##VIDEO ID:9naXXmpsSr4## e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e go good evening ladies and gentlemen it is 6 o'clock on Monday November the 18th and this is the regular school board meeting um of Independent School District number 882 please rise as you were able and join us for the pledge of allegiance toag of the United States of America and to the Republic for we have our tentative agenda for the evening and we will make our tentative agenda permanent with a motion so moved second moved by Melissa Curtis seconded by Casey root all those in favor of approving the tenative agenda as our agenda for the evening please say I I I all those opposed please say No Agenda passes 60 we have no citizens comments this evening moving on to agenda item number five we have our consent agenda items this is approval of minutes from November 4th and November the e8th Personnel matters our bill summaries and um a quarterly update on our finances um from our director of Business Services members of the board receive these while in advance and have the opportunity to ask questions we typically move these as a uh group and so I will open it for any discussion finding none we'll entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda it's all moved moved by Melissa Curtis seconded by Casey rudall those in favor of approving the consent agenda as presented please say I I I all opposed please say no consent agenda passes 60 moving on to item number six our collaborative connections we have a resolution for acceptance of gifts um superintendent Olen will discuss all right uh bringing forward these five uh donors here um Pat Michelle from Horus man $22,000 for a staff breakfast uh donation that happened on our last Workshop uh monacello Rotary Club um eight dozen hats and gloves valued at $528 um for the students at our three elementaries to keep uh their hands and and uh Fe hands and head worm uh with the worm hearts project um sweep home $640 uh donated um to help the items in our high school Magic Closet the closet has personal items and clothing items to help students in need Hogan Body and Equipment um $500 also go into our Magic Closet to help students in need and the cop Family Foundation $1,000 to support um the students who are 18 to 22 years old um in their transition program called The Connect 5 transition program at our East education center and as always we'd like to thank all of our Community Partners for being so generous to support various uh groups and initiatives within our school district we do have a resolution for the acceptance of gifts therefore be resolved by the monell school district 882 to gratefully accept the following donations Patrick mad hor man $2,000 for staff breakfast monel Rotary Club eight dozen hats and gloves for the elementary school heart warm Hearts project sweep home 640 monetary donation valued and items valed at 500 for the Magic Closet hogland Body and Equipment $500 for the magic closet and cop Family Foundation $1,000 to support 18 through 22 program for connect 5 do I have a second seconded by Casey root resolution by Jeff hegley all those in favor of accepting the res the uh donations as presented please say I I any opposed please say no and the donation resolution passes 60 uh moving on to our transportation update we have with us this evening Joe kungle from hogland transportation and superintendent Eric Olsen they're going to give us a transportation update welcome Mr kungle and Mr Olson all right uh we will come in out here uh but I just want to um thank Joel for working with us um uh for about two years now on this project and um as we come to get it to a spot that I think we're um getting more and more comfortable with and proud of we've had an opportunity to run it by um board member Jamie sein um to allow her to see our the data from um all the transportation rides so we'll just uh jump into a very short presentation just to give a little update that of where everything's at as everybody knows on the board um with a big school change uh start time change this year um we have a new way of transporting children so it's uh everything that we knew um in the community and how we transported is now different um and it's different because uh the trends and and all the uh planning that went into the Decades of uh school start and dismissal times that we had um they are no longer in effect and so a whole new way of transporting um including um several hybrid buses that we have just like um other communities um around us or throughout the state or Nation um we've chose to um try get to some of our far out areas uh with a kindergarten preschool through um grade 12 bsing and so we've done a lot of different things this year and now we're getting um the times down to where um we had intended them to be um in hopes that we could be start the school year but we had to um get through some Bridge construction and some other uh challenges but now we do believe that we have them to a spot that uh are consistent with what we've had in the past so if if you were to just look at these you would think that's pretty amazing bus ride times um but you got to remember that when you drop off probably 2,000 students within the city limits it really helps those times but these times include the ones when we go to St Paul they include the routes that go to St Cloud they include all of our a of District students that we pick up bring back here so that if we were to take all those out those numbers would even be lower and better than that yet um obviously there are some longer rid because average is average so there are some long there are some short ones I would say that 95 96% of our people have one short one long there are some people that have long long and a lot of times it has to play into do live on a road like County Road 39 East where they put the middle turn lane in you can't legally cross kids there anymore they have to be off door side picked up door side so if you live on the North side of 39 going out of town in the afternoon we can't drop you off on the way by even if the parents want us to we can't do it so we have to go out come back so that's why some people have longer bus rides and we and you know we've checked with uh superintendent olssen on some other ones also where it might be a hazardous area where there's a a hill incline or down Cline and the parents said no it's okay for my kid to get on or off there but we've just decided no that's not okay we're going to we're going to go by the the safety practices first and parent practice as second um I would say that for the most part I'm down to one or two emails a week now I had one today and we're down to where we're giving parents options so there is another option so let's say you want your kindergarten to be home a little bit quicker because we do have a bus leaving Pinewood right away and one that leaves Little Mountain right away but they might not be home with their older siblings and there are parents that are turning that down and say you know what we're okay with our hourish bus ride and we'll take the the longer ride because then they can be home with their older siblings and while uh you know the L of times and the average length of times look great it's also important to look at the range of ride times and so when you look at these range um the number is including um the community school so let me explain that a little bit um as you know that we were trying to get all times down to an hour but I think it's just important to start reporting exactly the length of times um when we had East viw opened up we were not counting the shuttle time from East View to um Pinewood or from east viw to um little mountain and we weren't doing that on purpose it just there wasn't a change in the times and so we were the bus routes were started at the community school and it was a shuttle so it wasn't their bus ride it was the shuttle ride um from the Kindergarten Center to the community school and so we're just going to start um reporting these as they are so that we we we create that new standard um but please remember um that we have had that for the last seven years um and that East viw has been open so um so right now I'm reporting those uh in this slide is um you know our range of times are anywhere from one minute to 1 hour 18 minutes in the morning or 1 minute to uh 1 hour 24 minutes um but like I said this these routes now align um with the approach that we followed since East viw became a kindergarten preschool Center um the longer boss rides are predominantly um either in areas like Joel described of being areas where um you might have to go past of the stop that we used to be able to make but in order to to make a safe stop we have to go past it and come back and usually they're in the western portion of our district so if you look at our district and you just start like at the middle school and go up to far ends of our district um you're you know getting into that 22 to uh 25 minute rides depending on which route you take and so it's important just just a route a ride itself to one spot is at 25 minutes um and so that's without any stop JS are picking up children so I think um you know this is where we are currently at right now and like um Joe said um safety is always our our number one key but trying to get these times down um to the spot where we have been for the last few years um is we're proud that we're there um I've only had one email since um the day after um the fall break so I've went several weeks without um working on Boss issues because of of the school