and bolts and everything one like Jeff said this normally would have been done in probably the second uh maybe the first October meeting or the SEC the September meeting um sorry I didn't get to it had a couple things going on personally that kind of help me out a little bit this fall uh but wanted to get to it so I talked to Jeff last week about getting it on here soon as we could second thing board you had requested last year that I'd get back to doing the because prior to co we had done kind of like the cohort tracking them as they go through grade levels um and then we got rid of it for a couple years because there were no Assessments in uh the spring of 2020 spring of 2021 was all across the board throughout the state with results and even Theon kids taking it um but then we decided after a few years to add that back in so that's the second thing so we got that back in there and then the third thing is just in the past it had just been MCA results and administratively we talked and we had also had some suggest suggestions from teachers too just asking that we put other assessments up there too that we do just to kind of paint a broader picture so we got some from both buildings and then some District assessments as well so that's why there's a little bit more information than the last couple times we've done this so Jeff can you move to the next one so here's just the general informationa scores um this will all be shown in you know more detail on the next three four slides um so our local scores this is from last spring our results so in C we saw some decreases in reading math and science proficiency so those are the three that are tested by MCAS um reading is grades 3 through 8 and 10 math is grades 3 through 8 and 11 and science is grades 58 and then in can of Falls that's in 10th Grade it's whatever year the that the high school does biology so it can fall 10th grade um we were above the State numbers in math and reading and below in science Statewide there was um literally down to the decimal point reading math proficiency were the same and a slight increase in science um and this is taking into account all students that participate in ncas here locally and for the Statewide when I'm comparing those results um opt outs are not included in these results and any other assessment that was offered in the spring as well potentially in place of MCA like the mtas is not included but any accommodations um are included in the MCA results um great specific information is publicly available on the Minnesota report card so if you want to go on and dig in deeper to some of these things or if you want to see a specific Trend um from a specific grade level in a specific subject locally Statewide from a different District you can do all that it usually gets released publicly end of August beginning of September um building goals districtwide as well um and then staff development for the district kind of tailored to the needs that are identified with principles by both separate building staff development committees and then the PLC so there's individual goals there's PLC goals and then those kind of get set from what Tim and Jennifer kind of want the building goal to be free to their buildings uh individual score reports uh I was clearly making this one before conferences because they were sent home at fall conferences um redact training in the elementary teachers and middle school high school special ed teachers um they're all completing that by the end of school this year and then there will be some teachers and building that are part of reading instruction that will be and then him and I as well that'll be undergoing this next year um and then new Elementary reading curriculum is scheduled to be in place next year at the elementary it was going to be this year we were going to purchase one last spring but with the Rak training um we kind of discussed administratively that we didn't want to throw redc training which is taking a lot out of teachers we didn't want to throw that a new curriculum teachers all in the same year so that's all just relative you know relevant I should say to especially reading results so here's a comparison of the districts that touch Canon Falls along with State um and I believe I got the the raw data on one of the slides coming up as well but you can see his bar graph there where we're at so that's the reading and again at the top you can see the grades that it's for this one is the math and then there's science as well and like I said uh can Falls we do biology in 10th Grade so it's 10th grade for us so here's the raw data which is uh compar the actual numbers and everything like I said we were locally compared to our 2023 results can falls down a little bit in each of the three areas here's those you know groups that I was talking about earlier that I added back in so you can see the color follows the grade from year to year and I started with 2021 because again they weren't offered in 2020 2021 went back and forth kind of if we wanted to include or not but it gives us another data point to look at so whether or not we think it should be included or not it's just another data point that you can look at with the discussion as well in terms of what you thought about education that you're as a whole going through the pandemic so that's the reading here's the math again and you can see how when you get from grades 8 to 11 obviously there's a couple column jumped there with the same color because they don't take math in grades n to 10 and in Reading they take n and then their science so again that's just offered fifth grade eighth grade and 10th grade so Fifth and eighth grade those teachers um specifically the fifth grade teachers because they teaching all the content they're busy in the spring they go from Reading to right into math to right into science so the spring for the fifth grade teachers is really busy with MCA and then eth grade students as well eighth grade teachers obviously have broken up a little bit by department but eighth grade students are busy in the spring with this um and then you throw in Spring fast Bridge testing in may as well um those Fifth and grade students they go through a lot of testing in the spring so next one here that we this is one of the um questions from some of the staff members asking if we could add this in so again we talked administratively about adding this in um this is just again another data point uh this data is from the spring testing which the spring window for us was in May um the percentiles for fast brid compare more favorably than MCA data that's not to say that this is right and MCA is wrong or that MCA