001e e I have it Mr Peterson Mrs Brandt here Mr clinker here Mrs Hendrickson here Mr shavick here Mr Williams here Mrs zimney here written notice of this meeting was sent to the news media on Friday March 21st please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance to flag the United States of America stand could I get a motion please to approve tonight's agenda make a motion to approve the agenda second all in favor of approving tonight's agenda say I I I any opposed motion carries uh we'll start out with some invited visitors and guests tonight we'll hear from the junior leadership manat County Representatives an executive director come on up y um I'm Dominic spring tube and for junior leadership this year it has been an amazing experience so far we've been able to tour lots
002of different facilities and um from our group's project because we're each in a different group uh because it's one person from each school and for my group's project my group's service project what we did was uh if you're familiar with the night to shine special needs prom we all volunteered for that and a couple of us were buddies and some help was set up and Tak down but I got to be a buddy for um his name was Scott and we just got to dance all night and it was a lot of fun and yeah that's what I have so far I'm Sophia so up also part of Junior leadership and again it was it's an amazing experience we're able to go around to the nonprofits and truly learn like the some of the harsh
003realities that Mana County faces and just being able to volunteer and like put like our knowledge forth as Juniors um has been a really great experience um my group's project was volunteering at the Hope House it's a warming shelter man walk for women and it was truly amazing just to see like how people are all helping each other and the teamwork that people come forth to try and I guess just just bring for a lack of better words just a better community so I'm really thankful to be part of it uh my name is Sam and um one of the coolest things about being in junior leadership is just like all the different like ially like businesses an industry we get to see on our tours as well because I've always kind of wanted to
004be into like an engineer of some kind I've currently looking to be an electrical engineer I never really thought about coming back to Mana County and my future career but after seeing all these local businesses and all these like different companies I would feel like I could find a place here if it' be kind of cool to come back here and my project we helped out with the manok Historical Society in restoring the Mimi house and we just helped around um we kind of helped with construction we did a lot of painting just to make sure that the whole house is in tip toop shape last one uh I'm Josephine Allington Josie and my group I'll go right into what my group is doing uh we helped out with painting Pathways in manac they offer
005meals and therapy for people in need um and we didn't work oneon-one with anyone there but we did help set up for a fundraiser for them so we just kind of cleaned the room and then decorated it basically um it was a great experience I feel like I learned a lot of communication skills through this being able to actually reach out to people and setting things up like that and Leadership myself too I feel like I took a leadership role in my group um it's been a wonderful experience I've really enjoyed it um we've gotten a lot of good opportunities I've gone a lot of tours of places which I feel like I wouldn't have gotten if I just went on my own like we just got to go to the police station in manat
006actually and the firefighting station there and that was wonderful it was very Hands-On and I enjoyed that a lot so overall it's been a very insightful and um fun opportunity thank you so kids how do we get this information to the sophomores so that we have more than four kids from Two Rivers partaking in it like what's an idea to get kids excited because I can hear the excitement in your voices U I know Mrs uh muy has talked to some of the sophomores and she uh the on she chosen she for she took me to the sophomores and had me talk a little bit about it um this was I think week or two ago so um it was just she yeah she's just taking us and having us explain what's how it works
007and what goes on awesome and while you're there you would to be the spokesperson okay no for the people listening I mean you guys got involved you were selected did you have to interview yes there was so yeah the maybe that's what Mrs Johnson is asking about you know you you're selected or asked and then you have an interview process this past summer right yes uh graduation that lunch I think that's that happened yet uh that's coming up uh April 9th awesome so can you talk a little bit about and whoever wants to talk the interview process um the graduation that's coming up I've been lucky enough to sit through that myself a few times um and it's pretty cool which schools are represented um in the manal county Junior leadership stuff like that sorry