start time or construction changes I have worked on some discipline things um for uh some students um but that's it's not because of the school start time and is this an hour 24 from when school ends or is it when the bus leaves a parking lot when school ends school ends yeah y you know and one one interesting thing that we found out the other day because in our routing software if you draw the path a lot of times it just picks up the kit it does you don't manually put them on the route it picks them up automatically well all a sudden the driver was saying well my the kindergarten on my bus is wondering why he can't have his older siblings at the at Pinewood ride with them go well that's weird you know they they should be able to so how polite was it of that family just to go oh I guess that's how it works that my kindergarten is going to be brought home on one bus and my Pinewood kids going to be home on another bus and it was like 20 minutes difference so we said oh well you know you can have the other two r on and they were so happy but I hope that and this would be my big message to everybody I hope we didn't wear you down so much that you've given up cuz if you have a a concern let us know because that one that called today or emailed today we had a solution for it by the afternoon um we have two more bigger bus changes that are coming out this week that should help uh some am times for two uh two vehicles so I I just want people to not give up so if they are concerned about about their ride or are concerned about discipline or are concerned about anything on the bus you just got to contact us cuz we we'll work on it we'll we'll try to make it better and then uh finally just a reminder of the communication that we've been doing and I'm only talking about since the start of the school year um but we have had two Town Hall meetings um and we have we offered a um a digital uh format of collecting information um right around the town hall meeting time and we've done an all an additional um transportation survey right after that so we've uh done two you know two opportunities to come in and discuss concerns and then we've also done um two family surveys and we're getting um it was so cool to you know open it up and and your heart kind of gets a little excited when you see you know over hundred responses and you're thinking oh my goodness I mean I thought we were getting down there and then just to start pairing through those 100 responses and to have so many that were positive and and so then pretty soon you Lop off those and and um you get down to the ones that you're working on and uh we continue to work the last few weeks but like uh Joe said it's really getting to the spot where it's it's a lot slower of of uh people having concerns and and but yet that doesn't mean that we don't still want to hear them we want to hear them and and figure out how to keep and continuously improving um we did start our uh our surveys today or our uh attendance this week so the bus drivers may be taking a little bit longer to drop the kids off or pick them up but it's maybe a minute or two but um we're within 200 kids in our database versus yours now so we're very very close to knowing who's really riding and who's really not riding which is a big deal to find it out um but I have to Echo Echo what Eric said when we when we clip those out of the uh out of the surveys and put them on our pop machine about boy we really like our bus driver dug he does this and the bus driver they they love that stuff you know because in our world and I suppose the world in general most people are called to complain and not very often do I get to say hey look at this this was somebody compliment on your driving it's generally hey the bus was going so fast or the bus went on two wheels or all that kind of stuff and so if you I I know people that was The Magic School Bus on Saturday morning but um the the positive ones and I know it was like 104 but I don't remember how many positive ones but our pop machine was filled out and we clipped them out laminated them and it's for everybody to see it it's cool I appreciate anybody that took the time to fill those yeah we just open it up for questions uh right now and and um hopes that um if we can answer it um I know Jamie sat with us too and had some good um feedback for us to get to this point um we also hope that um you know the process that we continue open doors for people to be problem solvers and come to us with a uh their concerns and that's what we're really trying to instill today I have a a question could you discuss how things are working with our Monas School here in town because they you know there was some discussion early on about their times not matching ours and that sort of thing how is how is that working out are we having complaints from the monor folks monor gets paired up with our nature base and our uh East View so the ride times for those people that have shuttles are longer um when Eric and I met with them this Summer um there were options to ride on the high school times or the elementary times and I did email back and forth with a school board member a little bit there saying that you know here are some choices for you and um once again their choices but they cost everybody money so if all a sudden they're going to have their kids in school longer they have to pay people on that end longer if they have longer rides that match what we do then they pay less um and it's not all about pay all the time but that's that's a big one on on that part of it so yes ideally if they took the uh Elementary start time and the High School dismissal time they would have short short but you could do the same thing and if we could afford single routes we'd have short short but it just doesn't work that way any discussion or questions from the board are the two challenge areas our longest routes that you referenced in the previous slide uh those are the two that we're going to fix on Thursday yeah and then are those literally the only ones that we're working on that we need those the only ones that I that I have that I have to fix right now that people are still wanting help or and once again the lady called this morning or emailed this morning we got her taken care of by this afternoon if if they if somebody has something you got to let us know now because we're right there and I don't want people to give up we're doing the attendance and finding out okay there's kids riding now that weren't riding at the beginning of the year because maybe the routes are better now and they're not quite as long so yeah and that's what I was going to say too is that I think if I had to um know you look back and you see everything that we've done over the last couple years if I was going to make any changes or or give somebody advice on what to do if they were going to change school start times I do a um a transportation survey before we started so that people have the opportunity to say how it's working um how long they felt their morning ride their afternoon ride they you could gather some numbers compare it to the numbers of of the true data and then you could capture their feelings after that so um you know we're now the the Baseline you we're not hearing from you know a lot of the people because they they have you know either the same or better times um and or um you know we are hearing from some and and we're trying to fix those as they come up so and we do have I mean it was busy there's no doubt for the first couple months of school um but um I think you know between the two of us we got you know to everybody that was emailing us and we're able to give them customer service and you know um keep them going with communication while we tried to fix it um I mean we had great communication from Joe to um you know the city and and this um the highway department um and they help tweak a few things during road construction we just had a really Community e quality Community effort um there's still some things like you know um that pop up with transportation that we'll have to look at so even besides this um um there there's always going to be things that come up but when you make phone calls to other companies or other communities or other districts um they're also going to have those same challenges and so it's just always you knowly problem solving and and making sure you have a product that you're proud of and and I right now I'm I couldn't be more proud of you know being able to stand in front of you today and and be at a spot where we've been at for the first uh you know or the last few years with East bu being open but um hands off to um a company that's willing to meet every morning and and uh you know try to figure this out answer T emails together because people deserve us to answer those tough emails and and they deserve the transportation that they had last year and so well thank you both for working hard to tackle the problems we were having a few ago we we asked you to get it done by the end of the year and here we are middle of November and we're in good shape so thank you both how many are on the bus for over an hour is it five students 50 students I can yeah so if you look at uh that those so if we look at the same data that we had for the last seven years and we compare it to what we have right now it would be around 80 students that still have um in that um that hour to hour 24 with their Community ride yeah in that in in that range there would still be about 80 people in the morning 80 people in the night and they um they could be different people Joe can