is right and this is wrong it's just another data point to look at um fast brige testing gets done three times a year um and we do it in both reading and math and this helps um it it shows a lot just like MCA data can show a lot fast brid testing can show growth from students it can show where we need interventions whether that's during the school day or whether that's something like bomber Academy or in the middle school if it's recommending a student for homework help um or you know potential assessment for special education services um and then just one little note at the bottom because on almost every single IP meeting I've ever been in if you mention low risk it sounds bad because of the word risk low risk is good think of it as meeting expectations when you're if you're ever looking at something like with fast Bridge results where it's low risk um just it's just the way they laay act so now we're getting into um some more older students this is taken by Juniors each spring and it's played for by the school um the sleds data which we get this from is one year behind in terms of uh like the reporting I guess so this is comparing the class of 2023 right here and you can see the results from class of 2018 through 2023 um Statewide the ACT composite average for 20123 graduating class was 20.73% um almost a full point higher than that um and again we'll be getting class 2024's information probably next spring next summer sometime they update this stuff um and usually just so you know to I would say let's say we've got 80ish students per grade you know obviously um we usually have about 55 to 65 that take it so it's right around 60 that take the ACT year not all students do um some have taken it once already and then they decide to take it us with us as well you know they paid for it on their own some students take it with us the first time then they decide to take it again afterwards and usually they see an increase in score um and there are some students that just they know what they're going into they don't need the act so that's some students decid to take it and some don't but we offer it AP now uh advanced placement courses we offer a variety of advanced placement courses in Canon Falls and that varies from year to year depending on what registration numbers look like for example this year we have five AP courses some years we've had a couple more um sometimes we have one less but we've got five AP courses this year um at most schools you get college credit with a score of a three sometimes it's a four depending on the institution but most public universities if you score three and it's out of five um most public universities will give you college credit if you get a three on it and it's one test at in May each year there's a two week window that AP test take place um and that's based on you know a year-long advanced placement course so like AP Government AP US History AP biology courses like that um so this this is for this pass gr now this is this is the current stuff so last spring in 2024 we had 57 students took a total of 74 exams because there are some students that take two or sometimes three AP exams um and 51 scores so 69% uh were at a three or higher so gaining college credit for that and you can see there and that little dip it just kind of Falls in line with pretty much what we've seen with Assessments in general throughout locally the state and the country um yeah we're in a good place with our AP number we got some teachers that do a very good job and then I think I got one more slide about CL yeah so this is something that Mr Hodes and myself kind of really started pushing um middle of last year when we were going through the training is that sound right um we had to be certified as a klep site first then myself him and Miss Hoffman all had to undergo some training on how to set all this stuff up on Club stands for college level examination program and it's just another way for students to try to get some college credit um I I think it's a great thing that we started implementing this um they're multiple choice tests and you don't have to be a part of an AP or an advanced class to take a klep exam so if a student just well for example all of the students that took klep last year we had nine students take a klep test um none of those were from an advanced place class um they were all from Josh Olson's um psychology or US history courses the general ones um and seven of the nine passed so he was kind of willingly he was our guinea pig to do this he wanted to just like Tim and I he wanted to kind of move forward with another way for students to have an opportunity to get these results so we kind of went with it and he did a good job working with the kids teaching them some of the gaps because there are some things that are on some of these tests that aren't necessarily covered in detailed in the standards so that he wouldn't normally teach um but he does a good job preparing them he's got a book that helps um tailor things to the CP and actually we just recently purchased another book that I got in the hands of Amanda Thompson today for biology because she's going to do something similar with Biology students some that are in her AP bio class and she's also going to start talking to the kids that are in the general biology class as well just like hey if if you're interested in doing this here are the details here's roughly when we offer it um the nice thing about Tim going through the process and training of setting us locally to be a CL site is that it's up to us when we host it's up to us when we host the test so for example last spring I was just working with Josh and his students and we had just said okay let's do the day of teacher Workshop so the day after students got out uh eight of those nine students came in I did another one with the student afterwards because there's some confusion on some things so eight of the nine students came in just the day after they got done and I met with them in one of the rooms and we uh they can take different klep exams at the same time too so that's nice it doesn't have to be just CLEP biology or CLE US history and it's multiple choice test and you get immediate results so you know if you passed or not and they can take exams even in classes that we don't even offer right like French or y y just like a with tons of different selections and with KP yeah it's just they pay the fee to get it done and then they give us a ticket we enter in their information when they come in and a couple clicks on my end and they were taking it and it works out really well and I think it's a great thing that can kind of guid us down this