008yet you can take turns if you want um I'm see I can list all this quot so there's two rivers Mishicot Reedsville monali manac Lutheran um what am I missing bers bers no Lincoln and Lincoln I think that was all of them um but the interview process so um once we're selected to represent our grade um I think there were six or seven of us maybe that had to go and interview and only I guess four of us were chosen I think five of us were chosen but one decid i' opt out but you have to go to the chamber and they ask you um all the basic questions you would in a normal interview and it's really just more about um it's good practice for an actual job interview and um then the banquet
009so each of us in our groups we have about half an hour to an hour at the end of each session each month and because we meet on the second Wednesday of every month and during that time our group gets to work on a slideshow Pro presentation that we're going to be we all get to present at the banquet and our families are all inv invited the banquet and yeah where where is it this year uh been at the Lighthouse is it still at the Lighthouse I'm not quite sure actually yeah I'm only curious no and we thank you guys for coming this is awesome yeah awesome y thank you great job thank you grab a snack as you go what a cool opportunity I like what Sam said there too about he maybe could
010see himself aspiring to be an electrical engineer but what am I going to do around here you know just to be able to get around to companies and businesses and Y see that potential very cool all right we'll go on to uh public comment here heer come his absolutely come on up he's on the agenda he was one of them a winter sports athlete can you talk about all sport I can I know some of what happened others yeah um I think there were supposed to be a representative from each sport but I guess I'm the only one um so I did boy swimming this year I've been doing swimming since I was I think four or five years old and I've been competing on the high school team since freshman year um the season
011we only had uh seven people to start the season and that's been a really low number for us and a relay you need four people so we didn't even have enough for two relays so we haven't really been able to score much but as a team we have grown a lot um we've all PR um had personal records throughout most of the meia and um our coach has the system where if you PR or you win your heat then you can earn a rubber duck and she has um this whole wall of rubber ducks to choose from and that was uh the Highlight for some of our for some of us throughout the year but uh about halfway through the season we also gained two new two new um members of the team and we
012also lost one unfortunately um because we do a co-op with Ron coli and one of the members had a Dropout due to other commitments and we gained two foreign exchange students um one from Italy and one from the Netherlands um and they both uh were a great addition to the team and that put us up to eight members so that allowed us to do uh two relays throughout the rest of the season and that was amazing it was a lot of fun and it was it was a great season awesome um that I guess that's all I have thank you thank you all right next is public comment and I didn't see anyone signed up tonight so won't have that any Communications to share no all right then financial statements to approve we do have
013one tonight and that is the referendum bills for March 2025 in the amount of $ 38,6 7850 so we took a look at those anyone have any conc concerns or questions remaining on those how far out are we to completing payments to for the referendum all right if there's no questions or comments on these look for a motion to approve March 2025 referendum bills to be paid I'll second all right all in favor then of approving payment of referenda bills for March say I I any opposed motion carries board committee reports facility technology will have their next meeting next um that Wednesday April 2nd so quick update from the negotiations Finance team that was the March 11th meeting Tim um yeah we were able to meet with a handful of Staff um talk about the
014current financial situation talk about the salary schedule things like that and um we'll I think we're going to have a chance at the end of this meeting in close session to talk with the rest of the board talk about um you know what we talked about more specifically and hopefully get board approval to move forward all right great thank you and policy committee we will be having our next meeting next next week next Monday so March 31st anything else under board or committee reports I don't think so um I don't see any old business no so uh we'll move on to new business tonight we have one uh resignation this is Jonathan Butler a teched teacher at lb Clark Middle School effective the end of the school year yeah this is a a sad loss
015um losing John um he was a first year teacher at lb Clark um in technology education if you remember he was a student teacher for us and then moved into a teaching role this year um he is has made a decision to go to a different district for um you know for himself and for his family he's got a family member who works in that district and uh he definitely will be missed all right thanks Diane so I'd look for a motion to accept the resignation of John Butler I'll make a motion to accept Jonathan Butler's resignation second all right all in favor of accepting the resignation of John Butler say I I I any opposed motion carries thank you John for this year and best of luck to you going forward um any other