you tell us how many people were transporting uh to with the Monas School roughly we we have 4,100 in our database once again that's Mom Dad stops that's monor that's right choice uh uh votte all that kind of stuff so it oh I see it's hard to tease it out hard to get because sometimes um I go to dad's house two days a week and I go to Mom's house three days a week but it's uh student ID 1 2 3 4 5 m and 1 2 3 45 M MD MD that's so Mom Dad and that's how we sometimes get more students listed than you guys do because we have to have the monory in there because and you guys don't have them in your database so that's I think we're always going to be in that couple hundred different but at least we know why now and I could call the director at SW River and get that number I'm sure they would have that as part of their database but and we did realize that you know our data we're working on constantly to clean up right now um because we things were just working and um I mean it was you know me recognizing like what how come that data is not matching and at a meeting and and so then you know we started digging in and looking at it and we've had practices that we haven't been implementing um so making sure that when we have a student who leaves making sure that we have a you know offboarding process for students um so while it's important for staff it's uh also important for students and and making sure that transportation is part of that offboarding so that they don't stay on that we had lots of students who were on the census so I'm a two-year-old and I'm um on um in in our database right because we have to track them for other things but that database shouldn't be going to um transportation so there's a lot of there was a lot of data um if you remember right I think Joe said like about an 8,000 he's we got him down to 4,000 now it might have been about an $88,000 data point uh at the first presentation um because both of us um we didn't have to know that stuff uh before because things were just working they knew their the community very well they knew the trends and transportation was working and now we had to dive in to make sure that it works now um with its uh new parameters Joe I want to thank you for coming and thank you for providing us with this update I'm hoping that you'll be here maybe again at the end of the year as we process through the changes and and monitor how things are going with uh the new school start times I think it' be beneficial to have an end of the year recap on that sort of too so come whenever you guys want thank you can tell you um though there was challenges you know like any type of change that you encounter a lot more good has come out of this that we've been able to identify gaps that we've been able to close those gaps and um I I mean I think we're going to be so much better and stronger because of it even next year they're they're already talking about routes and how they're going to look at it to even improve things even more next year it it's it's pretty exciting and in January 2025 uh with the help of uh devonie Moore and Jason borgstrom we will have texting um to be able to uh uh text buses and and U make sure or text uh um families so that they know if they're um child's going to be late or if there's a bus that you know broke down or um you know we have some kind of quick communication that we need to get out there um we've been using School messenger and things like that and well I know everybody loves reading my long emails uh I guess that taxi might work a little bit better yeah I think that's huge I think I just want to commend you to because you as a bus company you could easily said this is the way it you this is this is the way our routes are set up this is that's just the way life this is how we're going to do it and you guys didn't do that you you you jumped into it right away you immediately saw and you guys s you jumped into it as a team and then you took care of it and that's awesome any other uh comments questions anything from the students you guys ride buses Magic Bus you never been on a magic bus I not bad is it air conditioning white it's kind of fun right thank you Joe okay that's we won't take it personal and our students have another activity that they need to go to this evening so thank you for coming for the part of the appreciate it thank you yeah they didn't even have to be here tonight this wasn't one their this was like above and beyond just because they missed us is what we heard they'd like you to take a picture for them at the end of the meeting and text it to them they need it for their class okay we didn't have time before yeah but guys can work that out so moving back to the agenda oh jeez what here um we're going to go on to number seven teaching and learning we have Cindy fashing that's going to join us for A and B on our agenda tonight she's going to discuss middle school health C curriculum supplemental material that we've been working on for several weeks and then also the Minnesota Arts education grant welcome Cindy thank you um Gavin could you open that link please so first thing up is Middle School uh health update and so I'm here tonight to request approval uh that we could use new text for Middle School seven seventh and eighth grade health curriculum uh the texts are published by goodart Wilcox and they're called Essential Health skills for middle school and then there's a supplement that goes with that for human develop development and relationship ships um so why do we need an update uh to our health curriculum so right now we've got some very new health teachers in our middle school and currently we're using a teacher developed curriculum that's got supplemental resources that um were curated by the teacher and that's very difficult for a a new teacher to utilize and um so the decision was made that they need a lot of assistance with that and and we want to look for a very high quality Health curriculum that comes in a bundled resource that's got structured lessons it's got presentations that are pre-made it's got assessments that are pre-made and Student Activities that are already vetted and curated by the publisher so that we can avoid some of the miscellaneous pulling in um supplemental resources that need to be be approved every time they're pulled in so we really want to streamline that we want to also make sure that it aligns with our high school curriculum which is the same publisher same same materials so when students go from grades seven eight and then up to 10 they'll have a very well aligned curriculum that gets deeper into 10th grade but it's very very appropriate for seventh and eighth grade so the recommendation that I'd like to make is that we adopt this new curriculum immediately um so that these teachers can have the resources that they need to help our students um and teach to the best of their ability you want to scroll up a little bit gin So the plan for parent communication down yeah down I'm sorry there is a link there that we're going to send a letter home following the board approval so we'll send that home tomorrow and the letter just basically looks pretty much like what you're looking at here uh it commits to our parent communication so we'll be sending out a letter to all students uh All Families of sth and eighth grade students uh notice notifying them of new curriculum um we'll also be asking the teachers to be sure and post everything all your Along on their schooly page for people to preview whenever they uh the new units are coming up and then they'll also update the curriculum M also um the links that you see the first one is a it's a folder that has all of the presentations for every unit that the students will go through throughout seventh and eth grade so parents could go through and they can look at through every single slides show that their child might see and if there's something in there that um they don't agree with they could opt their child out of lessons if they choose the second link that they'll get is a statement of evidence that comes from the publisher and it talks about um the people who wrote the text and what their biographies are and what their expertise is along with all of the evidence-based resources that were used to publish this curriculum along with all the experts that they um that they resourced in order to write it so those are the three things that or the oh sorry the last one is the correlation between the national health standards which Minnesota asks that we follow the National Health standards and then this curriculum so it's specifically outlines everything in there and all of the standards and then it lines it up to our curriculum so you can see what students are learning so it's very very transparent for parents that'll be out I'll put this on our website as well for people to be able to look at and then also as always if uh families decide they want to opt their child out of something there is an opt out form there that parents can print out and send back to their health teacher if that's what they choose to do if families also want to come in and actually preview hard copies of the curriculum itself they can come in and do that and we'll provide those at any time and then at the bottom is just an outline of all of the units of instruction for our health our new health curriculum I'm very excited about it I think uh it's really really well written it's 2025 it's current uh it's very appropriate for seventh and eth grade I would even go so far as to say it's it's quite conservative um but I like that for seventh and