path do you find that klep is more widely accepted than AP programs not that I've seen um it the KP it looks like there's um like in general 50 is like the passing the college credit with ap it looks like it varies more from institution to institution but they're both very widely accepted okay and kids can double up on those two so so for example our kids are Apu history can do a first semester Club get college credit for that get a second semester club and get college credit and get credit for taking the AP exam as well so there are some classes that they can really up on to get college credit yeah like that in that example you could it's some like from social studies teacher for example you probably have do this to where you take like an early US history and then a late US history for college credit if in Tim scenario if they passed both the club tests they would have both of those classes taken before they even got to college and then if they passed the AP test that could be just like three elective credits that college because since they wouldn't need the US Street credit it could apply as like three elective credits so you can yeah they can double up and get quite a bit taken care of there is that a minut do these TR credits stay predominantly in the state or you see transfer they can transfer outc yeah because this is college board testing uh it's kind of Nationwide most college by college other questions for Stephen yes I have and I'm not sure if you have the answer right now this might be more of an email question um so like take a look Tak a look at like fifth grader 50% proficient in in math do we know that other 50% is it like 40% of them are in that kind of approaching category or do we able to have that data as well like yeah they're at like 49 compared to 50 correct off the top of my head I don't we can look it up Tim Dano did some of that looking up for his grades in this building from the spring information because he wanted to get that to teachers um off the top of your head you remember yeah for sixth seventh and eighth grade in Reading we're we have anywhere from 6 to 10% of our students are within four points of of getting a p on the MCA test okay and kind of their the statisticians that set all this up basically say if you're within four points above or four points below the 50 mark because they're the scale score is you know a 550 for fifth grade and 6 grade so anywhere five or four points above or below that you are kind of on the bubble of you could pass it or not pass it on any given day so um that's kind of where with our literacy goals we've kind of focused on trying to hit that those bubble kids because those are the ones that are going to be like tier one interventions classroom regular classroom teacher interventions that can get those kids up into the passing range for that so I guess when I was getting that too so do you see more students moving into that tier tier two interventions or do you see them more commonly come from that tier two getting in that tier one interventions uh I'd say in general the majority of the students who aren't passing are in that kind of in that partial and would be in a tier one they're moving up they're making progress right yeah and and that's one of the reasons why the the uh um fast Bridge results are kind of important to look at in context with this too um they're they're probably more telling for us um on an individual student basis on what we look for because we do a fall winter and spring benchmarking with those and we can see growth of students over time so um we really know if we've got a student who is is not meeting our growth expectations on the fast Bridge test that those are the ones that we need to get an intervention right away I mean I know as a parent those fast Bridge are I I like that a lot more than MC data yeah is fast Bridge recognized by the state in any manner uh it is one of the required testings by the new readed act I believe was that the only one that the state is accept yeah I don't know if dibles got in to that mix or not yeah I don't know but I don't fast Bridges I'm sure yeah yeah M Brian I i' I've seen the fast Bridge stuff and I I agree I think it's a a really good way to measure growth or where they need help um but it seems like there's a lot more instruction going on like it's more time consuming like could that the fast bridge I I don't know they generally take 15 20 minutes each one of those Benchmark tests as opposed to MCA which is generally for every one of those tests it's at least two class periods so and the fast bridge is just more often you're just testing more of Y I think the nice thing about fast bridge too is that like when you go as a parent and you meet with the teacher they bring in the numbers from previous years as well so you see like a really big graph and a really big spectrum of what's actually happening with your kid and so it's appreciated for sure one of the things that can be kind of misleading about MCAS is um the state used to hold an assessment conference and one of the times I went to a session with the statisticians they explained why it looks like in the state that every year that the test scores go down from third grade to fourth grade to fifth grade to sixth grade and then they start bouncing back up is because the test actually the test content changes from year to year and gets harder and harder and like not at an incremental level not not like a one year harder in fourth grade than it was in is exponentially harder every year and they expect those scores to to kind of take that Decline and then and then rise back up so the state pretty much designs it for not for kids to fail but for them not to get 100% correct and so you're you're you're chasing that 100% but you're never going to get there and even the year-to-year even the year-to-year scores so what is uh meets standards at that 50% cut off or that 50 cut off it's not a percent but um changes from year to year so this year seventh graders had a different cut off than the cut off for last year sub gr and it was different for the year before that so that's the thing that gets a little misleading with M trying to track MCA scores is the bar is constantly changing and it's changing based on the students who were taking that test at that time so I know the general public likes to look at those numbers and it's they they tend to not necessarily take it with a grain of salt and as you have described it just it's there's a lot more that goes into this and these answers and these responses and how our kids are actually doing um there's just a lot more that goes into this um to fully understand it