016new business tonight no no okay then administrator updates we've got Diane this this meeting is going like exceptionally fast I feel like we should have more stuff on the agenda don't us I'm knocking I'm knocking I'm knocking I'm knocking so I'm not gonna say too much about the Spanish trip because Melanie um Kowski is going to bring some kids the next time um but I do want to know that we left with 12 students and we returned with 12 students um the students had which is I think the the greatest accomplishment you can have um the students had a great time they were well behaved um they represented Two Rivers well um they had tons of experiences and I think not only the experiences like the fun things they got to do and I'm just
017I'll just name a couple like they got to go horseback riding and kaying and lots of other things that they'll talk about but they also learned about the culture and when you listen to like josy talk about maybe the economics of the area that she didn't know a lot about I think the kids learned a lot about the economics of another country so the things that maybe we take for granted sometimes um are things that they looked at looked at you know the people who live there and maybe some of the financial challenges that the people face I think they learned a lot from we had a um tour guide named yandry um the whole week she just stays with us the whole time um in between our trips and we spent a lot of
018time in the van because we were traveling from you know City to City to city so we had in seven days four hotel rooms you know so we were traveling a lot and some of those were kind of far away like 3 hours away the next um would be but she would talk to us about what does school look like in Costa Rica what um what does production look like so we at a coffee Farm how does that work for the economy of Costa Rica so I think they learned um they learned a lot and they got to practice their Spanish and so one of the things we did every time we got onto the van is we had to count in Spanish up to so uh up to 28 so now I know how
019to count 28 in Spanish um which I think is a super accomplishment for myself um but yeah the kids had a great time and again Melanie is extremely organized um she was fun to to chapone with so more to come and then uh the second uh thing is uh Justin um if you remember back I think it was last year um Justin Casper came to us and asked us um to support um Snap-on Tools remember that he had gotten a partial Grant and then I believe uh the board approved a partial funding of Snap-on Tools um he contacted us and let us know that about 20 students are now certified using those Snap-on tools and what that means is it's about $700 that will go per student back into the back to the school so
020if you remember that he he had talked about the fact that it's actually an investment so that investment now is 20 times you know 7 about $700 you find out in um at the end of the school year um the state has this pot of money and each student is it's dependent on how many students are in that pot so it's not like you definitely get a thousand dollars which is what they say it will be it's never that because the pot is too big which is a good thing you know kids are doing a lot of um the youth apprenticeship type things the work-based things so um so that will money will come back into the school um which then continues to fund technology education so congratulations to Justin and Jake for their hard
021work and that's all all right thank you very much want to uh read off some coming events for the board and the district uh March 31st policy committee 445 p.m. in the district office conference room uh the next day Tuesday April 1st is the spring election early voting is open now next day April 2nd we have the facility technology meeting that's at 6:00 p.m. in the high school library April 14th we'll have a regular board meeting at 5:45 here at the high school April 28th then we'll have the organizational meeting that happens once a year with the new board members and picking uh the officers for the next term uh that'll be at here 5:45 at the high school and then finally April 30th uh we have the quarter Century annual dinner celebrating eight inductees
022this year so those are staff members who've got 25 years in with the district so that'll be at Rita's Supper Club and that's an invitation only uh event for this District so the Board of Education will now adjourn to closed session under State Statute 19851 C and F for the purpose of discussion there'll be two things tonight for close session one is considering compensation of any Public Employee over which the government body has jurisdiction or exercise responsibility imagine that's going to be what Tim mentioned earlier some of that stuff and then the second thing is considering personal histories or disciplinary data of specific persons so I look for a motion to go into closed session I'll make a motion to go into close session I'll second okay we'll have a roll call please Mrs BR
023yes Mr CL yes Mrs HRI yes Mr sh yes Mr Williams yes Mrs zimney yes all right motion carries with that we will transition then into Clos session thank you