eth grade uh and then when they get to 10th grade uh there's a little more meat more meat to it so so that's my presentation on the health curriculum and I'm asking that I receive the support of the school board to be able to implement that are there any questions or discussion from the board the board members did receive the hard copies of these we had an opportunity to ask um questions of you at our last work session U my understanding is there was also a small focus group of parents at some point recently that looked through these and and um basically we're pretty happy with the curriculum and we'll bring it to the curriculum advisory committee or the district advisory committee that's coming up and then we also want to in specifically invite parents from different um grade levels to come and to take a closer look to and financially this is a really good uh deal for us because we already purchased the curriculum this is just a supplemental so it's a very small expenditure for the district MH so um any any questions anything further for discussion on this members we have in front of us um a recommendation to approve the middle school health curriculum supplemental material as presented so moved second moved by Melissa Curtis seconded by Casey root all those in favor of approving the middle school health curriculum supplemental material please say I I any opposed please say no and the motion passes 60 congratulations Cindy thank you Cindy's going to remain at the podium and she's going to discuss the Minnesota Arts education grant if I could I'm just going to kick this one off um we didn't have our uh parentheses there um tonight I think it'll just be presentation mode that gives Cindy a little bit of time to go back and work with um uh the Middle School um just to make sure that they're all in an awareness but she filled this out with um um the te teaches and and this is a part of a 18-month study that uh chery bar was part of with our music pr program um and just trying to uh support um our program that was having some high class sizes and so we we tried problem solve last year and I um tried to get Volunteers in the classroom but I was unable to even after some CommunityWide communication um and so this was um an effort from that committee a carryover from that committee to um try find a grant to um find some knowledgeable folks to be able to push in but it is for um some paid support into the class so um I'll let her talk about it and present it but then um we'll have the action of acceptance of the grant um at the December 2nd meeting all right thank you so um the Minnesota Arts Education Association met on last Thursday and their board meeting they accepted our grant and so we will be receiving a grant if we choose to accept that and so I got this notice so I just cut and pasted exactly what I received from them that they were excited to approve uh our Arts education grant so as Mr Olson said um I wrote this grant in combination with three of the music teachers uh Jen Macky uh David herdan and Michelle sh shler Stein and so together we um put our heads together and what would we like to see at the Middle School uh with this grant in order to make some improvements and as Mr Olson said the the courses the the size of the classes are large and there's there's been a inability for those teachers to give specific music instructions when they have such a large group so they have to teach to the whole group and so we're looking for a way to be able to offset that and provide some additional instruction on the next slide um we came up with the mon solo Middle School master classes and so the goal for this grant is to provide instrumental music students access to Master Teachers who will come into our schools during the school day and work pull the students out of their band or orchestra class by instrument so we'll just pull the violinists or we'll just pull the people playing clarinet and we'll go into a separate room and we'll have specific instruction on that instrument and then they'll go back into the classroom so this will provide that in that instruction or those lessons that we haven't been able to provide for a while um but it'll happen instead of pulling kids out from different periods of the day it'll happen during their music class so there's no effect on kids missing any other classes it's built into their schedule so that's the idea of the master classes and so we were awarded $35,000 so what that would pay for is five Master Teachers and so the vision is retired teacher teachers in our monello community or surrounding communities that we could pull into our schools to help us with this they would be paid $200 a day for 35 approximately days each spread out between January 1st to December 20 or December 31st of next year so we're hoping to spend most of it this school year but if we have money left we're going to extend it into the following school year so students would get this about every other day when they come to music class and so we're very excited about uh the possibility of having m master classes in at the middle school level it'll set them up for Success when they get up into the high school and uh this is something that we would hope we could apply for a year to year many schools get grants year to year and they sustain programming through this funding source so we're excited about this again like Mr Olsson said I want to meet with the middle school and really work out the details and make sure that it's feasible for them so any questions my understanding is um this will bring back what we used to call lessons so that um unfortunately I don't know how many years it's been since we've had those four five maybe um that was one area that I know parents were concerned about too that the students weren't having any private lessons what we call private lessons anymore but one of the flip side of that was the students were being pulled out of other classes right all the clarinets would have lessons together or all the flutes or that sort of thing so I think one of the benefits to this new structure is they're not going to be pulled out of any core classes for that and yet we're bringing back some of the um individual uh lessons and individual instruction on their instrument which is really really difficult for the kids to pick up I think without some guidance and there's a shortage of people that you can go out and get lessons from out into the community so to bring them in to work with you know five to 10 students at a time instead of um 5 to 10 students having to go out and find private instruction private lessons it's very cost for the parents it's very expensive and with our students with their busy schedules this is also a benefit to to all students who really don't have the time to go out and get those lessons so I think it's exciting all the way around it's a it's a break even it doesn't cost us anything um so we'll see thank you for putting in for the um grants we fed last March it took them a long time to make a decision Cindy puts on the grant writing hat um and that's not your primary job of course but uh it's so important that we um chase after some of these sources of funding so that we can provide or bring back things that we used to have that we just don't have the opportunity to do otherwise so any other board members have any questions or discussion for Cindy on the um Minnesota Arts education grant thank you for doing it yes thank you appreciate that and to Jen Mackey and the other two um music teachers for for tending the grant writing the grant doing all the that has to be done couple questions sure it is exciting thank you for doing it uh do we understand that the $35,000 needs to needs to be spent during 2025 that's how it's written yep and will the uh Master Teachers that are coming in be here for the full day for that $200 or is that for a couple of hours of their most part it'll be the whole day yes and do you anticipate that being a challenge finding those people yes I do anticipate that but we are looking as far as Minneapolis St Paul so these are people again who are retired but they want to come up to monell for one or two days a week it's not a full-time job to them so it's a part-time job on the side and so I think we'll be able to find those people there aren't a lot of things like this happening in other schools and so they'll see this as an opportunity I think do you have to use five different people no we don't have to use so if we had three people and they came more often that would be great they just have to have expertise in those instruments that they're working with great thank you you're welcome I have a quick question too and K I didn't hear the answer to it maybe you did cover it but um why five years ago did we cut lessons um so we went to an every other day schedule instead of an everyday music and everyday fied and um they cut back a period of the day and so it just doesn't fit within the schedule anymore and for students to be pulled out of course they'd have to be pulled out of different classes in order to do that and so that's that's a difficulty for most students so think of it um like if I was a music teacher teacher um back in the old way my 6 hour I might be teaching lessons for the whole hour so as the budget has been trimmed um that means that you're not like um being efficient if you're having four kids receive a lesson under one F full-time full-time equivalent and so we knew that we wanted to do something like this and hence Kathy pushed for a steering committee so we worked 18 months to