which is part of the reason we wanted to incorporate some of the other information to correct not that we shouldn't just rush off MCA data whether it's good or bad for us but let's take it in context of what look like also what was going on during that particular time what are our other assessments doing you know and you said we only go back to 2001 sorry that's as far back as we go 2001 2021 yeah yeah so yeah 2020 there weren't ncas done in spring so that's why this time we started for 2021 um and that year was when they started doing them again and that's like I said you can debate whether or not we should have included that I decided to put it in just as another data point but that was the year when locally we were hybrid Tim building from that building all students were in but then we took some time period of distance learning sure so I was just going to ask I mean obviously we have some really really good numbers but we also have some numbers that are quite low um what are we doing to combat that and um is this some information that we also use when doing teacher evaluations or or what what do we all do with this data so the data is used by all of the plc's um they they get their MCA data and and now the state and and the company that runs them Pearson is putting out a report that actually breaks down the sub uh strands of the test and tells you uh how well we do on each of those areas which uh seeing that data for the first time this year was really enlightening to a lot of teachers I mean it tells you there are areas in those MCA tests that we do really well there areas that we don't do as well and it gives those uh plc's a chance to focus and on those different sub subcategories of the test um in in the elementary school I believe missii has MCA goals um you know in the world's best Workforce report you guys are uh approving for reading and math and in my building for the last two years we've kind of Set uh literacy goals based for all departments and all plc's based on our MCA results so again the focus for us was to look at those kids who are on the bubble who um are are ones that don't take intensive interventions but things that teachers in the classroom can do uh to get them up to that Mark so we've been working on building white literacy in this building to focus specifically on the reading piece of of those things um and you know I'm not making excuses but explanation is that you know we just went through some major changes in uh where content is taught in science so just this year and we've been prepping for this for a couple years with Co kind of got in the middle of it uh a switch uh from teaching physical science in sixth grade and Earth and space science in e8th grade to now it's Earth and space in sixth grade and physical science in e8th grade so did I say that right they switch Yeah they they swapped and that's been pretty disruptive to a lot of the kind of learning things that we've done um with kids so we're going to have a couple years where the science going to look a little a little iffy um but I expect um given the work that that PLC does on things that increase over time uh I you know our math numbers looked better than our reading numbers and I think that uh again we had some Personnel kind of stuff in the map Department last year um that's not there now I think we've got a more stable um group of of teachers without people being on lead for a long time um so I expect those numbers to go too our our math numbers I was really really happy our seven our our seventh grade math numbers didn't look great our eighth grade math numbers were phenomenal um so I think that uh those MCA numbers are going to continue to increase over time um and I'll be really Frank with you my focus is more on the ACT School scores and the AP scores because we're putting interventions in place with kids to get them where they need to be and I want to see where they're at where they when they walk out the door so um those numbers continue to be really pretty good so is it even something as simple as like looking at these numbers going oh looks like maybe this particular class the seven period class maybe next year when they go to eth grade let's focus a little bit more on this or say something as simple as that every class has their own personality tot you know um I'm trying to think when it was was the class of maybe 2018 um every year that group took a science test they rocked it and knocked it out of the park and our science numbers looked phenomenal the years following it looked more normal with what we'd had in the past so um we're going to see because of the class sizes that we have we're going to see just because of the way numbers work bigger swings ups and downs because we don't have big numbers of students in Farmington you're probably going to be more steady just because you've got a lot more kids taking the test so that's just kind of the way statistics work is there are bigger swings because of smaller class sizes with us but it is always something that we focus on we we take a look at these at this data um and it's a part of the PLC planning um every fall when we go through this in fact most teachers now because all these tests are online and we get preliminary results are actually looking at in TR and starting to make plans for the following years for thank you Tom and St I got one more question so the I can see the goals in here in the world's best Workforce so this is for 2025 so we have things we're going to put in place that we're working on now to get to that goal correct and they're they're in place they're okay i' love you say pretty aggressive goals so I mean it's aggressive you're goals too yeah but a 5% swing is a is a pretty is a I like that thank you nice comprehensive presentation thank you Tim as well Stephen had the Safety Committee yeah Jeff asked me if I would just get provide a couple kind of bullet point talking points of where we're at with just some safety things going on um nothing sorry Bob you're looking up there no no presentation I put together he just asked me on Thursday if I would put together some talking points because he said a couple people had asked there just for a broad overview of some update stuff um uh drilled and scenario so far I'm talking in general between the two buildings um have gone well you know we've got blue team fire drills um Alice scenarios things like that um there's a tornado drill each spring um we're always looking for improvement with those myself Tim and Jennifer we um kind of hold ourselves the building our teachers to a high standard with those things so if there's something we don't see we try to correct it even if it's a minor thing or it might seem minor we want to in the drill whether it's getting all the kids in a classroom during a code blue so that way we don't see a student undergoing a medical emergency you know um if one door is open that's one door too many you know um so things like that we're always looking and um again not to poke holes in where our faults are but if we see a fault no matter how minor it may seem we're trying to correct that um I love you guys training there was a training in Rochester uh in June that Tim myself and Jennifer went to on the first day and then Tim and I went to the second day as well um it's I love you guys Foundation is this Foundation that um just does a lot of school safety stuff and we're going to be taking our district through some changes with this um it will change very little if anything about the procedures that we do some of um it is terminology um one of the biggest things that I guess you could call this a change it's more of a just teaching us was the second day that Tim and I were there it was the SRM the standard reunification method where for those of you that remember a couple years ago when we had to reunify students from 3 p.m. to 600 p.m. after there was an event that took place in town um um we would run things differently now knowing what we know based on that training um and some other training that Jennifer and I went through last year that Tim's going to be going through this year um if we happen to need to go off campus for some reason let's say that there's a nuclear um incident at PR Island part of our district fall with in the 10 Mile epz within that so our whole District would have to um go somewhere else um we would now we've been through some training and within that training one thing that I know I really appreciated was we did like a mock re ification three different times there's one day just three ma unifications that took a couple hours each time one time you're the students where you're meet you're getting reunified with your parents one time you're the parents and then one time you're the staff actually doing the reunifying and planning it your own way and then they gave you feedback afterwards on what you thought so by the time the third group did it it was much better you know than the first couple groups but it was very very reassuring to know we got some good things in place and very eye opening in just some other ways too and just knowing some things we have to do um we've been working with early lez and mallerie McCarthy with the goody County Emergency Management on a lot of this they gave us they probably spent $500 on each district in goodu County putting together reunification bins basically they're these heavy duty totes basically that have all sorts of like reunification cards that we would use for parents pens pencils lanyards vests for workers um all sorts of different things that that everything's in there and we' looking through it there's they thought of everything I mean down to again hundreds of tens that they include in case so we can fill out reunification cards for parents come um I mentioned that Tim and Jennifer and I went through some training last winter um Tim's going through that again uh this year that's the Minnesota school-based emergency management program um again I mentioned work with goody County Emergency Management on a lot of different stuff um training new staff in on Alice um kind of working with stepen now on just some things um that we do here locally um things that we talk together about about um again it might seem minor to some people or to some companies maybe but we're in the business of protecting kids here we're going to take that stuff seriously so kind of always trying to keep up to date with that um and then just some random I mean there's always Doors door access cameras entrances exits perimeters um visitor access things that are just randomly come up even in admin meetings after a basketball game that one particular might we might talk about something so all those things are kind of at the Forefront of what can we do to keep students student athletes staff safe throughout the days the nights weekends tournaments um we work with the Minnesota emergency management or the the school safety Cent the School Safety Center and they were down last year I believe y they're down a couple times each of the last years yeah um and they had a lot of high praise for our district as a whole for safety measures that we already have in place in the systems that we have in place so I feel really comfortable with that and I love you guys is a very very broad program that includes the Alice measures as well and as stepen was saying it was more of changes in our um vocabulary than anything not necessarily the system itself it's really always been impressive to me as a parent and a grandparent when kids my kids are going through this as to how well prepared and and and how proactive we are as a district and uh it's you to be commended for that because it passes down to the Educators as well who are equally as prepared for any any things who would have thought we would have gone through some of the situations we have over the last 10 years who would have thought it it just wasn't there a long time ago but kudos to all of you for putting us where we are and to continue to put us where we are and kudos to the I mean every worker we've got here too teachers parents custodians taking this stuff seriously buying into the stuff that we talked to them about and offering suggestions there's no there's nothing we're doing perfect I mean there's always going to be room for improvement in these areas and staff bring those up to us and we we talk about those and figure out ways we can solve those issues so yeah all the all the workers we' got here in the district yeah I think safety is a big priority amongst everybody it is impressive yeah I I really appreciate the updates I think that's I think that's awesome to hear and I think I think people also other people appreciate this for sure any other questions comments okay thank you again we're moving on public input does anyone wish to speak to The District in regard to anything on the agenda this evening you have up to three minutes open for comments close for comments um 3A the introduction here um we have a new facilities and operations person I guess Stephen why don't you stand up there so the camera can get a good shot break this thing I don't think scare eventually I'll turn this over to uh Mr Samson who has more input here but um Stephen is a an alumnus of Canon Falls tell us a little about when you graduated in Born