try find ways that we could be efficient and effective with our budget but also make sure that we offer the instruction that our kids need that you guys have all picked up because a lot of you have students in music so that's awesome and so I think this is just a um a way that uh to be honest I'm going to use it for marketing this is going to be on our flyer um because having lessons is important to people who are musicians and and who who want to learn a craft and be good at it it's just like if you want to be um good at baseball and hitting you're going to get some instruction on the side you're going to get some instruction um extra construction from multiple coaches um on the on the field and so it's the same thing and now we're able to apply this and whether it's for a year or not but I will be using it for marketing it's going to be a good tool this also puts us on par with some of the larger districts in the Twin Cities that offer these types of music experiences for their students um this is music is something that our district has a deep history in um and so when we look to um those issues with District down in the Twin Cities that have foundations and things that are supporting their their arts and uh Arts programs they're able to provide things that some of these smaller schools are not and this is very exciting that there's a grant opportunity out there for us to bring back something like this for our students if you imagine being a sixth grader and having someone hand you an instrument and you sit in the class and that's how you learn you know that's almost impossible none of us could learn in that environment effectively or you know so if we want them to stick with it and love their instrument and and make this a part of their education and I think this is an important area so thank you Cindy for the time that you put into this thanks I appreciate it anybody else I I do have one follow-up question I guess after those comments in the event that we can't find the instructors use the full Grant and you expand the the usage of the grant into other Arts areas no that's not the way the grant is written they wouldn't allow that um we would just have to only use what we can okay give the rest back because I think they do award us 90 90% up front I think it is 90 or 95% up front Okay when will the um we'll find them advertising begin to fill those positions do you think it sounds like we have sounds like we have a good interest right now so like I said we forgot to put the uh action item here um and it is get allows Cindy a little bit more time we just were awarded it Friday so she hasn't had a lot of time to be able to get to the appropriate people in in the middle school so it' be nice for her to be able to do that we'll approve it December 2nd but I think we could start advertising for him right now and then and I think they have some names on their lists already sure they're well connected to people in the music industry yeah those folks tend to be pretty passionate too they do thank you Cindy all right thanks all right moving on to item number eight on our agenda safe and healthy culture we have Tina Burkholder our director of Business Services going to give us an enrollment project projections uh review that and go through some financial information in her cover sheet welcome Tina thank [Music] you all right so like Kathy mentioned we have our enrollment projections for next year and throughout this we'll look at um last year's projection how that came about some trends that came um through the 25 26 already enrollment projection and kind of what is the result of it so just a look back since I started 2012 um our enrollment has seen um some small increases some small decreases but just has been hovering around that 4,100 um population for students for us but just a sneak peek in where we're heading um I am projecting next year to be under 4,000 for the first time 3,996 so like I said this is just a fiveyear look back we've seen some small increases and small decreases so in N or 2021 going into covid we saw kind of that first big drop and then another big drop going into this year for our residents um we've seen some similar Trends uh but overall um you know still around that 4,000 Mark and then of the residents that live within our borders about just over 80% attend our school so almost 20% are going elsewhere that live within our borders and when you look at last year um where are students coming from where are they going we gain the most from Big Lake and we lose the most from St Michael Albertville and then on the side I had other kind of areas where we lose to um Swan River uh monor our Co-op right technical Kaleidoscope Spectrum Jane Goodall so transition in Houston is online so there are other areas that we lose students to and then the next slide has the trend over the last 10 years and so you can see that we are an enrollment loser overall so now we've kind of hit that 200 net of enrollment loss to kids going out and Al we also lose kids during the year so looking at October 1 Count versus kind of that third week in May the last day for seniors we see a lot of students that kind of either graduate early or they're moving on or I don't know where they're going but they're not finishing the year for with us and then we have a similar Trend over the last 10 years about three of those 10 years we did gain during the year but a lot of that's in the elementary schools but we're losing them in the secondaries so other things I look at are the building permits for the city and this is the single family detached um building permits so not the town homes those are the attached building permits uh so not a lot of building activity with that we do have some apartment buildings and town homes also but this is just looking at the family homes then the right County population is increasing but it's increasing in other cities versus kind of where we're at so looking at the enrollment projection into this year how did that pan out and so we did see some decreases in all kind of grade sections not one area um was kind of missed it it was all all grades um this graph just shows by grade there's not a lot you can see but um of who didn't show up but Kindergarten and seniors are some of the higher ones so going on to the enrollment projection for this year there are sets of data that you can look at you can look at your October 1 enrollment you can look at your end of year adms which we wouldn't want to do because we lose kids we want to staff when we have the most kids in our building or you can look at District data and I've used District data in the past um mainly because with our Co-op program students tend to float between mani and Co-op but now that we have our level four being more offsite um kind of going transitioning probably to the October one Trends but with a little bit of District data because we do have kids for example at Pinewood that kind of float back and forth between Moni programs and co-op programs so first we'll look at kindergarten projection methods you can hold them constant you can look at a linear progression you can look at average County births or again District data as well and so this is just a table that shows the right County births and versus the kindergarteners that show up so we've been the last couple years just over 14% but we have seen um percents in the 16 and 177% um so looking at a 4-year average about 15.4% kind of projects what our kidney gardeners might be for the following year and so overall I mean it's a positive sign our right County bursts are increasing as a whole state of Minnesota I think bursts were declining so that's a positive for us may I ask a question so about 2500 to 3,000 residents live on the Sherburn County side of our district um does any of these projections take that slice into account I know it would be difficult to shave them off of the whole Sherburn County but are we missing any do you think from because I mean if they're they might live in Sherburn County and they might have crossed the river to give have their babies there so I was just looking at the births well to your point could probably could they might be registered under Sherburn County versus Ray County MH just want to get every capture every yep student that we can MH and so diving into the projection method a little bit looked at just the average County burth um the low medium and high and so I looked at the average the medium right County burst and using that for our kindergarten projection method after that you have the rest of the projection to do there is a just a year average spanning from years 2 to 7 or a weighted year average using years 2 through 7 so I looked at weighted years just to look at the the more current years to use as data um I had three year four year five year and six year weighted average there's not a lot of variation between the four methods um 40 46 uh 52 is the the difference between the low and the highend so not a lot of variations between the projections but in the end I use kind of mid to higher um projection hoping that some of those apartments or kind of town homes will shift the families moving into the area uh but still the projection is just under 4,000 at 3,996 a decrease from this year of 28 students and this includes our online students but it doesn't include our students that are in the co-op setting level four programs why why do you leave them out because they are staffed separately okay with the co-op we use our staffing racial just with monel kids so diving into the 5year projection you can see