and Raised born in the old hospital year so I I got a lot of ties to this town um I find a lot of pride in this place um just by graduating and or just being a resident paying my tax dollars somewhere and then sending my kid now so I got a lot of pride in it and then the buildings are that's me I I I fix buildings I fix mechanical things that's what I do and so I got a lot of pride in fixing things and it doesn't stop with just buildings you know there's other things we need to fix do on my sides of things you know with people I also have people and kids and I'm a teacher I like safety so it's all it's all it's all what I was born to do and I'm glad I found this job and I'm glad I got the opportunity um yeah what year did you graduate 2008 full deep it's all relative my friends I will I will pass that on to Jeff you probably had a procedure for hiring didn't you yeah we went through a process for hiring as we normally do with any position in the district and um obviously Stephen came out on top and we were all impressed with uh him and uh the promise of what he can bring to the district and and lead us forward with our facilities and be a part of a good team here in C fall so we do welcome Stephen and we feel confident in what he's going to be able to bring welcome moving on consideration to approve the 5S report is Davidson here yes hiding back hiding back uh 1991 alumni old um cash flow worksheet here for finance uh there'll be a lot of stuff happening in the next couple board meetings and throughout probably the first part of calendar year 2026 as we uh will be working on building the preliminary fiscal 26 budget uh significantly earlier than normal as we look at pting we reduced as a result of the levy not passing uh just we get all ahead of it and and make sure that uh we're very transparent with that uh in terms of the fin report here there's not a whole lot of significant things that happen at this time of year until we get to the bottom of the report Jeff and that is uh Debt Service payments there are typically two times during the year that Debt Service payments in school districts are made uh August is one that's usually interest only payment and February uh the payment will actually go out at the end of January but uh that's our principal of Interest payment uh at that point about 1.9 million will go out the door and we'll be looking then at poting in some of those funds that we've been holding uh with aers the the building project reimbursement fund that CTE hbac project uh we done really quite well uh being able to kind of manage the funds there and earn interest for the district and get a lot of things done uh with those CP back we went through that uh building project um as the course span over several years usually they're a little bit quicker time frame than that but it allowed for us to uh hold back some funds and as long as we had cash flow to do it uh to let those dollars earn some interest and throughout that project over about $800,000 worth of items that normally wouldn't have gotten done were able to get done with those projects and uh things that most people would think uh to to notice or recognize very important things to facilities um so all around for the the district and the community uh and what we got out of it and for the kids very good project all around we're still kind of reaping some of the the benefits of that uh not a whole lot more to report once we get to the next meeting you'll see truth and Taxation uh viw of the budget uh and some other things so you'll get some more numbers in future meetings but you have any questions I can sure do my best to answer Josh do you recall what the total interest earned or what it will round up to be I'll be able to pull it out May the next me I you guys can have that but it's six figures yeah I just I think Josh deserves a lot of credit for that to not only we got projects done but we're going to have additional funds that he was able just to have an accountant ear interest and we had a facilities meeting this morning and the list of things on that on that list to tackle is immense and I don't know how we would have done it without without Josh doing that and so thank you a lot of help from all theide groups you know there's always going to be in a district uh more needs than are dollars and we try to prioritize the best we can to get the bigger things done the more important things done they're all important at different levels but um it is balance a lot of people that want to help all that out so and so we're all clear that that interest earned has to be allocated project anyone else for Josh if not I would look for a motion to approve the finance report as show I'll move to luk on the appr on the motion a second Brian on the second any other discussion all in favor the approval of the finance report say I I oppos that is carried consent agenda items under the consent agenda are considered routine and will be enacted under one Motion in the event a board member wants to discuss any single item it can be removed from the consent agenda for a separate action anyone have any questions or concerns or inquiries I'll give you just the second to minute to look at that once you are uh inclined we can approve the consent agenda once you've reviewed yeah we do need to give the gifts I didn't make myself a note Jeff why don't you uh tell us about the gifts we've received yes I'd like to uh read off the gift donations for this month um the ganas Foundation donated $2,750 to robotics uh Donita fline donated school supplies Bonnie chist purchase PBIS turkey Bingo prizes and snacks along with Katie Lori what just Katie who's Katie I don't know that Elementary added that okay all right um the Ed Foundation has a number of gifts here we'll buz through the real quick $246 40 for novel Lemonade Wars in fifth grade in Gan rud's room $600 uh for Center vention seal fourth through nth grade for fransen 1,320 or $1,310 for an author visit and by Mrs cop $1,100 for the mil City Museum for Miss catlick $220 for Roa Rock claiming with Miss catlick $740 for a visit to hogville park by Mrs C $1,165 for Raz kids uh for Miss Nelson and finally Wang and Prairie Church supplies for hygiene products clothing and coats so we do thank all of our donations for this looks like the third grad's having a lot of fun this year needs to be a third grad thank you anyone else wish to uh inire about anything on the consent agenda if not I would look for a motion to approve when you're ready I'll make a motion in on a motion a second second by Katie other discussion all in favor of the approval of the consent the say I I opposed that is carried soup report what do you got for it uh yep I have the uh social media report that I have and one of the things I wanted to call to your attention was the number of people that were reached with our uh Food Service po Court the amount I mean that's a very mediumsized City in the state of Minnesota the amount of people that it reached so I want to say kudos to Lori and her group of a band of married Cooks uh that we have that pulled off the P pork and I would say that we are probably the talk of the state right now as far as as uh serving uh fresh meals like that so um kudos to them but the rest of the report is as uh presented there and you can see that our monthly reach is getting bigger and bigger year over a year when you at this paragraph so that's always good that we're out there telling our story K and Falls um second thing is superintendent goals just wanted to put that on there for your your review um I will be adding some more items to the three goals that you guys approved earlier this year um as they come up I will be adding those to fit those into each of the coal areas as far as what we doing and everything else is as presented pretty simple any questions all I got moving on we have no old business under action items under the new business we have a public hearing and consideration to approve the 2425 world best Workforce plan document uh this is a yearly item that we have and this is a public meeting so that if there's any public comment about our world's best Workforce plan document um this would be the time to speak up about it as you can see and Tim and Stephen referenced this earlier not only do we have our goals for each of our buildings in there um but it also adds a little bit more into the context of what we're trying to achieve anyone have any questions questions or comments a hefty document it's a lot going on there y kind of nice to see it there was a time when uh that that wasn't such a priority for the school district wasn't needed I guess and now certainly it is if you're ready I would look for a motion to approve the 2020 2425 world's best Workforce plan doc I'll make a motion to approve Clint on the motion I'll second seconded by Luke other discussion comments all in favor the approval of the 2425 world's best Workforce plan doc say I I opposed that is carried consideration to approve an a P US history and government student trip to Washington and Colonial Williamsburg in 2026 with World History AP US Government and AP US History teacher Heather Le um I believe this has been a trip in the past yeah they went last year okay um I wasn't sure if it was a couple years ago no I think it was last year or last spring I should say No Reservations you're in full support uh the feedback that I got from Heather from the other people involved were um what do you do to your kids to make them behave so well so I think we're probably in pretty good pretty good hands with that so question for Jim would look for motion to approve I'll make a motion you in on a motion seconded by second Katie other comments or discussion yeah can you just remind me how the funding of this trip Works how that I don't recall I think that's a self pay because okay and they fund raise usually yeah okay we'll approve some sort of no fund raise I didn't last but you had a choice right or she tried I think maybe there were a couple op there were a couple options or something but it was all parents P yeah did they did some letter writing and I think they they um sought out some specific groups for um donations for donations gocha okay I just love that our kids get to go on these groups I think it's awesome yep that's great okay we have a motion in the second on the floor discussion is closed all in favor of the approval of this uh Student Government trip or government student trip say I I I opposed that is carried consideration to approve a 2426 staff development plan and budget policy 425 yep as you can see this is off based off of our school work policy 425 which is here and this is a plan for the next two years for staff development and uh Bud for and I do recommend approve any questions comments and so I'm assuming this is put together with a collaboration of principles and you yeah princip stel committee members of that committee I'll make a motion to approve I'll second kti on the motion julan on the second other discussion all in favor of the approval of the 24th through 26 staff development plan and budget say I I I opposed Carri consideration to approve a leave in accordance of teachers Master agreement article 10 leaves of absence section 7 Child Care leave from december24 to December 2024 with a return date of January 6 uh this is for Samy Lawrence and I recommend approval I'll make a motion to approve motion by second it by Brian any other comment discussion all in favor of this leave in accordance with the master agreement say I I opposed Carri consideration to approve a in accordance with teacher Master agreement article 10 leaves of absence section 7 Child Care leave from March 2925 to June 425 missil I April 8 Ser the April yeah yes same thing starting with April 8th through June 5th in accordance with the teachers Master agreement uh this is for Sarah Brian can I recommend approval I'll make a motion Julian on a motion second seconded by Luke other discussion all in favor of the leave as shown say I I opposed Carri excuse me okay number six this time we got it consideration to approve a leave in accordance with teachers Master agreement article 10 leaves of absence section 7 Child Care leave March 2925 to June 4 2025 in return date of June 5 2025 this is for Liz Malik and I recommend approval motion to approve I make a motion to approve Katie on the motion second approved by Luke other discussion all in favor of the leave in accordance with teacher Master for Liz say I I I opposed Carri consideration to approv the updated 2425 winter coaching list um I believe Reed put the updated ones in can see and this I believe fills out all the coaches for the winter I'll make a motion to approve I'll second motion by Clint seconded by jool L to approve the updated version of the winter coaching list for this season any other discussion all in favor say I I opposed carried discussion on Canon fall school's classroom size guidelines this is a discussion item right yeah it's a discussion item I just wanted to make sure that you guys have this in front of you prior to going through what we're probably going to go through um depending on if uh there's any appetite for raising these numbers we would need to reassess this and R this class siiz document um can I ask why when this is just basically