the enrollment projection is dipping down a little bit and this is where you see the reason why this is looking at our seniors leaving and the kindney gardener classes that are replacing it so we have larger seniors classes leaving and smaller kindgarten classes replacing them so that's why you'll see a decline in enrollment this is looking at the enrollment projections by grade groupings um and that helps us with our staffing ratios um so we're within our building capacities we have room to grow when they come and this is looking at the kidney Gardener projections in the next 5 years so we will hopefully see an uptick because of the higher uh right County burst in the area our grades 1 through five dipping down a little bit because of the lower kindy Garner classes coming in grades 6 through 8 um kind of almost level going up a little bit but then dropping down again V gers coming in and then grades 9 through 12 so this year that we're in is the highest year that they'll have the most students in their building and then it'll slowly taper off a little bit this is the grade projection or the enrollment projection by grade so we can see what's happening there and you'll notice between fifth and sixth grade we do tend to jump a little bit um because we tend to have a history of having more kids from Swan River join us in grade six uh this is a graph that just shows the r at change by grade so you can see where we're increasing and decreasing but at the end of the day like I said 3996 but I hope I'm wrong in a good way any questions I'm always impressed with how accurate you are well this year I wasn't as you can see by the slide but any questions for Tina about enrollment projections discussion by the board I'll wait for Mark to come back in case he has any questions any questions mark for enrollment projections thank you Tina appreciate your time today moving on to Item B we have Terry Woodworth our director of buildings and grounds with us this evening to talk about a recommendation uh for a partnership with um a facility cons condition assessment welcome Terry thank you thank you so yes uh buildings and grounds committee uh recommends partnering with Krauss Anderson to conduct a to conduct a comprehensive facility condition assessment across all the schools in the school district uh the assessment will provide a detailed understanding of the current facility conditions and identify critical areas for improvement supporting the district's commitment to Safe sustainable and high functioning uh learning environments uh the summary of key recommendations the issues of course are the district facilities are aging and in need of a thorough evaluation to identify um existing issues prioritize maintenance and plan for future improvements a lack of comprehensive data makes it challenging to allocate resources effectively uh proposed solution uh of course engage uh car Anderson to conduct this assessment uh that will evaluate each school's infrastructure identify deficiencies and provide recommendations on maintenance repairs and upgrades expected outcomes uh the assessment will enable the district to make uh informed decisions regarding facility Investments prioritize projects based on urgency and impact on students and staff develop a proactive uh maintenance strategy and extend the lifespan and reduce future costs resources needed the project will require a budget allocation of uh 56,800 uh imp implement implementation timeline phase one of course is uh secure the board approval uh phase two begin assessment that will be determined after um but shortly after um with estimated completion of 8 to 12 weeks and of course phase three present the findings to the board and develop an action plan based on recommendations shortly after assessment has been completed and again budget considerations estimated cost 56,0 800 to have Krauss conduct this uh facility assessment for us uh and again uh the funding source for this will we will use ltfm funds to pay for this assessment there's no impact on the general fund um stakeholder impacts teachers and staff will benefit from approved facility conditions that support productive productivity and safety uh students and families this proactive approach ensures that facilities remain conducive to learning and are well-maintained Community demonstrates the district uh District's commitment to transpar transparency safety and responsible Resource Management measurable outcomes and successful criteria uh again completion of the assessment they will deliver uh kuss Anderson will deliver a comprehensive Report with a an agreed upon timeline identification of prioritized projects report includes a prioritized list of Maintenance and upgrade recommendations with estimated costs uh informed decision-making the district utilizes findings to make datadriven investment decisions in upcoming budgets again conclusion and next step the the committee uh strongly recommends moving forward with kuss Anderson's facility condition assessment this this investment will provide the district with crucial insight to maintaining and improving its schools facilities effectively and again our immediate Next Step approve the the committee's uh recommendation initiate agreement with K so thank you Terry I want to add to your um commentary here that this is not the first time the board has um heard this presentation we've been working with facilities building and grounds committee for a number of months um evaluated three different companies uh to provide this that had wildly different um cost s attached to them and so this is also not the first time the board has had this information as well so I just want to make that clear to anyone watching um that this is not the first time we've we've had this information before us um I want to ask Casey root do you have anything you want to add to this Casey Casey and I both sit on the buildings and grounds committee so we've been going what did they start this started in I think July of last year about a year ago yeah looking at this and really what what the the goal is is to make sure that we're spending the money on the facilities wisely so we're not just chasing the wrong things we're not spending money repairing the wrong things that don't need to be repaired and then we have a nice plan for for building and grounds to follow on there and it also helps with the capital Investments as well so it's it's a a long-term planning tool is is really what it's for so it's not a onetime thing and then we just forget about it so we own data we'll have the data we'll be able to update everything as we move forward so and this will help us with planning uh out 10 15 20 years um looking at every aspect of our district from our space utilization in the classrooms to the roofs to the boilers to the carpet I mean every aspect of our buildings and grounds will be tracked and documented and this is really something that we can pass on to Future boards many years down the road so um any questions another another analogy as as you were to purchase a home you have a home inspection here's everything that's wrong with the house here's everything that needs to be updated with the building here's everything behind the you know the back rooms that you don't see if you just walk through the building um but part of it too is having this information available to the public after the reports they can see here's the critical items that need to be updated here's why uh so it's just more clarity as to where we're spending our money and and why we're spending it and what needs to be updated so yeah I think that was a key part of the the um the what they call the dashboard page is that it it will um give you some indication as to is this a red a yellow or a green item you know um so that as you said we're not just chasing the the squeaky wheel or waiting for something to break and then you know repairing it and finding out it would have been better to replace it with a more modern right and it's not just a report that adds up in a fing cabinet either so it's useful Onis that will be updated over time so any anybody else comments questions for Terry from the board sure uh first of all thank you to the committee for all your work on this for a long time I think it's a difficult cell to the board when we're looking at some budgetary challenges coming up but I think going back through the tennis court experience and all the different options that were there and the amount of money that would cost to repair the tennis courts and then hearing about the buckets in the schools with the with the roof leaks and imagining how much money we could spend repairing those things and really just putting Band-Aids around the district this seems to be a good investment to make sure that we're smart about where we spend our money and and really the order of how we do things because you can you could probably spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on something and then a year later go oh shoot now we have to read do that because there's something in between point a and point C that needs to get repaired so thank you again and and I do see the wisdom in the investment Mark I also want to um piggyback on that I just found out um recently that we use ltfm funds to fix our buildings and there is a situation that is evolving across the state affecting other districts where just like us we have a cap on how much we can spend to fix certain things that's now beginning to affect those districts ability to get insurance on their buildings so having a tool like this that would be able to give us some guidance as opposed to the squeaky wheel or the broken item uh method of fixing things I think makes a whole lot of sense um until we get things like that ltfm cap lifted by the legislature um so I mean I was I was astonished when I when I heard that I was like the legislature tied our hands on the one hand and then they said you can't have insurance on the other because you didn't fix your buildings properly so um so I think these are really important tools that these are modernizing tools rather than having a ledger or having um institutional knowledge where you have someone says yeah I remember when they put that that boiler in you know I think it gives us really objective information to have for planning into the future do you have anything you wanted to add superintendent okay board members we have before us a recommendation from the facility uh building and grounds uh committee and the director of buildings and grounds to approve Krauss Anderson at a rate of 56,000 and what was the change on that 800 y uh to conduct and provide us with an ongoing product for facility condition assessment all those in favor of approving Krauss Anderson please say I I I any opposed first oh I'm sorry we need a motion so moved second moved by Jeff hegley seconded by Casey root we had too much discussion there all those in favor of approving Krauss Anderson um as presented please say I I any oppose please say no and cruss Anderson is approved 60 thank you Terry thank you thank you Jeff yeah uh next we have Mr Rob Daner director of human resources going to uh discuss policies but first he's going to go over the principal Master agreement with us and the tenative agreement and that is an action item welcome Mr Daner thank chair zbar members of the board uh so as chair zbra mentioned I have two agenda items back to back here the first one is uh it's always exciting when we can come to a tenative agreement with our um our employees and so in this case it is the uh principal's U associ assciation we came to a tenative agreement on About a Week Ago Wednesday November 13th because they are such a small group they were able to turn around pretty quickly and ratify that on Friday November 15th and so we were able to bring it to the board tonight for uh for approval um I'll just go through the um uh the Topline items here on Thank You Gavin um so if you scroll up a little bit Gavin so uh in year one um the schedule a salary uh schedule um so two things here so first we one of the priorities the mutually shared priority in negotiations was to establish a uh a step schedule for the principles um in the previous uh contract um the salaries were spelled out by name within that contract um and there's pluses and minuses to that but I think more minuses generally and and so one of the things is that we're now able to adequately if we have an opening in the future we're able to adequately and efficiently post what the range is right away and um we also maintain the the district's um right to assign a new hire at any of those steps um so that was um that was beneficial and then of course the principles appreciate having a tiered step so there's movement um through the first uh couple of years of employment as well um so in terms of the uh salary schedule Improvement once we establish that uh the uh principles um they wanted to frontload their contract as much as possible and so the district was open to that doesn't change anything in terms of the backend dollars that we were willing to put forward but the principles requested 5.58 on all cells in year one and so then fast forward into year two that number is substantially lower it's a 0.90 on all cells in in uh year two so again um we didn't the the district's negotiating team didn't waver in terms of what our budgetary uh limitations as we had established were um and the principles worked within that to structure their deal as they uh saw fit um in terms of language items um just kind of scrolling through here there's four clarifications one was a missed line from the last settlement regarding um the HSA contribution by the district rather important line we made sure we got that back in there we also clarified the duty years for 10 and 11 month principles uh 10-month principal is 220 Duty days and 11mth is 240 Duty days a 12 month therefore would be 260 Duty days as well uh we clarified language regarding spousal enrollment and group health insurance there was some clunky language in there uh especially around uh the retiree uh health benefit that is within the principal contract and then we also clarified that there's no cap on principal's ability to purchase additional term life insurance there was a um a cap of $100,000 that they could purchase with their own money as a as a um as a cap on that um life insurance value and there's really no reason to have that in there so we um agreed to um strike through that in terms of expenses not covered by insurance we the principles do have a u an opportunity to have $500 reimbursed to them uh for expenses not covered by Insurance um it was mutually beneficial to add that uh to the uh base of schedule B which is year two of the agreement um it frees up uh alleviates some District um office time and duties with regarding processing um those reimbursements and receipts and things of that nature and then it it just puts most principles are using this on it's enti day every year so it just puts it on the base we move forward with our lives uh Flex time uh the principles have a MOA regarding summer Flex time currently in their contract um they don't use it all that much and they talked about the pros and cons of those days in general but they for now um they elected to keep that in there and we were okay with that um holidays we added juneth as a holiday uh much as we have for all year round workers and then in terms of language cleanup uh we adjusted the years of course throughout we cleaned up gender references throughout um the most egregious gender reference for instance in across many different contracts has been a reference to the superintendent as a he or a him so just making sure that those things are not in the contract moving forward and then interestingly in this one the school district was is defined in the first couple of articles but then there was about four or five different versions of how the school district was referred to with uh throughout the contract so we just cleaned that up on um in the last uh steps as well principal dues uh the principls are required all the administrators who hold a license through pby are required to pay an annual payment to the board of school administrators um chair zbar you would love to look into this one and I'm sure it would inferior you to no end um about what this is and and why folks have to pay it on top of their fees for their um their licenses as well um but this uh the district most districts do pay this for their administrators it's a nominal $100 fee annually and so we have been doing that but it wasn't in the contracts we added language to that extent uh professional development this was one of the bigger changes within the contract the principles uh we have five principles right now who are completing the University of Minnesota's uh highly recognized um and well sought out principal Academy and uh they requested a stien for completion of that program it is a significant professional development opportunity and so what we did was we structured it similar to the existing contract language with regard to national conventions and so the uh principles U previously have had the opportunity to attend a National Convention at District expense once every two years and in order to um contain costs on both measures we move that out from one every two years to one every three years and then completion of the University of Minnesota uh principal Academy essentially functions as if it was a National Convention so there's a stien attached to it but then you are ineligible to attend a National Convention for a period of three years as well so trying to contain some costs in there as well uh salary schedule we mentioned that we um added a salary schedule to this contract this will also allow us to post the contract publicly without um potentially violating anybody's individual privacy um because there will be no individual names within the contract so that's nice um and as I mentioned we did add language regarding initial placement and salary schedule which the district maintains that Authority and then finally vacation um the principes uh had bargained for two additional vacation days in this contract we're still well within um the range of of competing districts in terms of vacation days for a 12-month principal uh so this moved it from 22 to 24 days and that is PR rated for 10 and 11 month principles um appropriately and then finally we do have one principal who was hired as a 11 and a half month principal uh through a special Arrangement and uh part of that Arrangement uh plac some stipulations on that individual's um use of vacation time um and frankly um it wouldn't past muster if it was challenged and uh and so we um we waved that uh that provision that was in that person's initial higher contract so Final in in total the total package value over two years is 8.77 7 8.77 msba so right almost exactly in line with where our teacher settled they settled 8.64 I'll entertain any questions that the board might have regarding principal's um agreement okay hearing no further discussion uh we have before us the principal Master agreement