just guidelines so there's it's not telling us that we can always do what we need to do um yeah I I get that I think some of it is so that we all have a mutual understanding of this being close and what we want to do um with the guidelines and so that I don't make stuff up you guys don't make stuff up at least we all have a good understanding written goals sure we really never had any before this uh 11244 date as far as I can remember we never had guidelines and it just gives us a a compass as to where we should be going and again time were much better than we had lower class sizes then and it was uh you know based on what we could afford to do at the time and we've amended it as you can see we've uh we've taken some good activity here we reviewed it we've updated it as as we need to the one thing about the the terminology of guidelines didn't set us in stone as to what we were going to do it was only the the recommendations of the board at that time with the update so I think guidelines are kind of important otherwise we could be doing one class with 28 the other class with 16 just and you're right the bo can still do whatever you want but at least it allows well it's not whatever we want it's whatever is needed to be done right and that provides curving for administration bringing in recommendation do we do we have a I suppose you looked up ahead of time do we have a rough idea on where we're sitting currently uh je I have that Jeff Jennifer sent it to me sorry so helpful um Do You Want by grade is that okay if I speak out okay kindergarten is at 79 right now first grade is at 79 second grade is at 67 third grade is at 92 fourth grade is at 86 and fifth grade is at 89 and then do we know an average on our classroom size currently roughly kindergarten Is 1920 first grade is 1920 second grade is 15 to 18 third grade is 23 fourth grade is 28 to 30 and the fifth grade is 29 to 30 right now thank you those are from Jennifer today gr you have a handle on your District I was just going to say it it does make a big difference um class sies I mean I I have slightly smaller classes this year than I've had in the past and I certainly feel like I'm able to do more I'm able to reach more of my students and that's that's the facts of it so um obviously we're working within budget constraints that we have but the the guidelines that we have in the class SI it they do matter when we start talking about having 28 students with one teacher in elementary that's that's a large class so um I guess that would be my only opinion on on those as as far as I can speak more on the middle school I can't really comment much on what farmet looks like but I just do feel put that all you so you have smaller class sizes than you had in the past right and what are they now then uh I would say my average class size right now for my sixth and seventh graders is around that 28 to 30 Mark and that's that's an enjoyable number for me considering I used to be that 35 to 36 um so I I really like that number as far as I I think really Elementary is where they feel it a lot more when we get my sixth graders in they are basically elementary kids and by the end of the year that 30 is a lot easier to handle than they are as basically incoming fifth graders so I I will say I will say that um so in my opinion it's that elementary school where they really feel those those larger class sizes in my opinion I think a little bit to Clinton's point I said if we do look at this and make some adjustments I would like it to be based on maybe what our surrounding districts are doing or you know the schools our size across the state and not just to fit our budget issues so if it's still here and we're above that we at least know that because it's not a perfect situation right now we are above where we want to be but we have the right to do that because we have to but we still are striving to be where the rest of our peers are as far as you know still that mindful approach yeah yeah and not just saying well we need 36 in fifth grade because that's where we're going to have to be I would rather see it be hey here's the data we can come up with and I I I don't know how to do that maybe you could do that but then and then we have a a more narrow or a goal to be at versus a more factual goal maybe yeah versus you know and and hopefully someday we can get back to that those parameters how often has Canon like element you done a mixed grade classroom that that was the thing I know when we were going through for the larger ones that I can't answer that but I've been in districts where we have done multi-g gr classrooms so it's not impossible to do that but it's not a usual occurrence here in in been I don't know if Tim knows the history since he's I can't remember one and maybe there was one when mtio was still open we've had a floating section before when numbers were bigger um but I don't think we've ever had a mixed grade section anything else for this work is C out for you personally I've always I've always been an advocate for for the smaller class guyses I especially in those lower grades um just being in those classrooms and working as a parah and and helping with those age groups I feel like it definitely the teacher can handle more and more of the behaviors and more of the getting them used to the structures of school if they have a lower class size um that's just always been my you know two cents for like for the elementary school so I've always been a b big advocate for I think everyone wants that yes but I I agree with I think you should keep it a guide you know they're guidelines like you said it doesn't mean we can't make exceptions to guidelines um but I think that they're good guidelines to shoot for we always wanted those lower class sizes the K1 too because we're just kids are just adjusting to a new lifestyle from home and so it was our thing if we could get 17 or 18 kids that would you know that would be where we' like to be right I think the continuance of that would be great if we can do it anything else on that you working on it um other areas uh next regular board meeting is December 16th 2024 6: p.m. truth and Taxation uh final Levy certification and fiscal year 26 budget reduction anything else that you'd like to uh add before we depart here comments questions if not I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving and uh thank you for the attendance and the input that was good good information we received tonight having said that I would look for a motion to adjourn I'll make a motion Julian the motion second second by Luke other discussion all in favor of German say I I opposed we are finished thank you