and the summary is presented by Mr Daner Director of Human Resources do we have a motion all moved oh second motion presented by Jeff hegley seconded by Melissa Curtis all those in favor of present of approving the principal Master agreement as presented please say I I I any opposed please say no principal Master agreement passes 60 thank you Mr Daner right next up on the agenda this evening is our second reading of board policies uh first reading was two weeks ago for these six policies um the first of these is policy number 2115 student representative on the school board the purpose of this policy is to Foster an environment whereby students May freely Express their views and listen to and evaluate the opinions of others a student representative to the school board is authorized in order to facilitate more effective communication and to help promote sound education what's interesting is this is a unique monacella policy that there is no um msba counterpart um and so there is a high value that monacella is place on having student Representatives on the school board um and although um rare it's not unique there are other districts that do this as well and so the changes in this one um from first uh that we discussed at first read was um just ensuring that the board can uh have as many student Representatives as the board chooses to right now we currently have three um and then just clean cleaned up some language with regard to gender and unexcused absences and I suppose we'll just go through all of these and then uh proven Mass let's pause at the end of each one and just make sure the board doesn't have any uh questions or any discussion any discussion on the student representative on the school board finding none we'll move on to the next policy and the next one is policy 418 uh this was brought uh forward to the policy committee due to um legislative update during the 2020 for session uh so drug free workplace drug free school the purpose of this policy is to maintain a safe and healthful environment for employees and students by prohibiting the use of alcohol toxic substances medical cannabis non- intoxicating cannaboids edible cannaboid products and Controlled Substances without a Physicians prescription and I mentioned cannaboid a couple times in the purpose statement there and of course um as CH as Society has trended towards um more openness to cannaboids uh School District policies need to follow um and so there was an exception piece on page two uh regarding um not excluding or otherwise penalizing a student who would look to enroll um due to their enrollment in the Minnesota patient registry program and that was the most notable uh change from the law and I'll pause there is there any discussion or questions on uh drug-free workplace and school policy 418 okay finding none moving on okay 419 this is the tobacco free environment possession and use of tobacco tobacco related devices and electronic delivery devices vaping awareness and prevention instruction the purpose of this policy is to maintain a learning and working environment that is tobacc free um the um couple of changes the policy committee made to the msba model draft where are found in Article 2 general statement specifically um uh for whatever reason msba uses a term if more than one person is present in a work vehicle tobacco can't be used um and the board uh the polic committee feels strongly that um tobacco should never be used in a school vehicle regardless of the number of occupants and so we took out that occupany piece and then also exceptions um we updated the um amended the language to in the msba model draft to match what is used by um the Minnesota Department of Education in reference to uh American Indians and so it's referred to in this policy as American Indian and then finally the change in legislation was uh found on Article 4 item C and this um the section allows for uh smudging uh the process uh for smudging defines who uh that the building or site administrator is uh the ultimate Authority when uh smudging is requested and so um again uh rep recognizing some um American Indian ceremonies is there any questions from the board or discussion on policy 419 finding none moving on to 502 all right Gavin if you get scroll up there you go your way ahead of me there all right so 502 is the search of student lockers desks Personnel possession personal possessions excuse me and students um and students person uh the purpose of this policy is to provide for a safe and healthful education environment by enforcing the school district's policy against Contraband uh this there was no significant changes to this one in fact uh This was um part of our review cycle simply because it had not been reviewed since 2016 any question s on search of students Locker desk personal possessions finding none moving on to 503 all right policy 503 is regarding student attendance the purpose of this board uh policy is the school board believes that regular School attendance is directly related to success in academic work benefits students socially provides opportunities for important Communications between teachers and students and establishes regular habits of dependability important to the future of the student the purpose of this policy is to encourage regular School attendance it's intended to be positive and not punitive um it's also in line with some of our strategic goals in terms of 90% attendance for all students uh this policy was brought to the committee because of revision due to legislative update in the spring of 24 specifically uh there were some legislative changes regarding excused absences and so the legislature uh revised the areas of this policy um of the statute excuse me that give rise to this policy regarding what are legitimate exceptions and um excused absences um and basically just ensuring that parents and Guardians have the authority to um you know to play they have the responsibility to have their students at school and they also have the authority to not have their students at school for legitimate reasons um and then locally we did make some changes uh amendments to the msba model draft um we provided the opportunity for um individual School sites uh to provide for some of the rationale for unexcused absences unexcused taries and things like that within their student handbooks any questions or discussion from the board on policy 503 student attendance yes and Gavin could you pull that one up for us and go to Roman numeral 2 letter B number [Music] two letter a number seven thank you there is that right little more we go is that where where it talks about the oh now I went up too so we should be on page page three at the bottom theot okay under unexcused absences yes okay so how are we supposed to read that number seven there we're talks about the unexcused tardies equals one unexcused absence is that what you referring to the student handbook yep and so yep thank you we missed that one and so uh what we would do is uh Gavin if you scroll down a little bit further um 4B B 4 B that's tardiness though uh yeah so I'm sorry so Gavin you were just on it actually so um whoa Gavin slow down okay a little bit down right there B on right there you're good stop moving you're good consequences of tardiness are stated in the student handbook and so uh we missed that one you're referring to Mark so um you know I don't know how you want to deal with that uh chair zbar um you know we could amend it in the moment but the intention was to have all of those pieces that were the blanks were to have them um fulfilled by information within each building student handbook instead of within the policy itself [Music] what did you say I could yep motion made to table by Jeff hegley seconded by Casey root we'll bring that back uh all those in favor I I opposed six and0 we'll bring back um student attendance December 2nd thank you for catching that all right and the last one for tonight is uh policy 505 this is the distribution of non-school sponsored materials on school premises by students and employees the purpose of this policy is to protect the exercise of students and employees Free Speech rights taking into consideration the educational objectives and responsibilities of the school district uh this one uh there was no legislative changes or changes to the msba model uh draft model um Instead This one is simply brought forward uh as part of our review cycle work because the last time the board reviewed this was in 2019 questions by the board or comments on policy 505 finding none um I would like to bring these forward as a group absent policy 503 do I have a motion it's all moved second moved by Jamie SE seconded by Casey root to bring policy 2115 418 419 502 and 505 uh to a vote all those in favor of passing those as presented please say I I I any opposed please say no motion passes 60 with a tabled policy 503 thank you thank you Mr Daner and finding that our agenda is complete um we will adjourn at 7:24 we will reconvene at 7:30 we're going to take a picture first and then we are going to gel into a closed session for the purpose of evaluating the superintendent and then following the Clos session there will be a budget committee that is open to the public any questions or discussion about that plan from the board the student reps need a picture of us for their ass we need to take a really quick picture I didn't know until they just sat down here so we are adjourned at 7:25 we will reconvene at 7:30 to read the uh script for closing the meeting for to the superintendent evaluation boom let's e e e e for